MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by sriram_malhar | 2026-03-06 03:57:47+00:00
Socialism, you mean, not communism.

This is a way of spending taxes on the public, the kind Denmark does. It isn't "no private property; everything belongs to the govt".

Also, if we are redistributing taxes to fund endless wars and subsidizing almond/avocado farmers, and propping up public money to ensure banks don't collapse, we are already in the socialist territory. Have always been. But God forbid we spend the money on healthcare ... that'd be like taking us back to Mao.
by regularization | 2026-03-06 03:57:58+00:00
> Chinese aggression, possibly ramping up to an invasion of Taiwan.

It's amusing amidst the US bombing Iran, incarceration the president of Venezuela and his wife after slaughtering everyone who was in the room with him, seizing oil tankers off Cuba, continuing the siege of Gaza and on and on to start getting sanctimonious about China.

Taiwan is Kinmen island in Xiamen harbor, so a mainland invasion of Taiwan would be mainland China "invading" an island in its harbor.

Also mainland China does not recognize Taiwan and mainland China to be separate countries. The US does not recognize Taiwan and mainland China to be separate countries. Taiwan does not consider Taiwan and mainland China to be separate countries. I'm not sure what the invasion would be, a country invading itself? It would be like if the US president sent armed agents to Minnesota who started killing people willy nilly - oh yaa, that just happened.

The most satisfying thing is if mainland China did choose to reassert it's rightful authority in Taiwan against the colonial powers, there's absolutely nothing those western powers can do about it. Just like Russia's assertion over the West tring to nove it's NATO armies to its western borders in the Ukraine. It's amusing to see the US flailing about, hitting a Venezuelan here, a Cuban there to try to look tough. I guess Nicaragua is next on the list. The changes coming in the 21st century are welcome. A bozo like Trump as president is a sign of a fading West.
by sgc | 2026-03-06 03:57:58+00:00
> Imagine if your grandma had wheels! She'd be a bicycle.

I always took this to be a sharp jab saying the entire village is riding your grandma, giving it a very aggressive undertone. It's pretty funny nonetheless.

Too early to say what AI brings to the efficiency table I think. In some major things I do it's a 1000x speed up. In others it is more a different way of approaching a problem than a speed up. In yet others, it is a bit of an impediment. It works best when you learn to quickly recognize patterns and whether it will help. I don't know how people who are raised with ai will navigate and leverage it, which is the real long-term question (just as the difference between pre- and post-smartphone generations is a thing).
by mrs6969 | 2026-03-06 03:59:06+00:00
Literally yes. If you justify harming others out of nowhere by ‘sabotaging your own existence’ then yes.

‘Sabotaging your own existence’ is a magic sentence that can justify everything. Israel can kill children more than any other nation in the world, and justify it by ‘not sabotaging their own existence’

Anyone can do anything with this perspective. This is the exact point gere. Pull yourself back, if you are about to ‘not sabotage your own existence’ by simply killing innocent civilians because you believe a computer algorithm told you in about 15 years they or their children might do something harmful.
by SilverElfin | 2026-03-06 04:00:12+00:00
https://archive.is/O75hn

Dean Ball: What Secretary Pete Hegseth announced is a desire to kill Anthropic. It is true that the government has abridged private-property rights before. But it is radical and different to say, brazenly: If you don’t do business on our terms, we will kill you; we will kill your company. I can’t imagine sending a worse signal to the business community. It cuts right at heart at everything that makes us different from China, which roots in this idea that the government can’t just kill you if you say you don’t want to do business with it, literally or figuratively. Though in this case, I’m speaking figuratively.
by httpz | 2026-03-06 04:00:17+00:00
This is a classic case of Productivity Paradox when personal computers were first introduced into workplaces in the 80s.

A famous economist once said, "You can see the computer age everywhere but in the productivity statistics."

There are many reasons for the lag in productivity gain but it certainly will come.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Productivity_paradox
by listeria | 2026-03-06 04:00:17+00:00
Apparently there was some talk a few years ago about adding the project to the python standard library[1] and the maintainer seems really[2] interested[3] in that.

