MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by LukeB42 | 2026-03-09 08:51:17+00:00
In the past couple of months I've

Built a Cythonized Icecast2 implementation I've wanted for years: https://github.com/lukeb42/cycast

Built a p2p Kanban board that fits in a single .html file and uses only the Python stdlib for LAN discovery https://github.com/lukeb42/kanban_p2p

Developed a p2p legislature that scales from a small team of 3 users to countries of tens of millions of people: https://gist.githubusercontent.com/LukeB42/deb887691f13dee9c...

Developed a small SPA framework inspired by React, Ractive-Load and hn.js: https://lukeb42.github.io/vertex-manual.html

Updated a news archival service for Python 3.x: https://github.com/lukeb42/harvest

Made a scriptable IRC client inspired by irssi and mIRC: https://github.com/lukeb42/scroll

and worked on a couple of my company's products.
by mirekrusin | 2026-03-09 08:52:08+00:00
Again, yes and no.

Humans don't have monopoly on intelligence.

We don't need to mimick every aspect of humans to have intelligence or intelligence surpassing human abilities.

"General general-intelligence" doesn't exist in nature, it never did.

Humans can't echolocate, can't do fast mental arithmetic reliably, can't hold more than ~7 items in working memory, systematically fail at probabilistic reasoning and are notoriously bad at long term planning under uncertainty etc.

Human intelligence is _specialized_ (for social coordination, language, and tool use in a roughly savanna like environment).

We call it "general (enough)" because it's the only intelligence we have to compare against — it's a sample size of one, and we wrote down this definition.

The AGI goalposts keep moving but that's argument supporting what I'm saying not the other way around.

When machines beat us at chess, we said "that's just search".

When AlphaFold solved protein folding, we said "that's just pattern matching".

When models write better code than most engineers, manage complex information, and orchestrate multi-step agentic workflows — we say "but can it really understand"?

The question isn't whether AI mimics human cognition/works at low level the same way.

It's whether it can do things that do matter to us.

Programming, information synthesis and self directed task orchestration capabilities that exploded in last weeks/months aren't narrow tasks and they do compound.

Systems that now can coherently, recursively search, write, run, evaluate, revise etc. while keeping in memory equivalent 3k pages of text etc. are simply better than humans, now, today, I see it myself, you can hear people saying it.

Following weeks and months will be flooded with more and more reports – it takes a bit of time to set everything up and the tooling is still a bit rough on the edges.

But it's here and it's general enough.
by deaux | 2026-03-09 08:53:24+00:00
Anthropic has willingly left money on the table by taking a stand. They could just not have done this.

OpenAI so far has done the opposite, instead seizing the above as an opportunity.

That is a seriously meaningful difference. Their agreement with Palantir (fwiw OpenAI has been partnering with them for even longer) doesn't erase that.
by a-french-anon | 2026-03-09 08:53:33+00:00
“You merely adopted the loneliness. I was born in it, molded by it. I didn't know love until I was already a man, by then it was nothing to me but blinding!”

More seriously, ride the loneliness with manly grace: lose the shrink drugs, grind your teeth, clench your butt and lose yourself in body sculpting, disturbing art, brain exercises, etc... and if you want a bit of balm, remember that you're no wizard.
by jancurn | 2026-03-09 08:53:51+00:00
Cool, adding this to my list of MCP CLIs:

- https://github.com/apify/mcpc
- https://github.com/chrishayuk/mcp-cli
- https://github.com/wong2/mcp-cli
- https://github.com/f/mcptools
- https://github.com/adhikasp/mcp-client-cli
- https://github.com/thellimist/clihub
- https://github.com/EstebanForge/mcp-cli-ent
- https://github.com/knowsuchagency/mcp2cli
- https://github.com/philschmid/mcp-cli
- https://github.com/steipete/mcporter
- https://github.com/mattzcarey/cloudflare-mcp
- https://github.com/assimelha/cmcp
by Frieren | 2026-03-09 08:54:11+00:00
Depending on timescale. If you mean it is better than 200 years ago I agree. If you mean better than 20-40 years ago lets say that it is debatable.

