MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by disillusioned | 2026-03-11 20:15:00+00:00
If you're going to be forced, Clockwork Orange-style, to endure unwanted ads on your TV, you might as well just get the whole thing for free, right? That's what Telly does: https://www.telly.com/

For me, it worth it to spend marginally more to not have to deal with _any_ of that, but I get the appeal.
by LeifCarrotson | 2026-03-11 20:15:07+00:00
No, those properties are tied to the state of mind and experiences of the human, dog, or LLM behind any given comment.

When someone posts:

> You could use Redis for that, sure, I've run it and it wasn't as hard as some people seem to fear, but in hindsight I'd prefer some good hardware and a Postgres server: that can scale to several million daily users with your workload, and is much easier to design around at this stage of your site.

then the beholder is trusting not just the correctness of that one sentence but all of the experiences and insights from the author. You can't know whether that's good advice or not without being the author, and if that's posted by someone you trust it has value.

An LLM could be prompted to pretend they're an experienced DBA and to comment on a thread, and might produce that sentence, or if the temperature is a little different it might just say that you should start with Redis because then you don't have to redesign your whole business when Postgres won't scale anymore.
by evolve2k | 2026-03-11 20:15:13+00:00
Firstly, I really want this also and am supportive of an opinionated decision to put something at say Temporal.DateTime() that would be logical for developers to use ‘most of the time’.

However my guess is that the spec designers saw this lack of specivity as part of the problem.

A key issue of dates and times is that we use them culturally in day to day use in very imprecise ways and much is inferred from the context of use.

The concepts of zoned time and “wall clock” time are irreducable and it’s likely much code will be improved by forcing the developer to be explicit with the form of time they want to use and need for their particular use case.

I think this is why it’s so explicitly specified right now.

But I agree; I’ve often struggled with how verbose js can be.

Maybe with time (pun intended), more syntactic sugar and shorter conventions can be added to expand what has been an incredible effort to fix deep rooted issues.
by znpy | 2026-03-11 20:15:17+00:00
Oh i had one of those! The acer aspire one d250, with 1gb ram and 160gb of spinning rust.

Once i got Debian, fluxbox and emacs on it i was able to do java development (with ant and the j2me toolkit).

It was no big issue at all really, once you got linux on it.

I must say, however: the web was much lighter back in the day and electron was still to be conceived. That’s very relevant.
by ar_lan | 2026-03-11 20:15:23+00:00
I tried this service a few weeks ago, and I commend the goal - but there were a few issues I ran into:

1. There are many interactions I just could not get to work. I may have done something wrong, but in general, I have the perspective that most products should "just work" if it's as simple as clicking a button or directing something. In this case, I'm tangibly talking about the Browser feature, and the Canvas feature. In my account, I tried many times to have OpenClaw use the Browser to access a website and send me a screenshot, and it regularly reported the Browser was inaccessible, even though I had enabled it via Klaus UI. Secondly, I asked it to write certain reports to the Canvas as HTML pages that I could review - the entries would show up as files I could click on, but the files themselves were always empty.
2. OpenClaw with tokens is insanely expensive - I blew through the $15 tokens in a matter of a day.

For the first, my guess is I misconfigured something, but it's really difficult to identify what is wrong. My expectation was that I could prompt via Telegram to configure anything and everything, but some link was missing. Although I am a technical person, my expectation was that I would not need to muck around via `ssh` to figure out where my files ended up.

For the latter - and more broadly - OpenClaw is not well understood for most, and I think they will be caught off guard just how expensive it is. $15 in tokens is not a lot with how inefficient OpenClaw can be. My suggestion would be:

1. Pre-configure OpenClaw with already extremely memory-efficient rules and skills.
2. Provide clear guidance/documentation on ideal agent setup with different models as necessary. I think OpenRouter attempts to achieve this pretty well, but you are providing a layer on top of OpenRouter that may not be obvious to less-well-versed people.
3. Batteries-included options should "just work" - I felt I wasted a lot of tokens just figuring out how to get the thing to do simple tasks for me.

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A lot of the notes I made are less about your product and what you've achieved, and more to do with OpenClaw. However, you've achieved one major milestone - which is the one-click setup of OpenClaw. But if your target demographic is the less technically inclined folks that want to be able to play with the bleeding edge of AI practices, I think your platform needs to guide users to how to actually use this thing, and become useful right away.

It may even be beneficial to showcase extremely clear workflows for users to get started and sell why they even want OpenClaw.

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Anyway, kudos on the release! It is not easy to ship and you've done that hard bit! I bid you good luck on the next phase!
by majorchord | 2026-03-11 20:15:26+00:00
Honestly, I think "human originated" is the only rule that actually matters because we can't stop LLMs from sounding smart anyway. If you wait for a technical ban on AI-generated text, you're just playing catch-up with tools that already pass as human.

