MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by Terretta | 2026-03-02 17:32:40+00:00
we love nix for dev environments, and highly recommend it. many other problems go away. don't see that as what's being solved here, though.

containers contain stuff the way an open bookcase contains books, they're just namespaces and cgroups on a file system overlay, more or less, held together by willpower not boundaries:

https://jvns.ca/blog/2016/10/10/what-even-is-a-container/

https://github.com/p8952/bocker

as a firm required to care about infosec, we appreciate the stance in their (2). and MacOS VMs are so fast now, they might as well be containers except, you know, they work. (if not fast, that should be fixed.)

that said, yes, running local minikube and the like remain incredibly useful for mocking container envs where the whole environment is inside a machine(s) boundary. containers are _almost_ as awesome as bookcases…
by mistachkin | 2026-03-02 17:32:47+00:00
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by a_h_a | 2026-03-02 17:32:51+00:00
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by cuchoi | 2026-03-02 17:32:53+00:00
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by ctmnt | 2026-03-02 17:32:53+00:00
I don’t have an opinion on how they should handle the nested VMs probably, but I very much disagree that Seatbelt is better. Claude Code (aka `claude`) uses it, and it’s barely good for anything.

Out of curiosity, why are you running Cowork inside a VM in the first place? What does that get you that letting Cowork use its own VM wouldn’t?
by wang_li | 2026-03-02 17:32:58+00:00
That's a dumb system as it doesn't account for the fact that a piece of property's value can change over time. You write a book, you have to declare its value prior to knowing it's value to consumers. If you aren't independently wealthy already you will never be able to become wealthy by writing books, paintings, songs, etc. as you will have to declare their value quite low in order to pay taxes on them. If it becomes popular the publishing company comes along and forcibly buys it from you for the low value you had to put on it because you couldn't pay the tax, then raises it's value far beyond what the author could afford and profits from the movies rights and etc.
by brohee | 2026-03-02 17:33:12+00:00
It makes devices using those (extremely popular) chips easy to clone as you can dump the firmware (firmware that sometimes also contain secrets, like cryptographic keys or API keys).

Not world shattering, but damn annoying (I myself handle a few millions of those in a connected object deployment and at the very least it warrants a revision of the risk analysis, as the attacker level got lowered some scenarios became more likely).
by WorldMaker | 2026-03-02 17:33:19+00:00
It's not entirely a contradiction. De-Googled Android alternatives can give a perception of choice and also a perception to Banks that they support "everyone" at the same time. "We have both flavors, Vanilla (iOS) and Chocolate [Android]; you claim to want Chocolate (Android), what more do you want?"

Absolutely the current duopoly market is going to make any third-party alternative harder, but de-Googled Android seems to be a worst case because "Why not just install Google Play Services?" remains too valid a question and has too many confusing answers for both non-technical users and the business people at application providers (banks and whatnot). They will continue to have a hard time trying to figure out why you keep asking for a harder work effort for Chocolate Fudge when they already have Chocolate and why isn't that good enough.

It's easier to fix that confusion by asking for an entirely new brand/flavor, such as Strawberry, than continuing this increasingly hard war between Google's Chocolate and "free" (as in speech, but certainly not free of confusion) Chocolate Fudge.
by jborden13 | 2026-03-02 17:33:45+00:00
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by gpm | 2026-03-02 17:34:12+00:00
> Ok, so, it’s the same as before, but the outlet of the spout is now significantly deeper / lower. So the speed of the water should be higher, right?

> Ok, but if the water is faster at the bottom of the long spout… We could view the top part of this system as an exact copy of the short-spout version. At the interface between the tank bottom and the pipe-spout, the velocity of the water should be the same as in the no-pipe version, right? But that means the water inside the pipe is accelerating inside the pipe:

No, it's not the exact same. In the top part of the long-spout system there's a lack of airpressure holding the water above it back compared to the short-spout, and quite a bit of cohesion in the water pulling the water above it down faster if the lack of air pressure isn't enough. The water in the whole system moves faster as a result.

