MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by otabdeveloper4 | 2026-03-11 09:24:27+00:00
> you're able to produce more once they're in place

Cool story, unfortunately the proof is not in the pudding and none of this fantom x10 vibe-coded software actually works or can be downloaded and used by real people.

P.S. Compare to AI-generated music which is actually a thing now and is everywhere on every streaming platform. If vibe coding was a real thing by now we'd have 10 vibecoded repos on Github for every real repo.
by Markoff | 2026-03-11 09:24:51+00:00
I use on my Android TV SmartTube, you can customize pretty much anything, I don't think I have ever tried original Youtube app, but just out of curiosity I tried competition - TizenTube, which is basically default Youtube app minus ads and it was absolutely horrible experience, on home page you see like 2 giant thumbnails and that's it, can't understand how can someone stand such UI, the most basic settings are setting how big are the thumbnails, how fast is the video title scrolling, if your app doesn't have this I am not gonna use it.

https://smarttubeapp.github.io

https://github.com/reisxd/TizenTubeCobalt
by bondarchuk | 2026-03-11 09:24:55+00:00
Yes, there's a difference between suffering that happens now, and potential suffering that happens in the future, caused by research being done now. I see many in this discussion (me included) have not made this distinction explicit in all their comments but I also think it should so be obvious that any counter-comment which appears to not understand that this distinction is being made implicitly is best explained as missing the point deliberately.

Anyway to reiterate my point upthread, there could be people who think a chicken-level entity suffering is permissible, and a human-level entity suffering is not, and it is a perfectly consistent moral position for them to say we should not do research into creating new kinds of human-level entities with the potential for suffering. The permissible suffering being in the present and the impermissible suffering being in the future does not really change that.

PS in this thread we were not only talking about computer programs, but artificial brains made from biological human neurons too.
by mihaic | 2026-03-11 09:27:17+00:00
I've always found something profoundly deceiving about all these "just create value posts", as if absolutely everyone could simply by some hard work actually create significant value for others.

The barrier to being able to add any value along the supply chain is shriking daily, meaning that very few people can actually add value.

The people that have managed to get on top of the system by these mean rarely aknowledge that their methods don't scale, which is a terribly irresponsible and ultimately narcissistic way to use their ideological influence.

If you give advice to a group, it should either scale to most of the group or aknowledge up front it's exceptionalistic.
by a_tessellator | 2026-03-11 09:28:08+00:00
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by beAbU | 2026-03-11 09:28:58+00:00
I happily pay for YTP, but the monthly cost is actually getting a tad rich for me, and I'm honestly considering just not using yt any more.

The terrible UX, the constant pushing of shorts, the baked in shilling, even from my favourite creators, the absolute abortion that is yt music and their attempt to merge my music listening profile and my video watching profile (I don't want fucking music videos in my video feed ffs).

There are some creators that I really like, but I won't die without their content. Maybe I need to go to something like Floatplane or whatever, pay for the content I actually consume and start pirating music again.
by ruszki | 2026-03-11 09:29:03+00:00
Even cutting edge models are not very good. They are not even on mediocre level. Don’t get me wrong, they are improving, and they are awesome, but they are nowhere near good yet. Vibe coded projects have more bugs than features, their architecture and design system are terrible, and their tests are completely useless about half the time. If you want a good product you need to rewrite almost everything what’s written by LLMs. Probably this won’t be the case in a few years, but now even “very good” LLMs are not very good at all.
by kakacik | 2026-03-11 09:29:26+00:00
Indeed, physical world, nature, mountains, beaches, human look-in-the-eyes interaction, breeze of fresh air on a hill you climbed and so on is something extremely important to humans. Some feel it more, some less but ie everybody recharges in nature, just not everybody is so connected with their own bodies to actually recognize it.

I like a bit of gaming and VR seems like almost-there, but its just a gimmick in one's life, and for life quality purposes never should become more than fringe relax activity.

And for corporate-privacy-destroying virtual spaces - they would have to pay me massive amounts to spend, unwillingly, any time there. Those are the last people who should be in charge of such place
by rafaelmn | 2026-03-11 09:29:35+00:00
These people play around with shit and try to sell you on their secret sauce. If it actually works it will come to claude code - so you can consider them practical SOTA and honestly just plopping CC to a mid sized codebase is a pretty great experience for me already. Not ideal but I get real tangible value out of it. Not 10x or any such nonsense but enough to think that I don't think I want to be managing junior developers anymore, the ROI with LLMs is much faster and significant IMO.
by sylware | 2026-03-11 09:29:56+00:00
The current hardware used is self-hosting mini-server grade, and certainly not on the latest silicon process. "Slow" is expected.

