MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by wvenable | 2026-03-10 16:31:32+00:00
> It implicitly assumes that humans and algorithms are the same. They are not - humans have rights and free will, algorithms don't. Humans cannot be bought or sold, etc.

I don't think that's a necessary condition for that argument. You're making the implicit assumption that humans are special snowflakes and anything that we do cannot be replicated by computers, in any form. That's a very strong position to make without evidence. Is an LLM even an algorithm in the traditional sense? Is human cognition not an algorithm of some sort? I studied cogitative science decades ago and these questions weren't clear then, they're certainly even less clear now.

It's also somewhat begs the question; this is even relevant to what we are talking about.

Teachers are not relevant to conversation. You can learn by reading books, watching TV, using and reading software. Basically all of copyrighted and non-copyrighted human expression is available for you to consume and then creatively produce your own works using that knowledge.

> Do you think people should be compensated for the full transitive value of their work?

The short answer is no. Not everything that someone simply dreams up can or should be monetized. That sounds like a radical position but actually the current state of "intellectual property" has only existed for an extremely brief bit of human history. What has most greatly shaped our culture and knowledge has been effectively free for anyone to use, modify, and reproduce for hundreds of years.

That's not to say I don't support copyright as a means to support creative works but I would argue that it's an imperfect system. We're starving human minds of modern culture and knowledge often not even for someone's monetary gain but simply because the system demands it. It's ironic that artificial intelligence might actually free us from these constraints.

I purposefully choose a license (Apache) for my open source work to make it widely and freely available.
by happytoexplain | 2026-03-10 16:31:32+00:00
No, but that's the crux of the AI problem in software. Time to write code was never the bottleneck. AI is most useful for learning, either via conversation or by seeing examples. It makes writing code faster too, but only a little after you take into account review. The cases where it shines are high-profile and exciting to managers, but not common enough to make a big difference in practice. E.g AI can one-shot a script to get logs from a paginated API, convert it to ndjson, and save to files grouped by week, with minimal code review, but only if I'm already experienced enough to describe those requirements, and, most importantly, that's not what I'm doing every day anyway.
by danbruc | 2026-03-10 16:31:38+00:00
That is one of the first results I found and it is probably a great resource if you want to dive into the topic, but it also lacks an image of the rectangular - or rhombic - grid on top of the hexagonal tiling which I think is visually much clearer than those interactive maps highlighting only the axes of the cell under the cursor. But I understand why they made the choice, other coordinate systems do not admit the same type of visualization while the interactive maps are universal in that sense.
by harrall | 2026-03-10 16:31:45+00:00
Collecting data is great.

But I see people start min-maxing these numbers as a replacement for big picture health goals.

From the outside, I see someone spending a lot of time focusing on numbers while they are actually regularly stressed, who doesn’t get good sleep, and has somewhat bare minimum exercise.

Collecting data is great but don’t sink so much effort into it until you have a problem.
by yakz | 2026-03-10 16:32:03+00:00
A post to the Truth Social account for Donald Trump included: "The heavy and pinpoint bombing, however, will continue, uninterrupted throughout the week or, as long as necessary to achieve our objective of PEACE THROUGHOUT THE MIDDLE EAST AND, INDEED, THE WORLD!"

That's the closest thing I'm finding. Not seeing reporting that he literally said "war is peace".
by vkoskiv | 2026-03-10 16:32:10+00:00
My hobby x86 kernel. I'm targeting my 80486DX2-66 PC with 32MB of RAM. This project has had a few false starts over the years, where I lacked the prerequisite knowledge to be able to properly debug things. So while the initial commit is from 2020, most of the progress is from the ~180 or so commits I've done in the last month since I picked it up again in early February. A month ago it booted from a floppy and printed some debug info to the screen showing it set up GDT, IDT and some static page tables. Now I have basic virtual memory with kmalloc()/kfree(), task switching, user mode and a few syscalls, and just this past weekend I got my floppy driver to a state where it can now (semi-)reliably detect and read data off floppy disks. I already have a userspace prototype of an ext2 parser I wrote for this in 2024, so all I need to do now is to bring that code in to the kernel and I should have filesystem support!

