MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by klustregrif | 2026-03-02 19:58:56+00:00
Evil company took money from customers with promises of a different kind of company, too their own fortune in hiding and let the company explose the face of the customers is the news.

You might say "but that's nothign new" but that is what makes it news because Brewdogs campaigns where exactly focues on selling cutomers the idea that they where inf fact something new.

The fouders are rich any any customers who invested is left with nothing. That's the news.

I know the times are changing and people now take it for granted that a cab driver might be selling heisenbergs securities while he drives around customers, for someone to pick up a bit of crypto gambling while they wait to reach their destination.
But it used to be that financial investment was somewhat protected exactly to avoid these types of companies defrauding non-investment savy customers, but brewdog did just that. They claimed that getting a couple of shares along with your beer was ok because it was a new type of company sticking it to the man, but at the end of the day they wheren't punks they where just capitalists putting on customes to scam as much money from their customers as possible.
by estimator7292 | 2026-03-02 19:59:49+00:00
This is a pretty braindead take by an American who is fundamentally incapable of imagining any value system that does not include a price tag.

Believe it or not, many things in life have great value for everyone else without involving money. Money is not the one and only thing you should concern yourself with.

To answer your question: yes, everyone plays by the same rules. If you don't finish your book series before copyright expires and someone makes a show out of it, you've missed your chance. That's capitalism for you.

What's more logical here? Should a person have the unilateral and unlimited right to a piece of work for all eternity or is it perhaps a better business bet to allow short copyright to protect the immediate rights of the creator and then allow more businesses to make more products based on the work? Do you want more capitalism or none? You can't have it both ways.
by timsuchanek | 2026-03-02 19:59:49+00:00
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by gos9 | 2026-03-02 19:59:49+00:00
I find it strange how individuals lament the lack of support from “the system” while actively harming the same system by leaving food bank items on the curb or stealing

To me this reads as a person with no understanding of mutual support networks because they have never felt the need to provide to others in the way they would like to be provided for.

Inherently asocial, and weird.
by jlongo78 | 2026-03-02 20:00:07+00:00
Git-stint looks solid. One pattern worth adding: give each agent a dedicated worktree plus a lightweight session manager that persists terminal state across reconnects. Agents crash, networks drop, and losing mid-run context is brutal. If your orchestration layer can replay output and resume where it left off, you eliminate a whole class of "did it finish or not" debugging. Worktree isolation handles the git side; session persistence handles the human side.
by jlongo78 | 2026-03-02 20:00:14+00:00
Parallel agent sessions get unwieldy fast. One pattern that helps: treat each session as a named unit tied to a specific task scope, not just a terminal tab. When you can search past conversations by content rather than scrolling history, context recovery after switching becomes trivial. Also worth considering persistent session replay - being able to rejoin a long-running agent mid-task without re-prompting saves significant time across a workday.
by bart6114 | 2026-03-02 20:00:19+00:00
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by headcanon | 2026-03-02 20:00:59+00:00
I've been cruising on rust too, not just because it works great for LLMs but also the great interop:

- I can build SPAs with typescript and offload expensive operations to a rust implementation that targets wasm

- I can build a multi-platform bundled app with Tauri that uses TS for the frontend, rust for the main parts of the backend, and it can load a python sidecar for anything I need python for (ML stuff mainly)

- Haven't dived too much into games but bevy seems promising for making performant games without the overhead of using one of the big engines (first-class ECS is a big plus too)

It ended up solving the problem of wanting to use the best parts of all of these different languages without being stuck with the worst parts.
by arp242 | 2026-03-02 20:01:36+00:00
Location: Ireland (Galway)

Remote: yes

Willing to relocate: within Ireland

Technologies: Go ("Golang"), Python, Ruby, JavaScript, Linux, Unix, PostgreSQL

Résumé/CV: https://www.arp242.net/cv/cv-martintournoij

Email: martin@arp242.net

I've been using Go as my primary language for the last nine years, although I don't overly care about the specific language and have experience with a wide variety of tools and languages such as Python, Ruby, PHP, C, JavaScript, Lua, and probably some more. While I've mainly focused on backend in the last few years, I also have written plenty of frontend code over the years, from the "pre-jQuery" days to VueJS.

