MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by jeremyjh | 2026-03-01 12:44:30+00:00
> It just doesn’t work that way, LLMs need to be generalised a lot to be useful even in specific tasks.

This is the entire breakthrough of deep learning on which the last two decades of productive AI research is based. Massive amounts of data are needed to generalize and prevent over-fitting. GP is suggesting an entirely new research paradigm will win out - perhaps researchers have not yet thought of "use less data".

> It really is the antithesis to the human brain, where it rewards specific knowledge

No, its completely analogous. The human brain has vast amounts of pre-training before it starts to learn knowledge specific to any kind of career or discipline, and this fact to me intuitively suggests why GP is baked: You cannot learn general concepts such as the english language, reasoning, computing, network communication, programming, relational data from a tiny dataset consisting only of code and documentation for one open-source framework and language.

It is all built on a massive tower of other concepts that must be understood first, including ones much more basic than the examples I mentioned but that are practically invisible to us because they have always been present as far back as our first memories can reach.
Show HN: I built a design tool for people who find Canva too bloated
by epic_ai | 2026-03-01 12:46:12+00:00
I’ve always found modern design tools overwhelming.
Between the endless sidebars, layers, and "pro" upsells, I just wanted something that let me generate a professional asset and get out.

> I built EPIC (https://no-edit.lovable.app) to be a "fast-path" alternative.

> Key features:

> * Navigation Maker: A drag-and-drop tool to plan site structures and export sitemaps (built this because I hated doing it in Figma).
> * AI Mode: Describe a vision, get a layout.

> * No Watermarks: Even on the free tier.

> It’s built with a focus on speed for founders and devs who need a logo, a sitemap, or a social card in < 60 seconds. Would love to hear your thoughts on the UI/UX.
Ask HN: Upstream-First vs. the "Culture of Silence" in Embedded Engineering
by tawayaccount | 2026-03-01 12:46:26+00:00
I am an independent contractor in the embedded systems domain. My contract is under German jurisdiction, my direct client provides a commercial software platform, and the end-client is a large enterprise.

The Situation:
The stack involves several open-source components. While working with these integrations and later reproducing issues independently on my private time, I’ve observed several non-security bugs and usability "sharp edges." As is common in this sector, tooling choices are rarely discussed publicly.

The Goal:
I want to address these issues via an "Upstream-First" approach. I plan to report the bugs/usability issues by writing technical blog posts detailing the reasoning. I intend to use a "Clean Room" approach: creating independent test cases and reproductions that never use client code, stack traces, or reference any specific client use-case.

The Dilemma:
Legally, I could seek formal approval. However, in my experience, asking these questions often leads to "We need to check with legal," which results in a black hole where I never receive a response, effectively killing the initiative.

Ethically, even though I wrote independent test cases in my own time, the client might feel that since I found the issues because of the time i spent with the open source project, they "own" the discovery. I'm reluctant to ask because it might trigger a refusal from the end-customer's legal team just to be safe.

The Contractual Concern:
My contract contains a standard German Confidentiality clause: "The Contractor shall be obligated to maintain secrecy about all information that becomes known to it in connection with its activities for the Client..."

My Questions:

Scope of Secrecy: Since these are defects in third-party public software (not proprietary secrets), does fixing them upstream constitute "information known in connection with activities for the client"?

The "Clean Room" Defense: Is reproducing a bug in a vacuum (completely outside the client’s environment) sufficient to decouple the information from the client's business?

Risk vs. Reward: Is it reasonable to proceed with upstream contributions without explicit prior approval if no client context is disclosed?

I'd prefer to share credit with my client, but I want to avoid the bureaucratic dead-end by asking questions on this topic. These bugs have been in place for several years and i have seen no upstream efforts so far.
by _3u10 | 2026-03-01 12:46:40+00:00
Agreed. Canada fired the attorney general rather than prosecute those who financed momar ghaddfi. If Trump takes carney to stand trial I support it.

It’s also self admittedly a genocidal state which has failed
to bring anyone to justice for the genocide it committed.

