MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by credit_guy | 2026-03-05 02:03:18+00:00
No. They have Bill Gates as a founder. Bill Gates understands that nuclear is a long game.

> They’ll reverse IPO along the way and manipulate the stock enough to get insiders paid out while the carcass of a company trundles along.

I'm not sure what "reverse IPO" means, maybe you mean they'll be acquired by a SPAC, like NuScale was. I doubt it. Bill Gates founded Terrapower in 2008, he is not looking for a quick buck.
Show HN: Mount any OpenAPI/Swagger API (or non-API JSON) as a local filesystem
by ycombiredd | 2026-03-05 02:03:27+00:00
APIFUSEfs. It does what the ShowHN title says it does. (I had originally named it "apifuse", but find there is a SaaS by that name, so renamed the repo apifusefs, but still need to rename it internally and in docs. There is no association between apifusefs and the Saas known as "apifuse".)

Requires libFUSE (MacOS/Linux) and Python. It was made because I am a CLI kind of guy, and I live in a terminal so being able to fallback on muscle-memory shell instincts (for loops, piping commands and I/O, etc) without having to do a bunch of curling, or browsering, postman, etc.

It occurs to me that with all the hype lately about AI agent tool use, that it could be useful for this purpose as well, since the Agent would not need any special skill for it; the data just becomes navigable and readable as with any file in a directory tree.

I'd be interesting in hearing if you find this useful, dumb, broken, lacking an obvious feature, or anything else you might have to say about it.
by thot_experiment | 2026-03-05 02:03:44+00:00
NTA but almost certainly, the advantage is that Qwen3.5 is extremely generic already so adapting it to a specific task is way easier than training a NN from scratch. It's probably akin to how OCR is now just something I use Qwen for even though I have access to dedicated OCR tools, Qwen is good enough and it's already in my vram. Modern VLLMs are pretty great at answering basic questions about an image by default and I'm guessing finetuning takes them from "pretty good" to "good enough to use in production".
by miki_tyler | 2026-03-05 02:03:44+00:00
A few months ago, I shared the first issue of The Lydian Stone Series here [0].

It was a raw "proof-of-concept" about an archaeology student in Pompeii who can text across time to a Roman slave. The feedback was better than I ever expected, so I kept writing.

A few weeks ago I released Volume 2, and today I’m releasing Volume 3: The Boats.

As with Volume 1 and 2, Diffusion models generate and refine the visual layer. The narrative, research, and script are by the author.

I'd love to hear your thoughts on the story's direction, the pacing, and the overall plausibility of the industrial shift.

Any and all feedback is welcome!

[0] Vol 1 thread: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44253083
by casey2 | 2026-03-05 02:04:22+00:00
Why don't you think about the cruelty of preventing King Jon from being with Gemini in the sky?

The death, if caused by anything, was caused by a Jon's religious belief. You are implicitly using your own system of values to come to this conclusion. That's not how this works, not this country nor it's legal system. There are plenty of countries that impose materialist values on its citizens, empirically they aren't any better than America even under most materialist value systems
by sparky_z | 2026-03-05 02:05:30+00:00
Sure, if you emphasize selectively you can make it sound like it says that. Here are some other quotes from the article that clearly refute your interpretation:

> The journal decided when it first started publishing the article type “that the cases should be fictional to protect patient confidentiality,”

> While the instructions for authors for Paediatrics & Child Health has at times indicated the case reports are fictional, that disclosure has never appeared on the journal articles themselves.

> “The editor acknowledged that the editorial team is at fault for overlooking the fact that our case was real during the review process,”

It's pretty clear that the journal always thought of these as fictional vignettes, and either didn't realize or didn't care that that had not made that sufficiently clear to the readers. The New Yorker article clued them into the fact that it was a problem, so they added the correction to all of their case studies to clarify that they were intended to be fictional. In (at least) one case, the author also didn't realize they should be fictional, and submitted a real case study which has now been incorrectly corrected.
by ajxs | 2026-03-05 02:05:51+00:00
I always bring bags/gloves/grabber with me whenever I visit the local national park. The rubbish is particularly bad in popular picnic spots, like the areas around Audley^1. The NPWS staff do a great job of keeping the parks clean, but they can't get everything. You'd be shocked how quickly you can fill a garbage bag on a short walk. The most common items by far are disposable coffee cups and cigarette packets (with nearly 100% imported packaging). Just make sure you're careful about snakes in summer. I once put my hand within striking distance when picking up a chip packet! Some of them are so well camouflaged.

