MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by mr_octopus | 2026-03-05 04:27:58+00:00
Hi HN, solo developer here. OctoFlow is a GPU-native programming language —
the GPU is the primary execution target, not an accelerator you opt into.
4.5 MB binary, zero dependencies, any Vulkan GPU.

This is vibe-coded. LLMs generated the bulk of the code. That's not a caveat —
it's the point. But "vibe-coded" doesn't mean "unreviewed." Every architectural
decision has a human at the gate: pure Vulkan (no CUDA lock-in), zero external
dependencies (hand-rolled everything), 23-concept language spec that fits in an
LLM prompt, Loom Engine dispatch chains that let the GPU run autonomously.

The AI writes code. The human decides what to build, why, and whether it ships.

Two principles guide every decision:

- Sustainability: Is complexity growing faster than it can be maintained? If the
test count drops or the gotcha list grows, stop and fix before shipping more.

- Empowerment: Can a non-GPU-programmer go from intent to working GPU code? If a
feature makes the language harder for AI to generate, it doesn't ship.

What's real today: 966 tests passing, 445 stdlib modules, 150 pre-compiled
SPIR-V kernels, interactive REPL with GPU, AI code generation via
`octoflow chat`. What's in progress: running 24GB LLM models on 6GB consumer
GPUs via layer streaming.

The stdlib and everything on GitHub is MIT. The compiler (Rust) is in a private
repo for now, but the developer is willing to open-source all of it once there's
a team to sustain it. Looking for co-maintainers — especially people with Vulkan
experience or who care about keeping languages small and learnable.

Happy to answer questions about the architecture, the vibe-coding workflow, or
what it's like building a programming language with AI doing 90% of the typing
and a human doing 100% of the deciding.
by mindslight | 2026-03-05 04:28:13+00:00
IIUC plug-in balcony solar is subtly different. It's basically aimed at grid-tie operation, connected by backfeeding through a standard 120V 15/20A branch circuit. On its own that's unsafe as you could have downstream loads drawing more than the 15/20A circuit ampacity, but I think the idea is still at the pinky-swear-it's-a-dedicated-receptacle-and-cross-your-fingers stage.

The units likely have "protected outlets" too that likely use an internal transfer relay to disconnect from the grid side, but at 15/20A it doesn't have to be terribly beefy.
by stevekemp | 2026-03-05 04:29:21+00:00
> started using the city bus system for the first time, and I started making it a point to go someplace new

That's a fun thing to do when you move cities, or countries.

I spent several weekends riding every single tram line in Helsinki with my son. We'd pick a number we'd not yet done and ride each both ways to the terminus.

Get out at the end of the line and see what was nearby, have a cake, then come back home.

We had a map from the local transport company and we'd put stickers on the lines we'd done, and the last stops.

A good way to see different neighbourhoods in the same city.
by intended | 2026-03-05 04:29:30+00:00
Please tell me the upsides.

I’ve been canvassing all and sundry for information on seen productivity gains, and I’ve got answers from 2x, to 30%, to 15% to “will make no difference to my life if its gone tomorrow”

When I test it for high reliability workflows, it’s never provided the kind of consistency I would expect from an assembly line. I can’t even build out quality control systems to ensure high reliability for these things.

Survey and studies on AI productivity mixed results at best.

So I would love to know actual, empirical or even self reported productivity gains people are seeing.

And there is no such thing as a free lunch. In FAR too many ways, this is like the days of environmental devastation caused by industrial pollution. The benefits are being felt by a few, profits to fewer, while a forest fire in our information commons is excoriating the many.

Scams and fraud are harder to distinguish, while spam and AI slop abounds. Social media spaces are being overrun, and we are moving from forums and black lists to discords, verification and white lists.

Visits to media sites are being killed because Google is offering AI summaries at the top, killing traffic, donations and ad revenue.

Nations are tripping over themselves to ingratiate themselves with the top tech firms, to attract investment, since AI is now the only game in town.

I speak for many when I say I have zero interest in 30% or even 2x personal productivity gains at the low cost of another century of destruction and informational climate change.
by kxyvr | 2026-03-05 04:29:35+00:00
If they don't match, they're allowed to scramble and move into one of those programs with open positions. If they don't choose to, that's on them, but it's still not a problem with number of residency slots.

