MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by sparky_z | 2026-03-05 20:45:39+00:00
I suspect you're reading too much into that phrase. It seems more likely to me that the reporter here contacted one or more of the case report authors directly to ask for a copy of what instructions they received from the journal at the time. (This would be good journalistic practice, rather than just take the journal's word for it, when they might have an incentive to lie.) But they obviously couldn't explicitly confirm that every single author received similar instructions, so they used the “at times” phrase to cover their ass.

If they had direct evidence that some author's instructions failed to ask for the case study to be fictionalized, I think they would have specifically said that. It's more definitive, and catches the journal in a lie.

I'm pretty sure what happened here is that:

1) The journal always asked for and thought they received fictionalized case studies.

2) It never occurred to them that they were presenting the case studies in a way that could be misinterpreted. (This is indefensible negligence, but I also understand how it could have happened "innocently".)

3) Once the issue came to light, they issues blanket corrections to every case study study to describe them as fiction because they asked for fiction and edited them all as fiction. (I.e., Didn't do any fact checking or independent confirmation, beyond medical broad strokes.)

4) At least one author didn't read the instructions carefully enough and sent in a real case study, which as the article says, wasn't caught by the editors during the review process. (And really, how would they catch it? If they thought they asked for fiction, they wouldn't be fact checking it.)

I actually think the disclaimer may be appropriate, even on the article that was written as a true story, if it wasn't reviewed as one.
by rambambram | 2026-03-05 20:45:44+00:00
Also from 37signals, somewhere in their first book they talked about the importance of 'evergreen' things people always want, things like 'the speed of software'. As a junior dev I didn't really get the point or thought it was not that important. I browsed further in the book looking for other gems of wisdom, and this 'speed'-thing only stuck in my head for the wrong reason, thinking it was a little obvious for such clear writers with a solid vision.

Only 15 years later - now a couple of years back - I started to realize the importance of this. The apps on my smartphones seemed to get slower and slower by the year. The fast software experiences were a real joy amidst slow apps. I now have an appreciation for their opinion on 'evergreen' things like the speed of software.
by nathan_douglas | 2026-03-05 20:45:55+00:00
Do you feel optimistic about employment in the future?

I suppose that I agree to a certain extent - I feel less exhausted at the end of each day, I think, because a lot of the tedium of dealing with boilerplate and implementation details can be smoothed away with AI. I do enjoy my current position more than I have ever before.

But I don't know if I'm optimistic about the future. I think software engineers are still essential, or at least that the skill of software engineering is still essential, but I don't know if the market will have fully internalized that knowledge soon enough.

What do you think?
by candiddevmike | 2026-03-05 20:46:05+00:00
More and more I realize I am completely obvlious to all of the class signaling happening here. I couldn't imagine spending that much on anything, let alone a watch. And I certainly wouldn't think someone wearing that did, either.

I feel bad for the folks who pick up on stuff like this, that must be a heavy weight to bear constantly comparing yourself to other people.
by bpev | 2026-03-05 20:46:27+00:00
I haven't had this experience (on macOS, it is quite fast), but I have read this exact same complaint about rendering/slowness from other Linux users a handful of times. So I think those might be more platform-specific issues. I do see high memory usage, though. So I enjoy using Zed when I want to use AI, and prefer Sublime when I want to fly solo.
by kgeist | 2026-03-05 20:46:43+00:00
>Today, we’re releasing <..> GPT‑5.3 Instant

>Today, we’re releasing GPT‑5.4 in ChatGPT (as GPT‑5.4 Thinking),

>Note that there is not a model named GPT‑5.3 Thinking

They held out for eight months without a confusing numbering scheme :)
by 1718627440 | 2026-03-05 20:47:19+00:00
Thanks for the explanation.

Do you really have hundreds of projects you work at at the same time?

> For example, I can reach .../client-a/src just by typing 'sd ent-a'. The algorithm disambiguates based on the ranking; if the top match is ever wrong (it rarely is for me), you can just do ^P <CR> (recall and re-run) to jump to the 2nd highest match.

CTRL-R can also do this, or does this tool also do partial matches, e.g. 'tas' matches '.../client-a/src' ?
by wingrammer | 2026-03-05 20:47:44+00:00
Hi HN – I'm the founder of Kybernis.

The core problem we’re exploring is that AI agents are non-deterministic systems operating inside deterministic infrastructure.

Traditional systems assume actions run once.

Agents retry steps, re-plan tasks, and execute asynchronously.

That combination makes duplicate execution surprisingly easy.

Kybernis focuses on the execution boundary where agents trigger real mutations (payments, infrastructure changes, APIs).