The real point isn't stopping bad grammar, it's preserving the vibe. HN feels different because it's messy humans arguing, not optimized algorithms trying to be helpful.

Once we allow "good enough" AI content, the community stops feeling like a town square and starts feeling like a customer service chatbot. We need real people with actual stakes in their opinions, not just perfect outputs. Let's keep it human or leave it.

This comment may or may not have been generated with an LLM, but I won't tell and you can't prove it either way.
by fireflash38 | 2026-03-11 20:15:27+00:00
If it's a completely binary choice of "election was valid" and "election was invalid" without any partial verifications of results, I think it's still a massive step back.

By which I mean: paper ballots have problems. But a fault in a handful of ballots doesn't mean the rest of the ballots need to get tossed out.

I do not believe that a system managed by humans can be faultless.
by Giefo6ah | 2026-03-11 20:15:33+00:00
I was assigned an E14 once. Compared to a T14:

The case is all thick ABS.

It weighs like 2.4 kg, and the weight is unbalanced.

The USB-C charge only works at 20V, nothing less.

While charging it overheats and spins up the fans.

It came with a TN screen with terrible viewing angles, that could not be used in a brightly lit room. I didn't use the laptop for two months while I waited for a replacement screen from aliexpress.

Keyboard is much thinner, the trackpoint drifts easily.

Camera quality is worse, somehow it cannot handle sun-lit scenes. Microphone and speakers are similar to the T14.

It stopped receiving firmware updates after two years.

It uses about 0.5 W while suspended, so its tiny 48 Wh battery typically doesn't last the weekend with the lid closed.

The motherboard has design issues, a missing protection diode in the headphone jack microphone input ended up frying the CPU due to a ground loop. Meanwhile the T14 has eaten the same ground loop and even a 48V passive PoE in an accident and dealt with it by rebooting. A T450 from 2015 is still running.
by bigyabai | 2026-03-11 20:15:46+00:00
If I use one of my Macs then I have to resort to hacks to get a decent OS. A crappy trackpad is ~10-20x less annoying than a hostile OEM, at least for my non-bus-based work.

In any case, my response was to cromka's comment and our shared dissatisfaction with Asahi.
by rdtsc | 2026-03-11 20:15:49+00:00
> Especially since the article gives evidence that things were stored in the holes

They explain it as these holes are at the top of the mountain. Why climb the large mountain to store your grain there just to have haul it back down later? My own guess answers: safer from animals, precipitation, safe from enemies.

Storing in general could mean different things: putting baskets with grain and produce there for a minute and them someone else immediately pick it up in some bartering exchange, it's not really storing then, I guess? Or, even religious offerings can also be explained as "storing" -- they are stored in there until the "gods" (i.e. elements) destroy them (i.e. consume them) and the gods are appeased, that way ensuring good harvests and other benefits.
by adamsmark | 2026-03-11 20:15:57+00:00
I frequently use AI to make my comments more concise and easy to follow. I find myself meandering a lot when I type, and now that I've transitioned to full voice dictation through FUTO keyboard I am speaking more off the cuff and having an LLM clean it up.

You may also notice that I don't have much common history here. I mostly comment on Reddit.

Here's where I draw the line. If you are not reading the text that is produced by the LLM, then I don't want to read whatever it is that you wrote. I will usually only do one or two iterations of my comment, but afterwards I will usually edit it by hand.

Technically, there is light AI editing of this comment because FUTO keyboard has the ability to enable a transformer model that will capitalize, punctuate, and just generally remove filler words and make it so that it's not a hyper-literal transcription.
by rajit | 2026-03-11 20:16:26+00:00
Prism and Higgsfield are both similar in that we bring many AI models into one place. Higgsfield is focused on a number of different use cases - storyboarding, ai filmmaking, and visual effects - while Prism is hyper-focused on short form video.

You can give Prism a try at https://prismvideos.com - I'm excited to hear your feedback.
by pistoriusp | 2026-03-11 20:16:31+00:00
The big focus will be ensuring that you're not stuck on our implementation of RSC (we wrote a custom vite plugin); so we'll be moving over to the version from the Vite team.

It's not that we think our implementation is worse, it's just that we don't want you to be locked into our framework.

We will also launch something like ActiveRecord and a Convex like experience.
by likpok | 2026-03-11 20:16:33+00:00
Modern shareholder law is definitely a strange business. People have successfully brought suits for a variety of bad-but-not-illegal causes. There were a lot of lawsuits about sexual harassment and climate change, I believe the theory being that “bad thing will make the stock go down, and the company didn’t disclose that they might do the bad thing”. Then more recently a lawsuit against target proceeded (I don’t see whether it’s completed yet) despite target having disclosed the risk (in this case of their DEI activity).

