MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by stinkbeetle | 2026-03-09 11:57:32+00:00
> This is a strawman and you know it.

Uh yes? And you clearly know it too. It was a bit like your McDonalds strawman.

> Please at least make an attempt to argue in good faith, otherwise there's no point.

No need to get in a huff when we obviously both know what we're talking about. It's not conducive to the discussion.

> Of course there should be a reasonable middle-ground. The current situation with completely bogus ToS is not it.

I don't know exactly what the current situation with completely bogus ToS is, I'm willing to accept it could be adjusted. I was asking specifically about your proposed adjustment to it though. Your reasons for the new framework you suggested.

> Let me turn it around: should the state just abandon it's duty of creating an fair and equal playing field between large corporations and clients and let society devolve into a corporatocracy where laws are enforced purely to further corporate interests? Because that's exactly what you seem to be suggesting.

That isn't what I was suggesting. I was asking you how you came to your conclusion in the previous post.
by kykat | 2026-03-09 11:57:56+00:00
Using claude code everyday for the past 2 months for working on a project makes me not too worried about this. Will engineering teams be smaller? Maybe, but design, testing and QA will have to work much harder and quicker if they want real word results.

And I don't understand the obsession with "fleet of agents", it's much easier to follow a single agent that's quick. I don't want more cluades, I want faster and smarter claude.
by mexicocitinluez | 2026-03-09 11:58:08+00:00
> Programming languages are natural and ambiguous too, what does READ mean?

Not nearly in the same sense actual language is ambiguous.

And ambiguity in programming is usually a bad thing, whereas in language it can usually be intended.

Good code, whatever that means, can read like a book. Event-driven architectures is a good example because the context of how something came to be is right in the event name itself.
by alistairSH | 2026-03-09 11:58:16+00:00
Why? Because ToS as they exist today are unreasonably long and not understandable by the average person. Yet nearly everything we buy today comes with a complex ToS.

Added to that is the forced arbitration clauses they exist in most ToS. See the example about Disney getting out of a wrongful death suit at a theme park beciaee the plaintiff had a free Disney account for a PS5 that he bought many years earlier.

Tl;dr - buying a piece of software or home appliance shouldn’t come with more strings attached than buying a piece of real estate.
by kazishariar | 2026-03-09 11:58:29+00:00
I can sense that your heart is searching for guidance, a deeper connection and clarity in life. That yearning itself is a sign—one that points to God. The Qur’an offers a roadmap for this journey: reciting it with attention brings light to the heart, dhikr keeps your mind and soul anchored in remembrance, and meditation helps you witness your own thoughts and intentions with clarity.

It’s also important to pause regularly to account for yourself—to reflect on your actions, intentions, and how they align with your higher purpose. And finally, service to others transforms this inner seeking into outward compassion, making your spiritual path alive and practical.

When these practices—recitation, remembrance, mindful reflection, and service—flow together, they help turn yearning into guidance, and seeking into a lived experience of God’s presence.
by andai | 2026-03-09 11:58:33+00:00
I was obstinate and refused to learn docker, so I realized I can just rent a $3 VPS. If it blows up the VPS I reset it!

Then I realized the only thing I care about on my local machine is "don't touch my files", and Unix users solved that in 1970. So I just run agents as "agent" user.

I think running it on a separate machine is nicer though, because it's even simpler and safer than that. (My solution still requires careful setup and regular overhead when you get permission issues. "It's on another laptop, and my stuff isn't" has neither of those problems.)
by lancekey | 2026-03-09 11:58:47+00:00
For over a year now, I’ve been working on Compute Prices (https://computeprices.com).

It’s been a great way for me to better understand the cloud GPU industry, learn about data collection, normalization and use agentic coding to build a side project.

One thing I’m working on is distinguishing spot vs on demand prices and listing those separately. Also, including inference pricing for non-text AI models.

What features or data would you like to see me add next?
by amiga386 | 2026-03-09 11:58:49+00:00
You're mistaken.

Onshore wind in England was de-facto but not de-jure banned by the Tories in 2018, due to a footnote inserted in their National Planning Policy Framework. Labour removed this footnote in 2024. [0]

Offshore wind was never affected, nor onshore wind in Scotland, Wales or Northern Ireland.

