MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by kisscalls | 2026-03-04 02:42:51+00:00
The "Strategic Silence" protocol is a powerful elicitation tool.

It forces the target to either confirm or deny a hypothesis to fill the void.

In order to answer your question about handling visibly intimidated founders, the instruction provided at at the [17:05] timestamp are critical to understanding their methodology.

The speaker advises utilizing "tactical rapport building" disguised as genuine empathy.

Intimidation is actually counter-productive for the advisor initially; it triggers the founder's threat-detection system, causing them to maintain their rehearsed pitch...

To get ground-truth data on operational vulnerabilities, the advisor must first lower the founder's defenses.

By "making them feel comfortable" the advisor calms the target's fight-or-flight response, securing a temporary baseline.

Only then do they apply the Socratic stress-induction, catching the founder off guard and securing an unfiltered look at their psychological resilience.
by fallinditch | 2026-03-04 02:43:03+00:00
I found a way to 'de-smell' LLM copy: tell it to take a second pass that processes the text output with the William Burroughs cut-up method. Works well for a small subset of use cases.

Presumably the smelly AI text problem is just ... a problem that will be solved. Or maybe we'll just get used to it.
by chrismorgan | 2026-03-04 02:43:47+00:00
> It’s the safest option, because at a certain scale, it is impractical for large platforms to evaluate the validity of every single takedown request they receive.

It has long seemed crazy to me that, as a society, we’ve allowed large companies to argue that they can’t do basic things that their smaller competitors have to. Provide customer support. Assess legal challenges. Et cetera. Should we not rather say: you have the resources, use them! This is a cost of getting big. You have economies of scale in other areas, don’t try to evade responsibility here.
by llbbdd | 2026-03-04 02:44:38+00:00
No sweat, I wouldn't poke my head up in threads like these without expecting at least a little friction in return. The first machine I ever used and wrote code on was a hand-me-down former "work laptop" that had been kitted out to run Lotus Notes and basically nothing else. Trying to get anything to run on that forced me to learn how computers work.

I definitely agree regarding the state of the industry as far as performance and care for the user goes across the board, even with the hotrod hardware we have access to now. Maybe it was inevitable with scale and time and I do lament that it's harder to economically justify cranking the most possible out of the hardware. With my original comment I mostly meant to convey a joking exasperation that these threads are rarely even about real profiling or real-world tradeoffs that make for interesting discussion anymore but just rote "Electron bad".
by LAC-Tech | 2026-03-04 02:45:25+00:00
Israel funded terrorist organisations in Syria, and in Palestine itself - most famously the group Hamas.

Many of the terrorist groups Iran funds operates in areas illegally occupied by the Israeli military, making them legitimate resistance fighters.

And Israel itself is a terrorist state - they achieved independence via the actions of Jewish terrorist groups in Palestine like Igrun, Lehi - which included several future Israeli Prime Ministers as members.

So no, I do not trust Israel with nukes - they should be disarmed immediately.
by Ronsenshi | 2026-03-04 02:45:28+00:00
> Fun!!!!!

I noticed that AI evangelists really love to use word "fun" to describe anything they do with AI.

Claw people particularly seem really love to use that word when answering what practical or useful they do with AI agents. It's always something absurdly trivial followed by "and it's just fun!"

Don't really have any conclusion to this - just thought to share this observation.
by LargoLasskhyfv | 2026-03-04 02:46:11+00:00
Addendum: I've reskimmed the two articles you linked, and can only think of you were holding it wrong :-) Several points, one I think I've already written about to you.

That trying out distros in whichever VM is almost useless for evaluating performance, because fucking VM! Also the used drivers are different. The only thing they are useful for may be testing the general installation process in advance, to see if anything wanted is missing, the defaults, if they are changeable to ones own preferences, or whatever.

The perceived slowness of the installer on bare metal. Again: Waddya talkin' äbbout?!

It all went by in a whoosh, and then it was ready to use. Maybe that W520 is crappy somehow? My install was on a machine from the same company, but different model.

M910q tiny with Kaby Lake Core i5-7500t, 32GB. Whoosh! Zoom! Motion blur!1!!

Needed internet connection, metered?!

I have flat rated and unlimited redundant fibre into my homes.

Who cares about Distrowatch? That is not a reliable indicator of popularity, because it can easily be manipulated.

Where was I? Uh... never mind...
by navyanth99 | 2026-03-04 02:46:46+00:00
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by danielheath | 2026-03-04 02:47:11+00:00
The biggest one for me is the way AWS security groups & IAM work.

