MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by mindslight | 2026-03-13 21:42:16+00:00
I'm a libertarian. You've blinded yourself by defining anything that isn't fundamentalist right reactionary as this catchall "leftist" bogeyman.

I most certainly understand the frustration that led you to this charlatan who you thought could at least stick a fork in the eye of the status quo. The problem is you didn't listen to your fellow countrymen telling you that the fork would inevitably go into your own eye even harder. And you still aren't even as the results become ever more painfully clear.
by 4star3star | 2026-03-13 21:42:20+00:00
This seems reasonable to me. Devs and BAs flesh out business processes and ultimately document decisions in our Jira issue comments. When you have an issue id handy, it's not that hard to go read what the rationale was for a feature.

I have been ignoring Jira's AI summary, but I suppose that could be useful if the comments were very long.
by schiffern | 2026-03-13 21:42:22+00:00
Commercial uses layered surge protectors (Type I, II, and III), which is also recommended for other users but rarely followed.

In surge prone areas, at a minimum I would have good quality whole-house surge protector (eg Siemens 140 or Eaton 108), and a good quality surge protector strip for any computer/TV/phone charger.

I also put surge protectors in front of expensive white goods like the fridge, washer/dryer, dishwasher, and garage door opener. Besides being costly to replace these can contain "sparky" motors and this provides protection in the other direction too. Over time smaller surges can degrade the main surge protector for your computer.

Nothing (reasonable) can protect against direct lightning strikes, but for anything less it should provide decent protection.
by gist | 2026-03-13 21:42:31+00:00
For one thing comments here appear to apply to the quality and issues today not potentially going forward. Quality will change quicker than anyone expects. I am wondering how many people at HN remember when the first Mac came out with Mac Paint and then Pagemaker or Quark. That didn't evolve anywhere nearly as quickly as AI appears to be.

Also I am not seeing how anyone is considering that what a programmer considers quality and what 'gets the job done' (as mentioned in the article) matters in any business. (Example with typesetting is original laser printers were only 300dpi but after a short period became 1200dpi 'good enough' for camera ready copy).
by beeflet | 2026-03-13 21:42:51+00:00
>A locked bootloader does not imply you cannot run unsigned software in user space.

In the long term it does because the purpose is to provide the scaffolding for remote attestation. Once remote attestation becomes the norm, it transitions into becoming a de-facto requirement for doing pretty much anything in the real world. Today, banking apps. Tomorrow, getting past the cloudflare turnstyle. The next day, everything.
by jordwest | 2026-03-13 21:43:39+00:00
I’ve been using the offline version of Options+ that somebody recommended me a while back, it removes AI and auto updating and has done the job for me.

It’s kind of hidden on their website but you can grab it here:

https://hub.sync.logitech.com/options/post/logi-options-offl...

That said I think this will be my last Logitech device. They’re just not very durable products and die too quickly
by lysace | 2026-03-13 21:43:42+00:00
”and admittedly most if it went over my head”

”Apparently she was in a situation where she 'owned' her house, but still paid a monthly maintenance fee to some agency.”

(This is not the norm. I can go into a lot more detail if you want to.)

I am not accusing you of disinformation. I am saying that are writing completely irrelevant stuff in a story that is, as far as I can see is mostly false and has a high probability of being propaganda related to current conflicts.

And yes, dozens of other people did the same.
by JasonHarrison | 2026-03-13 21:44:00+00:00
Me too! AWS actually charges my credit card $0.01 every month.

I'm surprised they don’t just waive low balances, like many banks do [0]

How is it economical for AWS to charge a credit card for a penny? I wonder what Amazon’s agreements with interchange networks must be like...

[0]: https://www.doctorofcredit.com/small-balance-waiver-a-k-a-lo...
Show HN: Compressor.app – Compress almost any file format
by matylla | 2026-03-13 21:44:11+00:00
Got real tired of juggling five tabs and a terminal to compress different file types. So I built something that handles them ALL in one place.

Supports 50+ input formats. If something is compressible it will handle it. Upload a file, it figures out what it is, compresses it, hands it back. Ephemeral storage for 2 hours. Format conversion works pretty well too.

