MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by aaroninsf | 2026-03-11 19:37:14+00:00
The incentive of the human who deployed it—at one remove or another—would require knowing more. But the more likely cases are easy to guess at, e.g., someone is playing with OpenClaw. I'd guess "someone is playing with OpenClaw and intends to write something about it boost their brand, could be a Show HN could be a LinkedIn screed they hope goes viral."

Could be for fun. I remember fun.
by glitchc | 2026-03-11 19:37:27+00:00
That's because some are Indigenous names phoneticized for English speakers (Yonge and Markham on the other hand are entirely English names):

Etobicoke. From Adobigok [1]

Tecumseh (or Tecumseth). From tecumtha or takhamehse [2]

Mississauga. From Misi-zaagiing [3]

[1] https://www.etobicokehistorical.com/brief-history-of-etobico...

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tecumseh

[3] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mississauga
by pjmlp | 2026-03-11 19:37:31+00:00
I am talking about Rust OOP language features for polymorphism, dynamic and static dispatch, encapsulation, interfaces.

Which allowed me to port 1:1 the Raytracing Weekend tutorial from the original OOP design in C++ to Rust.

Also the OOP model used by COM and WinRT ABIs, that Microsoft makes heavy use of in their Rust integration across various Windows and Office components.
by Spooky23 | 2026-03-11 19:37:47+00:00
Their model works great.

It’s really about bypassing the existing power structure of the company. Competence of the work itself is a secondary objective. Most in-house initiatives can be slow rolled by management.

The fresh faced consultant with 2-3 steps to access the CEO neutralizes that. It seems grifty but is really exploiting bugs in corporate governance.

The current fad of firing the managers is a riff on this. Every jackass C-level is coming up with the novel idea of flattening.
by thewebguyd | 2026-03-11 19:37:49+00:00
The goal is different. Jobs wanted to make the product spread simple to understand.

Apple's current method is a pricing ladder, make it simple to spend $200+ more than you planned.

MacBook Neo, $599. Great but maybe I want Touch ID & more storage, ok $699. Well at this point now it's "only" $300 to get the air which is much better. Well, now that you're already spending $1000, might as well just do the extra $500 and get the pro..."

Every product lineup is designed that way. It gets you thinking "eh, what's an extra $200" and slowly moves you up until you land at the highest tier.

Now that everything is using the same silicon, it costs Apple very little to maintain all these variants (that are mostly binning), so there's little reason not to.
by fc417fc802 | 2026-03-11 19:38:11+00:00
Sure, setting aside notions of common sense and accountability to the public a western government could hypothetically impose the equivalent (inverse?) of the EURion constellation on all digital displays. Of course you'd also need to patch the hole of authorized devices (ex laptops) running FOSS video players playing back pirated streams. Which is to say that it doesn't actually solve the "problem" unless it turns into a full blown war on general purpose computing.

But wait! Even that's not good enough because my (now illicit) pirate box can present the stream embedded in a webpage for the locked down device that I don't control to play back on the DRM'd TV. So I guess now we're also going to want a scheme to prevent government approved devices from establishing network connections with unapproved ones?
by ChadNauseam | 2026-03-11 19:38:24+00:00
rust would be pretty unusable without references. affine lambda calculus isn’t even turing complete. however, you’re right that a borrow checker is unnecessary, as uniqueness types (the technical term for types that guarantee single ownership) are implemented in clean and idris without a borrow checker. the borrow checker mainly exists because it dramatically increases the number of valid programs.
by JThomas-CoE | 2026-03-11 19:38:59+00:00
I wanted to share a proof-of-concept from the College of Experts project on the separability of machine intelligence.

We hypothesized that domain knowledge in monolithic Mixture-of-Experts models is not holographically entangled across all routing layers, but physically separable. Using histographic activation profiling across 10 coding languages, we surgically extracted the 256 experts responsible for Python from Qwen3-Coder-Next-80B and separately extracted the 256 experts responsible for Web/Frontend logic. We used a bias activation function across the 48 layers which modified the expert ranking and selected experts up to the expert budget of 256 per layer.

