MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by hakfoo | 2026-03-07 01:56:11+00:00
I got my General in late 2024, but haven't done much with it. Collected a few HTs, built one little 2m-specific antenna, but I'm a bit embarrassed to hit Transmit when I'm not sure I've got everything configured right to not intrude on other repeater users.

I had two atypical goals with it:

- If I could present a certificate that says "the Government admits that I know something about how RF operates" maybe my irritating brother would acknowledge me when I tried to explain that Wi-Fi multipath concerns no longer apply when we plugged his machine into a hard-wired Ethernet socket.

- Being able to brandish "the FCC allows me to build a 200-metre antenna tower in the backyard" as a counterargument when the local HOA hassles me about the weeds that apparently have evolved beyond vulnerability to the stuff they sell at the local home centre.

It feels very "bifurcated" as a hobby -- you either do 2m/70cm stuff with little $100 handhelds, or you start doing outright construction projects to deal with antenna sizes, and spending four figures to explore HF.
by Novapebble | 2026-03-07 01:56:29+00:00
That point is stated explicitly in the piece. Essentially, we can't know that even other humans are conscious. But we can look at behaviors that we all engage in, and the functions that our substrates perform. And when you do, having a graduated view of intelligence capacity emerges rather than a strict, on/off switch.

"What it's like" is the basis of minds.
by johnfn | 2026-03-07 01:57:44+00:00
Time and time again that I observe it is the AI skeptic that is not reacting with curiosity. This is almost fundamentally true, as in order to understand a new technology you need to be curious about it; AI will naturally draw people who are curious, because you have to be curious to learn something new.

Time and time again when I engage with AI skeptics and I "ask these people what they're really thinking, and listen" they say something totally absurd, like GPT 3.5-turbo and Opus 4.6 are interchangeable, or they put into question my ability as an engineer, or that I am a "liar" for claiming that an agent can work for an hour unprompted (something I do virtually every day). This isn't even me picking the worst of it, this is pretty much a typical conversation I have on HN, and you can go through my comment history to verify I have not drawn any hyperbole.
by analyte123 | 2026-03-07 01:58:58+00:00
911 is not going to notify your friends, family, or employer about whatever situation you’re in. They are most likely not going to call a locksmith or tow truck for you either.

The last person who wanted to use my phone introduced himself in a dark parking lot with, “hey man I just out of jail, can I use your phone to call my family?” …my $800 device with all my personal and financial data, photos, and logins on it? I consider myself a fairly helpful person but did not lend my phone that night.
by al_borland | 2026-03-07 02:00:01+00:00
We talk to each other. If someone wrote something I don't understand, I defer to them. If someone wrote something who is no longer with the company, we trying to make sense of it, and in some cases end up re-writing some things.

There are only 3 or 4 of us working on most of the code I touch. 3 of us have worked together in some form or another for close to 20 years.
by __turbobrew__ | 2026-03-07 02:00:50+00:00
> What I am going to be most interested in is what happens in the SRE/Sysadmin world over the next few years as more AI-generated code hits prod in organizations that don't have adequate review & oversight functions.

You kindof answered the question yourself. Humans write the tests and then go tell the AI to write the solution which passes the test.
by neya | 2026-03-07 02:02:04+00:00
Look, whether you like it or not AI is here and it is decent at some tasks and the world is using it to automate stuff. You saw how Clawdbot exploded, right? Despite users getting hacked left and right didn't stop the adoption. Yesterday there was again a hack incident. It's a burning pain that AI solves to the point where people don't care even if they get hacked.

Will I crash and burn? Maybe, you're right. But, that's why I'm taking things at a very slow pace. Only automating internal tasks. Only things I trust AI to do. Very very limited scope. What's really my alternative here?

