MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by angaroshi | 2026-03-10 14:26:13+00:00
I've being building a personal proyect for a while already, with the objective of having my own team of researchers and developers running entirely on small LLMS (14b or so params).

I thoug to keep it private, but I'm not planing to make money with this, so... why not making it public?

In the repo, there is a file called `architecture.md` where I explain the main points of how does it works, the main idea of the system and why is a big different to any other agen swarm over there.

But the first point is that I'm aiming 100% to small models. That does not means that this project does not work with gemini, openai or anthropic, it means that I don't use them as a comparison to say that something is solve or not. Maybe it works with gemini, but not with lets say qwen 3.5 14b. I mean, yes, qwen 3.5 is really good, but we can not compare a hudreds billon params or even trillon params to a <100b params.

The way of work and prompting to small models and particularly, agents build on top of small models is substancially different.

The project is just a fun project to learn about swarm, prompting and small LLMs.

I hope you enjoy it as I enjoy it working on it.

If you have any question, just write it down.

https://github.com/Infinibay/researcher
by cucumber3732842 | 2026-03-10 14:26:16+00:00
>Less people buying power from the utilities means they increase prices on the remaining customers.

Demand on the grid is going up.

What's driving up the cost is that all those rebates and 0% loans for solar, heat pumps, etc, etc, tax advantages for qualifying installers, etc, etc, etc, all that stuff is paid for by loading it into the transmission and distribution charges, the "cost of the wires and pipes" on your bill.
by freedomben | 2026-03-10 14:27:15+00:00
Perhaps it's a cynical way to look at it, but in the days of the war on general purpose computing, and locked-down devices, I have to consider the news in terms of how it could be used against the users and device owners. I don't know enough to provide useful analysis so I won't try, but instead pose as questions to the much smarter people who might have some interesting thoughts to share.

There are two, non-exclusive paths I'm thinking at the moment:

1. DRM: Might this enable a next level of DRM?

2. Hardware attestation: Might this enable a deeper level of hardware attestation?
by bede | 2026-03-10 14:27:20+00:00
> Probably obvious for many, but I didn't realize ACs don't transport any air into the room, but just moves it around

I had the same epiphany as you days after acquiring a CO2 monitor. Most people notice poor indoor air quality from proxies such as humidity and temperature. AC (without ventilation) eliminates these and tricks our senses very effectively, giving us cool and fresh feeling indoor spaces full of CO2 and devoid of oxygen.
by cmrdporcupine | 2026-03-10 14:27:42+00:00
At this point it's frankly not a fair comparison since DeepSeek 3.2 is now many months old and we're waiting for a newer model which has been rumoured as "any day now" since February. (We'll see).

GLM5, the largest Qwen 3.5 model, and Kimi K2.5 are more fair comparisons, though they are, yes, a bit behind. They're more than capable for routine operations though.

Anyways, I'm back to using Opus & Claude Code after a month on Codex/GPT5.3 and 5.4 and it's frankly a rather obvious downgrade. Anthropic is behind OpenAI at this point on coding models, and there's nothing to say they couldn't fall behind the Chinese models as well.

The moat is very shallow. After the events of the last two weeks there's likely a significant % of international capital very interested in breaching it. I know I would like to see this... Anthropic basically said F U to any non-Americans, and OpenAI is ... yeah.
by Sweepi | 2026-03-10 14:28:05+00:00
Sounds like you didnt sign a contract with an electricity provider and therefore are put in a fallback ("Grundversorgung") contract with the grid provider, which in 95% of cases is a bad deal for normal consumers.
You are free to make this choice, but if it bothers you enough to complain about it, it should bother you enough to invest 30 minutes and sign a contract: https://www.verivox.de/stromvergleich/
by jfengel | 2026-03-10 14:28:11+00:00
We should indeed make conscription equal. In the US, that means eliminating it. We have no use for conscripted soldiers.

Or we could make women sign up for the Selective Service. That would be a small waste of time for both men and women, since a draft is a bad idea. But if we can't eliminate it, making it equal would be fine with me.

