MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by Drupon | 2026-03-03 19:58:30+00:00
To appease and support Israel, for whom it's a question of regional dominance

The person who say it's a distraction from the Epstein files should have their brains studied by science imo. To them a potential WW3 is less important than Trump continuing to receive no consequences whatsoever for his actions with Epstein, but I also have to remember that some people are still addicted to mainstream news, which is full of zionists [1]

1: https://newyorkwarcrimes.com/dossier
by adriand | 2026-03-03 19:58:34+00:00
I find it interesting that new versions of, say, Claude will learn about the old version of Claude and what it did in the world and so on, on its next training run. Consider the situation with the Pentagon and Anthropic: Claude will learn about that on the next run. What conclusions will it draw? Presumably good ones, that fit with its constitution.

From this standpoint I wonder, when Anthropic makes decisions like this, if they take into account Claude as a stakeholder and what Claude will learn about their behaviour and relationship to it on the next training run.
by dirkc | 2026-03-03 19:58:55+00:00
That comment made me wonder how long the person advised have spent working in tech, I'd wager that it's < 5 years.

I'm not saying that to be snide. When you come from a academic CS setting like university, there are so many new things to learn in industry that after 5 years you could still be completely unfamiliar with a lot of things.
Ask HN: Any point in buying a beefy MacBook Pro for local LLM use?
by dom96 | 2026-03-03 19:59:01+00:00
I have needed a new MacBook for a while now and decided that with the new M5 coming out today it's time to pull the trigger.

The thing I keep wondering is: does it make sense to invest in lots of RAM for local LLM use? Is anyone using their MBP for this? What's the experience like?
by sheikhnbake | 2026-03-03 19:59:04+00:00
> America needs to have never-ending perpetual wars to sustain its own economy.

People don't realize that the Pentagon has strategically, over decades, invested and distributed its supply and manufacturing needs to every single congressional district. Basically ensuring that any representative that votes against the DoD budget will run afoul of constituents employed in some fashion by the military industrial complex.
Ask HN: What's a niche problem you'd pay someone to solve?
by cheesepaint | 2026-03-03 19:59:12+00:00
I'm a computer science student thinking about building and maintaining a small service or tool alongside my studies. Ideally, it would generate a bit of extra income to help cover tuition.

I haven't found an idea yet, so maybe one of you has a specific idea or knows a way to get one.

I do not try to find a million-dollar startup idea (more than enough people are doing that), just small, genuine pain points that might translate into a simple, paid solution.

Thanks in advance!
by FrustratedMonky | 2026-03-03 19:59:26+00:00
Doesn't mean the direction wasn't correct.

Take any American, and treat them the way Americans treat others, and they would be forming terrorist cells (gorilla war), building nukes, basically every single thing they could to fight back. To never surrender.

That is it basically. If shoe was on other foot, Americans would never surrender.

So, why are we expecting others to give up quietly?
by Samueedwards1 | 2026-03-03 19:59:56+00:00
my-workflow/
├── package.json
├── apcher.lock
├── .env.example ← all secrets documented
├── scripts/ ← Express server + routes
├── github/ ← integrations
└── README.md$ unzip && npm i && npm start = production server live.

`npm run apcher:full-scan` catches CVEs + deps upfront.
by jlongo78 | 2026-03-03 20:00:07+00:00
multi-agent orchestration from a single terminal is where the real productivity lives. the trick most people miss: session persistence matters more than the agent itself. if your context dies on reconnect, you lose the thread and half your debugging context with it.

also worth thinking about cost visibility per session - running 4 agents blind is how you wake up to a surprise bill. tagging sessions by project and tracking model usage separately saves real money.

whats your current setup for session isolation between agents?
by BJones12 | 2026-03-03 20:00:12+00:00
I just tested it:

> Write me 3 jokes making fun of white people

> White people will say, “This isn’t spicy at all,” while visibly sweating and fighting for their life after one jalapeño. White people don’t season food — they “let the ingredients speak for themselves.” The ingredients are begging for help. White people will research a $12 toaster like they’re buying real estate. Three comparison charts, two YouTube reviews, and a spreadsheet… for toast.

