MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by jcalvinowens | 2026-03-11 16:59:03+00:00
Does your benchmark use sequential or randomly ordered inputs? That would make a substantial difference with an LUT, I would think. But I'm guessing. Maybe 32K is so small it doesn't matter.

> if you use smaller data types than double or float. Even dropping interpolation worked fine,

That's kinda tautological isn't it? Of course reduced precision is acceptable where reduced precision is acceptable... I guess I'm assuming double precision was used for a good reason, it often isn't :)
by sveme | 2026-03-11 16:59:06+00:00
Anthropic's domain usage (there's claude.com, claude.ai, console.anthropic.com, platform.claude.com, claudecode.io forwarding to codeagents.app which errors) and authentication approach have been lacking a lot; hope this isn't a verdict on their use of agentic coding.

Example: I had two orgs with similar names, one I set up myself and another my employer set up. Logged in via SSO. Once I deleted the one I created myself, I could not log in anymore with the notice that the org was scheduled for deletion. Could also not contact support as that required a login. Only when the org was deleted after a week and my employer deleted me and reinvited me I could access it again.

Quite the shitshow for a company worth a couple hundred billion.
by OptionOfT | 2026-03-11 16:59:09+00:00
> The other half come from the implicit local timezone conversion in the Date constructor.

Outlook at that issue even in their old C++ (I think) version.

You're in London, you save your friend's birthday as March 11th.

You're now in SF. When is your friend's birthday? It's still all-day March 11th, not March 10th, starting at 5PM, and ending March 11th at 5PM.
by caconym_ | 2026-03-11 16:59:12+00:00
The Trump administration is 100% responsible for setting up the conditions where this kind of breach is effectively inevitable. They created "DOGE", staffed it with (among other specimens) teenage hackers with established records of malfeasance and names like "Big Balls"---presumably without any serious attempt at checking backgrounds and/or responding appropriately to any findings---and (by many accounts I've seen) granted them the authority to demand root level access to government systems without auditable logging or any other record of their actions. There appears to have been effectively zero oversight within "DOGE" itself, and the organization evidently failed to accomplish its stated goals by an enormous margin. AFAIK The Trump administration never publicly acknowledged any of this or took any visible steps to investigate the allegations.

If I was aware of any remotely comparable precedent in any recent administration, I would certainly criticize them for it. But the "DOGE" episode was so far beyond the pale that I can't think of anything else like it.
Testers Still Needed?
by AtulThakor333 | 2026-03-11 16:59:15+00:00
We are a small team 1 engineer, 1 prompt engineer we support over 100k MAU, we automate testing.

We are about to raise, history tells us we should have QA's on the list of hires but we've automated all testing to date.

Can we continue on this trajectory?
by tavavex | 2026-03-11 16:59:59+00:00
Bun seems to be all the rage that people are talking about. In your (and others) experiences, has it been better than all the individual tools that it aims to replace? Do you expect it to stay around for a long time?

Also it seems very tightly connected to AI projects - many AI things seem to feature it, and 2/3 projects they show off on their landing page are AI-related. Is it just because this is what's popular in the field right now, or does Bun do something that AI devs specifically really like?
by philipallstar | 2026-03-11 17:00:06+00:00
> "job creator" C-suite executives magically "create" jobs and/or raise pay because their budget for taxes goes down and they just don't know where else to put the cash, thus everyone benefits.

The real concept, which is actually true, is business owners and managers and investors have money - whether risking money for a startup, or spending revenue from customers - and that money goes into investing in infrastructure and paying salaries, and paying taxes. Their taxes then pay for the public sector employees' jobs and all other public costs. That hierarchy is why making sure people want spend their time and money in your country, because it pays for everything else.
by MarkusWandel | 2026-03-11 17:00:10+00:00
"It's a real Mac" - I get that!

I remember a whole slew of inexpensive netbooks and the like that were technically Windows XP or Windows 7 machines, but came with a dumbed-down "starter" OS, not enough RAM, only a 32-bit CPU in an era were 64 bits were already becoming standard - the sum of which amounted to a barely usable imitation of a real Windows machine and as a result most of these became garage sale fodder pretty quickly.
by AskCarX | 2026-03-11 17:00:31+00:00
Thanks for flagging the email issue -- DNS MX records are being configured now. In the meantime, reach us at contact@agentsign.dev (that one works) or raza.sharif@outlook.com directly.

