MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by xorcist | 2026-03-02 13:54:21+00:00
But the LLMs are quite the opposite: People should not bother with developing software, but ask the big LLM providers to do it for them instead.

In all aspects of the term, software is getting less democratized. But that is in line with a decades long trend, where computers used to ship with BASIC installed and now you need a specialized IDE tool which has a learning curve.

It used to be that you could dabble with HTML but now you need to learn a few javascript frameworks just to modify existing code. You used to start a piece of software by running it, modern server software is a fragile jigsaw that is delivered to production in the cloud. The list goes on. The future we are being promised is that you ask your paid-for development agent to make the necessary changes you require and deliver in to production in the cloud.

Which is fine, in a way, but it shifts power to the professionals. Just as Google, Apple or Microsoft owns your identity and your data, and you pay to use it, they can also decide to deny access for any reason. They are private companies, after all, and it is their data.
by dns_snek | 2026-03-02 13:54:24+00:00
Why are we degoogling, for what purpose? I couldn't care less about giving them what likely amounts to ~10€ of margin per year on the hardware sale. What I care about is not giving them data which is worth a lot more than that, and to take back control over my device.

When you go with an alternative you lose superior privacy and security offered by GrapheneOS and you just end up leaking more data back to Google and other ad-tech companies than you would otherwise, negating any benefits several times over.

See: Advanced features, degoogling, privacy, security, and updates sections of https://eylenburg.github.io/android_comparison.htm
by LtWorf | 2026-03-02 13:55:01+00:00
They can be used at runtime though. I wrote typedload, to load external data (json/bson/yaml) into python typed objects. In this way you know that if the data doesn't match the expectations you will have an exception at a specific point in the code, and after that it's safe to use the objects, rather than having to manually check at every access.

Now there are several other libraries that do this thing, but at the time (python3.5 and 3.6) it was the only option.
by skeledrew | 2026-03-02 13:55:13+00:00
You do work, don't you (or at least are in school)? Do you do it for sheer fun? Or to be able to afford things that allow you to survive?

Even those who do something like art "for fun" do it because it sates an internal need (not all actions need to make sense, because the inherent randomness of evolution is messy and leaves artifacts). Though also the desire to create some form of legacy can be considered a kind of survival: to be remembered by others beyond one's own lifespan.
by bubblewand | 2026-03-02 13:56:06+00:00
Sitting here on the sidelines having never configured snippets or macros or any of that in any of my editors, which I could have done like 30 years ago but never bothered in all this time, doing quizzical-dog look at all these people thrilled about LLMs.

I guess they might finally get me to use those things since they take the “configuring” and “remembering shortcuts” part out, but so much of this doesn’t look new at all. Super old, actually.
by pndy | 2026-03-02 13:56:10+00:00
It's due to both: the deranged AI push MS did in last 3 years and continuous degradation of their flagship product - Windows, for last 10.

I think no other company managed to get a punny nickname due to their questionable pursuits and actions around new trends. Tho most of them were ridiculed in memes and countless critical posts on the Internet when something have surfaced.

Also, it appears that Microslop was coined first in 1994, acc. to wikitionary [1]

[1] - https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/Microslop
by surajrmal | 2026-03-02 13:56:36+00:00
Even rust let's you turn panics into asserts. It saves a lot of binary size and arguably is equally debugable. We also see improved performance from being more cache friendly. C++ usage wouldn't be nearly as high if there wasn't such an option. As far as I'm concerned the primary downside is not being able to return errors in constructors and handle allocation failures but both are solve able via some common idioms (static methods and custom placement new)
by podgietaru | 2026-03-02 13:56:40+00:00
I invested in this. I am quite sick of the attitudes of some of the big american phone players.

This is coming from someone who has for the longest time been invested in Apple and the Apple Ecosystem. I adored the ease of integration of everything. The amazing synergy between their designers, and their engineers. I never really minded that things came later to the Apple Ecosystem. It just worked. And it was great.

But the golden statue, the absolute pathetic DMA attitude from Apple. It started to get to me. And I am trying to now get out of that Apple Ecosystem.

I don't think it'll be smooth. I think the process will be painful as I try to work around some of the limitations. No NFC payments will be my biggest painpoint as an ADHD addled man who forgets his wallet at least 3x a week. But it's worth trying. And it's worth supporting alternatives.
by aesh2Xa1 | 2026-03-02 13:57:02+00:00
@strcat, you've mentioned GrapheneOS will have access to internal code to do hardening below the OS layer. Does this mean Motorola devices will offer stronger security than Pixels, where you're limited by what Google exposes?

Is Motorola contributing engineering resources directly to GrapheneOS, or is the partnership purely about hardware enablement on their side?
by westurner | 2026-03-02 13:57:39+00:00
"Pulp Project Policy on AI Generated Content / AI Assisted Coding" https://github.com/pulp#pulp-project-policy-on-ai-generated-... :

> [...]

