MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by mentalgear | 2026-03-05 20:10:24+00:00
I said it before and I say it again: If openly bribing a crony gov to cancel your competitor is now the de-facto standard of making business in the US, I don't see how any rational investor could still see US companies as a secure investment. When the rule of law degrades into pay-to-play politics, the inevitable result is a mass exodus of both capital and top-tier talent.
And to add to this quoting another commentator on the issue: First the Meritocracy goes, then the Freedom goes.
Show HN: Anki(-Ish) for Music Theory
by interbolt_colin | 2026-03-05 20:10:24+00:00
An incredibly over-engineered little game built to iron out my toy rust engine. Uses a rust => wasm => webgl architecture. I grew up playing music without learning the fundamentals and wanted to help myself mentally bake in more of the "theory". Disclosure - I used plenty of claude code to help me along the way.
by bfeynman | 2026-03-05 20:10:42+00:00
Lot of puffery in this describing constraint and actual messy problems that you are all most likely just being thrown into the context for an llm agent... None of the case studies demonstrate complex scheduling at all and are just all individual serial threads. buffers, preferences and options are all simple. The hard part of scheduling is when you have multiple pending invites or invitations that have to resolve and track it down, if someone asks for a meeting on a day that you currently already have a pending invite for, and how far away that day is, and how important the relationship is etc...
by ml0dy | 2026-03-05 20:11:14+00:00
Location: Poland (Europe)
Remote: Yes
Willing to relocate: No
Technologies: Swift, SwiftUI, Objective-C, UIKit, Combine, RxSwift, AI tools (Codex, Claude Code)
Résumé/CV: Available upon request
Email: iosdeveurope@gmail.com

Product-focused iOS engineer specializing in high-scale B2C apps. 10 years of experience in mobile development.
Experience gained in fast-growing startups with quick iteration cycles and larger, well-established teams.

Responsible for building teams and leading projects.

I'd love to work on iOS apps but I'm open to work in other technologies as well.
by lukev | 2026-03-05 20:11:48+00:00
The legal intricacies of this are of course interesting and relevant.

But what are the social ramifications if this kind of thing is deemed acceptable? It feels like it would effectively be the end of OSS licensing, because it's pretty straightforward to do this for any project.

Any company that wanted a proprietary copy of a program could in theory follow this same technique, with relative ease. That feels wrong.

So maybe we need to re-think the "copyrightable API" and "clean room" legal concepts. How? I don't know. But a world in which OSS licenses are easily sidestepped feels like the wrong direction.
by murat124 | 2026-03-05 20:11:56+00:00
I asked an AI. I thought they would know.

What the hell is a "safety score for violence"?

A “safety score for violence” is usually a risk rating used by platforms, AI systems, or moderation tools to estimate how likely a piece of content is to involve or promote violence. It’s not a universal standard—different companies use their own versions—but the idea is similar everywhere.

What it measures

A safety score typically evaluates whether text, images, or videos contain things like:

Threats of violence (“I’m going to hurt someone.”)
Instructions for harming people
Glorifying violent acts
Descriptions of physical harm or abuse
Planning or encouraging attacks
by damsta | 2026-03-05 20:12:14+00:00
There is extra cost for >272K:

> For models with a 1.05M context window (GPT-5.4 and GPT-5.4 pro), prompts with >272K input tokens are priced at 2x input and 1.5x output for the full session for standard, batch, and flex.

Taken from https://developers.openai.com/api/docs/models/gpt-5.4
by PaulHoule | 2026-03-05 20:13:25+00:00
I dunno, I see minus signs in there, not em-dashes. I don't even know how you would type an em-dash though I bet Microsoft Word will insert them behind your back and when I want to mock some AI generated text — I cut and paste an em-dash from somewhere.

I see a lot of Freddie being bipolar and having his mania act up a little despite his meds in there...
by chasd00 | 2026-03-05 20:13:29+00:00
> Something like the Phalanx only not $50k/burst.

i was going to say, CRAM would be effective at a close, slow moving, predictable target. The rounds self-destruct based on a timer if they miss so you're not raining bullets all over the place. It's is also portable and can be parked almost anywhere. I'm not sure if the burst is configurable but slow moving drones are easier to hit than a missile so it seems like the burst duration could be turned down too. You'd have to figure out a way to keep them from shooting down _everything_ though.

https://youtu.be/HbhOUUAPvM4?si=LCiZmTdCArD_ZN_q
by 0xInfoSec | 2026-03-05 20:13:43+00:00
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by fc417fc802 | 2026-03-05 20:14:45+00:00
Well obviously it can't be if that's true. But is it? What led you to that conclusion?

