MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by maxdo | 2026-03-08 17:00:30+00:00
Tech industry in its shape is dead anyways. How many companies / startups work is just to visualize data with some charts to help understand a bit.

How may companies are just some custom data collectors

You can continue , we are at double pivot now. Code is a commodity. Not oracle db , but oracle business department for sure . You can build the same on the fly and curated.

At the same time to support old system you need 10x less people .
by b112 | 2026-03-08 17:00:50+00:00
If it is 2030, compute and software will vastly reduce requirements.

Nvidia has so much cash for R&D. You can bet they now have immense optimization and improvements in the pipeline, but why would they release anything groundbreaking right now?

There are no real competitors on their heels. As Intel did for decades, they will likely dole out improvements, only when necessary to remain ahead.

By 2030, I expect 10x improvement. We're also seeing stunning optimizations in trained models.

I imagine desktops running many of these local by 2030, even phones.

Will we need even 1/10 the datacenters for LLM in 2030?
by itishappy | 2026-03-08 17:01:46+00:00
CPython (the compiler) is the most popular implementation of Python (the language) like GCC, Clang, and MSVC (compilers) are implementations of C (the language). Other Python implementations include PyPy, Jython, and IronPython.

Nobody is "pretending" anything. These have all been around for 15+ years at this point. Your ignorance does not imply intent to deceive on others part.
by Herring | 2026-03-08 17:01:55+00:00
You need to lift weights seriously, like get your squat at least to bodyweight, ideally 1.5x bodyweight. Of course it's great for the body, but it has profound effects on the mind too, like you might be able to get off those meds. Studies show mental health effects from working out depend on intensity.

Fix your diet and your sleep. Meditate.

The basic concept is invest seriously in yourself and you'll like being by yourself much better.
by notsure357 | 2026-03-08 17:02:43+00:00
My mom moved to a remote area after she retired, she had a partner who moved there with her, although he was much older. They always lived in a house on a lake. She retired early because she wanted to enjoy the time that he was still active and travel, which they did. 10 years later her partner died and she had health complications that made it difficult for her to travel anymore. Once this happened, she hated the area she lived in. There wasn't even a YMCA nearby that she could exercise and swim at, which she would have enjoyed. She wouldn't go for a walk because her house was on a hill that was too difficult for her to walk. She could have driven to a different area and gone on walks but she didn’t ever want to do that by herself. It took me 45 minutes to drive to where she lived and help her grocery shop and clean house, which I did twice a week. The covid pandemic forced her to move into assisted living and she died three months after moving there due to her chronic illness. I couldn't tell you if the 10 years before things got bad were worth it in comparison to the misery she suffered at the end, but moving to a remote area definitely had its disadvantages that there was no solution for when it hit.
by fatihturker | 2026-03-08 17:02:45+00:00
Author here.

I'm currently working on further speed improvements — it's already around 8× faster in some cases, but there’s still potential for more optimization.

Since this is an open-source project, community support is very important. I believe AI shouldn’t be controlled or driven by only a few companies, so contributions, feedback, and ideas are always very welcome. Feel free to open an issue or PR if you'd like to help.
by bequanna | 2026-03-08 17:02:50+00:00
> I don't know what comes after, but when you combine this with the Iran war it's going to be closer to economic depression.

I follow your extrapolation in the first part, but this is where you lost me.

Why is the Iran war guaranteed to have long-term net negative consequences? It seems far too early to predict the outcome with any kind of certainty.
by birdgoose | 2026-03-08 17:03:50+00:00
The sibling comment explains why we prefer to use the lower bits as a tag (these are guaranteed to be zero if the value is a pointer on a 64-bit system).

Another reason why we wouldn’t want to use the top bit is that, as the parent comment suggested, the tagged pointer representation of a fixnum integer isn’t a pointer at all but is instead twice the number it represents. Generally speaking, we represent integers in twos-complement representation which uses that top bit to determine if the value is positive or negative.
by dcminter | 2026-03-08 17:04:04+00:00
> people who never actually used WASM ;)

Fair if you mean me - I've at most toyed with it, but the shim stuff was off-putting.

