MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by luke5441 | 2026-03-05 16:32:29+00:00
LGPL means "gift to the world". The license ensures that any modification/improvements stay a gift to the world.

People not being okay with having to share their improvements not being able to use the software is by design.

I don't get how you get from there to some sinister hostage taking situation.

Also everyone that contributes to the previous LGPL verison probably contributed under LGPL only, so it is now just one guy...
by jakogut | 2026-03-05 16:32:34+00:00
You in fact can now! In the past week, a transformer framework called FastFlowLM [0] supporting XDNA 2 NPUs officially started supporting Linux.

I posted it here the same day I found and started using it, to almost no reaction.

[0] https://github.com/FastFlowLM
https://fastflowlm.com/
https://huggingface.co/FastFlowLM
by AIorNot | 2026-03-05 16:32:54+00:00
"what is the role of humans in a scenario where work is no longer necessary? This is significant because, since the industrial revolution, work has played an important role in shaping an individual’s identity. How will we occupy our time when we don’t have to spend more than half of our waking hours on a job"

Umm I have been working in AI in multiple verticals for the past 3 years and I have been far busier and more stressed with far less job security than past 15 before that in tech.

For now this is far more accurate: https://hbr.org/2026/02/ai-doesnt-reduce-work-it-intensifies...

Wake me up when the computers run the world and I can relax..but I don't think its happening in my lifetime.
by giraffe_lady | 2026-03-05 16:32:57+00:00
The first time I heard about it was hospital groups and other healthcare employers around 2010. Like you said it was originally an optional bonus/discount but even then there were explicit plans to make it mandatory over some years.

The timing as I remember it matches up with ACA passing (optional) and going into effect (mandatory) so may have something to do with health insurer costs related to that. But I don't know enough about it to guess more, just a suspicion.
by bunderbunder | 2026-03-05 16:32:59+00:00
It's also, for example, the studies finding that when companies adopt AI employees' jobs get worse. More multitasking, more overtime, more burnout, more skills you're expected to learn (on your own time if necessary), more interpersonal conflict among colleagues. And this is not being offset by anything tangible like an increase in pay.

$20/month in return for measurable reductions in quality of life is not an amazing deal. It's "Heads I win, tails you lose."

Or maybe, if you're thinking of it as an enabler for a side hustle or some other project with a low probability of a high payoff, it can slightly more optimistically be regarded as a moderately expensive lottery ticket.

That's not pessimism; it's just a realistic understanding of how the tech industry actually works, informed by decades' worth of experience.
by WalterGR | 2026-03-05 16:33:24+00:00
Does that mean that all code generated by the OpenClaw agents, can't be "open source"? (because it's not eligible for copyright at all)

It can be open source depending on the license. Public domain is open source. BSD and MIT are open source and (aside from attribution clauses) do not rely on copyright. On the other hand, more restrictive licenses like GPL require copyright to be enforceable.
by abanana | 2026-03-05 16:33:36+00:00
The BBC continually tries to convince the government that their problems are due to illegal action that must be stopped.

They do everything in their power to distract from the real issue - that the landscape of television has changed beyond recognition since the tax was brought in.

It's completely clear to everybody that the TV licence is an outdated model that makes no sense in today's world of competing commercial streaming services, but they're desperate to control the narrative to avoid losing their income stream. Which is understandable I suppose, from their narrow point of view. But for the country's point of view, we need a politician with balls, to step up and reform the system. But I'm not sure those even exist anymore.
by veidr | 2026-03-05 16:33:38+00:00
That fear proved well-grounded. While it probably doesn't seem as big of a deal now — in this era when we just serially assassinate heads of state we don't like without any pretense otherwise — the US indeed did direct its European allies to intercept the plane of Bolivian president Evo Morales, based on the (incorrect, as it turned out) suspicion that Snowden was on board.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Evo_Morales_grounding_incident
by criddell | 2026-03-05 16:33:40+00:00
I moved to Obsidian after Evernote increased their subscription prices beyond the point I could justify and I think Obsidian is heading down the same path Evernote did. They keep adding more and more features to it when I wish they would call it complete and move it into maintenance mode.

