MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by JumpCrisscross | 2026-03-11 14:43:54+00:00
> If that means curbing the comparatively high consumption taxes

“Most of the roughly $4 billion a year the tax would bring it would be devoted to the state’s general-fund budget to pay for government agencies and services. A 5% chunk would be earmarked for early education and child care.

Democrats also say they’d use some of the money to fund free school lunch and breakfast for all kids in K-12 schools, though Republicans pointed out that money is not legally earmarked in the income tax bill.

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The bill would also exempt more businesses from paying the state’s business and occupation tax. It also would eliminate the sales tax on purchases of diapers, and personal hygiene products such as toothpaste, antiperspirants and shampoo.

It also would expand the state’s Working Families Tax Credit, which sends annual rebates of up to $1,300 a year to lower-income working families. Ferguson had pushed for the expansion of the program and said the revised bill would make 460,000 households eligible for the payments.”

TL; DR It’s not materially curbing the sales tax.
Show HN: AI assistant that reads Intervals.icu data and adjusts workouts
by senjindarashiva | 2026-03-11 14:43:55+00:00
Hi HN,

I’m a self-coached endurance athlete and long-time user of Intervals.icu. Over the years I’ve gotten comfortable interpreting my own training data (CTL/ATL trends, HRV, fatigue, etc.), but I kept running into a practical problem:

The training plan makes sense when you write it, but real life rarely cooperates.

Bad sleep, work travel, missed workouts, or suddenly having only 45 minutes instead of two hours. In those moments the question becomes: does the planned workout still make sense today?

I built a small tool called PacePartner to help with that:

https://pacepartner.app

The idea is not to replace coaching or generate perfect plans, but to act as a decision layer on top of Intervals.icu.

It connects to your account and reads things like:

training load (ATL / CTL)

HRV / recovery signals

sleep data

planned workouts

upcoming races

You can then ask questions like:

“Should I still do threshold today?”

“I only have 60 minutes — what should I train?”

“I missed yesterday’s workout — how should the week adapt?”

If the workout changes, it can also push the new session back into the Intervals calendar.

What surprised me while building this

Initially I assumed the main challenge would be building a very specialized “AI coach”. In practice the biggest improvement came from simply giving the model good context from the athlete’s actual training data.

Most athletes already have a training plan. The useful part isn’t generating one from scratch — it’s helping adjust it when circumstances change.

Rough architecture

Intervals.icu OAuth integration

Pull training metrics + calendar data via API

Contextual prompt layer grounded in common endurance training principles

Conversational interface (web + messaging)

Still early and very much a work in progress.

Would especially appreciate feedback from:

endurance athletes who use Intervals / TrainingPeaks

people building AI assistants around structured datasets

anyone thinking about AI systems that augment decision making rather than automate it

Happy to answer any questions.
by dzaima | 2026-03-11 14:44:00+00:00
2 is basically infeasible with RISC-V being intended for a wide range of use-cases. 1 might be ok but introduces a bunch of opcode space waste.

Indeed extremely sad that Zicclsm wasn't a thing in the spec, from the very start (never mind that even now it only lives in the profiles spec); going through the git history, seems that the text around misaligned handling optionality goes all the way back to the very start of the riscv/riscv-isa-manual repo, before `Z*` extensions existed at all.

More broadly, it's rather sad that there aren't similar extensions for other forms of optional behavior (thing that was recently brought up is RVV vsetvli with e.g. `e64,mf2`, useful for massive-VLEN>DLEN hardware).
by casenmgreen | 2026-03-11 14:44:11+00:00
It took me about five years to get Revolut to return to me the funds in an account I could no longer access (Revolut overnight upped the Android requirement for their app, so I could no longer access), where they had no mechanism by which to regain access.

