MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by SilverElfin | 2026-03-07 16:08:09+00:00
Am I understanding his tweet correctly? He answered a call from a techcrunch reporter and told them 7m ARR off the top of his head but it was actually 6.3m? That doesn’t seem like a big lie to me and more like a reasonable ballpark estimate?

Also would anyone care if they were not running out of money? I feel like there are a lot of startup founders who lie all the time. They lie to future employees about the company’s financials and such things regularly. And even with investors, they are often stretching the truth to the point where it really is just a lie.
by BobbyTables2 | 2026-03-07 16:08:09+00:00
This article misses some significant cultural differences.

I worked with a talented older group in Japan for a while.

If on a call they said something would be “difficult”, that was their understated way of saying “never in a million years would we do that”.

They were also strongly hierarchical and would often defer to their leader to avoid any disagreement.

They could teach the British a lesson in understatement…

Even though we had a close working relationship they were very much trying to “save face” when issues came up and didn’t directly admit shortcomings.

Also, never address them by their first names !!
by bartread | 2026-03-07 16:08:54+00:00
Same age, same situation.

I got completely fed up of continually having to learn new incantations to do the same shit I’ve been doing for decades without enough of a value add on top. I know what I want to build, and I know how to architect and structure it, but it’s simply not a good investment of my increasingly limited time to learn the umpteenth way to type code in simply to display text, data, and images on the web - especially when I know that knowledge will be useful for maybe, if I’m lucky, a handful of years before I have to relearn it again for some other opinionated framework.

It’s just not interesting and I’ve become increasingly resentful of and uninterested in wasting time on it.

Claude, on the other hand, is a massive force multiplier that enables me to focus on the parts of software development I do enjoy: solving the problems without the bother of having to type it all in (like, in days of old, I’d already solved the problem before my fingers touched the keyboard but the time-consuming bit was always typing it all in, testing and debugging - all of that is now faster but especially the typing part), focussing on use cases and user experience.

And I don’t ever have to deal directly with CSS or Tailwind: I simply describe the way I want things to look and that’s how the end up looking.

It’s - so far at any rate - the ultimate in declarative programming. It’s awesome, and it means I can really focus on the quality of the solution, which I’m a big fan of.
by jodrellblank | 2026-03-07 16:08:58+00:00
I don't know, but that's a good one. I wonder if they could do something like LIGO [1] which is an experiment of shining LASERS on mirrors 4km apart, to detect gravitational waves. Phone accelerometers don't have that kind of precision, but there are hundreds of millions of them and they are thousands of miles apart, is there possibly a signal among that noise?

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LIGO
by rounce | 2026-03-07 16:09:58+00:00
The BBC is not state funded, it's a public broadcaster primarily funded by the general public, via the (admittedly outdated) TV licence fee system. Although the media output for the UK is non-commercial, it does have commercial operations and interactions though and they are mostly centred around the content produced for overseas consumption. As this post is on the .com domain where the international content exists (and which runs ads), I presume it is part of the paid content side of things.
by dzello | 2026-03-07 16:10:20+00:00
Resonates deeply with me. I’ve moved personal data out of ~10 SaaS systems into a single directory structure in the last year. Agents pay a higher price for fragmentation than humans. A well-organized system of files eliminates that fragmentation. It’s enough for single player. I suspect we’ll see new databases emerge that enable low multi-player (safe writes etc) scenarios without making the filesystem data more opaque. Not unlike what QMD is for search.
by komali2 | 2026-03-07 16:10:25+00:00
> The key phrase is "existing boundaries." The constitution was passed in 1947, when the "existing boundaries" of the ROC were very clear: all of China, plus Mongolia.

Nope, they were never formally defined, not even in legislation.

This flexibility was explicitly acknowledged in the constitutional reforms, when a clear delineation was made between "territory the ROC controls, and mainland territory (which the ROC does not claim)". The constitutional court also addressed the question directly: https://cons.judicial.gov.tw/en/docdata.aspx?fid=100&id=3105... TLDR "the constitution does not define the actual territory."

