MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by baileywickham | 2026-03-11 21:30:26+00:00
Thanks for the feedback here, this matches a bunch of patterns we have seen.

One of the fundamental problems is OpenClaw is tech for nerds. It's hard to use, it breaks all the time, it's built on LLMs, etc. We'd like to be the one to bridge the gap but that will take a ton of work. It's something we spend all day thinking about. Some issues like the one you hit with canvas are likely some mix of our problem and the model doing something unexpected like putting the file in the wrong directory which is constantly a problem.

Also agree on the cost being a huge issue. We give $15 up front and it just disappears so quickly for many users. Some users switch to smaller models but often this just ends up with people being more unhappy because the performance is bad. Opus is the least likely to make mistakes but also the most expensive.

Thanks for the advice, it's great to hear you believe in it too! At a personal level, it means a ton to me. Just got to keep writing code.
by zahlman | 2026-03-11 21:30:26+00:00
One problem I see is that LLMs have a more nuanced... well, model of how words and their meanings relate to each other than a dead-tree thesaurus could ever present, what with its simplified "synonym" and "antonym" categories. Online versions try to give some similarity metrics, but don't get into the nuance. (It's not as if someone who takes either approach would want to spend the time reading and understanding that, anyway.)
by munk-a | 2026-03-11 21:30:29+00:00
The spammers wouldn't pay it once though - the idea is that it's a good way to scale moderation. Each time an admin needs to ban a user there is a 10$ subsidy supporting that action - and if the bots come back then they get to pay 10$ to be banned again.

Assuming the money isn't wasted and is actually used to fund moderation 10$ is probably comfortably above the cost to detect and ban most malicious users.
by duskwuff | 2026-03-11 21:30:33+00:00
> i can't help but wonder why apple appears to be fully singular in their arm dominance

I have to imagine that a big part of it is the company can plan and act as a single unit. The teams building the CPU, the computers which house that CPU, and the operating system and software that'll run on those computers are all working together, and can plan new features which cut across those boundaries. Other ARM CPU/system manufacturers don't have that advantage.
by O1111OOO | 2026-03-11 21:30:51+00:00
Please stop overthinking and listening to publications that insist on creating some kind of a caste system.

I didn't bother to even read the article (it's behind a paywall, I don't read articles with nonsense headlines).

There is this need to separate the behavior of wealthy/powerful people vs those who are poorer/hold less powerful positions.

The behavior's the same when it comes to writing and sending messages. I've dealt with both consistently and constantly over several decades.
by xdennis | 2026-03-11 21:30:56+00:00
> Let's celebrate "small internet theory", an internet where exploitation is effectively impossible because every company that tries it is overrun with AI bots.

But isn't it even harder for small forums to resist the robot onslaught without the trillion dollar valuations to fund it?

Although, part of the reason Facebook/Linkedin/Twitch/etc have bots is because those companies secretly want them, in order to inflate their usage numbers.
by rekabis | 2026-03-11 21:31:14+00:00
I am perfectly fine with many of the technological restrictions on this device, and think it represents a great balance.

However, I think that two will bring sour tastes to people’s metaphorical mouths much more than expected: the RAM and drive space.

There should have been a 16Gb option. Nosebleed the price if you have to, or include a SODIMM slot if needed, but the option should have been there to expand the memory to 16Gb either on spec or at a later date. Because each version of MacOS gets weightier and more demanding of hardware - Windows isn’t the only resource hog out there - and at 8Gb the pain will begin to be felt long before the 7-year usability cycle comes to an end.

There should have been a 1Tb option. Not because people use that much drive space - many don’t - but because 1Tb is the level which provides enough cells in parallel to properly saturate the PCIe bus, ensuring maximum performance. Not always at that 1Tb level, and not on every machine. But typically 1Tb or above, rather than below. Even if it required a hairdryer to unstick the original due to the constrained space not permitting a lock-down screw, the drive should have been either replaceable or with the size as (again) a nosebleed-price option at provisioning.

Because while I see every other compromise as acceptable, it is those two which make me hesitate on getting this as a long-term secondary/casual system.

