MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by gspr | 2026-03-10 05:54:00+00:00
> I feel as though, from an information-theoretic standpoint, it can't be possible that an LLM (which is almost certainly <1 TB big) can contain any substantial verbatim portion of its training corpus, which includes audio, images, and videos.

It doesn't need to for my argument to make sense. It's a problem if it reproduces a single copyrighted work (near)-verbatim. Which we have plenty of examples of.
by moring | 2026-03-10 05:54:49+00:00
> Obviously it is true in a single threaded system.

But only if you disable interrupts, right? Of course, if you are working that close to the hardware, it makes sense to include "no interrupts" in your definition of "single threaded".

> Note that garbage collection itself can have a switch, not involving disabling interrupts.

I don't understand this. If you get thrashed with interrupts then no switch will remove the overhead of the interrupt handler, so you'd need an upper bound on the time for that handler AND the frequency of hardware interrupts to achieve hard real-time.
by 01100011 | 2026-03-10 05:56:19+00:00
I have such strong nostalgia for that era, but man, every time I try to go back and experience a BBS like this is just feels so empty. There really isn't a way to experience the feelings back then. I admire them for keeping it alive, but the magic was long ago dispelled by ubiquitous internet connectivity.

I can go play a retro videogame and be taken back, but I've never felt that way with a BBS. Maybe it's just the intensity of what the BBS world was back then. It was a way into another world.. an exclusive world.. the first taste of digital life, long before it was taken over by the masses. An intimate community, but also a gateway to esoteric and faraway lands.

I was 12 when I got my first modem in '87. Suddenly I was no longer trapped in my town but connected to something secret yet global. Sure, long-distance charges kept things local for the most part, but it wasn't long before I found a way around that. Stolen calling cards, open PBXes, then Tymnet/Telenet and then in '90 an internet gateway of a local university. Wardialing, finding strange systems in the night... poking around until something gave way. Arrested. Reset. Probation. No computers. It all came to a halt. Then one day at Boeing Surplus I found an old green screen terminal and a 300 baud acoustic modem. Back online.. but the world began to change. MBBS, multi-line systems, and the world began to open. The world wide web began to take shape, Yahoo awoke, and the old steamship rolled into port for the last time.
by abustamam | 2026-03-10 05:58:36+00:00
Yeah this just shows that ergonomics matters. I use Nano Banana and Grok Imagine to generate silly images for my friends and siblings (instead of reaction gifs I do reaction slop). The workflow is quite easy. Just plop in a prompt and usually the first image is good enough to share. Not that my standards are high anyway.

Would I pay extra to ensure that the artists that these models were trained on were compensated fairly? Absolutely! Would I pay extra for that but with degraded ergonomics? Given that this is just a silly hobby, probably not, if I'm being honest.

I think if that problem can be solved, and it's marketed to the correct group, a player in this space could certainly do well.
by ajam1507 | 2026-03-10 05:58:36+00:00
> There's lots of "politically incorrect" things which is a symptom of low filtration.

Politically incorrect things might be a symptom of low filtration on almost any other site, but not one run by Elon Musk. He has a clear agenda and is not shy about putting his finger on the scale at X. It's so blatant and well documented that it's almost hard to imagine you could be commenting in good faith.
by 152334H | 2026-03-10 05:59:05+00:00
People care, when they can tell.

Popular content is popular because it is above the threshold for average detection.

In a better world, platforms would empower defenders, by granting skilled human noticers flagging priority, and by adopting basic classifiers like Pangram.

Unfortunately, mainstream platforms have thus far not demonstrated strong interest in banning AI slop. This site in particular has actually taken moderation actions to unflag AI slop, in certain occasions...
by stinkbeetle | 2026-03-10 05:59:18+00:00
What's strange is that I have never heard a single "human rights expert", humanitarian lawyer, government, NGO, bureaucrat, or global body say a single word about the flagrant and far more wide spread abuses of the human rights of people who should have the basic right to live unmolested by criminals and under a government system that provides reasonable justice. Not a single one. Turns out that none of them are actually concerned with human rights abuses in the slightest bit, they are concerned only with how human rights abuses can be leveraged for their own gain.
by ChicagoDave | 2026-03-10 05:59:51+00:00
Satya Nadal will go down in history as the guy that killed Microsoft. The insane push to AI and copilot jammed in every app plus ads has done exactly what the OP states…

I will recommend that $599 MacBook every time now and power users invest in a MacBook Pro.

I was a loyal Windows user and now my own Surface Laptop 5 sits dark while I work on a Mac-Mini that was meant to be a side app dev machine.
by eaglelamp | 2026-03-10 06:00:19+00:00
If Anthropic's compute is fully saturated then the Claude code power users do represent an opportunity cost to Anthropic much closer to $5,000 then $500.

