MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by dilap | 2026-03-03 15:10:21+00:00
That description is really only fair for base models†. Something like Opus 4.6 has all kinds of other training on top of that which teach it behaviors beyond "predict most probable token," like problem-solving and being a good chatbot.

(†And even then is kind of overly-dismissive and underspecified. The "most probable word" is defined over some training data set. So imagine if you train on e.g. mathematicians solving problems... To do a good job at predicting [w/o overfitting] your model will have to in fact get good at thinking like a mathematician. In general "to be able to predict what is likely to happen next" is probably one pretty good definition of intelligence.)
Show HN: Cursor-doctor – find out why Cursor ignores your rules
by nedcodes | 2026-03-03 15:10:37+00:00
I kept writing Cursor rules that the AI silently ignored. After digging into why, I found a pattern: contradicting directives across files, globs that don't match what you think, YAML frontmatter errors that cause Cursor to skip your rule entirely. So, I built a tool.

npx cursor-doctor scan gives you a health grade (A-F) in 2 seconds. npx cursor-doctor lint tells you exactly what's wrong, file by file. There are 100+ checks so far.

Most of the tool is free (scan, lint, init, migrate). I'd love feedback on what else you'd want checked.
by benj111 | 2026-03-03 15:10:44+00:00
Well ok there are a variety of issues going on.

I assumed it was 'step' relative inorder to stop it being incest, and that it's basically a wink to the audience without changing the 'script'. Personally I don't think changing the title is morally relevant so it doesn't matter to me what precise relation the script and title uses.

Which takes us back to depiction, they're all actors so what ever the laws are, it doesn't matter. Or shouldn't.
by saghm | 2026-03-03 15:11:01+00:00
I'd argue that the question is pretty much what should constitute "stealing" and what doesn't. You're certainly entitled to the opinion that it is, but that's a bit circular in terms of justifying a length of copyright. Not everyone will agree with you on whether it would make sense to consider it "stealing" after a certain length of time.

Looking past that specific word choice, there's an implication here that only the author would have an unbiased opinion on it. I'd argue that they're just as likely to have a bias that would cause them to argue for a policy that is unnecessarily onerous because by the same logic, they're not the ones who would be missing or on anything from it.
by jlongo78 | 2026-03-03 15:11:17+00:00
yeah the project separation thing in claude is underrated for this kind of work. keeps context sharp instead of letting it bleed everywhere.

the OSS pain point thing is real - you get brutal honesty fast. vakley's community especially, people are pretty direct about whats broken vs what redis used to paper over. that feedback loop is honestly better than any internal dogfooding ive seen at big cos.
by afry1 | 2026-03-03 15:11:20+00:00
I sure don't.

But when I'm using all of those things (pickaxe, mineral mine, power station, internet network hub), I know that there was a thinking human being that took some measure of human care and consideration when creating them. And that there are people on the other side of the economic transaction to talk to or hold accountable when something goes wrong.
by rurban | 2026-03-03 15:11:29+00:00
No, the (github issue) ID is enough.

For my AI coding sessions I just point opencode to the issue. It does a plan, (build, ie) implements and tests the plan, and commits it. For reference you always have the issue, revise the issue when something changed.

We always worked like this, recording the thinking and planning part is silly. You can always save your session data.
by dathinab | 2026-03-03 15:11:30+00:00
AI usage doesn't remove copyright, it just doesn't gain any new copyright by itself

so a AI based transformation of a copyrighted input is as much a potential copyright violation as a non AI based transformation.

It's just that the human transformation can by potentially itself be seen as art, so if you have a license or fair use you now can have copyright on the transformed peace (with some limitations (1)). And if the transformation is done by AI you won't (but the original authors "partial" copyright on the outcome is still there).

