MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by kakacik | 2026-03-10 08:04:49+00:00
Lol most of radars become mainly revenue stream, regardless of country or continent. Even mighty orderly Switzerland has some of that shit and its growing.

Where I live, there is one nasty radar placed so that people have to break rather hard, when leaving town as in few meters before end sign, on a steeply downhill slope, when there is just straight empty road ahead. Those who don't know get flashed frequently. There is no pedestrian crossing, no buildings, just empty fields. Locals complained and municipality said - sorry, we know, but its generating too much revenue and municipality needs that cash and became dependent on that. Basically FU. I know about few others in either Switzerland or France which have very nasty locations, in order to trap as many as possible, in places with 0 actual risk to anybody.

They also love putting temporary radars in some train underpasses which also go steeply down, so its trivial go few kms over the limit if you don't constantly brake and ie actually watch traffic around. Since they are well hidden and people see them at last moment and slam brakes hard, it properly increases risks of accidents, especially with mixture of cyclists or scooters/motorbikes. But that doesn't seem the priority anymore.

I am not saying they don't make sense in some places especially around pedestrian crossings, but its trivial to get 'addicted' to steady cash flow and then friction to change situation is maximal. Thats the point where it stops its primary purpose and becomes self-serving bureaucracy self-feeding loop.
by fc417fc802 | 2026-03-10 08:05:08+00:00
Is copyright meaningful for aerospace software? I'm largely unfamiliar with that domain but I have trouble imagining that (for example) Boeing cares much about people redistributing or hacking on the control software for a 777. How would that impact their bottom line?

I could understand for medical devices maybe but even then it seems like the software is a tiny part of the overall cost of a given design. A competitor could already do a clean room reimplementation in that case.

But I guess it wouldn't be all that bad if there were a carefully crafted extension for government certified software that was explicitly tied to the length of the certification process.
by idiocratic | 2026-03-10 08:05:08+00:00
The economics of software are very different from physical goods. Margins on software (products) are orders of magnitude higher. Any cost shaving done at coding time is economically irrelevant in the long run, detrimental to quality/reputation and could almost be seen as a risk. Furthermore, assuming the bottleneck in this process has so far been coding is pure BS.
Ask HN: Anybody using multi LLM coding workflow?
by reacharavindh | 2026-03-10 08:05:45+00:00
I wish to have a fully local Git workflow where Claude Opus translates my requirements into extremely detailed plan/spec broken down as implementation steps as a Markdown file, Gemini-pro picks up each task and submits a PR for Opus to review and give feedback. Gemini should not proceed until Opus is happy. Continue like this until all tasks are done. I dont want another 3rd party orchestrator or service. I dont want to self-host Gitea just for this. Any clever way to get such a workflow? Anybody doing something similar already?
by bob1029 | 2026-03-10 08:05:53+00:00
Lucene really does feel like magic sometimes. It was designed expressly to solve the top K problem at hyper scale. It's incredibly mature technology. You can go from zero to a billion documents without thinking too
much about anything other than the amount of mass storage you have available.

Every time I've used Lucene I have combined it with a SQL provider. It's not necessarily about one or the other. The FTS facilities within the various SQL providers are convenient, but not as capable by comparison. I don't think mixing these into the same thing makes sense. They are two very different animals that are better joined by way of the document ids.
by exodust | 2026-03-10 08:06:17+00:00
> Different byline, but somehow essentially the same as this story...

Have you considered the possibility that more than one website picked up the volcanic cabins story because it's interesting?

Both articles mention the source: https://plat.asia which is clearly a genuine architecture site.

If you hosted a blog with architecture category, you might also write a post about the volcanic cabins. If the source allows publishing those high-res photos, why wouldn't you?
by crote | 2026-03-10 08:06:29+00:00
> I am not talking about generic inmates, who deserve all protection (“no cruel and unusual punishment”), I’m talking about people like ones from the website. Who did horrible stuff and were convicted to death for it.

The most horrible people, some of whom were actually innocent?

