MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by rkomorn | 2026-03-11 17:30:17+00:00
I'm always amused by some mispronunciations that stray farther away from the original than necessary.

My favorite is probably crepe, which Americans pronounce like an almost diphthong-y craype (or crape like grape I guess) when crep (like step) would do just fine and be closer to the original.

But as a native French and basically-native American speaker, I also couldn't really care less about it, or about things like Americans pronouncing the t in croissant, or French people being unable to say the.
by yanitcorel | 2026-03-11 17:30:34+00:00
I haven’t been in exactly the same situation, but I went through a period where my life structure changed suddenly and the quiet felt overwhelming. One thing that helped me realize was that the “hollow” feeling wasn’t really about being alone — it was about losing the rhythm of daily shared life. When you’re used to telling someone small things about your day, even mundane things like fixing blinds or cooking dinner, those moments actually give shape to your day.

When that disappears, everything can feel strangely flat.
by rcarmo | 2026-03-11 17:30:41+00:00
I started using it _way_ before it was even mentioned in AI projects. The key reasons I stuck with it were: 1. As a Pythonista, I _very_ much like its batteries included philosophy (I get proper Typescript, SQLite and a lot of goodies out of the box without hundreds of crufty NPM plugins) and 2. The tooling is awesome: a decent bundler, ability to build "single file" executables, etc.

If you think it's popular because of AI, think again.
by mhendric | 2026-03-11 17:30:57+00:00
Author here. I do use AI tools in my writing process. I build AI agent tooling, so that's how I work now.

But the ideas, analysis and seven years of firsthand experience are mine. And I write "with" AI very closely, not handing anything over blindly.

If you read past the title you'll find lots of personal details I lived through. It would be hard to prompt-engineer that from the outside.
by pooooka | 2026-03-11 17:31:21+00:00
What I get from this is that the professional academic community -- as a whole -- has hit critical mass, which has produced a cottage industry of paper mills and fraudulent services to support said surplus.

Socialism wouldn't be the answer to this because socialism is famous for struggling with surpluses and shortages. All socialism would do is clamp down (hard) on academic's, which case you wind up with the famous shortage where not enough PHD's are available to produce research for an industry.

And that's not a problem specific to just socialism, that's the fallacy of central-planning. The US government clamped down on welfare fraud and the result were freak government social workers sniffing people's bed sheets and rooting through drawers and forcing everyone to document partners.

This is the situation where there needs to be a market correction because the alternative could be far worse.
by electrosaur | 2026-03-11 17:31:39+00:00
I'm building a color separation engine for screen printing that operates entirely in CIELab — Photoshop is hardwired for it, so while OKLab is mathematically superior for hue linearity, the constant translation overhead isn't worth it when you're doing surgery on 16-bit photography into discrete spot-color plates.

The real proof of moving away from Euclidean RGB distances isn't in the composite — it's in the separated plates. Look at the individual channels of a complex texture like weathered terracotta through a Lab-aware engine, and the structural integrity of the gradients is night and day compared to legacy indexing. Even 1976-era Lab is a massive leap from RGB heuristics.
by bwfan123 | 2026-03-11 17:32:44+00:00
> Formalizing those intuitions is real work, but it's not the same as generating something with no prior basis.

> The fact that Euclid existed doesn't tell us much about what the other billions of humans are doing cognitively on a Tuesday afternoon.

Birds can fly - so, there is some flying intelligence built into their dna. But, are they aware of their skill to be able to create a theory of flight, and then use that to build a plane ? I am just pointing out that intuitions are not enough - the awareness of the intuitions in a manner that can symbolize and operationalize it is important.

> The whole point, drawing on Kahneman, is that most of what we call reasoning is fast associative pattern-matching, and that the slow deliberate stuff is rarer and more error-prone than people assume

David Bessis, in his wonderful book [1] argues that the cognitive actions done by you and I on a tuesday afternoon is the same that mathematicians do - just that we are unaware of it. Also, since you brought up Kahneman, Bessis proposes a System 3 wherein inaccurate intuitions is corrected by precise communication.

