MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by edoceo | 2026-03-08 02:38:14+00:00
Don't nit-pick the "couple". It was used casually - like to mean not terribly long time. So the 2-6 spread, while technically big, is still just a trifle. While I'm nit-picking; up thread is talking about a limited box for CI and you're talking about scaling up real business workloads. That's just like the difference between 2 and 6. Give it a rest.

Everyone: run your scenarios and expectations in a spreadsheet and then use real data to run your CBA. Your case will be unique(ish) so make your case for your situation.
by PonyoSunshine | 2026-03-08 02:39:57+00:00
Recently, I moved my phone from its stock Android to GrapheneOS, I also had a laptop stolen that ate a lot of my credentials about 6 months before that. The backups that I made from the phone when it came to Google Authenticator failed. I am trying to get back into my personal GitHub, where it does have the email address right, I do have the right password, I don't have the 2fa. Trying to do the account recovery I made it as far as the picture in the URL, but now everything is greyed out and unclickable about its solutions and I don't know what to do. Where do I go from here to start unlocking this account?
by awesome_dude | 2026-03-08 02:40:01+00:00
Or the matrix take -

> Agent Smith tells Morpheus that the first, "perfect" Matrix failed because humanity requires suffering, leading them to create a simulation based on the "peak of your civilization"—1999. Smith highlights that the machines actually took over during this era, making it their civilization rather than humanity's. The choice of 1999 provided a stable,, yet inherently flawed, era characterized by 90s technology, post-Cold War optimism, and, crucially, the necessary amount of human misery to prevent the simulation from failing.
by BelVisgarra | 2026-03-08 02:40:44+00:00
That's the tricky part. Verifying that a company exists is relatively easy, but verifying that a role is genuinely open and accurately described is much harder.
I wonder if it would require a combination of signals — for example confirming the recruiter identity, requiring periodic confirmation that the role is still open, or feedback from applicants about whether the process actually happened.
I'm not sure how far that could go in practice, though.
by hysan | 2026-03-08 02:40:49+00:00
IMO, the spirit of the idea is to put higher information density fields first, and let that smooth out the UX for the remaining fields as you go downwards. Yes, there will be exceptions but that only matters if you’re trying to absolve the user of all work for 100% of situations. Trying to do that is a fools errand. Invert the order and use the information gathered to make inputting the rest simpler for 80% of the users. Then make it easy for the other 20% to course correct (ex: don’t disable autofilled fields, highlight all text when tabbing to the next field, etc). I think this pattern is a good one to keep in mind, but not blindly follow, when designing the UX of a UI.
by ahhhhnoooo | 2026-03-08 02:40:57+00:00
Well there goes Orson Scott Card, Asimov, Heinlein, Orwell, etc.

The politics and sexuality were always in these stories. They were just more familiar, so they don't seem as self righteous. The Moon is a Harsh Mistress is a classic example of a story with sexuality and politics in old timey sci fi.
by SherryWong | 2026-03-08 02:42:22+00:00
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by cpncrunch | 2026-03-08 02:42:36+00:00
Sorry, I didn't realise you weren't the OP. I was really asking the OP as they said they had large productivity gains from using AI to code. But if you're a professional developer, the same question can be answered by you: do you specifically review all AI generated production code?

In my own case 100% of my code is reviewed by humans (generally me), and that IMO is the only sensible option, and has been the standard since I started coding commercially 33 years ago. I don't use AI to generate code though, other than a few experiments, as I don't really need to write much code these days.
by komali2 | 2026-03-08 02:42:39+00:00
Treating culture as uniformly distributed and absolute is racism. Your racism is blinding you to truths, leading you to illogical conclusions like the idea that it's possible to make an accurate assessment of military threat based on "culture." Hence why I called it caveman logic - you're literally defining your level of fear of another group of humans based on how different you (erroneously) perceive them to be.

You seem quite concerned with the plight of the Palestinians so I'll use that as an example: Jewish people experienced the worst, most widescale crime against humans ever committed, and then a few decades later, a subset of Jewish people turned around and began doing the same (at a smaller, less industrialized scale). This demonstrates the perfect universality and programmability of a human, which includes "human culture."

Any human culture can be molded to justify any existent human action. To pretend otherwise is to engage in ethnocentrism - what you accused me off, the presumption that there's something special about your culture that prevents atrocities happening under it.