But if we go onto larger scales it flips again. Before the rise of cities, smaller societies allowed for a more involved social participation. I doubt that live was better back then, but labor was dependent mostly on one self and immediate family and neighbors. So, autonomy was higher even if the rest of parameters for well being were worst.
by darkwater | 2026-03-09 08:54:36+00:00
I think social skills are mostly just like any other skill: you have to practice them to get better at them. And while you might be more or less naturally gifted at any skill, there is a minimum level which every abled human out there can reach with some effort. You will never be a showman,a car seller or the king of the party but you can have interactions with other human beings and connect with some of them. Just like you can learn to play guitar, juggle 3 balls or do basic algebra.
by zelphirkalt | 2026-03-09 08:54:40+00:00
Can you tell more about your background? Making a sim like this also crossed my mind many times, but I learned in the past, that without much of any art skills, I would have to use resources of others or hire someone to make the graphics and so on. In the times of me playing around with RPG maker it was the missing story that was the problem. So it seems often that one core aspect is missing, when wanting to make a game. How did you learn to fill that gap, learn how to get that skilled with making the graphics?
by jeswin | 2026-03-09 08:55:03+00:00
There are so many useful snippets of good advice on this thread.

I'd like to mention sport again, but with an addition: find a sports coach you can afford. This changes sport from being a destination to a path, and you'll avoid injuries - which is something you'll need to be careful about as your grow older. Im in my mid 40s, for context.
by bsboxe | 2026-03-09 08:55:58+00:00
Completely different situations. The Unitree demos are prerecorded movements with no real adaptability. While visually impressive, they are highly tuned to perform that specific sequence of actions. If you walked in front of one it would have zero awareness of you and you’d be hit. They’re essentially “blind”.
The last video here is likely demonstrating a teleoperated humanoid.
by beernet | 2026-03-09 08:57:05+00:00
This feels like a desperate attempt to stay relevant in a post-LLM world. They’re basically wrapping an LLM in a "professional" skin and calling it an expert review. The problem is that once you start letting an AI "expert" dictate tone and logic, you effectively lobotomize the writer’s original intent. We’re reaching a point where AI is just reviewing other AI-generated text, creating a feedback loop of pure mediocrity. Copium for middle management, if you ask me.
by Pinegulf | 2026-03-09 08:57:24+00:00
There are plenty of good advice what to do. On the other hand don't do:

* Doomscroll on your phone, reddit, whatever. Social media is not your friend.

* Self medicate. Some commercial drugs are bad enough. This includes overeating.

* Get stuck binge watching.

Try things (if you can). You never know what you happen to like.
by lwansbrough | 2026-03-09 08:58:47+00:00
Tell me: is the US supposed to stand idly by while the Iranian regime develops nuclear weapons? They pursue nuclear weapons of their own volition, by the way. There are paranuclear states and nuclear threshold states which have not pursued nuclear weapons and have delivered on providing for their people in every manner in which a human society needs. So what does Iran hope to achieve that diplomacy cannot?

At what point does it turn from a "disagreement" to a credible existential threat that an adversary cannot ignore?
by JacobAldridge | 2026-03-09 08:59:07+00:00
I remember when Sriracha disappeared from the market for a while (2022?).

The story I heard at the time was heavily positive, talking up the handshakes and relationship angle - suggesting the supplier had a bad harvest (drought) so the manufacturer had decided not to produce sauce rather than produce an inferior product.

Either rumours or more lies - and a good way to help the market forget the earlier flavour and be grateful for a sloppier solution to 'return'?
by cy20251210 | 2026-03-09 08:59:36+00:00
MiniMax recently released a new AI music generation model called MiniMax Music 2.5.

It can generate high-quality background music, melodies, and AI songs from simple prompts. The model is designed for creators, developers, and AI music enthusiasts.

You can explore the details and try the demo here:

MiniMax Music 2.5
https://www.minimax-music.com/minimax-music-2-5

Key features:
• AI text-to-music generation
• fast music synthesis
• suitable for video creators and game developers
• AI soundtrack generation

Curious what the community thinks about AI music models like this.
by green7ea | 2026-03-09 09:00:18+00:00
I'm really curious what will happen to this space when Valve releases great open source drivers for the Qualcomm chip they have in the Steam Frame. It might be one of the first, very powerful, GPU accelerated SoC you can buy that has mainline support.

