MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by SenHeng | 2026-03-08 17:30:53+00:00
If we’re trading war stories, one of my first software jobs was developing an electronic medical records system. We didn’t use VCS. At the end of the day/task, you send the director the file you’ve changed with a txt file of which lines were changed.

The director made sure things compiled, then we would drive down to the hospitals and copy the dlls into each PC one by one. And because hospitals can’t shut down their computers willy nilly, we could only deploy on weekends or public holidays. Not weekday nights because the directors have to be home for the kids.

That was in 2014. They’ve worked that way since the late 90s and ‘no point changing what works’.
by k32k | 2026-03-08 17:30:56+00:00
My feeling is that some event will happen close-to-IPO that spooks investors, that results in OAI not IPO'ing. Remember if there are under-writers involved they will not want to go forward.

Then they will face financial distress, and questions over how they get the funding to continue as a going-concern. The only way that'll happen is via issues of shares at a lower price aka destroying the valuation of OAI compared with today.

Anthropic in comparison will be OK, as they have focused on building a viable business enterprise.
by thesz | 2026-03-08 17:31:18+00:00
This looks very much like whirlpool. LLM researcher makes LLMs researching LLMs. The quote from old post from Karpathy [1] look very appropriate here

[1] https://karpathy.github.io/2015/05/21/rnn-effectiveness/

"In particular, setting temperature very near zero will give the most likely thing that Paul Graham might say:
“is that they were all the same thing that was a startup is that they were all the same thing that was a startup is that they were all the same thing that was a startup is that they were all the same”
looks like we’ve reached an infinite loop about startups."

As if Karpathy made an artificial Karpathy-researcher-blogger and set temperature close to zero.
by throwaw12 | 2026-03-08 17:31:22+00:00
OpenAI:

- we are building Open AI - only if you have more than $10B net worth

- we are against using AI for military purposes - except when that case is allowed by government

- we are on a mission to help humanity - again, we define humanity as set of people with more than $10B net worth

- surrender? - sure, sure, we will, only to people with more than $10B net worth, they can do whatever they want to our models, we will surrender to them
by dylan604 | 2026-03-08 17:31:48+00:00
To me, the difference is that "hackers" has become focused on software. The early days in SV they had to invent the hardware. Now, hardware is commodity, and it has a novel idea for a hardware hacker to make the news. The Zuck hacked his first iterations of what became Facebook together. Apps like Snapchat and what not are just software hacked together using the hardware in novel ways. Things like Flipper0 are interesting hardware from hackers. Some interesting things find their way to the crowd funding sites that ultimately die on the vine. Sites for 3D printing show there are still some mechanical hardware types that still tinker.

Overall, it just shows that the hacker ethos never went any where. It's just younger people being exposed and thinking it's something new.
by OneDeuxTriSeiGo | 2026-03-08 17:31:52+00:00
Also on the TV/movie front science fiction is doing quite well right now.

Apple TV seems to have made producing good scifi series one of their main selling points. Lots of famous scifi series are getting TV adaptations and apple TV is producing wholly new scifi series as well.

Foundation, Murderbot, Silo, For All Mankind (and the upcoming Star City), Severence, Dark Matter, Monarch, Pluribus, and Neuromancer to name some of the current and upcoming series.

And of course if my theory is right I suspect the upcoming Firefly announcement will be that Apple TV is picking them up for a continuation as well.

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But also scifi has a lot of other avenues for exploring their ideas now (such as via interactive media/video games). I'd argue some of the best scifi works of the current generation come from interactive media/video games rather than television or movie. Ex: Outer Wilds, The Talos Principle 1&2, Nier, VA-11 Hall-A, Bioshock, Mass Effect, Dead Space, Deus Ex, etc.

Like frankly television and movie are massively expensive and books are way harder to sell now than they ever were (as discoverability and reach are poor) but video games as a more visual medium are easier to sell but at the same time the entry point for making them is an order of magnitude lower than TV or movies. So it's not terribly surprising to see scifi flourish with games where other mediums have found themselves in a slump.
by croes | 2026-03-08 17:31:59+00:00
If your brother‘s PS5 isn’t on Firmware 2.x or below he is out of luck and it won’t work.

