MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by quesera | 2026-03-06 14:17:05+00:00
I see. Yeah, I've seen this.

It seems more likely to happen when the profile has been running for a long time (a couple weeks?) and/or using a large amount of RAM.

There's a 60-secish timeout before it gives up and pops that crash report window.
I don't think it's a crash per se, just an unresolved file lock or similar. I haven't noticed whether there's any relationship to running multiple profiles. I am almost always running several at a time, and the issue only occurs sometimes. It has no (other) negative side effects, as far as I can tell, but it was unsettling at first.

I'm on macOS also, and I launch from the command line (effectively, I actually have separate launchers for each profile, but they just run a shell script with different arguments).
by Aurornis | 2026-03-06 14:17:26+00:00
> To be more direct on the point: Anthropic has nailed that Opus > Sonnet > Haiku.

How is this more clear than 5.4 > 5.2 > 5.1?

OpenAI used familiar numeric versioning instead of clever word names. Normally this choice would appeal to software devs, not gather criticism.
by rithdmc | 2026-03-06 14:17:27+00:00
Security has had pattern matching in traditional static analysis for a while. It wasn't great.

I've personally used two AI-first static analysis security tools and found great results, including interesting business logic issues, across my employers SaaS tech stack. We integrated one of the tools. I look forward to getting employer approval to say which, but that hasn't happened yet, sadly.
by lunias | 2026-03-06 14:17:43+00:00
In most cases, the model is non-deterministic and you have no direct control over the input parameters. At best you might get access to some abstraction of a subset of those parameters. I don't know of a coding model that offers direct access to the seed. I like to hear about how people are using agents, but it also feels a lot like someone sitting at a slot machine telling you that if you put your shoes on the opposite feet then you win more often.
by phkahler | 2026-03-06 14:18:16+00:00
“Employees who are more likely to fall for corporate bullshit may help elevate the types of dysfunctional leaders who are more likely to use it, creating a sort of negative feedback loop.

Technically that's a positive feedback loop, or reinforcing feedback loop. The author is probably using "negative" in to mean undesirable. Gotta get your jargon right!
by adrian_b | 2026-03-06 14:19:03+00:00
The claim of being 7x faster than rsync is very dubious. I would like to know the test conditions for such a result.

I use every day rsync over SSH, and even between 7 to 10 years old computers it reaches the maximum link speed over 2.5 Gb/s Ethernet.

So in order to need something faster than rsync and be able to test it, one must use at least 10 Gb/s Ethernet, where I do not know how good must be your CPU to reach link speed.

For 7x faster, one would need to use at least 25 Gb/s Ethernet, and this in the worst case for rsync, when it were not faster on higher speed Ethernet than what I see on cheap 2.5 Gb/s Ethernet.

If on a higher-speed Ethernet the link speed would not be reached due to an ancient CPU that has insufficient speed for AES-GCM or for AES-UMAC, then using multiple connections would not improve the speed. If the speed is not limited by encryption, then changing TCP parameters, like window sizes, would probably have the same effect as using multiple connections, even when using just rsync over ssh.

If the transfers are done over the Internet, then the speed is throttled by some ISP and it is not determined by your computers. There are some cases when a small number of connections, e.g. 2 or 3 may have a higher aggregate throughput than 1, but in most cases that I have seen the ISPs limit the aggregated throughput for the traffic that goes to 1 IP address, so if you open more connections you get the same throughput as with fewer connections.
by lxgr | 2026-03-06 14:19:09+00:00
> a small amount of education on what LLMs actually are (document completers)

At this point in capabilities, this seems like the wrong layer of reasoning about LLM.

In particular, I don't think this framing will be very effective in preventing possible harm, similarly to how knowing that depression is "probably just some chemical imbalance between neurotransmitters in your brain" is not a good way to help people suffering from it in getting better.
by throwaway27448 | 2026-03-06 14:19:13+00:00
> Sufficiently large distances of abstraction from the concrete, underlying mechanics are indistinguishable from religion and superstitious belief.

