MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by 33MHz-i486 | 2026-03-11 02:23:01+00:00
In case it isn’t completely obvious from this, it is indeed hellish to work there. Most of AWS has a 2 reviewer requirement. If AI is writing most of the code (and it is because most Amazon code is copypasta boilerplate) you need 3 developers to sign off to ship anything. But of course due to headcount attrition, managers have ~1.5 developers to a project. Meanwhile the L8 manager is doing nothing except stack ranking each level of engineers according to number of commits merged & customer facing features shipped, and firing 15% of the bottom at the end of each year. There is no notion of subject matter expertise or technical depth, theyre happy to replace whoever with fresh-grads (theyre all just cogs anyway right!). Between that and voluntary departures, teams having 80-100% turnover every 5 years is basically par.

Also while this is happening most developers are getting constantly hammered by operational issues and critical security tasks because 1) the legacy toolchain imports 6 different language package ecosystems and 2)no one ever pays down tech debt in legacy code until its a high severity ticket count in a KPI dashboard visible to the senior management.
by pdonis | 2026-03-11 02:24:06+00:00
If you think a subsistence nomadic lifestyle is preferable to a modern "sedentary" one, then how are you able to post here? Subsistence nomads don't have Internet access (to name just one of umpteen things we "sedentary" moderns have access to that they don't). There are ways to live off grid if you really think it's preferable.
by fc417fc802 | 2026-03-11 02:24:14+00:00
Please check this box to confirm that you do _not_ possess a government issued photo ID ...

Sorry, in order to use this service you will need to visit your local police station and have them verify that you are in fact a child ...

Yeah I'm not seeing how this is supposed to work. I don't think age verification solves very many real world problems. (It does mitigate some, such as alcohol consumption. Just not most.)
by ompogUe | 2026-03-11 02:24:22+00:00
I thought the AR UI in "Rainbow's End"[1] made more sense than hand gestures: with digital clothing, all of our movements become controls. And we each train our inputs according to our own slight tweaks and movements. Also, pretty sure this book was a big impetus for Google, Meta, etc to get started with AR, drones, and self-driving cars.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rainbows_End_(Vinge_novel)
by Frieren | 2026-03-11 02:25:00+00:00
> It worked in the 1980s

In my country TV has always been regulated. Pornographic movies could only be shown at late hours, there was no data gathering nor targeted ads, and nobody could reach children privately thru TV.

Not all parents have the means and time to be with their children all the time. There is a bare minimum of children safety that we need to guarantee as a society.

Many children grew up watching TV unattended without risk of being sexually harassed or radicalized. And with time children shows became even better and with less ads for toys and so. Regulating TV was great to achieve a better live for everyone.

> reeks of the Catholic moms protesting HBO,

Different country, different culture. You are applying American logic to non-American concerns.

> If you want to enrich and entertain your kids without exposing them to topics you consider unsavory, buy them a book instead of an iPad. It's not rocket science.

That way all responsibility is on the parents while big corporations increase the pressure on children to keep consuming their content. I prefer a world where criminal behavior is punished instead of blaming the victims for not avoiding the danger.
by adgjlsfhk1 | 2026-03-11 02:26:01+00:00
> Qualcomm is trying to push their ARM Snapdragon chips in Windows laptops but I don't think they are selling well.

That definitely seems to be the case. I think they likely would have more luck with Riscv phones (much less app brand loyalty). or servers (arm in the server has done a lot better than on windows)

For Nvidia, if they made a consumer riscv cpu it would be a gaming handheld/console (Switch 3 or similar) once the AI bubble pops. Before that, likely would be server cpus that cost $10k for big AI systems. Before that, I could see them expanding the role of Riscv in their GPUs (likely not visible to to users).
by pdonis | 2026-03-11 02:26:02+00:00
> even if you escape the sedentary village, the stable neighbouring village will happily return you to "your owner" so that he would hopefully return the favor if ever he catches one of "their slaves")

Tell that to all the people who ran the Underground Railroad in the pre-Civil War US, not to mention all the other ways that Fugitive Slave laws were persistently violated.