> All contributors must indicate in the commit message of their contribution if they used AI to create them and the contributor is fully responsible for the content that they submit.

> This can be a label such as `Assisted By: <Tool>` or `Generated by: <Tool>` based on what was used. This label should be representative of the contribution and how it was created for full transparency. The commit message must also be clear about how it is solving a problem/making an improvement if it is not immediately obvious.*

From "Entire: Open-source tool that pairs agent context to Git commits" (2026)
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46964096 :

> But which metadata is better stored in git notes than in a commit message? JSON-LD can be integrated with JSON-LD SBOM metadata
by poly2it | 2026-03-02 13:58:12+00:00
Seriously? Does anybody know what Copilot is? I don't think I have ever seem a "Copilot user", so I don't know what it looks like. Is it the little macro key on new laptop keyboards? The chatbot you get in Bing? A technical philosophy? Or is it in essence just copilot.com, the mediocre chat interface which you used to get free GPT-4 three years ago?
by goldenarm | 2026-03-02 13:58:30+00:00
(Reposting my comment from below)

Brave said they'll try to maintain temporarily limited MV2 support for only 4 specific extensions, but recommend Brave Shields as the go-to adblocker for the future. Google is about to remove most of the MV2 code from the codebase, which will explode the complexity soon.

https://brave.com/blog/brave-shields-manifest-v3/
by mcdonje | 2026-03-02 13:58:32+00:00
If they can't get it passed because the people don't want it, then why do they keep trying to pass it? Some entities with a lot of power or influence clearly want it. This is the same thing we see in the US. We keep saying "no", and they keep trying.

Maybe the EU people don't want it, but at least some governing body of the EU clearly does.

There's a comment not too far up in this thread saying this is more of a US thing than an EU thing, but it looks like exactly the same pattern from where I'm sitting in the US.
by cogman10 | 2026-03-02 13:59:01+00:00
> and so what?

This is behavior of an astroturfer, that's so what. Which is why you are being accused of that. It looks suspicious.

> should I ask for permission to discuss something?

Nope, the opposite. If you want to look like a non-astroturfer then engagement with other topics on the site would do that.

If you only engage with a single topic over the years and the only thing you contribute is "This is the absolute best working OS I've used, everyone should use it. I endorse it fully". People are going to be, understandably, suspicious of your motivations.

> it's crazy how omniscient people are aggressive on the internet.

We live in an internet filled with advertisements. Most of us have seen astroturfing. That's why we suspect you.

> Is that your normal behaviour IRL??

Absolutely it is! If someone knocks on my door telling me about the wonders of pest control, you'll forgive me for not taking their endorsement for the program they are selling as being solid. Same thing happens in churches. I'm instantly suspicious of someone that starts singing the praises of a product in church and, magically, starts hosting parties where they talk about the wonders of said product (see MLM).

This is a fact of living in a capitalist society. There's always an incentive to sell which makes everyone suspicious of product endorsements. Especially when that seems to be the only thing a person is capable of doing.
by freeopinion | 2026-03-02 13:59:03+00:00
In the United States, anyone brash enough to prosecute Donald Trump or his allies finds themselves being prosecuted on federal charges.

Meanwhile, the U.S. Supreme Court has ruled that the President is largely immune from prosecution. The width of that decision can be fleshed out by additional court cases if there is anybody with the authority and courage to risk it. The risks are very high and very real. The rewards are debatable.