Hell, you can apply this to all culture. Humans are not very rational or observant beings, despite how much some of us insist to the contrary. Basically any abstraction is a) going to be taken at face value, or on an assumption that the world is inherently structural, and b) the assumption is essentially guaranteed to either be inaccurate or tautological.

"Religion" was invented about 500 years ago to distinguish from the secularists, but the distance between them these days is mostly one of chosen ritual and the direction in which arrogance is spewed. After all, the church that persecuted Galileo was hardly any more irrational than the states we entrust nuclear weapons to is today.
by financltravsty | 2026-03-06 14:19:30+00:00
One of my best friends is a philosophy grad, and another is a very intelligent financier. What we've come to realize is that speaking and writing and making arguments is fruitless. You either have had the embodied experiences to recognize a statement is directionally correct -- to various magnitudes -- or you don't.

No amount of words will change that.

It is my experience -- after seeing the quality of thinking from those philosophically trained (I am not) -- that learning philosophy is learning how to think, and by extension figuring out for oneself what is capital g Good.

Morals and ethics are different and you conflate them. That is the crux of your confusion. Someone can understand morality inherently without ever thinking about it; but ethics requires actual intentional thought over years and years of reflecting on lived experience. What is good for you and your small circle can be grasped intuitively, but to grasp what is good "at scale" must be reasoned about. Without having seriously grappled with this, one is liable to have simplistic views, and in many cases hold views that have already been trodden through and whose "holes" have been exposed and new routes taken in unveiling ethics.

Without seriously having interfaced with it, it's like talking to someone about the exercise science when all they know is do steroids, lift weight, and eat. Sure, that works, but it lacks nuance and almost no thought has gone into it.

Anyway, this is tiring. Philosophical discussions are not something to do with strangers. It requires intimacy and is a deeply personal conversation one should have with those close to them and explore together.
by ricw | 2026-03-06 14:19:43+00:00
Had similar thoughts until googling what the cheapest Chromebook on Amazon costs: $139.

I’d still get a Neo and for students it’s probably the right choice - chromebooks are just a browsers after all.

But pricing wise this laptop is a decade too late. The netbook of the day (chromebooks?) are just unbelievably cheap.
Apple will still sell millions of these and keep on eating up market share.
by cess11 | 2026-03-06 14:19:53+00:00
If iranian politics would have allowed nuclear weapons they'd have them already. They could also have accepted gifts from some of their more friendly international relations.

Which it is well known that is hasn't been the case since the revolution, where the republic inherited the nuclear program the US pushed the king to pursue. The shia leaders consider such weapons immoral, and hence it seems like the main aim for the aggressors is to remove obstacles in Iran and rush them into getting nukes. It also has the side effect of increasing proliferation in Europe, with several states now moving towards extending or developing nuclear weapons.

This rhetoric about them getting nukes is a deception, it's for people who know little to nothing about Iran that are constrained to a rather racist world view. The animosity towards Iran mainly has to do with them having tried to move away from a monarchical type of government towards a more democratic, unlike US and israeli allies in the region, who are mostly kingdoms and extremely autocratic.
by AmazingTurtle | 2026-03-06 14:19:55+00:00
> prompts with >272K input tokens are priced at 2x input and 1.5x output for the full session for standard, batch, and flex.

which is basically maxxed out quickly. So there is 2x (the first lever)

Then there is the /fast mode, which they state costs 2x more (for 1.5x speedup)

And then there is the model base price ($2.50 vs $1.75), well yeah thats 42% increase. It is in fact a 5.7x total increase of token cost in fast mode and large context. (Sorry for the confusion, I thought it was 8x because I thought gpt-5.3-codex was $1.25)
by i_think_so | 2026-03-06 14:20:04+00:00
It used to be possible in openssh to use -c none and skip the overhead of encryption for the transport (while retaining the protection of rsa keys for authentication). Even the deprecated blowfish-cbc was often faster than aes-ni for bulk transfers. I remember cutting off hours of wait time in backup jobs using these options.

