MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by jackschultz | 2026-03-01 00:42:52+00:00
Massivly better and I cannot understand how many comments online say that they're comparable (other than paid actors which now fits the right wing angle that OpenAI takes because right wing paid online comments seems quite common overall).

I remember on the Opus 4.5 release data watching what it can do to my test app I wanted it to build and saying outloud to myself "oh shit" because of how much better it was at the conversation, planning, understanding, and building. Posts like this[0] say similar things, where Opus 4.5 release + Claude Code was the tipping point and the gap is widening and Anthropic has infinite more momentum and going in the better direction with useful models that aren't fully aligned with bad actors.

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46515696
by smj-edison | 2026-03-01 00:44:21+00:00
I've previously seen some ads for Claude on YouTube, mainly following the style of a programmer influencer talking about it. But I'm more of a technical audience.

Though, I happened to be watching the Superbowl, and Anthropic was all in taking pot shots at OpenAI's recent decision to start incorperating ads. Very much addressed towards a general audience. Here's one of them for example: https://youtu.be/FBSam25u8O4
by beloch | 2026-03-01 00:45:10+00:00
People need to go back and use Win 3.1 or MacOS 7.x to realize what a leap forward Win95 was. MacOS 7.x didn't even have preemptive multitasking! The start menu and task bar made their debut and immediately anchored the whole UI. Since then, Windows has made incremental advances (with the occasional step backwards), but no change has been nearly so radical. OS X would not have been possible without the influence of win95. We're still living in the Win95 age.
by squeaky-clean | 2026-03-01 00:45:12+00:00
That's exactly what self hosting is, you install some app on your own computer host(s).

> At what point does the software being covered by an open license changes the responsibility model

When you agree to an open license that says you're liable for anything and not the author of the software.

> THE SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED "AS IS", WITHOUT WARRANTY OF ANY KIND, EXPRESS OR IMPLIED, INCLUDING BUT NOT LIMITED TO THE WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY, FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE AND NONINFRINGEMENT. IN NO EVENT SHALL THE AUTHORS OR COPYRIGHT HOLDERS BE LIABLE FOR ANY CLAIM, DAMAGES OR OTHER
LIABILITY, WHETHER IN AN ACTION OF CONTRACT, TORT OR OTHERWISE, ARISING FROM, OUT OF OR IN CONNECTION WITH THE SOFTWARE OR THE USE OR OTHER DEALINGS IN THE SOFTWARE.
by softwaredoug | 2026-03-01 00:46:35+00:00
The difference is Anthropic wants contractual limitations on usage, explicitly spelling out cases of Mass Surveillance.

OpenAI has more of an understanding that the technology will follow the law.

There may not be explicit laws about the cases Anthropic wanted to limit. Or at least it’s open for judicial interpretation.

The actual solution is Congress should stop being feckless and imbecilic about technology and create actual laws here.
by IncreasePosts | 2026-03-01 00:46:51+00:00
I do this with my agents. Basically, every "work" oriented call spawns a subprocess which does not add anything to the parent context window. When the subprocess completes the task, I ask it to 1) provide a complete answer, 2) provide a succinct explanation of how the answer was arrived at, 3) provide a succinct explanation of any attempts which did not work, and 4) Anything learned during the process which may be useful in the future. Then, I feed those 4 answers back to the parent as if they were magically arrived at. Another thing I do for managing context window is, any tool/MCP call has its output piped into a file. The LLM then can only read parts of the file and only add that to its context if it is sufficient. For example, execute some command that produces a lot of output and ultimately ends in "Success!", the LLM can just tail the last line to see if it succeeded. If it did, the rest of the output doesn't need to be read. if it fails, usually the failure message is at the end of the log. Something I'm working on now is having a smaller local model summarize the log output and feed that summarization to the more powerful LLM (because I can run my local model for ~free, but it is no where near as capable as the cloud models). I don't keep up with SOTA so I have no idea if what I'm doing is well known or not, but it works for me and my set up.
by notepad0x90 | 2026-03-01 00:47:26+00:00
On the hook for whatever comes after. Best case scenario, democrats will peacefully take control again, and pretend to forget about Sam's complicity. But he'll still face civil suits, I hope personally as well as the company itself.

