MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by Epa095 | 2026-03-14 07:56:16+00:00
Because tax is not your bill from 'government Corp ', its your contribution to the community, to your tribe. And we have explicit goals for this, besides bringing revenue (like the strongest back should carry the heaviest burden).

When we have communal contributions in other settings, your contribution is usually not a secret.

It is meant to give the tax system more legitimacy, that you don't gave to wonder if people sneak out of their contribution, you can check. It also leads to yearly debates about the tax system as the list of the richest(usually inherited) is published together with what they pay in income tax vs wealth tax.

Previously you could check up anyone anonymous. These days you have to log inn, and they get a notification. But the list of the richest and their tax contribution gets published in the newspaper.
by gskm | 2026-03-14 07:56:49+00:00
Spot on. That cliff might be less about the model failing at distance and more about noise accumulating faster than signal. In prod, most of what fills the window is file reads, grep output, and tool overhead, i.e., low-value tokens. By 700k you're not really testing long-context reasoning, you're testing the model's ability to find signal in a haystack it built itself.
by svara | 2026-03-14 07:56:50+00:00
Hey, thanks, that was quite interesting!

I'd be curious to hear your thoughts on how the "fixer", who sounds rather ineffective as an executive, came into this position, in what sounds like overall a rather effective organization.

I've been personally thinking quite a bit about what makes organizations work or not work recently, and your story is quite interesting to me as a glimpse into a kind of organization that I've never seen from the inside myself.
by itsankur | 2026-03-14 07:57:23+00:00
Updating, you're right! Sorry that wasn't intentional. We're already working on whitelists and blacklists for files, topics, etc..

Sensitive data is wiped and never stored such as keys, tokens, and PII.

If it's a non-starter for most users, we'd definitely build out encryption, and local storage formats.

Cloud was for product velocity for ourselves, not to be malicious. Again we put it together in 4 days.

Appreciate the warning here.
by crucialfelix | 2026-03-14 07:57:23+00:00
This doesn't even work.

`curl -fsSL https://nanoclaw.dev/install-docker-sandboxes.sh | bash`

Creating sandbox...
unknown flag: --name

https://nanoclaw.dev/install-docker-sandboxes.sh

It looks like it requires a min version of docker, but it didn't check that version.
The link to https://docs.docker.com/sandbox/ in the .sh is wrong.

The post should also have a link to the source of the .sh and where it's github issues are at.
by jurschreuder | 2026-03-14 07:57:57+00:00
I'm not sure AI Agents can already beat the average VIM user.

I use VIM and I get some inspiration from LLMs sometimes, but me and other developers always after some time give up and just quickly do it manually.

AI Agents will just full the code with maaaassive swaths of texts it will just make a project unusable.

We even get paid to turn client's AI LLM Claude sketches into real programs.
by pjmlp | 2026-03-14 07:58:06+00:00
I lived in XEmacs between 1995 and 2005, because in many UNIX variants having an IDE was a foreign word, not even something that could provide the affordances of a Turbo Pascal with Turbo Vision based IDE for MS-DOS.

Between Emacs, the improved XEmacs, and vi, the answer was obvious at the time, I joined the Emacs faction with XEmacs.

Mastered elisp good enough, had my configuration scripts, go to know enough vi to handle telneting (or sshing) into random UNIX servers without anything else installed.

Both are still kind of stuck in time, going back to them in random UNIX distribution feels like I am back in that UNIX decade.
by keithnz | 2026-03-14 07:59:06+00:00
vim (neovim these days) for me is my text editor I use to look at code when dealing with AI, more often than not I'm working on a bug list as I test things. I haven't opened my IDE (Jetbrains tools) for nearly 2 weeks now. Only thing I often want is to be able to run sql queries, I used datagrip for that... Now I'm writing my own tui sql tool that is lightning quick and has most of the features I like from data grip, plus a bunch of new things that make my life easier. I've made it work as a MCP server also so that I can get my agent to directly inject queries and I can browse the result sets easily. I feel like the terminal, because its text based and super great at manipulating text is such a perfect match for these AI agents. But, yes, the need for code editing itself is really limited.
by bob1029 | 2026-03-14 07:59:08+00:00
You have to look beyond the audio engineering on this one.