I understand your emotional desire to (indirectly) hurt them, but the fact is that we can never be 100% sure that they were fully guilty of the acts exactly as described and everyone else in the world was completely innocent.

This means there is a nonzero chance of a miscarriage of justice, and you can't exactly un-execute someone. The only question remaining is: how many tortured and/or killed innocent warrant one monster not being harmed quite as much as your desire for revenge would like?
by chenxi9649 | 2026-03-10 08:07:07+00:00
I'm currently using them to build an AI agent similar to lovable/replit-esq in tech stack and it works.

I started by managing the claude agent sdk myself in a daytona container, and it was a lot more challenging than I thought. The agent kept crashing in streaming mode and there was no thread crash, so it was hard to debug, esp in a cloud container like Daytona. I also realized that I needed to implement my own session management system + my own database if I wanna save the chat and on top of that streaming so the messages come out in real time. AND I need to manage my own container janitor/heart beat system so that un-used containers don't just sit there, but I also don't want them to go cold immediately after each message since cold start takes a bit.. They all seem simple but at each step there are some edge cases. I ended up vibe coding most all of that, but it was just quite fragile. For those who hasn't tried the agent sdks, it feels like it's clearly designed to be ran on a client computers with permanent storage + lots of ram than microVMs. Which was not what I expected.

After that, I tried to find some managed option. Starting with blackbox ai because I saw a vercel tweet about them, and for some reason I just couldn't get their agent API stuff to work AT ALL?... I'm curious as to if it's actually working for anyone. Then I tried sandbox dev, which doesn't store container/sessions/storage stuff out of the box for you, so it wasn't much better than doing the daytona container myself. And then I tried terminaluse, and it worked better than I expected given all of the other stuff that I tried.

So at the end of the day, it's kind of like a managed cloud services that does agent chat history, session recovery, streaming + a CLI that makes it easy for my own codex to debug/deploy + file system sync. From what I can tell, there isn't anyone else that can do all that and I'm pretty pleased with using them.
by scheeseman486 | 2026-03-10 08:07:15+00:00
Nintendo have done anticompetitive things before and were legally punished for it. Just because something is video games doesn't make it's business decisions unserious and unworthy of regulatory enforcement.

Steam Deck is a gaming-focused handheld PC. It has a software certification system similar in function to what you see on console. If a user sticks within that environment, they essentially have the "console experience". There could be less friction with stronger certification enforcement, but Valve are consciously less strict for ideological and practical reasons. Is Steam Deck fixed function? Valve seems to intend it to be so, they just provide options for those who want to break free of the default gaming-centric environment.

Sony could provide an optionally accessible VM running a Linux distro, providing access to an open environment to install and run the stores that they want. Would it break their business model? Maybe, but no one is entitled to business models that are blatantly anti-competitive. It also wouldn't prevent it from being a fixed function console for those who want that, given that engagement with those features would remain a choice.

"Fixed function" isn't an excuse to build a vertical monopoly. It's been a long time coming for the console razor blade marketing model to come under scrutiny and Sony meets the criteria of being a gatekeeper under EU's DMA. When I look at what Microsoft is doing with Helix (which everyone else seems to be confused by) I get the feeling that Microsoft is anticipating exactly that outcome and getting out ahead of it.
by moritz | 2026-03-10 08:08:26+00:00
That’s all in the article. The author goes into the confusion that it had the Apple logo on it.

Win was conceived as a modifier reserved for the OS (not to be used by applications), while command never was. Command is for commands. If you come to the Mac from Win or Linux it often helps to think of command as what ctrl does on those systems. Ctrl on the Mac started as Terminal-Emulator specific modifier— Which to this day is great, because your universal copy shortcut (cmd-c) and interrupt (ctrl-c) are different things.

Indeed one would map win to command, but only because you need another key for a modifier that‘s not ctrl or opt/alt, conceptually they are different
by xlii | 2026-03-10 08:09:36+00:00
After recent update fiascos I decided to install PopOS on a gaming rig that ran Windows 11 (as a pre-made set).