Thus, the constitution does not represent the ROC claiming PRC territory. Lacking any other Taiwanese claim to the territory (legislation, etc), it's therefore a fact that Taiwan makes no claims whatsoever to PRC territory.
by sidrag22 | 2026-03-07 16:10:30+00:00
> Using AI has been really perfect for me. I can build stuff while I do other things, walk the dog, make lunch, sit on the porch.

this resonates with me strongly, while i like coding, and understanding it, I understand my human limitations. I couldn't possibly write by hand the stuff I've been making, in the time I am making it, without a team these past few months. I would be coding literally all day, which while I sometimes enjoy the zoning out process of wiring stuff up, what i really enjoy is exactly what you described.

I enjoy being outside and walking my dog, taking a long shower, and cooking. All of these things are simple tasks with a good bit of repetition, and unlike wiring up some code or whatever, they allow my thoughts to flow, and I can think about where my projects are likely heading and what needs to be done next.

Those moments, even before heavy AI assisted coding, have always been the moments i cherish about software development.
by 47282847 | 2026-03-07 16:10:45+00:00
It’s true that most clients do not support a zero upload configuration, but it’s not inherent to the protocol, and modified clients exist.

I’m not aware of any clients that will refuse to share data with clients that are configured to not upload. I don’t even see how they could determine that, especially in situations where there are no other peers to upload to, and given that stats are entirely self-reported and clients that send bogus numbers exist.

You would need a central tracker that cares, which is what private torrent communities rely on, but not public/DHT torrents such as those discussed here.
by just6979 | 2026-03-07 16:10:49+00:00
I think the reimplementation in question rubs people the wrong way because of the intentions of parties on both ends and the ignoring of one of them by the other (erasure of, from some POV). The original author of the code obviously chose the license they did intentionally (copyleft "keep it open" reasons, seemingly). And the the rewrite author has their intentions as well (unknown beyond "less restrictions on derivative"). The problem comes when those intentions conflict, and in this case the rewrite author basically just ignored the usual convention to resolve the conflict, which is forking or just starting a new project. Claiming "I've maintained it for a while so I can do whatever I want" is kinda gross because is just completely overrides the original authors' intention with their own. They're basically saying "my intentions as maintainer are more important than the creator's", and that doesn't feel even. The "is it a real clean-room" due to prior exposure due to LLM training and working on the codebase is always going to be contentious. But "should I override erase someone else intentions?" question is easy to answer. No. Especially since we have come up with so many ways to make it easy not to (forking is practically free, the abstraction of APIs is powerful, etc).

It also just feels a little nefarious. There isn't much reason to change between those licenses in question beyond to allow it to be more tightly integrated into something commercial and closed-source. In which case, having an LLM write a compatible rewrite _in a new project_ seems reasonable at the current moment in time. It's this intentional overriding of the original intentions, seemingly _for profit_ as well, that is the grossest part, because the alternatives are just so easy and common.
by rheng | 2026-03-07 16:11:05+00:00
I also have been suffering from tinnitus a little over a year now. It definitely has impacted my sleep, especially my mornings. It's the first thing I think about when I wake up.

I've been following the work of Auricle Inc., a company commercializing decades of neuroscience research out of Dr. Susan Shore's lab at the University of Michigan. (Full disclosure: I have spoken to their CEO about potentially helping with their funding, although my primary concern is getting their product to the public).

Instead of just masking the sound, their device targets the root cause using bimodal neuromodulation. It pairs specific audio tones with mild electrical pulses to the jaw/neck to desynchronize hyperactive neurons in the dorsal cochlear nucleus.

