MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by dmoy | 2026-03-06 20:29:16+00:00
Ah yea sorry, I meant literally my guns, as in the ones I use for service rifle competition. Those guns specifically, like the practical ones, are definitely on the docket. In fact if I moved to my current state today, I wouldn't be able to bring my guns.

Yes they will allow me to have a deer rifle with a 5-10rd capacity.
by Retric | 2026-03-06 20:29:24+00:00
> A large part of the things we import from those countries indirectly come from China

88B can’t be a particularly large part of 377B even before you consider that 88B is largely used domestically not for exports.

Fundamentally something that costs 1$ can’t require more than 1$ of fossil fuels to produce without someone losing money on the transaction. Most goods do embody some carbon, but US agricultural goods being exported actually embody a much larger fraction of CO2 than most goods due to the nature of farming and the vast agricultural subsidies. This alone offsets the trade imbalance rendering US trade very close to carbon neutral.

As to your specific point, product from Canada, Mexico etc, may have parts from China. But Canada isn’t simply redirecting 100% of its Chinese imports to the US. Further Canada, Mexico, and the EU and the US are also exporting goods to China directly and indirectly.

Again, calculate the actual CO2 involved trade with China is basically irrelevant from a CO2 perspective relative to domestic emissions.

> global financial system is so tightly interconnected

We’re talking actually emissions which sums to 100% of global emissions. The environment doesn’t somehow double count pollution because it’s the result of the financial system. Thus the impact of the global financial system and everything else is already being accounted for.
by phil21 | 2026-03-06 20:29:37+00:00
As someone else implied in their comment...

If execution no longer matters, then what possible ideas exist out there that both are highly valuable as well as only valuable to the first mover? If the second person to see the value in the idea can execute it in a weekend using AI tools, what value is there in the idea to begin with?

In fact the second mover advantage seems to me to be even larger than before. Let someone else get the first version out the door, then you just point your AI bot at the resulting product to copy it in a fraction of the time it took the original person to execute on it.

If anything, ideas seem to be even cheaper to me in this new world. It probably just moves what bits of execution matter even more towards sales and marketing and hype vs. executing on the actual product itself.

I think there might be some interesting spaces here opening up in the IP combined with "physical product" space. Where you need the idea as well as real-world practical manufacturing skills in order to execute. That will still be somewhat of a moat for a little while at least, but mostly at a scale where it's not worth an actual manufacturer from China to spin up a production line to compete with you at scale.
by PaulDavisThe1st | 2026-03-06 20:29:46+00:00
1) I suspect that I am older than you, but either way, probably the same cohort.

2) I have a very hard time considering a media organization mentioning its own products and activities in its content as "advertising". If you want to use the word that way, be my guest, but my understanding (and I think most people's understanding) of the term implies a 3rd party paying a media organization to include marketing content in their output.

3) Fair point about BBC America, but I don't think it really invalidates the point.
by nick49488171 | 2026-03-06 20:29:48+00:00
The counter argument is this: if the chance of dying is 2% to make a historic mission, then people should be able to make that choice. What's your counterargument to this statement?

As for your hazards
Microgravity can be counteracted with a centrifugal living environment.

Radiation can not be mitigated effectively yet other than throwing mass at the problem. But if someone wants to launch enough mass that's on them.
by red-iron-pine | 2026-03-06 20:30:21+00:00
best possible outcome for most people

or even best possible outcomes for the shareholders. cuz most of this coded BS is to make some executive's life easier, not to keep the board happy.

if they had a concrete plan they'd say it, and coded signals are only for certain audiences, who in most cases may not be most people, most shareholders, or more employees.
by leonardoe | 2026-03-06 20:30:34+00:00
This observation really resonates with me. I have spent a lot of energy trying to communicate that ditching formal languages for natural language is a terrible idea in some (most?) domains. The power of formal languages comes precisely from their "limitations".

Software is not the output. The output is the theory-building process by which one arrives a formal description of both the problem and (hopefully) the solution. Avoiding the effort to express a problem (or a model of the problem) in a formal language is a self-defeating enterprise.
by llbbdd | 2026-03-06 20:31:02+00:00
I've seen a few people I would consider senior engineers, good ones, who seem to have somewhat fallen for the marketing if you look at the prompts they're using. Closer to a magical "make it so" than "build the code to meet this spec, that I wrote with the context of my existing technical skills".

I'm not sure why junior engineers would be any better at that though, unless it's just that they're approaching it with less bias and reaping beginners luck.
by Aurornis | 2026-03-06 20:31:05+00:00
> So you had a talent pipeline, you just didn't like how hands on it was or how it took time to develop.

There's a lot of anger in this thread at companies for making obvious choices.

If the perfect applicant happens to be looking for a job and it can save us the time and churn of switching someone internally, then yes: I would prefer to hire that person.