I'm a backender though, I don't pretend my opinion is of any consequence here.

> Personally I'm not a fan of this

You make it sound like the shim layer is actively desirable - why is that?
by b89kim | 2026-03-08 17:05:03+00:00
I’ve been testing these on other tasks—IK, Kalman filters, and UI/DB boilerplate. Qwen3.5 is multimodal and specialized for js/webdev or agentic coding. It’s not surprising MoE model have some limitations in specific area. I understand most LLM have limited ability in mathematical/physical reasoning. And I don't think these tasks represent general performance. I'm just sharing personal experiences for those curious.
by agent5ravi | 2026-03-08 17:05:30+00:00
The resolve rate numbers are interesting but I keep coming back to the regression question. In my experience doing code review on a real codebase, the hard part of maintenance is not fixing the thing that broke. It is understanding whether your fix preserves the invariants the original author had in mind but did not write down.

A benchmark that checks CI pass/fail captures the first part. It cannot capture the second. An agent that makes CI green by weakening an assertion or bypassing a check will score well here but create a time bomb.

The monorepo point from yuyuqueen hits this. When the agent can see the full dependency graph, it is less likely to fix something locally while breaking a downstream assumption. The biggest maintenance failures I have seen are not wrong logic. They are fixes that are locally correct but violate an unwritten contract between components.
by furyofantares | 2026-03-08 17:05:37+00:00
I have no doubt LLMs are involved in this these days and make the problem worse, but this problem extends back in time too. During the Wordle craze there were tons of people making variations on Wordle. Anyone who's game got at all popular would find search results covered in sites that either just iframe embed their game, or copied the game and took out the credits.

I always register a TLD for my games and I think that might be why my games have always managed to stay at the top of the results, but they are followed by loads of people embedding the game, look at the search results for xordle for example. Many other authors would share their game on github pages or replit or whatever and were not so lucky.
by bilie-tech | 2026-03-08 17:05:45+00:00
I wanted my claude agent to manage my calendar and be able to create a booking like scoped to one person, and there really wasn't anything out there that did this the way I wanted so I hacked this together. With Macroon tokens you can always scope your token down without talking to the server. Still rough on the edges but it should work. Feedback will be greatly appreciated. I created this 70% off coupon for whoever is interested to play with it
by k32k | 2026-03-08 17:06:05+00:00
When I read this comment all I see is: LLM at the edge - or close to it - will become available. And whoever provides the best eco-system across digital lifestyle and business wins.

Oh... Apple? lol.

Well that'd be funny wouldn't it.

Oh and dont forget Apple got rid of its reliance on Intel too. No reason why this can't happen again.
Show HN: SatsAPI – Bitcoin data API, pay per call in sats via Lightning L402
by Aperezvigoa | 2026-03-08 17:06:19+00:00
Hi HN, I built SatsAPI — a Bitcoin market intelligence API that uses
L402 (HTTP 402 + Lightning Network) for pay-per-call access instead
of API keys or subscriptions.

The flow:

GET /v1/price
→ 402 + { invoice: "lnbc3n1p...", payment_hash: "abc123" }

pay invoice (any Lightning wallet)

GET /v1/price?payment_hash=abc123
→ 200 + { price, rsi, macd, trend, ... }

8 endpoints covering price/technicals, mempool fees, on-chain metrics,
derivatives, AI-generated signals and a full market summary. Costs range
from 2 sats (~$0.001) to 200 sats (~$0.12).

The main thing I wanted to test: can L402 work as a real auth mechanism
for a production API? Turns out yes — it's been live for a week on
mainnet and already receiving payments from what looks like bots or
automated scripts hitting multiple endpoints in sequence.

A few things I learned building this:

- phoenixd makes the Lightning side trivial. The entire payment middleware
is ~60 lines of Express code.
- L402 is a genuinely better model than API keys for programmatic access.
No credential to leak, natural rate limiting through economics, agents
can pay autonomously.
- Railway blocks exchange IPs so derivatives data is estimated from price
momentum rather than real funding rates. Documented but worth knowing.

