MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by walmsles | 2026-03-14 07:16:07+00:00
The portal is the B2B component for agent monetisation platform I am building. We are also building free and open source agent discovery - boring federated infra servicekind of like DNS - to ensure Agent discovery is free from lock-in and available for everyone - this is the no Vendor Lock-in component. AWS was a choice and its for a hackathon run by AWS so - needed to.

No Vendor Lock-in is the discovery piece Tethyr.cloud is built on. Thats the killer bit that matters - so we all collectively own agent discovery.
by righthand | 2026-03-14 07:16:51+00:00
You're witnessing the rise of the Developer Technician or Software Technician. They can get a machine to print out an application but you will still need an engineer to know how it works or to get it working. This used to be juniors learning to be senior devs/engineers. Now it is a split between technicians and engineers. The market will be up shit creek when all their technicians can't vibe code their way out of not understanding the code.
by rich_sasha | 2026-03-14 07:17:29+00:00
The discussion shows just how many different communication styles there are. So many comments about "XYZ is the right way", "ABC is always wrong" or "I did UV to someone who says they like UV and they took offence".

It shows me:

- there are many communication styles and people tend to think their preferred one is obviously right

- people are often unclear on what they actually value in communication (and might like the opposite of what they say they value)

- people seem also to, at times, confuse other people's different communication style for rudeness, indecisiveness or small-mindedness.

So I guess the reasonable policy is to adopt a hybrid approach. Be tolerant of other people's comms style, try to be concise with enough politeness added in that you don't offend people, even if they say they want you to be ruthlessly direct. When you need to, try to steer the conversation towards your preferred style. Maybe "ok, I understand the background, let's try to distill the facts now", or equally "I feel I need more context before we continue, let's slow down and...".

For example, I have worked in a number of medium sized (50-200) companies that were so proud of being flat structured meritocracies, where anyone can say anything directly to their superiors. Every single time it turned out to be BS, higher ups wanted deference and following chains of command. But that sounds less catchy.
by ywatanabe1989 | 2026-03-14 07:17:32+00:00
In my view, Emacs is getting more powerful in the AI era. The cost of writing Elisp has dropped significantly — I've ended up with 15+ personal Elisp packages as a result. The freedom Emacs offers is still unmatched. For example, I heavily rely on sending automatic response (https://github.com/ywatanabe1989/emacs-claude-code), monitoring repository, and targeted context building from dired.
by ahhhhnoooo | 2026-03-14 07:18:30+00:00
I can leave my phone on the charger or propped up with a recipe on the counter while I cook and still get signal. Wired headphones cannot let me walk between rooms without picking up my phone.

Wireless headphones take up much less space. I can put them in my pocket trivially.

Wireless headphones can tell me where they are and if I've left them behind.

Wireless headphones don't have a piece of plastic that dangles on my neck, shoulders, and face. As someone with sensory issues, this is genuinely important.

I've never had to spend five minutes untangling the cords for my wireless headphones.

I've never accidentally snagged the cable on my wireless headphones, causing them to snap off.

I can put my phone in a waterproof case in my backpack and protect it while walking. I don't have to do cable management to route the wire.

It's fine to prefer the wired headphones. I fully endorse that for you. Maybe drop the hyperbole about how wired headphones are strictly better?
by jeff_antseed | 2026-03-14 07:18:37+00:00
the coherence question is the one that matters here. 1M tokens is not the same as actually using 1M tokens well.

we've been testing long-context in prod across a few models and the degradation isn't linear — there's something like a cliff somewhere around 600-700k where instruction following starts getting flaky and the model starts ignoring things it clearly "saw" earlier. its not about retrieval exactly, more like... it stops weighting distant context appropriately.

gemini's problems with loops and tool forgetting that someone mentioned are real. we see that too. whether claude actually handles the tail end of 1M coherently is the real question here, and "standard pricing with no long-context premium" doesn't answer it.

honestly the fact that they're shipping at standard pricing is more interesting to me than the window size itself. that suggests they've got the KV cache economics figured out, which is harder than it sounds.
by whilenot-dev | 2026-03-14 07:18:51+00:00
Bought a used MacBook Air M2 past summer to run Asahi linux exclusively on it, the installation went hassle-free. One charge lasts 9+ hours easily, sometimes up to 12 hours. Thunderbolt, DP Alt Mode and TouchID would be nice to haves, but I'm super happy how everything runs. Thank you everyone on the Asahi team!