For me, the turning point for Obsidian was their Canvas feature. That was a big move beyond the initial design of it being an excellent editor for a directory or markdown files that supported links and all the other cool things you can do with a basic directory of files and a few conventions. Nothing proprietary, nothing much beyond the directory of files aside from a preferences store. IMHO, Canvas and beyond should have been a new product.

If Obsidian was open source I would have been tempted to fork it at that point.
by dave_meshimize | 2026-03-05 16:34:17+00:00
The CLI is great for humans, but for agents, the 'Discovery' problem is real. With a CLI, I still have to 'teach' the LLM how to use it by feeding it help docs or manual examples, especially for new or internal tools the model wasn't trained on.

MCP’s biggest strength is that it self-advertises, the agent knows the capabilities and schemas immediately upon connection. It turns 'tool-use' from a prompting/training problem into a standardized handshake. I’d much rather have a protocol that handles the discovery than have to manage custom system prompts for every new CLI utility.
by chipcraftx-io | 2026-03-05 16:34:24+00:00
Hey HN. I spent 20+ years designing processors -- CPUs, GPUs, AI accelerators, 100+ tapeouts. I built ChipCraftX because the tool I needed didn't exist.

Every AI code tool treats hardware like software. It's not. There's no hot-reload for silicon. When a chip tapes out wrong, it stays wrong for months and millions of dollars.

ChipCraftBrain is the engine behind ChipCraftX. It's not a wrapper around a general LLM -- it's built on a custom hardware dataset and custom reasoning logic purpose-built for RTL design. It doesn't just generate and hope. It validates every output against synthesis and simulation before returning anything. If it fails, it uses what went wrong to make the next attempt better. It adapts its approach per problem and gets better the more it runs. Every other system generates the same quality on problem #1,000 as problem #1.

VerilogEval: 98.72% pass@1 (154/156 problems), 1.14 avg iterations, 35.5 min for the full benchmark. #1 worldwide.

Early access is live at https://chipcraftx.app -- free credits, no credit card, no waitlist.

Happy to answer hard questions about the architecture, the benchmarks, or what it can and can't do.
Show HN: OXPT – Visual branching canvas for prompt versioning (Korean support)
by macnorton | 2026-03-05 16:34:41+00:00
Hi HN,

I built OXPT because I was tired of the "Linear Chat Prison" of current LLM interfaces. Whenever I try to implement complex logic like Self-Reflection or Tree-of-Thought, I lose track of which branch worked best.

It’s a visual playground where you can:

Branch your thoughts: See multiple AI responses side-by-side on a non-linear canvas.

Version control for prompts: Save and compare every iteration instead of scrolling through endless chat history.

Modular Logic: Treat prompts like building blocks.

I wanted a more systematic way to manage my own prompt experiments.

I' d love some brutal technical feedback from this community. What do you think about the node-based UI compared to traditional list-based chats?

(P.S. The logo was inspired by a drawing my son made for me!)

https://www.oxpt.online/assets/images/scr_01.png

https://www.oxpt.online/assets/images/scr_02.png

https://www.oxpt.online/assets/images/scr_04.png
by suzdude | 2026-03-05 16:34:46+00:00
courts / SCOTUS let the government roll out a massive and obviously illegal tax on citizens for a long time.

The don't forget about congress. 216 GOP congressional reps voted to handicap congress's ability to halt tariffs. For much of the current session of congress, their calendar wasn't counting days.

https://www.reuters.com/world/us/house-republicans-block-con...
by WarmWash | 2026-03-05 16:35:05+00:00
This framing is hardly fair, since it treats AI as an incinerator of knowledge rather than the democratizer of knowledge that it is.

Every human uses that "resource" to train themselves, and now they use AI to supercharge that consumption.

The companies are giving average lay people access to a personal PhD to help with whatever they are working on, for $20/mo, and those companies are committing an evil cardinal sin?

