MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by swed420 | 2026-03-12 21:17:10+00:00
> the smart choice was to nominate Elizabeth Warren, who is a fantastic campaigner. But Harris was the choice to appease the identity activists. They killed Dems’ chances in 2024 even before Biden’s term began.

And back when we had an actual primary (rigged, with an overcrowded field), Warren was the choice to appease the 'progressive' identity activists who attempted, with the help of Warren, to tar & feather Bernie as an old white misogynist. They all pretended to have some knock-off version of Medicare For All because it polled so well, only to rugpull the concept as soon as Bernie was booted out.

Dems know how to win, but it's against capital's wishes, so they obey accordingly as controlled opposition via illusory democracy and choice.
by quickthrowman | 2026-03-12 21:17:15+00:00
It’s obvious from the one photo they posted of the actual suspect that the lady they arrested is about 20-30 years older than the woman in the bank photo. The woman in the photo is maybe 25-30 years old, this grandma looks like she’s 65-70 (actual age of 50).

Absolutely ridiculous, I hope she wins her civil case.
by derefr | 2026-03-12 21:17:32+00:00
> There is a difference between "putting up a sign that says 55 mph and walking away", "putting up a sign that says 55 mph and occasionally enforcing it with expensive humans when they get around to it", and "putting up a sign that says 55 mph and rigidly enforcing it to the exact mph through a robot". Nominally, the law is "don't go faster than 55 mph". Realistically, those are three completely different policies in every way that matters.

...and there's also a large difference between any of those three shifts, and the secular shift (i.e. through no change in regulatory implementation whatsoever!) that occurs when the majority of traffic begins to consist of autonomous vehicles that completely ignore the de facto flow-of-traffic speeds, because they've been programmed to rigorously follow the all laws, including posted de jure speed limits (because the car companies want to CYA.)

Which is to say: even if regulators do literally nothing, they might eventually have to change the letter of the law to better match the de facto spirit of the law, lest we are overcome by a world of robotic "work to rule" inefficiencies.

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Also, a complete tangent: there's also an even-bigger difference between any of those shifts, and the shift that occurs when traffic calming measures are imposed on the road (narrowing, adding medians, adding curves, etc.) Speed limits are an extremely weird category of regulation, as they try to "prompt" humans to control their behavior in a way that runs directly counter to the way the road has been designed (by the very state imposing the regulations!) to "read" as being high- or low-speed. Ideally, "speed limits" wouldn't be a regulatory cudgel at all; they'd just be an internal analytical calculation on the way to to figuring out how to design the road, so that it feels unsafe to go beyond the "speed limit" speed.
by pauletienney | 2026-03-12 21:17:40+00:00
We might be in a kind of uncanny valley. Models may become good and "independant" enough to compare to a colleague.

I feel the solution is either reduce drastically time between each interaction with the agent OR increase it by a lot (every 2 or 3 hours).

Maybe we do not have the right workflow yet. Maybe the work with an agent should be more async.

I guess we will figure out.
by xenadu02 | 2026-03-12 21:17:46+00:00
> No bank would agree to such nonsense

Ohhhh a live one! Sir do I have a wonderful bridge in Brooklyn to sell you! :)

Fun fact: banks fund this sort of nonsense constantly. I've asked about this before: why they do it. They must be making money I just don't know how. The LBO guys pay themselves massive management fees and dump the debt on the company so they walk away scott free.

My wild guess was the banks offload the eventual IPO onto investors and so make their money on the IPO fees and funneling their own clients the dead-man-walking shares. But I honestly don't know.
by Avamander | 2026-03-12 21:18:01+00:00
> A recent LinkedIn post that I came across as an example of people trusting (or learning to trust) AI too much while not realizing that it can make up numbers too

Honestly, people make them up just as much or generate equally incorrect graphs.