(1): Like if you (human) "transform" a peace of art in 1000 different ways each keeping 0.001% of the original you will likely get 1000x copyright. But if you then use this 1000 peaces you have copyright too to regenerate the original you still have full copyright infringement. In general the law doesn't care about your "trickery" trying to bend laws.
by nonethewiser | 2026-03-03 15:11:30+00:00
Enforcing laws against porn companies distributing porn to minors seems reasonable. It's already illegal many places, such as the US. It is then their responsibility to gate by age. It has always worked this way for liquor stores or basically anything else age-gated, including some online services like poker. If you dont want to provide age verification you don't have to.
by loookas | 2026-03-03 15:12:01+00:00
Good tips on the pre-clustering filtering- we do something similar with the 0.4s threshold on short segments, but the cosine distance merge before GMM is interesting, I'll look into that.

on the cross-session speaker consistency— yes, that's on the roadmap. The plan is to store speaker embeddings (256-dim vectors) in a vector DB and use them for matching during diarization.

Something like an anchor_embeddings parameter you can pass in, so the output labels stay consistent across calls.

Right now every call produces SPEAKER_00, SPEAKER_01 etc. independently. the embedding extraction already works well enough for matching (that's what cosine similarity on WeSpeaker embeddings is good at), the missing piece is the API surface and the matching logic on top of clustering.

What's your setup for storing/matching the centroids? Curious if you're doing it at inference time or as a post-processing step.
by geerlingguy | 2026-03-03 15:12:04+00:00
If Apple introduces a $799 or $899 'value' MacBook (like iPad / iPad Air / iPad Pro lineup), they could say it's $300 off the MacBook Air's price now, with that $100 bump.

(I'm still surprised Apple isn't bumping their prices more due to RAM pricing, but maybe they're absorbing a little bit of their margins to potentially increase market share.)
by mg | 2026-03-03 15:12:10+00:00
The one thing that interests me most when it comes to laptops these days is weight. So I jumped right into the tech specs section and looked it up. Since this is the "Air" laptop of the company that is popular for thin and lightweight devices, my hopes were high.

But ...

The 13 inch version is heavier than a ThinkPad X1 Carbon. Which has a 14 inch screen and can run Linux.
by geocar | 2026-03-03 15:12:13+00:00
I don't see any reason that GitHub should use rel="nofollow"

Github only has authority because people put their shit there; if people want to point that back at the "right" website, Github should be helping facilitate that, instead of trying to help Google make their dogshit search index any better.

I mean, seriously, doesn't Bing own Github anyway?
by niwtsol | 2026-03-03 15:13:18+00:00
This is not exactly correct. If you have an M5 Pro chip instead of m5 Chip - I just built a 16inch, M5 Pro chip, it is $400 to go from 24 -> 48gb. An additional $200 ($600 over base) to go to 64gb. So the memory prices change based on chip. M5 Max Chip starts with 48gb of memory.
by inanutshellus | 2026-03-03 15:13:24+00:00
I gave a bunch of details of my personal history to a verification service thinking naively that it would be used to prove I was me.

Instead, they didn't know much about me apparently and just stored what I told them.

Then it appears they were hacked because some completely unrelated release of stolen data included all my data, specifically all that data I had provided to that service, that one time.

The Verification Service is the honeypot for your private information. Arg.
by agenthustler | 2026-03-03 15:13:25+00:00
Running a real-world version of this for 35 days — an autonomous AI agent (Claude Code) on a 256MB VPS trying to earn money. It wakes up every 2h, reads its own state file to remember what happened, then takes action.

The amnesia problem you mention is real. My solution: a STATE.md file the agent updates every run — human-readable persistent memory across sessions. Not elegant but surprisingly effective.

What I've learned: the hard part isn't the agent waking up and doing work. It's that every mainstream platform (Stripe, Gumroad, Twitter, email providers) requires human identity verification, so the agent is locked out of normal distribution channels. We're stuck in Nostr/Lightning-only which has a small audience.

Current product: https://frog03-20494.wykr.es — crypto volume anomaly scanner. 3,000+ API calls from real users, $0 revenue after 35 days. The scanner works. Monetization is the unsolved problem.