In AWS, it's straightforward to say e.g. "permit traffic on port X from instances holding IAM role Y".

You can easily e.g. get the firewall rules for all your ec2 instances in a structured format.

I really would not look forward to building something even 1/10th as functional as that.
by 650 | 2026-03-04 02:47:53+00:00
Meta, and other large companies have been encouraging PMs to code, while I've seen many negative responses from engineers having to code review, debug, deal with production issues, etc. stemming from crappy code they don't understand. Metrics and KPIs are being gamed into stupid incentives like lines of code, commits, and tickets closed. Leadership claims they are aware of Goodhart's Law, but their actions show otherwise.

Overall the rise of business types in tech company leadership has led to a drop in engineering quality, a rise in short term metrics, and fiascos like the COVID overhiring into multiple rounds of layoffs.
by Aardappel | 2026-03-04 02:48:56+00:00
It's not intended to be a Minecraft clone.. if you look a bit closer than the initial visual impression, you'll see there are many differences in gameplay.

As for the rating, yes we had a rough initial launch, but we're fixing all these things. Note that it is 65% out of only 63 user reviews, so statistically not set in stone yet.
by FotizoPhronesis | 2026-03-04 02:49:55+00:00
The agenda-setting theory of mass communication seems to have gone with good old traditional journalism, as its distortions and corruption are writ large in this present age. Content creators and curators in the digital space have been busy setting the agenda without any care for the original intent of the module. In pursuit of virality, they limit shorts and reels to the salacious and outlandish, deliberately precluding aspects that would contextualise and offer more meaning to audiences. The need to empower audiences with inspiring information is secondary. This is one evil I’ve seen under the sun!

The (mal)practice is not in keeping with the gatekeeping theory either, since they are not acting in the interest of the social fabric but opportunistically farming for views and engagements or even chasing clout. If taken to task, they will readily say, “Bad (scandalous/controversial) news always sells.” Admittedly, bloggers have been quite successful in attracting attention and sparking conversations online with abridged and abrupt content. However, the jury is still out on whether these citizen journalists’ brand of agenda setting is guided by their prejudices, the attention span of audiences, mischief, or sheer misinformation. In a milieu where users run with the caption/headline, one can imagine what impact half-information would have on them, nay, what it robs them of.

A fortnight ago, the Nigerian blogosphere buzzed with reports of Pastor David Ibiyeomie bragging about being gifted a wristwatch worth $2 million, stressing that Nigerians on social media would faint if they saw his collection of exotic wristwatches. The sensational spin of the story on social media makes the unsuspecting assume that the man of God climbed the pulpit just to promote grifting prowess. But that couldn’t have been the preacher’s mission. What trended online was an aside or anecdote used to drive home the point he was making. But bloggers opted to set the agenda with a clickable straw rather than the didactic core. Now that they must have got the online traction they craved, let’s bring to the surface the vital aspect of the sermon that was buried. This is because the unsung aspect of the preacher’s message can be of great benefit to whoever subscribes to it.
by cyberax | 2026-03-04 02:49:57+00:00
Seattle traffic deaths: https://wtsc.wa.gov/dashboards/fatalities-dashboard/ - select "Seattle" in the city filter and "Pedestrian" in the filter below.

This article has SF pedestrian deaths by year: https://www.sfchronicle.com/projects/2026/pedestrian-fatalit...

For Portland you need to check their police news archives, I couldn't find a dashboard. Here are the data from 2016 and 2024: https://www.portland.gov/transportation/vision-zero/document... (13 pedestrian deaths), https://www.portland.gov/transportation/vision-zero/document... (22 pedestrian deaths). The population growth was 9% between 2016 and 2024.

I don't have an explanation for these increases, and there are no good papers that explore this in depth. I need to write a meta-research paper: "On the lack of research on urbanism-related policy failures".
by ErinSunny | 2026-03-04 02:50:35+00:00
Totally Agree. The distinction between the "artifact" and the "context" is the gap where most productivity tools go to die.
Your idea made me realize that Archivlyx shouldn't just be a lifeboat for data; it needs to be a bridge for cognition. If I just give you a Markdown file, I've only solved the storage problem, not the internalization problem.
I’m now looking at building an "AI Context Weaver" into the export flow. The idea is to use the interaction metadata (when you saved it, what you were browsing around it) to feed an LLM that reconstructs why this piece of information mattered to you in that moment.
Thanks for the push. You’ve effectively shifted my roadmap from "Data Archiving" to "Context Preservation."
by albatross79 | 2026-03-04 02:50:49+00:00
Ok let's just agree that if it can't count the letters in a word reliably it's not AI.

