MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by bitwize | 2026-03-12 07:04:33+00:00
Yes, exactly. In the realpolitik of organizational IT security, there's less of an emphasis on making systems more resilient to attack, much more of an emphasis on having an audit trail, so that in case the company is sued over a data breach they can claim "we did the very best that could be reasonably expected of us with the knowledge we had at the time" and provide receipts to back up that claim. Implicit in that claim is also "we used the same tools that everyone else is using so you can't blame us specially for unwittingly choosing something vulnerable to compromise". Hence the proliferation of shitty single-point-of-failure "endpoint security" software that leads to events like the 2024 Clownstrike incident.
by burnermore | 2026-03-12 07:05:23+00:00
See, here is what I've observed. I don't expect to change your POVs. Nevertheless...

The issue started when Israel was ready to have recognition from Saudi Arabia on their statehood. This would make Hamas irrelevant. And puts Sunnis (Iran) lesser recognised. Meanwhile Shia's (Saudi) will become the defacto in the Muslim world and half of Muslim world would either tolerate or be OK with Israel. Hamas attack on Israel at Oct 7 stopped that. Hamas has been supported by Iran for a long time. So in the whole Gaza - Israel thing, Iran was backing Hamas. Then they proxied with them by providing assistance. Then they eventually directly got involved.

You need to understand, there was good period of peace between Israel & Palestine until Oct 7.

While I reject US toppling govts around the world, Iran's hand is not clean in this one. But also, US thought this would be as easy as Venezuela and killing Iran's leader will stop this. Interfering in other countries biz have consequences. And in this case, it's true for Iran & US.
by mkfain | 2026-03-12 07:06:05+00:00
The hardest part is that the communities that feel like old HN or old forums probably exist but theres no discovery mechanism for them anymore. Everything funnels through 5 platforms and if youre not on one of those you basically dont exist. Some of the most interesting conversations ive had recently have been on smaller protocol-level communities where theres no algorithm deciding what gets seen
by rcarmo | 2026-03-12 07:07:19+00:00
Somehow, I feel like I’m converging onto this. I built https://github.com/rcarmo/webterm as a quick solution to the “multiple agents” problem and https://github.com/rcarmo/piclaw started out as a mobile UX for a simpler, tighter “claw” and has been slowly morphing into an IDE (I just shipped UI extension support and have refactored the CodeMirror editor into an extension, and I suspect a terminal is next as well as a few custom viewers/editors). I spend more time inside piclaw’s web app on my desktop than VS Code now…
by thetallgeek | 2026-03-12 07:07:27+00:00
I tried an experiment a few years back. I peed into a small bucket and watered my curry leaf plant with it, not realizing that it need to be diluted. The plant "died" within a few weeks. I just left the pot and plant be. A few weeks later it started sprotuing again and that was the healthiest curry leaf plant I had ever seen. It had leaves double the size and it grew so fast that we had to give away curry leaves to neighbours
by txrx0000 | 2026-03-12 07:07:32+00:00
This seems fine as a short-term solution, but human-only is no good as a long-term rule. The AIs will soon surpass human capability. Even in the present, I think some AI comments are already decent quality. It's just most of them aren't high quality yet.

And I'm worried banning AIs altogether will eventually lead to some form of prove-you-are-human verification to use the site, which will reduce anonymity. Even something seemingly benign like verifying email would mean many unverified accounts like my own will disappear.

And there is a legitimate use for LLM rewrite to counter identification by stylometry, so rewrite shouldn't be banned. I think we'll have to allow the AI stuff at some point, and make a system that incentivizes quality posts regardless of where they come from or how they're written.
by xbaicai | 2026-03-12 07:07:46+00:00
Mureka is an AI-powered music generation platform that lets you create complete, original songs from text prompts or lyrics. Whether you're a content creator, game developer, or just exploring music creation, you can generate professional-quality tracks without any musical training.

Key features:
- Generate songs from text descriptions or lyrics
- Multiple genre and style options
- Royalty-free music for commercial use
- Edit and refine generated tracks

Would love to hear the HN community's thoughts on AI music generation!
by ragebol | 2026-03-12 07:07:50+00:00
Nothing wrong with middle men per se, but problems do arise when we all rely on the same middleman: those become way too powerful and can do nasty things.