I think you are vastly underestimating the benefits of a modern "sedentary" society. But as I pointed out in my other post, if you really don't think they're benefits, then you can simply forgo them. Go and live an off grid subsistence lifestyle. There are people who do that. But of course they don't post on the Internet.
by Eisenstein | 2026-03-11 02:26:18+00:00
The dot com bust wasn't at all like that, though? What 'arose' were the players that had leadership with an actual plan besides 'launch IPO based on hype and wing it from there' or 'get a catchy domain name, pretend to do something useful with it, and get acquired by Yahoo'. The old guard that ended up being taken down were the legacy corporations that tried to ride the wave while refusing to let go of any of the practices that were completely incompatible with being able to operate in a new paradigm. Actually, now that I spelled it out, I get it. Good job, sorry for doubting you.
by topspin | 2026-03-11 02:27:19+00:00
I can't know what Ascalon will actually be, but back in April/May 2025 there were actual performance numbers presented by Tenstorrent, and I analyzed what was shown. I concluded that Ascalon would be the x86_64 equivalent of an i5-9600K.

That's useable for many applications, but it's not going to change the world. A lot of "micro PCs" with low power CPUs are well past that now. If that's what Ascalon turns out to be, it will amount to an SBC class device.
by c0_0p_ | 2026-03-11 02:28:21+00:00
I was a big fan of Perplexity early on, but their product (at least the free version) has deteriorated so much in the last few months. I don't think they test enough with the cheaper LLMs they are using.

- Code blocks are often not formatted or highlighted, unless I explicitly ask for it to be.
- The font is often Times New Roman for some reason.

If I log out then things are usually a bit better.
by russellbeattie | 2026-03-11 02:28:53+00:00
The photos of the symbol catalogs are incredidble. You really have to admire the precision printing they did in the early 1900s. All those glyphs were created by hand. I'm not exactly sure what sort of lithography process was used (I can't imagine they weren't casting them in lead), but there was definitely nothing digital about it. The results are amazing.
by neya | 2026-03-11 02:31:35+00:00
Sorry, but, this is not really a confidence inspiring response. Accepting the mistake and fixing the leak altogether would have been the better way to handle this. This is a developer forum, we all make mistakes. Framing it as bait just sounds like bad PR management.

How can we trust your product if you can't fulfil basic security 101? Not being harsh but this kind of lax response for a serious mistake is not acceptable to me. Imagine I recommend you to my company and you end up leaking out our credentials and respond with something like this.

I might be picky here about this, but long term trust starts with accountability.

All the best on your product launch and cheers.
by tom_ | 2026-03-11 02:31:42+00:00
Possibly related: this post about Lotus 1-2-3: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47279633

The Emacs interface in general isn't massively like Lotus 1-2-3's, but magit's somewhat is. The above post goes into a bunch of detail, but what I remember most about my time using 1-2-3 (a long time ago now) was that the shortcuts were super easy to get accustomed to, because there was a prompt of some kind every step of the way. magit's rather similar prompts work well in this respect too. (Though you do still have to know how to use git. This is git, after all.)

Where there might be some more general overlap with Emacs: an apparent goal of Lotus 1-2-3 was, like Emacs, that its users would be able to automate it, and without too much bother given their knowledge of how to operate it in general. It's actually better than Emacs in this respect, because the macros seemed to be largely based on the keys you press; Emacs, by contrast, makes you jump through some hoops to figure out what the corresponding elisp for some sequence of keys might be. (The hoops are not hard to jump through! But they are there.)

(Along similar lines: Autodesk's Maya. And, to an extent, 3D Studio Max - though the scriptability there felt merely comprehensive, rather than pervasive. MaxScript was measurably less horrid than MEL though.)
by hkonte | 2026-03-11 02:32:44+00:00
The interface extraction idea is solid. "50 tokens -> 8 tokens" by keeping only structure is exactly the right tradeoff for architecture understanding tasks. Full implementations are noise for that use case.

On your question about XML vs Markdown: XML wins for LLM input because it forces labeled boundaries. The model doesn't have to guess where one concept ends and another begins. Claude in particular is trained on XML-tagged context and handles it noticeably better than prose or Markdown for structured inputs.

