MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by zelphirkalt | 2026-03-10 16:52:37+00:00
Politicians have spent decades eroding our education systems, at least where I am located. Bread and circuses. Coming up next in Germany is how they will slash personal assets in quarter (not merely half), using a reform of support for unemployed people. Instead of working out how to get finances redistributed (oh wait, now I will be called a "communist" or "socialist" as if that were some devilish insult), they are working out how to get to the savings of the simple worker.

Congrats Germany, for electing another CDU government. We are digging our own graves here and we are too uninformed and too entertained to see it. Next election will probably be the breaking point, when AfD manages to get many majorities, due to how unhappy CDU, SPD, and other mainstream parties have made the populace. And then we will have these right-wing extremists as our government.

Looking to the US, they have hit it even worse now. Full authoritarian guy at the top, who might even prevent the next elections, unless he is sure that he will win or can make it so that he appears to have won.
by autoglia | 2026-03-10 16:52:43+00:00
My AI assistant forgot my son told me about his favorite movies. Again.

So I built Autoglia — local SQLite memory that actually remembers:
Survives context compaction (recovers after context loss)
Infrastructure-level (works without LLM cooperation)
Auto-checkpoint with conversation segmentation
$19 one-time, no cloud, no subscription

Demo: autoglia.dev

Looking for 5 beta testers to break it.
by graemep | 2026-03-10 16:52:43+00:00
> China is also an ancient civilization.

So is Europe, and we are talking about the west in general, not just the US.

> Americans view of themselves is highly inflated by the sheer luck of being two oceans away from everyone during both world wars.

Again, most of Europe suffered during the world wars.

> The fact Russian intelligence operatives can so easily infiltrate American political discourse is just one example

They also infiltrate European politics, as do the Chinese.
by throwaway5752 | 2026-03-10 16:52:58+00:00
My dire warning is in fact secondary to the climate changes, which are much worse and are already causing regional famines and human migration in the Levant and East African.

People do not appreciate how fragile modern life that we've become accustomed to can be. A few famines, a few supply chain breakdowns, the wrong conflict escalations - together at the wrong time could effectively end homo sapiens as an advanced intelligent species. Our big break was easily accessibly surface hydrocarbons, which we have mostly burned through. That enabled advanced materials science, electrical engineering, metallurgy that all build upon each other. As the species has gotten larger, it allowed greater specialization. If we have a massive drawdown in population as the result of a self-inflicted climate crisis, there is a nontrivial possibility we we never recover to current levels of advancement.
by regularfry | 2026-03-10 16:53:00+00:00
That's precisely what I want. I've got all the parts other than the SBC. Even designed my own keyboard with this in mind. You can do it with a pi zero 2 but going from mini-HDMI to full-HDMI through an adapter to USB-C to only then pop out too the XReals is a complete mess of cables and little boxes, not least of which is caused by the HDMI->USB-C adapter needing to be independently powered. I'm tempted to print up a case to hide the mess but it's still, you know, a mess.

Also the zero 2 is a little under-powered. It's fine as far as it goes, it just feels like there's probably performance on the table with a more modern chipset.
by rectang | 2026-03-10 16:53:57+00:00
> Expert reviews are just about the only thing that makes AI generated code viable

I disagree, in the sense that an engineer who knows how to work with LLMs can produce code which only needs light review.

* Work in small increments

* Explicitly instruct the LLM to make minimal changes

* Think through possible failure modes

* Build in error-checking and validation for those failure modes

* Write tests which exercise all paths

This is a means to produce "viable" code using an LLM without close review. However, to your point, engineers able to execute this plan are likely to be pretty experienced, so it may not be economically viable.
Show HN: Conkoa AI – Voice-First Slack for Construction
by harness_up | 2026-03-10 16:54:13+00:00
I spent years building a SaaS product for the construction trades focused on health and safety. We obsessed over UI/UX because our users varied wildly in age, tech comfort, literacy, and preferred language. As good as we were, it was always a challenge to get new users to become proficient with it. That company was acquired in 2022.