Other than that, this is a laptop which can only goose Apple’s further adoption among students and casual users.
by unsui | 2026-03-11 21:31:18+00:00
Gonna put out a blanket assertion about my preferences, to get a read on whether these are shared or not:

As humans, we have directives (genetic, cultural, societal, etc.) to prioritize humanistic endeavors (and output) above all else.

History has shown that humans are overwhelmingly chauvinistic in regards to their relationship to other animals in the animal kingdom, even to the point of structuring our moral/ethical/legal systems to prioritize human wellbeing over that of other animals (however correct/ethical that may ultimately be, e.g., given recent findings in animal cognition, such as recent attempts to outlaw boiling lobsters alive as per culinary tradition).

But, it seems that some parties/actors are willing (i.e., benefiting) from subverting this long-standing convention (of prioritizing human interests) in the face of AI (even to the point of the now-farcical quote by Sam Altman that humans take far more nurturing than LLMs...)

So: should we be neglecting our historical and genetic directives, to instead prioritize AI over human interests? Or should we be unashamedly anthropic (pun intended), even at the cost of creating arbitrary barriers (i.e., the equivalent of guilds) intended to protect human interests over those of AI actors?

I strongly recommend the latter, particularly if the disruptions to human-centric conventions/culture/output are indeed as significant (and catastrophic) as they will likely be if unchecked.
by 0x457 | 2026-03-11 21:32:07+00:00
I think It makes sense for iPad line up to be this way. Very clear feature segmentation that make sense. Most is directly result of underlying hardware. For consumer it's also very easy:

- decide on size

- go from your budget

- if still too many SKUs go by features

What features? Thunderbolt, Screen, Apple Pencil, Face ID

Alternatively if you know what features you want, start with that.

If you're struggling to choose which iPad you need then you might want an iPad for the sake of having an iPad (in which case get Air).
by robotswantdata | 2026-03-11 21:32:11+00:00
Meetups for special interests / tech adjacent fields.
Go to more company events for the tech you use.

The other factor is finding “high elo” people with influence that can help you if you live in a “low elo” area.
You’ll have to go to the “high elo” areas more often to increase chance of a better match.
Show HN: Manage Cursor agents from your smartphone
by pmdfgy | 2026-03-11 21:32:19+00:00
Initially RebootX was made to connect cloud providers (AWS, GCP, etc.) and dashboard providers (Grafana) to manage these on-the-go. It is very useful, especially in case of emergency.

Then I've added https://github.com/c100k/rebootx-on-prem to connect anything that is "runnable". This natural abstraction helped me integrate the new integration this post is about : Cursor.

This way, we can also manage agents we start from our laptops with our phones. I'll be glad to get your constructive feedback to improve the integration.

Best,
by atmavatar | 2026-03-11 21:32:30+00:00
> but it's a reasonable need too.

Why?

User names are for all practical purposes infinite: merely allowing 10 character alphanumeric usernames already gets you into the quadrillions, nearly enough for every person on the planet to claim a million unique usernames.

The username in question, while short, doesn't seem to have any inherent value, as it does not appear to be a valid word in any language, and the most common acronym expansion for it (Home Access Center) is too generic to be particularly useful as an identifier such that anyone but the original user would fight for its use.
by drnick1 | 2026-03-11 21:32:41+00:00
Why? Like many people I don't do serious work on my laptop. It is used for Web browsing, email, and to SSH into other machines. A simple, affordable, but well built machine like the Neo would be ideal for this, on the condition that I can run Linux on it. I currently use an aging XPS in that capacity and the Neo would be quite compelling as a substitute.
by wvenable | 2026-03-11 21:32:47+00:00
> If you had the LLM write the comment, then it wasn't your thoughts.

But what if I provided the LLM my thoughts? That's actually how I use LLMs in my life -- I provide it with my thoughts and it generates things from those thoughts.

Now if I'm just giving it your comment and asking it to reply, then yes, those aren't my thoughts. Why would I do that? I think the answer goes back to my original point.

