MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by billynomates | 2026-03-03 14:05:22+00:00
Impressive engineering, genuinely. But I'd push back on the framing that scaling aquaculture is straightforwardly good.

Fish sentience is increasingly well-supported in the neuroscience literature. We already kill somewhere around 1-2 TRILLION fish annually... a number that dwarfs land animal slaughter yet attracts almost no ethical scrutiny. Optimising and scaling that system is worth examining carefully.

The part of your website that says "land can't feed 10B people, wild fisheries are maxed out, therefore aquaculture" also quietly ignores plant-based protein, which is more land-efficient and doesn't require instrumentalising sentient animals at industrial scale.

I'm not saying the engineering problems aren't interesting. They clearly are. But at 1-2 trillion deaths per year, this is the largest scale of animal killing in human history, and we're building better tools to do more of it.
by pol_avec | 2026-03-03 14:05:30+00:00
Author here. I'm a software engineer with zero cybersecurity experience. I entered a beginner CTF at MWC Barcelona mostly to stress-test Pi (a coding agent) on something I knew nothing about.

The most interesting part for me was reviewing the full conversation logs afterward to figure out whether my steering actually helped or hurt. Turns out about 4 of my 24 interventions were counterproductive and the agent solved the last two phases completely on its own.

The repo has the full writeup, all the exploit scripts, and a table rating every single human message I sent: https://github.com/kafkasl/ctf

Happy to answer questions about the process, the agent, or the competition.
by eigenspace | 2026-03-03 14:05:47+00:00
This is total bullshit.

I live in Köln, and the reason people want to move to Sommerzeit year round is that during Winterzeit near the solstice, the sun rises at 8:30 and sets at 16:30, which means that most people are not getting any daytime sun if they work inside.

They get a tiny bit of sunlight right as they arrive at work, and then when they work all day, step outside and the sun is already gone, which is really depressing. Many many people look at this situation and decide that if they have to choose between light before work or after work, they'd take the light after work.
by edanm | 2026-03-03 14:06:18+00:00
I'm a purely amateur mathematician and not a physicist at all, but I completely agree with you that maths is missing this "midway between pop-math and real-math-textbook" kind of book.

One book that I can't recommend more highly is William Dunham's "Journey Through Genius". He picks ten or so the greatest proofs in math over the centuries, then proceeds to give you all the historical background about why they were created, who created them, etc, and then proceeds to give the full details of the proofs themselves. Including showing places the proof is considered wrong by modern standards.

It's my favorite "semi-pop-math" book, I highly recommend it.
by benj111 | 2026-03-03 14:06:38+00:00
You're being very disingenous.

Tom and Jerry depicts 2 beings assaulting each other which is bad.

Porn in this case depicts near incest also bad.

You could say tom and jerry is worse because that's aimed at kids, where as porn is aimed at adults who we tend to trust to tell fantasy from reality.

The comparison was then moved forward to ai porn.

That has no real people.

So is that bad?

It's a legitimate question. This isn't about reality, it's about depiction. Real people depicting a thing crosses the line. A cartoon depiction does not. Where does ai stand.

But as we all know, the line is one is violence where as one is sex, and you appear to think that it's worse to depict a normal consensual act than depict violence or murder.
by raesene9 | 2026-03-03 14:06:53+00:00
I don't think the hobbyist interest will go away, but I can see what's happening affecting business that use software.

For most businesses, software is just a means to an end, they don't really care how high quality and thoughtful the systems they use are (e.g. look at any piece of "enterprise" software)

What LLMs have done is made much much easier for orgs to launch new features and services both internally and externally, without necessarily understanding the complexity.

For me, that's what this post tapped into. Many orgs already have more complexity than they can reasonably handle. Massively accelerating development, is not going to make that problem better :)
by whizzter | 2026-03-03 14:07:32+00:00
It's one of the better abstractions given the lack of first class expressions in Java, having used EfCore/Linq a while I'd be hard pressed to like going back though.

