MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by esseph | 2026-03-08 20:47:52+00:00
> what's the issue with labeling AI content with what it is

1. Your guess is not always correct

2. Over time, AI content will get harder to guess until it is indistinguishable from human content

3. You're not helping anyone by posting "this is AI". Maybe it is, maybe it isn't, but it's not helpful. It just adds to the noise.
by dmix | 2026-03-08 20:48:38+00:00
That are exceptions but there is a noticeable trendline. The freedom of business index ranks Scandinavian countries pretty high. Norway, Sweden, and Finland tend to rank highest among Singapore and South Korea. Ireland tops it because it's a giant tax shelter but there's not much notable innovation there. Meanwhile UK, France, Italy, Spain are ranking poorly. The US has been declining there slowly, which is much more obvious when you factor in local/state/housing etc, federally it's long been more permissive but fiscally irresponsible.

My personal indicator is how many young (<50) entrepreneurs are building real stuff vs announcements of ex-bigco executives partnering with the government to jump on a new bandwagon.
by drzaiusx11 | 2026-03-08 20:48:45+00:00
Yeah I do feel the OA is being overly flippant with their use of human cells here, likely for PR sake, which would be an ethical breach for me personally. Overall though, I find most research cases for human cell lines to be in line with my personal ethics. Neuron lines can certainly be used for good or ill, and this case leans towards the latter, although understanding the human brain may justify this line of work in the long term. If only we didn't live in a militaristic late stage capitalist society...
by ppcvote | 2026-03-08 20:48:48+00:00
Good questions, happy to answer all of them:

Revenue: Comes from client projects — I run a small tech agency (SaaS builds, AI integrations, brand websites). The agents handle lead gen and content so I can focus on delivery. MindThread (Threads automation SaaS) is also generating subscription revenue.

Multiple accounts: MindThread is a legitimate SaaS product using Meta's official Threads API. Clients manage their own accounts through it. The agents post to my company's own accounts, not fake ones.

Bot policies: We use official APIs only (Meta Threads API, Discord API). No scraping, no unofficial endpoints. Content is AI-assisted but goes through quality gates (generate → self-review → rewrite if score < 7/10).

Actual product/service: ultralab.tw — 7 product lines including MindThread (Threads automation), UltraProbe (AI security scanner), SaaS development, and AI integration services.
by gregopet | 2026-03-08 20:48:56+00:00
"Handler" can describe anything, I avoid that name like the plague in my designs, there's almost always something more appropriate that communicates more meaning

Dependency injection is great as long as its internal working can be easily understood. I've worked with projects where dependency injection comes in various contexts (application scoped, request scoped ..) and there are always problems with that, sooner or later.
by laurencerowe | 2026-03-08 20:49:03+00:00
Surely the alternative would have been that land being owned the Anglo-Danish elite installed by Cnut a few decades earlier, or perhaps a newly installed Norwegian elite had Harold lost at Stamford Bridge.

Britain's ownership inequality is probably more a result of the tradition of primogeniture where aristocratic land holdings remained concentrated whereas in France they were subdivided on inheritance.

I blame Britain's tiny homes on our early industrialisation creating terraced houses which have subsequently been difficult to redevelop at higher density. Other countries seem to have skipped that and instead built tenements that eventually turned into flats at a much higher floor area per land area.
by tomhow | 2026-03-08 20:49:04+00:00
Please don't post snarky, shallow dismissals. That's been against the guidelines for a long time.

Genuine innovation is what we most want to encourage. That's what Show HN has always been about.

The problem now is that coding assistants have dramatically lowered the bar for getting a product or tool working, without the need for much innovation. We need new ways of identifying projects that are genuinely innovative so that their creators can be fairly rewarded, rather than being drowned out.
by ppcvote | 2026-03-08 20:49:35+00:00
100% agree. Content generation is where agents shine — it's repetitive and time-consuming. But genuine engagement is where trust gets built, and that needs to be real.