Anthropic's models may be similar in parameter size to model's on open router, but none of the others are in the headlines nearly as much (especially recently) so the comparison is extremely flawed.

The argument in this article is like comparing the cost of a Rolex to a random brand of mechanical watch based on gear count.
by spiderice | 2026-03-10 06:01:56+00:00
Claude Code Max obviously doesn't cost 10x more than Kimi. The article even confirms that you can get $5k worth of computer for $200 with Claude Code Max.

So no, Claude would not be getting NEARLY as much usage as it's currently getting if it weren't for the $100/$200 monthly subscription. You're comparing Kimi to the price that most people aren't paying.
by 01100011 | 2026-03-10 06:02:31+00:00
After my mom kicked me out I went to live with my grandparents. They bought me a c-128d and a 1200 baud modem. Little did they know I had no concept of hourly connection fees or phone billing. It was amazing until they got the first $200 bill from Q-Link and $400 from the phone company. My grandpa was so pissed he kicked me out and fortunately my dad took me in. It was about 7 years before he talked to me again, and it was only a terse, stiff conversation on the phone when he called to talk to my mom. He died not long after. He grew up poor and couldn't get over it. I still appreciate them taking me in. I wouldn't be where I'm at today without them buying me that computer system.
by abustamam | 2026-03-10 06:03:22+00:00
Just out of curiosity, do you believe artists deserve to be compensated when their art is used to generate stuff in their style?

I'm staunchly against expansion of IP laws. But I personally think that when a corporate machine gobbles up an artist's works so that people like me who can't draw can generate silly memes for a few bucks a month, the artist should be compensated. The company is profiting off of other people's work! That's not right.

The mechanism by which compensation is calculated appears to be an unsolved problem currently though.
by ExoticPearTree | 2026-03-10 06:03:28+00:00
> It can also give permission for unwanted behavior. Cf. the Haifa study, where the rate of late pickups increased when daycares added a fine. One explanation is the fine turned a complex moral obligation into an ordinary financial transaction.

You know what they say: a fine makes something legal for an amount of money.

And for daycares, I think a lot of parents saw it just like that: a cheap way to keep the kid away from them for longer.
by jowsie | 2026-03-10 06:03:32+00:00
The tech doesn't sound that interesting at all. Every AI Degen thread on 4chan and similar has included model fine tuning instructions for a few years now, for the express purpose of cloning an existing artists style.
I also find it interesting that they included a quote from an artist pointing out the hypocrisy of using an existing model, trained on unlicensed material, but never actually discussed that particular issue in the article.
by dqv | 2026-03-10 06:04:06+00:00
I wonder to what extent propaganda played a role in disbelieving their claims. US propaganda is very strong on the US being the best, having the most advanced technology, and that nations like Russia and China are inferior to us. So it's totally plausible to me that agents in the CIA would fall for that same propaganda: this technology doesn't exist, because, if it did, we would have invented it.

Propaganda can galvanize, but propaganda can also lull.
by versteegen | 2026-03-10 06:04:16+00:00
Ed Zitron made that claim (in particular here: [1]). In the same article he admits he not a programmer, and had to ask someone else to try out Claude Code and ccusage for him. He doesn't have any understanding of how LLMs or caching works. But he's prominent because he's received leaked financial details for Anthropic and OpenAI, eg [2]

[1] https://www.wheresyoured.at/anthropic-is-bleeding-out/
[2] https://www.wheresyoured.at/costs/
by johndough | 2026-03-10 06:05:28+00:00
Opus 4.6 likely has in the order of 100B active parameters. OpenRouter lists the following throughput for Google Vertex:

42 tps for Claude Opus 4.6 https://openrouter.ai/anthropic/claude-opus-4.6
143 tps for GLM 4.7 (32B active parameters) https://openrouter.ai/z-ai/glm-4.7
70 tps for Llama 3.3 70B (dense model) https://openrouter.ai/meta-llama/llama-3.3-70b-instruct

For GLM 4.7, that makes 143 * 32B = 4576B parameters per second, and for Llama 3.3, we get 70 * 70B = 4900B, which makes sense since denser models are easier to optimize. As a lower bound, we get 4576B / 42 ≈ 109B active parameters for Opus 4.6. (This makes the assumption that all three models use the same number of bits per parameter and run on the same hardware.)
by csallen | 2026-03-10 06:06:53+00:00
> The company is profiting off of other people's work! That's not right.

What's wrong with it?

We live in an interconnected world. Every company or individual who profits off anything does so, in very large part, thanks to work left behind by others that they don't directly compensate each other for.

Stated differently, if we look at the other side of the coin, it's one thing to create value, and another thing to capture value. If you are a business (and artists seeking profit are businesses), you create value then try to capture that value. Creating value and trying to capture (in the form of profit) is the entire name of the game. But no business captures 100% the value they create. If you make a product/artwork/service/whatever and release it to the public, lots of people may use it, view it, be inspired by it, learn from it, and ultimately profit off it in their own way without you necessarily being able to capture some part of it. And what's wrong with that?

