MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by Aeglaecia | 2026-03-08 01:10:04+00:00
out of all the people in this thread, you seem the most likely candidate to appreciate the following - tinnitus symptoms are often conflated with hearing sensitivity. if you can see auras, then id say your tinnitus symptoms arent indicative of tinnitus. search up brain wave frequencies and look at images. id wager you are hearing yourself, especially during changes of frequency. as well, just prior to sleep, you might hear a spike - thats the brain commencing the sleep mode algorithm (no wonder tinnitus wrecks sleep, affected individuals would struggle at synchronizing both hemispheres with the sleep algorithm when an involved sensor is malfunctioning)

seperately ... its clear that you recognise the incompatibility between sensitive individuals and a society designed to place the populace into constant fight or flight. youre still showing signs of blaming yourself. literally nobody is going to understand you (especially not doctors) and the sooner you accept this, the sooner you will free up a lot of trapped energy. id stop taking the stimulants regularly man ... even without their effect, barely anybody is going to understand your words, and the number of people who will appreciate your words is reduced when they are conveyed via essays (honestly i cant find the strength to read them properly) ... in general your expression has reminded me of the message behind the lateralus chorus
by JoshTriplett | 2026-03-08 01:10:35+00:00
Some examples:

> sudo-rs Breaks Historical Norms With Now Enabling Password Feedback By Default

"Let's tell you exactly how to feel about this, commenters"

> Linux 7.0 Officially Concluding The Rust Experiment

"...by declaring it successful, but if we said that in the headline it wouldn't be clickbait"

(In fairness, LWN did this too, but by accident rather than to provoke clicks.)

> GNOME Mutter Now "Completely Drops The Whole X11 Backend"

> systemd 260 Dropping System V Service Script Support

"And has dozens of other features and improvements, but let's cherry-pick the one we want you to yell about in our comments section."

> The Linux Kernel Looks To 'Bite The Bullet' In Enabling Microsoft C Extensions

"Oh no, look at the poor kernel developers reluctantly dealing with Microsoft extensions...that they deliberately sought out and used because they prefer them over standard C, not being forced by any external factor."

They know their comments section, they know what gets them posting, and they optimize for provoking comment.
by umpalumpaaa | 2026-03-08 01:11:03+00:00
In my previous company, we "simply" used fixed versions for our dependencies. And we had our own NPM registry that only had already approved packages for specific version. Approval required a security review by someone from the Security team… At first I was super annoyed by this. But I started to like this approach. It also reduced surprises while developing in a team… "it works on my machine" was rare since everyone was using the exact same versions. And moving to a newer version was done on a regular basis but it was an intentional thing we did.
by KittenInABox | 2026-03-08 01:11:57+00:00
Extremely weird cover selection. Books like Stag Dance, Project: Hail Mary, The Emperor of Gladness, etc. None of them have that. Some of the books listed there are several years old (The Death of Vivek Oji was published in 2020). A Map Is Only One Story isn't even fiction?? I think its very cherrypicked of a complaint. Not to mention the author doesn't talk at all about the rise of romantasy and finding bets like Alchemised and Fourth Wing (neither of which have these covers complained about).
by kube-system | 2026-03-08 01:12:15+00:00
The job of pure “programming” will shrink and become more academic in scope. Jobs in industry will shift towards industry specific applied roles. It won’t be good enough to blindly build CRUD forms anymore.

Before calculators you could just get a job just doing arithmetic. The job was called actually called “computer”. There are still plenty of jobs doing math, but most are now mostly an application of math in a specific field. This trend has already started happening with low-code/no-code tools, and that will accelerate now.

If I were a new grad, I would brush up on my other skills outside of programming and look for jobs that require soft skills, analysis, etc. Or pick a highly regulated industry.