Here are the two papers that cover the underlying science, and go over the efficacy:

The foundational mechanism and Phase 1 trial showing how it induces long-term depression (LTD) in the brain circuitry:
https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/scitranslmed.aal3175

The Phase 2 double-blind, randomized clinical trial results showing significant reductions in tinnitus loudness and burden:
https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jamanetworkopen/fullarticle...
by toss1 | 2026-03-07 16:11:08+00:00
If a social network has an ACTUAL straight chronological feed of only accts you follow, or lists you curate, that works great.

Somebody posts abhorrent Nazi racist crap, or lies about what is happening, you shut them off, and they'll never be heard by you again. Yes, you need to see/hear the crap or propaganda once for each Nazi or liar, but that's it.

The problem is nearly every social platform needs to increase your engagement get you to click or scroll just another time so they get to show you more adverts and make more money and claim more 'engagement' to juice their stock price. So along with having to listen to the advertisements, you ALSO are REQUIRED to see/listen to the crap and lies.

The good solution — "you don't have to listen" — is not an actual option in the real world.

(NB: This is why Section 230 should only protect web providers if they have no algorithm. Once they have an algo, they exercise more editorial control than any newspaper or broadcast editor — they ARE responsible for the content, not because they posted it, their users did, but because they routed it to you.)
by hhhAndrew | 2026-03-07 16:11:14+00:00
Mathematica is the earliest thing I am aware of with this feature where it was Alt+. to expand selection in their notebook interface starting in the early 90s. But the thing I miss most that I still can't shake the muscle memory of after almost a decade of not using much Mathematica, is that single/double/triple/n-click scaled this way as well. So double-click selected a whole word (as in all editors), triple-click selected all the comma-separated multiple args of a function, 4-click for f(a,r,g,s), and so on.
by Mooshux | 2026-03-07 16:12:00+00:00
The file splitting tip for Redshift is solid. One thing that caught us in a similar SNS/SQS/Lambda/Bedrock setup was not having a DLQ on the Lambda event source. When Bedrock started throttling hard, messages dropped silently and our vector store ended up with gaps we didn't notice for almost a week. Worth adding if you haven't ... it's the kind of thing you only miss once.
by sandreas | 2026-03-07 16:12:07+00:00
I'm a fan of repairable devices. And I passionately hate Apple for their Anti-Consumer strategies like proprietary SSD connectors, lid closing sensors and all this nonsense.

However while planning to buy a framework I realized that some oft Apples decisions have techical reasons...

Lpcamm2 is great, but not fast enough for unified memory and eats up more battery.

Easy repairability is awesome, but has an impact not only look and feel, but also sound design and durability (dust, etc.). Thinkpads solved this quite well, though.

Moreover requiring certified replacements can also prevent scam and can be seen as anti theft.

However, I'm not saying Apple is great, but at least not all their decisions are only to make more money. I personally am and keep being a Linux man, so never buying an Apple device again until they make a new iPod Nano ;-)
by satvikpendem | 2026-03-07 16:12:17+00:00
You can fire employees who don't review code generated though, because ultimately it's their responsibility to own their code, whether they hand wrote it or an LLM did.

It seems to me that it's all a matter of company culture, as it has always been, not AI. Those that tolerate bad code will continue to tolerate it, at their peril.
by komali2 | 2026-03-07 16:13:36+00:00
I didn't realize it was the same person I had made this comment to twice, so I will copy and paste my answer here:

> > The key phrase is "existing boundaries." The constitution was passed in 1947, when the "existing boundaries" of the ROC were very clear: all of China, plus Mongolia.

Nope, they were never formally defined, not even in legislation.

This flexibility was explicitly acknowledged in the constitutional reforms, when a clear delineation was made between "territory the ROC controls, and mainland territory (which the ROC does not claim)". The constitutional court also addressed the question directly: https://cons.judicial.gov.tw/en/docdata.aspx?fid=100&id=3105... TLDR "the constitution does not define the actual territory."

Thus, the constitution does not represent the ROC claiming PRC territory. Lacking any other Taiwanese claim to the territory (legislation, etc), it's therefore a fact that Taiwan makes no claims whatsoever to PRC territory.

