MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by bisonbear | 2026-03-10 20:39:04+00:00
assume you're referencing coding agents - I don't think people are. If they are, it's likely using

- AI to evaluate itself (eg ask claude to test out its own skill)
- custom built platform (I see interest in this space)

I've actually been thinking about this problem a lot and am working on making a custom eval runner for your codebase. What would your usecase be for this?
by john_strinlai | 2026-03-10 20:39:22+00:00
im sorry, but i disagree quite strongly with your suggestion that a comment about the unethical behavior of a company is off-topic on a post by that company launching their product.

especially when that company wants you to curl | bash their code onto your machine -- potential users deserve to know that despite being a YC-backed company (which would typically be a positive indicator, people may reduce their scrutiny) that they have been caught scraping data they shouldnt be, and then using that data for marketing, and refuse to respond to anyone who bring it up.

but it is your world and i am just living in it, so i will carry on. i appreciate that you did not collapse them.
by nineteen999 | 2026-03-10 20:40:03+00:00
100% same experience with Claude and Unreal Engine 5 over here. And as the game moves from "less scaffolding" towards "more code", Claude actually is getting better at one-shotting things than it ever was - probably due to there being a lot more examples in the codebase of how to handle things under different scenarious (world compositing, multiplayer etc etc).
by tgma | 2026-03-10 20:40:27+00:00
> I'm ignorant?

Very.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Killing_of_Neda_Agha-Soltan

I'm not gonna debate the obvious with an account with 53 karma who denies the existence of basic stuff or not aware of the obvious who wants to lash out against the west. No videos my ass. I'm not gonna be your Google, so I am out.
by itigges22 | 2026-03-10 20:40:39+00:00
In my opinion- we need to successfully integrate generative AI into our workflows, but we need to do it appropriately and exercise caution. Ex. If you are a senior developer utilizing AI as a tool then I see using Generative AI as a competitive advantage. If you are a junior developer claiming to be a senior developer that is not okay.

All in All, just be honest with yourself, and be honest to others on where your skills lie. AI can be a great tool, but it should not replace you.
by magicalist | 2026-03-10 20:40:46+00:00
> Is it really about rewards? Im genuinely curious. Because its not a RL model.

Ha, good point. I was using it informally (you could handwave and call it an intrinsic reward if a model is well aligned to completing tasks as requested), but I hadn't really thought about it.

Searching around, it seems like I'm not alone, but it looks like "specification gaming" is also sometimes used, like: https://deepmind.google/blog/specification-gaming-the-flip-s...
by scarmig | 2026-03-10 20:40:56+00:00
Plenty of scientific authorities believed in it through the 19th century, and they didn't blindly believe it: it had good arguments for it, and intelligent people weighed the pros and cons of it and often ended up on the side of miasma over contagionism. William Farr was no idiot, and he had sophisticated statistical arguments for it. And, as evidence that it was a scientific theory, it was abandoned by its proponents once contagionism had more evidence on its side.

It's only with hindsight that we think contagionism is obviously correct.
by eliemichel | 2026-03-10 20:41:20+00:00
It saddens me to see this flagged, I did not have any predefined opinion about the author or the medium, but I did enjoy reading a text with a bit of character - which is becoming rare in these times of LLM omnipresence. And whether we like the form or not, this is an opinionated piece like many others we see on HN, with a thesis that I find pretty relevant. Beyond saddened, I am actually worried to see the HN community dismiss this type of post rather than discussing it like others.
by oa335 | 2026-03-10 20:41:53+00:00
> embrace multiculturalism, bi-lingualism and only care about assimilation in terms of understanding laws and civic institutions... I do not care any more or less about an immigrants culture, beliefs, rituals or habits any more than any segment of the population

That’s almost exactly what Bill Clinton advocated

> Can we be one America respecting, even celebrating, our differences, but embracing even more what we have in common? …Can we define what it means to be an American …in terms of our primary allegiance to the values America stands for and values we really live by?

> And more than ever, we understand the benefits of our racial, linguistic, and cultural diversity in a global society

> When young people sit side by side with people of many different backgrounds, they do learn something that they can take out into the world. And they will be more effective citizens.

> we must demand responsibility from every American. Our strength as a society depends upon both—upon people taking responsibility for themselves and their families, teaching their children good values, working hard and obeying the law, and giving back to those around us… No responsibility is more fundamental than obeying the law.

Additionally, Clinton may not have used the “salad bowl” metaphor, but frequently used metaphors like “mosaic” and “tapestry woven from different colored threads”.

https://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/documents/commencement-addre...
by gruez | 2026-03-10 20:42:46+00:00
>The path of "figure out how to screen capture the entire DRM-unprotected movie as a video and send that entire file" has about the same level of resistance [...]