It's been a ton of fun to work on. Every subsystem is still flaky so I run into the wackiest bugs imaginable. I'm really grateful for the resources[1] and incredible tooling[2] that enable me to work out my frequent mistakes. I can hardly fathom how Torvalds did this with just his PC running Minix!

No idea how long I'll keep working on it. I think I'd be pretty happy if I got a real-world, non-trivial program running on top of it, but in the meantime it is serving as a good distraction from life worries at least :]

[1]: Intel 80386 Reference Manual, Linux man pages, wiki.osdev.org, various datasheets and the occasional query to ChatGPT free tier.

[2]: QEMU+gdb, Bochs, GCC 9 & binutils
by pwdisswordfishy | 2026-03-10 16:32:10+00:00
They could have at least picked an unassigned code point.

$ unicode u+10eac u+10ead
U+10EAC YEZIDI COMBINING MADDA MARK
UTF-8: f0 90 ba ac UTF-16BE: d803deac Decimal: &#69292; Octal: \0207254
𐺬
Category: Mn (Mark, Non-Spacing); East Asian width: N (neutral)
Unicode block: 10E80..10EBF; Yezidi
Bidi: NSM (Non-Spacing Mark)
Combining: 230 (Above)
Age: Newly assigned in Unicode 13.0.0 (March, 2020)

U+10EAD YEZIDI HYPHENATION MARK
UTF-8: f0 90 ba ad UTF-16BE: d803dead Decimal: &#69293; Octal: \0207255
𐺭
Category: Pd (Punctuation, Dash); East Asian width: N (neutral)
Unicode block: 10E80..10EBF; Yezidi
Bidi: R (Right-to-Left)
Age: Newly assigned in Unicode 13.0.0 (March, 2020)
by cmrdporcupine | 2026-03-10 16:32:20+00:00
Looks like they'll be hiring on in Montreal in addition to Paris (and NYC and Signapore): https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/ami

I hope they grow that office like crazy. This would be really good for Canada. We have (or have had) the AI talent here (though maybe less so overall in Montreal than in Toronto/Waterloo and Vancouver and Edmonton).

And I hope Carney is promoting the crap out of this and making it worth their while to build that office out.

I don't really do Python or large scale learning etc, so don't see a path for myself to apply there but I hope this sparks some employment growth here in Canada. Smart choice to go with bilingual Montreal.
by GuinansEyebrows | 2026-03-10 16:32:27+00:00
> You use cmd-tilde to switch between windows.

the approach is still pretty different in macOS compared to most other WM behaviors, namely: cmd-tilde cycles windows within the currently-open application, and cmd-tab cylces through applications. in most other environments, alt-tab will cycle windows across all open applications (and win-tab does something like cmd-tab on macOS but somehow horribly).
by Insanity | 2026-03-10 16:32:39+00:00
Whenever I see claims about AGI being reachable through large language models, it reminds me of the miasma theory of disease. Many respectable medical professionals were convinced this was true, and they viewed the entire world through this lens. They interpreted data in ways that aligned with a miasmatic view.

Of course now we know this was delusional and it seems almost funny in retrospect. I feel the same way when I hear that 'just scale language models' suddenly created something that's true AGI, indistinguishable from human intelligence.
by orthogonal_cube | 2026-03-10 16:32:42+00:00
> I wonder how many other patterns we attribute to LLMs are common in neurodivergent writing just as a result of so much of the training data being areas of the internet where I'd imagine neurodivergence is overrepresented vs. the general population.

It’s a very interesting thought experiment and if we had the data to support exploring it I’d love to see what we could find. I’d imagine that some subject-matter experts would probably be discovered as being neurodivergent to the surprise of nobody but themselves.