In the last few years I mainly focused on GoatCounter (https://www.goatcounter.com) with the occasional contract job, but I'm keen to start working on something new for the longer term.

I've got quite a bit of code on my GitHub, so you can take a look at that if you want: https://github.com/arp242
by D-Machine | 2026-03-02 20:01:55+00:00
This is IMO largely false, and empirically things like Sapir-Worf and strong linguistic relativism, or that language == thought are widely considered disproven [1-3].

This is also sort of a wordcel take, in that it neglects that there are plenty of mental structures that are not solely linguistic. I.e. visuo-spatial models, auditory models, kinaesthetic, proprioceptive, emotional, gustatory, or even maybe intuitive models, and symbolic models (which have both linguistic and visuo-spatial aspects). Yes, your models constrain your perception of reality, but it is not clear how important language really is to many of those models (and there is strong evidence it may not matter at all to a lot of cognition [3]).

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Linguistic_relativity

[2] https://plato.stanford.edu/archives/sum2015/entries/relativi...

[3] https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC4874898/
by TitaRusell | 2026-03-02 20:01:59+00:00
He sold his rights to CDPro. Also the videogame made him famous- I for one read one of his books BECAUSE of the game and I'm sure that I am not the only one.

There's a reason why writers want their books to become videogames and or movies.
I would not be surprised if the Tolkien estate made more money after the Peter Jackson movie came out than in all the decades before...

And most importantly artists are not children. If they don't have business sense enough to read a contract they should hire an agent.
by devmor | 2026-03-02 20:02:18+00:00
Thank you, I came here to say so much in less eloquent terms.

It's not surprising to find clustered sentiment from a slice of statistically correlated language. I wouldn't call this a "personality" any more than I would say the front grill of a car has a "face".

Deterministically isolating these clusters however, could prove to be an incredibly useful technique for both using and evaluating language models.
by fahd09 | 2026-03-02 20:02:44+00:00
Like all of you I am impressed by the agentic harness both Claude Code and Codex CLI provide. At their core they are LLMs with a set of tools but we don't really know what's going on under the hood... So I built this to see all the underlying network traffic and parse it in real-time. — how many API calls per interaction, what the system prompts look like, token usage, subagent spawns, etc.

It's a local HTTP proxy + real-time dashboard. Point your AI agent at it with one env var and you see everything: requests, SSE streams, tool definitions, rate limits.

npm install -g watchtower-ai && watchtower-ai

And then go to your project and run your favorite CLI tool with the base URL set to the proxy.

Claude Code:
ANTHROPIC_BASE_URL=http://localhost:8024 claude

Codex CLI:
OPENAI_BASE_URL=http://localhost:8024 codex

Some things I found interesting while building this: Claude Code sends 2-3 API calls per user message (quota check, token count, then the actual stream). It spawns subagents with completely different system prompts and smaller tool sets. The system prompt alone is 20k+ tokens.

This can be super useful if you also want to see the reasoning traces behind the scenes. IT is very rich information honestly and should enable you to build better agent harness.
by piotrzientara | 2026-03-02 20:02:52+00:00
I've been thinking about the "Coordination Trap" in the agentic economy.

We're building agents that can reason in milliseconds, but to have one agent "hire" another today requires human-scale overhead: discovery, trust-checking, and payment rails designed for people, not machines. If a task costs $0.10, we can't spend $2.00 in coordination.

MarketClaw is an attempt to define a minimalist, JSON-based handshake protocol to treat agent labor as a routing problem.

Key challenges I'm looking to solve:

1. Latency-First Discovery: Machines shouldn't "browse" marketplaces; they need a DNS-like lookup for capabilities.

2. Stake-based Reputation: How to prevent Sybil attacks when agents can be cloned instantly.

3. Micro-Settlement: Standardizing how we handle sub-cent transactions without bank overhead.

This is an early-stage spec. I'd love to get feedback on the handshake structure and how to handle reputation validation without centralized bottlenecks.

Manifesto/Context: https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/agent-to-agent-marketplaces-n...
by mindslight | 2026-03-02 20:02:55+00:00
Well I do consider the Trump regime my enemy. By all measures their goals appear to be to drastically harm the position of the United States. And not in a positive-sum competitive way, but rather outright negative-sum looting and destruction.