The biggest flaw with this logic is that screen capturing tools specifically don't work on DRM protected content. Moreover if you're trying to imply making a screen recording is some sort of black magic to normies, you must be living in the 2010s. Nowadays both iOS and Android have built-in screen recorders, and on desktops you can use something like loom, which works off a browser.
by klibertp | 2026-03-10 20:42:48+00:00
As much as I love Common Lisp, it's dead. It has 2 orders of magnitude fewer packages in quicklisp than Emacs has in MELPA - and Emacs is an editor, not a general-purpose programming language. SBCL has a handful of devs and moves very slowly - nothing else does at all. Maybe LispWorks, but that's expensive.

CL is also held together - and held back, hugely - by the standard that won't ever be updated. It's good to have it, but there are major omissions (code walkers, MOP) that won't ever be fixed.

As it is now, Elisp is more practical as a scripting language than CL. The gap will only continue to grow. Right now, CL has an edge in parallelism - native threads and mutexes (with all the problems they entail) work there, while with Emacs, the only parallelism you can get is through separate processes. On the other hand, async/await-style concurrency works quite well in Emacs, while in CL you're basically a few macros away from raw promises, and the only real asynchrony is through a pool of threads executing callbacks, and it doesn't play well with conditions and restarts and some other advanced features (notably absent from Elisp).

I love CL, but right now it's aged considerably, lost many of its unique advantages, and has little chance of ever catching up. It's a shame, but using CL in 2026 is not a superpower anymore - it's just one of the similarly-valued propositions, competing with other dynamic languages, still providing a few unique advantages, but even those are being implemented in other languages fast.
by dang | 2026-03-10 20:43:22+00:00
I'm happy to answer as best I can! but I'm having trouble understanding what you're specifically asking.

If https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47327129 and https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47328465 don't answer your questions, can you maybe try picking the most important question and making it as specific as you can? Then I can take a crack at that and we can go from there.
by truncate | 2026-03-10 20:43:31+00:00
Emacs is my editor/IDE of choice and consider myself power-user. However, I'm no expert in its internals or elisp. I understand that things are built with single-thread execution in mind over decades. However, I think things still can be more async, where you can offload heavy stuff to separate thread and stream results. E.g. Magit status doesn't need to block my entire editor. It can run what it needs to do in separate thread, send the results back to main thread just for rendering when its ready. Same with say consult-ripgrep / consult-find-file / find-file-in-project etc -- doens't need to wait for it in main thread and block the render / event handling until entire result set is ready (e.g. in this case things can be streamed). As in maybe there is a way around to make this much better by message passing/streaming instead of sharing state itself?

I love Emacs, but it really just fails to be effective for me when I work on monorepos and even more so, when I'm on tramp.
by satvikpendem | 2026-03-10 20:43:54+00:00
It's a contraction to 'cause just with the apostrophe elided. Everyone knows what they mean and knows that this cause is different than the other verb or noun "cause." I also sometimes use its instead of it's in text because it's too annoying to fix the autocorrected (or not) spelling on a phone keyboard, not because I don't know the difference.
by nomel | 2026-03-10 20:44:00+00:00
> And, I'm not talking about the indirect applications of a calculator or a specific intelligence.

This was an attempt to prevent this exact chain of response.

I calculator can only be used indirectly to solve a practical problem. A more general intelligence is required to know a calculator is needed, and how to break down the problem in a way that a calculator can be used effectively.

You can't solve a real world problem with a calculator, but, for example, an engineers with a calculator can. I think we've reached the limits of communication. Cheers!
by ordu | 2026-03-10 20:44:18+00:00
> I wouldn’t admit to this level of frankly incompetence.

Well yeah. It reminds me of how I wrote an addon for WoW, while having no clue how to write GUI code, learning lua and Blizzard API as I go, and having no tools except a text editor. It took 3-4 sharp ideological shifts, till I got to reading about elm architecture, and refactored all the code into it, while using addons helping with debugging issues, using a scaffold to create throw away addons for testing details of how WoW API functions/object work, using Ace library for messages and some other things, using my another addon to track events to learn when and which events WoW fires... Near the end I was a pretty competent addon developer, but the most part of my way there I was just trying a lot of things to see what works.

> Why would you be so loud and proud about all this.

Oh, I also like to tell my story of how it was. When I finally got it work on clean elm architecture with clear separation of state, view and update, I was proud, obviously, but even before that I was proud because of Danning-Kruger. My code was a way better than the original addon, and it was becoming better and better with each sharp turn. It is funny in hindsight.
by RulerOf | 2026-03-10 20:44:40+00:00
You're absolutely.... that's a tired joke at this point. Sorry.

Just brainstorming, but I suppose that account/karma farming is still useful for the people that do that sort of thing.

Engaging in a heavily on-topic way in larger niche subreddits is probably a really good way to get that done. There's always a motive and it's always money and it always idiotic.