I very much agree that pay is a barrier to entering specialties like family medicine. Though it depends on the market, I normally see family medicine at around $200k/year and that's not great if one needs to take something like $750k debt to get there along with eight years of training after a bachelors. If we want to fix that, then we need to make the value proposition better and reduce the medical school debt, improve working conditions, and/or increase pay.

So, yes, if one wants to maximize their earning potential, then they need to enter one of the specialty residencies and fellowships. Those are currently filled. However, that's not where the biggest need is and I contend that's not why there's a physician shortage.
by nradov | 2026-03-05 04:29:51+00:00
Well not quite. Health insurance is still a competitive business. Customers — both individuals and group buyers — are very price sensitive and while switching plans is a hassle they will change from Aetna to Humana or whatever if the difference is large enough. And many of the largest carriers are non-profit corporations so there's literally no "profit", although some of the employees are very well compensated.
by carefree-bob | 2026-03-05 04:30:03+00:00
Auto manufacturers have been using robots for decades to paint, weld, machine, cast, and manufacture critical automobile components and even entire chassis.

Some auto robot porn: https://www.youtube.com/shorts/Zi8EWZptTfA

The idea of humanoid looking robots shuffling around a factory floor seems like a gimmick to me.
by lucianbr | 2026-03-05 04:30:15+00:00
Did you really make a blog post to tell the world that you don't know some things? That's not usual. If that is true, the only conclusion is that you should learn those things, and I'm not sure what I am supposed to get from reading it.

I think, or at least the way it reads to me is that you believe Firefox devs are wrong. This is what it looks like you meant. You believe the "..." is wrong to be there, and it should be removed. Which I do not agree with, and in any case we should first consider the "..." conventional meaning and only then we can maybe get to the conclusion that it should be removed. That it should be removed because you don't know why it is there is not reasonable, not to me.

In my humble opinion you should reflect a bit more on what you actually meant to say by this and also other points in the post.

> The greyed out options have no point because 99.99% of the links I click are already clean.

Frankly that's nonsense. They obviously have a point, and the fact you disagree with the point is something completely different. Firefox isn't specifically made for you. I appreciate the greyed out options in general, it helps me know they are there and that they may become available under some conditions.
by pseudohadamard | 2026-03-05 04:31:11+00:00
Is it actually better/faster though? To see the difference between -O and -O2/3, compile some code for an x64 target on Godbolt and look at the output. -O produces optimised x86 code. -O2/3 produces enormous amounts of incomprehensible SSE/AVX/whatever code for even the simplest stuff, leading to a huge blowout in code size that can potentially interact badly with cacheing.

We had a look at this in embedded where you don't have infinite memory to play with and at the moment it's OK because there's no advanced instructions available to use, but it'll get ugly in the future when gcc realises it can use new instructions and produce five times the amount of object code for the same source code.
by xvector | 2026-03-05 04:31:19+00:00
I wish people like you would actually talk to people at Anthropic, maybe interview with the company, actually engage with the real humans there before making blithe comments like this.

Seriously, you're on HN, you can't possibly be that many degrees removed from someone at the company.

In any case it's absolutely not "just marketing", it suffuses their whole culture, and it is genuine.
by jjmarr | 2026-03-05 04:31:19+00:00
I'm writing a HIP (amd gpu kernels) linker in my job and the calling convention is contained in a metadata section in the object file.

Whether the array is passed in registers or pointers can be chosen by the compiler based on factors like profile guided optimization. The ABI isn't stable that doesn't matter because the linker handles it for the programmer.

This is all publicly documented in the llvm docs too so you can write your own loader.
by hedora | 2026-03-05 04:31:41+00:00
It's funny you'd pick IBM:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IBM_and_the_Holocaust

Though, I guess IBM did get away with lots of stuff that... Actually, did any supply companies in the WWII German war machine actually get in trouble for war crimes, or did they just go after officers and the people actually working in the camps?

The company selling punchcards that were used for logistics was apparently fine. What about the people making the gas canisters, or supplying plumbing fixtures? The plumbers? Where's the line?