By that time, no one can do without the nasty middle man as we have forgotten or never learned the skills to fend for ourselves and are thus beholden to the nasty middle man.

Network effect compounds this
by yelmahallawy | 2026-03-12 07:07:52+00:00
This makes sense. I am particularly interested in your invoice processing app example because the accuracy of those outputs can be quantitatively measured from 0%-100% accuracy.

I'm curious as to what is _good enough_ and how many iterations it takes to get there. Is 100% the only acceptable threshold? If so, how many iterations does that take? What does that process look like? Okay let's say 100% accuracy is too difficult to reach, then how do you choose your minimum acceptable threshold (is 95% accuracy good enough? is 90%?). Do you have a dedicated set of outputs and documents used for evals? I'd love to hear more about this example (if you worked directly on the evals for this app).
by root_axis | 2026-03-12 07:08:08+00:00
> In fact I don't recall ever seeing an ad for tiktok and yet it is humongous

Then maybe you're not the target audience, or you're just not noticing the ads, because TikTok is particularly notable for their aggressive marketing efforts during their growth phase.

> Non big tech solutions need solid UI and UX that does not assume your average user can balance a binary tree

Non big tech platforms don't need anything. They can never compete with billion dollar budgets and they shouldn't set that as a goal. Everyone enjoys a well designed UX, but billion dollar marketing budgets will always eclipse the alternatives.
by adityaathalye | 2026-03-12 07:09:19+00:00
Well... companies who are laying off people on account of AI are telling markets that their chief value is NOT "innovation", it has been drudgery automation.

A company that prizes actually making customer lives better (i.e. "innovation") will salivate at the prospect of having ten of ten people, each using the Drudgery Automator, being creative using all that drugery-free time to actually touch grass with their customers and ship overnight value (i.e. actually, progressively, make things better for customers) and then improve it at a pace that blows minds (i.e. actually happy customers).

An company who's business is in fact about drudgery automation will kneecap itself by letting go nine of the ten.

Long/Short stocks accordingly.
by max51 | 2026-03-12 07:09:19+00:00
Then why did it happen 3 elections in a row?!

We had front-page news about how the election was "hacked by Russia" and trump cheated for over a year after his first win in 2016 (let's not pretend that keyword was chosen accidentally); They tried to put him in jail for it. In 2020, trump did the exact same thing and went even farther with it. And in 2024, the DNC tried again to claim cheating happened.

How many cycle of this BS do we need to go through before we accept that elections need to be done properly and safely?

The entire point of a democracy is that elected leaders get their legitimacy and their acting power from the certainty that it was voted by the population. Not everyone will agree with their ideas, but the majority do and we all agree to follow their lead because that's what the population want. If the vote is compromised, everything falls apart.

If the "will of the people" turn into the "will of an intern at Dominion who fucked with the code and rigged the election" or "the will of Pakistani hacker", it breaks the entire system.
by JumpCrisscross | 2026-03-12 07:09:24+00:00
> American “crimes“ are dismissed with some rhetorical non-response like “hmmph, no one claimed we are perfect”, or immediately contrasted with some arbitrary Chinese “crime”, then dropped just as fast

America debates and exhibits its faults, at least internally. The Tulsa Massacre is a movie and cultural discussion point in a way Tiananmen Square is not in China. Neither should have happened. And neither is universally acknowledged or atoned for. But if we’re debating which system AI should emulate, I know it’s not just the one that explicitly buries its faults.

> Judge my enemies by their actions. Judge me by my words

Judge both by both. The ability to have words about shameful actions is not meaningless.
by charcircuit | 2026-03-12 07:11:00+00:00
>the former was a solved problem

It want solved. There was some generic boilerplate that was added to IDEs but it wouldn't be project specific. It wasn't able to look at patterns within your own codebase and repeat them.

>and the latter was a requirement of being a decent engineer.

