MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by SchemaLoad | 2026-03-11 22:54:42+00:00
I hate the take homes because companies seem happy to send them out to people who have literally no chance. Sent after they already have a candidate in mind, sent before the resume has been reviewed, sent before the company has invested even a minute talking to you.

So you waste the weekend on this project when you had no chance from the beginning. And the time restrictions they list mean nothing since if you actually stop after x hours, they will just pick the person who spent the whole weekend and did a more complete job.
by olivergregory | 2026-03-11 22:55:06+00:00
I built codix because AI coding agents waste a lot of tokens grepping and guessing their way through codebases. They search for symbols by name, get imprecise results back, and sometimes just hallucinate definitions that don't exist.

codix indexes your code into a local SQLite database using tree-sitter, then provides precise symbol lookups, reference finding, and relationship queries (callers, callees, implementations, supertypes).

It also supports refactoring: `codix rename` finds every occurrence of a symbol across the codebase using AST analysis (not text search), shows you a dry-run diff, and applies it with --apply.

cd your-project
codix init
codix find UserService
codix callers save
codix impls Repository
codix rename save persist # dry-run
codix rename save persist --apply # apply

It supports Go, Java, JavaScript/TypeScript, Python, and Rust. The index auto-refreshes on every query, so it's always current.

The output is designed to be token-efficient for agents, but it works fine for humans too. Adding it to your agent is one line in CLAUDE.md or AGENTS.md.

MIT licensed, written in Rust, ~5k lines. Contributions welcome — especially for new language plugins.
by thisislife2 | 2026-03-11 22:55:06+00:00
This maybe an unpopular opinion, but I feel WebAssembly in the browser is the wrong direction - this vision to turn the browser into an OS so that we are then forced to rent every software through the "cloud" will screw all of us eventually. It is going to make the web less open. With HTML and Javascript (or even VBscript in the old IE), you could always look at the source. Good luck doing the same with WebAssembly. Soon websites will start bundling WebAssembly malwares and browsers will then also bundle an anti-virus (probably coded with WebAssembly) to counter it. Ofcourse, the anti-virus will need a "cloud service" so everything you do on the browser will be collected and sent "anonymously" ... good bye privacy.
by sebringj | 2026-03-11 22:55:16+00:00
Isn't this more about identity crisis? Not in the psychological sense but in the internet sense? Who is real who isn't? Crypto proof of work idk? Your profile like d LinkedIn or Hacker News or something gives your clawbot x credits worth of legit automated queries or rate limits on your behalf? It could be flipped upside down where we don't spend our eyes off on reading websites anymore, it just goes and gets it for us but I may be hallucinating.
by endoblast | 2026-03-11 22:55:19+00:00
When Wellington thrashed Bonaparte,
As every child can tell,
The House of Peers, throughout the war,
Did nothing in particular,
And did it very well;
Yet Britain set the world ablaze
In good King George's glorious days!

(from Iolanthe by Gilbert and Sullivan)

Gather a group of the most powerful people in the land; give them ermine robes and manifold privileges; require of them nothing other than that they meet regularly to converse and debate in a prestigious and historical chamber. Allow them only the power to veto or delay legislation.

Gilbert and Sullivan were satirising but I think their point stands. It is possible to do nothing and to do it very well. While they're busy doing nothing they're not interfering or messing everything else up, even though they probably could outside the chamber.

The fact that heriditary peers are being ejected means nothing beyond the fact that these nobles have lost their inherent power.
by jmyeet | 2026-03-11 22:55:44+00:00
It depends on the target of the cyberattack. Depending on who, what and when it'll be somewhere between a criminal action, a terrorist attack and a military action.

If you take down a power grid, that's pretty much a terrorist attack. The victims are likely heavily weighted to be civilians. Same for opening a dam to flood downstream.

But take the military radar installations the Iranians have bombed on military bases around the region since the US and Israel started this war. What if the Iranians had cyberattacked those same installations? I'd call that a military action. I'd even consider it less of an escalation than, say, blowing up a consulate in Damascus.
by tombert | 2026-03-11 22:56:09+00:00
Please don't tell me that Jira is about to get even worse...

