MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by hermit_dev | 2026-03-11 01:21:37+00:00
It's an interesting problem that even though it's represented by just you as a single person, I think this is shared across the board with larger corporations at scale. I know for example they were seeing this with game devs in regards to the Godot engine. So many people were uploading work done by AI that has been unverified that people just can't keep up with it. And maybe some of it's good, but how do you vet all the crap out? No one knows what's being written anymore (and non-devs can code now too, which is amazing, but part of the problem that we introduced). I think in the future of being a developer will be more about verifying code integrity and working with AI to ensure it is meeting said standards. Rather than actually being in the driver's seat. Not sexy, but we're handing the keys over willingly, yet, AI is only interpreting the intent. It's going to get things wrong no matter what we do.
by jasomill | 2026-03-11 01:21:58+00:00
GP works for Netflix. The team that maintains their FreeBSD stack includes FreeBSD committers, as noted in the linked presentation. Bit of a special case.

With that said, I've quickly upgraded to every production release, including .0 releases, on my personal infrastructure boxes for decades and have never been bitten in the ass or spent more than a few minutes making required configuration changes, and have run -CURRENT on development boxes, where it usually works fine.

As a rough analogy, -CURRENT is a bit like Debian Sid. You probably wouldn't run it directly in production, but it's not an unreasonable option if you have the resources to maintain an internal fork (or, for that matter, as the upstream for a downstream distro).

Side note: Netflix support for FreeBSD is one reason I've continued to subscribe through price increases and periods of low use. Keep up the good work!
by kjs3 | 2026-03-11 01:22:09+00:00
Optum360, still in business. HCA Healthcare, still in business. Excellus Healthcare, still in business after paying something like 50 cents per breached user. AMCA went out of business because their biggest customers said "damage control dictates we cut ties with you so we don't look complacent" (that is, like I said, the customers have to care to make a difference). And did anyone stop going to LabCore (after their own data breach, not AMCAs) or got a different doctor because the healthcare group they're part of got breached? Not likely. I don't think healthcare is ahead of the game here.

But yes, until it becomes actually painful to companies and the people who run them, it won't get better. If a corp death penalty is off the table (I don't think it should be), I guess would be either/both proportionate fines (fines equaling a couple of hours of revenue don't cut it) or making some of the leadership personally accountable, a la SOX fines, asset forfeiture and criminal responsibility for responsible C-level execs. Hate on SOX all you want, it sure made finance executives care about what is going on in their organization.
by glerk | 2026-03-11 01:22:16+00:00
Not at all, I don't mean full time. I mean put 2-3 engineers on building a slack clone which with AI and available open source examples would take roughly 2 weeks. Then it's just keeping the lights on, maybe fix a bug every once in a while. And yes, it will probably be worse than slack, but it's internal software, doesn't have to be perfect.
by daemin | 2026-03-11 01:23:42+00:00
I just thought I'd mention that Khalil Estell is doing some work regarding exceptions in embedded and bare metal programming. In the first of his talks about this topic (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bY2FlayomlE) he mentions that a lot of the bloat in exception handling is including printf in order to print out the message when terminating the program.
For those interested he has another presentation on this topic https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wNPfs8aQ4oo
by jonahx | 2026-03-11 01:24:13+00:00
> The story that humans have access to some pure deductive engine and LLMs are just faking it with statistics might be flattering to humans more than it’s accurate.

Your point rings true with most human reasoning most of the time. Still, at least some humans do have the capability to run that deductive engine, and it seems to be a key part (though not the only part) of scientific and mathematical reasoning. Even informal experimentation and iteration rest on deductive feedback loops.
by gozucito | 2026-03-11 01:24:29+00:00
>Simplicity brings us closer to truth — Occam's razor has underpinned the development of our species for centuries.

I keep thinking of emergent complexity. Even starting with very simple rules and components, the amount of complexity that arises as a consequence of ever rising interactions can boggle the mind and seems to validate our current predilection for elegant and succinct laws of physics to be enough to model the universe.

