MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by dasil003 | 2026-03-05 15:42:31+00:00
You're correct I've spent most time as a software engineer or a engineering manager. I actually started my career as a web designer though. I've also been effectively an active PM in roles where there was no formal product management funtion. I've also been a co-founder of a two person operation where I did all the product and tech, and my co-founder did all the biz and operations. Another startup I co-founded I was "CTO" but was effectively the number 2 in a 100 person company and had veto power over our first PM hire. I've also been part of a larger scaleup that was acquired in a scenario that left a number of folks orphaned, so for a while I was also managing a handful of designers, program managers, and an IT manager.

So yeah, I understand your point, and if I ran a cross-functional team like that I would hopefully hire well enough that I felt the same. So maybe to restate my thinking in a way that may be slightly less controversial: AI is eating a lot of the low-level mechanistic work that used to define being a software engineer, however I never believed that was where the value was for engineers anyway. While some PMs are incredible and would no doubt be able to get good at vibe coding, the majority in my 25 years experience do not have the patience to get to a precision of requirements which is absolutely still a requirement to get anything out of AI.
by alecco | 2026-03-05 15:42:32+00:00
Blogspam derived from the original article by CNBC, with clickbait title.

> [subtitle] Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang said the company’s recent $30 billion investment in OpenAI “might be the last time” it invests in the AI startup as it gears up to go public.

Jensen meant he expects no more rounds before IPO.

[0] https://www.cnbc.com/2026/03/04/nvidia-huang-openai-investme...
by HardCodedBias | 2026-03-05 15:42:50+00:00
The actual question is if Eaton overstepped his authority in this ruling.

Instead of ruling narrowly that named plaintiffs would get a refund

Eaton expressly said:

"all importers of record" which is all who were subject to the IEEPA duties.

It is unclear if this is lawful.

He didn't have to do this at all. He could stuck with tradition here. He specifies why he did it in this case, but this opens the door.

Also note that he did not open the door to "final liquidations" getting refunds (it is unclear how many tariffs more than 180 days ago were not officially protested).
by hxorr | 2026-03-05 15:43:19+00:00
It's not just an assumption, there is research that shows this.

For example: https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/as-co2-levels-ris...

More specifically, yes, protein content decreases with rising CO2 levels. Maybe not enough to cause obesity on its own, but enough to be a compounding factor. Especially when your staple is, say, rice -- which is what the paper linked above looks at.
by contagiousflow | 2026-03-05 15:43:38+00:00
If you're making apps for yourself, sure. But the purpose of a landing page is to convey information to humans. Slopping together some drivel to attempt the appearance of professionalism isn't just lazy, it's dishonest. Have some respect for the things you make and the people who may interact with them. And if you don't want to write boilerplate or copy: don't!
by rayiner | 2026-03-05 15:43:45+00:00
You’re piling speculation on speculation. First of all, there was no such memo saying the tariffs were “very likely to be overturned.” The Supreme Court decision was 7-3, with two Bush appointees voting to uphold the tariffs. The appellate court decision was 7-4, with two Obama appointees and two Bush appointees dissenting. Second of all, there is no evidence that this legal analysis was leaked to Cantor.
by AlexandrB | 2026-03-05 15:44:17+00:00
> My hunch is there are not many globally who want to suffocate while trying to exist for shareholder value.

I hate this kind of hyperbole because it obscures the real dangers. No one is going to suffocate any time soon. Atmospheric CO2 is around 450ppm. The CO2 in a meeting room of a typical office can easily reach 1500ppm or more[1]. Is everyone in meeting rooms "suffocating"?

[1] https://www.popsci.com/conference-carbon-dioxide-tired-offic...
by jjcc | 2026-03-05 15:44:22+00:00
There are 2 groups of new Chinese immigrants in the US, they are quite different:

1.Those who arrived through legal channels (most studied at U.S. universities and remained on H1B visas, with a smaller number through EB5 or other visa categories) and eventualy got green card.

2.Undocumented immigrants, which include several sub-groups/waves. In the 1990s, most came from just a couple provinces, Fujian and southern Zhejiang. After COVID, they were from different parts of China and entered through the southern border.