[1] Mathematica: A Secret World of Intuition and Curiosity
by mhendric | 2026-03-11 17:32:58+00:00
Author here. I felt the same way when I joined. Gaia and the decentralized identity work were genuinely interesting, and the early developer community was real, with people building things and giving honest feedback. That's what made the shift frustrating to watch from the inside.

I'd refine "lost their way" slightly: the incentive structure was always going to produce this outcome once the token became the primary funding mechanism. The team didn't lose direction; the path was bent by the economics.
by patchnull | 2026-03-11 17:33:04+00:00
The 45% reduction in DOM operation time from removing JS glue is the number that should change how people think about this. WASM has been stuck in a chicken-and-egg loop for years: no DOM access meant the only viable use cases were compute-heavy workloads like codecs and crypto, which kept the ecosystem too small to justify better tooling, which kept adoption low. Direct web API binding through the component model breaks that loop because it finally makes WASM viable for ordinary web development, not just the hot-path optimization niche. The complexity concerns in this thread are valid but I think they are transitional. The WIT layer looks heavyweight now because the toolchains are immature, but the end state where you import a browser API like any other library in your language is genuinely simpler than the current JS FFI dance.
by phickey | 2026-03-11 17:33:17+00:00
WebAssembly is a compiler target, not a human-authored language. There is exactly one audience of people for writing wat by hand: spec and tutorial authors and readers. Anyone actually developing an application they want to use will use a compiler to produce WebAssembly. Prove me wrong and write Roller Coaster Tycoon in raw wasm if you want, but having written and maintained wasm specs and toolchains for nearly a decade, I will never write any wat outside of a spec or tutorial.
by mhendric | 2026-03-11 17:34:28+00:00
Author here. The essay's argument is actually the opposite of that. The team was talented. Proof-of-Transfer was a real technical contribution. The SEC qualification was historic. What I'm describing is how structural incentives bent a legitimate effort toward narrative optimization over time. That's a harder problem than fraud. There's no villain, just a system that rewards the wrong things. Reducing it to "scams" makes it too easy and misses the lesson for anyone building with a financial instrument attached.
by hackyhacky | 2026-03-11 17:34:35+00:00
> I get it, other than price, the Neo and Air are a bit confusing product wise. Have they looked at how Asus, Lenovo, and Dell are doing their products though? It's absolutely wild the disparity between PC and Apple for laptops.

Yep.

I'm a long-time ThinkPad user, but I have no idea how Lenovo's ThinkPad T series differs from the ThinkPad E series or ThinkPad L series or ThinkPad X series, and their website certainly isn't going to tell me. I keep on buying T series because I'm honestly afraid of trying anything else.

To say nothing of Lenovo's non-ThinkPad laptop brands, including Ideapad, Legion, Yoga, ThinkBook (!), and LOQ.

I really don't know what laptop to recommend to a friend. One friend showed me specs for an Asus they found at Best Buy, and it looked okay, so I said "It's probably fine." Turns out it was shoddily made and overpriced: they had to sent it back not once but twice because the wifi and then the camera didn't work out of the box, then a few months later the hinge broke.

I am not a Mac fan, but it's easy to recommend them because you at least know they are universally well-built machines.
by dzaima | 2026-03-11 17:34:49+00:00
Of course that'd result in entirely-avoidable slowdown for the potentially-misaligned ops. Perhaps fine for a program that doesn't use them frequently, but quite bad for ones that need misaligned ops everywhere.

In terms of correctness, there's also the possibility of partially-misaligned ops (e.g. an 8B load with 4B alignment, loading two adjacent int32_t fields) so you're not handling everything with correct faults anyways.
by StartupsWala | 2026-03-11 17:35:14+00:00
One interesting takeaway here is how quickly organizations are deploying AI tools internally without fully adapting their security models.

Traditional application security assumes fairly predictable inputs and workflows, but LLM-based systems introduce entirely new attack surfaces—prompt injection, data leakage, tool misuse, etc.

