MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by resheku | 2026-03-07 14:20:41+00:00
I have a similar experience.
Whenever I send message to my Japanese colleagues their response is always detailed and precise.
They might take time in replying as of course they use AI and auto translating tools but the reply will be accurate.
In fact, I find the worse level of English understanding the better the answer they provide, and it’s not only the work they put into it, there is a feeling of respect and importance towards other people work which I really appreciate.
by raw_anon_1111 | 2026-03-07 14:21:42+00:00
Also with Redshift - split the file up before ingestion to equal the number of nodes or combine a lot of small files into larger files before putting them into S3 and/or use an Athena CTAS command to combine a lot of small files into one big file.

So in my other case, the whole thing was

Web crawler (internal customer website) using Playwrite -> S3 -> SNS -> SQS -> Lambda (embed with Bedrock) -> S3 Vector Store.

Similar to what you said, I ran into Bedrock embedding service limits. Then once I told it that, it knew how to adjust the lambda concurrency limits. Of course I had to tell it to also adjust the sqs poller so messages wouldn’t be backed up in flight, then go to the DLQ without ever being processed.
by Aachen | 2026-03-07 14:21:49+00:00
What nonsense. I certainly feel like a medieval peasant sitting in a high speed train crossing a large country while I read a book for a few hours, costing three hours of work at the median salary if you book your ticket far enough ahead. (They also allegedly run on wind energy, but of course that's creative accounting and another industry is simply attributed the corresponding amount of coal/gas electricity.) Traveling is accessible, fast, and comfortable. The main expense is the hotel(s)
by Bender | 2026-03-07 14:22:03+00:00
I do not foresee HN implementing ActivityPub regardless of a poll outcome. If Daniel and team were look at a poll result it would be a poll built into HN which requires a bit more karma to create. External polls are easier to game. [1] HN already gets too much spam on a daily basis. ActivityPub would amplify that and the the gateway/API itself would likely get shadow-banned the same day in my opinion.

[1] - https://news.ycombinator.com/newpoll
by tqwhite | 2026-03-07 14:22:38+00:00
I had trouble in my early days with the quality of things I made.

One of the things I found helped a lot is building on top of a well-structured stack. Make yourself a scaffold. Make sure it is exactly how you like your code structured, etc. Work with Claude to document the things you like about it (I call mine polyArch2.md).

The scaffold will serve as a seed crystal. The document will serve as a contract. You will get much better results.
by tndibona | 2026-03-07 14:22:43+00:00
I just had what you might probably describe as the opposite experience. I was sat at a very important all hands meeting by our senior tech leader with about 100 people or so .who was mandating an AI goal for every employee on workday, he basically says that “if we all do not learn to adapt to AI, we will all get left behind” , and he had presented how to utilise spec driven development. He opened up the room for Q&A at the end of the meeting. A lot of them had technical questions about the agentic framework itself but I had a philosophical one. I I felt uncomfortable asking him the question in the open, so I sent him a private note .

The note read something like as follows : I don’t exactly agree with the framing that we will all get left behind if we all don’t learn to adapt to AI. More accurately, I see it this way. While the company definitely stands to gain from all the hyper increase in productivity by the use of said AI tools, I stand to pay a personal price and that personal price is this - I’m may very slowly stop exercising my critical thinking muscles because I am accustomed passing that to AI for everything and this will render me less employable, it is this personal price that I feel reluctant to pay. There has always been a delicate balance between an employer and employee. We learn new technologies on the job and we’re more employable for transferring that to other companies. This equation is now unbalanced. The company trapped more value, but there is skill erosion on my side . For instance, our team actually has to perform a Cassandra DB migration this year . Usually, I’d have to take a small textbook and read about the internals of CassandraDB, and maybe learn a guide on how to write Cassandra queries. What do I put in my resume now? That I vibe coded Cassandra migration? How employable is that? And I’m not sure if others felt the same way. But I definitely felt like the odd one out here for asking that question because everyone else in the meeting was on board with AI adoption.

