MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by jFriedensreich | 2026-03-06 17:14:11+00:00
Non-permissive licenses, open core and proprietary software will just not survive. There is no reality in which I or anyone in my community would use something like eg. raycast or the saas email clients that someone locks down and does rent extraction and top down decisions on. The experience of being able to change anything about the software i use with a prompt while using it is impossible to come back from to all the glitches, limitations and stupidities. we have to come to terms with infinite software.
by Hizonner | 2026-03-06 17:14:21+00:00
There are parental control settings on most of the devices kids have right now. Most parents don't use them (https://fosi.org/parental-controls-for-online-safety-are-und...) . Where's your vast majority?

By the way, that does not imply that they're "underutilized". That part of the article is pure opinion.
by WorldMaker | 2026-03-06 17:14:48+00:00
Abstentions can be the most powerful vote, and with great power should come great responsibility. That's often not taught well enough in schools.

Abstentions can seem the laziest vote sometimes, but that doesn't diminish their power nor their responsibility. It is a freedom to be allowed to cast an abstention. Real democracy needs to allow for abstentions, especially explicit abstentions.

(In recent primaries there have been races where I have explicitly cast an abstention. No one will have read my "I don't care who wins this primary, I care who wins the general election" statements, but they are statements to be made. Right now some of the "strategy" in the US two-party system is one-party poisoning the primary vote of the other party by inflaming it with in-fighting in ways that leak into the general election. You have a harder time to win general elections when your candidate is already on fire coming out of the primary. "It doesn't matter who wins, let's stop in-fighting," is a message I can try to write on the ballot, even if not enough people hear it, it feels like the more powerful and responsible vote.)

The goal shouldn't be to get to 100% of people voting in every election, the goal should be to educate people that not voting is tacitly accepting the results of other people's votes. The goal should be teaching people that abstentions are a freedom, a right, a privilege, and should be treated as powerful and treated with responsibility.
by AnthonyMouse | 2026-03-06 17:15:05+00:00
The fear is that once you have devices sending services a flag, some asshats are going to start demanding that it be verified by the government.

But how does that do anything for you either way? Either you have two different versions based on whether the flag is present or not or you have one version and if it's adults only then you have to send the flag indicating you're an adult in order to use it.
by beezle | 2026-03-06 17:15:11+00:00
Please keep in mind two things with the NFP report:

1/ the confidence interval for the monthly change in total nonfarm
employment from the establishment survey is on the order of plus or minus 122,000

2/ the report is based upon a survey of establishments. There is no obligation to respond and many do not and ability/desire to respond may be impacted by company health as well.
by gzread | 2026-03-06 17:15:14+00:00
Most laws are ineffectual. Kids can't drink alcohol but they still can; theft is illegal but I still got your car keys; murder is illegal but people still die. In this one, there's no punishment for bypass, just like there's no punishment for a kid who gets alcohol. Unlike the alcohol law this one doesn't even mandate the use of the child protection features - just their existence.

You know the simple fix to your problem is to mark VMs as adult only apps, anyway.
by anonnon | 2026-03-06 17:15:22+00:00
> People have judged me for driving through the states.

Meanwhile it's perfectly acceptable, if not a point of pride, for Canadians to go to Cuba, which is not only run by an actual, kleptocratic dictatorship that imprisons dissidents for decades at a time, but is also the number #1 destination in the Americas for sex tourists, including child sex tourists, with the industry even tacitly sanctioned by the dictatorship ("jineterismo").
by jcfrei | 2026-03-06 17:15:24+00:00
Again - poor people, which:

- still drive old cars with lots of CO2 emissions

- live far away from their workplace

- probably have a poorly isolated home with oil or gas heating

will be the ones with higher than average emissions. And the rich people who do will just shrug at this minor extra expense. I feel like this is not mentioned enough in discussions (probably because wealth disparity is such a touchy subject) but your ability to reduce your carbon footprint is also directly tied to your wealth.
by imglorp | 2026-03-06 17:15:51+00:00
> direct air capture is the primary escape hatch

We MUST MUST MUST stop burning things. Stop it.