The Canadian people need US help in bringing those responsible for genocide and terrorist financing to stand trial for their crimes.
by Alifatisk | 2026-03-01 12:47:36+00:00
What is happening to this world. There is so many intense events happening in a such short time. I feel like we are truly living in weird times. Trumpet is out here deciding the fate of countries future for his own good. Now, it so happens to be something that benefited the Iranians. But I do not think he did it for the people directly, rather a side effect.

I feel like I've lost the touch of which direction our future is going now, the worlds geopolitics is fluctuation too much. Maybe I should remind myself that feelings also gets amplified by constant stream of news and social media. I am certain 1990s, 2000s and early 2010s was worse times.
by adam_patarino | 2026-03-01 12:48:14+00:00
The biggest gaps are not in hardware or model size. There is a lot of logical fallacy in the industry. Most people believe bigger is better. For model size, compute, tools, etc.

The reality in ML is that small models can perform better at a narrow problem set than large ones.

The key is the narrow problem set. Opus can write you a poem, create a shopping list, and analyze your massive code base.

We trained our model to only focus on coding with our specific agent harness, tools, and context engine. And it’s small enough to fit on an M2 16GB. It’s as good as sonnet 4.5 and way better than qwen3.5:35b-a3b

Our beta will be out soon / rig.ai
by throw0101c | 2026-03-01 12:48:16+00:00
>> Millions of muslims around the world viewed the Iranian theocracy as the only power in the world fighting for Islam. They are devastated.

> They are devastated but they are were totally quiet on the unarmed thirty thousands+ protesters the islamist iranian regime killed in a matter of days a few weeks ago.

One person's protestor is another's insurrectionist.

See also the folks on January 6: (now-pardoned) patriots trying to 'stop the steal', or crazies trying to overthrow the government?
by maxloh | 2026-03-01 12:48:22+00:00
For reference, Windows' notification look this way: https://www.lifewire.com/thmb/I4VO9qHrzphTHsZHU5eI73sLL9k=/7...

The screenshot you posted is likely from KDE Plasma. The project don't have much funding to hire a UI/UX designer IMHO.
by TacticalCoder | 2026-03-01 12:48:23+00:00
> Because the next ruler will be an American stooge.

And if that's the case, do you think that American stooge shall do worse than Khamenei who ordered his islamist guards to slaughter 30 000+ unarmed iranian protesters in a matter of days?

What can be worse than religious extremist sending their fanatics into hospitals to finish the wounded?

I'm in the EU and I see cars with iranian flags honking. Someone posted a video or iranians celebrating: not bearded men and veiled women (which is a sign of religious extremism: there are many muslims that do not have the islamist beard and many muslim women who aren't veiled) but regular people, celebrating.

I don't doubt that many bearded men and veiled women are very sad today.

But I side with the free iranians in exile who are celebrating what may be the end of four decades of sharia law ruling their country.
by Bender | 2026-03-01 12:49:07+00:00
A better law would have been to require the apps look for an RTA header. [1] If detected trigger parental control password prompt which would only be enabled if a parent enabled parental controls.

Server operators could add this header to anything adult or that may contain user-contibuted content in their sleep. App developers could add a snippet of code to look for the header in their sleep. Then have a law that requires parents with small children must enable parental controls on devices used by their children. No PII shared. No asking for ID. No sharing ID. Not on the OS, not on a third party website. I don't like green eggs and ham, I don't like them Sam I am.

We all know that once this law has been complied to they will extend it to require ID be uploaded to whatever company gives the most kick-backs to Gavin and an API key will have to be saved on the OS per account. This data will be leaked in 3 ... 2 ...

[1] - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46152074
by boccaff | 2026-03-01 12:49:42+00:00
short answer: No.

longer answer: Random forests use the average of multiple trees that are trained in a way to reduce the correlation between trees (bagging with modified trees). Boosting trains sequentially, with each classifier working on the resulting residuals so far.

I am assuming that you meant boosted decision trees, sometimes gradient boosted decisions trees, as usually one have boosted decision trees. I think xgboost added boosted RF, and you can boost any supervised model, but it is not usual.
by ETH_start | 2026-03-01 12:49:44+00:00
This is gross over-simplification.