The part I'm most happy with is the detection layer. For binary formats, magic bytes get you most of the way there. For text-based (JS, CSS, JSON, XML, etc) I run a small ML classifier on the content itself to identify the format and route it to the right compression pipeline without asking the user to specify.

REST API if you want to plug it into a pipeline. Webhooks for async jobs, bring-your-own-storage for S3/GCS/Azure/whatever. Batch jobs work well.

No signup required, free tier with very generous monthly quota. Feedback, edge cases that break the detector, feature requests - all welcome.
by darth_avocado | 2026-03-13 21:44:14+00:00
OSS is a big umbrella. At the end of the day, if you are not hurting for money, you might be okay donating your work for AI training. Meanwhile if you’re working hard on projects while sacrificing a lot (including money) you are very much allowed to not want AI use it for training if it means financial gain for a select few at the top.

It has the same undertones as how rich people talk about philanthropy. “Look I donated a portion of my wealth that barely affected my life, I must be better than all those poor people who never donate to chariTy”.
by Animats | 2026-03-13 21:44:51+00:00
“Orbital space centres and mass drivers on the Moon will be incredible.” - Musk

Right.

The product is the stock. TSLA: [1] Up by 3x in the last two years, despite no new models, the Cybertruck failure, the Robotaxi failure, the large truck failure, and an overall decline in sales. How does he do it?

It's a concern seeing Space-X, which builds good rockets, drawn into the X and AI money drains. Space-X is needed. If X and X/AI tanked, nobody would care.

[1] https://www.cnbc.com/quotes/TSLA
by _ananos_ | 2026-03-13 21:44:57+00:00
a number of reasons -- power budget, form factor, experimenting as a testbed for more "elaborate" setups (like robotics combined with a low-end TPU like the coral, or a jetson nano)

consider that you can take advantage of all the cloud-native goodies, all wrapped up in a 10x5 box with 5-10W (or 25-30W if you consider jetson boards).
by kotaKat | 2026-03-13 21:45:56+00:00
I suspect this is because FirstNet customers are treated like full enterprise-class users on the AT&T platform and you can set your account up in some really accidentally stupid ways in AT&T Premier (the enterprise-level account manager system) to put obscure plans like the pay-per-use data package onto an account.

FirstNet is for all intents and purposes a large enterprise "foundation account" inside AT&T's enterprise management to which you end up a subaccount under.

What doesn't also help is that FirstNet's customer care reps are... quite frankly, frustratingly useless at times despite having to be the sole point of contact for account management. AT&T reps can't help you and send you to FN's reps.
by pear01 | 2026-03-13 21:46:00+00:00
People like you are somewhat amusing. You keep going on and on about how you are Swedish when the right-wing playbook is global, this could easily be a post from any of your ilk anywhere on the European continent or the United States.

Let's even grant you the premise that these statistics are accurate. What do you want to do about it? Deprive people of their rights extrajudicially because of where they come from? Should we treat people from MENA differently before the law? What about a native Swede who is antisemitic? Should they lose some rights? Should we deport people based on place of origin? Is that what the West is based on to you, increasingly arbitrary or national/ethnic access to rights vs a universalist conception of human rights? Or would that be a "third world" degeneration?

What is the West? Are Jewish people synonymous with the West? Was that always the case? You talk about minority protections are Jewish people a majority in Sweden? If not, why do you advocate protections for some minorities and not others? Do you think Jewish people have suffered in the "first world" West? Where does antisemitism come from? Was the Weimar Republic the third world? How about the regime that followed? Should European antisemites be allowed into Sweden? Maybe everyone who enters Sweden should have to pass an ideological test to prove they are sufficiently non antisemitic and appropriately Western. Or maybe you let them in but they have to walk around in special outfits or with a special lapel or label on them so we can be vigilant regarding their whereabouts? Perhaps anyone who commits a crime in Sweden should be deported, as only an anti-western person would exhibit criminal behavior?

