MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by verial-lab | 2026-03-11 20:08:26+00:00
I appreciate Karpathy for thinking out loud like this. We all feel the shift toward orchestration... just haven't seen a UI that fits yet.

I love seeing people experiment with RTS game UIs as agent orchestration interfaces. Mostly demos so far, but there is a ton of creative potential for orchestration UIs.

The biggest challenge is as LLM costs drop dramatically each year, the number of agents able to be orchestrated grows orders of magnitude. So the UI needs to be able to compress this growing information into something meaningful for effective human steerability. A constant moving target.

What's interesting is that the tooling seems to be moving closer to the metal (CLI, APIs, infrastructure) rather than up toward better visual interfaces.

My bet is that the orchestration infrastructure underneath is more durable than any UI layer. I've been building an orchestration system focused on reusable workflows, observability, and feedback loops because I think it's more valuable right now.
by solSpeedofLight | 2026-03-11 20:09:01+00:00
I built Gravitas Crunch for iPhone.

It turns the sources you follow into a personal radio station. The app reads from real sources, distills them into clear narration, and plays them back as a continuous stream.

The product is built around on-device AI, so the experience is not dependent on metered cloud usage. The reason you can press Play is because the AI is running on your iPhone.

Features include:

- Gravitas Radio for feed-based listening

- Research Assistant for source-grounded takeaways and drilldown

- Discover Assistant for finding curated articles and feeds

- Focus mode for prompting an entire source, like a full article, PDF, or EPUB, in one context-aware session

- imports for articles, feeds, PDFs, EPUBs, and more

- high-quality narration with PocketTTS

- a growing Audiobook mode for long-form sources

Demo:
https://youtu.be/xag31FaFg2U?si=07xgPOKPMkCfRFTM

TestFlight:
https://testflight.apple.com/join/pqmbzjMa
by oofbey | 2026-03-11 20:10:08+00:00
It's not just that crypto lets you cash out faster - it lets you do it with zero notice, accountability, or diligence.

Startup exits (IPO or acquisition) often have a big chunk of hype associated with them. But often the hype is backed by factual numbers of revenue or user-base. Even if it's pure hype, there will be mountains of legal paperwork. Hundreds if not thousands of hours spent by professional lawyers checking that whoever is putting up the money really is getting what they're paying for, even if what they're buying is a dream. If not, somebody has broken the law (fraud) or a shocking amount of incompetence has occurred. Your typical crypto scam thrives because there are no such procedural guarantees.
by resiros | 2026-03-11 20:10:13+00:00
Not sure I agree with the AI edited comments. Using AI to improve the readability and clarity is fine. Sometimes a well structured comment is much better than a braindump that reads like ramblings. And AI is quite good at it (and probably will get better). To make the point, here is how this comment would have looked if edited:

"I don't fully agree with banning AI-edited comments. Using AI to improve readability and clarity is a reasonable thing to do. A well-structured comment is often much better than a braindump that reads like rambling. AI is quite good at this, and it will probably get better. To illustrate the point, here is how this comment would have looked if edited"
by throwaways122 | 2026-03-11 20:10:24+00:00
> Now, Manila must figure out if it is indeed a strategic partner or just another supply depot.

I think Manila already knows the answer.

The Gulf Arab allies invested trillions, literally trillions of dollars in the United States, and are basically left to fend for themselves after the U.S. pulled out its entire military and air defense assets to defend the "greatest ally" in a war instigated by said ally - an ally that gets billions of dollars in aid from the United States and doesn't even say thank you.
by godelski | 2026-03-11 20:10:28+00:00
> challenge accepted dogma without rocking the boat

I think the funniest part is how we have all these heroes of science who faced scrutiny by their peers, but triumphed in the end. They struggled because they challenged the status quo. We celebrate their anti authoritative nature. We congratulate them for their pursuit of truth! And then get mad when it happens. We pretend this is a thing of the past, but it's as common as ever[0,1].

You must create paradigm shifts without challenging the current paradigm!

[0] https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/katalin-karikos-n...