You'd theoretically get the air (actually vacuum) bubble if you ran the experiment in a vacuum with a liquid that has no cohesion... liquids with no cohesion are otherwise known as gasses though and behave differently in other ways as well.
by pfannkuchen | 2026-03-02 17:34:20+00:00
Meta question: Can anyone comment on why ChatGPT produced such patterned writing? There are structures that it uses in nearly every response, and it’s obvious that much of this article was copy pasted from its output. But the corpus LLMs are trained on don’t have these patterns, at least not nearly at the frequency that I think would be required to produced them so consistently in the output. Does anyone know why this happens?
by wao0uuno | 2026-03-02 17:34:22+00:00
My Linux laptop is my 2FA device (email), it holds my passwords, and personal data like photos, contacts, email. It receives notifications and messages from outside world from potentially any sender. It connects through Wi-Fi, Bluetooth, Ethernet, 5G (built in WWAN). It even has cameras, microphones and I use it for my online banking and shopping. The only reason why smartphones "need" to be ultra secure is because everyone and their mother has one and the truth is most people can hardly tell a difference between their head and their butt.
by bohnej | 2026-03-02 17:34:29+00:00
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by ruizprogelio | 2026-03-02 17:34:45+00:00
I built this on my own from Mexico. I taught myself, have no degree, and I’ve been creating things on the internet for about 10 years now.

The issue is that if you want to run ML models on a phone right now, you only have inference runtimes like TFLite, CoreML, and ONNX Runtime. Nobody takes care of the other stuff, such as downloading models, verifying them, caching sessions, and clearing memory when the phone is under stress. Developers end up rebuilding all of this from scratch. I kept hitting this wall, so I created the missing layer.

DUST includes five packages:

- dust-core: contracts and a service registry (ModelServer, ModelSession, VectorStore, EmbeddingService)
- dust-serve: downloads with SHA-256 verification, session caching with reference counting, LRU eviction, and accelerator probing
- dust-llm: llama.cpp on mobile, Metal on iOS, JNI on Android, streaming, and chat templates
- dust-onnx: ONNX Runtime on mobile
- dust-embeddings: on-device vector generation

All packages are built with native Swift and Kotlin. There are also Capacitor wrappers for web-based mobile apps. You can use whichever layer you need.

I’ve been building an on-device AI agent ecosystem separately (capacitor-mobile-claw), which reached 7,200 npm installs in two weeks without any promotions. Right now, it relies on cloud APIs. Once on-device models improve enough, DUST will make the switch possible.

All commits are co-authored by Claude—check the git history. The architecture and design choices come from about 10 years of experience in backend development, Kubernetes, and embedded systems.

I’m happy to answer any questions about the architecture.
by acabezas | 2026-03-02 17:34:53+00:00
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I like both the aesthetic, UI, and social challenges of frontend development as well as the complex, very technical puzzles involved in backend development. It is very easy for me to be fascinated by cool technologies, both old and new.

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by vmbm | 2026-03-02 17:35:00+00:00
I think a lot of the hype is coming from content creators who are actually finding it useful for content creation. Generating ideas, organizing notes and research, writing scripts and articles, managing schedules, editing, promoting, etc...

I assume a lot of these folks were already using LLM's quite a bit, but were using the Chat interfaces or had workflows that were split among a bunch of different services and tools. Something like OpenClaw gave them a way to centralize a lot of that and also gave them a way to use natural language to direct efforts. So for them this probably feels like a big step change.

If you are coming from a programming background you were aware that this type of setup has been doable for a while, but you were probably content sticking with Claude code or similar tools because those tools covered most of your LLM based workflows quite well.