As they say, you can't see the light in the darkness and the difference between two is like between night and day.

Stable performance, consistent Remote Play to Steam Deck, quick bootup and no "hey want to play, that's a shame cause I got 20 minutes of patches to install".

Sure it's still a Linux with all consequences (had to switch from Wayland to Xorg for remote play and being returning user after couple years it wasn't straightforward) but it works much better.

I won't ever install Windows on my family computers. If I can afford to equip them with Macs I'll do so. If not - they'll get Linux instead.
by avilay | 2026-03-10 08:09:57+00:00
This hit a nerve as I am in the middle of developing a webapp for myself using NiceGUI.
I find CSS, especially its layout framework, pretty confusing and sometimes downright intimidating to work with. `inline`, `block`, `flex`, `grid` seem reasonable when you read about them. But when using it, especially within frameworks when flexboxes are nested within grids which are nested within flexboxes and so on, it becomes hard to reason about. And then you throw in media-queries in the mix and it becomes even more dense.
by repstosb | 2026-03-10 08:10:36+00:00
> The thing I most want to use this (or some other WASM Linux engine) for is running a coding agent against a virtual operating system directly in my browser.

Well, there it is, the dumbest thing I'll read on the internet all week.

Most of the engineering in Linux revolves around efficiently managing hardware interfaces to build up higher-level primitives, upon which your browser builds even higher-level primitives, that you want to use to simulate an x86 and attached devices, so you can start the process again? Somewhere (everywhere), hardware engineers are weeping. I'll bet you can't name a single advantage such a system would have over cloud hosting or a local Docker instance.

Even worse, you want this so your cloud-hosted imaginary friend can boil a medium-sized pond while taking the joyful bits of software development away from you, all for the enrichment of some of the most ethically-challenged members of the human race, and the fawning investors who keep tossing other people's capital at them? Our species has perhaps jumped the shark.
by josh3736 | 2026-03-10 08:10:53+00:00
This is an… interesting choice for archival purposes. What exactly do you think makes HFS+'s reliability better? The only thing I can think of is that HFS+ has journaling while FAT and derivatives do not, but that doesn't particularly matter after the data is on the disk and it's cleanly unmounted (which should be a safe assumption in most archival scenarios).

The Linux HFS+ driver is basically unmaintained, and cannot write to journaled disks. On Windows, the only choice a paid driver. I guess it's fine if you're strictly a Mac user, but it's a real problem if you need to access the disk on another machine. Even if you don't, I still wouldn't trust Apple for long-term support of anything.

Meanwhile exFAT has native support on Windows, Mac, and Linux, and there are drivers for BSDs and others.

So 20 years down the line, you'll certainly have something that can read an exFAT drive without much if any pain, regardless of which platform you're using at the time. HFS+? Who knows.

That said, I'd consider ZFS or btrfs for HDD archival. Granted broad (Mac/Windows) support is weaker than FAT, but at least the filesystems are completely open source. But what really makes them interesting is their automatic data checksumming to detect (and possibly repair) bitrot, which is particularly useful for archival.
by nayuki | 2026-03-10 08:11:42+00:00
Windows autoscroll makes this game too easy. This feature was introduced a very long time ago, possibly with the IntelliMouse in the year 1996. Press on the scroll wheel (considered to be middle-click) and release the button, which overlays a little scroll guide circle. Move the mouse down to begin scrolling, and don't touch anything else. Click any mouse button to stop scrolling. (Another variant is to click and hold the wheel button, move the mouse down to scroll, and release the button to stop.)
by jaccola | 2026-03-10 08:12:04+00:00
Some would say having a choice of which healthcare to pay for, the ability to choose a provider, the right to not pay for healthcare (maybe you value an extra holiday more than being able to go to a GP) is a good thing.

I'm from the UK, everyone I've met in the NHS has good intentions but the system itself means the standard of care is very poor. I have no option to go elsewhere with my £'s if a receptionist is extremely rude to me or a doctor won't listen.