I can image having a very usable ARM linux laptop and tablet as a result of this — maybe even cellphone when the modems get mainlined or used via USB.
by bonoboTP | 2026-03-09 09:00:28+00:00
RSS exists but those authors who don't publish through it probably wouldn't care about it either. Like, if by magic, RSS became popular as a technology, they would publish through it, but then there would be demand for discoverability and algo feeds would win the engagement race and then RSS is in the background and th platform would naturally decide to just focus on the algo and drop RSS and the regular users wouldn't care and authors would only care what regular users care about. Except for the tiny techie bubble.

It's not a technical problem. Less effort will always be more popular and drown out more effort in the mainstream.
by hrmtst93837 | 2026-03-09 09:00:50+00:00
Token counts alone tell you nothing about correctness, latency, or developer ergonomics. Run a deterministic test suite that exercises representative MCP calls against both native MCP and mcp2cli while recording token usage, wall time, error rate, and output fidelity.

Measure fidelity with exact diffs and embedding similarity, and include streaming behavior, schema-change resilience, and rate-limit fallbacks in the cases you care about. Check the repo for a runnable benchmark, archived fixtures captured with vcrpy or WireMock, and a clear test harness that reproduces the claimed 96 to 99 percent savings.
by shafyy | 2026-03-09 09:00:52+00:00
Enough with this analgoy. It's flawed on so many levels. First and foremost, stop devaluing humanitiy and hyping up AI companies by parroting their party line. Second, LLMs don't learn. They can hold a very limited amount of context, as you know. And every time you need to start over. So fuck no, "teaching" and LLM is nothing like teaching an actual human.
by trashb | 2026-03-09 09:00:58+00:00
I think there is already great advice in the comments.

This is my two cents.

Iterate and find a way to be comfortable with yourself, perhaps (re)try different things you used to like or try new things you like. If possible in a communal setting (for instance a introduction course in ...). It can be anything from learning a language to a artisan craft.

Mostly look for community you mention you like gaming, there are a lot of gaming related communities out there that are very welcoming!

Also try to go out of your way to leave your comfort zone, this will push you into situations that you are not getting into right now and that may lead to new opportunities.
by worthless-trash | 2026-03-09 09:01:08+00:00
> everything that happens in the world is your responsibility also, as you help make it happen. it's our world after all.

No, there clearly are things that are 'outside the individual or groups control'. There are three kinds of events, things we can control, things we have partial control, and things we can't control.

Nobody is responsible for the sun rising, nobody is responsible for gravity. Nobody is responsible for another persons actions, each person has choice, love it or hate it they do.

If you can't see that I don't know what to say, we fundamentally have a disagreement on reality.

If individuals are 'responsible' for everything, we all should share the same yolk of punishment for individual actions, and this should extend to all sentient life, why stop at people, why not kill their pets and farm animals, trees and plants nearby, (I assume this is what you want, see what i did there ?)

> you probably prefer to pay the police than to pay someone a meal so she doesn't need to steal and expose herself to the risk of killing someone

Please don't assume my take on caring for people, this take is very wrong.

> there's clearly worthless trash on both sides of the equation.

Right back at ya ;P
by pnt12 | 2026-03-09 09:01:13+00:00
Counter-argument: we're talking about saving a handful of bucks for something that lasts months. Do it if you find it fun - I tried it and didn't like the work nor spice under my fingernails, at all.

My preferences in cooking are like software: high level is fun (cooking dishes), low level is annoying (growing or producing ingredients).

I also like making cocktails. A brief try with homemade coffee licqueurs was disappointing - knowing a couple of good brands, I can buy and enjoy them, no hassle. Closest to preparing ingredients I do is occasionally doing batches of "super juice", where you squeeze a bunch of limes and add some conservatives and enhancers (and water), that increase the yield, flavor and shelf life by a lot. Then it's really practical to just use the juice like a normal ingredient, versus having the cytrus available having to squeeze them and having more stuff to clean.
by fzeroracer | 2026-03-09 09:01:15+00:00
> I am more annoyed by the anti-AI luddites filling the comments with low value complaints than I am by quality content written partially by an LLM.

