MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by lukan | 2026-03-09 22:42:27+00:00
"4th generation aircraft are not sustainable in modern combat without a wide array of assistance from EW etc. "

But isn't that true of the F35 as well?

On it's own, I doubt it would survive much longer on the eastern front in Ukraine.

In Iran the F-35 also did not fly around freely while the ground radars were active. They had to be taken out first. For that stealth was probably useful (and in general it is).

But it is not making them invisible - and cheap sensors and AI is likely to counter it soon. Because sensors and analysis will get better over time and sensors also better and cheaper. But the stealth will remain largely the same. It cannot really be upgraded for existing jets.
by vunderba | 2026-03-09 22:42:58+00:00
Name them. Go ahead, I'll wait.

Simon toy that's integrated into an ear training tool?

Blindfold chess with Last N moves hidden?

Mensa-style slide puzzles?

An extension that converts random words into phonetic equivalents like morse, braille, and vorticon?

I've also made some way less useful stuff like a win32 app that lets you physically grab a window and hurl it which invokes an WM_DESTROY when it completely is off the screen.

And an app that measures low frequencies to tell if you are blowing into the mic and then increases the speed of the CPU fan to cool it down.
by vansbel | 2026-03-09 22:43:29+00:00
Congrats on the launch, Kristof!
Social proof is definitely a huge lever for conversion. I took a quick look at your page and have a few thoughts on how you could sharpen the copy to really drive home that 'verified proof' value prop. If you're open to it, I'd love to run a full AI roast on your landing page and send over a prioritized list of conversion fixes? Might help you squeeze a bit more ROI out of your launch traffic.

You can try it for free. And if you need more help with that just contact me :)
by aziaziazi | 2026-03-09 22:43:34+00:00
Oh I understand the confusion: soy, quinoa and agave are not supplements but food. I guess we might agree on "alternative" but the word choice isn’t your point.

Soy is a strange pick at it’s mostly cultivated to feed livestock (77%) and using it instead for humans instead would require substantially less crops.

https://www.deforestationimportee.ecologie.gouv.fr/en/affect...

Agave… is mostly water and glucose, without much minerals or protein. How does vegs requires or tends toward that aliment more than other?

Quinoa original region doesn’t have the same working standards as un US/UE but I’m not aware of a difference with banana, coffee, avocado, cacao, vanilla, coconut, palm oil (or soy)… however Quinoa also grow in other regions: here in France you can find local quinoa at the same price as the one from Bolivia: around 8€/kg (organic). It’s super healthy but not very popular through.

Beans and lentils are more popular I think (self non-scientific estimation) but yeah soy is great and tasty.
by coldtea | 2026-03-09 22:44:33+00:00
The parts that are not hearsay from anonymous sources, which basically means any paranoid story that the FBI still has to document, or blackmailers and grifters with plenty of holes and inconsistencies to their stories, are about about elites partying with 17 and above year olds who where otherwise active already in related "work". Still shady, but hardly what's being reported in the sensationalist coverage, which ranges from abductions and rings to acid baths for murdered victims.

https://www.mtracey.net/p/we-need-to-talk-about-virginia

https://www.mtracey.net/p/epstein-survivors-refusing-questio...

https://www.mtracey.net/p/i-found-the-real-epstein-coverup
by simianwords | 2026-03-09 22:44:50+00:00
i ran the benchmark without the valid moves tool as well as the three mistakes grace and gpt-5.4 holds well. it can achieve 1000 ELO which is much higher than my own.

this clearly tells me that GPT is good at chess, at least better than a normal person who has played ~30-40 games in their life.
by deckiedan | 2026-03-09 22:45:38+00:00
A few related thoughts from my spiritual tradition...

resist evil, but flee temptation.

Build willpower through disciplines, such as fasting, meditation, stillness.

Think about the larger value that a smaller temptation points to - junk candy food is an echo of the celebration food from a community event - the connection of enjoying delicious food together with others is something beautiful, so invest and look forward to that. How can we have more deep celebration times, and less binge snacking?

Life is complex!