It is not the ISA, but the implementations and those horrible SDKs which needs to be adjusted for RISC-V (actually any new ISA).

RISC-V needs extremely performant implementations, that on the best silicon process, until then RISC-V _will be_ "slow".

Not to mention, RISC-V is 'standard ISA': assembly writted software is more than appropriate in many cases.
by hackerchy | 2026-03-11 09:30:09+00:00
This is fascinating. The fact that only ~7 layer blocks work and not fewer/more really suggests there are emergent functional units in the transformer stack that we don't fully understand yet. Almost like "organs" in the network. Have you tried this on architectures other than Qwen, like Llama or Mistral? Curious if the magic block size is architecture-dependent or if 7 layers is some kind of universal constant.
by sofixa | 2026-03-11 09:30:44+00:00
> Russia (well its oligarchs and rulers) has increasingly benefited from perpetual war

No it has not. It has a ballooning debt crisis (at different levels - regions, military contractors, banks) which will pop at some point; the budget is so unbalanced they're projecting to reduce military spending (unlikely), increase taxes, and still have a pretty heavy deficit. They've been given the gift of the Strait of Hormuz being closed, so oil and gas revenues will grow, which will definitely buy them more time. But they are running against a clock, and they cannot win in Ukraine.

> You also will find that if you paid any attention to European politics over the years this is a serious topic to all leaders there.

Yes, because Russia only responds to strength, so you need to be strong militarily to be able to dissuade them from attacking you. That doesn't mean that realistically they have a chance of winning any conflict.
by macartain | 2026-03-11 09:31:00+00:00
For genuine, believable oddness - although the SF pigeonhole seems restrictive - I would recommend the utterly unique M. John Harrison, specifically the later Kefahuchi Tract trilogy. The much earlier Centauri Device pops up on lots of lists but although it is entertaining and original, is not in the same league. Definitely more in common with the Strugatsky brothers than Clarke - humans fixated on commerce and sex, much more than technology.. quantuum weirdness bleeding into the occult... a galaxy-wide, neon-lit rust-belt. If there is anyone else doing anything remotely like him then I am all ears - sadly, I have read it all! I also felt that Tchaikovsky's ideas are striking and well thought-out, but I did not encounter any people in his books. Peter Watt definitely interesting but often unnecessarily hard to parse, I thought? Must revisit Reynolds - only tried one many years ago...
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by piker | 2026-03-11 09:31:42+00:00
> Cursor manipulation is difficult! When you’re using a text input widget, much of the behaviour you expect as table-stakes isn’t something you’re even conscious of. Exactly what happens when you hold a keybinding like ctrl + shift + left is probably muscle memory but the logic required to getting it all playing together nicely is not fun to write.

This is so true. And there are a lot of other cases where we just expect the OS or library to do it for us. Instead, we have to reimplement the wheel. Of course if understanding the wheel is part of the goal, then that works, but if you’re venture-backed good luck justifying the use of time to your investors. This is why Electron’s gravity is so strong.
by maybewhenthesun | 2026-03-11 09:32:04+00:00
Geohot is a smart dude. But here I think he misses the forest for the trees.

He has a point, certainly. But while he is harping about the U part of ubi, he's completely ignoring the B part. UBI is meant to provide some basic income so people don't starve. It's just an optimization of welfare programs where you have a ton of bureaucracy and make people jump through endless hoops and cause them endless amounts of stress (which is known to make people work less, not more). And replace it by just giving all citizens the same amount.

Yes, that's a bit stupid for the people first paying taxes and then getting them right back again minus overhead costs, but if you think about it: that's what happens now too, only less efficient (in the netherlands, that is) so you pay even more overhead.

On top of that comes the other realization: If the current trend of automating everything continues,we'll ultimately end up with (hyperbole) 1 person owning all the machines doing all the work. That 1 person earning all the money, and (in an ideal case) paying his taxes to give everybody else welfare. Which just is the same as UBI.

In a certain way this already happens now. Most not-too-smart people that used to be gainfully employed as laborer somewhere are now on welfare, and the threshold for not-too-smart could go up rather steeply with the current AI trends.
by evolighting | 2026-03-11 09:32:41+00:00
> "The trick is not to play zero sum games."

To be mean, I’d say no—those zero-sum games are always 'positive' for the players, because the people actually foot pay the bill aren't even at the table.

Come on, we live in a globalized reality. Those insulated by the 'Dollar Illusion' don’t even realize that the true costs are being extracted from the rest of the world. These so-called zero-sum games are nothing but a sophisticated machinery of power, meticulously designed to obfuscate the truth.

But those words are just too cynical; it doesn't really make any sense.
by tialaramex | 2026-03-11 09:32:58+00:00
> If enabled, it won’t let you deference a possibly-null reference.