And tying this altogether, one of the lowest hanging fruits for content creators is to create content about the tools they are using. Doubly so if that particular tool is starting to go viral. So you end up with a self feeding virality of sorts, as OpenClaw got more popular, more content creators started using it, and then publishing content about it, etc....
by candiddevmike | 2026-03-02 17:35:05+00:00
> every type must have a default/zero value in Go

Hot take, maybe, but this is one of the few "mistakes" I see with Go. It makes adding QoL things like you mentioned difficult, requires shoehorning pointers to allow for an unset condition, some types don't have a safe default/zero value like maps, and makes comparisons (especially generic) overly complex.
by smlavine | 2026-03-02 17:35:43+00:00
I like mine. the moto g line of phones are like $200, unlocked. They're fast enough for anything I do with a phone. It runs android. It's fine. I've thought about GrapheneOS before but I a) don't want to give Google money to rely less on Google and b) Pixels are expensive. If Motorola can change those points then I'd definitely be interested.
by cucumber3732842 | 2026-03-02 17:35:53+00:00
You're gonna have a hell of a time construing a quality (energy sector or few steps removed employment) as "cause" when it's applicable to a large minority if not majority of the jury pool.

The judge might allow it, but the odds are long and the next judge will certainly allow an appeal on those grounds so you probably don't even gain much except time.
by C6JEsQeQa5fCjE | 2026-03-02 17:35:56+00:00
> The US-Israeli strikes were launched after negotiations to limit Iran's nuclear programme ended without a deal. The UK did not participate.

The negotiations didn't end without a deal, they were ongoing but not finalized. The next session of the negotiations was scheduled for Monday. And then, Israel and US simply attacked on Saturday.

It is very important to use precise language so as to not downplay the illegal aggression against Iran.
by harry19023 | 2026-03-02 17:35:58+00:00
Ben says over and over again that he's not making the argument about the importance of democratic oversight, but he clearly is. He doesn't like Amodei and is happy to see him fail, and it comes through loud and clear in the piece.

Anthropic, like any other US company, should be free to not sell to the government if they don't want to. These other arguments about oversight are nonsense.
by epistasis | 2026-03-02 17:36:13+00:00
sudo du -sh ~/Library/Messages
Password:
du: /Users/cvaske/Library/Messages: Operation not permitted

Wow, SIP is a bit more insidious than I remember. Maybe I should try it in Terminal.app rather than a third party app... I wonder if there will ever be a way to tell the OS "this action really was initiated by the user, not malware, let them try to do what they say they want to do"
by fwipsy | 2026-03-02 17:36:36+00:00
Good artists borrow; great artists steal. LLMs synthesizing previous works doesn't mean they're meritless, because humans do the same thing.

AI is like a camera. Photographs can be art, but they aren't always. If you prompt an LLM only with "write me a novel," you can't take credit for the result, any more than if you took a cell-phone snap of the Mona Lisa. But AI can be used intentionally to create art, same as a carefully planned portrait photoshoot is art.

Art isn't a binary. Art is a spectrum. A creation is art to the extent that it reflects an artist's unique vision, not because of the tools the artist used (or didn't use.)
by casey2 | 2026-03-02 17:36:44+00:00
More accurate to say that Humans are biased towards valuing "human" activity.

Logically text is text, and the value is independent of the creator. News flash people are racist/bigoted, they love to create arbitrary in/out groups and believe in patterns that don't exist.

Odd that sociologists have known this for hundreds (thousands?) of years but they still do pretend science, arbitrarily chopping up people into Men/Women/Children/Blacks/Whites what have you. Now we are chopping text into Human/AI/Spam/Ham. Were does it end? I'll give you a hint, the most efficient arrangement for all points in time is null. Material harm is much harder to fake than categorical harm.

The claim is always that this is somehow useful (yet to see a lick of evidence) but the reality is always oppression, inefficiency and abuse. The cure is worse than the disease.

Like OOP this ends with someone working full time to enforce segregation and do the required book keeping. Just the other day on hacker news there was a friend-foe extension. Somebody thought that was worthwhile, spent their time to create it, because segregation creates valueless work. Strong typing is just a human forcing the compiler to throw a tantrum because a purely arbitrary category was violated
Show HN: Metanoia Research
by metanoia_ | 2026-03-02 17:37:01+00:00
Dispatch 001 is the first piece from a project called Metanoia Research. I have structured it around Dante's three canticles, Inferno, Purgatorio, Paradiso, as lived theology rather than academic argument. I have drawn on Ted Chiang's Story of Your Life for a section on the inadequacy of sequential language to carry simultaneous divine awareness, which was the most honest intellectual framework for what I was trying to say.