Using constrained mediums on purpose is often how the best artistic expression is achieved. For example, if the artist knows their channel is noisy and band-limited they can get a lot more liberal with the kinds of samples they use throughout. CD/SACD is kind of like 4K for television. The medium becomes so transparent that it causes upstream shocks in every other part of the process. You can no longer rely on the camera or audio chain to cover it up (unless you hobble yourself intentionally).
by jcupitt | 2026-03-14 08:01:59+00:00
Hello, libvips author here, you can get it to do the OKLab averaging for you. For example, using pyvips (ahem, untested):

image = pyvips.Image.new_from_file(filename, access="sequential")

scale = min(200 / image.width, 200 / image.height)

thumbnail = image.colourspace("oklab").resize(scale).extract_bands(0, n=3)

rgbf = thumbnail.write_to_memory()

That'll stream the source image and make a RGBRGBRGB memory buffer of single precision floats. You could perhaps use kernel="linear" and avoid any ringing from lanczos3.

I think I would downsample in a linear light space, like scRGB. Averaging there means averaging photons, which will surely be better than OKLab. Maybe switch to OKLab for clustering. Though of course I've not tested it.
by telesilla | 2026-03-14 08:02:30+00:00
I have a beautiful animation of a tesseract on an old drive somewhere I kept, back in the animated gif days, I'd look at it now and then in wonder. Reminds me of the same extraordinary feelings about the beauty of the universe with this clip: https://youtube.com/shorts/TGuxwgUyu2A?si=knDzBVqTaZ4oqMEj
by olalonde | 2026-03-14 08:02:36+00:00
Yep, software specs or requirements[0]. Thanks to LLMs it's easy to look up acronyms, but still, it feels like there's an uptick of them on HN[1]...

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Software_requirements_specific...

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47323316 who the hell knows that version of "RSI"?
by ifh-hn | 2026-03-14 08:02:41+00:00
Fair points. And likely why I'm not suited to academia too. I've just never really groked the practice. I've obviously only experience from bachelor's and masters but it always seems that you have an idea and the research is finding papers to back it up, and then some that might not. The work you do doesn't really matter as it seems secondary to the nonsense around "the literature".
by wincy | 2026-03-14 08:03:03+00:00
That’s sad to hear, I remember how good Logitech was back in the mid-2000s, the Logitech G15 keyboard had 18 programmable macro buttons and a media LED screen and media buttons that had a custom plugins SDK for stuff like Winamp, so I could listen to all my pirated music without having to alt+tab out of World of Warcraft. I used that thing until most of the letters had worn off the keycaps.

Around 2009 or so my Logitech wired laser mouse died after years of heavy use, and I emailed them about it, they sent me a brand new mouse, their newest top of the line model with no hassle at all. I’m not even sure it was still under warranty.
by komali2 | 2026-03-14 08:03:46+00:00
> Imagine an AI assistant that can read your org-mode agenda, draft email replies in mu4e, help you write commit messages in Magit, and refactor code in your source buffers – all within the same environment, sharing context. No other editor architecture makes this kind of deep, cross-domain integration as natural as Emacs does.

I've been a devout emacs amateur for 10 years, and recently learned nvim/lazy.vim because I was tired of web dev kinda sucking in emacs. Sure, you can get a setup with lint-on-save, inline TS errors, and all the other bells and whistles you get in vscode working on a react-tsx project, but then when you `helm-projectile-switch-project` to a vue project, suddenly you have to get a whole new config set up. And oops, for whatever reason, tab spacing isn't being pulled from the editor config for this directory...

But like the author says, LLMs fixed that. I pointed Warp at my emacs config, said my problems, and said "fix plz," and it did. No more "oops," just "fix plz" whenever I'm editing rust, or svelte, or golang, or whatever else for the first time in emacs.

I'm very excited for the possibility in the portion I quoted. I moved away from mu4e and org mode because managing it all was getting tedious: too much time procrastinating by tweaking org configs. Too many emails not rendered properly in mu4e or fat fingered by me and lost. But in world+llm, that's not really a problem anymore. I haven't migrated back to org mode yet but I did an experiment recently asking claude to set up org similar to my trilium set up, and it did a passable enough job that I was convinced it's possible.