What do you want to do about it? Highlighting crime tells us nothing. Every society deals with crime. Most societies have minorities. What separates societies is how they deal with it. So tell us, warden of the West, what you seek to do.

I should know better than to wade into a debate with someone who argues like you. Your comment history does indeed speak for itself. But I will try to debate you in good faith. I look forward to your answers.
by NeutralCrane | 2026-03-13 21:46:01+00:00
My ex-Twitter employee coworkers beg to differ. They made plenty of money before Elon came around. Once he was in the company, one of them actually hired a personal attorney to confirm that he wasn’t going to be burned by the things Musk was asking him to do, before he finally decided it wasn’t worth it to work there anymore and left.
by zackmorris | 2026-03-13 21:46:29+00:00
Thanks so much for that!

I've been struggling to curve fit an aerodynamics equation relating Mach number to rocket nozzle exit/entrance area ratio for quite some time. It's a 5th or 6th degree polynomial whose inverse doesn't have a closed-form solution:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abel%E2%80%93Ruffini_theorem

But I was able to use a Chebyshev fit that is within a few percent accurate at 3rd degree, and is effectively identical at 4th degree or higher. And 4th degree (quartic) polynomials do have a closed-form solution for their inverse. That lets me step up to higher abstractions for mass flow rate, power, etc without having to resort to tables. At most, I might need to use piecewise-smooth sections, which are far easier to work with since they can just be dropped into spreadsheets, used for derivatives/integrals, etc.

Anyway, I also discovered (ok AI mentioned) that the Chebyshev approximation is based on the discrete cosine transform (DCT):

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Discrete_Chebyshev_transform#R...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Discrete_cosine_transform#Appl...

That's why it's particularly good at curve-fitting in just 2 or 3 terms. Which is why they use the DCT for image compression in JPG etc:

https://www.mathworks.com/help/images/discrete-cosine-transf...

The secret sauce is that Chebyshev approximation spreads the error as ripples across the function, rather than at its edges like with Taylor series approximation. That helps it fit more intricate curves and arbitrary data points, as well as mesh better with neighboring approximations.
by sillystuff | 2026-03-13 21:46:36+00:00
Biden is an anti-abortion Catholic Zionist who wouldn't even do anything (but empty talk) to raise the minimum wage during high inflation. He enabled a genocide so his gods would reward him. I guess he would be a radical commie to the extreme far right. Nixon, JFK, LBJ and Lincoln, for example, signed into law actual left policies (whether they agreed with them or not-- none were lefties).

Words have meaning. Someone a bit left of a Nazi is not on the Left even if they are to the left of the person speaking.

The Democrats are a right-wing party. They spend more energy attacking the left than they do, the Republicans. Look at what they did to the center-left Sanders and their constant lawfare to prevent left parties, like the Greens and Peace and Freedom, off the ballot and out of the debates (last election, the Greens spent half their campaign funds fighting these frivolous lawsuits from the Democratic party who seek to subvert democracy [Republicans attack anyone more left/darker than them, through voter suppression and other techniques to also subvert democracy]). There is very little daylight between the two. They serve the same masters, Oligarchs and Israel.

The United States is also a one-party state but, with typical American extravagance, they have two of them.
- Julius Nyerere
by IntrepidPig | 2026-03-13 21:46:51+00:00
> “The reason that tech generally — and coders in particular — see L.L.M.s differently than everyone else is that in the creative disciplines, L.L.M.s take away the most soulful human parts of the work and leave the drudgery to you,” Dash says. “And in coding, L.L.M.s take away the drudgery and leave the human, soulful parts to you.”

This doesn’t really make sense to me. GenAI ostensibly removes the drudgery from other creative endeavors too. You don’t need to make every painstaking brushstroke anymore; you can get to your intended final product faster than ever. I think a common misunderstanding is that the drudgery is really inseparable from the soulful part.

Also, I think GenAI in coding actually has the exact same failure modes as GenAI in painting, music, art, writing, etc. The output lacks depth, it lacks context, and it lacks an understanding of its own purpose. For most people, it’s much easier to intuitively see those shortcomings of GenAI manifest in traditional creative mediums, just because they come more naturally to us. For coding, I suspect the same shortcomings apply, they just aren’t as clear.

