MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by krick | 2026-03-02 02:28:25+00:00
Exactly what I was going to say. I don't use iPhone because, well, it's iPhone. And until, like, this year, it was strictly more prohibitive than Android. Also, it was honestly just worse of a device than some Android flagships, and the tradeoff is only worth it if you are a lazy USA-ian, who doesn't use any "sketchier" non-mainstream apps, has an Apple account and owns a bunch of Apple devices anyway. Oh, and all your friends use iPhone Messages app. Then iPhone is the default. But outside of USA it was always more of a gimmick than a natural choice.

That being said, even if you wouldn't have said it before me, I probably shouldn't have said it too anyway, because I suspect that globally speaking the GP is right. Most people don't buy flagships, yet everybody has a phone. And Apple doesn't even try to compete in "non-premium" market, it's strictly impossible to buy a new iPhone for the price of some Redmi or whatever, which isn't even noticeably worse than an iPhone, practically speaking.
by jcgrillo | 2026-03-02 02:28:38+00:00
Way back when I was a student I had a professor who had a policy that if your homework scores differed substantially from your exam scores, the homework portion of your grade would be disregarded and your final grade would be determined solely by the midterm and the final. It was a harsh policy, and at the time I hated it, but in retrospect it was fair. Seems even more relevant today.
by lotsofpulp | 2026-03-02 02:28:42+00:00
Skip the technical blocking step and internalize the fact that it is pretty much all irrelevant to your (average person’s) day to day life. Ideally, then even knowing it won’t affect your blood pressure. And the fact is, do you even have reason to believe the claims are true?

I am commenting in this thread to pass time, but I assume there is a such a high chance the linked article is not true, or at least has a hidden agenda, such that it should be ignored or treated as entertainment. Could be product placement, could be completely manufactured rage-bait, who knows, and more importantly, I have no reason to care.
by ezst | 2026-03-02 02:29:04+00:00
LLMs are artificial intelligence illusion engines, they only "reason" as far as there's an already made answer in their dataset that they can retrieve and eventually tweak (when things go best). Take them where there's no training data and give them the new axioms to solve your specific problem and see them fail with incorrect gibberish provided as confident answer. Humans of any level of intelligence wouldn't behave like that.
by mark_l_watson | 2026-03-02 02:29:38+00:00
I upvoted you, and mostly agree with you, but: as much as I love using strong small local models sometimes a commercial 'frontier' model is very useful (for me).

I deleted my free OpenAI account (I paid for it until a year ago) and just started a $20/month Anthropic account. My one-year prepaid Gemini account will expire in two months and I will decide then to keep one of Anthropic or Gemini.

Once again: I agree that super-spending on super scaler data centers is a net negative for humanity. For me it is not a matter of price: I am happy paying $20/month and only using energy guzzling models occasionally when I really need them. Sort of like recycling to lesson our burden on the environment: try to minimize AI energy and resource use, but still get work done.

EDIT: we can also use LLMs more efficiently: build software composed of small well tested libraries. It is more energy efficient to write and debug little 200 line libraries than soaking up large projects in your context. Also, working on small composable libraries works better with smaller open models like qwen3.5:35b.
by Normal_gaussian | 2026-03-02 02:29:52+00:00
I'm in the UK. I use a pixel, but also have iPhones and iPads for work reasons. My wife has a Samsung, my mother a Motorola etc.

I set up phones several times a year. What the author describes is not a problem if you go "all in" on your manufacturer. iOS or Android.

If you tick the cloud sync functions you can restore apps and copy data with a two or three step wizard. If you pay for the cloud storage level, you will have enough space for your photos etc. it's really a non event.

But if you don't go all in with your manufacturer. E.g you consider Google an untrustworthy custodian of your photos, or decide you'll stick with the free iCloud account etc. You're in for a world of tiny pains.
by ramoz | 2026-03-02 02:30:06+00:00
We think so as well with emphasis on "why" for commits (i.e. intent provenance of all decisions).

https://github.com/eqtylab/y
just a prototype, built at codex hackathon

The barrier for entry is just including the complete sessions. It gets a little nuanced because of the sheer size and workflows around squash merging and what not, and deciding where you actually want to store the sessions. For instance, get notes is intuitive; however, there are complexities around it. Less elegant approach is just to take all sessions in separate branches.