I get the gatekeepers are pissed, LLMs are way cheaper than those expensive gate fees, and I cannot come up with a good faith argument about how giving the power of SOTA LLMs to anyone for $20/mo is somehow evil or bad.

In an alternate universe these same models are $100k/mo with limited invite only access, occasionally the public gets a single demo prompt with a short reply, and $20/mo access is a utopian wet dream.

If you want UBI, then the framing shouldn't be around "whoever had content on the internet circa 2024 is entitled to lifetime AI company payouts that effectively act as permanent unemployment checks."
by jayd16 | 2026-03-05 16:35:20+00:00
I think a large part of that is that Classic Wow is possibly not in the business interests of the bean counters. If it's classic, you can't sell new expansions, new MTX etc. I don't know how honest Ion was about the actual reasons Classic didn't happen sooner.

Still, by volume, there are thousands of examples of bad ideas and feature requests on the wow forum too.
by StilesCrisis | 2026-03-05 16:35:30+00:00
The world is chock-full of rewrites that came out disastrously worse than the thing they intended to replace. One of Spolsky's most-quoted articles of all time was about this.

https://www.joelonsoftware.com/2000/04/06/things-you-should-...

> They did it by making the single worst strategic mistake that any software company can make: They decided to rewrite the code from scratch.
by burkaman | 2026-03-05 16:35:37+00:00
This is contradicted by Cantor Fitzgerald documents obtained by Wired which said "We’ve already put a trade through representing about ~$10 million of IEEPA Rights and anticipate that number will balloon in the coming weeks".

- https://www.wired.com/story/cantor-fitzgerald-trump-tariff-r...

So we don't really know, someone is lying. I'd prefer to let the congressional investigation play out, but if I had to guess right now I would believe Wired over Cantor Fitzgerald.
by paganel | 2026-03-05 16:35:41+00:00
What can I say, I'm a Billy simp, there's one just behind me as I'm writing this comment and for about a year now I've been forcing myself to buy a new one to put it on the right-side of my current desk (sometimes I'm too lazy for my own good, as in this case). So just seeing Billy in the title and as the actual subject of the blog-post made me upvote the submission, apparently I'm not alone in this.
by vladvasiliu | 2026-03-05 16:35:50+00:00
I wonder if the issue with vapes isn't the sweeteners they put in them. I sometimes vape a specific liquid, which has never given me any cravings. I'll just stop after my bottle is done for multiple months until I remember to buy some more. I never carry my vape with me when I leave home (not to the office, not for multi-week holidays, nothing). It's not difficult to go without, I don't even think about it when I don't have it.

But the other day I ended up vaping some melon-flavored liquid. When it was empty, I was going crazy for a few hours, I absolutely had to have more. And it didn't even have more nicotine than what I usually vape. It was just the sweet taste that had me wanting more, exactly like back in my college days when I was eating Snickers bars like no tomorrow. Now that was a habit that was tough to break. And most people I see vaping out in the street seem to be vaping those ultra-sweet smelling liquids.
by bee_rider | 2026-03-05 16:35:57+00:00
It’s a different type of thing, really. I like rogue-likes because they are a… pretty basic… story about my character, rather than a perfectly crafted story about somebody else’s.

Even when I play a game like Expedition 33 or Elden Ring, my brain (for whatever reason) makes a solid split between the cutscene versions of the characters and the gameplay version. I mean, in some games the gameplay characters is a wandering murderer, while the cutscene characters have all sorts of moral compunctions about killing the big-bad. They are clearly different dudes.
by philipwhiuk | 2026-03-05 16:35:57+00:00
> But the topic of conversation that I enjoyed the most was when someone raised the question of “what would be the role of humans in an AI-first society”. Some were skeptical about whether we are ever going to reach an AI-first society. If we understand as an AI-first society, one where the fabric of the economy and society is automated through agents interacting with each other without human interaction, I think that unless there is a catastrophic event that slows the current pace of progress, we may reach a flavor of this reality in the next decade or two.

I don't really know how you can make this prediction and be taken seriously to be honest.

Either you think it's the natural result of the current LLM products, in which case a decade looks way too long.

