MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by BenjiWiebe | 2026-03-01 00:00:12+00:00
According to Wikipedia, the Power Mac G4 was the first mass produced computer with gigabit Ethernet - in 2000.

So now in 2025, 12.5 doublings later, we should have a mass produced personal computer available with a 1 gigabit times 2^12.5 = ~5 Tbps NIC.

We're not there yet. Not even close.
by someotherperson | 2026-03-01 00:01:14+00:00
Iraqis also see themselves as a continuation of Mesopotamian people, that was quite literally what Iraqi Baathist thought was centered around and used as the successful unification strategy. That's quite literally the justification the Baathists used to try 'reclaim' both Khuzestan and Kuwait. You quite literally couldn't be more wrong in how you categorize Baathist Iraq.

Iran has a much worse relationship with its minorities, where if you are of the wrong faith then you literally face state-sanctioned laws preventing you studying or working. In fact, things in Iraq became much worse for minorities after the overthrowal due to the adoption of Iranian cultural practices like Abrahamic elitism.

The cherry on top of all of this is that you probably don't realize that Persians in Iran only make up 60% of the country. You have Iranians who wholly reject Persian ancestry (Azeris, Armenians, Assyrians, Kurds...) but you don't even account for them, despite Iran having, what, three? entirely separate ethnic-based separatist insurgencies active across the country LOL
by vunderba | 2026-03-01 00:01:35+00:00
Use a local model such as Gemma3 with a prompt such as "strictly limit changes only to spelling issues, syntactical errors, and punctuation."

That way, it's basically functioning like Grammarly on steroids. Asking an LLM for a "rewrite" is basically dissolving your writing style into the homogenized gloop.
by vexorkai | 2026-03-01 00:01:42+00:00
saw this and got paranoid about my own repos. checked the commit history and sure enough my personal email was plastered across years of commits. spent a couple hours hacking together a scanner — github.com/vexorkai/git-shield. runs locally, tells you which repos are leaking your email and how to fix it going forward. it's my own project fwiw, nothing fancy but it does the job.
by Aurornis | 2026-03-01 00:02:03+00:00
> When I look at my social circle about half of my friends express some kind of regret related to their marriages. Call me an entitled prick, but I honestly believe that 90% of people are liquid crap. I realized that in order to have a good social life I need to filter very hard who I hang out with.

Candidly, if half of your friends are in regretful marriages and 90% of the people you encounter are "crap" then I would be questioning your social filtering.
by Sophira | 2026-03-01 00:03:10+00:00
> Your $20 per year domain might suddenly become a $300 or $3000 per year domain for no reason but greed, and you wouldn't be able to do anything about it.

Seconding this. Tthis is exactly what happened with the .sexy TLD: https://www.reddit.com/r/Domaining/comments/uia8pc/sexy_tlds...
by 827a | 2026-03-01 00:04:59+00:00
My understanding of the difference, influenced mostly by consuming too many anonymous tweets on the matter over the past day so could be entirely incorrect, is: Anthropic wanted control of a kill switch actively in the loop to stop usage that went against the terms of use (maybe this is a system prompt-level thing that stops it, maybe monitoring systems, humans with this authority, etc). OpenAI's position was more like "if you break the contract, the contract is over" without going so far as to say they'd immediately stop service (maybe there's an offboarding period, transition of service, etc).
by bloomingeek | 2026-03-01 00:05:12+00:00
Well, you could bury your head in the sand, would that make you feel any better? Or one could vote out maga and, over time, start to rebuild. trump's election was helped mostly by two major factions: white women voters and many registered demo voters who stayed home. Thanks to these groups and his base of lunatics, we're in a hellish shit storm.
by bsjaux628 | 2026-03-01 00:05:50+00:00
Reminder: extra heavy oil means that there is more processing required to get useful materials out of it, which in turn becomes higher operational cost. So, if Iranian oil entered the market, prices would go down making Venezuelan oil non competitive (I believe the break even price for Venezuelan oil was close to 80$). At this moment the numbers don't add up to make companies go back into Venezuela given the price, uncertainty and past expiriences.
by alephnerd | 2026-03-01 00:06:00+00:00
The actual announcement - https://media.defense.gov/2026/Feb/27/2003881802/-1/-1/1/ALI...