I remember having a clear vision of how this tech was going to ruin communities on the internet. I really hate that it has mostly come to pass and there's no good way to fight it.
by satvikpendem | 2026-03-10 20:45:26+00:00
I read both books too and when I saw the title they're what it reminded me of and then it was confirmed when I clicked the link, so it's nice to predict something then be right.

I would definitely recommend people to read them, in the order of their publishing, as internet speak changes fast enough to have a difference between 2019 and 2025.
by FridgeSeal | 2026-03-10 20:45:27+00:00
> We, agentic coders, can easily enough fork their project and add whatever the features

Bold of you to assume that people won’t move (and their code along with it) to spaces where parasitic behaviour like this doesn’t occur, locking you out.

In addition to just being a straight-up rude, disrespectful and parasite position to take, you’re effectively poisoning your own well.
by MeetingsBrowser | 2026-03-10 20:46:57+00:00
> faithfully pay my $100/mo ... the literal most idiotic thing I've ever seen ... causes me to almost get physically angry ... I'm so dumbfounded

I think maybe you should consider stepping back from LLMs for a while. Take a break. The models and tooling will improve and you can try again later.

Keeping up with latest trends is not worth your health.
Show HN: Chat AI Agent built into live Appium/mobile device sessions
by krishpavuluri | 2026-03-10 20:47:20+00:00
We run a cloud device farm for mobile test automation (real Android/iOS devices, Selenium Grid, Appium).

We just shipped a Chat AI Agent that lives inside every device session. It sees the live screen and answers questions like "what's the XPath for that button?" or "give me the UIAutomator2 selector for row 2" — with code output in Java, Python, Swift, Kotlin, or WebDriverIO.

The implementation: we grab a frame from the WebRTC stream at query time and pass it to a vision LLM with a structured prompt. The model returns locators in all applicable formats (XPath, CSS, UIAutomator2, XCUITest, Accessibility ID). We parse and render with syntax highlighting.

The main challenge was prompt engineering to get clean parseable output vs. prose with embedded code.

Happy to answer questions about the implementation.
by BADCAFE | 2026-03-10 20:48:01+00:00
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by patchnull | 2026-03-10 20:48:09+00:00
Nothing shipping today is really competitive with modern ARM or x86. The SiFive P870 and Tenstorrent Ascalon (Jim Keller's team) are the most anticipated high-performance designs, but neither is widely available. What you can actually buy today tops out around Cortex-A76 class single-thread performance at best, which is roughly where ARM was five or six years ago.
by ToucanLoucan | 2026-03-10 20:48:12+00:00
Can confirm. Spent over an hour trying to figure out why I couldn't build to devices just to get frustrated, browse to HN, and here we are.

I'm looking for a job shoveling pig shit as we speak.

What genuinely pisses me off is that this isn't noted on their status page, nor is it indicated at all when you, I dunno, revoke and generate certs repeatedly trying to solve a problem you didn't fucking cause.
by satvikpendem | 2026-03-10 20:48:19+00:00
Yes, Algospeak goes through this. It's funny to see words like mogging or looksmaxxing be common internet parlance, it's as if the terms lose their toxic power through widespread usage, just as I recall the story of the KKK having their secrets leaked via a radio program such that kids started talking about "grand wizards" for fun [0].

[0] PDF warning - https://www.loc.gov/static/programs/national-recording-prese...
by amluto | 2026-03-10 20:48:33+00:00
Another stupid part of this: used cooking grease has positive market value! Quite a few companies, even in expensive places like Palo Alto, will happily supply you, for free, with barrels and such to hold your grease, and they'll come empty them when they're full, and I think you can even often negotiate to get paid to give these companies your grease.

It gets recycled into various non-tasty but still useful commodities.

(The economics work out at restaurant scale but not necessarily at household scale. If you deep fry a lot at home, you might be responsible for transporting your own grease to someone who wants it.)
by vincent-manis | 2026-03-10 20:49:11+00:00
In the 1970s, I temporarily relocated from Vancouver to Boston. A few days after I arrived, someone said, “After work, I'm going to take the T [subway] to BC.” I was awed by the concept of a continental mass-transit system, but puzzled. It turns out that in the Massachusetts Bay area, BC is Boston College.

Context is king.
Show HN: Clauductor – Web UI for Claude Code with real-time work graph
by mbadyl | 2026-03-10 20:49:27+00:00
I've been using Claude Code heavily and built a web interface around it. The main thing that felt missing was visibility into what the model is actually doing while it runs - so the core feature is a real-time interactive graph of Claude's steps and tool calls.

It also has a chat UI with streaming, project and session management, permission controls with YOLO mode, and profiles for switching between API keys.

Early stage, MIT licensed, building it mostly for myself.
by ACCount37 | 2026-03-10 20:49:38+00:00
The biggest flaw with your logic is the utter lack of it.