The contributors to AI development belong to the 1st group. They are spread across the country but a large number work in high-tech companies in Northern California.

The 2nd group was intially concentrated in New York and Southern California (Los Angeles area). Later they have expanded into nearby regions. They provide labor for Chinese-owned small businesses such as restaurants, grocery stores, and hotels.

There is an industry created largely by Chinese political dissidents helping Group 2 through asylum applications using fake materials and exploiting common Western beliefs or narratives about China like as human rights concerns. For example, Alysa Liu’s father is an asylum lawyer.

ICE enforcement efforts would likely focus more on Group 2 if they are knowledgable. Ohio should not be a high-priority area. I could be wrong due to changes over time. One indicator you can observe: Are there many Chinese-owned small businesses in your area?
by vanderZwan | 2026-03-05 15:44:48+00:00
This brand claims to be fully recyclable:

https://www.koehlerpaper.com/en/products/Thermal-paper/TH_Bl...

It supposedly works by using a layer of reflective bubbles that collapses when exposed to heat:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pc1mlCThevg&t=20s

Of course, I don't know how those bubbles are made or how they are made to collapse from heat, so for all I know that layer still uses chemicals that currently slip through regulations. But I can also imagine that it is doable to create such a "functional layer" with safe materials.
by giancarlostoro | 2026-03-05 15:45:14+00:00
One thing that should happen moving forward, whether we keep tariffs in one way or the other, we need consumer protection laws. I assume companies abused the "oh yeah you owe us for the tariffs" as a way to overcharge consumers. I think additional costs driven by tariffs should be 100% spelled out to the consumer next to where you're shown the tax amount. This should allow for auditing later if companies overcharge. It also would make "refunding" more reasonable, since you could show a receipt if technically you paid for a tariff, otherwise, if the company swallows it, they would show the amount but 'discount' or 'omit' it as something they are choosing to pay for. Without a paper trail I don't see how refunding any of this is feasible.
by lich_king | 2026-03-05 15:45:45+00:00
I don't understand the metric they're using. Which is maybe to be expected of an article that looks LLM-written. But they started with ~250 URLs; that's a weirdly small sample. I'm sure there are tens of thousands malicious websites cropping up monthly. And I bet that Safe Browsing flags more than 16% of that?

So how did they narrow it down to that small number? Why these sites specifically?... what's the false positive / negative rate of both approaches? What's even going on?
by hanbu97 | 2026-03-05 15:45:47+00:00
Good question – the 0.08s is warm cache. First run parses everything in parallel and caches by file mtime (~0.73s vs 17s, about 23x). After that it just loads cached counts, so you only pay for new/changed files (~0.08s vs 17s, 214x). ccusage re-parses from scratch every time with no caching, hence the gap.
by john_strinlai | 2026-03-05 15:45:50+00:00
>Ignore feature requests — don't build what users ask for; understand the underlying problem instead

not quite in the same area, but this advice reminds me of blizzard and world of warcraft. for years and years, people requested a "classic" WoW (for non-players, the classic version is an almost bug-for-bug copy of the original 2004-2005 version of the game).

for years and years, the reply from blizzard was "you think you want that, but you dont. trust us, you dont want that."

they eventually caved and launched classic WoW to overwhelming success. some time later, in an interview, ion hazzikostas (the game director) and holly longdale (vice president & executive producer), admitted that they got WoW classic very wrong and that the people "really did know what they want".

anyways, point being that sometimes the person putting in the feature request knows exactly what they want and they have a good idea. while your default mode might be (and perhaps should be) to ignore feature requests, it is worth recognizing that you may be doing so at your own loss. after all, you might not not be able to fully understand every underlying problem of every user of your product -- but you might understand how to code the feature that they asked for.
by phil21 | 2026-03-05 15:46:16+00:00
Is a 20 cent on the dollar or so payment for the new tariff expense really going to save a company that much on the bubble?

I'm sure there are a few exceptional cases, but that doesn't seem to me like it would be the typical cases. A company needing to pay $100 in tariffs but then the $20 of cash infusion being the thing that saves the day seems rather unlikely.

I'd say it's more likely this was a profit center to more companies than it was a life line. As in they passed the tariff down to their consumers, and also collected the 20% as a cash payment to juice the bottom line.