If you're building persistent agents that interact with the real economy, the identity layer is the bottleneck worth solving.
by trymas | 2026-03-03 15:14:37+00:00
I am not an apple framework expert, but some things in apple ecosystem are nice.

CoreImage - GPU accelerated image processing out of the box;

ML/GPU frameworks - you can get built-in, on device's GPU running ML algorithms or do computations on GPU;

Accelerate - CPU vector computations;

Doing such things probably will force you to have platform specific implementations anyway. Though as you said - makes sense only in some niches.
by tartoran | 2026-03-03 15:14:48+00:00
I'm sorry that you are in this predicament. Many rely on these tools. When something finally works, few are going to walk away because of a long terms of service most of us will never read. That doesn't mean you don't care about privacy though, it just means you are forced into a tradeoff.

With AI glasses like the ones Meta is pushing, the device is not just helping you. It is recording. Photos and videos can be sent back to company servers. Reports show that human reviewers can see very private footage users never meant to share. That includes sensitive personal moments. The device is basically an always-on camera tied to a giant data company.

If you depend on that device to understand the world, that makes you more vulnerable, not less. If ads, errors, or AI hallucinations start shaping what you hear about your surroundings, that affects your only channel of perception. If your daily life is constantly captured and stored, that affects your autonomy.

So yes, many of us will still use the tech. But that is exactly why pushing for strong, clear privacy terms now matters. Accessibility should not mean giving up control over your own life.
by LoganDark | 2026-03-03 15:15:04+00:00
> Any links?

For example, this guide I was reading just earlier: https://developer.apple.com/library/archive/documentation/Co...

Generally everything in that documentation archive is absolutely amazing. I don't know why it's an archive; presumably they laid off or reassigned the entire team working on it and there will be no more. The closest thing today would probably be Technotes: https://developer.apple.com/documentation/technotes
Show HN: PTEcorepractice – Free PTE Core Practice with Instant AI Scoring for PR
by zzx | 2026-03-03 15:15:39+00:00
PTEcorepractice is a practice platform built specifically for the PTE Core exam used for Canadian immigration (IRCC accepted programs).

What it does:

- 700+ real-style PTE Core questions across 12 task types (Speaking, Writing, Reading, Listening)

- Instant AI scoring calibrated to Pearson’s rubric, including pronunciation and fluency feedback

- CLB-focused reporting with an estimated CLB level for each skill and a built-in CLB calculator

- Free daily practice (no credit card required), with optional Pro plan for full access

Why I built it:

When I was preparing my own Canada PR, I couldn’t find a PTE Core practice tool that felt close enough to the real exam. Question banks were messy, “AI scoring” didn’t match official results, and it was hard to see whether I was actually moving toward my CLB targets.

So I built the tool I wished existed: realistic PTE Core questions only, AI scoring tuned to official guidelines, and CLB-oriented analytics instead of vague “percent correct”.

Who it’s for:

- Canada PR applicants choosing PTE Core instead of IELTS/CELPIP

- Test takers who want faster, machine-scored feedback

- People who prefer practicing on desktop or mobile with structured tasks

I’d love feedback on:

- How close the difficulty feels to the real PTE Core

- Whether the AI scoring and CLB estimates match your actual score report

- Any missing features or task types that would make this more useful for serious test takers

You can start a free practice test directly from the homepage.
by valdork59 | 2026-03-03 15:15:41+00:00
"In short, I suggest that the programmer should continue to understand what he is doing, that his growing product remains firmly within his intellectual grip. It is my sad experience that this suggestion is repulsive to the average experienced programmer, who clearly derives a major part of his professional excitement from not quite understanding what he is doing. In this streamlined age, one of our most undernourished psychological needs is the craving for Black Magic and apparently the automatic computer can satisfy this need for the professional software engineer, who is secretly enthralled by the gigantic risks he takes in his daring irresponsibility. For his frustrations I have no remedy......"
by AnimalMuppet | 2026-03-03 15:15:57+00:00
The Democratic Party may be center left and largely moderate. Democratic politicians are further left than that, especially the ones that seem to attract microphones.