It will moan, it doesn't stop you from doing it, our C# software is littered with intentional "Eh, take my word for it this isn't null" and even more annoying, "Eh, it's null but I swear it doesn't matter" code that the compiler moans about but will compile.

The C# ecosystem pre-dates nullable reference types and so does much of our codebase, and the result is that you can't reap all the benefits without disproportionate effort. Entity Framework, the .NET ORM is an example.
by dzaima | 2026-03-11 09:33:23+00:00
I don't think x86/ARM particularly guarantee fastness, but at least they effectively encourage making use of them via their contributions to compilers that do. They also don't really need to given that they mostly control who can make hardware anyway.

Indeed one can make any instruction take basically-forever, but I think it's a fairly reasonable expectation that all supported hardware instructions/behaviors (at least non-deprecated ones) are not slower than a software implementation (on at least some inputs), else having said instruction is strictly-redundant.

And if any significant general-purpose hardware actually did a 10k-cycle div around the time the respective compiler defaults were decided, I think there's a good chance that software would have defaulted to calling division through a function such that an implementation can be picked depending on the running hardware. (let's ignore whether 10k-cycle-division and general-purpose-hardware would ever go together... but misaligned-mem-ops+general-purpose-hardware definitely do)
by conartist6 | 2026-03-11 09:34:20+00:00
Models don't care. They aren't alive. This is the source of the chasm between here and AGI. You have to fear death to reason about the world and how to behave in it.

I guess I just always thought it was obvious that you can't do better than nature. You can do different things, sure, but if a society of unique individuals wasn't the most effective way of making progress, nature itself would not have chosen it.

So in a way I think Yan is smart because he got money, but in a way I think he's a fucking idiot if he can't see just how very, very very far we are from competing with organic intelligence.
by trhway | 2026-03-11 09:35:21+00:00
>You put a cat's brain into a dog's head and its still breathing! It didn't flatline immediately! Is yesterday's news?

i think it isn't surprising giving how for example kernels in the first layers in visual CNNs converge to Gabors which are also the neuron transfer functions in the first layers of cat, human, etc. visual cortexes, and that there is math proving that such kernels are optimal (at some reasonable conditions).

And so i'd expect that the layers inside LLM reach or come close to some optimality which is universal across brains and LLMs (main reasons for such optimality is energy (various L2 like metrics), information compression and entropy)
by pmontra | 2026-03-11 09:35:39+00:00
You are correct but only in part.

Claude did tell me where to fiddle with CSS, but its suggestions where not always on spot. It cut the time I spent on it and maybe it made it possible, because I wouldn't have dissected the source code or inspected the UI in the right way (GTK inspector). All the process still cost me a few weeks of five minute attempts now and then.

I think that there is no way an agent (and I was using the chat UI) can take control of my desktop, patch CSS, restart it, take advice and give me what I want. Not yet.

By the way, I have an autohiding Windows 95 like app bar at the bottom. The text inside the app items is still a bit too small and some icons in the terminal top bar are still too narrow. I think I have more CSS to fix but I'm in no hurry.
by PowerElectronix | 2026-03-11 09:36:28+00:00
Population growth or size has nothing to do.

No matter how much resources a society has, natural selection pushes everyone to keep trying hard to get more, as those that don't end up without resources.

In a society, the fastest way to get resources is to provide something in exchange to other members of the society. The most common thing we have to exchange for resources is work.

From those two things we can see that no matter what society you have or how wealthy it is, people will work as much as they can, or else they get behind in the rat race.
by locallost | 2026-03-11 09:36:41+00:00
Great advice if you want to be old and poor. Yes, there's a chance it works out because you're that good, but there's a chance it doesn't. This doesn't mean do the opposite and only worry about your returns, but strike a balance. The world we live in is not in general a bunch of isolated people in a meritocracy, connections and relationships within your workplace play a huge role. Politics exist. I know a lot of asshats that are highly successful even though pretty useless. Don't be that person, but don't be there for everyone and empty handed in the end.

Better advice would be stay hungry, stay curious, keep learning.
by zozbot234 | 2026-03-11 09:36:50+00:00
> I dream of a day when company valuations halve when I create a GitHub repo. Someday.