Wort case, the current admin will make nazis look like cosplayers, and within a decade or so, he'll be standing next other ceos facing a tribunal in front of whatever entity managed to topple the former regime, and it will be under warcrime terms that are yet to be defined and for atrocities, which if history teaches us anything, will be so horrific our current ability to imagine antrocities is insufficient to allows to speculate on their nature.

In short, whatever trump does with openai, Sam Altman is in the "whatever trump wants to do was lawful" camp. Even then, perhaps the next regime will fail to learn from history and focus on rebuilding, but if they do learn from history they'll understand that you really can't hold back when it comes to these things. We're in this mess because of failure to sufficiently punish the nazis and the confederates in the US, both of which lasted only for about half a decade by the way. it isn't enough to teach people how horrible nazis and confederates were, the German approach is sensible, but a more extreme approach might be required.

Funny thing is, this might just save openai from total collapse. But if this is the price to keeping the economy alive, even at my own personal cost I hope the economy collapses completely along with these companies and regime.
by stopping | 2026-03-01 00:47:54+00:00
I find it odd that so many comments here are fixating on the "AI can do my job 10x better" throwaway line.

I've been grappling with a lack of meaning in my software engineering job for over a decade now, well before the advent of AI. Working in a modern software organization means that most of your day-to-day effort isn't spent using your technical skills, but on navigating misaligned organizational structure in order to achieve even the smallest goal. The feedback loop is so drawn out that there is no feel-good dopamine rush at the end of a project, only relief that it no longer has to occupy space in your brain.

I'm driven by solving problems for others and seeing their lives improve as a result. But we're so disconnected from real users that it doesn't really make a difference if you reduce your product's crash rate from 2% to 1%; even with recognition ("You did good work", a pat on the back, a peer bonus, or maybe even a promotion), it just doesn't do it for me anymore, especially when any tangible positive outcome is completely hidden from me. I would rather have been ignorant to these problems and not suffered the stress in the first place.

Even when I try to help my fellow developers in a way where it's much easier to feel the impact, it's hard to make a case for a better engineering culture if means that everyone has to put in an epsilon of extra effort in a day and age where every team ascribes to a scarcity mindset. I actually believe I can have more impact building a medium-sized product by myself with the help of AI rather than fighting for scraps in a software organization which pushes and pulls randomly in all directions.

Over time, my tolerance for nonsense and systemic "injustice" (i.e. incentive misalignment) has effectively disappeared. Every time I rub against an unnecessary barrier that was put up by another person, intentionally or not, my motivation simply drops to zero. I constantly have to wear an emotional blanket to keep from feeling angry and frustrated, and it makes it hard to experience genuine emotional fulfillment in my life outside of work. I simply have no patience left to spend in my life outside of work, where it actually matters.

I 100% identify with this blog post. I feel more happiness taking a friend's kids to the climbing gym and listening to them tell me about their experience doing a difficult climb. I feel more happiness from mentoring a robotics team of goofy but driven teenagers. I feel more happiness when my writer friend tells me that she still uses a wooden tablet stand that I built every day. I want my life to feel like it's making a difference for other people in a way that is unique to my talents and skills.

Life is not an optimization puzzle where the goal is to maximize wealth, status, influence, or prestige. Yet it feels like that's really all that a corporate job can offer you these days.
by elzbardico | 2026-03-01 00:48:04+00:00
Funny thing is that from all places, banking and finance are some of the ones that more closely understand software not only as a tool for doing business, but as something that informs and define the business itself.

I once worked in a big bank where basically 70% of their C-suite and upper management were engineers (not only SE, but civil, electric, naval, etc) who had years of experience in IT. The rest were lawyers and a couple economists.

