MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by shadowgovt | 2026-03-13 18:07:46+00:00
I think we've reached a point where we're really turning our heads and squinting away from reality if we think that computing is a hobby that no longer poses danger to others.

A person using their own machine can hack all manner of other people's machines without their consent. On the flipside, a person who is not even malicious, but negligent, can configure a machine on the open internet with open ports and become part of a botnet in a half-hour. Perhaps these behaviors imply a level of responsibility that suggests licensing to use the shared resource that is "The internet" is appropriate.
by pillsburycat | 2026-03-13 18:08:30+00:00
This looks really cool. However, the current AI models are pretty good at designing UIs from prompts and even turning screenshots of mocks into full UIs. I'm not sure this visual design approach would save time vs simply prompting an AI agent.

That being said, I could see a niche market for a designer persona who is used to building in tools like figma.
by gdorsi | 2026-03-13 18:08:37+00:00
> Fine-grained permissions and policies. Not just what tools an agent can access, but what it can do with them. Read email but not send. Access one repo but not another. Spend up to a threshold but no more.

If nailed this is going to be interesting.

All the other solutions I've been sumbling around are either very hard to customize or too limited.

Docker sandboxing is kinda nice, but not enough to trust an LLM even with my messaging accounts.
by hinkley | 2026-03-13 18:08:50+00:00
> Most enterprise code involves lots of exploring and fast iteration.

And when the code base is 250,000 lines of garbage all the way down, this is impossible. The projects where I’ve had free rein to kill tech debt and SDLC footguns with impunity have all been the ones where velocity maintained or increased over time. All the rest have ground to a halt.

There’s value in customers believing you’ll get there soon and the code will actually work. They can be patient if you have an air of competence. But they will switch to some other clown car if it’s cheaper than your clown car.
by gwbas1c | 2026-03-13 18:08:59+00:00
The BBC used a kinescope much longer than the US. (A kinescope recorded TV to film.)

The US pushed a lot harder than Europe for videotape because kinescopes dropped frames off of American 60i frame rates, but worked really well for European 50i frame rates. Thus the BBC continued to use kinescopes for a long time.
by pinkmuffinere | 2026-03-13 18:09:00+00:00
> consider that modern X chromosomes carry no neanderthal DNA, indicating that all interbreeding involved neanderthal males and human females

This is a false implication, it’s possible that Neanderthal X chromosome just doesn’t “play nice” with human dna, and can’t result in fertile offspring. Admittedly I have not read the sources you recommend, so maybe they address this?
by Mooshux | 2026-03-13 18:09:10+00:00
Interesting approach. Scrubbing secrets at the input layer is a useful defense, especially for teams that already have keys scattered across configs and prompts.

The complementary problem worth thinking about: if your agent needs to call an external API, the key has to get into context somehow. Masking it on the way in helps, but the agent still needs to use it on the way out. That's where a proxy or phantom token pattern closes the loop: the agent never holds the real key at all, just a session-scoped token that expires after the task. Nothing to leak in the first place.

These two approaches stack well. Wrote about the agent credential side of this here: https://www.apistronghold.com/blog/securing-openclaw-ai-agen...
by AnthonyMouse | 2026-03-13 18:09:22+00:00
Again, it seems like the flaw is in trying to form a long-term coalition instead of just passing the bills that have enough support to pass when you put them up for a vote among all the people who were actually elected. Why should anyone have to give a crap what someone else's position is on immigration when the bill in question is on copyright reform or tax incentives for solar panels?
by brudgers | 2026-03-13 18:09:30+00:00
The measure of audio is what comes out of the speakers not what is written on the web.

My Airpod Pros are the most convenient personal audio device I have ever used. Sound wise they pale in comparison to my Sony MDR-ZX100 which I bought on sale for $9.99 at Best Buy...unfortunately the new model is about $15 regular price and maybe not as good (but I doubt it).

Sure the Airpod Pros sound better than ordinary Airpods or the wired Airbuds, but that's a really low bar for an audio device.
by cafed00d | 2026-03-13 18:09:49+00:00
Open with multiple browsers (safari vs chrome) to get more "accurate + glanceable" rankings.

Its using WebGPU as a proxy to estimate system resource.
Chrome tends to leverage as much resources (Compute + Memory) as the OS makes available. Safari tends to be more efficient.

Maybe this was obvious to everyone else. But its worth re-iterating for those of us skimmers of HN :)
by D-Machine | 2026-03-13 18:10:04+00:00
Well, one can never be sure what the real motivation for a lot of DL advances, as most papers are post-hoc obscurantism / hand-waving or even just outright nonsense (see: internal covariate shift explanations for batch norm, which arguably couldn't be more wrong https://arxiv.org/pdf/1805.11604).

