MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by WorldMaker | 2026-03-05 17:04:57+00:00
Reminder that corporations spent a ton of money on propaganda to make us all believe individual sacrifices can have a noticeable impact when the largest offenders are all corporate. Even if everyone reduced their personal carbon footprint by avoiding meat/dairy and the industrial cattle farms mysteriously disappeared overnight, that's still a drop in the overall greenhouse gas emission problem. Also note that "everyone" is doing a lot of work in that sentence and also means collective effort is required to make the change noticeable/effective rather than individual efforts.

Collective action is what matters. Corporate regulation is what matters. An enhanced EPA with real enforcement powers (not just fines, but the ability to shut down companies and/or outright murder them; which is also a larger debate because right now Americans generally don't believe in corporate murder and think corporations have a right to indefinitely exist) is what is necessary.

It is because of our selfishness, but also our selfishness extends to not working together in enough solidarity and instead fingerpointing at individuals to "do their part, alone, and without support systems and systemic change". That's pretty selfish, too. We need systemic change. We need support systems. We need a government that prioritizes the environment and our collective health and well-being. We need companies to understand that ethics matter as much as profits and if they cannot find profits that are ethical, including and especially in relationship to their externalities like greenhouse gas emissions, then they do not deserve to make those profits and may not deserve to continue operation as a company.
by maybewhenthesun | 2026-03-05 17:05:14+00:00
Regardless of the legal interpretations, I think it's very worrying if an automated AI rewrite of GPLed code (or any code for that matter) could somehow be used to circumvent the original license. That kinda takes out the one stick the open source community has to force soulless multinationals to contribute back to the open source projects they use.
by filoeleven | 2026-03-05 17:05:24+00:00
It's not the department of war. Don't call it that to appease the toddler in chief.

> However, only an act of Congress can legally and formally change the department's name and secretary's title, so "Department of Defense" and "secretary of defense" remain legally official.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_Department_of_De...
by vyr | 2026-03-05 17:05:47+00:00
because it's not faster than the Ryzen 395's GPU. power efficiency doesn't matter as much as TTFT for desktop users, especially when they're tasking their AMD box as a dedicated inference machine.

some older pre-395 AMD articles suggested it'd be possible to use the NPU for prefill and the GPU for decoding and this would be faster than using either alone, but we have yet to see that (even on Windows) for any usefully sized models, just toys like LLaMA-8B.
by PaulDavisThe1st | 2026-03-05 17:06:04+00:00
Remember: this applies to all LLM-generated code, not just chardet. No LLM-generated code is copyrightable, and thus cannot be licensed. The legal challenge could come in any context where LLMs have been used and the code placed under any license (proprietary or otherwise).

Which is going cause a collision between the "not copyrightable" and "derived from copyrighted work" angles.
by WarmWash | 2026-03-05 17:06:07+00:00
>- 'Automation will lead to immediate devaluation of human labor that is routine. Society needs to decouple a person's "worth" from their "utility as a tool".'

I have this vision that in absence of the ability for people to form social hierarchies on the back of their economic value to society, there will be this AI fueled class hierarchy of people's general social ability. So rather than money determining your neighborhood, your ability to not be violent or crazy does.
by mmcclure | 2026-03-05 17:06:23+00:00
I went down this path a bit the other night, curious what OP's answer is. My mental model was that they could be complimentary? Jido for agent lifecycle, supervision, state management, etc, LangChain for the LLM interactions, prompt chains, RAG, etc. Looks like you could do everything in Jido 2.0, but if you like/are familiar with LangChain it seems like they could work well together.
by hybrid_study | 2026-03-05 17:06:51+00:00
This is kinda expected — OSes aren’t going to suddenly be rewritten for AI. What we’re really seeing is a hybrid model: hardware and kernel stay the same (primitives, isolation, scheduling), and on top of that you get an AI runtime / agent platform that handles task scheduling, shared state, and inter-agent coordination. Agents, tools, and workflows sit above that, orchestrating tasks. Deterministic programs remain because they’re cheaper, faster, and easier to verify; the AI layer just adds a structured way to coordinate and automate things without replacing the underlying OS. Basically, the kernel stays the substrate; the “agentic paradigm” lives above it.
by DrammBA | 2026-03-05 17:07:16+00:00
Also the maintainer's ground-up rewrite argument is very flimsy when they used chardet's test-data and freely admit to:

> I've been the primary maintainer and contributor to this project for >12 years

> I have had extensive exposure to the original codebase: I've been maintaining it for over a decade. A traditional clean-room approach involves a strict separation between people with knowledge of the original and people writing the new implementation, and that separation did not exist here.

