MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by Ajakks | 2026-03-02 00:27:09+00:00
In the scenario you are describing - which is highly plausible, and I agree looks likely, we would use nukes -> just little ones, smaller more "tactical" bombs (they will still make chunks of cities disappear) and we may even tone down the radioactive elements so its not as bad for the environment (just bs of course but there is precedent for doing/saying that).

If we do it right, we publicly announce that we have been cornered, bc of Ukraine and how nice we are, and then we get a bunch of global investment into our military armamemts/munitions (none soon enough to shoot back tho) so we make a huge threat that looks like we are totally bluffing an All In, which of course gets called -> but we are not bluffing tho, hence the little nuke(s).

Russia wont do MAD for the whole world, just bc we took out a third of Shanghai, as a dangerous example, very likely its like a Tehran as our example. Putin might even follow suit with Kiev. Nobody is going to shoot at us with one.

China only has enough nukes to assure their own complete and total destruction. (We would lose cities and enormous population but we would still exist) We have enough nukes to hit every city above a certain size.

We will mention that the "little tactical nuke" we were just "forced to use" (ideally we do this to "save another country", like Taiwan for example) are 1000 times less powerful than a "real nuke" - of which we have thousands and thousands.

Then we do pirate America to shut down international trade for any countries who sanction us - and that should do it.

Obviously we would be doing a lot of very heavy handed propagandizing across the west and demanding our allies do too, - we would also go full 1984 for awhile (with AI tho, not people) bc of stuff like suit case nukes (that will conveniently get used outside of America somewhere 1st)...

I'm actually not kidding all that much at all tbh.

If we were truly out of bullets and it looked like China was about to corner the global economy and take away all our power-> we just won't allow that while we have the ability to prevent it.

The truth is there are many more scenarios where we would use those weapons than we want to admit. I hope we never have to demonstrate.
by akersten | 2026-03-02 00:27:30+00:00
> If the reason the site exists is to use ads, they’re not going to let you use an user agent that doesn’t display the ads.

They've been giving it the old college try for the better part of two decades and the only website I've had to train myself not to visit is Twitch, whose ads have invaded my sightline one time too many, and I conceded that particular adblocking battle. I don't get the sense that it's high on the priority list for most sites out there (knock on wood).
by inder1 | 2026-03-02 00:27:45+00:00
the correction you're describing is real. the timing is unknowable but the direction isn't.

two things tend to protect people in this scenario: domain knowledge that's hard to hand off, and a visible productivity multiplier with AI tools. engineers who can demonstrate 5-10x throughput are the last to go. the ones doing standard work at standard pace are not, regardless of seniority.

the actionable move is to close that gap now, while you still have access to good tooling and time to build the habit. the market can stay irrational longer than your job security can hold, but the productivity gap is something you can actually control.
by mandel_x | 2026-03-02 00:27:52+00:00
I’ve been thinking about a simple problem:
We’re increasingly merging AI-assisted code into production, but we rarely preserve the thing that actually produced it — the session.
Six months later, when debugging or reviewing history, the only artifact left is the diff.
So I built git-memento.
It attaches AI session transcripts to commits using Git notes.
by LorenPechtel | 2026-03-02 00:28:20+00:00
Haven't read it, from what Wikipedia says it sounds quite optimistic. Maybe more realistic back when it was written. I also wonder at the President dying when Air Force One went in--there's good reason it's impossible to jump from civilian airliners, but I would be amazed if Air Force One lacked some means of emergency egress--I'm not talking ejection seats, just a door.
by sotix | 2026-03-02 00:28:25+00:00
AI has made senior engineers useless to me. I have purposefully asked senior engineers specific questions to get their insight on a matter only to have them tell me, "here's what our internal AI tool said". This has occurred countless times. I find that staff and principal engineers have remained extraordinarily valuable as teachers. Our junior devs have been exceptional and are eager to learn. Our seniors have become lazier and stopped being as generous with their knowledge.
by jfengel | 2026-03-02 00:28:37+00:00
Tolkien made significant changes to the Gollum chapter. In the first edition Gollum gives up the ring willingly. The ring was not yet the Ring, and Gollum was not yet a Hobbit.

