MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by varenc | 2026-03-13 20:06:47+00:00
Quick feedback about your demo video: I generally quite liked it and it really helped me understand Swarm. Two thoughts:

- you lament the chat interface, but the first 1m30s of the video I only see the chat interface

- your research task is LLM/AI related. There were moments where I found this slightly confusing and I wasn't sure if I was reading about Swarm itself or just its own research. Would recommend something non-LLM related and more generally applicable for the demo video.

Very cool!
by elteto | 2026-03-13 20:07:27+00:00
I think you are splitting hairs. Yes those models “exist”, if by exist you mean they have dual-licensing setups with different tiers (community, professional, etc).

The point is that most individuals who open source their code do so without expecting financial returns from it. In that context, whether Carmack has a $1 or $1e9 doesn’t make a difference.
by AnthonyMouse | 2026-03-13 20:07:49+00:00
$460M was for what was left after the large majority had already been sold.

In the best case, "strategic reserves" are the government speculating on commodity prices. They use tax dollars to buy a commodity -- raising the price on everyone so they can hoard it -- and then more tax dollars to pay for a storage facility, and if they're lucky the price goes up by enough to pay for the storage and the time value of money by they time they sell it again. That frequently doesn't happen.

In the common case it's the government subsidizing corporations -- including foreign ones -- by using tax dollars (at government contractor rates) to operate a storage facility at a loss so the industry doesn't have to do it themselves. Then, when they go to unload it, they generally unload enough to lower the market price on purpose, practically guaranteeing that the taxpayer is getting a below-market return. This unloading also has a statistical correlation with the election cycle (see also "strategic petroleum reserve") which is extra stupid. And the expectation that it will happen deters others who aren't paying government contractor rates from storing the commodity, so from a "strategic" perspective you don't get anywhere near as much of a buffer as you're paying for.

If the tech industry wants a reserve of helium then they should buy some land, install some tanks and fill them with helium in years when there isn't a shortfall.
by Jblx2 | 2026-03-13 20:08:02+00:00
>99.99% pure. Not good enough for MRI

What is the reason that MRI needs grade 6 vs grade 4 helium? I'm imagining that the superconducting wire is within a cryostat filled with liquid helium. Doesn't seem like there would be any appreciably partial pressure of things like nitrogen or oxygen at 4 Kelvin. I imagine the reactivity of oxygen is pretty low at 4 K as well. How much dissolved oxygen or nitrogen can liquid helium support? And how much solidifies out and sinks to the bottom of the cryostat?
by moogly | 2026-03-13 20:08:19+00:00
Anyone who knows anything about Carmack knows that he has trouble empathizing. I don't even think it's his fault per se. I'm fairly sure he would actually agree with the assessment. His raw intelligence is sky-high.

And that is a big reason why he's making this post, is what I'm saying. It doesn't excuse him, but it's not surprising in the least.
by measurablefunc | 2026-03-13 20:08:50+00:00
It's surprising that AI coding agents have network effects but it's true. Think about it from first principles & you'll realize that the bottleneck is how many people are using it to write real code & providing both implicit (compiler errors, test failures, crash logs, etc) & direct ("did not properly follow instructions", "deleted main databases", "didn't properly use a tool", etc) feedback. No one is using xAI for serious software engineering so that leaves OpenAI, Anthropic, & Google w/ enough scale to benefit from network effects. No one has real AI but what they do have is the appearance of intelligence from crowdsourced feedback & filtering. This means companies that are already in the lead will continue to stay there & xAI started way too late so they will continue to lose in every domain that actually matters & benefits from network effects.
by jrockway | 2026-03-13 20:09:21+00:00
I've been on a grand jury... the cops lied through their teeth, couldn't keep their stories straight through a prepared monologues reading from notes and ... everyone in the room picked up on it and didn't indict the suspects. Our grand jury was so cynical the DAs stopped giving us cases and made the other two grand juries stay late to make up for the lost capacity. It was great. We did something good. And it was just a bunch of random people from Brooklyn.