But I don't think the standard library maintainers would want to incorporate it considering the way in which the relicensing took place, the controversy, and the implications on software licences in general. So his motivations for the license change seem moot. I certainly wouldn't touch it with a 10-foot pole.

[1]: https://github.com/chardet/chardet/issues/36#issuecomment-76...
[2]: https://github.com/chardet/chardet/issues/327#issuecomment-4...
[3]: https://github.com/chardet/chardet/issues/327#issuecomment-4...
by wonger_ | 2026-03-06 04:00:23+00:00
Hm good question. Seems like VC investment money?

https://techcrunch.com/2023/11/02/charm-offensive-googles-gr...

> Charm had previously raised around $4 million in funding spread across various angel and seed rounds, and now the company is adding a further $6 million to its coffers, with Google’s VC fund Gradient Ventures leading the charge, supported by Cavalry Ventures, Fuel Capital, Firestreak, and a slew of angel backers.

https://charm.land/blog/the-next-generation/

There used to be development of enterprise and cloud offerings, but that seems to have disappeared.

Hopefully they keep the "hobby project that people decided to throw money at" vibe and don't start chasing business incentives.
by motoboi | 2026-03-06 04:00:54+00:00
Im planning a change that will save 20k a month of storage.

I absolutely could come up with the details and implementation by myself, but that would certainly take a lot of back and forth, probably a month or two.

I’m an api user of Claude code, burning through 2k a month. I just this evening planned the whole thing with its help and actually had to stop it from implementing it already. Will do that tomorrow. Probably in one hour or two, with better code than I could ever write alone myself.

Having that level of intelligence at that price is just bollocks. I’m running out of problems to solve. It’s been six months.
by SilverElfin | 2026-03-06 04:01:16+00:00
The world changed in many ways. America now resembles China or Russia in terms of authoritarianism and oligarchy.

See https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47270470

> Dean Ball: What Secretary Pete Hegseth announced is a desire to kill Anthropic. It is true that the government has abridged private-property rights before. But it is radical and different to say, brazenly: If you don’t do business on our terms, we will kill you; we will kill your company. I can’t imagine sending a worse signal to the business community. It cuts right at heart at everything that makes us different from China, which roots in this idea that the government can’t just kill you if you say you don’t want to do business with it, literally or figuratively. Though in this case, I’m speaking figuratively.
by agentforce | 2026-03-06 04:01:30+00:00
I built a SDK that wraps Claude Code (via claude-agent-sdk), Codex, and Kimi-cli behind a single API.

No API keys needed — it uses the CLI-based agent backends directly. Define tools with Zod, set up multi-agent handoffs, add middleware for logging or guardrails, and swap between providers by changing one string.

Works great if you want Claude Code as your primary agent but want the option to fall back to Codex or bring your own provider.

GitHub: https://github.com/odysa/one-agent-sdk
Show HN: Steadwing – Your Autonomous On-Call Engineer
by abejith | 2026-03-06 04:02:25+00:00
Hey HN! We’re Abejith and Dev, and we’re building Steadwing (https://www.steadwing.com) - an autonomous on-call engineer that diagnoses production incidents/alerts, correlates evidence across your stack, and resolves them. You can try it at https://app.steadwing.com/signup (no credit card required and a demo mode is available).

Every on-call engineer knows the pain. It’s 2am, PagerDuty fires, you open the laptop and start the scramble - Datadog for metrics, GitHub for recent commits, Slack to see who’s awake, Elasticsearch for logs. 45 minutes later you find it was a config change that reduced the connection pool size. The fix took 2 minutes. The diagnosis took almost an hour.

The problem isn’t fixing things, it’s the correlation. The signal is scattered across a dozen tools and nobody has the full picture. My co-founder, Dev, and I met through Entrepreneurs First and both felt that incident response was fundamentally broken and could be significantly improved, with a long-term vision of making software self-healing.