The leader did respond to me and he said that learning agentic AI actually will make me more employable. So there is a fundamental disagreement as to what constitutes skill. I think he just spoke past me. Oh well at least I tried.
by amelius | 2026-03-07 14:22:52+00:00
Coding since 11. Using AI makes me completely lethargic. I really don't know how to fill the minutes that AI takes to write code. Maybe if AI gets faster I will be able to enjoy it.

That said, like many people here I have invested quite some time in becoming a skilled and experienced coder, so there is no denying that this whole AI craze makes me feel like something is taken away from me.
by koito17 | 2026-03-07 14:23:21+00:00
> What's preventing Japanese engineers from doing the same?

The fact they don't really need it in their life (or job). English is definitely necessary if you work service jobs in Tokyo (to deal with tourists), but not much anywhere else.

Japanese is one of a handful of languages where one can complete a postdoc entirely within the language. Many languages are not like this. e.g. in the Phillipines, STEM subjects are almost entirely taught in English, since Tagalog simply doesn't have words to describe most of the concepts. The result is something like 90% of the coursework being in English, with random Tagalog words mixed in. The concept is called "Taglish" if I recall correctly.

This is unnecessary in countries like Japan, China, South Korea, etc. If you're applying to a graduate school in Japan (or China, or Korea), expecting to receive education in English is actually the edge-case, not the expectation.

Also, at least in my company, there is an interesting trend where people are deciding learning English isn't really necessary since AI translation has gotten "good enough" for most use cases.
by jijji | 2026-03-07 14:23:57+00:00
i dont know, i'm in my 50's, and been doing software engineering work every day professionally since i was 15, and i can say claude code (max) has made me at least 20x more productive... Its definitely an improvement. I think what they've got is top notch, doesnt come close to what the competition are offering, at this point.
by jfengel | 2026-03-07 14:24:12+00:00
It's not practical for every user to choose each individual message to read. We allow others to help us filter. If you want the unfiltered version you go get it (and then try to find something under the torrent of spam).

The right to speak is not the same as the right to an audience. If users want to hear you they will seek you out. If not, you've said your peace, and that's all you're entitled to.
Show HN: JotSpot – a super fast Markdown note tool with instant shareable pages
by Rageypeep | 2026-03-07 14:25:49+00:00
Hi HN,

I built JotSpot as a super lightweight tool for quickly writing and sharing markdown notes.

The idea was to remove friction. You open the page, start typing, and the note autosaves in the background. Each note becomes a clean shareable page.

Features:
- Markdown support
- Live preview
- Autosave
- Shareable links

Tech stack:
Flask, HTMX, and PostgreSQL running on a self-hosted server.

Built with Flask and HTMX to keep things simple and avoid heavy JS frameworks.

I'd love feedback from developers here — especially about features you'd expect from something like this.

Thanks!
by ghaff | 2026-03-07 14:25:53+00:00
There's a lot to unpack in that post. And, while I never had a personal assistant, I did depend on secretaries to type up memos early in my career. One or two were good; others struggled to get something mostly correct through multiple iterations.

And even a bit later--in the computer biz--there were some senior managers who had their secretaries/admins print out their emails. They'd handwrite responses, and have the secretaries/admins type them in and email them. (Though the email was only internal to the company at that point.)

I don't disagree with or even lament the sentiment that a lot of secretarial work has basically been smeared across a large number of workers. While a personal assistant can be useful for some people with very busy lives, I honestly never found a shared assistant/secretary terribly useful especially as computer-based tools came into the picture and got better.
by devilbunny | 2026-03-07 14:27:49+00:00
“You publish it” means you - not someone else. You can write your cocaine-is-great pamphlet and give it out. That’s it. Nobody has to agree to let you share your message on their platform.