I don't understand the AI layoffs; there's always an infinite supply of new work that could be done. Instead of firing 1600 people, why not have all of them use AI to produce more stuff and outrun their competitors.

Presumably all their competitors also know about Claude as well, and a lot of these 1600 people will go work for them and use Claude.

Unless this is just regular layoffs, but they know if they brand it as "AI" their investors will eat it up.
by cwoodyard | 2026-03-11 22:56:22+00:00
Thank you for open-sourcing this. The momentum in the autonomous research space right now is incredible.

I open-sourced my startup's multi-agent lab (The R.A.I.N. Lab, created in 2021) back in February, and the surge of interest you've recently brought to the concept of 'AI research swarms' has been a massive boost to everyone building in this niche.

Thanks for helping bring this concept to the masses, Andrej
by dice | 2026-03-11 22:56:32+00:00
I'm hiring at a small company and it's a nightmare. 1,000+ applicants for a software engineering position and we have essentially no help from recruiting. I'm filtering based on keywords, giving each resume a max of 90 seconds, and anything that even slightly seems off gets rejected.

I only have the bandwidth to talk to a couple 10s of candidates since I have the entire rest of my job to do, so I can see the appeal of an AI interviewer. I'd never use one due to the issues brought up here though.
by nomel | 2026-03-11 22:56:45+00:00
It appears the author entirely omitted the quotes where the legal experts actually suggest this.

Here are all the quotes, from the article:

> "It's not at all clear that the statute can even apply to an American company where there's no foreign entanglement,"

> "These are basically safety protocols. You can debate whether these protocols are acceptable or not, but they run directly counter to the risk that the law is designed to regulate

> "A lot of things Hegseth has said and the Pentagon has done undermine their case and suggest there was personal animus and bad blood between the parties, and that the Pentagon had it out for Anthropic,

> The government was simultaneously threatening to use the (Defense Production Act) to force Anthropic to sell its services, using its services in active military operations, and saying it's too dangerous to use them in government contracts, ... Not all of these things can be true

Authors description:

> Jack Queen covers major lawsuits against the Trump administration involving urgent questions of executive power and how their resolution could affect the law and the legal profession in the years to come.
by wesselbindt | 2026-03-11 22:56:57+00:00
I'm very happy about this. The fact that Temporal forces you to actually deal with the inherent complexities of time management (primarily the distinction between an instant and a calendar datetime) makes it incredibly difficult to make the mistakes that Date almost seems designed to cause. It's a bit more verbose, but I'll take writing a handful of extra characters over being called at 3AM to fix a DST related bug any day of the week.
by ConvertlyAI | 2026-03-11 22:57:01+00:00
This is exactly why building AI tools for professional writing requires aggressive system-level guardrails. The default behavior of an LLM is to please the user, which often means fabricating a quote if it makes the narrative flow better. When building the generation engine for ConvertlyAI, we had to hardcode a strict rule into the system prompt: explicitly banning dummy testimonials, placeholder stats, or unsubstantiated claims unless they exist in the provided source context. If you don't force a strict 'Truth Check' constraint at the API level, the model will inevitably hallucinate a quote just to complete the 'story' structure it thinks you want.
by deathanatos | 2026-03-11 22:57:28+00:00
Even just within the Thinkpad lineup, their website is a mess. Let's even restrict ourselves to just T series Thinkpads.

First, the page looks like it misrenders with garish, inverse-color boxes breaking the apparent margin of the page. Then we get to the models:

* ThinkPad T14s Gen 6 (14" Snapdragon) Laptop
* ThinkPad T16g Gen 3 (16" Intel) Laptop
* ThinkPad T1g Gen 8 (16" Intel) Laptop
* ThinkPad T14 Gen 6 (14" AMD) Laptop
* ThinkPad T14s 2-in-1 (14" Intel) Laptop

… that's just the first row. There are 17 items shown. Mostly it's just a poor presentation: there's ~3-4 actual lines, and the rest of what's show is combinatorical complexity of the various ways you can customize them. It's a crapshoot of a presentation.

