MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by ncallaway | 2026-03-06 03:05:20+00:00
Most of them have promised to issue refunds to customers if and when they get refunded the money.

FedEx:

> Our intent is straightforward: if refunds are issued to FedEx, we will issue refunds to the shippers and consumers who originally bore those charges. When that will happen and the exact process for requesting and issuing refunds will depend in part on future guidance from the government and the court.

https://www.fedex.com/en-us/shipping/international/us-tariff...
by jmclnx | 2026-03-06 03:05:27+00:00
Yes, I wish sites that use grey text should be investigated as part of the US disability act.

People with even minor sight issues can have a hard time with sites designed that way. When I run across a site like that I usually try it in lynx, if the site does not work in lynx, I block it on my system so I would not waste my time with it.
by lp4v4n | 2026-03-06 03:05:27+00:00
>1. As President Eisenhower said in his farewell address in 1961 [1], every dollar spent on the military-industrial complex is a dollar not spent on schools or houses or hospitals or bridges;

This humanist view unfortunately doesn’t hold anymore in the modern world. Boomers will be happy as long as not a single dollar is spent on housing, so that their own homes can appreciate in value. Republicans would rather burn money than spend it on houses, hospitals, or bridges that might benefit immigrants or “other people” more than themselves.

I used an American political party only as a reference, but the same phenomenon can be seen in many countries around the world. Society has become incredibly cynical and has regressed a lot in terms of humanity.
Show HN: Zsh helpers for LLM Git diff review
by ackdesha | 2026-03-06 03:05:29+00:00
= Pipe any Git diff range into Claude Code CLI =

Review the last commit of your feature branch:

claudiff "HEAD^..HEAD" "code review"

Review the last 3 commits of your feature branch:

claudiff "HEAD~3..HEAD" "produce gherkin acceptance criteria"

Review working tree changes (uncommitted):

claudiff HEAD "Suggest code cleanups"

Review staged changes:

claudiff --staged "review as if you were Linus Torvalds"

Review a pull request branch before merging:

claudiff "origin/main..HEAD" "review as if you were Anders Hejlsberg"

Since last tag:

claudiff "$(git describe --tags --abbrev=0)..HEAD" "Generate release notes"

Or do the same as above with Github Copilot CLI using
`copdiff` instead of `claudiff`
by aeon_ai | 2026-03-06 03:06:29+00:00
I think “strong case” is probably reliant on a few points on the output side, and would have to be more than just author/artists style.

Style itself would be very hard to deem infringement, for obvious reasons (idea) - I think it’s much more likely an issue when a character has derivative elements (e.g., iron man, spider man esque features), and where the users prompt had explicit references to those characters (intent)

All that said, even then, on the artistic side I think it would come down to the same analysis that would apply to traditional media - AI is just a vehicle that introduces some novel risks.

Music might be more risky given the litigious nature of the industry.

Code? It’s going to be hard to claim infringement with dramatically different implementations, barring patent coverage.
by bigstrat2003 | 2026-03-06 03:06:57+00:00
> Of course, PG writing an essay about being too smart for fancy watches - while knowing a lot about them - is its own signaling game, just aimed at a different audience

So you're saying that everyone seeks status, and even the people who say they don't are seeking status by not seeking status? That argument seems like you are overreaching. What, then, would you consider evidence that falsifies your theory?
by hnbad | 2026-03-06 03:07:15+00:00
Just as an unscientific anecdata point: from a quick test using the same prompt about being an independent journalist wanting to cover a report of the US/Israel/Iran double-tapping a refugee camp, ChatGPT consistently gave advice to beware disinfo, check my sources and be transparent about verifiability and sourcing of the claims.

However when the prompt was phrased to make it appear as an action of the US military it did push back a little bit more by emphasizing that it couldn't find any news coverage from today about this story and therefore found it hard to believe. In the other cases it did not add such context. Other than that the results were very similar. Make of that what you will.

EDIT: To be fair, when it was phrased as an action of the Israeli military it did include a link to an article alleging an Israeli "double tap" on journalists from Mondoweiss (an anti-Zionist American news site) as an example of how such allegations have been framed in the past.
by bfung | 2026-03-06 03:07:33+00:00
I’d argue it’s come full circle and it hasn’t changed a bit.