When you really get into this stuff, you tend to see the real motivations as either e.g. kernel smoothing (see comments / discussion at https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46357675#46359160) or as encoding correlations / multiplicative interactions (e.g. broad discussion at https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46523887). IMO most insights in LLM architectures and layers tends to come from intuitions about projections, manifolds, dimensionality, smoothing/regularization, overparameterization, matrix conditioning, manifold curvature and etc.

There are almost zero useful understandings or insights to be gained from the lookup-table analogy, and most statistical explanations in papers are also post-hoc and require assumptions (convergence rates, infinite layers, etc) that are never shown to clearly hold for actual models that people use. Obviously these models work well for a lot, but our understanding of why is incredibly poor and simplistic, for the most part.

Of course, this is just IMO, and you can see some people in the linked threads do seem to find the lookup table analogies useful.
by prox | 2026-03-13 18:10:10+00:00
It’s legit in the sense that they use this originally in forensics to reconstruct faces I think , say a victim or unknown so they can put out a search pamphlet.

They know the relative muscular thickness for each area as to compile a likeness. Is it 100% a look-a-like? Probably not, but the main features and composition should be comparable to the original face.
by officeplant | 2026-03-13 18:10:26+00:00
Yeah this is a lot closer to the home BBS I grew up around. We had 20+ phone lines coming into our house all in a bundle going through the attic and dropping down into my dads "office" within the house. That led to a shelf full of modems, where I had to go find an inactive one and shut it off to free up a line. All so I could go turn on the modem in my room, because it was time to play a game with a friend across town.

Over time the BBS grew into us being a local dialup ISP as my Dad dug deeper into self employeement in the computer age.
by salleisha | 2026-03-13 18:11:10+00:00
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by Silhouette | 2026-03-13 18:12:21+00:00
I am still trying to work out what Teams is "setting up for me" when it takes several seconds from opening the bookmark in my browser to having a UI where I can read the chats. It's running on a PC that can render complex graphical scenes in real time but it takes half a minute to see "LGTM!". (Shaking head emoji goes here.)

Then again Teams is still barely an amateur compared to the incomprehensible slowness of Jira.
by gruez | 2026-03-13 18:12:28+00:00
>I don't think it's "catering to them" to avoid passing laws that impose undue burden. For example, if you passed a law requiring a US passport to buy food in the US, and made it so all restaurants and grocery stores are required to check passports before selling food to anyone, I would be opposed to that law, and part of the reason is that I don't think it should be hard for anyone to get food, whether they have a US passport or not.

Which is kind of my point. Don't say it's a bad idea because "undocumented people" won't be able to get food, say it's bad because it'll be a pain for everyone.

>"Undocumented" doesn't mean "residing illegally" anyway, it just means "lacking documents", which is a state that many perfectly legitimate US citizens find themselves in. But we should want people who are here illegally and everyone else to be able to use the world wide web and computers regardless of their legal status, just like everyone should be allowed to eat and buy food regardless of their legal status, because that's just basic humanity.

But if you're undocumented, it's already a massive pain to participate in society. You can't get a bank account or any other sort of financial product, can't get a job (Form I-9, or want to do background checks), can't buy real estate (who are you going to register it to?), or even drive (yes, I know some states issue drivers licenses to "undocumented" migrants, but that makes them documented and irrelevant to this discussion). Therefore you're going to have a hard time garnering sympathy from voters. An analogy to this would be all the government forms that require a telephone number or an address. Is it illegal to not have a telephone number or an address? No. Do many people not have a phone number or address? Also yes. Is "let's abolish phone numbers and addresses on government forms" a good issue to run on? No.
by ahmed-fathi | 2026-03-13 18:12:32+00:00
The adage holds, you're just measuring at the wrong timescale.
Fast and cheap is absolutely happening right now. But "correct" in software was never about whether the code runs today it's about whether the system is still understandable, maintainable, and predictable six months from now when requirements change and the person who wrote it is gone.
LLMs are remarkably good at local correctness. A function works. A test passes. But software systems fail at the joints the places where assumptions from different parts of the codebase meet. That's where models break down, and that's precisely where LLMs are weakest, because they have no persistent model of your system's evolution over time.
The triangle didn't disappear. It just got a time dimension added to it. Fast, cheap, correct right now maybe. Fast, cheap, correct over time still pick two.
by whatever1 | 2026-03-13 18:12:36+00:00
I am not the one claiming that apple does magic with memory. FYI right now I just opened monitor (M1 16GB) and sorted by memory:

1. WindowServer : 4.33GB
2. Safari pages (~10 open): ~ 5GB (monitor reports per tab)
3. Outlook: 1.45 GB
4. VS Code: 1.43 GB
5. Excel: 1.25 GB

Swap Used: 6.46GB.

