MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by DiogenesKynikos | 2026-03-08 03:39:15+00:00
They were formally defined by the term "existing boundaries," which was clear in 1947. It most definitely did not mean the island of Taiwan, a tiny part of the Republic of China at the time.

> TLDR "the constitution does not define the actual territory."

That's not the TLDR of the ruling, and nothing like that appears in the ruling. The TLDR of the ruling is that the court does not have the authority to rule on what the territory of the ROC is.

> Thus, the constitution does not represent the ROC claiming PRC territory.

The constitution clearly defines the existing territory as the borders of the ROC at the time of the passage of the constitution, in 1947. That was explicitly maintained by the ROC government for decades after it lost the civil war. The current ruling party doesn't agree with it, but hasn't changed the constitution or passed any act that eliminates the claim.

>> and legally considers it part of the ROC but under different rules than the "Free Area."

> There is no evidence to back this claim

You're disputing that the ROC formally defines a "Mainland Area," as opposed to recognizing the mainland as belonging to a separate country? This is not even something you can reasonably dispute. They do use that legal fiction.
by nh2 | 2026-03-08 03:39:22+00:00
A problem with that is that Nix is slow.

On my nixos-rebuild, building a simple config file for in /etc takes much longer than a common gcc invocation to compile a C file. I suspect that is due to something in Nix's Linux sandbox setup being slow, or at least I remember some issue discussions around that; I think the worst part of that got improved but it's still quite slow today.

Because of that, it's much faster to do N build steps inside 1 nix build sandbox, than the other way around.

Another issue is that some programming languages have build systems that are better than the "oneshot" compilation used by most programming languages (one compiler invocation per file producing one object file, e.g. ` gcc x.c x.o`). For example, Haskell has `ghc --make` which compiles the whole project in one compiler invocation, with very smart recompilation avoidance (pet-function, comment changes don't affect compilation, etc) and avoidance of repeat steps (e.g. parsing/deserialising inputs to a module's compilation only once and keeping them in memory) and compiler startup cost.

Combining that with per-file general-purpose hermetic build systems is difficult and currently not implemented anywhere as far as I can tell.

To get something similar with Nix, the language-specific build system would have to invoke Nix in a very fine-grained way, e.g. to get "avoidance of codegen if only a comment changed", Nix would have to be invoked at each of the parser/desugar/codegen parts of the compiler.

I guess a solution to that is to make the oneshot mode much faster by better serialisation caching.
by alephnerd | 2026-03-08 03:40:51+00:00
> Would the world be safer (or more endangered) if Iran had a nuclear weapon

A nuclear Iran would mean a nuclear KSA, UAE, Qatar, Turkiye, Egypt, and Oman.

We literally had a war between two nuclear armed states barely 1 year ago (India-Pakistan) [0], and a standoff [1] that almost became a war [2] between two other nuclear armed states (India-China) barely 5 years ago. Additionally Iran and Pakistan had a border conflict barely 1 years ago [3] as well that also almost spiraled

The world is already crazy enough as it is - more states with nuclear capabilities would dramatically increase the risk of an actual nuclear war.

[0] - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2025_India%E2%80%93Pakistan_co...

[1] - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2020%E2%80%932021_China%E2%80%...

[2] - https://theprint.in/defence/nearing-breaking-point-gen-narav...

[3] - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2024_Iran%E2%80%93Pakistan_con...
by toomanyrichies | 2026-03-08 03:41:36+00:00
As an engineer and a daily if not hourly user of Claude Code, I would never dream I could do the jobs of my product / designer teammates. Not because I don’t have opinions on product or design, but simply because they do me the huge service of attending meetings so I don’t have to.

I recognize the necessary evil that is Zoom calls and face-to-face time in the larger context of running a business, but I also know what I’m good at and what I’m not. And long, drawn-out “alignment sessions” is not in my wheelhouse. If my PM and design friends are happy to take that bullet for me, I’m happy to let them do so.
by roywiggins | 2026-03-08 03:43:09+00:00
Compared to, say, the coverage from Ukraine during February 2022, actual information getting out from the ground is sparser. Or the opening "shock and awe" campaign in Iraq in 2003, there were Western and international media in Baghdad reporting on it in real time, shooting video from their hotels:

https://youtu.be/m8KimNtB9HI

The reason why isn't really a mystery: Iran has never been exactly welcoming to Western media, and internet access there was intentionally shut off after the recent protests. There's plenty of coverage- it's front page everywhere- but a paucity of information.