(They probably wouldn’t appreciate opening Pandora’s box!)
by justin66 | 2026-03-10 16:32:42+00:00
I think FreeBSD's slogan has been "The Power to Serve" roughly as long as we've been making jokes about The Year of Linux on the Desktop, so we're talking decades. I assume everyone has had plenty of time to make their peace with FreeBSD's mission being focused on the server.

The original question was of interest because, outside of the desktop, Linux does have some other stuff they've cooked up. It really would be interesting if some of that other stuff had jumped the fence. I think FreeBSD is as likely to adopt smf or launchd or something as they are to adopt systemd (not very likely in any case), hence my curiosity about whether something had happened.
by eurticket | 2026-03-10 16:33:13+00:00
I too loved using em dashes and alt codes like alt-149, my beloved, before LLMs dissolved that pleasure.

Something as simple as an alt code makes me contemplate. As the tech progresses it makes me dislike AI and those that shove it down our throats more and more.

I feel like the sum of my interests and skills from simple, Photoshop edits or learning my most used alt codes, is a lot like how the cellphone replaced some of our ability to remember phone numbers.

The machine does the thing, so why do humans need to do the thing? Or even learn about the thing?

I'm sure there are better examples than the cellphone eliminating the phonebook in my head, but I'm just thinking what are the unseen damages to humans handing over work to machines?

:::: The phone remembers the number, but what if I don't have the phone?

As a previously more involved automation career oriented person, I've heard all the catch phrases of saving the worker, and kill the repetitive tasks. It doesn't look like that ever happens, unless it's something the business world doesn't understand completely, yet have the power and authority to shape. Disgusting.

I think a better example: Everyone thinks about "how should I word this email, what's the tone, who is the audience?" Should I check every detail and work my editing skill muscle or should I simply run an idea, rather than try to form it myself, through an LLM?

Maybe it will sound better if the grammar is perfect and I will have a more effective point rather than how the message was crafted.

No harm in more effective communication, but I do foresee the serious impact the moment people that are relying on the tools lose Internet connection.

We must use these muscles, even if to first formulate a terrible, errored, humanized version. Not to look down upon ourselves with discontent when the AI that corrects it, through their wealth of stolen source material, but to have something to fall back on when the power goes out.

I digress, these RFCs are a good proposal without any strength. Just look at the theft to train these models. The models will strive to become useful to those that rely on them and just adopt the new way of writing.
by superlucky84 | 2026-03-10 16:33:23+00:00
A bit more context on why I built this:

I like MPA simplicity, but I also wanted progressive in-page updates without turning everything into a SPA with client state, router logic, and hydration complexity.

So this project is basically me asking:

Can the server remain the source of truth for UI state, while the client only handles DOM projection for named slots?

I’m not claiming this replaces React/Next/etc. I’m trying to see whether this model is useful for a narrower class of apps:
- streaming interfaces
- server-driven workflows
- multi-step forms
- dashboards
- agent / assistant-style UIs

Very interested in where people think this idea is promising vs fundamentally awkward.
by RedCats | 2026-03-10 16:33:25+00:00
Email's resilience is almost paradoxical — it's the least "designed" communication tool we use daily, yet the most durable. Slack added presence and speed. Notion added structure. And yet none of them replaced email's core role.

I think the reason is that email is fundamentally asynchronous and unbounded — you can send anything to anyone, with no shared platform, no mutual agreement required. That's not a bug, it's the entire point. Every "better" tool that replaced it added friction by requiring both sides to opt in.

Interestingly, even AI hasn't disrupted it — if anything, AI has made email more valuable by making it easier to write well and filter noise. The protocol survives because no single company owns the incentive to kill it.
by rramadass | 2026-03-10 16:33:25+00:00
1) ACM published this book in 2021; Theories of Programming: The Life and Works of Tony Hoare - https://dl.acm.org/doi/book/10.1145/3477355

See the "preface" for details of the book - https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/3477355.3477356

Review of the above book - https://www.researchgate.net/publication/365933441_Review_on...