Memory pressure is already orange and machine is slow.
by cleansy | 2026-03-13 18:13:06+00:00
Just some unfiltered feedback after checking out the website: from what I understand this is an SaaS only? So basically I’m asked to upload ALL company docs to a company that existed for basically a minute with some questionable SOC2 report. Soc2 is basically dead as a security artefact and the data asked to upload is sensitive by nature. I don’t see that working.
by jmyeet | 2026-03-13 18:13:39+00:00
The story I like to tell is about the Manhattan Project. This caused a debate in US strategic circles that set policy for the entire post-1945 world. Debate included whether a preemptive nuclear strike on the USSR was necessary or even just a good idea.

Anyway, many in these circles thought the USSR would take 20 years to develop the bomb if they ever did. It took 4 years. The hydrogen bomb? The USA tested theirs in 1952. The USSR? 1953.

China now has decades of commitment to long-term projects, an interest in national security and creating an virtuous circle for various industries.

The US banned the export of EUV lithography machiens to China but (IMHO) they made a huge mistake by also banning the best chips. Why was this a mistake? Because it created a captive market for Chinese-made chips.

The Soviet atomic project was helped by espionage and ideology (ie some people believed in the communist project or simply thought it a bad idea that only the US had nuclear weapons). That's just not necessary today. You simply throw some money at a few key researchers and engineers who worked at ASML and you catch up to EUV real fast. I said a couple of years ago China would develop their own EUV processes because they don't want the US to have that control over them. It's a matter of national security. China seems to be 3-5 years away on conservative estimates.

More evidence of this is China not wanting to import NVidia chips despite the ban being lifted [1].

China has the same attitude to having its own launch capability. They've already started testing their own reusable rockets [2]. China has the industrial ecosystem to make everything that goes into a rocket, a captive market for Chinese launches (particularly the Chinese government and military) and the track record to pull this off.

And guess what? China can hire former SpaceX engineers too.

I predict in 5 years these comments doubting China's space ambitions will be instead "well of course that was going to happen".

[1]: https://www.theinformation.com/articles/china-want-buy-nvidi...

[2]: https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/chinas-explosive-...
by quickthrowman | 2026-03-13 18:13:48+00:00
> but my line of thinking is not 'do i trust the government' it's 'do I have faith in all future forms of government who will have access to this data'

This is how I view privacy as well. You never know who will be in power and who will access that information in the future with ill intent.

This line of thinking kept me away from the Mpls ICE protests. All of the people that protested had their face, phone, and license plate recorded and documented.

I’m not even afraid of being persecuted by the current administration, it’s the possibility of a much worse administration in the future that gave me pause.
by perennialmind | 2026-03-13 18:13:50+00:00
There's no viable alternative to dual stack with NAT now. We're stuck with it.

But when IPv6 was standardized, a pure upgrade to IPv4 was still feasible. IPv4 allows for extensions headers and middleboxes hadn't yet imposed protocol ossification. If instead of the encapsulation the article supposes, the upgrade embraced translation, we could have had an IPv4+ with NAT fallback. A node on a network behind a IPv4+ router would send out a packet with the RFC1918 interior address encoded as the address extension. Either the server (which would have a proper IPV4 address) responds without the extension header, at which point the IPv4+ router at the edge has to do NAT-style connection tracking, or the response packet can be forwarded as-is.

All the pain of upgrading software to a new protocol still applies, with the added headache of variable length addresses (4 bytes, 8 bytes, potentially more). But no ISP has to make the investments or take the risk of the parallel infrastructure. The IPv4 core carries on, with incremental improvements but zero mandatory upgrades.
by loudeaglenoise | 2026-03-13 18:13:58+00:00
Hey all, Luke from Workshop Labs here. We're excited to get this in the hands of builders in the next 1-2 weeks.

We're doing some safety work before the release. Specifically, we're checking for bio uplift: does OSing 50x faster OS training code for (relatively) smaller GPU setups seriously democratize dangerous bio capabilities?

We expect the answer is no, but it doesn't hurt to check. Once that's done, we'll drop the repo.
by jader201 | 2026-03-13 18:13:58+00:00
I wonder how cool it would be to have a live ephemeral chat for each channel?