And I am not even talking about the worlds of quant and hft.
by wrsh07 | 2026-03-01 00:48:07+00:00
They do note that their contract language specifically references the laws as they exist today.

Presumably if the laws become less restrictive, that does not impact OpenAI's contract with them (nothing would change) but if the laws become more restrictive (eg certain loopholes in processing American's data get closed) then OpenAI and the DoD should presumably^ not break the new laws.

^ we all get to decide how much work this presumably is doing
by cmenge | 2026-03-01 00:48:39+00:00
I've been mulling the same, but decided against (for now)

Using Claude Code Max 20 so ROI would be maybe 2+ years.

CC gives me unlimited coding in 4-6 windows in parallel. Unsure if any model would beat (or even match) that, both in terms in quality and speed.

I wouldn't gamble on that now. With a subscription, I can change any time. With the machine, you risk that this great insane model comes out but you need 138GB and then you'll pay for both.
by WalterBright | 2026-03-01 00:48:51+00:00
Any user interface designer should take a good look at the controls on a commercial airliner. An awful lot of effort goes into making an intuitive, effective user interface. I have disagreements with it, but there's no denying it's very well done.

Designing a programming language is mostly about usability. I'll be giving a talk about that in April at Yale. It's a fun topic!
by reliabilityguy | 2026-03-01 00:49:02+00:00
> That's quite literally the justification the Baathists used to try 'reclaim' both Khuzestan and Kuwait. You quite literally couldn't be more wrong in how you categorize Baathist Iraq.

Baathism is literally pan-arabism! Arabism as in Arab. Do you really think that making pan-arabism movement under the source of Babylonian legacy is going to work on Kurds and others? Of course not. Same applies to Syria that had their own flavor of pan-arabist party that kept Asad in power. Only recently, after the summer 2025 war with Israel Islamic Republic tried to connect itself to its Persian past, but of course it is too late for that.

> Iran has a much worse relationship with its minorities, where if you are of the wrong faith then you literally face state-sanctioned laws preventing you studying or working.

I am not sure how the practices of the Islamic Republic related to the current mood of the Iranians that oppose it.

> In fact, things in Iraq became much worse for minorities after the overthrowal due to the adoption of Iranian cultural practices like Abrahamic elitism.

You mean that Islamic Republic exported its own flawed ideology on the neighboring states through funding of various non-state actors? Wow.

> The cherry on top of all of this is that you probably don't realize that Persians in Iran only make up 60% of the country. You have Iranians who wholly reject Persian ancestry (Azeris, Armenians, Assyrians, Kurds...) but you don't even account for them, despite Iran having, what, three? entirely separate ethnic-based separatist insurgencies active across the country LOL

I think you conflate anti-regime insurgency vs. anti-persian one.
by derefr | 2026-03-01 00:49:08+00:00
I think there was a period from Windows 3.1 to somewhere during Windows 98 (maybe right up until the release of Office 97?) where both first-party and third-party Windows apps were all expected to be built entirely in terms of the single built-in library of Win32 common controls; and where Windows was expected to supply common controls to suit every need.

Imagine how far a developer would need to stretch their mind today, to think of building a Windows game the way that Minesweeper or Chip's Challenge was built — i.e. as a grid control, where each cell contains a button control, where those buttons can be clicked to interact with the game, and where those buttons' image labels are then collectively updated (with icons from the program's own icon resources, I believe?) to display the new game state.
Mock Wallet – Test Web3 Apps with Playwright, Humans, and AI Agents
by kevin-au | 2026-03-01 00:49:36+00:00
If you've tried to test a dApp with Playwright you already know the
problem. MetaMask wasn't built for headless browsers. You end up
with brittle hacks, flaky tests, and a CI pipeline that breaks
randomly.

I built Mock Wallet to fix this — and then realized it solves
something bigger.

Three things it does:

1. Playwright-native wallet testing
Drop it into your test suite like any other mock. Simulate
connects, signatures, and transactions without touching a
browser extension. Works headless, works in CI, works reliably.

