MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by johnnyanmac | 2026-03-03 04:38:30+00:00
Well yes. Security measures aren't for the principled tech saavy scene who is up to date on the latest malware and exploits. That's how Apple rose to power; it put convenience first and told users it'd worry about all the privacy stuff for them.

A bit contradictory, but that's what the people want. They (as a mass) always choose convenience over both freedom and security. So that's why we always converge towards a centralized power, in tech and the larger world.
by duskdozer | 2026-03-03 04:40:53+00:00
I would have been the first to talk about meta being horrible for privacy and this goes even further than what I expected, which was:

- they have the opportunity to save the video feed at any time
- they are probably storing some kind of metadata of the feed, maybe some kind of analysis output
- someone could hypothetically watch it

I thought it was dangerous because I thought they could do what they're doing, but I didn't think that right now they actually were and so overtly
by jasinjames | 2026-03-03 04:40:59+00:00
Good news: video games are still fucking awesome. Since it costs nothing to make one, weird and smart and cool people from all across the world are trying the craziest stuff. It's true they're purchasable through steam, mostly. But there's spectacularly creative stuff at low or no cost. For example, skimming my steam right now I see:

- Tales From Off Peak City (surrealist walking simulator with a film camera mechanic; 9.99$)

- Baba is You (sokoban puzzler; 14.99$)

- Straftat (brutalist/surrealist competitive shooter set to jungle music focusing on randomized community-map style alternative fps gamemodes; free)

- Untitled Goose Game (light puzzle coop set to dynamically scored classical piano music; 8.99$)

- Norco (prescient pre-gen-ai pixel art VN about AI, faith, and the environment; 5.24$)

- Brazillian Drug Dealer 3: I opened a Portal To Hell In The Favela Trying To Revive Mit Aia I Need to Close It (it's quake; 3.75$)
by matheusmoreira | 2026-03-03 04:41:04+00:00
I too will incorporate Microslop into my vocabulary.

Not even a week ago I was posting here on HN about Microslop's new calculator which somehow takes 17 seconds to fully open on my work machine while the old notepad program opens instantly. How is it even possible to produce slop this bad? Best part of it is the fact it's open source: if you complain about it some 200kUSD/year Microslop employee will come and tell you to open a pull request.
by jmyeet | 2026-03-03 04:41:08+00:00
The crazy part to me is that even here on HN there are people who still insist that LLMs don't fabricate things or otherwise lie.

I wonder if these are the same people who 3-4 years ago were insisting putting 20 characters onto a blockchain (ie an NFT, which was just a URL) was the next multi-billion dollar business.

Sure there is such a thing as a naysayer but there are also people think all forms of valid criticism are just naysaying.
by dang | 2026-03-03 04:41:14+00:00
Thanks! and indeed - here's the sequence (in the usual reverse order). If there are missing threads we can add them...

OpenClaw is dangerous - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47064470 - Feb 2026 (93 comments)

An AI Agent Published a Hit Piece on Me – Forensics and More Fallout - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47051956 - Feb 2026 (82 comments)

Editor's Note: Retraction of article containing fabricated quotations - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47026071 - Feb 2026 (205 comments)

An AI agent published a hit piece on me – more things have happened - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47009949 - Feb 2026 (624 comments)

AI Bot crabby-rathbun is still going - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47008617 - Feb 2026 (30 comments)

The "AI agent hit piece" situation clarifies how dumb we are acting - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47006843 - Feb 2026 (125 comments)

An AI agent published a hit piece on me - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46990729 - Feb 2026 (951 comments)

AI agent opens a PR write a blogpost to shames the maintainer who closes it - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46987559 - Feb 2026 (750 comments)
by girzel | 2026-03-03 04:42:14+00:00
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I would like to be solving real-world problems: energy, logistics, communications, governance, trash removal. It's amazing what you can find out if you talk to people about their problems, and its amazing what you can solve with a concoction of fairly straightforward data science, ML, calculus, signal processing, and Rube Goldberg machines.

