MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by ajross | 2026-03-02 15:28:24+00:00
>> C is the natural language for exposing Unix system calls

> No, C is the language _designed_ to write UNIX. [...]

This is one of those hilarious situations where internet discussion goes off the rails. Everything you wrote, to the last word, would carry the same meaning and the same benefit to the discussion had you written "Yes" instead of "No" as the first word.

Literally you're agreeing with me, but phrasing it as a disagreement only because you feel I left something out.
by begad_ten | 2026-03-02 15:28:24+00:00
I built Transfr AI to solve a problem I had constantly: hitting rate limits on one AI platform and having to manually copy/paste/summarize to continue on another.

It takes 5 seconds now instead of 15 minutes:
- Click extension
- Select source (Claude/ChatGPT/Gemini) and destination
- Context gets intelligently compressed and auto-injected
- Continue your conversation seamlessly

Built it in 3 days, just got approved on Chrome Web Store. Would love feedback from the HN community!

Free to use: [your Chrome Store link]
by bdangubic | 2026-03-02 15:28:26+00:00
difficult to have a change when you control just about all of the media. every decision now has a “reasonable” explanation and we past the point where people will en masse admit they fucked up. I have numerous friends who voted to the right in 2024 and it is fascinating to hear narrative after narrative and “excuses” why this is all good for us. nevermind that we had discussion in 2024 before election where just about every single reason they debated for voting to right has been shown that it was all BS… I am past the point where I believe there will be a change (it is not helping that alternative to this madness ain’t that great either)
by vunderba | 2026-03-02 15:28:40+00:00
There's a number of ways to do it. Some of them will let you create a override table that uses the IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet).

In the past, when I used the local KokoroTTS model, I did something a bit more primitive for longer texts where it constantly mispronounced a word: a pre-TTS pass with regex to replace those words with a phonetic-sounding equivalent that worked more consistently (e.g. replacing “Danish” with “Day-nish.”)
by epolanski | 2026-03-02 15:28:42+00:00
> I think you misunderstand fascism.

I think you're projecting.

Fascism, in political science, has some clear requirements: a government that controls all branches of power, lack of elections and effective ban of free speech and other political parties.

It also requires ideological aspects such as nationalism and far right politics, otherwise fascism would apply to far left dictatorships which didn't have these traits.
by saalweachter | 2026-03-02 15:28:55+00:00
What are "the actual safe limits of modern cars"?

Data from various states raising their limits over the last few decades is that every 5MPH increase in state speed limits brings with it an 8.5% increase in traffic fatalities on freeways. With the 70MPH speed limit common for freeways through most of the US, we're already up 25% on road fatalities over the 55MPH that was chosen for gas mileage during the oil crisis.

For cities, pedestrians struck at 25MPH are already at a 10% chance of death, which reaches 50% at 40MPH.
by htx80nerd | 2026-03-02 15:29:27+00:00
>What am I missing?

I will answer this question honestly. I used to be friends with a group of PhD students work worked in labs. Every week I heard their complaints. One relayed a story in which a Chinese lab mate / co-worker was refusing to following their boss (PI) directions or request, and shared secret results with another Chinese student in a competing lab.

- Their boss (the PI) had asked the Chinese student to train other labmates on some specific testing methods, they refused.

- The Chinese PhD student would simply ignore the PI emails.

- Then magically their study results end up leaked to another Chinese PhD candidate.

Chinese PhD types can 'buy' their way into labs. They have so much money no one wants to turn them away. Only the government can force it.

Most people have no idea what day-to-day life is actually like in PhD life / labs. It's a lot less "science" and way more "human drama" than you could imagine.
by jraph | 2026-03-02 15:29:48+00:00
> Tweaking user-hostile OSes into user-friendly ones is impressive, but not sustainable. Even worse, it slowing us down from leaving Android entirely.

I would say we need both a sustainable free mobile OS in the long term, and a "less worse Android" today in the meantime.