Peace
by solid_fuel | 2026-03-09 22:45:44+00:00
> While ridiculous, from a technical standpoint, it's not hard to see how this scenario arises. On the one hand, there was probably pressure to implement the tariffs as quickly as possible. Consequently, there likely wasn't much effort put into the "what if we have to undo all this in a year" use case, because that wasn't strictly necessary to get the tariffs implemented.

No, I disagree. It is actually quite hard to see how this scenario arises without intentional malfeasance. This isn't something that was overlooked, the government was specifically asked in court it they would be able to issue refunds quickly if the tariffs were overturned. The government lied and said they could.

This isn't some surprise thing where we can just forgive these guys in the government for not accounting for the potential need for refunds. They were asked. They lied.
by twoodfin | 2026-03-09 22:45:52+00:00
I am a big fan of both films, and have over many years come to the firm conclusion that, while 2010: The Year We Make Contact could never live up to its best-films-of-all-time predecessor, it’s both a terrific film on its own merits and could be tweaked even today to be better.

What it needs, fundamentally, is the Blade Runner treatment: Kill the expository voiceover, tighten up the edit, make the ending less sentimental and more mysterious.
by jaggederest | 2026-03-09 22:46:26+00:00
Thank you for stating my thesis better than I could, exactly right. I think they were (and to some degree, especially as a feedstock, are) essential to escape from the energy poverty of e.g. the late 1700s. I just think we could have transitioned away at the turn of the previous century, or the turn of this century, and saved ourselves a lot of pain. The fact that they are still widely used as nominally primary energy (actually stored secondary energy) is a little disappointing.
by verdverm | 2026-03-09 22:47:32+00:00
I was doing that with (neo)vim and reached the point that I wanted to stop having to maintain a sorta-IDE. I'm now doing the same with agents (custom vscode extension), but I find this different for a number of reasons, primarily that I don't want Big Ai deciding how I can interact with and use Ai.

One thing I took from ATProto is a strong belief that user agency and choice are the penultimate design criteria. To those ends, I think that any agentic tooling needs to support the majority of users' choice about how to interact with it (SDK, API, CLI, TUI, IDE, and Web). My custom agent is headed that way anyhow, because there are times where I do want to reach for one of them, and it's easier to make it so with agents working on their own codebase (minus vscode because the testing/feedback I haven't figured out yet)
by hunter2_ | 2026-03-09 22:47:38+00:00
This is exactly why license points (leading to suspension) are better than fines.

If the ticketing decision made by an automated camera system is deemed acceptable when issuing mere fines akin to parking tickets, but deemed unacceptable when issuing other penalties (which don't have this wealth inequity issue we are discussing now, at least not exclusively), that's effectively a poor tax.
by kotaKat | 2026-03-09 22:47:50+00:00
There's two camps of users I noticed: the users that absolutely adore Dragon, and the users that absolutely adore the voicemail dictation department.

Annoyingly, the users that absolutely adore Dragon were the ones that kept throwing them on the floor, because Dragon's implementation was such hot garbage that it kept nuking our doctors' profiles right out of the water.

I'm now going to scream thinking about all the calls I also fielded for the voicemail system having 'poor quality' depending on where you were calling in from...
by vkou | 2026-03-09 22:48:05+00:00
You can not testify all you want, but you should still be on the hook for your vehicle getting tickets, just like you are on the hook for your vehicle accruing toll fees.

If your car was magically stolen and returned, and you have no idea that it happened, or who could have done this... Well, that's certainly an interesting legal argument that you could make to a judge. I doubt he'll believe you.
by bluebarbet | 2026-03-09 22:48:29+00:00
Did not know about Lineage either, now I'm interested too.

For the last 2 years I've been using a similar device from Unihertz's competitor, Cubot. Namely the King Kong Mini 3. No issues, very solid. Given how tiny it is, it gets lots of attention and marks me out as an eccentric (no objections). But stock Android, of course.
by dmonterocrespo | 2026-03-09 22:48:54+00:00
I built specifically:

The browser-based IDE (editor, project handling, UI)

The circuit simulation layer that connects components to the emulator

The glue between the AVR8 emulator and the virtual peripherals (GPIO, UART, SPI, etc.)