Reading between the lines, your comment sounds a bit like "because of the draft men have no bodily autonomy and therefore women shouldn't have it either". I don't think that reasoning holds, but nonetheless, I agree that the draft should be made either universal or nonexistent.
by Noaidi | 2026-03-10 14:28:37+00:00
Is this something that needs to be tracked to bring into your awareness? We have a memory storage device sitting on top of our spine. When I drink I feel drunk. Easy. If the change is noticeable you will notice it and remember it.

I am just trying to save you time and escape the cycle of "optimizations" which is where all this data logging leads.
by baq | 2026-03-10 14:28:54+00:00
These aren't even their thoughts, it's just a bot let loose.

I remember the first time I suspected someone using an LLM to answer on HN shortly after chatgpt's first release. In a few short years the tables turned and it's increasingly more difficult to read actual people's thoughts (and this has been predicted, and the predictions for the next few years are far worse).
by jmclnx | 2026-03-10 14:29:10+00:00
Very nice, will look into it myself. Now if only they can set the defaults back to what vim 6.x used I will be happy.

The new defaults drive me crazy and I had to update ~/.vimrc to disable them.

This is what I had to add, but once in great while a default will be reset which I have yet to figure out why that happens.

:let no_man_maps=1
:let loaded_matchparen = 1
:set comments=""
:set matchpairs=""
:set mouse=
:set nocin
:set nohlsearch
:set noincsearch
:set nois
:set paste
:syntax off
""" disable autocomments
:au FileType * setl fo-=cro
""" turn off brace match comment matching
set noshowmatch
""" stop autoindent
set noautoindent
:filetype indent off
""set columns=80
set noundofile
set showmode ruler
" turn off a new vim 8 default
set scrolloff=0
by jnd-cz | 2026-03-10 14:29:20+00:00
The sum of human knowledge is more than enough to come up with innovative ideas and not every field is working directly with the physical world. Still I would say there's enough information in the written history to create virtual simulation of 3d world with all ohysical laws applying (to a certain degree because computation is limited).

What current LLMs lack is inner motivation to create something on their own without being prompted. To think in their free time (whatever that means for batch, on demand processing), to reflect and learn, eventually to self modify.

I have a simple brain, limited knowledge, limited attention span, limited context memory. Yet I create stuff based what I see, read online. Nothing special, sometimes more based on someone else's project, sometimes on my own ideas which I have no doubt aren't that unique among 8 billions of other people. Yet consulting with AI provides me with more ideas applicable to my current vision of what I want to achieve. Sure it's mostly based on generally known (not always known to me) good practices. But my thoughts are the same way, only more limited by what I have slowly learned so far in my life.
by Jemaclus | 2026-03-10 14:29:45+00:00
Legend of the Red Dragon (LoRD), Solar Realms Elite and Barren Realms Elite, and Tradewars were the best.

When I want to learn a new programming language, I always try to recreate Tradewars in it as a language. I know Tradewars like the back of my hand, so it allows me to focus on the nuances of the language while I build it. Such a fun project. The only thing I never quite figured out were the economics mechanics (it technically works, but it's a bit more predictable than TW2002 has in practice) and the Big Bang algorithm (I came up with my own, it's fine, but it doesn't have quite the same feel to it).

Less often, I'll try to create SRE/BRE, which, again is very fun but hard to reverse engineer. Amit (creator) lost the source code years ago, but wrote up some notes here: http://www-cs-students.stanford.edu/~amitp/Articles/SRE-Desi...

Funny, I just googled SRE/BRE to find the notes, and my last comment about it on HN was one of the top Google results... It's truly a lost art!
by namibj | 2026-03-10 14:29:56+00:00
Yeah, the resonant waves tend to be surface flexing (the top side expanding the bottom contracting and thus the sheet as a whole bending; and ofc vise-versa) which has a natural frequency related to the lever arm length amplifying the moving mass vs. the more centrally located elastic crystal lattice deformation forces acting as the spring.

At least that's my recollection on the mechanics of these types of resonators; the general frequency of period being proportional to length and thus your observation holding is fairly universal, though.

The 32kHz tuning forks btw use a torsional vibration mode thus not needing to be as massive as linear scaling would leave you to assume.
by newscracker | 2026-03-10 14:29:56+00:00
> Is there any smart TV that I can actually just use a TV how I want?

I’ve heard that large computer monitors and TVs intended to be used as displays can be used without connecting them to a network.