Wondering, since this is increasingly becoming a current events question instead of an academic concern.
by vlovich123 | 2026-03-05 04:32:58+00:00
I actually specifically didn’t state it one way or the other, just highlighting the potential for undercounting. I think there’s some potential for overcounting if you assume employer paid for commits, but less so if you constrain to those employed to work on the Linux kernel - I don’t know if many people would be working “spare time” on the same thing they’re getting paid for.
by neya | 2026-03-05 04:33:46+00:00
These comments were after the deal had soured. Not before. If it was a case of such morality, the partnership with Palantir would have never happened in the first place.

The contract was explicit - it was for defence purposes with a company known for spying activities. So, obviously spying is involved and they weren't just going to generate cat videos with it.

Again, nobody is innocent here.
by galangalalgol | 2026-03-05 04:33:47+00:00
Does anyone else notice claude is just plain better at reasoning? It may not just be post training guardrails. It would not surprise me of it was something anthropic couldn't simply disable. Either from reinforcement or even training corpus curation. Of all the models, claude is the only one that makes me wonder if they have figured out something beyond stochastic language generation and aren't telling anyone
by techpression | 2026-03-05 04:35:13+00:00
They still need a lot of money and what their VC’s think is going to be more important than what Amedei does. Nothing more profitable than war and government.

App Store rankings are meaningless, I have Claude, ChatGPT and Gemini all in top five, with a electronic mail app being 1 and a postal tracking service app (for a very small provider) being 3.
by huddert | 2026-03-05 04:36:53+00:00
I understand it not being a priority for a lot of people but it's odd to me that there appears to be resistance to it. It is very easy for you to reduce the refresh rate if you need to maximise battery life, but I have no option to increase it beyond what the hardware supports.

I wonder how much reduction we could see in eye strain, nausea, fatigue and headaches if higher refresh rates were normalised.

I remember one time showing a non-techy person the difference between a "Pro Motion" iPad Pro vs a lower spec iPad. They probably had no idea what refresh rates were before I took a moment to scroll up and down in the web browser for about 5 seconds side-by-side. They had their "ohhhhh" moment and bought the much more expensive Pro on that basis alone.

Enjoy your blissful ignorance, I guess?
by lotsofpulp | 2026-03-05 04:36:57+00:00
All the highest compensated non executive level employees I know are doctors, who would be highly compensated at every business. Same for all the executives, whose pay does not seem outsize compared to executives at other similar sized organizations. If anything, health insurance companies are known to be pretty stingy with pay unless you're in high demand, e.g. doctors.
by kjellsbells | 2026-03-05 04:38:32+00:00
There's an excellent In Our Time episode on Owen available from the BBC ([1], [2]) where Melvin Bragg gives an gentle yet chilling reading of the climax of the poem (about 29 minutes in). And like many IOT episodes, provides great context and detail eg on Jessie Pope, Sassoon, and so on.

[1] https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m001df48
[2] https://open.spotify.com/episode/2nd5iWVnNCWL2ulAVsSDLe
by yndoendo | 2026-03-05 04:38:56+00:00
That is not substantiable. AI bubble is wealthy hype like a single drop of blood can be used to validate 100 different diagnostic test. Reality is parts per million fails this along with reusable medium. Wealth latches to idiocy.

Gaming and CAD market are real expectations that latch to reality. Grow the education systems and grow both. So is matrix math, such as hashing.

AI has reached a state of software issue, not hardware. And the divergence of AI hardware does not equate to CAD and Gaming math.
by GCUMstlyHarmls | 2026-03-05 04:39:07+00:00
Whats the point of all that? I guess at some point you hope to amass enough "quality" accounts to sway opinion on products? It makes more direct sense on Facebook et al or Reddit, but I guess on HN you're doing the same thing.

Botting HN is probably actually more effective as the audience is smaller, probably by several magnitudes? So 20 pro-product comments in a thread is more likely to hit an investors eyeball?
by intended | 2026-03-05 04:39:24+00:00
Having seen the safety side of tech operations = yes, you very well should blame tech.

Currently T&S is a bad word and is being underinvested in.