More common though would be simply a way to help defray some costs and provide certainty.
by don_esteban | 2026-03-05 15:46:29+00:00
Iran has significant Kurdish, Azeri, Baluchi and Arab minorities, Persians form cca 2/3 of the population.

With the US & Israel supporting the minorities (most likely offering them independence), in the hope of toppling the regime, and bombing mostly Persians, the most likely outcome (assuming they are actually able to force regime change, which is far from guaranteed) is fragmentation and general lawlessness.

Note that whoever inherits the regime would have to deal with wholesale destruction of the country, traumatized population and hate for those who bombed them and killed their relatives and children. Slavishly obeying the new foreign overlords will not be very popular. Have we not learned anything from Iraq and Afghanistan? How can you still believe the fairy tales of welcoming the liberators?
by ImPostingOnHN | 2026-03-05 15:46:30+00:00
Expressing qualms about hiring somebody who has voluntarily demonstrated a lack of ethics isn't 'being an asshole'. In fact, it's usually a good business decision and always an ethical one.

Here's a sample question, feel free to use:

"If someone offered you money to build the brains for killbots and mass domestic surveillance of the civilian population, would you accept the offer?"

"Yes" => They are unethical => No-hire.

"No" => They are opportunistic liars, and thus are unethical => No-hire.
by buildbot | 2026-03-05 15:46:35+00:00
I was not sure, but they are!

https://cga.anu.edu.au/research/activities/laser-beam-steeri...

https://www.darpa.mil/research/programs/excalibur

I guess in some ways even the fancy multi diode fiber lasers are phased arrays, just with the single goal of higher output power.
by hammock | 2026-03-05 15:46:38+00:00
Source? I saw this claim going around but the one actual source supporting the claim was more like “we have the cash to buy them if folks are willing to sell them” and didn’t go any further than that.

Via Newsweek, Cantor Fitzgerald has affirmed it “never executed any transactions or taken risk on the legality of tariffs.”

https://www.newsweek.com/howard-lutnick-sons-may-make-money-...
by redeeman | 2026-03-05 15:46:54+00:00
every single so called "nation state" is in reality just a regime, they ALL do this. They are no different than the mafia. You can choose between so called "don socialist" and "don fiscally-resonsible", yet they are identical twins with a different haircut.

No organisations or regime has ever considered itself illegitimate. The big guys consider smaller guys legitimate or illegitimate, but its just ink on a page.

Finland (and _ALL_ other countries) is an illegitimate regime, collecting its protection money, telling you to pray it does not alter the deal any further
Ask HN: What was it like when your startup ended?
by janika_mahl | 2026-03-05 15:46:57+00:00
Hi,

I’m a psychology student at Heidelberg University, Germany. For my bachelor thesis, I’m studying how founders experience the end of a startup journey.

This could include situations like:

- selling the company

- shutting it down

- leaving as a founder

- or another type of exit

I'm especially interested in the emotional and psychological side of the transition. Many founders describe the period after leaving a startup as unexpectedly difficult — even after a successful exit — and I’d like to better understand these experiences.

If you’ve gone through something like this yourself, I would really appreciate your input. The survey is anonymous and takes about 15–30 minutes:

https://www.soscisurvey.de/bachelor_thesis521128/index.php?l=eng&q=KV_ab&password=&htR=AwA%3D

I’d also be very interested to hear about your experiences or thoughts in the comments.

Thanks a lot!
by giantg2 | 2026-03-05 15:47:18+00:00
"The problem I see with the AM5 socket is simply the fact that DD5 RAM to support it is just too expensive."

DDR4 is basically just as expensive. At least DDR5 gives on-chip error correction (not as good as full ECC).

For a geneal computer, there's not that much difference between AM4 and AM5 unless you really want the extra speed of DDR5, PCI 5, and the newest processors. You can build a very capable AM4 machine for slightly less money, but that savings is found on the CPU and motherboard, not on the RAM.
by irishcoffee | 2026-03-05 15:47:36+00:00
First, each state has their own drivers test, lumping “the US driving test” into a single unit displays a clear lack of knowledge on the subject matter.