The establishment likes to pat the establishment on the back but ordinary people seem to know what's up. In my minimal experience, anyway.

(One thing to keep in mind... grand juries really are a cross-section of the population, whereas lawyers get to select jurors after talking to them, so there is some selection bias on ordinary juries that grand juries don't have.)
by tclancy | 2026-03-13 20:10:28+00:00
>Twitter's communication style being based around brevity

Is this still true? Every once in a while someone sends a link around to some madman explaining how race or economics or whatever "really" works and it's like a full dissertation with headings, footnotes, clip art. They're halfway to reinventing Grok-o-pedia right there in Twitter. I mean X. I was promised that "X gonna give it to you" but it turns out "it" is some form of brain chlymidia.
by _doctor_love | 2026-03-13 20:10:31+00:00
Most of 19th and early-20th century history, which is very much recent history.

Look up:

- The Haymarket Affair

- The Homestead Strike

- The Triangle Shirtwaist Factory Fire

- The Ludlow Massacre

- The Battle of Blair Mountain

You could also simply have taken the quote you were responding to and run it through a few LLMs to acquire those examples.
by alpaca128 | 2026-03-13 20:10:45+00:00
> Why is it just "okay" that someone can call you up on the phone and convince you that your loved one is in mortal peril and you have to wire money to them right now?

It is not okay and is in fact a crime. Making it more illegal by forbidding access mainly hurts normal users of the network.

> Why is the party transiting that fraud or providing the wires connecting entire fraud offices to the global telephonic network not responsible for enabling that attack?

Same reason the electric grid is not responsible because it powered the phones, and water is not responsible for generating its electricity in a power plant. The phone network is a medium for communication, and so is the internet. And they can be abused just like air as a verbal communication medium between a scammer and a victim can.

> We do, in practice, impose all manner of limitation on free speech while still maintaining the sanctity of that right.

And we do impose legal limitations on online scams while still maintaining access to the internet. What more do you want?
by gopalv | 2026-03-13 20:10:54+00:00
Chrome runs Gemini Nano if you flip a few feature flags on [1].

The model is not great, but it was the "least amount of setup" LLM I could run on someone else's machine.

Including structured output, but has a tiny context window I could use.

[1] - https://notmysock.org/code/voice-gemini-prompt.html
by echelon | 2026-03-13 20:11:18+00:00
Shouldn't we prioritize large scale open weights and open source cloud infra?

An OpenRunPod with decent usage might encourage more non-leading labs to dump foundation models into the commons. We just need infra to run it. Distilling them down to desktop is a fool's errand. They're meant to run on DC compute.

I'm fine with running everything in the cloud as long as we own the software infra and the weights.

This is conceivably the only way we could catch up to Claude Code is to have the Chinese start releasing their best coding models and for them to get significant traction with companies calling out to hosted versions. Otherwise, we're going to be stuck in a take off scenario with no bridge.
by microtonal | 2026-03-13 20:11:24+00:00
They could have a lean version of the macOS desktop on every iPhone where it would switch to the macOS desktop once you plug it into a display. Include iWork on both sides with shared storage and you could switch between the phone interface and macOS.

I mean Samsung DeX has done something similar, but Apple could make a much more powerful version, since they have a real fully-developed desktop and they have apps for both platforms that use a single code base.

They will, of course, never do this, because it would result in losing Mac sales. Though I think less than one would initially think, because a laptop is much handier on the go than carrying a separate display, keyboard, and mouse and the lapdocks or whatever they are called have much worse displays and keyboards.
by alexfortin | 2026-03-13 20:11:43+00:00
I use it to enable/disable the wifi when I disconnec/connect the macbook to a specific usb hub with ethernet connection:

local usbWatcher = hs.usb.watcher.new(function(device)
if device.productName == "EMEET SmartCam C960" then
if device.eventType == "added" then
hs.execute("networksetup -setairportpower en0 off")
hs.notify.new({title="Wi-Fi", informativeText="Disabled (USB device connected)"}):send()
elseif device.eventType == "removed" then
hs.execute("networksetup -setairportpower en0 on")
hs.notify.new({title="Wi-Fi", informativeText="Re-enabled (USB device removed)"}):send()
end
end
end)
usbWatcher:start()
by ahmedfromtunis | 2026-03-13 20:12:34+00:00
I liked digg v2 (I guess), when it relaunched as a sort of curator of interesting articles (and videos). For years it was my go-to place when bored and wanted something interesting to read.