It feels like many enterprises are still treating these systems as just another SaaS product rather than something closer to an autonomous system that needs a different threat model...
by andai | 2026-03-11 17:35:19+00:00
>Meanwhile GGUF Q2 and Q3 quantizations on llama.cpp keep getting better

Can you tell me more about this? It's been about a year since I looked into it, but it looked like performance dropped hard below Q4. I'd love to see more about this.

Also what's a good way to run them? I mostly use Ollama which only goes down to Q4. I think it supports HF urls though?
by jwr | 2026-03-11 17:35:58+00:00
It is terrible, slow, assumes that I receive my E-mail instantly (what if I use greylisting?), makes me check my E-mail when I don't want to.

This as opposed to my password manager filling in the password field within a second or so.

But they know it's terrible. The reason they do it is to make account sharing more difficult.
by radicality | 2026-03-11 17:36:25+00:00
Oh yes, upvoting, my top annoyance with anthropic too, email links are a bit ridiculous as a login mechanism.
Anytime I have to login again, it’s the ridiculous dance of figuring out what surface I’m logging into and how to get the magic link to open there, and not mistakenly somewhere else. Never a problem with openAI - input password and 2FA - done, logged in.
by janalsncm | 2026-03-11 17:36:26+00:00
They have a demo video in the readme. I think they are trying to convey that BitNet is fast, which it is. But it is worth taking a moment to pause and actually see what the thing is doing so quickly.

It seems to keep repeating that the water cycle is the main source of energy for all living things on the planet and then citing Jenkins 2010. There are also a ton of sentence beginning with “It also…”

I don’t even think it’s correct. The sun is the main source of energy for most living things but there’s also life near hydrothermal vents etc.

I don’t know who Jenkins is, but this model appears to be very fond of them and the particular fact about water.

I suppose fast and inaccurate is better than slow and inaccurate.
by Heliodex | 2026-03-11 17:37:06+00:00
The problem is that the external platforms that the children progress to generally have much laxer protection systems than Roblox does, and thus end up more vulnerable. I just chose Discord as an example as they're the most commonly cited chat platform that exploitation beginning on Roblox ends up on, and they also have problems with their trust & safety team that allows this to occur.

Meeting IRL is a problem as well, it just makes up fewer of the cases.
by swiftcoder | 2026-03-11 17:37:22+00:00
> why JS is the language that has ended up dominating web development

JS was dominating web development long before WASM gained steam. This isn't the same situation as "JS beating Java/ActivX for control of the web" (if I follow the thrust of your argument correctly).

WASM has had less than a decade of widespread browser support, terrible no-good DevEx for basically the whole time, and it's still steadily making it's way into more and more of the web.
by otterley | 2026-03-11 17:37:35+00:00
The military has performed countless simulations and “what-if” exercises and thoroughly documented each one. They knew a war with Iran without boots on the ground doesn’t end with a decisive victory. Trump chose to ignore them and press ahead anyway.

You can’t really understand Trump’s decisions unless you understand that despite all evidence to the contrary, Trump himself truly believes he is the smartest person in the room, regardless of who else is in it; and he will not suffer anyone who dares to contradict him.
by JasonViviers | 2026-03-11 17:37:59+00:00
I've been developing a practice I call OMLCP (Output-Maximizing
Long-Context Programming), which exploits modern models' large
output windows instead of optimizing for frequent small interactions.

The core argument: agentic workflows made sense when max output was
4k tokens. Frontier models now support 64k-128k output tokens, but
most tooling still optimizes for short responses. The structural
inefficiency compounds quadratically with project size.

The paper includes:
- Formal token economics model with sensitivity analysis (13-17x
advantage at 10k lines, 40-45x at 30k lines)
- Three field deployments with real cost figures ($0.58 for 14,431 lines)
- Honest failure cases including an SSE parsing incident that required
full re-stream
- A reproducibility protocol for independent validation
- Capability tier framework to make claims model-version-agnostic

I'm a business analyst in South Africa. No lab affiliation, no team.
Happy to answer questions about methodology or the streaming
infrastructure.
by unethical_ban | 2026-03-11 17:38:00+00:00
My dad the other month, in need of a computer with webcam and ideally portable, bought some $400-500 HP 17" laptop. He was so proud of it, proud of buying a piece of hardware without asking me, and rather than tell him the truth, I nodded and said "yeah this is neat".

