MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by duxup | 2026-03-14 02:25:53+00:00
For a short time I was a part of a small site that banned politics.

It was fine, people talked about work, personal stuff, travel, until one person posted about their disappointment that their state was limiting various services or rights to gay people. For them this meant their rights were in question and they were understandably upset.

Immediately some folks cried politics and that they shouldn’t post about that sort of thing.

To the user posting it it was about their life…

I don’t think “no politics” rules really make much sense. For someone it’s more than politics, and IMO because a topic is touched by politicians or government shouldn’t make it disallowed.
by jesterson | 2026-03-14 02:27:49+00:00
I wonder why this is surprising. In other type of organizations when CEO demands something everyone is usually behaves like naah, screw it, i rather do what i like, isn't it? Or everyone yells yes sir and runs around?

You may not like Elon - I got it, but let's not pretend he is running xAI/Tesal substantially different from competitors.
by jerbearito | 2026-03-14 02:28:09+00:00
> and it’s honestly quite great. As opposed to it not honestly being great, which if true, would kind of defeat the point of writing this post

Well I, for one, find the honesty refreshing.

Someone else mentioned Miniflux, which I've been testing for a few weeks on a local, tailscale-connected debian box. I really like it so far, with only a few minor complaints. It seems to embrace Dave Winer’s "river of news" idea that the author mentions. When I open my Miniflux homepage, I see the latest posts and I'm not distracted by older posts that I might not be concerned about.

That said, I categorize my feeds and treat the categories differently. Dev/design/DIY -- I tend to read all/most of it.
by virgildotcodes | 2026-03-14 02:29:05+00:00
Have you tried the 5.3 Codex Xhigh, 5.4 Xhigh, Opus 4.6, Gemini 3.1?

All of them (even Gemini, the worst of the bunch) far outclass Grok on everything I've thrown at them, especially coding.

Grok is good at summarizing what's happening on twitter though.
by JuniperMesos | 2026-03-14 02:29:46+00:00
I was able to get Waymo to work on GrapheneOS, but it took some doing, and relies on the GrapheneOS developers hacking around the official Google Play services in some way. Waymo definitely made it more difficult than it needs to be to run this on something other than ordinary Android, and it's unclear if they did so in order to make themselves more money, or simply because doing things the official Google Android way is easier for them and they aren't even thinking about people who are trying to have a less-restricted smartphone OS.
by Joel_Mckay | 2026-03-14 02:30:11+00:00
Depends on a lot of parameters like the type of flash, temperatures, file-system, block cache, and wear leveling. I also used to push >4 years for some drives 24/7, but eventually ended up one of the unlucky between backups. ymmv depending on the SSD brand, as some will just quietly stop erasing and overwriting blocks. =3
by array_key_first | 2026-03-14 02:30:29+00:00
Solution: don't give your kids the device. Put up a computer in the family room like it's 1998. Perfect, now little Timmy can do his homework. And if he looks up "boobies", he won't be able to sneak it past you!

The best part? This is cheaper and easier. You're literally doing less. Locking down a smartphone is hard? Great, so don't do that. Problem solved, you're welcome, I'll send you my invoice.
by Terretta | 2026-03-14 02:31:45+00:00
But you know it's important because of the italics.

As long as it's understood as an opinion piece it's tolerable despite – as you note – the “revealed preference”.

## Appliance Computing:

Take "consoles" for instance. I got tired of building gaming PCs, and after another long day of making computers work, enjoy turning on an Xbox Series X and just doing what the box is there for, much as I appreciate the glass slab in my pocket just doing what it is there for, every single time, without fail, for nearly 2 decades now.

I enjoy a TRMNL (https://trmnl.com/) or Arduino as much as the next person, but don't need my PDA-phone to be a general purpose computing device.

## Mobile Computing:

On the contrary, for both business office work and content creation, and leisure travel logistics and media creation, an iPad Pro with keyboard and trackpad would generally be preferable to a Macbook Pro or Air or Neo if people spent the couple weeks necessary to get used to the different computing paradigm.

Once that sinks in, you may find carrying an iPhone, folding bluetooth keyboard with multi-touch pad, and a Switch 2 USB-C + PowerDelivery + HDMI cable means you can field work on any 4K hotel TV or AirBnB monitor:

Like this:
https://cabletimetech.com/products/4k60hz-usb-c-to-hdmi-cabl...