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by jemmyw | 2026-03-03 04:42:19+00:00
Does it matter? Generally Linux desktop distributions are made for the people who use them, who would tend towards people who will fix things. You mention distros but there obviously are a lot of passionate distro makers because right now it seems like there are more distros than ever.

There are often comments on threads like this that go along the lines of "If only the people making Linux desktop did X then they'd get more people". But there there isn't really anyone making Linux on the desktop. It's not a product. Even the products within it are built on the work of people with very disparate interests. It's kind of amazing that we get a cobbled together working experience at all.

Apple and Microsoft can focus on particular things, like getting more users, or supporting hardware they want to sell, or trying to get you to sign up to Office 365. No Linux desktop environment can have that kind of focus. So when you say it's not fixable to most users I think: well it's not supposed to be. It's not supposed to be anything, it just kind of is. Like coming across a mountain instead of a theme park - it's not a curated experience, it's not going to be for everyone, you might get hurt, but it's far far more beautiful.
by remarkEon | 2026-03-03 04:43:08+00:00
It's fascinating to me that Iran was able to develop this nascent drone industry on their own, while under a very aggressive sanctions/embargo system. It reminds me a bit of Soviet Union and how they were able to come up with, essentially, parallel industry with different flavors. How were they able to do this? Presumably PRC and Russia were supporting this industry either directly or indirectly with material and supply chain assistance, perhaps engineering expertise though I don't think Iran was in short supply of this. Interesting nonetheless, beyond the cost implications of defeating these cheap systems with very expensive missiles.
by toomuchtodo | 2026-03-03 04:44:29+00:00
The US spent trillions of dollars and many lives during their last escapade into the sandbox, and still went home having lost. What evidence leads you to believe a coalition of countries can stamp out autonomous, independent, ideology driven, potentially perpetual attacks? The potential attack surface is enormous, and attackers need to win only once versus needing a constant, successful defense against them. “What is your threat model?”

Iran is already demonstrating how to exhaust a supply of $4M patriot missiles with $50k drones. Broadly speaking, chaos is cheap when asymmetrical power is available and successful and soft, undefended targets are numerous and readily available. The cost to defend everything at once is untenable.
by impossiblefork | 2026-03-03 04:44:30+00:00
The strange part from my point of view is that it's so obviously heretical from inside the system.

They have Amos, which reasons out the problems of wishing for the Day of the Lord, and I don't understand how they can ignore it. Internalizing this idea should rather lead to a profound dislike for destabilizing the world, push the Day of the Lord as far into the future as it can be, to save all the people who can be born. I can understand how one can be a madman for a while, when one is full of grief. That's fine, but when one returns to normality one should realise that not destabilizing things is a moral duty.
by lynndotpy | 2026-03-03 04:44:30+00:00
> but in reality for most users most of the time, Linux is as "fixable" as Windows or macOS,

I disagree with this. For most users, most of the time, Linux is significantly more fixable than Windows or MacOS.

In nearly 20 years, I've never had to write a line of C or touch the Linux kernel to fix issues I've had on Linux.

For example, one of my big peeves I've had lately on both PopOS and MacOS are the looooong animations to switch desktops.

On PopOS, I had two paths to fix this: Tweak the COSMIC desktop to fix the behavior, or the simple thing of simply installing GNOME (or KDE or any other DE of choice).

On MacOS, I'm SOL. There's no way to fix that on my Macbook (short of installing Asahi Linux, of course).

> Just like you "can" find all the information you need to diagnose and treat whatever medical condition you might have online and at your local libraries. But most people are still going to pay a doctor, because most people don't have the time or skills to actually do it.

This isn't a great analogy, but it's worth noting: Many conditions are expected to be self-diagnosed and self-treated. I don't go to the doctor for scrapes, bruises, colds, dry eyes, a stubbed toe, etc. By this analogy, Linux users are buying their own aspirin and applying their own band-aids, while MacOS users are waiting in line, dependent on someone else to fix these things.