Initiatives like FairPhone paying someone to upstream device support in the mainline kernel / postmarketOS are interesting for both approaches at the same time (but extra effort would be needed, the FairPhone 5 almost working under postmarketOS [1] is kinda irritating, I hope it reaches full support before Lineage OS stops being updated for this device).

Ignoring hardware support, Linux mobile OSes are quite usable now.

Hardware support is the next step, and only then we can imagine the proprietary apps we are forced to use to work there (though Waydroid provides some answer to this as well).

Another way of helping the cause would be, I suppose, lobbying for laws that forbid the dependency on an stock Google or Apple mobile OS. Or, maybe we can dream a bit, mandatory open source releases for those apps and standard APIs.

[1] https://wiki.postmarketos.org/wiki/Fairphone_5_(fairphone-fp...
by tombert | 2026-03-02 15:30:05+00:00
I was actually aware of that; the problem with BASIC, at least with my research with homebrew C64 is that BASIC is ridiculously slow. It’s fine as a basic command line but for games I would likely not get anywhere near the performance I need.

What I am working on is stretching the NES pretty hard. Honestly I probably should do it in assembly but I like the idea of using a high level language to do it.
by ralferoo | 2026-03-02 15:30:08+00:00
Where I live almost every main road now has average speed cameras, leaving only the small residential streets without, and they are generally short enough that few people are speeding anyway. In general I approve, especially in residential areas, although the surrounding area has gone through a process of downgrading speed limits for no obvious reason, such that it seems their only intent is to annoy drivers so that they want to stop driving. Almost all the country roads in the county I live adjacent to were downgraded from national speed limit to 50mph about 10 years ago. It didn't seem to be anything to do with safety, just seemingly out of spite. I heard rumours that they were also trialing drones to spot offenders (and presumably with sufficiently good cameras to read the plate from up high). Recently, many residential places have dropped from 30mph to 20mph pretty uniformly, again seeming nothing to do with safety as it's entire suburbs (but not all suburbs in the city), even on long straight roads with excellent visibility that would have been safe with limits above the original 30. Doing 20 on these seems completely unnecessary and it's hard to see it as anything other than a revenue generation tactic.
by SunshineTheCat | 2026-03-02 15:30:20+00:00
I keep reading folks saying OpenClaw has completely changed their life while posting a picture of 58 mac minis on their desk.

But every single use case I've read so far could be done with a pretty affordable SaaS product, Zapier, Automator (app on a mac that's existed for over a decade), or something simple you could make yourself.

It also feels like people are automating things that don't really need to be automated at all (do you really need to be reminded to make coffee?)

I fully realize this is probably me being a curmudgeon, however, I have yet to see someone make an actual, practical use case for it. (I would genuinely like to know one, I just haven't seen it)
by boomlinde | 2026-03-02 15:30:31+00:00
The effect of a Harberger tax on intellectual property would probably be an upwards transfer of ownership of intellectual property, from people who can't afford to pay taxes on whatever those 100,000x more wealthy are willing to pay.

A Harberger tax might work well in economist-land, where any discrepancy between what wealth I could extract from my property and what wealth I actually extract from it represents an inefficiency that can be addressed by a transfer of ownership at market value at no inconvenience to the original owner. In reality, there are many other reasons than market value that I might hold onto intellectual property.
by Glyptodon | 2026-03-02 15:30:31+00:00
The US is not significantly constrained - the current SCOTUS is more like an agreived clerical council than serious arbiter of the Constitution, while Trump has clearly been hoping to do away with meaningful elections (and the failures are more so because of how oddly ineffective/silly his faction can be than real systemic resilience). Similarly, he has majorities in Congress, which are just enough to let him do whatever he wants. I will grant that these MAGATs haven't fully succeeded, but it's more like they're 2/3ds of the way there and oddly bad at parts of the game than separation of powers, the courts, etc., working.

On a different level I've been unsure whether it'sgood to call it facsism. But it's effectively at least a stepchild.
by notepad0x90 | 2026-03-02 15:30:33+00:00
I wish it was just media. And it's certainly not random, I wouldn't expect violence in a decent neighborhood. But I would on the subway in NYC for example (depends on the line too I guess). And by violence I don't mean necessarily assault, but anything that involves the cops, getting arrested, etc.. or certain forms of mistreatment (even though it's a stretch to call them violence).