[1] https://www.globalperformanceinsights.com/post/how-a-rejecte...
by grantsucceeded | 2026-03-11 20:10:32+00:00
Thank you, Thank you, Thank you.
I'm absolutely having a great time immersing myself in this, but I'm super sad about the day it will be taken down and i cant play anymore. Maybe that day is when the contest is over? Will there be some way i can keep enjoying this beautiful little world after the contest?

I know opening up the source or keeping the hosting up might be really hard to do for legal, security, cost or a million other complicated reasons. so if its not possible, thank you anyway :)

So simple and beautiful. So addicting. Love it! Thank you!
by dgacmu | 2026-03-11 20:10:41+00:00
Would anyone notice if you spell-checked or got narrow feedback about grammar? No. I'm not dang, but perhaps a very reasonable interpretation of the rules is: If the AI is generating the words, don't. If it tells you something about your words and you choose to revise them without just copying words the AI output, it's still your words.

(As an experiment, I took that paragraph and threw it into gemini to ask for spell and grammar checking. It yelled at me completely incorrectly about saying "I'm not dang". Of its 4 suggestions, only 1 was correct, and the other 3 would have either broken what I was trying to say or reduced the presence of my usual HN comment voice. So while I said the above, perhaps I'm wrong and even listening to the damn box about grammar is a bad idea.)

That said, I often post from my phone and have somewhat frequent little glitches either from voice recognition or large clumsy thumbs, and nobody has ever seemed to care except me when I notice them a few minutes after the edit button goes away.
by foxfired | 2026-03-11 20:10:55+00:00
One thing that will be incredibly useful is to limit comments from brand new accounts. A combination of vouching, limiting the posts velocity (5 daily limit), clear rules for new accounts, etc.

I understand we often see insightful comments from new accounts, but I always find it suspicious when non-throwaway accounts are created just in time only to make a quip.
by craftkiller | 2026-03-11 20:11:16+00:00
Not necessarily. Using AI you can trivially perform astroturfing campaigns to influence public perception. That doesn't really fall on the interesting or correctness spectrums. For example, if 90% of the comments online are claiming birds aren't real with a serious tone, you might convince people to fall into that delusion. It becomes "common knowledge" rather than a fringe theory. But if comments reflect reality then only a tiny portion of people have learned the truth about birds, so people will read those claims with more skepticism.

(naturally "birds aren't real" is a correct vs not correct thing, but the same can be applied to many less-objective things like the best mechanical keyboard or the morality of a war)
by Aldipower | 2026-03-11 20:11:30+00:00
That's true, but on the flip side I regularly get downvoted because my English is not the best, so say it mildly. So, now I need to be really careful, to a) write in a good English or b) not to be recognised as an LLM corrected version of my English. Where is the line? I shouldn't be downvoted for my English I think, but that is the reality.
by glitch13 | 2026-03-11 20:11:49+00:00
I saw a similar conversation somewhere about some project saying they don't allow AI generated code.

It was asked that if "AI Generated Code" is just code suggested to you by a computer program, where does using the code that your IDE suggests in a dropdown? That's been around for decades. Is it LLM or "Gen AI" specific? If so, what specific aspect of that makes one use case good and one use case bad and what exactly separates them?

It's one of those situations where it seems easy to point at examples and say "this one's good and this one's bad", but when you need to write policy you start drowning in minutia.
X is selling existing users' handles
by hac | 2026-03-11 20:11:50+00:00
I've been on Twitter since 2007 as @hac.

In recent years I didn't sign in frequently, then last week I saw my handle show up on the new X Handles marketplace.

It seems the account now belongs to X, and because I had a "rare handle" I can't even buy it back. From what I can tell, they will wait for some time and then auction the handle for around $100k.

Losing your account is frustrating. Having it sold to someone else doesn't feel right.