Not to say the US system is perfect, just that adding even more government intervention (and associated plunder) by making healthcare universal, is perhaps not the answer.
by soco | 2026-03-10 08:12:41+00:00
I thought the tablet space is pretty much dead? I don't see many on the shelves at the local hardware store (which I walk by mostly of curiosity). It seems all laptops, with a sizeable share of foldable - and even these are way more present than tablets. So no, I think the tablet train has long left (exception being the standing workers in some areas).
by eastbound | 2026-03-10 08:12:58+00:00
Beautiful, it’s nice, but the polished user experience was the ultimate argument.

- Raising the lid of the laptop and the base wouldn’t stick and fall off on the desk,

- A single-button click,

- A Cmd+C to copy and Ctrl+C for the interruption 7 in the terminal,

But now you have to configure that, yes, activate the right-click; yes, activate the three-finger click (wtf, 3 fingers); yes, activate the swipe-across-desktops on the magic mouse, all those items were selling points, so they should have studied the best behavior and implemented it by default on all deployments. But that requires studies, aesthetics, and a taste that only Steeve Jobs had, otherwise everything becomes an option. That’s right, I’m going to paraphrase Jobs’ argument against the 1990ies Microsoft:

The problem with Apple is they have no taste.
by rendaw | 2026-03-10 08:13:15+00:00
I thought this too, but it's still weird.

Machines that make e.g. paper are great. They are immensely more efficient, but extremely consistent and superhuman (try making that perfectly smooth letter paper by hand).

Human written software is the same. Where you had N people copying data from spreadsheets for M suppliers into an internal database or whatever, you now have one program doing it. It can be scaled infinitely for a fraction of the cost. It _never_ messes up. The cost of the software developer is trivial in comparison. Software was a space where the marginal cost for quality was extremely cheap.

I don't get how AI fits in here. Software already had massive scale. You aren't replacing a massive data entry team with AI, you're replacing a reliable piece of software written by a human with a reliable (?) piece of software written by AI controlled by a human. There's no increase in scale. Until the reliability issues are fixed a very noticeable decrease in reliability (sure, some software was bad already, but now the good developers are also writing bad code).

This doesn't seem like a natural step to me at all. The best explanation I can come up with is AI is just being used as an excuse for destructive penny pinching.
by nachocoll | 2026-03-10 08:13:24+00:00
Great post, and the "dark flow" framing really resonates — the productivity illusion described in the METR study alone should give every engineering team pause.

What strikes me reading this thread is how many of you have independently landed on the same conclusions: human accountability for generated code is non-negotiable, architecture has to drive generation (not the other way around), traceability matters, and you can't maintain what you don't understand.

These aren't just gut feelings — they're actually the core of something a few of us have been trying to formalize: the Agile Vibe Coding Manifesto (https://agilevibecoding.org). It explicitly builds on top of the original Agile Manifesto to address exactly this environment.

The four values it proposes — accountability over anonymous generation, traceable intent over opaque implementation, discoverable domain structure over scattered code, and human-readable documentation over implicit knowledge — map directly to what experienced engineers in this thread are describing: staying deeply in the loop, reading the core code, and defining architectural boundaries before letting AI generate within them.

It doesn't reject AI-assisted coding. It tries to answer: what disciplines do Agile teams need so that AI-generated code doesn't become a liability? Worth a look if this resonates.
by sedatk | 2026-03-10 08:15:02+00:00
That's a beautifully written post. Almost like a book. I love it. Also, it made me notice that how much I missed the artistry of computer magazine ads. There was something magical with the experience of reading a computer magazine that I don't experience on any media anymore. Beautiful ads was part of that experience. How the tables have turned now.

That said, DOSBox's TrueType fonts threw me off. It looks great of course, but it's similar to listening to Synthwave: there are some familiar elements from the era it represents, but it still feels alien.

