MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by Aurornis | 2026-03-06 19:42:30+00:00
> Looking back, do you think the team would have been better off hiring someone who came close enough, and supporting them to learn on the job?

More specialized.

If we wanted to train someone, we'd start with an internal candidate who was familiar with the other parts of the job and then train them on this one thing.

Hiring an outsider who doesn't know the subject matter and then teaching them is less efficient and more risky. It was better to have someone in the team learn the new subject as an incremental step and then backfill the simpler work they were doing.
by throwaway27448 | 2026-03-06 19:42:58+00:00
> Showing a colleague that flow, and the sequence of not just prompts but the types of Claude outputs to expect, all leading to Claude doing something that would have taken us a half day of work? As a linear video, rather than just a dump or screenshot of a final page? That could help to diffuse best practices rapidly.

Would this not be visible in a text dump without taking half a day to watch? What's/who's the benefit/benificiary of the realtime experience here?

Granted, I have friends who don't read but prefer visual stimulation. I don't think the overlap with people comfortable with code is very large at all.
by shimman | 2026-03-06 19:43:28+00:00
I think COVID ruined people's ability to critically think. The amount of people in both journalism and across the economy, people are just taking the words of others (often those with malicious intents) with zero critical thought being applied.

For Block's case they have had multiple layoffs over the last 5 years, hardly the sign of an AI apocalypse and more of a sign of a business leader that only survived because of free money.
by 00N8 | 2026-03-06 19:44:00+00:00
It would be a lot easier if the global population stabilized at around 1 billion. It's conceivable we could get down to that by bringing 3rd world areas up to 1st world standards in terms of women's rights, access to birth control, education, standard of living, etc., since developed nations have had declining birth rates for quite a while. But it's not a cheap or popular idea & would take several generations anyway.
by hpagey | 2026-03-06 19:44:00+00:00
Why did you pick this name? Vela is a popular hinglish slang.

Vella" (वेल्ला) is a North Indian/Delhi slang term for someone who is lazy, jobless, or has nothing productive to do (an idler or couch potato). Often used in Hinglish, it describes a person wasting time, similar to the word "loser" or someone with no work.
by sam_palus | 2026-03-06 19:44:14+00:00
These are good points.

On the government backing: it's a fair nuance to point out. In a technical sense, Ginnie Mae has the explicit full faith and credit guarantee while Fannie/Freddie are GSEs with an implicit one (and are under government conservatorship). But in practice, the distinction isn't really meaningful. In practice, the federal government has always guaranteed these loans (even in 2008, when they were under the most stress they've ever been, and there have been significant reforms as a result). There's no reason to think they'll ever stop. The scenario where the GSE guarantee fails is essentially the collapse of the US economy well beyond anything we saw in 2008 (in which case frankly we all have much bigger problems).

On the risks you mentioned:
1) Principal loss: given the guarantees re credit risk, and the fact that we use short-duration floating rate instruments to protect against price risk, this shouldn't really be a concern.
2) On spread risk: there can be slight variation in spread, mostly affecting yields; this is why we say "4.5-5%" yields given there's some variability in that range (but all far above money market).
3) On liquidity: agency MBS is the second most liquid fixed-income market in the world after Treasuries. In nearly all circumstances, liquidity is 1-2 business days. This product is really meant for long-term cash reserves; our idea is that companies should stop treating 6+ month cash the same as next month's payroll.

Ultimately we encourage founders to do their own research and understand what they're doing with their money. We wouldn't ask anyone to put short-term cash in a MBS portfolio (in the future we'll probably offer some other options too). But for long-term cash they're sitting on, the extra yield can be meaningful to the business: on $5M, it's an extra $50k-75k per year, or half a junior engineer's salary. Given the minimal risk, I think it's worthwhile for a lot of companies.
by klelatti | 2026-03-06 19:44:15+00:00
The point about the difficulties with Arm may be fair comment but the positioning and outlook of this post is decidedly weird. It seems to pretend that competitive desktop Arm processors already exist and ignores the existence of Arm ACPI.

On the conclusion - x86 didn't eventually win in smartphones.