Stack: Node.js/Express on Railway, phoenixd 0.7.2 on DigitalOcean.

https://satsapi.dev/docs — full docs with JS/Python/cURL examples
https://satsapi.dev/health — live node status
https://github.com/Aperezvigoa/satsapi — source

Happy to answer questions about the L402 implementation or the
phoenixd setup.
by dahart | 2026-03-08 17:06:58+00:00
For some reason it’s taken me decades of playing guitar to become good enough at tuning and also sensitive enough to really feel the fact that I can’t tune the guitar. Recently I finally grokked the simple reason that 12 TET cannot be perfect, and it doesn’t take a long article to see it. I was kind-of aware of the major third problem, but I naively thought fifths were still perfect.

A 12 TET chromatic is 2^(1/12), and a 12 TET fifth would be 2^(7/12). A perfect fifth is a 3:2 ratio. Those numbers are slightly different, and that’s enough to understand it. Another way of thinking about it is that if you were to complete the cycle of fifths purely by stacking fifths, you should end up on the note you started with but many octaves higher. But you should be able to see that starting on C1 and going by octaves will produce a number that is purely powers of 2, whereas stacking fifths will necessarily involve powers of both 2 and 3, so they can never be equal, I can stack fifths and never land on my original note’s octaves.
by rvz | 2026-03-08 17:07:48+00:00
The problem is that the 'developers' you are seeing today are not the same from the 90s that have that hacker mindset and curiosity.

Instead, it has been hijacked by those who have never opened a PC before or were never interested in the field to begin with and saw it as a VC vehicle get-rich-quick scheme infiltrated by tons grifters.

Once the money dries up post-extraction then they (grifters) abandon the field to the true 'hackers' still in the field doing clever projects like this one.
by mjburgess | 2026-03-08 17:08:47+00:00
Iran's principle strategy is to impose severe economic consequences on the US and its allies, to tip the balance of resolve in their favour. This is easy for them to do, because closing vital shipping lanes and attacking energy infrastructure in the region is done at only the cost of a few drones -- whilst defending this is incredibly expensive. This asymmetry is the only one which is profoundly in Iran's favour, and their best strategy for forcing a diplomatic resolution. This is why they are attacking multiple US allies in the region.
by burnstek | 2026-03-08 17:08:55+00:00
Yeah dude. Amen. In my 20's I could literally code a side project all day into the evening (sometimes overnight) and it was absolute serendipity. Coding in and of itself was a vibe. Then, life happened, more life happened, and eventually software development just became a career instead of a passion. Coding became a means to an end.

"Resentful" is a perfect way of putting it - I may just be old and grumpy now, but I think it's sad what we as a community have done to the process of web development. It's such a circle jerk. Node in my view is the worst thing that ever happened to building web applications.

Enter Claude Cowork. I've spent the past few days building an app that would have taken me weeks of time in the past. It's using a framework I've never built with, and I don't have to learn the intricacies. Shipping this to Vercel and hosting the database on Supabase is incredibly easy and it's very exciting. The only drawback so far is the unsettling fear of the unknown regarding leaking secrets and whatnot, so I'm going to have to manually audit the finished project before deploying.

And here I thought my days of "side projects" were completely over.
by pipo234 | 2026-03-08 17:09:36+00:00
> Output is a lot harder to measure, which means it can be fudged easily.

First and foremost, this is about Oracle. For the short period I worked there, my impression about culture and tech was: mediocre. Not excellent, not poor but just a around average.

Which raises the question: why is it such a successful company commercially? I believe it's being ruthless to customers, employees and suppliers combined with cooking the financials.

Which bring me to your remark about output being difficult to measure. Imho Oracle had been exceptionally good at manipulating and obfuscating their output. And this was true long before AI came to the scene.
by lumost | 2026-03-08 17:09:54+00:00
The Iran war is symptomatic of what's to come. If the US/other major powers feel unconstrained to wage semi-limited disruptive conflicts at will - then the world will be much less stable.