Same insight on the prompt side , I've been building flompt (github.com/Nyrok/flompt) which decomposes prompts into 12 typed blocks and compiles to Claude-optimized XML. Structure at the input layer propagates to better structured outputs.
by CloudArch_Seek | 2026-03-11 02:33:38+00:00
Nice work on implementing a usage circuit breaker pattern for Cloudflare Workers. This is a crucial piece of infrastructure for building resilient, production-grade serverless applications, especially when dealing with downstream APIs or expensive operations. Managing failure cascades and cost overruns proactively is smart engineering. If you or your users are integrating with OpenAI APIs in those Workers and run into quota limits or find the costs scaling unpredictably, it's worth checking out SeekAPI.ai. They offer a 100% OpenAI-compatible endpoint with DeepSeek R1/V3 models at roughly 90% lower cost and without regional restrictions, which could pair well with your circuit breaker to manage both reliability and budget effectively
by burnt-resistor | 2026-03-11 02:34:15+00:00
Don't worry, in the age of AI hallucinations, credit reports and criminal records will spontaneously become the worst ever without any verifiable evidence or human determination. And like the guy in the Reno casino, innocent people will be summarily arrested and charged because AI said "100% match" and other humans lacked empathy and critical thinking skills to do the right thing.
by h4ch1 | 2026-03-11 02:34:34+00:00
I would really like to hear from people using Zig in production/semi-serious applications; where software stability is important.

How's your experience with the constantly changing language? How're your update/rewrite cycles looking like? Are there cases where packages you may use fall behind the language?

I know Bun's using zig to a degree of success, was wondering how the rest were doing.
by wk_end | 2026-03-11 02:34:48+00:00
Per https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Transistor_count, even an 8051 has 50K transistors, which reinforces my claim that 26K really doesn't seem like a big ask for an MCU core. Whether that means a barrel shifter is worth it or not is a totally orthogonal question, of course.

(Although I do have to eat my words here - I didn't check that Wikipedia page, and it does actually list a ~6K RISC-V core! It's an experimental academic prototype "made from a two-dimensional material [...] crafted from molybdenum disulfide"; I don't know if that construction might allow for a more efficient transistor count and it's totally impractical - 1KHz clock speed, 1-bit ALU, etc. - for almost any purpose, but it is technically a RISC-V implementation significantly smaller than 26K)
by coreq | 2026-03-11 02:36:27+00:00
They wouldn't, well there's Etag and alike but it still a round trip on level 7 to the origin. However the pattern generally is to say when the content is good to in the Response headers, and cache on that duration, for an example a bitcoin pricing aggregator might say good for 60 seconds (with disclaimers on page that this isn't market data), whilst My Little Town news might say that an article is good for an hour (to allow Updates) and the homepage is good for 5 minutes to allow breaking news article to not appear too far behind.
by hi_hi | 2026-03-11 02:36:52+00:00
This _all_ (waves hands around) sounds like alot of work and expense for something that is meant to make programming easier and cheaper.

Writing _all_ (waves hands around various llm wrapper git repos) these frameworks and harnesses, built on top of ever changing models sure doesn't feel sensible.

I don't know what the best way of using these things is, but from my personal experience, the defaults get me a looong way. Letting these things churn away overnight, burning money in the process, with no human oversight seems like something we'll collectively look back at in a few years and laugh about, like using PHP!
by sothatsit | 2026-03-11 02:37:40+00:00
You can’t really say it is just predicting continuations when it is learning to write proofs for Erdos problems, formalise significant math results, or perform automated AI research. Those are far beyond what you get by just being a copying and re-forming machine, a lot of these problems require sophisticated application of logic.

I don’t know if this can reach AGI, or if that term makes any sense to begin with. But to say these models have not learnt from their RL seems a bit ludicrous. What do you think training to predict the correct continuations is other than learning?

I would say LLM’s failure cases like failing at riddles are more akin to our own optical illusions and blind spots rather than indicative of the nature of LLMs as a whole.
by smalltorch | 2026-03-11 02:37:59+00:00
Didn't the guy who made yolo Joseph Redmond decide to stop developing due to fear of misuse?

