MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by jseabra | 2026-03-11 08:50:37+00:00
The orchestration point is right but I'd reframe it slightly. The real differentiator isn't orchestration, it's context. Most AI content workflows fail not because the tools are wrong but because the model is working without a coherent brand model. It gets the topic right and the voice completely wrong, or it's consistent post to post but inconsistent with what the company actually stands for. That's not a prompting problem, it's a context architecture problem.
What's actually broken in 2026 is that almost nobody has solved structured brand context at inference time. People treat it as a system prompt you write once and forget. The ones getting real ROI are the ones who've built something closer to a living brand spec that the model actually queries against, not a paragraph of adjectives at the top of a template.
On the stack question, SurferSEO is fine for keyword scaffolding but I'd push back on using it as a content strategy layer. It optimizes for what's already ranking, which is useful for informational content and actively counterproductive if you're trying to build a distinctive voice. The 30% human judgment you mention should probably land there first, before ideation, not just at the editing stage.
by clearloop | 2026-03-11 08:50:56+00:00
Mine called openwalrus is local-llm first written in rust:

builtin metasearch engine, graph based memory system, editing configs with commands (never need to edit the config files manually)...

we indeed need to focus on sort of real "use cases" first, since I just realized when I'm talking with others about it, the conversions are always meaningless, ends with no response, or sth like cool
by kuschku | 2026-03-11 08:50:59+00:00
> Oh, would you just accept my blatantly, verbatim copied-from-another-codebase-and-relicensed PR just because I said “I solemnly swear this is not blatantly, verbatim copied from another codebase and relicensed”?

At that point you've proven intention, meaning you'll get the chance to argue your viewpoint in front of a judge.
by Aldipower | 2026-03-11 08:51:46+00:00
"There’s people who built billion dollars companies by orchestrating 37 agents this morning AND YOU JUST SAT THERE AND ATE BREAKFAST LIKE A PLEB!"

In Europe we like to sit there and eat breakfast like a pleb. After enjoying that, we build a million Euros company. Maybe or maybe not. Who cares if the breakfast is good.
by dewey | 2026-03-11 08:53:07+00:00
This seems like one of these “why does my bad prompt give me bad results” kind of complaints. Just tell the LLM something like “in your reply prefer the macOS GUI and wrote the instructions for a non technical user similar to the Apple help pages” and it’ll look much different.

It won’t be as fast to go through them than just pasting some commands but if that’s what the user prefers…
by fyredge | 2026-03-11 08:53:51+00:00
TFA is short and only shows a single example, but it illuminated something for me. LLMs are a misnomer. These are Large Text Models, or better yet, Large Token Models. The appearance of Language is a result of embedding words or parts of words into Tokens, then identifying the relations between Tokens via Machine Learning.

This further solidifies my view that LLMs will not achieve AGI by refuting the oft repeated popsci argument that human brains predict the next word in a sentence just like LLMs.
by ErroneousBosh | 2026-03-11 08:54:13+00:00
Ketchup only being made from tomatoes is a comparatively recent thing.

In the UK in the 1500s or so the most common condiment was mushroom ketchup, which you pretty much have to make from scratch these days and that's a bit of a pity. You cook the mushrooms off with mace, nutmeg, ginger, pepper, maybe some tamarind (that's the stuff that gives Worcester sauce its sour flavour - it's got the same thing in it as sorrel which I guess you could also use but that's better for like a pesto), brown sugar, and some red wine, and just keep going until it reduces down into a thick sticky paste.

It's quite a strong flavour, probably a bit full on for the average American palate, although I know people over there who make it and apparently enjoy it.

Tomato ketchup is like a cross between a pickle and a jam, where (at least in theory) the sugar and vinegar act as preservatives and the pectin from the tomatoes makes it set up into a sticky jelly.

People also made walnut ketchup, which is difficult to do where I am because you need green unripe walnuts and there aren't a lot of walnut trees here. If you live near a walnut grower see if you can get a bag of unripe ones and have a go at it. The unripe walnut juice will stain the hell out of everything it comes near - it'll stain Pyrex, ffs - but it's good stuff that goes nicely with a bit of venison.
by hrmtst93837 | 2026-03-11 08:54:19+00:00
Offering wholesale cache dumps blows up every assumption about origin privacy and copyright. Suddenly you are one toggle away from someone else automatically harvesting and reselling your work with Cloudflare as the unwitting middle tier.