Beyond this, you could have agents summarize an intuitive data structure as to why certain commits exist and how the code arrived there. I think this would be a general utility for human and AI code reviewers alike. That is what we built. Cost /utility need to make sense. Research needs to determine if this is all actually better than proper comments in code
by johnnyanmac | 2026-03-02 02:30:09+00:00
>I guess my tangent meant to point at the need for both general, or specialized, "social hubs", where regularly appearing people silently agree to, eventually, getting talked to.

Those are called "3rd places". Those have sadly been on the decline for the past 30 years.

It's easy to point to phones as the problem, but few can point to proper solutions. Because they don't exist in the same way the previous generations had it.
by drdaeman | 2026-03-02 02:30:39+00:00
Fair enough, I’ll give it a try when I’ll have time for it.

I recognize that MCP as typically used would eat a good chunk of context - shoving all those API specs is wasteful for sure. The solution to this, I believe, is either RAG or single-tool (Context7-like), where relevant APIs are only provided on demand from models’ intermediate requests.

Caveat is model may need training to use that efficiently (or even at all, esp. smaller models are either very shy or crazy with tool use), and I don’t want to spend time fine tuning it. Could be that’s where the reality may prove me wrong.

But a token is a token. There is not a lot of difference between Playwright (or any other tool) use documentation wrapped in JSON with some logical separations, or provided as a long plain text blob (ultimately most likely also wrapped in JSON). So if the model doesn’t know how to use some tool innately (it may, for Playwright), and if it needs to use all tool functionality, I’m sure a CLI wouldn’t fare any better that MCP. But if the model knows the tool or needs just a small bit of its capabilities - naive MCP is going to be a bad idea.

Just like a human. If all I need is some simple thingy, I probably don’t need a whole textbook upfront, just a select excerpt. As far as I understand MCP, supplying full textbook in the system prompt is not MCPs innate design fault, it’s merely a simplest implementation approach.
by jyscao | 2026-03-02 02:30:52+00:00
Because these hybrids would contain mtDNA from their human female line. Neanderthal mtDNA could only be passed down by Neanderthal females.

And because none of those are found in any modern human populations, we can conclude no humans today are descended from female Neanderthals. Though whether hybridized descendants from male-sapiens female-Neanderthal pairings never existed, or they did exist for some time then eventually went extinct, we cannot currently say with certainty.
by deepseekai | 2026-03-02 02:31:04+00:00
Fair feedback, and you’re right to call this out.

Some examples on the page are still placeholder-quality and that hurts trust. I’m fixing this today by replacing them with real outputs from our current pipeline and adding generation details.

This is a beta build. What works now: idea -> script -> storyboard -> image/video workflow on one canvas.
What still needs work: output consistency and better sample quality.

If you’re open to it, I’d really value specific feedback on which part feels most broken.
by drnick1 | 2026-03-02 02:31:06+00:00
The best phone experience, by far, if you hate bloat and spyware is GrapheneOS on a Pixel. No accounts, no logins, no restrictions on side loading, and most Android apps that aren't affected by the Play Integrity cancer just work. You can even install Google apps if you want, but my preference is to use FOSS apps only.
by AndrewKemendo | 2026-03-02 02:31:20+00:00
The board that fired him wasn’t really “the capital class” in the traditional sense. It was a nonprofit board with an unusual governance structure specifically designed to limit investor controlling. Ilya and Helen were acting on safety/governance concerns, arguably against the interests of capital (Microsoft, VCs).

Like literally he’s doing right now the thing that would not have been done had Ilya and the other board members retained their positions
by array_key_first | 2026-03-02 02:31:38+00:00
Saying something is hysteria is also not an argument. Again, it's just intellectually lazy. Just because you refuse to take problems seriously doesn't mean they cease to exist, it just means you lack critical thinking.

And, as for eating and killing children, it's easy: starvation. If you're hungry enough you'll eat children. All it takes is a supply chain disruption, much more likely than nuclear war even.