The Linq code is native C# that can be strongly typed for ID's,etc but you can "think" in SQL terms by writing Where,Select,OrderBy and so on (I will admit that the C# world hasn't really gotten there in terms of promoting strongly typed db ID's yet but there support is there).
by roryirvine | 2026-03-03 14:07:49+00:00
It's reasonably common to sort by a either a short form of the name or the ISO code or similar, with the full name being displayed by the list.

This sometimes causes problems for the UK, which can be sorted as U, G, B, or even E (presumably for "England", making it especially annoying for people in the other countries of the UK).
by xrd | 2026-03-03 14:07:55+00:00
I recently replaced a power supply to upgrade a GPU. I bought the power supply on Cragslist, so it had a jumble of cables and no manual. In the past I would have read an article that I would have found on one of those sites.

This time I conversed entirely with Gemini, sending pictures of the cables and of the components and the motherboard.

I'll not soon forget when I plugged in a cable incorrectly and sent an image of that cable to Gemini.

Gemini said "It is very important that you stop and unplug that cable immediately... Hopefully the power supply's safety precautions kicked in before any permanent damage occurred."

I know that Gemini was conversing with me using plagiarized information from all those sites. But, it was so much better to do this than to try to synthesize that in my brain by reading a bunch of articles.

I don't see a future for tech content because Gemini isn't paying the authors and they don't give me an option to direct payments to them either.
by ssl-3 | 2026-03-03 14:07:57+00:00
The nut dispenser is awesome.

It occurs to me that the screw counter's main difficulty is in orientating the screws.

The machine does solve that (as a product of all the shaking and jostling and doubtless unjamming), but judging by the length of the feeder tube it's not a very fun step. And the end goal isn't to have screws that are each oriented in exactly the same way, but instead to have a specific quantity of screws placed in each of a series of containers.

All of that effort to orient them so precisely does make them easy to count using the nut dispenser mechanism, but that effort is otherwise ultimately discarded.

I'm lead to wonder if the process of dispensing 6 screws could be accomplished more simply (ie, with less fiddling and shaking) by reducing the amount of orientation necessary.

Perhaps by using a sorter that puts the screws in a line, axially, without a preference for heads-first or threads-first orientation?
Show HN: Use Codex/Claude Code as your personal financial assistant
by jjuniordev | 2026-03-03 14:08:17+00:00
I’ve always had this small itch where I felt that personal finance apps out there are too rigid, since everyone has varying goals and needs.

The differentiator between this and a chatbot slapped on a finance app is that you can do anything agents are currently capable of doing: perform custom calculations (since the agent has access to a Python env, it can write code and run it itself), create personalised data visualisations, run simulations on your spending patterns, and more.

The project contains a small CLI tool to access Yahoo Finance data, and markdown files to guide its behaviour. You run a coding harness (Claude Code, Codex, etc.) in the project directory so that it can access the CLI and perform file read/write ops to remember your data.

The agent collects your data and preferences at the start (stored locally), and then you can do whatever you want from there.

Github Repo: https://github.com/junnjiee/finance-agent
by devilbunny | 2026-03-03 14:08:18+00:00
> still allow

That's the thing: the idea that one must be allowed. No; you publish it, and the most the government can do is stop you from repeating it and punish you for having done so.

Note that I'm not defending the US system as perfect, or even necessarily good in all places and at all times. But it is a system that has benefits.
by port11 | 2026-03-03 14:08:20+00:00
I’m firmly anti-Tahoe and haven’t updated, and I’ve started to find Apple despicable. But…

Anyone saying they had no trouble migrating away is either lying or delusional.

Just off the top of my head: external accessory issues when Linux wakes up from sleep; trackpad quality; battery life; full-disk encryption is still spotty if you, for example, want to use ZFS; boot-level security can be a nightmare to setup (although Evil Maids aren’t a concern for me); systemd things that don’t work and don’t report they’re not working; inconsistent shortcuts for basic things.