Sadly it appears those days are gone now. 3des is still supported, probably for some governmental environments, but it was always a slower algorithm. Unless there are undocumented hacks I think we're stuck with using proper crypto. Oh darn.
by jrsj | 2026-03-06 14:20:05+00:00
These are kind of unrelated issues. You’re right that it used to be companies just didn’t want to be involved in war at all, & generally speaking that isn’t going to cause issues.

The core of the issue here is having a private company which is trying to dictate terms of use to the military, which is not really something that has been done before afaik

Originally this contract was signed with these terms included, and it wasn’t until Anthropic started investigating how its tech was used by Palantir in the Maduro operation that this became an issue.

On a surface level it seems like Anthropic is doing the right thing here but this is really at the root of this & the outcome of the case (and whether or not Anthropic is a legitimate supply chain risk) depends entirely on the details of those conversations they had with Palantir.
by armchairhacker | 2026-03-06 14:20:08+00:00
I think the solution to “elite overproduction” is, not to educate people less, but to promise them a decent standard of living that seems throughout and ultimately is reasonably attainable (don’t over-promise and do minimize FUD).

The massive shift in careers, not just due to LLMs but technology and society in general, threaten the promises given to prior generations. And this is also happening in China, see “tang ping” / “lying flat”.
by myrmidon | 2026-03-06 14:20:22+00:00
> Nuclear bombs appear as uniquely horrifying and requiring special justification only in hindsight. Back then, it was just another type of bomb.

I disagree slightly with that take. Decisionmakers knew that those singular bombs were gonna glass an entire city each, and previously almost untouched targets were selected to better show and observe the effect.

If you're at a point where you can afford to slash the primary target (Kyoto) because of nostalgic value to your secretary of war then it becomes difficult to rationalize the whole thing as "normal genuine war effort" and makes the thing look somewhat of an optional choice.

But from my point of view much more questionable decisions were made than the atomic bombings, and hindsight is always 20/20.
by exodust | 2026-03-06 14:20:35+00:00
The apology was for an earlier leaked post. In that post his tone descends into a diatribe, deserving of apology.

He lashes out, accusing others of lies, spin, gaslighting and peddling. He refers to "Twitter morons", takes a swipe at Trump (who doesn't) and self-delights in the belief that Anthropic are seen as "heroes" while the competition "sketchy".

Not a great post. It's in the own goal zone.
by antonyh | 2026-03-06 14:21:00+00:00
Joplin is open source but isn't half of Obsidian, it's slow and grouchy, a fairly poor Electron app, but at least I can turn off the plugin that does freehand drawing. It's also has self-hosted sync for free. If Obsidian was open source, I'd have switched already even if it needed a subscription to sync, especially if I could toggle off unwanted features.
by palmotea | 2026-03-06 14:21:02+00:00
> It is not entirely true that no one cares about quality. I'd like to stay optimistic and believe that those who are demanding on the quality of their production will acquire sufficient market differentiation to prevail.

Maybe, but it probably requires a very strong and opinionated leader to pull off. The conventional wisdom in American business leadership seems to be to pursue the lowest level of quality you can get away with, and focus on cutting costs. And you'll have to fight that every second.

I don't think that's true at the individual-contributor level (pursing quality is very motivating), but they people who move up are the ones who sound "smart" by aping conventional wisdom.

> After all, this has been Apple strategy since the 80's, and, even though there were some up's and down's, overall it's a success.

I might give you that "since the late 90s," but there have been significant periods where that wasn't true (e.g. the early mid-90s Mac OS was buggy and had poor foundations).
by watwut | 2026-03-06 14:21:12+00:00
The law applying to powerful high level people is a good thing. The state where law binds only weak people and can be safely broken by rich and powerful is the bad one.

