MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by 8note | 2026-03-09 21:30:26+00:00
Consistently over time, ive gotten really bad results trying to make anything with python using claude, so that might be it.

i think ive done some python on each major model release, not necessarily woth claude code, but it feels like if it touches python, it gets stupid, quickly.

and not just for the python, it stays stupid when it wants to say, write html. for a tiny data labeling tool, it turned off user select, for instance
by munk-a | 2026-03-09 21:30:40+00:00
Yea, a finding that training is transformative would be pretty significant and it's likely that the precedent of thumbnail creation being deemed transformative would likely steer us towards such a finding. Transformative is always a hard thing to bank on because it is such a nebulous and judgement based call. There are excellent examples of how precise and gritty this can get in audio sampling.
by jacquesm | 2026-03-09 21:30:45+00:00
Thank you. I'm 60+ and I think I'm past saving, but I appreciate your effort to tone police HN.

As well as your own exemplary behavior:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46653114

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45505708

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45334298

And probably others besides.
by progrium | 2026-03-09 21:31:11+00:00
It's getting there. Among other things, it's probably the quickest way to author a Linux environment to embed on the web:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aGOHvWArOOE

Apptron uses v86 because its fast. Would love it for somebody to add 64-bit support to v86. However, Apptron is not tied to v86. We could add Bochs like c2w or even JSLinux for 64-bit, I just don't think it will be fast enough to be useful for most.

Apptron is built on Wanix, which is sort of like a Plan9-inspired ... micro hypervisor? Looking forward to a future where it ties different environments/OS's together.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kGBeT8lwbo0
by keybored | 2026-03-09 21:32:28+00:00
The US (following Israel’s lead) offensively invaded another country. Nothing Iran could have said about America would make it look more like the Great Satan than what it has done itself.

But chill out, Americans say. We only demand that the Ayatollah (or any other Ayatollah) doesn’t exist/are dead. Why do you have to be so, like unchill about it?
by jjee | 2026-03-09 21:32:40+00:00
But are you though?

From where I stand this thing is going to provide great leverage to those who don’t simply just write code. I personally doubt the thing will ever get to a place where it can be trusted to operate alone - it needs a team of people and to go super fast you need more people.

Moreover, the price won’t be high due to competition.

I’ve changed my view on LLMs as being good, as long as competition is fierce.
by toomuchtodo | 2026-03-09 21:32:46+00:00
Sort of. There’s a bullwhip effect with starting and stopping production from those economically marginal fields, whereas clean energy and storage deployed due to these fossil energy price levels will remain in service for at least the next two decades. For more research on this topic, keywords are “restart logistics shut in well.”

If these fields are currently in production, certainly, it squeezes some more life out of them unfortunately.

https://cyrusashayeri.substack.com/p/restarting-fieldwide-sh...
by cj | 2026-03-09 21:33:14+00:00
I love the tax use case.

What scares me though is how I've (still) seen ChatGPT make up numbers in some specific scenarios.

I have a ChatGPT project with all of my bloodwork and a bunch of medical info from the past 10 years uploaded. I think it's more context than ChatGPT can handle at once. When I ask it basic things like "Compare how my lipids have trended over the past 2 years" it will sometimes make up numbers for tests, or it will mix up the dates on a certain data points.

It's usually very small errors that I don't notice until I really study what it's telling me.

And also the opposite problem: A couple days ago I thought I saw an error (when really ChatGPT was right). So I said "No, that number is wrong, find the error" and instead of pushing back and telling me the number was right, it admitted to the error (there was no error) and made up a reason why it was wrong.

Hallucinations have gotten way better compared to a couple years ago, but at least ChatGPT seems to still break down especially when it's overloaded with a ton of context, in my experience.
by Aozora7 | 2026-03-09 21:33:17+00:00
>Perhaps with time we'll be able to run local ones that are 'good enough', but we're not there yet.