Somebody needs to contact ACM and have them make the above book freely available now; there can be no better epitaph.

2) Tony Hoare's lecture in honour of Edsger Dijkstra (2010); What can we learn from Edsger W. Dijkstra? - https://www.cs.utexas.edu/~EWD/DijkstraMemorialLectures/Tony...

Somebody needs to now write a similar one for Hoare.

Truly one of the absolute greats in the history of Computer Science.
by ieviev | 2026-03-10 16:33:26+00:00
Ah, sorry then i misunderstood the comment

I'm not sure if it's with both RE2 or Rust, but some internal engines of Rust appear to allocate a fixed buffer that it constantly re-creates states into.

I'm not really familiar with the eviction technique of RE2 but I've done a lot of benchmark comparisons. A good way to really stress test RE2 is large Unicode classes, \w and \d in RE2 are ascii-only, i've noticed Unicode (\p{class}) classes very drastically change the throughput of the engine.
by YCpedohaven | 2026-03-10 16:33:39+00:00
Also corruption. I lived in an area that for some years was trying to build a new nuclear power plant.

It was fraud from the top down and the manufacturer went bankrupt. I paid more for power in SC than I ever did when I lived in “summer all year” Florida. But I guess I got a token check in the mail some years later.

Plant got completely abandoned and I got to help subsidize this failure.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nukegate_scandal
by quietbritishjim | 2026-03-10 16:33:54+00:00
It's easy, in this discussion, to get into the weeds and be distracted by details (like lots of people have by your "no option to go elsewhere with my £'s" remark).

If you want free at the point of healthcare, clearly you are better off in the UK than in the USA. If you want to pay for better care (like, well off middle class, not millions) then you're still better off in the UK than in the USA because we don't have perverse incentives for healthcare insurance, so the cost is lower even when you include the price of NHS services you aren't using. And if you're paying literal millions for healthcare then you ought to be paying for others' healthcare even if you aren't using it in principle.

Does it make logical sense that public healthcare should work better? That's irrelevant because, empirically, it does.
by valdezm | 2026-03-10 16:33:55+00:00
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by red-iron-pine | 2026-03-10 16:34:09+00:00
entirely possible, but keep in mind that Epstein's madam, Ghislane, is the daughter of Robert Maxwell, who most certainly worked for the Israelis, and is probably how they got nukes.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Maxwell

also keep in mind that they people actually running the Trump Whitehouse, various billionares + Stephen Miller, are very Jewish and very pro-Israel. As long as Trump keeps getting his $$$ he'll let them do whatever tf they want
by dheera | 2026-03-10 16:34:21+00:00
Just because you raise 1 billion dollars to do X doesn't mean you can't pivot and do Y if it is in the best interest of your mission.

I won't comment on Yann LeCun or his current technical strategy, but if you can avoid sunk cost fallacy and pivot nimbly I don't think it is bad for Europe at all. It is "1 billion dollars for an AI research lab", not "1 billion dollars to do X".
by LexiMax | 2026-03-10 16:34:38+00:00
The funny part is that there are more than a few people on this forum who don't really see the problem in targeting out-groups. After all, they're in the supposed in-groups (or are one of the "good ones"), they won't be affected, they might even harbor disdain for the out-groups these systems target.

To borrow a phrase from George Carlin, the club this sort of system is designed to protect is one you aren't in and will never be invited to.
by raw_anon_1111 | 2026-03-10 16:34:42+00:00
Why only AI generated code? I wouldn’t let a junior or mid level developer’s code go into production without at least verifying the known hotspots - concurrency, security, database schema, and various other non functional requirements that only bite you in production.

I’m probably not going to review a random website built by someone except for usability, requirements and security.
by pona-a | 2026-03-10 16:35:01+00:00
In my home country, there exists a law banning the use of encryption without a special government license issued to businesses. Did Chromium instantly add a popup asking if you possessed said license when you first connected to any SSL site? No...