In the end I managed it by issuing a GDPR. Revolut's GDPR staff were able to finally shut the account, and send me the funds, so I got them back.
by KellyCriterion | 2026-03-11 14:44:32+00:00
> a lot what the company does today just sucks. Set prices are outrageou

This was all done planned and implemented by this one consulting guy (MCK?), who became CEO after delivering his report from his consulting company, Lego was near bankrupt back then - he started with all this subbranding shitty stuff and the "colorful" bricks and introduced all these many many "single-use-case-bricks" for more and more sets.
by jonhohle | 2026-03-11 14:44:34+00:00
I recently built the NES and Game Boy sets and thought both of those were really great. The NES is probably not priced for most people (we try to stay under 10¢ a brick), but the level of detail, whimsy, and mechanics are all really well done. There are hidden scenes and Easter eggs built into the system that are revealed as you build rather than highlighted as features on the box. I was genuinely surprised and had a lot of fun sharing that with my family as we realized what was coming together.

The Game Boy was much more affordable. Less whimsical, but brought back memories of taking apart electronics and marveling at what these circuit boards and components could possibly be doing.
by rayiner | 2026-03-11 14:44:35+00:00
> I don't understand how anyone in good conscience can vote against this tax

Then you have intellectual blinders on. There’s good reasons to have broad based taxes instead of singling out rich people. In Sweden, for example, the top tax bracket kicks in at 1.5x the median income. In Germany, the second highest 42% bracket kicks in around 70,000 euros and the top 45% bracket kicks in at 277,000 euros.

None of the countries that American liberals admire in terms of having a robust welfare state adopt a policy of “soak the rich.” The have policies based on solidarity where everyone in the top half or third take on a heavy tax burden.
by SecretDreams | 2026-03-11 14:44:57+00:00
Ah yes, all the 50k makers are dependent on the very altruistic nature of the 50mil earners who all got there under their own power and without any systematic abuse, grifting, or generational wealth to get them going. Won't anyone think of these poor folks? They'll now have 49x0.099 mil less yearly income to charitably pay their indebted employees bonuses.
by jetywolf | 2026-03-11 14:45:17+00:00
Current multi-agent communication relies on high-redundancy natural language token transmission, leading to exponential costs. I’ve drafted TokenZip (TZP), an open standard to establish a shared semantic memory space.
By using a unified 384d Interlingua vector space and Edge Caching, TZP allows agents to exchange a short pointer (TrexID) instead of re-sending full context windows. It effectively functions as a semantic CDN for LLMs.
by hkonte | 2026-03-11 14:46:13+00:00
Placeholder tests are a vague objective problem. "Write tests" leaves too much room. The model satisfies the surface request, not the intent.

Explicit typed instructions close that gap: objective = "write tests that verify behavior X", constraints = "no placeholder returns, every assertion must check a real value", output_format = "one describe block per function". With those in separate blocks the model has nowhere to hide.

I built flompt for structuring prompts like this: https://github.com/Nyrok/flompt
by Supernaut | 2026-03-11 14:46:15+00:00
It's amusing to see comments implying that the TB-303 is some kind of neglected classic. It can only be considered to have been forgotten for perhaps the two years after Roland ended production in 1984.

"Acid Tracks" came out in 1987 and I genuinely feel like I've been reading endlessly about the 303 ever since.
by everdrive | 2026-03-11 14:46:19+00:00
No they cannot. They don't offer real arguments, they make pre-textual arguments and they bullshit. (bullshit in the formal Harry G. Frankfurt sense of the word.) If an argument they make suits them, they will stand by that argument. If an argument ends up not suiting them, they will readily discard and fabricate a different justification.

So many years of dealing with this administration, and people are still attempting to point our hypocrisy and hold people to standards with regard to principle, past statements, character, etc. None of it will work here.
by superxpro12 | 2026-03-11 14:46:26+00:00
The whole point is censorship of ideals right wing deems unfavorable.

Throughout my entire education, not once did I have to deal with a professor who was some ideological firebrand.

The right has invented a narrative to falsely justify their efforts to censor all education and shape nationwide discourse in their favor. Because they can't win any other way.
by salawat | 2026-03-11 14:46:34+00:00
>If you ask for a whole system in one prompt the result is usually messy. But if you break the work into smaller parts like functions or modules the results become much better.