So why not eat the children now? It's gonna happen anyway.

It's true that I am jumping the gun here. We don't need an apocalypse for AI to suck ass. It sucks ass right now and is causing massive problems. We should probably focus on that.
by cpncrunch | 2026-03-02 02:32:03+00:00
There is a somewhat easily digestible explanation of the quantum Darwinism theory here:

https://arxiv.org/pdf/1811.09062

However, it still doesn't really address the core question of when the collapse actually occurs. All it really seems to add is that the environment is an "observer" and that decoherence actually causes the collapse.
by SOLAR_FIELDS | 2026-03-02 02:33:23+00:00
The rhetoric here around this stuff all feels pretty pointless. It’s very obvious to see what happened here. The dictatorship wanted to weaponize Anthropic’s ai at a frightening scale, and Anthropic said no. OpenAI said yes. All the discussion around what is lawful is pretty irrelevant since this administration completely ignores what is lawful anyway.
by ancos2505 | 2026-03-02 02:34:11+00:00
I often found it surprisingly difficult to find a straightforward, lightweight tool just to clean up non-ASCII characters from code and text files without pulling in a heavy chain of dependencies. To solve this, I built `ascii-cleaner`.

It is a CLI tool written entirely in Rust using only the standard library (zero external crates). I also made a point to write 100% of the code myself as an exercise in relying strictly on core capabilities.

It has three main actions:

- `detect`: Scans and logs the presence of non-ASCII characters.

- `remove`: Strips the characters out entirely.

- `replace`: Swaps them out (defaults to `?`, but accepts custom replacements via `--char`).

To prevent accidental data loss, it creates a backup of the target file by default before modifying it, though you can bypass this with a `--no-backup` flag. I also added a `--log-mode` option for large files, which prints a report item for each finding as it scans.

Feel free to give your thoughts, feedback on the tool behavior, or any edge cases in text encoding you think I should handle.

Repo: https://github.com/ancos2505/ascii-cleaner
by k310 | 2026-03-02 02:34:46+00:00
I read the terms regarding mass surveillance and autonomous weapons. Both OpenAI and Anthropic had similar holdbacks AFAICT. [0]

> The Pentagon has agreed to OpenAI's rules for deploying its technology safely in classified settings, though no contract has been signed, a source familiar with the talks tells Axios.

> Why it matters: The Pentagon has blasted OpenAI rival Anthropic for days, contending its red lines for AI use in the military -- mass surveillance and autonomous weapons -- are philosophical and "woke."

> Now, the department, which did not immediately respond to a request for comment, appears to have accepted OpenAI's similar conditions.

One big difference

OpenAI exec becomes top Trump donor with $25 million gift [1]

I guess that makes it "less woke". This is reprehensible political bullshit.

[0] https://archive.ph/9NcMf#selection-579.0-611.135

[1] https://www.sfgate.com/tech/article/brockman-openai-top-trum...
by presentation | 2026-03-02 02:34:48+00:00
Like it or not, if people who aren't big brained HN genius hackers like yourself do reckless things with powerful technology, like a stupid teenager killing someone's baby by running them over with an e-bike at max speed on a sidewalk around a sharp corner, then broader society will hate that technology, and then that woke freedom you crave will get wiped out by those small brained normies. The point is that it is better to set some rules ahead of garnering that hatred, so that the whole practice doesn't get wiped out by the 95% of the public who are those aforementioned idiots (at least as you see them).

But as a morally righteous big brained HN edgelord, feel free to live your anarchist life on a seastead in the middle of the ocean running drones into icebergs and enjoying the whiz of throttling your exquisitely powerful ebike on the deck of your boat if you please.
by legerdemain | 2026-03-02 02:35:23+00:00
I'm at Paris Baguette, a Korean lower-end coffee shop chain common in the Bay Area. The guy next to me has headphones on and his laptop on a stand. Or it's four middle-aged Latino women celebrating a birthday. Or it's a bunch of local high-school kids.

Do I lean over and say, "Hi, how are you guys doing? Really good coffee they have here, huh?"