It's all over social media, but hardly any of that is from Iranians in Iran, it's just people outside it like you and me mostly just yapping. Occasionally you'll hear something second-hand from someone with family in Iran who managed some brief connectivity.
by rvz | 2026-03-08 03:43:33+00:00
It already has. Those jobs PM, designer and engineer are all affected and there will not be a need for too many of them for a product feature and will be reduced over time.

While those roles will still exist, there will be a initial shock in people who once believed they were 'valuable' but the business thinks otherwise and does mass layoffs just like Block, because of let's face it; AI.

The way to still remain relevant is to absorb all three roles and build a startup with Claude Code on your side and move rapidly.
by diavelguru | 2026-03-08 03:43:36+00:00
We get a few not infinite. with a Claude 5x Max subscription I get 3-5 workable parallel agents that themselves spawn subagents to complete work in a ~3 hour window before tokens are spent. I imagine with 20x Max that could be increased to maybe 10 within a 5 hour window? so if you want infinite you're also talking infinite money. Working in parallel takes me personally to a higher plane of output than that of a 10x engineer as it pertains to fulfilling requirements.
by ggm | 2026-03-08 03:44:10+00:00
The film is by Peter Weir, who is capable of being quite highbrow. But, it stars Rusty, who is capable of being quite low brow. It depends. Are you not entertained?

The books are a bit highbrow and lowbrow. OBrien did a fantastic highbrow biography of Joseph Banks and another of Picasso, but this series is lowbrow. Not as lowbrow as his translation of "Papillon". He was in his youth feed as a quite highbrow up and coming thing. He wasn't Irish, he was an astute fake who left his first wife and reinvented himself in France under an assumed name he came to personify. John Le Carre is similar.

The books are more highbrow than CS Forester. I upset a Hornblower fan(atic) by averring Bush has a homoerotic fixation on Hornblower.

De gustibus...
by satvikpendem | 2026-03-08 03:44:10+00:00
None of what you said shows how it's an issue, beyond "it just is." Doctors for example "plagiarize" all the time, copying standardized diagnostic protocols, clinical notes from previous visits, and peer-reviewed treatment plans. The risk is in the information actually being wrong rather than them having "original" expression (which might even be worse, where they try some "novel" treatment and end up killing the patient). There is no fraud involved as the effects of plagiarism which is, again, a completely fictional issue.

I am also not sure why you keep bringing up Altman et al, I really don't give a shit what they are talking about, that is not what I am discussing. You for some reason keep trying to inject your views on these people when they are not relevant to the points I made which are about the theoretical concepts of machine learning and training, and its intersection with intellectual property. I am not interested in your opinions on these people, and they are not the only ones who stand to benefit from democratization of AI models and publishing of weights for the public.

Anyway, I think we both fundamentally have different views on the freedom of information and the fallacious nature of IP that cannot be changed online so I will bid you a good day and won't continue this conversation further, as I don't think it's productive for either of us.
by JumpCrisscross | 2026-03-08 03:44:21+00:00
> Would the world be safer (or more endangered) if Iran had a nuclear weapon?

No.

> Not sure if North Korea is a good example

It's not in an instructive way. Iran has killed thousands of people outside its borders, directly (e.g. the AMIA bombing [1]) and through its proxies. If we exclude South Koreans, Pyongyang has killed maybe half a dozen people, and those were under Kim Il Sung (the Rangoon bombing in '83 and Korean Air Flight 858 in '87).

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AMIA_bombing
by datacorp | 2026-03-08 03:44:39+00:00
*Show HN: MSSPProviders.io – a searchable directory of managed security service providers*

Hi HN,

I recently launched https://msspproviders.io — a searchable directory of Managed Security Service Providers (MSSPs).