Just sit back and watch the world move on? My alternative is not changing with the times and being stagnant. That's not really a solution. Even if I'm doing that, I want to have data points that AI is really a dead end instead of just assumptions. My alternative reality isn't a bed or roses - a lot of people at the top do believe they can replace me and my work (CTO) with AI, thanks to the hype. I'm just trying to evolve so I don't become a meme down the line. Can they actually replace me or my job with AI? Absolutely not from what I'm seeing. But hypes of cutting cost is always attractive to people at the top. Just trying to stay alive man, lol.
by lyfeninja | 2026-03-07 02:02:06+00:00
Jaded is an understatement. I'm a data scientist and still like what I do most of the time. I have a decent amount of flexibility and freedom to self-direct my efforts to what I know will help the business best. However, the enterprise BS and 80/20 rule in full force combined with everyone thinking they're an AI expert because they read a few articles is starting to urk me. If I see one more start up that is just an LLM wrapper my head is going to pop.

A little bit of humility goes a long way and separates the good ones from the rest. I hate being referred to as an expert because we're all still learning. Some more than others...
by toast0 | 2026-03-07 02:02:39+00:00
Most countries have some numbers with receiver pays or reverse billing as a feature. Sometimes called 'free phone'.

My research says Japan has several prefixes, 0120, 0800, 0088, 0531, although not all phone numbers in these prefixes are available to all callers.

In the US, holders of a toll free number pay their carrier a per minute rate (sometimes with billing increments of 1 second), as well as a fee per call from payphones.

The per minute pricing is pretty reasonable typically one or two cents per minute; I think the per call cost from a payphone are more significant, although I don't see this listed by most providers; I seem to recall it being pretty hefty (and some toll free numbers would not accept calls from payphones as a result), but maybe changes in the network and intercarrier billing have resulted in a smaller fee or it's just not relevant to most people because payphones are hard to find.
by YZF | 2026-03-07 02:02:57+00:00
I'm a logical and rational person. Not a fanatic. Whether I minimize or maximize my "country's defeat" makes absolutely no difference. If Israel was defeated I'd have no problem saying that.

Israel is strategically in the best position it's been since its inception. Its economy is doing great and all the threats that have been around it have been decimated. It is a nuclear regional power that has demonstrated that nobody wishing it harm can hide. That's not to say that there aren't challenges but Iran and Hezbollah were the largest [EDIT: remaining] military threat and they're in the process of getting wiped out.

Instead of focusing on how bad Israel is how about look at what it has managed to accomplish in its relatively short time as a state and country. How much innovation. Compare to your "favorite" regimes around that are obsessed with Israel and oppressing their citizenry.
by pornel | 2026-03-07 02:03:25+00:00
Laws don't have to treat humans and machines equally. They can be "unfairly" biased for humans.

People have needs like "freedom of artistic expression" that we don't need to grant to machines.

Machines can operate at speeds and scales way beyond human abilities, so they can potentially create much more damage.

We can ban air pollution from machines without making it illegal to fart.
by toast0 | 2026-03-07 02:04:53+00:00
I still have a copper landline direct to a real central office; for my Mother in Law. $60/month and the phone company made it very difficult to setup 3 years ago; they really don't seem to want to be a phone company anymore.

Pulse dialing still works, and the automated voicemail system that the CO switch runs has zero perceptible latency (unfortunately, they won't give me the PIN to set it up)
by virgildotcodes | 2026-03-07 02:04:53+00:00
Man, if you are going to try to attack the credibility of the field of a hard science like climate science, try doing it with claims directly related to that field of science.

Substituting in social science as a proxy for your criticism takes the wind completely out of your sails.

"Physicists are super untrustworthy and biased, it's a cabal, I mean just look at astrology and these articles criticizing it!"
by jcranmer | 2026-03-07 02:05:52+00:00
I'm not sure that's really the case. The fundamental issue with the idea of a Roman Industrial Revolution isn't that Rome didn't have the technical antecedents (although that's still a big issue), but rather that the Industrial Revolution only solves problems that Rome didn't have.