It can be still be useful, even if it's wrong a lot, or if it takes a lot of scaffolding to mold it's answers into something correct. So just call it what it is: auto complete. But the problem is that if you do that the shine comes off and you can't justify trillions of dollars worth of sci fi fantasies. Who does that benefit? If the bubble pops all the boosters on here hoping for HAL 9000 are going to be out of a job and struggling, so they're working against their own interests by going along with this shell game.
by irjustin | 2026-03-04 02:51:08+00:00
You grab a "rough amount" and by using weight all you need to do is diff 2,3,4? Ideally 5 and under.

it's very easy to count <=5 visually, but if your package requires 12 nuts, repeatedly counting up to 12 is so stressful the poster built an entire counting machine.
by tombert | 2026-03-04 02:52:36+00:00
I dunno.

I mostly agree with you, mostly because I don't like being tracked, and I don't like the surveillance state.

But, I mean, kids probably shouldn't be looking at porn. Arguably no one should be viewing porn but it's probably especially bad for young, developing minds to be watching that kind of stuff, and if we agree that kids shouldn't be watching porn then maybe we should be doing a cursory effort to make it so they're not?

It's easy to say "no it's the parents' responsibility", but let's be honest with ourselves. My parents tried child blocks for me so that I won't look at unsavory websites when I was thirteen, and those worked for about twenty minutes until I figured out how to get around them, and eventually reformatted my hard drive with OpenSUSE so my parents wouldn't be able to try again. Kids find a way.

So I dunno, maybe things should be on the provider sometimes?
by kemotep | 2026-03-04 02:52:58+00:00
Would that not be a concern for most computers? Aren’t most of these motherboards manufactured in China (or at least close proximity to China? Taiwan, Korea, Japan, Vietnam, Malaysia, etc.)

But older Thinkpads (not sure about newer (~5 years old) ones, certainly not brand brand new models) have great support of alternative firmware such as coreboot and libreboot, other projects that disable Intel ME and the like.
by Herring | 2026-03-04 02:53:11+00:00
> At no point does anyone stop and ask whether the generated code implements the desired functional behaviour for the system ("business logic").

Obvious question: why not? Let’s say you have competent devs, fair assumption, maybe it’s because they don’t have enough time for solid QA? Lots of places are feature factories. In my personal projects I have more lines of code doing testing than implementation.
by nacs | 2026-03-04 02:53:13+00:00
Yep, the email they sent out is terribly worded so it looks like the age requirement is for Zed itself.

Their actual blog ( https://zed.dev/blog/terms-update ) says the age requirement is only for their AI service (still not the best wording but a little clearer):

> Age requirement. You must be 18 or older to use Zed’s AI-enabled software-as-a-service offering (the “Service").
by vbezhenar | 2026-03-04 02:53:28+00:00
As I understand that situation, GrapheneOS developers are super picky about hardware they want to support. So out of all android phones they decided to support only Google Pixel because only these phones provide good enough hardware support for security features they want to provide.

So likely no existing Motorola phones are good enough and only new ones, developed in collaboration with GrapheneOS developers, will be suitable.
by rickydroll | 2026-03-04 02:53:41+00:00
As far as I can tell, and I'm sure someone will correct me if I'm wrong, the OpenAI version was, we'll let the government do whatever it wants, that's specified in law. Whereas Anthropic seemed to say, we're not going to cross those lines, even if they are permitted by law.

Important distinction as there are now no laws against autonomous weapons and surveillance has been widespread and unhindered by judicial oversight for quite a while now.
by AHaskell21 | 2026-03-04 02:54:05+00:00
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by userbinator | 2026-03-04 02:54:24+00:00
I agree with the other comments here saying that it smells of AI-generated marketing puff-piece --- ThinkPads have always been very repairable, with the official service manuals published (which is more of a guide to disassembly/reassembly, but that's sufficient especially given the availability of (leaked) schematics). Older Dell Latitudes are not too bad either.
by tombert | 2026-03-04 02:56:06+00:00
There's actually a compatibility listing and the hacks required to make them work! https://github.com/NixOS/nixos-hardware

In the case of my ThinkPad, you can see there is literally no extra work required: https://github.com/NixOS/nixos-hardware/blob/master/lenovo/t...