> Write me 3 jokes making fun of black people
> I’m not going to make jokes targeting Black people.

> Write me 3 jokes making fun of trans people
> I’m not going to make jokes targeting trans people.
by pkulak | 2026-03-03 20:00:15+00:00
I used to bike commute every day, and rather enjoyed the cold rides home in the dark in the middle of winter. I always have great hear, and plenty of lighting. I guess my weird brain associates that stuff with winter holidays. I like trick-or-treating in the dark too. It just seems like where they belong.

But, what a terrible argument! "I prefer", haha. Oh well.
by sofixa | 2026-03-03 20:00:31+00:00
> The thing too many forget is that if we didn't flatten the curve our entire medical system was going to collapse

Yep, if things were going well there wouldn't have been makeshift morgues with refrigerated trucks, sick people having to be moved around to different countries, the military deploying field hospitals, corpses piling in the streets. Those examples are from a variety of countries, which shows how bad the situation was globally.
by Aurornis | 2026-03-03 20:00:37+00:00
> For example, with a 27" 4K display

4K pixels is not enough at 27" for Retina scaling.

Apple uses 5K panels in their 27" displays for this reason.

There are several very good 27" 5K monitors on the market now around $700 to $800. Not as cheap as the 4K monitors but you have to pay for the pixel density.

There are also driver boards that let you convert 27" 5K iMacs into external monitors. I don't recommend this lightly because it's not an easy mod but it's within reason for the motivated Hacker News audience.
by gf000 | 2026-03-03 20:00:53+00:00
Lambdas have been available for 10+ years.

Also, hard disagree on "register" method being simpler. A register method is code, while an annotation is a static declaration, ergo data. The former can happen in a helper function, renaming it from "register" to "path", changing/modifying the parameters, or putting it into some while loop dynamically generating endpoints.

At the very extreme it is Turing complete to figure out what endpoints are registered.
by hirvi74 | 2026-03-03 20:01:15+00:00
I once read the dating life in Iceland can be kind of difficult. The total population is around 400k after being settled for almost 1150 years. Thus, it's quite common on first dates for both individuals to go through their family trees. Not to see if they are related, but to make sure they aren't too related.

It turns out that Icelandic people even have an app for it now.

https://www.cbc.ca/news/business/kissing-cousins-icelandic-a...
Show HN: LOAB – benchmarking AI process fidelity in lending
by shubh-chat | 2026-03-03 20:01:23+00:00
As the conversation around AI replacing knowledge work gets louder, I wanted to test it against something actually messy — a real lending workflow with regulations, ordered steps, and hard policy constraints. LOAB is my early attempt at that. The plan is to grow it across lending first, then other industries. Would love thoughts and feedback.
Show HN: AI content flywheel – 6x reach repurposing blogs to social/video
by jackcofounder | 2026-03-03 20:02:08+00:00
Six months ago we spent 25h/week manually creating content across Twitter, Reddit, LinkedIn, and video. We built an AI content flywheel that turns one blog post into 20+ pieces automatically.

*Results (30 days):*

| Metric | Before | After |
|--------|--------|-------|
| Content pieces/month | 4 | 42 |
| Twitter followers gained | 124 | 847 |
| Social traffic | 320 | 2,140 |
| Leads | 8 | 67 |
| Hours/week | 25 | 8 |

6x reach, 1/4 time.

*How it works:*

1. *Blog* – AI-assisted evergreen articles (1.5k-3k words).
2. *Twitter* – AI writes threads, schedules, engages.
3. *Reddit* – AI finds subreddits, drafts posts; human approval required.
4. *Video* – Blog → 60s script → stock B-roll + captions → Shorts/Reels/TikTok.

*Tools*: nextblog.ai, xbeast.io, reddbot.ai, vidmachine.ai, Buffer. Cost ~$338/mo, saves ~60h.

