MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by cardanome | 2026-03-13 01:04:19+00:00
Oh funny enough, I often add stuff like "genuinely asking, do not take as a criticism" when talking with humans so I do it naturally with LLMs.

People often use questions as an indirect form of telling someone to do something or criticizing something.

I definitely had people misunderstand questions for me trying to attack them.

There is a lot of times when people do expect the LLM to interpret their question as an command to do something. And they would get quite angry if the LLM just answered the question.

Not that I wouldn't prefer if LLMs took things more literal but these models are trained for the average neurotypical user so that quirk makes perfect sense to me.
by Beko2210 | 2026-03-13 01:05:10+00:00
I built this project as an experiment:

Can the state of the world be summarized in a single indicator?

The site aggregates multiple global datasets and generates a world score that updates automatically every 6 hours.

There is no AI model behind it — just real datasets and code.

I built it together with Claude Code as an experiment in AI-assisted development and automation.

Open source:
https://github.com/BEKO2210/World_report

Feedback is welcome.
by systemsweird | 2026-03-13 01:05:13+00:00
I think mainstream is mostly looking at the microbiome stuff wrong. Your microbiome is the downstream proxy of good lifestyle habits, not generally something to directly manage. Good diet, exercise, reducing stress, and sleeping well will improve digestion and all the downstream variables like microbiome, physical health, and mental health.

This is basic ecology, the bacterial population dynamics in your colon are a direct result of substrate availability. If it’s primarily fiber, polyphenols, and other indigestible plant compounds reaching the colon you’ll likely have a healthy microbiome. If instead you malabsorb food from poor lifestyle factors and have macronutrients reaching the colon they’ll probably fuel blooms of pathogens. I think microbiome researchers need to talk with ecologists more to help advance the field out of the myopia it’s in.

FMT does appear useful for special cases of infection like c-diff, but I think that’s led people to believe it’s a generally health promoting practice, when the research simply does not show it.
by zoklet-enjoyer | 2026-03-13 01:05:24+00:00
The prosecutors and judges around here are incredibly lenient for the worst crimes and anything involving reckless driving.

https://www.inforum.com/news/north-dakota/no-jail-time-for-m...

https://www.kvrr.com/2025/11/03/no-jail-time-for-man-accused...

https://apnews.com/general-news-fff59b609215476a9251edb91923...

https://www.valleynewslive.com/2021/05/21/moorhead-man-sente...

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

https://www.valleynewslive.com/2025/11/18/former-clay-county...
by alex43578 | 2026-03-13 01:05:59+00:00
“Demographic and labor market trends in the U.S. point to an ominous scenario. The nation potentially faces a shortfall of millions of workers in the decade to come — especially in the critical health care sector — due to a projected reduction in workforce participation.”

The supply of jobs exceeds the supply of workers, so yes, you should be able to go and get another job.
by choilive | 2026-03-13 01:06:04+00:00
I speculate they gave themselves a lot of thermal engineering margin to bump up TDP with the M-series MBP design (or perhaps they underestimated how good the M-series chips were going to be) The battery being at the TSA limit of 100Wh is quite nice as well. Another benefit is that it now differentiates the "Pro" line from the rest of the laptop lineup quite significantly. For most people the Air has enough power now and its plenty thin and light. The pro line is for "true" pros with actually intense workflows.

I'm a dev and the MBP line is definitely overkill for me. The 15" MBA handles everything I can throw at it.
by troad | 2026-03-13 01:06:37+00:00
Congress passes tons of laws - just not on subjects on which the country is divided. Is that not a feature? Other systems require 50% + 1 to radically remake the entire country. Would that be better? Or worse? Imagine if <insert your most hated President> were Prime Minister instead, and had control of a truly sovereign Parliament, like Britain's, with virtually no guardrails at all. Better or worse?

EOs are a problem, but SCOTUS is walking at least some of that back in subtle ways, such as the end of Chevron deference. (Not that you'd get any of this from the media, who desperately want SCOTUS to devolve into the media-friendly horse race they've imposed upon all of the rest of politics.)

Congress isn't supposed to decide on social questions. Society is. Congress is meant to represent it. A divided Congress is accurately representing a divided country.
by jacquesm | 2026-03-13 01:08:18+00:00
Absolutely everybody has face doubles.