The idea came from helping a few startup teams evaluate security vendors. Finding SOC 2 auditors, compliance platforms, and MSSPs was surprisingly difficult. Most of the information is scattered across marketing pages, analyst reports, or outdated lists.

So I built a simple directory that makes it easier to browse and compare providers.

Current features:

• ~100 MSSPs indexed at launch
• Filter by services, industries, company size, and supported platforms
• Individual provider pages with structured metadata
• Guides and resources for teams evaluating security vendors

The goal is to make vendor discovery easier for engineering teams, founders, and security leads.

The site is built with Next.js + Postgres and is designed to be fully crawlable (no JS-only filtering), so each category has its own indexable page.

This is still early. I plan to add:

• pricing benchmarks and cost calculators
• API access to the provider dataset
• more structured vendor comparisons

If you work in security or have evaluated MSSPs before, I would love feedback on what information would actually be useful when choosing a provider.

Thanks!
by godelski | 2026-03-08 03:45:00+00:00
Don't get distracted, sit down and read it in full.

Don't get distracted, think about what he wrote.

If you still don't get it, take a step back. Think. Process. Then take a break and read it again tomorrow.

Slow down. Don't get distracted. You don't need to respond so fast. Take your time. There is no rush. There is no shortcut. Read it in full and you'll understand this comment says much more.
by behnamoh | 2026-03-08 03:45:22+00:00
Farnaz Fassihi (one of the co-authors) is a known NIAC member who lobbies for the islamic regime in Iran. Unfortunately, NY Times reports the Iran situation using clever words/phrases in favor of the mullah in Tehran.

As a Persian, I fully support this war because to me and millions of others, this is the only way the murderous islamic regime can be wiped off the map once and for all.

To my American friends: Please take a look at almost 9 million exiled Iranians all over the world who regularly protest in support of this foreign intervention.

Not every war is necessary, but sometimes war is necessary. You couldn't negotiate with Hitler, and you can't do that with the mullas either.
by toomuchtodo | 2026-03-08 03:45:32+00:00
Imho, BYDs are cheaper and more globally available. If you are already at the margins from an energy affordability perspective, you’re not buying a comparatively overpriced Tesla unless you cannot buy a cheaper Chinese alternative in your country (the US, for example).

Agree this price shock is going to be favorable for electrification in the short term. The economic pain will encourage improved consumer decisions until the volatility is ironed out, which could be months from now.
by Brajeshwar | 2026-03-08 03:46:03+00:00
If we replace “Japanese” with “Indians” or any other non-native English speakers, this should work pretty well, too. I’m lucky to have worked with developers and clients from around the world (USA, UK, many Western European regions, Australia, Singapore, Japan, and India).

My magic thought process is, “Nobody can read anybody’s mind. So, speak or ask.”

I’ve also been an English-to-English translator between Indians and Japanese. The way is to enunciate, simplify, use generic words, and know at least a few commonly used words for that community. Indians have our own way of saying lots of things that translates to weird English, and so does the Japanese.

An Indian’s 5-minute is way different than a Japanese’s 5-minute! ;-)

I don’t try to go too deep and read into the nuances, as I feel I’m being pretentious. When in doubt, ask the counterpart to check if they got it and perhaps say it in their own way.

Early in my career in the 2000s, I got used to working extensively with Americans, who made it seem like everything was possible. We go fly hunting, bring in the sledgehammers. I once questioned my knowledge of the entire English language while talking to an Australian contractor whom I worked with. Turned out it was nothing compared to a Scottish designer that I worked with for 3 months.
by Onavo | 2026-03-08 03:46:29+00:00
If you talk to your Asian and South Asian colleagues, the broadly held view among a lot of foreign "non aligned" nuclear countries is that Iran's regime is dumb and stupid because they didn't go nuclear first and instead tried to use it to squeeze the west by threatening to get nukes. The smarter states like India and China sprinted towards getting nukes before forcing the West to the negotiating table.