One of the big, if easy, mistakes to make about history is to assume that a historical society is just like modern society at a lower tech level. Bret Devereaux is fond of dunking on George R. R. Martin's question "but what was Aragon's tax policy like?" as malformed because Gondor is a polity that doesn't really have the capacity to have a tax policy in the first place (it's pretty clearly modeled off of something like the Byzantine state). Not that Tolkien is immune from this either--the Shire suffers from being a Victorian-era English countryside being transplanted to a ~15th century tech level.
by gravisultra | 2026-03-07 02:06:35+00:00
Israel only exists because of US taxpayers like me supporting it. That support no longer exists. Most of the US military facilities built in the Middle East to defend Israel have been destroyed and will not be rebuilt. The reason Israel attacked Iran now is because they know US support for their regime no longer exists. This was the last chance. The US and Israel are currently losing the war against Iran and when that defeat comes, that's the end of the road for Israel.
by chongli | 2026-03-07 02:07:03+00:00
They disabled NPC participation in the real economy. This gave way to the real player economy which took place in player-run shops built inside player-owned and customized housing.

Players didn't buy those 5000 junk skullcaps either. They wanted stuff that was actually valuable, which meant those practice items were recycled or thrown in the trash.

I remember when the UO team added trash barrels and created the "Clean up Brittania" event. The game's servers were struggling to deal with large numbers of these junk objects that people littered on the ground so the devs decided to enlist the players' help cleaning it up, just like a real-life public park cleanup project! Players got rewarded special items based on the amount of junk they cleaned up.
by budududuroiu | 2026-03-07 02:07:42+00:00
> Meanwhile, developing countries like China and India are projected to account for 35-40% of total global emissions in the next decade, far outweighing the impact of individual lifestyle choices in the West.

Sure, but that's still mostly driven by Western demand for... Stuff. I'd like to see that share of global emissions if the West was still industrialised and didnt rely on China to be its factory
by lyfeninja | 2026-03-07 02:08:28+00:00
Agreed, how many forms of cancer or disease have been cured by this AI revolution so far? One example would be nice. I still think it is one of the best forms of information compression the world has ever seen and still see plenty of value, but the primary uses so far seem to be to maximize slop, smut, and ads, which puts us back a square one.
Show HN: MysteryMaker AI
by jhappy77 | 2026-03-07 02:10:48+00:00
I built Mystery Maker AI as a side project. It's a web-based party game that lets you team up with friends (like Jackbox) to interrogate 4 suspects and solve a murder mystery.

There are 4 mysteries to solve, including some with goofy parodies of presidents / billionaires, and some that you can fork and replace the characters with AI clones of your friends for a good time. As the name implies, you can also create your own mysteries from scratch if that's your thing!

It's free to demo, and the full game costs $15. Unfortunately, sign in is required for the demo, to keep my AI costs in check.

Hope you enjoy it as much as my friends and family did. It's a perfect excuse to plan a get-together and try something new!
by rodchalski | 2026-03-07 02:12:34+00:00
Twice. Both times the root cause was the same: the agent had broader tool access than the task required.

The structural fix isn't "be more careful with prompts." It's explicit scope at the execution boundary. The agent should only have access to the tools and resources the specific task requires—not everything the agent could theoretically need.

When you scope tool access per-task instead of per-agent, accidental deletions become structurally impossible rather than just unlikely. The agent can't delete what it can't touch.

The other piece: reversible operations first. If your agent writes to disk, write to a temp location and confirm before committing. Cheap to implement, eliminates a whole class of accidents.

Most frameworks conflate identity ("this is agent X") with authorization ("agent X can do anything in scope"). Separating those gives you the granularity to say "this specific task instance has read-only access to this specific directory" rather than "the agent has filesystem access." That's where the real safety comes from.
by senordevnyc | 2026-03-07 02:12:53+00:00
Yeah, I don’t want that world.

And more to the point, there is literally no way to make that happen. None. It’s as pointless as suggesting we summon magic fairies to cool the earth.

The totalitarian government required to get humanity to return to the lifestyle you’re suggesting here would itself consume vast amounts of energy and resources.