> The whole hiring angle you describe seems silly in terms of process and expectations

I think the silly part of this thread is all of comments from people who think they know better how to operate a company they know nothing about the people who were in it.
by toast0 | 2026-03-06 20:31:16+00:00
> But anyway, if the goal is to organize which cores are doing the work, splitting a single core's work from a single thread (pinnned to it) to several threads (still pinned to it) doesn't help. It just introduces more context switching.

(Mostly agreeing with you, I think). I think looking at the overall system and saying (handwave numbers) 25% of system time is spent on accept, and 75% on request handling, so let's set 25% of cores to accept and 75% to handle requests is unfortunately the wrong way to split the work too. Each core would have a small userland loop, but, communication between processes is expensive. And you have (more than necessary) kernel side communication between processors too because the TCP state will be touched by the processor handling the NIC queue it arrives on, as well as the processor handling the listen queue in userland and then the processor handling the request in userland. Setting up your system to have high interprocessor communication limits the number of cores you can effectively use.
by topaz0 | 2026-03-06 20:31:18+00:00
It's already using on the order of 1% of global energy, and there are active plans to expand that by a factor of 5 or more in the near future. That's as a percentage of current energy use, which is already way higher than it should be, so if all other sectors reduced theirs to sustainable levels it would be like 5% now and 25% planned. It's a bit more complicated when you account for renewable energy, but certainly adding consumption is not helping there. Now that buildout may not happen as planned/advertised, but I think it's very reasonable to worry about new things that make the situation worse even by a few percentage points when you need to make things better overall by much more than that to make progress. Of course this is not to say that we shouldn't be worried about/working on other sources of consumption that are currently a larger fraction -- we need to keep doing that too. But giving a pass to hundreds of TWh from AI junk in favor of trying to reduce the thousands of TWh from some other source by a couple hundred is a good way to erase the gains that you make over there.
Show HN: Open-source multi-model code review council (BYOK, free tier)
by TheTrueObelus | 2026-03-06 20:31:20+00:00
I built this after realizing that that single-model AI code review currently has obvious blind spots. The idea: chat with a Lead AI about your project, then "convene the Council" — three other models independently review everything in parallel, and the Lead synthesizes findings into structured categories: consensus, majority positions, lone warnings, and dissent.

The surprising insight from building and using it: the value isn't consensus, it's structured disagreement. When Grok catches a temporal data mismatch that three other models missed, or Claude spots an imported function that's never called — that's where the Council is useful.

Each model has genuine strengths: Claude tends toward architecture, Grok goes deep on data flows, ChatGPT catches API/integration issues, Gemini thinks about product gaps.

Stack: FastAPI, HTMX, OpenRouter as a unified API gateway. BYOK via OpenRouter so one key covers all four models — a typical review runs about 25 cents. Free tier gives you 1 review to try it.

Perplexity just launched "Model Council" as part of their $200/month Computer product — same core mechanic. This is the open-source, bring-your-own-key version.

GitHub: https://github.com/scifi-signals/council-of-alignment
Live: https://council.stardreamgames.com

Constructive feedback would be much appreciated!
by thewebguyd | 2026-03-06 20:31:34+00:00
> I tend to mean "heavily AI-assisted coding" whereas you likely mean "never look at the code YOLO coding."

The original point that sparked this sub-thread though is that AI is being overhyped. If actual vibe coding (YOLO it, never look at or understand the code, thus truly enabling non-technical folk to have revolutionary power and ability) doesn't work, then AI is yet just another tool in the toolbelt like any other developer life enhancing tech we've had so far, it's just a new form of IDE.

Being a new form of IDE, while very useful, isn't exactly entire economy transforming revolutionary tech. If it can't be used by someone with zero computer/eng experience to build something useful and revenue generating, the amount of investment we've seen into it is way overblown and is well overdue for a pretty severe correction.

I buy AI as a "developer enhancing tool" just like any other devtools that we've seen over my career. I don't currently buy it as a "total labor economy transformation force."
by Aurornis | 2026-03-06 20:32:02+00:00
> it stands to reason that the device repair would have been running into backlog territory that had negative implications of some sort. If not, why hire?

I don't know where you're getting these ideas. We weren't hiring people to repair a backlog of devices. Warranty and repair work typically goes to the contract manufacturer, for what it's worth.

Companies like to grow and develop more products. You need more people.
by mogonzal | 2026-03-06 20:32:05+00:00
Lucky for both of us, the value prop isn't just "we are offering better interest rates on the same instruments because we gave up our cut"

It's actually "we found a way better set of instruments for long-term cash that allow us to offer better interest rates without giving up the cut altogether"

That being said, we do think the current treasury products can be a little predatory with their rates. For example, Rho charges a variable rate that peaks at 0.6% for any deposit of $2M or less. We think that's crazy so our margin is a flat 0.25%, no asterisks or fine print.
by DiabloD3 | 2026-03-06 20:32:26+00:00
Its mixed. Some of it really is Covid toilet paper behavior.