I've TFed and CAed for SSC fellows eons ago and the fact that UMich (especially the International Institute [0]), VT (CETS [1] and CGIT [2]), ASU (GSI [3] and CAPS [4]), and UNC (ASC [5], ISA [6], CES [7], and TISS [8]) remain great programs (and tend to be fairly liberal).

Surprised TAMU wasn't included.

Edit: can't reply

> and lo and behold

Yep, but everyone who's an SSC will self-select for Mich, UNC, ASU, and VT. SSC fellows are smart and are gunning for top exit opps in the public and private sector.

[0] - https://ii.umich.edu/ii/about-us/centers-programs.html

[1] - https://liberalarts.vt.edu/research-centers/ceuts.html

[2] - https://www.cgit.vt.edu/index.html

[3] - https://nationalsecurity.asu.edu/

[4] - https://www.capsresearch.org/

[5] - https://africa.unc.edu/

[6] - http://isa.unc.edu/

[7] - https://europe.unc.edu/

[8] - https://tiss-nc.org/
by nullocator | 2026-03-01 00:07:03+00:00
Uh huh, and if you are an Iranian Policeman are you more concerned that the funny orange man yelling on the tv/phone is going to get you, or the mob forming outside your window? They might see it in their personal self interest to stay lock step with the former regime as a better form of self preservation than just surrendering to the population they've been abusing. It's not like the U.S. can offer them any actual immunity lmao.
by Nevermark | 2026-03-01 00:07:16+00:00
> more stringent safeguards than previous agreements, including Anthropic's.

Except they are not "more stringent".

Sam Altman is being brazen to say that.

In their own agreement as Altman relays:

> The AI System will not be used to independently direct autonomous weapons in any case where law, regulation, or Department policy requires human control

> any use of AI in autonomous and semi-autonomous systems must undergo rigorous verification, validation, and testing

> For intelligence activities, any handling of private information will comply with the Fourth Amendment, the National Security Act of 1947 and the Foreign Intelligence and Surveillance Act of 1978, Executive Order 12333, and applicable DoD directives

> The system shall also not be used for domestic law-enforcement activities except as permitted by the Posse Comitatus Act and other applicable law.

I don't think their take is completely unreasonable, but it doesn't come close to Anthropic's stance. They are not putting their neck out to hold back any abuse - despite many of their employees requesting a joint stand with Anthropic.

Their wording gives the DoD carte blanch to do anything it wants, as long as they adopt a rationale that they are obeying the law. That is already the status quo. And we know how that goes.

In other words, no OpenAI restriction at all.

That is not at all comparable to a requirement the DoD agree not to do certain things (with Anthropic's AI), regardless of legal "interpretation" fig leaves. Which makes Anthropic's position much "more stringent". And a rare and significant pushback against governmental AI abuse.

(Altman has a reputation for being a Slippery Sam. We can each decide for ourselves if there is evidence of that here.)
by amelius | 2026-03-01 00:07:36+00:00
This is linked to (imho) one of the greatest philosophical experiments humans can do:

1. simulate a world with very basic "physical" rules (so it is free from human bias)

2. let the simulation run until organisms exist

3. let it run longer so the organisms develop language

4. now see if the organisms talk about things like "consciousness" and "why are we here"

The nice thing is that we don't have to do the experiment to think about what it means if 4 happens or not.
by ghrl | 2026-03-01 00:08:55+00:00
This tool seems very promising and does solve a real issue I've certainly had quite a few times already where this would have been very useful.

I really like the website design and content-wise, as well as the detailed writeup here on HN. Certainly impressive work for an individual.

I've never used Time Machine but I do have kopia set up for frequent backups of important places, like the entire Documents folder. It does use a CAS as well and last time/size/hashes for determining what to save.

Coming from that I'm curious about a few aspects. Would this work well for larger folders/files? You mentioned deduplication, but does that happen on the file level or on chunks of the file, so that small changes don't store an entire new version of the file? Additionally, are the stored files compressed somehow, probably a fast compression algorithm? I think that could make it work for more than just source code.