A simple statement like, "The deceased was an evil threat to the security of America" is enough to put any prosecution way out on a limb. Look how hard it is to get justice in Minneapolis. Things are very murky. And that didn't involve the President being the gunman.
by Nociif | 2026-03-02 13:59:59+00:00
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Show HN: Sutra.team – The First OS for Autonomous Agents
by jbwagoner | 2026-03-02 14:00:56+00:00
We built an operating system for AI agents that actually deploy and run autonomously — not just chat interfaces you have to babysit.
The core idea: Agents should work like specialists on your team, not assistants you prompt all day.
What that means in practice:
15 prebuilt production agents (legal, finance, marketing, operations, etc.)
32+ skills from the OpenClaw library (email, web search, browser automation, code execution, council deliberation, etc.)
Deploy to Telegram, Slack, email, or dashboard
Heartbeat scheduling for proactive agents (weekly reports, daily checks, etc.)
BYOK support (Claude, GPT-4, Gemini, DeepSeek, local models)
Portable Mind Format: every agent is a JSON file you own and can export
Three layers that matter:
1. KARMA (cost governance)
Agents with unlimited API access burn money fast. Every skill call is budget-tracked. You set spending limits. Agents that exceed budget get throttled, not shut down.
2. SILA (audit)
Every agent action is logged with full context: what skill was called, what data was accessed, what was sent externally. SOC2/GDPR/HIPAA compliance isn't an afterthought — it's built into the execution layer.
3. SUTRA (orchestration)
Council deliberation as a first-class skill. 8 specialist agents (Right View, Right Intention, Right Speech, etc.) can be invoked by any other agent. You get multi-perspective analysis without manually coordinating LLM calls.
Why we built this:
Most "agent frameworks" are libraries for developers to stitch together their own infrastructure. That's fine for engineers, but it leaves everyone else stuck with ChatGPT.
We wanted something in between: opinionated infrastructure that handles deployment, security, and cost control — so you can focus on what your agents do, not how they run.
Current state:
Live in production
$9/month Explorer tier (full platform access)
Companion book: How to Use Autonomous Agents — free on Kindle March 1-5, 2026
16+ agent build examples across business, creative, and household domains
The constraint we're designing around:
Agents that "write code on the fly" are powerful in demos, brittle in production. Our bet: pre-audited, composable skills + user-defined constraints + transparent cost tracking = agents you can actually trust to run unsupervised.
Built by: JB Wagoner (patent holder for transportable AI persona architecture, founder of Sutra.team)
Feedback welcome — especially from people building agent systems in production. What's missing? What would make this more useful?
by MadnessASAP | 2026-03-02 14:01:00+00:00
It's genuinely amazing how good they are at reverse engineering.

I have a silly side project that ended up involving the decompilation of a toaster ovens firmware, the firmware of the programmer for said toaster ovens MCU, and the host side programming software. They were able to rip through them without a problem, didn't even have ghidra setup, they just made their own tools in python.
by skyberrys | 2026-03-02 14:01:49+00:00
I'm not familiar with living in your particular culture, but could you get a dog? The dog will force you to go outside twice a day and during that time you will meet the other people also being forced outside by their dog. Plus you enroll the dog in dog manners school, and schedule meetups with the dog to play. If it doesn't work out for meeting more people at least you have a dog too.
Show HN: AI Employee – AI-powered BI CLI for ecommerce reporting
by rexipt | 2026-03-02 14:01:53+00:00
I built this npm package for performance synthesis, anomaly detection, and customer segmentation via integrations like Shopify, Google Ads, etc. More coming.

Install globally: npm i -g @rexipt/ai-employee

Init: rexipt-ai init

Connect (e.g., Shopify): rexipt-ai shopify oauth-connect

Run skills: rexipt-ai run-all or rexipt-ai r dailyBriefing

75s demo: https://x.com/zaddizie/status/2028453817881129212

Feedback on features/integrations?
by zelphirkalt | 2026-03-02 14:02:51+00:00
"Only for your own good!™" or alternatively: "Security next level! Fingerprint was yesterday. The future is Microsoft's new iris scan." and then it is built in a way, that you can simply hold up a photo of someone's iris and unlock the device, or trying to prevent that, works so badly, that half of the time you cannot unlock your own device.
Show HN: Supervisor IDE: Not your usual IDE, create a team, run tasks flow
by nexroo | 2026-03-02 14:02:57+00:00
Hello,

I made this Ai-driven IDE (Claude Code based) that i use for my everyday dev.

It allow :

- Multiple context management and auto-injection
(define code practice, app context, agent context

- Clear permissions, skills and assignement management

- Global agent that delegate automatically to your specified agent

- A kanban where you create a ticket with user story, definition of done, then agent will create a plan you can validate, then all is done automatically in a git worktree and git branch until merge to base branche!

It is free and will stay free for all solo dev :)
by threethirtytwo | 2026-03-02 14:03:32+00:00
AI may change the game here. Most games are slop coded by humans anyway as the industry prioritizes speed and dead lines over code quality.

So having AI build the slop instead of a human seems to make sense. I really wonder how AI is changing the gaming industry.

The articles author strangely left AI out of what he wrote. While I know a lot of HN readers are traditional and love the old way of doing things I don’t know how much longer that way will last.
by xorcist | 2026-03-02 14:03:56+00:00
> That was genuinely impossible for someone like me before AI assistance

Ummm... No? That was literally what people have done for decades? Is the implication that you feel you are too old to read a book at 45 and start programming?

Sure, you will make hundreds of unintended decisions along the way that a seasoned developer would scoff at (for good reason), but a functioning first application in half a year when learning on the job is exactly what people have done, always. Is it a good idea? Well, it is always better to have a professional at hand to help and do away with the beginner's problems from the beginning, but it's absolutely doable.

Programming is not a black art, but something anyone with a bit of logical thinking can pick up from a book. Hence the "Learn yourself Java in 48 hours" books the were so popular for a while.
by Lerc | 2026-03-02 14:03:56+00:00
It has that AI referring to a point in the conversation feel about it too.