And of course having a choice of processor designs from precisely two firms is absolutely something that we should continue to be happy with (and the post ignores RISC-V).
by ssl-3 | 2026-03-06 19:44:26+00:00
I agree with the concept. I should not be liable for the actions of others. If someone does something nefarious using my exit node (or the free wifi at my coffee shop) then that shouldn't be my responsibility.

After all, I have no way of knowing what they're up to. It may be good or it may be bad; I can't know. (I suppose I can set up a router to discard packets with the RFC 3514 evil bit set, as a show of good faith, but...)

So I think the risk should be low, but that's just, like, my opinion, man. My opinion doesn't mean that the risk is in fact low.

Has the risk of running an exit node ever been tested in court? Many people, myself included, simply can't afford to have that kind of experience even if we're reasonably sure that it will end up OK.
by citizenpaul | 2026-03-06 19:44:28+00:00
The recording left on this one is super weird and creepy like its from some ARG game which I guess is appropriate.

The next night we ate whale, the next night we ate whale.

https://walzr.com/payphone-go/?phone=592

Runner Up this one playing "Im at a payphone" song

https://walzr.com/payphone-go/?phone=576
by kibwen | 2026-03-06 19:44:30+00:00
No, that's insufficient. Yes, corporations that cause the most warming will need to be curtailed if we're to survive. But those corporations are in the act externalizing costs. Once you force them to internalize those costs, the visible costs to consumers will increase, meaning less consumption overall. If you can't convince those consumers that less consumption is a good thing if it's in the service of saving the biosphere, then they're going to rebel against your efforts to properly force companies to account for the environmental costs of their products. There's no either/or here, it's the responsibility of both corporations and individuals.
by OutOfHere | 2026-03-06 19:44:48+00:00
The research is:

Evaluating AGENTS.md: Are Repository-Level Context Files Helpful for Coding Agents?

https://arxiv.org/abs/2602.11988

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Overall, it makes sense to me that excessive and/or unnecessary instructions dilute the importance of each instruction. Ideally it shouldn't, but it does.
by ValentineC | 2026-03-06 19:44:54+00:00
The pre-iOS 26 native camera app is good enough for me, and I really like Live Photos, which most alternatives don't handle.

I had a one-time purchase to Halide, but it somehow stopped working in early 2025 because Halide support claimed that the app's feature unlock (used to be one-time upfront purchase, now IAP) only works if I'm logged into the App Store account I purchased it from.
by sfink | 2026-03-06 19:45:07+00:00
As someone who saw a bunch of these bugs come in (and fixed a few), I'd say that Anthropic's associated writeup at https://www.anthropic.com/news/mozilla-firefox-security undersells it a bit. They list the primary benefits as:

1. Accompanying minimal test cases
2. Detailed proofs-of-concept
3. Candidate patches

This is most similar to fuzzing, and in fact could be considered another variant of fuzzing, so I'll compare to that. Good fuzzing also provides minimal test cases. The Anthropic ones were not only minimal but well-commented with a description of what it was up to and why. The detailed descriptions of what it thought the bug was were useful even though they were the typical AI-generated descriptions that were 80% right and 20% totally off base but plausible-sounding. Normally I don't pay a lot of attention to a bug filer's speculations as to what is going wrong, since they rarely have the context to make a good guess, but Claude's were useful and served as a better starting point than my usual "run it under a debugger and trace out what's happening" approach. As usual with AI, you have to be skeptical and not get suckered in by things that sound right but aren't, but that's not hard when you have a reproducible test case provided and you yourself can compare Claude's explanations with reality.

The candidate patches were kind of nice. I suspect they were more useful for validating and improving the bug reports (and these were very nice bug reports). As in, if you're making a patch based on the description of what's going wrong, then that description can't be too far off base if the patch fixes the observed problem. They didn't attempt to be any wider in scope than they needed to be for the reported bug, so I ended up writing my own. But I'd rather them not guess what the "right" fix was; that's just another place to go wrong.

