MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by anonym29 | 2026-03-10 21:49:25+00:00
That there costs and requirements imposed by a refusal to consent means that your consent or lack thereof is subject to coercion, rendering the arrangement non-consensual.

This argument would be valid if you could renounce US citizenship without first producing another citizenship. But it's not, and you can't. I never asked for a US citizenship, I don't want a US citizenship, and yet I'm bound by it and not free to revoke it.

This citizenship situation is more analogous to a slaveholder telling one of their slaves that they are technically free, because they are welcome to leave once they produce documented proof of ownership by another, different slaveholder. The slave is no sense actually free, despite the misleading, bad-faith assertions of the slaveholder and those who recognize the slaveholder's framework as inherently legitimate.

Imagine waking up at a car dealership that tells you that you MUST pay interest on a car whether you take possession of it or not, despite you never having signed any kind of contract with them, but they tell you that you are still free and nothing is wrong with the arrangement because they will let you off the hook for paying them as long as you can provide proof that you're bound to pay interest on another dealership's car instead. If you try to refuse paying the interest on the car you don't want and never agreed to buy, they will send a team of gunmen to your house in the middle of the night, throw a flashbang through your window, chain you up, and drag you to a cage they lock you in. They insist that the whole arrangement is perfectly fine because the people in the car dealership took a vote where they agreed to force you to be bound by those terms, and that's all the justification they feel they need.
by precompute | 2026-03-10 21:49:37+00:00
Yes, emacs is equally performant in GUI and TUI. And frames can be opened in both GUI and TUI on the same socket.

For me, TUI is a dealbreaker because:

- No mixed-pitch support: I use mixed-pitch fonts in org-mode buffers and in outline faces in prog-mode buffers. And fonts are just plain nicer on the GUI, and it's much better to look at.

- No SVG support: (I might be wrong about this) I have a custom modeline with SVG artifacts and the artifacts fail silently on the TUI

- Keybind conflicts: I am not used to accounting for the terminal's keybinds. Also, I use xfce4-terminal, which does not support the Hyper modifier (which I use extensively).
by bigwheels | 2026-03-10 21:50:41+00:00
Level 8 sounds a lot like the StrongDM AI Dark Software Factory published last month:

https://factory.strongdm.ai/

Techniques covered in-depth + attractor open source implementations:

https://factory.strongdm.ai/products/attractor#community

https://github.com/search?q=strongdm+attractor&type=reposito...

https://github.com/strongdm/attractor/forks

I'm continuing to study and refine my approach to leverage all this.
by asdff | 2026-03-10 21:50:55+00:00
I am sympathetic to the privacy concerns.

But to be honest I don't understand where they come from. Seems people are upset about being de anonymized on the internet. It was my understanding that it is trivial for the government to deanonymize you directly through their own tooling and trivial for private industry to deanonymize you through statistical analysis.

So in that sense, what new thing are we fearing that will come to bear that hasn't come to bear already? Seems to me we are already in a post anonymous world and just maybe most people don't understand that memo until this story came out. Media runs with it so much because people read about it not because it is actually anything new per say.
by adgjlsfhk1 | 2026-03-10 21:50:56+00:00
> Also the bit manipulation extension wasn't part of the core.

This is primarily because core is primarily a teaching ISA. One of the best parts about RiscV is that you can teach a freshman level architecture class or a senior level chip building project with an ISA that is actually used. Anything powerful to run (a non built from source manually) linux will support a profile that bundles all the commonly needed instructions to be fast.
by gus_massa | 2026-03-10 21:51:02+00:00
[Disclaimer: I'm not using AI except Gemini in the main page of https://www.google.com/ and I'd never give a bot my credit card, even indirectly.]

If I wanted to use it, I'd like something like max $10 per day, and $100 per month, just to be sure I don't get a huge bill at the end of the month. Perhaps also a weekly cap. (I'm imagining a single person personal use. For a business or consultor it may be higher.)

To increase the amount, the site must ask for a blood sample, to ensure the bot can not fake it (for now).

I'm not in your probable client list, but I read too many horror stories like "a hacker stole my ASW credential and used it tu mine crytocoins". ASW many times drop the bill, but they are bigger than you.
by sidkshatriya | 2026-03-10 21:52:06+00:00
> Translation: whatever investments in time, tooling, training and documentation you made for 14.x, they were useful for about 18 months.

Don't agree. Not too many differences between 15.0 and 14.x -- there are some changes -- mostly improvements and enhancements, many just internal but nothing that voids your pre-existing knowledge of FreeBSD or changes your approach drastically.

> x.0 shouldn't be deployed in production because it is brand new ...