The resulting 40B Python Specialist retains a 93% score on HumanEval (compared to the 80B model's 94%), despite losing half its parameters. Conversely, the 40B Web Specialist retains near-perfect UI generation capabilities while completely losing the ability to emit raw Python logic. Note that this was achieved strictly via weight-slicing the unmodified .gguf file, with zero post-surgery fine-tuning.

The repo linked above contains Demo v1.5, which uses a fast ONNX supervisor (DML/CUDA) to hot-swap these massive 40B lobes via Ollama, allowing 80B-class MoE routing on consumer hardware (29GB VRAM footprint).

Below are the relevant links:

Whitepaper (PDF): [https://github.com/JThomas-CoE/College-of-Experts-AI/blob/ma...]
The Extracted Models: [https://huggingface.co/JThomas-CoE/CoE-WEB2-40b-A3b-GGUF]
We are currently preparing to decompose the new Qwen3.5-35B model into a full 10-domain suite. I would love to hear feedback on the layer-slicing methodology or the architectural implications of hosting the routing supervisor outside of the LLM inference engine.
by JoshCole | 2026-03-11 19:39:05+00:00
I've been obsessed with game theory for years. Started by reimplementing papers, got annoyed at how bad the tooling was, wrote my own, and somewhere along the way realized the field's core assumptions about competition are wrong. Helps that many of my friends are from the competitive gaming scene -- multi-R1 players, MLG winners, etc. So I get to have a view on strategy from both the FANG MLE/SWE side but also the actually competing at the highest levels side.

Decided to found a company with some of those friends, bridging computational game theory and large language models :)

https://mieza.ai/
by retrocog | 2026-03-11 19:39:39+00:00
"What looks like effortless writing is often the result of years of thought and revision. New tools change how prose is produced, but not where ideas come from. In the end, the real question isn’t who polished the sentence—it’s whether the signal made it through."

The above summary was generated by ChatGPT after assisting me with drafting the article. I couldn't have said it better myself. The point isn't to show off my writing skills, but to get a message across. I outline some of the reasons why I go with AI writing style, instead of using my own writing voice.
by topaz0 | 2026-03-11 19:40:23+00:00
You're right that changing the whole editing model will involve rewriting a lot of keybindings. You could do that in vim if you really wanted to -- start by remapping motions to enter visual mode first. I don't really know why you'd want that when visual mode is already a keystroke away, but that's ok.

FWIW though if that's what's important to you, I get the sense that kakoune is much more vim-like in making it easy to compose with other tools, while being set up for your preferred editing model.
by hinkley | 2026-03-11 19:40:54+00:00
Back in 2000 I worked for a company that was trying to turn something like this into the foundation for a search engine.

Essentially instead of having a bunch of search engines and AI spamming your site, the idea was that they would get a feed. You would essentially scan your own website.

As crawlers grew from an occasional visitor to an actual problem (an inordinate percent of all consumer traffic at the SaaS I worked for was bots rather than organic traffic, and would have been more without throttling) I keep wondering why we haven’t done this.

Google has already solved the problem of people lying about their content, because RSS feeds or user agent sniffing you can still provide false witness to your site’s content and purpose. But you’d only have to be scanned when there was something to see. And really you could play games with time delays on the feed to smear out bot traffic over the day if you wanted.
by mulmen | 2026-03-11 19:41:07+00:00
Absentee ballots are available at the county seat from 2:00pm to 3:15pm on the second Tuesday the month except in September and October if the county has less than 5 clerks available. Clerk allocations are based on property tax (pay for what you use). Congratulations poor and minority counties now can’t access absentee ballots.

This sounds made up but limiting access to “free” services is not unheard of. This topic has been litigated to death. There are no new arguments. If you are in favor of voter ID laws you are simply ignorant.
by pjmlp | 2026-03-11 19:41:46+00:00
That is however how the Rust Evangelism Strike Force does it all the time, hence these kind of remarks I tend to do.