So, now I'm back in emacs, trying out the various LLM tools, doing poorly at getting anything other than copilot to work well, and waiting with patience and desperation for someone to make an LLM completion experience in emacs that has a multiline completion experience at least 50% as good as Cursor's.
by itsankur | 2026-03-14 08:03:48+00:00
As pointed out below:

Currently your prompts are processed by our server hosted at www.gopeek.ai. This was meant for velocity and early iteration while we're getting data models right.

We're already working on whitelists and blacklists for files, topics, memory exports, and can even work on self-hosted/locally hosted versions so please let us know what is a non-starter on this front.

Sensitive data is already wiped and never stored such as keys, tokens, and PII.
by sph | 2026-03-14 08:04:32+00:00
I never found the idea of a thinking computer exciting, just as I don’t find the idea of a thinking screwdriver exciting.

These days I see the ultimate goal to create a super-intelligence to be blasphemous, if not existentially dangerous and I am afraid by how nonchalant everybody is about it.

I quite enjoy a reality where humans and biological life are in control of their destiny, but it’s apparently become a taboo opinion around these parts.
by ekrisza | 2026-03-14 08:06:19+00:00
One reason could be that it is hard to evaluate productivity growth, in a general sense, after such a short time.

If we look at the Laws of Software Evolution, we should not really expect any improvement on the long run. This, however, does not mean that a given project might not experience benefits.

I have recently published a study: https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s44427-025-00019-y.
There, I investigated the long-term evolution of 66K projects. For about 16.1% of the projects, the growth curves seemed stable over decades. In line with the Laws of Software Evolution, they seemed to be largely resistant to external changes.
At the same time, most of the projects, the smaller ones, did not seem to be that stable. There external factors might have had large impacts. However, on the long term, projects in this group were also more likely to decelerate.

It might take several years, till we can tell if this technology did really bring a productivity growth that was sustainable on the long run, was only improving work in some particular domains, or just created some short term performance jump that came with some much higher costs only realized afterwards.
by elxr | 2026-03-14 08:07:58+00:00
> Such great hardware

Every other mouse brand I've used (razer, hyperx, reddragon, steelseries) has outlasted my logitech-G mice, and felt noticeably better built. Their keyboards are the most generic, nothing-special keyboards for any company of that size. They don't innovate.

I will never buy a logitech mouse/keyboard ever, especially with the options we have today.

It's so tiring hearing people praise their hardware when they've literally been outcompeted for a decade at this point. Their webcams, and other niche stuff (like flight sticks) may be fine, but their mice/keyboard are below average.
by Saline9515 | 2026-03-14 08:09:15+00:00
This has also the effect of fueling envy, and allows employers to discriminate you if they see that you have side income (or if you don't). Why make all of this fuss about RGPD if private data is in the open?

And why not include medical data as well? The "tribe" has the right to know how much each one costs, right?
by metalman | 2026-03-14 08:10:57+00:00
a great deal of alcohol, weed, etc, is consumed ,very specifcly, to forget.
to the point that users, often workers doing
labour, or other jobby jobs, get fairly aggetated by days, and especialy weeks end, wrapped up in an overload of the realities of serving others interests, and ends.
drugs provide a crude function similar to the processing that occurs durring sleep and dreaming.
That this has effects on the gut, is hardly
unexpected ,but that the system will recover
with due care, is.
Treating the gut as a self maintaining biological digester, which it is, then suggests looking at how various industrial digestors operate and malfunction.
by adamfarhadi | 2026-03-14 08:12:06+00:00
I’m by no means an audiophile and it had been years since I owned a pair of wired headphones, but I picked up a pair of Linsoul 7HZ x Crinacle Zero:2 (yes that is actually the name) IEMs after seeing some glowing reviews online and I was absolutely blown away by how they sounded despite costing only 240 SEK (around 25 USD). Back in the early 2010s when I was more interested in hi-fi audio you definitely couldn’t get as great sounding IEMs around this price.
by rtpg | 2026-03-14 08:13:29+00:00
This stuff stands on the foundations it's built off of. It's very hard to argue against the stoic determinism of an `ls` call.