- We are still mining and burning coal. This is incomprehensible. US, AU, etc Eg: https://www.nacoal.com/our-operations

- We are still subsidizing oil to around $1T/year, not counting oil wars.

Yes it will take some grid and storage upgrades (US) and continue to embrace renewables. It would be cheaper than the oil subsidy.

Otherwise it doesn't make sense to put CO2 into the air with one hand and take it out with another.
by Tiktaalik | 2026-03-06 17:15:57+00:00
I agree that there are other factors likely impacting job losses in 2026, but it is possible that the impacts of a tourism downturn are only now being felt.

One thing worth noting is that the tax structure of American cities can be more based on sales taxes than property taxes, and so if tourism is down, and sales is down, this will begin to impact city budgets, which can have rippling effects elsewhere. For example municipal cutbacks to landscaping budgets could impact private contractors etc.
Ask HN: How do founders process decisions without getting stuck?
by MasklessRooms | 2026-03-06 17:16:00+00:00
Most founders I meet don’t want advice—they want validation. They’re buried under choices, conflicting opinions, and endless tactics.
I’ve been testing a private space where founders can process decisions in real time—no advice, just clarity.
I’m curious: if a space like this existed today, would it actually help you make decisions faster and avoid costly mistakes?
by JumpCrisscross | 2026-03-06 17:16:22+00:00
> if we re-did the election today, we'd have the same outcome

Doubtful. The faithful will always be idiots. But around them are vast seas of folks who change their minds and even switch parties. Between foreign policy, vaccines (weirdly, not being nutter enough) and Noem turning ICE into a pageant show, a lot of Trump voters feel betrayed. It’s why the House flipping is almost a given.
by hagbard_c | 2026-03-06 17:16:33+00:00
He probably chooses the 'right' subjects for aiming his reprimands at. Now let him go to, say, a train with a number of passengers among whom is an individual who decides to use his phone the same way as a dog uses his dick: to clearly mark what he considers to be his territory. Loud gangsta/Turkish/middle-eastern music blaring from the thing, feet on the seat opposite him, the guy sprawling over three seats just waiting for one of the natives to dare to tell him to tone it down a bit. I'm one of those natives who does on occasion and invariably end up in a who-blinks-first contest with the miscreant. Thus far it has only gotten to threats of violence upon which the creature leaves the train at the next station so most of these dogs don't seem to bite. Some do, though, just ask train conductors in the Netherlands or Germany about their experiences with them.
by onlyrealcuzzo | 2026-03-06 17:16:38+00:00
Can mostly second this.

Working on a side project, and it's truly incredible how good AI has been for MOST of it.

Also, bewildering how truly awful it was at some seemingly random things - like writing not terribly difficult Assembly that mostly exists already to do Go-style hot splitting (to even get it to understand what older versions of Go did).

I suspect it'll still be 3 years before AI is as good at the FAANGs as it is outside, just due to the ungodly huge context and the amount of proprietary stuff it would need to learn to use effectively, plus getting all the access to it, etc.

But, even when it does all that, that's maybe 33% of the job.

I just don't see mass layoffs at the really big tech companies, unless it's more focused on just cutting and cutting than actually because people have been made redundant.

Even at the management level, I'm not sure we're going to see managers managing teams of 30 instead of teams of 10.

At the end of the day, a manager needs to know what you're doing and if you're any good at it, and there's only so many people a person can do that effectively with.