Or you think it requires a leap of design in which case it's kind of an unknown when we get to that point and '10 to 20 years' is probably just drawn from the same timeframe as the 'fusion as a viable source of electricity' predictions - i.e. vague guesswork.
by jaen | 2026-03-05 16:36:01+00:00
Might've fact-checked this article after letting Claude write it...

Erlang processes are in no way what's commonly called "persistent" - there's no way to persist them automatically (ie. freeze to disk and wake later). It's even preferred to either use external databases like Mnesia or manually implement persistence in the actor itself for robustness.

The only even slightly mainstream persistent environment is Smalltalk with its images.

For Linux there's also CRIU, but that has quite a few caveats.

If the definition of "persistent" is "processes run until they're done or they crash", well, pretty much everything fulfils that, so the distinction is meaningless.

> "You can send messages to a process from a terminal, from another process, from a web socket, from anywhere."

Also technically wrong. This only works if you have a cluster of erlang nodes already set up in full mesh mode. It's not auto-discoverable, scalable, P2P or anything remotely like that. If you want that, it's outside the Erlang stdlib. Websockets etc. need to be manually proxied. There's no standard protocol, security boundary or anything...

Ugh, actually I give up, there's too many mistakes to even go into.

Final opinion: slop.
by tovej | 2026-03-05 16:36:09+00:00
I am prompting better. It doesn't help the LLM be more productive than me on a regular tuesday.

Sure, I can get the task done by delegating everything to an agentic workflow, but it just adds a bunch of useless overhead to my work.

I still need to know what the code does at the end of the day, so I can document it and reason about it. If I write the code myself, it's easy. If an LLM does it, it's a chore.

And even without those concerns, the LLM is still slower than me. Unless it's trivial boilerplate, in which case other tools serve me better and cheaper.

I'll note that a compiler is one of the most well understood and implemented software projects, much of it open source, which means the LLM has a lot of prior art that it can copy.
by yjftsjthsd-h | 2026-03-05 16:36:24+00:00
I'm a little surprised; I guess I would have assumed that if netbsd got jails they'd be an outgrowth of rump kernels with improved security properties. No big deal, just unexpected.

> Jails share the host network stack by design.

> This keeps routing, firewalling, and interface management simple on the host.

> Listening ports can be reserved per jail.

> Port ownership is enforced by the kernel, preventing accidental conflicts while preserving a straightforward host-centric network model.

It's perfectly reasonable to have a different approach, but on Linux I'll say I really prefer that each container has its own view of ports; it is specifically useful that I can run multiple copies of the same app and they can all bind :8000 or whatever and that just works.
by drooby | 2026-03-05 16:36:39+00:00
Fair point, data isn't scarce like oil. Nobody's losing their forum posts. That part of my analogy is weak.

But you're answering a question I'm not asking. The question isn't "was something taken from you." It's "who deserves a share when collective human output generates trillions in commercial value."

your torrenting analogy makes my case. Nobody loses their original movie when it gets pirated either. We still recognize that the people who made it deserve compensation when others profit from it. The entire IP enforcement apparatus is built on exactly that principle.

Non-rivalrous doesn't mean non-exploitable.
by mmcclure | 2026-03-05 16:37:02+00:00
I haven't used Jido for anything yet, but it's one of those projects I check in on once a month or so. BEAM does seem like a perfect fit for an Agent framework, but the ecosystem seeming limited has held me back from going too far down that path. Excited to see 2.0!

Just a heads up, some of your code samples seem to be having an issue with entity escaping.

name: &quot;my_agent&quot;,
description: &quot;A simple agent&quot;,
by daj40 | 2026-03-05 16:37:04+00:00
This company Nominal (nominal.io) just raised $80M at a $1B+ valuation for hardware engineering data infrastructure. That alone is interesting. But what caught my eye is they released a physical product catalog styled after McMaster-Carr. Square-back binding, industrial aesthetic, the whole thing. It's a software company shipping a paper catalog in 2026.