[0] https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/policy-statement-...
by segmondy | 2026-03-09 11:59:19+00:00
nah, if AI dream comes to fruition, then we can rewrite all the code and system to be better. I mean, we are pretty wasteful from resource perspective. We would need 1/20th the CPUs and ram. Your intel 586 cpu will be as good as your computer today with 1gb of ram since everything will be regenerated in the most optimal low level code.
by mapontosevenths | 2026-03-09 11:59:46+00:00
> Some people object to this content based on principle, not on its quality, or on how closely it resembles content authored by humans.

Its's OK to have political opinions, even the ones that I disagree with. It's not OK to ruin every unrelated conversation ranting about them. Some folks around here have turned into that one uncle nobody likes inviting around to dinner anymore.

If a label would stop that I might be in favor of it. However, I'm certain it would instead be used to remove otherwise high quality content and ultimately reduce the utility of this place.
by jkubicek | 2026-03-09 12:00:08+00:00
I’m learning Godot and writing a basic game for my kids.

Coding agents are amazing and make me (feel) productive, but they really suck the fun out of programming.

I’m sure it’s possible to create a Godot-based game with an LLM, but I’m not sure how, so I’m forced to do everything the old-fashioned way – reading the docs.
by robin_reala | 2026-03-09 12:00:32+00:00
I finally, after a couple of years off, picked up work on a Standard Ebooks[1] edition of The Book of the Thousand Nights and a Night. I made a new years’ promise to myself to get it as done as possible by the end of the year. If it doesn’t happen I’m not going to be too hard on myself though, given the 5K endnotes and 1.5M overall word count. But we’ll see!

[1] https://standardebooks.org/
by nullandvoid | 2026-03-09 12:00:39+00:00
https://mealplannr.io
The end game is no/low touch weekly meal plans send directly to your inbox, with meals you love to cook but with none of the hassle around planning the meals, shopping list etc (which I spend hours doing every week).

An important feature for me was improving the recipe discovery experience, you can build a cookbook from chefs you follow on socials (youtube for now), or import from any source (Web, or take pic of cookbook etc) - it then has tight / easy integration into recipe lists.

Utilising GenAI to auto extract recipes, manage conversions, merge/categorise shopping lists etc - as-well as the actual recommendations engine.

If anyone is interested in beta testing / wants to have a chat I'll look out for replies, or message mealplannr@tomyeoman.dev
by palata | 2026-03-09 12:00:49+00:00
IMHO, you shouldn't have to justify yourself ("yeah yeah, this is not optimal, I know it because I am not an idiot"). Just write your code in O(n) if that's good enough now. Later, a developer may see that it needs to be optimised, and they should assume that the previous developer was not an idiot and that it was fine with O(n), but now it's not anymore.

Or do you think that your example comment brings knowledge other than "I want you to know that I know that it is not optimal, but it is fine, so don't judge me"?
by mapcars | 2026-03-09 12:00:54+00:00
I'm not talking about "liking" it, if you like being around people - there are many ways to do it, unless you live in a mountain cave or something. In any city there are dozens of volunteering groups that would be very happy if you came over and helped them and you will be around people as well.

But in our internal state of being, in our thoughts, in our emotions we are always alone. Yes we can try to express them to others some extent, but it can never be done in a complete way. In that sense we are fundamentally alone, and realising that makes the problem disappear. Because if I'm always alone internally and nature made it so, why worry about that?
by amiga386 | 2026-03-09 12:01:14+00:00
Now you have: https://www.theguardian.com/environment/article/2024/jul/08/... (2024)

Also https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2026/jan/14/offshore...

Also https://www.theguardian.com/business/2026/feb/10/uk-onshore-...
by gaigalas | 2026-03-09 12:01:31+00:00
Again, this word "deterministic". It means nothing.

When you see a sorting machine that jiggles lots of pieces so they align, that's because pieces don't align naturally. It's a fix for chaos, for things that naturally behave like "doing whatever".

Industrial machinery is full of this in all sorts of places. Even in precision engineering. Press-fits and interference-fits, etc. We deal with lack of precision all the time.