You could try to gate this behind access controls but at that point you have reinvented a clunky bespoke CDN API that no site owner asked for, plus a fresh legal mess. Static file caches work because they only ever respond to the original request, not because they claim to own or index your content.

It is a short path from "helpful pre-scraped JSON" to handing an entire site to an AI scraper-for-hire with zero friction. The incentives do not line up unless you think every domain on Cloudflare wants their content wholesale exported by default.
by 1718627440 | 2026-03-11 08:54:52+00:00
theshrike79 was talking about automating. Automating using an UI requires you to have a program which can simulate click events and a Display server which allows this. It's also really brittle, because you are not actually depending on the action you want to invoke, but on the UI location this action is exposed at.

Automating terminal commands is easy, because that is how the OS works anyways. All programs invoke each other by issuing (arrays of) strings to the OS and telling it to exec this.
by avadodin | 2026-03-11 08:55:00+00:00
The nice thing about Objective-C up to 2.0 was that it was 100% an extension over C and all new semantics were using a new syntax. So you knew that the C code was C and performing like C while the Scheme code was Scheme and performing like Scheme by looking at it.

ARC semantics arguably follow this as you're using the Objective-C syntax for all occurrences of the Object. Reference counting is also great and predictable which is the main reason MRC was used in 1.0 until Apple decided it was too hard and introduced GC only for it to be canned shortly after as someone came up with the ARC solution.

With property syntax sugar, however, you can't tell whether "a.length" is sending a bunch of messages or simply accessing a struct which are two very dissimilar operations.
by jseabra | 2026-03-11 08:55:19+00:00
Graham's central thesis, that brand is what's left when substantive differences disappear, is accurate for the watch industry but it's describing a degenerate case. Most brand work isn't about papering over commoditization. At its best it solves a different problem: the difference is real but not legible to the buyer.
I spent over 20y doing brand work for companies where the product was genuinely better. Harder problem than you'd think. Technical superiority doesn't sell itself, especially when the buyer can't evaluate the difference before purchase. Brand in that context isn't a substitute for quality, it's the translation layer between quality and comprehension. When we worked on HSBC's positioning in emerging markets, nobody was pretending the banking products were interchangeable. They weren't. The challenge was making a real advantage visible and credible in markets where trust in institutions was historically low.
The "branding is centrifugal, design is centripetal" line is the best thing in the essay and it's genuinely true for the luxury watch case. But it breaks down in categories where the design space is still wide open. Early software brands, health tech, financial products, anywhere the user can't directly compare outputs before committing. There the centrifugal force isn't vanity, it's disambiguation.
Where Graham is absolutely right is on the moral hazard. The further brand drifts from something real, the more it starts depending on the worst parts of human psychology to do its job. The Patek bubble management story isn't an outlier, it's the logical endpoint of brand fully detached from product. Most brand people I know are genuinely trying to avoid that. The ones who aren't are usually the most financially successful in the short run, which is its own kind of lesson.
Tell HN: Moltbook was running in my browser
by ramon156 | 2026-03-11 08:55:57+00:00
Hey HN,
I have never downloaded moltbook, yet it was being ran by FireFox. I'm slightly confused by this, since I have never used moltboook.

Does anyone know if one of the following tools integrated this?
- GitLab (unlikely)
- Google Docs
- Asana

Or one of these plug-ins
- ColorZilla
- 1Password
- Wappalyzer

The moment I closed my FireFox the process was gone.
by beAbU | 2026-03-11 08:56:30+00:00
I love my Hisense TV. It was the best bang for my bucks when I bought it. Nice and big, nice and bright and 4k. I'm not a pixel peeper by any stretch of the imagination, so I'm not too fussed about having the best of the best in my living room. I've had it so far for about 5 years, and I might keep it for much longer.

That TV has not whiffed a single packet over it's network interface, and it never will. I've learnt my lesson with smart previous smart tv's (looking at you Samsung), and I'm more than happy to run outdated firmware on my TV. If it works it works.