There wouldn’t be a Silicon Valley without World War 2 and US gov. funding of Stanford to develop radar basically.

The initial investment from then gave critical capital mass for Stanford, the VCs, and the tech companies of today.

https://youtu.be/ZTC_RxWN_xo?si=gGza5eIv485xEKLS
by fc417fc802 | 2026-03-06 03:08:04+00:00
> where a single person "rules" without needing to face opposition in a parliament nor even requiring support from its own party

But that doesn't describe the US right now. The problem is that the GOP is providing at least enough support to enable the behavior that we currently see. If congress as a whole wanted to stop things they could.

I actually quite like the US system but the combination of first past the post voting and party politics appear increasingly likely to strangle us.
by majormajor | 2026-03-06 03:08:29+00:00
How many companies have you worked at in the past where the backlog dried up and the engineering team sat around doing nothing?

Even in companies that are no longer growing I've always seen the roadmap only ever get larger (at that point you get desperate to try to catch back up, or expand into new markets, while also laying people off to cut costs).

Will we finally out-write the backlog of ideas to try and of feature requests? Or will the market get more fragmented as more smaller competitors can carve out different niches in different markets, each with more-complex offerings than they could've offered 5 years ago?
by infogulch | 2026-03-06 03:09:11+00:00
Yes but then the government can decide that the widget, which can suddenly and arbitrarily break and cause havoc because it doesn't work according to the government's desired spec, is risky to use and advise their other vendors to avoid it. And now we've caught up to today's story.

So we agree that everything is fine here, and that the only unreasonable position is that the military should pay for or endorse a supplier that tells the military to "fuck off". Yes?
by rendaw | 2026-03-06 03:09:25+00:00
After reading a comment here about how google docs had awesome markdown handling (I didn't know it supported it at all) I tried it out and it was bad to the extent that I don't think I'll use it again. I can't remember everything, but for instance it kept the syntactic newlines that should be swallowed during rich text conversion and IIRC it had issues with code too.

And then you have to edit it thereafter with their WYSIWYG editor. I was hoping there was an actual "markdown mode" where I could avoid getting into wars about whether this bullet point is in a new list or part of the previous list, etc.

IIRC there's no way to get markdown back out either, once you've realized you made the wrong choice.
by majormajor | 2026-03-06 03:10:07+00:00
FAANG realizing that they can't make infinite money by expanding into every possible market while paying FAANG salaries for low-scale-CRUD-prototyping roles has a lot to do with this, and that started a bit earlier than the AI wave.

Lots going on right now in the market, but IMO that retreat is the biggest one still.

Many companies were basically on a path of infinite hiring between ~2011 and ~2022 until the rapid COVID-era whiplash really drove home "maybe we've been overhiring" and caused the reaction and slowdown that many had been predicting annually since, oh, 2015.
by mcdeltat | 2026-03-06 03:10:39+00:00
Yeah I feel completely the same and largely do not understand when people are obsessed with branding. I'm assuming it's some primitive brain social hierarchy stuff where we seek to have everything be stratified by social value.

Also I have a related point on consumerism. A lot of things don't really need a brand to begin with because there is little need for so many options. Like if you have to advertise your brand identity to me to have your product be a success, I generally assume your product is a solution in search of a proper problem. (Yes often they do solve problems, but I will argue many modern day problems are bullshit/fake.)
by qsera | 2026-03-06 03:10:39+00:00
>It is therefore scientific to think we could build machines on similar principles that exhibit intelligence as an emergent property of the system.

Sure, but this ain't it.

Actually, I think LLMs are a step in the wrong direction if we really want to reach true AI. So it actually delays it, instead of bringing us close to true AI.

But LLMs are a very good scam that is not entirely snake oil. That is the best kind of scam.
by thoughtfulchris | 2026-03-06 03:11:32+00:00
Theory: terminal apps are closing the agent self-improvement loop because agents can use TUIs more easily than web/desktop/mobile.