The monitor is awful. Like, the horrible way it changes color and brightness depending on exact viewing angle is sickening; I am shocked California hasn't declared it illegal. It feels cheap, keyboard is cheap, who knows what the battery life is.

If the Apple Neo were available then, and he had asked what to buy, I would have instantly told him to get one.
by dekhn | 2026-03-11 17:38:02+00:00
Advanced groups usually replicate their competitor's results in their own hands shortly after publication (or they just trust their competitor's competence). But they don't spend any time publishing it unless they fail to replicate and can explain why they can't replicate. From their perspective, it's a waste of time. I think this has been shown to be a naive approach (given the high rate of image fraud in molecular biology) but people who are in the top of the field have strong incentives to focus on moving the state of the art forward without expending energy on improving the field as a whole.
by replooda | 2026-03-11 17:38:03+00:00
The issue is more about such systems not being powered by magic, thus lacking a way of magically protecting data so it will only be used by the parties and in the ways it is supposed to be, which means, as Discord has recently demonstrated, such laws will only increase the risk for those they allegedly aim at protecting.

> As of today, March 4th, Operating Systems developers have only 13 days remaining before the Brazilian law takes effect.

I do think the Brazilian law does not apply to, at least, open-source operating systems. [0]

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47338237
by mhendric | 2026-03-11 17:38:49+00:00
Author here. Agreed that overfunding of any kind can break feedback loops. When you have more money than signal, narrative fills the gap.

The structural difference with tokens is liquidity and breadth of exposure. In a VC-funded startup, equity is illiquid and held by a small number of employees and investors with board seats. There's still a corrective mechanism, even if it's slow.

With a token, the instrument is liquid and held by thousands of retail participants with no effective governance rights. Everyone (treasury, employees, community) shares a direct financial interest in maintaining the story, and there's no board meeting where someone says "the numbers don't work."
by meller_a | 2026-03-11 17:39:05+00:00
I was running Gemini CLI with the conductor format for task tracking, and Claude Code with superpowers skills for implementation — also inspired by OpenClaw's approach. All great tools, but completely siloed. No shared context between agents, no visibility into what each was doing, and if one LLM exhausted mid-task there was no clean handoff to the other.

I wanted one thing: a unified view where both agents share the same context and I can see what's happening without reading terminal output.

LaneConductor is that layer — a live Kanban board (localhost:8090) that updates in real-time as your agents work, backed by shared Markdown files that both Claude and Gemini read and write.

It's built on context-driven development: all state lives in Markdown files (plan.md, spec.md, index.md) rather than in any LLM's context window. If Claude exhausts mid-task, Gemini opens the same files and continues from exactly the same point — no lost work, no restarting from scratch. The files are the shared context and the crash recovery mechanism.

Four ways to use it:
- /laneconductor skill commands inside Claude Code (plan, implement, review, brainstorm)
- Instruct Gemini CLI the same way — native conductor format support
- lc CLI for track management
- Worker mode: background daemon that picks up queued tracks autonomously

Demo: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/meller/laneconductor/main/...

Open source, 100% local — Postgres + Vite on localhost. No cloud, no auth, no data leaves your machine.

https://github.com/meller/laneconductor

Running this daily across 3 repos with Claude and Gemini simultaneously. Happy to answer questions.
by fuelingcurious | 2026-03-11 17:39:20+00:00
Hello! Thank you for the vote of confidence! I deliberately left the client-side JavaScript un-obfuscated (AI showed me how to do it, but then I undid it for posting here). A colleague of mine started talking about selling it as a training tool, but ha I don’t know if that is in the cards. If you send me an email, we can talk about helping you get a head start!
by supernalai | 2026-03-11 17:39:49+00:00
ESLint checks your code. Prettier formats it. But nothing checks your repo structure.