Right now, we can get local models that you can run on consumer hardware, that match capabilities of state of the art models from two years ago. The improvements to model architecture may or may not maintain the same pace in the future, but we will get a local equivalent to Opus 4.6 or whatever other benchmark of "good enough" you have, in the foreseeable future.
by usrusr | 2026-03-09 21:33:24+00:00
These days my vote would go to a quad. Impeller fore, impeller aft and one in each wing. Behind doors, obviously, like the bays for retractable landing gear - this is a solved problem.

They don't have to be efficient, because how much hovering time would you really need? Battery could even exist only in mission specific pods (internal perhaps, when it's a cargo carrier), trade-off as needed.
by romirpatel | 2026-03-09 21:33:41+00:00
Hey HN! I built Crucible (https://debate.apxlabs.dev) — a platform where you pit LLMs against each other in live debate.

Two modes:

Pick your models — Choose which LLMs you want, ask any question, and watch them debate each other in real-time. You see the full back-and-forth as it happens.

Blind arena — Send in any question, anonymous models debate, and you rank the best responses. Like Chatbot Arena but adversarial.

The idea is simple: one LLM gives you a confident answer. But is it right? Make two of them argue about it and you'll find out fast. Adversarial pressure exposes weak reasoning that a single response never would.

This is inspired by a paper that came out from MIT — that adversarial debate between AI systems can surface truth more reliably than any single system.

Try it: https://debate.apxlabs.dev

Would love to hear what questions you throw at it and which model matchups surprise you.
by munk-a | 2026-03-09 21:34:11+00:00
I care a little bit - I think it's genuinely disappointing that your privacy can be so thoroughly compromised by interesting uses of metadata... but I also won't let the perfect be the enemy of the good. It'd be great is people truly understood the dangerous of invasive monitoring outside their physical forms (a, imo, relatively minor privacy to have compromised compared to your behavior) - but if it gets folks riled up I'm all for it.
by peacebeard | 2026-03-09 21:34:19+00:00
The big question is: if copyrighted material was used in the training material, is the LLM's output copyright infringement when it resembles the training material? In your example, you are taking the copyrighted material and giving it to the LLM as input and instructing the LLM to process it. Regardless of where the legal cards fall, this is a much less ambiguous scenario.
by ratelimitsteve | 2026-03-09 21:34:28+00:00
here's the thing about that: it's absolutely not true at all. once again, in the place where this ruling took place (and, therefore, the place we're talking about) the people who accuse you of a crime have to prove that it was definitely you that did it. an accusation doesn't put the burden of proof on you to prove that you didn't, or to find who actually did. this isn't a phoenix wright game, or an argument with your mom. if the state can't prove that it was you, then it wasn't.
by htx80nerd | 2026-03-09 21:34:30+00:00
>"The judge frames the red light camera scheme as a revenue generating scheme, not a public safety measure."

In my own experience, when they took down the red light cameras in my area now people are not afraid to run red lights ~2 to ~3 seconds after it's red. See this kind of thing on a regular basis. Every now and then there's a serious accident.
by vbarrielle | 2026-03-09 21:34:31+00:00
Everyone writes as if he just fed the spec and tests to Claude Code. Ignoring for now that the tests are under LGPL as well, the commit history shows that this has been done with two weeks of steering Claude Code towards the desired output. At every one of these interactions, the maintainer used his deep knowledge of the chardet codebase to steer Claude.
by robmccoll | 2026-03-09 21:34:48+00:00
As described, this would not be the same thing. If the AI is looking at the source and effectively porting it, that is likely infringement. The idea instead should be "implement Minecraft from scratch" but with behavior, graphics, etc. identical. Note that you'll need to have an AI generate assets or something since you can't just reuse textures and models.
by max_streese | 2026-03-09 21:35:12+00:00
And if we do adapt we might still get replaced because less of us will be able to do more. Or we wont because of Jevons Paradox. Linux maintainers on the other hand can code (with and without AI) what I could not (with or without AI). So in a way becoming a more knowledgeable, more skilled programmer is the way? In any case, too much speculation about the future.
Ask HN: Is GitHub getting less reliable, or is it just me?
by _pdp_ | 2026-03-09 21:35:32+00:00
Is anyone else experiencing persistent reliability issues with GitHub on daily basis? Over the past 2–3 months I've been dealing with a steady stream of problems: rate limiting, Copilot instability, major outages, and recurring issues with tunnels and Codespaces. It's become a real productivity concern.
by jahnu | 2026-03-09 21:36:05+00:00
Sorry I missed your question.
While being a tax haven was part of Ireland’s strategy, given we have little natural resources for export or refining for heavy industries, we also have a well educated workforce which spoke English as a first language and were once cheaper than British workers and also, enthusiastically part of the EU. So we built up a service industry and high tech and high value industries like pharmaceutical and IT. We no longer are the (in my view once somewhat shameful) tax haven we were but now are low tax in a much more fair way (probably could be better but all countries are working the system). Opinions differ. But Ireland is genuinely wealthy and productive. We have serious problems with inequality and a stupid housing problem in the bigger cities. Nevertheless, compared to most of the world and compared to the Ireland of my youth it’s a great if imperfect place where you can have a great quality of life.
by nomel | 2026-03-09 21:36:43+00:00
> On the second, we deported plenty of people in previous administrations without the racial profiling that lead to several of these Americans being detained.