I say this as someone who uses both MacOS and Linux daily.
by johnnyanmac | 2026-03-03 04:44:33+00:00
Tbh, if all of us chipping in to pay for maintenance is the only viable way to stop enshittification, maybe it's something to ponder. I would have scoffed at paying for search a decade ago, but Kagi is more and more attractive by the day. Making a financial incentive to maintain trust seems to be the one obvious way to achieve a "principled OS".

But I guess that's all wishful thinking. Even getting a one time payment to switch to a new OS is difficult.
Solution to HN getting overwhelmed problem
by freediver | 2026-03-03 04:44:36+00:00
These days I go to new/ and it is overwhelming. Large quantity of low quality submissions.

Proposed solution: limit submissions to accounts with >X karma (eg. 500 karma) OR older than Y years (eg 5 years).

Both of these scale into the future as one can reach both conditions without ever submitting (eventually).
Show HN: Cortexa – Bloomberg terminal for agentic memory
by PrateekRao01 | 2026-03-03 04:45:10+00:00
Hi HN — I’m Prateek Rao. My cofounders and I built Cortexa, which we describe as a Bloomberg terminal for agentic memory.

A pattern I keep seeing: when agents misbehave, most teams iterate on prompts and then “fix” it by plugging in a memory layer (vector DB + RAG). That helps sometimes — but it doesn’t guarantee correctness. In practice it often introduces a new failure mode: the agent retrieves something dubious, writes it back to memory as if it’s truth, and that mistake becomes sticky. Over time you get memory pollution, circular hallucination loops, and debugging turns into log archaeology.

What Cortexa does:

1. Agent decision forensics (end-to-end “why”): trace outputs/actions back to the exact retrievals, memory writes, and tool calls that caused them.

2. Memory write governance: intercept and score memory writes (0–1), and optionally block/quarantine ungrounded entries before they poison future runs.

3. Memory hygiene + vector store noise control: automatically detect and remove near-duplicate / low-signal entries so retrieval stays high-quality and storage + inference costs don’t creep up.

Why this matters:
Observability is the missing layer for agentic AI. Without it, autonomy is fragile: small errors silently compound, deployments become risky, and engineering cost goes up because failures aren’t reproducible or attributable.

Who this is for:
1. Teams shipping agentic workflows in production
2. Anyone fighting “unknown why” failures, memory pollution, or runaway context costs
3. Engineers who want auditability + faster debugging loops

Site: https://cortexa.ink/

Would love feedback from anyone running agents at scale:
1.What’s the most painful agent failure mode you’ve seen in production?
2.What signals would you want in an “agent terminal” (retrieval diffs, memory blame, tool-call traces, alerts, etc.)?
by ggm | 2026-03-03 04:45:26+00:00
The part I find a bit odd in this, is that there's a "cart leading the horse" story in this. Fertility drops, as the economy rises above subsistence levels. So, the "which comes first" in this I feel tends to be, economic improvement comes first, then birth rates drop. Maybe I over-read "beneficial" to mean causative when it's just being noted as not un-helpful. But, thats very contextual.

There is then a middle passage where rising economic conditions make lower fertility usefully sustainable, with moderate inflationary immigration into the economy.

But then you hit Japan, and without significant re-appraisal of how economics work to national advantage, your need for replacement labour to manage the growing old population in decline is a huge burden on the tax base.

So this take, is interesting because it seems to invert some of the logic here. It seems to imply, because its economically advantageous, people observe it and stop having so many babies. I thought it was much more that high birthrate was driven in high childhood mortality, and economic necessity of subsistence farming.

I'm also a bit surprised this is worthy of note, because surely the persisting decline in Korean and Japanese birth rates measured over decades signalled this .. well decades ago? Isn't this trend now firmly established in most of the developed G20 class economies? Poland might be a catholic nation but like Ireland continues to be below replacement rate.

The French tax break was for ludicrously large families. like 5 or more. You'd be wrecked.
by bluegatty | 2026-03-03 04:45:57+00:00
"Until these reasonable conditions are met, the war will go on." :) :)

You seem to have a much more imperative and concise view than either Trump or Hegseth, are you secretly the one in charge of everything?

I loathe Iran regime, but not much of that is going to happen.