Is that true ? Could depend on how conservative you are (Netflix is actually on 16-current !? *). 15.0 came out in ~Dec 2025 and we're now in March 2026... I'd say 15.0 should be OK for _most_ people ? 15.1 should be out in June 2026 for those who absolutely insist on waiting...

(*) Would not recommend -current unless you know what you're doing. There could be all kinds of horrible bugs in -current. Netflix _can_ do this because they have many FreeBSD experts probably working for them.
by hkonte | 2026-03-10 21:52:10+00:00
"Careful and specific" is the right framing and I think it is undersold how much structure helps. Freeform prose instructions are inherently ambiguous. You think you are being specific but you are leaving gaps the model fills with its own assumptions.

What I found is that decomposing instructions into explicit typed regions (role, context, constraints, output format, examples as separate pieces) closes those gaps before the model can fill them badly. The size inflation you see partly comes from the model trying to make sense of underspecified input.

I built github.com/Nyrok/flompt around that: 12 semantic blocks, compiled to XML. Less code bloat from the model when intent is fully specified upfront.
by ge96 | 2026-03-10 21:52:30+00:00
It's one of those things, you hear about it (Starter story) and think "I should start churning out games too" but gotta be in it/have drive/creativity too. I personally haven't been playing games for a while (I have a gaming rig).

Also have to keep up with trends that kids are into

Would be interesting to look at the numbers eg. how many games are created, percentage who gets paid. Like steam releases with free game assets
by znpy | 2026-03-10 21:53:16+00:00
> Create conflicting metrics for performance, push credit up and responsibility down, punish everyone below you for not meeting the double standards

This resonates with my experience.

The only thing you forgot is that you can also use the 12^H^H 14 leadership principles to argue whatever you want (and then the opposite of what you argued last month, still using the same leadership principles).
by ramoz | 2026-03-10 21:53:27+00:00
Level4 is most interesting to me right now. And I would say we as an industry are still figuring out the right economics and UX around these four things.

I spend a great deal of my time planning and assessing/reviewing through various mechanisms. I think I do codify in ways when I create a skill for any repeated assessment or planning task.

> To be clear, planning as a general practice isn't going away. It's just changing shape. For newer practitioners, plan mode remains the right entry point (as described in Levels 1 and 2). But for complex features at Level 7, "planning" looks less like writing a step-by-step outline and more like exploration: probing the codebase, prototyping options in worktrees, mapping the solution space. And increasingly, background agents are doing that exploration for you.

I mean, it's worth noting that a lot of plan modes are shaped to do the Socratic discovery before creating plans. For any user level. Advanced users probably put a great deal of effort (or thought) into guiding that process themselves.

Ralph loops have been nothing but a dramatic mess for me, honestly. They disrupt the assessment process where humans are needed. Otherwise, don't expect them to go craft out extensive PRD without massive issues that is hard to review.

- It would seem that this is a Harness problem in terms of how they keep an agent working and focused on specific tasks (in relation to model capability), but not something maybe a user should initiate on their own.
I built an identity graph for AI agents – 330M+ verified records.Break the API
by thefinancier | 2026-03-10 21:54:11+00:00
AI agents hallucinate B2B data because they have no ground truth. I built one.
Nopp's Entity Graph pulls from NPPES practitioner data, 40+ state licensing boards, ODO corporate registries, and regulatory filings. Nothing scraped. Nothing inferred. Every entity is deterministically verified.
The API surface I want you to stress-test:
Entity Graph

POST /api/v1/identify — name, NPI, or LinkedIn URL → verified canonical entity (10 IC)
GET /api/v1/people/:id — fetch a resolved person record (3 IC)
POST /api/v1/people/search — filter 12M+ licensed professionals by state, city, credential (10 IC)
GET /api/v1/organizations/:id — fetch an org record (3 IC)

Intelligence

POST /api/v1/company/enrich — live enrichment, falls back gracefully, never returns empty (10 IC)
POST /api/v1/contact/enrich — contact-level deep enrichment (3 IC)

Signals

POST /api/v1/signals/hiring — detect hiring surges (15 IC)
POST /api/v1/signals/funding — funding round detection (15 IC)
POST /api/v1/signals/intent — competitor frustration + intent signals (20 IC)

Agents

POST /api/v1/agent/launch/companies — autonomous research + outreach in one call (50 IC)

Also ships as an MCP Server — connect Claude, ChatGPT, or any MCP-compatible agent directly. No API calls, no plumbing.
What I want from you:

Feed /identify ambiguous or conflicting inputs — same person, two LinkedIn URLs, different name spellings
Try to get /company/enrich to return empty or wrong data
Test /signals/intent against a company you know well — does it catch real signals?
Tell me where the schema is wrong, underdocumented, or just annoying to work with

Find a reproducible bug or a real schema issue → I'll give you free Intelligence Credits. No cap.
nopp.us/api-docs | nopp.us/developers
I'm the founder. I'll reply to every technical comment personally.
by beeflet | 2026-03-10 21:54:16+00:00
This is my analogy: If you are a fisherman, and you try to catch big beautiful fish and release small ugly fish back into the water, then eventually the pond will be full of small ugly fish because that is what you are selecting for.