Most software projects are too big to fit in one engineers head. Having AI be able to research what the relevant code is, how it works, what race conditions exist, what pitfalls or other things you may run into saves a lot of time in regards to planning.
by esailija | 2026-03-12 07:11:02+00:00
> When it comes to deciding where to place which code, I found a particular mantra very helpful: minimize code and maximize use cases. The idea is to have as many reusable software components as possible and to minimize the overall code within an organization.

You'll want to do exactly the opposite. This just leads to maximizing dependencies and grinding everything to halt as everything you could fix in 2 mins will take 6 months of waiting instead. Also literally anything can be "reused" with enough configuration and parameters, with them becoming the source of complexity and programming itself and at the end of the day it was a huge waste to effectively create a new programming language.
by ItsBob | 2026-03-12 07:11:24+00:00
I'm curious how you use Sheets as a Trello-like replacement. I use Trello from time to time but my most recent project is using actual Post-It notes stuck to my monitor, wall etc.

If Sheets works (I love simplicity) then I'll give it a go but I checked and I can't find any templates for Kanban or such.
by SyneRyder | 2026-03-12 07:11:53+00:00
We never did find out what those drones in New Jersey in 2024 were, did we? One Republican congressman seemed convinced at the time that he'd been informed:

BBC: Mystery New Jersey drones not from Iranian 'mothership' - Pentagon

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/crrwz91wqd9o

It's certainly a theory / narrative that keeps appearing in the media.
by kindkang2024 | 2026-03-12 07:12:00+00:00
> this user was the reason

Feeling sad I am 'the reason'. But that's ok.

> asking for a policy

It is always the same sad story. Someone learns a new name, gets trapped inside, and tries to escalate conflict. I will not call that 'open mind'.

The deeper reason is that there is no kindness — many really don't care about others who seem alien to them. They just hide that behind all kinds of names.
by WhereIsTheTruth | 2026-03-12 07:12:02+00:00
I already hate it

There is a massive, pathetic drop in quality from the system designs of the past compared to the garbage we are seeing nowadays

You can tell they are fully embracing slop and stupid design

Tehy are trading efficiency and elegance for bloat, and it is absolute trash

They have stopped engineering, they abstraction junkies

OGs don't want to be associated with any of that trash, and it shows
by rhplus | 2026-03-12 07:12:09+00:00
One of those is an absolute value (urea $) and one is a rate of change (food price inflation). Maybe I’m being dumb, but why are they tracking almost 1:1, both with linear Y axis?

I can compare Urea $ to Crude Oil $ and get an even closer 5 year correlation. Are we actually indexing against something else here?

Edit: that is, perhaps urea prices are driven mostly by energy costs, which in turn drives inflation rates.
by quinnjh | 2026-03-12 07:12:51+00:00
>If we are all supposed to be talking to agents now, what's the difference[...]?

it's a little cringe, but arguably the benefit of having agents use rails would be tht when you review and audit the agent produced code, you review something that is, as you put it: "beautiful and simple code" and "making it easy to reason about..."

I loved rails back in 2017. I may be an outlier but the line tempts me to try it again despite having adopted the who cares attitude to langs. Would be nice to hear from someone first hand if they felt it helped.
by 9rx | 2026-03-12 07:12:59+00:00
> Energy is definitely a better example than food.

All of these examples are irrelevant. Resource allocation happens because of scarcity, not alongside it.

> There is enough food produced to feed the entirety of humanity, probably several times over, but the social and political problem of who the food gets distributed to is the limiting factor, so hunger exists.

We theoretically produce enough calories to feed the entirety of humanity, but we do not come anywhere close to producing enough nutrients to feed the entirety of humanity. Calories are not sufficient to stave off hunger. One must also meet their nutrient needs to become "full". This is one of the reasons for why we see obesity: People continue to eat even after their caloric needs are met as nutrient deficiencies sees them continue to want to eat more to satisfy what is lacking.

However, even calories are only theoretically sufficient when you ignore the inefficiencies in the food supply system. Even if the social order was perfection, we don't have the technology or know-how to avoid those inefficiencies. It is, for now, a necessary part of the food supply chain.
by globnomulous | 2026-03-12 07:13:09+00:00
I appreciate that your message is a good-natured, friendly tip. I don't mean for the following to crap on that. I just need to shout into the void:

If I have some time, the last thing I want to do with it is sharpen prompting skills. I can't imagine a worse or more boring use of my time on a computer or a skill I want less.