We can’t go back, and almost none of us even want to. We have to figure this out with the tools we have now.
by thebuilderjr | 2026-03-07 02:13:55+00:00
Interesting project. The README made the architecture clear for me: direct `/proc`/`/sys` reads, fixed-size ring-buffer tiers, single binary, no external DB.

I think the highest-leverage addition now would be one small benchmark table in the README/HN post for a tiny VPS (say 1 vCPU / 1 GB RAM): idle RSS, CPU%, disk write rate, and how much history the default 250/150/50 MB tiers actually retain.

That would answer the "why not Netdata?" question much faster, because the differentiator seems to be predictable resource usage rather than just another dashboard.
by Karrot_Kream | 2026-03-07 02:14:20+00:00
You definitely do. Do you think Anthropic isn't working with thousands of users an hour? They're struggling to keep up with the scale and their ability to create a stable platform is, well, existential for them. Do you think Anthropic isn't a startup? The pace of their feature rollouts is exponential.

Even in areas where startups aren't literally creating new product categories like the foundational model providers, the edge of a startup over a more established business is the speed at which they can provide value. What's the point of buying CoolCo when you can go with L&M Inc. that has thousands of headcount working on your feature. The value prop of CoolCo is that CoolCo can roll out a feature in the time it takes L&M to make a detailed specification and a quarterly planning doc breaking down the roadmap and the order of feature implementation.
Show HN: ByeBrief – a local-first AI investigation canvas
by yihac1 | 2026-03-07 02:14:24+00:00
I built ByeBrief, a local-first investigation canvas that turns messy notes into structured reports using visual nodes and a local AI model—so you can organize evidence, analyze arguments, and generate IRAC-style summaries while keeping all data on your own machine.
by YZF | 2026-03-07 02:15:04+00:00
The US support is a fraction of Israel's budget. Fun fact, the US didn't use to support Israel when it was created. The support started much later.

Israel would do just fine without US support. Israel's enemies without oil and support from China and Russia would just be your typical third world country (I mean they're not far from that anyways).

The US and Israel are so winning against Iran. But hey, let's see. Talk in two weeks. The Iranian people also support Israel and the US by the way.

A by the way is that US facilities in the middle east were not built to "protect Israel" either.

Anyways, I'm not sure if you're interested in a real discussion here or not. I'm happy to have one.
by anonnon | 2026-03-07 02:15:27+00:00
> I see a lot of posts about this, and I see a lot studies, also on HN, that show that this isn't the case.

Most of these studies were done one or more years ago, and predate the deployment and adoption of RLHF-based systems like Claude. Add to that, the AI of today is likely as bad as it's ever going to be (i.e., it's only going to get better). Though I do think the 10x claims are probably unfounded.
Tell HN: Azure Data Factory pipeline execution delays in East US 2
by dwoldrich | 2026-03-07 02:15:42+00:00
https://app.azure.com/h/ZHYB-ZG0/cd6319

Of course the status.azure.com is all green right now in US East 2.

It's only interesting because of the latest update mention "rolling back the deployment", and my assumption was AI slopped a bug into production configurations or code.

If AI was to blame in this case, I just want to complain, because ADF is fubar right now.

At scale, that kind of bad engineering practice is going to get people killed and lead to lots of legal headaches and brand damage. FAFO.
by cat_plus_plus | 2026-03-07 02:16:10+00:00
That's very impressive. Your LLM actually wrote a correct code for a full relational database on the first try, like it takes 2.5 seconds to insert 100 rows but it stores them correctly and select is pretty fast. How many humans can do this without a week of debugging? I would suggest you install some profiling tools and ask it to find and address hotspots. SQL Lite had how long and how many people to get to where it is?
by understandung | 2026-03-07 02:16:53+00:00
I've had severe IBS-M, SIBO, and NCAH since my late teens. Spent years doing elimination diets — cut gluten, dairy, nightshades, FODMAPs — each one cost me 4-8 weeks and gave me zero answers. The problem is that gut reactions have 6-72 hour delays. Tuesday's lunch causes Thursday's flare. No human brain can hold that matrix.

