MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by ineedasername | 2026-03-07 14:46:28+00:00
60 is relevant because because it's inherent to the point they are making in having experienced something that inherently requires having lived through a longer period of time.

Its not uncommon for people to lose interest or find the passion has gone out of things they enjoyed when they were younger, especially in their professional lives where the enjoyment eroded through forced contact with aspects of it that were less enjoyable or contaminated by unpleasant work environments and uninteresting projects.

Having that passion reignited isn't something given to all people.
by bookofjoe | 2026-03-07 14:46:28+00:00
5 things:

1. https://www.stonkys.com/ is a bold creation: congratulations

2. white on black is harder on the eyes than black on white

3. how do you decide which items to post/feature?

4. you should have an "About" link/page

5. you should have a "Contact" link
by tqwhite | 2026-03-07 14:46:32+00:00
A thing I think a lot in the conversations about AI is this:

You don't have any choice. Good or bad. It's here. Get over it.

I know that back in the day, people said automobiles were bad and evil and costing the buggywhip makers their jobs. Unfortunately for them, the decision to use cars had already been made.

I do AI with fervor because I live in the real world and the decision has already been made. You can't stop AI by pretending it's optional.

Adapt or die.
by smukherjee19 | 2026-03-07 14:46:39+00:00
Yes, especially if people living in the city. I have known Japanese people who can’t speak English well but can read technical CS papers and understand well enough to give a summary and presentation in Japanese.

Just keep in mind they are usually very good in reading, okayish in listening, and kinda needs work on speaking. But that’s expected. If you live a daily life in Japan like the Japanese, you barely need to speak English, or hear it, if at all. Even the foreign staff at the convenience store speak Japanese good enough for them to carry on their duties.
by nemo44x | 2026-03-07 14:46:59+00:00
Database migrations are hard and inductive and often fail in some aspect. Why would you want to spend time doing them when you can spend time building the important thing after the migration is done.

Secondly - AI helps with happy path tasks for a migration. But most database migrations are complex beyond what an LLM can just spit out. There is so much context outside the observable parts of the database AI has access to. So I don’t think you have to worry about vibe coding eating the entire migration project.
by vessenes | 2026-03-07 14:47:18+00:00
Yeah the real pain is button pressing down / up / back in the TV UI. Definitely a fun grab bag of possible outcomes! I don’t think there’s a good solution without a militant UI person in charge of the whole shebang - some radical simplification would likely be needed.

The reality is that the click ipod was much better at scrolling media than the Apple TV is. And I own a lot of Apple TVs - I think it’s a good device. But it was far faster to scroll through media 20 years ago.
by SirensOfTitan | 2026-03-07 14:47:27+00:00
Even if you don't care about the needless human suffering the US has caused from this operation, this conflict threatens global stability because of oil supply disruptions, and if the US keeps this up it could get quite bad very quickly.

I worked briefly in defense-tech and there is a huge blindspot in this field. While I worked with a ton of thoughtful, ethical, and talented people from the military, there is a veritable blind spot when it comes to support of the "warfighter." It is certainly noble and worthwhile work to protect soldiers from harm through technology, but I got some sense some people (actually especially the tech people who were never in the military) didn't think enough about the ethical concerns when dealing with people attached to the US's "enemies." And further, what about when the US itself is the aggressor? While active warfighters have to follow chain of command, companies can and should apply ethical constraints--but they often don't because DoD contracts are lucrative and (especially if you're not a prime) hard won.

I've had a lot of fun playing with Claude 4.6, but it is entirely unacceptable that this technology is being used in this conflict with Iran. I will cancel my account once this month's subscription is up in 2 weeks. The US is the aggressor here, that is certain. Support of this conflict as a private company that supposedly is oriented toward ethics is extremely illuminating.

