MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by fnordpiglet | 2026-03-06 04:40:27+00:00
My employer is pretty advanced in its use of these tools for development and it’s absolutely accelerated everything we do to the point we are exhausting roadmaps for six months in a few weeks. However I think very few companies are operating like this yet. It takes time for tools and techniques to make it out and Claude code alone isn’t enough. They are basically planning to let go of most of the product managers and Eng managers, and I expect they’re measuring who is using the AI tools most effectively and everyone else will be let go, likely before years end. Unlike prior iterations I saw at Salesforce this time I am convinced they’re actually going to do it and pull it off. This is the biggest change I’ve seen in my 35 year career, and I have to say I’m pretty excited to be going through it even though the collateral damage will be immense to peoples lives. I plan to retire after this as well, I think this part is sort of interesting but I can see clearly what comes next is not.
by jadar | 2026-03-06 04:40:28+00:00
Exactly. But, I would add ethics comes from worldview. The idea of teaching some sort of “secular” ethics has never made sense to me … even if you could pull it off it would never stick. Education is meant to make moral people, and that requires transcendent moral principles that come from somewhere outside of us — namely YHWH, our creator. Anything else is merely borrowing from our worldview — which is good as far as it goes but will always fall short.
by lelandbatey | 2026-03-06 04:40:57+00:00
I advise you read the article, it gives many specific examples of things that qualify for such treatment:

> A 600-word commit message or sprawling theoretical essay explaining a profound paradigm shift for a single typo correction or theoretical bug.

> Importing a completely nonexistent, hallucinated library called utils.helpers and hoping no one would notice.

There's plenty more. All pretty egregious
by matrixgard | 2026-03-06 04:41:10+00:00
The B2B-first advice in the comments is right, but the piece most teams skip is that physio clinics and rehab centers don't buy software, they buy outcomes. Your pitch to a clinic owner needs to show how this reduces their admin time or improves patient retention, not just that the AI is cool.

For regulated environments, getting 2-3 pilot clinics to use it for free in exchange for documented outcomes is worth more than any marketing spend right now. That data becomes your entire sales deck for the next 10 clinics.

What does your onboarding look like for a clinic that wants to assign it to patients — is that workflow already built out?
by linsomniac | 2026-03-06 04:41:18+00:00
You're missing something.

I've been in ops for 30 years, Claude Code has changed how I work. Ops-related scripting seems to be a real sweet spot for the LLMs, especially as they tend to be smaller tools working together. It can convert a few sentences into working code in 15-30 minutes while you do something else. I've given it access to my apache logs Elastic cluster, and it does a great job at analyzing them ("We suspect this user has been compromised, can you find evidence of that?"). It's quite startling, actually, what it's able to do.
by matrixgard | 2026-03-06 04:41:20+00:00
The anchoring point is real and you've framed it well. Most people don't even realize the first suggestion wins 80% of the time, they just go along with it.

The transit data angle is the differentiator here — straight-line midpoints are useless in cities with asymmetric transit coverage. Curious how you're handling cases where one person is in a transit dead zone and others are on a good line. Does the fairness score penalize that person's zone or just present the raw reachability overlap?

Also the budget filter suggestion in comments is interesting — have you thought about layering in venue ratings so the "fairest spot" is also the best-reviewed option in the overlap zone?
by matrixgard | 2026-03-06 04:41:29+00:00
The skepticism-to-flow pattern you described is something that plays out almost identically across teams — the engineers who resist AI longest are usually the ones who are best at their craft and most aware of where the output is wrong. The flip happens when they stop treating it like a search engine and start treating it like a junior dev they have to review.

The productivity difference between teams who hit that click and those who don't is getting wide enough that it's becoming a hiring signal in both directions. The founders I see getting the most out of it are the ones who understand this enough to ask good questions of their team, even if they can't read the code.

