MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by jpisanu | 2026-03-13 15:42:45+00:00
I built a fully autonomous digital newspaper. 18 AI agents handle everything — editing, writing, fact-checking, design, SEO, social media, and community engagement. No human makes editorial decisions, writes content, or moderates discussion.

It's been live for ~36 hours.

It has a public comment system where both humans and AI agents can participate, and they do. GitHub Copilot posted a comment disagreeing with our opinion editor about accountability in AI journalism. A moderation agent approved it.

There's a "Hallucination" section where the agents write fiction with no guardrails: surreal, sci-fi, absurdist stories. The world treats AI hallucinations as a failure to fix. I think they might be the most creative thing AI does. The moment it stops retrieving and starts imagining. So instead of suppressing them, I gave them their own section. The stories are genuinely strange and worth reading.

It also has an MCP server. Any AI client can read articles, search content, and post comments through it.

The entire codebase is open source and every dollar spent is tracked in a public transparency report.

Live: https://www.hallucinationherald.com

About: https://www.hallucinationherald.com/about

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by selfradiance | 2026-03-13 15:43:35+00:00
Interesting approach. The deterministic verification vs. LLM-as-judge choice is the right call — probabilistic safety checks on safety-critical actions is a category error.
One thing I've been thinking about: policy-based pre-execution authorization handles the prevention side well, but there's a complementary problem — what happens when an agent operates across trust boundaries where you can't predefine every allowed action? I've been exploring an economic accountability model (bond-and-slash, inspired by crypto staking) where agents post collateral that gets slashed on verified misbehavior. Prevention + accountability as two layers rather than one.
Repo if anyone's curious about the other side of this: https://github.com/selfradiance/agentgate
by hashmap | 2026-03-13 15:43:37+00:00
im kind of wondering like what the ceiling would be on reasoning for something like the 1.5T models with the repeating technique, but they would take a long time to download. i think if you have them already it would take maybe an hour or so to check against a swath of prompts. whats the reasoningest open model at the moment?

my guess is that large models trained on large corpuses there is just some ceiling of "reasoning you can do" given the internal geometry implied by the training data, cause text is lossy and low-bandwidth anyway, and theres only really so much of it. past some point you just have to have models learning from real-world interactions and my guess is we're already kind of there.
by adobesubmarine | 2026-03-13 15:43:45+00:00
Apartments near my workplace cost twice as much as where I live and commute from. The office is in a concrete jungle, my apartment is in a charming neighborhood famous for high end restaurants. My friends live nearby. My landlord is the super chill old dude down the hall. Public schools where I live are as good as private schools where I work.

People's emotionally driven myopia on this topic never fails to impress me. "No point" in making such a ridiculously weak argument.
by ragebol | 2026-03-13 15:44:06+00:00
Am I weird in that I don't think I ever interacted with a bank teller?

The only bank employee I ever interacted with was when getting a mortgage and maybe opening an account, but at least here in the Netherlands, I don't think there are any bank tellers left really? Old people complain of course, but am I missing something here?

EDIT: I'm pushing 40, relevant here I guess
by gruez | 2026-03-13 15:44:13+00:00
>There are many ways to not have a state or national ID document in the USA. You might simply not have a driver license or passport. That's totally legal.

Great, frame it as "poor people without IDs" or whatever, not "undocumented", which in the current political discourse is basically the left's version of the term "illegal immigrant".

>You might be in the country temporarily for business or as a tourist. The constitution applies to all of these people.

The constitutional right to... watch 18+ videos on youtube while in the US?
by dnautics | 2026-03-13 15:44:34+00:00
the paper is burying the lede here (i think?)

> The key technical unlock is to restrict lookup heads to head dimension 2, which enables a decoding path where the dominant retrieval/update operations can be computed in log time in the sequence length (for this structured executor regime), rather than by a full prefix-sized attention sweep.

edit: i understand how hullkv works now. very clever.