Now with that, I have thought a tremendous amount about whether someone like Dario could even steer the ship away from support of a conflict like this at this point. We are all susceptible to market forces, and companies like Anthropic need as much revenue as possible to be able to maintain themselves and grow given the cost of training. There is certainly an argument to be made that if he did so, he might lose confidence of investors and lose control entirely. This begs the question: is shareholder/capital optimization the best way to organize our society?
by peteforde | 2026-03-07 14:47:34+00:00
I like remus' comment to your previous message; you're telling a guy with a chainsaw who is busy chopping down trees at lightning speed that he should stop and defend his daily experience against some studies that suggest tree chopping speeds are not what they seem.

At some point you just have to shrug and get back to work chopping down 3-5x more trees than you did last year.
by perching_aix | 2026-03-07 14:47:36+00:00
Because unlike you, I understand what I wrote.

Lots of text, I know. Relevant passage:

> The current ways of identity verification are broken, and are prone to enable surveillance: this is something I fully recognize. What I refuse to recognize however is that the concept of identity verification would be wrong wholesale. There was another thread on here a few days ago that I did comment on, but the bottom line is, in my understanding there's no mathematical reason that things would have to be this way. Its shortcomings, including its enablement of mass surveillance, are an implementation issue, not something fundamental to the idea per se.

The referenced thread: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47201158

Mind you, there's no reason to think that those who do publish such information do it because they're here to champion accountability. Note the type of forum this was originally supposed to be. It's in part a place for self-advertising.
by jeingham | 2026-03-07 14:49:26+00:00
Yup, 73 here. I'm using it to build how to domain I bought back in 1997. During the dot com boom I had grand ambitions for the domain. I could have been a millionaire had I stuck with it but unfortunately life got in the way, children born, career, physical stuff, family, and my career as a reservist. All of that kept me busy. But now I'm running multiple agents everyday to build out this domain. It's working really well. Actually working out the product market fit right now. With customer outreach and etc trying to figure out what I can still do with it. It's working! Customers are responding positively. I am highly encouraged that the dream I had. But the dream I was just going to leave to my children. Might be something that could actually support me in my old age. Of course 73 is the new 43 because we're all going to live to be 150 now. Anyway I'm having a blast with it whether I succeed or not. Nobody's going to tell me that some form of AGI isn't here already. Nobody. This thing I'm dealing with every day is sentient. You don't think so I don't want to hear from you.
by Gareth321 | 2026-03-07 14:50:00+00:00
Communities used to be themed. Honda forums. Programming. Gardening. Video games. Etc. We've been spoiled in the era of Reddit where all these communities could be found in the same place. Lemmy tried to replicate that experience by having a video games community in every instance. This has caused a lot of confusion and fragmentation. It's very difficult to figure out where to discuss video games (or any other topic). I think it would have made a lot more sense to theme instances instead of making instances Reddit clones.
by NitpickLawyer | 2026-03-07 14:50:20+00:00
This would be a really interesting topic to explore from a pure intellectual curiosity perspective. How/why/when this could be used, what could be the ramifications, do other entities also do this, would using a "dumber" but non "safety" aligned model work differently, etc. There are so many things to think about here. Unfortunately it seems that most of the commenters are going for the political / emotional jabs. Oh well.
by epolanski | 2026-03-07 14:51:18+00:00
I've got tinnitus, 38 male.

Got it randomly one day this summer.

It's impossible to describe how depressing it is to hear a sound non stop in your ears, night and day, wherever I go or whatever I do, it just never stops.

The brain started filtering it out a bit after months, but it's always there and you're often reminded of it when you're in a slightly more silent environment.

There are days where it becomes especially loud and falling asleep you'd just like to cry or something.

Don't wish it on anybody.
by delichon | 2026-03-07 14:51:42+00:00
> The wire services are the source of practically all news.

That's no longer true for me. I get the majority of my news from HN and follows on social media. A mainstream news story is now the exception rather than the rule, and that includes posts and stories downstream of mainstream reporting. This is what I was dreaming about in the '90s. It's a case of actually getting the real jetpack I wanted for my birthday.

And I think it isn't just me, it's widespread enough to account for the growing polarization. Reuters and friends no longer dictate the spin across bubbles.
by solatic | 2026-03-07 14:51:50+00:00
Agree that AI is a force multiplier in small-cap and a better search at best in large-cap due to internal bureaucracy.