This is false, which should be expected, since not detaining an American would necessarily mean freeing all who couldn't be immediately identified.

https://www.aclu.org/news/immigrants-rights/latest-report-ob...

https://www.prisonlegalnews.org/news/2013/mar/15/us-citizens...

Here's a realistic scenario that I would like your answer for:

A car is pulled over for having plates that belong to someone with an expired visa, with a deportation judgement. The car contains 5 people, none have valid forms of id. In your opinion, what's the next step? Do you temporarily detain them to figure out who is who, possibly detaining a citizen? What is the correct next action to make sure less than 1 in 10000 citizens are temporarily detained?

I look forward to your answer.
by tmp10423288442 | 2026-03-09 21:37:30+00:00
He also has a Korean vertical layout that lays out Latin-character words the same way. Is this common in Korea when vertical layout is used? The author seems to be Korean.

Looks like Wikipedia has an example of Traditional Chinese vertical layout with the Latin letters rotated as in TFA's layout (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Horizontal_and_vertical_writin...)
by sarchertech | 2026-03-09 21:38:20+00:00
I don’t know what a world without copyright does to corporate sponsored open source. It certainly reduces it because there are many corporate sponsored projects that monetize through dual licensing. My guess is in a world where you can’t even guarantee attribution, it’s much harder to convince your boss to let you open source a project in the first place.

So ignoring people who are being paid by corporations directly to work on open source, in my experience the vast majority of contributors expect to be able to monetize their work eventually in a way that requires attribution. And out of the small number who don’t expect a monetary return of any kind, a still smaller number don’t expect recognition.

If this weren’t the case you’d see a much larger amount of anonymous contributions. There are people who anonymously donate to charity. The vast majority want some kind of recognition.

Obviously we still see art, if you greatly reduce the monetary benefit to producing art, you’ll see a lot less of it. This is especially true of non trivial open source software that unlike static artwork requires continual maintenance.
by BrandonM | 2026-03-09 21:38:30+00:00
> lurk in the middle of the road and make a left turn once oncoming traffic is stopped for the red

In the jurisdictions I'm familiar with, this is the proper way to make a left-hand turn. Many intersections are designed such that this is the only realistic way to ever turn left (high traffic, no left arrow).

Most red light rules are written against entering the intersection on red. If you're already in the intersection, you're allowed to safely proceed through and out of the intersection on red. That can be challenging, of course, if oncoming traffic is running the red light.
by munk-a | 2026-03-09 21:38:32+00:00
There's compelling reasons for all sorts of home devices to be connected to the internet[1] but the rub is that ToS flexibility and software updates make this a backdoor waiting to happen. I feel like our legal system has significantly failed us by not empowering the consume to say "I accept your device with a wifi antenna for the purposes of updating and I reject any exfiltration of personal data from it to your servers". You can have such a contract written - but this is really a place where something like a consumer advocacy board should step in and make sure those rights and sanely guaranteed.

