MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by mtonina | 2026-03-02 22:00:16+00:00
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by teekert | 2026-03-02 22:00:16+00:00
Yes, for minecrafting together ;)

I see where you are going but they are older laptops bought for cheap. But they do an incredible amount of work. And can be (and are) more easily shared because of the different accounts.

I think I use our iPad more if it had profiles. And my laptop less. For my partner we're consider an iPad over a laptop atm. And then again it would be nice if the kids could also use it.
by otterley | 2026-03-02 22:01:34+00:00
If your argument has merit, we will see it win in the marketplace. If it doesn’t, then it will not. Simple as that. And I’m definitely not the only one who is looking for an explanation of why an agent-browser interface is the superior approach vis-a-vis the alternatives.

I’m not entirely sure what your angle is, but your tirade makes it sound like you’re emotionally invested in this (and potentially financially invested) and you’re frightened. A confident person doesn’t need all these histrionics.
by enriquto | 2026-03-02 22:01:43+00:00
> No mention whatsoever of the $TERM environment variable. sigh

I have mixed feelings about this... Sometimes I feel young and reckless and want to just output whatever I need without checking $TERM. In practice, all modern terminal emulators are essentially xterm-256color compatible. If something breaks, the worse you get is some funny characters. Is that such a big deal? Much better than propagate the silly termcap/terminfo complexity.

By the way, xterm supports sixels since forever.
by terminalshort | 2026-03-02 22:01:51+00:00
Nice try, but I'm not stupid enough to fall for your deflection. GP did not complain about "greedy corporations." He complained about "greedy corporations destroying our planet." They aren't destroying our planet. You, GP, and I are destroying our planet. But unlike you and GP, I am an adult and I don't try to blame other people for my actions.
by D-Machine | 2026-03-02 22:01:54+00:00
> Personality isn't an internal property - it's a judgment made by people watching behavior.

Partly, yes, but personality is also an internal property, or it is coherent and correct enough to generally say that it has internal aspects. I.e. a person's personality is the set of (relatively) stable and difficult-to-change patterns that manifest in their behaviour in broad contexts, and these patterns are almost certainly encoded internally in the brain in some form. It is not much different than saying a person's intelligence / IQ is partly internal.

Otherwise, I do agree with your more careful framing, and I wish people thought and spoke more carefully about these things, and doubly so for LLMs.
by jlongo78 | 2026-03-02 22:01:57+00:00
That auto-generated summary idea is sharp. The session basically narrates its own purpose as it evolves, so you never have to reconstruct context after stepping away. Similar to how good commit messages document intent, not just changes. The tricky part is keeping summaries tight when scope creeps - you'd want the model to flag drift rather than just silently updating, so you actually notice when a session has become two problems pretending to be one.
by mikkupikku | 2026-03-02 22:02:02+00:00
Reminder that a few hundred years ago when clocks were oddities we didn't have to deal with any of this madness because everybody used True Solar Time as a sundial would read it. What time do kids go to school? After the sun rises. Simple. Now that we have clocks it suddenly becomes difficult to schedule simple things like sending kids to school in sunlight.
by benoliver999 | 2026-03-02 22:02:37+00:00
Yeah that just tripped me up trying to recomission a 2012 Macbook Pro.

Couldn't connect to wifi except through a password-less hotspot. Then I couldnt get online because nothing with SSL was working.

I didnt have a pen drive so I had to FTP off another machine, via my phone hotspot. We got there though!
by fcatalan | 2026-03-02 22:02:39+00:00
I agree, it´s mostly a silly whim taken too far. Too much time in my hands.

In particular the whole stack based thing looks questionable.

In fact the very first answer by Gemini proposed an APL-like encoding of the primitives for token saving, but when I started the implementation Claude Code pushed back on that, saying it would need to keep some sane semantics around the keywords to be able to understand the programs.

The very strict verification story seems more plausible, tracks with the rest of the comments here.

What has surprised me is that the language works at all, adding todo items to a web app written in a week old language felt a bit eery.
by mrguyorama | 2026-03-02 22:02:42+00:00
Voice input will always be inherently worse than mouse and screen plus keyboard, because voice is linear.

It can only ever be a linear sequence of input

The 2 dimensional field of a screen and a mouse and keyboard give you extreme amounts of input and allow you to contextualize that input in arbitrary ways that intuitively make sense to people with minimal training. Most people do not need to be taught that "Paste" goes to the active window.