> Nguyen said the setup only works with a full chain exploit such as Byepervisor, which is aimed at older firmware. The public Byepervisor repository says that support for PS5 firmware in the 1.xx to 2.xx range

https://videocardz.com/newz/modder-turns-playstation-5-into-...
by s2sphysical | 2026-03-08 17:32:12+00:00
Update: now has a live API — no install needed.

curl -X POST https://s2s-65sy.onrender.com/certify \
-H "Content-Type: application/json" \
-d '{"accel": [[0.1,0.2,9.8],...], "sample_rate_hz": 50}'

Returns GOLD/SILVER/BRONZE/REJECTED + score + which physics laws passed.
by derefr | 2026-03-08 17:32:15+00:00
Except that most READMEs are seemingly written more for end-users than for developers; and even CONTRIBUTING files often mostly just document the social contribution process + guidelines rather than providing any guidance targeted toward those who would contribute. There’s a lot of “top-level architectural assumptions” detail in particular that is left on the floor, documented nowhere. Which “works” when you expect human devs to “stare really hard and ask questions” until they figure out what’s being done differently in this codebase; but doesn’t work at all when an LLM with zero permanent learning capability gets involved.
by paoliniluis | 2026-03-08 17:32:19+00:00
run ollama show <name_of_model>:<parameters> and you'll get the info. E.g.
ollama show qwen3.5:0.8b
Model
architecture qwen35
parameters 873.44M
context length 262144
embedding length 1024
quantization Q8_0
requires 0.17.1

Capabilities
completion
vision
tools
thinking

Parameters
presence_penalty 1.5
temperature 1
top_k 20
top_p 0.95

License
Apache License
Version 2.0, January 2004
by LgWoodenBadger | 2026-03-08 17:32:28+00:00
All software should provide something meaningful for anybody to diagnose, if they’re inclined to. It’s particularly bad in the (Apple) mobile ecosystem, including AppleTV.

I have AdGuard Home but one of my spouse’s streaming services wouldn’t work. “There was a problem.” Gee thanks. Eventually figured out that I had to unblock a few hosts so it would work. Only found which ones by googling and finding some other poor soul who fixed it and documented it.
by westurner | 2026-03-08 17:32:52+00:00
> It is understanding whether your fix preserves the invariants the original author had in mind but did not write down.

This may also be the limit to the quality of an automated port to another language. What isn't encoded as automated tests or manual test procedure cannot be verified.

So often I'm amazed at what it's possible to accomplish from a prompt that's certainly insufficient with insufficient context. "It should have been necessary to specify more context there," or "I would have thought that it wasn't possible to do that without reading in more context than just one source code file," and then a few prompts later, "there's where we failed for trying to skimp on context"

To prevent architectural rework as a human developer also requires substantial ahead-of-time codebase review.

Are AGENTS.md files the best place to summarize more comprehensive codebase review and useful dense context like guidelines for testing and architectural components in order to avoid rework?
by ibejoeb | 2026-03-08 17:34:06+00:00
Yeah I suppose that's true, too. You've got to do the conversion at some point. I don't know that you get any benefit of doing storing the text, doing the transformation to support whatever ops (deconflicting, etc.) and then transforming back to text again vs just storing it in the intermediate format. Ideally, this would all be transparent to the user anyway.
by Detrytus | 2026-03-08 17:34:58+00:00
Prices in the US are usually much lower than in Europe. I just checked and 48->64 ram bump is still $200

I just did a 14" MBP with M5 Max, 128GB RAM, 4TB SSD, nano-texture display. Price difference is $5849 vs 7004 EUR ($8136).
Show HN: Tilth v0.5.0 –> ~40% cheaper AI code navigation (160 runs, 3 models)
by jahala | 2026-03-08 17:35:07+00:00
Smart code reading for humans and AI agents. Tilth is what happens when you give ripgrep, tree-sitter, and cat a shared brain.

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v0.5.0 was about figuring out why models weren’t using tilth tools consistently — even when they were available.

Results vs baseline (built-in tools only):

Sonnet 4.6: -44% $/correct (84% → 94% accuracy, 31% fewer turns)

Opus 4.6: -39% $/correct (91% → 92% accuracy, 37% fewer turns)

Haiku 4.5: -38% $/correct (54% → 73% accuracy, 7% fewer turns)

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https://github.com/jahala/tilth/

Full results: https://github.com/jahala/tilth/blob/main/benchmark/README.m...