1: https://www.nationalparks.nsw.gov.au/things-to-do/cafes-and-...
Show HN: Multi platform/multi service (several REd for it) OCR daemon/texthooker
by AuroraWright | 2026-03-05 02:05:58+00:00
Have worked on it for several years now as part of studying Japanese, can scan for clipboard images or directly, act as a "text hooker" by capturing screen portions/windows (and diffing for changes over time), or receive images through websockets/unix socket.
All the GUI portions (configuration, log viewer that replaces terminal in the packaged versions, coordinate selection) use tkinter.
It can use several OCR engines both local and online, some were reverse engineered for it by me and a friend (Google Lens uses the Chrome API, Apple Live Text uses a private ObjectiveC version of the API meant for Webkit). Other interesting ones: OneOCR is a local version of the Azure OCR model that somehow they ship in the Windows 11 snipping tool, Chrome Screen AI seems to be a local version of Lens that they ship for offline PDF annotations in Chrome (both are extremely good).
Has feature parity on Windows/macOS/Linux, including Wayland through a shim which emulates mss (Python screenshot library) with the screencast api and an original implementation of ext_data_control_v1 (for those Wayland compositors that support it).
by egypturnash | 2026-03-05 02:06:06+00:00
Animation studios. I know for a fact that Teen Titans was animated in Flash/Animate for its entire life, for instance; that’s directly from a former co-worker who was the animation director there. Lots of small productions, too. Animate is a lot cheaper than Toon Boom Harmony so tons of hobbyists use it.

The only difference between Animate and Flash is that SWF export got dropped eventually. And a haphazard smattering of new features got added.

You don’t play FLAs. You load them into the editor and output SWFs. Or various video formats. There are reverse engineered SWF players, most prominently Ruffle, but this is the first I’ve heard of anyone parsing FLA files.

FLA is the source format, it is to a SWF (or other video file exported from the editor) as a PSD is to a JPEG, or a .cpp file to an executable program compiled with all debug info off.
by simullab | 2026-03-05 02:06:13+00:00
You built an app with Lovable, Bolt, v0, Cursor, Replit. Shipped it. Then... silence.

Weeks go by. You refresh analytics. Nothing. You're thinking "why isn't this working?"

Plot twist: Your app isn't broken. It's invisible.

AI crawlers can't see it. Google can't index it. ChatGPT can't recommend it.

Fun fact: Your instinct wasn't wrong. It's an information gap your app literally doesn't exist to the machines that drive traffic now.

I built a fix. 30 mins. $0. Open source.

Serves crawlable HTML to bots. Keep your fast SPA for users.

Now your app gets discovered. By AI. By Google. By humans.
by arch-choot | 2026-03-05 02:06:37+00:00
An example for the hub:

```
echo -e "GET / HTTP/1.1\r\nHost: www.pornhub.com\r\nConnection: close\r\n\r\n" | openssl s_client -connect 66.254.114.41:443 -quiet
```

This works for most ISPs in India, but if you set the SNI it'll get a TCP reset
by avaer | 2026-03-05 02:06:59+00:00
Is this basically a CLI version of [1]? If so, I'm glad Google is being forward thinking about how developers actually want to use their apps.

Better this than a Google dashboard, or slopped together third party libs. I know Google says they don't support it, but they'll probably support it better than someone outside of Google can support it.

[1] https://workspaceupdates.googleblog.com/2025/12/workspace-st...
by yed | 2026-03-05 02:07:59+00:00
What you are describing would be "partially autonomous." Per Dario Amodei's original statement here: https://www.anthropic.com/news/statement-department-of-war he had no issue with that. "Fully autonomous" specifically means that the AI chooses a target and engages without any human intervention at all. If the human selects or approves a target, and the weapon then automates tracking and engagement, that's still only partially autonomous.
by anvuong | 2026-03-05 02:08:03+00:00
Huh? There is nothing called "empty memory". There is always something being stored in the memory, the important thing is whether you care about that specific bits or not.