Engineers are _absolute chads_ on this kind of thing. We tame chaos like no other professional.
by incomingpain | 2026-03-09 12:02:55+00:00
Looking at the numbers, that cant lie. The only industry that has contracted: United States GDP Growth Contribution Government

GDP up from Agriculture

GDP up from Construction

GDP up from Manufacturing

GDP up from Mining

GDP down from Public Administration -0.9% single quarter.

GDP up from Services

GDP up from Transport

GDP up from Utilities

Also important to note, War costs a ton of money. War economy coming. The probability of another quarter of low spending is 0%

Now consider the scenario where major entities bought a ton short positions because they thought Trump's insanity would crash the economy. Now they are about to hurt badly. Hence the fake news.
by throw0101c | 2026-03-09 12:03:39+00:00
I think this Fortune story has a decent timeline of events and explains the perspective of both sides:

> At first, Underwood recalls, he was confused and hurt. “We were trying to figure out what the hell’s going on,” he tells me when I visit his offices in Camarillo, Calif., in December. “Because we were really vulnerable, both in the percentage of our business that he commanded—and I guess our belief that we were going to have a long-term relationship.” But he soon became convinced, Underwood tells me, that Tran’s intentions were bad, and had been for some time. “Basically, he really was out to destroy me,” he says. “He didn’t give a damn about me or our family or all that we’d done together.”

> Over at Huy Fong, feelings were similarly raw. Tran felt betrayed, and blindsided by accusations that he had been underhanded. For most of three decades, he had remained loyal to Underwood as his only pepper producer, and each year he had handed over millions on the promise of a harvest, a gesture that he saw as an act of faith. Now all that trust had collapsed in a petty argument over money.

> Tran has come to believe that Underwood was trying to drive him to bankruptcy, then steal his sauce business. “I helped him because he grew chili for me,” he says. “He made money, he owned land. But it is not enough. He wanted to take over my business.” It felt like being “stabbed in the back,” adds Donna Lam, Tran’s sister-in-law and executive operations officer.

* https://archive.is/https://fortune.com/2024/01/30/sriracha-s...
Show HN: VibeCheck – Know if your vibe code is safe to ship
by travistotz | 2026-03-09 12:03:39+00:00
I kept shipping AI-generated code I didn't really trust. Not because the AI was wrong necessarily, but because I had no real way to know if it was right.

So I built a tool to vibe check the vibe code. It scans your code and gives it a Vibe Score: Dead Vibe (0-40), Off Vibe (41-65), Good Vibe (66-85), or Immaculate Vibe (86-100). It checks for security issues, code quality, and test coverage across JS/TS, Python, PHP, Go, Ruby, Rust, Java, Swift, and C#. Plus gives real feedback to address!

Free to try. Paste your code and see where it lands.
by maxdo | 2026-03-09 12:04:16+00:00
I think it’s lagging indicator. There were signs of saturation in the end of 2025. From 2025 to March 2026 average developer ai spent gone from $20/mo to at least $200. In my company it’s $1000-1500/mo to anthropic only.

In many cases this 20x+ increase over 3 mo.

This is going in other industries too. Claude cowork is just an example and beginning of the trend.

Show me any product that / company that charge you 20x and customers are happy , well its anthropic
by turzmo | 2026-03-09 12:04:20+00:00
Like I said originally, I think the rise of ChatGPT is a partly a consequence of this. It’s not that people are choosing a different search engine, they’re not searching at all because LLMs will give a better answer faster.

Also, whether it’s ChatGPT or something else, five years is really not that long. Time will tell, but does it really seem like decreasing quality in the name of profits is such a good long-term strategy?
by alistairSH | 2026-03-09 12:04:23+00:00
That’s sounds reasonable for services-based consumer offerings. Which would include consumer SaaS services.

