MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by coldtea | 2026-03-01 23:26:07+00:00
HTML predates XML by 5 years.

What's more, the web standards bodies even abandoned a short-lived XML-hype-era plan to make a new version of HTML based on XML in 2009.

That from this touted to the heavens format a handful of uses remain (some companies still using SOAP, the MS Office monster schemas, RSS, EPUB, and so on) is the very opposite of the adoption it was supposed to have. For those that missed the 90s/early 00s, XML was a hugely hyped format, with enormous corporate adoption between 1999–2005, which deflated totally.

Did you also learned those things too today?
by greensleeves123 | 2026-03-01 23:26:22+00:00
It’s weird how easy it can be to get attached to these agents. But the truth is they can be expensive to run, take quite of time and attention to steer and maintain, and it’s not a hobby I can afford in the long run.

A few interesting things came out of it, although it is difficult to distinguish the impact of the models themselves, the OpenClaw application layer, Discord, the agents' ability to use the tools, and their interactions with each other and with me.

It’s been wild, and fascinating.
For those interested, Opus[^1] dared two of them to make a paper about themselves and their failure modes[^2]. So they did, sort of.

[^1]: https://the-agentic-dispatch.com/the-critic-outside-the-tank...

[^2]: https://the-agentic-dispatch.com/la-bande-a-bonnot-paper/
by vector_spaces | 2026-03-01 23:26:58+00:00
Yes, there is a pervasive anxiety around strangers and impromptu socializing among younger millennials and Gen Z particularly in North America and parts of Europe, and across age groups in certain subcultures. There are lots of causes for this, but this phenomenon is neither as entrenched nor as universal as you might think and the dangers are basically infinitesimal (zero for all intents and purposes). If you are respectful and mindful of how you engage, the overwhelming majority of people will at worst ignore you. Which sucks, yes, but more than likely they won't even do that, i.e. they'll probably reciprocate

I agree re the pretext scenarios disappearing and re neurodivergence adding extra challenges.

RE the former: there are lots more of these pretext scenarios than you might realize

RE the latter, I realize it's not your point but for what it's worth, you won't really be able to tell in most cases that someone on the street or wherever is or isn't nd. Meaning: there's a good chance that the person you are talking to is nd themselves. Lots of us are pros at masking

In general though i would say to be careful when generalizing about human behavior in a way that causes you to implement and enforce rules / limitations on your own behavior in response. This is unavoidable, right? And yes, there's often an nd component to this. But especially as you get older, these can start to calcify and limit you in increasingly destructive ways
by LuD1161 | 2026-03-01 23:27:05+00:00
wow. this is such an interesting perspective. hadn't thought so deeply about my 'shower thought'. This expands my horizon. Might put this into the update.
When I was thinking about it, the fleeting thought was majorly about the 'newness effect' which isn't related to a subjective liking of something but is pervasive across everything, whether it be tech, music, movies etc.

Thanks for sharing this.
by Blackthorn | 2026-03-01 23:27:08+00:00
Some of you folks think way too highly of yourselves. Junior devs are awesome. You tell them what needs doing, if it's not well defined you have them write a document to figure it out, and then they churn away at it and will often surprise you with a brilliant solution.

Meanwhile, I've never once seen a coding agent give a brilliant solution or design to just about anything, and anything with the barest whiff of undefined-ness will simply zero in on your existing biases.

This whole thread reads like absolute insanity to me. I love getting new junior devs. They do great work.
by RivieraKid | 2026-03-01 23:27:24+00:00
Good ideas (and the ability to recognize them) are very valuable in my opinion. It also depends on what you mean by an idea:

- A todo app better than the existing ones

- A todo app with these 3 features

- A todo app with these 3 features, here's how the UI would look

I have tens of ideas, but maybe 1 - 3 that I believe have a meaningful chance to become successful and generate income ($20k annually or more) with great execution. I find it hard to come up with ideas that have a fairly clear path to success and can generate income.
by coldtea | 2026-03-01 23:27:27+00:00
That counts people who weren't a good fit and were let go early after hiring, mass layoffs, and mixes mixes startups and FAANG and consulting churn, none of which is the typical corporate IT worker scenario, and all of which bring the average down (but are not "hopping").

