MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by JumpCrisscross | 2026-03-07 18:39:16+00:00
> Everyone knows about these already and made their positions about it

I guess I’m not someone, because I’m still open on whether Trump is a pedophile. (I don’t think he is. I’m open to being proven wrong.)

> the most abhorrent things can come out with those Epstein files and it doesn't seem to hurt Trumps support among his base any

We don’t know this. And we don’t know how those outside his base on whose votes he and his Congress depend would react.
by dangus | 2026-03-07 18:39:23+00:00
You’re super out of date at best. Please reference a great laptop review channel like Just Josh Tech and get educated.

I’ve owned a Framework for a year, no quality issues.

Lenovo makes many great models. You just have to look at reviews and find the right one for you.

There are multiple PC laptop companies making terrific haptic trackpads that are essentially identical to Apple’s offerings, including Lenovo.

Apple also unnecessarily over-relies on the trackpad in their software. It’s their scheme to get you to buy their $150 trackpad and avoid the need to compete with superior accessory manufacturers (same deal with the Touch ID keyboards, you can only buy from Apple). In reality, keyboard shortcuts on Windows and Linux are more intuitive than swiping three fingers around. The thumb and three fingers gestures on macOS are complete insanity. In reality, a $20 Bluetooth mouse tossed in your backpack has better control and precision than the best Apple trackpad imaginable (and normal mechanical trackpads are perfectly fine, especially on operating systems that don’t over-rely on the trackpad as an accessory sales gimmick).

There are PC laptops shipping with screens that are better than Macs in many ways (tandem OLED). Heck, the 2026 ASUS Zenbook Duo gives you dual screens in a laptop with basically no compromises!

Louis Rossman has pointed out many times that Apple’s internal component quality is nothing to write home about.

Don’t forget that macOS locks you out of feature updates after 10 years since a model goes on sale. People who buy Macs have high disposable income compared to baseline and replace them before they run into hardware failures.
Show HN: NervOS – Sandbox for AI Agents Using Firecracker MicroVMs
by ashishch111 | 2026-03-07 18:39:42+00:00
I built NervOS to safely run AI agent code inside a Firecracker microVM instead of directly on the host machine.

It boots a lightweight Alpine VM and provides tools like Python, bash, curl and git for the agent to use. If something goes wrong, the VM can be destroyed and the host remains untouched.

Currently experimenting with using it alongside MCP for local agents.

Repo: https://github.com/ashishgituser/NervOS
Docs: https://ashishgituser.github.io/NervOS/
by user3939382 | 2026-03-07 18:40:16+00:00
It solves a practical problem that’s obvious. And on one hand the practical where-were-at-now is all that matters, that’s a legitimate perspective.

There’s another one, at least IMHO, that this entire stack from the bottom up is designed wrong and every day we as a society continue marching down this path we’re just accumulating more technical debt. Pretty much every time you find the solution to be, “ok so we’ll wrap the whole thing and then…” something is deeply wrong and you’re borrowing from the future a debt that must come due. Energy is not free. We tend to treat compute like it is.

Maybe I’m in a big club but I have a vision for a radically different architecture that fixes all of this and I wish that got 1/2 the attention these bandaids did. Plan 9 is an example of the theme if not the particular set of solutions I’m referring to.
by sonofhans | 2026-03-07 18:40:34+00:00
WRT “mechanical damage” — I feel you. Standing in front of the stage feeling your organs vibrate in time to the music is fucking magic. I won’t say that it’s worth the tinnitus, but I am happy I have some memories of a trade-off, you know?

FWIW I still go to shows sometimes, and stand right in front of the stage to feel my eyeballs vibrating. I wear good ear protection, though, and feel no pain. Even though the music isn’t quite the same.
by AnthonyMouse | 2026-03-07 18:41:08+00:00
It's not interesting to pick countries from the time before renewables and nuclear were realistically available and ask why they didn't use them.

If you want a country with less than China's GDP per capita, how about Ukraine?

Moreover, you keep talking dispatchable power, but nothing needs that to be 60% of total generation. Daytime load is generally around twice nighttime load. That implies something like two thirds of total generation is baseload (i.e. 50% of peak load for 100% of the day), and can use nuclear for anything up to that entire amount. Only one third needs to be dispatchable/intermittent, for which you can use renewables on most days and cover the large majority of that. You should only need coal/gas/hydro/storage on days when renewable generation is low -- which should be less than half of that one third, not 60% of all generation. China has enough for that in just hydro already, but then they're burning coal anyway.
by FakeFind | 2026-03-07 18:41:20+00:00
Fake Amazon reviews are becoming increasingly difficult to spot.

Between AI-generated reviews, review farms, and listing hijacking, Amazon ratings are no longer a reliable signal of product quality. You can see a product with 4.7 stars and thousands of reviews and still end up buying something terrible.