With this:
https://www.amazon.com/KUNSI-Foldable-Bluetooth-Rechargeable...

But that's better suited for media. iPad Pro + 5G chip + keyboard w/ trackpad is your dual monitor work bet w/ this same cable.

Btw, the point of this particular cable is that power is probably near the TV where the HDMI end goes, with the USB-C where you and your phone or iPad are.
by generuso | 2026-03-14 02:33:14+00:00
Heat capacity is irrelevant -- argon and helium have exactly the same heat capacity per liter of gas, which would be the figure of merit in this context.

Heat conductivity, on the other hand, is an order of magnitude higher for helium, compared to argon, because its atoms are moving faster due to their lower mass.

When the gas is used for cooling, heat conductivity is important because it determines the conductivity through the boundary layer near surface, where the velocity of the flow drops to zero at the surface itself, and all the heat transport is through conduction rather than advection.
by otterley | 2026-03-14 02:33:19+00:00
> They put the fear of Competition in all the other ISPs in town, giving us an immediate free speed boost years before Google Fiber actually made it to our neighborhood.

It sounds like Google Fiber’s underlying mission was successful: to improve the quality of Internet experience nationwide. They didn’t even have to undertake the difficulty and expense of an actual buildout in most cases!
by twodave | 2026-03-14 02:33:41+00:00
I mean, try using copilot on any substantial back-end codebase and watch it eat 90+% just building a plan/checklist. Of course copilot is constrained to 120k I believe? So having 10x that will blow open up some doors that have been closed for me in my work so far.

That said, 120k is pleeenty if you’re just building front-end components and have your API spec on hand already.
by ineedasername | 2026-03-14 02:33:56+00:00
>“Primary” function

If that was the intent don’t you think it would be stated somewhere, or in the faq?

>“Talking” past

It’s only text, there’s no talking past. You can’t talk past someone when the conversation isn’t spoken. At best, you might ignore what they write and go on and on and on at some length on your own point instead, ever meandering further from the words you didn’t read, widening the scope of the original point to include the closest topic that isn’t completely orthogonal to the one at hand, like the current tendency to look for the newest pattern of LLM output in everyone’s’ comments in an attempt to root out all potential AI generated responses. And eventually exhaust all of their rhetoric and perhaps, just maybe, in the very end, get to the
by kstrauser | 2026-03-14 02:34:25+00:00
I’ve heard the haha-but-serious joke numerous times that you can’t have a security department that’s not trans and furry friendly. Thing is, I completely believe that. Those groups are disproportionately represented among the security community, and I personally would not work somewhere that my friends in those groups would feel unwelcome. That’s a quite common sentiment even among us straight cis non-furry men.

Well, I don’t think it’s a stretch that the kind of highly educated data scientists and engineers who have the experience to work in high-end AI labs also don’t want to work somewhere that their friends and associates would feel unwelcome, let alone have their friends question why they’d be willing to.

Turns out opinions have consequences and freedom of speech goes hand in hand with freedom of association. People have the right to say whatever they wish. Others have the right not to want to work with them.
by brendoelfrendo | 2026-03-14 02:34:35+00:00
Wikipedia's assessment is more accurate. Wikipedia does go on in its second paragraph to explain the context of the start of the campaign, including "The Zoe Post" and the accusations of conflict of interest. But the broader impact of Gamergate was as a misogynistic online harassment campaign, and Wikipedia is correct to make that the central part of its summary. Just because Grokipedia is more reluctant to state a conclusion does not make it less biased.
by tcbrah | 2026-03-14 02:34:53+00:00
the wildest part is algolia just not responding. you email them saying "hey 39 of your customers have admin keys in their frontend" and they ghost you? thats way worse than the keys themselves imo. like the whole point of docsearch is they manage the crawling FOR you, but then the "run your own crawler" docs basically hand you a footgun with zero guardrails. they could just... not issue admin-scoped keys through that flow
by zzo38computer | 2026-03-14 02:35:11+00:00
I agree it makes sense to specify that it is not certain, by adding "it looks like" (or "it seems like", or other wording that would not be too long; as another comment mentions, "looks" can sometimes be wrong). The other stuff might be unnecessary, although it might depend if it is implied or expected according to the context (in many contexts I would expect it to be unnecessary; another comment mentions how it can even be wrong sometimes).