The man took retcons as an intellectual challenge. Sometimes the retcon itself spun off a whole new story. But it makes The Hobbit really incompatible with its own sequel, even after his changes. (You have to read it as having a very unreliable narrator.)
by righthand | 2026-03-02 00:29:26+00:00
Lol no support here for these troops or military operations. Go ahead run out of ammo, I asked for healthcare. If it means a pedophile doesn’t get prosecuted and more innocents die as we bomb cities, I surely do not care just like they don’t care about healthcare. I only have support for those that defend our people, not those that attack others for “reasons”. See you in the afterlife or lack their of. Enjoy your propaganda.
by AngryData | 2026-03-02 00:29:41+00:00
With an angry human behind the wheel you can't be assured they won't hit you on purpose or even accidentally clip you swerving around you. With a robot car designed to maximize safety, you don't really have to worry. Even if they started making robot taxis drive like assholes, the maximum payout for suing a robo taxi company for getting hit is WAY higher than some rando on the road. The guy you pissed off and ran you over for standing in the road might have just got out from a 15 year prison sentence, hates the world, and have a net worth of -$70,000, and isn't going to earn you anything besides a life long injury.
by Nevermark | 2026-03-02 00:30:21+00:00
We have a theory whose plain reading matches experiment at all scales.

Consciousness is something else. It is tempting for humans to pair mysteries up, pyramids and aliens, or whatever. But there isn't any factual basis for linking the experience of self-awareness with quantum mechanics.

Is there a factual reason we know digital minds couldn't be conscious? Where quantum effects have been isolated from the operations of mental activity. That seems like a premature constraint to assume.
by gruez | 2026-03-02 00:31:25+00:00
>But reasonable punishment discourages bad behavior. And software engineers have a habit of ignoring the implications of a defective design. I think apocalyptic fines applied to the companies creating the systems for automated cars would also create the correct incentives, but I find that to be less likely than imprisonment.

This just feels like the "we should make the justice system harsher to deter crime" argument but applied to software engineering. If it works, why stop at criminal cases? Maybe we should dock the pay of SWEs next time they cause a prod issue?
by bonoboTP | 2026-03-02 00:31:35+00:00
> When Claude does something unexpected with Jira, I can run the same jira issue view command and see exactly what it saw. Same input, same output, no mystery.

A sign of bad UX. There should be better ways to drill down into what actually happened than ctrl+o which still hides a lot and then ctrl+e is still not enough and there are some verbose flags that show absolutely everything instead of letting me check just what I want. So I'm vibe coding my own tool to do this based on the jsonl files in the Claude history directory. But this should work out of the box.
by arjunchint | 2026-03-02 00:31:37+00:00
> You say it like it's a bad thing. But ideally this also brings clarity & purpose to your own API design too! Ideally there is conjunct purpose! And perhaps shared mechanism!

I update my website multiple times a day. I want to have as much decoupling as possible. Everytime I update internal API, I dont want to think of having to also update this WebMCP config.

Basically I have to put in work setting up WebMCP, so that Google can have a better agent that disintermediates my site.

> Trying to keep users from seeing what data they want is, generally, not something I favor.

This is literally the whole cat and mouse game of scraping and web automation, sites clearly want to protect their moat and differentiators. LinkedIn/X/Google literally sue people for scraping, I don't think they themselves are going to package all this data as a WebMCP endpoint for easy scraping.

Regardless of your preferences/ideals, the ecosystem is not going to change overnight due to hype about agents.

> Your site running its own agent is going to take a lot of resources

A lot of sites already expose chatbots, its trivial to rate limit and captcha on abuse detection
by lich_king | 2026-03-02 00:31:40+00:00
I love that you use "fantastic creatures" to describe the world of Jansson, but "warriors" to describe Tolkien. Last time I checked, it had hobbits, dwarves, elves, talking trees... but none of that fantasy nonsense of Moomintrolls, right?