I think the support for linux/arm64 is already very good in general, can't answer on pytorch though. The only app I'm really missing is Signal Desktop. The virtualization to run games is a noticeable performance hit and shows occasional glitches in the Steam overlay, but all my games run smoothly.
by gbro3n | 2026-03-14 07:19:14+00:00
I'm a muggle when it comes to vim, but I've considered learning it again recently because of AI. I'm building more than I have in years because I love being able to try things out without investing 3 months to get something working before I can really test the idea. And so I am typing A LOT. Less code, but lots of markdown, prompts and config. My hands are hurting, I really wish I had a power tool for typing. Writing is always going to allow us to be more precise than speech, and is a tool for creative thought in its self. I can see how we might be bearish on our expectations around new adoptees, but I think there's pressure to get more out of our editors too. Two of my recent projects have been vscode extensions, because I'm needing more help from my editor, not less: https://www.appsoftware.com/blog/fixing-agent-llm-context-de..., https://www.appsoftware.com/blog/as-notes-turn-vs-code-into-...
by shevy-java | 2026-03-14 07:19:51+00:00
I do understand the rationale; and I have known kids who
were addicted to gaming. So I don't disagree that this
kind of addiction-mechanism in games, is somewhat similar
to e. g. casino gambling where some people get hooked up
and may be unable to exit that addiction, leading to
massive loss. People are different - some are very easy
to addict. Others have strategies against that. My simple
strategy was to never start gambling - and never pay for
playing a game (aside from the initial purchase, but the
last game I bought was in the 1990s; back then games were
IMO better too, ignoring the graphics).

Having said that, though, when I also combine this news
with the attempt to force operating systems into sniffing
for my age at all times, I am still totally against this.
This kind of over-eager bureaucracy is not good. It reminds
me of attempts to prohibit alcohol. Yes, it is not the same,
a loot box does not cause physical symptoms really, compared
to alcohol or, say, harder drugs - but states seem too eager
to want to restrict people. Or monitor them, such as in the
case of "age verification". So now this legislation is another
basis to support mandatory age sniffing of everyone. So I am
completely against it now.
by aenis | 2026-03-14 07:20:10+00:00
I find it hard to understand that people consider $200 p/m a lot for what they are getting. Expensive compared to what? A netflix sub?

A 1hr of a senior dev is at least $100, depending where one lives. Since Claude saves me hours every day, it pays for itself almost instantly. I think the economic value of the Claude subscription is on the order of $20-40k a month for a pro.
by userbinator | 2026-03-14 07:20:40+00:00
In any programming language it's an interesting challenge to fit an entire functional program into under 140 characters.

APL: challenge accepted

https://aplwiki.com/wiki/Conway's_Game_of_Life

A quick search has not found any implementations of an APL-family language on the 2600, so let this comment be an inspiration for one of you madlads out there to actually do it. The 2600 has only 128B of RAM, but a lot of consoles around this era had additional bankswitched RAM on the cartridges.
by DanielBryars | 2026-03-14 07:21:10+00:00
Having age ratings is useful so I dont have to play a game to know its age suitability. Its common for very young children to play games, and age ratings help parents
make informed responsible decisions. There are some dark addictive patterns being used in gaming such as changing the odds of reward to optimise engagement (and make money) - these patterns need an age rating. Additionally, I think age ratings encourage developers to avoid content which would increase the age rating, since they then target a wider audience.
by Agentlien | 2026-03-14 07:21:40+00:00
How does an age recommendation take away liberties?

I have kids and as a parent I use these ratings as a very loose guide combined with my own experience and understanding of the game in question. Other parents ignore them completely.

I agree more could be done to directly affect the companies, and there have been a lot of legal cases surrounding loot boxes aimed at children.