— PS: I don't have the budget to run the benchmark a lot (especially with Opus), so if any token whales has capacity to run some benchmarks, please feel free to PR results.
by wearebilig | 2026-03-08 17:35:08+00:00
The answer is newsletters.

From the war in Iran to breakneck speed development in AI and what's happening in financial markets, you have high-quality newsletters in every subject.

Bilig lets you discover high-quality content from hundreds of reputable publishers and provides a platform where you can read newsletters in a space that is designed for reading.

Plus, personal briefs give you a summary of all your unread newsletters at the snap of a finger and lets you see what matters and what can be passed on.

Last but not least, you also get to free your inbox from all the newsletters and use your gmail/outlook/yahoo only for personal correspondence.
by k32k | 2026-03-08 17:35:57+00:00
I did lol. I can't speak for enterprise in totality, but I see a world where Apple is the dominant provider of products/services for consumer and SMB's.

Google's lack of investment in marketing, design and sales/distributions capabilities is going to hurt them badly. MSFT is no different in many respects - latching onto the investments in 'relationships' and 'switching cost' initiatives that have kept customers loyal to them.

Apple is in great shape.
by Izkata | 2026-03-08 17:36:30+00:00
> And we are only talking about editing model (e.g. b being beginning of a word)

nmap can shadow the built-in commands, replacing them with whatever function you want.

> There some cases were Neovim already wants to disconnect itself from vim legacy like allowing to scroll viewport without moving the cursor

I think you mean beyond where the cursor is so it's hidden, but you can jump the screen so the cursor's current position is at the top/middle/bottom without moving the cursor using zt/zz/zb.
by p-o | 2026-03-08 17:36:38+00:00
I think the brunt of the disruption regarding AI is already behind us for LLMs at least. It's possible we'll see improvements over the following months/years, but government will inevitably start to catchup to the level of disinformation and confusion that AI has brought to this world.

Laws & regulations that needs to be created to reign in AI will undoubtedly increase the opportunity cost of training LLMs.

For some, it might be similar to the early 2000s, but I think it's just a healthy rebalance of what AI is, and how the society needs to implement this new, hardly controllable, paradigm. With this perspective, OpenAI has a lot to lose as it hasn't been able to create a moat for itself compared to, let's say, Anthropic.
by high_priest | 2026-03-08 17:36:57+00:00
I am an experienced dev, who learned about all the marvelous FLOSS tooling, by randomling stumbling upon it in deep dives into Linux ecosystem.

And I have no idea how it could be even remotely possible for a youngling to discover the same things in the torrent of sloppy SaaS.

Do you know of a "hitchikers guide to the FLOSS galaxy" that could teach the ways of the elders, from the ground up?
by matricks | 2026-03-08 17:37:21+00:00
> There's precious little training material left that isn't generated by LLMs themselves.

Percentage-wise this is quite exaggerated.

> Consider this to be model collapse (i.e. we might be at the best SOTA possible with the approach we use today - any further training is going to degrade it).

You consider this above factor to lead to model collapse? That’s no basis for such a claim — you’ve only mentioned one factor here.

I’m aware of the GIGO factor, yes. There are probably at least ~10? other key factors that you have to put together to make sense of this.

It is worth mentioning one outside view here: People that bet against human progress over time tend to lose.
by bitbybit_ch | 2026-03-08 17:37:36+00:00
Hi, I wanted to touch base with you about the site's workflow, specifically step 1. I had a bit of trouble with it and I think it might be worth looking into.

1.
You should explain how you felt when you encountered step 1, using 'I' statements to describe your experience, such as 'I found it confusing' or 'I wasn't sure what to do next.'

2.
You can then suggest the change you think would improve the process, saying something like 'I think it would be really helpful if it redirected straight to step 2.'

3.
You may also want to ask for their perspective, saying 'What do you think about that idea?' or 'Is there a reason it's set up this way?' to show you value their input

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I really like the idea of the "They might say this — tap to see how to respond".
I found it a bit confusing that i insert the text on the main website and then basically see the text again (to modify) instead of going straight to step 2 or even having the step 2 options also on the main website.