// example
const wallet = await MockWallet.connect(page);
await wallet.approve({ amount: '1.5', token: 'ETH' });
await expect(page.locator('.balance')).toHaveText('1.5 ETH');

2. AI agent wallet
Agents get a programmable wallet via API. No UI, no popups,
no human required. Your agent signs and transacts by calling
an endpoint.

3. Human + agent hybrid flows
The part nobody else handles — testing workflows where a human
and an agent interact with the same contract. Approve flows,
co-signing, agent-initiated + human-confirmed transactions.

Start in sandbox with mock funds. Flip a flag to go live.

mockwallet.dev — free sandbox, no signup to try.

Brutal feedback welcome especially from anyone doing E2E testing
on Web3 apps.
by zahlman | 2026-03-01 00:50:28+00:00
Separating them is good for avoiding misclicks.

Decades ago, MacOS properly had the close box for windows on the opposite side from minimize etc. widgets; now the one destructive window action could be reasonably safe without confirmation. Then Windows started gaining popularity and nobody ever did it the right way by default again. A pity for the sharp minds at Xerox PARC.
Show HN: A no-BS guide for mkt directors who just landed in a broken company
by tbergmann | 2026-03-01 00:50:51+00:00
Spent the last few years watching marketing directors fail their first 90 days not because they lacked skill, but because every framework they'd read assumed a functional organization.
Wrote this to cover what those guides skip: reading political dynamics before you speak, inheriting a burned team, managing up when goals shift weekly. And a honest Day 91 check, stay or go.
$49, 18 pages, one download.
by aishwaryagune | 2026-03-01 00:51:08+00:00
During a hackathon, I build this platform that will help compute cost optimal infra plans to run ML workloads. Plans are computed based on the nature of workload, reasearch papers for custom requirements and configs if set by the user. I also added an agentic inbox, so users can check status, ask questions and even kick off a training job on the go, without having to log into the dashboard.

I wanted to know if this would be actually helpful in real scenarios and what more can be added so it addresses some more pain points. Let me know, thanks!
by jasonvorhe | 2026-03-01 00:51:36+00:00
Google isn't reliable. They'll present you whatever the current thing dictates, without any nuance whatsoever. Sure you can hunt down some exceptions here and there but post 2020, most publications are inviolacy captured by various interests that aren't yours or mine.

But of course there are regime critics but apart from those already captured by US/Israeli intelligence are either people without any perspective or those smart enough to know that a US regime change will worsen their situation even more, so they rather not participate in riots. At least that's what I've been hearing. It's just an anecdote, make of it what you want.
by stavros | 2026-03-01 00:51:41+00:00
Sam Altman "donated" a bunch of money to US government officials.

US government officials said "we're thinking of ruining Anthropic if they don't play ball".

Sam Altman publicly said "oh no, don't do that, that's terrible, they're right to not play ball".

Sam Altman signed a deal to play ball after he said that, and it turned out he had been working on this deal even before the US government officials said the thing about ruining Anthropic.
by wrsh07 | 2026-03-01 00:52:42+00:00
Not that this means the big AI corps should relax their values (it truly doesn't), but I would be extremely surprised if the DoD/DoW doesn't have anyone capable of fine tuning an open weights model for this purpose.

And, I mean, if they don't, gpt 5.3 is going to be pretty good help

Given the volume fine tuning a small model is probably the only cost effective way to do it anyway
by erxam | 2026-03-01 00:54:00+00:00
Israel can do anything they feel like doing because they're the true owners of the world. Why would they bomb themselves?

Nearly every single country in Europe gets orders directly from Tel Aviv. Mileikowsky has 90% of the world's leaders strung by the balls. Zionist organizations have direct veto powers over every single piece of legislation ever produced.

The USA is straight-up their golem. Since it's starting to decay and fall apart, they're racing against time to make the best use of it before it immolates itself.

They're attacking Iran because it's the third-to-last Middle East bastion standing between them and their dream of Greater Israel, where the chosen ones will finally launch their ultimate operation to permanently enslave the goyim.