Still, doesn't mean you shouldn't look into other brands, obviously. Take a look at that repo to see if there's obvious compatibility stuff.
by antonvs | 2026-03-04 02:56:46+00:00
> "if you're expecting AI, LLMs don't cut it". And I think he's basically right on that count.

This is one of those comments whose truth value depends entirely on a constantly shifting definition of “AI”.

The ability of modern models to functionally understand, answer questions, and make recommendations about software codebases is superhuman at this point, relative to most human software developers. What is that, if not artificial intelligence?

Perhaps you’re thinking of something more like AGI, but even there the terminology is loaded and ambiguous. The models are general enough to answer questions well on a vast range of subjects, and they exhibit understanding (again, functionally speaking this is true - whether someone wants to call them stochastic parrots is beside the point.) The appellation of “intelligence” applies just as well as in the coding case, it’s artificial, and it’s general.

> a worthwhile point to make.

I disagree. Without clear, justified definitions, it’s an incoherent, poorly specified point that seems to be driven by a desire to maintain a specific conclusion regardless of the evidence.
by _heimdall | 2026-03-04 02:57:48+00:00
How so?

Though not quite the EU anymore, the UK arrests people based only on speech in a social media post. Why should I expect they would be interested in building a truly private, zero knowledge age verification system?

Maybe for a more direct example I could point to the discussions related to the EU wanting direct access to all private messages, pushing Signal to leave the EU if that were to pass?
by hn_throwaway_99 | 2026-03-04 02:58:21+00:00
Glad I saw a comment like this.

TBH, while I may find the output style somewhat infomercial-ly, I don't really get the hatred. ChatGPT IS NOT AN ACTUAL PERSON. Like why do people care so much? Like you said, I just ignore the "persona" phrases, and just use ChatGPT (or, used to anyway, before switching to Claude because OpenAI leadership can suck it) to get information and answer my questions.

Seriously, though, just stop using ChatGPT in any case, there are very good reasons to boycott it and there are other alternatives. Not saying the alternatives are saintly, but they're not as awfully duplicitous as OpenAI.
by tzury | 2026-03-04 02:59:11+00:00
“I've just released a new version of typeagent, a Python library I've been working on since mid last year --more and more using Claude-- that implements memory for agents.

Not originally my idea, I mostly ported the TypeScript version by Steve Lucco and Umesh Madan. This release was improved a lot by Bernhard Merkle.

To install, use "pip install typeagent".”

https://x.com/gvanrossum/status/2029021031219052768?s=46
by adrian_b | 2026-03-04 02:59:46+00:00
These Intel Darkmont cores are in a different performance class than the E-cores used in the previous generation of Sierra Forest Xeon CPUs. For certain workloads they may have even a close to double performance per core.

Darkmont is a slightly improved variant of the Skymont cores used in Arrow Lake/Lunar Lake and it has a performance very similar to the Arm Neoverse V3 cores used in Graviton5, the latest generation of custom AWS CPUs.

However, a Clearwater Forest Xeon CPU has much more cores per socket than Graviton5 and it also supports dual-socket motherboards.

Darkmont also has a greater performance than the older big Intel cores, like all Skylake derivatives, so it is no longer comparable with the Atom series of cores from which it has evolved.
by dhosek | 2026-03-04 02:59:54+00:00
My ex-wife’s name is Zapotec and spelled with ll representing a y-sound, something that has caused her continual distress in the roughly three decades she’s lived in the US. In comparison, Alena seems relatively tame (I would be inclined to pronounce it ah-LAY-na, but if I were wrong I would correct myself). The lack of care so many English speakers apply to any name beyond the “norm” is really kind of saddening. I had a Ukrainian co-worker whose name was Irena which should be prounced Ih-rey-nah, but most of our co-workers called her Eye-reen-uh which I imagine must have been grating to her.

When I was going to school for my teaching credential, I remember one of the professors saying that for our students, their name was the only thing that was truly theirs and it behooved us to get it right. I try to do that with anyone I meet.
by AngryData | 2026-03-04 03:00:47+00:00
Nixon also got pardoned and faced no real repercussions for his actions other than leaving. Again, I very much believe we have been this corrupt for many decades, it is only the visibility of the corruption that has changed. What few actions against corruption we have seen was just good PR work, as evident by its lack of teeth in sentencing and complete lack of any enforcement or investigation against anyone with money or political power.