Good drove into a law enforcement officer. That's what led to her being shot and killed. Her group was radicalized, following the vehicles of ICE agents around, in order to try to sabotage their law enforcement operations.

With Pretti, what appears to have happened is that the officer that disarmed him accidentally discharged the gun and the other officer assumed that the anti-ICE activist was the one firing the gun.

This was a tragic mistake, and the possibility of these kinds of mistakes is why everyone, even the anti-deportation group who is organizing these sabotage campaigns, says do not bring weapons when you're confronting the agents. That's what the instruction manual that these saboteurs were using explicitly stated: don't bring weapons, not even a switchblade, yet Pretti bought a weapon, and then committed a crime that led to a high-risk arrest where fatal mistakes could, and did, happen.

Pretti put himself in an extraordinarily dangerous situation, through the decisions he made.

Again, while armed, he joined a group that was literally stalking immigration enforcement officers to try to sabotage their law enforcement operations. In the midst of an altercation, and also while armed, he placed his hands on an officer, and then resisted arrest.
by midnitewarrior | 2026-03-01 12:49:55+00:00
"Utilities" is a generic term suggesting it is small, potentially reusable, purpose-limited, and used to simplify a task.

"Utilities" doesn't indicate the audience or the intended longevity of use of the tool like "houseplant" and "bouquet" do.

Both indicate they are built for personal use cases, suggesting potentially low reusability. The longevity of "houseplant" suggests it's intended for ongoing use, while "bouquet" suggests a limited use tool.

With work, either could be made reusable for others, but I think it's implied that the scope is an edge case or uncommon case that likely only applies to its creator or a very limited audience.

I see value in the terms, but these terms may themselves be houseplant terms, not sure if general adoption is useful to someone not building houseplant software, they are mostly hobbiest terms by definition.
by xphos | 2026-03-01 12:49:57+00:00
2 things

1) I don't think you have read nor understood my argument. Stating that 80% of Evangelical Christians voted for Trump is not the the ding you think it is. Your imply 1/5 of Evangelicals don't sellout? I think that estimate is way too high and even if it was 99.99% of Evangelic Christians that doesn't excuse their selling hence my original statement. Say everyone sellsout so its okay to sell out is excusing in my opinion is abhorent behavior and suppport of an extremely dangerous leader. But this leads to point 2.

2) I am assuming your a democrat, congrats me to. I am also religiou, and I am assuming your not religous. But you don't see to undertand much about different religous groups and I think this sharp narrow view thinking really harms the democrats ability to reach out to religous people which is around 70-75% of american's according to pew research.

If you want to understand Evangelicals are basically defined by following some charismatic leader who either speaks for Christ, or has visions, or just claims to have all the answers. Believers will follow in any direction because they trust that person but when trust is lost they usually face a crisis of faith and leave that church or the faith all together because they didn't really have strong buy in to the ideals of chirst just that person. This is an extremely well documented occurence. While not all Evangelical people are that occurence a large number are and that architype perfectly describes Trump supporters and MAGA cultist. I think that explains the extreme overlap.

But also religion is a much more complex subject than 1 statistic, as being MAGA is not on the set of beliefs required to be Christian, In fact being a good person isn't either. I think it would be worth while to read up on up and coming people like James Talarico, who understand well that infusing the 2 philosophies is motivating. Because remember religion while being used to do horrible things was also used to immensely liberal things. Universal voting is a protestant thing, anti slavery is largerly a religous movement against white supremacy. The civil rights movement is baked in religion.

Understanding religion as equal to Trump support is corrosive the game of politics and pandering the playroom of vanity. As it doesn't help change anything and is just social meeting points to talk that way. I don't care for vanity I care about wining political power and using it run the country well and help people. I care about uplifting people economically, so they have the freedom to explore whatever faith, athiestism, or whatever they want because that liberality I believe is inherent into the decency of the human condition.
by zdragnar | 2026-03-01 12:50:36+00:00
Overly optimistic people are already talking about using LLM based AI as a way to provide healthcare access in underserved (i.e. rural) areas. There's already lots of studies going on for things like using AI to identify tumors and cancers in MRI and other images.