What was the biggest surprise for you watching the experiment — was it which engineers clicked fastest, or something else?
by tinfoilhatter | 2026-03-06 04:43:36+00:00
What about when obtaining a SIM card or internet access? What about when purchasing a bus or train or plane ticket? Do you think you should have to identify yourself with a digital ID to withdraw your own money from your own bank account? Your average citizen isn't on a sanction list or a politically exposed persons list. In a national digital ID system they will be on a list regardless of whether or not they've done anything wrong, and the government can easily block their access if they don't like what they've been doing. Governments should not have this kind of control over the lives of ordinary citizens.

Not to mention the fact that NGOs like the World Bank and the Bill & Melinda Gates foundation are funding this. It's proof that it's more than just nation states that want to implement these digital ID systems. Why should the world bank or Bill Gates have any influence on who can and cannot withdraw their own money?
by sillystuff | 2026-03-06 04:44:04+00:00
I believe LOS still does userdebug builds, so you get root over adb by default. It is pretty much impossible to create a usable local backup on official no-root Graphene builds with the recommended re-locked bootloader.

I switched to Graphene with my new phone. It includes SeedVault which is unable to backup most of my apps and ADB backup works with even fewer (deprecated by Google). So only things I could sort of backup were apps that had their own config/data export options. The stupid, "we know best" restrictions from being able to copy between user profiles also made backup and restoring a PITA (upstream android stupidity, not Graphene specific) It was a few days later before I was back to where I was before having to restore stock OS to get a warranty repair (GrapheneOS does not include repair mode or some such thing that the Google service place required). If I was still on a rooted phone, it would have taken a few minutes to restore everything.
by gz09 | 2026-03-06 04:44:21+00:00
> it sounds like helping customers with databases full of red flags is their bread and butter

Yes that captures it well. Feldera is an incremental query engine. Loosely speaking: it computes answers to any of your SQL queries by doing work proportional to the incoming changes for your data (rather than the entire state of your database tables).

If you have queries that take hours to compute in a traditional database like Spark/PostgreSQL/Snowflake (because of their complexity, or data size) and you want to always have the most up-to-date answer for your queries, feldera will give you that answer 'instantly' whenever your data changes (after you've back-filled your existing dataset into it).

There is some more information about how it works under the hood here: https://docs.feldera.com/literature/papers
by josephg | 2026-03-06 04:44:23+00:00
I completely agree.

Right now you can point claude at any program and ask it to analyse it, write an architecture document describing all the functionality. Then clear memory and get it to code against that architecture document.

You can't do that as easily with closed source software. Except, if you can read assembly, every program is open source. I suspect we're not far away from LLMs being able to just disassemble any program and do the same thing.

Is there a driver in windows that isn't in linux? No problem. Just ask claude to reverse engineer it, write out a document describing exactly how the driver issues commands to the device and what constraints and invariants it needs to hold. Then make a linux driver that works the same way.

Have an old video game you wanna play on your modern computer? No problem. Just get claude to disassemble the whole thing. Then function by function, rewrite it in C. Then port that C code to modern APIs.

It'll be chaos. But I'm quite excited about the possibilities.
by Decabytes | 2026-03-06 04:44:30+00:00
The existence of permissive licenses like BSD or MIT does not show that copyleft was unimportant.Those licenses allowed code to remain open, but they also allowed it to be absorbed into proprietary products.

The GPL’s significance was that it changed the default outcome. At a time when software was overwhelmingly proprietary, it created a mechanism that required improvements to remain available to users and developers downstream.

Gcc was a massive deal for the reasons why compilers are free now today for example
by JumpCrisscross | 2026-03-06 04:45:12+00:00
> Anyone can do anything with this perspective

Not really. Not unless one is thinking in absolutes, at which point one is by definition an extremist.

The rational dialogue that emerges is the proper size of a military for defensive—but not continuous offensive—purposes. I’d guess, for America, that is half its current size at most. (The wrong answers are zero and $1.4tn.)
by godelski | 2026-03-06 04:45:54+00:00
Look at your username then look at mine.

You ask me to prove something essentially unprovable. Prove to me that most evil is created by people trying to do evil. It'll be equally as difficult to prove as you can't look in the minds of those doing evil. And you also can't trust what's coming out of their mouth.