Datacenter customers, for example, have repair parts on hand; boxes of harddrives/ssds waiting to be put in, boxes of consumable parts, DIMMs waiting to replace ones that went faulty, entire machines already racked and waiting to take over for their fallen siblings, etc. Some of these customers added more to the spare parts pile. The big clouds manage their elastic demand of any sort of consumable or repair parts in volumes that are described in terms that fit cargo trucks in a quarterly basis, and they've already compensated.

Now, otoh, you have the truly psychotic people, that fill their basements with toilet paper, just hoarding more than they could ever use in their entire life. We've all seen that story where a guy was going to lose his house because he blew his mortgage money on toilet paper, and was selling it at a loss just to stay afloat. People like this exist in every crisis, and there's gonna be a headline in the near future where someone is gonna lose their house because they had like a hundred trays of DIMMs in their basement.

A few people I know who scrape eBay like its their job for electronics are just waiting for people to start fire-selling DIMMs and SSDs that got hoarded and they couldn't scalp people over; they're expecting half of MSRP or better sometime later this year.
by surgical_fire | 2026-03-06 20:32:30+00:00
No, I firmly believe that decades of dehumanization of Iranians in particular and Muslims in general makes this sort of "tragic mistake" desirable.

I don't think whoever was responsible for this gives many fucks about the lives of Iranians.

If a foreign power bombed anything in the US and children died people would just consider them monsters, without further considerations. No one would be pondering about faulty intel.

I refuse to launder the vileness of the aggressors here.
by epistasis | 2026-03-06 20:32:35+00:00
I wish I could find the video, because it's absolutely astounding what passes for what this administration thinks about public accountability, but I can't so let me paraphrase.

Edit: my paraphrasing below is terribly inaccurate, and I shouldn't have posted it! Here's the actual video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T14lPS20rAA

When asked about the school by a reporter, the woman representing the Trump administration said something to the effect of "that's propaganda, there's been an update in that and I expect you to not spread propaganda". Of course, there was no actual update, no information conveyed beyond the bare contempt for the public and contempt for anyone asking about something embarrassing. It's an attempt to bully, of course, but just so incredibly weak and ineffectual.
by NewJazz | 2026-03-06 20:32:48+00:00
IMHO the highest court, which is tasked with delivering timely justice, ought to make their decisions in a reasonable amount of time, and not allow legally questionable executive actions to continue while the legal question is unanswered.

You may consider that populist, but my opinion is that SCOTUS has derelicted their constitutional duty in these trying times.
by red-iron-pine | 2026-03-06 20:33:00+00:00
> The Russian language has two different words for what most European languages would describe as lies. One is lozh (ложь), best translated into what we consider to be a lie; something that is the opposite of the truth. There is also vranyo (враньё). Vranyo is more than a simple lie. It is described as: ‘You know I’m lying, and I know that you know, and you know that I know that you know, but I go ahead with a straight face, and you nod seriously and take notes.’

Trump is taking a lesson from Putin. Social media makes this extra easy, as you can bury criticism with a hoard of what-aboutism-bots, redirected arguments, and straight up BS.

see also: https://militairespectator.nl/artikelen/vranyo
by lapetitejort | 2026-03-06 20:33:33+00:00
I just visited the closest one to me during lunch. There was just a single dot in the middle of a huge county building. I had to walk through security to get there. I asked if there was a payphone around and the guard said no. Luckily someone else knew. One out of two phones didn't work. The other did, so now my best clean original joke can be heard by anyone.

There are three other phones in my city, two in a hospital, one in potentially a corrections facility? I'll stop by on my way hope.
by jfengel | 2026-03-06 20:33:50+00:00
That's a remarkable statistic. Because from my Democratic perception, Republicans are more likely to say, out loud, that Democrats are morally bad.

I wonder if it's a difference in the way they interpret the question, which is about "Americans" rather than the other party. One thought: when Democrats say they think Americans are morally bad, they mean Republicans. And when Republicans say that Americans are not morally bad, they also mean Republicans. Perhaps because Democrats are, as they have often said, "not real Americans".

That's pure speculation, of course. I'm just having trouble squaring this rosy statistic with the constant stream of Republican messaging about "woke", "PC", "open borders", and other synonyms for "bad".