The second that makes your argument racist rather than logical (if you refuse to budge on the word "racist," swap in "prejudice" - the fallacies are the same either way) is the homogeneous angle you're applying. This should be an obviously fallacious statement: "Christianity is a violent culture that supports violence against Jewish people, discrimination against gay people, and school shootings." Why is it fallacious, though? I know lots of christians that have done all of the above, proudly tying it back to their religion. You see my point, right? You would, presumably, never walk into a room of white people and assume they all share identical values - do it in America, half probably are tearing their hair out in frustration at the values of the other half. Yet you do it to Islam / Arabs / Muslims, because, frankly, you are racist against Muslim people.

An argument that depends on making a blanket statement about a group of people fails for many reasons: categorization (how do you accurately and scientifically select who falls into this grouping and who doesn't?), resolution (how do you account for outliers within this grouping, and how do you determine who might be an outlier?), absolutism (how do you account for the fact that people change?), and due to above, how could you justify making any decisions based on a prejudiced framing?

Racist arguments are completely dependant on fallacy. With a rigid application of rational reasoning, they fall apart. They're illogical.
by woadwarrior01 | 2026-03-08 02:42:45+00:00
The first half of this is already happening to a certain extent.
I first noticed this in a submission[1] on Dimitris Papailiopoulos' Adderboard[2], which is a code-golf competition for training the smallest transformer that can add two 10-digit numbers. Most submissions on it are fully AI generated.

The report in the linked repo is Claude Code generated.

[1]: https://github.com/rezabyt/digit-addition-491p

[2]: https://github.com/anadim/AdderBoard
by AlotOfReading | 2026-03-08 02:43:36+00:00
Not going to get into the social darwinism stuff. We can empirically measure an apparent selective pressure for lactase persistence, but it's an open question without clear answers what the factors driving that are.

I think you're missing why milk is useful though. Dairy allows you to take resources that aren't calorically useful like grasslands and turn them into food. You can consume it either immediately or later via preservation techniques like cheese. Even if you consume it immediately, milk is a seasonal product.

Dairy also isn't the only way of turning unusable resources into food though. You can eat the animal, for example. That's less efficient if you're limited to a single species, but cattle and other large livestock suitable for the scale of milk production you're talking about are so phenomenally inefficient that you're likely better off if you consume more efficient animals instead.
by gruez | 2026-03-08 02:44:59+00:00
>Data showing Iranian women outperforming American women in STEM by a factor of nearly three doesn’t support that case, so it doesn’t get reported.

I thought the standard explanation for this was that in patriarchal societies women get "hard" degrees because that's their only way out of being oppressed as a housewife, and in more egalitarian societies women pursue what they like?
by ggm | 2026-03-08 02:45:42+00:00
A good read, surprising to see Hume at the fore of a piece which really only needed to reach for Rumsfeld and the unknown unknowns.

Some hold there will be no midterms, and the war will justify that. I'm less sure they could pull that off, but I'm loathe to say a piece about not overstating your inductive reasoning hasn't made a case.

However I think it very unlikely what follows would be called a victory, by anyone with an eye to the future.
by Anomatrix | 2026-03-08 02:46:15+00:00
Hi HN,

I started a small personal writing site called Nexvira.
Instead of treating it like a typical blog, I treat it more like an archive of thoughts and moments over time.

Each entry is written as a reflection rather than content meant for algorithms or social media.

I wanted a quiet place on the internet where writing could exist without needing to perform.

The structure of posts usually follows a simple pattern: story → reflection → anchor line → ending.

I’m curious what people think about the idea of personal writing archives compared to traditional blogging.
by api | 2026-03-08 02:46:37+00:00
The prevailing narrative is that the optimism collapsed because the real future didn't turn out like we hoped, but I don't think that's it. A lot of very optimistic sci-fi was written right after two world wars. I think it's more of a stylistic conceit. If it's not dark and edgy, it's not profound.

Personally I think dark and edgy (or variants like pessimistic and bleak, or depressing and fatalistic) is the cheap easy way to look profound.

I think that works because humans have a negativity bias. Bad news feels important. Mockery and drama and calling people out gets social attention. Conflict is thrilling even if the reasons behind it are ridiculous or cliche.

Optimistic works don't get free bonus points from the amygdala, so they have to stand on their own. An uninteresting optimistic work is incredibly dull, even cringey. But a very mediocre boring pessimistic work can still seem deep.
by yardshop | 2026-03-08 02:46:45+00:00
According to the CSS of the page, the font is "IBM VGA 9x16".

No idea about the color scheme but it's nice.