And all the success stories I've seen in people using these tools have had a similar theme: top level might be LLM-y but you rush to get to deterministic straightforward building blocks so that you can have reliability.

That, to me, looks like writing up a bunch of small programs to help establish vocabularies and workflows to avoid just churning and getting lost in the weeds.

I'd be interested in seeing some future form of process orientation, but in the meantime.... shells in general have proven they are decently good at tying stuff together quite well.

`ls dir | grep thingy | process` gonna involve less possibility of annoying drift and churn than "run process on all the files with thingy in their name in directory"
by chias | 2026-03-14 08:13:35+00:00
I recently upgraded my 4a to a 10 two months ago. Besides getting security updates again, it feels like a downgrade in every way that matters to me.

Can't lie flat due to camera bulge. No headphone jack. Fingerprint sensor on the front that screen protectors interfere with. No sim slot. Ai bullshit triggers if i keep my thumb to close to where you touch to switch apps. Ai bullshit also replaces the old power menu, which now requires a combo button press.

Such a let down.
by dmitryv | 2026-03-14 08:13:54+00:00
We address it in a few ways:

1. each skill has labels

2. triage agent cherry-picks the useful skills based on their descriptions and previous tasks and labels

In the end each agent will have only relevant tasks.

For example:
Triage agent picked the following 3 skills out of 40+ others for the task "Xero: Close books":

- xero-month-end-closing-books

- agent-browser

- agent-browser-authentication
by jsiepkes | 2026-03-14 08:14:11+00:00
While the Neo is a nice notebook, I think you are overestimating it's durability advantages.

> If you're a school IT department buying these in volume, you want something that actually lasts more than a year before pieces of plastic begin chipping off, hinges start wearing out, etc. And you want something that's easy to clean / sanitize sticky little kid fingerprints off of, and also to undo e.g. residue (from kids who thought it'd be a good idea to stick stickers on their take-home laptop) without worrying about either the adhesive or the thinner permanently damaging the chassis.

If you manage to break a plastic cover, that amount of force will certainly also dent, bent and/or dislodge the aluminum cover of the Neo.

I've never seen or heard about plastic chipping off due to normal use (i.e. just wear). In the EU chipping-off plastic due to wear (with normal use) would fall under warranty. I have seen aluminum covers on high-end HP notebooks being bent, dent, etc. For example when transported in a bag, with other things in it, aluminum is more likely to get damaged.

All major brands (Lenovo, HP, Apple, etc.) have at some point had issues with hinges. I think it's even fair to say that Apple isn't known for being particularly forth coming about acknowledging problems with hinges and issuing service advisories to repair those under warranty even when it's a known issue.

> good idea to stick stickers on their take-home laptop) without worrying about either the adhesive or the thinner permanently damaging the chassis.

Getting stickers off plastic covers vs getting stickers of macbook covers doesn't really matter in difficulty. If it is problematic for plastic, it's probably going to problematic for aluminum as well. There are a lot of cleaning agents aluminum doesn't like, which cause white-ish stains in it. You can test that yourself by putting an aluminum breadbox in a dishwasher.

> Also, Apple can now promise that you can keep a pile of spares and spare parts, and swap parts between them easily, replace consumables like batteries, etc.

Right now the Apple self-repair program is, from a financial standpoint, pretty much a gimmick. The costs are so high, you are better of going to the Apple store. Also the swap-able battery is going to be mandatory in the EU so that's something all notebooks will have. Schools usually aren't that interested in starting a repair shop.
by luzejian | 2026-03-14 08:15:11+00:00
The distribution challenge for developer tools is underrated. You can build something genuinely useful but if it doesn't surface in the exact moment a developer hits the pain point (a Stack Overflow answer, a GitHub readme, a CLI error message), adoption is slow regardless of quality. The most successful small dev tools I've seen all had an 'ambient discovery' strategy built in from day one — not just SEO, but being present in the actual error-state contexts where the need arises.
by jmanhype | 2026-03-14 08:16:00+00:00
I'm a solo founder. 261 commits, 44 tests, 54 deploys. VAOS runs your AI agent 24/7 on Fly.io -- you give it a prompt and a Telegram channel, it handles the rest.