So I built FakeFind, an Amazon review checker designed to quickly detect suspicious review patterns.

You paste an Amazon product link and it analyzes the reviews to determine whether the rating looks trustworthy.

You can try it here:
https://fakefind.ai
by _0ffh | 2026-03-07 18:41:40+00:00
I'm on board with that framing of the process, and I see how my original formulation was too rough.

I was reacting to "We're moving to a world where the mechanical part of grinding the code is not worth much". I have the impression that in the past just mechanically grinding the code was less of a thing than it apparently is today. Guidance, sure, but not as much as seems to be common (often necessarily so) today. But I'm sure that varies with a lot of factors, not just the calendar year.
by ctmnt | 2026-03-07 18:42:03+00:00
That jumped out at me too the first time I ran into Helix making this joke, and I was also disappointed to find that they meant modern++.

That said, I’m not sure I agree with your assessment that it’s wrong, exactly. Postmodernism did indeed follow modernism and come into being as a reaction to modernism. So I think “postmodernism” has a naive and original sense of being “what follows modernism”. Decades (so many at this point!) of discourse have added layers to that and undermined it and generally made it more complex. But the underlying meaning of the term remains.

(If your instinct is to respond with arguments about how works not limited to late 20th century western culture can be nonetheless classified as postmodern, I hear you, but the fact that the term itself was only coined post modernism remains, and is all I’m pointing to.)

Personally, I get more hung up on people using “modern” to mean “new”. Then to use “postmodern” to mean “more new” while to my ears (eyes) it means “dated af” is even funnier and more jarring.

Helix, the first editor to not believe in grand narratives. Helix, the relativist editor. Helix, now updated with the latest from Foucault and Derrida!
by JumpCrisscross | 2026-03-07 18:42:42+00:00
> That is impossible without committing to boots on the ground

Why?

> Where are the factories? Where are the stockpiles? If they don't show up on satellite imagery, how do you find them? Boots on the ground

Same way we found Khamenei. Slowly attriting that production base (together with Iran’s economy) is something America can do from afar for a while. Bonus points if Iran’s neighbours get pissed off enough to start seizing buffer territory with their own boots.

> there is no legitimate war aim

Of course there is. It’s regime change. We just haven’t committed the resources to accomplishing it.
by brynnbee | 2026-03-07 18:42:57+00:00
You can also look at the prime-age employment-population numbers, which show ages 25 to 54.

It shows nearly 20% unemployment rates.

I think this is a better number, personally, than the 4.4% one that conveniently skips out on so many. It's always felt like an "optics" number to me. Like asking themselves how much can they possibly massage the data to look as good as possible.

I think it's meaningful to consider the amount of people who are unemployed even if they're not looking for work or can't work. It better highlights that there are societal level problems that are preventing a lot of these people from working when I imagine most of them would like to be - they just can't because of childcare needs, disability, incarceration, lack of access to opportunities, domestic abuse, etc.

https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/LNS12300060
by fcarletti | 2026-03-07 18:43:06+00:00
That’s seems to have give you a lot of fun and learnings, writing everything by yourself forces you to understand how things work, kudos for that!

The code is very well organized, I’m on my phone and could easily navigate it.

But some stuff twists my nose:
1. No dependencies is cool up to some point, I personally do not try that so I avoid reinventing the wheel. You are prone to have many bugs the community already solved, the trade off end up not being worth the hassle.

2. I see you have many classes but many ones with only static methods. That’s basically global functions that can’t be easily mocked for unit tests and create highly coupled code.

3. Lack tests. Even though you may know the functionality/code from top to bottom, no tests make you prone to break unrelated stuff when writing new code.

Again, nice to see it, awesome you shared! If you want to step up the game https://phptherightway.com/ has a lot of material and references for that.
by Aurornis | 2026-03-07 18:44:42+00:00
> Even among researchers, people are a little superstitious about stuff like this.

Being superstitious is not common in the medical treatment world, where weird product names are common.

A doctor isn’t going to include the device’s brand name in their decision process for treating a cancer patient.

The Therac-25 case study is noted in the medical world but not to the same extent as in engineering. The case was a tragedy of bad engineering, but the doctors involved in directing the treatments were not at fault for the radiation over exposures.
by martinpw | 2026-03-07 18:45:26+00:00
How does this work in combination with age related hearing loss? At some point you will lose high frequency sensitivity in that 11-15Khz range. Would be nice to get some benefit from that, but I assume the tinnitus itself will not go away even if it hangs out at that frequency?

It also means the above experiment will not work since you lose the signal before you reach your tinnitus frequency.
by Joel_Mckay | 2026-03-07 18:45:42+00:00
Unfortunately, LLM slop now makes up >53% of the web, and is growing.