We barely even touch the surface of what is possible through this set of input devices and output and yet we can't even get that level of fine grained and reliable control into touch screen devices and gamepads, let alone a linear stream of pitch.

Voice cannot be a robust interface. It isn't between humans. There's immense nonverbal communication and human communication also relies very heavily on preshared context to actually get that info across in the first place. Even with all that machinery, human voice is generally considered to only carry, regardless of language, 44ish bits per second of data.
by JimBlackwood | 2026-03-02 22:02:46+00:00
I mostly write Go code (and have barely had to write any code myself in the past months), but today I had to do some work in a Java project and Claude Code was a terrible experience.

It really felt like using AI tooling of a year or two ago. It wasn’t understanding my prompts, going on tangents, not following the existing style and idioms. Maybe Claude was hungover or doesn’t like mondays, but the contrast with Go was surprising.

One example is that I wanted to add an extra prometheus metric to keep track of an edge case in some for loop. All it had to do was define a counter and increment it. For some reason it would define the counter the line before increment it, instead of defining it next to the other counters outside of the for loop. Technically not wrong (defining a counter is idempotent), but who does that? Especially when the other counters are defined elsewhere in the same function?

Anyway, n=1 but I feel it has an easier time with Go.
by JDevlieghere | 2026-03-02 22:02:54+00:00
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by jauntywundrkind | 2026-03-02 22:03:08+00:00
I just really dislike the uselessness of people who naysay & dont engage! This poor world suffers SO MUCH from Brandolini's Law, from bad information being so easy to create. My heart is torn by bad engagement, by misdirection, away from the good and the interesting and the possible, and there's such an asymmetry that the truth and possibility face, so many ways for potential to be sapped and drained.

Hackers deserve better than such. There is a moral spiritual calling they ought feel to want to explore & think.

I do think WebMCP faces extremely long odds against success. It's incredibly unlikely to win. You started this by talking about companies wanting to do the wrong thing, by discussing how they hate giving users freedom to use the web as they want: WebMCP runs up against that problem. It only wins if a critical mass of users adopt it & can advocate for it, find it better enough & find enough voice to get it adopted anyways. That seems super unlikely. Your practical objection is most real, and part of the brutal badness of this reality. The odds of success only get far worse from there: I don't think a lot of users will have on-ramps to use this technology well. Very few users understand tool calling, very few will have interesting extensions or systems to make use of WebMCP. Especially with mobile browsers often not supporting extensions.

Once again I think you are just so off the mark on the other thing though: 'Let the market see' is wildly out of the spirit of a hackerly discussion. We ought assess for ourselves, be using this space to try to figure out what is good, and what we want to win, and why, on what merits. We ought be calibrating and pushing, trying to develop our thoughts. Humankind the toolmaker is meant to explore, to understand; that's why I dislike naysaying & non-engagement so much. It's against my spiritual values, against in my view the best parts of our nature.

Possibility and good is delicate. Seeing unengaged unthoughtful disregard of it does get to my heart.
Show HN: ThinkFirst – The Anti-ChatGPT for Students
by alibasharat5 | 2026-03-02 22:03:24+00:00
I built this after noticing my brother was literally copying answers from ChatGPT and failing exams lol

The core idea is to provide hints first rather than instant answer like every AI tool. I believe it's gonna make Gen-Z dumb if they stop critical thinking, problem-solving skills.

Honest feedback welcome, especially criticism.

App Store: https://apps.apple.com/us/app/thinkfirst-ai-homework-help/id...
by mrexroad | 2026-03-02 22:03:27+00:00
I showed my Costco membership QR code to the cashier the other day, and they suddenly exclaimed, “oh my! What a cute little phone!!”

It took me a second to even process why someone might say such a thing about my case-less generic 12 mini. Most of my close friends have 13 mini’s so I often feel my wife’s “regular” size iPhone is the odd one out.
by nunez | 2026-03-02 22:03:34+00:00
I'm assuming you're bucketing me in with the "traditionalists," which is fine.

I didn't say "intellectually challenging." I said "satisfying." Neither matters in the context of enterprise software development, which only cares about "fast" and "safe", but alas.

Regardless, I understand the tech fairly well and have used it, and, no, I haven't found it intellectually challenging _in a way that is satisfying._

In my experience, coding with Claude is basically asking someone else to author what I want and asking it for fixes/changes/etc, kind of like how /u/simonw published here when converting memchr to Python from Rust: https://archive.ph/AqyUq (original Gist here: https://gist.github.com/simonw/1bf98596a83ff29b15a2f4790d71c...).