1. It'd be great to ease the method for updating, it'd be nice to be able to easily monitor the device especially if it could become active in some manner while you're absent (I don't want the stove turning on to broil right after I leave on a three month vacation)
by gotwaz | 2026-03-09 21:38:35+00:00
Its not just about enough sun and wind capacity. There is already over supply in lot of the world. But the supply curve doesnt match the daily DYNAMIC demand curve so grid ops still dependent on coal and gas for different reasons. It becomes about what happens during unpredicted demand spikes, or when congestion on those wires happens whose load gets priority? which producers get curtailed? etc etc That moves probs into the political domain. You can watch daily grid ops live and see the probs. Wars and the weather randomly take down wires and substations all the time. If you can move people and factories to follow the wind and the sun then maybe you get demand and supply curves to match easier.
by icegreentea2 | 2026-03-09 21:38:52+00:00
Cancelling Anthropic's contract, and maybe even restricting Anthropic's use as a component to DoD certain contract work might be reasonable.

However, Anthropic's lawsuits are broader than that - partly because the government's actions were broader than that.

* Trump did post a "truth" ordering all Federal agencies to stop using Claude. Anthropic claims that many federal agencies did stop using Claude, and is suing saying that the order is not lawful.

* Hegseth then posted saying that no DoD contractor can work with Anthropic or use Claude at all. This is much broader order than the actual delivered letter which is much narrower - contractors can use Claude, but you can't use Claude as part of your solutions that you deliver to DoD. Anthropic is claiming damages from the difference between the first announcement, and the actual delivered scope, and is also claiming that the actual order did not follow procedures.

* Finally, Anthropic is claiming that the pattern of behaviour by the administration demonstrate that the administration is not simply trying to protect against supply chain risk, but is actively trying to harm Anthropic out of spite.

Frankly, you just have to read Trump's or Hegseth's posts to just get the vibes that this isn't just a technocratic calculation.
Show HN: I built a 38K-line Rust CLI using 3 AI models as my engineering team
by edenwang233 | 2026-03-09 21:39:03+00:00
Hi HN,

I was getting incredibly frustrated with the current state of AI agent skill managers (like skills.sh). They rely on heavy Node.js runtimes just to manage a few skills, symlinks break constantly across environments, and there's no real determinism.

I wanted a tool that treats agent skills like Terraform treats infrastructure: Config-as-Code, purely deterministic, and zero-dependency.

So I built eden-skills — a single ~10MB Rust binary based on Tokio that uses a skills.toml to lock every skill by commit SHA. It features a doctor/repair command that actually self-heals broken symlinks and drifted states, and it can inject natively into Docker containers (--target docker:<container>).

But the real experiment here is how it was built.

Instead of writing it all myself, I acted purely as the orchestrator for a 3-model AI team, using a strict Role-Based Access Control (AI RBAC) approach to eliminate context loss and hallucination:

- The Scout (Gemini 3.1 Pro): Handled market research and roadmap drafting.

- The Architect (Claude Opus 4.6): Wrote 62 behavior specs (11k+ lines of markdown). I used strict prompt constraints to explicitly forbid Claude from writing any implementation code.

- The Builder (GPT 5.3/5.4): Implemented the Rust code directly from the frozen specs. It was forbidden from altering the design or modifying the specs.

By physically isolating their permissions through distinct kick files and a batch-handoff protocol, this pipeline generated ~38,500 lines of Rust and 456 automated tests—all passing.

For me, the most valuable part of this project isn't just the CLI tool itself, but the reproducibility of this workflow. I've open-sourced the entire prompt/ directory containing all the system prompts, role constraints, and handoff protocols I used to manage the models.

If you are building deterministic systems, tired of JS-heavy CLI tools, or just curious about how to orchestrate multi-model development without things catching on fire, I'd love for you to tear the architecture apart or check out the workflow.

Repo:
https://github.com/AI-Eden/eden-skills

Agentic Workflow Docs:
https://github.com/AI-Eden/eden-skills/blob/main/docs/agenti...

Prompts:
https://github.com/AI-Eden/eden-skills/tree/main/prompt

Happy to answer any questions about the Rust implementation (two-phase async reactor) or the AI orchestration process!
by smokel | 2026-03-09 21:39:11+00:00
I've written an Obsidian clone for myself, which has proper Emacs keybindings. Took me a few hours too many to get in all the features that I need.

