MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by dnlh_lvg | 2026-03-09 22:14:19+00:00
Thanks. The typical org size is usually anywhere from 25+. Usually for any company that is Series A and above essentially.

Is there anyway that a "neutral third party" can help by acting as a bridge between the two orgs? Not an API, but a third party service where two orgs can securely collaborate on without the IT risks/hassle? Or would the same problems persist?
by budman1 | 2026-03-09 22:14:34+00:00
all these cost assessments are numbers on a spreadsheet. let's see what the numbers look like after 20 years on the line, with SrA mechanics and most flight hours by new Lt's and Captains.
if they over-estimate the engine rebuild time, or if it really takes 2 hours instead of 30 minutes to remove and replace an avionics box (as was forecast), the calculation can veer in the other direction quickly.
i predict the F35 will be the most expensive by flying hour of any (line) aircraft that has come before it.
by palata | 2026-03-09 22:14:35+00:00
Literate programming is not about documenting the public API, it's about documenting the implementation details, right? Otherwise no need for a new name, it's just "API documentation".

> if you need to e.g. make a quick plot with Matplotlib. You just... what?

Read the API documentation.

Now if you need to fix a bug in Matplotlib, or contribute a feature to it, then you read the code.
Show HN: An open-source DAW plugin built on JUCE, React, and Lyria RealTime
by DesaiAshu | 2026-03-09 22:14:40+00:00
Hi HN!

I'm a former YC founder/visiting partner and independent musician/producer in SF. About a year ago I started collaborating with the Magenta research team as an artist to explore the role of realtime generative music models in studio production and live performances

Through our early experiments we recognized the need to bridge the gap between server based generative music models and professional audio software, and to design interfaces for generative models that are more steerable and controllable than the current "push button to generate song" paradigm. We built and released a DAW plugin which has used by some of our favorite artists — including a wonderful showcase with Daito Manabe in Tokyo — and was featured as an exciting new music tool at NAMM

Today we're open-sourcing the plugin under Apache 2.0 for the community to fork and build new interfaces with

The plugin is architected using React/TypeScript for the UI layer and JUCE/C++ for DAW connection, audio processing, and websocket audio streaming from the Gemini/Lyria API. This allows rapid iteration on the frontend using hot-reload (Shadcn/Tailwind), while ensuring latency sensitive operations (audio streaming and playback) happen in a compiled and unmanaged language with a tight clock. State is synced between TypeScript and C++ using Zustand’s state management and nlohmann json

The JUCE + React structure was inspired by Spencer Salazar's talk at ADC in 2020 (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XvsCaQd2VFE) and hopefully can help make plugin development easier web developers and vibe-coders

We'd love to get your input and ideas for how to improve on it. In the near term, we hope to update the plugin to support on-device inference of the Magenta RealTime open-weights music model for offline use. In the long term, we hope to support future music models with improved controls, such as audio and MIDI input

Cheers!
by greedo | 2026-03-09 22:14:55+00:00
The comparison in tech is apt, but the countervailing argument is that the discrepancy in economies doomed the Nazis in WW2. German was a little powerhouse considering the size of its population, but it only had half the GDP of the US, not to mention the other Allies. Combine this with a smaller population, and it really didn't matter what the Germans did in terms of equipment. They were destined to lose unless they struck gold with a wunderwaffe like the atomic bomb.

In today's world, the US outspends the next 10 countries combined. In normal times, it values the lives of its servicemen, and is willing to spend quite a bit to ensure dominance. So it will often have boutique gear that other countries could never afford.
by downrightmike | 2026-03-09 22:14:59+00:00
The economics problem, no matter where, isn't solved by importing practitioners, it is growing them at home and, AND incentivizing them to stay working. Everyone is trying to pinch experts from everyone else, and not have to raise them up. All the while burning out everyone left. It will take 10 years to make meaningful solutions, but like we saw in the pandemic, we have a lot of people trained up, but the AMA etc don't want to bring them onboard for pedantic reasons.
by zimpenfish | 2026-03-09 22:15:03+00:00
> I did a wfc implementation a while back and moved to bitfields after a while.. the speedup was incredible.

