MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by sdoering | 2026-03-08 22:11:56+00:00
> Never mind the fact that AIs of the LLM-variety haven't and aren't going to find solutions to mathematical problems.

This is empirically wrong as of early 2026.

Since Christmas 2025, 15 Erdos problems have been moved from "open" to "solved" on erdosproblems.com, 11 of them crediting AI models. Problems #397, #728, and #729 were solved by GPT-5.2 Pro generating original arguments (not literature lookups), formalized in Lean, and verified by Terence Tao himself. Problem #1026 was solved more or less autonomously by Harmonic's Aristotle model in Lean.

At IMO 2025, three separate systems (Gemini Deep Think, an OpenAI system, and Aristotle) independently achieved gold-medal performance, solving 5 of 6 problems.

DeepSeek-Prover-V2 hits 88.9% on MiniF2F-test. Top models solve 40% of postdoc-level problems on FrontierMath, up from 2%.

Tao's own assessment as of March 2026: AI is "ready for primetime" in math and theoretical physics because it "saves more time than it wastes."

You can disagree about where this is heading, but "haven't and aren't going to" doesn't survive contact with the data.
by fc417fc802 | 2026-03-08 22:12:08+00:00
> That's quite inaccurate.

What is? My claim is that regardless of the exact wording the intent behind the law in this specific case is to make an example of violators. Do you dispute that? If so, on what basis? Because I believe the past several decades of results speak for themselves.

> The problem is they then applied that to P2P networks and people who were on average making a single copy.

A person retains a single copy for himself. However he does indeed actively participate in the creation of many other copies (potentially hundreds of thousands as you say). That sure sounds like the digital equivalent of a pirate printing press to me.

What you were describing was not P2P but rather the users of pirate streaming sites. And as we see rights holders don't generally pursue such people, preferring instead to only go after distributors.

I say all of this as someone who doesn't support current copyright law and sincerely has no objections to what Facebook did here.
by pjmlp | 2026-03-08 22:12:36+00:00
If only companies would actually hire people instead of optimising their worksheets for late stage capitalism at the expense of human capital.

New skills mean shit when there is no job market that can take everyone.

Usually people that have such takes of yours, never had to actually fight months, years, to finally get back on track.

Naturally, when selling AI, the take is to downplay its impact on people lives.
by brudgers | 2026-03-08 22:12:47+00:00
My intuition is increasing the difficulty of account creation favors motivated actors and disincentivizes organic participation because:

1. ideological and/or economically motivated actors will just see it as a cost of doing business.

2. Ordinary sign-up friction is more likely to make HN appear ordinary to anyone who stumbles upon it.

3. Sign-up friction is a moat. The strength of HN is moderation of what gets in.
by bitroughj | 2026-03-08 22:13:08+00:00
Same, but also for the opposite reason: a new account gives me a chance to do better. If I post lame comments, I accept the lameness of the posts attached to a particular user name and the hesitation I feel to post more lame comments decreases. With a fresh identity, I am more likely to avoid lame posting sort of like how you avoid going out in the mud in brand new sneakers. A sort of repentance; being born again in the digital realm.
by hinkley | 2026-03-08 22:13:14+00:00
I maintain you’re either grossly misappropriating the time and energy of new and junior devs if this is the case on your project, or you have gone too long since hiring a new dev and your project is stagnating because of it.

New eyes don’t have the curse of knowledge. They don’t filter out the bullshit bits. And one of the advantages of creating reusable modules is you get more new eyes on your code regularly.

This may also be a place where AI can help. Some of the review tools are already calling us out on making the code not match the documentation.
by ms_menardi | 2026-03-08 22:13:32+00:00
Water is free, it comes from the sky.

energy is free, it comes from the sun.

cotton is free, it grows from the ground.

plastic is not free, there will never be more of it. I think that resolves the equation.

(this is an oversimplification obviously but I wanted to reframe it from "how much of our current resources does this action use" to "how much of our TOTAL resources does this action use")
by ytoawwhra92 | 2026-03-08 22:13:38+00:00
It is creepy, I agree.

