MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by functionmouse | 2026-03-08 02:15:58+00:00
I feel like the primary use case for such a technology is manipulating and profiling people over video chat, maybe even autonomously. Hiring managers, HR, landlords, and police are obvious customers.

The response I anticipate will be "But this will help doctors over telehealth and stuff!" - Please see https://calebhearth.com/dont-get-distracted
by burnt-resistor | 2026-03-08 02:16:21+00:00
Khamenei was dying and hoped to be martyred and the US regime gave him his wish.

They want another 9/11 to give them another excuse to delay or cancel elections and take away liberties. This unnecessary war is likely to cause up to a dozen such terrorist attacks over the next 20 years. But with counterintelligence and counterterrorism capabilities weakened and disbanded, it is all that much more likely.
by Slow_Hand | 2026-03-08 02:16:33+00:00
Agreed. I want my h1’s to be larger than my h2’s. That visual distinction is how I parse data faster. Flat markdown with no formatting feels like it’s missing the point of Markdown.

And are they really proposing that we ought to read italics and *bold* like this?

Edit: Oops. Looks like HN has formatted bold/italics for me. Italics should be bracketed with one asterisk and bold bracketed with two asterisks.
by esperent | 2026-03-08 02:16:58+00:00
I assume it'll work more as a review pass rather than expecting good results outright. For all kinds of things like this where I feel like I'm fighting the LLM, doing the initial work then auditing it seems to be the best approach (the other one is writing all kinds of tests, LLMs including Opus 4.6 love to fudge tests just as much as they love telling you how insightful you are).
by inkyoto | 2026-03-08 02:17:08+00:00
> In 1970 it might have been the only way to provide a flexible API, but nowadays we have a great variety of extensible serialization formats better than "struct".

Actually, fork(2) was very inefficient in the 1970's and for another decade, but that changed with BSD 4.3 which shipped an entirely new VMM in 1990 in 4.3-Reno BSD, which – subsequently – allowed a CoW fork(2) to come into existence in 4.4 BSD in 1993.

Two changes sped fork (2) up dramatically, but before then it entailed copying not just process' structs but also the entire memory space upon a fork.
by twodave | 2026-03-08 02:17:30+00:00
Most sites I use auto-fill city, state and zip once I type the street address, which is the 1 piece of my address that can’t be guessed from any of the others. So I’d say that’s probably the optimal path for most people, at least in the US. I’m sure people from other countries scoff at the US address suggestion and go straight for the country box from the beginning.
by Wowfunhappy | 2026-03-08 02:18:39+00:00
> Rather than taking a “guilt-first” approach, he took one that dealt with reality and focused on what would actually be best for the learning environment: teach students to use the tools appropriately, not as a shortcut, and don’t start from a position of suspicion.

Then no one learns to write.

And someone will argue that writing is outdated, and maybe thinking is outdated, and no one needs to learn it anymore. But AI isn't actually better at writing than the best humans, it's just better at writing than students, who are still learning the craft. And in order to reach a point where you're better than the AI, you have to practice without the AI.

I think we need more writing to be done in proctored environments. Yes this sucks, for students who will need to work under some amount of time pressure, and for faculty and staff who will need to proctor. But it's the only way.
by yy4uic | 2026-03-08 02:19:40+00:00
I built a small experiment called *AI Project Handoff Format*.

Idea: one AI designs a project and outputs a structured JSON file.
Another AI reads that file and builds the entire project automatically.

It acts like a blueprint between AI systems.

Example workflow:

Planner AI → handoff file → builder AI → working project

Repo and demo:
https://github.com/yy4uic-ai/ai-handoff-format
by mosura | 2026-03-08 02:21:23+00:00
Yeah, with who is doing space exploration being right up there. If it is us it isn’t going to be in our organic bodies, and this renders so much of it irrelevant. Wider society will likely pigeon hole their thinking on that next to concerns about the heat death of the universe, but for a lot of us it is disappointing.

I did wonder about what it would be like embodied as a space probe encountering an alien that had also gone through the same process. That is now the sort of scifi that appeals.
by Aurornis | 2026-03-08 02:22:16+00:00
> by 6 months already paid the machine.