Second, actually trying to verify if you were right or not, you’re not. Germany, for example, has driving tests similar to the state of maryland in the US.

You are, unfortunately, incorrect and ignoring research/critical thinking skills.
by tegiddrone | 2026-03-05 15:47:36+00:00
Oh, I WISH that was the case but I'd estimate only 10% of SWE would fit your model of minimum competence... and yeah a lot of that 10% are browsing HN. I recall in 2016 asking coworkers why they voted trump. "My 401k" was a frequent answer.

Vibe coding existed long before AI, especially in web/startup/enterprise information systems. You don't need to be a critical thinker to make a successful RoR app.
by SpicyLemonZest | 2026-03-05 15:47:37+00:00
These kind of synthetic nicotine products aren't carcinogenic. They were originally developed as a safer replacement for the traditional Swedish practice of stuffing a bag of tobacco in your mouth, although after acquisition by Phillip Morris they've become common among people who never used tobacco in the first place. (As the article gestures towards, they are "tobacco products" under US law because of their nicotine content, even though they contain no tobacco leaf.)
by alexpotato | 2026-03-05 15:47:55+00:00
Wasn't this already a thing in the past?

e.g.

Team A:

- reads the code

- writes specifications and tests based on the code

- gives those specifications to Team B

Team B:

- reads the specs and the tests

- writes new code based on the above

The thinking being that Team B never sees the code then it's "innovative" and you are not "laundering" the code.

On a side note:

what happens in a copyright lawsuit concerning code and how hired experts investigate what happened is described in this AMAZING talk by Dave Beazley: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RZ4Sn-Y7AP8
by danielmarkbruce | 2026-03-05 15:48:07+00:00
Did you read the ruling? Read Clarence Thomas's dissent. It's not clear if he actually thinks what he wrote, or he just voted that way so he could write a dissent and make a strange legal point which probably doesn't carry water but sort of maybe could one day maybe.

If it were close, I think he would have voted the other way. The folks on the court appear extremely inclined to take the other side on things just as a mental exercise, or to be able to write something on the record that they find interesting.

It was close to zero.
by zadikian | 2026-03-05 15:48:15+00:00
Right now with "green" memory pressure and not so many Safari+FF tabs open, I see 16GB physical, 13.41 used, 2.68 cached, 2.32 swap, 6.57 app, 2.52 wired, 3.89 compressed. Why is there swap used when I have free memory?

I don't know, long ago gave up on understanding this fully. Memory pressure is the only good signal. Or just how slow the Mac feels.
by rgambee | 2026-03-05 15:48:27+00:00
I definitely see a lot of these anti-patterns in the code that CC writes. Many of these can be caught at the time the code is written without needing to wait for a PR review. To me, it seems like most of these instructions belong in CLAUDE.md instead of or in addition to a specialized review skill. Are there things in the review skill that don't belong in CLAUDE.md?
Show HN: Jido 2.0, Elixir Agent Framework
by mikehostetler | 2026-03-05 15:48:52+00:00
Hi HN!

I'm the author of an Elixir Agent Framework called Jido. We reached our 2.0 release this week, shipping a production-hardened framework to build, manage and run Agents on the BEAM.

Jido now supports a host of Agentic features, including:

- Tool Calling and Agent Skills
- Comprehensive multi-agent support across distributed BEAM processes with Supervision
- Multiple reasoning strategies including ReAct, Chain of Thought, Tree of Thought, and more
- Advanced workflow capabilities
- Durability through a robust Storage and Persistence layer
- Agentic Memory
- MCP and Sensors to interface with external services
- Deep observability and debugging capabilities, including full stack OTel

I know Agent Frameworks can be considered a bit stale, but there hasn't been a major release of a framework on the BEAM. With a growing realization that the architecture of the BEAM is a good match for Agentic workloads, the time was right to make the announcement.

My background is enterprise engineering, distributed systems and Open Source. We've got a strong and growing community of builders committed to the Jido ecosystem. We're looking forward to what gets built on top of Jido!

Come build agents with us!
by Lord-Jobo | 2026-03-05 15:49:14+00:00
Which I would point out isn’t necessarily hypocrisy on their part.