But i found it generally well structured and i like the calming colors too. Neat.
Show HN: Complying with California's AB 1043 via signal fusion, not ID uploads
by digital-arcadia | 2026-03-08 17:37:37+00:00
California's AB 1043 takes effect January 2027. If your app serves California users, you'll need to request OS-level age signals from Apple/Google and treat them as "actual knowledge" of a user's age. Penalties are $7,500 per affected child for intentional violations.

We started building A3 (https://www.a3api.io) after realizing the law has a gap nobody was talking about: browsers have no OS age signal. If you have a web app, the law creates compliance obligations but the platform provides no mechanism. And on native, you're left stitching together Apple's Declared Age Range API and Google's Play Age Signals yourself — two different APIs, two different response formats, two different integration paths.

The standard industry answer is ID uploads and selfie scans. We didn't want to build that. Those approaches tank conversion rates, create PII liability, and feel disproportionate to the problem. So we went a different direction: passive behavioral signal fusion.

The idea is that children and adults interact with devices differently in measurable ways — motor control, scroll patterns, typing rhythm, form completion speed. Our browser SDK (<5 KB) collects these signals from standard DOM events, computes aggregate scores on-device, and sends only anonymized ratios and averages. No raw coordinates, no keystroke logs, no text content ever leaves the browser. The API processes everything in memory and discards it immediately.

On native, we normalize the Apple/Google OS signals into a single response. On the web, the behavioral signals become the primary assessment. Either way you get the same response format: a verdict, age bracket, confidence score, evidence tags, and an HMAC-SHA256 signed receipt for your audit trail.

To be upfront about limitations: behavioral signals are probabilistic, not deterministic. A confident 12-year-old and a hasty adult can look similar in a short session. We mitigate this with five signal categories (behavioral metrics, input complexity, device context, contextual signals, account longevity) that are weighted and cross-validated, and we apply coverage penalties when fewer categories are present. But this is age estimation, not identity verification — it's designed for the "commercially reasonable" standard the statute actually requires, not the false certainty that ID checks imply.

The stack is NestJS on AWS Lambda, with client SDKs for React/Vue/vanilla JS, SwiftUI, and Jetpack Compose. There's a free tier (100 checks/month) if you want to kick the tires, and a playground at https://www.a3api.io/playground.

If you maintain an open source project, we have a program that gives you Pro-tier access (50k checks/month) for free — the only requirement is a "Powered by A3" in your age gate UI or README. Details at https://www.a3api.io/open-source.

Docs: https://www.a3api.io/docs

Happy to answer questions about the signal fusion approach, the legal nuances, or where we think this falls short.
by 827a | 2026-03-08 17:37:46+00:00
Yes:

> A powerful Neural Accelerator is built into each GPU core of the M5 family of chips, which dramatically speeds up AI tasks like image generation from diffusion models, large language model (LLM) prompt processing, and on-device transformer model training. [1]

[1] https://www.apple.com/macbook-pro/
by sameerd90 | 2026-03-08 17:37:52+00:00
I built this as a free alternative to the NYT Spelling Bee. Tech stack: React 18 + TypeScript, Vite, Tailwind CSS, Framer Motion. The entire 370K word dictionary is loaded client-side as a JSON file for instant validation. It's a PWA with offline support via service worker.

Features: daily challenges (seeded by UTC date so everyone gets the same puzzle), unlimited practice mode, 6 rank progression, streak tracking, and Web Audio API sound effects.

Feedback welcome — especially on the dictionary coverage and word validation.
by dylan604 | 2026-03-08 17:37:53+00:00
I think that's being very generous. If you've ever been in tech support, you'll be amazed at how often you'll be asked what to do when it tells me to do X.

If they don't know how to do X, then they should be able to look up how to do X. If it's something like install 3rd party library, then that's not the first party's responsibility. Especially OSS for different arch/distros. They are all different. Look up the 3rd party's repo and figure it out.

But no, it's contact support straight away.
by 0xbadcafebee | 2026-03-08 17:38:00+00:00
AGI isn't going to happen within the next 30 years so this is moot. The actual researchers have said so many times. It's only the business people and laypeople whooping about AGI always being imminent.