Do we really want the entire world to be endlessly full of cookie-licking rent seekers who demand profit every time anyone does anything? Because they failed to capture the value they created, and thus demand a piece of the pie from those who are better at capturing value?

I like the way Thomas Jefferson put it:

> If nature has made any one thing less susceptible than all others of exclusive property, it is the action of the thinking power called an idea, which an individual may exclusively possess as long as he keeps it to himself; but the moment it is divulged, it forces itself into the possession of every one, and the receiver cannot dispossess himself of it. Its peculiar character, too, is that no one possesses the less, because every other possesses the whole of it. He who receives an idea from me, receives instruction himself without lessening mine; as he who lights his taper at mine, receives light without darkening me. That ideas should freely spread from one to another over the globe, for the moral and mutual instruction of man, and improvement of his condition, seems to have been peculiarly and benevolently designed by nature, when she made them, like fire, expansible over all space, without lessening their density in any point, and like the air in which we breathe, move, and have our physical being, incapable of confinement or exclusive appropriation. Inventions then cannot, in nature, be a subject of property. Society may give an exclusive right to the profits arising from them, as an encouragement to men to pursue ideas which may produce utility, but this may or may not be done, according to the will and convenience of the society, without claim or complaint from anybody. Accordingly, it is a fact, as far as I am informed, that England was, until we copied her, the only country on earth which ever, by a general law, gave a legal right to the exclusive use of an idea.
by versteegen | 2026-03-10 06:07:05+00:00
> Aren't they losing money on the retail API pricing, too?

No, they aren't, and probably neither is anyone else offering API pricing. And Anthropic's API margins may be higher than anyone else.

For example, DeepSeek released numbers showing that R1 was served at approximately "a cost profit margin of 545%" (meaning 82% of revenue is profit), see my comment https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46663852
by m463 | 2026-03-10 06:07:30+00:00
It's kind of strange to me that the classic scifi books I read in my youth had few if any follow-ons, and in this case had to resort to other writers to happen.

Meanwhile, many books I read nowadays on kindle routinely have 8 books in a series.

I wonder what makes this happen? Is it that self-publishing that just spits things out with less friction? Less editing and/or second guessing? AI helping? Expectations?
by LiamPowell | 2026-03-10 06:07:40+00:00
> I’m a GUI guy though. As soon as I try delving in, I abort when I see things like “just type c-C dingle bob to do x thing.” I’m happy these people found something that works with their brains. I just want a GUI that works like what they use.

You do have that somewhat with packages like which-key that will show you a menu of options every time you press a key. You then learn the keybinds that you use the most. You can also search for them by name and see the keybind like you do with VS Code etc..

Here's what doom-emacs looks like when I press space and then space-t:

https://files.catbox.moe/szfcif.png

https://files.catbox.moe/2kgrai.png
by k310 | 2026-03-10 06:08:35+00:00
Emmanuel Goldstein, "THE THEORY AND PRACTICE OF OLIGARCHICAL COLLECTIVISM" in the novel "1984"

> In 1984, when Oldspeak was still the normal means of communication, the danger theoretically existed that in using Newspeak words one might remember their original meanings. In practice it was not difficult for any person well grounded in DOUBLETHINK to avoid doing this, but within a couple of generations even the possibility of such a lapse would have vanished. A person growing up with Newspeak as his sole language would no more know that EQUAL had once had the secondary meaning of ‘politically equal’, or that FREE had once meant ‘intellectually free’, than for instance, a person who had never heard of chess would be aware of the secondary meanings attaching to QUEEN and ROOK.

...

> When Oldspeak had been once and for all superseded, the last link with the past would have been severed. History had already been rewritten.
by joecool1029 | 2026-03-10 06:09:11+00:00
> Is that implying "global" is actually not global?

It was what I was implying.

I did find a better link: https://commerce.jolla.com/products/jolla-phone-sept-26

LTE FDD: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 7, 8, 12, 17, 18, 19, 20, 25, 26, 28AB, 66
LTE TDD: 34, 38, 39, 40, 41
5G NR: n1, n2, n3, n5, n7, n8, n12, n20, n26, n28, n38, n40, n41, n66, n77, n78

So this is a strange band list for US, it can roam. It’s not ideal for any carrier outside of a city (n41, n77 2.5ghz/3.5ghz) supported, well maybe. n25 notably missing but subset n2 works via mbfi. band 71 missing for low-band tmobile rural coverage. 13 and 14 missing for firstnet/verizon
lowband. Good to see n66.

Now setting that aside that yes, I was partially wrong, we got more bands than usual, it still needs to pass through certification and get IMS profiles from the US carriers to make calls.