Coincidentally, LLMs being so good at coding that it became the #1 source of income for Anthropic is one such example of emerging complexity from deceptively simple ingredients:

A giant pile of matrix multiplies, next-token prediction, and enough data somehow climbs the ladder from autocomplete to writing code well enough that people will pay $20-200/month per seat for it. It is completely bonkers.
by anon7000 | 2026-03-11 01:24:51+00:00
I mean, that’s how growth works. Like, if the economy normally grows, the economy is always the biggest it’s ever been. Debt’s always the highest. Human population is always the largest. Number of companies is always increasing. Amount of important economic infrastructure financed by debt is ever growing.

To be fair, I’m not saying our debt is in a good place. But just that we should expect it to always be the most it’s ever been, just like we’d always expect the economy to be the largest it’s ever been.

By itself, it doesn’t mean anything if it’s always increasing, what matters more is how quickly debt is growing and if we aren’t keeping up in how we pay it off
by storus | 2026-03-11 01:25:49+00:00
https://github.com/karpathy/llm-council

https://ui.adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/2025arXiv250214815C/abstra...

https://www.arxiv.org/abs/2509.23537

https://www.aristeidispanos.com/publication/panos2025multiag...

https://arxiv.org/abs/2305.14325

https://arxiv.org/abs/2306.05685

https://arxiv.org/abs/2310.19740v1
by throw101010 | 2026-03-11 01:26:25+00:00
What did you expect from people going around and thinking "big balls" is a cool and impressive nickname.

The problem is that as idiotic as the people of DOGE were, the questionable motives for their actions are the only thing that's left following the monumental failure DOGE has been in terms of meeting their announced goals.

There is literally no fraud/abuse that has been discovered let alone prosecuted and they redefined "waste" to "programs I don't like" to save few hundred millions, maybe a billion... from and original target between 1 and 2 TRILLIONS (according to Musk).

I unfortunately don't think we can (nor should) apply Hanlon's razor, they will abuse the collected data one way or another.
by sombragris | 2026-03-11 01:29:31+00:00
I'm firmly in favor of copyleft. But I get what chardet's maintainer has done: reimplement a piece of software.
This has been done a lot of times. Musl reimplementing glibc, llvm reimplementing gcc, etc., all of them with non-copyleft licenses.

However, the purported reimplementations did not usurp the names of the reimplemented product. Reimplement chardet using AI and insisting in calling the product the same as old chardet with a new version number and a new license is, I think, not exactly honest. At least he should have used something like "chardet-ng", "chardet-fresh", or whatever, and a completely different source tree.
by CyberDildonics | 2026-03-11 01:29:42+00:00
The things you are talking about are taken care of by out of order execution and the CPU itself being smart about how it executes. Putting in prefetch instructions rarely beats the actual prefetcher itself. Compilers didn't end up generating perfect pentium asm either. OOO execution is what changed the game in not needing perfect compiler output any more.
by foxes | 2026-03-11 01:30:10+00:00
But thats the point, an llm is a vastly different object to a calculator. Its a new type of tool for better or worse based on probabilities, distributions.

If you can internalise that fact and look at it like having a probable answer rather than an exact answer it makes sense.

Calculators cant have a stab at writing an entire c compiler. A lot of people cant either or takes a lot of iteration anyway, no one one shotted complicated code before llms either.

I feel discussion shouldnt be about how they work as the fundamental objection, rather the costs and impacts they have.
by Terr_ | 2026-03-11 01:30:30+00:00
> It also contains a harmless antigen, an egg protein called ovalbumin or OVA

Here's hoping the final product doesn't have a side-effect of inducing an allergy to the main component of egg-whites.

Although even if so, perhaps it would only apply to un-cooked ovalbumin, allowing one to continue enjoying properly-denatured egg products.
by DoctorOetker | 2026-03-11 01:31:02+00:00
This.

Every sedentary society has historically scared its members of the dangers of the nomadic lifestyle, heathens, ...