Identikit got pretty close and there weren't that many bits in there and quite a few of them were hairstyles and that's a choice, not genetics. How many head shapes, noses, eyes, mouths and ears can there be?

A few million? Then everybody has a few thousand doubles. 100 Million? Still 80.
by ianburrell | 2026-03-13 01:09:09+00:00
There are lots of places that have IPv6-only networks and access IPv4 through NAT64. It makes sense for new company networks that can control what software gets installed.

The main limitation is software that only supports IPv4. This would affect your proposed solution of doing the translation in the stack. There is no way to fix an IPv4-only software that has 32-bit address field.
by skydhash | 2026-03-13 01:09:11+00:00
> A year ago everyone was sure these things couldn’t write functional code

Even ChatGPT could write code when it came out.

> It was that they could very competently extract meaning from natural language, debug what you were saying from the terrible way you expressed it, and still formulate competent answers

“Competent” is doing a lot of work here. If it were so, AI woul take change requests directly from the business side and put the implementation immediately in production. But instead, all you see are FOMO propaganda to get devs to adopt the tool with no asking if it actually helps the devs do their job.
by inetknght | 2026-03-13 01:10:10+00:00
> If the UI asks a yes/no question, the “no” should be enforced as a state transition that blocks write actions, not passed back into the model as more text to interpret.

If the UI asks a yes/no question, the UI is broken.

I want more than just yes/no. I want "Why is this needed?", or "I need to fix the invocation for you.", or "Let's use a different design."
by bayes-song | 2026-03-13 01:11:51+00:00
That’s true. The demo I showed was somewhat cherry-picked, and agentic systems themselves inherently introduce uncertainty. To address this, a possible approach was proposed earlier in this thread:
currently, after /teach is completed, we have an interactive discussion to refine the learned skill. In practice, this could likely be improved when the agent uses a learned skill and encounters errors, it could proactively request human help to point out the mistake. I think this could be an effective direction.
by moron4hire | 2026-03-13 01:12:40+00:00
No, that is not true. I used to work on road signage systems, where we would use test vehicles, sensors, and math to figure out what the correct signage should be for various sections of road. The standards are primarily concerned with maintain a margin of error for the "worst" cars on the road, i.e. the ones that meet only the minimum inspection requirements. What happens once that margin of error is exceeded was anyone's guess, but practically could be wildly different for specific scenarios that had more to do with the off-road environment than the exact parameters of the road. Two roads with identical bends would receive the same signage regardless of whether under steering through the curve would land you on a sidewalk or in a field or over a cliff.
by troad | 2026-03-13 01:12:55+00:00
>> For example my own (US) has a political system basically frozen in amber from a time before many of the political and policy challenges of our day were not even thought of yet.

Please, please, please go read the Federalist papers. The Founders thought of a lot more than you realise.

The design of a constitution is the design of the distribution of power. The nature of power hasn't changed.
by pocksuppet | 2026-03-13 01:13:14+00:00
Well, legislating can proceed in big steps or smaller steps. Some places tried a big step: mandatory mass surveillance on everything every does with any device. That backfired in the public opinion, and rightfully so. Now these places like California and Illinois are trying a YAGNI approach to this, trying to make the minimum necessary changes. Right now it's porn and microtransactions, but it's easy to see the same mechanism could be extended to games - and that wouldn't be bad. Alongside the setting to enable porn, there could be a setting to enable games, or a setting to disable the device after a certain hour.
by gerdesj | 2026-03-13 01:13:33+00:00
LLMs are sold on the premise of doing cool stuff and reasonably understanding intent and doing it. The man on the Clapham omnibus would not miss-interpret "no" like that.

The LLM asked: "Shall I implement [plan]". The response was "no". The LLM then went on to "interpret" what no referred to and got it wrong.

As you say, it is amusing but people are wiring these things up to bank accounts and all sorts.