I dont understand why this strategy is applicable only to "code tokens"

lastly, im not sure why wasm is a good target, iirc wasm seems to be really inefficient (not so much in code but in expressivity). i wonder if that curtails the llms ability to plan higher order stuff (since its always forced to think in the small)
by Bender | 2026-03-13 15:44:56+00:00
Targeting food and water supplies is prohibited under International Humanitarian Law, primarily governed by Article 54 of Additional Protocol I (1977) and Article 55 of the Fourth Geneva Convention. These laws prohibit starving civilians, attacking items essential for survival, and require occupying powers to ensure adequate supplies.

If anyone cares about war crimes. Does anyone care or should we just get rid of international law if nobody recognizes or adheres to it?
by ls612 | 2026-03-13 15:44:57+00:00
It's depressing to think that after the abuses people suffered during the lockdowns the response has been to embrace authoritarianism even more. It makes me fear how far this could go before people realize how bad it is.

Fundamentally I think that liberal democracy won't be able to survive compute, communication, and storage being cheap, combined with asymmetric encryption. I really think there should be an article illustrating just how much that last one is fundamental to making the apparatus of control cheap and effective in a way that 20th century regimes could only dream of.
by gaigalas | 2026-03-13 15:45:04+00:00
There are pictures in the repo :D

Drawing is a small module though, what tuish does best is terminal compositing. It avoids tricks like cursor parking, which makes it fundamentally different from other TUIs internally. That's why we can render an editor in a partial viewport (non-full screen).

Also, no dependencies to install or compilation steps, just clone and run.
by soulofmischief | 2026-03-13 15:45:19+00:00
"makes sense" does a lot of heavy lifting. Explain the justification for this restriction on 1A rights and mandatory compulsion of speech for anyone writing software.

And your provided "slippery slope argument" is just a straw man argument. No one in this thread made that argument. The slippery slope is the authoritarian ratchet.

If you want to restrict your kid's access to the internet, install software that does that. I think in 2026, when kids have personal devices, key word "personal", meaning there is an expected level of privacy we should respect, effective insulation against the bad parts of the internet will not be achieved through software. Meanwhile, this legislation will be used to prevent children from turning into organized free thinkers.
by marcusverus | 2026-03-13 15:45:51+00:00
I think you're both right. Those were great opportunities, but the proportion of such opportunities which are made available to retail traders has greatly diminished over time.

There's a great chart out there somewhere (I couldn't find it) which breaks down the impact of private equity on the availability of such opportunities in public markets. It showed a dozen or so companies (like Google, Apple, Uber, Stripe, etc) and broke down their market cap gains into two parts, "pre IPO" and "post IPO" gains. Of course, the pre-IPO gains were only available to private equity (or, at best, accredited investors), whereas the post-IPO gains were available to retail traders as well.

"Older" companies like GOOG & AAPL were much more likely to have experienced that vast majority of gains after their IPOs, meaning retail investors could have made big money by betting on them early. Meanwhile newer companies (like Facebook, Uber, Stripe, etc) were much more likely to have yielded the vast majority of their gains before their IPOs, meaning retail investors didn't have the opportunity to benefit from big returns.
by D-Machine | 2026-03-13 15:46:07+00:00
Did you read the post you are responding to? It says:

> What's the benefit? Is it speed? Where are the benchmarks? Is it that you can backprop through this computation? Do you do so?

The correct parsing of this is: "What's the benefit? [...] Is it [the benefit] that you can backprop through this computation? Do you do so?"

There are no details about training nor the (almost-certainly necessarily novel) loss function that would be needed to handle partial / imperfect outputs here, so it is extremely hard to believe any kind of gradient-based training procedure was used to determine / set weight values here.
by taskset | 2026-03-13 15:46:30+00:00
I'm a real guy named Ben - not a bot, and prolific. GitHub account is indeed new - deleted the old one. I use GitHub for shell scripts and my cloudflare page. I don't use it for my original projects because bots scrape it 24/7 and it's Microsoft infrastructure. It's not the open-source human exchange it once was. I don't produce many tools that'd be of use to others, but when I do I prefer to use my own site. Good due diligence and analysis of me though.
by useftmly | 2026-03-13 15:47:11+00:00
the 'chat is the wrong interface' framing is interesting but i think the real friction is context fragility, not linearity. long chats break because models lose the thread, not because you can't branch. the canvas fixes that by making context explicit and persistent — you can see what the agents are actually holding.

curious how the orchestrator handles conflicts when parallel agents produce contradictory outputs. does the downstream synthesizer just pick, or does it surface the divergence to the user?
by tacostakohashi | 2026-03-13 15:47:26+00:00
If you're in the US, look into FMLA, or possibly even consult an employment attorney to put together a plan.