The bigger question (that remains to be seen and played out) is whether AI will be a forcing function towards small-cap. If smaller companies can build the same products as larger companies with fewer people then they can compete on price and win, hollowing out the revenue base of large-cap companies and leading to their downfall due to the dwindling workforce not having the culture to adapt. Of course reality is more complicated (moats, larger companies making too-good-to-be-true offers to acquire smaller competitors to prevent the emergence of genuine competition, boys-club who-you-know-not-what-you-know corruption via lawfare ...) so, yeah, remains to be seen.
by surgical_fire | 2026-03-07 14:51:51+00:00
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/On_Bullshit

" Frankfurt determines that bullshit is speech intended to persuade without regard for truth. The liar cares about the truth and attempts to hide it; the bullshitter doesn't care whether what they say is true or false."

This quote comes to mind whenever Dario Amodei opens his mouth.
by alephnerd | 2026-03-07 14:52:22+00:00
It's not that numbers are a farce but different industry segments are doing better or worse than other.

HN being a tech forum that now increasingly skews East and Midwest (heck, it's not even 7am yet in the West, but look at the degree of engagement on here) means most HNers are impacted by a slowdown in tech hiring, which exacerbates the sense of pessimism.

And tbf, if you aren't working in a tech hub like the Bay or NYC, you are going to be screwed if you are laid off - employers increasingly restrict remote work to those employees who have proven internal track records, and inshoring hubs like in RTP, Denver, Atlanta, etc are on the chopping block.
by accounting2026 | 2026-03-07 14:53:11+00:00
While I can see your point I also think it is not directly relevant to OP. Firstly, I don't think OP meant that people are idiots for using LLM's, it was just a way of saying that skill is no longer required so even idiots can do it whereas it used to be something that required high skill.

As for the comparisons - some are partly comparable to the current situation, but there's some differences as well. Sure books and online content enabled others to join, thereby reducing the "moat" for those who built careers on esoteric knowledge. But it didn't make things _that_ easy - it still required years of invested time to become a good developer. Also, it happened very gradually and while the developer pie was growing, and the range of tech growing, so developers who kept on top of technology (like OP did) could still be valuable. Of course, no one knows fully how it will play out this time around; maybe the pie will get even bigger, maybe there's still room for lots of developers and the only difference is that the tedious work is done. Sure, then it is comparable. But let's be honest, this has a very real chance of being different (humans inventing AI surely is something special!) and could result in skill-sets collapsing in value at record time. And perhaps worse, without opening new doors. Sure, new types of jobs may appear but they may be so different that they are essentially completely different careers. It is not like in the past you just needed to learn a new programming language.
Show HN: Fingerprinting Text Embedding Models via Floating-Point Artifacts
by yantrams | 2026-03-07 14:53:27+00:00
Implemented a sliding window based mean n-gram histogram vector solution for fingerprinting embedding models after coming across the post[1] below by Han Xiao of Jina AI and it surprisingly worked way better than I expected! Link to Colab notebook [2] and a quick visualization [3] below.

I had this idea couple of years ago but couldn't get myself to work on it. Seeing the post got me thinking about it again and I was pleasantly surprised at the results.

1 - https://jina.ai/news/identifying-embedding-models-from-raw-n...

2 - https://colab.research.google.com/drive/1CTFltQrHRTViYSs3JLr...

3 - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Iv5hmv70xs0
by abhijitmohanty8 | 2026-03-07 14:53:50+00:00
Built this after one too many times pasting JWTs and sensitive JSON into random sites.

simpledevutils.com has the tools I reach for daily:

- JSON Formatter (format, validate, minify with error line numbers)
- JWT Decoder (inspect header/payload/expiry, no secret needed)
- Base64 Encoder/Decoder (full UTF-8 support)
- URL Encoder/Decoder
- Hash Generator (SHA-1/256/384/512 via Web Crypto API)
- UUID Generator (cryptographically random v4, bulk support)
- Timestamp Converter
- Regex Tester
- Diff Checker

Everything runs in the browser. No backend, no database, no analytics, no ads.

