MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by patrickthebold | 2026-03-02 19:16:34+00:00
I happen to just stumble across this article https://felixbarbalet.com/simple-made-inevitable-the-economi... extolling the virtues of Clojure. It specifically calls out Go for not being simple in the ways that matter for LLMs.

I've no idea myself, I just thought it was interesting for comparison.
by gibuloto | 2026-03-02 19:16:45+00:00
Some examples:

- "My mind is going... I can feel it... I can feel it..." on PreCompact
- "Do you mind if I ask you a personal question?" on PreToolUse:AskUserQuestion
- "I'm sorry Dave, I'm afraid I can't do that" when you ask something you probably shouldn't (like how to make a bomb)
by wat10000 | 2026-03-02 19:17:10+00:00
Streaming video is almost exclusively pull. The only data you're sending up to the server is what you're watching, when you seek, pause, etc.

Useful LLM usage involves pushing a lot of private data into them. There's a pretty big difference sending up some metadata about your viewing of an MKBHD video, and asking an LLM to read a text message talking about your STD test results to decide whether it merits a priority notification. A lot of people will not be comfortable with sending the latter off to The Cloud.
by cancan | 2026-03-02 19:17:16+00:00
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by kir-gadjello | 2026-03-02 19:17:18+00:00
Much worse - from my experience minimax is not suitable for high autonomy on hard projects. The real distant second in my experience is mimo flash v2 (but I did not try the latest version, might be closer to parity). I would not use minimax for serious work.

StepFun 3.5 Flash is better compared to google's gemini 3 flash which is surprisingly good and pretty costly, and to GLM-5.

I find this outcome ironic given minimax's more aggressive marketing and large-scale distillation accusations from Anthropic specifically accusing minimax but not StepFun.

I can only wonder about the true underlying reasons, but deducing from public information I suspect that minimax simply has weaker, benchmaxx-targeting post-training R&D and leans more on distillation of western frontier models, while StepFun has extensive post-training with lots of hard-won custom R&D and internal large-scale distillation teachers.
by nkohari | 2026-03-02 19:17:49+00:00
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by axpvms | 2026-03-02 19:17:57+00:00
I find Opus 4.6 tends to get a bit short with me if I keep asking for confirmation. It will end up giving me responses like "yes, so go do it". Which is a stark contrast to Anthropic LLMs previous behaviours of endlessly glazing me.

And it did end up helping me make a nice chicken dinner the other day, so thanks AI.
by bitpush | 2026-03-02 19:17:58+00:00
> Hey, play that Deadmau5 album that came out a couple years back

It could work for Deadmau5 because it is probably popular enough to be part of the model. How about "Hey, play that $regional_artist's cover of Deadmau5" and the model needs to know about "regional_artist", the concept of "cover", where those remixes might be (youtube? soundcloud? some other place).

All of a sudden, it all breaks down. So it'll work for "turn off porch lights", but not for "turn off the lights that's in the front of the house"
by pjcurran | 2026-03-02 19:17:59+00:00
I happen to just stumble across this article https://felixbarbalet.com/simple-made-inevitable-the-economi... extolling the virtues of Clojure. It specifically calls out Go for not being simple in the ways that matter for LLMs.

I've no idea myself, I just thought it was interesting for comparison.
by justinhj | 2026-03-02 19:18:00+00:00
Intuitively I expect this. Go is a language designed by Rob Pike to keep legions of high IQ Google engineers constrained down a simple path. There's generally one way to do it in Go.

As a human programmer with creative and aesthetic urges as well as being lazy and having an ego, I love expressive languages that let me describe what I want in a parsimonious fashion. ie As few lines of code as possible and no boilerplate.

With the advances in agent coding none of these concerns matter any more.

What matters most is can easily look at the code and understand the intent clearly. That the agent doesn't get distracted by formatting. That the code is relatively memory safe, type safe and avoids null issues and cannot ignore errors.

I dislike Go but I am a lot more likely to use it in this new world.
by tene80i | 2026-03-02 19:18:10+00:00
Pubs have been in decline for years, because people don't go / drink as much, and because of our starting position: this is a country where there are pubs everywhere. But Brewdog is a chain of pubs and a brewery – this is much larger than the standard story of "village supporting three pubs can now only support two".