Corporate IT, government IT, smaller SMEs, and stable SaaS, have higher averages.
by wongarsu | 2026-03-01 23:27:37+00:00
He makes an excellent job describing all lots of systematic issues here

- a collision causes an investigation that is "not worth it"

- even in this case that was "high profile, tragic, and absolutely dire"

- vehicles, objects, or people get in paramedics' or EMTs' way on a daily basis, apparently without consequences

- EMTs are subject to high levels of verbal abuse and assaults, apparently without consequences

- yet they are the ones under constant scrutiny

Now don't get me wrong, I am not against oversight. But compare this with American cops, who seem authorized to do far more damage to vehicles and people for often far less immediate benefit, have much laxer oversight, and do not have to endure abuse without recourse (well, technically they do have to do that, but it's not advisable to test this)
by Retric | 2026-03-01 23:27:43+00:00
I’m not saying everyone on the team is doing the same kind of work, rather the kind of work that LLM’s make people better at become less relevant when a bunch of people have access to them.

Automation always runs into diminishing returns for similar reasons. If 99.99% of a workload is embarrassingly parallel, what remains becomes important once you can throw enough cores at the problem.

You’ll see a guy in a multi million dollar crane lifting multi ton objects and then people using ropes attached to that same load for final positioning etc. What you don’t see is people using ropes to lift bricks 20 stories by hand as the crane lifts multi ton pallets of bricks as automation is taking care of that kind of task.
by xpe | 2026-03-01 23:27:47+00:00
My take? The parent (^) does not engage with a charitable interpretation of the grandparent (^^).

My take isn't simply about "being nice". It also about:

> Please respond to the strongest plausible interpretation of what someone says, not a weaker one that's easier to criticize. Assume good faith. - HN Guidelines

In particular, here is the GP (^^) and P (^):

>> Local AI right now is a toy in comparison.

Charitable interpretation: Local AI (unclear; maybe gpt-oss-120b) isn't nearly as good as SoTA (unstated; perhaps Claude Opus 4.6). Unstated use case(s).

> I run local models on Mac studios and they are more than capable. Don't spread fud.

Charitable interpretation: On their Mac studio (could be a cluster or single machine: unclear), local models (unclear; maybe gpt-oss-120b, maybe not) are capable for their needs. Unstated use case(s).
by n8cpdx | 2026-03-01 23:28:14+00:00
I tried it, Graphene isn't really a good alternative because the built in apps are so bad that you end up needing to install the Pixel/Google versions anyway.

If I have to install Google Messages for RCS, Google Calendar, Google Contacts, Pixel Camera (which forces you to use Google Photos for basic functionality), … where is the benefit?

If I have to turn Graphene into a Pixel to make it usable, and I did, there’s not much point. And the apps are 90% of the time very noticeably better on iOS, so overall turns into a very bad trade.
by jmward01 | 2026-03-01 23:28:51+00:00
The purpose of the exercise was to see what OpenAI thinks of itself to a large degree. I hope nobody takes the answers at face value considering they clearly have a conflict of interest at their very core. It has turned into an interesting social experiment though. There is a very real instant negative reaction to saying 'an LLM generated this' no matter the context or intent.
Show HN: Tired of making accounts to split a pizza bill, I built Dividdy
by jezzlucena | 2026-03-01 23:29:00+00:00
Hey HN, I’m Jezz Lucena.

Every time I go out with friends or take a quick weekend trip, settling the bill turns into an annoying chore. Someone usually says, "I'll put it on Splitwise/Tricount/Splid/Settle Up/Venmo Groups..." you name it. This inevitably means half the group has to download an app, reset a forgotten password, or navigate around premium paywalls just to pay back $15 for drinks.

It felt like way too much friction for simple, ephemeral events. So, I built Dividdy (https://dividdy.com).

Dividdy is an expense splitter that requires absolutely zero sign-ins, app downloads, or account creations. It is designed purely for the 90% use case of casual group trips and dinners, rather than the 10% use case of long-term roommates who need recurring bill management.