Perhaps it's one of those things like I've heard about Iran, where when they say "death to America" is doesn't actually mean "death to America".
by lowkey_ | 2026-03-06 20:34:06+00:00
I've put a lot of thought into hiring in this era, and what I've personally found works the best is:

Let them use their preferred setup and AI to the full extent they want, and evaluate their output and their methodology. Ask questions of "why did you choose X over Y", especially if you're skeptical, and see their reasoning. Ask what they'd do next with more time.

It's clear when a candidate can build an entire working product, end-to-end, in <1 day vs. someone who struggles to create a bug-free MVP and would take a week for the product.

In addition to the technical interview, hiring them on a trial basis is the absolute best if possible.

Taste and technical understanding of goals and implementation to reach those goals is the biggest differentiator now. AI can handle all the code and syntax, but it's not great at architecture yet - it defaults to what's mid if not otherwise instructed.
by sombragris | 2026-03-06 20:34:31+00:00
Not GP, but for me two of the most exciting things are the UTF-8 ready engines such as LuaLaTeX and XeLaTeX, on one hand; and on the other, the fontspec package and similar ones, allowing LaTeX to seamlessly use system fonts.

On the scholarly front, the use of BibLaTeX is a significant step forward re: BibTeX.
by M95D | 2026-03-06 20:34:37+00:00
UEFI switches the CPU into 32bit v86 mode or directly in 64bit mode and you can't go back to real mode without a CPU reset, which v86 won't allow (you don't have ring -2 privileges) and 64bit mode can't do at all. I don't have a UEFI system, so I might be wrong (I even hope I'm wrong - it would mean slightly more freedom still exists), but from what I read about it, I'm 90% certain it's not possible.
by libraryofbabel | 2026-03-06 20:35:55+00:00
> In my experience, tech employment is incredibly bimodal right now. Top candidates are commanding higher salaries than ever, but an "average" developer is going to have an extremely hard time finding a position.

That sounds good for many of us (and don’t we all like to think we’re top candidates here on HN…) but is there any data to back this up? Or it just anecdata (not to dismiss anecdata, still useful info).
by i_think_so | 2026-03-06 20:36:10+00:00
No, we can't. Degrees are what we are using already, and they are demonstrably failing. Plus, degrees from other countries might as well be pure fiction. Nobody knows what they actually represent.

Work experience? I once interviewed a guy who claimed to have Technology XYZ experience. He made it all the way to the final interview before I got to talk to him.

"So you worked with XYZ, yeah?"

"Oh yes!"

"That's cool. It just so happens that I did a training class with some of your coworkers in a different department a year or two ago. XYZ is used in the Billing Dept. That seems strange to me. You were in Web. So you had access to customer data?"

"Well....no."

They hired the guy anyway, over my objections, and a few weeks later he hosed up my biggest disaster recovery server during an OS upgrade.
by hyperpape | 2026-03-06 20:36:31+00:00
Yes, but...

The health of the market is not a function of the total number of jobs alone, it's a function of the number of jobs and the number of people to fill them.

The number of total jobs going up year after year meant that there were increasing numbers of candidates, new people entering the field. If the job growth stops, then there still we be candidates coming in. There will also be the new hires from the last decade moving into increasingly senior roles, and there won't be space for them (unless you devalue the meaning of "senior" even more).

So the year over year change matters a lot. If it plateaus, or even declines slightly, it's more than enough to make a terrible market.
by ynac | 2026-03-06 20:36:33+00:00
Agreed with others here...and updating intel for primary targets is customary. Which obviously didn't happen here. The targeting cycle and the F2T2 cycle, dynamic targeting loops (probably) should have brought the latest intel about the school to light.

As for whether it was AI - the US DOD Ethic's first tenent is Responsible - personnel remain responsible...
by like_any_other | 2026-03-06 20:36:40+00:00
You're wishing for a very double-edged sword. UI designers do as much harm as good. Disappearing scroll bars, rounded window corners for square content, hiding primary functionality inside a hamburger menu when there's plenty of room for labeled buttons, removing maximize/minimize buttons in favor of non-discoverable keyboard shortcuts.. I'm sure I'm forgetting lots, and that's just on GNOME.

As a rule, if you, a non-UI designer are bothered by it, then it doesn't take a UI designer to fix it.
by charcircuit | 2026-03-06 20:36:52+00:00
>We've literally done it without robots, smart or dumb, for years.

And we've written extremely buggy and insecure C code for decades too. That doesn't mean that we should keep doing that. AI can much faster troubleshoot and resolve production issues than humans. Putting humans in the loop will cause for longer downtime and more revenue loss.
by jfengel | 2026-03-06 20:37:59+00:00
Even "democratic elections" give a heavy thumb to those organizing the elections. If the US is helping design and implement the process, it means we're helping pick the winner.

I suppose we're just as likely to leave it entirely up to them, and then act surprised that the most organized group is some al Qaeda offshoot, who proceeds to set up and then win a "democratic" election.