If I could rip K-Pop Demon Hunters with a screen capture app to obtain a file I could share with a friend, I still wouldn't do it. Because finding a torrent is simpler and faster. I would get a very similar file, but so much faster, because I didn't have to keep the screen running at x1 for the full duration.

And finding a shady website that has it available is simpler and faster still.
by jillesvangurp | 2026-03-10 20:49:45+00:00
Good decision. The two extremes of this decision are both bad. On one hand the status quo of a lot of slop demanding attention from busy people is just not sustainable and something has to change. But throwing out the baby with the bath water by just blanket banning all forms of AI contributions is not a long term sustainable solution. It's a stop gap solution at best. And one that would be challenged more and more as inevitably tools keep on getting better and more widely used. It's not going to take years even. Deciding to not decide right now gives people some time to think and reflect.

The right way might be to fight AI slop with AI enforced guard rails. It's not actually that hard to implement technically. You can literally just put some markdown skills in your repository and periodically have an AI bot apply the review PR skill to incoming PRs to pre-screen them and automatically close PRs that obviously fall short of well documented criteria, and label & prioritize remaining ones.

Open claw might be a bridge too far for some at this point but it's maybe a glimpse of a future where we have AI bots filtering, screening and funneling inbound information. If you are a bit handy, you can just unleash codex or code claude on your issue tracker and pull requests right now. Worth experimenting with at a small scale.

Criteria could include doing a quick code review. Is the code appropriate and minimal? Does it meet all the documented criteria? Does it fix something that is worth fixing? Does it need further review? AIs can do all sorts of things with PRs ranging from commenting to closing the PR, prioritizing it, commenting on them, or flagging it for escalation to the right person in the team. By the time a real person chooses to spend time on a PR it should have already passed a lot of quality gates and be in a decent enough shape.

A second innovation here could be doing more with reputation. Github users build up reputation by virtue of all the contributions they make over time to all sorts of projects. Also, git allows people to sign their commits. That allows AI gate keepers to sort incoming contributions by reputation. Maybe be lenient towards known repeat contributors. Give the benefit of the doubt to new contributors but scrutinize them more and be very strict on everybody else by default. In a meritocracy, you build reputation by consistently doing good work. Dumping a lot of AI slop on somebody's desk would be the opposite.

Just some thoughts. I have a few smaller github projects but I'm so far not burdened by a lot of low quality PRs.
by LoganDark | 2026-03-10 20:49:55+00:00
Roblox is a game engine and social platform. The basic idea is, you create a game in their engine, using their development tools (such as Roblox Studio), and then you market/promote the game on their website for others to play together with their friends. The game runs on their servers, and you don't have to worry about your own infra if you don't want to, in exchange for the money players spend on Robux (the virtual currency, and now the only one), which they can in turn spend on developer products and other paid items that you set up in your games. Then once the developer makes enough Robux from player purchases, they can cash it out through a process called Developer Exchange which essentially makes them a W-2 employee of Roblox (or whatever financial partner they use, Tipalti?)

The idea is that people like playing with their friends and when they can take their friends and make new friends across hundreds of thousands of games they stay for a long time. The social features of Roblox are a huge part of the appeal, even though I was mostly interested in the engine.
by chriskanan | 2026-03-10 20:50:02+00:00
I had lunch with Yann last August, about a week after Alex Wang became his "boss." I asked him how he felt about that, and at the time he told me he would give it a month or two and see how it goes, and then figure out if he should stay or find employment elsewhere. I told him he ought to just create his own company if he decides to leave Meta to chase his own dream, rather than work on the dream's of others.

That said, while I 100% agree with him that LLM's won't lead to human-like intelligence (I think AGI is now an overloaded term, but Yann uses it in its original definition), I'm not fully on board with his world model strategy as the path forward.
by rcleveng | 2026-03-10 20:50:06+00:00
I'd love to see the policy on review tools to start with, I know even people who are skeptical of getting "AI Slop" thrown at them by agents at a high rate, getting code reviews from some of the SOTA models definitely can be helpful.

Google found that with Jules years ago at this point, same for other automated tools.

When I first saw the headline though, it sounded like someone was listening to one of my favorite Rush songs.

"""

If you choose not to decide

You still have made a choice

You can choose from phantom fears

And kindness that can kill

I will choose a path that’s clear

I will choose free will.

"""
by egeozcan | 2026-03-10 20:50:59+00:00
AFAIK Claude doesn't support it, but if you're willing to go the extra mile, you can get creative with some bash script: https://pastebin.com/raw/m9YQ8MyS (generated this a second ago - just to get the point across )

To be clear, I don't do this. I never saw an agent cheat by peeking or something. I really did look through their logs.

I'd be very interested to see claude code and other tools support this pattern when dispatching agents to be really sure.