It is easy to spot the compacted token distribution unique to each model, but search engines still seem to promote nonsense content. =3

"Bad Bot Problem - Computerphile"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AjQNDCYL5Rg

"A Day in the Life of an Ensh*ttificator "

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T4Upf_B9RLQ
by Marsymars | 2026-03-07 18:45:58+00:00
I have, I think, probably the most benign tinnitus I could imagine.

I randomly get something in my head that sounds pretty close to coil whine, but definitely isn't coil whine — I've had it when I'm in the depths of the wilderness with no electronics.

It typically lasts less than 20s and I can go months between occurrences.
by malthaus | 2026-03-07 18:46:02+00:00
very hard to feel sorry of you when countless professions experienced the same in the past - only that they were poor / working class and not overpaid software engineers at FAANG.

also very egocentric & pessimist way to look at things. humankind is much better off when anyone can produce software and skilled experts will always be needed, just maybe with a slightly different skillset.
by bensyverson | 2026-03-07 18:46:27+00:00
It comes down to trust. I was not able to trust GPT 4.1 or Sonnet 3.5 with anything other than short, well-specified tasks. If I let them go too long (e.g. in long Cursor sessions), it would lose the plot and start thrashing.

With better models and harnesses (e.g. Claude Code), I can now trust the AI more than I would trust a junior developer in the past.

I still review Claude's plans before it begins, and I try out its code after it finishes. I do catch errors on both ends, which is why I haven't taken myself out of the loop yet. But we're getting there.

Most of the time, the way I "verify" the code is behavioral: does it do what it's supposed to do? Have I tried sufficient edge cases during QA to pressure-test it? Do we have good test coverage to prevent regressions and check critical calculations? That's about as far as I ever took human code verification. If anything, I have more confidence in my codebases now.
by skydhash | 2026-03-07 18:46:36+00:00
It's not even laziness or expertise. A lot of people are against learning conventions. They want their way, meaning what works on their computer. That's why they like the current scope of package managers, docker, flatpack,... They can do what they want in the sandbox provided however nonsensical and then ship the whole thing. And it will break if you look at it the wrong way.
by gowld | 2026-03-07 18:46:39+00:00
Before AI, the smartest human still had to pass the paywall to access paywalled content.

AI has exacerbated the Internet's "content must be free or else does not exist" trend.

It's just not interesting to challenge an AI to write professional research content without giving it access to research conetent. Without access, it's just going to paraphrase what's already available.
by 0xy | 2026-03-07 18:46:47+00:00
The terrible support and build quality issues are all over the place. Support outright ghosts people trying to return broken stuff?

What's going on here?

https://old.reddit.com/r/framework/comments/1dvtqwb/after_ov...

https://old.reddit.com/r/framework/comments/1qei0ny/returnin...

https://old.reddit.com/r/framework/comments/1of2f8s/return_s...
by stephbook | 2026-03-07 18:47:09+00:00
People overestimate the power of digital surveillance enormously. You'd think that's not a problem, but at the same time, most people underestimate more banal sources of repression.

You don't have to buy mouse click data on every John Smith when you've handed the handful of media empires to your buddies, reporters are jailed, dissidents are killed and CEOs willingly bend the knee to make a quick buck.

The most precious we normal people have are our attention and the most value is attached to our wallets. Guess what, we part with both when we willingly watch ads.

You don't need an LLM writing 600 lines of SQL, because Google already has a billion lines of code in production, serving ads. Stealing your attention when you should be meeting friends, or meeting a family member's gaze.
by beachy | 2026-03-07 18:47:19+00:00
I'm 60+ and you have a great point.

During my career I've done electronics and PCB design, CAD/3d design, assembly coding, tons of C++ and Java and SQL and web tech. and building of systems from tiny to gigantic on machines ranging from PDP-8 to /360 to PCs and microntrollers, as well as starting and selling companies.

Claude (along with other crazy modern tech like 3d printing) feels like a pure force multiplier. I know enough about a lot that I can architect a lot of things, and then Claude does the hard grunt work that, to be honest, I just can't get excited by any more. And as you get older, family priorities become significant and I just can't pull weeks of all-nighters any more. You need to work smarter not harder, as you get older.

For juniors and new grads, it's hard to know how to move forward, and I would agree there is a real danger and a catch 22 - how do you gain enough skill in e.g. C++ if you're going to use a LLM to write it all anyway?

I don't know what the answer is, but it's already very clear that the workflow of the future is acting in an architect-like capacity and giving instructions to an LLM that does the work.

Ironically, this is how things used to work back in the waterfall days and before there were PMs - architect-like people drew up detailed documents at various levels from high to detailed that explained exactly what was desired by the business.