Metanoia is not on HN. It is not technical. It is not a product. It is one man writing honestly about suffering, purgation, and Providence, to forget the past so we might remember the future.

I will publish one dispatch per month for the foreseeable future.
by collingreen | 2026-03-02 17:37:17+00:00
September was part of the metaphor because it was a time when decent internet access was mostly via universities and September was when the new batch of freshmen "came online" and started stumbling around the places these folks were regulars at but eventually assimilated or left before the end of the school year. (I expect the same thing happens at the bar scene in college towns but I've never heard it described that way.) Eternal September is the forever version of everyone having access and overwhelming those spaces without it ever being able to recover.

Is there something I'm missing about March or is it just a diverging reference? If the wave of non technical folks being able to automate new things is here, what's the equivalent impact of that? Maybe this is the inflection point where everyone needs more tech support like some sort of post Christmas surge? Maybe less because they have the tools to help themselves without trying now?

I'm not sure we're there yet anyway; I think this is still first adopters and enthusiasts. I asked my wife and some non technical friends and none of them have heard of openclaw yet. I think the deluge will happen if Apple or Android bakes it in or one of the big ai companies makes the app good enough for a normal person to unleash it upon their life and community.
by crawshaw | 2026-03-02 17:37:23+00:00
exe.dev | Full time | SF Bay Area | multiple roles

Support Engineer - If you want to use Claude or Codex (or Shelley!) to trawl through our code base, augmented with (carefully scoped) API keys to make our customers lives better, we are hiring.

Designer - If you want to use Claude or Codex (or Shelley!) to make our product functional and beautiful, we are hiring. You do not ship mocks or assets to other teams. There is no other team. You ship by pushing to production. Don't worry, we've got your back.

Software Engineer - If you see a pattern here, we are hiring. Expect to design, build, and run entire subsystems. What matters is attention to product detail and overall architecture, we have agents for writing code.

With significant industry experience, pay will be over $200,000 with meaningful equity.

We are a small team and going to stay one. The focus is building a high-trust environment. Success for us is if you say "I'm going to fix the load balancer" we all sigh with relief, because you are on it and we can rely on you to take on and solve large projects.
by Grosvenor | 2026-03-02 17:37:42+00:00
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I've tackled a wide range of challenges across various industries, including oil reservoir and well engineering forecasting, automotive part failure prediction, and shipping piracy risk to route ships away from danger. My technical work extends to realtime routing (CVRP-PD-TW) for on-demand delivery, legal entity and contract term extraction, and wound identification with tissue classification. I also work with the current wave of LLMs and agents, and make them do magic.

I've worked with the standard stacks you’d expect: Python, PyTorch, Spark/Ray, AWS, Agentic engineering, etc. But I believe the solution must be driven by the problem, not the tools. I bring years of experience helping companies plan, prototype, and productionize sane data science solutions.

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by jaen | 2026-03-02 17:37:48+00:00
They might be able to solve those faster though (than silicon), since nobody has demonstrated a workable general-purpose (conventional) photonic computer - but TfA at least says they have a machine with 256 "spins", so while that's ~useless for real world problems, it seems to work while not being hugely complex, so there's hope for scaling it up, perhaps.

(I roughly agree with the other "useless" comments in this thread, with a caveat)
by dragonwriter | 2026-03-02 17:37:50+00:00
> You do understand what that term means right.

No, it doesn't mean anything because it is premised on a category error. That's literally the whole point of the post you are responding to.

> Openclaw is software, right? LLMs can write software, so with a single running copy of an LLM you can make a worm style virus that can execute and spread itself via whatever means necessary, such as executing its own copy of Claw.

You can with a framework wrapped around the LLM that allows it to do that; the danger point is the framework, not the model.