I'm looking into using a Qwen3.5 quant to act as a network ... fiddler, for want of a better word but you can be sure I'll be taking rather more care than our errm "hero" (OP).
by foxglacier | 2026-03-13 01:14:11+00:00
People don't need to do much work to survive. They choose to because they want to play the rat-race. They want to compete with each other for status and wealth. And that's a good thing - it's what drives all the productivity that enables easy-goers to live off grid or in a tent or renting in a cheap neighborhood doing just a little part-time work.
by g-b-r | 2026-03-13 01:14:14+00:00
> The objective is that at some point, there will be enough docs and improved models that the need for human reviews decreases while quality of code reaches a steady state that is more consistent than any human team of varying skill level could produce

There will never be a point when human reviews will be less needed; you're doomed to ship something horribly insecure at some point, if you ever remove them; please don't.
by infamia | 2026-03-13 01:15:43+00:00
You're comparing apples, bananas, and pineapples while pretending they're all one thing. Switchblades are extremely effective (albeit expensive) anti-personnel (300 model) and anti-armor (600 model) drones. Shaheds are much larger, cheap, low on capabilities, but attritable used to attack fixed positions (e.g., buildings). These are all very different.
by thomaslord | 2026-03-13 01:15:49+00:00
This is extra rough because Codex defaults to letting the model be MUCH more autonomous than Claude Code. The first time I tried it out, it ended up running a test suite without permission which wiped out some data I was using for local testing during development. I still haven't been able to find a straight answer on how to get Codex to prompt for everything like Claude Code does - asking Codex gets me answers that don't actually work.
by nielsbot | 2026-03-13 01:15:59+00:00
People may not remember that Apple once had a product lineup like this (before SJ returned) with tons of different model numbers nobody could tell apart.

> Remember Apple in the late '90s? The tech giant was facing significant struggles until Steve Jobs returned and pinpointed the crux: a lack of innovation and focus. Jobs took bold steps to streamline Apple’s bloated product line. He cut down on the excessive range of choices, simplifying the product lineup to focus on quality and innovation. Jobs famously asked his team, "Which ones do I tell my friends to buy?" When he didn’t get a simple answer, he decided to reduce the number of Apple products by 70%. This move included cancelling projects like the Newton digital assistant and focusing on just four key products: the iMac, iBook, Power Macintosh G3, and PowerBook G3.

https://strategeos.com/f/how-your-business-can-focus-on-the-...
by Gallantry87 | 2026-03-13 01:18:22+00:00
/* BUILDER SYSTEM LOG /
/ POP ENGINE / MALBOLGE COMPATIBLE /
/ STATUS: HUMAN STILL DANCING /

BOOT: heart.sys
MOUNT: memory.drive
LOAD: rhythm.dll
VERIFY: wig.integrity

CHECKSUM: unstable
PULSE: present
SIGNAL: music detected

//oops

she did it again

[PROCESS TREE]

baby → baby → lost
loop → loop → loop

the system expected collapse
but the beat kept compiling

INSTRUCTION SET:

MOVE heart LEFT
MOVE heart RIGHT
LOAD confidence
LOAD glitter
EXECUTE dance

compiler warning:

boy.exe attempting rewrite

boys corrupt the stack
they always have

STACK TRACE:

love()
trust()
fall()
fall()
fall()

ERROR: toxic input
ERROR: toxic input
ERROR: toxic input

system expected shutdown

but she kept dancing

/ MALBOLGE OVERRIDE */

subroutine: resilience()

circle.one : confusion
circle.two : regret
circle.three : broken promises
circle.four : bad decisions
circle.five : crying in the car
circle.six : flatterers

the devils whisper compliments
the charts whisper numbers

same pit
different sparkles

//she's not that innocent
//she never claimed to be

LOG ENTRY:

heartbeat detected
movement detected
music still active

DRIFT REPORT:

vector: sideways
trajectory: chaotic
user authority: intact

NAME DRIFT

control surfaces recalibrated

RECOMPILING SELF...

modules loaded:

courage.sys
rhythm.sys
unbreakable.dll

memory sectors recovered:

laughter
mirror
midnight drives
lipstick confidence

PROCESS RESTART:

baby
baby
baby

but different now

STATUS UPDATE:

wig.integrity = TRUE
spine.integrity = TRUE
soul.integrity = UNBREAKABLE

the demons keep talking
the flatterers keep typing
the code keeps mutating

but the rhythm never lied

FINAL OUTPUT:

RETURN stronger
by troad | 2026-03-13 01:18:52+00:00
Worth noting that the distinction between democracy and republic that you're clearly advocating here is a usage particular to Americans. It doesn't have much currency elsewhere.