If we want a world in which nuclear weapons are not the primary tools of war (which advantages these smaller players like NK that use it defensively when their means of conventional warfare would be insufficient) then we must work feverishly to undermine nuclear regimes like NK and cooperate with non-nuclear regimes like Iran above all else.

Even within the context of the middle east, we are attacking a state in the process of armament to the benefit of a presumably-already-armed Israel. The message to these minor countries is clear. We are making the political climate inhospitable to non-proliferation.
by afpereira | 2026-03-10 21:54:54+00:00
A proof-of-concept exploring GPU VRAM as an IPC channel between Windows user-mode and kernel-mode. DXSurfLink shares a DirectX 11 texture using D3D11_RESOURCE_MISC_SHARED_NTHANDLE, then maps the same GPU allocation into kernel virtual memory via undocumented D3DKMT* APIs from dxgkrnl.sys. Both sides read and write the same VRAM region, implementing a simple command/response protocol entirely outside conventional kernel IPC mechanisms.
by contingencies | 2026-03-10 21:55:03+00:00
Yes you can. However, international waters are a physically challenging environment and getting there requires navigating national waters which have regulatory restrictions. Of course, enforcement is probably nonexistant if you're small, barely visible, and heading straight out to sea... so, solve the "invisible awesome robot that can survive in tough conditions" problem, stock the "multi-day batteries for energy continuity" load, buy the "expensive communications" solution, and then yeah - you too can play with the big boys in the bathtub. Or ... just stick to your actual bathtub.
by yieldcrv | 2026-03-10 21:55:40+00:00
> But they are not doing enough to protect children from predators and that's a huge legal and regulatory risk.

I run a studio that makes Roblox experiences and this is Discord's problem, and will immediately become Telegram's problem the decade where parents and policy makers figure out its Discord's problem

their kid went into an experience within Roblox so I can see that's the branding, the parent paid the kid's allowance in Robux, so I can again see that's the branding

but this is largely a symptom of parents nationwide not paying attention whatsoever

I've talked to many parents, aunts and uncles, they don't know they're the central bank of Roblox of a currency that can be accumulated and cashed out, let alone that its a distributed set of third party experiences.

Roblox Corporation already has age gated talking ability on platform. What specifically should they be doing when everything happens in different communities and off platform?
by asdff | 2026-03-10 21:55:51+00:00
Lack of creativity for that username really. Slapped home row and called it a day. But still I'm sure FBI knows exactly who I am. Same for European and middle eastern intelligence orgs. I'm sure ad networks all over the world have me fingerprinted, especially considering I run firefox and block ads, like that alone narrows me down to probably less than a million people globally, maybe substantially less than that.

And this is just me spitballing. Imagine if this is your life's career, 40 hours a day for 40 years, plus a whole department of coworkers was all on this effort. And multiple companies and governments each with their own departments on these efforts. How far this would have advanced by now what 30+ years into world wide public computer networks. How far ahead the state of the art actually is compared to what the public must assume. What lawmakers must assume.
by WarOnPrivacy | 2026-03-10 21:55:55+00:00
> "He told another colleague ... that he expected to receive a presidential pardon if his actions were deemed to be illegal."

Yeah. It was an alarming supposition because it wasn't unreasonable or delusional.

It's a side effect of this SCotUS gifting an unprecedented 90% win rate to this administration (40%-65% for prev admins). The court is effectively enabling this exec branch while protecting it from the consequences of it's actions.

The [Social Security] agency has historically limited access to sensitive
data to prevent it from leaking. But the Supreme Court had granted DOGE
members "unfettered" access to Social Security data last summer

We've never had SCotUS justices so fiercely loyal to a PotUS.

ref:https://www.courtaccountability.org/shadow-docket-analysis
by kpil | 2026-03-10 21:56:10+00:00
What's fast on Z platforms is typically IO rather than raw CPU - the platform can push a lot of parallell data. This is typically the bottleneck when compiling.

The cores are in my experience moderately fast at most. Note that there are a lot of licencing options and I think some are speed-capped - but I don't think that applies to IFL - a standard CPU licence-restricted to only run linux.
by david_iqlabs | 2026-03-10 21:56:12+00:00
One thing I’ve learned building AI-assisted tooling is that the usefulness depends heavily on how constrained the AI layer is. If the AI is generating suggestions without grounding in deterministic signals from the system, it tends to produce very confident but generic output.