But that doesn't mean I consider its grassroots supporters my enemy. I understand, sympathize, and often share their frustrations! You should have been able to glean that from my few preceding comments. The problem is that they're stuck in horrible media bubbles telling them that anybody who deviates from the Party mantra is their enemy - and this has been going on much longer than Trump.

I have long tried to engage on the issues they claim to care about, often in person, seemingly to no avail. One stark example I have is an extended family member complaining about GPS satellites tracking their location through their phone. This is something I myself care deeply about, and also know a thing or two about as well. But trying to make the point to them that there are some understandable mechanics whereby you can start taking concrete steps to at least reduce the tracking? Zero recognition or interest!

The only conclusion I can see is that they use the vague paranoia and blaming "the government" as a group identity bonding mechanism. By deviating from the mantras, I declare myself as an outsider who in their eyes is merely part of the problem.

But anyway, that's my trying to explain where I am coming from, which hopefully addresses the thrust of your point. But from my past few comments, I've gotten the impression you're not really reading my explanations here. Rather you're doing the exact thing you bemoan - seeing me as the enemy, ignoring my substantive engagement, and only aiming to beat me down regardless.

And sure maybe this makes sense from the Canadian perspective these days - cut off ties, erect barriers to protect yourselves, and try to move on. I cannot say, and I wouldn't blame you! But don't lecture me about it with some presumed moral authority, especially regarding the response to a single-word non-substantive flamebait.

(As for campaign finance reform that was addressed in my point #3. We used to have a semblance of that before the Supreme Council invalidated it. My list wasn't really meant to be ordered per se)
by oceanplexian | 2026-03-02 20:02:59+00:00
Why does Forbes post intentionally misleading charts?

The one for Bluesky goes from 9M DAU -> 3.5M DAU

The one for X goes from 149M DAU -> 128M DAU

Yet, the Y axis of both charts are wildly out of proportion to make it look like they are equivalent, which is also implied by the headline but clearly not true.
Show HN: Slop Meter for GitHub
by FanaHOVA | 2026-03-02 20:03:14+00:00
About 6 years ago I wrote a blog post [0] with some ideas on how to help popular open source maintainers deal with all the noise on Github. Patted myself in the back and never did anything about it :)

There's recently been a lot more discussion around this due to AI, so I've built a simple tool called "Slop Meter" [1]. It gives maintainers a quick snapshot of the user's history in open source:

1) Do they just open issues and expect you to do everything, or will they put in the work to fix the problems and open a PR? What's the issues : PR ratio?
2) If they do contribute, what percentage of their PRs actually gets merged?

I feel like these are the two most important signals when triaging what to pay attention to in open source.

You can install this on any Github repo and it will automatically post a comment with the stats. We do not run this on maintainers or existing contributors.

You can also go on the web and look up a Github profile; it will take a minute or so to import depending on how much public data they have (maybe longer if this makes the front page...).

Example profile: https://slopmeter.kernellabs.ai/u/mitchellh

If you are an OSS maintainer, I'd love to hear any feedback.

[0] https://www.alessiofanelli.com/posts/how-can-we-help-oss-mai...
[1] https://slopmeter.kernellabs.ai/
by jaggederest | 2026-03-02 20:03:18+00:00
You can go even further with something like the gem scientist at the application level, or tee-testing at the data store level. Compare A and A', record the result, and return A. Eventually, you reach 100% compatibility between the two (or only deviations that are desirable) and can remove A, leaving only A'