The component interaction system (buttons, LEDs, displays, etc.)

The architecture that lets compiled Arduino sketches run and interact with the simulated hardware

Some parts like the AVR CPU emulation and the compiler toolchain obviously come from existing projects, but the goal of Velxio wasn't to re-implement an AVR core from scratch. It was to build a usable environment where all of these pieces work together in the browser.

I'm still having trouble connecting the cables and components properly. I'm looking for a better algorithm. I'm also trying to create a real-world electronics simulator in JavaScript using an engine like CircuitJS1.
by jrochkind1 | 2026-03-09 22:49:05+00:00
> If source code can now be generated from a specification, the specification is where the essential intellectual content of a GPL project resides.

Our foreparents fought for the right to implement works-a-like to corporate software packages, even if the so-called owners did not like it. We're ready to throw it all away, and let intellectual property owners get so much more control.

The implications will not end up being anti-large-corporation or pro-sharing. If you can prevent someone from re-implementing a spec or building a client that speaks your API or building a work-a-like, it will be the large corporations that exersize this power as usual.
by solid_fuel | 2026-03-09 22:49:24+00:00
> And then we haven't even talked about how nice they are to their own citizens.

Oh no, I haven't heard about that lately. What are they doing? Building camps to mass-inter their own citizens? Disappearing people from airports and then lying about where they are being kept? Withholding welfare funds to punish political enemies? Murdering civilians in the street and calling them domestic terrorists? Employing legal threats to force companies to sell technology for domestic mass surveillance?
by reverius42 | 2026-03-09 22:50:10+00:00
No, I think you are quite incorrect, at least on the latter point:

"Lower courts upheld a U.S. Copyright Office decision that the AI-crafted visual art at issue in the case was ineligible for copyright protection because it did not have a human creator."

Not eligible for copyright protection does not mean it can be copyrighted "under the human creator's name". It means there is no creative work at all. No copyright.
by mrob | 2026-03-09 22:51:35+00:00
I've personally never noticed brittleness in old optical discs (unlike the polystyrene jewel cases, which often turn brittle). I don't think shattering is likely, but if it's a concern some optical drives allow limiting the maximum spin speed. If the drive supports it you can temporarily set it with the -x option of the "eject" command from util-linux.
by simianwords | 2026-03-09 22:52:04+00:00
>Because the entire point is the LLM cannot understand text about text.

you have asked for an LLM to read a single interview and produce text that sounds similar to the author based on the techniques on that single interview.

https://claude.ai/share/cec7b1e5-0213-4548-887f-c31653a6ad67 here is the attempt. i don't think i could have done much better.
by kelipso | 2026-03-09 22:52:11+00:00
I think a lot of people will be suspicious of lab grown meat after years of fake meats marketing of substances filled with some unholy combination of seed oils and chemicals (in before some nerd pipes up with a comment about how water is a chemical too kekeke) specifically designed to poison our bodies. Well maybe I exaggerate about specifically designed but fake meats are certainly not healthy for us.
by matheusmoreira | 2026-03-09 22:52:15+00:00
I skipped over those arguments because they miss the point. You're not going to get Apple tier caretaking from Linux distributions.

Nothing inherently prevents Linux from replicating those features. It's just that somebody's gotta put the work in to make it happen. That somebody could very well be you if nobody else cared to do it.

My laptop has fancy RGB keyboard LEDs. Manufacturer shipped a shitty Windows app to control them, as well as the internal fans. My choices were: either give up on those features or implement them myself. So I reverse engineered what I could and made a Linux program to control the LEDs. Threw it out there on GitHub just because and woke up one day to discover that not only did I have users but somebody else had independently built a GUI on top of it.

The idea is not to change Linux distributions into Apple tier experiences. The idea is to convert you into a contributing user who is capable of solving his own problems and making his own features. The idea is to elevate users from consumers to contributors who take ownership of their system.

That's the only way you can ever be free of "they".
by TacticalCoder | 2026-03-09 22:52:19+00:00
> I doubt anyone has the setup to run a H200 in their home rig.

There are PCIe versions of these right? And another comment is saying there are PCI adapters too. It "only" requires 600 to 700W. It's not out of reach for everybody.