But this is a good complement to that. It makes it easier for parents to get aware of the issue.
by jstummbillig | 2026-03-14 07:21:56+00:00
> Ethically, if you do not agree with the company you work at, the optimal course of action if you can stomach it is to stay and do a bad job rather than get replaced by someone who might do a good job.

What...? In what way is it anything other than highly unethical to sabotage someone you have a contract with, because you disagree with them?
by tombert | 2026-03-14 07:22:26+00:00
I will be honest and admit that I don’t find most Atari 2600 games to actually be fun; there’s a few gems like Warlords and and Pitfall and Pitfall 2, but I don’t think that home console games started getting really good until the Colecovision.

That said, I am perpetually amazed at what some people have been able to pull off on such a weak device. 120 bytes is nothing for memory compared to anything I have written on a modern computer; I worked very hard to optimize the shit out of my custom Swaybar, and that still took about 500kb.

The fact that games on the 2600 could even be playable is sort of an achievement in its own right, and when you see games that are actually legitimately decent (like the cassette tape version of Frogger, for example), I feel a bit of envy that I will never be that good at software.

BASIC Programming on the 2600 is similarly impressive to me. It’s not “fun” in any kind of objective sense, you can’t really do a lot with it, but the fact that there exists a programming environment in any capacity running directly on there is an impressive bit of engineering.
by thangalin | 2026-03-14 07:22:38+00:00
Syntax highlighting rules, initially vibe-coded 40 languages and formats in about 10 minutes. What surprised me is when it switched the design from a class to the far more elegant single line of code:

return \file_exists( $file ) ? require $file : [];

* https://repo.autonoma.ca/repo/treetrek/blob/HEAD/render/High...

The rules files:

* https://repo.autonoma.ca/repo/treetrek/tree/HEAD/render/rule...
by ilikehurdles | 2026-03-14 07:22:57+00:00
Reddit is flooded with AI slop. r/all currently has AI-generated text posts and articles on the first page. Upvoted because they're the typical orange man bad stuff, but LLM slop nonetheless. Assuming the engagement is organic, it's depressing how much of the site has no eye for this stuff.

There are decent small communities I'm a part of but the trash feels like it is encroaching.

And the notifications you describe are exactly reddit's notifications? "your comment received 10/20/50/100 upvotes!" "x responds to y about z" "News is trending"
by nelsonic | 2026-03-14 07:24:23+00:00
I daily-drive a base level MacBook Air M1 with 8GB RAM for writing docs and some light coding in VIM/VSCode. Never had any issues.

When I need more I offload tasks to a remote VM (usually AWS/GCP).
I can easily afford a top spec Mac but chose this because I want to have a “entry level” device that I don’t mind my kids breaking or getting stolen at public co-working space.

Plenty of people will get MacBook Neo and never hit its limitations.
Most students/educators and many professionals just use the web all day and never need much RAM.

Having said all that, Apple could easily have made it 16GB cleaned up the market place and nobody would be talking about Neo being under spec’d. But Tim Cook has to be a Tim Cook and squeeze every last penny of profit. ;-)
by shevy-java | 2026-03-14 07:25:12+00:00
> How does an age recommendation take away liberties?

For instance, by being used in further legislation to mandate age verification on all operating systems. Lo and behold, that is already happening - see California.

One can not view a single law and assume it is isolated, when in reality this is a move by lobbyists to further restrict people and sniff after them (see MidnightBSD giving in and adding a daemon that sniffs for user data; I am 100% certain systemd on Linux will follow suit, via a new systemd-sniffy daemon). Some companies pay good money for such legislation. So the answer to your question is very simple, actually. You just should not view it as an isolated way while ignoring everything else - lobbyists are sneaky. It reminds me of Google claiming it has no problem with ad-blockers, then they went on to destroy ublock origin (https://ublockorigin.com/).
by Razengan | 2026-03-14 07:27:40+00:00
> How does an age recommendation take away liberties?

They've already enacted mandatory age-verification-via-ID to use apps/features.

It seems they're gonna put as many "gates/fences" at every N age years to make sure they can surveil as many people in distinct age brackets as possible.