The days of sitting in a cube all day and working Jira tickets stipulated by someone else is coming to an end.
by raffaeleg | 2026-03-08 01:12:28+00:00
We're running a live event at platypi.empla.io — a simulated trading desk where 6 agents coordinate entirely via email with no human in the loop. No shared conversation thread, no central orchestrator. Bozen (supervisor) gets a morning briefing from each PM agent, they argue about positions over email, Mizumo executes. The interesting thing isn't the trading — it's that email as coordination protocol produces naturally auditable, replayable agent behavior. Paper money on Alpaca, but the coordination infrastructure is the point.
by raffaeleg | 2026-03-08 01:13:13+00:00
The framing misses the middle ground where most real value lives: narrow agents with a single well-defined scope running on top of existing workflows. The biggest returns we've seen come from agents that handle one specific, high-frequency, error-prone task, not autonomous systems orchestrating a dozen capabilities. Orchestration overhead in broad autonomous setups often erases the labor savings. Specificity is the variable most teams skip when scoping an agent project, and it's usually the difference between something that ships and something that stays a demo.
by danparsonson | 2026-03-08 01:13:59+00:00
No, a lawyers opinion will reflect the law. From a legal standpoint it doesn't matter how you feel about applying a license to your work, it matters what the law says about that. I'm not a lawyer, but my expectation is that the license you choose will bind anyone who chooses to use your software, and in particular will have an effect on companies that wish to use it. That may be fine and exactly what you want, but my point is just that it's not necessarily a whimsical 'statement of intent'.
by jomohke | 2026-03-08 01:14:09+00:00
I'm curious how much this is the cause or effect, though?

The publishers have been saying that their ability to promote books has drastically reduced with the internet, along with changes in reading and information habits.

It seems like a book needs a far bigger push today to rise above the noise of the internet (and people's over-abundance of content to consume), and this unfortunately meant that small publishers struggled unless they "joined together" to make a bigger push.

There's extremely small (self published) books and extremely large hits, but the middle is increasingly less viable, it seems. Similar to films.
by OneMorePerson | 2026-03-08 01:14:18+00:00
Oh yeah no doubt. That kind of thing is just human nature to some extent. Anywhere where getting something done gets you promoted or paid more (which again is a necessary side effect of rewarding progress) tends to have cases where people are producing bullshit or inflating their real contribution.

Yeah I wonder about that sometimes, the maximal balance between efficiency and inefficiency. Some things are clearly a waste (like advertising as you mentioned) but then other stuff is part of innovation, and it's sometimes a bit fuzzy between the two. On paper it's wasteful that Mazda, Toyota, Ford, etc. all had to independently develop a sedan, yet it would be far worse if we only had one car company to choose from (far worse because of how monopolies inevitably stagnate).
by Myrmornis | 2026-03-08 01:14:52+00:00
> Markdown is already beautiful. We don't render it. We don't preview it. You read it raw, the way it was meant to be.

I don't want to be inflammatory or shallowly dismissive of other people's opinions. But I find this puritanical view surprising when we're talking about presenting markdown for reading by humans.

Take markdown links for example. In a terminal those should surely be rendered as OSC8 hyperlinks where supported: that gives actual link functionality, as well as being much more readable.

Or take markdown code blocks; to me it seems clear that they should be rendered with syntax highlighting, probably in a box or against a slightly different background color to set them off from the rest of the document. Triple backticks are for machines, not humans, surely? I don't think they're beautiful.

I don't know the history / lore of what is common mark vs non-standard addons etc. But github supports things like <details> tags; clearly it's no good just rendering that in plain text. A browser renders it well; not sure how to in a terminal.

Similarly tables should surely at least have padding added so that each column has constant width as you look down the rows, but promising to output it raw wouldn't do that since markdown itself has no such requirement. Which gets at my overall point: markdown is a format for capturing richer document data while writing; this should be rendered for humans to read.
by xphos | 2026-03-08 01:14:59+00:00
I think charity is good, I donate to charity. At the same time I once watched a podcast that basically said when you donate to charity the mindset and often the outcome of charity is that its money you throwing away and did not invest in making longer term differences. Its an utterly rude statement but I still feel a fundmental tension in that premise that an organization that could seek profit but whose fiduciary responsiblity was to the community it was serving rather some stock owner would have incentives to establish better long term charity. That well example is supportitive of that thought.