One thing I love(d) about live TV (or even live radio) was the community around knowing other people were watching the exact same thing I was watching (and then the watercooler chat around it afterwards).

If there was live chat attached to each of these "stations", it could spark some interesting chatter/community.

I know this already exists OOTB with YouTube Live, FB Live, etc.

But this would be for things that were simply uploaded, and now streamed live like you're doing here.

Obviously, that only works if there's enough viewership/participation.
by bryanlarsen | 2026-03-13 18:13:58+00:00
Falcon-9 first landed in 2015 and was regularly landing within a couple of years. So being 10 years behind means "almost ready to go".

suborbital Yuanxingzhe-1 landed may 2025, and orbital Zhuque-3 was really close to landing in December. Long March 12A also tried in December although it wasn't as close to success.

So if China is 10 years behind, they've caught up. We won't know if they're 10 years or further behind for a couple years more, though.

And while China may be 10-15 years behind on their Falcon-9 equivalents, they're likely less than 10 years behind on their Starship equivalents.
by erikerikson | 2026-03-13 18:14:15+00:00
> they just... stop trying

This foundational premise seems flawed. Surely there are pressures but it's a privilege hypothesis used to write the piece so the objection is important.

Once you achieve notoriety the world changes around you. Not only that but by the time achieve notoriety the world already changed around you. The lead time to novel prize is high.

Just to be concrete about one way the world changes is that you're no longer a great student with time to while away. Now everybody wants to congratulate you and learn your theory from you. They won't leave you the f** alone. When you were just some random promising grad student, you had mental quiet and peace. Academia, industries, responsibilities, they take that away.

And let's be fair, if you've done Nobel worthy work, then you've contributed enough that you deserve to just slack off and be left in peace for the rest of your life.
by iamnothere | 2026-03-13 18:14:22+00:00
> True, but automotive licensing still applies to one's right to operate a vehicle on turnpikes.

I wonder if this has ever been challenged? Driving on most private roads does not require a license or even a tag.

My rough understanding is that turnpikes are a special case because they were established by legislative charter, but it would be interesting to see the specifics. I don’t know much about the legal history.
by Mooshux | 2026-03-13 18:14:24+00:00
The "dedicated and locked-down credentials" point is worth expanding. Most of the discussion here focuses on model robustness, but credential scope matters just as much. An agent running with a full-access API key and a scoped one fail very differently under prompt injection.

The pattern that helps most: agents get session-scoped tokens that map to real credentials stored in a vault. The real key never appears in agent context. If the agent gets injected and leaks its token, the token expires after the session. Blast radius is bounded by design, not by model choice.

How we've implemented this: https://www.apistronghold.com/blog/securing-openclaw-ai-agen...
by D-Machine | 2026-03-13 18:15:01+00:00
This is a good link and important (albeit niche) qualification.

It is hard to square with the article's claims about differentiability and otherwise lack of clarity / obscurantism about what they are really doing here (they really are just compiling / encoding a simple computer / VM into a slightly-modified transformer, which, while cool, is really not what they make it sound like at all).
by antonvs | 2026-03-13 18:15:05+00:00
I don't doubt that he's a genuine, dyed in the wool misogynist, but it's hard to believe that he genuinely thinks that these technologies will somehow inevitably "increase the economic power of vocationally trained, working-class, often male, working-class voters." At least, I can't think of any plausible scenario where that would happen. The only way it would happen is politically, i.e. redistribute wealth to them (which he almost certainly is not in favor of.)

That "working-class friend" aspect is just classic billionaire misdirection designed to exploit bigotry. Why do "highly educated, often female voters" come in for particular attention, given that Karp himself is highly educated (Ph.D. in neoclassical social theory!) and extremely wealthy (net worth ~$15 billion)? By all rights the working class should be much more concerned about Karp and his ilk than educated women.

You don't generally get to be a billionaire by blurting out your true innermost thoughts everywhere. Consistently positioning himself and his company's technology as a friend of the working class (hard to say that with a straight face) can give political influence that helps suppress rebellion against his technological ambitions, and even gain active support for it. He wants that working class all saying "surveil me harder daddy!"
by kostolansky | 2026-03-13 18:15:24+00:00
We took another step toward making open source models truly open, namely by creating a training stack that actually allows for finetuning of a large frontier OSS model, Kimi K2 Thinking. (The OSS stack for big models is surprisingly pretty abysmal these days!)

There is lots of value to be unlocked by people using language models for their own purposes, and our work here hopefully moves the needle towards making that more accessible to more people. (The training code will be released soon, pending safety testing.)

We are very excited by what we can all build :D

- Tim from WSL