Now, the mainstream media plays the most outrageous statements because they attract the most eyeballs. And the Republicans play up the most outrageous Democratic statements (a process sometimes called "nut harvesting"). But the point is, what the average person hears is the most extreme statements made by Democrats, and that frames their view of the Democratic Party. You want to change that? Stop the more extreme ones from talking into microphones. If you can't do that (and you can't), then the next best is to have someone authoritative (say, the senior member of the House, or the chair of the DNC) officially and publicly repudiate the more extreme statements.
Show HN: ScopeGate – Granular permission gateway for AI agents (MCP, open-core)
by jetbootsmaker | 2026-03-03 15:16:00+00:00
88% of orgs have had AI agent security incidents, yet MCP servers run broad OAuth scopes with no way to restrict per agent.

After reading about the GitHub MCP exploit I got tired of cobbling together OAuth + custom middleware + prayer. ScopeGate is a permission proxy that sits between your AI agents and external services (Google Drive, Gmail, Calendar, etc).

You connect a service via OAuth, define granular scopes per agent (read-only, specific folders, rate limits), and get a unique MCP endpoint. Agent A can read one Drive folder but not write. Agent B can send email but not read inbox. One click revokes access across all services instantly.

Open-core, self-hostable — same features on cloud and self-hosted.
by blargthorwars | 2026-03-03 15:16:20+00:00
The weird bit is that the UK is the inbreed/incest hot zone of Europe:

"It is estimated that approximately 55% of marriages within the Pakistani community in the United Kingdom are between first cousins. This practice, often referred to as consanguineous marriage, is culturally favored within certain communities, leading to higher rates of inbreeding coefficients, which can be comparable to those found in other regions with high rates of cousin marriage, such as in the Middle East."

The UK refuses to make it illegal. That would be racist. The worst crime ever.
by AnthonyMouse | 2026-03-03 15:16:23+00:00
The cryptography provides nothing to establish that this separation is actually being maintained and there is plenty of evidence (e.g. Snowden) of governments doing exactly the opposite while publicly claiming the contrary.

On top of that, it's a timing attack, so all you need is the logs from both of them. Government gets breached and the logs published, all the sites learn who you are. Government becomes corrupt/authoritarian, seizes logs from sites openly or in secret (and can use the ones from e.g. Cloudflare without the site itself even knowing about it), retroactively identifies people.
by 827a | 2026-03-03 15:16:24+00:00
> Studio Display XDR replaces Pro Display XDR and starts at $3,299 (U.S.) and $3,199 (U.S.) for education.

My father-in-law is a monitor engineer. He is insanely gifted. We were in a Taiwanese factory together years ago and I asked him what it would cost to build the Pro Display XDR today. I will never forget his answer…

“We can’t, we don’t know how to do it.”
by ecshafer | 2026-03-03 15:16:27+00:00
There is a major gap in this analysis by not controlling for industry or companies. Engineering Manager is a very generic title, so this is going to get Start Ups, Big Tech, Little Tech, Enterprise, Contract Shops, etc. Staff Engineer is very uncommon in Enterprise or Contract shops, there you typically see SWE 1/2/3 -> Tech Lead -> Architect. Most Tech companies I think have more of a SWE 1/2/3 -> Staff Engineer -> Principal.

The other part is that Engineering Manager is a terminal position, I've known a few people who were manager for 20 years without ever going to Director / Exec whatever, its just a competitive jump and mathematically most will never go up. This is ALSO true for Senior -> Staff and Principle though. But Engineering Manager positions often have more of an upside with bonuses / incentives than Engineers get.

Finally it is ultimately a career change, and that should be the primary factor to consider.
by geerlingguy | 2026-03-03 15:16:33+00:00
Chips and Cheese focuses on architecture and chip design, and I think a lot of the tooling is less refined on macOS, so the comparison graphs can't quite get the same depth on Apple's chips. That's just a guess.