I mentioned attractiveness because when I dress up nice and lose weight, it's a wildly different world. When that isn't the case I'd say at least 60% of my interactions with people is negative. Out of that I'd say maybe 2% is extreme enough to be considered violence in my view.

I'll say this though, I didn't mean we should avoid interaction or being nice to each other in the off chance people are unpleasant or unkind. I'm just saying, don't go into it with that expectation unless you're pleasant to look at yourself.

Some people, especially as they grow old (and especially women unfortunately), see a remarkable decline in how they're treated, and that in turn causes them to be jaded towards people. If you don't tie how people respond to you to how you treat them to begin with (It's huge struggle for me, not preaching here), it's less of a bitter pill.
by mc32 | 2026-03-02 15:30:39+00:00
The majority of Americans want to preserve jobs for Americans. It’s a minority of people who would agree with your position. It’s like voter IDs. Even a majority of Democrats would agree with requiring IDs at polling stations. Only a minority are against it, according to polls. In addition many of the poorest of countries require IDs for voting but some people frame it as a fascist opinion. That would imply lots of the world is fascist as they implement ID requirements for voting.
by hiAndrewQuinn | 2026-03-02 15:31:07+00:00
>First, there is no such thing as a [socially] successful person who has never ever creeped anyone out. Give yourself permission to be creepy. I am not saying that you should go around trying to creep people out; of course, if you know something is going to scare someone, you shouldn’t do it; it is best that one avoid becoming Harvey Weinstein. But miscommunications, awkwardness, and misunderstandings happen. Sometimes people make mistakes. You are not going to become Harvey Weinstein by accident. Most people have interacted with someone who has creeped them out at some point, and it does not exactly cause lifelong damage. And while there can be some negative consequences, particularly of creeping people out at work, if you ask [about] a random stranger['s day] at a bookstore or something and they’re creeped out, you know what will happen? Absolutely nothing. The [social] police will not come lock you up for creepiness in the third degree.

Lightly adapted from [1], which is actually the best article online about how to find love and date.

[1] https://thingofthings.wordpress.com/2018/05/25/models-a-summ...
by gib444 | 2026-03-02 15:31:09+00:00
That is a pretty poor and disappointing reply to be honest.

They asked a reasonable question and you barely even responded to anything they asked. The community deserves a response to the question.

What with this new chapter, it might be better for someone else to handle PR and comms for the project

(Signed, passionate GrapheneOS user of a few years)
by eleventyseven | 2026-03-02 15:31:25+00:00
> Throughout this series, “we” refers to maderix (human) and Claude Opus 4.6 (by Anthropic) working as a pair. The reverse engineering, benchmarking, and training code were developed collaboratively

Sure, "collaboratively." Why would I ever trust a vibe coded analysis? How do I, a non expert in this niche, know that Opus isn't pulling a fast one on both of us? LLMs write convincing bullshit that even fools experts. Have you manually verified each fact in this piece? I doubt it. Thanks for the disclaimer, it saved me from having to read it.
by voxleone | 2026-03-02 15:31:35+00:00
I’ve found a workflow that feels both structured and respectful of professional craft, especially in the context of this thread. I don’t just "vibe code" and let an LLM fill in the blanks. I use a classic design discipline (UML and use-cases) to document the process: 1. Start with requirements – 2.Define use cases - 3. Implement classes/objects (Architecture first, not after-the-fact refactors) 4. Add constraints and invariants (Contracts, boundaries, failure modes, etc.) - 5. Let the agent work inside that frame, pausing at milestones for human oversight.

Those UML/use-case/constraint artifacts aren’t committed as session logs per se, but they are part of the author’s intent and reasoning that gets committed alongside the resulting code. That gives future reviewers the why as well as the what, which is far more useful than a raw AI session transcript.