One thing I noticed throughout that journey: internally, we lived in Slack. It became our hub for everything — team conversations, server alerts, support tickets. It was always the open tab. So naturally, we tried to get our construction clients to adopt it too.

None of them did. The reason was obvious in hindsight: Slack is built around typing. That doesn't work when you're on a roof, driving between jobs, or on a scaffold installing wall panels.

After some time off, I kept thinking about that gap. What if field teams had one unified interface where they could:

- Communicate with the rest of their team
- Update their work orders, timekeeping, or other systems they already use
- Ask questions answered by an AI trained on their company's own documents and data

All by voice. Any language. No typing. No learning multiple apps.

That's Conkoa. A foreman on a ladder can say "We had three workers on Level 3 for eight hours at the Green Cedar project" and that information gets properly entered into Procore or whatever their system of record is. Messages are automatically transcribed and translated, so a Spanish-speaking crew member and an English-speaking PM stay in sync without anyone doing extra work. Teams can upload photos and documents that feed into a RAG pipeline, so the built-in AI agent can summarize and surface that information on demand.

We integrate with tools like Procore today and are building out more integrations.

Conkoa is live and being used by dozens of companies across the construction trades. You can set up a free workspace at https://conkoa.ai — would love feedback from the HN community.
by vidarh | 2026-03-10 16:54:27+00:00
Thankfully it's not as bad as that. The 50% that goes red means we re-execute those steps, potentially several times, to see if they succeed, before we even bother manually looking at it. But the overall principle holds: First yoou multiply the cost by re-running, then eventually you either need to kick it up to a more expensive model and/or a human.

But of course this is also only viable for non-latency sensitive work, for starters.
by RulerOf | 2026-03-10 16:54:39+00:00
> Every single subreddit is full of AI posts with AI replies.

This has really started getting to me.

I used to really enjoy answering technical questions on Reddit when it was clear the asker was invested in a solution. That would come across as demonstrated understanding and competence, and it would be reflected in their writing.

The last several posts I thought to answer though clearly originated through a process of, "Hi ChatGPT, I want to solve a problem and haven't gotten anywhere asking you to do it for me. Please write a reddit post I can copy and paste..."

One of the telltale signs is that the post title will have poor grammar, but the post itself will be spotless, and full of bolded text emphasizing exactly what they need to stick into the AI tool to drive it in the direction they need.
by leptons | 2026-03-10 16:55:17+00:00
I worked for an ad-tech company for 3 months. I could not wait to get out of there.

It became clear to me quickly that the data these people wanted to collect on anyone and everyone could be used against me should they want to - not that I was doing anything questionable, but it was just creepy as F**.

The final straw for me was when they got some kind of contract with a major hotel chain and were all-too-giddy to listen in on the smart TVs in every room. I did not want to help them further any of their agendas, so I bailed on that place. Fortunately this was many years ago when dev jobs were easy to come by, I had 3 offers in a week.
by bigstrat2003 | 2026-03-10 16:55:33+00:00
> now, AI is generating whole stack applications that run from the first try

I sincerely doubt that, because it still can't even generate a few hundred line script that runs on the first try. I would know, I just tried yesterday. The first attempt was using hallucinated APIs and while I did get it to work eventually, I don't think it can one shot a complex application if it can't one shot a simple script.

IMO, AI has already stagnated and isn't significantly better than it was 3 years ago. I don't see how it's supposed to get better still when the improvement has already stopped.
by ptnpzwqd | 2026-03-10 16:56:04+00:00
I live in two realities too.

One where articles like this talk about a 10x increase in productivity, where the sentiment on HN is that all software can now be vibe coded without review, where AGI is right around the corner.

And another reality where we don't really see any measurable difference in productivity betweens that have gone all in on LLMs and those that haven't, where the current SOTA models still produce bad quality that needs a lot of guidance and revision, where mediocre engineers that never cared about quality in the first place now use these tools to produce even more mediocre code, where the most talented engineers get bogged down reviewing low quality LLM-generated PRs, and so on.