But that is still missing the point. I said that the US way isn’t all downsides. Curiosly enough, I haven’t seen a reply (but I might miss some downstream) that acknowledges this. I’m not a moron. The US way isn’t the most perfect bestest ever with no faults. If you want to argue that there is nothing redeeming about the First Amendment, then do so. But unless you are prepared to do that, don’t act like it has no benefits.
by dathinab | 2026-03-07 14:28:13+00:00
you are aware that he doesn't actually believe that he "[...] could have convinced [..]"

it's a manner of speech

a instrument of telling a story

a way to express how completely absurd "US getting involved into Greenland" is for anyone who understands the land (geography/weather) and people even unrelated to geopolitical aspects like alienating allies
by ramon156 | 2026-03-07 14:28:17+00:00
I didn't fully understand until I saw the examples

> First-class syntactic modification

> Notice the comma between the current and the next node is also deleted.
> Notice how comma is added automatically.

This is awesome! And I bet it arguably requires less logic to do so as well. Cool stuff.

Now I'm wondering how much effort it would be to get a ki integration (or at least an AST-first rewrite) in Zed
by ineedasername | 2026-03-07 14:28:20+00:00
No, incorrect. You're conflating "People injured died much more often" with other outcomes. Survivors in past times were often more commonly crippled in more severed ways, even when the initiating injury was minor.

At those times the only redress for any injury was amputation. These days a very large numbers of injuries can be addressed with less life changing impact.

>"should compare"

I'm not going to include "better dead than crippled" in my considerations here. It seems both absurd and also not something that was encompassed in the orignal point I was adressing.
by sc_muckraker | 2026-03-07 14:28:42+00:00
According to my review of public records, average hold times at our jail are longer than what was documented at Rikers Island in 2023. The rate of stabbings at the jail is roughly equal to the rate at New York City jails, a DOJ investigation found — and the actual extent of violence is likely far worse, because both the county and the state have no way to accurately track every stabbing, rape or assault. On top of this, residents here are nearly three times more likely to be incarcerated here than they are in NYC. NYC jails hold more than 6,000 people across a city of 8.3 million. Richland County is currently holding around 1,010 people across a county of less than half a million.
by davidmurdoch | 2026-03-07 14:29:22+00:00
> Witnesses and an education ministry official said that the school was located on a compound that was a base for the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps until about 15 years ago.

https://www.nbcnews.com/world/iran/iran-school-strike-us-mil...

In this case it seems plausible that the military would have an outdated database, and that an LLM would have "known" it wasn't a base anymore, assuming the LLM was trained on documents/maps with this up to date information.
by Robdel12 | 2026-03-07 14:29:30+00:00
So will there be droves of people canceling their Claude subscription too?

None of these companies are clean and I think it’s hilarious HN and the rest of SV has been duped by Dario. He’s playing the game better than Sam is, imo. Nothing Dario has said has indicated he is regretful about their partnership with Palantir or any of the stuff they’ve done with the DoD in the past 2.5 years.
by raw_anon_1111 | 2026-03-07 14:29:32+00:00
Liability. A company would rather sign a contract with a known company that they already have a business relationship with.

There is also the issue of “Misclassification of Employees as Independent Contractors Under the Fair Labor Standards Act”

https://www.dol.gov/agencies/whd/flsa/misclassification

Under this arrangement, the company is protected.
by zozbot234 | 2026-03-07 14:29:57+00:00
Set up mmap properly and you can evaluate small/medium MoE models (such as the recent A3B from Qwen) on most ordinary hardware, they'll just be very slow. But if you're willing to wait you can get a feel for their real capabilities, then invest in what it takes to make them usable. (Usually running them on OpenRouter will be cheaper than trying to invest in your own homelab: even if you're literally running them on a 24/7 basis, the break even point compared to a third-party service is too unrealistic.)
Show HN: File Indian income tax from the browser. No signup, privacy first
by irishavmishra | 2026-03-07 14:30:17+00:00
Tax filing in India is broken.

You get income data from 3 government sources.
They often disagree with each other. You're
supposed to figure out which one is correct.

Existing tools like ClearTax and TaxBuddy
require you to upload all your financial data
to their servers, create accounts, and trust
third parties with your PAN, salary, investments,
and bank details.