If I'm telling you my thoughts and then you go and tell a friend those thoughts, would you say those are still my thoughts even though I wasn't the one expressing them directly to your friend?
by idle_zealot | 2026-03-11 21:32:49+00:00
Since when do you "own" social media handles? Maybe you should, but that's not reflected in the laws of our countries or the policies of these platforms. They own your presence, your content, and your reach. This is our "solution" to self-publishing. Do you want change? Advocate for it.

Of course, if you advocate for a system with no equivalent to eminent domain you'll quickly discover why the rule exists.
by alphaglosined | 2026-03-11 21:33:06+00:00
It is more widespread than you may realise.

That work contributes to static analysers' data flow analysis algorithms and is very widespread, even if it's in a limited capacity.

C#, gcc, clang, and even dmd, with my fast DFA engine, utilise it.

We can't all be using Astrée, far too expensive ;)
by piyuv | 2026-03-11 21:33:09+00:00
I’ve read many horror stories from Indian developers about how they’re treated. They can’t escape it since almost every company in India will treat them the same. Their only escape is a remote job or to relocate.

I believe we’ll see this play out in a global scale. Once every employer paying a good salary does this, we won’t be able to pick and choose, without forfeiting a huge chunk of income. At that point I’d rather become a baker.
by 12_throw_away | 2026-03-11 21:33:14+00:00
> You could have a great idea and express it poorly and be penalized for doing so here while someone could have a blah idea expressed excellently and it's showered in replies despite being in some metrics (the ones I think are most important) worse than the other post.

I absolutely do not understand this comment. Are you saying that posting is competitive and that comments have "metrics"?
by roenxi | 2026-03-11 21:33:22+00:00
> Resource allocation is entirely a social construct. Not being afford something is a 'pretend' state that only exists because everyone agrees to go along with it.

That can't exactly be true, because scarcity is a physical limit. If there is exactly 1 apple, it is impossible for 2 people to eat it. That is no social construct.

There is a large social element involved, but that in itself is done in such a way as to try and encourage creation of a large amount of stuff to a large number of people. It isn't arbitrary; there are a lot of allocation schemes that lead to mass starvation and poverty. The natural human instincts are beyond terrible at allocating resources; pretty much everyone at this point has discovered that laws and capitalism with some welfare trimmings on the edge is a much better approach than any alternative that got tried.
by cyberax | 2026-03-11 21:33:26+00:00
Yes? What is exactly funny here? This is literally how the civilization works. I'm paid to do my work, and I pay others to do their work.

Do you grow your own food and sew your own clothes? Also, did you personally etch the microprocessor that runs your computer? The division of labor inherently means trusting others. So when I buy a bag of M4 screws, I'm not going to measure each screw with a micrometer, and I'm not taking X-ray spectra to verify their material composition.

The academic world also used to trust large publishers to take care to actually review papers. It appears that this trust is now misplaced. But I don't think it was somehow stupid.
by Freak_NL | 2026-03-11 21:34:00+00:00
In terms of toys which my son got from my childhood, Duplo and Lego stick out. We kept everything; booklets and parts. We built the classic town square (set 1592) recently, and we've got all the parts, including the statue bits! Only the printed lettering on the sign's 1×8 white brick had faded.

Sure, some puzzles and books survived, but the Lego stands out. If he ever has children they are in for a treat…
by midtake | 2026-03-11 21:34:06+00:00
It's not fossilized, it's just that no one uses it. Put hot chicks on there or make it mandatory for logging into Slack and suddenly everyone will be using keybase.io, and honestly I think web of trust is a good idea and if a webapp can make it seem easy or intuitive then I'm all for it.

We're scratching our heads wondering why there's no forward motion when it's simply that no one is pushing it.
by Kim_Bruning | 2026-03-11 21:34:16+00:00
Actually, I'd like to expand a wee bit. Don't know if you've ever done a scientific library usage course or so. It's one of those things you tend to forget are important.

One of the most important lessons is not to read as many papers as possible. It's weeding out as many as possible so you can spend your limited grey matter reading the ones that actually matter.