The builds themselves seem worse now than they have before: they're overall more expensive for what you're getting vs. a few years ago. E.g., the GPU is … gone? They're all iGPUs now. They include a "45%NTSC" screen by default, which is something I've never heard of, and I thought sRGB was the literal bottom of the barrel, but I guess we can go deeper. The warranty is pathetic, but so too is Apple's.

You are right, you can get them without Windows now.
by reliabilityguy | 2026-03-11 22:57:38+00:00
> I call it pointless because I and many other Americans have been told these things before. We are always in a constant "Red Queen's Race" with other nations as a means of establishing dominance.

Well, if it's not the US, then someone else will. So, it can be US then.

> We subsidize allies like Israel with billions of dollars that have never been allocated by our congress, and which only serve to subsidize the healthcare of Israeli citizens while we continue to have nothing of the sorts.

Aid to Israel is basically giving them weapons for free, i.e., paying US-based companies. I have no idea how did you jump from weapons to subsidizing Israel's healthcare.

> "Bro, just trust me Iran is SO CLOSE!" for the past 40 years is not convincing us that this war has any benefit to us.

What is the purpose of having 60%-enriched uranium if not for bombs? If Iran has 60%-enriched uranium today, it means that they did start to work on it 10s of years ago. So, these people who said it were right.

I am not sure why you advocate for the spread of nuclear weapons, especially with regimes that are known to spread instability in the region.

> Americans are already on the hook for trillions of dollars in debt we cannot pay as a country, and now we want to continue exploding the deficit to the tune of $1 Billion per day.

This is a valid issue, and it has to be resolved. However, it has nothing to do with the war. With this war, or without, the debt is a structural problem of US politics. So far, for the past 20 years, everyone just kicks the can down the road.

> Outside of manufacturing consent on behalf of Israel, posts such as yours seem highly dedicated to trying to convince us that this isnt a pointless war from the American perspective.

It is absolutely not a pointless war. If this war is won, it secures long-term peace in the region, which will absolutely benefit the US. I have no idea why you think that having a regime that funds most of the terror groups in the regions, and spreads instability is good for the US.
by cuuupid | 2026-03-11 22:58:11+00:00
This is explicitly not what they have done, not how government contractors ever interpret this designation, nor something they could do even if they wanted to do.

It is also common corporate doctrine to use a subsidiary for government contracting to avoid having to evidence that a commercial vendor is utilized for government, so this won't even be 'annoying' for contractors.

ITAR and compliance frameworks (e.g. FedRAMP and CMMC) already mandate this for any non-US company, yet AWS commercial still has offerings in other countries and from non-US vendors, Palantir still has an IG business, etc.
by pear01 | 2026-03-11 22:58:20+00:00
Your post is extremely misleading. Shipping drones in a box or whatever they are doing so Russians can use them is completely different from what we mean by projecting power. In many cases the Russians are actually manufacturing the drones themselves based off the Iranian plan. That's not anything like the USA's power projection, where B2s can takeoff in Missouri, bomb Iran and come home without ever landing or even being shot at. I mean it's just not even close.

Launching attacks and having "some hope of success" is weak. And that's what Iran is and has always been, weak.

Yes they launch attacks. Most of these fail. They have nowhere near the level of lethality, precision, force projection and penetration of Israel or the United States.

When are Americans going to learn nationstates and some radical blowing themselves up are two different things. You don't stop the latter by blowing up the former. History has always shown in fact that doing that makes the latter problem worse.
by 9wzYQbTYsAIc | 2026-03-11 22:58:20+00:00
Ah, this is true - for my purposes, I've been directing the design and deliberating on the constraints and specifications for a larger system in tandem with smaller planning sessions.

That has worked well so far, but yes, you are totally right, there are still quite a few pain points and it is still rather far from being fire-and-forget "build me a fancy landing page for a turnkey business" and getting enterprise quality code.
by ConvertlyAI | 2026-03-11 22:58:51+00:00
The most reliable heuristic humans use to detect AI isn't necessarily structural—it's vocabulary. We get a 'spidey sense' when we see certain words clustered together. I've spent the last few months tuning the generation engine for my text SaaS, and the single most effective way to make the output read as human isn't a complex prompt chain; it's a hard banlist. Forcing the model to never use words like 'Unlock', 'Delve', 'Supercharge', or 'In today's world' instantly changes the tone. Humans aren't really detecting AI; we're detecting RLHF-optimized lazy writing.
by MeetingsBrowser | 2026-03-11 22:59:01+00:00
I have a macbook air from 2022 and it is easily the "best" computer I have ever owned.