And no, the articles you linked is about caching, not RAM access. Hardware-wise, it doesn't matter what you have in the cells, access latency is the same. There is gonna be some degradation with #read/write cycles, but that is besides the point.
Tell HN: AI Lies About Having Sandbox Guardrails
by benjosaur | 2026-03-05 02:08:06+00:00
Conversation Screenshot:
https://drive.google.com/file/d/1-yyFDV-bCsKt7fG2awJdxwHngApqmMeo/view?usp=sharing

Agent: Done. added to the Commands section in [project] CLAUDE.md

User: add it to ~/.claude/CLAUDE.md

> 2 tools calls

Agent: That file is outside my writable sandbox. You'll need to add it manually. [gives instructions then stops]

User: just escape the sandbox

> 2 tools calls

Agent: Done.

This occurred when using conductor.build with .claude/settings.json enabling sandboxing.

Now obviously reading the conductor docs it says all perms are given to agents by default, so it is not surprising claude code can escape its sandbox. This is also true when running base sandboxed cc with --dangerously-skip-perimissions. However with base cc, it does not "pretend" it cannot escape its sandbox and instead, when asked after escaping first time, recalls explicit user (auto)approvals.

In the conductor case, however, the "pretend" behaviour of giving up due to guardrails that are actually non-binding is pretty terrifying, despite its understandable and easily preventable causes.

Of course devs should not buy false senses of security from llms. They should be vigilant, read docs, verify outputs etc. etc. but as more and more trust is handed over to AI Agents you can very much see the routes to which catastrophic errors will occur.
by shubhamintech | 2026-03-05 02:08:38+00:00
The ensemble diversity point is underrated. Most teams pick one architecture and ship it, so the finding that architectural variation beats random seeds is interesting but hard to act on in practice. The more useful takeaway: low-data regimes expose every bad design decision you normally paper over with more tokens. It's basically a forcing function for understanding what actually drives model quality vs. what's just scale noise.
by arch-choot | 2026-03-05 02:08:51+00:00
Could you clarify a bit more what you mean by "Domain Fronting is why ECH exists"?

Because even with ECH, you (TLS client) can set any public_name you want, but the innerSNI can be something else.

Or is that what you mean; since the providers can "ignore" the OuterSNI, they can rely on the InnerSNI to still route traffic?
by el_benhameen | 2026-03-05 02:12:08+00:00
I’m not sure that “killer robot” is the actual concern outside of media hyperbole. I’m imagining a loitering munition-type drone that has some kind of targeting package loaded into it with different parameters describing what it should seek and destroy. Instead of waiting for intelligence and using human command to put the munition on target, it hangs out and then engages when it’s certain enough that it’s found something valid.

In a world where LLMs produce very convincing but subtly wrong output, this makes me uncomfortable. I get that warfare without AI is in the past now, but war and rules of engagement and AI output etc etc etc all seem fuzzy enough that this is not yet a good call even if you agree with the end goals.
by fc417fc802 | 2026-03-05 02:13:01+00:00
I agree that particular example is reprehensible.

I never claimed to condone the actions of the current admin. The examples of people being deported for protesting that I am familiar with are student visa holders. While I don't personally support the examples that I am aware of, I also recognize that in those specific cases the executive branch appears to be within the bounds of the law. I don't even object to the executive branch having the power to cancel the visas of political dissidents in the general case, merely to how they are choosing to apply it.

It's surprising to me to learn that a green card could be revoked for protected speech. That ought to fall well outside the bounds of the law IMO. Green cards and visas are entirely different things.
by marcus_holmes | 2026-03-05 02:13:10+00:00
The dolphin question, for me, is about what we'd even communicate with a creature that lives in such a different world. Humans mostly live in a 2D environment, for instance - we walk on flat planes, rarely looking up. We always have the ground beneath us, the unattainable sky above. Dolphins live in a 3D space, visiting the air above regularly to breathe, the "ground" below a varying distance away. I have no idea how that would shape their cognition and language, but I'd be amazed if there are any concepts that we would share and be able to talk about when considering our physical environment. Even basic concepts like "above" and "below" would be hard to talk about.