If I buy a new tv that needs internet to get working, or the shipped firmware is buggy, then I'll take it back to the store as it's not working. Simple as.
by foo42 | 2026-03-11 08:56:56+00:00
I've been thinking about this recently and it seems like the most enthusiastic boosters always suggest difference in results is a skill issue, but I feel like there are 4 factors which multiply out to influence how much value someone gets:
- The quality of model output for _your particular domain / tech stack_. Models will always do better with languages and libraries they see a lot of than esoteric or proprietary
- The degree to which "works" = "good" in your scenario. For a one off script, "works" is all that matters, for a long lived core library, there are other considerations.
- The degree to which "works" can be easily (best yet, automatically) verified.
- Techniques, existing code cleanliness, documentation etc.

Boosters tend to lay all different experiences at the feet of this last, yet I'd argue the others are equally significant.

On the other hand, if you want to get the best results you can given the first 3 (which are generally out of one's control) then don't presume there's nothing you can do to improve the 4th.
by dzaima | 2026-03-11 08:57:41+00:00
The option to generate or not generate misaligned loads does exist. But of course that's a compile-time option, and of course the preferred state would be to make use of them by default, but RVA23 doesn't guatantee them not being unreasonably-slow, leaving native misaligned loads/stores still effectively-unusable (and off by default on clang/gcc) outside of `-march=native`-equivalents.

aka, Zilssm / RVA23 are entirely-useless as far as actually making use of native misaligned loads/stores for perf goes.
by antonvs | 2026-03-11 08:57:48+00:00
Your points are all valid, but it doesn’t really change the situation that was being discussed: an AI company trying to enter completely new markets just because they can write software for it is hardly some sort of automatic win. They’re much more likely to fail than succeed.

I mentioned sales and marketing but there’s a whole lot more as well. Basically, it involves creating an entire subsidiary. Perhaps the time will come when that can be mostly done by a team of AI agents, but right now that’s a big hurdle in practice.
by norman784 | 2026-03-11 08:57:54+00:00
I can think a few reasons:

- Cranelift applies less optimizations in exchange for faster compilation times, because it was developed to compile WASM (wasmtime), but turns out that is good enough for Rust debug builds.

- Cranelift does not support the wide range of platforms (AFAIK just X86_64 and some ARM targets)
by Mawr | 2026-03-11 08:58:17+00:00
> ...at this price point there are plenty of alternatives for laptops with better performance and specs.

Laughable. Seriously, how long has it been since the M1 Air dropped? And we're still this clueless?

> For example, you can get a 15.6" Ryzen 7 5700U laptop with 32GB RAM and a 1TB SSD for less than the “unbeatable” price of the Neo:

Awesome. What's the real life usage battery of that laptop like? Oh? Yeah, thought so.

Full stop — you cannot match this laptop's specs with anything on the market today. The CPU is on par or better than that of the original M1 Air while sipping power. That's exactly as ground breaking as it was back then, except for much less money.

Killer move by Apple, and I'm shocked there's still so much basic ignorance around.
by borski | 2026-03-11 08:58:43+00:00
Sure, but we are not talking about evaluating your contributions daily. Over a lifetime, people find new ways to provide more value. Life is long, and that is how adapting works.

We don't all sit at typewriters anymore either, but former typists found other ways to provide value, I'm certain, and didn't just disappear and become homeless (the vast majority of them, anyway).

Once upon a time, we had armies of secretaries that secretly (well, not so secretly) were the backbone of every institution. We don't have that anymore either, since computers replaced many of them.

Computers were originally people. They also got bested by new technology.

None of those people disappeared or became destitute; they adapted, and they found new ways to create more value. (Or, it's possible some ended up working for rent-seeking corporations, which is a different point)
by zelphirkalt | 2026-03-11 08:58:49+00:00
If now only everyone who is talented at crafting software (or any other job that might be replaced), but who is out of a job could magically be as talented at something else, and enjoy doing that other work, then we would have no problem. But one issue is, that often significant time goes into becoming good at what one does. Switching has a very high personal cost in terms of time and having no income for a prolonged time.
by kkmz | 2026-03-11 09:00:03+00:00
Hi HN,

I built an open-source project called Volo Data.