Unrelated to any of this, this font reminds of an old Turbo Pascal program I wrote years ago (decades now) to extract a VGA font from the computer's ROM and use the character bitmaps in my own graphics programs. Nice memory I would not have had if not for your question, so thank you!
by anonnon | 2026-03-08 02:47:24+00:00
Even though I almost posted a comment like yours earlier ("I'm an African-American lesbian with a seizure disorder, and ChatGPT is finally enabling me to finish my novel!"), I'm not sure how many of these comments are bots, since many are from quite old accounts, e.g., this one replying in a bot-like manner to a fairly obvious bot actually registered in 2014: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47286976

But when you inspect Mr. "AI girlfriend's" post history, even ignoring the AI promotion, it's all superficial: short, unargumentative, inoffensive posts. I wouldn't be surprised if there's a black market for HN accounts similar to reddit accounts.
by technothrasher | 2026-03-08 02:48:12+00:00
> if I’d grown up on venison I’m sure it would just taste like cow to me

Having grown up on plenty of both wild venison and farmed cattle, they are pretty different, not to mention that different types of venison are also quite different from each other. So I'm not sure I would consider venison and beef interchangeable simply by familiarity. White tailed deer and gemsbok, specifically, I find the best tasting and much better than beef.
by alcazar | 2026-03-08 02:48:50+00:00
“There are no solutions, only trade-offs” - Thomas Sowell

We would rather err on the side of not knowing about our customers. But it’s a choice that comes with consequences.

As you mentioned, we mitigate this with:

- Multi-channel verification: We send check-in links to multiple channels at once (email, Telegram, Signal). It’s unlikely you’ll miss all of them accidentally.

- Long escalation times: You can set the grace period up to 3 months - far longer than most vacations and longer than anyone we’ve met has been away from their phone.

- Tiered escalation: We keep sending check-ins until it’s time to alert your contacts.

- Trusted contacts: You can alert a friend earlier than family, and they can warn you that messages are about to go out.

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by elikoga | 2026-03-08 02:49:18+00:00
> this means that autoresearch will find the most optimal model for your platform in that time budget

I'm looking forward to finding out what model is optimal on my rtx3090

One thing I'm concerned with is that the model with best bpb after 5 minutes in smaller setups are only about ~10M Parameters in size which is too small for some emergent effects.
by habinero | 2026-03-08 02:49:39+00:00
> But if the knowledge is in a book or comes from another other man-made source, it's some how infallible

Nobody who's ever done research believes that. Everything gets put along a spectrum of trust/accuracy.

You should be able to say what you believe, what you base that belief on, what it would take to disprove that belief, and how likely you think it is to be disproven.

That's why you do research from as many primary sources as you can, because yeah, otherwise you're reading someone else's interpretation. Sometimes you can't do that (you don't read the language, etc) and then you have to judge the quality of the interpretation.

It's an enormous amount of work to write a book, and making things up doesn't make that process a whole lot easier. So most people try to be accurate. Especially with editors and such doublechecking work. I still always judge the quality of the work as I'm reading it.

LLMs just flat out can't be trusted. They're endless fountains of words and aren't accurate by nature. They're fine if you already know the answer, and not fine if you don't.
by robotresearcher | 2026-03-08 02:50:59+00:00
> "was 1066 really all that?"

This article might exist just for this joke in the sub-headline. Pretty good.

"1066 and all that" is a highly influential satirical history book from 1930, and "[X] and all that" a meme in UK English.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1066_and_All_That
by danpalmer | 2026-03-08 02:51:43+00:00
Ask yourself why this isn't the way already. Obviously everyone would rather only see and apply to verified listings, so why don't job boards work like that?

Maybe job advertisers don't want to verify, maybe it's too much hassle, maybe it costs so much to verify that you need to charge too much for listings, maybe verified listings don't scale.

It's all fine to ask what-ifs like this, but since this is obviously the good thing, you need to come with a strategy for how you'll actually achieve it.
by mdp | 2026-03-08 02:51:55+00:00
I've had a hard time trying to explain this to non-engineers, but whenever I talk to a fellow developer they're struck by the same feeling. We've lost that magic flow state when your heads down on a problem.

Not to say that it's all bad, there's something quite fun about coding with AI, but I do feel like we're losing something that was fundamentally part of being a developer. I'm late to less meetings though.
Ask HN: Why do most analytics tools show what happened but not why?
by HPSimulator | 2026-03-08 02:52:31+00:00
ost analytics tools show what happened — bounce rate, session time, clicks.

But they rarely explain why visitors hesitated or lost trust.

For example:
• unclear value proposition
• weak credibility signals
• cognitive overload in the hero section

I'm experimenting with a tool that tries to model this psychological layer.

Curious if others here have run into the same problem.
by bombcar | 2026-03-08 02:53:26+00:00
Some people don't realize just how much you can "customize" deliverability with the post office, especially if you're big (like a school or large business) - you can have something that looks like your physical address, but is actually really a maildrop/PO Box at the nearby post office.