Anyways, it’s possible things changed, they have new people in leadership, maybe they pivoted, I just don’t think it’s likely, I’ve yet to see a mediatek flagship or even upper mid-range that is well configured for US market.
by threethirtytwo | 2026-03-10 06:09:21+00:00
>You don’t know it works. That you so glibly speak about products working is proof that your engineering judgment is impaired. You can’t infer the exact contents of a black box merely by looking at outside behavior.

I don't know the exact internals of a car. But I can infer my car works by driving it.

>The fundamental fallacy you are exhibiting here is similar to saying that rolling a six sided die and getting a “6” means that you will always get a 6 any time you roll it. And that if you get a 6 and wanted a 6, you must have therefore rolled those dice “correctly” and had you not gotten a 6 that would have meant you rolled them “wrong.”

Bro we rolled that dice MULTIPLE times. It's not a one time thing. And the "rolling" of the die is done with a CHAIN of MULTIPLE qureries strung together. This is not one roll. It's multitudes of data points. Yes results can be inconsistent from a technical standpoint, but the general result converges on a singular trend.

We know that much is true: a statistic and that is at most all we can say about reality as we know it as science formalized can only give a statistic as an answer.
by davidst | 2026-03-10 06:09:34+00:00
"We've uploaded a fruit fly. We took the @FlyWireNews connectome of the fruit fly brain, applied a simple neuron model (@Philip_Shiu Nature 2024) and used it to control a MuJoCo physics-simulated body, closing the loop from neural activation to action."

Additional description here: https://x.com/michaelandregg/status/2030764512488677736
by unselect5917 | 2026-03-10 06:13:11+00:00
>Politically incorrect things might be a symptom of low filtration on almost any other site,

Why would that change anything? I've always found political incorrectness to be a symptom of free speech.

>but not one run by Elon Musk.

Why would that be any different? Same symptom. Same free speech as far as I can tell.

>He has a clear agenda

What's the agenda?

>is not shy about putting his finger on the scale at X.

What instances of him putting his finger on the scale do you have? He gets community noted hilariously often.

>It's so blatant

What makes it blatant?

>well documented

By people who clearly hate the man and have lost their ability to reason over it. Like the ones who lost the narrative control of twitter.

>it's almost hard to imagine you could be commenting in good faith.

Having different opinions than you isn't bad faith. I brought up that the censorship is better than before (but still not great), and mentioned some cool new developments I've seen. You've attempted to steer the conversation to be about Elon Musk or myself. These are both ad hominem attacks, which is textbook bad faith.

I think the lady doth protest too much.
by kindkang2024 | 2026-03-10 06:14:27+00:00
Can't agree more. The web has won, and for the vast majority of apps, it's not even close.

I wish I figured this out years ago. I spent significant time learning and building with Flutter, iOS native — chasing that "native feel" — only to realize that for most of what I was building, a well-crafted web app would have been not just good enough, but actually better.
by neuraxhostpg | 2026-03-10 06:14:28+00:00
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by ChicagoDave | 2026-03-10 06:14:38+00:00
I’m the Founder. Been working on this for a while. Finally was able to get the iOS app designed and implemented.

TestFlight link is on the site.

Mach9 is the Karate Kid of poker tournament training. You iterate through math, strategy, language, and run Monte Carlo tournament simulations against your own strategy (set of rules). Each test is against 449 AI bots with varying skills and personalities. Tests run instantly. Review your hands, get advice, see gaps, add rules, test again.

Over time you’ll learn poker tournament play just like learning Karate.
by jongjong | 2026-03-10 06:14:45+00:00
I've been thinking about the erosion of copyright as well. It's basically making software worthless.

Already, the IP protections which exist for software suck. Patents are expensive and you can't even use them for software most of the time anyway. Copyright doesn't protect innovative ideas or architectures; if someone can just copy your code, mix it with a bunch of other code (no functionality changes) and then use it as their own; then copyright provides no protection at all...

If this is the case, then why should anyone bother to write any quality software at all? It has no value since anyone can just appropriate any essential functionality that they didn't create for themselves. What's to prevent an employee from taking their employer's source code, rewriting it with an LLM (same functionally) and generate a clone of their company's software to use as their own to compete against their employer?

Without any IP protections, anyone who writes software becomes a complete loser. There's 0 benefit. One software developer would be doing all the work and then some marketing expert or someone with good social connections could just steal their work and sell it for billions... The software developer gets NOTHING.
by 5-0 | 2026-03-10 06:14:54+00:00
WDYM?
Leap seconds are a 61st second, hitting 60 before 00 next minute.
https://nrc.canada.ca/en/certifications-evaluations-standard...

This makes sense for timestamps in traditional logs. You don't have to second guess the order of things, especially across multiple systems or services.