Curious if others deploying agents have run into similar reliability issues.
by fc417fc802 | 2026-03-05 20:47:59+00:00
> you get the gist of reading the meaning of something when the occasional word is missing,

I think it's more subtle than that. IIUC the tokens were all present for the purpose of computing the output and the score is based on the output. It's only the weight update where some of the tokens get ignored. So the learning is lossy but the inference driving the learning is not.

Rather than a book that's missing words it's more like a person with a minor learning disability that prevents him from recalling anything perfectly.

However it occurs to me that data augmentation could easily break the scheme if care isn't taken.
by wtallis | 2026-03-05 20:48:01+00:00
Enterprises that care about using a kernel for many years typically put their own resources into providing the level of maintenance they require (or getting it from a distro that maintains their own LTS kernels), rather than depending on upstream to keep the patches coming for that branch. But if the upstream kernel support timelines become more closely aligned with what those downstream users want, they may shift to tracking upstream LTS branches.
by Detrytus | 2026-03-05 20:48:09+00:00
Well, I think context matters here a lot:

If you go to a random lawyer in Wyoming and ask them to write "expert opinion" then what you'll get would probably be something standard, written by a junior associate, or maybe even produced by ChatGPT.

If the White House orders "expert opinion" on potential Supreme Court ruling then the chances are that the expert asked to prepare it is someone who plays golf with some of the SCOTUS judges.

So those two "expert opinions" might not bear the same weight.
by netsharc | 2026-03-05 20:48:10+00:00
I repeat, if a company could break the law, and escape accountability by moving the figurehead to a different department, and putting a different asshole in her place... what sort of accountability is there?

I should just make a government where there are 365 DHS leaders, and if you want to get accountability about what the DHS did yesterday, well, lucky you, that DHS leader lost her job at midnight last night!

That makes me think of the UK government, where utter fuckheads resign because they did something embarassing, and a few months later get called back into government. Peter Mandelson (friend of Epstein) for Department for Children, Schools and Families when?
by stego-tech | 2026-03-05 20:48:14+00:00
Man, I'm disappointed by the comments. Like, moreso than usual.

The cherry-picking of points to support your preconceived conclusions about the author ("he owns three houses he's better off than everyone else" did ya'll not read any of the context?), the judging of someone refusing to compromise personal values for temporary comfort, the denial on display that the country and life he lived is somehow invalid or fake simply because you personally haven't experienced it...

Just, fuck, ya'll. And you wonder why polarization is spreading even on sites like HN or Slashdot, in what used to be tech-centric circles. This is why: you cannot comprehend the lived experiences of others and their personal value systems, you refuse to acknowledge the immense role that luck plays in life for a huge swath of the planet, and you apply your personal narrative to total strangers while also crowing about how people need to be more entrepreneurial, or take more risks, or sacrifice more.

One personal snippet about how he placed his veganism as a personal principle in life, and suddenly so many feel comfortable saying he doesn't deserve help.

One mention of his work renovating homes to try and pull in reliable income while also caring for his mother, and somehow he's just as bad as Blackstone or Bezos, nevermind the admission he lives in an off-grid trailer himself.

Do ya'll even hear yourselves think before posting? "He needs to be entrepreneurial, but only in the methods I personally accept," "He went to college, it's his own fault for taking on that debt", "he complains about being hungry but chooses to be vegan."

Fucking christ. I just...I have no words for how disgustingly self-centered and willfully ignorant so many of you are. Always looking for the tiniest nitpick to unravel a personal narrative to suit your own ends, rather than earnestly listening to the message being shared and the plea being made. The notion that the only perspectives worth listening to come from folks who made all the right decisions you would've obviously made, and that any human mistake is solely personal responsibility regardless of systemic influence.

Ya'll need to learn to listen more, and judge less.
by rendx | 2026-03-05 20:48:23+00:00
"Unfortunately, so far, the existing empirical work has not had a central place in policy, legislation, and political discourse (Loughran 2019, Nelken & Hamilton 2022). Unsurprisingly, scholars have been frustrated that their insights on, for instance, the inconclusive evidence for the deterrent effect of incarceration on violent crime or the evidence that treatment can help to rehabilitate have not had sufficient impact (Cullen et al. 2011, McGuire 2013). Empirical research has failed to sway policymakers and political leaders for many reasons, too many to cover fully here."

"Researchers must not give up but instead continue to engage with the public and with policy makers. They also must accept that although many policy makers (or their staffers) may be aware of these conclusions, the accumulated science may not change policy for various reasons, including their constituents’ viewpoints, their perception that being tough on crime will sway voters, and so forth. Yet, researchers should not throw in the towel. […] Given the various costs associated with punishment, this seems to be a paramount consideration."
by Asm2D | 2026-03-05 20:48:37+00:00
Indeed, but this also means that you would get drastically different performance on platforms that have more physical registers vs on platforms that have less. For example x86_64 only has 16 GP registers, while AArch64 has 32 - if you use 25 registers without any analysis and just go to stack with 10 of them, the difference could be huge.