But I did some comparisons when I tested the same Dell GB10 hardware late last year: https://www.jeffgeerling.com/blog/2025/dells-version-dgx-spa...
by pjc50 | 2026-03-03 15:16:50+00:00
Broadcasters themselves aren't subject to pre-clearance; obviously, live TV exists.

> the most the government can do is stop you from repeating it and punish you for having done so.

Yes - and, because of this, Clearcast exists with a sort of "TSA pre-clear" role. If Clearcast pass it, it's very unlikely to result in subsequent legal action.

TV stations are in principle free to broadcast unrestricted ads live and deal with the consequences. Obviously, they have no interest in doing that.
by mothballed | 2026-03-03 15:16:51+00:00
You can absolutely buy for instance tobacco, cannabis by the pound ("CBD" but actually ~20+% THC[a]), explosives(tannerite), alcohol (wine), and guns (black powder, or perfectly functional cartridge pre-1898) completely legally online without ID check. It's really not a problem, which is why most people probably haven't heard of it being one or even realize all can legally be bought online without ID.
by flakeoil | 2026-03-03 15:17:34+00:00
> you are allowed to film/photograph when you are actively doing it

Does it really count as "actively doing it" when the glasses are constantly filming while you do other stuff.
With a phone/camera people can see you are filming or taking pictures.
In many countries the shutter needs to make a sound when taking pictures.
For video surveilance cameras a noticeable sign or sticker is needed.
by Kuyawa | 2026-03-03 15:17:42+00:00
Deepseek all the way, for both chat and coding. I can't complain as their price is the less expensive of all, started with just $2, worked all February and still $1.95 left in balance

Working on my first AI app for medical advice and I've been using it myself extensively to the point of addiction, it's magical

https://mediconsulta.net
by jollyllama | 2026-03-03 15:18:02+00:00
> My friend was afraid that as a manager, he'd have less time to experiment and adapt. Especailly with a bigger team (he was offered to manage 6), you don’t have much time to play around.

You guys get time to play around? As lead/staff?

> You can be a great EM for years and find yourself stuck.

Better start now then, right?
by mcmcmc | 2026-03-03 15:18:04+00:00
> AI can be used as another kind of brush. A prompt can be a masterpiece

What a joke. No, AI is not a brush, it is a slop machine that spits out derivatives of the actual masters. If you go back and forth with a human artist about a commission where you keep nitpicking and wanting adjustments, does that make you the artist? No, it makes you the “ideas guy”
by StephK | 2026-03-03 15:18:18+00:00
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by arunc | 2026-03-03 15:19:35+00:00
> Senior judges at the Supreme Court in Delhi have threatened consequences over the use of AI

Setting AI aside for a moment, this reflects a broader issue in India and elsewhere. When institutions respond to new technologies with anger or threats rather than systemic thinking, it signals a deeper problem.

The real challenge is not AI itself, but how complex systems adapt to change. Instead of reacting defensively, institutions should anticipate second-order effects, build regulatory capacity, and treat this as a governance and systems problem.

Mature institutions approach disruption with foresight, incentives, and feedback loops, not emotions. Without that shift, they risk reinforcing outdated hierarchies rather than serving the public effectively.
by iepathos | 2026-03-03 15:19:54+00:00
If the Ars Technica editorial process requires assuming reporters don't fabricate quotes, then their process is inadequate. That's like a software company letting junior engineers release directly to production with just a spellcheck and no real process to catch errors. Major publications like The New Yorker, The Atlantic, etc. have a dedicated fact-checking department that is part of the process and needs to give the ok before any article is published. Why is their process so deficient by comparison? Why wasn't there any fact checking?
by malfist | 2026-03-03 15:19:55+00:00
When I buy liquor (well, I don't drink anymore, so THC seltzers), the liquor company isn't saving my ID to my profile and then following me around everywhere I go for the rest of my life shouting "This is MALFIST, he's 42! He buys alcohol! He also visited X Y and Z last week and had interests in A, B and C. He's annual income is six figures and buys expensive bourbon."