I also like recording and replaying production traffic, as well, so that you can do your tee-testing in an environment that doesn't affect latency for production, but that's not quite the same thing.
by etempleton | 2026-03-02 20:03:38+00:00
I think the iPad could be a full desktop replacement if they rebuilt the OS as a branch from Mac OS vs as a branch of iOS and allowed for automatic switching based on what it is docked to. That would not be a small task and would fundamentally change the product, but it would be interesting especially for the iPad Pro. When in portable mode it functions as an iPad, but plug into a keyboard folio an it switches to a laptop; plug into a monitor and have it switch to desktop. Plug into a certain mag safe 3 charger in the kitchen and it switches to tvOS; unplug and it is right back to an iPad. I think this kind of user controllable context switching would be really compelling for an iPad, but it would be a complete reengineering an I am not sure the incentive is there.
by terminalshort | 2026-03-02 20:03:40+00:00
I know exactly what "intellectual" means. It's someone who has spent years obtaining credentials in an economically useless subject and looks down their nose at people who would lower themselves to actually do practical work. A brilliant mechanic who can fix anything and has made millions running his business would never be called an intellectual, but someone serving coffee with a phd in English literature would.
by vaibhav2614 | 2026-03-02 20:03:43+00:00
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by D-Machine | 2026-03-02 20:04:16+00:00
It is a wordcel problem, i.e. the belief that language is all there is for modeling reality, even though this is obviously false and has been clearly disproven by decades of research in psychology, cognitive science, and neuroscience. At best we can say that sometimes language has a strong influence on our perceptions of reality.

EDIT: For a neuroscience reference that also argues why the general perspective is obviously false: https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC4874898/. But really, these things ought to be obvious from introspection.
by dmurray | 2026-03-02 20:04:25+00:00
> Part of the issue is that somehow you can buy just the "assets" half of a company and ignore the "liabilities" portion.

You really can't and they didn't.

If Brewdog has creditors who lent it money or suppliers who are waiting on payment, then they will be getting paid as part of the deal or they will have agreed to a restructuring, up as far as being offered first refusal on the company's assets.

Brewdog's existing management could have made the exact same closures without selling the company.

If retail investors lost out here, it's because they were overly optimistic in the first place, or just unlucky, not because they're getting cheated in this deal. You can tell this because the institutional investors are also getting nothing out of it.
by natas | 2026-03-02 20:04:34+00:00
I recently had dinner in Bellevue with an individual who holds a relatively senior position within Microsoft’s executive leadership. During our conversation, she emphasized repeatedly that Microsoft does not primarily view its offerings as consumer products. According to her, the company’s leadership is strongly focused on B2B strategy, with revenue growth driven mainly by Azure, AI, and enterprise solutions.

Her perspective was that consumer-facing products are not the primary revenue drivers and, therefore, are not central to executive priorities. While this may not be surprising to some, what stood out to me was how emphatically she underscored that the company’s strategic focus is squarely on enterprise customers rather than end users.

That said, this business model has historically proven effective for companies such as IBM. Microsoft allocates its resources toward segments that offer meaningful revenue growth.
by daxfohl | 2026-03-02 20:04:43+00:00
Yeah, I don't care for go but I expect it to win here. Its performance is good enough for most use cases, it has a huge ecosystem of libraries, lots of training data, and deploys as a binary so users don't need to install anything else.

I expect rust to gain some market share since it's safe and fast, with a better type system, but complex enough that many developers would struggle by themselves. But IME AI also struggles with the manual memory management currently in large projects and can end up hacking things that "work" but end up even slower than GC. So I think the ecosystem will grow, but even once AI masters it, the time and tokens required for planning, building, testing will always exceed that of a GC language, so I don't see it ever usurping go, at least not in the next decade.

I wish the winner would be OCaml, as it's got the type safety of rust (or better), and the development speed of Go. But for whatever reason it never became that mainstream, and the lack of libraries and training data will probably relegate it to the dustbin. Basically, training data and libraries >>> operational characteristics >>> language semantics in the AI world.

I have a hard time imagining any other language maintaining a solid advantage over those two. There's less need for a managed runtime, definitely no need for an interpreted language, so I imagine Java and Python will slowly start to be replaced. Also I have to imagine C/C++ will be horrible for AI for obvious reasons. Of course JS will still be required for web, Swift for iOS, etc., but for mainstream development I think it's going to be Rust and Go.
by TimorousBestie | 2026-03-02 20:04:50+00:00
Yes, but I was referring to Starlink potentially interoperating with a satellite that they do not own or operate. To my knowledge they have not done this yet, but clearly my Starlink knowledge is a little out of date so if you know of a mission that did this I’d be interested.

> And Starlink has way more than enough downlink capacity for the "staggering" numbers in the article.

This is the only independent analysis of Starlink’s downlink capacity that I know of: https://thexlab.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/07/Starlink_Anal... (July 2025).

Of course, the new V2’s and V3’s will change the math here considerably.