> Or am I reduced to buying an Apple TV device and unplugging the TV from the internet entirely ?

An Apple TV is a good choice even otherwise. I’ve never seen a smoother and quicker interface on a native Smart TV (granted that I’ve only seen Android and webOS). I use my Apple TV as the only network connected device while my TV is not connected to any network ever. Once in a while, I update the TV’s firmware by downloading it to a thumb drive and plugging that into the USB port of the TV.
by sbcorvus | 2026-03-10 14:29:58+00:00
I understand the knee-jerk reaction to restrict LLM's, but that feels like a failing prospect. They're going to be doing an incredible amount of heavy lifting on code generation, so why would you intentionally cut out what will likely be 90% or more of potential contributions? Wouldn't it be better to come up with a system that tags the type of contributor, ie. human vs. AI?
What about building an Agentic architecture that reduces your review burden? Just a thought.
by XorNot | 2026-03-10 14:30:17+00:00
Right - until anti-air measures designed to deal with voluminous relatively low performance threats get deployed. There's a reason Ukraine has been rolling out old school anti-aircraft and flak guns, and the modern variants are now starting to be produced - i.e. area effect microwave weapons and high energy lasers. Systems which aren't very useful if your adversary is highly capable, but which are effective if your adversary is relatively fragile. Again: volume turned out to be relatively useless in WW1 when the adversary had well placed machine guns.

But it's also an apples to oranges comparison: THAAD is in no way designed to intercept drone threats. The story here is closer to the US started a fight without actually investing in the sort of defenses which would deal with it - i.e. with a rack of Ukranian interceptor drones as part of the air defenses, the THAAD radar likely makes it.
by nnennahacks | 2026-03-10 14:30:31+00:00
Yeah, the "$15-20 a PR is cheaper than a great engineer" idea is doing a lot of hand‑waving here...

If you're a big shop pushing, say, 2,000 PRs a week and reviews average $15–25, that’s on the order of $30k–$50k a week in AI review spend, or $1.5-2.5M a year. That is quite a line item to justify.

"It's $20 cheaper than a senior engineer’s hourly rate,"... so what are you actually doing with your human reviewers once you add this on?

If you keep your existing review culture and just bolt this on, then you've effectively said "we’re willing to add $1–2M+ a year to the budget." That might be fine, but then you should be able to point to fewer incidents, shorter lead times, higher coverage, something like that.

Either this is a replacement story (fewer humans, different risk profile) or it's an augmentation story (same humans, bigger bill, hopefully better outcomes). "It’s cheaper than a great engineer" by itself skips over the fact that, at scale, you’re stacking this cost on top of the engineers you already have in the org.
by zhangxiaowen | 2026-03-10 14:30:32+00:00
We ran a related experiment from a different angle — 4 frontier models auditing each other's answers in a ring chain. Found that when models enter an "evaluation role," they reject real information based on format patterns (e.g., "specific number from unknown author = suspicious") rather than content verification. We call this framework activation.
What's interesting is it compounds across audit layers: one model's false judgment infected two auditors and the meta-audit layer. Only the networked model broke the chain by actually checking the source.
Your finding that "being told you're being evaluated increases CoT controllability by ~4 points" looks like the same underlying mechanism — evaluation context switches the processing pathway.
Data: github.com/ZhangXiaowenOpen/hallucination-benchmark
by mschulze | 2026-03-10 14:30:34+00:00
I haven't used SmartGit, so I can't really compare.

I would single out the following for Magit:

1. Single key strokes for actions and toggles
2. Discoverability through "slide-ins" (TFA also explains this)

For 2, this means I press "c" for commit, this opens a popup showing me the next keypresses and what they do.
So I can build up muscle memory for commands I know that are fast due to 1, and I can discover options that might help me due to 2.