Great project though, so far. I could see it becoming a lot more popular given an open source code base. Maybe a pricing model like the one Mac Mouse Fix uses would work, being open source and charging a fee so small it still reaches a large audience. That would likely be fair considering the developer time/agent cost of just a single unf'd problem as ROI.
Ask HN: How comfortable are we with agents everywhere?
by teekert | 2026-03-01 00:09:03+00:00
I just installed Zed editor, it prompts me if I want to use Claude. I say yes, it open a side bar. I ask it "What files can you see?" It runs a series of ls commands and shows me my whole home dir. Including private ssh keys. (It was a free version of Claude, I didn't enter any credentials.)

How do we feel about this? Sure, any program can do anything weird, scan for my files etc. But somehow these agents can really do unexpected stuff. When do they decide something has to be uploaded to Anthropic? What happens there? People consider dropping sensitive data into Chat windows in browsers as data leaks, what is this?

I don't know how to feel...
by Dig1t | 2026-03-01 00:09:15+00:00
There is virtually no chance they will start a civil war, they are an ethnostate and the majority of their citizens are wholly in favor of continuing to expand.

>In August 2025, Israeli prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu said in an interview with i24NEWS that he was on a "historic and spiritual mission" and that he is "very" attached to the vision of Greater Israel, which includes Palestinian areas and possibly also places that are part of Jordan, Egypt, Syria, and Lebanon.

>Israeli Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich has suggested that Israel is destined to expand to include Jordan, and even beyond, to parts of Syria, Lebanon, Jordan, Egypt and even Iraq.

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

It is absolutely not a coincidence that most of the places mentioned in that list are also places that the US has been waging war for the past generation: Syria, Lebanon, Jordan, Egypt, Iraq.

>Hillel Weiss, a professor at Bar-Ilan University, has promoted the "necessity" of rebuilding the Temple and of Jewish rule over Greater Israel.[44][45][46] Francesca Albanese and Amos Goldberg have said that an aim towards a Greater Israel is a factor during the Gaza genocide.[47][48] According to Yoav Di-Capua, one of the beliefs of the Hardal movement is "the obligation to retrieve the biblical land of Israel in its entirety as a pre-requisite for collective redemption which heralds the arrival of the Messiah"

They are driven to continue taking land in the middle east because they have a religious belief that their Messiah will arrive when they fulfill the prophecy.
by sarchertech | 2026-03-01 00:09:17+00:00
When I can look at a prompt and predict what the code it outputs will look like to some high degree of accuracy.

I mostly don’t think that is possible though because there’s too much ambiguity in natural language. So the answer is probably when AI is close enough to AGI that I can treat it like an actual trusted senior engineer that I’m delegating to.
by godelski | 2026-03-01 00:09:52+00:00
Like by an administration who is constantly ignoring and violating both domestic and international law?

Like by an administration that likes to act extra judiciously and ignore habeas corups?

I wonder where we'd find such a government. Probably shouldn't give them the power to "do anything legal NOR 'consistent with operational requirements'". That's the power to do anything they want
by Aurornis | 2026-03-01 00:09:55+00:00
If you're new to this: All of the open source models are playing benchmark optimization games. Every new open weight model comes with promises of being as good as something SOTA from a few months ago then they always disappoint in actual use.

I've been playing with Qwen3-Coder-Next and the Qwen3.5 models since they were each released.

They are impressive, but they are not performing at Sonnet 4.5 level in my experience.

I have observed that they're configured to be very tenacious. If you can carefully constrain the goal with some tests they need to pass and frame it in a way to keep them on track, they will just keep trying things over and over. They'll "solve" a lot of these problems in the way that a broken clock is right twice a day, but there's a lot of fumbling to get there.