It's about time our trust into random visualizations is destroyed, without the actual formulas and data behind being exposed.
by BambaNugat | 2026-03-12 21:18:46+00:00
did we give JS prototype chains a bit too much power somewhere along the way? The same flexibility that makes lodash plugins, deep merge utilities, and dynamic config libraries so convenient is the reason prototype pollution keeps showing up everywhere, it hit Kibana hard enough for RCE back in 2019, took down Blitz.js in 2022, and now here we are again. graphql-upload-minimal lets you control where uploaded files get mapped, send a tiny file whose entire content is just literally 'true' and map it to __proto__.isAdmin via a file upload request, now every object in the Node.js process thinks it's an admin until the server restarts
by snadal | 2026-03-12 21:18:56+00:00
Nice! I’ll try this soon, and I’m afraid I’ll end up using it a lot.

@jrswab, do you think it would be feasible to limit outgoing connections to a whitelist of domains, URLs, or IP addresses?

I’d like to automate some of my email, calendar, or timesheet tasks, but I’m concerned that a prompt injection could end up exfiltrating or deleting data. In fact, that’s the main reason why I’m not using Openclaw or similar projects with real data yet.
by dang | 2026-03-12 21:19:31+00:00
That might take me another decade.

I'm joking, but we've always resisted partitioning HN. Here a bunch of past explanations about that: https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&que...

I do sort of like the idea (suggested by mthurman) that we let users prompt HN to be the kind of HN they want. That could be the ultimate dump of long-requested features (dark mode! tags! blocklists!)
by overfeed | 2026-03-12 21:19:42+00:00
> Likely prosecuted by the both the state and city attorney for violating privacy laws already on the books.

Recording in places where there is no expectations of privacy is legal, and it would be very useful to establish case law that establishes that scaling up can impugn privacy. I selfishly don't want to be a defendant since I can't afford it, but if I won the lottery jackpot, this is what I'd be working on.
by aurareturn | 2026-03-12 21:20:04+00:00
Luckily debt will be solved by the power of AGI, right? Just one more data centre! One more GPU! It can nearly write a basic three tier application with only 10 critical security vulnerabilities all by itself!

If you read the article, it says the default is directly related to the sell off of software stocks, which are heavy private credit borrowers.

What caused the SaaS apocalypse? Gen AI.

I'm long on AI hardware companies for this reason.
by alephnerd | 2026-03-12 21:20:10+00:00
Yep! My SO's Vietnamese and we've both been able to cook pretty decent Viet and Korean (Hallyu wave is a thing) food with electric stoves despite her being used to LNG and charcoal in VN.

The marginal difference in taste is literally just due to certain cultivars not being available here. Ofc, a half decent Vietnamese sourced nuoc mam solves everything but those are available at our Costco.
by thaumasiotes | 2026-03-12 21:21:19+00:00
> So, ATMs did impact bank teller jobs by a significant amount. A third of them were made redundant. It's just that the decrease at individual bank branches was offset by the increase in the total number of branches, because of deregulation and a booming economy and whatever else.

There's an important point here that you're glossing over. The increase in the total number of branches doesn't have to be unrelated to the decrease in the number of tellers each branch requires to operate. The sharp drop in the cost of operating one branch directly means that you can have more branches. This means it isn't true that "a third of bank tellers were made redundant" - some of them were reallocated from existing branches to new ones.
by ahmed-fathi | 2026-03-12 21:21:49+00:00
Code style still matters, but the reason has shifted and that shift is worth being precise about.

The old argument was humans read code, so write for humans. The new reality is LLMs also read code, and they read it differently. They don't get lost in deep nesting the way a junior dev does, but they are surprisingly sensitive to naming ambiguity, inconsistent abstraction levels, and context fragmentation across files. A well-structured codebase gives the model a coherent "world model" to reason within. A spaghetti codebase gives it conflicting signals, and it hallucinates confidently in the gaps.

So the argument for style hasn't disappeared it's been redirected. You're now writing for two audiences the human reviewer and the model that will modify it next.