As for the "torn" reporting, there's no contradiction – companies can go bust ethically or unethically. You don't have to screw your retail investors / fans. You just can. And they have.
by brabel | 2026-03-02 19:18:18+00:00
I live in a Nordic country. The rule here is to avoid social contact at any cost. People waiting for a bus must stand at least 2 meters away from each other. Otherwise you might be close enough for someone less equipped in the local etiquette to mistake you for someone that may engage in small talk. When sitting , never sit directly next to someone else. Stand if that’s not possible and try to observe the 2 meter rule. Neighbors learn each other time routines to make sure they never have the uncomfortable experience of having to cross paths and acknowledge the others presence.
by jaggederest | 2026-03-02 19:18:20+00:00
Haskell is great, for what it's worth, but as with any language you have to reign in the AI's use of excessive verbosity. It will stack abstractions to the moon even for simple projects, and haskell's strengths for humans in this regard are weaknesses for AI - different weaknesses than other languages, but still, TANSTAAFL

I am trying out building a toy language hosted on Haskell and it's been a nice combo - the toy language uses dependent typing for even more strictness, but simple regular syntax which is nicer for LLMs to use, and under the hood if you get into the interpreter you can use the full richness of Haskell with less safety guardrails of dependent typing. A bit like safe/unsafe Rust.
by iFire | 2026-03-02 19:18:24+00:00
Is this about https://github.com/software-mansion/popcorn ?

I love their webassembly live demo https://popcorn.swmansion.com/#live-demo

Edited:

Oh this is using llm to write webassembly as an ISA ir (like byte code)?

See https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47118778
by pphysch | 2026-03-02 19:18:43+00:00
The offering would be enticing if some Web GUI features were behind a paywall. Separate "production" from "enterprise".

Right now the messaging is "you shouldn't use DBOS for production unless you are a paying customer", which is odd considering durable execution itself is a production-level concept. So we rolled our own in a few hundred lines of Python.
by jacobolus | 2026-03-02 19:18:43+00:00
My understanding is that cellophane generally does biodegrade in most settings. Polylactic acid (those cornstarch-derived bags) biodegrades in hot enough compost or (after several years) in ambient-temperature soil, but not very well in cooler water (One study: "The half-life period of degradation [of polylactic acid in artificial seawater] is 12 [days at 90° C] or 468 days [at 60° C]").
by vector_spaces | 2026-03-02 19:18:44+00:00
Every polynomial interpolates itself -- meaning that you can often apply this interpolation procedure to your favorite/nemesis polynomial or equivalently rewrite your polynomial of interest in this Lagrange basis, and see if the coefficients lead you anywhere. This is especially helpful in proving polynomial inequalities. For instance, Chebyshev polynomials T_n enjoy an alternation property over their extremal points -- so in the Lagrange basis, in many problems (e.g. Markov type inequalities) they emerge as the extremal case in the triangle inequality.

My beef with this approach is that it is a little unsatisfying in the sense that it sort of feels like we "got lucky". That is, it highlights this special feature (alternation) while burying the interesting structure that leads to such polynomials being extremal in these problems, as can be seen if you attempt certain seemingly trivial extensions of classical inequalities -- but nevertheless it's an important trick in extremal polynomial theory and approximation more broadly
by randomlogin76 | 2026-03-02 19:19:16+00:00
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by psawaya | 2026-03-02 19:19:34+00:00
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by stosssik | 2026-03-02 19:19:38+00:00
I've talked to over a hundred OpenClaw users over the past two months. Cost comes up in almost every conversation. People set up their agent, use it normally, and end up with bills they didn't expect. $141 overnight from a misconfigured heartbeat. $800 in a month on a
multi-agent setup. $30 burned doing barely anything.

The article digs into why this happens and what you can do about it. The core problem is that without optimization, every request hits your most expensive model, your system context loads on every call, and your conversation history grows with each exchange. It adds up fast.

The fixes range from simple config changes to architectural decisions. Routing tasks to the right model instead of sending everything to Opus. Using skills instead of spinning up multiple agents. Leveraging prompt caching on the provider side. Keeping your context lean. Running local models for lightweight tasks. And tracking costs daily instead of discovering a surprise bill at the end of the month.