Edit: here it is https://medium.com/@graham.wallington/the-evolution-of-yolo-...

>• Mass Surveillance: He expressed concern over his algorithms being employed in systems that could infringe on individual privacy rights, particularly in oppressive regimes or contexts lacking strict regulations.
by ffsm8 | 2026-03-11 02:38:04+00:00
The following paragraph had my clarification to that...

Expressed differently: are you an individual using a official anthropic application interactively? You're fine.

You're using it unattendedly, without an individual holding the reigns? You should probably talk with an lawyer wherever that's permissable.

Again, IANAL nor do I work for anthropic
by ls612 | 2026-03-11 02:39:47+00:00
It can do both that’s the beauty. You can use it as a portable desktop sometimes and as an all day laptop other times all in the same device.

I love my M2 Max on long haul flights when I can plug it in. Crossing the Atlantic I can just load up a game from steam and play for 5 hours and then I’m back home in the US.
by photoncat | 2026-03-11 02:39:55+00:00
hey heres a little thing i built for working on long running ml projects. with the whole karpathy/autresearch thing blowing up thought this would be worth sharing. theres much inefficiency in remote training jobs, also if stuff fails to converge or something breaks you end up burning much compute for nothing. so rlclaw is your research companion that can ping you on discord for status updates, you can steer it, has checkpointing. and mega bonus i reversed the colab extension and built a little tool so you can grab the colab auth token as if you are the vscode extension, this allows using colab pro+ with rlclaw. rlclaw lives on my workstation with a 5070ti but if its hungry it can use colab for a kernel on a t4 or a100 box
by keeda | 2026-03-11 02:40:12+00:00
I had a great literature teacher who took pains to point out all the wordplay in Shakespeare's plays in the context of the culture his time. I recall a surprising amount of them being pretty naughty double-entendres! Some of our slang today can still be traced back to those.

However, their meanings were still static in nature, even if manyfold and cleverly embedded in there. E.g. when he coined new words, they had a meaning you could derive from the context. Unlike "Skibidi," which is essentially meaningless and can be stuffed anywhere randomly!

To put it another way, I would not put the kids I overhear these days anywhere near the skill-level of the Bard ;-) Brain rot is very dynamic and off-the-cuff, with a key enabler being that meaning can be entirely optional. And they riff off of each other and random memes. Almost like jazz in some sense.

I think what you said at the end makes sense. There's always been a language barrier between generations, but the gaps are growing faster. As the world gets weirder and weirder accelerated by technology, human language is evolving in ways that are surprising.

It used to annoy me that many SciFi authors would immerse you in the jargon of some unrecognizable, futuristic culture without any exposition, forcing you to figure out over time -- and sometimes guess at -- what words meant. Now I'm living it!
by mewpmewp2 | 2026-03-11 02:40:15+00:00
I am not laughing about PHP. To this very day many of my best projects are built on PHP. And while last 7 years I have spent in full stack JavaScript/TypeScript environment it has never produced the same things I was actually able to do with PHP.

I actually feel that things I built 15 years ago in PHP were better than anything I am trying to achieve with modern things that gets outdated every 6 months.
by OrchIntel | 2026-03-11 02:41:10+00:00
Author here.

IOA Core is now live on PyPI as v2.6.1 under Apache-2.0.

Install:
pip install ioa-core

GitHub: https://github.com/OrchIntel/ioa-core
PyPI: https://pypi.org/project/ioa-core/
Docs: https://ioa.systems/docs/intro
Landing page: https://orchintel.com/ioa-core/

Would especially value feedback on:
- evidence schema design
- policy drift / governance observability
- failure modes in multi-provider enforcement
- what would make this useful in a real deployment
by HPSimulator | 2026-03-11 02:41:42+00:00
One thing I’ve been noticing while building AI tooling is that most “agents” focus on doing work for the user — writing code, sending emails, managing tasks, etc.

But there’s another category that might become just as important: agents that simulate other humans instead of automating tasks.