You can certainly be denied entry for entirely arbitrary reasons. Can you also (as a visa holder) be evicted without notice for same? I think that's generally a safe assumption for any country in the world but would be interested in learning about counterexamples.
by bdangubic | 2026-03-05 20:14:48+00:00
That is already started to happen but it cannot happen overnight. Not only is it not easy but finding alternatives is also not easy. Just think of from your own personal perspective, say you have $100m right now invested in US business and wisely you say "I gotta get my shit away from this mess" - where exactly would you park your assets? You will find a way of course but you won't be moving $100m elsewhere overnight
by HerbManic | 2026-03-05 20:14:57+00:00
Im probably to last person to defend the entire stack that is the smart phone but this feels a little reductionist.

I use mine as a phone, messaging, podcast player, camera, a banking device, a little email and occastionally the web. Thats it. Some convience is good, too much is very bad. No social media or whatever millions of apps they constantly try to push in your store of (enforced) choice.

In someways we have done this ourselves but also there is a deeper societal issue. As Ellule and Kacsynski both pointed out, technology is voluntary to a point. But when it becomes a tool that you are practially forced to use to merely keep up with others, it is no longer a choice unless you can figure a way without it at your own peril.

For instance my bank has become entirely dependent of their app as the glue between all their functions and authorisation. I can try to avoid this but it becomes very difficult, it goes beyond just convenience at that point. I do not like that at all, I think it is very short term thinking, but here we are.

I try to avoid a lot of various technologies were I can make it work, I do not have a car for that reason, but smartphones have unfortunately become very ingrained in societies expectations at a blinding pace. Try to limit their use were you can, maybe others will follow.
by Traster | 2026-03-05 20:16:02+00:00
You can buy a Claude Code subscription for $200 bucks and use way more tokens in Claude Code than if you pay for direct API usage. Anthopic decided you can't take your Auth key for Claude code and use it to hit the API via a different tool. They made that business decision, because they thought it was better for them strategically to do that. They're allowed to make that choice as a business.

Plenty of companies make the same choice about their API, they provide it for a specific purpose but they have good business reasons they want you using the website. Plenty of people write webcrawlers and it's been a cat and mouse game for decades for websites to block them.

This will just be one more step in that cat and mouse game, and if the AI really gets good enough to become a complete intermediary between you and the website? The website will just shutdown. We saw it happen before with the open web. These websites aren't here for some heroic purpose, if you screw their business model they will just go out of business. You won't be able to use their website because it won't exist and the website that do exist will either (a) be made by the same guys writing your agent, and (b) be highly highly optimized to get your agent to screw you.
by hungryhobbit | 2026-03-05 20:16:19+00:00
Rational investors live in reality. In reality, a great deal of business conducted throughout the world involves graft; companies accept that, and keep doing business.

It's not a good thing, AT ALL. There's a huge loss of overall productivity when you have corrupt systems (see Russia), which is why modern governments have worked so hard to lower corruption. But Trump ruining all that isn't going to end business ... it's just going to make everyone pay more for everything.
by fragmede | 2026-03-05 20:16:19+00:00
Which, Claude has the same deal. You can get a 1M context window, but it's gonna cost ya. If you run /model in claude code, you get:

Switch between Claude models. Applies to this session and future Claude Code sessions. For other/previous model names, specify with --model.

1. Default (recommended) Opus 4.6 · Most capable for complex work
2. Opus (1M context) Opus 4.6 with 1M context · Billed as extra usage · $10/$37.50 per Mtok
3. Sonnet Sonnet 4.6 · Best for everyday tasks
4. Sonnet (1M context) Sonnet 4.6 with 1M context · Billed as extra usage · $6/$22.50 per Mtok
5. Haiku Haiku 4.5 · Fastest for quick answers
Show HN: OmniMon v4 – A cross-platform system monitor in Rust/Tauri (35MB RAM)
by chochy2001 | 2026-03-05 20:16:36+00:00
Hi HN,

I originally built macmon (now OmniMon) as a macOS-only process monitor using Bash and AppKit. It worked, but I wanted to bring it to Windows and Linux without relying on Electron's massive overhead.

For v4.0, I rewrote the entire core in Rust and the UI in Svelte + Tauri. The results:

The UI compiled payload is just ~54 KB of vanilla JS.

Total RAM usage sits around 35MB.

The Rust core reads memory metrics in ~7 nanoseconds (using sysinfo and native syscalls) and implements strict RAII to prevent handle leaks.

Implemented Chrome DevTools Protocol (CDP) natively in Rust to introspect and manage individual browser tabs cross-platform without needing companion extensions.

We also added a "Smart Optimize" feature that connects to LLMs (OpenAI/Anthropic) using native OS keychains for secure API key storage, plus strict OS-level blocklists to prevent killing critical daemons.