What ended up working better in my own experiments was system signals,structured scoring, AI narrative on top of the signals.
by amiga386 | 2026-03-10 21:56:29+00:00
Roblox turns a blind eye to child exploitation (whether being creeped on by adults, or being exploited by teens/adults to make games) and makes a fortune out of it. If it weren't online, it'd be illegal and people would be in jail.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_gXlauRB1EQ

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vTMF6xEiAaY
by solid_fuel | 2026-03-10 21:56:40+00:00
> For many metrics, this administration could be painted as the most law abiding administration of a Western Republic, in decades.

Oh. I suspected you weren't arguing in good faith. Now I know. Don't bother replying to my other comments, there is nothing to be gained here.

Decades from now, a child may ask what you did, when fascism was on the rise again. Don't lie to them. Don't claim you didn't know. You were warned, and chose to support the fascists.
by Imustaskforhelp | 2026-03-10 21:56:56+00:00
That's fair dang. Sorry if it got too complicated. I trust ya in that case that the comments are fine from your one of comments to me here. Any case of botting must have been spotted by you guys if there was a case.

It was just that they raised quite a large number of red alerts for me personally with the whole thing.

Just to be on the same page, Is there anything suspicious about the upvotes in this page in sense of being upvoted by bot accounts in general from your observation especially during the start of this thread?

Can you please just talk more about this as in confirmation because I still have some disbelief about it given its shady history and the whole way this thread unfolded. I feel as if there feels some likelihood to me that this post got (bot-upvoted?) at some point or the other.

Or did all of the upvotes came from genuine account and it was just that this got to front page due to hackernews preferential treatment? Can you just talk more about it because if anything, I might still learn something new either way.

Dang, Has there ever been any YC startup which employed in shady practice like using bots to upvote their HN posts or use bot accounts which got caught in the history of this website?
by johnnyanmac | 2026-03-10 21:57:07+00:00
Sure. I don't necessarily think your opinion is radical. But it's also important to consider biases within oneself, especially when making use of text as a medium where the nuance of body language is lost.

The main thing that put me off on the comment was the outright dismissal of other opinions. That's rarely a recipe for a productive conversation.

>However, I disagree with these conclusions (so far) and especially that AI is a unique danger to humanity. I

I don't think it's unique. It's simply a catalyst. In good times with a system that looks out for its people, AI could do great things and accelerate productivity. It could even create jobs. None of that is out of reach, in theory.

But part of understanding the negative sentiment is understanding that we aren't in that high trust society with systems working for the citizen. So any bouts of productivity will only be used to accelerate that distrust. Looking at the marketing of AI these past few years confirms this. So why would anyone trust it this time?

Rampant layoffs, vague hand waves of "UBI will help" despite no structures in place for that, more than a dozen high profile kerfuffles that can only be described as a grift that made millions anyway, and persistent lobbying to try and make it illegal to regulate AI. These aren't the actions of people who have the best interests of the public masses in mind. It's modern day robber barons.

>I think OSS projects stand to benefit (increasingly so as improvements continue) from AI and should avoid taking hardline stances against it.

I don't have a hard line stance on how organizations handle AI. But from my end I hear that Ai has mostly lead to being a stressor on contributors trying to weed out the flood of low quality submissions. Ai or not (again, Ai is a catalyst. Not the root cause), that's a problem for what's ultimately a volunteer position that requires highly specialized skills.

If the choice comes between banning Ai submissions, restricting submissions altogether with a different system, or burning out talent trying to review all this slop: I don't think most orgs will choose the latter.
by adrian_b | 2026-03-10 21:57:10+00:00
RISC-V does not have the pitfalls of experimental ISAs from 45 years ago, but it has other pitfalls that have not existed in almost any ISA since the first vacuum-tube computers, like the lack of means for integer overflow detection and the lack of indexed addressing.

Especially the lack of integer overflow detection is a choice of great stupidity, for which there exists no excuse.

Detecting integer overflow in hardware is extremely cheap, its cost is absolutely negligible. On the other hand, detecting integer overflow in software is extremely expensive, increasing both the program size and the execution time considerably, because each arithmetic operation must be replaced by multiple operations.

Because of the unacceptable cost, normal RISC-V programs choose to ignore the risk of overflows, which makes them unreliable.
by lthi | 2026-03-10 21:57:23+00:00
SF tech lab the "SL5 Task Force" just launched an ambitious new AI datacenter security standard to defend frontier development against nation state attacks. Targeted at securing multi-agent workflows doing large scale automated AI R&D in 2028/2029.

calling on hacker teams to help figure out how to avoid weights theft, loss of control risks & get a defense dominant future as fast as possible

main site: sl5.org

Also available on x: https://x.com/SL5TaskForce/status/2031419965572628624?s=20