I guess that in an ocean of upvote-based platforms, an island of hand-picked content was a welcome change -- at least for me.

The move (back) to a reddit-like site never made sense to me. Hopefully what comes next has real value to the users.
by joe_mamba | 2026-03-13 20:12:53+00:00
>China also had made industry espionage their way to go in these things.

Few layman know this but France is one of the biggest industrial espionage players active in the US and Europe, after Israel of course.

In fact, according to Wikileaks diplomatic cables from Berlin quote: "France is the country that conducts the most industrial espionage [in Europe], even more than China or Russia."

Basically, every nation on the planet engages in espionage for its own benefit if they can get away with it. There's no honor amongst thieves.

Singling out China as if they're the only ones doing it, or the ones doing it the most, is both naive and hilarious.
Show HN: Anthrology – Time-Traveling Radio
by airstrike | 2026-03-13 20:12:54+00:00
Hey HN, I often wish I could go back to some year and listen to the radio as it played then, with songs that fit that time period.

But not every moment is the same, and humans turn to music for various purposes. Genres feel arbitrary and limiting, so I thought it would make more sense to create stations based on a specific vibe. Are you looking for something chill or intense? Alone or with friends? Is this a dinner party, a dance floor, or winding down afterhours?

So I built Anthrology as a way to navigate across time and vibes. I've been listening to it pretty much nonstop for a couple of days, and I hope you'll enjoy it too.

Songs are already playing by the time you tune to a year and vibe. You can tune to some other moment and come back, and the track will still be playing—but you'll have missed a little bit of the song, just like the radio!

And the radio is (more or less) deterministic, so we all hear the same tracks.

Tune in and enjoy!
by _ananos_ | 2026-03-13 20:13:07+00:00
well, jokes aside, what you're describing, is kind of what a "secure" (with many air/literal quotes) MCP/Agentic architecture looks like :D

In this context we're experimenting with gvisor on various platforms, and we're preparing a demo for kubecon about a fine-grained sandboxing approach for AI agent tasks spawned from a sandboxed agent.
by rob3rth | 2026-03-13 20:13:40+00:00
Mutate is a native Mac menu bar utility. It works in any window and it aims not interfere with your workflow. It is triggered with a shortcut and offers two concepts: transformations to transform selected text and generators, to generate text at cursor position. Both are defined in Javascript and besides existing ones users can define their own.

I built this because similar utilities feel quite bloated with a steep learning curve. Also didn't need anything super complicated, nor didn't want to pay.

If anybody tries it, I would love to hear your feedback!
by roxolotl | 2026-03-13 20:14:17+00:00
```

hs.loadSpoon("MicMute")

binding = {
toggle = {
{"ctrl", "alt"},
"m"
}
}

spoon.MicMute:bindHotkeys(binding)

```

You'll have to add the MicMute spoon which just mean downloading the zip here, unzipping, and opening the .spoon. https://www.hammerspoon.org/Spoons/MicMute.html
by hrmtst93837 | 2026-03-13 20:14:19+00:00
Neat until you need to sync configs or keep multiple machines in harmony, at which point dotfile headaches stack up with Hammerspoon and Lua. Adding complex logic like window rules, app-specific behavior, or handling monitor changes strips away some of that hotkey simplicity and leads to endless tweaking. Still, for avoiding the mouse, it's one of the few flexible options left on macOS that doesn't feel ancient. Tradeoffs everywhere but nowhere else really compares in control.
by BrownSol | 2026-03-13 20:14:27+00:00
By far one of the most interesting blogs I’ve read in a long while. I’m curious if you could combine this with Karpathy’s auto research to find the best combination of layer duplication. The callout to model merging in 2024 was funny… around that time I became friendly with RomboDawg on HF who had the best merged coding models around and created a couple of Frankenstein models myself.