Full circle. If one has to do the full process of decomp, one might as well just noodle the code and save on the power/compute bill. The human brain is pretty goddamn efficient compared to a rack full of server hardware and GPU's. Of course humans also come with a problem from a capitalist's point of view. Three really. You can't own them, they aren't trivial to reproduce, and they can say no. AI has no such limitations. Hence the catnip like quality of the space.
by tinfoilhatter | 2026-03-11 14:46:46+00:00
Spewing stuff like what? Robert Maxwell, Ghislane Maxwell's father (a proud Zionist and Mossad agent) was the co-founder of McGraw Hill, the second largest textbook publishing company in the US. Are you trying to tell me a proud Zionist who is publishing textbooks is making it his priority to ensure they paint an objective picture of history in relationship to Israel? My textbooks (whether in High School or University) certainly didn't talk about the Sabbateans or Jacob Frank / Frankism - yet understanding their history is critical to anything approaching objectivity.

What I expect is for all narratives to be able to be questioned, and not for there to be one that is unquestionable. When narratives can't be questioned, it's a pretty good indicator that something is being lied about.
by thmsths | 2026-03-11 14:46:51+00:00
The problem once again comes when you decide to hyper optimize for profit. Ada and William will rely on word of mouth, maybe a few posters to drum up attention to their raffle.

Meanwhile large gambling orgs will run ad spots non stop with celebrities enticing you to join their app with free bonus bets and once you're in they will send you daily notifications to nudge you to place "just one more bet".

Easy to see how one would be relatively harmless while the other could cause widespread addiction.
by mmustapic | 2026-03-11 14:47:37+00:00
Lego was always expensive, you can compare prices adjusted for inflation. For example, the 1979 Galaxy Explorer <https://brickset.com/sets/497-1> was around $32, that's $144 today. The reimagined set from 2023 <https://brickset.com/sets/10497-1> was sold at $99, $106 today. Not only it is cheaper, but much larger and with many more pieces.
by 8bitsrule | 2026-03-11 14:47:48+00:00
You may not have learned much about them, or thought through the potential costs of a pipeline being built through your property. Some of those 'eco-warrior types' are not protesting a pipeline, they are protesting the potential irreversable damages to their communities if a neglected or mismanaged pipeline springs a leak (and many, many have), or catches fire, or explodes. Many of them have already seen more than one result of cavalier energy company facilities that have ruined community water and food supplies. What will happen to their community if the pipeline doesn't go in? NOTHING.
by 5upplied_demand | 2026-03-11 14:47:51+00:00
I didn't treat it as anything. It really doesn't even need to be proven as fact. The actual thing people were warning about was untrained and unqualified people having access to this data in the first place. I can't find a statement denying that this employee had that level of access.

If those people weren't granted unprecedented access to our data, there would be no whistle to blow. You can wait for the "investigation" to play out, the rest can see that obvious risks were ignored to benefit someone.
by Lord-Jobo | 2026-03-11 14:47:56+00:00
1.8: chat ide the slow way :)

This is also where I do most of my AI use. It’s the safe spot where I’m not going to accidentally send proprietary info to an unknown number of eyeballs(computer or human).

It’s also just cumbersome enough that I’m not relying on it too much and stunting my personal ability growth. But I’m way more novice than most on here.
by hirako2000 | 2026-03-11 14:48:01+00:00
I concede we can't be sure what they do since it's proprietary. Aside leaks which give us a sense of the philosophy.

It's clear to me the economics would make the likes of OpenAI and Anthropic's focus on raw power over optimisations. I never meant they wouldn't optimise anything, but it's earlier diminishing returns vs for a company like Alibaba, or even Mistral.

The Chinese models were trained in the context of compute scarcity. So it isn't the same for them as "routine" optimisations, it's optimisations or nothing.

A year or two later those optimisations allowed their models to be somewhat on par with raw power models from the US providers.

Now despite papers being published, a design is rather sticky, it's not as simple as plugging an optimisations another lab came up with. It depends what the optimisation, perhaps multi head wasn't that big of a deal to add in, MoE would have been less so easy.
by pixl97 | 2026-03-11 14:48:06+00:00
Sorry man, the internet has died and is not being replaced by anything but an authoritarian nightmare.