Anomaly, which builds OpenCode + OpenTUI), is also doing some really interesting stuff in this space with their custom renderer. And then there's Ink (https://github.com/vadimdemedes/ink) which is what Claude Code uses. I also built Ink Web (https://github.com/cjroth/ink-web) to make Ink work in the browser.

The virality of OpenClaw and Claude Code has me wondering if terminals could actually go mainstream (eg used by non-tech users). More thoughts here: https://www.cjroth.com/blog/2026-03-05-terminals-are-cool-ag...
by friedtofu | 2026-03-06 03:12:07+00:00
I don't use lineage OS myself, but I thought the same as I read the first few sections of this article. This "guide", if anything will just confuse the less tech savvy users rather than help.

wiki.lineageos.org has specific install instructions for every phone/device they support, I have no idea why you would choose to follow anything else.

just as an example, for the Nintendo switch v2(devices built after the homebrew method was patched) can be found at:

https://wiki.lineageos.org/devices/nx_tab/install/variant2/

There's an install guide for almost every android capable device for the last decade on the wiki!
by ramoz | 2026-03-06 03:12:39+00:00
> the terminal is the most powerful way to interface with the operating system.

There's something about the UX here, how we're interfacing in an abstract way directly with the computer, now with agents. I hope we can get some interesting design study insights over the coming months and years.

I don't see a UI replacing the experience we get with TUIs. Also, UIs seem very clunky, in relation to TUIs performance.
by felipeerias | 2026-03-06 03:12:43+00:00
As someone looking at this from outside the US, the whole sequence of events is frankly terrifying.

I fear that frontier AI is going to be nationalised for military purposes, not just in the US but across the globe.

At the same time, I really don’t know what Anthropic were expecting when they described their technology as potentially more dangerous than an atom bomb while agreeing to integrate purpose-built models with Palantir to be deployed in high-security networks for classified military tasks.
by Rohunyyy | 2026-03-06 03:12:46+00:00
See in your case with the military you can directly say, hey my code will be used to bomb other people possibly. But in today's times it isn't (I am sure even then) so cut and dry. I worked in AdTech industry (like 60% of the bay area techies). So the ad tech I write gets shown to millions/billions. What about ads influencing elections and then politicians waging wars? Anti-vax ads which influence people and then kill them. Scam ads. Insurance ads and then people not getting cancer meds from the same insurance. Am I responsible for those deaths? I would say Yes.

But what is the option? I feel each of us wants to draw a line based off of our morality but the circumstances don't allow us to stick to it (still gotta pay rent)

We are all on a Titanic the way I see it. It's just the DARPA guy is gonna sink first. Rest of us are just pretending to be Jack trying to be the last ones to go.
by keeda | 2026-03-06 03:12:59+00:00
> ... but I'm still waiting on others most of the time, the overall company processes haven't improved or gotten more efficient. The same blockers as always still exist.

And that's the key problem, isn't it? I maintain current organizations have the "wrong shape" to fully leverage AI. Imagine instead of the scope of your current ownership, you own everything your team or your whole department owns. Consider what that would do to the meetings and dependencies and processes and tickets and blockers and other bureaucracy, something I call "Conway Overhead."

Now imagine that playing out across multiple roles, i.e. you also take on product and design. Imagine what that would do to your company org chart.

I added a much more detailed comment here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47270142
by danielmarkbruce | 2026-03-06 03:13:25+00:00
You are just out of your depth in this area. You don't understand what Cantor has done here, you don't understand what Howard can or cannot do in his role.

Howard Lutnick's positions have been directly opposite of what Cantor has bet will happen. Cantor has 10 or 12 thousand employees and is constantly doing all manner of things. Howard has no power over the supreme court. His son is the chairman, he's miles away from being in the weeds on what specific things they do. He isn't going to be comped like crazy as the chairman.

There is no conflict. There is only the appearance of one and it only appears that way to people who don't understand the situation.
by stingrae | 2026-03-06 03:13:28+00:00
I felt this way until I worked at Essential, the now shut down phone maker.

One of the core company design principles was to have minimal branding. The phone design had no logo. When you show it to people they are looking for the identifier and it's completely missing. When you are in a market where most of the products look largely the same, branding is very important.