The middle eastern states are somewhat unique (and perhaps this is what inspired the end of history Western convergence school of thought in the late 90s geopolitical theory) in that they cannot survive without trade/exchange with the West. Your Asian powers like India/Pakistan/China/DPRK are all perfectly happy to be isolationist states to pursue autarchy and nuclear freedom but all of the middle eastern countries (including those like Syria/Libya) want to cosy up and trade with the West instead of going full autarchy. My theory is that it's because they are stuck in the oil resource trap and its just too easy to print money with oil than having to work and innovate.

Then again Iran is fractured internally, there's a lot of traitors within selling out the country to foreign powers. If you have Persian colleagues, ask them about the Iranian "Mossad jokes". They have a lot of funny jokes about the regime and Israeli intelligence.
by suzzer99 | 2026-03-08 03:47:07+00:00
We have yet to hit this phase in the cycle: "Hey we laid off all our engineers 6 months ago and vibe-coded this thing and now it's super buggy and AI can't fix it. Can you (senior engineer consultant) look under the hood and fix it?"

Senior engineer looks under the hood, sees 500k lines of incomprehensible spaghetti mess with emoji comments everywhere, runs out the door and never looks back.
by alephnerd | 2026-03-08 03:47:55+00:00
Nope.

India-Pakistan only ended because the US and the Gulf intervened after India struck PAF Nur Khan as a warning about decapitation strike capabilities after Pakistan launched Fatah-IIs.

India and China didn't go to war because Gen Naravanne unilaterally decided against firing artillery at Chinese positions in Rechin La and Russia intervened to mediate between China and India.

MAD is truly mad. What can happen will eventually happen, and the more countries have nuclear capabilities, the harder it becomes to push back against their use.
by bigstrat2003 | 2026-03-08 03:48:37+00:00
It seems to me like it is a pendulum swing. It used to be that most works were straightforward and heroic, so that when someone had the idea to write a morally gray story, that was fresh and really interesting. Eventually everyone, tired of the worn out heroic tropes, started to get on this dark, edgy bandwagon. But now the dark and edgy stories are just as worn out as heroic stories used to be. Now, a straightforwardly heroic story is actually kind of subversive and fresh! So I think that, over the coming decades, we will see a shift back towards optimistic stories as people get more and more tired of the dark and gritty kind.
by Dylan16807 | 2026-03-08 03:48:48+00:00
> You are assuming women in those countries don’t enjoy studying these subjects.

It does not assume that. Even with equal enjoyment of multiple subjects, there's a lot of other factors that affect what you study. And you can enjoy subjects that aren't your favorite.

> Also, to pursue a hard STEM degree or phd would detract from being a housewife, so no “oppressive” husband would allow that in the first place. Ergo the women pursuing these paths are not oppressed in the first place.

What percent of the women in these programs are already married? That counterargument only applies to women that currently have husbands, not women worried about future husbands.
by JumpCrisscross | 2026-03-08 03:49:28+00:00
> think the US (and probably Germany too) is an outlier here because of the number of immigrants who arrive to study STEM degrees

"About 30 percent of STEM degree holders living in the United States are immigrants" [1]. (I can't find data for Germany.)

So sigificant as a fraction of immigrants. But not particularly meaningful to the trend.

[1] https://spectrum.ieee.org/stem-immigration-diversity-gaps#:~...
by fsckboy | 2026-03-08 03:50:01+00:00
there should be one text box with multiple lines and you enter your address the way you would write it on an envelope. works internationally, gets stuff delivered. If the postal service can parse it, so can a website. Typing in your address will go so much faster than having to read the tags and navigate for every piece they are asking for. any redundancy can be used for error checking which is a good idea.

the "fields", like the goggles, they do nothing
by Spivak | 2026-03-08 03:50:06+00:00
I think it's less armchair speculating about the observable outcome, that people are losing their jobs, but the why. AI coding tools aren't making 10x developers, they aren't even making 1.5x developers. They also aren't making "PMs who code" or "designers who code."

