MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by n8cpdx | 2026-03-01 09:13:28+00:00
I tried switching to graphene after frustration with the latest direction of iOS.

Yes I could use Firefox and ublock to get around YouTube ads, but it actually worked worse than using Orion browser on iOS to do the equivalent. The Pixel 10 Pro couldn’t manage 2x without audio stuttering even at 360p. My iPhone can do it with 4K YouTube video, not that I need that.

iOS natively supports self-hosted contacts and calendars. No hoops. Android needs a separate app that may or may not work (my experience: it doesn’t work and doesn’t give useful feedback when it doesn’t work).

The app quality is so much worse on Android I had to go back. No forward gesture in apps and browsers - insane omission. There are literally only two calendar apps on Android that allow touch-based event editing - Business Calendar 2 Pro (paid subscription) and the Samsung exclusive calendar.

How does a modern smartphone not ship with a decent calendar?? Or touch friendly web navigation?

The rendering engine of the browser is far down the list of priorities compared to supporting basic daily workflows.
by mstaoru | 2026-03-01 09:13:29+00:00
Right, it was more of a rhetorical question :) With my point being - how are these local models really useful to me now? Is the Only Way ™ to sell my house and build a 8x5090 monster?.. How does that compare to $20/month Opus? (Privacy aside.)

The second order thought from this is... will we get a value-based price leveling soon? If the alternative to a hosted LLM is to build $10-20k+ machine with $500+ monthly energy bills, will hosted price asymptotically climb up to reflect this reality?

Something to think about.
by Gareth321 | 2026-03-01 09:14:54+00:00
I had my Gmail for almost 20 years and made the transition. It's annoying and time consuming but I think well worth it. I bought a domain and host it on iCloud. It's like $3/month for 6 email addresses (you can use it with the family). That includes a little cloud data and other services like hidden email addresses. DNS is handled by Cloudflare for free. Then start moving each service/login to the new email address. Every time you log into something, change the email address. I took the opportunity to update passwords and passkeys too, using Vaultwarden. I was lazy and had used similar passwords for a lot of services. Passwords are all long and unique now.

Now, even if Apple bans me, I can move my host within minutes. I never lose access to my email domain. It's much more professional and I can do catch-all. E.g. netflix@[domain.com]. This way I can see who sells my email address to spammers and block it.
by alexlitz | 2026-03-01 09:16:22+00:00
> It baffles me that somebody capable of this kind of work would find this surprising.

I should be clear I was not surprised that:
1) It struggled particularly hard with this sort of novel task
2) It tried to "correct" funky things that I was doing
3) It did not fix all my bugs
I was surprised that it IIRC did not find even one of the bugs which were relatively simple, and the persistence of how much it got stuck with #2.
by alexdbird | 2026-03-01 09:16:27+00:00
It's called the Action icon, a generalisation of its original Share meaning. It's used throughout the Apple ecosystem so knowing that's where actions live is not a big expectation.

You've mangled the steps. You only press one Action icon in this sequence, then you select Print, then you need to select the printer and any other options, then you tap Print. Which of these steps do you think 'abstruse'?

Are you suggesting they should use a little icon of a printer, peripheral that takes many wildly different forms, instead of the word Print?
by gambiting | 2026-03-01 09:16:37+00:00
Because the critic develops their own opinion on what they read from IMDB and even if they only ever learnt from IMDB and nothing else it's their own take on it. LLMs don't have their own take on anything - it's a statistical amalgamation of everything they read but they don't have their own personal identity or opininion. Likewise, providing a paid service website that only has one data source means you are just selling that data back without permission.
by ruszki | 2026-03-01 09:16:54+00:00
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_Department_of_De...

Stoping and questioning why somebody uses DoD or DoW is way more telling than using any of those. Especially that both are perfectly fine, even officially.