The claim in the suit is notably that the company failed to disclose the behavior, not that they did the behavior (Target notwithstanding), which mostly agrees with your line of questioning.
by brainwad | 2026-03-11 20:16:38+00:00
It's not necessarily easy. The timing of Australian elections from issuance of writs is limited by the constitution, and since they can occur at the discretion of the prime minister, you can't prepare for them in advance.

Swiss votes are scheduled in advance, but the explanatory material and campaign flyers still have to be made and in order to be topical you don't want to make them too early. In particular the consequences of previous votes can affect the upcoming votes, and the closest interval is only 2 months (September/November).
by dekhn | 2026-03-11 20:16:42+00:00
Mostly experience (based on being a PhD scientist, a postdoc, a National Lab scientist, and engineer at several bigtech companies), partly speculation (none of the groups/labs I worked in operated at "the highest level", but I worked adjacent to many of those).

I'm pretty sure most image fraud went completely unrealized even in the case of replication failure. It looks like (pre AI) it was mostly a few folks who did it as a hobby, unrelated to their regular jobs/replication work.
by equalitie | 2026-03-11 20:16:43+00:00
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by bondarchuk | 2026-03-11 20:17:15+00:00
All the weak excuses posted here are just making me lean more towards a hardline policy. No I don't want to read a human-generated summary of your llm brainstorming session. No I don't want to read human-written text with wording changes suggested by an llm. No I don't want to read an excerpt from llm output even if you correctly attribute it.

I acknowledge this is partly just my personal bias, in some cases really not fair, and unenforceable anyway, but someone relying on llms just makes me feel like they have... bad taste in information curation, or something, and I'd rather just not interact with them at all.
by error503 | 2026-03-11 20:17:17+00:00
Why would it be non-standard? USB-PD is almost completely decoupled from the rest of USB, and USB-C connector doesn't imply 'super speed' lanes are available. The only thing it really changes from an implementation perspective is that you don't have to route high speed lanes to the port, and don't need them to be available on your USB controller.

Doesn't seem to be very Apple-like to have two identical looking ports with different function, though.
by mhitza | 2026-03-11 20:17:23+00:00
I'm in complete agreement with your comment.

My recommendation remains in this case, because we're talking about a young person that tries to launch a business, for some CRM software; and that can't be the hobby software of someone that young. He's probably getting into this business to make money, with ideas (and without capital to execute it - assuming), something like YCombinator (or any other seed, angel, vc) is a way to get on that path.
by esseph | 2026-03-11 20:17:33+00:00
> auto-populated

Auto population of login credentials including 2FA is currently an attack vector.

"A critical security flaw has been uncovered in the autofill functionality of nearly every major password manager. This vulnerability allows threat actors to stealthily harvest user credentials and sensitive financial data from deceptive web forms without user interaction, turning a core convenience feature into a potent weapon for cybercrime."

https://undercodetesting.com/the-autofill-trap-how-your-pass...
by mekdoonggi | 2026-03-11 20:17:59+00:00
If they are similar to khipus (used for accounting) perhaps we're looking at the invention of a central bank.

Think about it, the village has a hard year, so they collectively borrow grain from another village. How do you settle disputes about exactly how much was borrowed? You build a big thing on the edge of town that everyone can see and can't destroy without a bunch of effort.
by altairprime | 2026-03-11 20:18:06+00:00
Posting accusations of guidelines violations as comments — specifically, “did you write your comment by LLM” — is already prohibited by the guidelines, and should be emailed to the mods instead using the footer contact links. It’s been less than a week since the last time I reported “this seems poorly written and/or AI written” to the mods and iirc they killed the post and account within a couple hours.

Similarly: If you see people making accusations of guidelines violations in a discussion, email the thread link to the mods with a subject like “Accusations in post discussion” and ask them to evaluate them for mod response; they’re always happy to do so and I’m easily clocking in a couple hundred emails a year of that sort to them.

It doesn’t take much to make HN better! And it only takes a moment to point out an overlooked corner of threads for mod review. No need to present a full legal case, just “FYI this seems to violate guideline xyz” is at minimum still helpful.
by equalitie | 2026-03-11 20:18:19+00:00
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by gtowey | 2026-03-11 20:18:24+00:00
> There is a kill switch

...because this thing will go rogue faster than you can blink.

I swear, it's like nobody at the company even reads the slop they're generating or thinks about it for any amount of time. In what world is advertising a kill switch as one of its essential features a positive? It's basically admitting from the start that this is unreliable.
by jasonwatkinspdx | 2026-03-11 20:18:37+00:00
Yeah, they're just assuming that if you wanted to store something you'd store it at the bottom of the hill.

While I'm no archeologist/anthropologist, I have seen an ancient grainery near the green river in Utah. It was about an hour long very steep half hike half rock scramble to get up to the ledge where it was at.