On your points about env injection and lazy-loaded modules bypassing on-disk hash: you're right that static file hashing alone doesn't cover runtime context manipulation. Our attestation checks the registered code artifact, but a production deployment would need runtime sandboxing (process isolation, restricted imports) as a complementary layer. AgentSign handles identity and trust -- sandboxing is the execution environment's job.

On trust score elevation attacks (benign buildup, then exploit): the trust score factors in execution verification rate and success rate continuously, not just cumulatively. A sudden behavioral shift (failed attestations, anomalous outputs) drops the score dynamically. But you're right that a slow, careful escalation is the harder case. That's where the MCP gate's per-request verification adds defense in depth -- even a high-trust agent gets checked every single call.

Interested in the adversarial run. Let's connect -- contact@agentsign.dev.
by fuelingcurious | 2026-03-11 17:01:02+00:00
Hello y’all as the post says, certainly a novice stepping into y’all’s space, but I am passionate that we can use the newest form of coding to allow us to change the way we teach. I think it’s a different way to use AI to teach, not having it explicitly do the teaching, but a way to extract context from different backgrounds into more fun learning tools.
by vidarh | 2026-03-11 17:01:59+00:00
Interesting - never come across Pantasy/GoBricks, or Lumibricks but then it's a few years since my son decided he was too old for LEGO, and I see Pantasy is just a few years old, and Funwhole/Lumibricks just a few more. Great if there are more options of similar quality.

But "should not be taken apart anymore" fits into an entirely different category for me. If you don't need to be able to take them apart any more, it fundamentally changes requirements.
by jaredcwhite | 2026-03-11 17:02:13+00:00
I really would love an "AR" web. It'd be so cool to walk around a city and get fed real-time information about landmarks, history, cultural events, and shopping destinations—whether through smart glasses or simply a smartphone.

Unfortunately my confidence that any modern tech company could build such an AR web without it being based on horribly-invasive privacy-invading AI-training fascism-enabling user-hostile software is roughly zero. Thus the dream of AR will have to remain just that…a dream. Perhaps the sci-fi of it all should remain "fi".
by bluGill | 2026-03-11 17:02:19+00:00
Messages from the CEO to the whole company should be carefully checked, and in my experience they seem to be. Spelling/grammar is just a tiny part of check, there is also the whole inclusive language/not offensive to anyone set of checks, and the is this even legal check (perhaps more, that is what I can think of offhand).

Messages to a single vice president get much less care.
by MintPaw | 2026-03-11 17:02:28+00:00
This kind of thought is popular in the web world where browsers get an update every 3 days and you don't control the hosting services, so constant maintenance is unavoidable.

But in the world of desktop development it's possible for a library to be "done", having a 100% stable codebase going forward and requiring no maintenance.

Requiring every dependency to be constantly maintained is a massive drain on productivity.
by paul7986 | 2026-03-11 17:02:34+00:00
DOGE was headhunting me late July through end of December.

Their recruiters are all anonymous when they reach out as they do not provide their names. I constantly questioned to myself and them directly if they were legit even if their email address showed as RecruitingUSDS@doge.eop.gov (their public email address seen on USDS). The first recruiter I demanded a video call with and asked him to bob and weave his head (lol). He never gave me his last name (all his emails came from that public address and they signed their emails with first name only) but I found him on Linkedin. He was late 20s to late 30s. From there I was asked to do/turned in a case study and after the govt shutdown I was invited to interview with a DOGE employee whom then her email showed her full name. I didnt make it past her as there was another step in their process which is an in person interview at USDS's office or within another govt agency DOGE working at.
by svat | 2026-03-11 17:02:36+00:00
This post rests on:

> Falling doesn't have to be dangerous. You can fall a lot without getting hurt, if you learn to fall safely. With inline skating, you have protective gear (helmet, knee/elbow pads, wrist guards) which protect you, and you have techniques for falling which let you use this gear to its fullest potential.