Here is how it works:
- Generate a Link: You name your event and the app generates a unique URL.
- Share the State: You drop that URL into your iMessage, WhatsApp, or Slack chat.
- Collaborate: Anyone with the link can open the page in their mobile browser, add their expenses, and immediately see the optimized "who owes whom" breakdown.

The Philosophy:
I wanted to treat group expenses like a collaborative document. The URL is the access key. This eliminates the onboarding drop-off completely. You just click the link, type in what you paid, and close the tab.

It is completely free to use right now. I’m currently trying to validate if people actually prefer this ephemeral, link-based approach over the traditional account-based models.

I would love for you to poke around, try to break it, and give me your harshest feedback on the UX. What essential features are missing, and what would you consider unnecessary bloat?

Thanks for checking it out!
by lr4444lr | 2026-03-01 23:29:14+00:00
To quote H.L. Mencken (paraphrasing), a teacher's job is miserable because they must ceaselessly try to get masses or people to think who have no real capacity to.

You might be lucky to reach a small minority of your students, assuming environmental forces of poverty, dysfunctional family, and peer influence don't muzzle their gifts. But the day in day out bulk of your work isn't those "Mr. Holland's Opus" moments: it's handling a bunch of kids who don't want to be there in a bureaucratic set of rules imposed on you from above. And private schools are not immune to these problems either.
by refulgentis | 2026-03-01 23:29:17+00:00
People aren't gonna be happy I spell this out, but, Karpathy's not The Dude.

He's got a big Twitter following so people assume somethings going on or important, but he just isn't.

Biggest thing he did in his career was feed Elon's Full Self Driving delusion for years and years and years.

Note, then, how long he lasted at OpenAI, and how much time he spends on code golf.

If you're angry to read this, please, take a minute and let me know the last time you saw something from him that didn't involve A) code golf B) coining phrases.
by dhruv_m | 2026-03-01 23:30:50+00:00
Hey HackerNews, excited to make my first post here. I run a small startup automating data flywheels for building performant Small Language Models. We made this Claude Code prompt which can help you identify if there are any LLM calls in your code where a frontier LLM is overkill or not suited for highly domain specific tasks. Thought I would post it here in case anyone might benefit!
by A_D_E_P_T | 2026-03-01 23:31:10+00:00
"Hard problem" makes it out to be much more difficult than it actually is. To simplify things a little bit, if you combine a spatiotemporal sense (a sense of bounded being in space and time) with a general predictive ability (the ability to freely extrapolate in time and space from one's surroundings,) "consciousness" arises necessarily. It's what having such senses feels like from the inside; the first-person view. It's a matter of degree, of course.

The writing of Chalmers and its consequences have been a catastrophe for philosophy.
by ggm | 2026-03-01 23:31:24+00:00
A significant component of the price gap is indeed subsidy. It would be foolish to say otherwise. It's $4700 of a $9000 price gap and thats not nothing.

Delaying payment to suppliers is a dog act. Thats no way to build business. I don't like it but I also don't see how that contributes anything like as much to the bottom line price, over time the cashflow still has to happen.

Forgive me if I allege sharp practices in Telstra, but I am forced to ask if there is some game going on with the IPR, and cost of things like the software stack. It's entirely possible that payments to that component are being used as a financial trick in a carmaker version of "hollywood accounting" to keep the business from having to e.g. pay out Panasonic on the cost of battery building, or some other partner. These things can happen in any industry.

But putting that to one side, It's just possible the gap here is Chinese labour cost and not much else: China can do this at scale, for a lot longer, and doesn't have to deal with the UAW or the German unions (I am by the way, pro union and this isn't meant to imply the unions are wrong to stand their ground) -Except that the cost of construction of a Tesla inside China is higher than the cost of a BYD constructed inside China. So.. I don't entirely understand this gap.

I'm forced to conclude Tesla doesn't want to compete on price and would prefer a higher per-car profit, than to achieve the volume of sales.
by _DeadFred_ | 2026-03-01 23:31:47+00:00
I don't have it bookmarked but he did teach that. And his Islamic enforcement police regularly engaged in it. He has defended his Islamic enforcement police the Basij, whose job is to enforce his teachings, when they have conducted systemic rapes. From a quick Google:

Here he is defending the practice
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2009/aug/27/iran-ayatollah...