Where it gets a little
muddy for me is hardware with services attached (a new EV, etc)… you pay $60k for a car, it really shouldn’t be possible to force a new ToS on something they has physical ownership. And definitely not possible to brick or de-option the car due to refusal to accept new ToS.
by tkel | 2026-03-09 12:05:09+00:00
What gets enshrined into law is a function of what powerful people in the society want enshrined. And these companies, their executives, and their beneficiaries are infinitely more powerful than individual users. In many ways the legal system is a compromise that companies tacitly agree to in order for legal/police protection in exchange for not hiring mercenaries and rebelling, as they do in some countries. The legal system has to serve their interests, or else powerful people would revolt. When they do revolt either violently or nonviolently, the laws shift and a new compromise is achieved. Or they just choose not to follow the laws and the state doesn't call them on their bluff, or if they do, it is only an entry-point to negotiation. Thus the current state of laws are a continuum of compromises between power players.
by brady_bastian | 2026-03-09 12:05:34+00:00
Completely automating the difficult problem of json parsing and normalization in cloud data warehouses. https://forge.foxtrotcommunications.net/

Today engineers spend dozens of hours agonizing over how to unlock the vast analytical possibilities of JSON data in their warehouse. The internet is littered with half solutions and broken promises. Today, we have solved this problem.
by palata | 2026-03-09 12:05:41+00:00
> Programming languages are natural and ambiguous too, what does READ mean?

"READ" is part of the "documentation in natural language". The compiler ignores it entirely, it's not part of the programming language per se. It is pure documentation for the developers, and it is ambiguous.

But the part that the compiler actually reads is non-ambiguous. It cannot deal with ambiguity, fundamentally. It cannot infer from the context that you wrote a line of code that is actually ironic, and it should therefore execute the opposite.
by vintagedave | 2026-03-09 12:06:52+00:00
That's a really cool idea. When I was a kid my data added in immobiliser to our car (flashing LED etc) with a hidden switch. It would have potentially taken quite some time to find if you didn't know where it was.

Adding a puzzle is brilliant and I would love to read a blog about this. Post it here on HN ;)
by johandoc | 2026-03-09 12:07:07+00:00
he world is moving very fast, especially in the technology space. Every year, there are new things happening in the technology sector, and the people who adopt them first become the frontrunners. Something similar is happening across the AI, Generative AI, and Agentic AI sectors. In the boardroom today, the conversation has shifted from “Should we use AI?” to “Why isn’t it scaling?” While 90% of CEOs admit the strategic advantage of AI for business transformation, the blockage isn’t anything but the lack of data readiness for AI.
by otherme123 | 2026-03-09 12:07:19+00:00
Leading is not the same as replacing. See this figure https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Energy_in_Ireland#/media/File:...

In 2000, coal was about 20% of the energy mix, gas another 20%, oil about 50%. Wind was 0%. In 2024 coal was about 2%, gas still 20%, oil still 50%, but wind grew to about 15%. It seems that wind actually replaced coal. It is not only logical, but good, that wind first replaced coal (dirtiest), and maybe from now on is will start to replace oil. Only after many decades, or maybe never, gas will be replaced.
by Imustaskforhelp | 2026-03-09 12:08:03+00:00
> We don’t need a “safer” alternative for damaging their cognitive development.

By Safer, I meant like some educational content or shows which are genuinely good fwiw. So I grew up watching Adventure Time on Cartoon Network. So curating shows like those and channels say veritasium or some Vsauce videos.

My question was that, can there not be a human volunteer curated group effort to find some decent channels from Youtube which are nice/safe for kids.

Calling the whole of youtube channels as bad might be unwise as well and mix some of it with cartoons and just having an archive/tag designed for it so that either an app or even you yourself could look at the archive tags and see which channels the videos are from and cartoons and just a more collective human effort into making a small library of things that are safe for kids?

Because kids will watch Youtube someday and they will hear about it from their friends and feel left out. You then trust that something like YT kids might work only to realize that it doesn't. Even something like rss list of those channels with something like freetube could be good as well fwiw.

What do you even recommend that people watch? I used to watch cartoon network for many hours growing up watching shows like beyblade and pokemon and Adventure Time etc. but it seems that cartoon network itself is nowadays struggling compared to Youtube kids :/

there definitely should be more to why/how Youtube kids is so prevalent. one can say bad parenting but I have seen good parents slip up in this case. They think its harmless. There's defintiely more to it (imho)
by Frieren | 2026-03-09 12:08:23+00:00
> "In many pre-industrial societies, daily life followed the rhythm of sunrise and sunset, which naturally shaped circadian rhythms."