There are some seriously dark themes in there - and unlike in Tolkien, the protagonists are completely helpless when facing them. No epic battle in which magical eagles and a magical bear show up to save the day.
by wnevets | 2026-03-02 00:32:14+00:00
And have actual meaningful consequences happen? I'am.

Twitter is creating CSAM, Meta & OpenAI pirate millions of books and Nvidia is playing some sort of shell game to pump their stock price.

If a regular person committed any of those offenses once they would be lucky to just to be sued but because of "AI" nothing happens to these companies.
by boomboomsubban | 2026-03-02 00:32:38+00:00
We're these only used in Sweden? I know I've seen some of them before, but I'm not sure if it's from decades on the internet or my school having a specific thirty year old edition of The Hobbit.

I seem to recall thinking Gollum was big, but honestly could be remembering the Shelov scene. It was long time ago.
by Nevermark | 2026-03-02 00:33:38+00:00
It touches you, and you are just as quantum as the bit.

So two entangled versions of you follow, one entangled with each state. (Actually as many quantum versions of you that touched the qubit times two.)

Which is what happens, as we know from experiment when any one qubit interacts with another independent qubit. We get the product of entangled states, each now correlated. But different entangles states are now in superpostion with each other.

So correlation/entanglement happens and is experienced, despite no collapse of superposition. No information was destroyed or created.

Each of you thinks, wow now the qubit only has one state. But that is because there are two versions of you, correlated respectively with the two uncollapsed qubit states.

Complete conservation. That is the "experience" of collapse that needs no explanation, because it is a predicted experience not requiring an actual collapse. Just as spherical Earth models don't need a special explanation for the appearance of locally flat Earth, because spherical models predict a local flat Earth experience.
by bryanlarsen | 2026-03-02 00:35:59+00:00
> If a human was in that Waymo, they would have moved quickly.

Some humans would have exactly the same response as the Waymo. When a human brain gets completely overwhelmed and doesn't know what to do, it drops down into animal behavior -- freeze or flee.

Given that it's a dangerous multi-ton machine, a Waymo likely has a programmed default behavior of "do nothing & phone home for instructions".

Which isn't an excuse -- an emergency vehicle is not an uncommon situation and Waymo should know what to do before being allowed on public roads.

A failure to get remedy instructions in a timely fashion from a human is even more alarming. Google is famous for automating tasks that should be performed by a human.
by kikokikokiko | 2026-03-02 00:36:31+00:00
To me, the fact that quantum mechanics is intrinsically "random" and unknowable beforehand, is what makes living bearable in this universe as a sentient being. If we, two legged viruses that we are, could reach a level of understanding that could show the universe to be fully deterministic and every future state to be knowable given that you know the current states, then this human condition would be impossible to stand. I love the fact that we just can't predict the future. It's what makes existing be a good thing instead of a bad one.
by nebula8804 | 2026-03-02 00:36:32+00:00
There is so much BS on both sides of the aisle so it seems impossible to get a clear picture but didn't Iran prepare better than Venezuela in terms of deployment of Chinese radar and other security defenses? Seems like there has been no conversation whatsoever about Chinese defenses, were they bypassed again? If so, then China must be reassessing. (Again dont know whats real and whats fake anymore)
by sigbottle | 2026-03-02 00:36:41+00:00
You're one of the forefront experts in terminal protocol parsing. Do you have opinions on "interceptor" applications like tmux or mosh, for example? These applications technically need to do extra upfront work (especially mosh as it transforms the entire protocol) and it's not a transparent "I treat vt100 as a black box, I put bytes in, I get well structured, standardized events out". Does libghostty-vt support that currently, does it intend to support these kinds of protocols in the feature, or is this kind of thing outside the scope of the project?
by raw_anon_1111 | 2026-03-02 00:38:05+00:00
First let’s define roles. I am not just pulling them out of thin air.

https://www.levels.fyi/blog/swe-level-framework.html

Junior - everything is spelled out in excruciating detail, the what and the how. They are going to be slow, not know best practices, constantly bug other developers and you srs going to have to correct them a lot.