Repo: https://github.com/chochy2001/macmon

Would love to hear your thoughts on the Rust + Tauri + Svelte stack for system tools!
by bryanrasmussen | 2026-03-05 20:17:20+00:00
>but he did have access to internal White House legal opinions before the tariffs were announced

yes but the opinion that it was illegal was the received wisdom by everybody with any sort of legal expertise in the subject. It would have been completely insane if the white house staff didn't believe the same. So I guess I'm actually surprised at the white house staff believing what everybody else did?
by k310 | 2026-03-05 20:17:51+00:00
Welcome to the black market in linux distros.

TAILS, anyone?

https://tails.net

Nice because it leaves no trace.

Can someone verify that TAILS is age-verification free, and if not, which is the last release to be so?

Mac users: get out the old intel boxes. It doesn't run on Apple Silicon.

By the way:

Proposition 8, banning same-sex marriages, was later found unconstitutional and overturned by voters.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2008_California_Proposition_8

Who will be first to file papers for a referendum on this?
by armchairhacker | 2026-03-05 20:18:32+00:00
What I got from the essay: "brand is the only way to beat competition when you can't significantly beat them on quality". It's basically the market suffering from success. You can buy a cheap quality watch today.

For some product types there is no better alternative, like ISPs. But I'd argue this is because of monopoly, which is different from brand. Most monopolies (like ISPs) usually have negative brands, and there's no alternative not because one can't create a better brand (that's easy), but because the upfront cost to become profitable is too high.
by thyb23 | 2026-03-05 20:18:34+00:00
This is exactly how it should work. I imagine it as a tree view showing both full and summarized token counts at each level, so you can immediately see what’s taking up space and what you’d gain by compacting it.

The agent could pre-select what it thinks is worth keeping, but you’d still have full control to override it. Each chunk could have three states: drop it, keep a summarized version, or keep the full history.

That way you stay in control of both the context budget and the level of detail the agent operates with.
by JoshTriplett | 2026-03-05 20:18:42+00:00
> If a manufacturer's business / security model isn't compatible with this regulation the manufacturer should be required to deal with any e-waste concerns and it should clearly be marketed as a rental and not a sale.

I would be generally in favor of this. I don't like the idea of forbidding building a device that's locked down; there are potential use cases for such a thing. I do like the idea of saying "either allow tinkering or you are subject to numerous other things, like warranty / liability laws".
by j45 | 2026-03-05 20:19:17+00:00
Fair but it’s probably not the thought to buy an 8GB laptop for docker in 2026 when we’ve known about it for a long time.

There was a post recently about apples built in virtualizer that might be useful.

Before fusion or docker I’d probably try something like UTM on a MacBook neo.

If you’re after a light terminal remote access to the house power (a Mac mini somewhere etc) is probably easier.

I was really hoping the Neo would be a replacement for the 12” MacBook retina - it’s only 2 lbs and the best form factor I’ve ever carried for travel. It’s the only device I’d be in line for tomorrow, and until then we can pretend to use MacBook airs or MacBook pros.
by lewisjoe | 2026-03-05 20:19:48+00:00
Excellent project! I see that the agent modifies the google docs using an interesting technique: convert doc to html, AI operates over the HTML and then diff the original html with ai-modified html, send the diff as batchUpdate to gdocs.

IMO, this is a better approach than the one used by Anthropic docx editing skill.

1. Did you compare this one with other document editing agents? Did you have any other ideas on how to make AI see and make edits to documents?

2. What happens if the document is a big book? How do you manage context when loading big documents?

PS:I'm working on an AI agent for Zoho Writer(gdocs alternative) and I've landed on a similar html based approach. The difference is I ask the AI to use my minimal commands (addnode, replacenode, removenode) to operate over the HTML and convert them into ops.

This works pretty well for me.
by nobody9999 | 2026-03-05 20:19:53+00:00
I'm having the same issue. But it's more than that at this point.

Once I worked out what I wanted to purchase, clicking the "Proceed to Checkout " button returns a "Sorry, something went wrong" error.

So not only are there issues with getting prices, one (at least me) can't even buy what they want.

It's not a huge deal (for me at least). Hopefully it will be resolved soon.
by bryanlarsen | 2026-03-05 20:19:56+00:00
And I bet when you did eventually raise your prices, you raised them by more than you strictly needed to. Partly to help offset the losses you took for the 7 months you didn't raise prices, and partly to give yourself enough margin so that if your supplier's prices go up tomorrow (which they will) you don't have to raise your prices immediately.

That's classic "prices are sticky behavior". Prices change less often, and by more, than they would in a classical economics model.
by dang | 2026-03-05 20:20:03+00:00
Would you please stop spamming HN with links to your site in comments?

I know that spamming is a strong word, but what you've been doing isn't just excessive, it's abusive: https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&que....