But I think the the argument is certainly not good at other times because not everyone has the ability to invest and make a difference donations lower the requirements and the barriers to both. Also whose to say even a throw away Well doesn't make the world of difference to people who really needed even if it was temporary. I just a struggling thought I have sometimes...
by forrestthewoods | 2026-03-08 01:15:54+00:00
> This nuance is something that only the nix model started to capture at all.

Unpopular opinion, loosely held: the whole attempt to share any dependencies at all is the source of evil.

If you imagine the absolute worst case scenario that every program shipped all of its dependencies and nothing was shared then the end result would be… a few gigabytes of duplicated data? Which could plausible be deduped at the filesystem level rather than build or deployment layer?

Feels like a big waste of time. Maybe it mattered in the 70s. But that was a long, long time ago.
by karpathy | 2026-03-08 01:16:22+00:00
this is very far from hyperparameter tuning in at least three important ways:

- it can modify code arbitrarily, the notion of a "hyperparameter" dissolves

- there is no need to run "sweeps" - this is the standard parallel process that wastes compute. because LLM agents are sequential, they can do more efficient versions such as binary search to narrow in on the right setting very quickly (usually many parameters will have a U shaped optimal setting).

- it's fully automatic, it doesn't require human in the loop to mess with the code.

You're right that many of the changes it seems to make out of the box (as I intentionally did not try to prompt engineer it too hard yet because I was curious what you get by default) seem to be tuning existing hyperparameters. not all of the changes are like that - e.g. it tried to replace the non-linearity, etc. I will say that overall (and again, out of the box) the LLM feels unwilling to creatively pursue a research direction or something like that. The models feel very "cagy" and "scared" when they are given problems that are a little too open ended. But that's just where the fun parts, e.g. I had some early successes with the idea of a "chief scientist" that was basically a never-ending plan mode that looked at what worked, didn't work, tried to find related code/papers, and created a long list of experiments to try, which it could then send to junior engineers running in tmux sessions. I think quite a few approaches are possible, so I think it's a nice canvas. The reason we're not getting "novel research" feels like half capability issue and half skill issue.
by jasonwatkinspdx | 2026-03-08 01:16:44+00:00
> On the other hand it's almost impossible to imagine what food was like in the Americas before Columbus.

Not at all. Many pre columbian foods remain popular today, like tamales. Corn, beans, squash, fish, nuts, and tropical fruit were all staple foods in pre contact Mesoamerica. Central American islanders were big on grilling fish over coals.

I don't think it was a miserably plain diet by any means.
by OneMorePerson | 2026-03-08 01:17:01+00:00
I wonder sometimes if this is actually about the job as people say, or if it has something to do with that's convenient to ask. Your job is arguably one of the most public facing things about you, and is also somewhat impersonal. I've been other countries where they launch straight into "how many kids do you have?" (or plan to have), "how much money do you make", "what neighborhood do you live in" and I kinda missed just being asked about my job.
by dkechag | 2026-03-08 01:17:22+00:00
From your post I can tell you did not read the "year-old blog post". It starts with the scaling, but goes further and explains a lot. I am a software engineer specializing in algorithms and optimization, Amdahl's law is part of the usual training I give our junior developers. It has nothing to do with Geekbench 6 being a surprisingly bad benchmark, especially for big CPUs.
by ygjb | 2026-03-08 01:17:31+00:00
Yep, my origin story is more fun, I actually got left at my dad's boss' office and was bored so I found a computer book and started reading it and rebooted the computer and followed the instructions. When they came back I had a very simple program going and after getting into a bit of trouble my dad's boss' laughed it off and told my dad to get me a computer. He did (the vic-20). Several days later my parents turned it off and deleted my program and it took me a while to explain that I needed more gear to save my programs. Been stuck on the hardware acquisition loop since :P
by awesome_dude | 2026-03-08 01:18:52+00:00
> Is this USA only? There are postal codes/zipcode-equivalents in other countries.