I'm at the gym. It's a big-box gym. It's full of dudes wearing Airpods Max, a few couples in skintight athletic outfits, a few teens with phones on tripods filming themselves for Tiktok.

Do I come over, gesture for them to take off their headphones, and say, "Hi, how are you guys doing? That's really good form, on that lift, really good form. Keep it up!"

I'm waiting to cross a road. On the other side of the road is a Caltrain crossing. The traffic light cycle takes forever, and then the train comes and preempts it. And then preempts it again when people finish getting on. A crowd of parents with strollers are waiting to cross. People are returning from the farmer's market with bags of vegetables. People on bikes.

Do I lean over and say, "Hey, how are you guys all doing? It sure takes a while to cross. Wow!"
by gruez | 2026-03-02 02:36:36+00:00
>But all they are doing is updating a financial instrument that suggests an increased likelihood, and getting massive bank for not providing the information that would make everyone else bet the same way.

That's the incorrect way of thinking about this, at least according to how US insider trading laws work. If a hedge fund has reason to believe oil prices will spike due to some secret info (eg. they paid some intern to camp out at US airbases and spot outgoing flights), and then they made massive bank on that trade, that's not insider trading. It's not a crime to hoard material nonpublic information and trade on it (ie. "updating a financial instrument ... and getting massive bank for not providing the information that would make everyone else bet the same way"). Now, if they paid off some guy inside the base, that might be breaking a bunch of laws around national security, but still not insider trading.
by conductr | 2026-03-02 02:38:21+00:00
As a private school parent, I can say it (can be) a significantly better experience. I’m sure there’s different forms of poop you’ll be stepping in, but in general with my experience there poverty factor is removed (affluence has its own problems, but luckily they don’t tend to show up in the classroom) and the biggest key is the parents are engaged. Instead of blaming teachers for our kids failures, we partner with them to ensure success.

I am a firm believer that (lack of) parenting is the problem that most affects the other learning environments negatively. Parents are the key to any meaningful change. Parents should be responsible for all of it. Teachers are convenient scapegoats of bad parents.
by krick | 2026-03-02 02:38:50+00:00
Honestly, I would say that even in the latter case the painfulness of the process is a bit overstated. Sure, it's not great. But if you treat it just as a new device and don't expect to just continue from where you've left it on the previous phone, you'll make it under 30 minutes anyway. Half of it is playing with the UI of the new version of the OS and getting annoyed at the fact that the apps are not the same anyway, because on the previous device you refused to update an app after they fucked up it's UI, and now you must to get an old apk which won't even work anyway on the brand new Androip v99 or whatever.
by wahern | 2026-03-02 02:38:59+00:00
I'm not sure about the most recent successful charge, but this is one of the charges used against James Comey: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prosecution_of_James_Comey

Here's a 2018 article listing some prosecutions: https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/congress/5-people-who-lied-...

Because it's the DoJ prosecuting, I'm guessing (but don't know first-hand) that it's uncommon for the government to prosecute administration witnesses, even from previous administrations. Once upon a time Congress would prosecute and impose punishment itself: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Contempt_of_Congress#Inherent_...
by throw0101a | 2026-03-02 02:39:24+00:00
> I mean, it's not my fandom, but Catholics do have a wicked sense of symbolism and decoration.

Catholics (and other denominations too) consider the three transcendentals to be Truth, Goodness, and Beauty, which are all natures of God†:

* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Transcendentals

This philosophical/theological thinking goes back to (at least) the Middle Ages:

* https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/transcendentals-medieval/

So the fact that "decoration" would be present is unsurprisingly, as Beauty in this reality can help to lead to greater reality of Truth and Goodness as well. It's why there have long been traditions with art, music, architecture, etc, in Catholic culture.

† God is Truth, God is Goodness (itself), and God is Beauty. (God is Love as well.)
by xfil | 2026-03-02 02:39:26+00:00
I agree; exact day was predictable enough for people to place confident-enough bets on. Notices to evacuate non-essential personnel from US military bases, embassies, & consulates in the region also went out 1-2 days prior to Israel's strikes on Iran on June 13, 2025.