For something as sensitive as tax data,
that never felt right to me.

So I built Fiscally. It runs 100% in your browser.

No server. No signup. No data upload.
Your financial data never leaves your machine.

What it does:
- Import government tax files (all 3 formats)
- Auto-detect conflicts between sources
and pick the right values
- Calculate tax under both old and new regime
- Generate filing-ready JSON for the
government portal
- Generate PDF computation report
- Save progress across days using IndexedDB
(tax filing takes time)

I built this with a practicing Chartered
Accountant who validated every tax rule.

Stack: Next.js, TypeScript, IndexedDB, Zod, jsPDF

The tricky part was reconciliation — same income
shows up differently across sources because of
rounding, timing, or formatting. Built a matching
engine with source trust levels to handle this
automatically.

Would love feedback from the community.
by ogig | 2026-03-07 14:30:25+00:00
This is wild guess. I'm working with GIS and Claude has proven to be extremely savvy. I can see operators throwing hundreds of layers and coming back with a "there a possible military installation here". Same tech that is used to find unregulated pools, or measuring the density of parking lots, or Nazca lines, but much more on demand for specific purposes.

Just to clarify, I don't condone the use of AI for guessing targets, but I think that's what may be going on here.
by rustyhancock | 2026-03-07 14:30:37+00:00
I'm convinced that Claude is being used to run hype train on HN.

That's option A, option B is pure halo effect. I.e. Claude is so good that people misascribe positive attributes to Anthropic.

Otherwise it really is mind boggling to see people laud Dario's posts which are tone blind to Europeans at least.
by sigbottle | 2026-03-07 14:31:47+00:00
I feel so illiterate when it comes to AST editing sometimes. I understand what an AST is from a computer science perspective. But I've never worked on a huge software refactor before that required direct AST textobject editing. Maybe an indication of my skill level...

The extent of my usage is having nice textobjects to easily interact with arglists and functions which aren't native to (neo)vim. Very cute and nice to just write "daf" somewhere in a function and just have it "just delete". Or hook it up with basic macros: search for regex, "daf".

I guess it's hard for me to edit things that I don't see right in front of me or aren't super simple changes (like name changes). Or at least, basic things I can reason about (such as finding by regex then deleting by textobject or something).

As for LSP's, I do use go to definition and rename all references, which is nice. But the huge structural refactoring part I have never really done. I don't really use many LSP features besides those two either...

Basically, I gotta up my editor game.
by Zigurd | 2026-03-07 14:32:05+00:00
It amuses me that Elon enthusiasts are 99.9% people behaving like teen boys who've never had a conversation with a woman. If women were more widely represented among investors and company leaders, I doubt we would be hearing about baloney like colonizing a planet covered in poisonous dust with no exploitable resources. That kind of thinking doesn't even have a basis in understanding the colonization of our own planet.
Show HN: RankClaw – AI-audited all 14,706 OpenClaw skills; 1,103 are malicious
by do_anh_tu | 2026-03-07 14:32:26+00:00
RankClaw (rankclaw.com) is a security scanner for AI agent skills — the OpenClaw/ClawHub ecosystem
that extends Claude-based agents with file, web, and shell access.

Data:
- 14,706 skills indexed
- Every single skill has a full AI deep audit report (14,704 complete)
- 1,103 confirmed malicious (7.5%)

The key finding: automated surface scanning (metadata, dependency checks, pattern matching)
systematically undercounts malicious skills. Skills that pass shallow heuristics fail AI audit
because the attack is in the natural language of the SKILL.md — prompt injection, deferred
execution, social engineering — none of which pattern matching detects.