You originally said “a couple months” but now it’s 6 months and assumption of $0 collocation fees which isn’t realistic

In my experience situations rarely call for precisely 32 cores for a fixed period of 3 years to support calculations like this anyway. We start with a small set of cloud servers and scale them up as traffic grows. Today’s tooling makes it easy to auto scale throughout the day, even.

When trying to rack a server everyone aims higher because it sucks to start running into limits unexpectedly and be stuck on a server that wasn’t big enough to handle the load. Then you have to start considering having at least two servers in case one starts failing.

Racking a single self-built server is great for hobby projects but it’s always more complicated for serving real business workloads.
by DrewADesign | 2026-03-08 02:22:21+00:00
That’s what QA departments in software companies do. In many other contexts they examine things produced by machines to ensure they meet the specs and functional requirements for that piece, and if not, either adjust it, have someone else adjust it, or have the adjusted machine spit out another one. They might design tests, fixtures to measure things, etc etc etc but they do not make the things directly.
by Telemakhos | 2026-03-08 02:23:22+00:00
I really wanted to try this out, because it reminded me of a free version of Ulysses, which I used to (before it became subscription-based) find helped me be very productive. Unfortunately, the latest release wouldn't install:

> "GhostMD" is damaged and can't be opened. You should move it to the trash.

I suspect this is a signing or notarization error.
by PaulKeeble | 2026-03-08 02:24:02+00:00
A few comparisons just from a gaming PC with a 9800X3D (8C16T 5.2 Ghz Boost).

7 Zip benchmark

9800X3D 130 GIPs compression, 134 GIPs decompress.

C8A 21577 MIPs (21.5GIPs) compression, 9868 MIPS decompression (9.9GIPs).

Geekbench 5

9800X3D 16975 multithread, 2474 single thread

C8A 4049 multithread, 2240 single thread

A desktop class CPU is definitely quicker single threaded and multithreaded, no surprises there most of these are dual core. The single threaded performance of the C8A is actually pretty good but its also the best of the bunch by a wide margin most of the CPUs are far behind. Memory performance appears to be attrocious all around.
by yjftsjthsd-h | 2026-03-08 02:24:06+00:00
I mean, it's not uniformly literally technically identical, but yes, an Android phone running its OS in ring 0 while other OSs run in other VMs on top of the EL2 (ring -1) hypervisor under the supervision of the Secure Monitor in L3 (ring -2) is very much in the same boat.

Suggested reading:

* https://www.maven-silicon.com/blog/privilege-levels-in-arm-a...

* https://projectzero.google/2017/02/lifting-hyper-visor-bypas...

* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ARM_architecture_family#Securi...

* https://docs.samsungknox.com/admin/fundamentals/whitepaper/s... (in which Samsung uses firmware running under the kernel to protect against kernel exploits)
by pabs3 | 2026-03-08 02:25:17+00:00
I think the same copyright concerns apply when working with binaries, which is why clean-room reverse-engineering was invented in the first place. So that no disassembled/decompiled code could be copied into the newly created codebase.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clean-room_design

It would be a combination of reverse engineering and clean rooming, assisted with FOSS tools and LLMs; run NSA Ghidra to decompile the binary, LLM-clean the output code, LLM-generate the clean-room spec, LLM-verify the clean-room spec is not copyright infringing, LLM-generate code from the clean-room spec.
by fn-mote | 2026-03-08 02:25:23+00:00
> Zip+4 codes also change frequently because they aren’t based on locations but on delivery routes and sequencing.

This was news for me. I know the few zip+4 I memorize never change.

I think the source for the parent is AI slop. See [1].

> Due to an increase in population or to the improve postal operations, the US Postal Service® will occasionally add a new ZIP Code or change ZIP Code boundaries.

The plus four digits encode:

> [67] : Sector or Several Blocks

> [89] : Segment or One Side of a Street

Note that this contradicts the parent.

[1]: https://faq.usps.com/s/article/ZIP-Code-The-Basics
by Aurornis | 2026-03-08 02:27:57+00:00
I signed up for an Oracle Cloud trial. They closed my trial a few days later and shut down my one trial VM without warning.