I saw this article over the weekend and felt similarly: https://theinnermostloop.substack.com/p/the-first-multi-beha...

> Watch the video closely. What you are seeing is not an animation. It is not a reinforcement learning policy mimicking biology. It is a copy of a biological brain, wired neuron-to-neuron from electron microscopy data, running in simulation, making a body move.

And the simulated world they put it in is a sort of purgatory-like environment.
by mkagenius | 2026-03-08 22:13:42+00:00
A way to run claude code inside a apple container -

$ container system start

$ container run -d --name myubuntu ubuntu:latest sleep infinity

$ container exec myubuntu bash -c "apt-get update -qq && apt-get install -y openssh-server"

$ container exec myubuntu bash -c "
apt-get install -y curl &&
curl -fsSL https://deb.nodesource.com/setup_lts.x |
bash - &&
apt-get install -y nodejs
"

$ container exec myubuntu npm install -g @anthropic-ai/claude-code

$ container exec myubuntu claude --version
by thepaulthomson | 2026-03-08 22:13:51+00:00
Hey! So the backstory here is pretty simple. I was going through a rough patch earlier this year and I kept thinking about how weird it is that we have all this technology for connecting people but most of it makes you feel worse not better. And I had this moment where a friend left me a voice note, just a short one, and it genuinely shifted my whole day. Something about hearing someone’s actual voice, the tone and the pauses and all that, it just lands differently than text.

So I built this. You record a voice note between 5 and 60 seconds saying something kind, and it goes into a pool. A stranger somewhere presses play and hears you. Thats it. No accounts, no profiles, no sign up. Completely anonymous.

The moderation side was the interesting engineering problem. Every note gets transcribed by Whisper then a second model classifies it into kind/unsure/unkind/not_a_note. Only “kind” notes ever get served to listeners. I made the decision to run moderation inline during upload rather than batching it, so theres never a window where unmoderated audio is just sitting around waiting. The whole lifecycle gets logged in an append-only event table with request IDs so if something weird slips through I can trace exactly what happend.

Its a pretty standard Next.js + Postgres + S3 setup otherwise. Nothing too clever on the infra side, the interesting stuff is all in the moderation pipeline and figuring out what “kind” actually means when you’re trying to get a model to judge it reliably.

One thing I’m really curious to get feedback on: after you record you get a “ripple link” which is basically your only receipt. You can come back and see how many people heard your note and any anonymous reactions they left. I’m not sure yet if this is compelling enough or if I need to build more of a feedback loop there.

The site is live, you can record or listen right now. Zero friction. Would really love this community’s feedback on the product and the technical approach.
by withinboredom | 2026-03-08 22:14:02+00:00
USB forwarding to WSL is built in to the WSL kernel, but you do need to install a thing on the windows side. After that, there are a number of GUIs to manage your usb devices or you can use the shell. Switching a usb devices from windows to WSL basically unplugs it from windows and plugs it into WSL.

I need it to access ssh keys from my yubikey. It’s painless if you just set it up to automatically forward the device on startup.
by dbmikus | 2026-03-08 22:14:08+00:00
I've been working on an OSS project, Amika[1], to quickly spin up local or remote sandboxes for coding workloads. We support copy-on-write semantics locally (well, "copy-and-then-write" for now... we just copy directories to a temp file-tree).

It's tailored to play nicely with Git: spin up sandboxes form CLI, expose TCP/UDP ports of apps to check your work, and if running hosted sandboxes, share the sandbox URLs with teammates. I basically want running sandboxed agents to be as easy as `git clone ...`.

Docs are early and edges are rough. This week I'm starting to dogfood all my dev using Amika. Feedback is super appreciated!

FYI: we are also a startup, but local sandbox mgmt will stay OSS.

[1]: https://github.com/gofixpoint/amika
by cfiggers | 2026-03-08 22:14:15+00:00
Interesting and semi-related idea: use LLMs to flag when comments/docs have come out of sync with the code.