The part I'd push back on in your framing "the object design is terrible" is not a style issue. That's the part that actually breaks down under AI-assisted development. Models are very good at generating locally coherent code and very bad at maintaining global architectural integrity across iterations. Bad object design doesn't become invisible to LLMs, it compounds. Every subsequent generation inherits and amplifies the structural confusion.
by 2uryaa | 2026-03-12 21:21:55+00:00
We usually charge by GPU hour for those finetunes, around 8-10 dollars depending on GPU type and volume! This is similar to Modal, but since the engine is fully ours, you don't wait ~1 min for cold starts. Ideally, we will make onboarding super frictionless and self serve, but onboarding people manually for now.
by randallsquared | 2026-03-12 21:22:15+00:00
The reason that has to be done is precisely that the law has no common, well-architected rationale. The vast majority of law in common-law jurisdictions is ad hoc precedent from decades or centuries ago, patchwork laws that match current, ephemeral intuition about what the law should be, etc. Perfect and inevitable enforcement makes this situation a nightmare, given the expectation that the average US citizen commits multiple felonies per day. Something will have to give.
by xenadu02 | 2026-03-12 21:22:27+00:00
Funny enough Chinese State owned banks have been doing much the same for quite some time. No one ever defaults, loans are extended as long as it takes. Presumably the threat of being called into the next party meeting to explain yourself is sufficient motivation for the people running the business to pivot as many times as it takes until they find a way to make money. Worst case the state swaps someone else into leadership.

I say this to say... who knows? I guess if you shuffle deck chairs fast enough everything works out fine (?)
by gdiamos | 2026-03-12 21:22:38+00:00
One of my lessons in using different accelerators, whether they be different NVIDIA versions, or GPU->TPU, etc is that someone needs to do this work of indexing, partitioning, mapping, scheduling, and benchmarking. That work is labor intensive.

In this case, google has already done it, and that will be true for high resourced accelerator companies like Google working with the most popular operations like attention.

As long as you use those operations, you are okay. But if you do something different, you need to be prepared to do all of this yourself.
by notanastronaut | 2026-03-12 21:23:10+00:00
>>However, with the recent chat based AI models, this agreement has been turned around. It is now easier to get a written message than to read it. Reading it now takes more effort. If a person is not going to take the time to express messages based on their own thoughts, then they do not have sufficient respect for the reader, and their comments can be dismissed for that reason.

Unless you're a billionaire* or a CEO firing off memos where you fire half your company's workforce.

u got to be powerful to puond out a txt this way and have ppl still listen to u.

Otherwise, it is getting dismissed because 'you didn't put enough effort into the comment, so I'm not going to read it.'

That is amusing to me.

*Reference to the analysis performed on the Epstein emails and texts.
by paganel | 2026-03-12 21:24:02+00:00
> It is quite independent in Italy actually.

Ask any Romanian and they'll tell you they're not. Ask them about the Mario Iorgulescu case [1], with the Italian justice system refusing to extradite him here to Romania only because his (wealthy) dad paid the right people off. And Iorgulescu is not the only such case.

[1] https://www.romaniajournal.ro/society-people/law-crime/mario...
by ninjagoo | 2026-03-12 21:24:05+00:00
> Those aren't super rare these days, I don't know why arbitrary credentials would matter for this purpose

It's an indicator that that demographic isn't opposed to using AI as a conversational tool and find it useful for that purpose - an instant, "smarter" library, if you will.

> The actual fact was incidental, and this conflict regularly led to impasse where I'd clarify I don't care what the internet says etc.. and I'm fine with that because he wasn't really interested in thought exercises.

Thought exercises are better, imho, when they're grounded in facts. Why wouldn't you care what the facts are? Can one have the same level of discourse about space with someone who isn't aware that the Earth is round and thinks it is flat?

> A concrete hypothetical mundane example might be posing "How do you think the Iran war might impact gas prices here?" and they'd just look up the history and trends, and then kind of stop there. Dull, I want a human response, speculate and build on it, let yourself be wrong.

Color me confused. Are you looking for a panic or doomsday response or? What does "human response" even mean? A human looked at the history and trends, that's that human's response to the question!

Looking up the history and trends, and building on those facts could be a deeper dive into the wonders of economics, an exploration of the interconnected-ness and dependence of the various parts of the economy on oil and gas (fertilizer, plastics, and their downstream industries), where the fractionating plants are, where they get their raw materials from, how tied into futures contracts those are, who's got long-term contracts insulating them from the impact, what's that % of folks insulated for 3 months, 6 months, 12 months etc. etc.