Their product helps hardware teams (aerospace, defense, automotive) manage test and operational data. Think time series, video, structured metadata across massive test campaigns. Customers like Anduril and Hermeus are using it.
But honestly I'm just here for the catalog. Someone over there clearly cares about the craft of how engineering tools get presented to the world. The website has a similar retro-industrial vibe. Feels like a throwback to when instrument companies like Tektronix and HP actually had taste.
Show HN: Montage – Quickly build product launch videos with coding agents
by marcon680 | 2026-03-05 16:37:10+00:00
Montage is a fork of Remotion's NextJS template, set up for coding agents to quickly produce motion graphics videos.

In May 2025 I commissioned a team of motion designers to create a launch video. It cost us $2000 and 4-5 days of my full attention.

I noticed the video was likely built using a set of animations and transitions that this motion design team reused for all their customers. My theory was that if I could recreate that set of animation primitives and put them in a format coding agents could understand, I'd be able to create launch videos end-to-end way faster and have full control over the final product.

I spent 3 days setting up the repo and 4 hours building the motion video you see above. Those 3 days consisted of 1) building out the set of primitives and 2) building the iterative agent rendering loop so the agent could work autonomously.

The primitives I built were:

Text (word drag-in, flip-up, gradient fill, typing animation)
Motion (object pop in, fade right, fade left, swoop, float, etc.)
React components (logo, cursor, animated browser, animated terminal)
Background designs (radial gradient, corner gradient, color fade, etc.)

The way I built these primitives was surprisingly simple. I leveraged Gemini's ability to analyze videos (Claude and GPT don't accept videos as a modality yet) by attaching the previous motion-designed video and giving it this prompt:

"Is it possible for you to thoroughly go throughout the video and, in detail, note all the different text transitions and what they look like, describing them in natural language so I can put them in my animation tool?"

It gave me a text file which I dumped into a coding agent (in my case Claude Code) to build animation primitives with. I repeated that for motion transitions and background designs, and modified existing React components to work with Remotion.

For building the iterative agent rendering loop, I gave the agent the ability to test its sections end to end.

Remotion can render individual frames via a bash command (npx remotion still {flags}) so I put in the AGENTS.md to heavily use that when designing sections. I also tried having the agent browser-use the Remotion editor spun up as a local dev server, but this was too confusing — it had to know how to scrub through frames in the UI, select the right sequence to check, etc. So I ended up sticking with the Bash command and found that coding agents could do a decent job testing animations by rendering frames 10-20 steps apart.

I'd love for you to try this out and welcome any feedback. Montage has really helped me create high-quality motion videos (an example is in the repo).
by dspillett | 2026-03-05 16:37:12+00:00
Not OP, and I'm no expert in the area at all, but I _do_ have a feeling that there have been quite a few such issues posted here and elsewhere that I read in the last year.

https://www.cve.org/CVERecord/SearchResults?query=io_uring seems to back that up. Only one relevant CVE listed there for 2026 so far, for more than two per month on average in 2025. Caveat: I've not looked into the severity and ease of exploit for any of those issues listed.
by neop1x | 2026-03-05 16:37:12+00:00
One of the examples of devices which are e-waste from the time they were manufactured. But people won't listen. Soon there will be lots of complains of people that they can't run more than one app on it and that it's garbage. It's like macbook 12". It's funny that some people believe that 8GB of RAM will make software developers rethink their RAM consumption and that they will now optimize their apps because of it.
by D-Machine | 2026-03-05 16:38:25+00:00
Pretty clear from the responses to OP that most people are quite unaware there is almost two decades of decent research on pure nicotine now, and that, outside of vaping (where hard evidence is mostly lacking, due to the novelty), the purer stuff probably really isn't all that addictive, in the grand scheme of things. In many cases it is hard to even say it is much different than caffeine.
by margalabargala | 2026-03-05 16:38:33+00:00
Given 100 years though? 100 years ago we barely had vacuum tubes and airplanes.

Given a century the only unreasonable part is oneshotting with no details, context, or follow up questions. If you tell Linus Torvalds "write a python script that generates and OS", his response won't be the script, it'll be "who are you and how did you get into my house".