Isn't that exactly what Anthropic did to the SaaS sector? Taking the "I can replace you with a very small shell script" line from BOFH lore (except that it was a bunch of SKILLS.md files, not shell scripts) and making it real.
by michaelbrave | 2026-03-11 09:37:15+00:00
a few months back I had a similar thought and started working on a language that was really verbose and human readable, think Cobal with influences from Swift. The core idea was that this would be a business language that business people would/could read if they needed to, so it could be used for financial and similar use cases, with built in logic engines similar to Prolog or Mercury. My idea was that once the language starts being coded by AI there are two directions to go, either we max efficiency and speed (basically let the AI code in assembly) or we lean the other way and max it for human error checking and clear outputs on how a process flows, so my theory was headed more in that direction. But of course I failed, I'd never made a programming language before (I've coded a long time, but that's not the same thing) and the AI's at the time combined with my lack of knowledge caused a spectacular failure. I still think my theory is correct though, especially if we want to see financial or business logic, having the code be more human readable to check for problems when even not a technical person, I still see a future where that is useful.
by croes | 2026-03-11 09:37:32+00:00
More like giving your access to a PA service company where you don’t know the actual PA.
But you know those PAs have done some terrible mistake, are quite stupid sometimes and fall for tricks like prompt injection.

If you give a stranger access to your credit card it doesn’t get less risky just because you rent them a apartment in a different town.

The problem isn’t the deleted data but that AI "thought" it’s the right thing to do.
by Aachen | 2026-03-11 09:38:00+00:00
And here I am turning my computer off at night for energy consumption, while others run a few extra ones for... for what, anyway? If you're working on problems real people are having (diseases, climate change, poverty, etc.) then sure, but exacerbating the energy transition for a blog post and your personal brand as OP seems to do? How's that not criminal
by Archer6621 | 2026-03-11 09:38:35+00:00
A couple of other people have expressed similar sentiments here, and I think it's the truth. You have to be in a position to give before you can sustain it reliably and/or reap the benefits from it.

Often though, this position is highly subjective and mental in nature. A homeless man could willingly give his food away, and still somehow be fine with that, if he believes that things will be fine regardless somehow (perhaps he has an alternative source of food, or sincerely doesn't think that skipping food once will set him back forever). At the other hand, someone with a difficult and tedious job that pays well may not feel like they have the time or energy to give without necessarily receiving anything in return, even though they may objectively be in a much better overall position for it.

I guess altruism necessarily requires some other essential basic needs to be in abundance first before it can overflow.
by Levitating | 2026-03-11 09:38:43+00:00
I won't pretend to understand the geo-politics or rulings.

What I do know is since the ban, all ongoing products featuring SOPHGO SOCs were cancelled, and I haven't seen any products featuring them since. The SOPHGO forums have also closed down.

The Milk-V Oasis would have had 16 cores (SG2380 w/ SiFive P670), it was replaced by the Milk-V Megrez with just 4 cores (SiFive P550) for around the same price. The new Milk-V Titan has only 8. We're slowly catching up, but the performance is now one or two years behind what it could've been.

The SG2380 would've been the first desktop ready RISC-V SOC at an affordable price. I think it's still the only SOC made that used the SiFive P670 core.
by yieldcrv | 2026-03-11 09:38:49+00:00
that's not my business, the economy is pretty vast with several key verticals

the experiences I'm involved with just have their own things to purchase as part of the game loop. it's much more akin to a vending machine.

never involved with any brand, at least that wasn't roblox native, and by roblox native I mean influencers that may as well be a brand of their own.

if you followed the "metaverse" concept from earlier in the decade, there was Meta's attempt, there were crypto and NFT based attempts, although that's all said to have died, the metaverse is happening within Roblox. the point if that if you had a grasp of what the metaverse was supposed to be, you can use that understanding to understand what Roblox is
by bayindirh | 2026-03-11 09:39:22+00:00
Thanks. I write some Go, and feel the same about it. I really enjoy it actually.

Maybe I'll jump to Zig as a side-gig (ha, it rhymes), but I still can't motivate myself to play with Rust. I'm happy with C++ on that regard.

Maybe gccrs will change that, IDK, yet.
by bengale | 2026-03-11 09:39:37+00:00
Well the direction of travel now is that you provide your identification documents to all providers, that feels like a far worse solution that some trusted attestation nodes to me.

The options available are not "perfect solution" and "do nothing". It's currently "terrible solution" or we fill in the second option. If there is no perfect solution to put on the table then "do nothing" doesn't suddenly become available.
by ncruces | 2026-03-11 09:42:20+00:00
That's absurd.

I can't use SQLite for aviation even though it was certified.

I can't even claim FIPS compliance for my software without going through an expensive process, even though I only use FIPS approved primitives.

Building on certified/compliant libraries helps, but their vendors can certainly contractually make me pay for it.

All OSS libraries have a warranty disclaimer; using them according to even those licenses automatically excludes "fitness for a particular purpose."

Why would public domain software be any different?

The moat is the certification process, not the code itself. "I copied this from somewhere after it was already certified" might fast track something, but it's not gonna fly with "certification was good, done."