C++ is good for some things regardless of its warts due to ecosystem, and Rust is better in some other ones, like being much safer by default.

Both will have to coexist in decades to come, but we have this culture that doesn't accept matches that end in a draw, it is all about being in the right tribe.
by Jtsummers | 2026-03-11 19:42:01+00:00
I suspect it got flagged by the people who think it was written by an LLM, and the people who thought the "jealousy" argument was particularly weak. It's also a lot of words when the answer is obvious (as pointed out by many commenters here): Money.

Since the development of computers, companies have wanted to save money and that's meant a push to find a magic bullet that can replace many, if not most or all, programmers. Natural language programming, RAD tools, much of the work on fifth-generation languages, was oriented around that objective (removing or reducing the dependence on programmers as a category of professionals, versus domain experts who happen to also program).
by Heliodex | 2026-03-11 19:42:20+00:00
Are you using gambling as an example here? I don't fully understand the relation. There isn't any way to gamble Robux for more Robux on the platform, and in the cases which are arguable (such as on-platform item trading), the money must be transferred through Roblox's Developer Exchange programme, which can't be done for Robux not earned directly from experiences.

If I understand what you mean correctly, then any Robux transferred between 2 users wouldn't be able to be cashed or exchanged for fiat for the same reason as above. If they can try to fake it by selling avatar items or experience products to another user, they would immediately be hit with the usual 30% marketplace fee, then have to attempt to get through manual DevEx review with what is very obviously a suspicious set of transactions.

The reason they're not scrutinised by security and banking laws is because the Roblox platform and economic system are carefully designed so that such abuse is neither profitable nor feasible, and as such there's nothing to uncover in any potential investigation.
by js8 | 2026-03-11 19:42:25+00:00
I kind of agree with the article. AI will make SW engineers (or engineers in general) lot more productive, but you still need someone who translates the fuzzy and potentially conflicting specs into something that can be built. That involves a lot of little decisions on how to resolve contradictions, and that's why formal programming language is used. AI can do it to an extent, but likely it won't get you what you want with less communication.

It's a misunderstanding that AI makes SW engineers less valuable, when the code making is cheaper. This assumes there is some fixed amount of code that the society needs to produce. I think the companies will face a different reality - the code they own ("intellectual property") will become less valuable, but the programmers (who are now effectively promoted to kind of product managers) will become more valuable, as they can now do more (and cause more damage, too).

The innovations of the past, such as compilers and open source, which made programmers more productive, didn't make them obsolete.

That being said, it will take companies (and their owners) some time to accept the new reality - programmers have more power now and it's harder to gatekeep what they work on. So the management of these companies will try to twist it, which will ultimately be counterproductive. The programmers should recognize it and look into some form of social organization - be it unions, professional organization or worker cooperatives. (Distinction of labor vs capital is not a natural law, just like the distinction between lords and peasants isn't god-given.)
by andai | 2026-03-11 19:42:40+00:00
>for coding, only the best model available is usually sensible to use otherwise it's just wasted time.

I had the opposite experience. Gave a small model and a big model the same 3 tasks. Small model was done in 30 sec. Large model took 90 sec 3x longer and cost 3x more. Depending on the task, the benchies just tell you how much you are over-paying and over-waiting.
by TZubiri | 2026-03-11 19:42:48+00:00
I was aware of the yearly membership (600$/yr in my RIR), and that they are on a per request basis where you have to demonstrate that you will put those IPs to the use and benefit of the general public, so you need to talk about your users basically, and if you are B2B you need to talk about your client's users.

But in my RIR I don't think there's a 2 year minimum.

Regarding IPv6 blocks do those require a 2 year membership as well? They are probably easier to get.
by JeffThorslund | 2026-03-11 19:43:12+00:00
Deep Core Technology | Full-Stack Engineer (First Hire) | Remote (Canada/US) | Full-Time

We're building the web-native natural language geological modelling platform for geologists at mineral exploration companies. Think Cursor for 3D mining data investigation.