The goal is simple: make data exploration easier by letting you query databases using natural language.

Instead of writing SQL manually, you can ask questions like:

- “Show the top 10 products by revenue”
- “Plot monthly user growth”
- “Which region has the highest sales?”

The system will:

1. Generate SQL from the prompt
2. Execute the query
3. Return visualizations automatically

Key features:

- Natural language → SQL
- Automatic chart generation
- Multi-turn conversations
- Works with MySQL and PostgreSQL
- FastAPI backend + React frontend

This started as a personal experiment with LLM-driven analytics, but it’s becoming a useful tool.

GitHub:
https://github.com/yourname/volo-data

Demo:
https://demo-site.com

I’d really appreciate any feedback or suggestions.
by Grimblewald | 2026-03-11 09:00:03+00:00
Remains to be seen on my end. Nothing notworthy about gen z in terms of tech/stem. Not particularly smart or dumb, they just kind of exist. On average, they have mediocre tech skills, but generally higher than average emotional intelligence. There are outliers of course, but running laps in a tech scene is a bit of a stretch.
by ErroneousBosh | 2026-03-11 09:00:20+00:00
> "I don't like $PopularThing" is always a boring take. Other people clearly like it if it's popular.

So because something is popular, saying you don't like it is somehow incorrect?

Do you also like McDonalds? It's popular, so you should like it, right? You should think that McDonalds is good, high-quality food, because it's popular, get it?

Except it's not. It's objectively terrible food. Sugary greasy insipid crap, and these days it's not even cheap or quick.

I feel like Rooster Sriracha is the McDonalds of hot sauces.
by CrzyLngPwd | 2026-03-11 09:00:33+00:00
My grandsons would come and stay, bringing tablet devices with them, and would prefer to stay glued to them the whole time.

Since we banned their use, they now play outside with my other grandchildren, on the rope swing, the zip line, or exploring in the woods making dens and forts, using their imaginations.

Children should not be playing computer games, or scrolling on any social media, IMO.
by mrkeen | 2026-03-11 09:00:44+00:00
I read the article. Parent's comment about automation is spot on. TFA didn't describe any GUI interaction in detail, or even suggest that there was a way to achieve these goals without needing a meatbag to physically interact with the computer (and capture its output in /dev/meatbrain).

But at least TFA wrote up the criticism in text, even transcribing some of the screenshots.
by beAbU | 2026-03-11 09:01:26+00:00
The sim card in a kindle was a global connect-to-any-network SIM card. Your Kindle was always online and ready to download more books no matter where you were in the world. It was legit actually useful and valuable to customers.

What's Amazon gonna do with a Kindle with an embedded SIM? Spy on the books you read? They already know that shit!
by notTooFarGone | 2026-03-11 09:01:31+00:00
China: per capita about 1.8x the global average CO2

United States: per capita about 3x the global average CO2

Projections for China is that these numbers will go down massively over the next 10 years.
How is that going for the US for "lowest environmental standards in the 1st world"? Please get over your 20 year old views of china. They get their act together while the US shits the bed.

We can talk about 50% new car registrations are EVs in china and how the US is doing?

Or how ~60% of all renewable capacity added globally by 2030 will be in China? Or how it is already at 50%?
by llarsson | 2026-03-11 09:01:48+00:00
Because it's been trained on decades of StackOverflow and forum posts. And because while some command line tools go in and out of fashion, quite a lot are very stable, so their use will show up all the time in the training material.

Since it's all statistics under the LLM hood, both of those cause proven CLI tools to have strong signals as being the right answer.
by GJim | 2026-03-11 09:02:16+00:00
> "biodiesel" which was lightly processed used cooking oil

No.

Biodiesel is fuel made directly from vegetable matter; typically it needs a ""special"" engine to run, or is blended in a low ratio with ordinary diesel (B7 in the UK and EU).

Processed cooking oil is made into HVO.