(Your message is better than the one with a lot of noise, though.)
by agentultra | 2026-03-14 02:36:10+00:00
https://blog.katanaquant.com/p/your-llm-doesnt-write-correct...

It can generate plausible code because the examples are already in the training set, the documentation, the how-to-write-a-database, other databases, etc.

But unless you could write SQLite yourself it will be hard to specify a good one and to get the generator to produce a correct implementation.
by esperent | 2026-03-14 02:36:44+00:00
> As you got closer to 100k performance degraded substantially

In practice, I haven't found this to be the case at all with Claude Code using Opus 4.6. So maybe it's another one of those things that used to be true, and now we all expect it to be true.

And of course when we expect something, we'll find it, so any mistakes at 150k context use get attributed to the context, while the same mistake at 50k gets attributed to the model.
by Saline9515 | 2026-03-14 02:36:48+00:00
There are plenty of reports online about how identity theft is becoming widespread in Sweden. The fact that something didn't happen to you is not evidence.

https://ocindex.net/assets/downloads/2025/english/ocindex_pr...

https://swedenherald.com/article/biometric-data-to-stop-fals...
by twodave | 2026-03-14 02:37:24+00:00
It’s more like the size of the desk the AI has to put sheets of paper on as a reference while it builds a Lego set. More desk area/context size = able to see more reference material = can do more steps in one go. I’ve lately been building checklists and having the LLM complete and check off a few tasks at a time, compacting in-between. With a large enough context I could just point it at a PLAN.md and tell it to go to work.
by pycoclaw | 2026-03-14 02:38:52+00:00
Hope its a cool local LLM.

Also will soon have this running on RP2350 soon, so stay tuned for that!

picoClaw has a built in provider router to that heartbeats etc can go local to save tokens and $$$

eg

"providers": {
"default": {
"api_key": "",
"base_url": "https://api.openai.com/v1",
"model": "gpt-4o-mini",
"type": "chat",
"cost": { "input": 0.15, "output": 0.60 }
},
"gemini": {
"api_key": "",
"base_url": "https://generativelanguage.googleapis.com/v1beta/openai",
"model": "gemini-3.1-pro-preview",
"type": "chat",
"cost": { "input": 0.15, "output": 0.60 }
},
"fast": {
"api_key": "",
"base_url": "https://generativelanguage.googleapis.com/v1beta/openai",
"model": "gemini-2.0-flash-lite",
"type": "chat",
"cost": { "input": 0.075, "output": 0.30 }
},
"local": {
"base_url": "http://192.168.1.238:1337/v1",
"model": "gemma-3n-e4b-it-lm-4bit",
"type": "chat",
"tools": false,
"context_window": 4096,
"cost": { "input": 0, "output": 0 }
},
"image": {
"api_key": "",
"base_url": "https://generativelanguage.googleapis.com/v1beta",
"model": "gemini-3-pro-image-preview",
"type": "image"
}
},
"routing": {
"heartbeat": "default",
"cron": "default",
"chat": "default",
"subagent": "default",
"monthly_budget_usd": 5.0,
"warn_at_pct": 80,
"throttle_at_pct": 95,
"throttle_to": "default"
},
"channels": {
"telegram": {
"enabled": false,
"bot_token": "",
"default_chat_id": ""
}
},
"memory": {
"vector_weight": 0.7,
"text_weight": 0.3,
"min_score": 0.35,
"max_result_chars": 2000,
"max_results": 5,
"chunk_size": 400,
"chunk_overlap": 80,
"reindex_on_boot": true,
"embedding_cache": true,
"embedding_provider": "openai",
"embed_async": true
},
"compaction": {
"context_window": 128000,
"reserve_tokens": 4000,
"history_share": 0.6
},
"memory_flush": {
"enabled": true,
"soft_threshold_tokens": 4000,
"force_flush_transcript_bytes": 65536,
"prompt": "",
"system_prompt": ""
},
"temperature": {
"heartbeat": 0.9,
"reflection": 1
},

etc
by Rohansi | 2026-03-14 02:39:11+00:00
It's generational in the sense that younger generations are far more accustomed to using phones than computers. They might not even be exposed to a computer until they need to use one for school. It's objectively less comfortable for them to use a computer when they never (or barely) used a mouse, physical keyboard, or any of that software before.