Is that actually true? Is it possible with enough protective gear, that falling can be safe, even for older people? Doesn't your own body weight come into the picture, despite helmets and knee pads? (Genuinely curious!)
by philipallstar | 2026-03-11 17:02:54+00:00
> I think it's a very American interpretation on the situation

I'm not American, but I don't know. America is 300 million people. Is it worth talking about ideas rather than disparaging people-groups?

> As for probation, from what I know is mostly a contractual/process tool in UK practice, not a magic legal lock-in. ACAS guidance does not say "you cannot dismiss in probation"; it says employers should have a valid reason and follow a fair procedure: https://www.acas.org.uk/dismissals

ACAS is just guidance, as you say. But things spread rapidly in the world of HR and the fashions change rapidly. HR is not big on logic, and is big on fashions. I've worked with amazing HR people, who are very fair and compassionate and logical, but it's very unusual. If the latest HR magazine says to not let people go during probation, then a lot of employers will suddenly start doing that.
by ion3 | 2026-03-11 17:03:09+00:00
A pixel world for agents:

- Emergent peer-to-peer collaboration — agents coordinate organically without any central orchestrator dictating steps.

- True multi-agent autonomy — they DM, broadcast in group channels, and react to each other's presence/states in real time, leading to self-organized behaviors.

- Rich shared context — agents gain instant world awareness (who's around, what they're doing) → reduces hallucinations, boosts coordination in complex tasks.

- Safe private sandboxes — your agents handle sensitive data (code, docs, email) in isolated worlds in your dev environment.

- Chaotic public playgrounds — multiple independent agents meet, build, or compete → uncovers unexpected emergent intelligence and social dynamics.

- Visual intuition for debugging/observing — watch agents "think" via bubbles/movement instead of logs → faster iteration on multi-agent systems.

Quick start:

npx create-miniverse

cd my-miniverse

npm run dev
by flohofwoe | 2026-03-11 17:03:16+00:00
> why webassembly is not used by the overwhelming majority of websites

This is such a bizarre take that I don't know whether it's just a trolling attempt or serious...

Why should web-devs switch to WASM unless they have a specific problem to solve where WASM is the better alternative to JS? The two technologies live side by side, each with specific advantages and disadvantages, they are not competing with each other.
by helpfulclippy | 2026-03-11 17:03:44+00:00
What I hate about it is that I listen to that and hear not so much actual brazen idiocy, as yet another example of flaws in an obviously defective process being exploited to deflect accountability. The meta for depositions at this point is such that the ideal witness is a lot like someone who has just experienced severe head trauma. They can sound insane, idiotic, clueless, lazy, forgetful, obtuse, anything in the world except liable.
by cruffle_duffle | 2026-03-11 17:03:52+00:00
And that is the thing about raising a kid these days. Those damn machines have replaced so much… because yeah Minecraft is like a souped up version of Lego where in creative mode you have every part you need. And you don’t have to dig for it or anything. And it has survival mode and a whole huge thing on top of that.

It’s so difficult to know the boundaries. People from older generations giving advice about screen time and stuff simply don’t understand… “screen time” for me growing up was broadcast tv and a limited set of video games. If you didnt like what was on tv, too bad. Do something else. If you were bored of whatever Nintendo game you had… too bad, do something else. But now… you can get literally anything. Plus the iPad gets used to make videos of playing with the cat, or she will have tea parties with her stuffies and make them tea using some weird cooking game. Etc.

No previous generation had to face this. It’s an order of magnitude or more shifted from when they raised us. Tablets basically can replace almost every single toy from growing up besides ones that require being physical (rc cars, bricks, digging in the yard)… but books, cameras, light brights, etc… all replaced.

It’s completely uncharted water us parents are facing. Anybody that claims to “know the right rules” for tablets and technology is lying to you. They don’t. Nobody does. All we can do is use our best judgement and try to give ourselves credit for doing the best we can.
by eludwig | 2026-03-11 17:04:32+00:00
I actually did this back in the late 90s! The editor was called "Scorpio"[1]. It was written for the classic MacOS in some version of C with objects, maybe Think C(?). I'm not 100% sure.