Low value content is still content, written by a human being with a specific point. I would argue that LLM written content is even worse than that, because what value does it add when you or I can just ask the LLM itself for it? Its existence is solely that of regurgitation.
by shortercode | 2026-03-09 09:01:45+00:00
We used reusable nappies for our daughter and introduced the potty very early. The reduction in waste is many times larger than you expect particularly with a very young child ( we started with disposable, but switched in the first few months. Here’s some notes:
- Put your child on the potty during changes, and first thing in the morning. Build’s association and encourages bladder control. Do this long before trying to get them out of nappies.
- Reusable wipes are also a massive win. We have face wipes and bum wipes, basically just soft cotton. Bit of water under a tap and your good.
- Our biggest hurdle for moving away from nappies was nursery, as they wouldn’t consistently put a younger toddler on a potty.
- Introducing a potty earlier means less poopy nappies, turns out even a toddler dislikes pooping their pants.
- Expect a stupid amount of laundry, and the nappies to leak a bit ( so more laundry ). You also can’t use a drier with them as it damages the water proofing layer.
- Travelling is harder… Used nappies should be cleaned within 3 days, so expect to take dirty nappies away with you for washing plus clean nappies/boosters/cloths/bags.
- It’s easy to buy new/almost new/good condition second hand. Either people want to do it but don’t get on with it, or never start, or potty trained. Means a significant reduction in cost. But expect ones that have been used less to be more water proof and Velcro to work better etc.
- Our daughter loved playing with the clean ones, putting them on toys, using cloths etc. Probably helps they have cool designs on the outside. I expect a disposable wouldn’t work well after it had been played with.
- If you need to use disposables while you’re away etc the chemicals can cause rashes after your child has adjusted to their absence.
- When they start weaning you have to “remove the solids” before washing. Yes this is unpleasant, but more often than not is just upending it over toilet. You get used to it. Same as nappy changes in general and washing nappies.
- When we did swap to pants we didn’t do anything special. Just stop nappies, ensure you have a potty nearby, and deal with it for a few days. It’s uncomfortable for them and they learn fast. Expect a bit of frustration and wanting the old routine back though.
by keiferski | 2026-03-09 09:02:29+00:00
This whole situation made me realize that the mechanism for holding presidents accountable for campaign promises really doesn’t exist. None of this is what people voted for, and is almost directly the opposite. That isn’t a new thing, of course, but this seems like a pretty huge turnaround from what the campaign was about.

This seems like a fundamental problem with the system to me.
If you can’t count on the candidate to at least attempt sticking to campaign promises, then the entire process is irrational.

Presumably the mechanism is supposed to be Congress and impeachment, but that doesn’t work if the president is directly influencing their election campaigns.

I do wonder if / how something could be implemented that addresses this, beyond just losing at the next election.
by sznio | 2026-03-09 09:02:37+00:00
recently I had a thought that the AI revolution will actually be a good thing for the web.

it kills SEO advertising. someone writing an article for the purpose of ranking high and making money off of clicks doesnt get clicks anymore because of AI summaries.

direct content-to-ad-revenue is dead. Either you're a hobbyist and write for the heck of it - so your writing will be honest and better quality. Or, you're a product vendor and your writing is documentation meant to be found by AI summaries, again - that's honest.

Once profit is gone, love is all left.
Kairos – real-time AI that cross-verifies news before answering (Python, 90KB)
by joshuaveliyath | 2026-03-09 09:03:15+00:00
Hi HN,

I'm Joshua, a teen from Kerala, India.

I built Kairos because I was frustrated
that every AI I tested hallucinated on
live events. During today's T20 World Cup
Final, ChatGPT named the wrong player.
Copilot named a different wrong player.
Both confidently. Neither had live data.