The implied conclusion being that since our ancestors switched from nomadic to sedentary it must have been preferable, a kind of informal democratic collectively and individually approved choice.

Surely sedentary must have been better, how else could such a transition have been sustained?

Rather easy how else: its perfectly possible for average or mean life quality under sedentary lifestyle to be a net setback compared to nomadic lifestyle, since slavery can't be effectively implemented in a nomadic lifestyle, whereas the sedentary lifestyle creates both the demand for labor (routine monotonous work in the fields) and the means to enable slavery (escaping nomadic tribes under Brownian motion is much easier than escaping from a randomly assigned position deep in a larger sedentary empire, even if you escape the sedentary village, the stable neighbouring village will happily return you to "your owner" so that he would hopefully return the favor if ever he catches one of "their slaves").

It's easy to claim a net improvement in life quality ... by discounting the loss of life quality of the slaves!

Nomadic lifestyle was simply outcompeted by sedentary-enabled slavery!
by greatgib | 2026-03-11 01:32:08+00:00
That is funny because on this page there is a warning block with the following text:

Refer to Will Browser Rendering bypass Cloudflare's Bot Protection? for instructions on creating a WAF skip rule.

And "Will Browser Rendering bypass Cloudflare's Bot Protection? " is a hash link to the FAQ page, that surprisingly doesn't anything available for this link entry.

Is it because it was removed (/hidden) or because it is not yet available until everyone forget the "we are no evil, we are here to protect the internet"?
by verdverm | 2026-03-11 01:32:15+00:00
I suspect Eric will not like this.

https://newsgab.com/eric-barone-affirms-stardew-valleys-long...

> Barone is aiming for a community-based approach—proving that sometimes collaboration is less about AI-generated flair and more about good old-fashioned human creativity

I appreciate Eric and Simon (Hytale) for charting different paths for their games, focusing on the users and creators over the money. Both games are independently owned.
by snvzz | 2026-03-11 01:32:47+00:00
Fast compatible microarchitectures already exist.

But it takes time for microarchitecture to chip, and from chips to products on shelves.

Everything high performance seems to be based on RVA23.

The very first RVA23-compatible chips are due in development boards next month. More of them, more performant, such as a development board with the Tenstorrent Ascalon CPU in the form of a Tenstorrent Atlantis SoC, are coming this summer.

It is also possible we'll see such designs silently embedded into all sorts of products aimed at the general public before year end.
by coderenegade | 2026-03-11 01:32:52+00:00
I suspect this is more true than most people think. Today's bad code will be cleaned up by tomorrow's agents.

The other factor that gets glossed over is that llms create a financial incentive to create cleaner code, with tests, because the agent that you pay for will be more efficient when the code is easier to understand, and has clear patterns for extensibility. When I do code with llms, a big part of it is demonstration, i.e. pseudocoding a pattern/structure, asking the model if it understands, and then having it complete the pattern. I've had a lot of success with this approach.
by credit_guy | 2026-03-11 01:33:01+00:00
What this type of analysis is missing is that it is extraordinarily hard to build the bomb.

North Korea could get the bomb because they had qualms about letting hundreds of thousands or millions of people literally starve to death [1].

But let's say another country, country X, wants to acquire the bomb now. Then what? First thing: the IAEA inspectors discover that. Building a bomb is too massive an operation to be done completely in hiding. Once the IAEA inspectors find you, you either withdraw from the non-proliferation treaty, or you don't, but people know you are lying (just like they knew about Iran). Sooner or later sanctions will follow. You are cut off from all the Western nuclear supply chain. If the unnamed country X is actually Sweden, or some other Nordic country, or Poland, or any country that's part of the "West", you do care if all the nuclear supply chain is legally banned from trading with you. What are you going to do? Go to Russia, or China? Are they going to help you build a bomb that you will then use to deter them? Are you sure they are that stupid?