> I reviewed, tested, and iterated on every piece of the result using Claude.

> I was deeply involved in designing, reviewing, and iterating on every aspect of it.
by cucumber3732842 | 2026-03-05 17:07:17+00:00
The system optimized for these people.

So you get some guy approving some megacorps project because "well it says here that they've tested the stuff and the liquid mercury is below the <cites EPA mumbo jumbo" and giving farmer Johnson the runaround on some land clearing because farmer Johnson's project isn't worth spending $30k on civil engineering to have someone use "the right words" to say "I'm not gonna muddy up the river" and while the guy in the office knows what farmer Johnson means, he can't approve the project without sticking his neck out and so he doesn't.

It must be nice to live in a desert state where every 3rd parcel isn't "within regulatory range" of "wetlands" (most people don't know how expansive that word is).
by nhubbard | 2026-03-05 17:07:18+00:00
Wow. This worm is fascinating. It seems to do the following:

- Inject itself into the MediaWiki:Common.js page to persist globally, and into the User:Common.js page to do the same as a fallback

- Uses jQuery to hide UI elements that would reveal the infection

- Vandalizes 20 random articles with a 5000px wide image and another XSS script from basemetrika.ru

- If an admin is infected, it will use the Special:Nuke page to delete 3 random articles from the global namespace, AND use the Special:Random with action=delete to delete another 20 random articles

EDIT! The Special:Nuke is really weird. It gets a default list of articles to nuke from the search field, which could be any group of articles, and rubber-stamps nuking them. It does this three times in a row.
by mavamaarten | 2026-03-05 17:07:28+00:00
Haha yeah I've had this happen to me too (inside copilot on GitHub). I ask it to make a field nullable, and give it some pointers on how to implement that change.

It just decided halfway that, nah, removing the field altogether means you don't have to fix the fallout from making that thing nullable.

Lmao.
by Arainach | 2026-03-05 17:07:34+00:00
Price doesn't matter. Using communal resources for private gain - without the consent of the creators even - is wrong, full stop. It's the same reason that publishers making billions selling access to scientific research that tax dollars funded is wrong.

As to prices: look at power bills, RAM prices, appliance prices, and prices of anything with microchips. Consumers are paying a lot more than $20/month for this slop.
by simon_luv_pho | 2026-03-05 17:07:37+00:00
This is highly experimental right now, but here are some quick links for anyone wanting to dig deeper:

- GitHub: https://github.com/alibaba/page-agent

- Live Demo (No sign-up): https://alibaba.github.io/page-agent/ (you can drag the bookmarklet from here to try it on other sites)

- Browser Extension: https://chromewebstore.google.com/detail/page-agent-ext/akld...

I'd be really interested in feedback on the security model of client-side agents giving extension-bridge access, and taking questions on the implementation!
by rybosworld | 2026-03-05 17:07:44+00:00
> the data centers just move to another country or eventually to space

The same line of reasoning that purports billionaires will flee if their taxes go up.

Spoiler alert: they don't.

Also, data centers in space is not a serious idea. It's been beaten to death that this isn't economical. People like Musk are proposing that as a possibility for the sole reason of keeping regulation away. "Well if you regulate us we will just move into space". They won't because they can't because physics.
by bracketfocus | 2026-03-05 17:07:50+00:00
https://mrshu.github.io/github-statuses/

Sitting at 91% platform
uptime over the last 90 days, which is likely inflated due to the perfect uptime over December holidays. My guess is that is attributed to an internal code-freeze and generally reduced traffic.

None of their services have 99.9% availability.
by mikeyouse | 2026-03-05 17:08:25+00:00
Reverse IPO is a way for scammy companies to go public by being acquired by an already public penny stock - precursor to the later SPAC shell games to do the same. Basically all of these companies do it (NuScale, Oklo, Terrestrial Energy, etc) so I’m just waiting for TerraPower to do the same.

I hope you’re right and they stay focused on actual engineering instead of financial engineering but many of Gates’ other investments haven’t been so fortunate and went down the latter path. The billions of dollars in taxpayer funds and constantly shifting tech and demo projects gives me a lot of pause though. (MSR! TWR! Fast Reactor! Fujian! Hebei! Idaho! Hanford! Wyoming! UK!)
by PaulHoule | 2026-03-05 17:08:37+00:00
They have to stop changing the clock and then people can decide for themselves when they want to go to bed.