And that's where the LLM comes in handy, especially if it's of decent quality. It's a Large Language Model. Chewing through language and finding issues and discrepancies, or simply whether a paper matches your ultimate query is trivial for them .
by jmyeet | 2026-03-11 21:34:25+00:00
This is an interesting issue: what constitutes a valid military target?

Traditionally that meant armed forces, their bases, their supplies and so on. But the line has gotten awful blurry. Tech companies have become entwined with the state and are fundamnetal parts of both domestic and foreign policy. Targeting of military strikes is an obvious example [1][2].

I believe that in the very least these companies have risen to the level of defense contractors so Palantir is at least as valid of a target as Lockheed Martin, Northrop Grumman or Boeing. Is that sufficiently valid? I don't know.

But I don't think you can plead ignorance about what your tech platform is being used for, particularly if you're Palantir. You are helping a military force kill people and are deciding which people. You can't wash your hands of that.

[1]: https://www.972mag.com/lavender-ai-israeli-army-gaza/

[2]: https://www.business-humanrights.org/es/%C3%BAltimas-noticia...
by nozzlegear | 2026-03-11 21:34:43+00:00
> It's only pointless as long as you ignore their legitimate attempts of building nukes. If you don't want them to have nukes, then military action is the only way to stop them unfortunately. Because if/once they do get a nuke, it'll be impossible to stop them after that, and they'll hold the entire middle east hostage so might as well do everything you can to prevent that before it happens.

Obama had a perfectly good deal in place with Iran before Trump fucked it all up. Military action was not the only way to stop them.
by pear01 | 2026-03-11 21:35:32+00:00
Indeed. Remember this is the same regime that was insisting their leader was alive and about to make a speech when he had been dead for hours in the opening strikes of the conflict. They said they would sink American aircraft carriers if attacked. Meanwhile, the American president went on TV and stated they've blown through so many layers of leadership they are not sure who they could even reach out to.

Iran can clearly barely defend itself. The idea they will suddenly pull off something meaningful now strains credulity.
by skrtskrt | 2026-03-11 21:36:01+00:00
> JS has had more time and effort spent in hardening it

JS required the time and effort because it's a clown-car nightmare of a design from top to bottom.
How many person-hours and CPU cycles were spent on papering over and fixing things that never should have existed in the first place?

This doesn't even count as a sunk cost fallacy, because the cost is still being paid by everyone who can't even get upgraded to the current "better" version of everything.

The sooner JavaScript falls out of favor the better.
by mrbonner | 2026-03-11 21:36:03+00:00
Hah. When I worked for a very big Just Print Money bank circa 2008, they gave me, a SDE with the Lenovo ThinkPads running Windows with 4GB of RAM and a bonus of Lotus Notes for email. This thing was slower than molasses. Not to mention because we had an offshore team in India. every morning every engineer would begin the day with syncing the Subversion repo. My team was in central US but we had to connect to a proxy in NYC for network traffic inspection. This makes the sync over 45 minutes long. Repeat the same for every SDE, from both sides of the world, and you can guess the amount of time wasted.

I don’t think I would want to work in that environment anymore.
by beloch | 2026-03-11 21:36:07+00:00
If I were an opponent of the U.S., my short-list of companies to threaten (regardless of ability to carry through) would be the list of donors to Trump's ballroom. In Trump's febrile mind, only chumps pay taxes but there is some care for the people currently handing him money that's his to spend as he wishes.

Not surprisingly, pretty much every company mentioned in this article is on that list.
by array_key_first | 2026-03-11 21:36:08+00:00
Considering the DOD's stance on using AI for questionable means with Anthropic, we can very safely assume it.