My engagement scripts do auto-reply to comments on my own posts, but they're rate-limited and context-aware (max 2 rounds). For anything meaningful — client conversations, community discussions like this one — it's always me.
by ppcvote | 2026-03-08 20:49:49+00:00
I get why it reads that way, but this post was written by me. I actually spent more time on this Show HN than on most client deliverables this week. The irony isn't lost on me though — when you work with LLMs all day, your own writing starts picking up the patterns.

FWIW, I'm a solo dev in Taiwan trying to make AI tools more accessible here. Mobile penetration is nearly universal but AI adoption is still very early. I'm learning as I build.
by ppcvote | 2026-03-08 20:50:10+00:00
I understand the skepticism. To clarify what's actually shipped:

MindThread: Threads automation SaaS with paying subscribers (only one in Taiwan using Meta's official API)
UltraProbe: AI security scanner covering OWASP LLM Top 10 — free tool, used for lead gen
Client projects: SaaS platforms, AI integrations, brand sites — real businesses using these daily
The agents aren't the product — they're the operational layer that lets one person run all of this. Whether that's valuable is a fair debate, but the outputs are real products with real users.
by ppcvote | 2026-03-08 20:50:39+00:00
My setup is WSL2 on a regular Windows machine — no GPU, so local inference would be painfully slow
Gemini 2.5 Flash free tier is genuinely good enough — 1,500 req/day, I use ~105. Quality is solid for content generation and analysis tasks
$0/month is hard to beat — I did accidentally rack up $127 when I used a billing-enabled API key (wrote a blog post about that lesson), but with free tier properly configured, it's been zero cost for months
If I needed more throughput or privacy-sensitive processing, I'd consider local models. But for my current scale, free tier Gemini handles everything.
by fubdopsp | 2026-03-08 20:50:55+00:00
I personally cycle accounts on this site for pseudo-privacy reasons. HN does not allow you to delete old comments you made and thus the only way to maintain some semblance of control over my profile and privacy is to periodically switch new accounts. I've been doing this for years now. The only real downside for me is that as a new account you don't have the ability to downvote, which is super annoying but something I've learned to live with.

I'm not saying your idea is bad necessarily but giving another perspective.
by k32k | 2026-03-08 20:51:13+00:00
Your example is flawed.

The professional typist' role evolved - to serving through other ways, as you say - by become executive assistants. Much like a Bank Tellers' role also evolved.

And its not because they (executives) are too lazy to type. They actually need people to manage their calendar, monitor emails etc. Moreover, the personal computing revolution led to an expansion of firms that needed more of said people.

Could this be disrupted by things like OpenClaw? Maybe. Personally I doubt it. Trust is a huge element that LLMs have yet to overcome and may never over come. Its the same reason Apple pulled "Apple Intelligence". I know this place is full of doom and gloom, but I am not a SWE by trade so I can see the bigger picture and not get bogged down by the fact it might affect my income.

Moreover, work is more 'fun' with people around. So to you it may seem irrational to keep employed for that basis (call it Culture) but to others, and in particular the executive class - nope. People will start realising things like this once the hysteria dies down.
by Jtsummers | 2026-03-08 20:51:22+00:00
https://news.ycombinator.com/newest - Scroll through there and there are a lot of [dead] submissions by green accounts. They aren't outright banned from submitting, but it often triggers auto moderation. It's like posting a link in one of your first few comments as a green user, that often results in shadow banning automatically.
Show HN: Promptinel – A Security Scanner for Prompts
by cunningfatalist | 2026-03-08 20:51:52+00:00
Hello HN :)

Promptinel is a security scanner for prompts. I think the world needs something like this, because prompts are basically executable artifacts and we need to treat them as such. I want to identify as many bad things as I can before a prompt gets anywhere near runtime. Especially when supplying a common prompt repository for friends or colleagues, or when downloading skills from the internet. You can read more about my motivation in the project's readme: https://github.com/CunningFatalist/promptinel?tab=readme-ov-...

Promptinel finds various attack patterns in prompts, for example:

- prompt override and role spoofing patterns
- download-and-execute chains
- template execution and network fetch behavior
- secret exfiltration intent
- invisible Unicode and obfuscation tricks
- local sensitive file references

I'm really looking forward to feedback from people, who have built linters or security scanners before. Or just feedback from Go people, really. I'm mainly a PHP and TypeScript dev and use Go in my free time, because I find it fun and love the philosophy behind it.
by ppcvote | 2026-03-08 20:52:38+00:00
A bit of context on why I built this:

3 months ago I had zero experience with any of this — no AI development, no automation, no open source. I'm a solo founder in Taiwan where smartphone penetration is nearly universal but AI adoption in daily work is still very early.