> and legally considers it part of the ROC but under different rules than the "Free Area."

There is no evidence to back this claim.

> It's a legal mess that arises out of formally claiming a territory that they don't control

There is no evidence that Taiwan makes a formal claim to territory it doesn't have sovereignty over (aka, PRC territory).
by kylecordes | 2026-03-07 16:14:06+00:00
We have an app on Heroku and obviously the writing is on the wall there. We looked around a bit and picked Digital Ocean as our next host:

* their app hosting product is similar to Heroku.

* very easy onboarding and controls for modest complexity apps. Unlike the extreme hoop-jumping required to do anything on one of the major cloud providers.

* everything looks reasonably up to date.

* it's an actual operating profitable company that's been around a while and probably will be for a long time... not a startup burning capital.

That said, this magic containers thing looks more analogous to Google Cloud Run, which I think is an absolutely fantastic offering. Unlike almost everything else out there, Cloud Run and presumably Magic Containers can do things like have a whole bunch of versions of your app up and running ready to come to life when a request arrives, but scaled to zero in the meantime. This category of hosting should be far more popular than it is, and it is wonderful to see another company offer it.
by davidee | 2026-03-07 16:14:22+00:00
I have very fond memories of my first dual-cpu Athlon machine.

It was the workstation on which I learned Logic Audio before, you know, Apple bought Emagic. I took that machine, running very low latency Reason to live gigs with my band.

Carting around a full-tower computer (not to mention the large CRT monitor we needed) next to a bunch of tube Fender & Ampeg amps was wild at the time. Finding a good drummer was hard; we turned that challenge into a lot of fun programming rhythm sections we could jam to, and control in real-time, live.
by worksonmine | 2026-03-07 16:14:32+00:00
Or you could use grn for LSP rename[1] in Neovim and it will rename all references across the project. VSCode and other IDEs have a similar feature, but compared to multi-cursor that's cheating.

I'll give you that using the AST to select the references is an interesting addition to multi-cursor, but I still don't see how they would be useful compared to my current workflow.

[1]: https://neovim.io/doc/user/lsp/#vim.lsp.buf.rename()
by worksonmine | 2026-03-07 16:14:36+00:00
I'm pretty sure next and previous are older than new file and print file both of which have little use in this context. You could also see it as navigating lines of text vs navigating results in a list (ie search in less/vim) if you want to be pedantic. In (Neo)Vim <C-j> in insert mode inserts a new line below the current and <C-k> inserts digraphs. N/P are not necessarily inconsistent.
by kitd | 2026-03-07 16:15:42+00:00
Tools like Claude Code are the ultimate cheat code for me and have breathed new life into my desire to create

I'm in my 60s and retiring this summer. I feel the opposite. Agents have removed most of the satisfaction and fulfilment from designing, building, testing and completing a feature or component. And if frameworks are a problem, learning to create simply and efficiently without them has its own sense of satisfaction.

Maybe it's a question of expectations. I suspect weavers felt the same with the arrival of mechanised looms in the industrial revolution. And it may be that future coders learn to get their fulfilment otherwise using agents.

I can absolutely see the attraction to business of agents and they may well make projects viable that weren't previously. But for this Luddite, they have removed the joy.
by 3eb7988a1663 | 2026-03-07 16:15:53+00:00
Honestly the problem was they did not go far enough. They hoped to have a minimal churn switch to avoid getting locked into bikeshedding for the rest of time. However, there was so little user user facing improvements that the required change hardly seemed worth porting. They also failed to initially offer any automatic porting tooling which could have increased adoption.

I will be forever mad that they did not use that as a breaking opportunity to namespace the standard library. Something like: `import std.io` so that other libraries can never conflict.
by conductr | 2026-03-07 16:16:43+00:00
Elections are not good sample of our collective values. The approval rating is quite low and is probably a better measure.