For example, before shipping a landing page change or pricing update, it’s surprisingly useful to simulate how different types of visitors might react psychologically — where they hesitate, what signals reduce trust, what makes them bounce.

Traditional analytics only shows what happened after users interact. A lot of decisions happen earlier, in the first few seconds, before anything measurable occurs.

I wouldn’t be surprised if we start seeing “human simulation agents” alongside task agents, especially for product, marketing, and UX decisions.
by lizknope | 2026-03-11 02:42:26+00:00
Many PC hardware enthusiasts say they want a RISC-V or ARM CPU but then when these system exist they don't actually want them.

Why? Because they want something like a $300 CPU and $150 motherboard using standard DDR4/5 DIMMs that is RISC-V or ARM or something not x86 but is faster than x86. The sub $1000 systems that hardware companies make that are RISC-V or ARM chips are low end embedded single board systems that are too slow for these people. The really fast systems are $4000 server level chips that they can't afford. The only company really bringing fast non-x86 CPUs with consumer level pricing is Apple. We can also include Qualcomm but I'm skeptical of the software infrastructure and compatibility since they are relying on x86 emulation for windows.
by eschaton | 2026-03-11 02:42:38+00:00
“Taint” has been a term of art in Open Source for decades. That you don’t know this reveals your ignorance, not any sort of cleverness.

LLMs regurgitate their training data. If they’re generating code, they’re not modeling the syntax of a language to solve a problem, they’re reproducing code they ingested, code that is covered by copyright. Just regurgitating that code via an LLM rather than directly from your editor’s clipboard does not somehow remove that copyright.

It’s clear you think you should be allowed to use LLMs to do whatever you want. Fortunately there are smarter people than you out there who recognize that there are situations where their use is not advised.
by adzm | 2026-03-11 02:42:54+00:00
Are you sure this isn't a strawman? The recent Dakota pipeline protests for example were very clearly about water safety and building through native burial grounds and other historic native sites. Pretty much every pipeline protest I can think of is more concerned with environmental danger of spills, not reducing oil. And a catastrophic pipeline spill can be much worse than isolated truck spills, though I'd love to know more about research on that front.
by CloudArch_Seek | 2026-03-11 02:44:30+00:00
Prompt compression and cost-aware routing are intelligent strategies to tackle the escalating expense of LLM usage. LightReach's focus on Cursor, a popular AI-powered IDE, targets a high-frequency use case where these optimizations can yield significant savings. For developers seeking to maximize efficiency, coupling this with SeekAPI.ai's foundational 90% cost reduction and full OpenAI compatibility could deliver compounded savings, making advanced AI tooling accessible for continuous, everyday use
by spaceribs | 2026-03-11 02:44:47+00:00
I was big into the WC3 custom maps community back in the day, the idea that you could make money doing any of this was silly. The point when I was growing up was two things:

1. Make something fun to play

2. Make something I could put into my college portfolio

I did both things, but it was never about making money or being exploited, and I think I prefer that.
by Cloudef | 2026-03-11 02:45:16+00:00
The language itself does not change much, but the std does. It depends on individuals, but some people rely less on the std, some copy the old code that they still need.

> Are there cases where packages you may use fall behind the language?

Using third party packages is quite problematic yes. I don't recommend using them too much personally, unless you want to make more work for yourself.
by myrmidon | 2026-03-11 02:45:58+00:00
Maybe, but I'd argue that this is a matter of taste, and what does it actually do for you?

In practice: Is it worth wrapping all your vendor-provided hardware abstraction in classes that you write yourself? Designing something like that to be "complete" (i.e. allow full access to all hardware functionality like IRQ/DMA setup) and to still stay hardware-independent is often borderline impossible anyway, and any attempt is invariably going to make your codebase more difficult to understand.
by potahtoputato | 2026-03-11 02:46:03+00:00
Correct. Now just waiting for it to reach full circle and have them write a "I have joined XXXX company to make the world a better place" blog and have it reach front page of HN.

Like that malware author who recently joined OpenAI did https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47028013 or that other one who went to his hairstylist and was enlightened while having a haircut that he should join OpenAI https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46920487