The big problem with documentation is that if it was accurate when it was written, it's just a matter of time before it goes stale compared to the code it's documenting. And while compilers can tell you if your types and your implementation have come out of sync, before now there's been nothing automated that can check whether your comments are still telling the truth.

Somebody could make a startup out of this.
by zahlman | 2026-03-08 22:14:48+00:00
Perhaps it would be better to have comments that praise apparently human-written text?

I understand where you're coming from. I've been posting complaints about LLM-written articles almost as long as I've been here. (My analysis is definitely more complex than a search for blacklisted Unicode characters or words.)

But I've let off on that, partly because I agree the guideline is meant to encompass that kind of criticism (same with my comments about initial page content not rendering with JavaScript, honestly) but largely because it just seems futile. It's better material for a blog post than HN comments (and would be less repetitive).
by llm_nerd | 2026-03-08 22:14:49+00:00
"Running $N containers as separate WSL instances runs $N VMs and $N linux kernels."

But it doesn't, and this is what I'm disagreeing with.

If you instantiate WSL2, it launches a Linux VM. A single Linux VM. If you then run Docker with WSL2 integration (the default and hugely recommended), it uses that Linux VM as its VM as well, so you're still at 1 VM.

If you run 100 WSL2 instances, they will all use that single Linux VM, each doing namespacing for isolation with their own filesystems. If you run 100 Docker instances, they will all use that single Linux VM.

If you run 100 WSL instances, and 100 Docker instances (assuming, again, WSL2 integration which is the default), they will all be using that single Linux VM.
by s1artibartfast | 2026-03-08 22:15:20+00:00
The IRS page refers to Incentive Stock Options (ISOs) as "statutory" options. These are the "holy grail" because they allow you to avoid income tax at exercise and only pay capital gains when you sell.

ISOs have a 100k cap per year.

Further, the next line after your exceprt is "However, you may be subject to alternative minimum tax in the year you exercise an ISO", which is an income tax
by tavavex | 2026-03-08 22:15:41+00:00
No, because you're not expecting to get 5c every year regardless of your investment. In this example, they want 5% of their initial investment. So, $100 becomes $105 the next year, the $105 becomes $110.25 the year after that, and so on. 1.05^years. The fact that economic growth is measured as a percentage implies an exponential.
by wongarsu | 2026-03-08 22:16:03+00:00
For certain types of "human in the loop". If it can't write working code without a human in the loop then it's not AGI. But a human-level coder also has lots of humans in the loop: a more senior developer doing code review, several layers of management, a product owner that interfaces the project with outside reality, sales people, etc.

Now I already hear you typing "but those roles should also be handles by AI if it's AGI" and I agree that an AI that can claim to be AGI should be able to handle those roles (as separate agents if necessary). But in a real setup it probably won't be the best choice to do those roles for cultural and legal reasons. Or it might simply not be cost effective. Not to mention that under most definitions of AGI there can still be humans more capable than the AI, as long as the AI hits the 50th percentile mark or something like that. So even if it's an AGI with the ability to do these roles we will still have humans in the loop for a long long time
by ajs1998 | 2026-03-08 22:16:29+00:00
Awesome. I've been meaning to play around with this more after first hearing about this paper. I tried a similar automata with an even simpler representation for turing machines and there wasn't an abiogenesis moment. I guess the many no-op characters in the original paper allow for it to explore a bigger space of valid programs or to hide data without completely overwriting itself.

I would like to try alternative character encodings, including ones with fewer no-ops where most bytes are valid BF characters. Are more no-ops better? Is self replicating goo the best we can do?
by ACCount37 | 2026-03-08 22:16:33+00:00
What makes you think that text is inherently a worse reflection of the world than light is?