Mid level developer - little ambiguity on the business case or their role in it. They are really good coders in their domain. They have the experience to turn well defined business requirements into code. You don’t have to explain the “how” to them just the what. They should have the ability to break an assigned “epic” based on the business requirements to well defined stories and be a single responsible individual for that Epic maybe working with juniors depending on the deliverable or other mid level developers.

A senior developer works at a higher level of ambiguity and a larger scope, the business may know they want something. But neither the business or technical requirements are well defined. Think of a team lead.

Senior+ - more involved with strategy.

If I have to define everything in great detail anyway, why not just use AI? It can do it faster, cheaper, more correct and the iteration is faster. I would go as far as saying in my recent coding agent experience, a coding agent is realistically 100x faster than a junior developer since you have to give both of them well defined tasks.

My experience with Claude code and codex recently is that even the difference between a mid level developer and a coding agent is taste when it comes to user facing development, knowing funky action at a distance, and knowing the business, with a mid level developer you can assume shared context and history with an ability to learn.

So again, why do I need to hire a junior developer in the age of AI?
by jongjong | 2026-03-02 00:38:19+00:00
Yep great point. I guess this is the most extreme case. This dependency that billionaires have on the government is a symptom of the same effect and it's terrible regardless of which party is in charge, just negatively impacts different people. The same dynamic of government dependency flows down to everyone else.

It's because the government can print money. The government is the ultimate fallback, if interest rates increase and money becomes scarce, these big corporations need the government to provide big contracts to back them up to get through that tough period.

This is what I mean by all-or-nothing situation. These big corporations NEED huge, constant inflows of cash to stay solvent. The system is always full of debt; the liquidity is always under threat of being sucked out rapidly... So all these big companies are terrified of such event. They need to know that if money gets scarce, they've got a reliable stream they can draw from and the only reliable source of money in times of monetary scarcity is the government.
by latexr | 2026-03-02 00:38:27+00:00
> Why does the majority of people just assume people want to communicate

They don’t. If they did they wouldn’t have an issue striking up a conversation with strangers, but they clearly do.

> I have not read the article and never am going to.

If you don’t know what it says, it might be wise to not be negative about it.

> I do not, ever, want to talk you as a standard and you should never force that to me.

The article isn’t suggesting anyone force anything. Quite the contrary, it advocates for respecting boundaries and even suggests how to communicate your own.
by fn-mote | 2026-03-02 00:38:35+00:00
> What’s your hypothesis of how AI can accelerate how your brain understands something?

What are your beliefs / hypothesis of how having a human teacher can help you understand something?

AI explanations are no longer terrible garbage. The LLM might not be doing original research, but it has definitely read the textbook. :/ And 1000 related works.

You shouldn't believe the LLM when it tells you how to micro-optimize your code, but you can take suggestions as a starting point and verify them.
by AngryData | 2026-03-02 00:38:41+00:00
The cops only do that if they can be sure they will be able to charge someone else for the damages. For their vehicle, for their "injuries", and also adding in to their department bonuses, but they get none of that if they can't charge somebody with a crime easily. Ambulances aren't really made to do that and are crazy expensive, plus the drivers would likely be taking on a bunch of the liability from the crash, although the ambulance itself likely would survive just fine because they are tough. The fire department are the only ones that have the trifecta of vehicles made to push other vehicles out of the way, are not paid by the extent that they can extort people for money, and are not going to be held liable for damages.
by colechristensen | 2026-03-02 00:38:50+00:00
>nobody really knows what they are talking about

The mathematics of QM works extremely well.

The interpretations of what the math is saying happens a varied and sometimes contradictory.

We can predict what's going to happen extremely well, we just can't tell the story of what's happening. And there's been a century of trying to avoid the weirdness and failing. The problem might just be our brains evolved in a world that behaves so much differently that we can't understand.
by SilverElfin | 2026-03-02 00:39:52+00:00
I feel like this is a way to ultimately limit the ability to scrape but also the ability to use your own AI agent to take actions across the internet for you. Like how Amazon doesn’t let your agent to shop their site for you, but they’ll happily scrape every competitor’s website to enforce their anti competitive price fixing scheme. They want to allow and deny access on their terms.