Maybe low-level managers go away, and it's just TLMs, but someone still needs to do your 1-on-1s and babysit those that need babysat.
by hparadiz | 2026-03-06 17:17:04+00:00
Quite the opposite. I just spent the past month "vibe coding" a pretty serious program in C. The tldr is yea I can build faster but I'm still sitting there testing, debugging, and focusing on specific features as I go and that's still a human limitation. The AI productivity is pivoted directly into higher complexity of features. It's not a magic wand that immediately builds a program that works perfectly out of the box. The zeitgeist just hasn't caught up to the reality of that.
by yonaguska | 2026-03-06 17:17:11+00:00
My personal take is that it's just hit a breaking point where people have finally decided that it's not worth the money. Im not the only person I know with an uninsured wife, and only coverage for my kids. If it weren't for my kids, I wouldn't have enrolled in insurance either. The math just doesn't work out for someone relatively young and with no major health issues. And with the government cutting back spending, which you can see that hitting big insurers like UNH directly, the market is getting a little tighter.
by applfanboysbgon | 2026-03-06 17:17:39+00:00
The problem is that we will not move on from WW3, and famine, water depletion, resource exhaustion etc. are all existential problems for individual countries that will cause conflicts between previously peaceful nations. At some point the nations in conflict will have alliances and nuclear weapons, and people will use them when the choice is between that or starving to death by the millions. I would be somewhat more optimistic about humanity's ability to weather worsening circumstances if we didn't develop the human extinction button in all of our grand technological wisdom.
by numpad0 | 2026-03-06 17:17:49+00:00
Emojis are stupid, but Japanese phone industry was weaponizing it to segregate smartphones into a niche subclass of non-serious phone-likes than actually usable phones, and so Google/Apple shoved it into Unicode to fill that moat. In hindsight, Slack style :emoji-name: notation might have done better for all, but Unicode emoji was what happened.
by jvanderbot | 2026-03-06 17:18:05+00:00
One example elaborated:

You _want_ most ICs to ignore a negative message that doesn't involve them, and you _want_ to give middle / lower managers the discretion to address an ICs "nonsynergistic" contributions on their own time. It's a signal not a prescription. This allows a public person to make a public statement and set direction without prescribing actions so lower management and ICs can do their thing.

Upper management becomes increasingly vibes-based, from what I can tell.
by jmcgough | 2026-03-06 17:18:12+00:00
China has 4x our population and emits 1/3 less per capita. They've also been flat or falling for the last 21 months. US emissions rose by 2.4% last year.

Furthermore, because carbon emissions stay trapped in the atmosphere for hundreds or thousands of years, one should also note that the US is responsible for more than a quarter of cumulative emissions, twice as much as China.

I'm more interested in solving the problem than assigning blame, but it baffles me when people argue that we shouldn't need to focus on this because it's really China's fault.
by zadikian | 2026-03-06 17:18:21+00:00
12% for the DIMMs only, but with Intel you need Xeon and its accompanying motherboard for it. Someone said AMD "kinda" lets you do ECC on consumer hardware, not sure what the caveats are besides just being unbuffered.

Assuming that's more due to intentional market segmentation than actual cost, yeah I would've liked to have ECC. But I'm with the other guy on not valuing it a ton. I have backups which are needed regardless of bitrot, and even if those don't help, losing a photo isn't a huge deal for me.
by thewebguyd | 2026-03-06 17:18:50+00:00
> Is identifying mammals without the letter E part of your ops work flow?

No, but it can show unreliability for adjacent tasks. Identifying a CIDR block in traffic logs is a normal part of an ops work flow. It means it's more likely to fail if you need to generate a complex Regex to filter PII from a terabyte of logs. If the model has a blind spot for specific characters because it tokenizes words instead of seeing individual characters, then it can miss a critical path of failure because the service name didn't fit its probabilistic training.

Maybe you need to boilerplate Terraform. If the model can't reliably (reliably, as in, 100% deterministic, does this without fail) parse constraints, it's not just a funny mistake it's a potential 5 figure billing error.

Ops can't run on "mostly accurate." That's just simply not good enough. We need deterministic precision.

For AI to be useful in this world to the extent others have claimed it is for software eng, we'll likely need more advanced world models, not just something that can predict the next most likely token.
by thebuilderjr | 2026-03-06 17:19:00+00:00
Tried the Monster example and the way the schema, structure tree, and hex pane stay in sync makes FlatBuffers much easier to reason about than staring at raw bytes alone.

One feature request that would make this even more useful for debugging: a shareable permalink or export bundle for a specific schema + buffer pair. Being able to drop a URL into an issue or PR with the exact repro already loaded would make this great for chasing serialization regressions.
by nonethewiser | 2026-03-06 17:20:10+00:00
I can relate to this part in terms of visuals:

>It's very different from modern games, where each player looks like the fantasy version of a Marvel super hero

But isn't this true for most games?