You can even see the same with games. All these kids growing up playing games on their iPads are really good at using those crappy touchscreen controls to play. Do you think they'd find using a physical controller comfortable? Maybe after a lot of practice, but why switch if you're already good at using the touch controls?
by philipkglass | 2026-03-14 02:39:41+00:00
Qwen 3 and 3.5 models are quite capable. Perhaps the greatest benefit of GLM-OCR is speed: it's only a 0.9 billion parameter model, so it's fast enough to run on large volumes of complicated scans even if all you have for inference is an entry level MacBook or a low end Nvidia card. Even CPU based inference on basic laptops is probably tolerable with it for small page volumes.
by muzani | 2026-03-14 02:41:38+00:00
We considered it before in a past job when cost cutting. But nobody wants the boss to know when they're playing DOTA.

More seriously though, Slack was one of those tools that just held context of everything. All the engineering decisions and past error messages. Discord potentially could, but it doesn't seem to built for this use case.

Can it handle a thousand channels? It sounds ridiculous, but companies scale, and so do observation tools, customer service, and such.

I joined an elite gaming clan that operated on Slack once because it was easy to spin multiple channels per player and handle notifications. Discord potentially could, but channel management is a lot harder. Though that clan eventually moved over to Discord because nobody wants to pay $ per head.
by SoftTalker | 2026-03-14 02:42:44+00:00
The US used to be more this way. Not brokerage accounts as far as I recall, but whether you own a house, how much you paid for it, your address, phone number, even your SSN didn't used to be considered very private, people had it printed on their personal checks, and schools used it as a student ID number.

Newspapers used to publish hospital admissions and discharges, nothing medical but names and dates. Probably a lot of other stuff I'm forgetting.
by 0xpgm | 2026-03-14 02:43:00+00:00
Yup, since around 2016 HN and other tech spaces got infested with people who cannot separate their political ideology from technical discussions.

When it comes to FOSS they claim that FOSS has always been political to justify the politicization of everything they touch.

Things used to be much better when the people adhered to the age-old wisdom "Keep politics and religion out of the office" and carried this attitude to neutral spaces online.

In part, some of us got into tech because it was one of the places where meritocracy ruled and you could get away from those who thrive by overwhelming others with BS.

I apologize for the rant.
by array_key_first | 2026-03-14 02:43:10+00:00
Privilege does matter, obviously, because your perspective and biases influence your opinion. When someone says something, we can't just analyze what they are saying, but why they are saying it. What is their motivation? What are their incentives? If they're right, who wins? Who loses? How much do they lose?

This is why politicians are able to lie through their teeth. There's enough people out there who refuse to, or can't, deeply analyze people's words. "Well, the government hasn't yet announced their plans to abuse X Y and Z, so obviously it's not gonna happen!"

Such an argument seems painfully poor, but, believe it or not, it's, like, the primary argument when these things come up.

At the end of the day, you and me have a lot to lose from AI. Carmack has less, perhaps he even stands to gain. Hm, that colors things, no?
by tmp10423288442 | 2026-03-14 02:43:53+00:00
I would prefer to fork Wikipedia as well, but in practice I don't think that works, given the many failed Wikipedia forks of the past 20 years. On the internet, the only way to get any alternative to a widely-used source like Wikipedia is to use a significantly different approach. Otherwise, you just look like a cheap knockoff, even to people who might otherwise agree with your approach. Worse is better, after all - worse in most ways, but better or different in at least one innovative way.
by ssl-3 | 2026-03-14 02:44:09+00:00
The things people often call "transformers blowing up" are usually not transformers blowing up.

Instead, it's usually just overhead wires that are too close or literally touching, often from influences like wind and ice. The electricity arcs between the wires, creating bright blue-white flashes that can be seen from far away, sometimes with instantaneous heat that makes hunks of metal wire evaporate explosively. It's can be violent and loud, and repetitious as different parts of even a single run fail.

Transformers can certainly blow up, but that's less common. They're (generally) filled with oil for cooling purposes, and they're massive things that tend to take time to get hot. A failed transformer can produce arcing and blue-white light, but if things are that hot then the oil is also ready to burn.

And when the oil burns it isn't blue-white -- it burns with about the same yellow-orange color we saw the last time we accidentally flambéed dinner on the kitchen stove, or a Hollywood fireball.