As of now, the law applies to me. I am on that "other side". It officially does not apply to Trump at all. And billionaires and administration can safely ignore it, although there is at least pretension of the law technically maybe applying to them.
by bdangubic | 2026-03-06 14:22:07+00:00
I think the core issue (evidenced by constant stream of debates on HN) is the everyone’s experience with LLMs is different. I think we can all agree that some experiences are like yours while there are others that are vastly different than yours. Sometimes I hear “you just don’t know how to use them etc…” as if there is some magic setup that makes them do shit but the reality is that our actual jobs are drastically different even though we all technically have same titles. I have been a contractor for a decade now and have been on projects that require real “engineers” doing real hardcore shit. I have also been on projects where tens of people are doing work I can train my 12-year old daughter to be proficient in a month. I would gauge that percentage of the former is much smaller than later
by joe_mamba | 2026-03-06 14:22:09+00:00
> but I believe a lot of OOP/Clean Code patterns are the software equivalent of corporate BS.

They're the corporate equivalent of USSR soviet style conformism, when everyone had to call each other comrade and refusal to do that had repercussions.

Similarly, if you say you refuse to follow the Agile/Scrum manifesto or clean code practices, you get ousted, as that's Haram/not-Kosher in this racket.

I still wonder how Valve manage to ship Half Life without Agile or clean code practices.
by luxpir | 2026-03-06 14:22:39+00:00
Yep, did a speed run of foundation, intermediate and full in the UK back in 2016 (within the year). Full means I can build radios up to 400W, which is nice. Not sure I actually could though now, without a LOT of revision. At least if "the collapse" comes in my lifetime I might know which components to gather.

Sold Yaesu portable unit at the height of COVID after some fun with it. Still mess with the HTs sometimes but looking for an opportunity (time wise) to get back into it.

I'm part of a code club at the local school, and would love to show them radio too, spark that curiosity and imagination. I think it'll be out of scope for this year though.
by scrappyjoe | 2026-03-06 14:22:48+00:00
That's a really interesting perspective.

I've always taken the elite overproduction thing as an _analytical tool_ to help us make sense of why we have experienced the rise of an oppositional anti intellectual position in contemporary culture.

But you make the good point that it can also be a _weapon_, leveraged by those oppositional groups, to justify their oppositional position.

Perhaps this seeming tautology can be resolved with some systems thinking. Maybe there's some insight in the elite overproduction analysis, but that means that, as an argument for further polarising society it's a pretty effective tool. It's actually reinforcing the feedback loop! A fascinating example of a self fulfilling prophecy.
Show HN: Moongate – Ultima Online server emulator in .NET 10 with Lua scripting
by squidleon | 2026-03-06 14:22:59+00:00
I've been building a modern Ultima Online server emulator from scratch. It's not feature-complete (no combat, no skills yet), but the foundation is solid and I wanted to share it early.

What it does today:
- Full packet layer for the classic UO client (login, movement, items, mobiles)
- Lua scripting for item behaviors (double-click a potion, open a door — all defined in Lua, no C# recompile)
- Spatial world partitioned into sectors with delta sync (only sends packets for new sectors when crossing boundaries)
- Snapshot-based persistence with MessagePack
- Source generators for automatic DI wiring, packet handler registration, and Lua module exposure
- NativeAOT support — the server compiles to a single native binary
- Embedded HTTP admin API + React management UI
- Auto-generated doors from map statics (same algorithm as ModernUO/RunUO)

Tech stack: .NET 10, NativeAOT, NLua, MessagePack, DryIoc, Kestrel

What's missing: Combat, skills, weather integration, NPC AI. This is still early — the focus so far has been on getting the architecture right so adding those systems doesn't require rewiring everything.

Why not just use ModernUO/RunUO? Those are mature and battle-tested. I started this because I wanted to rethink the architecture from scratch: strict network/domain separation, event-driven game loop, no
inheritance-heavy item hierarchies, and Lua for rapid iteration on game logic without recompiling.

GitHub: https://github.com/moongate-community/moongatev2
by akersten | 2026-03-06 14:23:16+00:00
> Free software is already mandated to do a lot of things, like not defraud the user.

Surely you recognize the difference between "you cannot go out of your way to do crime" and "your software must include this specific feature"??

> When you make food you're compelled to write the ingredients.