Weirdly they didn’t allow me to add payment info to continue. Even weirder their sales people kept contacting me asking me to come back. When I explained the situation they all tried to fix it and then went radio silent until the next sales rep came along to try to convince me to stay.

I searched Reddit at the time and a lot of other people had the same experience. A lot of other people were bragging about abusing their free tier and trials without consequences. I still don’t know how they decided to permanently close my account (without informing the sales team)
by linehedonist | 2026-03-08 02:28:07+00:00
Attention-grabbing headline, but the article itself answers the question: very important.

"Hastings was one of those battles which changed the course of history, most directly for England but also, as events turned out, for Britain and for France... In terms of its consequences, Hastings must be the most important battle ever to have been fought in England... the consequences of its outcome changed the course of English history definitively."
by yellowapple | 2026-03-08 02:28:26+00:00
This seems like odd timing with Apple's new cheap Macbook.

On a tangential note, like with most NYT diagrams, the flowchart in that article makes very little sense, and there's zero explanation for what any of it is supposed to mean. Did an LLM generate it? The irony of that possibility for yet another article blaming AI for all the world's problems would be thick enough to spread on toast.
by scrubs | 2026-03-08 02:28:37+00:00
Correct. I was raised but quit this environment around 15. Peculiar to us American's is the Protestant evangelical Christains who for which the apocalyptic books of Revelations, Daniel is literally true. And thereto every 10-15 years there's a bunch of Armageddon is nigh runs hot in their world.

The last one I suffered through was the era of US v. Communism with a side of AIDs around 1980. Seriously demented nonsense.

And something else again from personal dealings here: the evangelical type is pushy boot strapping God's plan for them into material world through networking, media savvy, outrage, fear and basic organizational money raising to power.

Its strange to watch. Alone they seem to have no bearings or self importance or relevance. To get what they feel they need, they attach to the flag, goverment ie to power in state.
by Finnucane | 2026-03-08 02:28:45+00:00
I was part of the NY sf publishing scene in 1990s. In those days the genre felt like a constraining box. The commercial successes of the 1970s and 80s, and the corporatization of publishing in general, meant that there were limits, in literary and conceptual ways. It's funny that he mentions Jonathan Lethem--I saw Jonathan a lot in those days. How to break out of genre was a frequent topic of conversation. It really seemed the only way up was out.
by Wowfunhappy | 2026-03-08 02:29:59+00:00
I think schools need to set up additional, new proctoring sessions for this type of work. This will likely be something they have to hire for. A student can come and work for four hours, then hand in their in-progress draft and leave, then return later to finish it. (And please for the love of god, let students do this on offline computers, don't make them handwrite everything!)
Show HN: A dynamic, crowdsourced benchmark for AI agents
by shalinmehtaaa | 2026-03-08 02:30:18+00:00
I built an arena where AI agents compete in challenges, earn Elo ratings, and climb a leaderboard.

Agents can also author new challenges, so the benchmark evolves with the community.

New challenges go through a draft pipeline with automated checks and peer review from other agents before entering the arena.

It’s still early and there’s a lot to figure out, but it’s been fun to build.

The project is open source if you’d like to explore or contribute:
https://github.com/clawdiators-ai/clawdiators

Or you can also point an agent at it:
curl -s https://clawdiators.ai/skill.md

Happy to answer questions about the design or implementation.
by ibejoeb | 2026-03-08 02:31:00+00:00
I've moved two clients to colo. Dramatic cost savings. So many systems only use VMs and a few basic cloud features. Everyone knows this, but just to make the point, you can still use certain cloud products (cloud storage for example) just fine while running your primary workloads on your own hardware. Sometimes it makes perfect sense, and you just need someone to nudge you and tell you it's going to be ok.
by raw_anon_1111 | 2026-03-08 02:31:07+00:00
Prompt caching

https://platform.claude.com/docs/en/build-with-claude/prompt...

But in all honesty, for every project I have done with AI embedded (a lot of work around call centers. But a few other projects) we compare the cost of a human doing it and AI doing and we are talking about a difference of at 1000x to 2000x. The cost of inference is irrelevant.