My only guess is if you want actual humans, you'll have to do this IRL. Of course we has humans have got used to the 24/7 availability and scale of the internet so this is going to be a problem as these meetings won't provide the hyperactive environment we want.

Any other digital system will be gamed in one way or another.
by logicallee | 2026-03-11 14:48:47+00:00
It might interest you to know that one or two months ago, Claude ported it to WebGPU from the reference implementation, so that it runs right in your browser as a local model. But the model didn't function as well as the reference implementation so I'll have to work on it for a while. You can see a debugging session livestreamed here[1]. The released model file was about a gigabyte, it fits in most people's GPU's. We were also able to successfully fine-tune it right in the browser.

There's a lot that you can do when the model size is that small, yet still powerful.

Our next step is that we want to put up a content distribution network for it where people can also share their diffs for their own fine-tuned model. I'll post the project if we finish all the parts.

[1] https://www.youtube.com/live/x791YvPIhFo?is=NfuDFTm9HjvA3nzN
by thewebguyd | 2026-03-11 14:48:49+00:00
> Also isn’t this illegal? I thought the state constitution says it is illegal.

The state constitution treats income as property, and states that property taxes must be uniform.

So the bill is actually a state-wide, uniform 9.9% income tax but with the first million dollars exempt.

It is expected to be challenged almost immediately in probably a long court battle so we will see what the arguments are. I'm in support of the tax, but I'm a bit miffed that they refused to add language that prohibited lowering the threshold.
by tpmoney | 2026-03-11 14:49:22+00:00
I can’t say what the OP funds specifically useful but as an example if you’re aiming to make sure you’ve accurately and clearly documented / explained your intent, the misunderstandings and tangents AIs can go down are useful in the same way that putting your theoretically perfect UI into the hands of real users is also useful. It helps you want places where you assumed knowledge or understanding that someone else might not have.

Building up style guidelines for AI tools has been an eye opening experience in realizing how many stylistic choices we make that aren’t embedded in the linter, and aren’t documented anywhere else either. The resulting files have actually been a really good resource not just for the AI but for new developers on the project too.

It all depends on what your specific goal is.
by throwdbaaway | 2026-03-11 14:49:57+00:00
What about the VRAM requirement for KV cache? That may matter more than memory bandwidth. With these GPUs, there are more compute capacity than memory bandwidth than VRAM.

DeepSeek got MLA, and then DSA. Qwen got gated delta-net. These inventions allow efficient inference both at home and at scale. If Anthropic got nothing here, then their inference cost can be much higher.
by DrewADesign | 2026-03-11 14:50:01+00:00
Go for it. I got out of that ridiculous ouroboro of an industry years ago. That might be great for you, but surely you can’t imagine VC funding enough startups to save the software labor market? The tech workforce is giant. Do you think there are tens or hundreds of thousands of ways to make unique new software products where even a single digit percentage are commercially viable? Software isn’t fungible: it needs to solve specific problems that people have, and do it well enough to deal with the hassle of switching software.

This isn’t an individual problem— it’s an industry-wide problem.

(I pulled the 2/3 number out of a hat to illustrate the point. I put exactly zero analysis into that.)
Ask HN: Finding a purpose after tech layoffs
by fud101 | 2026-03-11 14:50:07+00:00
How are you filling your days? A few months ago I was upskilling and prepping for interviews but i've lost all motivation now. I don't want any of this, AI has poisoned the whole ecosystem for good even if one did get back into the game, it all seems like the good old days are over and they were never that great in the first place. I miss having a paycheck more than anything else, even daily standups which I dreaded gave structure and purpose which I am unable to replace.
by tw-20260303-001 | 2026-03-11 14:50:24+00:00
Nothing nerve wrecking like that but come on. They claim "the information could not have been stolen because the security practices" but "evidence has been published online, is now available to anyone and therefore it is dangerous" is a clown situation. It doesn't matter how it happened, it happened. Them trying to dispute the method is a clown camp.
by titzer | 2026-03-11 14:50:25+00:00
I found the article and your third-hand anecdotes troubling. The good news is that it does not match any of the years of experience in my field. Fraud is just not that rampant. At PhD-granting institutions, the level of fraud you describe here is very seriously punished. It's career-ending. The violations that you are serious enough that any institution would expel said students (or harshly punish faculty--probably firing them). She did no one any favors by not reporting them.