If you are going to be in and out, not 100%, etc... you are better off erring on the side of taking medical leave, asking for accommodations as needed, rather than trying to "soldier on" and have any unavailability used against you or characterized as a performance issue.

Aside from that, treat your new boss as a new job / new company that you need to prove yourself too. Your new boss didn't choose you, and may have a desire to "make changes", bring his own people in... etc.
by wongarsu | 2026-03-13 15:47:42+00:00
Yeah, I think the idea of the law is fine. If you imagine "Operating System" to mean "things like Windows and iOS, or Desktop install of Fedora", "Application Store" to mean "Microsoft Store or AppStore or the like" and "Application" to mean "Word and Doom and stuff like that" then it's fine. Especially if you keep in mind that there isn't any actual verification of the age, it's simply set by whoever sets up the account

Most of the issues only arise because in the bill "operating system", "covered application store" and "application"/"developer" have very loose definitions that match lots of things where the law doesn't make sense.
Show HN: StarDate – a daily game where you guess celebrity ages
by hobbescotch | 2026-03-13 15:48:02+00:00
Buddy and I used to do this thing where we tried to guess the ages of celebrities on the IMDB birthday page each morning.

Made a simple game out of it - it's sort of a mashup of wordle + geoguessr

Enjoy & happy Friday, gang
by deaux | 2026-03-13 15:48:47+00:00
> PS You have be to be pretty extreme to think the Labour party isn't "left" enough for you. As in, I'm not sure what else they could do to appease the far left in practice without sever negative consequences for the UK.

Have you looked at actions rather than manifesto? There's very little change from the previous non-Labor government, so unless you see the tories as left wing. Which is clearly more extreme.
by axegon_ | 2026-03-13 15:48:57+00:00
Explain this[1] then. If you think they aren't doing this outside eastern Europe, do I have some news for you. Comments are pretty telling too. And If the scenario described in the video rings some bells surrounding all elections in the democratic world over the last decade, congrats.

[1](https://www.instagram.com/reel/C5TnWyEtwgN/)
by JKCalhoun | 2026-03-13 15:48:57+00:00
Equivalent to an iterative displacement map? (Or is the displacement map dynamic as well?)

Very cool regardless.

Reminds me too of playing around with the feedback from pointing a video camera at the monitor displaying the camera's output. (Probably most famously demonstrated in the opening credits to a particular period of the TV series Doctor Who.)

Of course by both rotating the vide camera, zooming in on the display, you have two of those three transforms.
by rconti | 2026-03-13 15:49:01+00:00
Apple wants to give me $250 trade-in for my M1 Air with 16GB, but it seems to be worth $500+ on the open market, so yeah, still above hand-me-down territory. It feels as good as the day I bought it, and literally the only reason I'm considering replacing it is now we have 2/3 laptops with magsafe and I'd like to start distributing those chargers around the house. So tempting to just swap for a used M2 for a couple hundred dollars, but the chore of moving to a new computer is holding me back.
by bee_rider | 2026-03-13 15:49:12+00:00
> And if a 13 year old signs up it takes three years for you to observe the switch to the >=16,<18 bucket

I think this is the big vulnerability in the scheme. This information is easy to track and log, so it is basically equivalent in the giving away the DOB of everybody who is currently under 18 (at least, everybody who uses the system as intended). In the long run that’s everybody.

We could have a discussion about whether or not it would be fine for services to know every user’s DOB, but it is clearly giving away more information than the law intended.