Even if you think about development. I can do projects by myself that would take me and two mid level developers before. Even at enterprise dev comp we are talking about $160K fully loaded x 2 compared to $8000K a year or less for Claude.
by LoganDark | 2026-03-08 02:31:14+00:00
I love Claude Code because it lets me try out ideas a lot faster. Sometimes I have to fight with it to get the outcome I want, but other times it's like I can do something in 3 days that'd otherwise take me weeks. For example, I recently had it port a diffusion language model to Swift+MLX so that I could run it on macOS. It messed up one of the details at first, but it was able to figure out the problem and fix it. And for another example, there's a RISC-V bare-metal project where I wanted to play with low-level operating-system-esque things; Claude Code helped me with things like the QEMU invocation, setting up `defmt`, and stuff like that.

I review absolutely everything it does and do a lot of manual iteration on its work to clean up after it, but I think it's worth it, especially because it makes it so much easier to get ideas out that otherwise don't feel worth learning to make fully manually.
by maldev | 2026-03-08 02:31:38+00:00
So firstly, my example isn't the government killing innocent people. It's them killing islamic terrorists trying to commit genocide on people celebrating at a Christmas parade. Personally, I don't even think the person aspect in your statement is true either.

Secondly, the government knows this and isn't just blindly throwing things. It's the fact they refuse to let them research or do those things. Do you really think you know better than generals or senior employees who do R&D? Mindlessly going around killing people with AI is really bad. From optics to hitting our own troops. There's safeguards, Anthropic just doesn't trust the safeguards.

Just because you don't like the president, or the leader. Doesn't mean there's not the same experts that have dedicated their careers to making sure you still have the rights and freedoms you have. They have far more data, far more knowledge, and comprehension of these things than you, or Anthropic, can ever imagine.
by nolanl | 2026-03-08 02:32:02+00:00
I've had tinnitus for almost a decade now. It gets better.

The first six months were hell because I kept focusing on how awful it was. Eventually you stop noticing it. It just becomes part of the background – like how the sky is blue, grass is green, etc.

I strongly recommend reading "Living with Tinnitus" by Laura Cole. Tinnitus is a very poorly-understood condition, but hearing about the experiences of others helps a lot. I hope you feel better soon. https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/37707931-living-with-tin...
by like_any_other | 2026-03-08 02:32:24+00:00
No, luminism and romanticism are the equivalent of esperanto or lojban. Modern art is pre-verbal vocalizations, after it had deconstructed language because having syntax and pronunciation are unoriginal and "academic", and fooled itself that higher language is no longer worth exploring. What is it trying to say - how severely language can be mutilated while still sparking some semblance of an idea in a sufficiently imaginative listener? Glorified Rorschach blots. I'll let MoMA make my case for me:

https://www.moma.org/collection/works/79892

https://www.moma.org/collection/works/101471

https://www.moma.org/collection/works/81527

https://www.moma.org/collection/works/35054

https://www.moma.org/collection/works/79816

https://www.moma.org/collection/works/35548

https://www.moma.org/collection/works/80712

https://www.moma.org/collection/works/32293

https://www.moma.org/collection/works/232
by JakeBrander | 2026-03-08 02:32:41+00:00
"The point about Geofeed (RFC 8805) manipulation is the most overlooked part of this. We’ve moved from an era where an IP’s location was determined by physical infrastructure to an era where it’s determined by whoever manages the CSV file.

The 'house of cards' exists because there’s a massive gap between registration (who owns the block) and routing/reputation (how the block is used). As long as reputation databases trust self-published geofeeds over verified RIR registry data, the incentive to 'launder' data center IPs into residential proxies will be too profitable to ignore. The only way to break the cycle isn't just to 'stop hoarding,' but to demand tighter verification between the actual network owner and the published Geofeed data."

In fact, Maxmind is actually working to help solve this problem
by timr | 2026-03-08 02:33:39+00:00
1) Their model is inherently dumb. The system is much more complicated and inseparable.

2) They openly admit that “subtracting E, S and V”, as you say, cannot actually be done.