Of course, there is no warning when it happens. All you can do to prevent it is sign in every 30 days and read all changes to the TOS.
by capricio_one | 2026-03-11 20:12:15+00:00
I wonder if this will get RISC-V adoption on the roadmap of competitors. We had a thread in the last 24 hours over how slow as molasses it is, but honestly x86 isn’t the way to go. I like that the AMD x64 literature tries to push down on the legacy cruft but some of it is evident in the ISA which is harder to ignore, like default behaviours of registers and other things that are left over for backwards compat and as such everything around it suffers in a thousand broken windows sort of way.

nb I haven’t delved too deep into RISCV but I am under a general impression it did away with all this. My concern is the layers that are added will turn it into a CISCV over time.
by toomuchtodo | 2026-03-11 20:12:23+00:00
https://archive.today/NX1Z0

Paper: Intensifying global heat threatens livability for younger and older adults - https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1088/2752-5309/ae3c3a | https://doi.org/10.1088/2752-5309/ae3c3a - March 10th, 2026 Environmental Research: Health, Volume 4, Number 1
by Mordisquitos | 2026-03-11 20:12:39+00:00
I think that the line between A"I" editing to fix grammar or to translate from a different native language and A"I" editing by using an LLM is one of those things that's very hard to unambiguously encode in written guidelines, but easy to intuitively understand using common sense, in the vein of I know it when I see it.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/I_know_it_when_I_see_it
by gdulli | 2026-03-11 20:12:50+00:00
The utility of those larger sites is coming to an end, but most people aren't discerning or ambitious enough to leave and seek out the smaller places you mentioned. Places like this will remain but will join Facebook, Reddit, and Twitter as shadows of their prior useful selves. The smaller, better sites won't have to worry about attracting the masses and therefore worsening, because the masses have finally settled.
by Imustaskforhelp | 2026-03-11 20:13:03+00:00
Yes! This is really great feature, at the very least there being some proper Hackernews guidelines about it.

In my observation, recently there are quite many new AI generated comments in general. Like not even trying to hide with full em-dashes and everything.

I do feel like people are gonna get sneaky in future but there are going to be multiple discussions about that within this thread.

But I find it pretty cool that HN takes a stance about it. HN rules essentially saying Bots need not comment is pretty great imo.

It's a bit of a cat and a mouse problem but so is buying upvotes in places like reddit but HN with its track record of decades might have one or two suspicious or actions but long term, it feels robust. I hope the same robustness applies in this case well hopefully.

Wishing moderation luck that bad actors don't try to take it as a challenge and leave our human community to ourselves :]

Another point I'd like to say is that, if successful, then we can also stop saying, "did you write your comment by LLM" and the remarks as well which I also say time to time when I see someone clearly using AI but it seems that some false-positives happen as well (they have happened sometimes with me and see it happen with others as well) and they also de-rail the discussion. So HN being a place for humans, by humans can fix that issue too.

Knowing dang and tomhow, I feel somewhat optimistic!
by altairprime | 2026-03-11 20:13:03+00:00
Polish hides your voice. If your composition skills are lacking and you feel that hinders your self expression, set aside some time to improving them: write a short (15 minutes) blog post about some HN topic to yourself in a word doc editor of some sort (Word, Gdocs, LibreOffice, etc); then enable Review Changes and annotate your post for 10 minutes; then, review and accept your changes individually and re-read what you’ve written.

AI is being used as a substitute for skills development when it costs nothing but time to get better. If you’ve reached a plateau with the above method, go find an article or book or interview about editing, pay attention to it and take notes, rinse/repeat.

Spellcheckers will catch grossly obvious errors, but not phonetic typos. AI grammar tools will defang, weaken, soften, neutralize your tone towards the aggregate boring-meh that they incorporated at training time.

Each person will have to decide whether they want individuality or AI-assisted writing for themselves. Sure, some will get away with it undetected, but that’s a universal statement about all human criteria of any kind, and in no way detracts from the necessity of drawing a line in the sand and saying “no” to AI writing here.

Consider the Borg. Everyone’s distinctiveness has been added to the Collective. The end result is mediocre (they sure do die a lot), inhuman (literally), and uniform (all variation is gone). It’s your right if you desire to join the Collective and be a uniform lego brick like the others, but then your no-longer-fully-human posts are no longer welcome at HN.
by drusepth | 2026-03-11 20:13:05+00:00
I'm not sure I agree with this. I don't really want to see someone else's stylistic "warts".