For me (and I'm not alone in feeling this way), that's like asking someone to solve a puzzle for me and guiding them through the steps. Or, more relevantly, asking ChatGPT or Apple Intelligence to type some email or blog post for me when I'm stuck on a word or way to phrase something.

I suppose some find this fun. I don't. The "you should like this" narrative that is constantly being pushed onto me by people who, by and large, have always thought of software development as a means to an end and a cost-optimization exercise is tiring.

This is the point that I keep making and will continue to defend, "traditionalist" or not.
by EdNutting | 2026-03-02 22:03:56+00:00
I can't tell what message the blog post is trying to convey. It doesn't read like a particularly open-source-friendly approach.

Maybe I'm getting the wrong impression from how the whole thing is framed. This sentence from the opening sums up the tone to me:

> For many years we had to rely on our own internally developed fork of FFmpeg to provide features that have only recently been added to FFmpeg

Like, boohoo for Meta? Could they not have upstreamed those features in the first place? They didn't integrate with upstream and now they're trying to spin this whole thing as a positive "bringing benefits to Meta, the wider industry, and people who use our products"? C'mon.

My take-away from it is not what the article actually says, but what it seems they should've done from Day 0: "upstream early; upstream often".
by memco | 2026-03-02 22:04:17+00:00
Oh man! I came here to complain about printing! I just discovered yesterday that you can no longer drag and drop print jobs from one printer to another. Apparently you can move a print job via some command line stuff but it just ended up deleting the jobs entirely. The only reasons I found this out is because the printer which had been working fine moments before just stopped working after replacing toner. No amount of deleting and re-padding the printer or power cycling either machine fixed it. One time the whole OS just froze and I had to force reboot. I spent a good chunk of the afternoon trying to get one 3 page document to print. To be fair, I haven’t had problems with this setup for 10+ years but when it went south it also went to the remote frigid corners of Antarctica.
by evil-olive | 2026-03-02 22:04:23+00:00
this post says "remote friendly" but your jobs page says:

> As a location company, we believe that IRL experiences matter. Most of our team works from our NYC office 4 or 5 days per week.

it would be helpful to clarify whether you think of "remote" as "guy who lives in Jersey and only commutes to the office once a week" vs "guy who lives in Hawaii and flies to NYC once every few months"
by Reebz | 2026-03-02 22:04:50+00:00
My iPad Pro must by the model ahead of yours. I just upgraded the OS to v26 and it’s awful - sluggish, jittery, inconsistent typing experience - borderline unusable for a fast work environment. With no downgrade option I’m forced to buy a new one for work and relegate the older device to entertainment or kids use only.

Being stuck on v17 is a feature for the older A-series chipset.
by theK | 2026-03-02 22:04:51+00:00
Murena have been selling Fairphones preinstalled with /e/ OS. I think right now its the FP6 and FP5 they do.

https://murena.com

Its not only Fairphones. I'd say they've got an interesting mix of tech there. I think they even sold refurbished pixels flashed with /e/ for a while.
by fleshdaddy | 2026-03-02 22:05:14+00:00
I went down a Reddit rabbit hole, a sub called /r/noctor. Basically people, mostly doctors, complaining about the prevalence of nurse practitioners, PAs practicing independently/outside of their scope, etc. The general consensus I see there is that the only people benefiting from this are private equity firms trying to squeeze more profit since they bill the same based on whether you see a doctor or an NP. This in turn has an affect where it doesn’t make sense financially to go through so much school and take on so much debt.
by Sil_E_Goose | 2026-03-02 22:05:31+00:00
Location: Washington, D.C.
Remote: Yes, also fine with hybrid or onsite
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Technologies: Python, PyTorch, Huggingface Transformers, TypeScript, Java, Node.js, Spring Boot, React, Solidity, Ethers.js, PostgreSQL, AWS, Docker
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- For the past two years I've also been doing ML research focused on mechanistic interpretability and LLM evaluations.

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by cosmic_cheese | 2026-03-02 22:05:36+00:00
This might've been a side effect of removing support for third-party kernel extensions rather than something changing with the printer system specifically.

