MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by ppqqrr | 2026-03-12 16:13:41+00:00
i’ve been doing this for a while, you create an extra file for every code file, sketch the code as you currently understand it (mostly function signatures and comments to fill in details), ask the LLM to help identify discrepancies. i call it “overcoding”.

i guess you can build a cli toolchain for it, but as a technique it’s a bit early to crystallize into a product imo, i fully expect overcoding to be a standard technique in a few years, it’s the only way i’ve been able to keep up with AI-coded files longer than 1500 lines
by stego-tech | 2026-03-12 16:14:12+00:00
I’m one of today’s lucky 10k, because this judo-threw me with how I (didn’t) understand CI/CD. My experience with it has largely been a cumbersome add-on to existing processes that are often incredibly fragile and impossible to amend; turns out, that’s kind of the point. Understanding that it’s the equivalent of doing rocket tests on kit you expect to fail and using that to build better rockets suddenly makes its value far more recognizable, at least to my eyes.

Solid writeup. Definitely keeping in my personal notes.
by JumpCrisscross | 2026-03-12 16:14:13+00:00
> the banks' lending to the private credit firms is subject to the same regulations and constraints as their lending to other borrowers

Yes.

> the same regulations and constraints that led them not to lend to the underlying borrowers in the first place

No. Non-bank financial institutions (NBFIs a/k/a shadow banks) compete with banks. They also borrow from banks.

> When banks lend to private credit funds/firms, it tends to be through senior, secured loans which will be less risky than the underlying loans

Correct. Assuming 1.5x leverage and 60% recovery, you'd expect no more than half of portfolio losses to transmit to their lenders.
by sothatsit | 2026-03-12 16:14:17+00:00
You laid out the theoretical limitations well, and I tend to agree with them.

I just get frustrated when people downplay how big of an impact filling in the gaps at the frontier of knowledge would have. 99.9% of researchers will never have an idea that adds a new spike to the knowledge frontier (rather than filling in holes), and 99.99% of research is just filling in gaps by combining existing ideas (numbers made up). In this realm, autoresearch may not be groundbreaking, but it can do the job. AlphaEvolve is similar.

If LLMs can actually get closer to something like that, it leaves human researchers a whole lot more time to focus on new ideas that could move entire fields forward. And their iteration speed can be a lot faster if AI agents can help with the implementation and testing of them.
by nonameiguess | 2026-03-12 16:14:21+00:00
Feels to me like it's missing a key component of how processes work. If they measure how much time it takes a person to complete a power point and then extrapolate the automation, sure, you can make three years worth of power points in a few weeks, but usually these are made in response to external events of some sort. You're giving a presentation to a customer or a conference. You're briefing internally the results of a study. Whatever it is, no matter how much faster you generate the slide decks, you can't speed up history to give you more stuff to actually put in the slide decks. You can't make the audience read or listen to it any faster. Typing is not the slow part of the critical path here.
by ralgland | 2026-03-12 16:14:25+00:00
I was of your opinion during the Biden administration. Now after researching the Epstein issues, I don't think that Trump was a formal asset but he definitely engaged in mutually beneficial deals. I think the presentation of the DNC and the infamous letter signed by 50 security analysts was a mistake.

If you go back:

- Trump bought extensive anti NATO full page ads around 1987 right after an extended trip to Russia.

- The father of Ivana was a Czech spy.

- Trump had a Russian buy a Florida house way above market price.

- Trump used a Russian expat to install TV sets in his Hyatt hotel (nice way of surveilling all guests).

- Trump was bailed out by Deutsche Bank (Epstein's favorite bank) when he was blacklisted by all American banks after his largest of innumerable bankruptcies. Whether that bailout was financed by Russians has not been proven but is still thought likely.

It is also possible that all that is his cover and he actually is a CIA asset. With Trump you just have to watch what he does and guess.
by vladms | 2026-03-12 16:14:27+00:00
Technology can change things but people that profit today from something will oppose a change.

Case in point: switching from oil to renewables - which can lower dependency to external actors a lot as solar panels and windmills have life span of years, so even if the producers suddenly refuses to sell more, one has some time to find an alternative - was done slower than it could have because of "discussions".