There's national headlines every few months for lawyers getting in trouble for submitting LLM hallucinated citations in court, so lawyers are starting to do it to themselves as well.

It's early days yet, because unlike most CRUD apps, the consequences of hallucinations and outright bad calls in medicine and law are life ending. Unless the bubble pops soon, it's coming though.
by layer8 | 2026-03-01 12:51:14+00:00
You wrote: “If they hand wrote the code we know they at least looked at it once.”

But that’s not true, because even if they did indeed hand-write the code, we as third parties wouldn’t have any reliable proof of that, and therefore still couldn’t draw the conclusion that they looked at the code.

Them claiming to have hand-written the code isn’t any better than them claiming to have thoroughly reviewed the code. We can’t know in either case.
by gield | 2026-03-01 12:52:36+00:00
Your analogy to computer architectures doesn't make sense, unless comparing GPT-like LLMs to different LLM architectures like Mamba or RWKV. It indeed wouldn't make sense to not teach about Mamba or RWKV in an introductory AI or LLM course.

AI is much broader than LLMs alone. Computer vision, RL, classical ML, recommender systems, speech recognition, ... are still part of AI, just not very visible to the average consumer.
by thunky | 2026-03-01 12:53:20+00:00
> I would pick a default bare gnome 3 agaisnt any Mac os version UX without any hesitation.

Yeah it's a head scratcher for me too.

So many devs only want to work on a Mac yet they build software that runs on NOT Mac. Then they have to jump through hoops like architecture mismatch and docker having to run a Linux vm anyway.
by laserlight | 2026-03-01 12:53:28+00:00
I've lowered my expectations over the years, but there's this single stupidity that drives me crazy: When you search for a keyword and play a song from the results, playback continues with the rest of the search results. Why the hell would I want to play all of the songs with similar names? iOS Music, on the other hand, does the expected and creates a station from the first played search result.
by Retr0id | 2026-03-01 12:54:13+00:00
I have all the history settings off for this reason, but something that worries me is that there's a fair bit of information about me trained right into the model weights. I'm not "famous" by any stretch but claude has awareness of some of my HN-front-page-hitting projects, etc., which I think should be enough to bias responses (although I haven't tried to measure it).

I set my name to "User" in the settings, so in a clean-slate chat it has nothing to go on, but the moment claude code does something like `git log` it knows who I am again. I've even considered writing some kind of redaction proxy.
by throw0101c | 2026-03-01 12:54:15+00:00
> And if that's the case, do you think that American stooge shall do worse than Khamenei who ordered his islamist guards to slaughter 30 000+ unarmed iranian protesters in a matter of days?

American seemed to have been fine with 30k people disappearing in Argentina:

* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dirty_War

While a smaller number, US seemed to have been fine with their then-friend Saddam Hussein gassing a whole bunch of Kurds:

* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Halabja_massacre

The US stooges and friends have done all sorts of bad (maybe even worse) things in the past.
by Joker_vD | 2026-03-01 12:55:11+00:00
The use of these hook functions is not safe in multithreaded
programs, and they are now deprecated. From glibc 2.24 onwards,
the __malloc_initialize_hook variable has been removed from the
API, and from glibc 2.34 onwards, all the hook variables have been
removed from the API. Programmers should instead preempt calls to
the relevant functions by defining and exporting malloc(), free(),
realloc(), and calloc().
by booleandilemma | 2026-03-01 12:55:46+00:00
You realize what a bad guy he was, right?

Read the list of human rights violations in Iran here https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Human_rights_in_the_Islamic_Re... and tell us something the prime minister of Denmark has done to deserve assassination.

I swear half the people on the internet are crazy. You all would be defending Hitler if he was killed today.

"Just because he was bad doesn't give us the right to kill him". You people should hear yourselves.
by jeremyjh | 2026-03-01 12:56:30+00:00
Fine tuning does not make a model any smaller. It can make a smaller model more effective at a specific task, but a larger model with the same architecture fine-tuned on the same dataset will always be more capable in a domain as general as programming or software design. Of course, as architecture and related tooling improves the smallest model that is "good enough" will continue to get smaller.
by inglor_cz | 2026-03-01 12:57:53+00:00
Not even Russia really wants Iran to have nuclear weapons and a rocket technology that can hit targets 3000 km+ distant, though they obviously wouldn't attack Iran over that problem. The Middle East is notoriously hard to predict and governments change, while the nuclear capability endures.