I think the "proofs-of-concept" were the attempts to use the test case to get as close to an actual exploit as possible? I think those would be more useful to an organization that is doubtful of the importance of bugs. Particularly in SpiderMonkey, we take any crash or assertion failure very seriously, and we're all pretty experienced in seeing how seemingly innocuous problems can be exploited in mind-numbingly complicated ways.

The Anthropic bug reports were excellent, better even than our usual internal and external fuzzing bugs and those are already very good. I don't have a good sense for how much juice is left to squeeze -- any new fuzzer or static analysis starts out finding a pile of new bugs, but most tail off pretty quickly. Also, I highly doubt that you could easily achieve this level of quality by asking Claude "hey, go find some security bugs in Firefox". You'd likely just get AI slop bugs out of that. Claude is a powerful tool, but the Anthropic team also knew how to wield it well. (They're not the only ones, mind.)
by mikestew | 2026-03-06 19:45:18+00:00
TFA concluded no such thing from my reading:

“As far as human space travel goes, it’s probably best that it stays in the realm of science fiction, at least for the foreseeable future.”

And no arguments for that conclusion? C’mon: radiation, the effects of microgravity on human bodies, none of which we have good solutions for…yet. The author argues that we don’t have good solutions, and probably won’t within their lifetime. If you’ve got counter-arguments, let’s hear them, but calling the TFA’s sound arguments “pearl clutching” isn’t productive.
by godelski | 2026-03-06 19:45:37+00:00
Honestly it doesn't even matter if true or false, their logic is flawed. We could just swap China/Taiwan for the Koreas and it would still be dumb. Clearly they have independent governing bodies even though they both claim the other is an illegitimate ruling party.

The patent is either trolling or delusional. Best to waste no more time
by cmrdporcupine | 2026-03-06 19:45:52+00:00
Really when people say x86 now tho they don't mean that. They really mean the variant introduced with the 386 which has a linear memory model, memory protection, etc. Or x86_64 which is philosophically akin to the 386 but really a new ISA.

So it's really more like mid-80s or early 2000s, not late 70s.
by dilyevsky | 2026-03-06 19:46:13+00:00
There're two things here:

1. You still need resume filtering because any public req will receive literally thousands of resumes most of which are poor fit. And that's after HR software did its thing btw. Can't spend 20m on thousands of applications most of which are low effort slop sent by folks who aren't even committed / competent enough to read and follow the req. This was already an issue 10 years ago before AI so I imagine it's at least 10 times worse now.

2. Once you're past that point, at least in my personal experience conducting hundreds of these sessions, most people are pretty bad at going into any kind of depth on stuff listed on their resume so your best strategy (that is if you want to hire anyone at all) is to ask generic questions that are role specific. At best you can tailor some of them to what's in the resume.
by tootie | 2026-03-06 19:46:36+00:00
Being impulsive doesn't mean you have a good system 1 intelligence. Quite the opposite. His system 1 sucks and is driven entirely by superficial biases and ego. His system 2 appears to be moribund as he rarely comes up solutions beyond the same facile reasoning his system 1 comes up with. He has neither intellect nor good instincts.
by dolebirchwood | 2026-03-06 19:46:43+00:00
> mid/difficult

You're assuming the question has to even be that difficult. I've proctored sessions for senior-level webdev roles where the questions were akin to "baby's first React component" -- write a component that updates a counter when you click a button. So many candidates (who purported to be working with React for years) would fail, abysmally. Not like they were just making small mistakes; I didn't even care about best practices -- they just needed to make it work. So many failed. Lot of frauds out there.
by conductr | 2026-03-06 19:46:51+00:00
I think they're significantly more approachable than ICE motorcycles. But, what they share is common and a major adoption hinderance in Western world - we just like dry safe climate controlled boxes a lot, it's comfortable.

I think e-motos have a better chance of replacing cars than e-bikes ever do though. The scale of our cities and distance people travel almost necessitate the higher speeds. It will become more popular as economics force it, if the average car keeps costing more and groceries too, while wages stay pretty flat, well groceries will eventually win.