The first response would be:

"We stop threatening Israel when they stop taking Palestinian lands and killing them"

"The US moves all troops out of the Middle East"

"Stops trying to overthrow our government"

"Stops sanctioning us"

"Stops and interfering in our domestic affairs"

"Returns $100B dollars stolen / frozen since 1979"

And that would literally put that truly bad regime on almost the moral high ground.

The impossible imperative that you've written I think helps us understand the 'Chock A Block' log-jam of the situation, and why this is so thorny.

The most plausible outcome is nothing.

The second most plausible outcome is descent into massive factional civil war.

Maybe somewhere down the line, there is a 'Shah Installed by the US' and then I'm afraid to tell you that we 'Already Did That' and look how it turned out.

There are no decisive answers and no decisive options on the table.
by slg | 2026-03-03 04:46:38+00:00
Is there something to the story that I'm missing? Why does Orland need to apologize? Edwards fabricated the quotes via AI and seemingly presented them to Orland as authentic. Orland had no reason to suspect the quotes weren't real until after publishing.

When journalists are working on a shared byline, they don't each do the same research in order to fact-check each other. There is inherently a level of trust required for collaborating like this and Edwards violated that trust.

You can say this is a failure by the editorial process for not including fact checking, but that is an organizational issue with Ars, it's not the fault of Orland for failing to duplicate the work that he believed his coauthor did.
by blacksmith_tb | 2026-03-03 04:47:08+00:00
OpenAI's own estimate is a $14B loss in 2026[1]. Anthropic is aiming to break even this year (and some of that is probably due to Cowork, so that at least isn't unreasonable). So it may be revenue, but it isn't profit, yet...

1: https://finance.yahoo.com/news/openais-own-forecast-predicts...
by mkmccjr | 2026-03-03 04:47:58+00:00
Aha, I think I better understand your point: since the generated bytecode includes a cast, my explanation about the optimization is too simplistic.

I haven't actually inspected the emitted bytecode, so I was only reasoning from the observed speedup.

Your point about branch prediction is really interesting; it would explain how the cast becomes almost free once the type is stable in the hot path.

I'm learning a lot from this thread -- thank you for pushing on the details!
Show HN: PantheonOS–An Evolvable, Distributed Multi-Agent System for Science
by PantheonOS | 2026-03-03 04:49:01+00:00
We are thrilled to share our preprint on PantheonOS, an evolvable, distributed multi-agent system for automatic genomics discovery.

Preprint: https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.64898/2026.02.26.707870v1
Website(online platform free to everyone): https://pantheonos.stanford.edu/

PantheonOS unites LLM-powered agents, reinforcement learning, and agentic code evolution to push beyond routine analysis — evolving state-of-the-art algorithms to super-human performance.

Applications:
Evolved batch correction (Harmony, Scanorama, BBKNN) and Reinforcement learning or RL agumented algorithms
RL–augmented gene panel design
Intelligent routing across 22+ virtual cell foundation models Autonomous discovery from newly generated 3D early mouse embryo data
Integrated human fetal heart multi-omics with 3D whole-heart spatial data

Pantheon is highly extensible, although it is currently showcased with applications in genomics, the architecture is very general. The code has now been open-sourced, and we hope to build a new-generation AI data science ecosystem.
by dataflow | 2026-03-03 04:49:36+00:00
> The data required is small. Each embedding might be 1/2 kB per face.

"Embedding"? This is what the article says:

"In some videos you can see someone going to the toilet, or getting undressed. I don’t think they know, because if they knew they wouldn’t be recording."

You're saying this they're watching "embedding"s here?
Show HN: Video to Text AI Transcription
by gregzeng95 | 2026-03-03 04:49:52+00:00
I’ve been building a video-to-text web app and wanted to share it for feedback. The core flow is straightforward: upload files, start transcription, then track progress in a history page that refreshes automatically while jobs are running. Paid users can submit multiple files at once, and speaker diarization is supported for conversations and interviews.

Over the last few weeks I focused mostly on reliability. I changed the pipeline to extract audio first and then run transcription, which made long-file handling more stable. I also spent time improving failure handling so users see a clear message when a job fails, instead of raw model errors.