You cannot get real, actual AGI (the same ability to perform tasks as a human) without a continuous cycle of learning and deep memory, which LLMs cannot do. The best LLM "memory" is a search engine and document summarizer stuffed into a context window (which is like having someone take an entire physics course, writing down everything they learn on post-it notes, then you ask a different person a physics question, and that different person has to skim all the post-it notes, and then write a new post-it note to answer you). To learn it would need RL (which requires specific novel inputs) and retraining (so that it can retain and compute answers with the learned input). This would all take too much time and careful input/engineering along with novel techniques. So AGI is too expensive, time consuming, and difficult for us to achieve without radically different designs and a whole lot more effort.

LLMs are fine. They aren't AGI.
by freedomben | 2026-03-08 17:38:21+00:00
This is great news. I've long felt markdown support was a missed opportunity for LibreOffice. There are great options out there, and with AI it's not even terrible to roll-your-own, but I already have LibreOffice anyway and being able to use that instead of reaching for a different tool would be killer. Might be a little while until this makes it into distro packages, but if anyone has tried it I'd love to hear how it compares to the other options.
by derefr | 2026-03-08 17:39:36+00:00
No? What you’re looking for here are project-specific agent skill files. Which don’t need to be “pointed at” by AGENTS.md for the agent to find them and use them when/where applicable; and nor do they take up undue context when not in use. (I believe internally the agentive coding frameworks RAG on skills and then search this RAG for applicable skills to pull temporarily into context at the beginning of each planning step.)
by prngl | 2026-03-08 17:39:40+00:00
It's funny how the false choice of American politics (Red vs Blue) also makes it into its consumerist corporatist life. That Anthropic's threadbare "limits" on government usage are seen as a heroic stand is a testament to just how far the goalposts on "ethical" deployment of AI have moved to the (fascist) right. As ever, politics precedes technology. We have Reagan's internet, we will have Trump's AI. God help us.
by fuzzfactor | 2026-03-08 17:40:16+00:00
Yes, the diameter is compensated at the same time as the tension.

When the string's action is higher above the frets, the tension increases more when fretted than open, to a greater degree than low action.

So the saddle for that string needs to be positioned such that the plucked portion of the string is slightly longer than it would need to be if the tension were the same as the open string.
by SilverElfin | 2026-03-08 17:40:32+00:00
Yes but they’re all stolen, using distillation to copy the best models. It’s another example of rampant intellectual theft by China, and should be treated as asymmetric warfare.

And before someone says the Western models are copying others - there’s a difference between fair use of publicly visible information to train a model, which is like how humans learn, and creating tens of thousands of fake accounts and maliciously avoiding detection to violate the terms of a private service, which is more like a cyberattack.
by semitones | 2026-03-08 17:41:16+00:00
True temperament solves for a _different_ issue than what OP's post talks about. From the strandberg true temperament page:

> Let’s begin by describing the issue with standard equal tempered frets; standard fret spacing is calculated from one single piece of information about the guitar, the scale length. This principle ignores that the frequency of a vibrating string is calculated by three factors: the mass of the string, the tension applied and the speaking length. All three of these factors are affected to different degrees each time a string is pressed down on a fret. The only way to correctly compensate for all three of these parameters is to adjust each string-to-fret connection point independently, until each note plays the correct frequency. This issue, which is impossible to solve with standard tempered frets, is what True Temperament solves.

So the true temperament system is compensating for the fact that a thicker string behaves differently when fretted than a thinner string. It still provides a 12 TET system however.

What you are probably thinking of, is a _just intonation_ fretboard, which exists and looks very different:
https://projectionsliberantes.ca/en/guitars-tuning-system/

You can see that rather than squiggles, different strings have frets in completely different places.
by m727ichael | 2026-03-08 17:41:17+00:00
Agentic Governance Controller (AGC v2) is a lightweight governance framework
for supervising LLM and multi-agent reasoning systems. It provides a structured
analysis pipeline, parallel agent perspectives, evidence tier scoring,
adversarial review, HITL checkpoints, audit logging, and CLI orchestration
for transparent and accountable AI decision workflows.