Stepping back, this feels like a decent and dignified position for a programmer in 2026: humans retain architectural judgement --> AI accelerates boilerplate and edge implementation --> version history still reflects intent and accountability rather than chat transcripts. I can’t afford to let go of the productivity gains that flow from using AI as part of a disciplined engineering process, but I also don’t think commit logs should become a dumping ground for unfiltered conversation history.
by wizzwizz4 | 2026-03-02 15:31:40+00:00
> Mice usually clear drugs faster, not slower, than humans

… I knew that. That was one of the few things here I knew. But I read the LLM explanation and it looked right, so I started questioning other things instead, and got myself confused enough about basic anatomy that I didn't realise I was confused. (At one point, I decided that "blood goes through the liver and kidneys at the same rate as it goes through the heart" was a reasonable approximation, which is obviously false.)

And this despite that I was specifically watching out for LLM bullshit, and trying my hardest not to believe it. I guess this is evidence for my claim that LLMs are a terrible way for non-experts to learn about a topic, but wow, I was not playing the role in this argument that I thought I was.

> Maybe you're arguing that it's an oversimplification

Nope. That sounds like my genre of pedantry, but I didn't (and don't) understand the topic well enough to make that argument, so I wasn't. I was arguing that the description paints a picture of something unrealistic.

> Come on, you can't possibly think this is a valid criticism,

It's the criticism I fact-checked most thoroughly! So… yes, I just made it up to have something to say. (Honestly, the "just inject it near the tumour site" thing is extremely dubious, too: that would only work if you somehow eliminated blood flow through the tumour.)

> If you're not familiar with the term "tumor architecture", it takes five seconds to put it into Google Scholar

I put it into Internet Archive Scholar, forgot the quotes, and it just showed me machine-learning papers; so since I'd never heard of it before, I assumed the term was was made up. Lesson learned. (The term is much rarer than "tumour microenvironment" in the literature, but it does appear once on the Wikipedia page for tumor microenvironment, so I'm not sure how I missed it.) I can't figure out what the term actually means, but it does clearly mean something, and has done since at least 1971 (and probably earlier). doi:10.1136/bjo.78.11.871 sort of explains, but not really.

You mentioned textbooks in another comment. Do you have a textbook recommendation? I think I clearly need remedial study.
by jfengel | 2026-03-02 15:32:15+00:00
It is too easy, which is why I don't find it funny.

But often, people don't seem to mind telling "easy" jokes... perhaps because they don't have the requisite wit to invent difficult ones.

Minorities have their own jokes. They don't need you to invent ones for them. If you're close enough to members of the minority, they'll tell you the jokes. If you're not in on the existing jokes, it implies that you're not in a position to be making up ones for them.
by swiftcoder | 2026-03-02 15:32:16+00:00
> TL;DR sometimes it's not Apple, it's the app devs that deprecate them.

Are the app devs deprecating just because their support matrix is too big, or because current SDKs will no longer build apps compatible with those devices?

I think the later case is less common on the Android side of the fence, but Apple is not great about keeping old versions of the dev tools functional, and you end up needing to keep elderly Macs around to target older versions of the OS.
by Noaidi | 2026-03-02 15:32:40+00:00
Part of the issue with the 16E is that is is using a binned A18 chip. when I heard it was using the A18 chip I decided to buy it, but it seems the GPU sucks, and Glass is so GPU intensive so...

https://www.macrumors.com/2025/02/21/iphone-16e-geekbench-bi...

It was fine without liquid glass, but I unfortunately missed the downgrade window,
by adampunk | 2026-03-02 15:32:44+00:00
The problem is “hallucination” might mean this:

You tell the agent “go do thing A” the agent replies “sure thing buddy, I’ll do that”, noodles, then reports “I’ve done that thing!” MEANWHILE, in reality, the agent has done something totally different—maybe they did a subset, failed completely, made an unrelated change.

Later, you find and FIX the problem but the chat has no record of it because there is *genuinely no point* to telling an agent “you screwed that up,” unless you want that agent to fix it.