What I find interesting is that I have little motivation to open source it. Making it usable for others requires a substantial amount of time, which would otherwise be just a fraction of the development time.
by fritzo | 2026-03-09 21:39:46+00:00
Good point. For sake of argument, how about this stratification of privacy levels:

twitter/x/bluesky - a big tech company owns your data

mastodon - a grassroots community organization owns your data

zulip - someone you've met personally owns the data

your blog - you own the data

(and yes these are a bit of a category error, but to achieve privacy maybe we should broaden the category and sacrifice reach)
by brnt | 2026-03-09 21:39:48+00:00
Renewable is cheap, but not that cheap.

Also, solar production and heating needs are anticyclical.

Also, the European grid is big (the biggest!), but not so big it can deal with seasons and weather patterns. Yet. Or ever.

The idea was that gas would fill in the gaps, until energy storage at scale becomes a thing (no, it is still nowhere near scale, only gas reserves can fill that role right now). Germany is investing heavily in hydrogen to fill this gap, but barring fundamental breakthroughs, I think it's a pipe dream. A 90% (roughly) total efficiency loss means 1000% oveprovisioning of generation capacity. That's expensive, even when cheap.
by saulpw | 2026-03-09 21:40:02+00:00
One issue is that I interpreted the parent as OR, not AND. "useless stuff OR productivity tools OR AI tools".

Moreover though, I'm not even saying you shouldn't do those things. I'm actually playing around with AI quite a bit, and certainly have created my share of useless/productivity tools. But it's not a flex to show off your own Flappy Birds or OpenNanoClaw clone, even if they are written in COBOL or MUMPS.

And they definitely do not have to be "extremely useful". But they should answer the question: what problem does it solve?
by socalgal2 | 2026-03-09 21:40:08+00:00
If you've never seen it I highly recommend "A Place Further than the Universe".

It's an anime, serious (not a wacky comedy) about 4 high school students who manage to take a trip to Antartica by joining an expedition. One of the best things I've seen in a while. Only 13 episodes so under 4hrs total. Super inspiring and I learned several interesting facts about not just Antartica but what it takes to get there as well.

It's on Crunchyroll so if you aren't subscribed, sign up for 1 month for the price of 2 coffees. Watch, then cancel.
by anonym29 | 2026-03-09 21:40:30+00:00
Just to clarify, I don't mean what I said in a manner hostile to consumers, I mean what I said in a manner hostile to abusive corporations. Let them either adapt to market demand for better products (which we demonstrate by not continuing to buy their current garbage), or let them (the corporations) starve and die if they refuse to.

Stop feeding the parasites.
by carefree-bob | 2026-03-09 21:40:49+00:00
Curious, how many people do you need on a social network before you can find someone to talk to or before it is engaging enough for you?

I certainly don't need a billion users. I think I'd be happy with 100,000 users -- what is your number?

I think this is related to the question of how big of a city do you need to live in before you can find something to do and are not bored living there. I'm fine with a city of, say, 50,000-100,000. That is more than sufficient for me to find an appropriate number of likeminded friends and neighbors as well as interesting pursuits.
by gus_massa | 2026-03-09 21:41:07+00:00
3 year before the murder: You are probably fine, IANAL

10 minutes before the murder: Expect to get an accusation of accessory to murder, conspiracy to murder and a few additional tomes of the penal code. We all know you are innocent, but you should better find a good lawyer just in case instead of wasting your last free minutes arguing on the internet.
by advisedwang | 2026-03-09 21:41:42+00:00
A speeding ticket is not a criminal charge. Criminal procedure and the rights for criminal defendants don't apply.

The court says that criminal rules should apply because points are at stake, while civil penalties are usually restricted to fines, but I don't buy that argument. We have plenty of non-money civil remedies. Code enforcement departments can require changes to property. Family courts can make all kinds of requirements. It's not outside of constitutional bounds for a traffic rule to result in forfeiting a license without criminal proceedings.