I kept reviewing AI-agent creations where the code compiled and was tested, documentation may have been there - but it was a MESS. Files were in the wrong folder, naming conventions were broken, random markdowns, scripts, and files were laying about like kid who never cleans their room.

So I built Repotype.

npx repotype validate .

It validates folder structure, file naming (kebab-case enforcement), documentation frontmatter, and content policies (secret detection, forbidden patterns). Config is a simple YAML file. There's also an autofix command for some issues.

MIT licensed.

GitHub: https://github.com/supernalintelligence/repotype
npm: https://www.npmjs.com/package/repotype
Docs: https://supernalintelligence.github.io/repotype/
by haberman | 2026-03-11 17:39:52+00:00
> Thankfully, there is the esm-integration proposal, which is already implemented in bundlers today and which we are actively implementing in Firefox.

From the code sample, it looks like this proposal also lets you load WASM code synchronously. If so, that would address one issue I've run into when trying to replace JS code with WASM: the ability to load and run code synchronously, during page load. Currently WASM code can only be loaded async.
by messe | 2026-03-11 17:40:29+00:00
I had to search for this, but managed to find the relevant mlugg@ comment[0] on the ZSF zulip:

> i had to change the bytes field from [*]align(@alignOf(T)) u8 to just [*]u8 (and cast the alignment back in the like one place that field is accessed). this wasn't necessary for MultiArrayList in and of itself, but it was necessary for embedding a MultiArrayList(T) inside of T without a dependency loop, like

const T = struct {
children: MultiArrayList(T),
};
// reproduced for completeness:
fn MultiArrayList(comptime T: type) type {
return struct {
bytes: [*]align(@alignOf(T)) u8,
// ...
};
}

[0]: https://zsf.zulipchat.com/#narrow/channel/454360-compiler/to...
by ethics13 | 2026-03-11 17:40:48+00:00
1. -92K is a drop in a bucket. It's not what moves the needle for anything here, except looking at the trends. Revisions are the big swings now and those are not something the market likes -- which is why many are calling for a quarterly or even bi annual releases.

2. International Tourism in the US is not that big. Total international visits were expected to fall from 72.4 million (2024) to about 67.9 million (2025). https://www.ustravel.org/press/us-travel-forecast-2025-modes... So visitors to the U.S. dropped about 6% in 2025. I've seen some crazy numbers in this chat. https://www.reuters.com/world/us/fewer-foreigners-visited-us...

More than 1.5 billion tourists spent $11.7 trillion on hotels, cruises and flights last year, according to the data from the World Travel and Tourism Council.

A fall of $12.5 billion is a lot but not something that will alter anything significant.

The majority of the people that are declining to travel to US are Example drops recorded:

Germany: ↓ 28% Spain: ↓ 25% UK: ↓ 18% Canada: ↓ 17% https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tourism_in_the_United_States

3. Some states and some countries are going the opposite (Argentina, Israel, two examples). https://skift.com/2025/12/29/us-international-travel-which-s...

4 .There is an offset by Americans traveling inside the US as well. https://www.thetravel.com/how-and-why-us-international-touri...

Overall, this is a small macro impact.
by mattmanser | 2026-03-11 17:41:18+00:00
So this isn't the British being deliberate obtuse, foreigners pronounce English words wrong all the time and we don't accuse them of doing it on purpose. They do it because that's how they would pronounce those words in their language.

Fillet/valet are mis-pronounced because of mallet, pallet, etc. Renaissance? Nail, snail, tail, etc.

It really is that simple, we're just pronouncing them as if they were an English word.
by tcbrah | 2026-03-11 17:41:28+00:00
ive tried like 5 of these all-in-one AI video platforms and always end up back at my own script. the problem isnt the "glue work" between tools honestly - thats like 20 lines of python. the problem is when the platform abstracts over the model APIs so much that you cant access new params when kling or whoever ships an update. how quickly do yall expose new model features when providers update? thats the make or break thing IMO