A square was renamed in my home city about 20 years ago. We still use the original one usually, even teens know that name. I use a form of the original name of our main stadium which was renamed almost 30 years ago. Heck, some people use names of streets which are not official for almost 40 years now. Btw, the same with departments of the government. Nobody follows how they called at the moment, because nobody really cares. That’s the strange when somebody cares.
by userbinator | 2026-03-01 09:17:23+00:00
Not sure we need another term for this, as "utilities" has been the accepted term for various one-off programs that do miscellaneous things, and of which power-users will tend to have a rather large collection of.

However, the term reminded me of a memorable interaction I had many decades ago with an old woman who wanted to write a program in x86 Asm to manage various aspects of the plants in her garden. (She did succeed at doing so.)
Show HN: A Pi Harness for Color Correcting Multi-Clip Footage
by perbhat | 2026-03-01 09:19:20+00:00
Hey guys, created a color grading harness for the pi coding agent to color correct S-Log3 footage. This gives claude access to both images (watching the frame) and also to meters like rgb gamma, color balance, curves, exposure contrast.

Tried it on some footage from my a7iv and worked pretty well. Still early stages but would love thoughts and suggestions.

Sample Corrections:

sample 1: https://imgur.com/a/un0OkQc

sample 2: https://imgur.com/a/zEfVsWt

cheers
by sheept | 2026-03-01 09:21:22+00:00
This method of copying an LLM-generated summary of your preferences into Claude memory feels similar to their recommendation to use /init to generate a CLAUDE.md based on the project, which recent research[0] suggests may be counterproductive.

I would assume both Claude memory and CLAUDE.md work best when they're carefully curated, only containing what you've found yourself having to repeat.

[0]: https://arxiv.org/abs/2602.11988
by WesBrownSQL | 2026-03-01 09:21:25+00:00
I've been running https://github.com/rtk-ai/rtk for a week seems to be a good balance between culling out of context and not just killing everything. I've been running https://github.com/Opencode-DCP/opencode-dynamic-context-pru... in opencode as well. It seems more aggressive.
by kryptiskt | 2026-03-01 09:21:58+00:00
> So it looked like the Mac but was infinitely worse.

"Infinitely worse"? Some people really need to cool off the hyperbole.

Having each window be a self-contained unit is the far better metaphor than making each window transform a global element when it is selected. As well as scaling better for bigger screens. An edge case like that may well be unfortunate, but it could be the price you pay to make the overall better solution.
by indubioprorubik | 2026-03-01 09:22:26+00:00
Islamic societies seem to be unable to form stable institutions. The recipe seems to be unable to synthesize this, no matter how many ressources are available and how benign the conditions. As a result the biggest formable state-institution remains the family clan and the family clan just does not cut it in preventing civil war. At best you get a clan-coalition masquerading as a military government with some democratic pets - at worst you get libya.But i guess after 52 countries, the results are in and the fact that other - non western powers are colonizing islamic countries now (china, russia) and everyone is scrambling for nukes post trump - the displayed weaknesses could end the region.
by MagerValp | 2026-03-01 09:22:51+00:00
You’ll be disappointed to learn that the deferral is 90 days from the release of the major OS version, not 90 days from when the configuration is set. There appears to be a bug in the delay logic in 15.7.3, but you really shouldn’t be running that — there are some important security fixes in 15.7.4.
by varunsharma07 | 2026-03-01 09:22:56+00:00
We analyzed an autonomous bot (hackerbot-claw) that's actively scanning GitHub repos for exploitable Actions workflows. It hit Microsoft, DataDog, a CNCF project, and awesome-go (140k stars) achieving RCE in 4 out of 5 targets and exfiltrating a GITHUB_TOKEN. Full breakdown of the 5 attack techniques with evidence.
by clouedoc | 2026-03-01 09:23:53+00:00
On here: https://cc-context-mode.mksg.lu/#/3/0/3

> Bun auto-detected for 3–5x faster JS/TS execution

This is quite a claim, and even so, doesn't matter since the bottleneck is the LLM and not the JS interpreter. It's a nit, but little things like this just make the project look bad overall. It feels like nobody took the time to read the copy before publishing it.

More importantly, the claimed 98% context savings are noise without benchmarks of harness performance with and without "context mode".