I just want clean, easy-to-read content and I don't care about the person who wrote it. A tool like Grammarly is the difference between readable and unreadable (or understandable and understandable) for many people.
by tsukikage | 2026-03-11 20:13:06+00:00
> Where is the line between a spelling/grammar/tone checker like Grammarly

For me, the line is precisely at the point where a human has something they want to say. IMO - use the tools you need to say the thing you want to say; it's fine. The thing I, and many others here, object to is being asked to read reams of text that no-one could be bothered to write.
by thewebguyd | 2026-03-11 20:13:09+00:00
I think this is the most likely and best path. There's no stopping the flood of bots, the dead internet theory is beyond just a theory at this point.

Best we can do, for the internet and ourselves, is to move away from it and into smaller networks that can be more effectively moderated, and where there is still a level of "human verification" before someone gets invited to participate.

I don't like what that will do to being able to find information publicly, though. The big advantage of internet forums (that have all but disappeared into private discords) is search ability/discoverability. Ran into a problem, or have a question about some super niche project or hobby? Good chance someone else on the net also has it and made a post about it somewhere, and the post & answers are public.

Moving more and more into private communities removes that, and that is a great loss IMO.
by mox1 | 2026-03-11 20:13:09+00:00
Its the only device in our household that I have utterly failed at securing or blocking content from our children on.

My son has found about 25 different ways to access YouTube across our Android, Android TV, Apple and Roku devices. I have found ways in almost all of them to "nicely" block youtube for him (while keeping it for me or keeping the device functional).

Roku is the only one that just doesn't give a crap. Screw Roku.
by shnpln | 2026-03-11 20:13:24+00:00
This is what I do when using AI to read anything I write. Some prompt like "I am going to share with you something I have written and I don't want you to change my voice at all. Can you look for structural issues, grammar or punctuation errors, and things like that". Claude is an amazing editor and I never feel like my writing has been taken from me doing this.
by arctic-true | 2026-03-11 20:13:46+00:00
I had this experience when I was trying to find an apartment - multiple different buildings very clearly had AI-generated responses. (To all you builders out there: quick replies are great. Instant replies are suspicious.)
I immediately stopped considering them as options. If you can’t be bothered to have a human respond to my email when I’m trying to give you my money, what level of service can I expect once I’m already obligated to pay rent?
by thousand_nights | 2026-03-11 20:13:54+00:00
i don't care if someone has bad grammar, i want to hear their thoughts as they came up with them, we're all intelligent beings and can parse the meaning behind what you write.

i type my comments without capitalization like i'm typing into some terminal because i'm lazy and people might hate it but i'm sure they prefer this to if i asked an LLM to rewrite what i type

your writing style is your personality, don't let a robot take it away from you
by tejohnso | 2026-03-11 20:14:00+00:00
I don't get it. We use tools to assist in written communication all the time. If someone wants to ask an LLM to check their grammar or edit for clarity or change the tone, it's still a conversation between humans. Everyone now has access to a real time editor or scribe who can craft their message the way they want it to sound before sending it off. Great.
by figassis | 2026-03-11 20:14:10+00:00
I think with the amount of AI content, it will all become cheap, there will be movie releases every day, people will get content fatigue, it will all merge into the same thing, nothing will be inspiring anymore. People will start looking for physical experiences. Movies that transcend the screen, think 4D experiences, but all the way, putting you in the center of the action, maybe you're the protagonist, etc.
by eszed | 2026-03-11 20:14:12+00:00
> declaring on your own terms what you think the argument actually is isn't respectful

Which is usually a strawman tactic, and I agree both disrespectful and useless.

But... We will always respond to our own understanding of someone else's argument! That's inevitable, short of mind-reading. A habit of steel-manning the opposite case is a useful discipline for demonstrating respect - and, ideally, minimizing the necessity for clarification.

In practice, this means to make (to the best of your ability and understanding) an honest and accurate restatement of their case, and (if you see an opportunity - you won't always) a genuine suggestion that it would be stronger if it considered [x, y, z], before you attempt to refute it. You may not get it quite right, but you will have given your interlocuter a straightforward opportunity (as you say, conversationally) to clarify.