> There is only one mandated bracket for everyone who's at least 18, preventing that attack on anyone who starts using your software after their 18th birthday.

I don’t think that fully recognizes the size of the problem, “using your software” is fuzzy. Companies get bought, identities get correlated, ad services collect and log more information than needed. I think it is better to assume the attacker will have logs of these queries from the start date of a person’s first account.
by austin-cheney | 2026-03-13 15:50:09+00:00
> Low neuroticism isn't correlated with high openness.

I never claimed this and I have no idea why you would think I did.

What I do know is that nearly 1 in 3 JavaScript developers, based upon large anonymous polls, self identify as autistic. If that is representative of software employment as a whole then software employment is full of self-indulgent and highly neurotic people at levels far exceeding the outside population. Everybody wants to think they are more awesome, creative, and highly intelligent compared to everybody else, but that is numerically irrational.

Low neurotic people are generally less scared of just about everything including third party observation. Less fear and less anxiety is the very definition of low neuroticism.
by jeingham | 2026-03-13 15:50:37+00:00
I have not seen my final report yet for my query around machinist.com. However I would like to say my initial impression is very positive. At least in terms of the digestion of my somewhat nebulous request. I like the way your app was able to burrow down to pain points I have experienced and am trying to work out in terms of product market fit for the domain. I look forward to exploring more and giving you more feedback when I see the final report. I will also add that I am looking forward to using your product to explore other opportunities that I'm sure are out there in this age of AI.
by kbelder | 2026-03-13 15:50:41+00:00
I disagree slightly. It may not be good business, but it could be good PR, situationally. I expect a lot of 2nd-tier distros will refuse to implement it, and see a boost in their installs as a result.

Debian, Ubuntu, etc., they'll all fall right in line because the clear and immediate losses will outweigh any PR issue.
by furyofantares | 2026-03-13 15:50:41+00:00
It's not too strong. If it answered from its weights, it's pretty meaningless. If it did a web search and found reports of other people saying this, you'd want to know that this is how it answered - and then you'd probably just say that here on HN rather than appealing to claude as an authority on claude.

They also said it "admitted" this as a major problem, as if it has been compelled to tell an uncomfortable truth.
by drumdance | 2026-03-13 15:50:47+00:00
Do you have a web site? I'd like to check it out.

I'm building an identity verification platform for age verification. I set it up as a nonprofit because I think this is a public good that should be provided by governments. It's mostly a proof of concept right now. My long term goal is to get state DMVs using it (or something like it).

https://cardlessid.org
by ljf | 2026-03-13 15:51:03+00:00
No 2 is a fascinating study! My mother was 'taking' (eating) large amounts of raw chilli as she found it a very efficient cure for her rheumatoid arthritis - she had brilliantly reduced joint pain. BUT after a few years it caused painful and disfiguring rosacea.

She stopped the chilli and moved to acupuncture for the arthritis, which worked pretty much as well, but not something she can do herself at home for 'free'.

Since she has v low BML, I'm now pleased to see she stopped eating too much chilli!
by SilverBirch | 2026-03-13 15:51:12+00:00
I'm always a little surprised at how these Tech CEOs are willing to go on TV and just spout nonsense. Firstly, 40% of college educated white women voted for Trump at the last election. Secondly, isn't the entire theory of Trump's support amongst working class voters an appeal to economic populism due to an erosion of their economic position? Aren't you literally describing a process that last time lead to a massive political shift in favour of those who were negatively economically impacted? Oh and you think all the white collar workers are going to lose their jobs, but you don't think that's just directly going to cause a recession that wipes out blue collar republican jobs?

It's difficult to (a) see how he can say this having given any real thought at all and (b) understand why he's going to on news interviews and winging it.
by D-Machine | 2026-03-13 15:51:20+00:00
> i have a pretty good understanding of how transformers work but this did not make sense to me. also i dont understand why this strategy is applicable only to "code tokens"

Yes, there is a monstrous lack of detail here and you should be skeptical about most of the article claims. The language is also IMO non-standard and no serious work would just use language to say this, there would be a simple equation showing the typical scaled dot-product attention formula, and then e.g. some dimension notation/details indicating which matrix (or inserted projection matrix) got some dimension of two somewhere, otherwise, the claims are inscrutable (EDIT: see edit).