Well, the point about how this affects open source is that under a similar California law, every home kitchen would need to be equipped with an electronic transponder whose purpose is to announce to the world what ingredient bucket you used for tonight's casserole.
by roenxi | 2026-03-06 14:23:29+00:00
> It marked the biggest monthly job loss since October, when the US government shut down, and came amid concerns that a jump in oil prices sparked by the US-Israel war in Iran could threaten growth.

It seems like a stretch to say anyone was pro-actively fired on the speculation that a war could break out in the middle east; so the war is probably unrelated. That said, if the Strait of Hormuz stays closed for any length of time then something pretty drastic could happen to employment in the future tense.
by zelphirkalt | 2026-03-06 14:23:46+00:00
Fallen far, or maybe we are just more aware now, but anyway, I don't think that a lecture in ethics at university will fix things. That's:

(A) way too late, and

(B) without a strong character to begin with, this lecture will simply become a "necessary chore" for students, and basically go in one ear, and out the other ear. (Does that saying/phrase translate to English?)

By the time people start their undergrad, if they are not already at least trying to act ethically, that ship has sailed for most. Their upbringing and education did not manage to drill that into them before. I see it as more of an early childhood and parenting topic. If the parents are not leading by example and teaching their children ethics, then the children are often just going with the flow, not swimming against the current to uphold ideals. Why would they, if the other way is easier. I think it is rare, that people adopt ethics that they have not grown up with / raised according to.

So I would advocate ethics as a mandatory subject at school, if not primary school already.
by Imustaskforhelp | 2026-03-06 14:24:22+00:00
> identity-productive

This word scares me because if identity is dependent on the type of product that you have or becomes larger part than it already is, especially within my generation at times. Then its quite scary to think.

A gaping hole of loneliness being filled with shallow identity being generated by and for consumerism.

As much as I think that what you meant was products alleviating the identity of the person, I think the chances of the identity itself being replaced by something more hollow is more likely as well.

Quite frankly,This word truly feels like something which comes out of American Psycho or reminds me so much of it.

Also, another point but I also feel the same feelings of hollowness from creating stuff with AI if we leave it autonomously as I mentioned with some aspect of consumerism although I am frugal. The similarities are quite a lot.

Money --> (Choice on what prompt/model you want your identity more associated with) --> (time) --> Product

Money --> (Choice on what product you want your identity more associated with) --> (time) --> product

And then repeat the cycle.

This has been a boom for capitalism but a loss for humanity, in my opinion.
Show HN: Own-term – run your developer portfolio in the terminal (npx own-term)
by Biki-dev | 2026-03-06 14:24:50+00:00
Hi HN! I'm Biki, the author.

Own-term is a TypeScript framework that lets developers create interactive terminal portfolios, runnable by anyone with Node.js via `npx own-term`.

The idea: instead of a portfolio website, your portfolio is a CLI experience — with commands like `about`, `projects`, `skills`, `contact`. You configure it with a TypeScript config file and can distribute it on npm.

Technically it uses inquirer for the interactive prompts, chalk + gradient-string for terminal colors, and a simple plugin API that lets you register custom commands.

The project is MIT licensed and actively looking for contributors — several good-first-issues are open covering test coverage, live theme switching, and tab completion.

Happy to answer any questions about the architecture or design decisions.
by Analemma_ | 2026-03-06 14:25:21+00:00
It's important to fix vulnerabilities even if they are blocked by the sandbox, because attackers stockpile partial 0-days in the hopes of using them in case a complementary exploit is found later. i.e. a sandbox escape doesn't help you on its own, but it's remotely possible someone was using one in combination with one of these fixed bugs and has now been thwarted. I consider this a straightforward success for security triage and fixing.
by i_think_so | 2026-03-06 14:26:10+00:00
It depends on the size of the file, of course. For copying your 90 line .bashrc, probably not noticeable in the noise. For copying an 800GB database? Um, yeah. :-)

I see this project's main value in turning loose the power of multiple cores on a filesystem full of manifold directories, backed by flash based storage that only runs optimally at queue depth >1 (which is most of them). On spinning rust this will probably just thrash the heads.

Hmmm. I wonder how 2 or 3 threads perform with zfs and a reasonable sized ARC?