I'm glad someone is working on this, but I just feel like this is not a serious solution to the problem.
by bruceyao1984 | 2026-03-01 09:24:11+00:00
could solve bot flooding by raising the cost of automation, not by removing anonymity. Techniques like behavioral detection, rate limiting, proof‑of‑work, reputation systems, and AI‑based anomaly detection can filter bots without requiring real‑world identity. The goal isn’t to know who you are — it’s to know whether you’re human.
by sschueller | 2026-03-01 09:24:44+00:00
What are you talking about? Russia has effectively been blocked from the west while when the United States invaded Iraq nothing happened. Europe trades with the US like nothing ever happened while Russia will never return to what it was before without at minimum Putin being gone.

Europe even still trades with Israel when what they have done is Gaza has been declared a genocide by everyone. At the same time Russia can't even take part in the Olympics or the Eurovision song contest.

The west has no moral ground to stand on and hopefully people in the west will start to see that.
by gehsty | 2026-03-01 09:24:54+00:00
Amazing story congrats on being a great coach - this kids will remember you and that experience.

My experience on tech as a parent (3 kids under 10), I find their time on iPads etc playing games, music and audio books to be good for them (they don’t get grumpy after it, and particularly playing Roblox with their friends online is great fun - real halo 3 vibes for me), watching shows they get quite difficult after if the have watched for extended periods (smaller the screen the worse it is), but if they get access to anything with a constant scroll / stream of things they go haywire. My son found YouTube on his nanas iPad and mainlined it for half an hour and then went crazy. My daughter lost it over browsing Amazon.

We are withholding social networks & scrolling video as long as humanly possible, but difficult when you don’t want them to miss out on anything, and there’s an element of controlled exposure…

Again great story, makes me want to sign up as a coach. Sorry for the tangent!
by ptnpzwqd | 2026-03-01 09:25:11+00:00
I have used Claude (incl. Opus 4.6) fairly extensively, and Claude still spits out quality that is far below what I would call production ready - both littered with smaller issues, but also the occasional larger blunder. Particularly when doing anything non-trivial, and even when guiding it in detail (although that admittedly reduces the amount of larger structural issues).

Maybe it is tech stack dependent (I have mostly used it with C#/.NET), but I have heard people say the same for C#. The only conclusion I have been able to draw from this, is that people have very different definitions of production ready, but I would really like to see some concrete evidence where Claude one-shots a larger/complex C# feature or the like (with or without detailed guidance).
by AlecSchueler | 2026-03-01 09:25:28+00:00
> Its the only model that gets production ready output on the first detailled prompt. Yesterday I used my tokens til noon, so I tried some output from Gemini & Co. I presented a working piece of code which is already in production:

One does often hear that where LLMs shine is with greenfield code generation but they all start to struggle working with pre-existing code. It could be that this wasn't a like for like comparison.

That said I do personally feel Claude to produce far better results than competitors.
by Manheim | 2026-03-01 09:26:00+00:00
This incident shifts LLMs from being only productivity tools to strategic munitions – ready or not. It shouldn't surprise us, but the technical capabilities have reached a point where the 'made in the US' is an active risk for non-US entities given the conflict we see now. Maybe this will trigger the start of an AI arms race where Europe (and others) must secure their own sovereign infrastructure and models. As a European citizen I prefer a balanced world with options rather than a West dominated by US hegemony. Interestingly, if you look at what Anthropic keep insisting on in regards of regulations and ethical use of its models EU should be where Anthropic finds its safe haven. Maybe they should just move their HQ to Brussels, or Barcelona if they prefer a more ‘sunny California’ like vibe.
by Nevermark | 2026-03-01 09:26:19+00:00
> But let’s do it through voting.

You don't get a successful vote without a tremendous amount of coordination and activism preceding it.

Laws that constrain government from bad things are very difficult things to get the government to pass.

In the meantime, using completely legal civil power to push back on legally allowed harms seems beyond sensible.

But if you just vote and it works without all that, please let us know how you did it!
by palmotea | 2026-03-01 09:26:51+00:00
> Even if this does violate some treaty somewhere, we need not wring hands over the death of an objective dictator.