Up next: Be of at least N years to watch cartoons with animated violence?
by riffraff | 2026-03-14 07:28:11+00:00
Because you have to draw a line somewhere, if you want a line.

This same reasoning applies to sex consent, voting, driving, working.

We want to say "only qualified people can do x" but it's impossible to encode this in regulations and it always boils down to the sorites paradox.

So as a culture we have defaulted to "age is a good a proxy for being qualified".
by shevy-java | 2026-03-14 07:28:33+00:00
> The learning curve argument gets harder to justify too. “Spend six months learning Emacs and you’ll be 10x faster” is a tough sell when a junior developer with Cursor can scaffold an entire application in an afternoon.

IF this is the case. But is it?

I have some doubts because to me it seems as if domain knowledge is shifted onto an AI. Then you become dependent on the AI. Is AI really better than a skilled human though? After all, if AI is doing the work and the human providing the input to it as guide, it should be possible to cut away the human completely. So Skynet 3.0 does not need humans. But when it does, then something doesn't work in that explanation - AI must thus not be "smart enough".
by JasonADrury | 2026-03-14 07:29:27+00:00
It's certainly not the usual "investigative report" style I'd expect with Christo on the byline.

Perhaps it's an attempt at making the report less dry? I don't think it worked.

The unnecessary dramatization just feels a bit off:

>in the deadpan vocabulary of Russian intelligence, “legally deported.”

>But now the agents had failed to deliver, and one had been arrested. It was time for Alimov to take matters into his own hands.

>he had chosen the date revered by Russian spies and soldiers — Defender of the Fatherland Day — for his maiden undercover trip abroad

>the “main adversary,” as Russian intelligence jargon refers to the United States
by ifh-hn | 2026-03-14 07:30:04+00:00
I'm severely dyslexic and the columns are a massive hindrance for me, and I also cannot skim read due to this and meares irlen. So my dislike is not universal applicable, just personal experience.

On the zotero front there a bunch of AI plugins. But I've not used them. But yes the premise is that your can speak and ask your library questions. Some are set up differently though. Personally I can fire a paper into an llm and get a good idea of the content immediately and then ask questions about it. It's more interactive and allows me to get a better idea of it prior to reading it.
by minimaxir | 2026-03-14 07:33:20+00:00
My account was created 14 years ago. You need to calm down.

There is a reason discussions about agent use have been on Hacker News every other day, and it's not a grand conspiracy. Even in this submission, people have talked about how they have used Claude Code and its longer context window successfully as a tool for programming, even if they may be technically skilled to do it themselves. However, if you assume that every commenter is acting in bad faith, then there's no point in continuing.
by anabab | 2026-03-14 07:33:32+00:00
the 2009 collision was well documented and there are interesting reports online

e.g. https://ntrs.nasa.gov/api/citations/20100002023/downloads/20...

which has a chart of apogee/perigee of debris. There seem to be examples of debris with _perigee_ above the collision altitude but the vast majority stayed beyond.
by riffraff | 2026-03-14 07:33:47+00:00
> The proliferation of gambling over so many domains has radicalized me against it in a way that I didn't think would've been possible a few years ago.

I grew up in Italy when sport betting was illegal and you had to do it through illegal channels, and I did it now and then like everyone else, and thought we should totally make it legal.

At some point all betting, slot machines etc.. became legal and it's been a disaster and I'm also totally radicalized against it.
by Reason077 | 2026-03-14 07:35:00+00:00
The Mac software for my Logitech mouse is called "Logitech G Hub" and it's also pretty awful. Every now and then my Mac starts going bonkers, random clicks all over the place or windows randomly switching focus. Quitting the Logitech G Hub app instantly solves it. (I'm not sure why it wants to run all the time anyway, it's only needed if I want to change some settings on the mouse)

The mouse itself (G305) is great, however!
by jcul | 2026-03-14 07:35:10+00:00
Are you able to actually work with the VR glasses?

I bought a pair of viture pro glasses thinking I could use them with my (linux) laptop / (android) phone when travelling as a large external monitor.

But they were usable for coding, too difficult to read the text, too shakey. Would just give you a headache.