So we built Steadwing. When an alert fires, it pulls context simultaneously from logs, metrics, traces and recent commits - correlates the signals, and delivers a structured RCA in under 5 minutes with plain-language root cause, evidence linked back to source tools, a timeline, impact assessment, and both short-term and long-term fixes.

For noisy environments: say a bad deploy causes cascading failures across 5 microservices and triggers 30+ alerts. Steadwing groups them into one incident and tells you what the actual root cause is vs. what’s just a side effect. It doesn’t just diagnose - it suggests safe fixes ranked by risk, and can handle rollbacks, scaling adjustments, and config changes for you. You can also ask follow-up questions about any incident or general infra questions conversationally.

All 20+ integrations (Datadog, PagerDuty, Slack, GitHub, Sentry, AWS, K8s, etc.) connect via OAuth or API Key - no agents, no code changes, live in a few seconds. We also built an MCP server so AI coding agents can interact with Steadwing from your dev environment, and we open-sourced OpenAlerts (https://github.com/steadwing/openalerts, https://openalerts.dev) - a monitoring layer for agentic frameworks with real-time alert rules for LLM errors, infra failures, stuck sessions, and queue buildup, with multi-channel notifications via Slack, Discord, and Telegram.

We have a free tier and would love feedback, especially from folks who are on-call regularly.

Let us know what works, what’s missing, and what you’d want next :)
by keiferski | 2026-03-06 04:03:23+00:00
No it was just an anthology of papers by a reasonably well-known academic.

The problem is more that instead of reasoning and realizing it didn’t actually know about the book, it just looked up a description of the author and then invented what this book was supposedly about based on the title.

A more intelligent reply would have been something like, “the author appears to be an academic in international relations, but I cannot find this exact book title.” Instead it just repeatedly gave me fake answers.
by tinfoilhatter | 2026-03-06 04:03:40+00:00
Because your physical ID isn't scanned every time you access your bank account, and your bank (hopefully) doesn't check with some central database the government controls before issuing you an account. With a digital ID controlled by your government, that is required for accessing your account on the other hand...

We're not talking about just governments, we're talking about the private sector having to verify a digital identity tied to your biometrics before allowing you to participate in commerce. This is a whole different ball game than having to present a physical ID before being granted access to government services.

The latter is quite normal and the former is extremely dystopian.
by analognoise | 2026-03-06 04:05:09+00:00
Can you explain what “elevating one group of people at the expense of another” is, in the context of socialism? I don’t see the connection.

Are you saying the current fascist operating mode of Trump is the dumb shit we’re trying again (here, “we” being “humanity”), or something else?

Just trying to clarify, my bad if it’s poor reading on my part; I was just confused at the line being drawn.
by yjftsjthsd-h | 2026-03-06 04:06:02+00:00
With one minor caveat[0] yes I believe neither actively includes it, but GOS devs actively denounce being able to give apps root access and at the very least I've never heard LOS devs say anything similar. While a quick web search will turn up discussions/repos/articles about installing magisk on GOS anyways, they give me the impression that it's more likely to break; in particular, GOS (understandably) wants to re-lock the bootloader and that's not going to play nice with things that (necessarily) modify the OS. So like... I think you can root GOS, but heuristically I would be much more nervous about it breaking.

That said, for a user who says "I want a simple easy to use replacement for google captured android", I don't think rooting is likely a concern, so taking the more polished GOS is probably desirable.

[0] I don't have a non-magisk LOS phone to check, but I think stock LOS includes an option in developer settings to allow root for adb. This is mostly not what people mean when they talk about root access, but it's a form of root access.
by applfanboysbgon | 2026-03-06 04:06:08+00:00
The real problem that OpenAI had was that their model naming was completely incomprehensible. 4.5, o3, 4o, 4.1 which is newer than 4.5. It was a complete clusterfuck. The blowback on that issue seems to have led them to misidentify the issue, but nobody was really asking for a single router model. Having a number of sequentially numbered and clearly labelled models is not actually a problem.
by serioussecurity | 2026-03-06 04:06:47+00:00
I've worked as a contractor for a safety system that turned out to be for a foreign military. I was given a signal, and told to write software to fit it. The signal could plausibly be collected for a wide variety of civilian purposes.