Man, I like the ideals behind BSD and Linux, but we gotta stop pretending that basic UX stuff is done and fixed, when we know perfectly well that it’s been broken for a decade (running Linux servers or desktop-on-the-side since 2015).
by hluska | 2026-03-03 14:08:31+00:00
Republishing an article with corrected quotes is reserved for cases where an editorial team can trust the substance of an article. There is an error but that error doesn’t impact the amount of trust the editorial team has in the article.

A retraction is totally different. It means that an editorial team does not trust any of the underlying article. It’s the biggest stick in journalism and is only reserved for the absolute worst breaches of trust.

When you retract an article and then update the author’s bio to past tense, that’s as clear of a signal as you can ethically send. A publication with clout makes news and writes the first line of people’s obituaries while they’re still alive - a degree of tact, professionalism and newsworthiness comes into play.
by aurareturn | 2026-03-03 14:08:45+00:00
Whoah, both the Pro and Max CPUs feature 18 cores. This hasn't happened since M1 Pro/Max. This is a surprise.

Also, the mix of cores have changed drastically.

- 6 "Super cores"

- 12 "Performance cores"

I'm guessing these are just renamed performance and efficiency cores from previous generations.

This is a massive change from the M4 Max:

- 12 performance cores

- 4 efficiency cores

This seems like a downgrade (in core config but may not be in actual MT) assuming super = performance and performance = efficiency cores.
by wraptile | 2026-03-03 14:08:48+00:00
If I understand correctly it's just a reflection on different governing styles where Eric Raymond was a bit louder (pro gun libertarian) while Guido's strategy was more consensus-orentied and pragmatic which turned out be the winning one. PSF got IRS non-profit status etc and became incredibly successful.

Maybe someone else can fill in more but there's nothing particularly dramatic here that I could find other than Eric has become more political in culture wars era. Also see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eric_S._Raymond#Political_beli...
by crazygringo | 2026-03-03 14:08:51+00:00
I don't know what you're basing that on.

It seems entirely normal and standard to retract articles and publish a note elsewhere that it was retracted. In fact, it's common because if an article had one fabrication it might have others which you haven't discovered yet, so you don't want to keep it up.

Whether they want to announce that the journalist was fired is up to their discretion. But it's not necessary or even normal.

I don't know why you're talking about a "mark", a "scar", that "immortalizes". That's weird and frankly a little disturbing. The journalist got fired and the article got taken down and a note was made by the editor. That's accountability working as intended. I don't know why you want more than that.
by coldpie | 2026-03-03 14:08:57+00:00
So... there is a 4" Android phone out there. It's widely available, and from a major manufacturer. It's very usable, and it runs mostly stock Android. I have it, and I like it very much. Brace yourself for the reveal because you're not going to like it.

It's a foldable. It's the Motorola Razr+ or Razr Ultra (I have the 2025 Ultra). The outer screen is 4" and you can use it for almost everything you want to do. I use the outer screen probably 80+% of the time, since I prefer small phones. Every once in a while you run into an app or website that just wasn't built to function on a 4" display, but for almost everything I've tried it works great. You can then also un-fold it into a full-size 7" phablet when you need to do high-detail stuff like Maps.

There are downsides: it's expensive; it's a foldable, so reliability is a concern; and Motorola's OS support promise is not great at only like 3-4 years. But if you're willing to make those compromises, you can get a genuinely very good, small phone, right now today.

Once you get over the shock of having a foldable suggested to you (I was initially skeptical, too), give it a look. It's really genuinely a nice phone for small-phone-likers.
by Tangokat | 2026-03-03 14:09:08+00:00
"Scaling up performance from M5 and offering the same breakthrough GPU architecture with a Neural Accelerator in each core, M5 Pro and M5 Max deliver up to 4x faster LLM prompt processing than M4 Pro and M4 Max, and up to 8x AI image generation than M1 Pro and M1 Max."

Are they doubling down on local LLMs then?