As I started building, I realized these tools can genuinely change how people work and live — not just for developers, but for small businesses and solo operators who don't have engineering teams. So I packaged what I learned into services and open-sourced the playbook.

This is also my first time posting on HN. My English isn't strong enough to write essays natively, so I use AI to help with the writing — but the ideas and intent are mine. Seemed fitting given what I'm building.

I'm not trying to sell anything here. I just want to show that you can run real operations with AI agents on zero budget, and I want to make these tools more accessible in my country.
by keithnz | 2026-03-08 20:52:47+00:00
I've had several instances in my life where I've been alone for extended periods of time, almost at the same age you are now. I've generally enjoyed it, but not sure what the "How To" is for being alone. For me I've used my alone time to do new/learn things. I taught myself parkour, went and did Brazilian jiujitsu for years, did painting/art classes, went indoor rock climbing, read a lot more on philosophy, went to philosophy groups, joined my local humanist/secular society, worked out a lot more and went running, worked on my own programming projects, geocached, went to local lectures/presentations, all kinds of things. Basically I just followed any random thing my brain thought was interesting. As a side effect I ended up meeting a lot more people than I would have otherwise. I remember feeling anxious when I first became alone but I focused on the fact that I had a lot of freedom. Once you start experiencing your own freedom it feels good! It took a bit, I remember I felt mentally shackled about what I could do, but as I did things I just found there was more that I wanted to do.
by spamsch | 2026-03-08 20:53:06+00:00
The biggest issue I have with this is the path to success. There are billions of emails exchanged every day. Thousands of mail servers, millions of mail clients.

This project looks great but how does it get adopted? It will need to support interoperability. It will need to support being a part of the current ecosystem and grow step by step.

So how will that work? How can I set it up and still send an email to a Google Mail account? How can my FLUX server receive emails from Exchange?
by gozucito | 2026-03-08 20:53:23+00:00
Agreed. Merit is the only fair solution. If OP noticed a garbage post, that means they evaluated a post on merit and decided it was garbage. So it works.

We have genAI generating videos and the quality sucks compared to human produced and filmed content. People call it out and nobody is going to watch a genAI movie at the theater or binge a genAI TV show. Merit based filtering.

GenAI for music is not as good as human-generated music either. Not a single AI song from Suno or Udio has reached the top40. Not even one. 100% of the songs are human because they are evaluated on merit.

We have SWE and agentic benchmarks to evaluate coding LLMs on merit.

Disclaimer: I am a new account.
by BelVisgarra | 2026-03-08 20:53:23+00:00
One common example is a fake remote job posting. Someone applies, goes through a few “interviews”, and then during onboarding they're asked to verify their identity, buy equipment, or process a payment as part of the job.

The benefit for the scammer can vary: collecting personal data (identity theft), advance-fee scams, or using the victim as a money mule to move funds from other scams.

It usually works because the process looks legitimate at first and people are already invested after spending time applying and interviewing.
by derriz | 2026-03-08 20:53:54+00:00
This is the fundamental idea behind git - to fully compute/derive diffs from snapshots (commits) and to only store snapshots. While brilliant in some ways - particularly the simplifications it allows in terms of implementation, I’ve always felt that dropping all information about how a new commit was derived from its parent(s) was wasteful. There have been a number of occasions where I wished that git recorded a rename/mv somehow - it’s particularly annoying when you squash some commits and suddenly it no longer recognizes that a file was renamed where previously it was able to determine this. Now your history is broken - “git blame” fails to provide useful information, etc. There are other ways of storing history and revisions which don’t have this issue - git isn’t the end of the line in terms of version control evolution.
by xyzzy_plugh | 2026-03-08 20:53:54+00:00
This is just a wrapper around sandbox-exec. It's nice that there are a ton of presets that have been thought out, since 90% of wielding sandbox-exec is correctly scoping it to whatever the inner environment requires (the other 90% is figuring out how sandbox-exec works).