What I realized later was that none of the civilian markets could possibly justify the cost of the project.

The particular type of signal fitting I was doing was only achievable by a few thousand expensive domain experts in the world, so, I think that addresses your other point.
by helpfulclippy | 2026-03-06 04:07:10+00:00
I am not greatly relieved by this post of Anthropic's. That said, they seem to have lines and are willing to stand by them; I don't see where OpenAI has done that. So, for now and from my point of view, the point goes to Anthropic.

Moving my subscription is not terribly consequential, but since the products are so similar and easy to substitute with one another for my uses, it seems best to participate in what in aggregate is a signal that is being noticed and commented on and interpreted to mean that a significant number of people who buy AI access do care about this.
by Gigachad | 2026-03-06 04:07:19+00:00
In the age of infinite aliexpress slop, brand is the fastest way to assess quality. There's a difference between branding on a toilet vs branding on clothing. No one is flexing their wealth with a toilet brand. The brand exists so someone in the market to buy a toilet notices the brand on lots of other toilets they see around which gives it more trust over a no name direct from China toilet.

To me, a product with no visible brand at all feels like a drive by operation that shouldn't be taken seriously. You can see this all over, nice cutlery will always have a brand stamped in the metal, while cheap junky stuff will be unbranded since it's sold on price rather than quality and trust.
by nxtfari | 2026-03-06 04:07:37+00:00
very interesting article but i was surprised pg’s conclusion was the opposite of what i expected. to me it was like oh this is brilliant, instead of trading effort linearly for money you can just control image and be paid outside for it. reminded me of, e.g. chamberlain canned coffee, which tastes terrible but has emma chamberlain’s personal brand lifting for it in the aisle every time you see it.
by josephg | 2026-03-06 04:07:52+00:00
Yes. I've watched some videos on wow by Kevin Jordan, who was on the original team. He said the original game was built on 3 pillars:

1. Advancement over time.

2. Player interaction. Hard content should be hard in order to push players into working together to overcome challenges.

3. The world is a character in the game. Even when you eventually got mounts later in the game, they made it so mobs can knock you off & daze you. The world is big and full of wonder. Especially at earlier levels, just getting from point A to point B can be a journey in itself. Wanna play with your friends who started in a different zone? Fine, but just getting there will be an epic journey.

They abandoned those principles later on. Eg, by adding "sidekick" characters you can summon when you're playing on you own, to overcome hard content. The point of that content was to push you into making friends with other players. Flying mounts made the world small and safe. Just point in the vague direction you wanna go and go AFK for a few minutes. They also added more and more teleports, so you don't have to schlep overland yourself. And the LFG system.

It was a really different game back then. I didn't get that much out of classic wow. But I'd enjoy playing a new MMO built around those same principles.
by iamnothere | 2026-03-06 04:08:06+00:00
Related:

NY bill to require devices to conduct commercially reasonable age assurance https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47266570

Ubuntu's Response to California's Digital Age Assurance Act (AB 1043) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47249787

A new California law says all operating systems need to have age verification https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47181208

Open source calculator firmware DB48X forbids CA/CO use due to age verification https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47181753

Brazil Enacts Age Verification Law Mandating Digital ID, Curbing Net Anonymity https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45377593
by cothi | 2026-03-06 04:08:33+00:00
yeah i wanted everything to feel connected — like you shouldn't have to jump between 3 different apps just to understand what you're working on. so i built
it so each thing has its own space when you need to focus, but you can always zoom out and see the full picture in one place.

also most apps keep tasks, projects and events completely separate which is such a pain. that's the whole reason i built gluon — wanted all three in one place so you're not constantly switching between apps just to manage your day.
by sdf2df | 2026-03-06 04:09:12+00:00
You prove my point.

Guys like you dont get it. You think OAI, Amazon etc can freely put large amounts of money into this for 5-10 years? Lmao - delusional. Investors are impatient. Show huge jumps in revenue this year or you no longer have permission to put monumental amounts of money into this anymore.