I still think Apple has a huge opportunity in privacy first LLMs but so far I'm not seeing much execution. Wondering if that will change with the overhaul of Siri this spring.
by sampo | 2026-03-03 14:10:06+00:00
> and even permanent daylight time is far superior to changing clocks twice a year

This paper implies that for health, permanent standard time would be best, and permanent DST would be the worst. And even keeping the current clock-shifting would be better than permanent DST.

"The combination of DST and winter would therefore make the differences between body clocks and the social clock even worse and would negatively affect our health even more."

https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1177/07487304198541...
by roywiggins | 2026-03-03 14:10:39+00:00
I'll be honest, I'd take this more seriously if this post didn't read like ChatGPT output.

Sorry, I'll put it in hand-crafted ChatGPTese:

## The Slop Problem

Every post sounds the same. No intelligence. No individuality. Just pure, clean LLM slop. Let's dive in.

- Every post has LLM tells. This is key.

- Posts get upvoted anyway. Nobody seems to notice or indeed care.

- People acclimate to the slop. This isn't just a coincidence. This is a real shift in standards. When people read enough of this, they begin to think it sounds normal.

## The Replying Dilemma

Should you engage with the content, when there is a real person involved? On the one hand, they put their name on it, and probably the details are drawn from their prompt, so it can be said to fairly represent what they wanted to say. So maybe ragging on their ChatGPT prose is being mean. On the other hand, if nobody ever mentions this, the acclimatization will only get worse as the rising tide of slop overwhelms any other style of writing.

## The "Snobbery is good actually" Option

Relentlessly bully people for their half-baked LLM copy. Make it your whole personality. Go insane.

## The "Giving Up" Solution

Learn to stop worrying and love the LLM.
by xattt | 2026-03-03 14:10:48+00:00
Everyone is at different points in their journey. Let the DIwhy-ers have their moment. I used to want to mod out Windows XP to look like OS X. Then I had a realization that I just wanted OS X and got that as my next machine because I could.

A huge chunk of the population can’t afford to make that jump, or don’t have the will to learn a new OS.
by raesene9 | 2026-03-03 14:11:22+00:00
There's a massive difference between launching a piece of software and launching a successful business.

Over the last couple of months I've seen a load of new "product launches" in my niche but when you look at them they're largely vibecoded and don't show deep understanding and sustainability, so it's pretty likely you'll never see them as successful businesses.

Looking at some of the related places like /r/sideproject/ there's a lot of releases and I'd be willing to suggest that most of them are using LLMs
by mccoyb | 2026-03-03 14:11:26+00:00
It's fascinating to think about the space of problems which are amenable to RL scaling of these probability distributions.

Before, we didn't have a fast (we had to rely on human cognition) way to try problems - even if the techniques and workflows were known by someone. Now, we've baked these patterns into probability distributions - anyone can access them with the correct "summoning spell". Experts will naturally use these systems more productively, because they know how to coerce models into the correct conditional distributions which light up the right techniques.

One question this raises to me is how these models are going to keep up with the expanding boundary of science. If RL is required to get expert behavior into the models, what happens when experts start pushing the boundary faster? In 2030, how is Anthropic going to keep Claude "up-to-date" without either (a) continual learning with a fixed model (expanding context windows? seems hard) or (b) continual training (expensive)?

Crazy times.
by bluchen217 | 2026-03-03 14:12:01+00:00
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by jermaustin1 | 2026-03-03 14:12:14+00:00
I'm not sure how relevant this is anymore, but when I worked in SEO/Rep Management, when a website was dinged either by google or by hackers, we would usually spin up a new website as an umbrella website for the brand, fix their old site, and create a few smaller websites for the brand in specific niches (like if the brand was a bookseller, we'd have local websites, genre websites, etc.), link to the new websites by the umbrella site, then do a link analysis of the old site, and any news media with high authority, we'd have them update their links to point to the new umbrella website.