I was so hopeful when there was a bipartisan consensus in the US that we should stop changing the clock, like, for once Congress might be able to change something. We ran into the predictable problem though that we could never get people to agree on which phase to make permanent.
by roadsidejesus | 2026-03-05 17:08:49+00:00
I made this thing, appreciate the attention and kind words, to answer some questions/concerns:

- Paper is BPA free, got it from here https://www.amazon.de/dp/B0932QVYBQ

- Photos do have a lifetime, although no idea how long, the ones I have for a while seem to do better than the average store receipt

- It's not really _poor man's_ polaroid, but as someone else mentioned, price difference is not that big, while a single photo is a LOT cheaper

And there's a permalink for english language, in case OP or someone else can update it - https://boxart.lt/en/blog/poor_mans_polaroid
by boringg | 2026-03-05 17:08:52+00:00
While that is true that there is a lag time to deploy nuclear - that is a vestige of the last 40 years of regulating it out of existence. That has changed - technology has improved and regulatory is under scrutiny. The difference is that once nuclear starts to roll out, as it will in the next 3-5 years, we will be seeing large deployments of clean dedicated load ripple through our electrical system in a product assembly line.

Solar and storage are great assets - and will continue to grow but they have other sets of constraints and deploy at small scale (relatively). The large scale deployments have long time horizons.
by calny | 2026-03-05 17:08:56+00:00
You're right, I've followed the litigation closely. I've advocated for years that "training is fair use" and I'm generally an anti-IP hawk who DEFENDS copyright/trademark cases. Only recently have I started to concede the issue might have more nuance than "all training is fair use, hard stop." And I still think Judge Alsup got it right.

That said, even if model training is fair use, model output can still be infringing. There would be a strong case, for example, if the end user guides the LLM to create works in a way that copies another work or mimics an author or artist's style. This case clearly isn't that. On the similarity at issue here, I haven't personally compared. I hope you're right.
by danlitt | 2026-03-05 17:09:02+00:00
Thank you for providing a reference! I certainly admit that "very similar photographs are not copies" as the reference states. And certainly physical copying qualifies as copying in the sense of copyright. However I still think copying can happen even if you never have access to a copy.

I suppose a different way of stating my position is that some activities that don't look like copying are in fact copying. For instance it would not be required to find a literal copy of the GCC codebase inside of the LLM somehow, in order for the produced work to be a copy. Likewise if I specify that "Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone is the text file with hash 165hdm655g7wps576n3mra3880v2yzc5hh5cif1x9mckm2xaf5g4" and then someone else uses a computer to brute force find a hash collision, I suspect this would still be considered a copy.

I think there is a substantial risk that the automatic translation done in this case is, at least in part, copying in the above sense.
by upboundspiral | 2026-03-05 17:09:10+00:00
I am bullish on AI being used in all sorts of useful and discreet and non-discreet ways in the present and future. However I am exceedingly skeptical of NPUs being some winning bet.

No one is running LLMs on current gen NPUs so if we will in the future its a long time coming. Unless they can demonstrate some real (and not marketing) wins I remain skeptical that a large NPU for LLMs is the future.

I can totally see NPU accelerating simple tasks, but to be worth the silicon they have a ways to go imo.

99% of people don't need or want a dev workstation. My travel laptop is 7+ years old and I couldn't tell you the difference between it and a current flagship in terms of browsing and everyday tasks.

I will not lie, I find LLMs useful but the desktop experience is pretty polished already. NPUs seem to be an attempt to ride the AI bandwagon with very little to show for it so far.
by yomismoaqui | 2026-03-05 17:09:12+00:00
Reading the article reminded me of a thing that I've seen Codex do lately. Instead of writing new files using a write tool (or apply_patch) it just does this:

cat > lib/example.txt <<'EOF'
Line 1
Line 2
EOF

I don't know if Unix isn't for agents but surely they know how to use it.
by pan69 | 2026-03-05 17:09:15+00:00
> By law, each household in the UK - with some exceptions - has to pay if they:

> watch or record programmes as they're being shown live on any TV channel

> The rules apply to any device on which a programme is viewed, including a TV, desktop or laptop computer, mobile phone, tablet, games console or set-top box.

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cz9k27yy839o
by dgxyz | 2026-03-05 17:09:27+00:00
There was a major uptick after that. The BBC were quoted over and over by social media influencers which lead to further blanket demonisation of Israelis and Jews. It simply legitimised violence. Hence my point about there needing to be editorial considerations made as there are consequences.

You know the stupid shit thing though? My friendship group has an Iranian, a Palestinian, a Saudi, two Jews and a bunch of English people in it, a German and I'm literally descended from a nazi and everyone is quite happy and gets on fine.

Divisive narratives hurt everyone.
by OutOfHere | 2026-03-05 17:09:59+00:00
"Montezuma Absolute Black 100% Cocoa With Orange And Coco Nibs" is what I ultimately went with. It is available on Amazon.