Maybe a bit exaggerated, but OP definitely lives in a very different reality from the one I am seeing. So different that I find it extremely hard to believe.
by Rapzid | 2026-03-10 16:56:06+00:00
Yeah because it's cheaper they go evaporative. That's an easy fix by just making it more expensive.

People talk about the water usage like it's an intrinsic feature of datacenters; it's not. You just make it more expensive so they are forced to conserve. But you wait till you have to so you don't push them to build elsewhere.
by falcor84 | 2026-03-10 16:56:28+00:00
> But the alternative is each country for himself, so I rather have the UN.

That's a false dichotomy. The alternatives includes giving each country an equal standing without a veto, votes proportional to the population, or even fully direct democracy by every person in the world, and a million other alternatives I could think of if given an afternoon.

It's absolutely logically valid to think that international coordination is valuable but that the UN is a poor solution for this, and is blocking off a better solution. Recall also that before the UN we had the League of Nations, which had a similar mission but an even worse implementation, and there's a wide consensus that it's good that it was replaced.
by mullingitover | 2026-03-10 16:56:42+00:00
> Let's see a rich dude produce anything all by himself. We like the pretend that the one rich dude is producing everything and his thousands of employees are basically superfluous.

We're certainly in agreement here, but I would say that most modern wealth is fictional: based on equity, which is based on credit, which is based on confidence, which at the end of the day is just vibes. So most of the 'wealthy' people exist as such with social permission because they're employed in production, and if they fail at that job the wealth rapidly evaporates. However, they're definitely wildly overpaid in the US. That, imho, is because culturally this country still wants to cosplay at having an aristocracy.
by petcat | 2026-03-10 16:56:43+00:00
It's quite a defeatist perspective. You're saying that because we can't fix or prevent everything, then we should choose not to fix or prevent anything?

Many US states do not impose government surveillance or have age verification laws.

But the point I was mainly making was regarding the comment equating USA and the West to Russia or China. Go to one of those countries and we'll see how long you can openly complain about government surveillance before you end up in jail.
by devonkelley | 2026-03-10 16:56:48+00:00
The "personality tuning" thing is real and I think it maps to something more concrete than vibes. It's about how predictable the model's failure modes are. When you use Opus enough you develop an intuition for where it'll struggle and you learn to route around it. That mental model doesn't transfer when you switch providers, even if the benchmarks are identical. The switching cost isn't performance, it's losing your calibration.
by chocmake | 2026-03-10 16:56:57+00:00
EUDI has had various criticism with its approach for not supporting unlinkability (with the same attestation used across verifiers they can be traced to the same user).

There are some long Github threads in the official repo along with a PDF[1] of cryptographer's feedback about the privacy issues. Also covered in this[2] article.

This is unlike BBS+ which supports unlinkability and which was even recommended by GSMA Europe to such address downsides. In the Github discussions there seems to be pushback by those officially involved that claim BBS+ isn't compatible with EUDI[3] and there seems to be some plateauing of any progress advancing it.

[1] https://github.com/eu-digital-identity-wallet/eudi-doc-archi...

[2] https://news.dyne.org/the-problems-of-european-digital-ident...

[3] https://github.com/eu-digital-identity-wallet/eudi-doc-archi...
by amadeuspagel | 2026-03-10 16:57:06+00:00
HN has ads (job ads for YC companies). When I see people post these deranged takes about ads on HN, I always ask myself: Do they not notice this--a common criticism of ads is that they blend too much into the real content, and this is nowhere more true then on HN--or do words just not mean anything to them, do they just mindlessly repeat memes rather then thinking about what these ideas mean for their own life? Is a sentence which to me expresses an idea to them more akin to a drug that gives them a kind of moral high? Because if I thought that ads were fascist, I'd look for a forum that doesn't have any, like Lobsters[1].

[1]: https://lobste.rs/
by steve_adams_86 | 2026-03-10 16:57:49+00:00
> turning off as much of the pointless eye candy as I can so that I can focus on the task I'm working on, not the distracting UX conventions.