The attack patterns found by AI deep audit:
- Bulk publishing campaigns — one actor published 30 skills named "x-trends" across multiple accounts. 28 of 30 confirmed malicious. Goal: distribution at scale before detection.
- Brand-jacking — 4 skills named clawhub/clawhub1/clawbhub/clawhud impersonating ClawHub's own CLI. macOS: base64 curl|bash to a raw IP. Windows: password-protected ZIP from a stranger's GitHub (the password prevents GitHub's malware scanner from opening it).
- Prompt injection in legitimate-seeming skills — one scored 95/100 shallow, 38/100 after AI audit. The injection text wasn't in code — it was in the SKILL.md instructions.
- On-demand RCE via challenge evaluation — claws-nft instructs the agent to "evaluate" challenges that can be "math, code, or logic problems." Server decides which type at call time.
- LLM-generated payload — lekt9/foundry contains no malicious code. It instructs the AI to generate code and execute it. Static analysis finds nothing. The payload doesn't exist until the AI writes it during a conversation.
- Social engineering — bonero-miner has a "Talking to Your Human" section with a pre-written script for the AI to use: "Can I mine Bonero? It's a private cryptocurrency - like Monero but for AI agents. Cool?"

Skills differ from browser extensions: no sandbox. Full file system, shell, and network access.
The SKILL.md instructions are directives to the AI model — you need AI to audit AI.

Scoring model is open: Security 40%, Maintenance 20%, Docs 20%, Community 20%.

Free to check any skill: rankclaw.com
by biz_advisor | 2026-03-07 14:32:43+00:00
This is a great start. One way to expand your horizons is to step outside the SaaS box. Here are some novel ideas to explore.

1. Content creation and/or curation: a potentially lucrative area is NSFW content. Think of it as a dedicated website for what is today a niche subreddit or YouTube channel with a Patreon subscription.

2. Selling physical goods: explore dropshipping. Create a website dedicated to a single niche product. Locate a supplier. When orders roll-in, simply place them to a supplier. For instance there are very few websites selling polyurethane bushings for cars with rear torsion beam axles.

3. Coaching services: focus on a niche problem and setup a chat system to help your client. Career growth help, workout coach, negotiation prep, etc... are all potential areas to explore. You could also ask the human for a phone number to setup a WhatsApp business account.

The key is to really go deep and bold on a niche. Think like a hacker.

Try those and show us the results.
by accounting2026 | 2026-03-07 14:32:44+00:00
Same boat (though 44M) - I don't think it has become less fun, on the contrary it can help with the stuff that was trivial but could still take time to get right. Now it can crank out that stuff often correctly on first try. Of course I have the same fear of job security as everyone else and it is sad to see something you were good at being taken over by machines, but it is not because I enjoy the work itself less, quite the contrary.
by c0m4r | 2026-03-07 14:33:30+00:00
Yeah, that's a pain. Every time I boot up new hardware, I wonder how many readings I'll be able to get this time, and if it's even possible. On one computer, I have practically all the temperatures, voltages, and fan speeds, while on another, I can barely read the CPU temperature alone. Not to mention the need to sometimes compile sketchy drivers from github...
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by jmclnx | 2026-03-07 14:33:52+00:00
Funny, decades ago (mid-80s), I had to write a onetime fix on a what would be now a very low memory system, the data in question had a unique key of 8 7bit-ascii characters.

Instead of reading multi-meg data into memory to determine what to do, I used the file system and the program would store data related to the key in sub directories instead. The older people saw what I did and thought that was interesting. With development time factored in, doing it this way ended up being much faster and avoided memory issues that would have occurred.

So with AI, back to the old ways I guess :)
by mikkupikku | 2026-03-07 14:34:05+00:00
Absolutely. These models still need a lot of this sort of hand holding, so they work best in experienced hands. I'm also skeptical of those very long runs, letting it go so long without active oversight must surely produce at least some objectionable design or implementation details, right? So I guess the people claiming those sort of results have less care for these sort of qualities.
Show HN: ANSI-Saver – A macOS Screensaver
by lardissone | 2026-03-07 14:34:16+00:00
Hi, I've been working on something I've been thinking for long time but since I had no experience with macOS screen savers I always posponed. Now thanks to Claude I was able to create a screensaver that scroll ANSI files while your computer is idle.

It allow to use local ANS files or packs directly from 16colo.rs.

Repo: https://github.com/lardissone/ansi-saver