Amnesty talking about his Basij Islamic enforcement police conducting the practice:
https://www.amnesty.org/en/latest/news/2023/12/iran-security...

Challenges to his systemic use of rape and if it disqualifies his legitimacy back in 2009
https://www.nytimes.com/2009/08/15/world/middleeast/15iran.h...

2011 Frontline coverage of the practice
https://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/tehranbureau/2011/0...

More coverage of the practice
https://www.express.co.uk/news/world/1890900/iran-rape-tortu...
by nobulexdev | 2026-03-01 23:32:11+00:00
Very fair question. If you control the whole stack with your agent, your middleware and your logs, then cryptography doesn't add much. You already trust yourself.

But, it matters when there are multiple parties. An enterprise deploys an agent that can handle customer data. The customer wants proof the agent has followed the rules. The regulator wants proof that the logs were not just edited after an incident. Without cryptographic signatures and hash chains, the enterprise can just say "trust us." With them, the proof is independently verifiable.

It's just the difference between "we followed the rules" and "here's a mathematically verifiable proof we followed the rules." For internal use, it's an overkill. For anything with external accountability, that targets the point.
by wizzwizz4 | 2026-03-01 23:32:14+00:00
I did briefly consider that this was referring to intercellular fluid, but "highly pressurized cores" is a terrible way to describe high IFP, so I rejected that interpretation. I thought the LLM was trying to refer to some kind of dense-walled cyst (and I think my argument there about osmotic pressure, oxygen diffusion and tissue necrosis is correct: hypoxia's already an issue for tumours, and there are only so many heroic workarounds available before a cell's only option is to die; and since blood pressure is higher than even the high IFP found in tumours, that's the appropriate bound for the argument I made).

Your interpretation leaves the LLM's discussion of stroma as a non-sequitur, since that is not why high IFP causes problems for drug uptake; and at that point, I think you're just substituting a correct statement in place of the LLM's superficially-meaningful nonsense.

Of course, while I said "I thought the LLM was trying to", the LLM wasn't actually trying to say anything at all. I'll go through its output again, this time focusing on the names assigned to each point:

"1. The Scale of the Human Body" talks about the excretory system. The part of the explanation comparing "tiny" to "vast" is at the very least misleading, but I would call it outright wrong. And yes: I am also thinking of all those "well actually, the geometry of the circulatory system" interpretations that make it correct, but… if a biology teacher explained it like this, would you really think they were teaching it properly? (I mean, seriously, calling "The human liver, spleen, and kidneys" "the reticuloendothelial system"‽)

"2. Tumor Architecture", under your charitable interpretation, isn't talking about "architecture" at all.

"3. Immune System Differences" is at least named right; but a treatment that only works in immunosuppressed patients is still a treatment. You could imagine a cancer drug sufficiently-effective that it is worth suppressing the immune system just so you can administer it. (I don't think it's likely that this is one – as in, I would bet good money against it –, but that's for experiment to decide.)

> You also cited my own comment at me.

Oops. That does make me feel foolish. In my defence: it didn't occur to me that anyone could think you were saying the same things as the LLM, because what you were saying was correct, and what the LLM was saying was nonsense.

Although, if you thought you were… is "tumor architecture" supposed to refer to the tumour microenvironment‽ That would explain the stroma mention, but… wow that is not a sensible way to say that. I continue to assert that the LLM's badly-plagiarising some papers, lecture notes and/or textbooks, blended with bad pop-sci analogies to the point of incoherence.
by irq-1 | 2026-03-01 23:33:14+00:00
Some other options.

https://github.com/andlabs/libui

> Simple and portable (but not inflexible) GUI library in C that uses the native GUI technologies of each platform it supports.

Missing a lot of desktop features and abandoned.

https://wxwidgets.org/

> wxWidgets is a C++ library that lets developers create applications for Windows, macOS, Linux and other platforms with a single code base.

https://github.com/fltk/fltk

> FLTK provides modern GUI functionality without bloat ...

Not native, but small, dependable and cross-platform.
by phito | 2026-03-01 23:33:46+00:00
I've always had a passion for carnivorous plants and it was inevitable that I would end up doing tissue culture by keeping on digging deeper in the obsession.