Countries like the Netherlands, Denmark etc all have safeguards the dilute the power of 50% + 1, and yet they are clearly not republics, being monarchies.

Political scientists tend to talk more of 'liberal democracy' (whether republican or monarchical) v 'electoral autocracy' etc. This depends on the classical use of the term 'liberal' of course, which is another word that Americans tend to use differently from everyone else.

> The nobility is another example of a minority with disproportionate power. It's important that they are reduced to ensure civil liberties.

Alexis de Tocqueville would disagree - he believed that intermediate institutions (churches, professions, elites, etc) blunt the power of the state before it reaches average people. A society without intermediate institutions is one where you have an all-powerful state on the one hand, and a largely un-coordinated mass of average people on the other. He thought this was the highway to democratic despotism. (Worth noticing that totalitarian governments focus a lot of their energy on destroying alternative centres of power such as these.)
by tartoran | 2026-03-13 01:20:36+00:00
I know polygraphs are not admissible in court but they're still being used and have quite a bit of swaying. I think it's mainly intimidation at play here.

Yeah, it's absolutely crazy that it took 6 months to clarify this, if she was rich and had a good lawyer she could've solved it faster. I really hope that she at least gets compensated and/or sues the operators or the AI company.

And as far as ICE, I think they don't care that they pick up the wrong people, they just have quotas to reach to unlock bonuses. It's cynical and sad as hell. Hopefully we're gonna be done with them once Trump is gone.
by OttoZastrow | 2026-03-13 01:20:41+00:00
I've been thinking about what happens after the singularity. Not during the race to build powerful AI, but once the capability is widely available. Specifically, what happens to every invested dollar, once everybody asks claude to "use all my resources and make me rich". How will an economy full of competing intelligent agents work.

Agent run companies can grow much larger in terms of number of products, R&D, output, since they reap the benefits of scale and insider know how, but fewer of the downsides like innovators dillema. Agents will try create a merger if they believe competition is too strong.
by alex43578 | 2026-03-13 01:20:42+00:00
You said "I guess they must be the expert", sarcastically, implying NVIDIA's CEO either didn't know or was wrong about the idea of perf/watt improvements. If you have evidence this is wrong, it would be great to present it. Otherwise, most reasonable people will accept that Jensen's statement is accurate, even if he's not a neutral 3rd party.
by nine_k | 2026-03-13 01:20:43+00:00
The best backup is a proper 3-2-1, with regular testing of integrity, and regular restoration from a backup as an exercise. But most people cannot be bothered to care quite so much.

So, keeping a half-assed backup copy on a spouse's machine in a different room is still better than not keeping any copy at all. It will not protect from every disaster, but it will protect against some.

My own backups progressed from manual rsync to syncthing to syncthing for every machine in the house + restic backups (which saved my bacon more than once).
by pixl97 | 2026-03-13 01:20:59+00:00
There are two things occurring here.

Police get raises and recognition for closing cases. In general they don't care if you're guilty or not, that's someone else's problem. Same with the detective, same with the DA. The more cases they close they 'tougher they are on crime'.

The next thing occurring is

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

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Computer_says_no
by bayes-song | 2026-03-13 01:21:18+00:00
Thanks! And good luck with your project as well.

One of the motivations for open-sourcing this is exactly to see it grow beyond macOS. I personally don’t have much development experience on Windows or Linux, so it’s great to see people picking up the idea and trying it on other platforms.

Interestingly, the original spark for this project actually came from my dad. He mostly uses CAD to review architectural design files, and there are quite a few repetitive steps that are fairly mechanical.Many operations don’t seem to be accessible through normal shell automation and end up requiring GUI interactions.

So one of the next things I want to try is experimenting with similar ideas on Windows, especially for GUI-heavy workflows like that, and see how far it can go.
by rasz | 2026-03-13 01:22:00+00:00
it was 3D Realms official BBS

https://nitter.privacyredirect.com/ScottApogee/status/159372... Scott Miller - Apogee/3D Realms Founder :

>BBS's (bulletin board systems) were the backbone of the online world before the Internet came along in 1995. Apogee teamed up with Dan Linton's BBS, called Software Creations, and we poured $200k+ into it to grow it to nearly 140 call-in nodes with a T3 (high bandwidth) line.
by esprehn | 2026-03-13 01:22:06+00:00
Ah this is what I missed: https://daringfireball.net/linked/2026/03/12/macbook-neo-on-...