If they're successful, I wouldn't be surprised if Saudi Arabia and Türkiye were next.
by LarsKrimi | 2026-03-01 00:54:25+00:00
Why not link to the AP then? https://apnews.com/live/live-updates-israel-iran-february-28...

Reddit is a shithole, even more so after it went public a year ago..

Anyway, I don't think the AP pictures are too convincing. Sure it might look like smoke in there, but it looks more like the entire right side of the image was carpetbombed - not just the building complex in the middle
Show HN: Pare – crowd-ranked matchmaking with weekly match reveals
by nanamanso1 | 2026-03-01 00:54:53+00:00
Pare is a dating site where users matchmake for each other. Instead of swiping on your own feed, you get presented with 3 profiles and you decide based on the information presented which candidate profile is the best fit for the focus profile.

Demo on the landing page.

Currently NYC only, but hope to expand as this takes off. All users on other cities get put on a waitlist for now.

Some things I need feedback on:

GTM
- I posted this on the r/nyc subreddit and promptly got shadowbanned from the entire website, but not before a couple people told me to fuck off (lol).
- X/Twitter is a black hole for me since I created an account for the first time ever in January, so I'd appreciate some GTM advice.

Pricing
- Currently free, but I plan to price at $10 a season (~1 week), is that too high or too low? Why? I was aiming to price competitively to standard premium options on other dating apps. Also this is not a subscription (hate those).
- Also Stripe told me that dating apps are restricted enterprises and my account is being closed so I need a new payment processor.

General
- If you’ve seen similar approaches (dating, hiring, recsys, rank aggregation), I’d appreciate pointers.

If you have constructive feedback I'm all ears.
by jjcm | 2026-03-01 00:55:25+00:00
Getting better, but definitely not there yet, nor near Sonnet 4.5 performance.

What these open models are great for are for narrow, constrained domains, with good input/output examples. I typically use them for things like prompt expansion, sentiment analysis, reformatting or re-arranging flow of code.

What I found they have trouble with is going from ambiguous description -> solved problem. Qwen 3.5 is certainly the best of the OSS models I've found (beating out GPT 120b OSS which was the previous king), and it's just starting to demonstrate true intelligence in unbound situations, but it isn't quite there yet. I have a RTX 6000 pro, so Qwen 3.5 is free for me to run, but I tend to default to Composer 1.5 if I want to be cheap.

The trend however is super encouraging. I bought my vid card with the full expectation that we'll have a locally running GPT 5.2 equiv by EoY, and I think we're on track.
by notepad0x90 | 2026-03-01 00:55:43+00:00
They swore an oath to defend the constitution of the US against enemies both foreign and domestic. It is entirely lawful for them to fulfill that duty.

If the commander in cheif and the civilian administration are clearly and unquestionably violating the constitution, they are no longer legitimate. If they are acting to harm the american people, acting as agents of a foreign enemy or as a domestic enemy to harm the american people, then they are not only illegitimate but the military is oath-bound to fight them with necessary force.

> That the weakening of loyalty to the Constitution has been pervasive on those serious counts, is one of the reasons it has been so easy to undermine further.

I can agree with that, that is because the people who swore an oath to defend it have not done so. They wave flags like it's a sports team they're cheering for.

Ultimately, the design of the constitution is such that either the people taking arms, or a patriotic military resisting the government would serve as the ultimate recourse. The system of checks and balances works so long as consequences are still a thing. If in the 1800s a president decided to do half the things trump did, anyone could shoot his face off and get away with it without consequence. These things aren't practical anymore.

The military has the duty to resist unlawful orders. But if a russian agent usurped the US government and civilians are incapable of doing something about it, then that's what they're there for. The military doesn't exist to bomb foreign countries thousands of miles away, it is there to defend the homeland. The original idea was that if laws are no longer a thing (obeyed by the government) the lawlessness would be too terrifying for those in power, therefore lawfulness is in their interest.