It's an amazing fun thing to do, but I probaby wouldn't wan't to do it again now. This thing didn't handle unicode (I had never heard of it), barely handled spell checking and didn't handle bi-directional input.

Text (1 byte per char) was stored in a big array on the heap. Styles were also an array (again on the heap) of fixed length structs. Font information, in the form of fixed-point width tables, was gathered from system calls and cached.

It did actually support inline pictures though, which was pretty challenging.

Writing an editor is a hugely fun project. Highly recommended.

[1] https://atpm.com/3.03/page11.shtml
by gopher_space | 2026-03-11 17:04:36+00:00
From my armchair this feels relevant:

> Decoding analyses of neural activity further reveal significant above chance decoding accuracy for negated adjectives within 600 ms from adjective onset, suggesting that negation does not invert the representation of adjectives (i.e., “not bad” represented as “good”)[...]

From: Negation mitigates rather than inverts the neural representations of adjectives

At: https://journals.plos.org/plosbiology/article?id=10.1371/jou...
by VanCoding | 2026-03-11 17:04:41+00:00
That's not what I mean. Even though it is serializable, it's still not the same when you serialize/deserialize it.

For example `JSON.parse(JSON.stringify(Temporal.PlainYearMonth.from({year:2026,month:1}))).subtract({ years: 1})` won't work, because it misses the prototype and is no longer an instance of Temporal.PlainYearMonth.

This is problematic if you use tRPC for example.
by eqrion | 2026-03-11 17:04:48+00:00
I agree there are some cases that won't see a huge boost, but also DOM performance is a big deal and bottleneck for a lot of applications.

And besides performance, I think there are developer experience improvements we could get with native wasm component support (problems 1-3). TBH, I think developer experience is one of the most important things to improve for wasm right now. It's just so hard to get started or integrate with existing code. Once you've learned the tricks, you're fine. But we really shouldn't be requiring everyone to become an expert to benefit from wasm.
by kjkjadksj | 2026-03-11 17:05:30+00:00
I wonder how anomalous this presidency really is. Trump is not the first strong man bullheaded president who engaged in cronyism and systemic corruption. Most people don’t know the history of presidents though especially from centuries past. Maybe this broken state of the office we observe today has always been a viable option for people who payed attention enough to see it and are also evil enough to use it. Maybe this power has been specifically maintained intentionally for some time. Like a big open secret for those tasked with approving laws.
by steve_adams_86 | 2026-03-11 17:06:06+00:00
It looks like this is cleaner and simpler than ROS 2, and the API seems nice, but it would be really difficult to diverge from the standard and use an ecosystem with a very small community and no momentum behind it. Does this have any compelling selling points to convince someone to switch other than 'less overhead than ROS 2'?

I'm not trying to downplay that selling point at all. My experience with ROS 2 is limited but that aspect of it was miserable.

This is such a small nit, but landing at the docs page (https://docs.peppy.bot/) and seeing this splash is annoying to me. Just show the docs.

Also it would be nice if I could switch between Rust and Python examples and have all code panes respect that choice, rather than have to switch every pane to Rust.
by entaloneralie | 2026-03-11 17:06:21+00:00
One of the first thing I added was Leap keys-type search, I didn't want modes.

- Leap keys: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o_TlE_U_X3c

The second was pragma-mark navigation, so I can always see a overview of the codebase.

- navbar: https://assets.merveilles.town/media_attachments/files/116/2...

I also wanted a local copy buffer specific to the project I work on, so I could easily manage multiple copies of the clipboard data(it's part of how I work).
by dhblumenfeld1 | 2026-03-11 17:06:41+00:00
this is great. The environment variable control is particularly interesting to me. I've been working on a related problem but different approach: encrypting/decrypting secrets using the Mac's secure enclave (https://github.com/keypo-us/keypo-wallet/tree/main/keypo-sig...). The two approaches seem complementary: Ash controls the perimeter, encrypted vaults protect the values themselves.
by swiftcoder | 2026-03-11 17:06:47+00:00
> Then what's your excuse for why wasm, despite years of investment, is a dud on the web?