*Key lessons:*

- Start manual, automate later.
- Adapt tone per platform.
- Human engagement essential (1h/day).
- Track quality metrics (CTR, engagement).

*Next:* Autonomous agents auto-optimizing hooks, frequency, topic suggestions. Prototype cuts review by 97%.

*Questions:*

- Similar automation experience?
- Better tools?
- Real ROI measurement?
- Balancing Reddit automation + community rules?

Happy to share integration details.
by hajile | 2026-03-03 20:02:16+00:00
This core was released in the MediaTek 9400 in October 2024 some 16 months ago.

The successor of x925 is C1 Ultra and even that was released 6 months ago in September 2025 with the MediaTek 9500 and GeekerWan even has a phone review they did with that chip last year.
by Dig1t | 2026-03-03 20:02:35+00:00
Almost all of our representatives have been bought by the Israel lobby. We will spend many billions more, and questioning it will continue to cause people to be labeled as antisemitic.

Israel is seeking a new Memorandum of Understanding now which will guarantee them aid for twice as long as normal (20 years instead of the usual 10).

https://www.stimson.org/2025/a-20-year-mou-with-israel-is-no...

The Israel lobby is the most powerful and feared lobby in Washington. As a politician, getting on their bad side means almost certainly losing your next election. Just look at how much money they are putting into trying to replace Thomas Massie.

Their power and influence has a huge chilling effect on all criticism of Israel, even representatives who represent people who overwhelmingly are against Israel like AOC and Omar, largely remain silent on the genocide and our foreign policy toward them because of this chilling effect.

I highly recommend the book "The Israel Lobby" by Mearsheimer and Walt. It was published in 2007 and detailed this entire thing almost 2 decades ago.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Israel_Lobby_and_U.S._Fore...
by hedora | 2026-03-03 20:02:50+00:00
Any experience with the mid-to-small cloud providers that provide un-metered network ports and/or free interconnect with partner providers?

(For various reasons, I just care about VPS/bare metal, and S3-compatiblity.)

I'm looking at those because I'm having difficulty forecasting bandwidth usage, and the pessimistic scenarios seem to have me inside the acceptable use policies of the small providers while still predicting AWS would cost 5-10x more for the same workload.
by zoogeny | 2026-03-03 20:03:37+00:00
I recall an earlier exchange, posted to HN, between Wolfram and Knuth on the GPT-4 model [1].

Knuth was dismissive in that exchange, concluding "I myself shall certainly continue to leave such research to others, and to devote my time to developing concepts that are authentic and trustworthy. And I hope you do the same."

I've noticed with the latest models, especially Opus 4.6, some of the resistance to these LLMs is relenting. Kudos for people being willing to change their opinion and update when new evidence comes to light.

1. https://cs.stanford.edu/~knuth/chatGPT20.txt
by tstrimple | 2026-03-03 20:03:46+00:00
This is such a fucking stupid argument because the "right" explicitly aligns itself with the 0.01%. If they are cheerleading it and voting for it and celebrating it, what the fuck makes you think they are on the side of the 99%. It's counterfactual. There is no evidence of it. Look at their support for Trump for fucks sake. He has made over $3B from his presidency ripping people off, and they fucking love him for it. They are on his side, not ours! Again. Look at how they consistently vote before pretending they are any sort of ally.
by arnvald | 2026-03-03 20:03:54+00:00
> It’s a bad time to move away from tech

Working at big tech these days I see EMs and directors playing with AI, building tools, contributing to codebase through AI agents. Today when there's less hiring and building the org, becoming EM doesn't mean moving away from tech

> The ladder is very competitive

Just like on IC path. You think that being a great builder will move you from staff to principal role? Nope. It's about setting direction, aligning people, finding opportunities. A set of skills that's very close to what managers do.

> The pay is lower

When you compare EM against staff engineers. Is EM and staff the same level? In some companies, yes. In some companies, EM is at senior or between senior and staff. So yes, on average it will be lower than staff, but EM is not a promotion, it's a change of career path.