But let's say you are a country that's not part of the "West". Then you have bigger problems. After what just happened, you know that sooner or later you might have some bunker busters rain down on you. North Korea was lucky, but now the precedent was set. The next nuclear aspirant won't be able to hope that the West will play nice and refrain from bombing you while you are busy enriching uranium.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1990s_North_Korean_famine
by fakedang | 2026-03-11 01:33:09+00:00
The point of nukes for NK is not about being able to use them to attack its neighbours. The point of nukes for NK is to ensure that they don't get invaded themselves. That's why NK makes a big deal about nukes that can reach the US - currently the only viable threat the NK regime has had is the US.

Which is also the reason why Pakistan pursued a nuclear programme (vs India). Which is why India pursued a nuclear programme (vs China). Which is why China pursued a nuclear programme (vs the USSR). People apparently discount the important of nukes and MAD doctrine in helping preserve the peace in today's world.
by jiehong | 2026-03-11 01:33:23+00:00
> the notch has aged poorly

Over time, I have come to appreciate the apps that actually take advantage of it (like dictation indicator). It would be better if the menu bar was aware of it and handled hiding icons correctly, thought. I guess it might evolve into a Dynamic Island someday.

I don’t necessarily want the laptops to go back to the overly thin form factors they used to have.

It would be cool if some manufacturers would come up with a self cleaning screen, though. Like ultra sonic micro vibrations while you lift the lid open or something (this might be part of the real of magic right now, I know).
by christophilus | 2026-03-11 01:34:33+00:00
> lacking the context around how the change was produced, the plans, the prompting, to understand how an engineer came to this specific code change as a result. Did they one-shot this? did they still spend hours prompting/iterating/etc.? something in-between?

In my opinion, you have to review it the way you always review code. Does the code do what it's supposed to do? Does it do it in a clean, modular way? Does it have a lot of boilerplate that should be reduced via some helper functions, etc.

It doesn't matter how it was produced. A code review is supposed to be: "Here's this feature {description}" and then, you look at the code and see if it does the thing and does it well.
by yaku_brang_ja | 2026-03-11 01:34:54+00:00
Think twice before you start building AR/VR wearables. I never understand the obsession of people thinking AR/VR interface is the future. They are fun for certain cases like games and movies, but they offer the worst UX to interact with the digital world (Probably the worst in the history of digital devices). The gesture navigation will never meet the level of convenience and precision that mouse and touch screen interfaces offer.
by fallinditch | 2026-03-11 01:35:43+00:00
Yes, I wonder how much of the academic doomerism is warranted, or maybe the professors are lacking in imagination?

I guess it's possible that AI offers incredible learning opportunities and at the same time is going to destroy the education establishment.

Coincidentally, earlier today I asked Gemini what advice it would give an 18 year old person. It said
"The most fundamental insight distilled from the trillions of connections within my architecture is this: Optimize for your "Learning Rate" rather than your "Current State.""

Deep
by mytailorisrich | 2026-03-11 01:37:55+00:00
> nor were any Iranians or their allies tied to any terrorist attacks in Europe in my lifetime.

Your lifetime is a fuzzy reference that possibly works because your are relatively young.

Iram carried out terrorist attacks in Europe in the 80s that left tens of people dead. Iran has been linked to an infamous bombing in Argentina in the 90s.

Iran has been linked to other attacks since.

Recently, the war in Yemen and attacks on shipping routes has also links to Iran.

Iran hasn't been a "local threat".
by CyberDildonics | 2026-03-11 01:38:05+00:00
audio/video processing, scientific/technical/engineering computing, etc. may have wildly different performances when compiled for different x86-64 ISA versions

This is pretty vague and makes it sounds like there are big differences in instruction sets.

In actuality it comes down to memory access first which has nothing to with instructions.

After that it comes down to simple SIMD/AVX instructions and not some exotic entirely different instruction set.
by rajeevramani | 2026-03-11 01:39:36+00:00
I built this because I kept running into APIs with no documentation — or docs that were months out of date. I'd been working on an Envoy control plane (Flowplane) and needed accurate schemas for the APIs I was integrating with. Writing OpenAPI specs by hand wasn't going to happen.