This site would be a particularly interesting example to see the conversation that generated it.

There was a case locally where a political party copped flack for using AI generated images of minorities implying that the people in the picture supported their policies. I didn't think the use of AI was terribly significant when it came to the output because, before AI, they would have just hired some actors for the photos and achieved much the same effect.

The thing that I did think was significant was, in creating the images, they must have committed to writing exactly what it is that they wanted an image of. I really wished that journalists asked for that text, and then challenged the inevitable refusal.
by TimorousBestie | 2026-03-02 14:03:57+00:00
https://wwnorton.com/books/9781324091455/

Fantasizing about prehistory to justify contemporary racism is a very old pastime. It doesn’t aspire to logical consistency:

> From the “state of nature” and Romantic notions of virtuous German barbarians to theories about Neanderthals, killer apes, and a matriarchal paradise where women ruled, Geroulanos captures the sheer variety and strangeness of the ideas that animated many of the major thinkers of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, including Jean-Jacques Rousseau, Charles Darwin, and Karl Marx. Yet as Geroulanos shows, such ideas became, for the most part, the ideological foundations of repressive regimes and globe-spanning empires. Deeming other peoples “savages” allowed for guilt-free violence against them; notions of “killer apes” who were our evolutionary predecessors made war seem natural. The emergence of modern science only accelerated the West’s imperialism. The Nazi obsession with race was rooted in archaeological claims about prehistoric IndoGermans; the idea that colonialized peoples could be “bombed back to the Stone Age” was made possible by the technology of flight and the anthropological idea that civilization advanced in stages.
by dave_meshimize | 2026-03-02 14:05:14+00:00
This is a great reality check. I’ve been using OpenCode for a while and never even tried Claude Code, so I didn't realize that probabilistic tool calling was such a huge bottleneck over there. I’m so used to the instant command lookups and lifecycle hooks in OpenCode that I just assumed every agent worked that way. It's wild that Claude Code burns 2 seconds of thinking time just to figure out which tool to use.
by crote | 2026-03-02 14:05:28+00:00
> it’s wrong that this won’t get better. AI is advancing rapidly.

Even assuming this is true for the high-end productivity models (like Claude Code), how does this change anything about the main argument?

The AI integrations which are getting forced on me in every single app aren't using those newer models: I try them every few months just-in-case and they are always complete garbage. The people generating SEO blogspam sure aren't going to pay for the fancy models either. And it's not like the herders of the AI bots vomiting comments all over social media care about quality. Unless you are an active ChatGPT / Claude / whatever subscriber, most of your day-to-day interaction with AI will always be with the cheapest slop you can imagine - and that's what the backlash is primarily against.

Besides, I don't actually care whether you are stuffing dog poo or delicious tomatoes in my mailbox, I want it to stop! I never asked for it, and it's ruining all the stuff I actually want delivered to my home. Those integrations are at best as annoying as the "Chat with a sales consultant!" and "Let our site send you notifications!" popups: even if your AI were to achieve AGI, I would still want them gone.
by SyneRyder | 2026-03-02 14:05:35+00:00
I wonder if some of this also has to do with the culture of where you live, because it can go wrong. It reminds me of a BBC comedy skit about someone doing exactly this:

Northerner terrifies Londoners by saying "Hello":
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PT0ay9u1gg4

I like the sentiment behind what you've said, and I think you're especially right about elderly people (probably because they don't get much social interaction). I actually had an elderly woman come up to me this week to tell me I was standing in the wrong place for the bus stop - but it was sad that she had to begin by saying "Excuse me, I'm sorry to interrupt, and you can tell me if this is none of my business and that you want me to go rack off... but I don't think the bus will stop here." I tried to be very kind and thankful with my response, because that's obviously someone who has been burned by trying to be social & helpful, and met with aggression in response before.
by ilmj8426 | 2026-03-02 14:05:40+00:00
We analyzed texture statistics in diffusion-generated video (like Sora) and found they exhibit distinct high-frequency characteristics that break classical reconstruction assumptions. Standard methods tend to over-smooth these regions, creating visible artifacts.
We built an experimental testbed to observe this phenomenon: https://www.videowatermarkremove.com/remove-sora-watermark (mentioned in the article as a research interface).
The post includes detailed zoom-in comparisons showing the texture mismatch.
by xvector | 2026-03-02 14:05:48+00:00
No offense but born-in-the-US citizens are... not great at the most demanding knowledge work. The ones that are have all been hired. Our education system is trash and normalizes getting Bs/Cs.

I see so many people complaining about H1Bs at tech jobs. At least the H1Bs pass the interviews!

Disclaimer: born and raised in the US myself.