I can rage against guns and gun manufacturers for their negative effects on our nation and hate when they are used for monstrous evil, but also believe that police should have firearms and that the second amendment is important.
It’s a tool. You can hate the way it’s made and marketed, and hate many of its popular use cases, and still think there are acceptable ways to use and market it without requiring a total abolition.
by bilekas | 2026-03-05 15:49:24+00:00
No, //cancer stems from the carcinogens in the burning / heating of tobacco//. Nicotine is not cancerous in itself any more than caffeine.

I'm not a doctor though so while I might sound sure it's based on what I've read on the topic over the many years.

Edit : rightly corrected its not just heating and burning, its tobacco and others in general. But nicotine itself is not cancerous.
by xyzzy_plugh | 2026-03-05 15:49:51+00:00
But it does encode it! Each subsequent token's probability space encodes the next word(s) of the book with a non-zero probability that is significantly higher than random noise.

If you had access to a model's top p selection then I'd bet the book is in there consistently for every token. Is it statistically significant? Might be!

I'm not cheating because the number of attempts is so low it's irrelevant.

If I were to take a copyrighted work and chunk it up into 1000 pieces and encrypt each piece with a unique key, and give you all the pieces and keys, would it still be the copyrighted work? What if I shave off the last bit of each key before I give them to you, so you have a 50% chance of guessing the correct key for each piece? What if I shave two bits? What if it's a million pieces? When does it become transformative or no longer infringing for me to distribute?

The answer might surprise you.
by ProllyInfamous | 2026-03-05 15:50:06+00:00
>the mob restaurant scene

Best sudden-shootout scene in any movie ever, IMHO.

>hypotehsizing

LLMs can definitely hypothesize. I'm about a third of the way into Cormac McCarthy's major works, and he definitely makes several interesting arguments on what he considers [enough] for consciousness [to exist]. His short essay on Benzene's discovery [0] is quite interesting (about languageless communication) if you can entertain œtherial out of body influence(s)...

[0] The Kukule Problem
by llm_nerd | 2026-03-05 15:50:17+00:00
>Onshoring manufacturing is something that has to be incentivized and that has positive externalities outside of dollars and cents.

That's what the CHIPS act did. Indeed, everyone talking about TSMC, Intel, etc -- that's all because of the CHIPS act.

Toddler tantrum tariffs, which in reality are a vehicle for massive level corruption (see how Vietnam got a "deal" by approving a Trump resort. Or how every business leader is stuck to Trump's anus lest they be targeted by his tyrant tantrums), are not an incentive. It has had the opposite effect, and new builds have basically dried up.
by parineum | 2026-03-05 15:50:25+00:00
> People without a college degree went Trump 56-43. People with a college degree went for Harris 56-42.

One made more promises to the poor and working class. It seems baked into your comment that the distribution should be 50-50 which seems crazy. A swing of ~5 points isn't that much.

This math would work on any demographic.
by slibhb | 2026-03-05 15:50:33+00:00
You clearly haven't given a lot of thought to questions like "where does all this cheap food/housing/heating come from?"

The fact that fossil fuels -- since their mass adoption in the late 19th century -- are the single largest cause of improved living conditions is standard economic history.

> An unsustainable solution is not in-fact a good solution.

It was a perfectly good solution. It replaced wood fires which are clearly worse. Coal was great until natural gas became available. As solar/wind/nuclear become abundant, they are conintuing to displace fossil fuels.
by Manuel_D | 2026-03-05 15:50:48+00:00
To the contrary, there have been many cases of very similar novels with largely identical plot points and settings that survive copyright allegations, even if the author was exposed to the original work.

For a rather entertaining example (though raunchy, for a heads up): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zhWWcWtAUoY&themeRefresh=1
by rayiner | 2026-03-05 15:50:57+00:00
> I don’t like trump, I think he stinks. The democratic party has a few own-goals in this current game.

You guys should have nominated Amy Klobuchar as VP so you had a credible backup when it became apparent that Biden was too old to run again. That’s a mistake that’s going to continue holding you back, since Biden made South Carolina the first primary state: https://www.masslive.com/politics/2025/06/2028-dem-frontrunn....

As Obama said, “never underestimate Joe’s ability to fuck things up.”