Unfortunately I don't think a dialogue around vague anecdotes is going to be particularly enlightening. What matters is culture, but also process--mechanisms and checks--plus consequences. Consequences don't happen if everyone is hush-hush about it and no one wants to be a "rat".
by entaloneralie | 2026-03-11 14:50:38+00:00
This was so nice to read, I've been trying to encourage my friends to write their own editors, there's something really nice about the process of working within your own tool. I've used my own text editor(it's call Left) for nearly 10 years, it took time to get it just right, but I iterated of the years, from within(using Left to edit Left) but that time I spent putting it together is paid back 20x by the joy it gives me opening it and working in it in the morning.

I'd do it all over again if I had to.
by thewebguyd | 2026-03-11 14:50:41+00:00
> If they don’t earn more than $1m, they don’t pay it, right?

Correct, and for the times they do earn more than $1m, with this tax they are only taxed on the income over $1m and pay nothing for income of $999k and below. If you make a million and one dollars, you owe 10 cents.
by LiquidSky | 2026-03-11 14:51:10+00:00
Well, there was the previous whistleblower complaint that members of DOGE accessed and shared sensitive Social Security data without the awareness of agency officials, which the government denied...until this January when they were forced to admit in a court filing that it was true. [https://archive.is/efY6S]

That is to say, there is no reason to extend this administration or anything DOGE-related the benefit of the doubt.
by fidotron | 2026-03-11 14:51:18+00:00
> So the UK is now China it seems

Western governments have been looking enviously at China's authoritarianism (notoriously Trudeau blurted out he admired their "basic dictatorship" back in 2013) while completely ignoring any elements that might actually improve the lives of the citizens.

Our politicians are determined to implement the worst of our respective systems.
by Joel_Mckay | 2026-03-11 14:51:26+00:00
Depending on the specific reporting period that data also seems consistent. But thanks for citing your source, as some otherwise great folks don't bother to check past Google Gemini nonsense when it starts lying.

Apples only issue is its walled garden ecosystem eliminates most small/medium software studio content. In a way, the FOSS projects have greatly increased the MacOS software options available, and the recent Steam port is very promising.

Win11 has caused a massive shift in users to posix like systems. This will only improve most of the ecosystem. =3
by forgotTheLast | 2026-03-11 14:51:35+00:00
It definitely is a thing in the eyes of Delaware courts:

In eBay vs Newmark:
>Having chosen a for-profit corporate form, the craigslist directors are
bound by the fiduciary duties and standards that accompany that form. Those
standards include acting to promote the value of the corporation for the benefit of
its stockholders. The “Inc.” after the company name has to mean at least that.
Thus, I cannot accept as valid for the purposes of implementing the Rights Plan a
corporate policy that specifically, clearly, and admittedly seeks not to maximize
the economic value of a for-profit Delaware corporation for the benefit of its
stockholders—no matter whether those stockholders are individuals of modest
means or a corporate titan of online commerce.

https://courts.delaware.gov/Opinions/Download.aspx?id=143440

In the Trados case:
>It is, of course, accepted that a corporation may take steps, such as giving charitable contributions or paying higher wages, that do not maximize profits currently.
They may do so, however, because such activities are rationalized as producing greater
profits over the long-term. Decisions of this nature benefit the corporation as
a whole, and by increasing the value of the corporation, the directors increase the share of
value available for the residual claimants. Judicial opinions therefore often refer to
directors owing fiduciary duties ―to the corporation and its shareholders. This formulation captures the foundational
relationship in which directors owe duties to the corporation for the ultimate benefit of
the entity‘s residual claimants. Nevertheless, ―stockholders‘ best interest must always,
within legal limits, be the end. Other constituencies may be considered only
instrumentally to advance that end.

https://courts.delaware.gov/opinions/download.aspx?ID=193520