Every time I visit Hacker News I become more certain that I want nothing to do with either the future the enthusiasts think awaits us or the present that they think is building towards it.
by mentalgear | 2026-03-12 07:13:35+00:00
You mean the tele-operated "autonomous Robots" ? Also, I'm waiting for >10 years now for his (really!) self-driving cars he promised would be just about 2 years away - every 2 years.

SpaceX is what gives him leverage but the success of the reusable rockets are the engineers behind it - he's just the ketamine-driven hype-man that drives the stock via publicity now.
by VorpalWay | 2026-03-12 07:13:42+00:00
You could also use an OS that doesn't tend to have dodgy updates that brick your system, such as most Linux distro. Nor force you to update if you don't want to.

Funny how a large company like Microsoft can't figure out QA, but volunteer Linux distros with much less resources can.

(A lot of Windows specific software works in wine these days, Valve's investment into improving it for games have helped for applications too. Not everything, and if you are stuck with such software, yeah that sucks.)
by kitd | 2026-03-12 07:14:24+00:00
On the other hand, the process of having Commons legislation rejected by the Lords, then amended and sent back can take almost a year. A government looking to push its legislative programme in a single parliament may choose to remove the most controversial elements in return for an easier passage through the Lords. In this way, just the threat of Lords scrutiny can be enough to moderate the output of the Commons.
by fc417fc802 | 2026-03-12 07:14:58+00:00
From a copyright office report [0] linked in that issue section:

> in many circumstances these outputs will be copyrightable in whole or in part—where AI is used as a tool, and where a human has been able to determine the expressive elements they contain. Prompts alone, however, at this stage are unlikely to satisfy those requirements

I'll just note that "unlikely" doesn't mean "not possible".

It's an interesting question but it's perplexing to me that an IP lawyer of all people would be suggesting to remove a license that might or might not apply in practice. Removing it could have legal consequences if it turns out to be copyrightable. Whereas leaving the notice there wouldn't be expected to have any consequences in the event that it turns out not to apply. Particularly the notice for a permissive OSI license.

To begin with the project is MIT licensed which amounts to public domain with extra steps. So it's the same thing at the end of the day regardless of how the law turns out.

On top of that, even if we suppose the LLM output to be public domain as soon as you later make modifications to the file the license in the header would come into force. It's functionally no different than copy-pasting a piece of public domain code and then editing it a bit.

[0] https://www.copyright.gov/ai/Copyright-and-Artificial-Intell...
by phire | 2026-03-12 07:15:24+00:00
No, capturing CO2 from combustion is hard. Ammonia plants might burn methane for heat, but they don't capture its output.

The actual Haber–Bosch process for reaction directly spits methane into Hydrogen (which is combined with Nitrogen from the air) leaving CO2 as a byproduct.

The resulting CO2 is relatively pure, and it's already captured. You can feed it into anther process (such as Urea) or sell it for carbonisation of drinks.
by palmotea | 2026-03-12 07:16:16+00:00
> Seems like, the kind that will award a $70 million contract to a guy with a hotmail address.

Why do you mention something like that without providing a link?

It anyone's interested, it's the "Cyber Apex Solutions, LLC" contract, and this looks like it has more info: https://www.washingtontechnology.com/2017/07/dhs-picks-cyber.... It looks like it's from 9 years ago.
by vasco | 2026-03-12 07:16:29+00:00
If you're a random worker of a huge organization and it gets bought or co-opted, yes you should jog on. Go help someone else that hasn't been co-opted.

This is why even though I'm generally a progressive I'm against unions. The solution to bad owners is everyone quitting their company. This was not feasible in a town with a single factory but is very feasible today. Quit working for bad people and bad people will change or become powerless. Prolong the ability for them to keep workers and they will keep being exactly as they are.
by ramon156 | 2026-03-12 07:16:39+00:00
I had a project I already tried out in Symfony and then full typescript, both a normal REST setup and ORPC. They all felt like - at scale - they became messy and I was unsure where goes what.