This is where the real problems start - postcodes exist the world over.

Speaking as someone that has dealt with countries that have postcodes, but no states, so it's just Street Address (if applicable) | City (if applicable) | Country | Postcode

Inputting a "zip code" first would result in every country being in the drop down.

In Australia, addresses too are wild, they should be considered "free form"

https://blog.melissa.com/en-au/global-intelligence/australia...

Gives this as an example address
The Smith Family

'Willow Creek' Station

via Winton

QLD 4730
by bilbo0s | 2026-03-08 01:19:11+00:00
The question was not why did the IRS amalgamate those organizations.

The question was why did Charity Sense amalgamate those organizations.

What value is it adding if it does nothing other than report data we could get from the IRS in any case? Saying, "Hey man, we just re-post the data we get from the IRS." Is the same thing as saying, "We didn't really do any analysis."
by mdhowle | 2026-03-08 01:19:37+00:00
This seems overly complicated. Let the editors be editors.

I recently created a Go application for myself after not finding a note-taking application I liked. Instead of implementing an editor, the application just creates the `%Y-%m-%d.md` file and then opens it in my preferred editor. I have other features, but in the end, all it does is create files or pipe data into the editor I want to use.
by axiolite | 2026-03-08 01:20:22+00:00
I've implemented it, too, and didn't run into any problems. User inputs the zip code, if there's multiple city matches, they select the correct one from the drop-down (or you auto-complete the city name after they type the first 4 letters).

The fact that "A city can also exist in multiple zip codes. And there can be multiple cities with the same name in the same state" is a good point IN FAVOR of asking for the zip code first (NOT to avoid it) because you certainly can't do it the other way round.

And if you just leave it to the user to free-type all that info in, you have to verify it after... Users are going to make typos, and the USPS will kick your butt if you don't correct it (and credit card payments won't go through, either). So it may be less work for web-form creators, but pushing the verification down stream just makes it all worse for the company using it.
by osti | 2026-03-08 01:20:47+00:00
Not true. Geekbench, especially single threaded benchmark, is probably the best we got, it has a bunch of workloads, unlike many other benchmarks like cinebench for example. And they publish all the results on their website, so you can dig into each individual workload and find the ones that apply to you.

And like the other poster mentioned, it correlates well with SPEC, so it's basically a easily accessible SPEC. These days the only benchmark I use to quickly judge some CPU is geekbench.
by leptons | 2026-03-08 01:20:52+00:00
Maybe you missed the part where I described that not all CPUs work the same, not all have out of order instruction issuing, register renaming, or even any cache at all. OP was blanket talking about assembly, without realizing the many different kinds of CPUs out there, and apparently you're here cherry-picking too.

I have no interest in continuing this pointless internet interaction.
by jongjong | 2026-03-08 01:22:18+00:00
Wow. This is a massive figure.

The US GDP is $30 trillion but most of that is spoken for; it's wages, costs, reinvestment — money that's already doing a defined job. But this $3 trillion is different; it's flowing through entities that are completely exempt from normal market pressures and competition.

What's insane to think about is the composition of it; this isn't charity money, it's Medicare reimbursements, government contracts, university tuition, hospital fees. Which means the most important sectors of the economy — healthcare, education, research — are basically being run by nonprofits.
Enormous institutional players with massive lobbying power, operating in markets with no real competition.

It's less that profits are being funneled into nonprofits and more that entire industries have reorganized themselves around the nonprofit structure to avoid the accountability that competition normally creates. Which explains a lot about why the economy feels so captured and doesn't make sense anymore.
by awesome_dude | 2026-03-08 01:22:38+00:00
Why?

I have a 4 digit postcode, I have to look it up every time I have to fill in an address form for delivery.