This can be used as a direct 1:1 replacement for ordinary diesel without engine modifications. Very green! Unsurprisingly, HVO has a higher price than biodiesel.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hydrotreated_vegetable_oil

HVO is easily available in the UK and is typically bought by bus companies and delivery companies seeking to improve their green footprint.

https://duckduckgo.com/?q=HVO+supliers+UK&ia=web
by ghywertelling | 2026-03-11 09:02:45+00:00
The "God of the gaps" theory is a theological and philosophical viewpoint where gaps in scientific knowledge are cited as evidence for the existence and direct intervention of a divine creator. It asserts that phenomena currently unexplained by science—such as the origin of life or consciousness—are caused by God.

We are doing inversion of God of gaps to "LLM of Gaps" where gaps in LLM capabilities are considered inherently negative and limiting
by m-schuetz | 2026-03-11 09:03:03+00:00
It basically means surgically removing parts of your chronically enlarged/swollen turbinates so that your airways are free again. Along with that I've had a nasal spur removed (slightly blocked airways); Septumplastic (had a slightly deviated septum that also inhibited airflow a bit); and while at it the ENT also recommended and did FESS (Opening/Widening some paths to the sinuses).

It was a pretty life changing surgery that finally allowed me to properly sleep again, and do exercises/run while breathing through the nose. For some people, the turbinates may become enlarged again after a while, but for me it's been great for two years already.
by raumgeist | 2026-03-11 09:03:07+00:00
We as a society would profit from not categorizing everything in terms of its usefulness. Things can and should be allowed to just be.
That being said, UBI would probably result in more useful things not less. There are so many cases of jobs and things that seem to just be busywork or outright scams. There are also a lot of things that only appear useful if you never take the time to think about them. A plastic straw that will pollute the environment for thousands of years just so i can have a drink for two minutes? That is useless.
Every street in every city being lined by cars that don't move for 95% of the time? That is useless and insane. Imagine what marvelous machines we could have built instead.

Also, I find the online discussion around UBI to be quite weird. I don't think anyone serious is advocating for it to be particularly high. In my opinion, UBI should cover your necessities plus some so you can participate in society.
This gives everyone the opportunity to take it slow or focus on personal projects without fear. Everything luxurious can not, and should not, be affordable with UBI. This will leave ample opportunity for people to still care about and want to work.

Humans will always do. It is in our nature. But not letting people get homeless or starve to death might enable those of us that don't want to do what our overlords deem useful to do the things our society so desperately needs.
I don't need some poor fool to cook my burger for me. I'd rather take turns with my friends that now have free time.
by kurokawad | 2026-03-11 09:03:17+00:00
I don’t really like this from the Reticulum repository: “[…] The Reticulum Protocol is defined entirely and authoritatively by this reference implementation, […]”.

The reason there are so many apps trying to solve offline decentralized communications is that there’s no standard protocol or path for it. Everybody tries to sell their app as the real solver.

Also, OS-dependant (iOS/Android only apps) won’t give any progress to the state-of-the-art.
by patchnull | 2026-03-11 09:03:31+00:00
I built this as a collection of small API utilities I kept needing during development. It covers cron expression explaining, webhook inspection, DNS lookups, JSON formatting, hashing, base64, and regex testing. No auth required, no rate limits, totally free. Try it: curl https://frog03-20494.wykr.es/devtools/api/cron/explain?expr=...
by kuschku | 2026-03-11 09:04:10+00:00
Often times it's the points where free software has to integrate with proprietary hardware that becomes an issue. Yet that's exactly where the GPL shines. As this proprietary hardware still uses linux, these manufacturers–which would never provide their source code willingly–are forced to provide it, and as result, we can build open drivers for them.

I usually prefer writing drivers and weird protocols from scratch, but often that's not possible, so I'll have to spend months discussing with some manufacturers' legal teams before I'm able to receive the sources.

Without the GPL, sure, you'd still have free software operating systems, but basically no hardware to actually run them on.
by brushfoot | 2026-03-11 09:06:54+00:00
That hasn't been my experience, as a "ship or die" solopreneur. It takes work to set up these new processes and procedures, but it's like building a factory; you're able to produce more once they're in place.

And you're able to play wider, which is why the small team is king. Roles are converging both in technologies and in functions. That leads to more software that's tailored to niche use cases.