All world models are lossy as fuck, by the way. I could give you a list of chess moves and force you to recover the complete board state from it, and you wouldn't fare that much better than an off the shelf LLM would. An LLM trained for it would kick ass though.
by Grimblewald | 2026-03-08 22:17:17+00:00
Well c-suite lied to everyone and was dealing in bad faith. When thay came to light they immediatly lost support and interest from highly skilled researchers in the area, from that point onward, their only additional offerings would be whatever tech evangelists can rustle up, so nice ui some cool features etc. But really ground breaking stuff that takes celever engineering or the kind of thinking that cannot be taught/approximated? Gone. So OpenAI, despite its massive headstart, will just continue to fall behind. When youre smart enough money stops mattering beyond keeping a roof over your head and food in your mouth. At that point your world view and personal beleifs become far more valuable, and smart people always come to the conclusion violence is never worth it, ve it physical, information based, social, meotional, whatever. OpenAI is an incredibly violent company, so inherently scares off talent.
by ccosky | 2026-03-08 22:17:33+00:00
"AI is actually pretty good at writing tests, especially for common scenarios and edge cases. The tricky part is deciding what to do when tests fail. Sometimes the code is wrong. Other times the spec itself has evolved and the test needs updating."

Yes, I agree, it is good at coming up with lots of scenarios. But after switching to AI-generated unit tests, I discovered that AI writes tests that mirror the code, not validate that the implementation is correct.

So I have AI write the unit test with a particular pattern in the method name:

<methodName>_when<Conditions>_<expectedBehavior>

Then I have a Claude skill that validates that the method under test matches the first part of the method name, that the setup matches the conditions in the middle part, and that the assertions match the expected behavior in the last part. It does find problems with the unit tests this way. I also have it research whether the production code is wrong or whether the test is wrong too - no blindly having AI "fix" things.

For more complex methods, though, I still do manual verification by checking what lines get hit for each test.
by patrickmay | 2026-03-08 22:17:41+00:00
I'm sorry you're going through this and I'm impressed that you are in touch enough with your feelings to articulate it.

There's a lot of great advice in this thread. The best I have is to
1) Join a gym and go consistently. Nothing improves your mood like endorphins. Plus, at 38 you'll be amazed at what kind of shape you can get in.
2) Meditate. Learning to be present and grounded will enable you to decide who you want to be and who you want to be with. One I like is called Quantum Light Breath, particularly the version from Jeru Kabbal. It's a guided meditation so you can do it alone, although it is great in a group as well. Spoiler: It has nothing to do with quantum mechanics or the physics of light. There is a lot of breathing, though.

Good luck.
by mirekrusin | 2026-03-08 22:18:04+00:00
I think you're somehow right and wrong at the same.

All those "it's like ..." are faulty – "post-it notes" are not 3k pages of text that can be recalled instantly in one go, copied in fraction of a second to branch off, quickly rewritten, put into hierarchy describing virtually infinite amount of information (outside of 3k pages of text limit), generated on the fly in minutes on any topic pulling all information available from computer etc.

Poor man's RL on test time context (skills and friends) is something that shouldn't be discarded, we're at 1M tokens and growing and pogressive disclosure (without anything fancy, just bunch of markdowns in directories) means you can already stuff-in more information than human can remember during whole lifetime into always-on agents/swarms.

Currently latest models use more compute on RL than pre-training and this upward trend continues (from orders of magnitude smaller than pre-training to larger that pre-training). In that sense some form of continous RL is already happening, it's just quantified on new model releases, not realtime.

With LoRA and friends it's also already possible to do continuous training that directly affects weights, it's just that economy of it is not that great – you get much better value/cost ratio with above instead.

For some definitions of AGI it already happened ie. "someboy's computer use based work" even though "it can't actually flip burgers, can it?" is true, just not relevant.

ps. I should also mention that I don't believe in "programmers loosing jobs", on the contrary, we will have to ramp up on computational thinking large numbers of people and those who are already verse with it will keep reaping benefits – regardless if somebody agrees or not that AGI is already here, it arrives through computational doors speaking computational language first and imho this property will be here to stay as it's an expression of rationality etc
by wtallis | 2026-03-08 22:18:21+00:00
There is at least room to hope that Lemay may be able to take a more nuanced, reasonable approach. Believing that Preview.app needs to be designed with the "content is king" mindset doesn't necessarily mean believing that "content is king" needs to be the top priority everywhere throughout the OS even to the detriment of usability. After all, Preview.app is a pretty extreme example: displaying content is its primary purpose and almost the sole purpose; its editing and annotation capabilities are minimal and far less frequently used than the core functionality of viewing PDFs and images.