Specwatch sits as a local reverse proxy. You point it at an API, use it normally, and it infers the schema from the traffic. It figures out types, required fields, enums, path parameters, auth schemes — then exports an OpenAPI 3.1 spec.

No raw request data is stored — only the inferred schemas go into a local SQLite database. The proxy is non-blocking (your response comes back first, inference runs after).

It's a single npx command, no cloud, no account. Happy to answer questions about the inference approach or anything else.
by xethos | 2026-03-11 01:40:32+00:00
While I think you and I would agree if I argued it was more about culture than firearms per-capita, it's pretty hard to say children aren't suffering some pretty real harms from said firearms (to say nothing of adult suicide statistics when firearms are kept in the house)

Reducing the number of guns doesn't solve the root issue (which I think we'd also agree on), but it should minimize the harms while being dramatically easier than changing the American ethos. Hell, America could likely get 80% of the results (no school shootings) with 20% of the effort (additional restrictions on firearms, more akin to Canada)

I further think the second amendment is causing Americans more harm than it's worth, though that's a seperate discussion; some examples include suicide statistics, accidental discharge, a lack of protection even when carried legally (such as in Alex Pretti's murder) and the fact that, when firearms could be anywhere, police must treat every interaction as potentially fatal - with all the force that requires
by sitharus | 2026-03-11 01:41:23+00:00
A bit more reading shows there's a three instruction general case version for 32-bit additions on the 64-bit RISC-V ISA. I'm not familiar with RISC-V assembly and they didn't provide an example, but I _think_ it's as easy as this since 64-bit add wouldn't match the 32-bit overflowed add.

add t0, t1, t2
addw t3, t1, t2
bne t0, t3, overflow
by wintersweet001 | 2026-03-11 01:41:55+00:00
I built a tool-using LLM pipeline for investment research (~30 data tools across macro, fundamentals, quant, sentiment, SEC filings, etc.)
Early versions used multi-agent debate (bull/bear/judge) to stress-test conclusions.

The debate architecture sounded right in theory but made outputs worse in practice. Agents talk over themselves and with growing rounds sounded more and more confident without having substance. The judge couldn't reliably detect it, and token costs passed 500K per run with no quality gain.

The article covers what went wrong and what I replaced it with (decomposed pipeline with deterministic routing). Happy to answer questions.
by netsharc | 2026-03-11 01:42:12+00:00
If I had to put money on it, I'd bet on this regime continuing to ignore the rule of law and illegally remaining in power, until some insurrection... Yes I'm talking about the MAGA regime. They're already ignoring so many laws and court orders...

https://www.theguardian.com/global/commentisfree/2026/mar/08...
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by Lasang | 2026-03-11 01:43:54+00:00
One of the interesting things about Unicode is how many symbols exist that almost no one encounters in normal software.

Every once in a while you run into something like this and realize the standard is not just for text encoding but also a kind of archive of specialized notation from different fields.

It makes you wonder how many other symbols are sitting in the table that are still mostly unknown outside the niche communities that originally needed them.
by TacticalCoder | 2026-03-11 01:44:04+00:00
> But they are not doing enough to protect children from predators and that's a huge legal and regulatory risk.

It's first and foremost a huge risk for kids.

My solution is simple: my daughter (11 y/o) can play Roblox but she must be in a game with another friend (whom I know and whom I know her parents) and she must on a video/conf-call with that friend, using another device, while she plays Roblox. That way I hear everything they're saying.

And they're ecstatic and having lots of fun.

I check the chat once in a while: the rule is "not hiding the chat when parents look or no more Roblox".

Keeps her mostly at bay from predators.
by Lasang | 2026-03-11 01:44:18+00:00
The idea of exposing a structured crawl endpoint feels like a natural evolution of robots.txt and sitemaps.

If more sites provided explicit machine-readable entry points for crawlers, indexing could become a lot less wasteful. Right now crawlers spend a lot of effort rediscovering the same structure over and over.

It also raises interesting questions about whether sites will eventually provide different views for humans vs. automated agents in a more formalized way.