I gave you some evidence in indirect form. I'll give you another saying: "for the greater good." There's no doubt people doing wrong want to justify their actions so that they do not view themselves as evil. So go ahead and look at your username and look at mine, then follow the line of logic
by vlovich123 | 2026-03-06 04:46:16+00:00
Except no one is claiming the bit flip is the pointer vs the data being pointed to or a non pointer value. Given how we write software there’s a lot more bits not in pointer values that still end up “contributing “ to a pointer value. Eg some offset field that’s added to a pointer has a bit flip, the resulting pointer also has a bit flip. But the offset field could have accidentally had a mask applied or a bit set accidentally due to the closeness of & and && or | and ||.
by bluefirebrand | 2026-03-06 04:46:27+00:00
I view using LLMs as the absolute opposite of learn which is why I'm turned off of them

I think I misread this post, though. I initially read it as someone who was excited to leave software and learn something new.

Your post made me re-read it, now I'm not sure. Maybe the author is excited to learn a new LLM based workflow. If so, you're right that I have nothing in common with how they feel.
by alephnerd | 2026-03-06 04:47:13+00:00
It's already normalized in much of the world and has been for decades since Malaysia began the MyKad program in 2001 [0].

For developing countries, digital and biometric IDs make it easier to disburse public services as well as gain a more realistic understanding of demographics.

Digital activism and (somewhat valid) paranoia around privacy is a luxury belief when vast swathes of the population in LDCs are unbanked and relegated to the informal economy.

[0] - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Malaysian_identity_card
by tedd4u | 2026-03-06 04:47:14+00:00
We deserve to know if Claude was involved with targeting the girls’ school that was bombed in the first hours of the attack on Iran. 50-100+ girls are reported to have been killed.

Claude is integrated into Palantir’s Project Maven targeting system. The Pentagon has touted how many more targets they were able to attack with this system (1,000’s).

NY Times: Analysis Suggests School Was Hit Amid U.S. Strikes on Iranian Naval Base

https://www.nytimes.com/2026/03/05/world/middleeast/iran-sch...
by komali2 | 2026-03-06 04:47:39+00:00
> Taiwan does not consider Taiwan and mainland China to be separate countries.

This is false. Both the government of Taiwan, and the people here, obviously consider the two countries separate, and neither have made any overtures challenging the sovereignty of the CPC in nearly fifty years. Not to mention the fact that the last government to do so has been overthrown in the 90s (the overthrow of the KMT settler colonial dictatorship).

You will now vaguely refer to the ROC constitution, but I'll preempt that by saying the constitution makes no claims to PRC territory, full stop. And the constitutional reforms in the 90s explicitly recognize PRC sovereignty over its territory - because Taiwanese people aren't the KMT and want nothing to do with the KMT's now 8 decade old fight.

> I'm not sure what the invasion would be, a country invading itself?

I know exactly what it would be: tens of thousands of PLA dead at the order of Xi in service of his old man's ego, and economic disaster for both countries, followed up by the most riotously uncontrolled occupied territory in the PRC. Taiwanese people in living memory bled to overthrow a military dictatorship, you think they won't fight to do so again?

PRC invasion of Taiwan would be imperialism.
by dragonwriter | 2026-03-06 04:47:39+00:00
> I thought those were on very solid ground commonly used by past administrations

No, Section 122 tariffs have never been used prior to Trump turning to them after the Supreme Court decision striking down the IEEPA tariffs, and, the states suing the Administration argue, the explicit sole statutory purpose for which they were allowed in the 1974 law creating the power can only possible to exist under a fixed-exchange-rate monetary system, which the US has not had since 1976.
by manbash | 2026-03-06 04:47:42+00:00
I was reviewing a confluence page which was reviewed my many stakeholders. Something bugged me to an excruciating extent about the content of the page: something was off at some parts of the text. I inspected the page and it turns out the font color somehow changed to a mildly grayer color than black. This was likely due to a copy-and-paste that has gone wrong.
by sublinear | 2026-03-06 04:48:03+00:00
Can you clarify which knowledge domains those enterprises fall under with examples of what problems they were trying to solve?