Tech is terrified of open studies on moderation because they know society is simply unprepared for the reality of speech online.

With no option to have an actual conversation with society and regulators on what steps are needed to address issues, they are left with stock prices as the only sure motivator.

For the degree of profits earned, the extent of customer support and safety investment is hysterical.

Engineer productivity numbers go up if they reduce headcount in moderation teams, not if they improve accuracy scores.

I’ve had to listen to safety teams cry on my shoulders (when I was an outsider) about how difficult it is to get engineering resources.

I am actually sympathetic to the position tech firms find themselves in, but protecting society from the bitter facts is not helping.
by aftbit | 2026-03-05 04:40:05+00:00
Trying a little experiment. Here's the same comment as above, but I asked Claude to research my claims and add web citations. Any errors in content are my own - I originally wrote the comment with no AI assistance and only brief web searching to check my numbers.

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This is reminding us something that we should never have forgotten - modern war has an insatiable demand for munitions.

To take just one example out of dozens, the US fired somewhere from 100 to 150 THAAD interceptors - about ¼ of the stockpile - during the 12 days war in 2025.[1][2] We produce just under 100 per year.[3] There are plans to raise that number to 400 per year.[4]

The Ukrainians were expending somewhere around 10,000 drones per day in mid 2025.[5] Russian numbers are likely broadly similar.

Many historical conflicts have featured a substantial bottleneck on multiple munitions during ramp up. World War 1 had artillery shell crises across Britain, France, Russia, and Germany.[6][7] World War II had similar, especially for the Russians and Germans.[8] The US was short on ammo early in the Korean war.[9][10]

Modern mechanized combat demands an insane manufacturing and logistics chain. It can burn through stockpiles incredibly fast, especially of high capability expensive munitions. War production levels are utterly unsustainable during peace time.

This is why peer and near-peer conflict is as much an economic and productive game as it is a military one. Shock and awe takes a tremendous amount of resources to accomplish at all, let alone sustain.

*Sources:*

[1] https://www.cnn.com/2025/07/28/middleeast/us-thaad-missile-i...

[2] https://armyrecognition.com/news/army-news/2025/us-army-rais...

[3] https://breakingdefense.com/2026/01/lockheed-pentagon-ink-pl...

[4] https://thehill.com/policy/defense/5713637-lockheed-martin-q...

[5] https://dronexl.co/2025/10/22/ukraine-deploys-9000-drones-da...

[6] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shell_Crisis_of_1915

[7] https://encyclopedia.1914-1918-online.net/article/shells-cri...

[8] https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/13518046.2024.2...

[9] https://apps.dtic.mil/sti/tr/pdf/ADA416944.pdf

[10] https://wp.oldmagazinearticles.com/magazine-articles/the-col...
by hedora | 2026-03-05 04:40:11+00:00
They basically are cancelling the contract, but there are some nuances on Anthropic's side. The contract probably has stipulations that prevent them from doing it overnight, so it might be illegal (but ethical) for them to just turn off the API keys.

Also, doing that might have bad second order effects with bad ethical implications.

For example, when Musk decided to pull the plug on a bunch of starlink terminals, he (intentionally and knowingly) blocked a US-funded attack that would have sunk a big chunk of the Russian navy, which certainly prolonged the Ukraine war. That was clearly an act of treason (illegal).

Anyway, just turning off Claude could kill a bunch of civilians in the region or something. It depends on how deeply it's integrated into military logistics at this point.

Anyway, your point certainly holds for OpenAI:

They walked into a "use ChatGPT for war crimes, and illegal domestic surveillance / 'law enforcement'" deal with open eyes, and pretty obviously lied about it while the deal was being signed. I don't see any ethical nuance that would even partially excuse their actions.
by jacquesm | 2026-03-05 04:40:18+00:00
Yes, they're an interesting little loophole device. They are likely not going to be legal in the long run because of the overload potential, even though in practice you'd have to work at that to make it happen. After all, these are typically no more than 300 to 500 W and angled in a very unfortunate way so likely not making full power. The wiring connecting them to the distribution panel is not going to sweat handling - again, potentially - that much more power over the 16A typical limit, that's just 2A more and you are more than likely not going to have that much consumption going on on that same circuit.