Actually, the economic forces being what they are, have average car age at an all time high in the US [0]. It is likely that once these old cars die off; a large portion of people simply will not be able to afford new cars and at some point the supply of used cars will be insufficient and people will be forced to entertain cheaper alternatives.

[0] https://www.pbs.org/newshour/economy/average-u-s-vehicle-age...
by no_wizard | 2026-03-06 19:47:09+00:00
I also think its being used to filter out people that aren't basically a mirror for the interviewers in many instances.

I've noticed a huge tightening of the rope around that sort of thing.

I can't tell you how many times I've passed all the tests, all the interview things, get to the final round with the team and the rejection email comes in despite having good conversations. By all accounts, I believe any person would say the interview went well.

my peers are reporting the same things.
by overfeed | 2026-03-06 19:47:14+00:00
> When I was doing a lot of hiring we wouldn't take the job posting down until we were done hiring people with that title

It's a small engineering org, allegedly head-hunting one principal engineer for the whole org, so it's a single opening. 10 months later they are still hunting for their special snowflake.

> I can recall some specific job listings we had open for years because none of the people we interviewed really had the specific experience we needed

This is exactly what I mean. If you can go for years without filling a role, it's non-essential , amd are in effect, "seeing what's out there". More amd more companies are getting very picky on mundane roles, wuch as insisting on past experience in specific industries: "Oh, your extensive experience in low-latency comms is in telecoms? We prefer someone who's worked in TV broadcast, using these niche standards specifically, even though your knowledge is directly transferable. We don't want to waste 5 days on training"
by funkyfiddler369 | 2026-03-06 19:47:19+00:00
that's cute but you can't blame people for holding opinions based on phenomenal observations before they learn the language and can perform experiments. the fact that so many can't is the sole reason you might be considered somewhat superior or competent. more people with scientific skills and a personal way to explain and adhere to the scientific method would mean that your competence would be no more than average, if at all. how would that make you feel?

more importantly though, is the fact that there are enough "critics" that consider Global Warming a cycle that "man" merely accelerated by a few decades. most of these "skeptics" are also perfectly capable of discerning between the amount of energy "wasted" in office buildings and lit up skyscrapers as well as anything at the end of luxury supply chains and markets and what the rest of the world "wastes" or expends. to them, the hoax is the "man-made" part ...

it should be "some-man-made climate change"
by Imustaskforhelp | 2026-03-06 19:47:25+00:00
Here are some minor feedback I would like to hear your opinion about:

* It seems that it focuses way too much on the pricing. 49$ for something as such might be against the core idea of this because its way easier to trust something Open source in this regards and I hope you realize it as well. Undo/Redo are genuine features which don't sit right with me to pay for such functionality

* Please open source it

If this app was something like obsidian, I would've understood its point but unfortunately I don't prefer the UI. An Open source note-taking app (although not in browser) is logseq which I actually used to use! It was good and I am unable to find aside from the idea that this works in browser

See Logseq demo here!: https://demo.logseq.com/ [Undo/Redo works in it]

Another point but I know that you have to take password sometime or other, have a minor option of adding password directly generation which can show and a demo option say similar to logseq which doesn't have me want to enter a password to see your app because most people are unfortunately gonna close it in terms of Show HN

Hope this helps! Good luck

> Curious to hear feedback from the HN community, especially on:

> - the security approach (local AES encryption) - IndexedDB storage design - local-first UX tradeoffs

I don't have much feedback on this but IIRC indexedDB itself is a PITA. There was this library whose name I have forgotten which I have heard could although make IndexedDB work like a breeze.

Actually, I have created something similar (minus indexedDB part) and one of the things that I did was have a piping server be connected[0]

So the idea is that you can write whatever you want and its all local (actually open source) and then what you do is that you can write anything you want. Afterwards, you can have a top piping-server link[1] and it can then pass the data that you wrote from your browser into any server using it. I'd suggest you to look into piping-server.