Pricing is intentionally simple right now: free users get 3 transcriptions per day, and there is one Unlimited plan at $20/month or $120/year.

I’d really appreciate feedback on the overall UX, whether the failure/retry behavior feels right, and whether the pricing is understandable for first-time users.
by Philpax | 2026-03-03 04:50:18+00:00
I'm a Rust main, but this argument seems... incorrect? You would not need macros for Rust to remain a usable memory-safe language. They certainly make it easier, but they're not necessary. It would be perfectly possible to design a variant of Rust that gets you to 80-90% of Rust's usability, with the same safety, without macros.
by deaux | 2026-03-03 04:50:23+00:00
Why was the title changed from "The workers behind Meta’s smart glasses can see everything" to "A hidden workforce behind Meta’s new smart glasses"? It doesn't go against any guidelines:

> Please don't do things to make titles stand out, like using uppercase or exclamation points, or saying how great an article is. It's implicit in submitting something that you think it's important.

> If the title includes the name of the site, please take it out, because the site name will be displayed after the link.

> If the title contains a gratuitous number or number + adjective, we'd appreciate it if you'd crop it. E.g. translate "10 Ways To Do X" to "How To Do X," and "14 Amazing Ys" to "Ys." Exception: when the number is meaningful, e.g. "The 5 Platonic Solids."

> Otherwise please use the original title, unless it is misleading or linkbait; don't editorialize.

The literal URL slug is

> metas-ai-smart-glasses-and-data-privacy-concerns-workers-say-we-see-everything

The page title is

> Meta’s AI Smart Glasses and Data Privacy Concerns: Workers Say “We See Everything”

The new title goes against the guidelines by editorializing. I've never seen HN do this before, what's going on here?
by bluegatty | 2026-03-03 04:50:28+00:00
"the U.S. is looking for a quick win if it can have it."

?? What is a 'quick win' ??

Serious question.

- Ayatollah dead, next Ayatollah?

- 10 years of civil war?

- Installation of US-backed Shah, with no real power base, which will lead to ongoing insurrection, which is what led to ... Islamic Revolution ... because we already tried that?

- Faux acquiescence at the negotiating table ... while they dig their HQs further under ground?

What else?

A quick win is possible, but one of the most narrow scenarios.

It looks at the moment like everyone is losing, some worse than others.
Is It Just Me – Or Are Outages Everywhere Lately? (Claude, GitHub, Supabase)
by vampiregrey | 2026-03-03 04:50:41+00:00
Over the past few weeks I’ve hit multiple AI/API outages — and not just one provider.

Model timeouts and HTTP 500/529 errors from Anthropic’s Claude

Repository access issues during a recent GitHub disruption

Database/API hiccups from Supabase

Even intermittent infra blips from major cloud vendors

Individually, none of these are shocking. Every system fails.

But collectively? It feels like the frequency and blast radius are increasing.

It raises some uncomfortable questions:

Are we over-optimizing for speed of development at the cost of resilience?

Are small teams unknowingly building on increasingly fragile stacks?

Is this just visibility bias — or are outages genuinely becoming more common?

Curious how others here are thinking about it.
by shwetharmaiya | 2026-03-03 04:51:00+00:00
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by kshacker | 2026-03-03 04:51:27+00:00
maybe this prods either the congress to allow permanent daylight savings or the western states to just move to standard time. but no, they will drag their feet.

what we need is some kind of critical mass which finally makes them act. Maybe a few more canadian provinces although it appears ontario is harder since they made a pact with Quebec and New York. But we need some more, maybe one major US state to break free and go to standard time.
by certik | 2026-03-03 04:52:19+00:00
No, you "only" have to write a backend. Which is still a lot of work, but much less work than another compiler. There are multiple ways it can be designed, but one idea that I like the most right now is to create an API for LLVM, and then implement the same API ourselves with a fast backend. That way we reuse everything in current LFortran, including lowering to LLVM, we just have to refactor it to use our own API instead.