Since 20 years I almost feel the discussion "climate change or not" is fueled by people that want dependency on oil, such that we don't talk about the issue of a couple of big producer points of failure (USA, Russia, Gulf countries). Not sure if oil companies are smart enough to finance green groups (to which I agree generally but is besides the point), such that the public discourse stays in a conflict area (climate) rather than a simple one (independence), but if they are that would be meta-evil.
by RHSeeger | 2026-03-12 16:14:29+00:00
But do they need to? If a <role X> job at a top tier company making $600k is eliminated and two <role X> jobs at a "more average" company making $300k replace it; is that really a bad thing? Clearly, there's some details being glossed over, but "one job paying more than a person really needs" being replaced by "two jobs, each paying more than a person really needs" might just be good for society as a whole.
by spwa4 | 2026-03-12 16:14:30+00:00
> It will hurt everyone, Americans included, oil is a global market, fertilisers are a global market, those are basic inputs for probably every single thing produced in the world.

Only because those countries choose for that to be the case. For example, Saudi Arabia and Russia don't do that. Local prices and export prices are different.

But the US, Canada, the Netherlands, and long list of other countries could make this crisis have zero effect on local prices. They choose to take every excuse to raise prices (in fact the Netherlands goes further: if sales tax on gas raises because prices raise, the amount of tax paid is kept constant if prices drop. So they artificially raise local gas prices. So if gas prices are low, tax on gas has at one point reached 72%), but it is fundamentally a government choice.
by BloodAndCode | 2026-03-12 16:14:33+00:00
this is a really interesting direction. i've been experimenting with “self-critique” style pipelines (plan → solve → critique) and they often help smaller models punch above their weight.
the agent council idea is also appealing, although the cost/latency trade-off usually becomes the tricky part when multiple models run in parallel.

curious how often the judge actually disagrees with the first candidate answer in practice. does the council mostly refine reasoning, or does it sometimes lead to completely different conclusions?
by cratermoon | 2026-03-12 16:14:41+00:00
relevant Dijkstra https://www.cs.utexas.edu/~EWD/transcriptions/EWD06xx/EWD667...

"In order to make machines significantly easier to use, it has been proposed (to try) to design machines that we could instruct in our native tongues. this would, admittedly, make the machines much more complicated, but, it was argued, by letting the machine carry a larger share of the burden, life would become easier for us. It sounds sensible provided you blame the obligation to use a formal symbolism as the source of your difficulties. But is the argument valid? I doubt."
by sidewndr46 | 2026-03-12 16:14:44+00:00
For anyone wanting more context this comes from a deposition of Nathan Cavanaugh as part of discovery of a lawsuit by the ACLS. They recently filed for a summary judgement

https://www.acls.org/acls-aha-mla-lawsuit-discovery-material...

https://www.acls.org/wp-content/uploads/2026/03/247-Memo-of-...

It doesn't appear that DOGE itself or the individuals is facing any kind of legal consequence here.
Ask HN: When do you think "NO AI" will become a part of recruiting pitches?
by asimpletune | 2026-03-12 16:14:45+00:00
Hi everyone, I’d like to know your thoughts on when, if ever, NO AI will be used as a tool to actually attract talent.

Choices are:
A. Already happened
B. Sometime in 2026
C. 2027
D. 2028 or later
E. Never (or practically never)
by electrosphere | 2026-03-12 16:14:46+00:00
I'm introverted but very glad I have the option of working from the office and being among fellow staff, we also have a lunchtime exercise club once a week. It's much better for my mental health.

In fact, I've added two days working outside of home instead of one because of the benefits. I think 3 days home/2 days office is the sweet spot.
by jmward01 | 2026-03-12 16:14:54+00:00
Yes. I think the biggest issues though are:

- We likely don't have the assets to move the amount traffic that needs to get through

- We probably can't protect them perfectly (we don't have maritime supremacy) so ships will still take damage and that will stop the convoys pretty quickly

I suspect the escort ships would be fine though. They can defend themselves.

So if we did start them, they wouldn't continue for long until the economic pain was pretty massive and the cost of loosing ships was worth it.
by myrmidon | 2026-03-12 16:15:27+00:00
It would be really nice to have a few relevant numbers in the article for context.