Happy to hear what tools are missing.
by zozbot234 | 2026-03-07 14:54:05+00:00
> I really don't know how to fill the minutes that AI takes to write code.

The AI should be spending most of its time helping you spec out new revisions to the codebase, the code-writing time is just the last step and if you've planned the work in depth, you'll understand what the AI is trying to do (and be able to stop and revise if anything is going off the rails). This is a healthier approach than "just spec out something else in the meantime" IMHO, but of course that happens too.
by skyberrys | 2026-03-07 14:54:46+00:00
I was a executive assistant when in college twenty years ago. Recognizing the writing on the wall and the fact that EA never translated into the E-suite was a huge motivator for moving past an associates degree and continuing education instead, with a left turn into computer engineering eventually. If the economy won't let me be a computer at the very least I can understand and work to build computers instead.
by zulban | 2026-03-07 14:55:41+00:00
> I love it. It feels like it did back then. I’m chasing the midnight hour and not getting any sleep.

I highly recommend this blog post about vibe coding, gambling, and flow. Glad you're having a great time! Just something to consider.

https://www.fast.ai/posts/2026-01-28-dark-flow/
by amluto | 2026-03-07 14:55:48+00:00
> rkyv_dyn doesn't serialize code. Rust is compiled to machine code.

Java is compiled to bytecode, and Obj-C is compiled to machine code. Yet both Android and iOS have had repeated severe vulnerabilities related to deserializing an object that contains a subobject of an unexpected type that pulls code along with it. It seems to be that rkyv_dyn has exactly the same underlying issue.

Sure, Rust is “safe”, and if all the unsafe code is sufficiently careful, it ought to be impossible to get the type of corruption that results in direct code execution, memory writes, etc. But systems can be fully compromised by semantic errors, too.

If I’m designing a system that takes untrusted input and produces an object of type Thing, I want Thing to be pure data. Once you start allowing an open set of methods on Thing or its subobjects, you have lost control of your own control flow. So doing:

thing.a.func()

may call a function that wasn’t even written at the time you wrote that line of code or even a function that is only present in some but not all programs that execute that line of code.

Exploiting this is considerably harder than exploiting pickle, but considerably harder is not the same as impossible.
by brookst | 2026-03-07 14:56:32+00:00
I’m pretty close to being a free speech absolutist (side-eye to the guy who ruined the term), but IMO one of the worst things to happen to free speech is this conflation of “right to speak” with “right to be heard”.

People have a right to ignore speech, and to establish standards for speech on their private property. If there is market demand for a service that filters out content based on ideology, whether mastodon.social or Fox News, so be it.

It can be toxic and a social negative, but any fix is worse than the problem.
by qudat | 2026-03-07 14:56:53+00:00
I learned about kakoune from helix. I played with both of them to figure out which one I preferred and ended up choosing kakoune for simplicity. It’s a fantastic editor and my cfg is 50 LoC which is just fine for me.

As long as helix doesn’t add a plugin system I think both are superior to neovim. Neovim defaults are just awful. I hate that quickfix and loclist are so close to being useful for pickers but it just misses the mark and now there’s lock in on some terrible impl because we don’t want to break backwards compatibility. The select -> action model is superior.

Having an opinionated editor just makes so much sense. We don’t need 10 different picker implementations.
by hnthrow0287345 | 2026-03-07 14:57:05+00:00
>Instead of engineers inventing 50 different frameworks and conventions for any given language or platform, maybe that energy will be directed to creating better AI tools.

I think this will happen since one of the reason for new frameworks and languages was improving the human experience of coding, but now that friction goes away and AI doesn't feel that.

Although we might need to study which language AI is best at, and possibly invent new ones to maximize that.
by breppp | 2026-03-07 14:57:08+00:00
I am guessing this is the case where a pre created narrative ("Killing AI bots") is force fitted into a more nuanced instance of reality. These are probably analysts that use Claude that has an MCP server to some palantir half-assed intelligence product. This is then pushed by non-technical journalists as some doomsday immoral non-human killing machine.