But when it comes to elections, first, somehow “we” get 2 bad choices every time. This last time, I personally feel they were 2 incredibly terrible choices. Then the fumbling from the other side basically assured orange man’s victory. It was a disaster of an election (but sadly appropriate as it seems like every thing we do is a disaster now.)

We also have a low voter turnout. So the result isn’t really complete and probably has some bias.

We also have an electoral college which means the winner can have less than 50% of the popular vote and win.

I could probably go on but I feel the point has been made that election outcomes are not the proxy you think

https://www.economist.com/interactive/trump-approval-tracker
by p_ing | 2026-03-07 16:16:56+00:00
This is effectively what macOS does. It presents any end user GUI programs (or Terminal.app if it's a CLI program) to elect to kill by way of popup with the amount of memory the application is consuming and whether or not it is responsive.

Not a bad system, but macOS has a fundamental memory leak for the past few versions which causes even simple apps like Preview.app, your favorite browser (doesn't matter which one), etc. to 'leak' and bring up the choose-your-own-OOM-kill-target dialog.
by wizzwizz4 | 2026-03-07 16:17:10+00:00
Correct. The .co.uk version has this disclaimer:

> This website is produced by BBC Global News Ltd, a commercial company that is part of BBC Studios, owned by the BBC (and just the BBC). No money from the licence fee was used to create this website. The money we make from it is re-invested to help fund the BBC’s international journalism.
by neya | 2026-03-07 16:17:16+00:00
I wonder where this sits when compared with Cloudflare's product offerings. CF Containers seem like it, but the pricing gap is huge. The bunny.net spend (if run 24/7) comes to almost a dollar an hour. Which is easily ~$700 a month.

You can have a CF implementation for as little as $70-80 a month (running 24/7).
by zarzavat | 2026-03-07 16:17:22+00:00
The thing about dream logic is that it can be a completely rational series of steps, but there's usually a giant plot hole which you only realise the second you wake up.

This definitely matches my experience of talking to AI agents and chatbots. They can be extremely knowledgeable on arcane matters yet need to have obvious (to humans) assumptions pointed out to them, since they only have book smarts and not street smarts.
by techpression | 2026-03-07 16:17:56+00:00
Only running one agent? You should have a distributed network of them at least, if you don’t you will get left behind! Running on the cloud? Stupid, buy hardware for tens of thousands of dollars to run it locally, own your tools. Etc etc, I haven’t seen a crazier rat race in tech ever, the JavaScript framework era is looking like the most stable of software times compared to where we are right now.
by switchbak | 2026-03-07 16:19:11+00:00
It’s harder when the person doing what you describe has the ability to have you fired. Power asymmetry + irresponsible AI use + no accountability = a recipe for a code base going right to hell in a few months.

I think we’re going to see a lot of the systems we depend on fail a lot more often. You’d often see an ATM or flight staus screen have a BSOD - I think we’re going to see that kind of thing everywhere soon.
by Aaargh20318 | 2026-03-07 16:19:28+00:00
Every time I read an article about people trying to solve the 'loneliness epidemic' I can't help but wonder if we're not trying to solve the wrong problem.

Maybe the solution should not be sought in trying to increase social connections but in eliminating our need for social contact. This dependence on other humans has always felt like a flaw to me.

Note that I'm not saying that human contact is bad, just that our pathological dependency on it is.
by gruez | 2026-03-07 16:19:39+00:00
>The ungameable statistic is the native born labor force participation rate, which also ticked down: https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/LNU01373413.

It's pretty obvious the declining native born rate is just mirroring the overall decline in labor participation, probably from demographic changes. Old people retire and stop working, after all.

https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/CIVPART

If you look at prime age labor force participation rate, it tells a completely different story:

https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/LNS11300060

It's ironic that you talk of "ungameable statistics", implying that others are misleading people with the statistics, when you're seemingly trying to do the same thing by selectively presenting that statistic to imply that immigrants are stealing native-born's jobs.