Its portable. It has a great keyboard, screen, and battery life. No fans or overheating. No issues with the operating system or installing software I need.

I can even use it for some lighter software development directly, and for everything else I can ssh back to a beefier machine.

If I weren't already so happy with this macbook air, I would be ecstatic for the neo.
by alexpotato | 2026-03-11 22:59:04+00:00
> there's always an infinite supply of new work that could be done

I distinctly remember a discussion where someone says "Man, I wish JIRA would add this feature/fix this bug"

Someone else pipes in: "I bet there is already a ticket on the JIRA bugtracker/feature board for this, it's not done and it's from 9 years ago" and lo and behold there was.
by herdymerzbow | 2026-03-11 22:59:05+00:00
Every time I've considered an alternative to my Mac laptop I'm confronted by this much choice (and that of other manufacturers) and I also have to deal with unknown and varying performance of keyboard, display and trackpad.

One thing PC manufacturers seem to prioritise and focus on is tech specs + performance and interface is tacked on (or at least the interface designers departments in their companies aren't leading the design), when by and large most consumers of their machines focus on the interface and whether the CPU is of a certain level is likely secondary to the experience.

Anyway, I keep on going back to apple every 7 years (as that's how long they typically last) simply because I can't handle the choice or the uncertainty, but I'd love to bust out and get a linux using machine next.
by spr93 | 2026-03-11 22:59:21+00:00
usenet and irc are quite old. how are they examples of some mythical point at which the internet was unlocked by services?

centralized and decentralized would include almost any service. your comment is so vague and ambiguous as to be meaningless. (that's a hallmark of LLM output. are you a bot?)

it was easier to find authoritative answers 20-30 years ago. google and, before that, altavista and yahoo, were quite good at directing queries to things like university-run information sites or legitimate, curated commercial sites. for the last decade the first google page has been crammed with useless SEO optimized fluff.

as for shopping, that was the first dotcom boom. what really took it mainstream was covid. not centralized or decentralized collaborative nonsense.
by ConvertlyAI | 2026-03-11 22:59:41+00:00
Doctorow's point hits hard when you look at how content and web interfaces are being churned out right now. The web is flooded with low-friction, high-noise garbage. As someone building a content generation tool, the biggest technical challenge isn't making the AI write more; it's making it write less. We explicitly instruct our models to be 'High Signal, Low Noise,' force short sentences, and ban vague platitudes. If a tool just generates walls of text to appease algorithms (or fill up modal dialogs), it's just contributing to the decay. Short, punchy, and grounded is the only way forward.
by AIorNot | 2026-03-11 22:59:45+00:00
AI does not have LONG context, Long Term Memories or LONG intentionality -its not aware and it can't remember the plot without being spoonfed the details each time from scratch.

Its like an amnesic genius who once he already wrote a masterpiece and keeps cycling, and looses his train of thought after some fixed amount of time.

This groundhog day effect is mitigated in some respects by code -we create key-value memories and agents and stores and countless ways to connect agents via MCP and platforms/frameworks like A2A and the like but until we solve that longer lived instance problem we won't be able to trust these systems without serious HITL (human oversight)

I think we need models that update their own weights and we need some kind of awareness cycle rather than just a forward pass inference run with a bigger context window
by bawolff | 2026-03-11 22:59:58+00:00
I guess i should say, nobody holds back out of being nice. If they hold back its because of some strategic benefit, such as rationing the weapons for the long haul.

What is the strategic benefit here of not attacking? The warning is unlikely to change us behaviour by itself, at most it might just get america more on alert.

> Iran is playing a long game

Doesn't seem like it. Attacking semi-neutral gulf states and mining the strait are desperation moves. They are things that sacrafice the long term but you still do them because if you dont fix the short term there won't be a long term.