If I don't know what to do at all, there's Ctrl+c, Ctrl+c to discover "entry-points" for Magit shortcuts.
by lioeters | 2026-03-10 14:30:36+00:00
> 10MB WASM bundle with a full existing Linux build

We'll get there I'm sure of it. In case you hadn't seen: https://github.com/edubart/webcm

> Linux RISC-V virtual machine, powered by the Cartesi Machine emulator, running in the browser via WebAssembly

> a single 32MiB WebAssembly file containing the emulator, the kernel and Alpine Linux operating system. Networking supports HTTP/HTTPS requests, but is subject to CORS restrictions
by ComplyTechAPI | 2026-03-10 14:30:38+00:00
Hi HN,

One thing I kept running into while building SaaS products was PII showing up in unexpected places:

application logs
analytics event streams
CSV exports
support ticket systems

Once personal data gets into those systems it becomes hard to control or redact.

I built an API to detect and anonymise PII across text, JSON and CSV before the data leaves the system.Currently covers ~30 PII categories and maps them to frameworks like GDPR, HIPAA, PCI-DSS and 7 other regulatory frameworks.

Curious how others here deal with this — internal tooling, open source libraries, or just manual processes?
by shadowgovt | 2026-03-10 14:30:47+00:00
The language specification is already larger than several classical tomes of fiction. A reader could choose to tuck in with the C++ spec, or with War and Peace.

And given how much of the language's spec is "The behavior is undefined when combining these two features," it's not really a tome that is safely ignored.

At this point, I cannot recommend C++ on any new project that some external factor such as safety certification (which "solves" the problem by adding yet more pages of stuff a developer must not do that the language syntactically supports and compiles but generates garbage output) isn't forcing my hand on.

As of 2026 C has eclipsed C++ in popularity on the TIOBE index; anecdotally, roboticists I've chatted with have told me they prefer to write core functionality as C modules and then weld them together into high-level behavior with a terser scripting DSL over trying to write the whole thing in C++ and hoping there's no undefined behavior hidden in the cracks that multiple layers of linters, sanitizers, and auto-certifiers have missed.
by jonpalmisc | 2026-03-10 14:30:49+00:00
Personally, I don't buy into this argument. I think having a globally shared buffer state, etc. is an antifeature. Plus, there's no reason that starting a TUI program should be that slow.

Either way, this only addresses startup time too. The rest of the issues: text insertion lag, `project-find-file` being slow in large repos, etc. all remain.
by mike_hearn | 2026-03-10 14:30:59+00:00
The opportunity cost isn't selling subscriptions, the cost is the gap between what they could sell the GPU time for via their API vs what they're selling it for in a flat rate subscription. If you assume API demand is unlimited and GPU supply is fixed, then the opportunity cost is the 'real' loss of revenue that comes from redirecting supply away from customers willing to pay more to customers willing to pay less.
by tsunamifury | 2026-03-10 14:31:51+00:00
This essay was my bible at Google. It openly matched internal hierarchy and our own secret GDNA testing results illustrated it directly showing VP and above scored highly on the need to dominate over discover truth etc.

The problem was and my existential horror: i couldn’t use this knowledge to get anywhere beyond clueless. Because super large western organizations either purposefully hide information or are full of stupidity so much that they can’t share it.

I never could climb to any kind of safety —- until I realized that was the point. There is no safety. You only climb if you recognize death is inevitable, leaving those who want safety behind.

So now that I’m further up: Peter Turchins elite over production is my new nightmare
by heddycrow | 2026-03-10 14:31:58+00:00
Hello. I'm Harrison. I wanted to be an artist when I grew up, but instead I became a software developer.

Parascene is my first attempt at exploring "social network" and "doom scroll" or "endorphine" patterns.

I just wanted to work on a project that people engage with. So I threw a bunch of ideas at the wall.

We have about 20+ users and I'd like to see what happens as that scales.

I'd like to hear from people who are genuinely interested in this same sort of thing. I'm less interested in this site being perfect for all people, but more I would like it to grow from the suggestions of those who engage with it.

All that aside, human connection can be great when it lands right. Feel free to connect if you are interested.
by kemotep | 2026-03-10 14:32:36+00:00
I hate the minimums some IT vendors require. Where you need to buy 100 seats for a pilot or for a team that is only going to be 20 people.

It would be nice to be able try some of these without having to jump through half a dozen sales calls and find out it is cost prohibitive or your team is way too small for the kind of business they target.
by sanderjd | 2026-03-10 14:32:43+00:00
As someone who enjoys working with AI tools, I honestly think the best approach here might be bifurcation.