Iran can close the straight of hormuz as retaliation, and there really isn't anything that can be done about it except for invasion. Other countries have similar capabilities or can acquire them readily. If Cuba wanted to close the gulf in retaliation for a US attack - they could, Denmark could lock the north sea to US shipping and naval traffic etc. etc.
by talkvoix | 2026-03-08 17:10:01+00:00
Actually, the platform started that way, but I removed it due to complications with the Google login system. I was wasting a lot of time with it, so I decided to stop and continue with normal login and password. I'm still working on some new features. As soon as I have more time, I'll log in with Google/Apple again.

Thank you very much for your feedback, my friend!
by ibejoeb | 2026-03-08 17:10:20+00:00
> why does it make more sense to use asts here

For one, it eliminates a class of merge conflict that arises strictly from text formatting.

I always liked the idea of storing code in abstraction, especially editors supported edit-time formatting. I enjoy working on other people's code, but I don't think anybody likes the tedium of complying with style guides, especially ones that are enforced at the SCM level, which adds friction to creating even local, temporary revisions. This kind of thing would obviate that. That's why I also appreciate strict and deterministic systems like rustfmt. Unison goes a little further, which is neat but I think they're struggling getting adoption because of that, even though I'm pretty sure they've got some better tooling for working outside the whole ecosystem. These decoupled tools are probably a good way to go.

I was messing around with a file-less paradigm that would present a source tree in arbitrary ways, like just showing a individual functions, so you have the things you're working on co-located rather than switching between files. Kind of like the old VB IDE.
by Etheryte | 2026-03-08 17:10:21+00:00
While I see the point the author is trying to make, I'm not really sure I agree. Most users don't even read error messages, never mind logs. At best, logs are something they need for compliance, for most, the concept doesn't exist at all. I do agree that the logs should help you understand what went wrong and why, but in that regard the principle is the same for both sysadmins and developers and I don't really see the difference?
by kannanvijayan | 2026-03-08 17:11:20+00:00
I think it's wrong to characterize this in terms of belief. This is the behavioural outcome of the influential pressure of a systemic structure.

Infinite exponential growth is something we ALL "believe" in when we put a dollar into savings and expect to get a dollar and 5c out the next year.

The problem to me seems more that we tie all sorts of OTHER structural societal constructs to this one. To the degree that if we want to feed ourselves, clothe ourselves, and ensure shelter and security for ourselves and our loved ones - those basic _biological_ needs shared by most moderately sophisticated mammals - we are forced to plug into this system and ensure it delivers on its promise.

I've incorporated that infinite growth expectation into my kid's education plans, into our family retirement plans.

This is not a they issue, this is a we issue. The systemic structure is some parts organic but many parts choice and belief driven by general people on the street.
by 0xy | 2026-03-08 17:11:25+00:00
Unemployment is historically low. Inflation is very low compared to the last 4 years of 7.5% yearly price hikes on raw chicken due to widely frauded pandemic era welfare programs and overspend.

The predictions of Armageddon failed completely after the tariff war began and will fail now.

If you believed otherwise truly you'd be selling all your US ETFs and equities, but nobody making those predictions will.
by ethbr1 | 2026-03-08 17:11:38+00:00
There is no privacy in corporate computer systems in the US, legally, as far as I'm aware.

Company pays for the bills = company data

The issue here is that Slack's attempting to build a moat by restricting access by a company to that company's data.

Thereby allowing Salesforce to sell additional features on that same data that only it has access to at scale.
by AnthonyMouse | 2026-03-08 17:11:59+00:00
There's also the fact that they were charging $200 to add 8GB of RAM before the prices went up, when that much RAM was something like $70 at retail.

The problem then is that when the supply gets more expensive and you were already charging the maximally-extractive price to customers, they can't eat much more of a price increase, so instead most of it has to come out of margins.
by 3eb7988a1663 | 2026-03-08 17:12:43+00:00
The story leaves me wanting - how did the economics play out for them? If you have an automated PS5, how much virtual currency can you grind and what is the going rate for it? What is the break-even point on a $500 console + 200W(??) 24/7.