Kairos solves this differently. Instead
of sending raw search results to the LLM
and hoping, it runs a verification pass
first — cross-checking titles across RSS,
DuckDuckGo, and NewsAPI, scoring each
result by how many independent sources
confirm it, then sorting by confidence
before the LLM ever sees the context.

The architecture:

1. Pronoun resolution from ChromaDB
conversation history (no API call)
2. Domain classification (6 domains)
3. Query expansion — 1 query becomes 4
targeted searches, pure Python,
zero extra API calls
4. Parallel async fetch with timeouts
5. Cross-verification scoring
6. Dynamic thinking budget
(0 for sports scores, up to 10k
for complex analysis, hard capped)
7. 250 word output limit

Total codebase: ~90KB
Model: Gemini 2.5 Flash
Cache: ChromaDB
Cost: $0

Benchmark on today's T20 Final:
Kairos 43/50, Gemini 40/50,
Perplexity 38/50, Copilot 26/50,
ChatGPT 19/50

ChatGPT and Copilot both hallucinated
player names with full confidence.
Kairos cited 15 live sources.

GitHub: https://github.com/joshuaveliyath/kairos

Happy to answer technical questions.
by aw1621107 | 2026-03-09 09:03:22+00:00
> You can do basically the same thing with stackfull coroutines.

...Minus the various tradeoffs that made stackful coroutines a nonstarter for Rust's priorities. For example, Rust wanted:

- Tight control over memory use (no required heap allocation, so segmented stacks are out)

- No runtime (so no stack copying and/or pointer rewriting)

- Transparent/zero-cost interop over C FFI (i.e., no need to copy a coroutine stack to something C-compatible when calling out to FFI)
by nhatcher | 2026-03-09 09:03:31+00:00
First we got a grant from the NLnet[1], which I highly recommend as a first step of any project. Single best thing I could have done. That wasn't enough money for me to quit my job. Also I didn't have any _evidence_ that IronCalc was a good idea or that there was a market for it. Then evidence started pouring and I kept working. I started talking to different folks, lots of people many of those were contacts through the NLnet. Then the folks from NextGraph[2] approached us and asked, "Hey do you want to be part of this consortium [3]?". Eventually we got a HORIZON grant after a lot of sweat and paperwork, but NextGraph took the brunt of it.

As you see there is a huge component of sheer luck

[1]: https://nlnet.nl/project/IronCalc/
[2]: https://nextgraph.org/
[3]: https://elfaconsortium.eu/
by metalman | 2026-03-09 09:03:38+00:00
thing is they ARE americans, and Canada is not the US, but at first, for an american they can almost get cosy, and often do before they encounter Canadas fierce, but chearfull distain for "merica", complete disregard for the "details", and yes we react like your country is a fucked up cross between nazis and haricrishnas, cause it is!
and no we wont debate the "details", we will offer beer, and suggest a proctologist for the stick.
I hope you enjoyed this speach, it was free.
by tgma | 2026-03-09 09:04:43+00:00
Varies. Not all of them are equal. At least not in the same way. Distinctions are important. NYT, for example, employs Farnaz Fassihi who's a known regime shill.
CNN recently sent a reporter live to the region who has to operate under the regime's restrictions to be let in and cannot accurately report everything even if they wanted to. Same with Reuters who has an office inside. They basically had a choice to bite the bullet and agree to the terms and be one of the few foreign reporters with access, or not have access at all and freely report.

That said, PressTV is different from the above a it's an officially a state-operated entity, so it is not a question of mere bias.
Seedance2.0 and OmniVideo: AI video creation from text and images – experiences?
by hongxiao | 2026-03-09 09:04:58+00:00
I'm exploring Seedance2.0, an AI video model used by OmniVideo to generate short videos from text prompts or images. It seems useful for social media and marketing content without traditional editing. Has anyone tried this approach? What are your impressions or alternatives?
by lukan | 2026-03-09 09:05:23+00:00
"The big negative that LLMs have in comparison with junior engineers is that they can't learn and internalise new information based on feedback."

No, but they can take "notes" and can load those notes into context. That does work, but is of course not so easy as it is with humans.

It is all about cleaning up and maintaining a tidy context.