It was 100% a game of whack-a-mole. And while we were a reputation raiser, we were always combatting against reputation tarnishers. Car dealerships already have a bad reputation to begin with, but they hate eachother more than their customers hate them. They were our bread and butter. Same with tradespeople (plumbing, electrical, hvac, handy(wo)men).
by spudlyo | 2026-03-03 14:12:16+00:00
Franky, good riddance. The websites that had SEO optimized their way to the top of Google's search results for queries like "how to change DNS settings", "best free VPN", or "best wireless earbuds under $300" were generally terrible, and I can't say I'm sad that that creating that kind of "content" is no longer economically viable.

There were large categories of information had become extremely difficult to search for thanks to SEO optimized content farms like these. People switching to Reddit for discovery because of this search index pollution was a direct response to this. To me, LLMs feel like a return to the golden age of AltaVista and Google, where the Internet was a place you could reliably find the information you were looking for.
by pydry | 2026-03-03 14:12:19+00:00
The guilt trip is aimed by people who support the genocide at meek liberals who might be worried that they're not demonstrating "equal" concern about Iran.

It was the same shit back when they used to accuse meek liberals of being antisemitic for criticizing some of the most extreme racists on planet earth.

It doesnt matter how Iran frames things. This isnt a "both sides" issue. Youll only get iran's opinion if you read presstv, they dont flood english speaking forums.
by soletta | 2026-03-03 14:12:21+00:00
I’ve been doing this for a few months now (rolled my own setup with Claude Code) and it’s totally changed the way I manage my portfolio and retirement plan. I mean yes, this is something that could technically have been set up in Excel but who has the time and patience to sit around fiddling with formulas to make an accurate financial forecast?

The cherry on top is that, obviously, you can then ask Claude for thoughts on the resulting analyses and hopefully save yourself from making bad decisions.
by niam | 2026-03-03 14:12:31+00:00
If it saves anyone else the effort: I went to doublecheck the claim that those articles cited the wrong page, and it seems you're correct on The Register, but archive.org's earliest copies of the other two articles don't seem to reference the impostor site. They refer instead to the GitHub.

https://web.archive.org/web/20260301133636/https://www.there... https://web.archive.org/web/20260211162657/https://venturebe... https://web.archive.org/web/20260220201539/https://thenewsta...
by wincy | 2026-03-03 14:12:33+00:00
I typed “RAM” to search for it and boy they hammer home how lucky I am to be getting 1TB SSD standard, but no mention of RAM anywhere on this page. Anyway, the MacBook Pro starts with 16GB of RAM. It’s $400 to go from 16GB to 32GB.

Interestingly, 36-128GB models are showing as “currently unavailable” on the store page, and you can’t even place an order for them right now? But for anyone curious, it’s quoting $5099 for the 128GB RAM 14” MacBook Pro model.
by esafak | 2026-03-03 14:12:48+00:00
Lacking a discussion on protected mode; the means to access the 1MB+ area (up to 16MB in 286, and 4GB in 386 and later).

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DOS_Protected_Mode_Interface
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Virtual_Control_Program_Interf...

I remember toying with DPMI in MS Assembler as a kid, as curious kids those days did.
by bob1029 | 2026-03-03 14:12:48+00:00
Losing the SEO battle is a lot like losing money on the stock market. The system you are fighting is incredibly efficient and will never in a trillion years give a single shit about your specific concerns. You can hire lawyers and spend time complaining about it all day on social media. But you'll rarely get a drop of blood out of this stone. The best you can do is to step back, reevaluate your understanding of the market, and adjust your strategy.
by brookst | 2026-03-03 14:12:55+00:00
It’s so strange. Like, the obviously correct thing is to have a small ML model that learns the user’s typing patterns, which of their own typos they fix, which auto- and suggested fixes they reject, what rare, made-up, and jargon words they use, what acronyms they use, etc.

Instead, after 20 years of iPhone usage, I am not allowed to type the names of projects I use all the time without fixing the autocorrect every time, or (as you say) carefully hitting the left side of the F key because dead center will produce a G.