Two founders (CTO + structural geologist CEO), early pilots, and in process of a raise. You'd be hire #1.

Technical Challenges
- staying performant while streaming millions of geological data points into a browser environment
- dealing with the very high data security and compliance expectations
- designing to hide complexity from end user

Stack: TypeScript, Next.js/Vercel, CesiumJS, Supabase, a bit of Python.

Looking for a senior full-stack engineer comfortable in Typescript and Node, but is open to learning and being flexible if things change. Should be AI-native in their workflow and likes owning things end-to-end. 3D graphics or geo experience a plus.

Competitive salary + early equity.

jeff@deepcoretech.com — email me directly.

https://deepcoretech.com
by insane_dreamer | 2026-03-11 19:43:31+00:00
My kids (ages 10, 14) have never used a Windows computer. They were introduced to computing with iPhone and iPad, and they use Chromebooks at school. At home I have Win, Linux and MacOS computers, but they've only used the MacOS ones (not interested in the others). I am trying to get them to use Linux, but unless they want to do hacking-type stuff (that's not them), then it's hard to sell them on it.

When we buy them personal laptops (not there yet), it'll be a MacBook Neo (or its successor). I expect that unless they're forced to at work, they'll never touch a Windows computer in their life.
by gwern | 2026-03-11 19:43:42+00:00
My understanding was that Autoresearch was defined as training from scratch (since it's based on the nanogpt speedrun), not using any pretrained models. So it couldn't do anything like upcycling a pretrained model or the Frankenmerge, because it's not given any access to such a thing in the first place. (If it could, the speedrun would be pointless as it would mostly benchmark what is the fastest fileserver you can download a highly compressed pretrained model checkpoint from...) It can increase the number of layers for a new architecture+run, but that's not the same thing.
by contingencies | 2026-03-11 19:43:50+00:00
"Computers are useless, they can only give you answers" - Pablo Picasso, via https://github.com/globalcitizen/taoup

I was looking at the fungi in my garden recently and realised there's such a variety of forms, there's no obvious reasons for many of them to exist. Are the fuzzy ones fuzzy because it creates vortices in the air affecting spore distribution? Or is it simply to avoid being eaten by certain types of critters? Are the tiny ones tiny because they are resource-starved, because their strategy is to avoid greater dehumidifying airflow and direct sun exposure above the grass-protected layer, or because they somehow produce greater viability spore distribution and don't need the volume of surface area to do so? Or are they planning to be eaten and have spore travel through digestive tract of slugs? The same question could be asked of huge ones, which are often found with chunks bitten out of them. Then there's some sort of weird fluffy one that occurs on moist ledges where you'd normally only expect bryophytes. Then you've got the slime molds which are sort of proto-fungi that just spam spore everywhere when it rains. All this makes me want to study them or possibly model some of the forms or strategies with biomimicry to better understand them. The main thing I take from all this is: if you have a large plurality of disparate fungi in your garden, it's healthy, because it's a bioindicator of multiple successful strategies in the local micro ecosystem.
by SllX | 2026-03-11 19:44:00+00:00
The iPad line makes a lot more sense when you’re just shopping and realize you’re just on a price ladder. Start from the bottom and climb up picking up features along the way until you reach the point where you’ve got what you want or you’re not willing to spend more money.