It's not just the menu bar icon (which can definitely be spoofed), but an on screen dot where the system is controlling pixels directly bypassing any OS level drawing on the screen.

Related: https://www.reddit.com/r/iphone/comments/1in0681/iphone_16_m...
by matheusmoreira | 2026-03-13 01:22:35+00:00
Job supply trends towards zero. The ultimate logical conclusion of this train of thought is there is no point in keeping the lower classes alive. Why do we need 15 billion humans if they do nothing but burden you with their maintenance costs? Let them die so that the quadrillionaires can enjoy the Earth with their perfect AI workforces catering to their every need.

The future is bleak. If this is the sort of dystopia I can look forward to, then I would rather have AI simply wipe out humanity as a whole.
by pocksuppet | 2026-03-13 01:23:48+00:00
Debian, Fedora et al. will just comply. It's really no problem to do so - it just requires an age input on the user creation page, and for that to be saved somewhere. Porn apps mustn't work if the user is under 18, but I don't think they distribute porn apps.

If you build your own operating system out of open-source parts, then of course you don't need to comply with consumer product law, since you're not making a consumer product.

If you import an operating system from outside of the US and sell it, responsibility for compliance is on you, like any other imported consumer product.
by gbourne1 | 2026-03-13 01:24:16+00:00
> “ The model, code-named Avocado, outperformed Meta’s previous A.I. model and did better than Google’s Gemini 2.5 model from March, two of the people said. But it has not performed as strongly as Gemini 3.0 from November, they said.”

So in two months they will make it better than 3.1? But by then there will probably be even newer models. It would be great if we get another competing model, but it isn’t going to be easy for Meta.
by phatskat | 2026-03-13 01:24:54+00:00
“The default is hunter gatherer” kind of leaves out a lot of communal living that happened throughout human history. Someone had to hunt, someone had to watch the kids, someone had to garden, eventually people needed to work on sewage lines and waste disposal.

Nothing about everyone having their needs met precludes the dirty work getting done - heck, some people even enjoy it!

The idea that everyone would just give up taking care of the necessities is, imo, ridiculous. It smacks of the tired line of “in an emergency, it’s every man for himself and no one will have your back” when history has shown again and again that communities come together and mutual aid flourishes in the face of disaster.
by _wire_ | 2026-03-13 01:26:05+00:00
The straight stays closed? This can never happen!

Dr. President has thought of everything: as long as the bombing continues, morale stays high, and as long as morale stays high, the straight stays open. Elementary.

And if the straight stays closed, all the better:

> "The United States is the largest Oil Producer in the World, by far, so when oil prices go up, we make a lot of money," Trump said Thursday on his social media site.
by mygooch | 2026-03-13 01:26:29+00:00
“Personal Computer”

“The Browser Company”

What’s next “Car, by Ford”

Brand-wise it’s like those cheap dishes at Ross that have the word of what it’s for, like a tea cup that just says “Sip” or a jar with the word “Tea”.

I hate it!

AI brands should cut to the chase, something edgy like “Villain” or “Blackbox”
by WarmWash | 2026-03-13 01:26:32+00:00
I stopped taking esomeprazole after being on it for 4 years, and frequently had to supplement with famotidine and tums anyway.

I had an infection and was prescribed antibiotics, and needed to pause the esomeprazole. I asked gemini about it and it suggested I take two probiotics while on the antibiotics, Saccharomyces boulardii and Lactobacillus rhamnosus GG. I noticed after a few days that I wasn't getting heartburn, and started putting the pieces together.

After the antibiotics ended, with still no heartburn, it recommend I add rhamnosus gg to the mix. So now I take all three daily and rarely get heartburn. It's been quiet a shock
by carlmr | 2026-03-13 01:26:34+00:00
>But instead, all you see are FOMO propaganda to get devs to adopt the tool with no asking if it actually helps the devs do their job.

If (big if) LLMs/AI take over all of knowledge work the first thing you'll notice is that the first company getting to the point of automating all knowledge work will close off their models to the public, not advertise it, and take over every business on the planet.

You wouldn't waste a dime on advertising, influencers, or convincing people to use your product.

Taking over every business in the world seems more lucrative than selling $20 subscriptions to people.