I have an old (~10 years old) printer that Cannon stopped supplying updated macOS drivers for several years ago. The installer for the drivers failed so I had to extract the files from the package and install them manually. In the end only the network drivers work, the USB drivers are kexts which won't run.
by ottah | 2026-03-02 22:05:48+00:00
Ha, nice try on throwing shade. I read voraciously, and have done so since I could pick up my first book. I don't think there's any more or less dignity in being poor, but neither am I impressed with these weird things wealthy people do to appear socially responsible. It's not solidarity, it's not really mutual aid, it's just performative. It's charity, but only a tiny amount, in only the places where it's not needed. I guarantee you, if someone from my neighborhood walked through a neighbourhood with these things and tried to pick up a book, you'd have Aurora PD with a boot on their neck before they made it back home.

Honestly, ultimately it's not that I think these are bad, but the attention to them is just gauche. It's weird to draw attention to this thing that I've literally only seen privileged people put up infront of their homes.
by parl_match | 2026-03-02 22:05:50+00:00
Actually, I didn't bolster a lie by omission. I provided context as to what their experience might be based on my own.

It is entirely possible that they aren't lying. That is your assertion that you are making as if it's fact. I think it's more likely that they are unaware of what is happening. You didn't have all of the information, and you are making assumptions that are very likely incorrect.

Furthermore, it is a given that user consent is asked for camera access in most situations. If this is a concept that you need explained to you in every situation, then you may need to review your knowledge or competency.

Which is to say, if you need this explained, you should probably speak less and listen more :)

Anyways, I think this conversation is over. Your unnecessarily aggressive and hostile tone is unwarranted and I no longer wish to talk with you. Feel free to have the last word if you wish. .
by BeetleB | 2026-03-02 22:05:52+00:00
> but people are using it for work in ways which will affect millions of other people when they’re hacked or the agent fucks up something important.

People will always do stupid things. My guess is less than 10% (perhaps even less than 1%) are using it for work. Most workplaces wouldn't allow unfettered AI usage.

80-90% try it, find it unreliable and buggy, and give up on it.

Of the remaining ones, likely 90+% are not using it in (very) dangerous ways.

People like me using it for boring things aren't making the news, and aren't writing blog posts about "Look at the cool stuff I've done!" because getting OpenClaw to notify me of class openings is not worth writing about.

In my (large) company, we have a Slack channel for OpenClaw. Over 400 people are in that channel. Let's assume 10% are using it (at home). No one's lost files/emails or any other damage.

If you're old enough, you'll remember sentiments in the 80's and 90's where "Oh, you let your teen get a modem? He must be hacking/phreaking."

Or "Oh, he's using Linux? He must be using it to become a hacker."[1]

Most of the complaints I see on HN are from people who know little about it, and are going off negative press/posts. Just as people knew little about modems and Linux. I mean, having to tell people "Don't give it access to your emails" is a clear sign of their ignorance. Kind of like having to tell someone "OK, just don't give your 10 year old the car keys" when they complain that cars are inherently dangerous because 10 year olds can kill themselves driving it.

It's worth trying it in a secure environment so at least one can make an informed critique.

Like you, I steered clear of OpenClaw, seeing all the problems and all the money people were burning on tokens. But at some point, I decided I should at least try it in a safe way before rendering judgment. And now I see what it is. Has it done so much for me that I'd throw a lot of money at it? Heck no. Not yet at least. But I do see we're past the point of no return. OpenClaw itself may die, but some derivative of it is going to be transformational.

As I said: Make it secure, affordable, reliable and user friendly, and many App/SaaS services will disappear.

> You don’t need to use the technology to be affected by it. Ask Scott Shambaugh:

> https://theshamblog.com/an-ai-agent-published-a-hit-piece-on...

I don't know how old you are, but once everyone had a camera in their phones, the cat was out of the bag. Lots of people complaining about their photos showing up online because someone had taken a picture of them. Yes, this is bad. Yes, lives were lost (bullying, etc). And no, phones with cameras weren't going to go away. And everyone who complained has one now.

And as I pointed out a few days ago[2], the whole Scott Shambaugh episode was pretty mild compared to what some open source maintainers have had to deal with when it comes to humans.

[1] Lots of cases where ISPs, etc kicked customers out because they were using Linux and they didn't want the ISP to be implicated in criminal activities. "Only criminals use Linux"

[2] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47083686
by 3eb7988a1663 | 2026-03-02 22:05:53+00:00
I am theoretically in love with Gleam - it ticks so many boxes. However, I really want to be able to make CLI applications...packaging up JS is not it.

I saw there is an early stage WASM project[0] which has move hopeful. Performance is not a requirement - equivalent to Python is totally fine, I just want that beautiful Gleam syntax.

[0] https://github.com/gertvv/gl_wasm