My social circle had largely expected that Iran was getting bombed on Saturday or Sunday once the evacuation notices went out Friday, and this intuition was merely from laymen who follow the news. I don't doubt that insider trading was involved as it's the norm with this Admin, but I also don't doubt that many savvy people could've legally placed successful bets.
by monarchwadia | 2026-03-02 02:39:28+00:00
It is rare to find a comment on shunyata on HN. I wanted to deepen the discussion on that, instead of move into geopolitics or the justification of status quo reality. I think youre very correct that war is unnecessary, if only we realize the illusory nature of many of the things we desire or hate.

Shunyata means everything is empty. Empty of what? Empty of inherent, independent existence. That means everything is connected -- not only connected, but mostly illusory, sitting on top of a reality that cannot be understood in terms of objects, processes, distinctions, or boundaries between objects. Sometimes, this connection takes on strange forms.

For example: The horrible reality of war was a direct cause for your compassionate unease. I.e. war acted as a cause for compassion. This is strange. How do we reconcile this disturbing relationship, where a compassionate response is directly the child of war? In other words, horrific war has given rise to compassion, and this is a causal relationship, in the same way that a child arises from a mother. So, violence and love can arise from each other? What? Are they not supposed to be opposites?

The next step is a bit more provocative. Shunyata seems to imply that, since everything lacks inherent and independence existence, then suffering is not a part of the human condition. Instead, it is a mental construct. It isn't that the suffering of humanity does not exist; it's that it is constructed by the mind.

Deleuze and Guattari offers an interesting viewpoint on this. There are various intensities that do arise naturally. Injury, for example, is an intensity. But, suffering itself is not "really-real" unless we reify the intensities as suffering. And eliminating suffering partially involves the non-reification of intensities into suffering.

Obviously, easier said than done.

Anyway I'll leave it there. It's probably quite easy to destroy my points here, so I would appreciate it if people steelmanned my comment instead of strawmanning it. Shunyata is a genuinely useful discussion from a mental health and human flourishing standpoint. And has some very interesting and rigorous logic behind it. (see Mulamadhyamakakarika by Nagarjuna)
by natex84 | 2026-03-02 02:39:51+00:00
If the model in use is managed by a 3rd party, can be updated at will, and also gives different output each time it is interacted with, what is the main benefit?

If I chat with an agent and give an initial prompt, and it gets "aspect A" (some arbitrary aspect of the expected code) wrong, I'll iterate to get "aspect A" corrected. Other aspects of the output may have exactly matched my (potentially unstated) expectation.

If I feed the initial prompt into the agent at some later date, should I expect exactly "aspect A" to be incorrect again? It seems more likely the result will be different, maybe with some other aspects being "unexpected". Maybe these new problems weren't even discussed in the initial archived chat log, since at that time they happened to be generated in a way in alignment with the original engineers expectation.
by le-mark | 2026-03-02 02:41:04+00:00
Don’t feel bad please. There’s a flip side to all these sociable people which you are sensing. It’s the fallacy of “winning friends and influencing people”. Suppose you are sociable and use the tricks to get to know people (take an interest in their interest, ask for favors, etc) the reality is it will almost never be reciprocated. You get a bunch of people to like you but they will never know you because they’re pitiful and shallow. After a while you will resent them and just skip it all.
Show HN: Simaic – AI back end with memory, 90s setup for Cursor/Windsurf
by sunch | 2026-03-02 02:43:50+00:00
I'm a 17-year-old developer. I built SIMAIC over 1.5 months to solve two problems I kept running into:

1. Rebuilding memory systems from scratch for every AI project
2. AI outputs mixing conversation text with JSON, making it painful to parse

SIMAIC wraps everything into a single endpoint:
- Built-in memory (Basic + Summary compression, up to 3 months retention)
- Structured output with Webhook forwarding – pure JSON to your server
- Multi-platform support (Line, Discord, Web Chatbox) from one project
- Auto-generates an integration prompt you can paste directly into Cursor or Windsurf

Setup takes about 90 seconds. No DB setup required.

Happy to answer any technical questions.