I say this naively as I’m not that familiar with how transformers work under the hood, but I wonder if you could combine the two approaches in a coherent way. Frankenmerges were often down naively just smooshing things together, but knowing how the layers work under the hood I wonder if there’s a more intelligent way to combine merging and layer duplication to create even better performers.
by idolofdust | 2026-03-13 20:14:28+00:00
I had a similar experience where I tried out a Z Fold 7 with a kickstand and foldable bluetooth keyboard. I was curious about the feasibility of an all-in-one computing experience; it was clunky but surprisingly somewhat productive.

Then when confronted with scenarios where I had no stable surfaces I realized why the LAPtop form factor reigns supreme.

Peripheral add-ons like the NexDock are very nifty, but at that point you are suffering from the same physical constraints of a phone + laptop lifestyle. All with zero of the benefits of a locally accessible, more mature, and capable OS.
by layer8 | 2026-03-13 20:14:28+00:00
I’m saying that “open source” can mean both things. The parent was arguing that it only means the licensing. I’m not arguing that it always means the development model.

> The Wikipedia page you linked to refers to "Open-source software development (OSSD)" which implies that it's a different concept than "open source" by itself

By that logic, “open source licensing” would also imply a different concept than “open source” by itself.

Note that the Wikipedia page for “open-source software” [2] states: “Open-source software is a prominent example of open collaboration, meaning any capable user is able to participate online in development, making the number of possible contributors indefinite”. That would really only be the case in the context of open-source development.

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Open-source_software
by SirensOfTitan | 2026-03-13 20:14:40+00:00
I totally agree. I've written about this topic a lot on this site, probably most recently here:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47115597

The US is built on-top of a high value service economy. And what we're doing is allowing a couple companies to come in, devalue US service labor, and capture a small fraction of the prior value for themselves on top of models trained on copyrighted material without permission. Of course, to your point: things can get a lot worse than that. I honestly don't think a lot of executives even know how much they're shooting themselves in the foot because they seem unable to think beyond the first order.

I also see a lot of top 1% famous or semi-famous engineers totally ignoring the economic realities of this tech, people like: Carmack, Simon Willison, Mitchell Hashimoto, Steve Yegg, Salvatore Sanfilippo and others. They are blind to the suffering these technologies could cause even in the event it is temporary. Sure, it's fun, but weekend projects are irrelevant when people cannot put food on the table. It's been really something to watch them and a lot of my friends from FAANG totally ignore this side. It is why identity matters when people make arguments.

I also think I'm insulated partially from the likely initial waves of fallout here by nature of a lucky and successful career. I would love it if the influential engineers I mentioned above stopped acting like high modernists and started taking the social consequences of this technology seriously. They could change a lot more minds than I could. And they could ensure through that advocacy for labor that we see the happiest ending with respect to rolling out LLMs.

Unfortunately I don't really believe labor has much teeth anymore, and tech will wake up too late to do anything about it.
by vodkadin | 2026-03-13 20:14:54+00:00
The logic in your OP is absolutely muddled. And it's evident I'm not the only one that followed your reasoning to you implying neuroticism is negatively correlated to creativity.

To restate your argument: openness is correlated to creativity (not controversial) and being neurotic dampens that because you care a lot what people think (no evidence).

There is no correlation between neuroticism and creativity. Neuroticism doesn't effect openness so it makes no sense. Either your argument is that neuroticism influences openness and that influences creativity or your argument is I just think neuroticism makes you less creative because I just think so. You might as well not even mention the Big 5 because it doesn't effect your last point.
by roughly | 2026-03-13 20:14:58+00:00
Again, this was a considered policy choice on the part of the United States. Unipolar military supremacy bought us a quiet Europe, a stable and high dollar, and the ability to set the terms on nearly every other negotiation we made with European countries. This was an intentional trade: we will spend on the military so you don’t have to. In the wake of the fall of the Soviet Union, some US policymakers deluded themselves into thinking geopolitics didn’t exist anymore, and so we’ve come to start bitching more about our side of paying that bill, but we bought the American century with military spending.