The Neo is either easy to recommend or rather easy to not recommend. It has a fixed 8GB of RAM. I think that’s too little for a modern Mac operating on the modern web. Others… disagree. Either way, it might entice some schools and school districts assuming they can volume discounts where 8GB is probably enough and it fills the spot in the Walmart part of the sales channel previously occupied by an 8GB RAM M1 MacBook Air Apple hadn’t sold itself in years.
by EmptyDrum | 2026-03-11 19:44:19+00:00
I agree - in the end we have some fuzzy turing machine when writing in pseudo code. I think it is inherently hard to get this right. I also think that these decisions about control flow etc should stay with the developer given I find it very rewarding and LLMs are not very good at it yet (even though they have promised us the improvements for the past 5 years lol).
by gdcohen | 2026-03-11 19:44:34+00:00
I agree. If you can reliably recover from failures by migrating instead of restoring from checkpoints, then the need to checkpoint frequently becomes far less important and reduces the overhead of taking checkpoints. Similarly, a lot of users are experimenting with asynchronous checkpoints to reduce the blocking penalty, but there are big tradeoffs there with DRAM usage. So being able to take checkpoints far less frequently gives you more flexibility on the type of checkpointing you use as well.
by lokar | 2026-03-11 19:45:15+00:00
That is the documentation they ask for in the application. It's enough for them to understand who you claim to be. They then consult their own records to establish if that identity is eligible to vote. Then finally, on Election Day, you show you are that person.

At that last part, Election Day identification, is not even that important, since the same person can't vote twice. So if you impersonate another person that will be quickly detected. It's not a useful strategy to alter the outcome of an election.
by adamrezich | 2026-03-11 19:45:22+00:00
> In addition, although this case is about mystery boxes, we feel the need to address comments made by the NYAG about games, real world violence, and children. Those extraneous comments are a distraction and a mischaracterization we’ve all heard before. Numerous studies throughout the years have concluded there is no link between media (movies, TV, books, comics, music, and games) and real world violence. Indeed, many studies highlight the beneficial impact of games to users.

This is apparently in reference to this NYAG press release: https://ag.ny.gov/press-release/2026/attorney-general-james-...

> In addition, although this case is about illegal gambling, it is important to note that Valve’s promotion of games that glorify violence and guns helps fuel the dangerous epidemic of gun violence, particularly among young gamers who can become numbed to grave violence before their brains are fully developed.

Shameful!
by MegaMaddin | 2026-03-11 19:45:32+00:00
I'm a runner with years of data sitting in Apple Health. Paces, heart rate, distance, elevation, all of it. I wanted to feed this into an LLM to help me build a personal training plan, analyse some trends, and spot patterns across the season.

Seemed like this should be straightforward. But it's not. Apple's built-in export gives you a giant XML blob that chokes most tools, iff you're able to export the data in the first place (I stopped my export after 6 and a half hours). Third-party apps either want a subscription or lock you into their own dashboards. All I wanted was clean, structured data I could paste into Claude.

So my wife and I built Vitalina (https://vitalina.app). It's an iOS app that exports Apple Health metric as CSV, JSON and PDF. Workouts, heart rate, sleep, whatever. Pick a date range, pick your metrics, export. The output is compact and structured to actually be useful for LLM analysis.

No account, no cloud, everything stays on-device until you decide where the file goes.

If you've been trying to use LLMs with your own health data, I'd love to hear what you're doing with it and what would make this more useful.
by kvuj | 2026-03-11 19:45:42+00:00
For me the longer software support would play a role in my decisions. The M1 MBA will probably lose support in 4-5 years whereas the Neo has a longer road ahead.

Combine that with the enormously improved single core performance (which matters more in the real world than sustained load for an entry level notebook), fun colors and 499 price tag for students and I can see the interest.

The screen is good compared to the MBA (only loses P3 colors) but the bummer seems to be ports and the "normal" trackpad.
by pessimizer | 2026-03-11 19:45:46+00:00
"Coincidental" means random, with no causal connection being explicitly claimed. It just means that two things share some characteristic (such as being relatives.) The thing that is coincidental is that the person who founded the company being discussed is also the father of another person who current events have brought into prominence.

It's why you would say something like "more than coincidental" if you were trying to make some causal claim, like one thing causing the other, or both things coming from the same cause.

So, "What is coincidental about that?" is a weird question. It reads as a rhetorical claim of a causal connection through asking for a denial or a disproof of one.