I like that it's just a shell script.

I do wish that there was a simple way to sandbox programs with an overlay or copy-on-write semantics (or better yet bind mounts). I don't care if, in the process of doing some work, an LLM agent modifies .bashrc -- I only care if it modifies _my_ .bashrc
by ryandrake | 2026-03-08 20:54:11+00:00
Hey, I'm not a fan of LLM slop articles and blogspam either and if I could hold back the tide, I'd try to. But I'm just saying that pointing it out each and every time is just going to become its own form of spam. We're quickly entering a world where 99+% of what is written online, be it blogs, amateur news, or actual professional journalism, is LLM generated. You hate it, I hate it, but it's coming. The state of journalism is already in shambles and line must go up, so "everything written by AI" is sadly inevitable. Posting every time to remind people of that? I mean by the end of 2026 you might as well have a bot commenting on every article that it's probably LLM generated. I argue it adds no signal to the conversation.
by atomicnumber3 | 2026-03-08 20:54:21+00:00
Honestly, not enough of a joke.

I was thinking something similar - this isn't AI, and none of "those people" care if it is or isn't. They don't care philosophically, or even pragmatically.

They're selling a product. That product is the IDEA of replacement of the majority of human labor with what's basically slave labor but with substantially disregardable ethical quandaries.

It's honestly a genius product. I'm not surprised it's selling so well. I'm vaguely surprised so many people who don't stand to benefit in any way shape or form, or who will even potentially starve if it works out, are so keen on it. But there are always bootlickers.

The most unfortunate part is that when the party ends, it's none of "those people" who will suffer even in the slightest. I'm not even optimistic their egos will suffer, as Musk seems to show they are utterly immune even as their companies collapse under them.
by notahacker | 2026-03-08 20:55:42+00:00
It also gets RHLFed into it by people who think the "better" sentence is the one with more puffery, and crucially it tries to cram the semantic patterns in whether appropriate or not because it's been trained to write in ways which aren't perceived as bland.

Puffery about "rich cultural heritage, a "tapestry" of sights "from the Colosseum to the Pantheon" and how they "serve as potent symbols" probably is better writing than "Rome is a city in the Lazio region of Italy with a population of 4m. It is the capital of Italy". Doesn't work quite so well when its trying to fit the pattern to the two competing diners of Bumfuck, Ohio and how the rich cultural heritage of its municipal library underscores its status as the third largest city in its county.
by lukeinator42 | 2026-03-08 20:59:37+00:00
A good analogy for equal temperament might be the Gregorian calendar, as a year does not evenly divide perfectly into 365 days. So in order to compensate for that we adjust the calendar by a leap year every so often to make the calendar more accurate in the longer term. That's kinda similar to how every note is a little off in equal temperament so that at the larger scale of being able to play all intervals works out.
Show HN: I built a pipeline that generates a comedy podcast end-to-end with AI
by helsinki | 2026-03-08 20:59:38+00:00
The pipeline takes a trending topic and produces a fully rendered ~22 min comedy podcast episode with three AI characters (PRODUCER, CRITIC, DUMBASS). Everything is automated: premise ideation, research, outline generation, script writing with a writers' room (punch-up passes, verification gates), voice synthesis via ElevenLabs, music bed mixing, and publishing to Spotify.

Stack: Temporal for durable workflow orchestration, Gemini for script generation, gollem (https://github.com/fugue-labs/gollem) agents with structured outputs and automatic validation, Postgres + Apache AGE for graph queries, Qdrant for vector search, ElevenLabs for multi-voice dialogue synthesis.

Each episode goes through ~10 beats, each independently written and verified for grounding. There's a verifier gate that checks factual claims, forbidden phrases, and character voice consistency before anything gets rendered. The whole thing runs with a single slash command and takes about 2 hours end-to-end.

24 episodes in so far. This one's about a character who uses AI to write a book in a weekend and declares himself a literary genius.
Ask HN: How are you monitoring AI agents in production?
by jairooh | 2026-03-08 21:00:42+00:00
With the recent incidents (DataTalks database wipe by Claude Code, Replit agent deleting data during code freeze), it's clear that running AI agents in production without observability is risky.