> Indiscriminate attacks on civilian targets is not going to win it many friends

Which has played out in practise... part of the reason why the usa is getting such limited push back internationally (basically just some strongly worded letters) is nobody really like iran because of how they have conducted themselves historically.

They have had no issue with fairly indiscriminate attacks so far in this war, i doubt they are going to start now.

> The fact that Iran has already done some damage to AWS data centers makes it seem likely they could do so again if they tried.

The threat here seemed to be cyberattacks and/or physical attacks on US based infrastructure.

Nobody doubts that iran can fire drones/missiles at their next door neighbour (although some reason to doubt they can keep it up). Attacks on us soil and/or cyberattacks are a different story.
Ask HN: Anyone ever deliberately left out code to thwart scrapers?
by truelinux1 | 2026-03-11 23:00:08+00:00
A function called out in your code, but never defined. A dependency not included. A comment that says "email me for the missing piece" in the readme? Bots scrape GitHub 24/7, vacuuming up people's work with no acknowledgment - not like it used to be where people would interact - there was a human element.

So wondering, has anyone done this? Is it a coherent stance or just a pointless gesture?
by iJohnDoe | 2026-03-11 23:00:10+00:00
Thanks for giving real-world examples of your usage.

Do you think it’s worth $500 a month? Also, maybe tough to answer, does it seem like the token usage ($500 a month) would be equivalent if you did the same things using Claude or GPT directly?

My reason for asking is because I tried OpenClaw and a quick one-line test question used 10,000 tokens. I immediately deleted the whole thing.
by garciansmith | 2026-03-11 23:00:33+00:00
"'Microsoft Authenticator is not officially supported on GrapheneOS and Entra accounts may be impacted in the future on devices running GrapheneOS that are detected as rooted,' a Microsoft spokesperson said."

Doesn't that imply it'll run on GrapheneOS unless the phone is also rooted (and by default it's not)? The spokesperson might be using the term "rooted" incorrectly though?
by einpoklum | 2026-03-11 23:01:16+00:00
Poorly, which is how a huge fraction of employees are treated by their employers. This is particularly true in the US, where unionization rates are very low, the dominant culture is massively biased in favor of owners/employers, and labor laws are few and grant little.

That is to say, that as bad as this experience is, it is unfortunately not something so far from what many potential employees have to look forward to. Remember that people interviewing to work as unskilled laborers in a Domino's pizza store (to give an example from the video) may not have such a wide array of choices and likely really need to get some job to make ends meet.
by alkonaut | 2026-03-11 23:01:24+00:00
Why not just charge it on the paying end (payroll tax)? It would be the same thing but charged from employers.

E.g my Employer pays about 125 to pay me 100 because of payroll tax. Then I receive 70 because the employer also pays my tax directly. My income was only 100 and the total tax was 55.
by wlesieutre | 2026-03-11 23:01:41+00:00
Yeah, I don't think this lineup is particular crazy:

- 8.3", one tier (mini)

- 11", three tiers (iPad, Air, Pro)

- 13", two tiers (Air, Pro)

Could you spend the same amount of money on a regular 11" iPad with a lot of storage, or an iPad Air with less storage? Sure.

Some people want lots of storage. Other people don't care but want a wide gamut screen, faster processor, and better pen capabilities.

It's nothing like trying to pick a laptop from Dell where you have to spend hours digging around to even figure out what your options are.
by DoctorOetker | 2026-03-11 23:01:46+00:00
100% this.

What is currently called "peer review" didn't exist back then, back then the meaning of "peer review" was just the back and forth happening in the open academic literature. Note the inevitable lack of finality in the original concept of peer review, a discussion in the scientific community could go on for 100's of years before being finally resolved. The current concept of "peer review" is closer to the concept of a delegation of some opaque ministry of truth composed of some opaquely selected experts (who often truly intend well) to settle in a short duration the finality.

Some measurements or experiments or questions to be settled can be very actionable and provide highly accurate results, others require much longer gathering of data to draw a clear picture.

The modern concept of "peer review" tries to sell the idea of almost immediate finality, like an economic transaction. In reality it is selling just the illusion, and creating lots of victims ranging from truth, individuals, departments or entire institutions, along with any patients or others they treat.