If the used regular server market is any indication, you can find, after a few years, a lot of enterprise gear at totally discounted prices. CPU costing $4K brand new for $100 after a few years: stuff like that.

A friend has got a 42U rack and so do some homelab'ers. People have been running GPU farms mining cryptocurrencies or doing "transcoding" (for money).

It's not just CPUs at 1/40th of their brand new price: network gear too. And ECC RAM (before the recent RAM craze).

I'm pretty sure that if H200 begin to flood the used market, people shall quickly adapt.

> Unless Nvidia can launch a new chip every 2-3 years with massively improved performance-per-watt at a lower price no one is going to rush to recycle the old one.

I agree with that. But if they resell old H200s, people are resourceful and shall find a way to run these.
by zen928 | 2026-03-09 22:53:10+00:00
A similar uncomfortable reality exists in rightoid spaces where theres hemming and hawwing at articles like this being blindly misandrist, despite the evidence and statistics on a societal level that men overwhelmingly commit more acts of sexual violence on strangers and deserve higher even segregation (its not even close to the same ballpark), but alas, they flee the consequences and promote a culture that critiques their legitimate and statistically backed reluctance to participate (like this thread). Despite the name, cherry picking isnt that fruitful of an activity.
by djray | 2026-03-09 22:53:16+00:00
The demo runs at 5 FPS on my laptop (11th gen Core i5 and Iris Xe graphics, Chrome Latest as the browser, with the GPU being the bottleneck). I was hoping for something rather more efficient given the write-up saying it ran at 60 fps on mobile.

The maps are pretty, but the per-tile build constraints of the WFC build approach means that pretty unnatural generations end up happening because non-local influence is difficult to take into account. I think this may be OK for games where you discover tiles one at a time, but for a full map generator it's not great, and better solutions exist. Red Blob Games did a writeup of a noise-based method which looks superior imo. You can use moisture-tracking approaches for rivers, lay roads, bridges and other artificial elements in a separate pass, and it will likely end up faster and more robust. I think WFC is an interesting programming problem, though, so it was likely fun to implement.

Nonetheless, this was an excellent write-up and impressive demo.
by harshreality | 2026-03-09 22:53:37+00:00
Only because that quote is famous.

As you said, it's lossy. Try it with any other distinctive but non-famous passage, and you won't get a correct prediction for the immediately following clause, much less for multiple sentences or paragraphs.

That's the case even when an LLM correctly identifies which book the prompted text is from. It still won't accurately continue on from some arbitrary passage. By the time you ask it to reproduce hundreds of words, you're into brand new book territory. Even when it's slop content, it's distinct slop.

The exceptions are cases where a significant number of humans would also know a particular quote from memory. Then, chances are, a frontier LLM will too.

You know how else you can reproduce a quote? Search for it on google, and search the resulting top hits; if it's a significant quote, multiple people have probably quoted it -- legally. You can also search a pirate library for the actual book, and search the book for the quote; while illegal, it's very simple to do, so unless you propose to make the free and open internet illegal, I'd suggest that banning LLMs for being "derivative work" creation engines is not so different from destroying the internet.

> I predict, no pun intended, that a time is coming when the idea that it's not a derived work will be challenged in mainstream law.

If judges have any sense whatsoever, LLM generations (without specific prompt crafting to mimic existing works) will be judged to not be derived works and therefore not be violating copyright, in the same sense that you can live and breathe Taylor Swift's music, create new music in the same style, and still not be violating copyright.

More likely, perhaps, is that everything will be so infused with LLM output that copyright ceases to be relevant, or forces copyright law to be rewritten from the ground up.
by derriz | 2026-03-09 22:54:40+00:00
By what measure? Coal hasn't been competitive for decades and the only way it had remained competitive in terms of cost per MWh even back then was if you burned it in huge (> 1GW) plants. 1GW plants are the very opposite of what you want to electrify rural areas - construction is slow and expensive, operating large plants requires considerable and qualified head-count, logistics is an issue and they require high capacity and expensive transmission systems.