I have to say, asking me to speculate and build on a topic that I know nothing about would invite a 'lookup' response from me as well; that's just (imho) a critical thinker style. Once the lookup is done, as a questioner, may I suggest asking probing questions to move the conversation forward - that's what I do.

Just out of curiosity, are you a D&D player, or a Fantasy or adjacent creative? I'm wondering what sort of nature would want to elicit an ungrounded speculative response, and I can imagine an enjoyer or creator of fantasy looking for a creative, speculative, thought exercise with a real world question as a starting point.
by alephnerd | 2026-03-12 21:24:31+00:00
> Again, this is a country that could have gotten a sweetheart deal from Iran

India has a deal with Iran as well and the first ship to sail via Hormuz after the conflict started (the Shenlong Suezmax) ended up in India [0]

India giving sanctuary to an Iranian naval ship and offering sanctuary to a second one - which their captain rejected and is now at the bottom of the Indian Ocean (IRIS Dena) [1] - bought India the goodwill needed to implement the deal mentioned above.

[0] - https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2026-03-12/india-in-...

[1] - https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c2e4yxj0pd3o
by vinniedkator | 2026-03-12 21:24:36+00:00
And the larger ddial sysops would daisy chain multiple Apple IIes together. A connector would take up one port on each machine. Two machine would give you 12 modems. Each new machine after the second would add space for 5 modems (-1 on old machine, +6 on new machine). For the sysop it was a big investment for very little, if any, monetary reward. I remember a user account would cost $5 a month.

Our ddial was a few towns away so we bought a line in the exchange in between that would forward to the ddial. This way we would not pay a bunch on long distance calls.
by cogman10 | 2026-03-12 21:24:44+00:00
> Would this is safe to do on a sunny warm weather? Would body heat plus the sun ruin the cream?

It's fairly safe. You can leave dairy products unrefrigerated for an uncomfortable amount of time :) Butter, in particular, can last for days outside a fridge.

The bacteria that tends to infest dairy products will usually (but not always) turn it into something tasty like yogurt.

Don't get me wrong, you can definitely get sick from spoiled dairy products, but it's not a 100% thing.
by asdff | 2026-03-12 21:24:47+00:00
Geopolitics are an entirely optional game of course that just amounts to trading seats of who gets entitled to be owner of some thing that one can hardly even say is ownable outside the legal definition. Seems to me there is no actual reason why the middle east has to look like the middle east and not midwest USA. Israel arming itself should be seen as just as absurd as say the city of Cleveland arming itself due to Detroit.

Kind of interesting how we have some areas of the world where there are no geopolitics and people live in peace and don't see any differences between the people they come across in the grocery store. And other places in the world where those vary same cultures in that midwestern grocery store might now be picking up arms against eachother.

And also kind of interesting how no one cares to highlight this cognitive dissonance we have, how an israeli and a persian can live as neighbors in the US, but in the middle east they are water and oil.
by mort96 | 2026-03-12 21:25:06+00:00
I don't know what you mean by an "Android ARM64 binary". If you make an ELF file containing ARM64 machine code, it doesn't matter to Linux whether you meant for it to run on Linux in an Android system, on Linux in a desktop GNU system, or on Linux in some environment with without much of a userspace at all (such as a stripped down initramfs environment).

If you mean something like an Android app, the answer is that there's a ton of system stuff that the app depends on, it interacts with more than just the kernel.
by rrojas-nexus | 2026-03-12 21:27:06+00:00
I built a collection of 34 developer tools that run entirely client-side — no backend, no accounts, no data collection.

- JSON/SQL/YAML formatters, Base64, URL encoder, Hash generator (Web Crypto API)
- CSS visual tools: gradient, box-shadow, text-shadow, border-radius generators
- Image compressor (Canvas API), SVG to PNG, color palette generator
- Regex tester, JWT decoder, chmod calculator, cron builder, diff checker
- Password generator using crypto.getRandomValues (not Math.random)

Stack: Next.js 15 (SSR for SEO), TypeScript, Tailwind CSS v4. Near-zero npm dependencies — custom SQL tokenizer, custom markdown parser, custom LCS diff algorithm.