So I built Understandung. You log food, symptoms, sleep, stress, mood — it runs a 13-layer correlation engine across your data and surfaces triggers you'd never find manually. It found that I react to nearly all cooking oils, that coffee triggers are dose-dependent, and that two "safe" FODMAP foods eaten together stack into a flare.

Stack: Expo Router + React Native (web + Android + iOS), Supabase, Zustand, SQLite for offline-first on mobile. The correlation engine runs client-side. AI Copilot uses your full health context.

Free tier gets full tracking and correlations. Happy to answer any questions about the tech, the gut science, or the business model.
by deathanatos | 2026-03-07 02:17:01+00:00
Python async tasks can be cancelled. But, I don't think you can attach must context to the cancel (I think you can pass a text message), so it would seem the argument of what go suffered from would apply.

(I also think there's some wonkiness with and barriers to understanding Python's implementation that I don't think plagues Go to quite the same extent.)
by fragmede | 2026-03-07 02:17:24+00:00
Of course they did. They spent a ton of time going back and forth with one, maybe multiple ones, to create this piece of art. Because that's what we're really after. How much time did you slave away to make this thing for me? If I write a song from scratch and pour my soul into making a song for you, that's a ton of effort. It means something. But if I have Suno shit out a song after giving it a sentence, yeah, I made a song for you and thanks but also not? Human psychology is so weird.
by like_any_other | 2026-03-07 02:17:26+00:00
> if you are going to try to attack the credibility of the field of a hard science like climate science

But I'm not. In fact I said as much. If it'll stop you from fighting phantoms, I'll make it explicit: I'm quite certain anthropogenic climate change is real, and that climate science is broadly correct about it. Yet, not even physics is fully immune from such bias, according to Feynman: https://hsm.stackexchange.com/questions/264/timeline-of-meas...

(Though as the charts show, in physics it has a short half-life, at least for something as straightforward as the electron charge.)
by jshmrsn | 2026-03-07 02:18:10+00:00
Considering that a fleur-de-lis involves somewhat intricate curves, I think I'd be pretty happy with myself if I could get that task done in an hour.

Given a harness that allows the model to validate the result of its program visually, and given the models are capable of using this harness to self correct (which isn't yet consistently true), then you're in a situation where in that hour you are free to do some other work.

A dishwasher might take 3 hours to do for what a human could do in 30 minutes, but they're still very useful because the machine's labor is cheaper than human labor.
by g947o | 2026-03-07 02:18:51+00:00
Attributing these to "hidden requirements" is a slippery slope.

My own experience using Claude Code and similar tools tells me that "hidden requirements" could include:

* Make sure DESIGN.md is up to date

* Write/update tests after changing source, and make sure they pass

* Add integration test, not only unit tests that mock everything

* Don't refactor code that is unrelated to the current task

...

These are not even project/language specific instructions. They are usually considered common sense/good practice in software engineering, yet I sometimes had to almost beg coding agents to follow them. (You want to know how many times I have to emphasize don't use "any" in a TypeScript codebase?)

People should just admit it's a limitation of these coding tools, and we can still have a meaningful discussion.
by ehnto | 2026-03-07 02:19:13+00:00
Even with well understood languages, if there isn't much in the public domain for the framework you're using it's not really that helpful. You know you're at the edges of its knowledge when you can see the exact forum posts you are looking at showing up verbatim in it's responses.

I think some industries with mostly proprietary code will be a bit disappointing to use AI within.
by mmaunder | 2026-03-07 02:19:21+00:00
But my AI didn't do what your AI did.

Cherry picked AI fail for upvotes. Which you’ll get plenty of here an on Reddit from those too lazy to go and take a look for themselves.

Using Codex or Claude to write and optimize high performance code is a game changer. Try optimizing cuda using nsys, for example. It’ll blow your lazy little brain.