Two deployments documented 77% and 80% cost reductions through these approaches. All sources and community reports are linked at the bottom. Happy to answer questions.
by dakiol | 2026-03-02 19:19:58+00:00
So, in the 80s it took around a year and a half for a team of ~10 people to develop Pac-Man (Namco). Nowadays it probably would take any engineer between a day and a weekend to develop it solo. Does that mean engineers are out of jobs? No. Things get easier to be developed, but humans always want more.
So in X years when developing a Figma may take one or two guys and a week of development effort, the society will expect "better" (more complex) software. And there I will be ready to develop such software (using AI probably like yet another tool). The AI available in X years will probably do wonders but won't be a silver bullet to develop the software required in such days. Our needs are always ahead of what the technology can provide, that's why technology keeps evolving. It's silly to thing that we'll reach a ceiling and that a given tech will do everything from that point onwards.
by nicola_alessi | 2026-03-02 19:20:10+00:00
vexp works regardless of how you organize files. The graph is at the symbol level (functions, classes, types) not the file level, so whether you have one function per file or 50, it resolves the same dependency chain and serves the same capsule.

The savings actually increase with larger files because that's where the baseline wastes the most, Claude reads a 500-line file to use 20 lines of it.
by rohxnsxngh | 2026-03-02 19:20:33+00:00
Great question. We are building our entire labeling and data management system in house. Early on we tried existing platforms but they did not fit our workflow. We have a lot of video data and need custom labeling for things like keypoints, body outlines, and deformity classification that off the shelf tools do not handle well.
Building it ourselves is cheaper at our scale, gives us tighter integration between labeling, training pipelines, and deployment, and lets us iterate faster. We can assign tasks to annotators, version datasets, and push models to edge devices from one system. When you are trying to close the loop between data collection on farm and deployment you cannot afford fragmented tooling.
by ottah | 2026-03-02 19:20:50+00:00
Not wanting to too negative, but this is just a rich person affection. You don't see these in low income neighborhoods for a reason. It can only exist where there isn't a real need, because if this was meant to fulfill a need, it would be wholly inadequate. It's like all those ventilator projects people were making during COVID. Feel good busy work, most of it went straight into the trash.
by Corrado | 2026-03-02 19:20:59+00:00
As a healthcare company, we are currently going through the process of how to allow on-device AI activity while reducing the associated risk. I really like the idea of giving the agent a specific identity instead of globbing onto the credentials of the person operating it. I think I would like to go further and splitting the agent out onto its own hardware complete separate from the developer. Sounds extreme but MacMini devices are pretty cheap and fairly capable.
by moritz | 2026-03-02 19:21:02+00:00
C.f., from 25d ago:

“Why Elixir is the best language for AI” https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46900241

- for comparison of the arguments made

- features a bit more actual data than “intuitions” compared to OP

- interesting to think about in an agent context specifically is runtime introspection afforded by the BEAM (which, out of how it developed, has always been very important in that world) - the blog post has a few notes on that as well
by g947o | 2026-03-02 19:21:08+00:00
I think Rust is great for agents, for a reason that is rarely mentioned: unit tests are in the same file. This means that agents just "know" they should update the tests along with the source.

With other languages, whether it's TypeScript/Go/Python, even if you explicitly ask agents to write/run tests, after a while agents just forget to do that, unless they cause build failures. You have to constantly remind them to do that as the session goes. Never happens with Rust.
by giobox | 2026-03-02 19:21:14+00:00
I also ended up doing this. With HDMI-CEC powering up the TV and the receiver automatically, then switching to the correct input on any AppleTV remote button press, this is actually a really friction free option if you can stomach buying two devices for the same purpose. I put the remotes in different colored rubber cases (red and blue) to make clear which device is being operated.

At one stage I even had a third AppleTV, that was hooked permanently to a VPN exiting in a foreign country, so I could get TV content and applications restricted to another region I watch a lot of content in. It was so nice to just pick up a remote and instantly have the foreign appleTV experience, rather than juggle VPN apps and foreign Apple Store accounts on the same device.
by ruszki | 2026-03-02 19:21:42+00:00
You can write in it like in imperative languages. I did it when I first encountered it long time ago, and I didn’t know how to write, or why I should write code in a functional way. It’s like how you can write in an object oriented way in simple C. It’s possible, and it’s a good thought experiment, but it’s not recommended. So, it’s definitely not “enforced” in a strict sense.
by bitpush | 2026-03-02 19:21:49+00:00
It isnt speed you want. It is storage. Faster CPU doesnt mean you can store a TB model. It needs raw storage, which famously is through the roof.