That said, they are impressive for open source models. It's amazing what you can do with self-hosted now. Just don't believe the hype that these are Sonnet 4.5 level models because you're going to be very disappointed once you get into anything complex.
by steve-atx-7600 | 2026-03-01 00:10:10+00:00
It will easily be a victory for him. He's smarter that non-maga give him credit for. Bomb Iran with overwhelming force & it will be a media victory. That doesn't mean that it's right or wrong or that there won't be consequences. But, in the short term it will be a political win. Democrats are already taking the bait and saying that they are outraged that the supreme leader was whacked w/out congressional approval.
by 7777332215 | 2026-03-01 00:10:32+00:00
Only use chatting to get answers for various things, often cross referenced with Google results, dedicated forums, and reddit. For programming/software work I use it to try to find problems with my architectural/design decisions, find new libraries, and best practices. I do not use it for code gen, instead I leverage high level deterministic (non ai) tools to do more with less code.
by ShroudedNight | 2026-03-01 00:11:28+00:00
"I think" is explicitly disclaiming authority. Omitting it changes the social signaling of the response significantly.

Switching "wooden" for "a bit unnatural" also does a disservice: "wooden" describes a specific quality of deviance.

Over-all, I would definitely consider the revision stiffer and more reserved than the original.
by patcon | 2026-03-01 00:11:34+00:00
i should hope so. they should quit.

> > what's the term for quitting but not leaving and being destructive

> The most common term is “quiet quitting” when someone disengages but stays employed—but that usually implies minimal effort, not active harm.

> If you specifically mean staying while being disruptive or undermining, better fits include:

> - “Malicious compliance” — following rules in a way that intentionally causes problems

> - “Work-to-rule” — doing only exactly what’s required to slow things down (often collective/labor context)

I imagine malicious compliance is fun when there's an AI intermediary that can be blameless.
by ssl-3 | 2026-03-01 00:11:46+00:00
Strictly anecdotally, I've had no trouble feeding PDFs to OpenAI's bot.

The searchable PDFs get searched, and the just-pictures-of-words ones get fed through their (quite good, IMHO) OCR.

I use it all the time. It's remarkably good for locating the details I need in the poorly-organized ~1,200 page factory manual for my Honda.

(Well, it's not necessarily organized poorly. It's just designed with the clear intent that it is mostly to serve as a set of repair instructions, and sometimes I don't want repair instructions. Sometimes I want to know how a thing works for my own cognitive benefit instead of how diagnose and R&R it as a series of steps.)
by roenxi | 2026-03-01 00:12:17+00:00
I think more than FIRE people should just focus on FI. You still have to do something with your day after becoming financially independent and a job is still one of many good ways to contribute to the community even if you don't technically need one. So retiring is an option but not the only one.

On the other hand it remains quite confusing that after centuries of capital achieving vastly better results than labour people still keep going for labouring as their primary strategy. Building up a strong income-generating capital base is just common sense and it is an extremely good idea to have enough that you could technically avoid working if it made sense.
by okanat | 2026-03-01 00:12:29+00:00
> Microsoft Office 2007 ribbon

Ribbon also has a similar research behind it, just like Windows 95. For what they designed it, allowing beginners to discover all the functionality that's available, it works perfectly.

I think most of the complaints from the tech circles are completely unfounded in reality. Many non-tech people and younger ones actually prefer using Ribbon. I also like it since it is very tastefully made for Office. 2010 was my favorite Office UI. It actually doesn't get rid of shortcuts either. Most of the Office 2003 ones were preserved to not break the workflow of power users.

Where Ribbon doesn't work is when you take out the contextual activation out of it. Most companies copied it in a very stupid way. They just copied how it looks. The way it is implemented in Sibelius, WinDBG or PDFXChange is very bad.
by xmddmx | 2026-03-01 00:13:14+00:00
Ollama users: there are notable bugs with ollama and Qwen3.5 so don't let your first impression be the last.

Theory is that some of the model parameters aren't set properly and this encourages endless looping behavior when run under ollama:

https://github.com/ollama/ollama/issues?q=is%3Aissue%20state... (a bunch of them)
Show HN: Web Scout AI – Auto-discover every user journey (zero config)
by apexkid | 2026-03-01 00:13:23+00:00
Hi HN, I'm Adi. I built Web Scout AI, an open-source tool that takes a URL and autonomously discovers every user journey on the site — no scripts, no selectors, no config. Point it at your homepage and it finds paths like Homepage → Product Listing → Product Detail → Cart → Checkout on its own.