So I would think preparing for the future means trying to be more of an architect in your skills and approach.

Jobs like PMs only came to exist really because of human efficiencies. Because of the huge amount of labour required to translate human requirements into working code (until now), companies needed wranglers who herded the devs.

Now, a single architect with an LLM can replace a PM and a bunch of devs. So aim be an architect somehow would be my advice. Get a broad understanding of a lot of areas, and get to the point where you can write great, precise requirements documentation.

While it's easy to see why companies are shedding PMs and devs, it makes no sense for any solvent company to get rid of people who can a) understand and even drive business requirements and b) command Claude to implement said requirements. Because this model can now create so much, so quickly, the only company that wouldn't benefit would be utterly legacy companies not doing any new development.
by just6979 | 2026-03-07 18:47:23+00:00
"a short description of the current functionality, and a well-trimmed list of 'lessons-learned'"

Where does that come from?

"And no, I wouldn't ever give it a year of changelog.md."

No, instead you'll "[run] your git history through a cheap model". Except it's "overkill and error prone". So you're writing it up yourself? You didn't do the work, how do you know what the pitfalls and traps are?
by amdivia | 2026-03-07 18:47:39+00:00
Although I agree with the general sentiment, but I'll slightly push back on the "nobility" of any engineering pursuit. Such things are highly amoral (not immoral) and context specific

Assume an "Evil" state worked on defensive technology that can foil any nuclear attacks against it. Now, this allows this "Evil" state to use it's own nuclear weapons without fear of retaliation. So in this example the innovation made in defensive technologies allowed for war and destruction
by cianuro_ | 2026-03-07 18:47:45+00:00
To me this is another sign the written word is dead.

With so many mechanisms for creating users and posting en masse, I find it really hard to believe the contents of any comment or post I read that goes past a paragraph or two. And of course I am still skeptical even if it is less than 2 paragraphs of text.

I find the contents of that specific post hard to believe. Specially since the user hasn't participated in the conversation at all.

I like this place a lot and it saddens me we are just going to see more of this.
by zcoyle | 2026-03-07 18:49:05+00:00
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by hinkley | 2026-03-07 18:50:08+00:00
I recall someone was analyzing the refractive index of various tissues in order to tighten the target area for multi beam radiation therapy. Particularly for brain cancers. By hitting from multiple angles the dosage in surrounding tissues is lower, and by calculating how the head lenses the beam you reduce the high dose area in the middle, like a 3d Venn diagram.

But I don’t remember is whether that experiment became SOP or not.
by AnimalMuppet | 2026-03-07 18:50:14+00:00
Fair. But a not conscious entity would absolutely be constrained by its training corpus. And, since there are no non-conscious entities in its training corpus, it would not respond like a non-conscious entity. It would respond like a person would when they get asked if they are conscious, since that's all that's in the training data.

So if it responded that it's conscious, that doesn't tell you anything. It's either the truth, or it's what's in the training data. But if it responds that it's not conscious, that does tell you something. It tells you that it's not responding from consciousness, and it's not responding from training data.
by ramoz | 2026-03-07 18:50:20+00:00
> Claude Code style plan mode to be a bit restrictive

Hey thats why i built plannotator: https://github.com/backnotprop/plannotator

I like staying within Claude Code for orchestrating its plan mode, but I needed a better way to actually review the plan, address certain parts, see plan diffs, etc all in a better visual way. The hooks system through permissionrequest:exitplanmode keep this fairly ergonomic.

see it in action: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a_AT7cEN_9I
by RealityVoid | 2026-03-07 18:50:56+00:00
The model I am mentioning matches with this. Speaking from my own personal experience as well, when you're junior and young, you can move anywhere, especially if you're ambitious. As you gain experience, you also settle down a bit in your life, you have a wife, kids, a house. Their jobs and schools. Moving then is a _big deal_.

Of course, there are other factors that make juniors more abundant on the current job market, namely, most companies don't want them.
by mindslight | 2026-03-07 18:51:02+00:00
> LLMs make pirated art more accessible

lol. The current "AI" industry is in the phase of business development where the surveillance industry was from 2003-2010 or so. After they're done giving away their products for free, and having installed their regulatory mote, they'll really start tightening the enshittification noose.

The original argument is completely fallacious because it ignores this dynamic. "AI" companies aren't pirating works so they can then give them away for free. Rather they are pirating works to create their own proprietary systems which will decidedly not be given away for free.

Eventually the activists pushing for copyright enforcement on "AI" training are going to start to win. The big centralized "AI" players will have brokered deals with the relevant content cartels (this lawsuit is merely "haggling over the price"). So the dynamic will be to stomp out the training of new competing models, both grassroots libre and new proprietary startup competitors.