It would be really cool if this was the case, I would be singing the praises of these tools finally realizing Stallman's dream of end users who can take control of all the software in their lives for their own benefit. And the huge gains we would see in open source where "man I wish there was a tool that could…" becomes "I'm gonna make a tool that…"

So personally I think it's just a continuation of the belt tightening that was and still is occurring across the economy. I don't think our industry is particularly special on this, everyone is trying to cut headcount right now.
by newAccount2025 | 2026-03-08 03:51:08+00:00
Great list. Invented Concept Labels is the one I think I get most frustrated by. When exploring new areas, I’ll read its paragraphs of acronyms and weird words and think I just don’t know some term of art, and as soon as I ask for a definition it’s like, “I just made that up, that’s not a formal term, blah blah blah.”
by readitalready | 2026-03-08 03:51:09+00:00
It's because the pro-Israeli-owned news media doesn't want you to see what's happening because it doesn't help the pro-Israel narrative. Sorta like they hide all the daily atrocities Israel has been committing in Gaza over the last 2.5 years.

It took several days for the big news media to even acknowledge that an elementary school was bombed by the US & Israel. You would only have known about it if you followed anti-Israel social media accounts.
by GauntletWizard | 2026-03-08 03:51:10+00:00
The problem with being unfree and alive, is one day you suddenly aren't, and you know exactly why and yet still have no idea of the specifics.

The general trend of more freedom==greater lifespan and more healthy children is very clear, but muddying the waters is a favorite tactic of those who'd exploit the lack of freedom for their own benefit.
by behnamoh | 2026-03-08 03:51:39+00:00
> Are you confident this war is targeting a regime change vs causing a failed state scenario?

To the best of my knowledge, yes. Iranian people are the most pro-West people in the middle east. It's in the US's interest to support them for a better future, and we've seen successful examples of this in the past in Germany, South Korea, Japan, etc.

Not every country should be compared to Iraq and Syria.
by vessenes | 2026-03-08 03:51:52+00:00
I have mine reading yours right now. Unfortunately(?) I mentioned LeCun to it, and it says it's adding a "causal world-state mixer" to nanograd; not sure how this will work out, but it wasn't nervous to do it. Gpt 5.4 xhigh

EDIT: Not a good fit for nanograd. But my agent speculates that's because it spent so much more time on compute.
by bigstrat2003 | 2026-03-08 03:52:09+00:00
Section 31 wasn't in TNG. And I wouldn't say the utopia got undermined in TNG either. When you (fairly rarely) had corruption or villainy inside Starfleet, those people were always treated as rogues who were acting on their own, and were decisively defeated by the utopia. It isn't like in DS9 where the writers flirt with the idea that maybe the Federation can't work without a dark side; the TNG writers play the utopia straight.
by empressplay | 2026-03-08 03:52:22+00:00
I think you're probably still going to need all of those people, just less of them to accomplish the same amount of work. It's the nature of LLMs that they will always need oversight. Having 20 or even 100 of them agree on something is never going to be 100% accurate -- it can't, the randomness and hallucinations are part of the secret sauce. There will always be a need for people to verify what they do. That said, it was the exact same when people were doing the work.
Show HN: Pipe Checker – paste a sales deal and it checks BANT qualification
by eghatch92 | 2026-03-08 03:52:54+00:00
Im getting really burnt out with my main project and trying to turn it into a real company. So tonight I wanted to build something fun but still possibly useful.

While making a baked potato (takes about 90 mins) I tried to vibe code a pipeline checker. I do some consulting and its constantly a challenge for young sellers. We will be on a call with the whole team and their boss is grilling them on deal qualification and they don't know how to answer. Its embarrassing for them and they aren't learning anything.

I ended up building this BANT checker and training it with some of my knowledge on the qualification methodology. For an hour and a half it works pretty well. And its all poop themed!

How can I add more poop elements?
by diavelguru | 2026-03-08 03:54:35+00:00
With AI, I've tackled lots of personal projects I had on the back burner for lack of time: recreating some old games, creating some marketing and shopping sites for the wife and also professionally: using it to fulfill business requirements. So in my little corner of the world it is being used and a lot mostly nonstop from Aug 2025 to present. Re your question: I think it has to do with all the rest of what's needed for a production system, the documentation, CI/CD, production deployments: all those pesky still-needed-human-things that are somewhat tedious to set and get correct.