Yeah, my WFC bot (which happens to generate Carcassonne maps in an amusing coincidence) eventually ended up using https://github.com/bits-and-blooms/bitset which improved things hugely.

> It became faster to just recompute a chunk from scratch

Kinda what mine does - every now and again[0] it stacks the current state and if it gets stuck, just pops the last one and continues from there.

[0] Just checked and it's every `tileCount / 20` iterations, hilariously in a variable named `tenper`. I hate past me.
by derriz | 2026-03-09 22:15:07+00:00
This is a strange claim. During its peak years - in the mid 1990s - Moneypoint (the only coal plant in the country) provided 25% or more of the electricity mix while wind generation consisted of a few tiny pilot plants - contributing a miniscule.

In 2026, coal now provides 0% of the mix while wind provides 30% or more. Peat burning has also been fully phased out while oil (Tarbert) is in the process of being shut down while Moneypoint has been converted to oil but only participates in the capacity market - i.e. as an emergency/backup source - and so barely registers in the mix.

And even if coal was supplanted one-for-one with NG, it would still be a net win - by halving the CO2 intensity of generation as well as being far more flexible, scalable and much cheaper to deploy.
by observationist | 2026-03-09 22:15:16+00:00
Depending on the elemental composition, it could definitely be worthwhile to recycle wherever scale is practical. For giant datacenters and companies using hundreds of thousands or millions of gpus, that adds up to a lot of gold and other valuable elements.

In order to take advantage of that, someone needs to be positioned to process all that material economically, and to make the logistics achievable by the big players. If it costs Facebook $10million to store and transport phased out gpus vs just sending them to a landfil, they're not going to do it. If they get $100k for recycling - probably not going to do it. If they pocket $5 million, they will definitely contract that out, especially if it costs $50 million to build out the infrastructure to handle it.

Probably a good company idea - transport, disposal, refurbishment of out of cycle GPUs and datacenter assets, creating a massive recycling pipeline for recapturing all the valuable elements is a pretty good niche.
by shykes | 2026-03-09 22:15:33+00:00
Dagger (dagger.io) has its own container execution stack, and supports dagger-in-dagger natively, with logical scoping, and without depth limit. Would love to show you both a demo, if you're interested!

(Disclaimer, I'm the CEO of Dagger)

I founded Docker, and lack of proper nesting support was always a pet pieve of mine. I couldn't fix it in Docker, so I fixed it in Dagger instead :)
by lowsong | 2026-03-09 22:15:52+00:00
> Reviews are billed on token usage and generally average $15–25, scaling with PR size and complexity.

You've got to be completely insane to use AI coding tools at this point.

This is the subsidised cost to get users to use it, it could trivially end up ten times this amount. Plus, you've got the ultimate perverse incentive where the company that is selling you the model time to create the PRs is also selling you the review of the same PR.
by jmusall | 2026-03-09 22:16:08+00:00
I guess the author's perspective is one of someone who has little experience with current tools/frameworks, so "ergonomics" become somewhat more important. Most of the complaints are actually about lack of documentation, not instability of interfaces.

I also liked the article especially because it avoided web apps, which I think are a subpar solution to a problem the software industry created itself by not developing more standards like W3C.
by madeofpalk | 2026-03-09 22:16:29+00:00
A human reading a unit of work is not a “copy”. I’m pretty sure our legal systems agree that thought or sight is not copying something.

Training an LLM inherently requires making a copy of the work. Even the initial act of loading it from the internet and copying it into memory to then train the LLM is a copy that can be governed by its license and copyright law
by downrightmike | 2026-03-09 22:17:06+00:00
Or, you can just import a ublock origin filter, which is why this doesn't exist already:

news.ycombinator.com##td:style(color: #f8f8ff !important)
news.ycombinator.com##div.toptext:style(color: #f8f8ff)
news.ycombinator.com##span.c00:style(color: #f8f8ff !important)
news.ycombinator.com##span.pagetop:style(color: #f8f8ff !important)
news.ycombinator.com##textarea:style(color: #f8f8ff !important; background: #1a1a1a;)
news.ycombinator.com##p:style(color: #f8f8ff !important)
news.ycombinator.com##div.commtext:style(color: #f8f8ff !important)

And the xmas stuff still works
by 0x3f | 2026-03-09 22:17:32+00:00
It's not exactly the same though

You yield to traffic from the left, which mean someone from a leftward entrance has priority, but they can actually be blocked by other traffic. So you have to not only consider yielding to them, but also whether they are yielding to someone else, thus giving you space to go. I see this computation mess people up all the time.