Repo: https://github.com/apexkid/web-scout-ai

It uses Claude's vision + Playwright to explore a site the way a human would: look at the page, decide what's clickable, click it, repeat. It does this recursively via BFS, building a complete graph of every reachable state. When it finds 50 product cards, it recognizes the pattern and explores one representative instead of all 50. Cookie banners and popups get auto-dismissed. The output is a journey graph, Mermaid diagrams, and a set of replayable JSON files along with network requests fired at every interactions.

Who's can use it and for what:

* QA/Testing — The most obvious use case. Run auto against your staging environment, get a full set of discovered journeys, then replay them after every deploy. No test scripts to write or maintain. When the site changes, re-run discovery instead of fixing selectors. One team told me they went from 2 weeks of manual test writing to a single afternoon of reviewing auto-discovered journeys.

* 3P API auditing — This is the one I didn't expect. The replay engine captures every XHR/fetch request at every step — full request and response bodies. Teams are using this to verify that analytics events (GA4, Segment, etc.) actually fire at the right moments in the right order. "Does our checkout funnel fire the right events at every step?" becomes a replay + grep instead of a manual walkthrough.

* Journey documentation — PMs and designers use the Mermaid diagram output to get a ground-truth map of what users can actually do. Turns out the real journey graph rarely matches what's in the Figma file. Dead ends, loops, and unreachable states show up immediately.

* Post-deploy smoke tests — Run replay all in CI after a deploy. It replays every known journey through a real browser and reports pass/fail per step. No LLM cost, runs in parallel, takes minutes. If a flow breaks, you know which step and which selector failed.

* Competitive analysis — Point it at a competitor's site and get a structured map of their user flows. What journeys do they support? What does their checkout look like? All captured as screenshots and structured JSON.
by pan69 | 2026-03-01 00:13:41+00:00
I'd consider myself a very experienced (~30 years), but mediocre dev, and this AI thing has completely transformed my capabilities as a software developer. People compare AI to a "smart junior" or something like it. To me, it's more the mentor I never had. When I have AI review code that I wrote, I will point out things I would either have never thought of, or would have taken me weeks or months of going back and forth to figure out. There are lots of things in software development that I hate doing, such as CSS/HTML, AI is now filling the gap that used to be an obstacle for me. With AI this now has become fun as it feels like I am not alone working on this thing. What it produces, I can understand and I review its work as well as vica-verca. I mostly use it in assistant mode. I do not have an army of agents running (yet).
by jongjong | 2026-03-01 00:14:20+00:00
Yes, but it's not just personal moral failings, the system itself is corrupt. Rich people aren't supposed to be constantly living on the precipice and forced to double down on evil to keep their wealth. It shouldn't be all-or nothing. This is the result of our debt-based system. This is deeply abnormal. Rich people should be comfortable in every way and should have the surplus to take a moral stance without risking to lose everything. You can see this play out very clearly with OpenAI. Sam has enemies. He may have done some things that he fears would catch up with him if he loses power. It's always like this with the most powerful people; they usually end up making Faustian bargains which put them into extreme all-or-nothing situations and they take the entire world for a ride with them.

That's not to say anyone should be excused but the system's fragility compounds the problem.
by Havoc | 2026-03-01 00:15:21+00:00
I used S3 as a vibe code case study for whether I can just make my own. Learnings:

* Yes you can absolutely spin up a DIY S3 server

* When you run your server against a credible bench suite it throws a bunch of issues (ceph s3 - is disheartening 5 pass out of 800)

* Vibe coding can address the core issues & make significant progress on the 800 issues. Most of those 800 don't actually matter

* Low trust in resulting outcome, but I do plan on running some personal infra off DIY s3 - shopping list etc.

* Planning to roll some personal infra onto said S3, but with low confidence on
by AlexVranas | 2026-03-01 00:15:23+00:00
OpenAI is playing games.

When Anthropic says they have red lines, they mean "We refuse to let you use our models for these ends, even if it means losing nearly a billion dollars in business."

When OpenAI says they have red lines, they mean "We are going to let the DoD do whatever the hell they want, but we will shake our fist at them while they do it."

That's why they got the contract. The DoD was clear about what they wanted, and OpenAI wasn't going to get anywhere without agreeing to that. They're about as transparent as Mac from It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia when he's telling everyone he's playing both sides.