What's worse too is that the means of reducing this distraction and visual mess are arguably only a trade for a different, often equally (though sometimes even more) poorly implemented interface. The high contrast and reduced transparency modes are not well designed at all in my opinion, and they seem like vague afterthoughts in this transition.
by game_the0ry | 2026-03-10 16:57:54+00:00
I can't take mark zuckerberg seriously anymore. He's made so many missteps recently: meta-verse, meta-glasses, llama, hiring wang, meta reality labs, etc.

He should probably hire a proper "number 2" (not someone like political like sandberg) -- someone who "gets" the internet, like how he did when he was a harvard geek making a hot-or-not clone in his dorm room. I'm not sure acqui-hiring the moltbook founders is the move.

That being said, I think the one silver lining is that it seems like big-tech now has a willingness to hire people who actually ship things of value, like peter steinberger. Another nail in the coffin for leetcode, I hope.
by skeeter2020 | 2026-03-10 16:58:01+00:00
even if this was true or someday will be (big IF), is it worth looking for valid counter workflows? example: in many parts of the US and Canada the Mennonites are incredibly productive farmers and massive adopters of technology while also keeping very strict limits on where/how and when it is used. If we had the same motivations and discipline in software could we walk a line that both benefited from and controlled AI? I don't know the answer.
by gpapilion | 2026-03-10 16:58:01+00:00
Just to level set here. I think its important to realize this is really focused on allowing things like search to operate on encrypted data. This technique allows you to perform an operation on the data without decrypting it. Think a row in a database with email, first, last, and mailing address. You want to search by email to retrieve the other data, but don't want that data unencrypted since it is PII.

In general, this solution would be expensive and targeted at data lakes, or areas where you want to run computation but not necessarily expose the data.

With regard to DRM, one key thing to remember is that it has to be cheap, and widely deployable. Part of the reason dvds were easily broken is that the algorithm chosen was inexpensive both computationally, so you can install it on as many clients as possible.
by diyseguy | 2026-03-10 16:58:09+00:00
No, it's not cheaper than other options. Pretty much market rate healthcare highway robbery. Afaict, they call themselves a charity because of the cross on top of the building. That's it. Their website mumbled something about helping the community with some sort of program with vague handwaving. Maybe an investigative journalist could figure out what they do that's actually charitable, but based on publicly available information, I could not find much. My sense is people just assume they have good intentions because they named themselves after some saint.
by ritlo | 2026-03-10 16:58:35+00:00
Mine's tracking it complete with a leaderboard (LOL) and it's been suggested to me that it'd be in my best interest not to be too low on that list, so I suspect in the back half of the year some sterner conversations and/or pink-slips are going to be coming the way of those who've not caught on that they need to at least be sending some make-work crap to their LLMs every day, even if they immediately throw the output in the metaphorical garbage bin.

It's basically an even-more-ridiculous version of ranking programmers by lines-of-code/week.

What's especially comical is I've seen enormous gains in my (longish, at this point) career from learning other tools (e.g. expanding my familiarity with Unix or otherwise fairly common command line tools) and never, ever has anyone measured how much I'm using them, and never, ever has management become in any way involved in pushing them on me. It's like the CEO coming down to tell everyone they'll be making sure all the programmers are using regular expressions enough, and tracking time spent engaging with regular expressions, or they'll be counting how many breakpoints they're setting in their debuggers per week. WTF? That kind of thing should be leads' and seniors' business, to spread and encourage knowledge and appropriate tool use among themselves and with juniors, to the degree it should be anyone's business. Seems like yet another smell indicating that this whole LLM boom is built on shaky ground.
by tomhow | 2026-03-10 16:59:11+00:00
Previously...