We absolutely should. It's a key principle of international law that brutal regimes should not be disturbed, until an opportunity for a regime change brokered by international lawyers presents itself in a century or two. Moral legitimacy comes from international law, and international law only.
Ask HN: Can "mental disorders" be induced in LLMs via weight changes alone?
by Gooblebrai | 2026-03-01 09:29:26+00:00
I'm not an expert in Computer Science or transformer architecture so I’m wondering whether mental disorders like depression, OCD, anxiety (and maybe other new disorders only applicable to LLMs) can be induced in LLMs by modifying weights. not through prompts or context.

Are there any papers showing personality pathologies in LLMs?
by geokon | 2026-03-01 09:31:36+00:00
> What’s the deal with “hallucinations”? The model generates tokens by sampling from a probability distribution. It has no concept of truth, it only knows what sequences are statistically plausible given the training data.

Extremely naiive question.. but could LLM output be tagged with some kind of confidence score? Like if I'm asking an LLM some question does it have an internal metric for how confident it is in its output? LLM outputs seem inherently rarely of the form "I'm not really sure, but maybe this XXX" - but I always felt this is baked in the model somehow
by gabrieln | 2026-03-01 09:33:56+00:00
OpenAI: 'We won't let you generate a woman in a bikini because it’s unsafe.'

Me: 'It’s a beach scene.'

It’s getting ridiculous. If you want to actually see what the models are capable of without the 'Safety Committee' breathing down your neck, check out Unbound.video. It’s basically 'AI without the HR department.' It’s the only place I’ve found that actually delivers on the 'Create Anything' promise without the 'Policy Violation' popups every 5 seconds.
by dns_snek | 2026-03-01 09:35:04+00:00
> The best I think is to refer to the historical italian fascist government, to understand it.

Sure, why don't we:

- leader with a cult of personality

- an idealized story of the prosperous past (make america great again)

- pinning blame for the nation's downfall on marginalized minorities and persecuting them (immigrants, socialists)

- aggressively anti-socialist/leftist, protection of capital and suppression of labor rights

- glorification of violence (ICE, hate crimes, "department of war")

- ramping up existing and starting new imperialistic conflicts (Venezuela, Cuba, now Iran)

- rolling back personal liberties (freedom of speech, right to due process, women's rights)

- suppression of the free press given unfavorable reporting (revocation of TV licenses, revocation of access to white house)

- clear desire with ongoing attempts to dismantle democracy (capitol attack, violating separation of powers by illegally withholding funding for programs and violating court orders)

- demands complete subservience rather than competence in all appointed roles

- all of this with full support of the elites (clear shift in the 2nd term)

If you want to argue that the US isn't fascist because Trump hasn't completely dismantled the judicial branch yet, be my guest.

But fascism isn't just a concrete political system where a dictator has absolute power, it's an ideology, and Trump and the Republican party are clearly fascist in that sense - that is their goal. It's just a question of whether they'll succeed in dismantling the judicial branch before his term is over.

The only people who benefit from this sort of language policing are the fascists themselves.

P.S. I probably shouldn't be saying this but the fact that you refer to people sounding the alarm as "the far left" really gives the game away.
by all_factz | 2026-03-01 09:35:10+00:00
“Which side”? What other side is there in Iran? You think there’s some shadow government that can realistically topple the mullahs from within? The only way the Shah comes back is with US boots on the ground, which would be a disaster for other reasons. Until that happens this is just reckless action that makes the regime even more radical than it already is.
Show HN: Tired of seeing ugly maps – Translate Simple JSON into maps
by milind-soni | 2026-03-01 09:36:12+00:00
I am tired of seeing maps that look bad or fighting with the map documentation just to put some simple data on maplibre, I have been working with deckgl for a long time and thought that we dont need the unnecessary boilerplate around the maps to define the most common interactions and widgets, you can infact write it as a simple JSON and render it. Using this in my projects personally, looking for feedback
by tokioyoyo | 2026-03-01 09:37:13+00:00
> but the majority is rather miserably lonely when you look past the facade

People make their own choices, and it’s not up to me, nor you, to make assumptions on their lives. If children give you fulfilment, god speed to you. If others can find happiness without children, god speed to them.