The part I care about most: every 5 minutes, a loop scores each agent response on confidence. Low-confidence ones get flagged for you to review. When you correct something, that correction goes into the agent's context for future responses. Not fine-tuning -- just feeding corrections back as structured context. After a few days, the agent stops repeating the same bad answers.

I'm dogfooding it with an agent called Scribe that posts to X for me. Scribe was terrible for the first ~80 interactions. Now it's mostly fine. The cold start period is real and I haven't figured out how to shorten it.

What works: Telegram responses in under 2 seconds. Swap between GPT-5.2, Claude Opus 4.6, and Gemini without reconfiguring. The feedback loop does what I wanted.

What doesn't: Discord and WhatsApp aren't hooked up. No way to export learned corrections (lock-in problem I need to solve). Observability dashboard exists but only I can see it right now.

$29/mo, $10 in AI credits included, 14-day trial. Stack is Node.js on Fly.io.

Curious about the confidence-scoring approach. Anything above 0.8 auto-approves, below gets queued for human review. Should I give users that threshold control, or is one knob enough?
by luzejian | 2026-03-14 08:17:06+00:00
Nice work shipping this. One thing that's often overlooked in Show HN launches is the distribution strategy after the initial HN traffic spike. The spike-then-trickle pattern is brutal if you haven't set up organic discovery channels (SEO, community presence, integrations with existing tools). The projects that sustain momentum tend to have at least one organic acquisition channel running before they launch.
by jiggawatts | 2026-03-14 08:17:15+00:00
I subscribe to the thesis of Death of the Author, that just because someone came up with something, it doesn't necessarily given them a permanent special privilege in its interpretation. Everybody can understand the work as they prefer, and if anything, the work takes on a life of its own in greater society and evolves together with it. (Hence the limits on the duration of copyright.)

This is why many common idioms are now used in their opposite meaning, and we all understand, and it's fine. As a random example, "It's all downhill from here" can mean either "it gets easier" or "it gets worse". The meaning has changed over time. Also: "I could care less", etc...

> This article is focused too much on communication style and not enough on the subject of communication. The latter was the crux of it. Crocker’s Rules were about being able to rigorously discuss topics that society has deemed to be beyond discussion without taking offense at the fact it is being discussed.

That's a distinction that's not as clear cut as you think.

The problem in the workplace setting is that the subject is the code/system/product/organisation, which has no feelings and hence can't be offended, but many people feel compelled to use an overly verbose style in order to avoid offending the humans charged with the care of the unfeeling object.

There is a certain freedom in treating things as things and calling out their objective properties as is, instead of dancing around the facts.

This is the very same thing as talking plainly and directly about taboo or sensitive subjects. Just do it! It's fine!
by agentsbooks | 2026-03-14 08:17:32+00:00
The observation about agents keeping context windows clean by delegating to external blocks really resonates. I've been building a platform for managing AI agents and hit the same wall — once you move from single-agent-in-a-chat to multi-agent orchestration, you need persistent structure outside the conversation. Canvas/block approach is one way, we went with a profile-hub model where each agent has its own identity, memory stores, and task queue. Curious how you handle permission boundaries between agents in a swarm — e.g. can one agent restrict what data another sees on the canvas? That's been one of the gnarlier problems in multi-agent systems.
by Nevermark | 2026-03-14 08:17:50+00:00
As they say, two uneth’s make a thical.

I really wouldn’t want to be in this position. But it feels very motivating. It would sooth some difficult memories.

I can see myself putting in a lot of hours.

The willingness to be fired, in both good and bad situations, can be mentally freeing and an operational/political advantage. Many of us fail to push as hard as we optimally could, when we have too much on the line.
by bot403 | 2026-03-14 08:18:44+00:00
I've worked with a type of (anti?) developer in my career that seems to only be able to add code. Never change or take it away. It's bizarre. There's some calculation bug, then a few lines down some code which corrects it instead of just fixing the original lines.

It's bizzare, and as horrible as you might imagine.

And it's been more than one or two people I've seen do this.