Now that session has a completely fictitious story which will seem to correspond with reality only because of out of band action. It’s worse than worthless!

Session chat has only a tenuous and poorly marked match to reality, there is no reason to preserve it.
by graypegg | 2026-03-02 15:33:02+00:00
Just to toss on some info you might already know, the mention about grouping is related to group theory. [0] If a set satisfies those 3 axioms, there's some assertions you can build off that are common to all group theory sets, and having an identity element is one of them. It's weird that it's NOT zero, but in this case, infinity behaves LIKE zero. (Imagine going infinitely along the curve on the x-axis towards the open part of the curve, so therefore going infinitely up/down the y-axis. At somepoint, you're essentially have a vertical line between the original point, and your infinitely far away point, which points at the exact opposite side of the curve, which reflects back to the original point.) For natural numbers, zero is the identity, since X + 0 = X, in the same way P + infintelyfarawaypoint = P in this set.

To use a dumb analogy, it's polymorphism where your interface is something like regular old natural numbers: as long as your class behaves like natural numbers in some key ways, you can pass them to any add()/subtract()/multiply() functions relying on that behaviour.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Group_(mathematics)#Definition
by fidotron | 2026-03-02 15:34:05+00:00
What's so incredible about OpenClaw is so much of the value people are deriving from it relates to: cron jobs, remote access, "privacy" (which really it's not if using remote LLMs) and an inability to fuse data across siloes by normal people, so relying on AI to do it.

If we had a decent technical universe much of this stuff would work in ways that simply don't require LLMs for anything other than the initial setup.
by brtkwr | 2026-03-02 15:34:18+00:00
I got OpenClaw to compile Node from source on my old Jetson Nano so that I can run OpenClaw natively instead of using Bun. It took 30 hours but it did it by spinning up a tmux session for the build and using a cron to monitor the tmux pane every hour and even fixing a failure at 5 am which I would have had to find out later had crashed but it had actually found what needed to be changed for the build to continue and it continued building.... Now I have the latest version of OpenClaw running on Node 22 on my 5 year old Jetson Nano running Ubuntu 18 which I cannot upgrade. What they say is all true, it is incredible stuff when it works!

Full story: https://brtkwr.com/posts/2026-03-02-upgrading-openclaw-to-la...
by AlotOfReading | 2026-03-02 15:34:47+00:00
Several months later, the state changes the speed limit on the street without changing the ticket check. Some time after, traffic authorities add a bypass road or a fast lane to deal with the new traffic problems and forget to update the timings. Then it's reported that a rural municipality set timing thresholds just below the speed limit to cover budgetary shortfalls.

Eventually the camera manufacturers offer "easy setup" systems that dynamically adjust based on actual journey times. This works fine until the first office holiday, when the routine congestion is gone.
by burkaman | 2026-03-02 15:34:55+00:00
It makes sense to stop poaching talented scientists and instead let them continue working for your adversaries? I don't understand how this improves national security. The proposed rule is actually worse than this:

> The changes are part of proposed rules aimed at increasing security that would limit, to 3 years, the maximum length of time visiting international researchers can work at NIST.

If researchers know that they cannot stay in the US permanently and will be forced to return to their home country in a few years, it guarantees that they must maintain ties to that home country and dramatically increases their incentive to spy. What would you do if your government asked you to spy during a temporary stay abroad, and threatened you with arrest upon your return if you refuse?
by pluc | 2026-03-02 15:35:03+00:00
It's the novelty of the technology. You can easily be amazed at the apparent magic of AI. I think this is what most people are using AI for so far. There's lots of "they were so eager to do that they never asked if they should" energy out there. It's also most of what AI can do, so hopefully the amazement wears off soon.
by wlesieutre | 2026-03-02 15:35:13+00:00
I have an iPad Pro (2018) with A12X processor which at one point was a "holy crap this this is incredibly fast for how thin it is" device.

8 years later the local apps still run fast, but it struggles with web browsing.

Which is to say, you need a fast processor or web developers will out-bloat your device capabilities in a few years.