But even though I'm hopeful, I'm definitely not holding my breath for a quick turnaround and big mea culpa from Apple. I bought a new laptop last fall specifically to avoid using Liquid Glass for as long as possible.
by tamimio | 2026-03-08 22:18:24+00:00
A table or similar where it lists the maker, cost, board name, ram, soc, arch, and maybe other columns like high end/low/budget friendly, and size form factor.

That would be helpful before you dive into the details, for example, I build drones, and seeing nvidia Xavier specs I would be thrilled about it until I see its size and power consumption. Great article btw!
Helping a Relative Out of Pig Butchering Scam
by throwaway1LviQt | 2026-03-08 22:18:34+00:00
Excuse the intentional pronouns and vagueness to avoid being too searchable.

About a month ago I learned that one our estranged relatives is being targeted in a Pig Butchering scam. They've already extracted at least $100,000 from him and appear to be going for more. He appears to have undiagnosed dimentia and his nearest family or friends are over 1,000 miles away.

Another family member called us one day to tell us about the great new they heard from him about a business opportunity related to something he did in over 30 years ago. The numbers were absurd and it was immediately obvious that either he was delusional or being taken. It turns out he was being taken and in the process sent them some physical assets and possibly wired them some money.

Because of his cognitive state he began to believe the banks were stealing his money and became belligerent on 3 separate occasions at various banks. The last one result in his arrest when the authorities realized he was driving on a revoked license.

We were told at the time that we'd be able to attend the arraignment by Zoom, but as the time approached, he was released on his own recognizance and the judge said if his closest family wanted to petition for a conservatorship they would have to appear physically in the court.

During the bank incident his accounts were closed which also shut off all of his autopay.

Along the way, we've collected phone numbers involved in the scam, names of the various "personas", some which have changed along the way, and reported them to local authorities and the FBI, however, no immediate action has been taken by either.

Today we learned he's been asked to find any gold jewelry he isn't using anymore and mail it to a romantic persona that's appeared in the last week or so. We're attempting to get the address, but our remoteness and his mental state are not making that easy.

While trying to find as much information as I could, I checked Google Trends and see his name, some very specific things related to him or this situation coming from Cambodia and Laos, but not necessarily other locations where these "farms" typically operate.

Because no one else has power of attorney or any authority on his behalf, we're very limited to what we can legally do, including what we can report. We've done our best to notify financial institutions, authorities, and anyone else who will listen, but very few are willing to do anything. Adult Protective Services say he's not eligible. Local authorities may arrest him if he's caught driving again, but they'd have to be aware that it's happening, and we don't always know.

Our relative is completely incapable of recognizing the scam that's enveloped him and it appears that even if he does't give everything away, he'll lose everything because he has no way of paying his bills.

Is there any way out of this? Is there any more information we should be trying to collect and pass along? Are there any other trustable resources that can help?
by hinkley | 2026-03-08 22:18:42+00:00
Responding from a new account is different from posting from a new account. You aren’t vetting people by making accounts have a minimum age to post articles. That’ll just cause people to make accounts before they need them.

Reddit has forums where you need a minimum karma to post to certain subreddits and that is typically upvotes on your comments, but it could also be upvotes on someone else’s moderated subreddit.
by coldtea | 2026-03-08 22:19:10+00:00
Wouldn't help if the user closes the drawer and moves it to the left - which users used to having apps to the left (and to a left to right reading culture) would.

The main problem I see is the mouse pointer has reason to be on the proximity of the left side: the Apple menu is there, the most important dock elements (on a bottom dock) are there - or the whole dock for a left-placed dock), the menubar File, Edit, etc, and the most common icons for icon bar operations are there.

And if 'content is king', navigating the content (TOC, search, thumbnail) should also be king, not just the current viewing page.