You can do relatively complex forwarding that would only appear to the end users if they can decode the barcode.
by HPSimulator | 2026-03-08 02:54:26+00:00
AI coding tools feel like they’re shifting the bottleneck in building.For a long time the hardest part was implementation — frameworks, infrastructure, deployment, etc.Now it feels like the harder problem is understanding systems and user behavior well enough to build something useful in the first place.

In a weird way it’s making software development feel more like engineering again rather than constant framework churn.
AI found us before Google did
by faruk_tugtekin | 2026-03-08 02:55:28+00:00
# Ask HN: We got inbound leads from Gemini before Google indexed our site — what's going on?

Two months after launching our site, two companies contacted us saying they found us through Gemini while searching for AI visibility services.

At the time:
- Site not added to Google Search Console
- Zero backlinks
- Google had not indexed a single page
- We share a name with an established company in a different industry — classic name collision

By every traditional SEO metric, we should have been invisible. On Google, we were. On Gemini, apparently not.

*What we think happened*

Our content was structured with LLM readability as an explicit goal — not SEO. Consistent terminology, clear entity definition, a named methodology, and topical depth over breadth.

LLMs seem to evaluate authority differently than search engines. Google proxies authority through external signals (links, engagement, domain age). LLMs appear to evaluate something closer to conceptual coherence — whether a source demonstrates genuine understanding of a subject in a way the model can parse and trust.

We weren't trying to rank. We were trying to be understood. And for at least one model, it worked.

*Why I'm sharing this*

There's a growing debate about whether "GEO" (Generative Engine Optimization) is a real discipline or just rebranded SEO. The SEO camp argues: good content + technical optimization = you appear in AI answers too.

This case suggests the mechanisms are at least partially independent. We had zero SEO signals and nonzero AI visibility. You can apparently achieve one without the other.

I don't have a controlled experiment — just two inbound emails and a hypothesis. But it's made us think differently about what "visibility" means when the retrieval system is a language model rather than an index.

Has anyone else observed similar patterns — AI-driven discovery happening independently of, or ahead of, traditional search visibility?

---

The irony of a GEO consultancy with no SEO is not lost on us. We write about this at argeo.ai if anyone's curious.
by cal_dent | 2026-03-08 02:55:54+00:00
It's the same point though. Steam/Itch haven't fallen into the trap, which I think is because the friction and barriers tonentry in video games are less of an issue than other mediums.

But video games in general have fallen into that trap. There were certainly more variety in the mainstream/AAA scene in the 90s and 00s than there is now. No more major publisher really is in that mid tier wacky but interesting 6-7.5/10 game space anymore.

It goes back to the point that consolidation long term ends up being bad and the smaller/indie press is good for culture (and that is a big part of what Steam is, and I'd argue where the most interesting things in gaming have come from lately
Ask HN: Any AI browswer that I can control by Claude Code?
by johnnyfeng | 2026-03-08 02:56:03+00:00
The only missing part of using cluade code is control the broswer in case that need login,like linkedin, twitter etc, current solution using broswer might still be risky. is there any service that feels like a perplexity comet or gpt atlas broswer with a claude code control?
by Dylan16807 | 2026-03-08 02:56:12+00:00
When the above comments said +4, they meant knowing the second half of the nine digit zip code.

Basically everyone in the US knows the first 5 digits. It's really easy to memorize them. If you can remember your city, you can remember your zip code. And in the US you use it all the time, so it stays memorized.

Your complaint about magic numbers is completely off base. Magic strings are just as bad in software. "Beverly Hills" and 90210 are equal sins on the magic front.
by overgard | 2026-03-08 02:56:17+00:00
Yeah, the weirdly obvious nature of it gave me pause, but I think that might be a sign of a bot. Like “hey Claude come up with a username”.

To me, it would almost be shocking if these companies weren’t using bots or paid posters on HN. I mean, they show zero restraint around using the press to manipulate markets when they want to scrounge up investment dollars by either creating fear or ridiculous promises they have no way of keeping. I just want there to be a bit more awareness so people realize to be skeptical here. Like others, I’m almost feeling gaslit daily and it’s making me avoid this site a lot
by lurkercodemnky | 2026-03-08 02:56:51+00:00
Your pop culture and political messaging tells women "liberation" is about sexualizing themselves and revolving their lives around attention.

Have you ever wondered, maybe you shouldn't be lecturing "patriarchal backward societies"?

Anyway, in poor societies neither men nor women have time to study "history of somalian drug trade" or somthing. They have to learn useful things.