I think this is, given as I say that we're not able to inhabit anyone else's mind directly, the closest that we can rhetorically come to taking another's claim "at face value".
by novaleaf | 2026-03-11 20:14:14+00:00
> The 66-year-old brick will have the exact same interference fit, the same clutch power, the same 4.8mm stud diameter.

Pretty sure this is false. Old bricks had way higher clutch power, so high that it was deemed too difficult to separate. Sometime in the 90's the grip strength was reduced.

This false claim is underpins the entire article :(
by seangrogg | 2026-03-11 20:14:21+00:00
> Taking this argument to its extreme, does this mean that introducing new technology always decreases technology?

I assume you mean "decreases security" by context. And in that case - purely from a security standpoint - generally speaking the answer is yes. This is why security can often be a PITA when you're trying to adopt new things and innovate, meanwhile by default security wants things that have been demonstrated to work well. It's a known catch-22.
by FarmerPotato | 2026-03-11 20:14:22+00:00
Hmm, the comment I was replying to was deleted.

I hate app obsolescence, and licenses that expire on your old hardware (Microsoft Word..) I exhibit 1980s video games. The hardware just continues to work. It's a disgrace what happens to mobile games, they just disappear. (Whattaya do, save all your old phones? I'm hating on you, Atari Classics app on iPad 2; revoked my paid license to use it.)

But to be fair, Lego has gone to great lengths to keep their companion software alive. Still, the nature of mobile: apps require constant updates to stay listed for new OS versions.

For one, Lego Commander existed uselessly on my phone long after it ceased to work... until one iOS it wouldn't install anymore.

Lego giving you a CD with software and instruction was a comfort (challenge: find a CD drive!) but only Mindstorms really.

For desktop apps in the 2010s, Lego relied on Silverlight to get Mac and PC compatibility. So what happens when you rely on a Microsoft framework... still as late as 2015 I was still able to download Mindstorms 2.0 (introduced 2002??) from Lego.

With instructions pdfs, Lego has been ok to let hobbyists reproduce the downloads (last I saw.)

Another thing Lego did was to provide SDKs for Mindstorms (a while after the community reverse-engineered a lot of it...). Opening it up that way was encouraging. (Lego even started distributing HiTechnic's 3rd party sensors, the folks that reverse-engineered the Mindstorms 1.0 RCX.)

I was part of the fan movement from 1998-2001 that hammered on the message for Lego to open things up. What happened is that they hired several of us :)
by jamesmiller5 | 2026-03-11 20:14:26+00:00
What you really have to ask is will this community be less inclusive because English isn't your first language, I'd say "no" and I hope most would agree.

> Your arguments will come of as stronger to the reader.

That is persuasian, not authenticity, to the OP's point.

Typed without a spellchecker :).
by jason_s | 2026-03-11 20:14:30+00:00
OOH! Neat! I looked on my mobile phone enough to get a sense of what this is.

I'm not in the petroleum industry, but about 45 years ago I was mesmerized at an energy fair at my elementary school by this Exxon magazine that showed the refinery flow with a bunch of little dots: https://archive.org/details/p-2330663/P2330670.JPG
by officeplant | 2026-03-11 20:14:47+00:00
Honestly I saw a similar answer on a post talking about AI Translation in github comments.

Post the translation as best you can manage, and below it put the same comment in your original language. If someone has qualms with your comment having broken english/mistranslations they are welcome to run bits of original language themselves.

We're all here to talk about tech, and we aren't all perfect little english robots.
by CyberDildonics | 2026-03-11 20:14:55+00:00
You are right of course, the solution is trivial.

They also made a carriage return crash the compiler so it wouldn't work with any default text files on windows, then they blamed the users for using windows (and their windows version of the compiler!).

It's not exactly logic land, there is a lot of dogma and ideology instead of pragmatism.

Some people would even reply how they were glad it made life difficult for windows users. I don't think they had an answer for why there was a windows version in the first place.