I have paused it for the time being due to reflux, but not everyone has reflux. Note that its strength can build up over days, so do not exceed the amount taken by more than 1 square a week. Overall, do not exceed 1 square per day per 50 lbs of body weight. Overuse can risk a high heart rate and insomnia.
by pixl97 | 2026-03-05 17:10:05+00:00
>If the janitors swept the floors 10x faster, we wouldn't any KPIs to shoot up from that

I mean I'd expect that you'd see a decrease in the number of janitor staff as was convenient per the companies policies. That and janitorial services would turn into contracted services rather than in house positions. Oddly enough both these things have already occurred as tooling to janitors became better and the legal incentives made it cheaper.
by epicprogrammer | 2026-03-05 17:10:10+00:00
This is basically a weaponized, highly destructive version of the old MySpace Samy worm. Hitting MediaWiki:Common.js is the absolute nightmare scenario for MediaWiki deployments because that script gets executed by literally every single visitor and editor across the entire site, creating a massive, instant propagation loop. The fact that it specifically targets admins and then uses jQuery to blind them by hiding the UI elements while it silently triggers Special:Nuke in the background is incredibly insidious. It really exposes the foundational danger of legacy web architectures that still allow executable JavaScript to be stored and served directly from user-editable namespaces. Cleaning this up is going to be an absolute forensic nightmare for the Wikimedia team since the database history itself is the active distribution vector.
by i_think_so | 2026-03-05 17:10:21+00:00
Everybody says that their job is critical, their code is high quality, their children are the smartest and their toys are the best. Reality begs to differ.

Let's just look at the data. If a bit under 1% of all not-previously-known applicants get hired, the system is provably broken and not worth the time of a not-previously-known applicant.

I'm sure there are a metric gigaton of examples already documented on this site explaining why this is bad for Tech, the Economy, our Society.

Want to know why there are so few young(er) people getting into the industry who are competent and instead you're inundated with frauds who can't write FizzBuzz? Here's your answer.
by xp84 | 2026-03-05 17:10:29+00:00
Hmm. It certainly doesn't have to be this way (in my humble opinion Windows, for all its recent stumbles, seems to have not let touch optimization cause harm to its UI)... However one look at Tahoe tells you everything you need to know about how good 'modern-day Apple' is at making considered UI decisions. So, you're right.
by bethekidyouwant | 2026-03-05 17:10:32+00:00
Their example is really dumb. Eventually, you get a fake Microsoft login page, but they clip out the address bar which clearly isn’t a Microsoft address so your auto complete password isn’t going to be put into the form and you’d have to be pretty dumb to type it in my hand or even to know your Microsoft password, it should be some random thing generated by Safari or whatever your password manager is. Not to mention two factor authentication.
by vel0city | 2026-03-05 17:10:36+00:00
Not just a Whitehouse insider, the guy actively doing the policy he was probably being advised was illegal and would be overturned.

And also probably one of the guys most pushing for this policy which was probably advised would likely be overturned.

Tariff policy is ultimately implemented by the Secretary of Commerce. This isn't some random other staffer in the Whitehouse that heard these policies wouldn't go, it was the guy actively doing it likely stands to make significant financial gains for his actions being found to be illegal.

The level of corruption on that is just absolutely mindblowing.
by boringg | 2026-03-05 17:10:49+00:00
Fusion isn't in our lifetimes. Its been 10 years away since the 50s - only to get more R&D grant funding for budget building.

If it happened it would be a huge game changer for our economies but it is far away from deployment let along lab proven. It still requires more energy to start/maintain the reaction then it can produce - which is fundamental to success.
by leviathant | 2026-03-05 17:10:49+00:00
>Flash was great. Is there anything Flash could produce that wouldn't render these days with SVG + CSS + JS?

This has more or less been the line from the day Steve Jobs decided Flash would never be available on the iPhone. And it was readily apparent that no one who said that worked in the audio domain. Things are much, much better now, but I remember challenging myself by trying to build a drum machine in HTML, Javascript, and CSS (not wanting to muck about in Canvas at the time) and while I could make it look decent enough, there was no such thing as a solid, reliable clock in Javascript, for about a decade. Just the way you played audio files back varied from browser to browser on the same machine. It was absolute garbage.

In-browser capabilities have basically caught up or exceeded what Flash did - I don't keep up anymore - but to echo other replies, the authoring tools just aren't as accessible. Maybe vibe coding tools close that gap. But the forced sunsetting of Flash set online interactive multimedia back at least a decade. It was never my main career path, but I more or less abandoned that fun side quest, and as evidenced by my feeling the need to comment here, it still kind of bums me out.