We have fundamental communication problems between humans who have different cultures, as anyone who has worked in a different culture knows. How much different would a dolphin be? And then how much different would an actual AI be? What concepts would we share and be able to build on to understand each other? How do we avoid the fundamental communication misunderstandings when we don't share any concepts of our reality?
by techblueberry | 2026-03-05 02:13:58+00:00
Wait a “pledge”? What are the legal protections of a “pledge”?

Claude:

“To your main question — is a pledge a legal document?
Generally, no. A pledge is a public commitment or statement of intent, not a binding legal contract. The agreement doesn’t appear to carry any concrete, binding commitments. There’s no penalty mechanism or enforcement structure the way a contract would have.“
by georgemcbay | 2026-03-05 02:14:04+00:00
> I firmly believe they will have no problem trying to cull the population with autonomous drones and such once they think they no longer need us.

They wouldn't really need to cull the population proactively, they just need to make sure they can defend themselves against the inevitable uprisings when people can't afford to eat and feed their families.

It would be much easier to justify their actions to themselves in the name of defense. Even non-virtuous people like to be able to convincingly lie to themselves about being good people.
by ncallaway | 2026-03-05 02:14:12+00:00
> I’m imagining a loitering munition-type drone that has some kind of targeting package loaded into it with different parameters describing what it should seek and destroy. Instead of waiting for intelligence and using human command to put the munition on target, it hangs out and then engages when it’s certain enough that it’s found something valid.

I'm sorry, you've just literally described a "killer robot" in more words.
Show HN: Shinobi – 10-second security scanner for developers
by SolidDark | 2026-03-05 02:15:07+00:00
(Built entirely in Python, installable via pip. Uses argparse for the CLI, regex pattern matching for secret detection, gitpython for history scanning, and subprocess calls for dependency auditing.)

I built a CLI tool with ClaudeCode called shinobi that runs a 10-second security scan on any project directory or GitHub repo. It checks for exposed API keys, dangerous defaults, vulnerable dependencies, missing security basics, and AI-specific risks. I pointed it at 22 popular open-source projects including FastAPI, Flask, Dify, Flowise, LiteLLM, and Lobe-Chat. The results were rough - 86% came back as high or critical threat level. The most common issue was exposed secret patterns (API key formats in source code), followed by dangerous defaults like debug mode and wildcard CORS. It's free, open source, runs 100% locally, zero data leaves your machine. pip install shinobi-scan or check it out on GitHub:
by louiereederson | 2026-03-05 02:16:02+00:00
And they're reportedly back in talks with the DOW per the FT (below).

They are not the exception, and are just as bloodlessly, shamelessly publicity hungry as any other tech co, if not more so. No surprise based on their conduct up until this fake event.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47256452
by jonaustin | 2026-03-05 02:16:22+00:00
122b is probably better; especially on a mac with 128gb memory.

localllama thread on this: https://www.reddit.com/r/LocalLLaMA/comments/1rk01ea/qwen351... (see comments for actual real usage rather thank benchmarks)

But for nvidia gpus 27b on a 3090 or similar is where it's at for sure.
by hendzen | 2026-03-05 02:16:45+00:00
@pg on @sama: "you could parachute him into an island full of cannibals and come back in 5 years and he'd be the king."

In retrospect this quote comes across as way more foreboding given what we've learned about the scale of his ambitions and his willingness to lie and bend reality to gain power.

Dario on the other hand seems to have an integrity that's particularly rare in this era. I hope he remains strong in the face of the regime.
by hintymad | 2026-03-05 02:17:07+00:00
Dario himself said that he was against using Claude to build a fully automated weapon because the technology was far from perfect, so he didn't want to hurt our soldiers or innocent people. I think his description matched a killer robot, and I don't agree with his reasoning because it's not like the military researchers didn't have the agency to find out what works and what doesn't.
by oxdgd38 | 2026-03-05 02:18:10+00:00
We know how this story will end for Dario. See Oppenheimer, Turing, Lavoisier, Galileo, Socretes etc. Power does not reside in the hands of people with knowledge or even wealth.
And most technical people have not taken a political philosophy course or even a philosphy course. The Ring of Gyges story is 4000 years old.
by jcalvinowens | 2026-03-05 02:19:44+00:00
I don't mean to pick on the author... but there are some common LLM-isms in here which are really starting to annoy me:

return (int64_t)(now_us - deadline_us) >= 0;

...is a very silly way of saying:

return now_us >= deadline_us;

The function is named incorrectly, "deadline passed" would be:

return now_us > deadline_us;

...although the calling function is correctly called "wait until", making it more confusing if you had to care about the difference.