And if your minimum unit size is 1GW then you lose the flexibility to roll out the tech incrementally - the average modern coal plant requires 3 to 5 weeks per year for scheduled downtime for maintenance - so your first 1GW coal plant requires a bunch of other generation sources to cover demand during these periods.

Solar and batteries are the obvious solution for rural electrification: scaleable, cheaper/simpler to deploy - no large scale civil engineering involved, trivial to "operate", effective without the support of big transmission systems and it's possible to buy everything off-the-shelf.
by emerkel | 2026-03-09 22:54:42+00:00
I’m building a blackjack simulator/research tool called Blackjack Wonk. It started as a hobby project and turned into a deeper engineering rabbit hole than I expected. The goal is to make the simulations reproducible and trustworthy enough to test the kinds of blackjack questions that usually get answered with rules of thumb, anecdotes, or forum arguments. So a lot of the work is around deterministic runs, validation, configuration, and chasing down small discrepancies until I understand them. Very niche, but a fun mix of math, software, and curiosity.
by yalogin | 2026-03-09 22:54:54+00:00
This is a pretty damning headline and we are still talking about Blackwell. I guess that is how fast the whole segment is moving but OpenAI and only looking for the most advanced chips feels more like an excuse to walk away from this deal rather than a problem with the stack and oracle. Feels to me that OpenAI is cutting down on commitments and cost as it doesn’t see the revenue pipeline building. May be someone with more knowledge of the reality can comment and correct me
by igorramazanov | 2026-03-09 22:54:55+00:00
Not an author, but I've been using Jelly Star with a stock Android for 2 years.

Actually, typing this comment right now with this phone.

1. Keyboard: MessagEase or ThumbKey + Jelly Star is a perfect match.

2. Bitwarden passkeys + Firefox doesn't work. As I've researched, same with LineageOS. Didn't check Chrome, though.

3. All apps work without issues. Banking, Google Wallet, taxi, etc. It's a regular Android.

4. Battery isn't great, but charges fast and enough to carry on through the most of the day.

5. It's perfect for running or other outdoor activities.

6. 4G only, I sometimes also use it as an external modem for the laptop, and definitely would appreciate 5G.

7. Android 13 and no updates:/

All in all, I'm happy, but if I could foresee it advance, then I'd go with Jelly Max instead, because freshier Android version, Bitwarden + Firefox passkeys and 5G support.

Unfortunately, Jelly Max a bit bigger than Jelly Star, but still much smaller than other regular smartphones.
by lowsong | 2026-03-09 22:55:10+00:00
> From the company’s POV employees function as cogs in a larger system whose purpose is to generate value considering that businesses are structured to optimize outcomes i.e. Profit. If tech appears that can produce the same output more cheaply or efficiently, companies will most definitely as we've seen so far explore replacing people with it.

Businesses wish this were the case, and many will even say it or start to believe it. But it doesn't bare out to be true in practice.

Think about it this way, engineers are expensive so a company is going to want to have as few of them as possible to do as much work as possible. Long before LLMs came along there have been many rounds of "replace expensive engineers" fads.

Visual programming was going to destroy the industry, where any idiot could drag and drop a few boxes and put together software. Turns out that didn't work out and now visual programming is all but dead. Then we had consultants and software consultancies. Why keep engineers on staff and have to deal with benefits and HR functions when you can hire consultants for just long enough to get the job done and end their contracts. Then we had offshoring. Why hire expensive developers in markets like California when you can hire far cheaper engineers abroad in a country with lower wages and laxer employment law. (It's not a quality thing either, many of these engineers are unquestionably excellent.)

Or, think about what happens when software companies get acquired. It's almost unheard of for the acquiring company to layoff all of the engineering staff from the acquired company right away, if anything it's the opposite with vesting incentives to convince engineers to stay.

If all that mattered was the code and the systems, and people were cogs that produced code that businesses wanted to optimise, then none of these actions make sense. You'd see companies offshore and use consultants with the company that does "good enough" as cheaply as possible. You'd see engineers from acquisitions be laid off immediately, replaced with cheaper staff as fast as possible.

There are businesses like that operate like this, it happens all the time. But, all of the most successful and profitable tech companies in the world don't do this. Why?