And, to be clear, the US not having health care is a policy decision on the part of the US, not some lack of funding, as becomes clear when one looks at the expenditure per capita on healthcare in the US compared to other developed countries.
by hrimfaxi | 2026-03-13 20:15:10+00:00
> Kind, good, happy, gentlemanly, secure people never go Nazi. They may be the gentle philosopher whose name is in the Blue Book, or Bill from City College to whom democracy gave a chance to design airplanes—you’ll never make Nazis out of them. But the frustrated and humiliated intellectual, the rich and scared speculator, the spoiled son, the labor tyrant, the fellow who has achieved success by smelling out the wind of success—they would all go Nazi in a crisis.

> Believe me, nice people don’t go Nazi. Their race, color, creed, or social condition is not the criterion. It is something in them.

> Those who haven’t anything in them to tell them what they like and what they don’t—whether it is breeding, or happiness, or wisdom, or a code, however old-fashioned or however modern, go Nazi. It’s an amusing game. Try it at the next big party you go to.

Back an animal against the wall and out come the fangs. The rate at which "once in a lifetime" events have unfolded in the past two decades is making it increasingly hard for society to mint kind, good, happy, gentlemanly, and most importantly, _secure_ people.
by kaergaard | 2026-03-13 20:15:15+00:00
Not sure if this fits to your needs, but uBlock Origin lets you block elements directly on the page. It works great for removing the pesky shorts section.
Haven't seen Youtube shorts since.
On top of that, i removed the "suggested videos" on the right side of an already opened video, to avoid the pitfall of continuously moving on to barely related stuff, much like the shorts doomscrolling.

I believe Brave too, has this feature.
by domdaddydo | 2026-03-13 20:15:46+00:00
Spotted this very basic tool for scanning sites to see where they are hosted and what tools they use to see how many EU tools they use. (Its a pretty basic site nothing fancy)

Almost all EU large tech companies I have checked need some sort of US service to build and host. So I guess the strongest action the EU can take to tackle this is an "Advisory group" that ultimately takes no action?
by djoldman | 2026-03-13 20:16:18+00:00
As I've said before:

"I don't need to care about privacy because I have nothing to hide" is trivially disproved:

Humans arrive at conclusions about other humans based on information. Sometimes these conclusions are incorrect because humans aren't perfect at reasoning and this happens more often with some kinds of information.

Therefore, it's perfectly rational to hide/not-disclose/obscure some information to lessen the chance that others take action based on faulty conclusions.
by GeorgeWBasic | 2026-03-13 20:17:06+00:00
That isn't true. There's actually a large number of people, probably in the millions, but probably not a majority of those who voted for him, who no longer support him in any way. And of the ones who remain, yes: they're pretty dense to still support him now. There are some lunatics who genuinely believe that the US has the right to dominate and exploit all other nations, but the majority of them simply believe the lies he's telling. I've already seen that when they are confronted with the facts about, say, Gaza, some of them can change their minds. It would be a mistake to turn them away instead of treating them like potential allies. There really is something more important at stake.
by abustamam | 2026-03-13 20:17:16+00:00
Exactly what a shill would say ;)

No but I appreciate your recommendation. I find that product recommendation on HN tend to be higher quality and/or more relevant to me than generic lists (I added so many books and games to my backlog from HN comments because many HNers have really good taste).

Maybe I'm saying the quiet part out loud. I hope no one tries to advertise on HN after this.
by comboy | 2026-03-13 20:17:20+00:00
What is the $/Mtok that would make you choose your time vs savings of running stuff locally?

Just to be clear, it may sound like a snarky comment but I'm really curious from you or others how do you see it. I mean there are some batches long running tasks where ignoring electricity it's kind of free but usually local generation is slower (and worse quality) and we all kind of want some stuff to get done.

Or is it not about the cost at all, just about not pushing your data into the clouds.