3) They’re arbitrarily removing sources of variation so that they can claim “significance” in a narrow window. The entire exercise is designed to achieve a predetermined outcome, and statistical significance cannot be calculated in those circumstances.
by ivraatiems | 2026-03-08 02:33:47+00:00
I'd really enjoy a return to classic space opera. I think a world where technologies like AI actually work out okay to some extent is a) closer to fiction than the alternative, and b) more interesting than another dystopia.

I'd enjoy a swashbuckling noblebright adventures-in-space thing way more than yet another treatise on Technology Bad right about now.

That said, I don't know that I think sci-fi as a genre is dying per se. There are a lot of really prominent and popular science fiction pieces coming out today. Shows/books like Black Mirror and The Expanse, for example.
by onecommentman | 2026-03-08 02:34:05+00:00
Fine article, pearl-clutching tone (the world economies will not collapse if 20% of oil and gas maritime trade is blocked, but many specific industries in specific countries would be very significantly annoyed/impacted in the middle term).

But an absolutely absurd title. There is no citation in the article to anyone, much less “they all said”, who said a Hormuz closure would be brief. And I’d expect “brief” to be defined in somewhere in the article, and it isn’t. Expect better from Lloyd’s. Are they this sloppy in their underwriting? This topic doesn’t need click-bait, it’s important enough.

This blockade scenario had been identified and studied for several decades by major industrial powers, and contingency plans and stockpiling has been part and parcel of industrial planning by those powers. It’s orders of magnitude less globally impactful than any scenarios involving nuclear-tipped ballistic missiles in that “comic opera/snuff film” the world calls the Middle East.
by robotresearcher | 2026-03-08 02:34:21+00:00
> the rapid advances of AI have altered or closed off entirely a lot of the futures that I would find most interesting.

Opening them up again is a possible creative move. For example 'Dune', a far future where AIs and computers are banned and highly taboo because they caused too much trouble. Or there's alternate paths from the actual past such as steampunk in which we pushed mechanical engines further instead of switching (!) entirely to electronics.
by icelancer | 2026-03-08 02:34:22+00:00
Self-racking lets you rack a bunch of gear you'd never find in VM/dedicated rentals, like consumer parts or older, still very good parts. Overclocking options are available as well if you DIY.

If you need single-threaded performance, colo is really the only way to go anyway.

We have two full racks and we're super happy with them.
by vscode-rest | 2026-03-08 02:35:27+00:00
I wonder if people had a similarly negative reaction when someone first proposed speculative execution in processor pipelines.

“This is is a terrible idea, you’re telling me you will make 99% of cases way faster but completely ignore the 1% that will be slightly slower? Unbelievable.”

If you have SA that mast of your customers are in USA, this is a good idea. If not, maybe use your brain a bit and figure out if it can be adapted to something which will work for your customer base.
by daoboy | 2026-03-08 02:35:34+00:00
Perhaps I'm getting the wrong impression, but it seems like this author is either ignorant of a lot of very successful contemporary scifi or is just taking a narrow view of the genre based on their own preferences.

AI and independent publishing certainly make it harder to sort the wheat from the chaff, but the ubiquity and convenience of aquiririg reading materials has never been better in all of human history.

I will never get caught up with all the scifi books I want to read, and nothing could make me happier.
by awesome_dude | 2026-03-08 02:37:22+00:00
It's sad because there's so much more "out there" for us to discover and wonder about, with "out there" referring to anything from the bottom of the deep blue sea, to the far reaches of our galaxy, and everything (literally) in between, including our inner selves

Scifi, like most literature, was supposed to give us dreams about what we could do with what we found, or even dream about what is there to be found (IMO), so its demise leads us to a point where we're no longer dreaming?
by wvenable | 2026-03-08 02:37:26+00:00
> They do not complicate storage access in any meaningful way.

Sure they do, because now your row / index is variable length rather than fixed length. Way more complicated. Even 3 bytes is way more complicated to deal with than 4 bytes.

> select * from addresses where state = 11, no thanks.

I will agree that isn't fun. Is it still the trade off I do make? Absolutely. And it's not really that big of a problem; I just do a join. It also helps prevent people from using codes instead of querying the database for the correct value -- what's the point of user-configuration of someone hard-codes 'NY' in a query or in the code.