But... I consider SLJIT to be for a different use-case than AsmJit. It's more portable, but its scope is much more limited.
by chadash | 2026-03-05 20:49:14+00:00
Apple clearly positions themselves as a premium product. There is some luxury element to it to (e.g., my friends will look down on me if I have an android), but it's not really the same as a true luxury product where brand is the main thing you are paying for. If you offered to sell me a macbook for 25% cheapr on condition that I remove the branding, I'd be happy to do so. I'm not a watch person, but I suspect that most Rolex buyers would not pay anything close for an identical watch without the crown logo.
by ashivkum | 2026-03-05 20:49:45+00:00
Apple quietly updated Mac Studio configuration options this week, removing the 512GB memory upgrade. As of yesterday, there is no option to purchase a Mac Studio with 512GB RAM, with the machine now maxing out at 256GB.

The Mac Studio starts with 36GB RAM, but there were upgrades ranging from 48GB to 512GB, with the higher tier upgrades limited to the M3 Ultra chip. Now there are options ranging from 48GB to 256GB, with wait times into May for the 256GB upgrade.

Apple has also raised the price for the 256GB RAM upgrade option. It used to cost $1,600 to go from 96GB to 256GB on the high-end M3 Ultra machine, but now it costs $2,000. 512GB was $4,000 when it was available.

Apple has likely removed the option to purchase 512GB of memory because of global DRAM shortages that have dried up supply and caused prices to soar, and it's also probably why shipping times for a configuration with 256GB RAM range into May.

Demand for the Mac Studio has increased due to consumers seeking machines suitable for running local AI agents, which could also be a wait time factor.

Memory scarcity is already having an effect on DRAM pricing, and it could affect PC and smartphone sales in the months to come. Apple is able to absorb higher memory costs in the short term, and it is well-positioned to minimize the effect on consumers because it is better able to secure available DRAM supply than smaller companies.
by libraryatnight | 2026-03-05 20:49:53+00:00
This is funny because one of my major gripes with everyone having phones is they don't really use them for meaningful information seeking. They'll sit in conversation and speculate and invent nonsense, accept the smartest/most convenient sounding nonsense at the table, and move on as if they did not have the ability to look it up on the spot. Then later they quote the nonsense to someone else as if it were something they learned as opposed to made up with one of their social circles.
by fhcbcofkf | 2026-03-05 20:49:55+00:00
You’re right to be disappointed. That awful comment didn’t even mention that the robot would be killing the children autonomously, without humans in the loop, after spying on their daycare, hearing an offhand joke, and misunderstanding it as a terroristic threat.

That is the world that Sam Altman is choosing to empower, and if you use his models, you are choosing to fund it.

The children in this scenario are also American, which shouldn’t really make a difference, but probably does to people like you
by mtrovo | 2026-03-05 20:50:06+00:00
Clothes, wristwatches, cars, you name it. It's a very common play on luxury brands, Hermes Birkins is the most famous that comes to my mind and follow a very similar playbook.

Apart from the KYC aspect of the process it's their way of solving the problem of artificial scarcity on the second-hand market as the article explains. They want a second hand market to exist to indicate that this is a luxury item, but too many and the price tanking with excess supply.
by Someone1234 | 2026-03-05 20:50:28+00:00
Yep; I've actually had entire jobs essentially fail due to a bad compaction. It lost key context, and it completely altered the trajectory.

I'm now more careful, using tracking files to try to keep it aligned, but more control over compaction regardless would be highly welcomed. You don't ALWAYS need that level of control, but when you do, you do.
Show HN: Stoneforge – Open-source orchestration for parallel AI coding agents
by adamjking3 | 2026-03-05 20:51:16+00:00
I built this because I was running 3-5 Claude Code instances on the same repo and burning out from constantly context switching between terminal windows. Carefully making sure agents' work didn't overlap, preventing context windows from degrading, manually enforcing documentation/memory policies, and re-explaining decisions across sessions.

Stoneforge is the coordination layer I wanted. A Director agent breaks goals into tasks. A dispatch daemon assigns them to workers when available, each task runs in its own git worktree. Stewards review completed tasks and squash-merge to main if everything passes inspection, otherwise they handoff the task with review comments to be picked up by a new agent. When a worker hits its context limit, it commits, writes handoff notes, and exits, so the next worker can pick up on the same branch with a fresh context window and important notes from the previous agent's work.