Common failure modes I've seen: no visibility into what the agent did step-by-step, surprise LLM bills from untracked token usage, risky outputs going undetected, and no audit trail for post-mortems.

I've been building AgentShield (https://useagentshield.com) — an observability SDK for AI agents. It does execution tracing, risk detection on outputs, cost tracking per agent/model, and human-in-the-loop approval for high-risk actions. Plugs into LangChain, CrewAI, and OpenAI Agents SDK with a 2-line integration.

Curious what others are using. Rolling your own monitoring? LangSmith? Langfuse? Or just hoping for the best?
by bonoboTP | 2026-03-08 21:01:11+00:00
They don't want tinkering or tinkerers.

Apple is all about walled-off, locked-down, black box, just-works (when it does) etc. It's supposed to seem like magic. You're not supposed to tinker with magic, it makes it pedestrian. Apple as a brand is a lifestyle, a feeling. The slick, polished brand. Remember "I'm a Mac, and I'm a PC"? PC is where you tinker, and there is screws and nuts and bolts and jargon and troubleshooting etc. In Apple land, you just take it to a slick genius bar and they do their magic. Or you just buy a new one.

As a European I'm always baffled how Apple got so much market share among the actual techies and power users. You do it to yourself by buying this stuff. It's for people who don't want to spend one second thinking about actual technical issues.
by amaury_bouchard | 2026-03-08 21:01:38+00:00
Glad it clicks! On the progressive enhancement point, µJS is designed exactly with that philosophy in mind: standard links and forms work without JS, µJS just enhances them.

Your concern about `mu-method="delete"` is valid. Without JS, the browser will fall back to the form's native method (usually GET or POST). The classic solution is the `_method` hidden field pattern: the form submits POST with a `_method=DELETE` field, and the server reads that field to route the request correctly. µJS doesn't need to implement anything special for this, it's a server-side convention
by dwedge | 2026-03-08 21:01:43+00:00
Yeah I have this. Mild but constant headaches, and a big floater I've always had has recently moved right into the centre of my vision and bounces around when I read on a screen, really harms my focus.

I've been to opticians they said nothing is physically working and there is nothing they can safely do. I found some vitamins that apparently help and they do seem to be helping but they seem to have broken up other floaters so now I have more.

I know the only real cure is to get out of this game, but it's a hobby as much as it is a skill
by akKjans | 2026-03-08 21:02:13+00:00
> the block layoffs were a test, to see how a) a software company manages with only half of its employees now that there's powerful LLMs, and b) how the remaining employees react to the imminent threat of them being laid off as well.

The block layoffs were due to years of over hiring.

> Already today, we have single person billion dollar exits

It was nowhere near that much, and this was more a coordinated marketing move by OpenAI than an organic process.

> high schoolers making millions from food apps

This app is a sign of the massive bubble we’re in. The developer should be ashamed to make people think they could estimate calories from an image.

There’s trillions of dollars behind these AI companies succeeding. A lot of the hype you’re seeing is paid for. If you’re reading news articles, blogs, etc and not digging any further you’re being manipulated.
by vercaemert | 2026-03-08 21:02:40+00:00
see the open worm project to get an idea of what artificial neuronal architecture requires to express anything meaningful. (and an interesting ethical perspective on digital consciousness.) my point being that the number of neurons is fairly meaningless. you could take neuron models and link them circuit-style to play doom at the 10^2 scale if you wanted. from a cellular neurophysiological perspective, there's nothing particularly special here (as opposed to sentience/intelligence that's a paradigm shift beyond our understanding). and, in my opinion, absolutely nothing to be even the slightest bit worried about ethically.
by musicale | 2026-03-08 21:03:18+00:00
Most appliances have fairly general-purpose microcontrollers inside them, but expose a fixed-function interface. Hopefully things like safety interlocks for microwave oven doors are implemented in hardware rather than software.

> Soon they'll come for our general-purpose computing with "features" for DRM.

You... haven't noticed all of the existing DRM features?