I gave RoR a try last year, and so far I'm at the same level I was with the other projects but I actually enjoy programming the project after the PoC phase. Maybe because third time's a charm? Maybe because I know what I need to do? Who knows! But RoR fits in that idiom.

Just to note, its a really boring app thats been done before (odeva.app)
by Zanfa | 2026-03-12 07:17:18+00:00
> Accelerate your agents with convention over configuration. Ruby on Rails scales from PROMPT to IPO. Token-efficient code that's easy for agents to write and beautiful for humans to review

This is so painful... I can't help but wonder who they're trying to target with such inane slogans.

Rails is amazing, but "token-efficiency" is not on the list of reasons why.
by adityaathalye | 2026-03-12 07:17:36+00:00
> ... in experiments in which all outer sensation is withdrawn, the subject begins a furious fill-in or completion of senses that is sheer hallucination. So the hotting-up of one sense tends to effect hypnosis, and the cooling of all senses tends to result in hallucination.

Must quote the last paragraph of Chapter 2: "Hot and Cold media", from Marshall McLuhan's Understanding Media, which I've double-underlined.

For it simultaneously explains to me; TikTok (quick consume-scroll-like-react-"create" dopamine hit cycles) and LLMs (outsourcing the essential mechanical friction of thinking (which requires all senses, for me at least))...

The essential friction of deliberate, first-party speech-making---misspellings and all---is why voice and conversation contains life.
by pjc50 | 2026-03-12 07:17:43+00:00
Not hereditary, but SCOTUS functions somewhat worse than the House Of Lords: unelected, unremovable, life appointments, but ability to change the law. Hence the decades spent shifting the balance to reverse Roe v Wade.

A lot of important US freedoms only came from the courts in spite of the legislatures, which I think is an under appreciated problem of the system.

The US system skews much older for some reason too. The only president born after 1946 was Obama. Like being stuck in a time warp.
by CitizenKorea | 2026-03-12 07:17:58+00:00
For those who want to verify the findings or dive deeper into the mathematical framework, here are the primary sources:

Theoretical Framework (Zenodo):
I have archived the full Technical Reports (Vol 1-6) on Zenodo. It covers the geometric derivation of the pi-Matrix and the absolute scaling constant.
https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.18976813

Primary Data for Verification:
Here is the specific SNX data file used in my analysis for immediate testing:
http://garner.ucsd.edu/pub/products/2392/COD0OPSFIN_20253170...

Open Directory for Independent Audits:
To ensure no cherry-picking, you can browse and download any other global GNSS product data from the public directory here:
http://garner.ucsd.edu/pub/products/

I challenge any data scientist or physicist to pick a random date, run the data through the geometric calibration, and see if the residuals don't align to the same linearity.
by austin-cheney | 2026-03-12 07:18:01+00:00
The catch-22 for getting any first job is to invest time into that which appeals to the desires of the hiring personnel. That said they still have to choose to invest that time into either skills advancement or trendiness.

What they can do is reach out to hiring managers at various employers to get a feel for what job providers actually want. The challenge there is finding people and asking the correct questions. It’s the same challenge most hiring managers have, so once they solve it from their perspective they will be uniquely advantaged.
by throwa356262 | 2026-03-12 07:18:44+00:00
This is a very odd take.

Apple decided to not patch a couple of iphones and ipads a few years ago. 6s was the oldest one at that time but even that was still within the update window.

The fact that they now have to patch them 3-4 year after the discovery because Google found them to be targeted in the wild should not be presented as a win for Apple.
by vintermann | 2026-03-12 07:18:59+00:00
There's a long political tradition which doesn't acknowledge that there are political questions. In their world, there's only good policy and bad policy, and making the first is only a question of competence. Conflicts of interests they won't talk about. These people fight a constant battle to take political power away from people (not just regular people, elected representatives as well), and give it to their preferred "experts".
by gatreddi | 2026-03-12 07:19:15+00:00
I work in compliance, and we see this daily. "Do you have an incident response plan?" is trivially easy to verify. But actually finding and assembling that evidence across AWS, Google Docs, Jira, and Slack? That's the hard part nobody benchmarks for.

Curious if BrowseComp accounts for domain-specific retrieval or if it's mostly general web search.