Available in EN/ES/PT. MIT licensed.

Source: https://github.com/nexustools-dev/nexus-tools
by dworks | 2026-03-12 21:27:08+00:00
>I do think there are opportunities in this space, but what I'd like to see is:

>* write text specifications

>* model transforms text into a formal specification

>* then the formal spec is translated into code which can be verified against the spec

This skill does just that:
https://github.com/doubleuuser/rlm-workflow

Each stage produces its own output artifact (analysis, implementation plan, implementation summary, etc) and takes the previous phases' outputs as input. The artifact is locked after the stage is done, so there is no drift.
by bdamm | 2026-03-12 21:27:13+00:00
You've described a space station, which three countries have already done independently (Mir, SkyLab, Tiangong).

But dropping rods from an orbiting platform makes no sense. There's a reason that "Rods from God" didn't pan out, and it has to do with orbital dynamics. Neither Bezos nor Musk can do it, because it actually doesn't work.
by hn_acc1 | 2026-03-12 21:27:25+00:00
I mean, if I could live at my current level (middle class) without working, I would gladly do so, and let others also live at the same level, anywhere in the world, freely (if it was in my power). I do give to charity, always have, but, the crazier things get, the less secure I feel in giving $$ away.

Even replicators need feedstock - people who own the rocks or sand or whatever feeds them will start charging an arm and a leg. Sure, I could feed it dirt and rocks from my own property, but only for so long before I'm undermining the foundation of my own house. To say nothing of people who live in apartments.

And then, if everyone has equal $$, how do you decide who gets to live in the better locations / nicer housing?
by drnick1 | 2026-03-12 21:27:44+00:00
> I’m sick of this idea that “free” services are beneficial to society. There is no such thing as a free lunch; users are essentially bartering their time, attention, IP (contributed content) and personal/behavioral data in exchange for access to the service.

In aggregate, this is true, but there are many ways to game the system to one's advantage and get a true "free lunch." For example, people watching Youtube with an adblocker and logged out don't provide Google with any income or useful telemetry. Likewise you can get practically unlimited GPT/Claude/etc by using multiple accounts.
by ImPostingOnHN | 2026-03-12 21:27:50+00:00
> are the tools built in such a way as to deceive the user into a false sense of trust or certainty? _Some_ of the blame lies on the UX here. It must.

Are AI code assist tools built in such a way as to deceive the user into a false sense of trust or certainty? Very much so (even if that isn't a primary objective).

Does any part of the blame lie on the UX if a dev submits a bad change? No, none.

You are ultimately, solely responsible for your work output, regardless of which tool you choose to use. If using your tool wrong means you make someone homeless, car-less, and also you kill their dog, then you should be a lot more cautious and perform a lot more verification than the average senior engineer.
by refulgentis | 2026-03-12 21:28:02+00:00
It broke my heart to have a visceral "I'm being slop'd" reaction reading this: it's such good work, and AI's barely used AFAICT, but there's enough odd transitions and copy-pasta'd markdown that you get the subconcious "this is AI" reaction regardless.

Many sentences are 3x as long as it normally would be in subtle ways (to wit: "My flash attention is 35x slower than the fused standard at n=4096. Not a little worse. Catastrophically worse."), it really wears on attention. (pun intended) It brings literary voice to a technical blog post, and a very difficult process-oriented technical blog post. I have to reallocate my unfortunately-limited brain cells from "maintaining state of where we are in the process" to "is this cutesy fluff or important" and I've never had to do that in 37 years with technical blog posts.

The Markdown gets bad. Bolding is used for important phrases (like a human would), then, all of a sudden, after the "Inside a TPU chip" header its being used every other sentence, on anything that is a proper noun/would have a Wikipedia article. It got so weird that at some point I was like "a human definitely didn't let this through...they must be links?" and tried clicking them.

It's doubly bad at that point, because markdown tables start coming in hot and heavy too. So you're left with "It's pretty apparent the LLM did it from here, and I can't keep trying to keep the state of the process in my head while trying to figure out if the bolding is important, reflexive close tab