[0]: https://serjaimelannister.github.io/monopipe/

[1]: https://github.com/nwtgck/piping-server [ Infinitely transfer between every device over pure HTTP with pipes or browsers ]

I had actually made this project first using LLM's but then to better understand , I ended up rewriting it myself and learnt quite a bit about typeform and actually my rewrite had a very hacky solution but it was also fun trying to do it.
by oantoshchenko | 2026-03-06 19:47:51+00:00
Hi HN - I built ATK because my AI dev setup became unmanageable.

I was running multiple MCP servers, local services like OpenMemory and Langfuse, and wiring them manually into Claude Code, Codex, and Augment. Each tool had its own installation steps, config files, and environment variables.

ATK is a CLI that installs and manages these tools as plugins and can wire MCP servers into multiple coding agents with a single command.

The entire setup lives in a git repo (~/.atk), so you can reproduce your AI dev environment across machines.

Example:

atk add openmemory
atk mcp add openmemory --claude --codex --auggie

Curious to hear if others have run into the same problem or if there's tooling in this space I'm missing.
by xattt | 2026-03-06 19:47:56+00:00
There is an 18-year-old record (updated in 2008!) about TekSavvy in Canada. The internet was different place back then. This info wouldn’t even relevant anymore as TekSavvy has since taken a business-centric approach in the interest of survival.

This list is fluffed up, without any checking for veracity. GIGO type of situation.
by M95D | 2026-03-06 19:48:18+00:00
x86 always had standards: same two IRQ controllers, same UART chips, same keyboard controller, same PC speaker I/O, same ISA, same PCI, same AGP, VGA ROM that init the GPU with the same framebuffer address, all PATA controllers used the same I/O and IRQ and a single driver worked for all, same de-facto standards for audio (OPL aka. Adlib / SoundBlaster / MIDI), simple/bidi/ECP/EPP standards for parallel port and de-facto ESC/P standard for printers, etc. Hell, even USB there were only 2 at the beginning: Intel (UHCI) and AMD (OHCI), and then they cooperated and made universal EHCI.

ARM is a complete jungle by comparison. Each ARM manufacturer licenses a different UART, different USB, different PCIe (or none at all), different SATA, different GPU, different audio even if it's just I2s, different I2c, different SPI, different GPIO controller, different MMC/SDHCI, etc. etc. And each one needs, of course, a different driver!

The big mistake ARM (the company) made was to design only CPUs, not complete SoCs with peripherals, or at least require standard I/O addresses.

And now they're trying to patch it up with UEFI and ACPI: closed-source ring -2 blobs that will never be updated or bug-fixed by any manufacturer.
by Strom | 2026-03-06 19:49:18+00:00
Hardcore gamers were the reason behind a whole new chip type being introduced - the GPU. This was also when this market was a lot smaller. I don’t see this changing. The market will continue rewarding chips that cater to it. It is absolutely big enough to sustain several different completely bespoke chip types, regardless of what non-gamers are doing.

x86 will lose to ARM/RISC in gaming only if those chips provide a better gaming experience.
by jsheard | 2026-03-06 19:49:19+00:00
> Understanding the memory ordering requirements from binary without source and without killing performance by being overly conservative (and hell, the source itself probably has memory ordering bugs if it was only tested on x86) sounds next to impossible.

It is hard, but Microsoft came up with a hack to make it easier. MSVC (since 2019) annotates x86 binaries with metadata describing instructions memory ordering requirements, to inform emulators of when it's safe to YOLO ordering. Obviously that was intended to assist Microsoft's Prism emulator, but the open source FEX emulator figured out their encoding and supports the same trick now.

Emulators still have to do it the hard way when running older MSVC binaries of course, or ones compiled with Clang or GCC. Most commercial games are built with MSVC at least.
by a2128 | 2026-03-06 19:49:29+00:00
You're not just using a tool — you're co-authoring the science.

This README is an absolute headache that is filled with AI writing, terminology that doesn't exist or is being used improperly, and unsound ideas. For example, it focuses a lot on doing "ablation studies", by which it means removing random layers of an already-trained model, to find the source of the refusals(?), which is an absolute fool's errand because such behavior is trained into the model as a whole and would not be found in any particular layer. I can only assume somebody vibe-coded this and spent way too much time being told "You're absolutely right!" bouncing back the worst ideas