>UO was the only game that I've ever played where you had "commoner" players. A lot of players failed to scale up, or to obtain top notch equipment.

I guess the main example I'm thinking of is Path of Exile. There is such a massive difference between your average player and the top tier. Or even not the top tier but enthusiasts.

I mean almost by definition most people wont have top notch equipment?
by sleepyguy | 2026-03-06 17:20:19+00:00
Some speculation....I think the long term plan here is Iran launching Shadeeds from the back of a pickups into the gulf states every few days until it wears out both Gulf and American missile defense. 100's of Drones every week targeting Refineries, LNG Gas terminals, Data Centers, Hotels, etc, just like the Russians do to Kyiv every night. The only thing that can stop it will be a ground invasion.

Russia and China have the USA right where they want them unless there is a regime collapse (highly unlikely) or a ground invasion (more likely). The Gulf States will be exhausted and the USA will be ground down defending them.

There is also a supply route through the Caspian for China and Russia to bolster Iranian defense. Is the USA willing to invade Russia to stop it?

This is much bigger than most Americans can comprehend at the moment, no one has ever won a war with just an air assault. Iran is twice as big as Iraq, and Israel and the USA have thrown everything they can at it short of a Nuclear bomb and it is still standing.

Just saying...
by michelsedgh | 2026-03-06 17:20:21+00:00
instead of cursing and attacking, you can have actual discussions. most of the comments in this thread are hating towards trump and his policies without actually discussing any of the policies. Maybe you can't even read the comments. Just blank statements and making fun of trump and his policies. If u have any counters to them u will get flagged and downvoted to hell. Just like your comment, HN has gone from an actual intellectual discussions, to Bluesky style hatred and making fun. Good job proving my point.
by otterley | 2026-03-06 17:20:25+00:00
Thankfully we have the actual court filing to refer to get the full picture, in which CBP says they are working on a way to process refunds more efficiently than they are able to today, and they aim to do so within 45 days: https://storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.cit.193...

See paragraphs 27-29.

Even the full text of the article says this.
by rpcope1 | 2026-03-06 17:20:35+00:00
I have come to doubt that single core or CPU performance in general, other than maybe specialty applications like CAD and some games, is all that noticeable for most computer users in the last decade. I can take relatively pedestrian users like my parents or my wife and put them in front of a decade old high end Haswell system or a brand new mega-$$$ threadripper/epyc and for almost all intents and purposes they don't notice a different. What they do notice is when things die. I'm sure consumer hardware might be OK for 2-3 years (maybe), but like for my parents, they're happier to keep using the same computer, and honestly the same Dell Precision system I gave them almost 10 years ago works great today, and I have a suspicion that the hardware, outside of maybe the SSD finally wearing out, will probably work right a decade from now too.
by watwut | 2026-03-06 17:20:59+00:00
1.) Supreme court literally decided that Trump can not commit crime while in the office. Full stop.

2.) Trump was convinced of felony. That does not apply to him, because he is a president.

3.) This administration ignores the courts.

> If you genuinely want Trump to go to jail , get Congress to create actual laws that he’d be breaking,

They actually did made those laws. Supreme court decided to either rewrite those law or that they simply dont matter.

> The judicial branch is the only one left doing its job. The law applies.

Not the supreme court.
by bambax | 2026-03-06 17:20:59+00:00
I don't think the comparison (that's often made) between AI and compilers is valid though.

A compiler is deterministic. It's a function; it transforms input into output and validates it in the process. If the input is incorrect it simply throws an error.

AI doesn't validate anything, and transforms a vague input into a vague output, in a non-deterministic way.

A compiler can be declared bug-free, at least in theory.

But it doesn't mean anything to say that the chain 'prompt-LLM-code' is or isn't "correct". It's undecidable.
by crystal_revenge | 2026-03-06 17:21:27+00:00
This is why it's clear we will never do anything to slow the progression of climate change.

By far the most effective an immediate solution to limiting the damage of climate change is to simply to keep fossil fuels in the ground.