Also, judging intentions is much harder. On a multi-lane highway, it's very clear when someone is cutting across lanes to exit. And there's only one place they can be exiting. On a multi-lane roundabout, they might be taking the exit before your entrance, or the one after. Often people won't be signalling, or even giving incorrect signals.

When joining as well, if I'm emerging onto a busy road with two lanes in the direction I'm going, I will probably accept joining when the nearest lane is clear, even if the next lane is not, as long as the cars there don't look to be moving into the nearest lane. On a roundabout people can peel off at any time, and you should really wait until there's a gap in all lanes.
by crazygringo | 2026-03-09 22:17:48+00:00
> We do not have to grant machines the same.

No we don't have to, but so far we do, because that's the most legally consistent. If you want to change that, you're going to need to pass new laws that may wind up radically redefining intellectual property.

> Has the model really performed an extreme transformation if it is able to produce the training data near-verbatim?

Of course it has, if the transformation is extreme, as it appears to be here. If I memorize the lyrics to a bunch of love songs, and then write my own love song where every line is new, nobody's going to successfully sue me just because I can sing a bunch of other songs from memory.

Also, it's not even remotely clear that the LLM can produce the training data near-verbatim. Generally it can't, unless it's something that it's been trained on with high levels of repetition.
by martin-t | 2026-03-09 22:17:52+00:00
They might not care. Products win not by quality or features but by advertisement, hype and network effects.

The original implementation would still have the upper hand here. OTOH if I as a nobody create something cool, there's nothing stopping a huge corporation from "reimplementing" (=stealing) it and and using their huge advertising budget to completely overshadow me.

And that's how they like it.
by leni536 | 2026-03-09 22:18:06+00:00
The insanity is that both NTP and unix timestamps need to be wound back during a leap second, as well as computer hardware clocks. If we just had monotonic clocks everwhere and adjusted for leap seconds in presentation then we wouldn't have many of the associated problems.

It's not like we wound back by 24 hours on leap days, that would be insanity. So in addition of leapseconds being a rare problem, it's also handled in a uniquely bad way.
by jmb99 | 2026-03-09 22:18:12+00:00
I stopped getting scared of `if` and `of` about a decade ago when I started explicitly saying (in my head) "input file" and "output file" rather than "if" and "of." You still can mess up the order, but imo no more easily than you can swap `cat in > out` for `cat out > in`.

> Friends don't let friends use `dd` where `cat` can do the same job.

Technically yes... but I like being able to explicitly set block sizes and force sync writes.
by zmmmmm | 2026-03-09 22:18:20+00:00
Even if all I have to do is tell my agent, "here is a patent for a drug, analyse the patent and determine an equivalent but non-infringing drug" and it chugs away for a couple of hours and spits out a drug along with all the specifications to manufacture it?

I guess the state of play will be that for new drugs the original manufacturer will already have done that and ensured that literally anything that could be found as a workaround is included in the scope of the patent. But I feel like it will not be possible to keep that wartertight.
by Rusky | 2026-03-09 22:19:04+00:00
The thing is that anyone can show up and spend time discussing ideas in Rust project spaces. From the outside it is easy to confuse that with actual movement toward landing changes in the language.