This is further compounded by the fact the DOD, and the administration at large, is headed by some of the most incompetent and morally bankrupt individuals imaginable. I wouldn't trust Hegseth to change a goddamn light bulb, let alone run the DOD.
by amiantos | 2026-03-11 21:36:30+00:00
I spend all day every day on the Internet and I don't share your perspective. I might dislike centralized social media and yearn for a bygone era, but just in the past two days I had a very positive interaction with multiple real humans in the Commodore 64 subreddit that helped solve a problem I was having that isn't documented anywhere else on the internet yet. So then I went on my personal blog and blogged about it, which will get it out there on Google and help others. In this way, I am helping to keep the internet alive, I guess. "Be the change you want to see in the world," and all that.
by kjkjadksj | 2026-03-11 21:36:36+00:00
It would be interesting if we had some sort of local verification in the real world. As in picking up some key from some physical place or having it sent to some physical place. Some services like nextdoor are set up like this and mail out account auth to make sure the user is local to their next door group. Obviously you can imagine how it might be abused but it is impossible to do so at the scale you can abuse digital only methods.
by vkuprin | 2026-03-11 21:36:37+00:00
Thanks, that’s a really good question. Site Spy uses a real browser flow, so it generally handles JS-rendered pages much better than simple HTML-only polling tools. In practice, the trickier cases tend to be sites with aggressive anti-bot protection or messy login/session flows rather than JS itself. I’m trying to make those limitations clearer so people don’t just hit a vague failure and feel let down
by jsheard | 2026-03-11 21:37:01+00:00
Looks pretty fossilized to me: https://keybase.io/blog

They haven't added or really changed anything since the acquisition AFAICT, it's just trucking along exactly as it was the day Zoom bought them out. Twitter account proofs were broken by the API changes years ago and nobody is at the wheel to fix or even just deprecate them.

https://github.com/keybase/keybase-issues/issues/4200
by pixl97 | 2026-03-11 21:37:02+00:00
>Let's build small communities of

And 10 minutes later Texas demands you identify all your users age when someone posts a porn image somewhere. Facebook will gleefully laugh all the way to the court saying we need such internet ID to entrench themselves.

>, in that way the internet will never die.

You mean in the exact way the internet used to be... then died?

I'm guessing your GenX or a Xennial, it's how we think. Relationships and friendships are hard things to acquire and keep and you have to work to do it otherwise friends disappear. The thing is the younger generations mostly don't think that way. They have mostly always lived in a world where connections are cheap and easy to maintain. Attempting to move to a system that is more difficult will be very difficult for them.
by doctorpangloss | 2026-03-11 21:37:07+00:00
Many programmers believe that math is the best way to solve problems or order the world or whatever. There are lots of real 20 year olds out there using chatbots to "optimize" their humanities learning, or to "optimizing" using dating apps. It's a fact about this audience. Some people have a very myopic point of view, however, it coheres with certain cultural forces, overlapping with people of specific ethnic heritages, who are from California and New York, go to fancy school and post online, to earn tons of money, buy conspicuous real estate, date skinny women and marry young.

These aren't the marina bros, they're the guys who think they're really smart because they did well in math. They are using LLMs to reply to people. They LOOK like you. Do you get it?
by eschaton | 2026-03-11 21:37:09+00:00
You clearly stated that even if a project says “no LLM contributions” you will use an LLM to contribute if you feel like it and just lie about doing so. The project established a boundary, you decided to ignore it.

That plus your expressed belief that this is a common behavior, rather than an outlying one, indicates that you are probably a sociopath.
by joe_mamba | 2026-03-11 21:37:19+00:00
>Obama had a perfectly good deal in place with Iran before Trump fucked it all up.

What makes you think the Iranian regime is trustworthy to actually respect that deal and not just continue building nukes on the side while using diplomacy to string everyone along that they aren't?

You know who else had a deal? Ukraine. Did that deal stop them from being attacked by Russia? Can you stop a military invasion by waving the piece of paper with the deal in the enemy's face? Because that's why nukes are the best insurance policy over deals and why Iran desperately wants them.

How can people be so gullible to blindly trust Iran's word thinking a deal means anything?
by thomassmith65 | 2026-03-11 21:37:23+00:00
One problem with cute animal pictures is that they appeal to almost everyone, including people who are incapable, for whatever reason, of posting well-reasoned, interesting, respectful comments. The fact that HN is a little dry makes it less appealing to dumbasses.

At any rate, it's too late. The era of organic 'cute animal' content on the internet is dead. AI slop has killed it.