WebMCP will become another channel controlled by big tech and it’ll come with controls. First they’ll lure people to use this method for the situations they want to allow, and then they’ll block everything else.
by nathanlied | 2026-03-02 00:40:24+00:00
China is being very careful to provide enough support not to be seen as abandoning their trading partners/allies, while keeping the support at a low enough level to not get entangled in conflict or create expectations for future conflicts. They want to be able to paint this as "just business", in spite of any rhetoric they may publicly have. In some cases they'll help more in covert ways (Russia), while others they'll do the bare minimum (Venezuela).

So yes, China did give (note: sell) Iran some hardware, but it's not the most cutting edge tech China has, and it's not in sufficient quantity to make much of a difference.

The US is still ahead of China in a lot of military tech, even if the gap keeps getting narrower.
by scotty79 | 2026-03-02 00:40:31+00:00
> How, for example, are we supposed to think about the domain in which all possibilities still exist before decoherence? How “real” is it?

The quantum function is the real object. Little balls we like to imagine the particles as are just perception of quantum functions very narrowed down by entangling with macroscopic objects. The way we measure anything is through the entanglement between the measured entity and our macroscopic instruments.
by socalgal2 | 2026-03-02 00:40:36+00:00
An old guy sat at the table next to mine at an outdoor cafe. I don't remember what I said to start the conversation but he told me he'd lived in Japan for 3yrs in the 50s, married a Japanese woman, they moved to Redondo Beach and she convinced him to buy a house more than they could afford. He said it was the best decision of their lives. He then said she'd past away a few years ago and they had no kids.

I ask him what he thought of the population crisis Japan is facing. He said said that was bullshit and that 8 billion people in the world are way too many.

And that was when I stopped talking to him.
by maplethorpe | 2026-03-02 00:40:45+00:00
I used to talk to strangers a lot when I was younger. But then I started getting older and more scary looking. I developed memories of older men making unwanted advances towards me. I became horribly afraid of making anyone else feel that way, so I stopped.

I know the article's advice is to take a chance, and if I scare someone else so be it. But something about that feels wrong to me.
by mmschreiber | 2026-03-02 00:40:47+00:00
Hey everyone,

I’ve been experimenting with some AI-based image processing and decided to turn it into a small browser game.

The idea is simple:

- You’re shown an obfuscated movie frame or cover
- You try to guess the movie
- The image gradually becomes clearer as you use the hints

I built it using Svelte and deployed it on Vercel. This was mainly a learning project to experiment with AI image transformations in a fun way.

I’d really appreciate feedback on: Difficulty balance, UX, Performance or even whether it feels fun or repetitive.

Thanks!
by triceratops | 2026-03-02 00:41:27+00:00
> Just a drive-by comment on what foods humans can (easily) do without, nutritionally.

And I'm telling you that economically, not to mention thermodynamically, you're completely wrong.

50% of all calories all humans consume come from wheat, rice, and maize. Add in tubers and that rises to 90%. If you* want to do without something, then beef is the only rational choice. There are many, many cheaper nutritional substitutes for beef. Such substitutes don't exist for rice or corn.

* not "you" specifically, you may be able to afford a 100% beef diet. But it's literally impossible for everyone to swing it.
by commieneko | 2026-03-02 00:42:09+00:00
Those are wonderful! It's really interesting to see Jansson's take on the characters and settings. When I read _The Hobbit_ in the early 1970s, there was already a well established tradition of how to portray Tolkien's world. Jansson's seems very fresh to me.

Also of interest, and probably just as upsetting to some, is Gene Deitch's version of _The Hobbit_ which was made in the mid 1960s in an attempt to retain the movie rights. Made in 30 days!

https://youtu.be/UBnVL1Y2src?si=rpd-dOk-t4BYFP_Q