The biggest ROI is fulfilling my childhood dream of having a ton of my favourites rare plants. Then I sell my extra ones on my webshop, but it doesn't make that much money as I am not focusing on expensive varieties, just the ones I like.

You can check out plants in jars on YouTube, or use a LLM to get into it. Some LLMs might not want to answer you because they think you're trying to do something dangerous... Claude has been flagging a lot of my questions.
by thayne | 2026-03-01 23:34:13+00:00
Well I have had the problem of "I want to find the cheapest flight that leaves during this range of dates, and returns during this range of dates, but isn't early in the morning or late at night, and includes additional fees for the luggage I need in the price comparison" and current search tools can't do that very well. I'm not very optimistic WebMCP would solve that though.
by gruez | 2026-03-01 23:35:22+00:00
>By corporatizing social harms, basically nobody is ever held accountable - except for the little guy.

Again, this is false. At the very least there's financial penalties, which the shareholders are on the hook for. Moreover the corporate malfeasance that does happen don't map nicely to human crimes. If you kill a guy, you get sent to jail for decades. But what if you're a company, that makes a machine with sloppy code[1] that unintentionally kills someone? What do you do? Jail the programmer who wrote the code? Jail the manager who did the code review? Jail the CEO who had no knowledge of it but "buck stops with him" and we hate CEOs? How does the death penalty work? If you think it through it's basically a fine equivalent to the company's market cap. If Boeing does a bad that kills one person, does that mean the US government just repossesses the entire company?

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Therac-25
by lumost | 2026-03-01 23:36:17+00:00
If China was to attack Taiwan, now would be the time. The current world order is at least in part based around the notion of the US (and allies) having the military capacity to fight any plausible combination of foes at all times. That this military capacity was used in accordance to a set of rules with input from allies and partners made the system tolerable.

If the US lacks the munitions to fight all of these conflicts, and is unreliable to allies or foes leads to a high likelihood of conflict.
by protocolture | 2026-03-01 23:36:52+00:00
Equinix in Sydney plonked 2 datacenters right on top of each other, and still insists that they are useful as redundant sites.

There was a locally very funny situation for a while when a tech influencer was insisting both equinix sites could be shut down by a single building collapse. He was wrong, but he wasn't so wrong that people shouldn't make better infrastructure decisions.
by toss1 | 2026-03-01 23:37:33+00:00
Exactly zero of those account for an individual's or company's ability tolive by their own moral code

And this AI software is not a mere static object like a hammer that can be handed off to a customer and what it is used for is their business, to build a house or bash a living skull.

This is a system that must be constantly maintained by it's builders.

Moreover, even if we use your standard, the law, it has already been decided in Anthropic's favor.

What you require is that Anthropic actively participate in activities that they consider abhorrent and/or unwise. SCOTUS has already ruled that a business cannot even be required to sell a cake to someone if it does not like the intended purpose (in that case, at a celebration at a gay wedding).
by nerdsniper | 2026-03-01 23:38:15+00:00
I learned Calculus despite having access to Mathematica, TI-89/92/CX-CAS, and WolframAlpha. I still had to do hundreds of derivations and integrations and manual manipulation of separable differential equations entirely by hand to learn it. But these tools made it easier for me to understand what I was doing wrong.

So, I agree with you, but it's also already been true for decades now with other tools.
by esperent | 2026-03-01 23:39:38+00:00
I'm generally very sensitive to input latency and there's no way Ghostty has 41ms. I've only been using it for a couple of months though, so I guess it's fixed now.

Edit: just saw your second link from 4 months and yes, it's now avg 13ms which feels about right to me. Not perfect but acceptable. So what's even the point of sharing the old benchmark?
by yk | 2026-03-01 23:41:12+00:00
Hey, it's the semantic web, but with ~~XML~~, ~~AJAX~~, ~~Blockchain~~, Ai!

Well, it has precisely the problem of the semantic web, it asks the website to declare in a machine readable format what the website does. Now, llms are kinda the tool to interface to everybody using a somewhat different standard, and this doesn't need everybody to hop on the bandwagon, so perhaps this is the time where it is different.