A bright flash without a fire is probably not a transformer.

Here's a video of a transformer actually-exploding (note the prominent fireball): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oFkfd31Wpng

And here's a video of what someone describes as a transformer exploding, even though there are no transformers in the video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rHVh0KwG_0k
by gjsman-1000 | 2026-03-14 02:44:19+00:00
Everything is that way.

Another example: Feminism? Only happened with women in the workforce. Women in the workforce? Only when the Industrial Revolution happened and the economy could support the roles. Industrial Revolution? Only happened when farming and trading got good enough that 90% of the population didn’t need to be farmers first. Very few moral enlightenments have ever actually happened absent economic preconditions, or would not be reversed if the conditions degraded.
by redasadki | 2026-03-14 02:44:22+00:00
The Geneva Learning Foundation is pleased to introduce its first AI co-worker, Claude Cardot.

Claude joins our team as an Executive Assistant supported by artificial intelligence, to help us better serve the tens of thousands of health and humanitarian workers who participate in our peer learning and leadership programmes.

This appointment carries a special significance.

Since we started a decade ago, our human colleague Claude Cardot has contributed with dedication and care to building the systems that make our work possible.

As he prepares to retire, we have chosen to give our first AI co-worker his name.

It is a way of recognizing the human Claude’s contribution and of affirming that human experience and judgment remain at the heart of everything we do.

(Our Claude Cardot was born in 1958. He was Claude long before Anthropic used his name for its model.)
by not_kurt_godel | 2026-03-14 02:44:23+00:00
Just curious, what kind of work are you doing where agentic workflows are consistently able to make notable progress semi-autonomously in parallel? Hearing people are doing this, supposedly productively/successfully, kind of blows my mind given my near-daily in-depth LLM usage on complex codebases spanning the full stack from backend to frontend. It's rare for me to have a conversation where the LLM (usually Opus 4.6 these days) lasts 30 minutes without losing the plot. And when it does last that long, I usually become the bottleneck in terms of having to think about design/product/engineering decisions; having more agents wouldn't be helpful even if they all functioned perfectly.
by Animats | 2026-03-14 02:44:40+00:00
Space-X and x/AI are both privately held.

But this may mess up the proposed IPO.[1]

By completing the SpaceX–xAI deal while both companies remain privately held, and now closed, Musk can effectively set relative valuations, negotiate terms within a founder‑controlled ecosystem, close, and then inform investors, without the procedural drag and disclosure obligations that attend a public‑company merger. That flexibility can reduce near‑term execution friction. It does not, however, eliminate fiduciary exposure; rather, it may defer scrutiny to the IPO phase, when investors and regulators will examine how and why the combination occurred, how it was priced, and how related‑party dynamics were managed.

[1] https://www.dandodiary.com/2026/03/articles/director-and-off...
by YZF | 2026-03-14 02:45:38+00:00
Israel is very much a different story. Hamas initiated the last war like Russia initiated their war on Ukraine.

Israel, as a country, ignoring the fringe right, has had no desire to either have war or expand its borders. Israel simply wants to live in peace. Something the Palestinians and the Arab countries have been unwilling to accept.

You're also conveniently forgetting that pretty much the entire western world joined in post 9/11, that there was a large coalition against Iraq, and against ISIS in Syria. All those countries that were fine with using force against something that ranges from low threat to little threat to their citizenry are quick to lynch Israel when it does the same.

Attacks on Israel are also ignoring those supposed rule based world (from 1948 and onwards) and are universally recognized as war crimes (e.g. Hamas and Hezbollah firing rockets into Israeli population centers).

Maybe in your circles (obviously) there's a different story. But it's false. It's at the very least a simplistic narrative that ignores facts that don't fit in it. That's not to say Israel has necessarily always been 100% right but to equate it with Russia being 100% the aggressor is completely wrong.
by chris_money202 | 2026-03-14 02:46:57+00:00
Microsoft did this over a decade ago with Windows Phone and no one was interested.

Seems like the way things are going is VMs, your phone running iOS can just be a jump box to a Mac VM, no need to dual boot an operating system, no need to lose the security iOS provides. I would rather Apple make software that just lets me tailscale like RDP to my Mac mini on my desk from anywhere using my phone, keyboard, mouse.