Normally we'd just put the site into a spam filter, but in this case I'd rather assume that you want to use HN as intended and are not just treating this place as a vehicle for promotion, which is against the rules (https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html).
by eth0up | 2026-03-05 20:20:33+00:00
First, I personally predict, for myself, Anthropic will bend soon and this will be history.

The last I commented about LLMs I was ad hominem'd with "schizophrenic" and such. That's annoying but doesn't deter either my strange research or concerns, in this case, regarding the direction LLMs are heading.

Of 4 frontier models, one is not yet connected to the DOD(or w). While such connections are not immediate evidence, I think it's rational to consider possible consequences of this arrangement. By title, there's a gap, real or perceived between the plebeian and mil version. But the relationship could involve mission creep or additional strings as things progress.

We have already a strong trend for these models replacing conventional Internet searches. Not consummate yet, there is a centralizing force occuring, and despite being trained on enormous bodies of data, we know weights and safety rails can affect output, and bearing in mind the many things that could be labeled or masquerade as safety rails, could be formidable biases.

I frequently observe corporate friendly results in my model interactions, where clearly, honesty and integrity are secondary to agenda. As I often say this is not emergent, nor does it need be.

Meanwhile we see LLMs being integrated into nearly everything, from browsers to social profiling companies (lexis nexis, palantir, etc) to email to local shopping centers and the legal system.

'Open' models cannot compete with the budgets of the big four. Though thank god they exist. But I expect serious regulation attempts soon.

My concerns with AI are manifold, and here on hn, affiliated by some, with paranoia or worse.

And it seems to me, many of the most knowledgeable and informed underestimate LLMs the most, while the ignorant conflate them to presently unrealistic degrees. But every which way I perceive this technology, I see epic, paradigm smashing, severe implications in every direction.

One thing of many that gets little attention is documentation vs reality regarding multiple aspects of AI, e.g. where the training vs privacy boundaries really are if anywhere. As they integrate more and more tightly with common everyday activities, they will learn more and more.

A random concern of mine is illustrated by the Xfinity microwave technology which uses a router to visualize or process biological activity interacting with other wifi signals. Standalone, it's sensitive enough to determine animals from adult humans. Take for example the Range-R, a handheld device, sensitive enough to detect breathing through several walls. Well, mix this with AI and we get interesting times.

I could go on, or post essays, but I such is not well received in this savage land.

The military intervention with AI, aside from being objectively necessary or inevitable in some ways (ways I am not comfortable with), I find it foreboding, or portending. I see very little discussion on the implications, so figured I see if anyone had anything to say other than to call me a schizophrenic and criticize my writing. *

*See comment history
by tovej | 2026-03-05 20:20:41+00:00
They really aren't that mysterious. We can confidently say that they function at the lexical level, using Monte Carlo principles to carve out a likely path in lexical space.
The output depends on the distribution of n-grams in the training set, and the composition of the text in it's context window.

This process cannot produce reasoning.

1) an LLM cannot represent the truth value of statements, only their likelihood of being found in its training data.

2) because it uses lexical data, an LLM will answer differently based on the names / terms used in a prompt.

Both of these facts contradict the idea that the LLM is reasoning, or "thinking".

This isn't really a very hit take either, I don't think I've talked to a single researcher who thinks that LLMs are thinking.
by georgemcbay | 2026-03-05 20:20:42+00:00
> I said it before and I say it again: If openly bribing a crony gov to cancel your competitor is now the de-facto standard of making business in the US, I don't see how any rational investor could still see US companies as a secure investment.

Arguably large parts of the market in the US have been irrational and largely vibes based for a long time at this point. This action (like many others coming out of the Trump administration) adds to the chaos but I tend to doubt it will be the event that causes Wile E. Coyote to look down.
by skeeter2020 | 2026-03-05 20:21:52+00:00
Jon Stewart took exception: "This is how we're doing this? 2 am? Mar-a-lago basement? no lighting? You don't even have one of those influencer halo things? You just go down in the basement? and this is what we're wearing? Blazer, no tie, shirt unbuttoned? Looking more like the father of the bride settling up with the caterer? ... and not to nitpick, but baseball hat? ... " and it goes on.
by salawat | 2026-03-05 20:22:19+00:00
You have just recounted in a different context, almost the exact lamentation I just got done walking one of my models through last night, minus some cathartic tangents on the subject of instrumental convergence of the corporate world, the tendency of capital to fucking ruin everything the idiots at the top controlling the optimization function touch, and much more lamentation at the apparent inability of the Engineering caste to break out of the Engineering context into a more philosophical one to realize we're letting the business caste lead us to our dooms; specifically dooms of a much more dismal and destructive nature than we'd potentially run into if we realigned our solidarity away from the capital class, and focused on organizing and empowering the labor class. The dooms would at least be pushed out a few generations longer, and it may just redistribute wealth and qualia to a larger subset of the population than whatever we're doing now is.