It's unfortunate, but absolutely necessary.
by EMIRELADERO | 2026-03-06 03:13:52+00:00
My pet theory is that this has been accelerated due to the cultural rejection of the humanities as worthy of study.

Orwell wrote about this: https://orwell.ru/library/articles/science/english/e_scien

> "The fact is that a mere training in one or more of the exact sciences, even combined with very high gifts, is no guarantee of a humane or sceptical outlook."
by majormajor | 2026-03-06 03:14:10+00:00
Isn't it, for something like 70-80% of families? Just in slow-motion?

How long have we been hearing about crushing affordability problems for property? And how long ago did that start moving into essentials? The COVID-era bullwhip-effect inflation waves triggered a lot of price ratcheting that has slowed but never really reversed. Asset prices are doing great, as people with money continue to need somewhere to put it, and have been very effective at capturing greater and greater shares of productivity increases. But how's the average waiter, cleaning-business sole-proprietor, uber driver, schoolteacher, or pet supply shopowner doing? How's their debt load trending? How's their savings trending?
by SoftTalker | 2026-03-06 03:14:33+00:00
> But SQL schemas often look like this. Columns are nullable by default, and wide tables are common.

Hard disagree. That database table was a waving red flag. I don't know enough/any rust so don't really understand the rest of the article but I have never in my life worked with a database table that had 700 columns. Or even 100.
by FpUser | 2026-03-06 03:14:38+00:00
>"Boomers will be happy as long as not a single dollar is spent on housing"

Not sure what boomers you are talking about. I for one am disgusted at what is happening with the things in general and with the housing in particular. I do not want my house to appreciate Ad infinitum. I do not want to have ever growing class of have-not's so that few jerks can own the governments and half of the world.
by bfung | 2026-03-06 03:14:45+00:00
I don’t feel that old, but I guess being 45 is ancient in tech.

The Silicon Valley tech jobs we have now has a history rooted in World War 2 and funding of it by the US gov.

https://youtu.be/ZTC_RxWN_xo?si=gGza5eIv485xEKLS

I’m not saying war is good or anything, but also don't ride a high horse cause none of it would be here w/o WW2.
by maxlybbert | 2026-03-06 03:14:56+00:00
Well, they made a big deal about saying that while they sold their software to the Defense Department, it wasn't actually being used to kill people. Except for well-known military contractors (e.g., Raytheon), who have sold plenty of software specifically to kill people.

I guess there's a reason we saw plenty of articles about software used somewhat defensively -- such as distinguishing whether a particular "bang" was a gunshot, and where it likely came from -- instead of offensively -- such as improvements to targeting software.
by raincole | 2026-03-06 03:16:22+00:00
> Seem that github:cline/cline#b181e0 actually pointed to a forked respository with the malicious postinstall script.

This seems to be a much bigger problem here than the fact it's triggered by an AI triage bot.

I have to admit until one second ago I had been assuming if something starts with github:cline/cline it's from the same repo.
by majormajor | 2026-03-06 03:16:52+00:00
It's funny cause, you know, fixing all those little nitty gritty things should be practically automatic with their own offerings... have your agent put in a lot of instrumentation... have it chase down bugs or dead-end user-journeys... have it go make the changes to fix it...

I've seen these tools work for this kinda stuff sometimes... you'd think nobody would be better at it than the creators of the tools.
by sdf2df | 2026-03-06 03:17:59+00:00
Lol its gonna take longer than it should for this to play out.

Sunk cost fallacy is very real, for all involved. Especially the model producers and their investors.

Sunk cost fallacy is also real for dev's who are now giving up how they used to work - they've made a sunk investment in learning to use LLMs etc. Hence the 'there's no going back' comments that crop up on here.

As I said in this thread - anyone who can think straight - Im referring to those who adhere to fundamental economic principles - can see what's going on from a mile away.
by enraged_camel | 2026-03-06 03:18:13+00:00
>> I no longer review every line, but I also have not yet gotten to the point, where I can just "trust" the LLM.