(The communication aspect of this is something that has bothered me many times in the past- even people who are lang team members often phrase things in a way that makes it sound like something is on its way in, when it's still just in the stage of "we're kinda noodling with ideas.")
by seanmcdirmid | 2026-03-09 22:19:04+00:00
If we are talking about Apple silicon, where we can configure the memory separately from the bandwidth (and the memory costs the same for each processor), we can say something like "its all about bandwidth". If we switch to GPUs where that is no longer true, NVIDIA won't let you buy an 5090 with more 32GB of VRAM, then...we aren't comparing apples to apples anymore.
by rayiner | 2026-03-09 22:19:31+00:00
I would be much more sympathetic to your point if Ayatollahs hadn’t been chanting “Death to America” for 45 years: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Death_to_America

I think it’s stupid for the U.S. to take out foreign leaders based on ideological disagreements. But what Khamenei was going seems like Trump-like populist demagoguery that invited a commensurate response.
by throwup238 | 2026-03-09 22:19:32+00:00
Last I checked AWS is still offering g4dn instances that run on NVIDIA T4 GPUs, which were first released in 2018. I think most people underestimate how long superscalers can keep these things running profitably after they depreciate, and you probably don’t want anything they throw away.

My last employer is still running a bunch of otherwise discontinued g3 instances with 2015 era GPUs.
by palata | 2026-03-09 22:19:35+00:00
The risk with that is that because it was not obvious to you does not necessarily mean it's not obvious to others.

Over the years, I have seen many, many juniors wrapping simple CLI invocations in a script because they just learned about them and thought they weren't obvious.

- clone_git_repo.sh

- run_docker_container.sh

I do agree that something actually tricky should be commented. But that's exceedingly rare.
by greedo | 2026-03-09 22:19:54+00:00
4th generation aircraft are not sustainable in modern combat without a wide array of assistance from EW etc. The losses of aircraft in Ukraine on both sides are horrifying. The only reasons the Ukrainians persist is because they have no choice. The Russians can sit outside of the Ukrainian engagement range and lob semi-smart bombs, or air to air missiles at any Ukrainian aircraft that show up on their radar.

The real reason stealth is needed is as a counter to GBAD. Modern anti-aircraft missiles are incredible lethal.
by fmajid | 2026-03-09 22:20:02+00:00
Meta is the smallest but also the most profitable of the FAANGs in terms of percentage profit margin at 30%, vs 25% for Apple and Google and much less for Amazon and Netflix. Their position in social networks is a license to print money and unless humanity goes fully autistic all of a sudden, this is unlikely to change, technological shifts notwhitstanding.

The one thing that can kill them is the fact each successive generation avoids their fuddy-duddy parents' social network, so Boomers and Gen X are on Facebook, Millennials on Instagram and Gen Z on TikTok. If TikTok had been killed as was originally the plan, they would have benefited massively, but Trump does not trust Zuck and made sure it went to his son Barron and the Ellisons.
by hristov | 2026-03-09 22:20:05+00:00
What the article did not mention is that oracle founder, executive chairman and biggest stockholder larry ellison is currently bankrolling his kid David's bid to monopolize the entire US news industry so that they are more friendly to Trump, Netanyahu and various other right wing ideologists.

David Ellison is fueling his buying spree with debt guaranteed by his dad's oracle shares. The various assets David has bought are already suffering losses of viewership because viewers are turned off by their new ideological slant.

Usually debt investors are not worried if the stock price is high. Debt has precedence over equity, so if the stock price is riding high, the CEO can always be convinced to print more shares to service the debt. The Oracle stock price has not been doing that hot lately, however. As the article said, it is 50% down. Still ORCL has 430 Billion market cap in comparison with 130 Billion of debt. It seems manageable. But stock prices can move very fast. Ironically, the war in Iran, which David's new news sources keep supporting is causing ORCL stock to go down which can bring down David's new media empire.

David just purchased Warner Bros for about 110. A lot of that (40 billion) is also guaranteed by daddy's ORCL shares. Warner Bros owns Comedy Central, which sadly has been one of Americas most dependable news sources.

The house of cards is still standing but its getting awfully wobbly.
by mattmanser | 2026-03-09 22:20:25+00:00
I was talking about part of this problem this morning, I keep having it with our large OpenAPI spec and the JSON parsing. But it occured to me that recently sometimes Claude will work around the context blowing problem by using a sub-agent to do the parsing. Have you seen that?

It's still a big time saver to have something like this, and stops it even taking the risk of doing it in the first place.
by notepad0x90 | 2026-03-09 22:20:26+00:00
> Who are “people like me”? You know nothing about me or my opinions.