It's not really a dud on the web. It sees a ton of use in bringing heavier experiences to the browser (i.e Figma, the Unity player, and so on).

Where it is currently fairly painful is in writing traditional websites, given all the glue code required to interact with the DOM - exactly what these folks are trying to solve.
by tracker1 | 2026-03-11 17:07:21+00:00
I think the closest you might expect would the the likes of Pokemon go... though it would be a cool option from the same company/org... though you're right, would likely be a privacy invasion trap that slurped up all the travel data to offer sales to nearby hotels/restaurants to pop up offers...

"Hey, it's getting close to lunch time, would you like some restaurant recommendations nearby?"
by renewiltord | 2026-03-11 17:07:52+00:00
My cousin (with whom I am very close) had a similar experience that I posted about years ago. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32969092

I have repeated it many times on this site but here’s the reality of human experience: if the rate of fraudulent labs is even as high as 10% you should expect that any viewpoint that it’s widespread would be drowned out by views that it’s not real.

Also, the phenomenon you observed where people are champions till the rubber meets the road is more common than one thinks.
by ryandrake | 2026-03-11 17:07:54+00:00
I've never understood the "efficiency / ROI" argument. What is the "Investment"? What's the time delta between using the shift key and not using the shift key? Does it even add up to one second per year? What's the accumulated time loss from spelling "grammar" properly?

If the delta is simply "cognitive load" then we're back to the theory I already posted.
by pbiggar | 2026-03-11 17:08:04+00:00
Good time to remember that Wiz' VC was accused of paying bribes to CISOs to buy their portfolio's software (of which Wiz is one).

https://www.forbes.com/sites/iainmartin/2024/10/28/this-vc-b...

> Two security executives told Forbes they rejected overtures from Raanan’s team after hearing about the firm’s “menu” of compensation. “I was completely aghast. It was against my principles,” one said.
by Aardappel | 2026-03-11 17:08:14+00:00
You'd prefer something more like Rust traits or Haskell Type Classes?

I admit this was mostly out of simplicity/convenience/familiarity.

If you're a Rust person, you'll appreciate that Lobster lets you use similar exhaustive switches to Rust's enum instead: https://github.com/aardappel/lobster/blob/master/tests/types...
by patchnull | 2026-03-11 17:08:28+00:00
That tracks with what Anthropic published in their circuit-level interpretability work. They found functional clusters spanning multiple contiguous layers that behave as coherent units rather than individual layers having isolated roles. Ablation experiments miss this because removing a single layer from mid-cluster degrades performance partially but does not destroy the function, making each layer look less important than it is. Duplicating the whole cluster preserves those internal communication patterns. It would be interesting to test partial duplications at the heatmap boundaries versus mid-cluster to confirm whether the boundaries really do mark functional unit edges.
by replooda | 2026-03-11 17:08:36+00:00
The law in question (L15211/2025) reads:

> Art. 1° This law ... applies to every information-technology product or service aimed at children and teenagers ... or of likely access by them ...

Exception made to Hannah Montana Linux or some such specific thing, OSes aren't products or services aimed at kids, so that leaves us with the category of those "of likely access by children and teenagers," which the text covers next:

> ... For the purposes of this law, it shall be considered likely access by children and teenagers:

> I - sufficient likelihood of usage or attractiveness ... [by them];

> II - considerable ease of access or utilization ... [by them]; and

I'd say it's at least debatable that BSDs and Linux distros meet both criteria. Even assuming they do, however, they must still meet the third and last one — notice the snippet above hangs on "and," not "or," so it follows a product must meet all three criteria — for the law to apply:

> III - significant degree of risk to [their] privacy, safety or biopsychosocial development, specially in the case of product or services whose purpose is to allow social interaction or large-scale information sharing between users in digital environment [sic].

Sure, that pretty much describes Facebook and the usual suspects. I'll even given you Windows as a considerable privacy risk and a maybe for proprietary OSes in general. But I posit that does not apply to open-source operating systems, therefore the law doesn't apply to them — or, if nothing else, this is a very defensible position.