Short of that they'll just destroy the stock price by selling off; leaving employees who get paid via SBC very unhappy.
by chihuahua | 2026-03-06 04:12:23+00:00
But the author of that page is not concerned with readability or accessibility. He just wants things to look cool and design-y. One piece of supporting evidence he cites is some random photo he took that doesn't contain #000000 black. That doesn't mean anything, it could be that it's over-exposed, or has poor contrast, or had some silly filter applied. This leads me to think that the author of that page doesn't know what he's talking about.
by andresquez | 2026-03-06 04:12:54+00:00
Very basic and repeating AI like replies. That are following a template and have nothing to do with what you ask back.

Ex:

Hiring: Asks for CV

Person: Before I share, I would like to know more information about the job, etc etc

Hiring: Thanks for sharing your CV, would you like to schedule a call here: link.link

Those type of jobs always seem fake to me, the ones that move fast and an actual human is talking to you, are real.
by AlexCalderAI | 2026-03-06 04:14:02+00:00
Nice approach to the per-key cost cap problem. We built something similar for tracking AI spend across providers - the "one forgotten loop" scenario is real and expensive.

The JSON-on-disk pattern works surprisingly well for this scale. We found the key insight is making costs visible in real-time rather than waiting for end-of-month bills. Even just seeing token counts per request changes behavior.

Curious if you've hit the CLI latency wall yet with concurrent users - that 3-8s overhead compounds fast with a team.
by phs2501 | 2026-03-06 04:14:30+00:00
Not really. It's certainly intended for the basic "fan out m tasks to n workers, and the fanout producer wants to know when they're all done" and can be abused for some more, but I don't think it does anything to help with the "consumer died, I want the producers to be able to know this rather than just continuing to push messages into a queue forever" case.

I've written wrappers to handle things the way I want, but it always feels like a bit of a hack. (Usually I use a stop sentinal internally and reach inside to unbound the queue before I send it to avoid blocking). Just wish it were built in.
Show HN: SafeAgent – exactly-once execution guard for AI agents
by Lions2026 | 2026-03-06 04:14:47+00:00
LLM agents and tool-calling systems frequently retry or replay actions.

This becomes dangerous when the action is irreversible:
- sending emails
- opening tickets
- executing trades
- triggering payouts

SafeAgent is a small Python library that enforces exactly-once execution for agent actions using request-ID deduplication.

Example:

from settlement.settlement_requests import SettlementRequestRegistry

registry = SettlementRequestRegistry()

def send_email():
print("EMAIL SENT")

registry.execute(
request_id="email:user123:invoice",
action="send_email",
payload={"to": "user123@example.com"},
execute_fn=send_email
)

If the same request_id is replayed, the action does not run again.

Instead the original execution receipt is returned.

pip install safeagent-exec-guard

GitHub:
https://github.com/azender1/SafeAgent

PyPI:
https://pypi.org/project/safeagent-exec-guard/
by vkou | 2026-03-06 04:14:48+00:00
> I find it frustrating that apparently we just gave up on Trump giving up his tax returns, or putting his businesses into a blind trust. This was a big deal in 2016~2019, but I guess the entire world just decided it wasn't worth it.

When you give a guy who started a coup the keys to the kingdom, instead of a life-long prison sentence, arguing over what his taxes were a decade ago is... Splitting hairs.
by npn | 2026-03-06 04:15:39+00:00
the problem the price point is increasing sharply every time.

gemini 2 flash lite was $0.3 per 1Mtok output, gemini 2.5 flash lite is $0.4 per 1Mtok output, guess the pricing for gemini 3 flash lite now.

yes you guess it right, it is $1.5 per 1Mtok output. you can easily guest that because google did the same thing before: gemini 2 flash was $0.4, then 2.5 flash it jumps to $2.5.

and that is only the base price, in reality newer models are al thinking models, so it costs even more tokens for the sample task.

at some point it is stopped being viable to use gemini api for anything.

and they don't even keep the old models for long.