If it's not obvious, I agree with the hard disagree. Every time I see a table with that many columns, I have a hard time believing there isn't some normalization possible.

Schemas that stubbornly stick to high-level concepts and refuse to dig into the subfeatures of the data are often seen from inexperienced devs or dysfunctional/disorganized places too inflexible to care much. This isn't really negotiable. There will be issues with such a schema if it's meant to scale up or be migrated or maintained long term.
by peterspath | 2026-03-06 04:48:18+00:00
Grok has a 2M context window for most of their models.

For example their latest model `grok-4-1-fast-reasoning`:

- Context window: 2M

- Rate limits: 4M tokens per minute, 480 requests per minute

- Pricing: $0.20/M input $0.50/M output

Grok is not as good in coding as Claude for example. But for researching stuff it is incredible. While they have a model for coding now, did not try that one out yet.

https://docs.x.ai/developers/models
by jaxn | 2026-03-06 04:48:29+00:00
For some of us, the world has already changed drastically. I am shipping more code, better code, less buggy code WAY faster than ever before. Big systemic changes for the better to our infra as well. There are days where I easily do 2 weeks worth of my best work ever.

I totally understand that not everyone is having that experience. And yet until people live it, it seems they just discount the experience others are having.

I'll take the 12 month bet.
by morelikeborelax | 2026-03-06 04:50:04+00:00
I used to partake in all RAM discussions online. Here, reddit, every technical hardware forum and anywhere workstations were being talked about.

The sentiment was always ECC is a waste and a scam. My goodness the unhinged posts from people who thought it was a trick and couldn't fathom you don't know you're having bits flipped without it. "it's a rip off" without even looking and seeinf often the price was just that of the extra chip.

I've discussed it for 20 years since the first Mac Pro and people just did not want to hear that it had any use. Even after the Google study.

Consumers giving professionals advice. Was same with workstation graphics cards.
by popalchemist | 2026-03-06 04:50:59+00:00
It's not "my model." If someone paraphrases a poem, and publishes that paraphrase, the original author will not be able to sue. (Or rather, they can sue, but will almost certainly lose.) There is a body of legal precedent for each category of work you can imagine, and each has come to have its own criteria for what the threshold is for being derivative vs a unique re-expression; but I am confident from how that has played out and from the fact that it is well accepted that code tends to be comprised of only so many patterns, that a codebase that is reverse engineered based on prompting alone will not be considered a derivative work.

It's obviously an opinion. But I'm confident enough in it, as are, say, Lovable and such companies, that I/they are willing to concretely operate on the hunch that that is how it will play out in court if ever the hand was forced.
Ask HN: Wish Linux tmpfs support compression option
by gry_gh | 2026-03-06 04:51:00+00:00
I run lots of unprivileged containers, and apps inside create tons of temporary files. tmpfs is perfect for this (easy to mount in unprivileged containers). Adding a compression feature would help a lot.

zram needs root to manage. mkfs.btrfs setup feels way too heavy for what is basically “compressed /tmp”.

Why has tmpfs never gotten an official compression feature?
by xobs | 2026-03-06 04:51:21+00:00
ModemManager. You need to set the variable ENV{ID_MM_PORT_IGNORE}=“1” I. A udev rule.

Standard usb serial ports show up as ttyACM#, whereas nonstandard ports that require a driver like ftdi show up as ttyUSB#. Modems tend to be standard usb devices, so ModemManager by default scans all serial ports as if they were modems. This involves sending some AT commands to them to try and identify them.

Software implementations of serial devices tend to follow the standard, so they show up as ttyACM#.
by tinfoilhatter | 2026-03-06 04:52:08+00:00
They also make it easier for nation states to cut off access to public and private services when they don't like what a citizen is doing. It's wasn't normalized by choice - it was forced upon people. I'm sure NGOs and governments love it but that certainly doesn't mean that citizens do, which governments are supposed to serve. The paranoia is very valid. [1]

[1] https://finance.yahoo.com/news/vietnam-bank-account-purge-bo...
by pabs3 | 2026-03-06 04:52:18+00:00
The latter will become MIT sooner or later with Ghidra plus LLM-assisted reverse engineering.

https://reorchestrate.com/posts/your-binary-is-no-longer-saf... https://reorchestrate.com/posts/your-binary-is-no-longer-saf...