I have a similar situation here but at much higher power levels, a single underground cable from my garage to the house carrying 16A tri-phase and a whole raft of consumers in the garage itself. There too there is the potential for overload with both consumers and producers on the same cable. The solution there was to have a secondary distribution panel, breakers on both sides of the cables, for the consumers and for the inverter guaranteeing that none of the wiring in the panel or to the house or the consumers ever exceeds its rating.

This was by far the most cost effective solution, saved adding another ground cable and relieves the main distribution panel of a lot of current going in and out of the garage.
by kettlecorn | 2026-03-05 04:40:23+00:00
Obviously it's a subjective discussion but it's still a meaningful subjective discussion.

I was deeply into Microsoft products for a while. I got my start coding an indie game for the Xbox, I spent years using Windows Phone and developing an app for the platform, I interned at Microsoft twice and then later worked there as a software engineer for a period.

While there I did my best to improve the product I worked on, and I went beyond what most engineers do when thinking about product quality. I would gently and politely email other product teams with bugs or minor product issues that I felt were low hanging fruit. On my own team I was often one of the stronger advocates for the user and for product quality, and sometimes I got pushback for it.

My opinion about Microsoft's product culture is not formed lightly.

I don't believe Apple is faultless, but I think they demonstrate far more awareness of how their product decisions accrue to a lasting brand. It's not just marketing spin, it's real actionable decisions over decades that accrue to brand perception.
Show HN: Session-safe uploads and artifacts for remote MCP servers
by aakashh242 | 2026-03-05 04:41:26+00:00
I built this because MCP supports remote servers over Streamable HTTP, but a lot of MCP servers still assume the client and server share a filesystem. Once the server is in a container/VM, two things break: tools can’t read client-local file paths, and outputs (screenshots/PDFs etc) get written on the server where the client can’t access them.

Remote MCP Adapter is an application-layer gateway that sits between an MCP client and one/more upstream MCP servers. It stages inputs as upload handles and captures outputs as MCP resources that the client can read back. It also adds session isolation, automated TTL-based cleanups, quotas, state persistence, health checks and the other standard constructs necessary for a production deployment.

Docs + demo: https://aakashh242.github.io/remote-mcp-adapter/
Code: https://github.com/aakashh242/remote-mcp-adapter

Quickstart is in the README (docker compose spins up Playwright MCP + the adapter) and you point your agent at:
http://localhost:8932/mcp/playwright

Would love feedback on edge cases and missing features: artifact capture rules across different servers, guarantee that all requests with a given session_id are consistently routed to the same upstream.
by TokenGate | 2026-03-05 04:42:05+00:00
Curious how other teams are managing LLM usage when using tools like Claude Code or AI agents.

We ran into a few problems recently:

• developers sharing the same Anthropic API key
• no visibility into who generated which tokens
• sudden cost spikes when agents loop
• no way to enforce budgets or rate limits

Claude Code itself works great, but once a team starts using it heavily it feels like there’s a missing infrastructure layer.

So I ended up building a small gateway that sits between Claude Code and the provider API.

It tracks token usage, enforces budgets, and manages API keys.

Basically an API gateway for AI agents.

Would love to know how other teams are handling this today.

tokengate.to
by WalterGR | 2026-03-05 04:42:08+00:00
But "vibe-coded" doesn't mean "unreviewed."

(Just FYI, that’s literally what it means. The term was coined here: https://x.com/karpathy/status/1886192184808149383 . Excerpt:

“I ‘Accept All’ always, I don't read the diffs anymore. When I get error messages I just copy paste them in with no comment, usually that fixes it.”)
by hedora | 2026-03-05 04:44:08+00:00
There's no legal basis for blocking defense contractors from using them. Trump's claiming he can do so, but the law doesn't back him up. He'll lose in any fair court, or any corrupt court that values billionaire interests over virtue signaling to the orange one (like the Supreme Court).

Also, they got a huge PR win, and jumped to #1 on the Apple App Store. Consumer market share is going to decide which of the AI companies is the market leader, not fickle government contracts.