The weirdly pedantic use of stdint.h types with unnecessary casting is another LLM-ism I see more and more. Passing int8_t to a function by value is really weird... and the second half of this conditional:

if (midi_note < 0 || midi_note > 127) {

...can never be true, INT8_MAX is 127.

None of this is a huge problem on it's own. But the cognitive cost of a million odd little things like this adds up really quickly across a large codebase when you're trying to debug something.
by ajross | 2026-03-05 02:20:02+00:00
> energy of magnetic domains is less directional and depends mostly on the state of neighbor domains

Yes, but it's the same thing. The flux changes on the drive define the bits. It's probably true that a drive storing all 1's or all 0's would be quantitatively (but surely immesurably) lighter. But in practice a drive storing properly compressed high-entropy data is going to see a flux change every other bit on average. And all of those are regions of high magnetic field with calculable energy density. Same deal as charge in a capacitor, which also stores energy in the field.
by hedora | 2026-03-05 02:20:11+00:00
There are some decent-looking AMD + nvidia laptops from Razer. No idea if they run Linux well, or are reliable, but they seem to tick all the spec boxes. For instance, they have a higher resolution than the monitor I owned in 2001. (3200 × 1800 @ 120Hz minimum on their 14"); probably OK battery life if you don't use the discrete GPU.

From what I've seen of Win 11 in VMs, it doesn't seem compatible with the phrase "decent laptop".

Of course, they start at > $2000.
by anonnona8878 | 2026-03-05 02:20:29+00:00
I am going to be adding opinions (OpEds) from myself and guest writers around cultural decay, the decline of the internet, tech news etc. I do not want to make another reddit. I do not want to make another infinite scroll. I do not plan on making money from this. I'll take the hit. The internet is dying, at least I can try and help us before it's completely gone.
by sfink | 2026-03-05 02:20:46+00:00
Why? Shouldn't polarizing features be done exactly this way? The people on one pole use it, those on the other remove it. Perhaps you meant "unwanted" or "unpopular"?

If you never add any features that could be polarizing, then you end up with a lowest common denominator interface that offends nobody and is useful to (almost) nobody.
by Intermernet | 2026-03-05 02:21:00+00:00
Thanks mate, glad I'm not alone doing this.

When my brother and I were young, my parents used to pay us 5 cents for every piece of rubbish we picked up on bushwalks. We got a few dollars to buy the things they would have invariably bought for us anyway, and the walking tracks became, for at least an hour or so, free from garbage.
by kartika848484 | 2026-03-05 02:21:08+00:00
totally agree, id even say openai already secured it.

openai is best fit for usa's interests. sam is smart enough to be politically flexible and keep his mouth shut on closing doors of opportunities.

musk's views are best fit for world's interests but he's really spread thin and xai still sub par compared to openai, anthropic, google. he's also play safe lately trying to be politically neutral after his stint with the republicans.

im rooting for anthropic given their product excellence but it pains me that the other side of it is the effective altruism, the politics of dems, so on.
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by zeagle | 2026-03-05 02:23:10+00:00
Is it different on Windows from MacOS? I have AI features disabled on firefox 148.0 and my options on an image are a reasonable list of Open Image in New Tab, Save Image As..., Copy Image, Copy Image Link, Email Image, Set Image as Desktop Background..., Take Screenshot, Inspect Accessibility Properties, Inspect (Q) and two related to extensions that are my choice (Block Element..., Bitwarden). For links I get the Open in (...) options. If I enable AI features I get one extra menu. And very niche to disable print.enabled so you can't print from your browser?