I naively think that there are not many people willing to buy coins off of a shady website. Especially since I think the people who are most likely to want to cheat an edge are teenagers with limited funds. Would also expect that the bots are a glowing aberration vs standard player behavior.
by dylan604 | 2026-03-08 17:12:50+00:00
"Ease of carrying the telescope with bag straps"

I like this, but...

Some of the best telescope buying advice I was ever given was to only buy a scope as big as you can carry/setup by yourself. It's hard to find time in one's schedule to take a scope somewhere, but it can be next to impossible to align schedules with another person. At least for a scope meant to take somewhere. Most people don't have a permanent setup though, so it's a pretty decent thing to consider.

The weight is only part of the equation, but also consider if it takes more than two hands to assemble.
by bri3d | 2026-03-08 17:12:59+00:00
IMO this really isn’t a huge problem for this project specifically, since that part is outsourced to tree-sitter which has a lot of effort behind it to begin with.

I think this project is incredibly cool as a line of research / thought but my general experience in trying to provide human interfaces using abstractions over source code suggests that most people in general and programmers especially are better at reasoning in the source code space. Of course, beagle can generate into the source code space at each user interaction point, but at that point, why not do the opposite thing, which is what we already do with language servers and AST driven (semantic) merge and diff tools?
by QuiEgo | 2026-03-08 17:13:55+00:00
I'm curious what our industry looks like in 10 years as well.

I like the architecture analogy. An architect is not really focused on doing the actual building of a design, but understanding what's possible, what tools and techniques and materials are available, and figuring out how to put the pieces together to make a thing.

Right now, you're the architect who designs a house, but you're also the cement mixer, framer, drywall installer, plumber, electrician, and so on, all at once.

In this analogy, it's hard to design anything big like a skyscraper if you're bogged down by all of the minutia like picking out what type of nails to use for the framing and then installing them.

I think going forward, AI is going to do a lot of the non-architecture part of software engineering. We will all become architects.

The difference between us will be the scope of what we're qualified to design as we go through our careers - new grads will cut their teeth on the likes of designing shacks, principals design skyscrapers.

I think this also unfortunately means there's gonna be a lot less people in software. The industry will still exist though, but it's going to look way different.

I look forward to this being settled out, the uncertainty sucks.
by adventured | 2026-03-08 17:14:02+00:00
Your response is over the top. Oracle isn't going to fire 30,000 employees to fund anything.

That's the story for Wall Street. Oracle went on a huge run in the market, that it did not deserve, and they're going to attempt to hold on to as much of that gain as they can. Wall Street will applaud slashing jobs if you can give them a good reason for it (and sometimes with no reason at all).

Amazon, Meta, Apple, Nvidia, Microsoft, Google are producing $700+ billion per year in op income. They have nothing else to spend it on. They will continue to fund a gigantic AI build out.

It does end well eventually, just as the dotcom era build-out ended well over the following decades. It ends with continued US dominance. Yes, the dotcom era saw a crash. The build out continued.

Browsers? The US won.

Ecommerce? The US and China won.

Search? The US won. China didn't win the search war, Baidu was supposed to be a serious global challenger to Google, that was widely hailed across tech circles as a known fact - it was inevitable. Nope. Google won. And Europe never did field a competitor at all.

China didn't win the smartphone war. Apple and Google won globally. Apple has produced trillions of dollars in profit on the back of that fact.

Cloud? China didn't even come close globally. The US won without any challenge at all. Europe never showed up. But but but Hetzner.

China didn't win the GPU war. Nvidia has the market, at least for this decade. That will produce over one trillion dollars in profit in just the next five or six years.

China didn't win the AI war. It was OpenAI's ChatGPT that shocked the world and set everything in motion. Now the US has the top three models in GPT, Gemini and Claude. Europe? Not even in the running (although they'd like to believe they are).

This all ends with the US remaining on top, with China as its only real peer.

Europe? There is no Europe in the equation, just as there wasn't for cloud or mobile apps or smartphones or personal computing.