If this is just from foreign sellers operating on amazon.it, then 1.4B of evaded taxes sounds like a lot to me, because the total revenue should be well under 50B/y, so this would be a significant fraction of total sales tax (and I'd expect most sellers to not be foreign and thus unaffected).

Would be quite nice to see rich people held accountable for once, curious how this will go.
by bobthepanda | 2026-03-12 16:15:45+00:00
The inequality of school districts is probably one of the biggest systemic barriers in our society.

That being said, school choice isn’t that helpful. The most segregated school district in the US is NYC, which has had citywide school choice for a long time.

> In 2018 in New York, 90% of black students attended predominantly nonwhite schools, while Latino student enrollment in predominantly nonwhite schools has remained roughly stable (84%). Almost two out of three black students and over half of Latino students attend intensely segregated schools, where less than 10% of student enrollment is white.
by dham | 2026-03-12 16:16:34+00:00
North Carolina. And I wasn't actually aware that some doctors wouldn't do until after I had it done (reading about it online). I just called before my appointment to say I didn't need sedation. They said ok and wrote it down. They weren't really pushy during the appointment other than asking me why I didn't want sedation.

I thought it was going to be awkward but wasn't at all. We just chatted. It was him and an assistant. I was able to watch the TV of my colon while he was doing it.
by hombre_fatal | 2026-03-12 16:17:02+00:00
> An estimated 95% of American adults and children fail to meet daily fiber recommendations, with intake often falling below 10 grams per 1,000 calories consumed

It's tempting to focus on some magic bad ingredient/practice to explain our bad health (like seed oils), but we don't exercise, we eat directly against dietary guidelines, and we eat foods that we know are bad for us.

Now add on to that the social media grifters and industry advocates who tell you that eating poorly is good for you.

I don't blame individuals just trying to live their life though. This is how we've let our whole food environment set up shop.
by lucasoshiro | 2026-03-12 16:17:04+00:00
Yeah. It's hard to express and understand nested structures in a natural language yet they are easy in high-level programming languages. E.g. "the dog of first son of my neighbour" vs "me.neighbour.sons[0].dog", "sunny and hot, or rainy but not cold" vs "(sunny && hot) || (rainy && !cold)".

In the past maths were expressed using natural language, the math language exists because natural language isn't clear enough.
by zthrowaway | 2026-03-12 16:17:23+00:00
I think part of this can be attributed to prolonged gut inflammation caused by toxins and parasites. There’s something like 60% of the population has some form of parasite and have no idea, which causes a lot of inflammation and problems. Problems that don’t necessarily point to the gut being the culprit on the surface. So it’s misdiagnosed a lot.

I recommend everyone do a gut cleanse once a year.
by CapricornNoble | 2026-03-12 16:17:49+00:00
>why would they boast about it and invite attacks upon that weapon and its deployment systems?

To complicate adversary targeting priorities. If you have to shift your pre-planned bombing sorties away from, say, local Basij HQ buildings, it takes pressure off of the Iranian government. Assigning aircraft to find/fix/target/track/engage "underwater drone launch points" is probably like searching for a needle in a haystack given the size of Iran's coastline.
by cstrahan | 2026-03-12 16:18:08+00:00
I had a colonoscopy and esophagogastroduodenoscopy (thankfully not in that order) without sedation. Had it done in D.C.

My doc looked at me like I was crazy when I asked if it could be done without sedation, and reminded me that it would be uncomfortable, but otherwise didn't have any problem with it. I've endured 50k runs, brutal workouts, and traumatizing childhood neglect - I really can't see what the fuss is with mild discomfort that, by comparison, barely registers, and for such a short amount of time at that.
by t43562 | 2026-03-12 16:18:09+00:00
Lots of countries call themselves democratic that absolutely aren't e.g. The DPRK for a ridiculous example. We actually aren't even democratic in the truest sense that we don't all vote on everything but instead elect representatives to vote for us (we hope). It's all a compromise with trade offs.

Here one will just get different "nepo babies" who are more directly involved in the struggle for power because they will be connected those in power - people who have been useful and will be wanted in future.

Some people say that the desire for power is the thing that should disqualify a person from having it. i.e. we perhaps need some anti-politicians. This would mean people who don't want to be in power having some forced upon them like in Jury duty.
by lm28469 | 2026-03-12 16:18:09+00:00
> The US should be running destroyer screens for convoys a la WW2 today,

That's harder than bombing schools, goat herders or kidnapping the leader of the most corrupt country in the world, are you sure they can still pull it off, I'm starting to think even they know they cannot anymore.