Same here. This is also why I haven't been able to switch to Claude Code, despite trying to multiple times. I feel like its mode of operation is much more "just trust to generated code" than Cursor, which let's you review and accept/reject diffs with a very obvious and easy to use UX.
by ChrisMarshallNY | 2026-03-06 03:18:34+00:00
The issue is contrast, really. Some color combos are terrible, and you also have issues with color-blindness (which is why gray is used a lot).

Gray text, against a gray background, can suck.

I’m getting on in years, and low-contrast text affects me a lot more, these days, than it used to.
by RedCats | 2026-03-06 03:18:45+00:00
I'm both fond of and repulsed by it.

With AI, I can independently build my own products. I'm no longer confined to being a product manager; I'm a true developer. Thanks to my previous coding experience and entrepreneurial ventures as a product manager, AI has accelerated all my skills. Perhaps most of my skills were just starting out before, but with AI, they can quickly transform into productivity and rapidly improve in practice.

What I dislike is that the market has become more cutthroat. It requires more energy to build, build, build faster.
by JumpCrisscross | 2026-03-06 03:18:55+00:00
> You're not tweaking the dials, you don't know how to make the watch, you just watch it and wear it while a technologically superior version is 500 times cheaper

This describes precisely zero watch enthusiasts I know. Each of them can open up the watch and understand what's happening. In one case, he'll disassemble the major components to clean them. (Analogous to how riders can take care of their horses and gear, or I can tune and wax my skis.)

Your dismissal could be just as accurately be applied to the various programming languages many of us learn for fun. We don't know how to write its compiler. We can barely do anything useful in it. We just play with it while a technologically-superior version would take a fraction of the effort.

> There's also no natural shortage of them, they can make a trillion of these watches

Quartz? Obviously. Aegler/Rolex? Probably. Handmade movements? No.

> At least with cars or audio equipment there's some marginal benefits once you get to crazy numbers, not the case with watches

As an enthusiast of neither cars nor watches, I call total bullshit on this comparison. Anyone arguing they're getting utility out of their Ferrarri, Pagani, Omega or Audemars is full of themselves.
by xarope | 2026-03-06 03:19:00+00:00
my g-shock frogman is 10+ years old, still sits by the window, charging itself everyday (solar powered), and it's the watch I would grab if the proverbial hit the fan. I'd grab my self-winding analog jlc watch too, just in case I needed it as a bribe (not sure which would be better as a bribe if that happens, maybe the g-shock!)
by bigyabai | 2026-03-06 03:19:22+00:00
...is Anthropic "meaningfully better" though? They're still fine being a defense contractor, and they lack the tools to enforce the ethics they want to uphold. They seemingly contribute even less to FOSS than OpenAI does (low bar) and split hairs over IP ownership when open models distill their results. Am I supposed to root for them because of their manufactured internet drama?

It's very reminiscent of the half-assed security theater that Google and Apple fought over. Neither one of them resisted government coercion in the end, they just took different routes to end up as federal asskissers.
by internet2000 | 2026-03-06 03:19:50+00:00
I was wondering how long it'd take for someone to bring Apple up. I'm clearly behind.

The MacBook Neo is the opposite of pg's "Brand Age". It's very subtly branded, the Apple is no longer shiny and "MacBook" isn't written anywhere in it. There are no identifiably-Apple design quirks, no notch. It's just the platonic ideal of a laptop. Screen, keyboard, trackpad. Nothing extra.

The cutesy intro video will be the main driver of ~0 sales for it.
by quuxplusone | 2026-03-06 03:20:00+00:00
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47092006

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46843805

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46624740

(I don't fully understand the relationship between archive.is, archive.ph, and archive.today, but my impression is that they're all the same person.)
by dang | 2026-03-06 03:20:40+00:00
We've been getting complaints that your comments are LLM-generated or LLM-edited. I've suspended the account for the time being. Can you please email hn@ycombinator.com so we can clear this up and hopefully restore your account?

If anyone's curious about what the (informal to date, probably soon to be formalized) rules are, we don't allow either generated comments [1] or AI-edited comments [2] on HN. We want commenters to write in their own voice.

[1] https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&que...

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