Some design decisions that might be interesting to this crowd:

- Fully event-sourced with a complete audit log.
- Supports syncing tasks to Github or Linear, and documents to Notion, Obsidian, or a local folder. Custom providers are also supported.
- JSONL as source of truth, SQLite as a disposable cache. JSONL diffs, merges across branches, and survives corruption. SQLite gives you FTS5 and indexed queries. The SQLite .db can be rebuilt on different devices in seconds.
- No approval gates by default. If five agents each need confirmation for every file write, you won't be moving any faster. Review happens at the merge steward level.
- Worktrees over containers. The conflict surface for coding agents is git and the file system, containers or remote instances are overkill. Worktrees create in milliseconds, share node_modules and build caches, and don't need Docker or separate servers.
- You can run multiple Claude Code / Codex plans simultaneously on the same codebase.

Works with Claude Code, OpenAI Codex, and OpenCode. Apache 2.0. GitHub: https://github.com/stoneforge-ai/stoneforge

Happy to discuss the architecture or any of the tradeoffs.
by cakealert | 2026-03-05 20:51:34+00:00
> Because it's not a military asset? It's a privately-owned asset.

Are you under the impression that the military is submitting Anthropic API calls?

Whatever model the military is using is as much of an asset as the F35 they purchased.

Depending on their agreements, you could argue it's a rented asset. Doesn't change any calculus.
by stackghost | 2026-03-05 20:52:11+00:00
>The G-Shock brand signals... I dunno, sportsy-ness? Maybe it is closer to a pure fashion brand here.

I own (among other, nicer time pieces) a G-Shock. I bought it when I was in the military and frankly it's a great watch that has withstood some serious abuse. Maybe a cheaper watch would have also survived? I'd happily buy another but mine's still literally and figuratively ticking.
by Retric | 2026-03-05 20:52:23+00:00
How things are aren’t the only way things could be.

A receiver could use a new random ID to call “collect” to a secure third party network which agrees to pay for the base stations bandwidth for every connection. The station then responds to the base station yep ID X’s bandwidth will be paid by vert tel.

Obviously, this doesn’t eliminate the possibility of tracking as you’d want the cell to have multiple connections created and abandoned randomly, but it does remove that ID you’re concerned with.
by hu3 | 2026-03-05 20:52:23+00:00
indeed and I suspect it can be attributed to, at least in part, the improved playwright integration.

> we’re also releasing an experimental Codex skill called “Playwright (Interactive) (opens in a new window)”. This allows Codex to visually debug web and Electron apps; it can even be used to test an app it’s building, as it’s building it.
by itintheory | 2026-03-05 20:52:31+00:00
On it's face, I'm not sure that's a new question. Bots using browser automation frameworks (puppeteer, selenium, playwright etc) have been around for a while. There are signals used in bot detection tools like cursor movement speed, accuracy, keyboard timing, etc. How those detection tools might update to support legitimate bot users does seem like an open question to me though.
by neogodless | 2026-03-05 20:52:40+00:00
Previous information:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47186677 I am directing the Department of War to designate Anthropic a supply-chain risk (twitter.com/secwar) 5 days ago, 1083+ comments

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47189441 Anthropic says it will challenge Pentagon supply chain risk designation in court (reuters.com) 5 days ago, 37+ comments
by coldtea | 2026-03-05 20:52:48+00:00
>Something related, but different, happened with chardet. The current maintainer reimplemented it from scratch by only pointing it to the API and the test suite.

Only "pointing it". But the LLM, who can recite over 90% of a book in its training set verbatim *, would have also have had trained on the original code.

Maybe "the slop of Theseus" is a better title.

* https://the-decoder.com/researchers-extract-up-to-96-of-harr...
by cheerkeela | 2026-03-05 20:52:50+00:00
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by Leftium | 2026-03-05 20:52:50+00:00
So validating your idea before building is better, but there is an even more "backwards" way:

You're still assuming people will be interested in one of your ideas. There is far from 100% chance of that.

To increase this chance closer to 100%: ask people what they are interested in. "Extract" the #1 problem shared by at least 10 people/businesses (that would be worth paying at least $50/month to fix). Then offer a solution to this problem.

> There are three types of problems: 1. hair-on-fire problem, 2. 2nd biggest problem, 3. everything else
by vladich | 2026-03-05 20:53:06+00:00
I have a test of 200Kb query that AsmJit takes 7 seconds to compile (that's not too bad both LLVM and MIR take ~20s), while sljit does it in 50ms. 200Kb is a pathological case, but it's not unheard of in the area I'm working on. It's realistic, although a rare case.
Last 10-15 years most OLTP workloads became CPU bound, because active datasets of most real databases fully fit in memory. There are exceptions, of course.