People talk about the economic pain of doing this, but that economic pain is nothing compared to the impact of unmitigated climate change.

Even though this would be painful, it is also by far the easiest and fastest to implement solution. It would take fantastically more time and resources to scale up direct air capture (even if it existed in a scalable format today) to come anywhere near addressing this problem.

> Yes it will take some grid and storage upgrades (US) and continue to embrace renewables

This is not exactly true, we would have to experience global economic collapse in order to reduce our fossil fuel use. 80% of energy is not spent on electricity globally and this is non-electricity usage is where most of the fossil fuels are consumed and this drives most of the global economy. There's a good reason there are multiple wars being fought over for oil.
by jlarocco | 2026-03-06 17:21:56+00:00
> People who lost their job might be able to pick up doing something they actually enjoy…

That's so out of touch.

First, you're conveniently ignoring the possibility that people actually like the job they are about to lose.

And believe it or not most people aren't toiling away at jobs they hate because it never occurred to them to do something they like more. They work jobs they dislike because it's the only choice they have because they have to pay their bills so they can survive and so that their dependents can have an acceptable life.
by wing-_-nuts | 2026-03-06 17:22:45+00:00
We could cease burning all fossil fuels tomorrow and we'd still have to resort to geoengineering. Read the IPCC projections. All of the ones that keep us below 3c require 'negative emissions'. That's code for DAC, a technology that we've only ever deployed to small pilot projects, deployed more widely, more quickly, than we've deployed any technology ever.

TLDR: We're gonna have to use sulfate injection until we can transition our economy
by anthk | 2026-03-06 17:23:07+00:00
I still can't get java2dis (or whatever is calling) running into Inferno. Which might be interesting as I still have an old as hell Java point and click adventure game (made with a semi-infamous one in Spain from back in the day for amateur/indie games). I think it was done with Java 1.2/1.3.

Current JRE/JDK's run it in a bad way (threads get borked) since Java 1.6/OpenJDK 7 I think. Now, if Inferno supported Java 1.4 or something close to the old Kaffe+Jikes it would be really nice to get legacy stuff working.
by lproven | 2026-03-06 17:23:09+00:00
> FAIK Loongson is dead and isn't made anymore,

Wrong. It is alive and well and in production from several vendors.

https://www.loongson.cn/EN

> Loongson was a little-endian arch

True.

https://loongson.github.io/LoongArch-Documentation/LoongArch...

But... so?

> LoongArch is a new ISA

Partly. It is new but it's still close. A former colleague wrote about it:

https://www.theregister.com/2021/11/02/china_loongson_mips/

The article cites this post on the LKML:

https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/87pmu1q5ms.wl-maz@kernel.org/

«
You keep saying "not MIPS", and yet all I see is a blind copy of the
MIPS code.
»

Alpine supports it:

https://wiki.alpinelinux.org/wiki/Loongarch64

Debian is working on it:

https://wiki.debian.org/LoongArch

Gentoo is working on it:

https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/Project:LoongArch

Doesn't sound dead to me. Sounds a lot more alive than multiple architectures that OpenBSD does support.
by loganc2342 | 2026-03-06 17:23:18+00:00
> To test this, he created a “corporate bullshit generator” that churns out meaningless but impressive-sounding sentences like, "We will actualize a renewed level of cradle-to-grave credentialing” and “By getting our friends in the tent with our best practices, we will pressure-test a renewed level of adaptive coherence.”

So you’re saying people who thought randomly-generated, meaningless sentences sound smart aren’t themselves smart? Who would’ve thought.
by btown | 2026-03-06 17:23:35+00:00
Thanks for bringing this up, and you're right that this is closer. I still think it's imperfect, because a gig economy worker who works 35+ hours per week would be considered "employed full time" (footnotes, https://www.bls.gov/cps/cpsaat36.htm) and as far as I know would not be included in the U-6.

I don't have a more recent statistic, but in 2018 half of Uber rides were provided by drivers working 35+ hours per week: https://www.epi.org/publication/uber-and-the-labor-market-ub...

So while I was perhaps too harsh on the work of the BLS, I do think that newer metrics are warranted.