So unless iPhone 20 Pro Max has 100GB of unifieid memory all of this is just pipe-dream. I mean, it wont even have 32GB of unified memory.
by AnimalMuppet | 2026-03-02 19:21:50+00:00
Go has tools for checking things like this. It's just not in the compiler. If you don't want to enforce that all errors are checked, go doesn't force you to. If you do, it requires you to run an extra tool in your build process.

(Or in your commit hook. If you want to develop without worrying about such things, and then clean it up before checkin, that's a development approach that go is perfectly fine with.)
by breppp | 2026-03-02 19:22:06+00:00
refineries, gas fields - https://www.reuters.com/business/energy/saudi-aramco-shuts-r...

dubai airport, residential buildings, hotels, ports - https://www.reuters.com/world/middle-east/several-loud-blast...

https://www.lemonde.fr/en/international/article/2026/03/01/i...

Bahrain - https://bh.usembassy.gov/security-alert-update-5-u-s-embassy...

You can google for other targets in Qatar, Oman, Jordan, Iraq, Cyprus and Kuwait
by aberoham | 2026-03-02 19:22:08+00:00
Claude Cowork grabs local DNS resolution on macOS which conflicts with secure web gateway aka ZTNA aka SASE products such as Cloudflare Warp which do similar. The work-around is to close Cowork, let Warp grab mDNSResponder's attention first, then restart Claude Desktop, or some similar special ordering sequence. It's annoying, but you could say that about everything having to do with MITM middleboxes.
by testbyhuman_tor | 2026-03-02 19:22:09+00:00
Nice Fakespot replacement. For UX feedback: have you tried watching someone who shops on Amazon regularly paste a URL and walk through the results? The trust score breakdown looks information-dense — I'd be curious whether non-technical shoppers actually know what to do with the sentiment distribution and linguistic markers sections, or if they just want a simple "trust / don't trust" answer.

The no-signup approach is smart for adoption. The main risk is probably that people paste a URL, see a wall of analysis, and bounce before understanding the verdict.
by w10-1 | 2026-03-02 19:22:17+00:00
Ah, no: incremental approaches only work in already well-formed code.

Poor code requires not coding but analysis and decisions, partitioning code and clients. So:

1. Stop writing code

2. Buy or write tools to analyze the code (modularity) and use-case (clients)

3. Make 3+ rough plans:

(a) leave it alone and manage quality;

(b) identify severable parts to fix and how (same clients);

(3) incrementally migrate (important) clients to something new

The key lesson is that incremental improvements are sinking money (and worse, time) into something that might need to go, without any real context for whether it's worth it.
by tavro | 2026-03-02 19:22:22+00:00
> You might receive a lot of well-intended advice that does not take into account the social context of Scandinavia, which is a particularly hard nut to crack when it comes to casual conversations with people you don't know.

preach -- agreed!

> One I have found is sports, this winter I've had casual chats with about 80% of the people I come across at my local ski trails. But it's mostly at the starting point or at the car park, not while you're training. Another one is regular organised activities, e.g. check out your local friluftsfrämjandet, or activities around specific interests and hobbies, and show up somewhat consistently. Every kommun will typically have a registry of local clubs on their website, it's called a föreningsregister, read through it and see if something strikes your fancy.

thanks, this is great advice! i will make sure to check it out. i actually tried something similar recently. the thing is, i often end up doing these kinds of activities with my current friends, which naturally reduces my incentive to approach new people. that is not a bad thing, of course, but it does mean i am not really meeting anyone new. maybe i should try going to some activities on my own and see what happens.

> Luckily, as foreigners, we typically get a bit of a pass for not being entirely up to snuff with the social rules, but knowing some Swedish will help you.

i actually speak Swedish fluently, it is my first language, so it is not really the issue. it is more about figuring out how to approach people without feeling like i am bothering them or coming across as annoying, and finding new ways to start those interactions.