Having an office job that allows for flexible hours, I start my working day at different times during the year. Setting the alarm to the latest hour that I can start to work it never wakes me up, but it is there just in case.

Overall, I feel that I am less stressed, sleep better and have more energy that if I force myself a schedule to wake up. What I have is a schedule to go to sleep, the rest I leave to nature.

> Mary Smith, a much-loved knocker upper in East London

Great picture.
by ithkuil | 2026-03-09 12:08:51+00:00
The problem is that I do understand you! I do feel exactly as you do! My lizard brain would like to do all sorts of horrible retaliations to those people who performed such abhorrent acts. I get it, it's natural.

But I think that society should prevent this kind of basic instinctive response to become the way that we collectively handled those monstrosities, mainly because those punishments will be abused against innocent scapegoats.
by alpinisme | 2026-03-09 12:09:00+00:00
The original comment asserted that there are “probably” a finite list of reasonable things everyone could agree on. The examples were parenthetical and surely not meant to be the last word.

The point they were making (rightly or wrongly) seems to be that contract law just isn’t the right way of managing consumer-business relationships. I suspect that actually meshes with the intuitions of a broad swath of the population, who want a reliable, predictable, consistent, and consumer-beneficial set of norms and laws around all consumption so that it is easy to manage and understand when you are departing from the norm and to be able to confidently conduct a public life knowing that your purchases are not subjecting you to any surprising gotchas other than having lost the money and having acquired a product.

You could take this line of thought charitably in another direction to assert that “unusual” agreements are presumed unenforceable but not that there are no legal mechanisms for adding additional clauses.
by fragmede | 2026-03-09 12:09:42+00:00
The thing to look at is Sora. I have, at my fingertips, the power to generate all this short form content. I could make any Instagram Reel I can think up! Except that's not for me. I'd rather sit here with Claude code making shit. That's never going away. Even if there's no money in it, it's how I'm wired.
by jacquesm | 2026-03-09 12:09:46+00:00
And courts keep wondering why commoners lose respect for the law. I know a judge and had a couple of really interesting conversations with him. We agreed on lots of things but there was one item that stood out for me that made a massive difference in interpretation: to him the map was the territory, he saw the law as the thing that made the world, not the other way around. I always found that to be extremely interesting in that it explains why some of those decisions come across so completely tone deaf. On paper it may all look like it makes sense but in the real world it leads to bonkers effects.
by wccrawford | 2026-03-09 12:10:34+00:00
As someone who lived alone for years, my recommendation is to make friends. Not people on a forum. People you enjoy messaging directly. Or calling. Or texting. Or even seeing face to face.

It's not going to happen immediately. But if you aren't looking for the opportunities, they will pass you by.

I've met them playing games, doing community events, joining clubs, etc. Meetup.com is a great place to find groups you might like.

Other than that, you'll eventually toughen up and get used to it. You'll find the advantages and learn to enjoy them.
by behehebd | 2026-03-09 12:10:48+00:00
No it is absolutely fine. I pay my lawyer 100k/y to read through all my TCs for my 2k/y subscription spend. Makes sense.

This all just needs statutory laws and eliminate TCs for basic services. It is a scam.

Rental contract sure. Employment contract yeah.

I bet a single set of statutory rights for consumer and provider could cover most things.

B2B is different.
by michaelsbradley | 2026-03-09 12:11:32+00:00
Opportunity to cultivate one’s interior life:

https://www.ecatholic2000.com/lagrange/interior1/interior.sh...

https://www.ecatholic2000.com/lagrange/interior2/interior2.s...

There may be a 24/7, or frequently open, adoration chapel nearby to you. Maybe you could make a daily trip to spend a little time (a “holy hour”) with Christ present with us on earth in the Blessed Sacrament?
by travistotz | 2026-03-09 12:11:42+00:00
Happy to answer questions about how it works. Built this in Next.js with a custom scoring engine that checks against OWASP top 10, common AI code patterns, and test coverage gaps. The "vibe coding" crowd tends to skip security entirely so that's where most of the Dead Vibe scores come from. Try pasting some AI-generated code and see what it flags.