I mean, at the end of the day if writing code is just to get something that works, then sure, let’s blitz away with LLMs and not bother to understand what we’re doing or why we do it anymore. Maybe I’m naive in thinking that coding has creative value that we’re now throwing away, possibly forever.
by ecurb | 2026-03-13 21:46:51+00:00
The abstract argument in this series (in nine parts!) is that AI agents fail because the substrate beneath them has no persistent memory or grammar. This is grounded in a very concrete domain: biopharma R&D, where the same dysfunction plays out with billion-dollar consequences.

The sharper entry point is Essay II, which diagnoses why pharma produces diseconomies of scale despite massive compute investment — an N-of-1 economy where every organization rebuilds the same data infrastructure from scratch, and vendors profit from keeping it fragmented: https://unvarnishedgrady.substack.com/p/from-first-principle...

This final essay asks whether that failure mode generalizes. The claim: you cannot align an AI agent if the representational substrate beneath it is lawless. Curious whether people building agentic systems in production are seeing this, and whether anyone has found counter-examples where context-free architectures still allowed intelligence to compound.
by fc417fc802 | 2026-03-13 21:46:53+00:00
> In the best case, "strategic reserves" are the government speculating on commodity prices.

A horrendously misinformed take. Strategic reserves have broadly one of two primary purposes. First, providing the government with the ability to stabilize market prices in the short term when volatility strikes. Second, providing a supply of an essential resource to an essential industry in the event that external supplies are unexpectedly cut off temporarily.

Supply shocks are bad. The economy grinding to a halt at the whim of a geopolitical adversary or natural disaster is also bad. Ensuring a stable market is one of the most fundamental purposes of having a government at all.
by porphyra | 2026-03-13 21:47:15+00:00
> and can be repaired

The Macbook Neo is highly repairable too [1]. Not _quite_ as repairable as some Thinkpads with a 10/10 score, but still pretty respectable at a 6/10 with easily replaceable batteries and stuff.

[1] https://www.ifixit.com/News/116152/macbook-neo-is-the-most-r...
by smackeyacky | 2026-03-13 21:47:19+00:00
It’s pretty obvious that Agile as practiced in most places is a failure, only highlighted by how fast coding has become. The problem it tries to solve was always the wrong one. It has become obvious that it isn’t the speed of iteration it’s the crappy requirements most organisations generate.

This is because your average BA or project manager have long gotten away with blaming programmers for missed deadlines. If you’ve worked both sides of the fence you know the users only vaguely know what they want, the BA role is essentially an incredibly lazy one (I made a wrong ticket but nobody knows it’s wrong until UAT so who gives a fuck about making them right). No matter how your sprint is organised or how many stupid ceremonies you insist on, if you can’t be arsed doing the hard work of specification the whole process is pointless.

I truly hope AI starts doing 100% of the coding so that the tide properly goes out on this farce.
by pants2 | 2026-03-13 21:47:27+00:00
The privacy angle is not that interesting to me.

- You can find inference providers with whatever privacy terms you're looking for

- If you're using LLMs with real data (let's say handling GMail) then Google has your data anyway so might as well use Gemini API

- Even if you're a hardcore roll-your-own-mail-server type, you probably still use a hosted search engine and have gotten comfortable with their privacy terms

Also on cost the point is you can use an API that's many times smarter and faster for a rounding error in cost compared to your Mac. So why bother with local except for the cool factor?
by vessenes | 2026-03-13 21:47:29+00:00
Elon makes a relatively good case in the Dwarkesh podcast. I recall it like this:

1) Energy infra is going to be seriously limited on the production side well, well below demand

2) energy engineering solar for space requires less materials than for gravity-based solar (!)

3) you cut out distribution network needs when you just launch stuff all per-pod in space

4) SpaceX thinks it can create a scalable vertically integrated production facility to turn raw materials into space datacenter pods, with the exception of chips.