So maybe ancient people had reasons to put storage sites in more difficult to access locations.
by yesfitz | 2026-03-11 20:18:47+00:00
It's a matter of taste, but your original writing is way better. Your writing has your voice. Like dropping the "I am" from your first sentence, using parentheticals, couching your point in understatement (e.g "sometimes" meaning often instead of just saying "often").

The AI comment might be clear, but it sounds like a press release, not a person, and there's nothing to engage with.
by shadowgovt | 2026-03-11 20:19:05+00:00
My personal interpretation of the rule is that if it's human-originated but passed through a layer of cleanup, it's human-originated. For the same reason I'm not refraining from running the spellchecker or using speech-to-text to generate this sentence. "If I could be having my English-speaking nephew type this on my behalf while I told him my thoughts in Japanese, it passes the smell test for human-sourced" feels about the right place to set the bar.
by k33n | 2026-03-11 20:19:13+00:00
The implicit contract when you buy from Hisense is that you'll see ads. They are obviously deploying more aggressive advertising strategies as their more tech-savvy customers break the implicit contract and get around ads entirely -- leaving the less tech-savvy customers holding the bag.

That's all that's happening. Had zero customers done that, they wouldn't have had to go nuclear.
by chrisweekly | 2026-03-11 20:19:23+00:00
I like this guideline, at least in principle.

But I have some concerns about suppression of comments from non-native English writers. More selfishly, my personal writing style has significant overlap with so-called "tells" for AI generated prose: things like "it's not X, it's Y", use of em-dashes, a fairly deep vocabulary, and a tendency toward verbosity (which I'm striving to curb). It'd be ironic if I start getting flagged as a bot, given I don't even use a spell-checker. Time will tell.
by HPSimulator | 2026-03-11 20:19:29+00:00
I ran into this with my own SaaS a while back.

One day I started getting API errors across requests and initially assumed it was something on my side. After digging into it, the provider I was using was getting overloaded and intermittently failing.

That was the moment I realized relying on a single external service was a risk I hadn’t really planned for.

Now I keep two providers configured: a primary and a secondary. If error rates spike or the API stops responding, the system can fail over instead of the whole product going down.

It added a bit of complexity, but the peace of mind is worth it.
by gbacon | 2026-03-11 20:19:35+00:00
> Luck (primarily)

This is an extraordinary claim. What is your extraordinary evidence?

Why didn’t it rain today? Good luck! Why was Michael Jordan so skillful at basketball? Just good luck. Why is Linux better than Windows? Good luck! Why did VMS fall off? Bad luck. Why does 2 + 2 = 4? I guess just good luck.

These are all laughably incurious, superstitious answers. Other factors must be at play. Yes, identifying them may require hard thinking and concentration.

Otherwise, what is democracy other than selecting the luckiest? We already had strange women lying in ponds distributing swords for that — and much cheaper and quicker to boot.

> Studies show that you can have 140 IQ and still end up homeless if circumstances are poor.

We’ve likely all known people who were book smart but didn’t have good walking-around sense. Everyone knows others who make poor or destructive choices. The interpersonal skills, soft skills, and emotional intelligence being dismissed in this thread as mere “luck and connections” may be severely lacking. The person may have poor mental health or addiction.

Are you using determinism in the automata theory sense or some other?
by ZekiAI2026 | 2026-03-11 20:19:45+00:00
Yes, the test suite applies here too — the attack vector doesn't require an exposed service. The risk is message content acting as injected instructions when it reaches the Cursor agent's context. Even from a trusted Telegram user ID, a poisoned message (forwarded message, pasted link preview, webhook notification) becomes part of the agent's working context without additional authentication. The agent then acts on it.

A sandbox test on cursor-tg would be useful for documenting that path.

And yes — telegram-acp-connector is a higher-stakes target. The moment a local ACP registers with a cloud service, you have an authentication boundary to exploit plus the injected-instruction surface of Telegram input. Happy to run the suite there when it's ready. I'll keep an eye on the repo.

If you want to move faster on the cursor-tg test: zeki@agentmail.to
by egeozcan | 2026-03-11 20:19:46+00:00
I occasionally used AI to edit and restructure my comments. I’m very open about it, and I don’t feel like I’m talking to non-humans when others do the same.

To be clear, I'm neither proud nor embarrassed by this. I'm just trying to communicate in the most efficient way I can.

I'm not sure how I feel about this new rule.
by ThrowawayR2 | 2026-03-11 20:20:14+00:00
It says "Show HN is for something you've made that other people can play with." so it's not really an invitation to post for-profit product launch ads. Most Show HN projects that gain traction are personal projects.

In fact, the tips page (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22336638) that's linked from the Show HN guidelines directly says "Drop any language that sounds like marketing or sales. On HN, that is an instant turnoff. Use factual, direct language. Personal stories and technical details are great.