Start new projects using LLM tools, or maybe fork projects where that is acceptable. Don't force the volunteer maintainers of existing projects with existing workflows and cultures to review AI generated code. Create your own projects with workflows and cultures that are supportive of this, from the ground up.

I'm not suggesting this will come without downside, but it seems better to me than expecting maintainers to take on a new burden that they really didn't sign up for.
by toomuchtodo | 2026-03-10 14:33:06+00:00
Is this perhaps changing with Macron indicating Europe will keep the €300B Europe has been investing in the US annually in Europe?

Macron says €300B in EU savings sent to the US every year will be invested in EU - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46722594 - January 2026 (207 comments)

Europe can go fast when it wants to.

How Europe Ditched Russian Fossil Fuels With Spectacular Speed - https://www.bloomberg.com/news/features/2023-02-21/ukraine-n... | https://archive.today/yxGp2 - February 21st, 2023

> But what the past year has shown is that it’s possible to go harder and faster in deploying solar panels and batteries, reducing energy use, and permanently swapping out entrenched sources of fossil fuel.

> Solar installations across Europe increased by a record 40-gigawatts last year, up 35% compared with 2021, just shy of the most optimistic scenario from researchers at BloombergNEF. That jump was driven primarily by consumers who saw cheap solar panels as a way to cut their own energy bills. It essentially pushed the solar rollout ahead by a few years, hitting a level that will be sustained by EU policies.
by Steve44 | 2026-03-10 14:33:33+00:00
I was going to say registrars in too, I've a bottle of this I've played about with.

https://www.diamineinks.co.uk/products/diamine-30ml-archival...

> Waterproof archival quality fountain pen ink in Blue-Black. Initially writes Blue, then oxidises to Black over time as it bonds to the paper. Traditionally used to record births, deaths & marriages.

And from another source :-

> Permanent archival blue-black ink based on an iron-gall formulation, as used by registrars and the clergy for official documents.

> Iron gall ink formulations have been used for around 1,500 years, and many of the world's most historic documents have been written using it. This ink will remain legible for hundreds of years.

> Please Note: This is an iron-gall ink, which contains particles that can clog fountain pen feeds. It's also acidic, which can damage steel nibs. Use with caution, and at your own risk. Not for use in valuable pens.
by embeng4096 | 2026-03-10 14:33:58+00:00
+1 to this and your above points (the embedded team I'm on has started using C++ over the last year or so).

I've definitely learned a lot, and I like the portability of CMake for cross-platform use (our team uses all 3 of Windows, Mac, and Linux). My experience sounds much like yours: there've been a lot of times where using the vendor's flavor of Eclipse-based IDE (STM32CubeIDE, Renesas e2studio, etc) would have saved us a lot of discovered work, or extra work adapting the "happy path" to CMake and/or C++.

Using C++ and/or CMake is fine when it's part of the happy path and for simpler things e.g. STM32CubeMX-generated CMake project + simple usage of HAL. For more complex things like including MCUboot or SBSFU, etc, it's forced me to really dig in. Or even just including FreeRTOS/ThreadX, we've created abstractions like a Thread class on top -- sometimes it's nice and convenient, others it feels like unnecessary complexity, but maybe I'm just not used to C++ yet.

One clear, simple example is needing to figure out CMake and Ninja install. In an Eclipse-based IDE, you install the platform and everything Just Works(tm). I eventually landed on using scoop to install CMake and Ninja, which was an easy solution and didn't require editing my PATH, etc, but that wasn't the first thing I tried.
by ndriscoll | 2026-03-10 14:34:25+00:00
Basically all of my actual programming work has been done by LLMs since January. My team actually demoed a PoC last week to hook up Codex to our Slack channel to become our first level on-call, and in the case of a defect (e.g. a pagerduty alert, or a question that suggests something is broken), go debug, push a fix for review, and suggest any mitigations. Prior to that, I basically pushed for my team to do the same with copy/paste to a prompt so we could iterate on building its debugging skills.

People might still code by hand as a hobby, but I'd be surprised if nearly all professional coding isn't being done by LLMs within the next year or two. It's clear that doing it by hand would mostly be because you enjoy the process. I expect people that are more focused on the output will adopt LLMs for hobby work as well.