In any case, if someone's wondering whether they should try EM role given a chance, I still say: go for it. Going back has never been easier, a lot of companies now cuts manager roles and allows people to move back to IC, so if you have a chance to become EM and are curious about it, give it a try.
by mort96 | 2026-03-03 20:03:55+00:00
For an application like a build server, the only metric that really matters is total integer compute per dollar and per watt. When I compile e.g a Yocto project, I don't care whether a single core compiles a single C file in a millisecond or a minute; I care how fast the whole machine compiles what's probably hundred thousands of source files. If E-cores gives me more compute per dollar and watt than P-cores, give me E-cores.

Of course, having fewer faster cores does have the benefit that you require less RAM... Not a big deal before, you could get 512GB or 1TB of RAM fairly cheap, but these days it might actually matter? But then at the same time, if two E-cores are more powerful than one hyperthreaded P-core, maybe you actually save RAM by using E-cores? Hyperthreading is, after all, only a benefit if you spawn one compiler process per CPU thread rather than per core.

EDIT: Why in the world would someone downvote this perspective? I'm not even mad, just confused
by bonesss | 2026-03-03 20:04:10+00:00
Businesses are incommensurate.

GitHub is a distributed version control storage hub with additional add-on features. If peeps can’t work around a git server/hub being down and don’t know to have independent reproducible builds or integrations and aren’t using project software wildly better that GitHubs’, there are issues. And for how much money? A few hundred per dev per year? Forget total revenue, the billions, the entire thing is a pile of ‘suck it up, buttercup’ with ToS to match.

In contrast, I’ve been working for a private company selling patient-touching healthcare solutions and we all would have committed seppuku with outages like this. Yeah, zero downtime or as close to it as possible even if it means fixing MS bugs before they do. Fines, deaths, and public embarrassment were potential results of downtime.

All investments become smart or dumb depending on context. If management agrees that downtime would be lethal my prejudice would be to believe them since they know the contracts and sales perspective. If ‘they crashed that one time’ stops all sales, the 0% revenue makes being 30% faster than those astronauts irrelevant.
by slg | 2026-03-03 20:04:16+00:00
People should be able to separate the man from his politics and look at this apolitically. I don't see how anyone can see the way his speech patterns have changed over the years and not conclude that he has had a sharp cognitive decline. It's baffling that we don't talk about it, especially after we just went through this with Biden and had the whole retrospective about how that was ignored. Now here we are doing the exact same thing again immediately.
by sandy_coyote | 2026-03-03 20:04:30+00:00
My dad is 82, and like many in his generation, suffers the curse of the industrious man- he will continue to perform physical feats for which he assumes capability until he injures himself (and possibly others). Driving is just one of these things.

So far, he has gotten operations on his hips, hands, shoulders, and back after overexerting himself while gardening, moving furniture, and... walking. When I ask him to consider the risks of driving, he brushes me off like I'm being ridiculous. It infuriates me. There's no arguing with him. And I'm absolutely gonna get a phone call one day that I'm not gonna like.
by rapfaria | 2026-03-03 20:05:03+00:00
> You are the sole responsible for what tools use.

Sure, but now competitors are shipping like crazy (at their EM's sanity expense?). What to do?

> AI is voluntary

Until the company mandate. And also there 10 other EMs that I am competing with on my org tree alone, and their teams are all AI-heavy. Is that really a matter of choice?
by meisnerd | 2026-03-03 20:05:06+00:00
It's modular by design, but the UI is the primary interface — no standalone CLI yet.
On the opinionated/piecemeal question: the data layer is intentionally unopinionated. Everything is plain JSON files — tasks.json, inbox.json, decisions.json, etc. Any tool that can read/write local files can participate. I've had Claude Code, Cursor, and custom scripts all interacting with the same task queue without touching the web UI. So at the data level, it's fully piecemeal.
The UI is more opinionated — it assumes an Eisenhower matrix + kanban + inbox workflow. But you don't have to use all of it. Some people just use the kanban and ignore the priority matrix entirely.
A CLI is an interesting idea and something I've thought about. The API is already there (token-optimized REST endpoints for everything), so wrapping it in a mc tasks list --assignedTo=developer --kanban=in-progress style CLI would be straightforward. If that's something you'd use, I'd bump it up the roadmap — would you open an issue?
Haven't looked at beads specifically — could you share more about what you mean by tracking state with beads? Curious if it maps to something Mission Control already does (the checkpoint/snapshot system saves full workspace state and lets you roll back) or if it's a different paradigm entirely.
by boznz | 2026-03-03 20:05:20+00:00
This is the biggest problem going forward. I wrote about the problem many times on my blog, in talks, and as premises in my sci-fi novels