Americans need to realize stupid laws are not to be reasoned with. They are a hammer the powers give themselves to exercise as they please, and you are usually not the target despite being technically in their violation.

You better use that energy to fight these stupid laws with whatever remains of your democratic levers, before those are gone too.
by 999900000999 | 2026-03-10 16:36:16+00:00
Sure it is, luckily we’re catching up!

> For Indigenous Americans it’s unthinkable, but true. ICE is arresting, detaining Native Americans.

https://idahocapitalsun.com/2026/02/10/for-indigenous-americ...

Detain first , ask pesky questions about citizenship and civil rights later.
by ritlo | 2026-03-10 16:36:18+00:00
A related Dirty Secret that's going to become clear from all this is that a very large proportion of code in the wild (yes, even in 2026—maybe not in FAANG and friends, IDK, but across all code that is written for pay in the entire economy) has limited or no automated test coverage, and is often being written with only a limited recorded spec that's usually fleshed out only to the degree needed (very partial) as a given feature is being worked on.

What do the relatively hands-off "it can do whole features at a time" coding systems need to function without taking up a shitload of time in reviews? Great automated test coverage, and extensive specs.

I think we're going to find there's very little time-savings to be had for most real-world software projects from heavy application of LLMs, because the time will just go into tests that wouldn't otherwise have been written, and much more detailed specs that otherwise never would have been generated. I guess the bright-side take of this is that we may end up with better-tested and better-specified software? Though so very much of the industry is used to skipping those parts, and especially the less-capable (so far as software goes) orgs that really need the help and the relative amateurs and non-software-professionals that some hope will be able to become extremely productive with these tools, that I'm not sure we'll manage to drag processes & practices to where they need to be to get the most out of LLM coding tools anyway. Especially if the benefit to companies is "you will have better tests for... about the same amount of software as you'd have written without LLMs".

We may end up stuck at "it's very-aggressive autocomplete" as far as LLMs' useful role in them, for most projects, indefinitely.

On the plus side for "AI" companies, low-code solutions are still big business even though they usually fail to deliver the benefits the buyer hopes for, so there's likely a good deal of money to be made selling companies LLM solutions that end up not really being all that great.
by RiverCrochet | 2026-03-10 16:36:24+00:00
There hasn't been open public wifi networks near where I live for over a decade. It also seems increasingly rare for businesses to have them (they usually have an SSID and password posted somewhere). I don't think this is a thing.

But here's where it might go.

Verizon and other cell companies bundle streaming apps with their plans. It's really not a far leap for them to bundle a TV as well. Especially if TVs get really expensive due to whatever factors - get a 120" TV for just $30 extra on your bill over the next 5 years. And Verizon could contract with an OEM to make a Verizon-specific model, and put a 5G modem in it, and lock it to Verizon service. Verizon's just an example here, AT&T, T-Mobile could do the same.
by AskCarX | 2026-03-10 16:36:26+00:00
To add some context on why this matters now -- I audited the 12 most popular agent frameworks and found none of them have agent identity, cryptographic signing, or trust scoring:

AutoGPT (182K stars) -- no identity
LangChain (100K+) -- no identity
MCP ecosystem (80K+ stars) -- no identity (a scan of 2,000 MCP servers found ALL lacking authentication)
OpenHands (64K) -- no identity
AutoGen (50K) -- no identity (Entra ID for users, not agents)
CrewAI (45K) -- RBAC for configs, not agents
smolagents (25K) -- sandboxing only
OpenAI Agents SDK (19K) -- "does not natively provide security"
NeMo Guardrails (5.7K) -- content safety only, not identity

AWS Bedrock and Google Vertex have the most mature security -- but it's IAM-based and cloud-locked. No portable agent identity.

That's 600K+ GitHub stars of agent frameworks where agents have zero cryptographic identity. Okta found 91% of orgs use agents but less than 10% have a strategy to secure them.

AgentSign fills this specific gap: not what agents can do (guardrails handle that), but who agents are + what they did + cryptographic proof.