After seeing the latest white house CoD style propaganda videos and Pete "Kafir" Hegseth speeches it's clear the people in charge completely lost it

> In After the Empire, written in 2001, Todd claimed that the reason for America’s “theatrical micromilitarism” was to prove that it was still an indispensable power in a post-USSR world. In his latest work, however, he revises this thesis, arguing that it would imply attributing rational intentions to Washington.13 The American liberal oligarchy is not driven by any clear project.

https://americanaffairsjournal.org/2024/11/how-the-west-was-...
by emeryray02 | 2026-03-12 16:18:16+00:00
We're a team at Netskope (cloud security company). We sit on a unique dataset —
anonymized telemetry from enterprise networks showing which AI apps employees
actually use at work, across thousands of organizations worldwide.

We built this dashboard to make that data explorable. Some findings that
surprised us:

- ChatGPT is in 98.6% of orgs we monitor. It's essentially ubiquitous.
- Claude went from 58% to 90% org adoption in ~12 months — the fastest
enterprise climb we've tracked.
- The median org now uses 28 distinct AI apps. Global 2000 companies
average 129. "Shadow AI" is an understatement.
- 2.4% of orgs trigger DLP violations through AI tools. The #1 category
is regulated data (57.6% of violations), followed by source code (23.8%).
- Microsoft 365 Copilot leads in actual daily usage hours despite ChatGPT
leading in breadth — deep integration wins engagement.
- SLED (state/local/education) has the highest AI adoption at 86.7%, ahead
of Technology at 83.9%. That one caught us off guard.

The Race Chart on the Leaderboard page is fun — you can watch app rankings
shift week by week from Feb 2025 to now. DeepSeek's brief spike and
Microsoft Copilot's surge from #12 to #4 tell interesting stories.

Tech: React + TypeScript + Vite, D3.js for the globe/map, Recharts for
charts. Data pipeline is Python (pandas) → parquet → pre-aggregated JSON
at build time. Fully static frontend, no backend calls.

Happy to answer questions about the data or methodology.
by raffaeleg | 2026-03-12 16:18:16+00:00
The biggest gap between demo and production isn't the model or the framework. It's three boring things: deterministic fallbacks (what happens when the agent fails or hallucinates), observability (can you trace exactly why an agent took action X), and cost controls (token budgets per task, not per call). Most teams get burned by the same pattern: the demo works beautifully, then in production you realize you need to handle the 15% of cases where the agent confidently does the wrong thing. The teams shipping successfully treat agents like junior employees, not autonomous systems. Guardrails first, autonomy second.
by raffaeleg | 2026-03-12 16:18:45+00:00
Supervision is the unlock. The pattern that works best for us: every agent action goes through a lightweight policy check before execution. Not a second LLM call — that's too slow and too expensive. A set of deterministic rules that catch the obvious failure modes (wrong format, out-of-scope action, exceeding token budget). The LLM handles the creative reasoning, the supervisor handles the predictable constraints. Think of it as the same reason you don't let a junior dev push to production without CI/CD. The agent is the dev, the supervisor is the pipeline. This approach cut our agent error rate by roughly 60% without adding meaningful latency.
by kennywinker | 2026-03-12 16:18:56+00:00
I agree 100%. E.g. 802.11a/b/c/etc wasn’t selling. Wifi however…

Names matter. We can keep the technical stuff under the hood, while presenting a clean interface for those un-interested in the details. But we can only do that when the thing built right. Notice how you don’t have to share encryption keys when your friends want access to your home wifi?

Even the password part is harder than it should be. Idk why routers don’t just have a button you press when someone wants on the wifi. They knock on the network, a light flashes - press button, they are let in. Would work for most home use.
by DeAeternum | 2026-03-12 16:19:16+00:00
I built this with Claude from a hospital bed in France.

The idea is simple : every interaction ends with
a mutual empathy rating. Your score is the average
of every rating you have ever received — from every
human — equally weighted. No algorithm. No ads.
No censorship. Only consequence.

The project includes a constitution (no one holds
power), a latency principle (no immediate score
reaction), a browser extension concept (score the
whole web), and a protective council (community
governed). AGPL-3.0.