Of all the countries that currently make any steps towards nuclear armament, Iran has by far the widest coalition of opponents.
by maest | 2026-03-01 12:57:55+00:00
I thought the key difference was that Brockman is top Trump donor, with USD 25M total [1]. I know it's technically not allowed, but do you think such a large amount of money would have swayed Trump in his decision?

[1] - https://the-decoder.com/openai-co-founder-greg-brockman-dona...
by kjfarm | 2026-03-01 12:57:58+00:00
I think the responses are very diverse throughout the region. Got example, in Karachi protestors gathered outside a consulate https://apnews.com/article/pakistan-protesters-attacked-us-c...

But inside Tehran (and in my neighborhood of D.C.) there have been celebrations https://www.nytimes.com/2026/02/28/world/middleeast/iran-kha...
by cess11 | 2026-03-01 12:58:28+00:00
Typically jihadist denotes a militant sunni-salafist tendency, who are even more hateful against shia than non-believers.

This is reflected in e.g. Aaron Y. Zelin separating his surveilling of islamic militancy respectively into a jihadology and a muqawamology web site.

It is common for people in the occident to project the ideas they have about sunni-salafists onto the islamic republic, even though it is absurd. Same goes for the view that Khamenei supposedly were the one trying to achieve nuclear weapons, while his office has been the main blocker for this and secular nuclear researchers and political analysts in Iran has been the main proponents.

A year ago Ali Larijani said that if Iran was attacked they'd have no choice but to build deterrence through nuclear weapons, a proposal the US and Israel apparently thought was jolly good and since have crashed diplomatic alternatives to by the crime of aggression, not once but twice. The second time they also removed Khamenei, to really rub it in that they'd prefer for their allies in the region to have yet another nuclear armed neighbour.
by jmyeet | 2026-03-01 12:58:48+00:00
People should never treat the diaspora as representative of any population other than the diaspora.

This issue comes up with Cuba a lot. A lot of Cuban-Americans hate Castro. Why? Because they were the upper-middle class to wealthy under Batista.

This history becomes almost comically distorted. Senator Ted Cruz said that he hates communists because his father was tortured by... Batista [1].

So let me give you an example of the Iranian/Persian diaspora. In 2024 in particular we had a lot of protests against Israel's genocide in Gaza and American support for it. Many were on college campuses. One was on UCLA.

In April 2024, masked counterprotesters attacked the protesters and the police stood idly by and let it happen. The police later then used this violence as a reason to crack down on the protesters. So who were these counter-protesters? Persian diaspora [2].

Anyone celebrating this knows nothing about history and honestly nothing about Iran.

First, Khamenei isn't a singular autocrat like Basheer al-Asaad or Saddam Hussein. No decapitation strike is going to result in regime change. Did you notice the Iranian response change after Khamenei's death? No. Because there isn't one. The religious governmental institutions still exist. A temporary successor was appointed. The IRGC continues as is. Iran is a functioning state that will continue without its Supreme Leader.

Second, let's just say that the Iranian government does fall apart. That's going to be incredibly bad for Iranians as you'll either get a fail-state like Libya, Syria or Somalia (which is what Israel wants) or you'll simply get an American puppet.

Do you know who the American puppet in Syria is? Ahmed al-Sharaa, formerly an al-Qaeda leader. Do you think that's going to end well? Saddam Hussein was an American puppet. Until he wasn't. The former Shah. Augusto Pinochet. That's who you get when the US installs a puppet regime.

Maybe you think Iran will get a functioning democracy. They had one until the US overthrew it in 1953.

Do you really think the US cares about Iranians? Like at all? What exactly is being celebrated here?

[1]: https://www.youtube.com/shorts/I2AdbLDVb0Q

[2]: https://www.cnn.com/2024/05/16/us/ucla-student-protests-coun...