As a business bet, this is predicated on 10,000x inference demand growth - if we have that, and SpaceX can get the integrated production rolling, and get Starship launching, then these will be actively utilized at scale.

Whether you are bullish on the whole plan should, I think come down to your take on those priors: 10kx growth, ability to manage supply chain and production, Starship outlook, and silicon access.

I'm not bearish on this after listening to the podcast; it has a very Elon-like returns distribution - if they're wrong on a lot of this, they'll probably have some moderately price-competitive datacenter facilities in space and a lot of built organizational knowhow while Brooklyn journalists dunk on them for spending all that effort to just replicate what we have on Earth. If they're right about most of this, they'll have an unreplicable head start, both due to years of experience, and due to the cheap launch they gambled on ten years ago, they'll have a nearly insurmountable moat.
by dsr_ | 2026-03-13 21:47:30+00:00
"Here’s the part that actually gets to me as a Developer Advocate. When a student gets a surprise bill, they don’t usually think “I missed a step in my cleanup.” They think “AWS secretly charges you even after you delete stuff.” They tell their classmates and that becomes the narrative. I’ve heard it in person, on discord, etc. “Be careful with AWS, they’ll charge you for nothing.” It’s not cool because it can scare people away from learning skills that would genuinely help their careers."

Maybe it teaches some of them not to stick their hand in lawnmowers.

When I was a student, I had an account at Citizens Bank, which had a branch on-campus. I pretty much never used it: I put some money in at the beginning, occasionally added some; used the ATM from time to time.

At the end of four years, I decided to close my account. There was less money in there than I thought there should be. I demanded an accounting. They happily demonstrated that there was a disclosed-only-in-fine-print fee charged each month that I didn't use the account according to some arcane formula. They wouldn't refund the fee.

So for the thirty or forty years since, I've never used Citizens Bank for anything, even if it would have been convenient. And I discouraged other people from doing so. I imagine I've cost them several thousand times those fees in revenue over the years.

Anyway, this is a story about AWS and their no-good, horrible-by-design billing practices.
by 9rx | 2026-03-13 21:47:41+00:00
No distraction. Genuine question. The whole point of the Agile Manifesto is to encourage removal of VP and similar roles from an organization; turning to a flat organizational structure. What motivates you, a VP, to latch onto that? How do you think that will help (with or without amendments)? Do you, perhaps, think in the age of AI your org will be better off if you 'step down' into a development/AI steerer role?
by 4star3star | 2026-03-13 21:47:43+00:00
As a counter point, it may be quite subtle and hard to notice what goes wrong when you remove something to see what happens. Imagine you see a large sql query that has a bit of logic that doesn't make sense to you. If you go change it without knowing why it was that way, and users keep on using report output from that query, who is going to notice when they get 982 records in their report instead of 983 one day? It's easy to spot when erroneous data APPEARS, but it's a lot harder to notice when valid data DISAPPEARS. Oh, they really did have a good reason to use outer apply instead of cross apply, there. Oops.
by duckkg5 | 2026-03-13 21:47:55+00:00
Digg may have a bot problem but Reddit isn't far behind. So many subreddits are full of slop that they've become useless and/ or completely unreliable.

What's an actual viable solution to this kind of thing?

CATPCHAs aren't it. Maybe micro-fees to actually post things would discourage bot posting? I really don't know.

Seems like it's just dead internet all over the place these days.
by davidw | 2026-03-13 21:49:04+00:00
This is not a fully formed thought, so take it with a grain of salt:

Keeping politics off of here is a good idea.

Some things aren't really politics, but morals. Like, a discussion of different tax schemes or how much environmental regulations accomplish what they set out to do or something is 'politics'. Lamenting that there is "no homeland for white people" is... something else.

It's probably still not likely to have good outcomes as a subject of discussion here, but it's also something the tech industry needs to wrestle with somewhere, somehow.

My experience of the tech world was that it went from being a collection of oddballs, geeks, nerds and maybe kind of naive politically to mainstreaming some really evil shit.

I think this will come back to bite the industry, and depending on how angry the people with pitchforks and torches are, could end up hurting more than just the bad actors.