Looking for developers, designers, and anyone who
believes empathy can be a measure of civilization.

Are you empathetic ?
by toomuchtodo | 2026-03-12 16:19:27+00:00
Heat: 250MWh 'Sand Battery' to start construction in Finland - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46073855 - November 2025 (249 comments)

Low carbon fertilizer production: Green ammonia production: Process technologies and challenges - https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S00162... | https://doi.org/10.1016/j.fuel.2024.131808 - Fuel, Volume 369, 1 August 2024, 131808

Skepticism is important, but the evidence so far proves out we have a long way to go with the "easy" parts of decarbonizing until we have to solve the last "hard" parts. Capital and cashflows saved on fossil fuels from the easy parts can be directed towards the hard parts when that time comes. Enough sunlight hits the Earth every 30 minutes to power humanity for a year; it's a capture, transfer, and orchestration story broadly speaking. We are bound mostly by the laws of physics.
by tmoertel | 2026-03-12 16:19:29+00:00
That's certainly one way of interpreting what I wrote.

My point was that potential employers are not blind to what you put out in the public space. If what you put out would cause a reasonable employer to have questions about your viability as candidate, you ought to be prepared for those questions. If you're lucky, they'll ask you those questions and you can dispell their concerns.
by davezillai | 2026-03-12 16:19:38+00:00
Meet Your Code Factory: Build Anything, Ship Fast

3 powerful agents in one terminal interface:

Boris: Plans and orchestrates the workflow.

DevLoop: Handles deep tasks and complex debugging.

Council: Debates and refines your architecture.

use Boris Turbo mode for parallel executions,uses a costume DAG engine

E2E mode -stand alone specific tests for userflow
testing the app from the outside, clicking the ui capturing screenshots.

pip install boris-tui
by idiotsecant | 2026-03-12 16:19:40+00:00
This and other fairytales.

The only solution here is to stop tying people's value to their productivity. That makes a lot of sense in the 1900s but it makes a lot less sense when the primary faucet of productivity is automation. If you insist on tying a person's fundamental right to a decent and secure life to their productivity and then take away their ability to be productive you're left with a permenant and growing underclass of undesirables and an increasingly slim pantheon of demigods at the top.

We have written like, an ocean of scifi about this very subject and somehow we still fail to properly consider this as a likely outcome.
by _DeadFred_ | 2026-03-12 16:19:52+00:00
The Republicans have spent 40 years with their intentional policy being to make government services worse so that the Republicans can then point to that and say 'we need to get rid of government'.

It's hard for government to function well when half of it is trying to sabotage itself. The fact it works as good as it does after 40 years of that is a tribute to public servants.
Show HN: GitClassic.com, a fast, lightweight GitHub thin client (pages <14KB)
by heythisischris | 2026-03-12 16:20:06+00:00
Hey HN,

I posted GitClassic here 2 months ago- since then I've rebuilt most of it based on what people asked for.

https://gitclassic.com

What's new: Issues, PRs w/ full diffs, repo intelligence (health scores, dependency graphs), trending/explore, bookmarks, comparison tool, and advanced search.

Every page is server-rendered HTML- No React, no SPA, no client bundle, pages under 14KB(gzipped). Try loading facebook/react and compare it to GitHub load times.

Public repos work without an account, Pro adds private repo access via GitHub OAuth.

Stack: Hono on Lambda, DynamoDB, CloudFront, 500KB Node bundle, cold starts usually <500ms.

What's missing?

Thanks,
Chris
by HanClinto | 2026-03-12 16:20:08+00:00
Trigger warning: very stupid question to follow.

To my smooth-brain naiveté, this feels like the sort of thing that we could reward with some sort of cryptocurrency in a blockchain? It's difficult to achieve gains, but it's relatively quick to independently verify (5 minute training runs).

I know "blockchain all the things" is sooooo 8 years ago, but I'm looking at the descending graph of progress here, and wondering if being able to claim improvement tokens (even for no reason other than NFT-esque bragging rights) wouldn't be a cool thing here?

I'm asking this as someone who knows next to nothing about crypto or blockchain or any of those things, but mainly thinking of trying to gamify assigning GPU rigs to "mining" these measurable improvements.