Even SaaSS isn't safe from that type of process:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47259485
by dragonwriter | 2026-03-06 04:53:27+00:00
Delivery companies act as tariff agents and collect tariffs for Customs and Border Protection, so, yes, if you were the importer of record on a delivery, it is quite likely that you paid the tariff via the delivery company.

These are likely to be refunded, because even if you were the purchaser of the product, you were the importer of record and paid the tariff, not a downstream buyer who paid an increased price because of the tariffs.
by alephnerd | 2026-03-06 04:53:28+00:00
My in-laws in rural Gia Lai loves having a biometric ID as does my extended family in rural Northwest India.

Before there was significant friction when setting up physical IDs and bank and government services simply couldn't scale down to the village level, which would make routine paperwork a multi-day affair.

Being able to do almost all government-related and banking paperwork over the Internet has legimately made it easier for my extended family in both VN and India to become banked, access public welfare without dealing with corrupt local apparatchiks, and accessing capital to think about making MSMEs.

As I mentioned above, this kind of performative activism is a luxury belief.
by pinnochio | 2026-03-06 04:53:50+00:00
I don't advocate for using either OpenAI or Anthropic. But you can say one is better while both are still unacceptable.

I don't see a viable case for arguing that they're equally bad, though you might quibble over the difference. (I couldn't care less how much these companies contribute to FOSS--that's small potatoes compared to everything else that's going on.)

My point is there are a lot of people invested in OpenAI's success who try to steer opinion around here, and they use arguments about ethics (or raise an eyebrow) for those purposes, not because they actually care about the ethics.
by 1-more | 2026-03-06 04:55:43+00:00
Bubble tea is a library for handling TUIs using the Elm architecture, often abbreviated TEA: a model type, a message type, an update function that refreshes the model and emits side effects, and a view function that renders the UI given the model state. The article link goes to the releases page, but the top level README of the project has much better info.

For a related library in Rust check out Iced: https://book.iced.rs
by amluto | 2026-03-06 04:56:11+00:00
There are many systems that take a native data structure in your favorite language and, using some sort of reflection, makes an on-disk structure that resembles it. Python pickles and Java’s serialization system are infamous examples, and rkyv is a less alarming one.

I am quite strongly of the opinion that one should essentially never use these for anything that needs to work well at any scale. If you need an industrial strength on-disk format, start with a tool for defining on-disk formats, and map back to your language. This gives you far better safety, portability across languages, and often performance as well.

Depending on your needs, the right tool might be Parquet or Arrow or protobuf or Cap’n Proto or even JSON or XML or ASN.1. Note that there are zero programming languages in that list. The right choice is probably not C structs or pickles or some other language’s idea of pickles or even a really cool library that makes Rust do this.

(OMG I just discovered rkyv_dyn. boggle. Did someone really attempt to reproduce the security catastrophe that is Java deserialization in Rust? Hint: Java is also memory-safe, and that has not saved users of Java deserialization from all the extremely high severity security holes that have shown up over the years. You can shoot yourself in the foot just fine when you point a cannon at your foot, even if the cannon has no undefined behavior.)
by the_af | 2026-03-06 04:56:29+00:00
You're right.

And the military in movies used to be depicted as inflexible, stubborn, paranoid, incompetent, and usually either "the bad guys" or authorities that impeded the progress of the main characters. (With exceptions; I'm not forgetting about Top Gun).

Then there was a sudden switch, with the military shown with cool gadgets, airplanes, tech, heroics, and generally being glorified. The transition must have happened before the first Transformers, but it was in full swing by then.

Were one of a conspiratorial mind, one would guess massive amounts of money were spent in changing this image.