I first learned about spreadsheets on a TV show in Turkey[1] that I believed demoed Lotus 1-2-3, and my 10 year old mind was blown! What an elegant, unique, and flexible way to model computation! We take spreadsheets for granted today, but I think it's one of the greatest inventions in computing history.

[1] https://youtu.be/tq7auBjEIU4?si=ByTvm2bIT_Dpklqz&t=1451
by wolvesechoes | 2026-03-10 08:15:26+00:00
People criticized Stallman et al. for being ideological, but popularity of permissive licenses is actually pure ideology, in Marxian sense - people doing without knowing, and conflating their interests with interests of big capital. You can see the same with people defending AI-laundering.

Stallman's proposal is opposite of ideology, it is conscious political project. And thus it is failing.
by fc417fc802 | 2026-03-10 08:16:05+00:00
> In practice, tps is a reflection of vram memory bandwidth during inference.

> Comparing tps ratios- by saying a model is roughly 2x faster or slower than another model- can tell you a lot about the active param count.

You sure about that? I thought you could shard between GPUs along layer boundaries during inference (but not training obviously). You just end up with an increasingly deep pipeline. So time to first token increases but aggregate tps also increases as you add additional hardware.
by gbro3n | 2026-03-10 08:16:12+00:00
Yes - and keeps the user in the IDE. There's lots of products with their own harness. I know harnesses are not that complex to build - but VS Copilot has really nice integrations with the editor. Either one of these companies has to build their own editor, the IDE's need to build in their own task management / kanban, or we need an extension (like this one). I'm working on improving the UI task file management and AGENT instruction, but the hooks that VS Code exposes regarding what you can inject into the chat are something I'm having to work around.
by johndough | 2026-03-10 08:16:30+00:00
I ran two experiments:

~20x slower for a naive recursive Fibonacci implementation in Python (1300 ms for fib(30) in this VM vs 65ms on bare metal. For comparison, CPython directly compiled to WASM without VM overhead does it in 140ms.)

~2500x slower for 1024x1024 matrix multiplication with NumPy (0.25 GFLOPS in VM vs 575 GFLOPS on bare metal).
by marak830 | 2026-03-10 08:16:42+00:00
Wonderful writing. As someone who is in exactly the same boat (as I assume a lot of us here are), being called on for family tech support for around 30 years now, I too am starting to reconsider recommending windows.

My son is getting to the age where is taking an interest in computers(not just games) so I think I will be starting him off on a linux box.
by 47282847 | 2026-03-10 08:16:49+00:00
To add to the additional risks and complications mentioned already in this thread: it is an open question what later life consequences IVF/ICSI has on the person born from it. Studies imply a range of health issues that may be related, even just considering effects on the mental state of the parents and their subsequent willingness/ability to emotionally bond with the child.
by susanwicks26 | 2026-03-10 08:17:04+00:00
The upholstered outer panels of an ottoman bed single give no indication of what structural material lies beneath them. A metal internal frame provides a more dimensionally stable base than a timber equivalent — it does not flex under load, does not absorb moisture that causes swelling or warping, and holds the gas-lift hinge points rigidly in position through years of repeated opening and closing. The DHS ottoman bed single uses a metal frame beneath the linen and velvet upholstery, keeping the base geometry consistent and the gas-lift mechanism aligned regardless of how the bed is used. This is a specification detail that affects long-term performance rather than initial appearance.
by trdl | 2026-03-10 08:18:15+00:00
Catastrophic forgetting remains a primary barrier to lifelong machine intelligence. We introduce VORASHI, a novel neural architecture that mitigates representational drift through geometric manifold isolation. By integrating Ricci curvature-based solidification with dynamic lateral manifold allocation, VORASHI achieves near-zero forgetting across sequential vision tasks without data rehearsal. We demonstrate that treating neural representations as discrete, sealed manifolds provides a 100x improvement in retention compared to standard regularization methods like EWC. Our results establish geometric manifold manipulation as a viable path toward scalable, infinite continual learning. Built on the foundational IDM Physics Framework.