I'm sorry, but you stated your opinion and views before and you just did again, people who believe this are people like you:

> nor on why copyright exists in the first place and how your idea of “anything that has been published I am totally free to use” may be a political goal, but it’s not how the world works

> Your style of arguing makes it very difficult to engage with.

Is it because I said "people like you"? If you took that as a personal attack, I apologize, by that I meant people that have the same mindset and views as you do.

We're debating different views and legalities here after all.

> that you actually reflected on the freedoms they’re arguing for

I think you're just accusing me of things you're not doing. I can only post so many walls of text to explain my views and deep reflections. You're very quick to dismiss my view as being shallow simply because in your view the majority opinion is well thought out and anything opposing it must be dismissed. I argued for my personal and individual rights to property, natural rights so to speak which are more important to me than the pseudo-freedom of software people like you (i hope that term is ok now that I clarified what I mean) eschew.

> but it’s not how the world works

The world works how we make it work. The world works the way it does because people like you dismiss any attempt to change it, just like now. I have no illusion that anytime in my lifetime copyright laws will vanish. But that doesn't mean I'll give up pointing out the silliness of it all and the grand robbery of our most fundamental rights.

> Oh and I am not sure if you’re aware that you can ASK people what they mean before throwing around insinuations and judgments based on some inner fantasy of the person you’re talking to.

I think you're in severe need of a mirror, you're upset because I said "people like me", you're repeating your views, and I'm attacking them repeatedly, but you keep trying to make this debate about my shallow thinking or insinuations, instead of sticking to the merits of the view points being debated.

My view is neither unique nor original for the record.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Declaration_of_the_Rights_of_M...

> Article II – The goal of any political association is the conservation of the natural and imprescriptible rights of man. These rights are liberty, property, safety and resistance against oppression.

> Article XVII – Property being an inviolable and sacred right, no one can be deprived of private usage, if it is not when the public necessity, legally noted, evidently requires it, and under the condition of a just and prior indemnity.

I won't ask you to "reflect", but don't ask me to surrender my rights so that you can force someone to do things with their source code. Successful public domain projects exist. And please read my sibling comment here about how the current copyleft thinking has gotten bigtech entrenched in open source, robbing us of our choices and liberties in the process.
by taylorberghane | 2026-03-09 22:20:27+00:00
Sully.ai | Head of Engineering | Mountain View (HQ) + Remote | Full-time

We build the AI operating system for healthcare. Our flagship product is an AI medical scribe that generates clinical documentation in real-time during patient encounters — used by thousands of physicians across 6 countries processing millions of encounters.

What makes this interesting technically:

• Multi-agent LLM orchestration for clinical note generation (think: specialized agents for HPI, assessment, plan, each with domain-specific reasoning)
• Real-time speech-to-text → NLU → structured clinical output pipeline (sub-second latency requirements)
• LiveKit-based voice infrastructure for our AI receptionist that handles patient calls end-to-end
• FHIR/HL7 integrations with 30+ EHR systems (Epic, Cerner, athenahealth, etc.)
• On-premise deployments in regulated environments (UAE, enterprise health systems)
• We ship fast — multiple deploys per day, small teams with extreme ownership

Stack: TypeScript/Node.js, Python, React/Next.js, LiveKit, PostgreSQL, BigQuery, GCP/Azure, Terraform. LLM layer uses multiple providers with custom orchestration.

We're specifically hiring:

Head of Engineering - We need a player-coach who's built and shipped product as a founder or early engineer, then scaled teams. Not a "process person" — someone who codes, reviews PRs, and sets the technical bar while growing the org. ~8+ years experience, startup-only background preferred.

Comp: Competitive base + equity. We're $20M Series A last year, growing fast.
by senko | 2026-03-09 22:20:29+00:00
So not only does he have to show what he built with AI, what he built with AI has to be interesting and unique to you? Why? He's not selling it to you.

Seems like the bar is now it has to be a mass market product. On another post someone else commented a SaaS doesn't count if it doesn't earn sustainable revenue.

I guess OpenClaw also doesn't count because we don't know how much Peter got from OpenAI.

This is an ideological flame war, not a rational discussion. There's no convincing anyone.