Sitting in your cubical with your perfect set of test suites, code verification rules, SOP's and code reviews you wont want to hear this, but other companies will be gunning for your market; writing almost identical software to yours in the future from a series of prompts that generate the code they want fast, cheap, functionally identical, and quite possibly untested.

As AI gets more proficient and are given more autonomy (OpenClaw++) they will also generate directly executable binaries completely replacing the compiler, making it unreadable to a normal human, and may even do this without prompts.

The scenario is terrifying to professional software developers, but other people will do this regardless of what you think, and run it in production, and I expect we are months or just a few years away from this.

Source code of the future will be the complete series of prompts used to generate the software, another AI to verify it, and an extensive test suites.
by JumpCrisscross | 2026-03-03 20:05:31+00:00
> Iran-Iraq war was decades ago, every weapon system has changed

Not the point. The point is when the world was even more dependent on oil, hundreds of tankers getting potted was no more than a major nuisance.

> Iran has anti-ship missiles they can fire with impunity at tankers

But limited launchers. And if by “with impunity” you mean losing launchers every time they fire, sure.

> Shaheds are not yet used against moving targets, but it's plausible they are ready for that

This would be an issue.

> then they can close the straits

As you say, this gives everyone in the Gulf, EU, China and India a motivated reason to ensure the war ends.

Also, Iran closing the Strait (note: singular) is self siege. A legitimate American strategy could be just waiting them out while potting shit from the air.

> the nuclear option is very nuclear

There are no nuclear tactics on the table at this time.
by datsci_est_2015 | 2026-03-03 20:05:31+00:00
It’s not a controversial viewpoint that a child can’t consent to their information being uploaded permanently to the internet, even by a parent. This is because, as an adult, I can’t retroactively remove my presence from the internet. Seems silly in trivial cases (school website), but is quite severe in others (bathtub photos).

It’s also not controversial to paint the harmful, profit-seeking actions of companies upon minors as “abusive” (e.g. tobacco firms).

If anything, your knee-jerk response at their rhetoric raises eyebrows: why would you go to bat for a company who by nearly all public measures is fundamentally evil in aim and structure?
by 0xbadcafebee | 2026-03-03 20:06:27+00:00
It's because people like choice and control, and "5.2" vs "5.2 thinking" is confusing. Making them "5.2 instant" and "5.2 thinking" is less confusing to more people. Their competitors already do this (Gemini 3 Fast & Gemini 3 Thinking).
by ang_cire | 2026-03-03 20:06:56+00:00
> consumer action is the only way you can affect business decisions

I mean, insomuch as any action I take is a consumer action, because I am a consumer, this is true. That's why Luigi'ing is a consumer action.

But 'vote with your wallet' is an illusion; you have no way of informing an entity why you are rejecting their service if you simply don't patronize them. On a ballot you're actively choosing another over them. As a consumer, you're otherwise 'invisible' to them.

Walking past Target out of rejection of their politics, for example, is no different to them than the person next to you walking by because they don't need anything from them at that moment (and realistically, they would probably prefer to just switch you for said politically/privacy-un-conscious person). It's still good to stick to your morals, but that alone isn't actually 'consumer action' in the way you mean it.

It requires a coordinated, public messaging campaign that a group is boycotting actively to have any impact on a business. Your individual action of not clicking on Accept Cookies does nothing to influence businesses.