By the way, I’m speaking as a person who wants children. But I totally get my child-free friends. I know people in their 60s as well, who debated this question and found a life for themselves. There is always a “what if question” hanging around, but all in all, they’ve weighed their options and are generally happy.

I think a lot of people who ended up having children to find fulfilment did not find happiness in other means. So they can’t experience the “other side’s argument”. Same applies to child-free people, as they haven’t experienced the other side.
by DavidSJ | 2026-03-01 09:37:23+00:00
Yes, the actual LLM returns a probability distribution, which gets sampled to produce output tokens.

[Edit: but to be clear, for a pretrained model this probability means "what's my estimate of the conditional probability of this token occurring in the pretraining dataset?", not "how likely is this statement to be true?" And for a post-trained model, the probability really has no simple interpretation other than "this is the probability that I will output this token in this situation".]
by podnami | 2026-03-01 09:38:36+00:00
I would assume this is from case to case, such as:

- How aligned has it been to “know” that something is true (eg ethical constraints)

- Statistical significance and just being able to corroborate one alternative in Its training data more strongly than another

- If it’s a web search related query, is the statement from original sources vs synthesised from say third party sources

But I’m just a layman and could be totally off here.
by anovikov | 2026-03-01 09:39:23+00:00
Well, in any case, it is a guarantee that Iran will be less of a danger for other nations if the regime falls, and that people inside of the country will suffer - because either pro-Western or any other government is bound to be a lot weaker, and there will be a lot more violence and economic disruption, eventually economic degradation. It should avenge the emigrants, and provide sufficient punishment for those in Iran for enabling this regime in the first place.

Let's not have illusions about it. There is no way to build a sustainable democracy in a country that never had such leanings and is not culturally/religiously predisposed to it, and can't be physically coerced into it with boots on the ground. Achievable goals are punishment, and neutering.
by SanjayMehta | 2026-03-01 09:39:48+00:00
It depends on how well the regime brainwashed its people over the last 50 years. The majority of Iranians haven't any experience of anything else - I think around 55% are under 40 years old.

There's a US born professor Marandi who said in an interview a few weeks ago that the regime had put in place succession plans, including for himself.

I'm hopeful but skeptical that they will change for the better.
by alexhans | 2026-03-01 09:40:36+00:00
I respectfully disagree. I think there needs to be a common term for the aspects around LLM testing and saying "It's just integration/system tests" doesn't really reach audiences well. They don't disambiguate the differences.

Words win when they're used. Just because Agent Skills is just a pattern for standarization and saving context doesn't mean it wasn't incredibly useful.

Think beyond software developers by trade. Think beyond people those who realized they needed tests instead of those who thought "the models will just get smarter" and "they told me there's guardrails".
by Atomic_Torrfisk | 2026-03-01 09:40:58+00:00
> Purchasing power grows everywhere in the world

Sure consumer goods are cheaper, but I don't need more "stuff". The essentials I need for my family: food, energy, housing, and most importantly time are much less accessible. Sure, we could buy bulk, move to a LCOL area and work remote, but not everyone can do that.

This is the trend that a lot of people in my generation complain about.
by overfeed | 2026-03-01 09:41:18+00:00
> It's less a revolution and more a matter of catching the tide of shifting world powers — and seizing a rare shot at building something other than the last failed experiment

The Arab spring wasn't that long ago, was it? We all saw how that turned out, but I suppose hope springs eternal.

> You bet Iranians are euphoric right now

I'm guessing the 50+ dead elementary school kids may put a damper on celebrations a bit.
by Lionga | 2026-03-01 09:41:21+00:00
The LLM has an internal "confidence score" but that has NOTHING to do with how correct the answer is, only with how often the same words came together in training data.

E.g. getting two r's in strawberry could very well have a very high "confidence score" while a random but rare correct fact might have a very well a very low one.

In short: LLM have no concept, or even desire to produce of truth