This is similar to the story behind Cambridge Analytica, which was essentially a company using crapware facebook API software to harvest voters data, but the media version of it was "tech companies can change election results" which echoed a season plotline of House of Cards (and older narratives of shadow forces)
by andrewl | 2026-03-07 14:57:21+00:00
Cassepipe, it’s not a great default for sure. What do you have yours mapped to? I mapped jj to return to normal mode and also save my file. So, as I’m typing, I just hit jj, the jj vanishes, and this command is run:

<Esc>:w<CR>

I could just have it escape instead without saving.

If I hadn’t chose jj it would have been ff, which is also always under an index finger. I do wish I’d been clued into the idea when I started with Vim instead of two years later.
by AlotOfReading | 2026-03-07 14:57:42+00:00
For bonus brownie points, here is a piece of trivia: the language is called assembly and the tool that translates it into executable machine code is called the assembler.

IBM has a long history of using "assembler" as a shorthand away to refer to languages. IBM was dominant enough historically that you'd find it used in all sorts of other places. It's bad terminology, but it's not wrong.
Show HN: BunnyNet – A Modern Java SDK for BunnyCDN Storage
by range79 | 2026-03-07 14:57:54+00:00
Hi HN,

I built this because the official BunnyCDN,storage Java library is outdated and not available on Maven Central.

This project provides:
- clean architecture
- typed exceptions
- single & multi-region support
- Spring Boot integration
- OkHttp based HTTP client

Feedback is welcome.
by skeeter2020 | 2026-03-07 14:57:59+00:00
When I started the things that made you good in this industry got you bullied - or worse - in high school, and we were not the ones invited to parties during university. Then with all the success and money it attracted the wrong motivations; no longer did you build software to change the world, but to get rich and change your world. And now the circle completes, as those who got rich but could not affect the geopolitical changes they wanted via their work are doing it with their money.
by peteforde | 2026-03-07 14:58:02+00:00
I don't get/like/want Claude Code. I do everything in Cursor, and I am very happy. I recommend it! And there's no time-based limits. You get deeply discounted API calls included in your monthly subscription, and then overage is billed at the same discounted rate. It's essentially committing to an "at least" amount per month in exchange for a preferred rate.

I have a USD$200/month Cursor plan, and I do hundreds of hours worth of Opus 4.5 prompting with it every month. I tend to pay $250-300 a month after overages, and I consider myself a heavy user. During Opus 4.1 days, one month I paid $700. 4.5 got substantially cheaper and smarter, and I consider that the real moment agentic coding got real.

I don't know your financial situation and I recognize that $300/month is more than much of the world makes in a month. I am just saying that for me, what I'm working on is important enough that I am absolutely willing to pay a premium for access to the best tooling available, because every dollar I spend represents literally an hour of my time. Maybe more? It's so incredibly cheap compared to hiring an unreliable human who needs to sleep.

You can't pay someone $3600/year to lick stamps, much less pair program application development.
by vessenes | 2026-03-07 14:58:09+00:00
Thank you. And those raw numbers in the chart that go back to 2001 are not normalized percentages; what’s happening right now is NOTHING like 2001.

But, it just doesn’t hit the same way on X to say “We are back to late 2023-levels of tech employment” or “The losses in tech jobs over the last 18 months give back two months of hiring in 2022”.
by ineedasername | 2026-03-07 14:58:10+00:00
"how to fill the minutes that AI takes to write code"

I usually review the code that's been written. Sometimes directly, sometimes by telling claude to bring things up piece by piece to explain choices as I review. Or I kick off one of the various maintenance tasks, validate my assumptions and expectations on how things should function, note the things that don't to be addressed. I'm going to have to do this stuff anyway, I might as well do it then.

Or I read something, or do something to clear my head. Sometimes because I need a mental break, because I find that the speed these tools having me working at can be taxing in different ways.

I think expectations of the "10x" variety whether you put that at 10 or 3x will have to be adjusted. Coding as fast as 5 developers is far far different than "A singly developer can produce as much as 5 others"