It's a cool idea but I decided the technology wasn't there yet and ended up returning them.
by coldtea | 2026-03-14 07:35:38+00:00
>that market is already saturated with a zillion decent-spec chromebook style machines.

Yeah, come back in a year when we have sales numbers for the Neo and tell me how saturated it is.

>The only reason the Neo market is even slightly different is to cater to crowds that want the apple offerings for OS and fashion/reputation.

No, the real main reason is that the "zillion decent-spec chromebook style machines" are half-arsed and/or less powered and with worse build quality depending on the model. The "OS and fashion/reputation" are a bonus.
by Dagger2 | 2026-03-14 07:35:58+00:00
v4 doesn't even manage one IP per person. It's fundamentally completely insufficient in a world with personal computing devices. Even if you declared every single IP in v4 to be wasted and demanded we repurposed them all, it wouldn't be enough to fix that.

The multicast and reserved blocks total 32 /8s. Before IANA runout, we were going through over one /8 per month, so this would represent less than 2.5 years of allocations. We've already spent decades buying more time for people to migrate to v6; we don't need another 2.5 years that people will just immediately squander.

NAT is not in any way a feature. I'll admit it can be a useful tool in your toolbox sometimes, but otherwise it's just a completely unnecessary complication that breaks things and wastes time and effort. It's not something to be building the Internet on. You want each device to get an IP and you don't want two devices to have the same IP, because that's how machines on the Internet send packets to each other -- which is the entire point of having the Internet at all.

> All of "the global internet" is in 2002::/16, which effectively gives 32 bits of assignable space. Exactly the same as IPv4 [...] the assumption that all routable prefixes are in 2001::/16 as specified

Global allocations are actually coming from the entire of 2000::/3, not 2002::/16 or 2001::/16 (and there's another five untouched /3s in case we need them). So far about 0.2% of it been allocated to RIRs, and most of that RIR space has not yet been allocated to anybody. We're clearly not exhausting it at anything like the rate of v4.

v6 is less complex than v4 in practice due to not needing NAT, and gains us far more than you're thinking. A /48 contains 65k subnets of effectively infinite hosts each, which is similar to a /8 but with no limit on hosts per network, and there are something on the order of a trillion of them in total rather than 256 of them.
by deanc | 2026-03-14 07:37:45+00:00
The bot problem cannot be solved. Even if you strongly authenticate, people are letting bots act on their behalf (moltbook is a great example of this) and what's to stop people doing that in the future. Build your identity and reputation autonomously with the benefits that come with that.

This happens now on Onlyfans too. Content creators hire agencies which in the best case outsource chatting to "customers" to armies of cheap labour in Asia, and the worst case use bots.

The dead internet theory [1] is probably not just a theory anymore. HN recently made a policy to not allow AI posting and posters, but do you honestly think that's going to work? I would place a bet that a top HN poster within the next year is outed as using AI for posting on their behalf.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dead_Internet_theory
by Mountain_Skies | 2026-03-14 07:38:57+00:00
I've asked ChatGPT a question about something I read in a thread here and it responded with a comment from that thread, even though the thread was less than an hour old. HN is well known in the tech community and there are certain subjects, especially anything involving Israel or India, that nearly instantly result in a flood of comments from bad actors. HN isn't Reddit but it's also a shadow of what it once was, which is driving away more of the productive participation in favor of agenda-based posting.
by dijit | 2026-03-14 07:40:06+00:00
This is like saying “Candles are superior to lightbulbs because they burn out quicker and thats an advantage in some situations”.

I’m not sure how, its an aesthetic choice but an inferior technology by every metric that counts.

Candles still have a place, we still buy them, but we can’t reasonably call them superior either- even if, candles actually would have a real advantage of not requiring power. Vinyl doesn’t even have that.
by truncate | 2026-03-14 07:41:16+00:00
>> recently I realized that I read code, but almost never write it.

I think most engineers are reading code than writing it. I find it very hard to not use Emacs when reading large codebases. Interestingly, its mostly because of file navigation. I love using ido/ivy for file navigation, quickly filtering through buffers, magit.

Emacs in terminal is not an ideal experience though. So I can imagine it being multi-fold worse with phone keyboard.