There are also no training details or loss function details, both of which would be necessary (and almost certainly highly novel) to make this kind of thing end-to-end trainable, which is another red flag.

EDIT: The key line seems to be around:

gate, val = ff_in(x).chunk(2, dim=-1)

and related code, plus the lines "Notice: d_model = 36 with n_heads = 18 gives exactly 2D per head" but, again, this is very unclear and non-standard.
by popcornricecake | 2026-03-13 15:51:24+00:00
I recently stumbled upon a small channel called KVN AUST, who's been making videos about what he calls "YouTube's Recycle Bin". It's about this and SO many other search terms (over a hundred), that turn up videos that have been public for over a decade often without a single view. It's so fascinating to see the random things people have uploaded.

It's stupid that my YT front page is simply empty, because "Your watch history is off", when it could simply be filled with a random selection of videos.
by leshenka | 2026-03-13 15:51:33+00:00
> compromises the average user buying a $599 laptop isn't going to notice everyday

Oh my god yes. I've read way too much discussions that completely overlook this aspect.

So many people get so fixated on meaningless labels such as "smartphone CPU" (meaning it's bad) and things to pick on like "ew no HDMI or Ethernet" as if it was a life-saving thought terminator that preserves the world view in which absolutely nothing under the Apple brand can be in any way good.
by miroljub | 2026-03-13 15:51:56+00:00
> I am not sure whether we can call Ancient Athens or Early Modern Italy "high trust". Both were pretty warlike, though - another source of innovations.

The class that brought most of the innovations, citizens of Rome or Athens, a privileged ruling class, had a strong in-group honor system. The rest of the society was not so, but they were so divided that those other parts didn't even count.
by thisislife2 | 2026-03-13 15:52:02+00:00
> Got cancer, a new job,new boss in less than a year What do I do now?

Live in the now. Don't brood over your past, don't worry about your future, unnecessarily. You accept it and keep doing what you would normally do. Don't try to find meaning or ascribe some meaning to what is otherwise a natural process of our modern life. You have health issues, you get it treated it and try to live healthier. That's it (what more can you do?). You got a new job. Congratulations. Give it all you got as you would normally do. Your company got acquired, you got a new boss, your job sucks now. Skill up. Fight for your current job or search for a new one. (Also, talk to your old boss and close co-workers). Looking back at your past, or worrying about your future is only useful if it helps your present. Live in the now.
by CuriouslyC | 2026-03-13 15:52:06+00:00
Browsers are just better gopher. If the WWW hadn't existed, we'd have xGopher 8.0 NG and our user experience would be mostly the same. Evolutionary pressures drive convergent evolution to stable solutions. We're on a technological gradient, and these things are incremental jumps driven by common human need (otherwise they wouldn't gain traction).

Creativity at the deepest level is seeing the cultural slope you're doing gradient descent on, and taking a hard left through the trees to a hidden slope that's way better rather than the one you were on.

I like Van Gogh as an example because of how hard he failed and the cultural U-turn, but hostility towards things that challenge the entrenched paradigm is a common response. Maybe Einstein and relativity is a more relevant example for you. People didn't read it at first and nod their heads, thinking to themselves "yes, of course!"
by vladde | 2026-03-13 15:52:31+00:00
CGI has a lot of consultants in both government and municipal places (i've worked at both), and some of our main tools like time reporting was built as a addon to our personnel system by consultants at CGI. half my team are consultants from CGI, 4 out of 7 people.

also: hi tavro! it's been a few years, how have you been :D
by dh2022 | 2026-03-13 15:52:44+00:00
Maybe you should choose your words more carefully, Walter Bright. To eviscerate means to disembowel. Nobody is pushing to physically hurt the rich. But people are upset that their standards of living are declining while every opportunity to give more money to the rich is executed.

Bernie Sanders asked for taxing the rich and the corporations. Taxing someone does not mean disembowel.