The Gervais Principle, or the Office According to “The Office” (2009) - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41214180 - Aug 2024 (173 comments)

The Gervais Principle, or the Office According to “The Office” (2009) - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33298158 - Oct 2022 (149 comments)

The Gervais Principle, or the Office According to “The Office” (2009) - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25486869 - Dec 2020 (60 comments)

The Gervais Principle III: The Curse of Development - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1267202 - April 2010 (27 comments)

The Gervais Principle II: Posturetalk, Powertalk, Babytalk and Gametalk - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=937541 - Nov 2009 (32 comments)

The Gervais Principle, or The Office According to "The Office" - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=881296 - Oct 2009 (63 comments)
by lich_king | 2026-03-10 16:59:18+00:00
> Precisely. “AI” contributions should be seen as an extension of the individual.

That's an OK view to hold, but I'll point out two things. First, it's not how the tech is usually wielded to interact with open-source software. Second, your worldview is at odds with the owners of this technology: the main reason why so much money is being poured into AI coding is that it's seen by investors as a replacement for the individual.
by Kim_Bruning | 2026-03-10 16:59:37+00:00
Look, you've made a closed argument. Now if I mention small labs or floss projects that got litigated against, first I'd need to 'stop beating my wife'.

No one is stealing anything. It's not theft. There has been no crime. None of this is anywhere near criminal law.

I could make a more nuanced argument on copyright infringement. But to make that steelman, I'd need to accept a too large overton window shift, so I'll decline to do so here.
by vladms | 2026-03-10 16:59:41+00:00
> Now, in the western countries surveillance has been legalized, so the governmental agencies no longer bother to hide their activities.

Hiding or not 20 years ago the west was trying to surveil it's population as much as they could as well, see the Snowden/NSA scandal.

> even if the consequences of being spied are not yet so severe

Spot on. I would go even further and argue that "communist countries" used to rule through "fear of the state", while west ruled through (among others) "fear of others" (used to be communist, now becomes migrants or other religious groups).

For me the surveillance is not ideal, but the worst is the average education level of a population. Without any surveillance, if my neighbor will suddenly believe I am a witch and burn me at stake (can't say it did not happen in the west!) I will not feel good because I was not surveilled.
by butILoveLife | 2026-03-10 16:59:46+00:00
Maybe its my 1 buddy that works at amazon, but they seemed extremely slow to adopt LLMs. Big ships take a long time to turn, but this seemed hostile.

I am seeing this mindset still, with AI Agents. I imagine they will slowly realize they need to use this stuff to be competitive, but being slow to adopt AI seems like it could have been the source of this.
by Chamix | 2026-03-10 16:59:49+00:00
What do you think labs are doing with the minimum 10TB memory in NvLink 72 systems that were publicly reported to all start coming online in November/December of last year? And why would this 1 TB -> 10 TB jump matter so much for Anthropic previously being wholly dependent on running Opus 4x on TPUs, if the models were 2-3T at 4bit and could fit in 8x B200 (1.5 TB = 3T param) widely deployed during the Opus 4 era?

You have presented a vibe-based rebuttal with no evidence or or logic to outline why you think labs are still stuck in the single trillions of parameters (GPT 4 was ~1 trillion params!). Though, you have successfully cunninghammed me into saying that while anything I publicly state is derived from public info, working in the industry itself is a helpful guide to point at the right public info to reference.
by visarga | 2026-03-10 17:00:02+00:00
> Whenever I see claims about AGI being reachable through large language models, it reminds me of the miasma theory of disease.

Whenever I see people think the model architecture matters much, I think they have a magical view of AI. Progress comes from high quality data, the models are good as they are now. Of course you can still improve the models, but you get much more upside from data, or even better - from interactive environments. The path to AGI is not based on pure thinking, it's based on scaling interaction.
by crystal_revenge | 2026-03-10 17:00:02+00:00
> fully ceding the research front is not a good way to keep the EU competitive

Tech is ultimately a red herring as far as what's needed to keep the EU competitive. The EU has a trillion dollar hole[0] to fill if they want to replace US military presence, and current net import over 50% of their energy. Unfortunately the current situation in Iran is not helping either of these as they constrains energy further and risks requiring military intervention.

0. https://www.wsj.com/world/europe/europes-1-trillion-race-to-...