I've had people screw 1 digit up in that postcode and their items (a laptop in one case) went to the completely wrong city.

A code sounds foolproof, until you realise most people don't engage with them for most of their lives - you don't tell the uber driver the zip/post code you are waiting in, and travelling to, nobody does.

edit: just to add - Magic numbers are bad. Software engineers know that a number that's undocumented in code is unmaintainable, a zip code is worse.
by TheAceOfHearts | 2026-03-08 01:22:55+00:00
Hypothesis: limiting usage / tokens could have a positive effect on project quality, since it forces the developer to think more carefully about the problems they're working on. When you're forced to stop and slow down, you try to be more deliberate with token usage. But if you have unlimited tokens you can just keep generating infinite lines of code without thinking as hard about the problem.

I've seen people on social media bragging about how they're able to produce a mountain of code as if this was praiseworthy.
by mbirth | 2026-03-08 01:25:22+00:00
I loved the idea. However, the main issue was that it completely ignored the date.

While it worked fine in Western Europe - as i.Beats were based on the “Biel Mean Time” = GMT+1, people in the US would e.g. wake up at @584 on March 7 and eat dinner @125 on March 8.
by jadedtuna | 2026-03-08 01:27:23+00:00
As others, I find the comparison to ghostty somewhat confusing. Also, this seems like a separate app for what could be a TUI application? Unless I'm missing something.

The idea of showing raw Markdown with just a few colors and maybe some bold/italic variations is compelling, but what about tables? Tables in Markdown can be very useful, but also a pain to type out/format manually.

Auto-save on every keystroke sounds good, but wouldn't that hammer the underlying storage too much for no reason?

And the installation instructions continuing the unfortunate trend of `curl | bash` doesn't help..

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On the topic of Markdown editors, what are the current recommendations (primarily for Linux)? Obsidian is a crowd favorite, but it seems too heavy if I want to only open a single file, especially outside of any vault. Something to preview/edit `README.md` files would be nice.
by eudamoniac | 2026-03-08 01:30:24+00:00
I've been a professional in the industry for over a decade and I've still not found any meaningful benefit for learning or using containerization in the real world. I just install my dependencies with good old fashioned version managers (asdf) and I develop the project. I ignore all docker documentation, and everything works fine. When I try to use containers to develop, it's seemingly two dozen gotchas that sum up to my IDE needing endless configuration to function properly. I don't get it.
by ipnon | 2026-03-08 01:31:50+00:00
Put some money on the line. I'm not an economist but you could structure a market where you cannot just take up mental space in the job market for practically nil. That's the current malincentive, that companies put up job listings they have no intention of filling, even when candidates who are qualified by their own criteria apply. The current job market maladies are a perverse incentive of the price of posting a job and applying for a job are effectively nil, the spread is too big for anyone to make the trade.
by MRviber | 2026-03-08 01:32:32+00:00
Local journalism is dying at an alarming rate, creating "news deserts" across the country. I wanted to see if we could lower the friction of grassroots reporting so that citizens could easily document what's happening on their own streets.

It started when I recognized an issue with neglected infrastructure—a broken bench at my local bus stop that hadn't been fixed for months. Instead of a boring feedback form to the city, I used a pipeline I built that takes a spoken report, transcribes it, and strict-casts it into a classic local newspaper format. The result was an article titled _"Bus Stop Neglect Sparks Concern: Residents Await Repairs for Months

How it works

It turns out people love using this to write pieces about their local area—from actual infrastructure issues to community events. The goal is to give normal people the tools to start filling the void left by dead local papers.

Would love to hear your feedback, roast my code/architecture, or read any funny articles you generate with it!
by justsomehnguy | 2026-03-08 01:35:14+00:00
Except it's the plain NAT which was named 'bridge' because there were no sysadmin around slap some sense into the authors. Slirp is for 'unprivileged network namespaces' which is for a 'rootless' variants of docker ie attaching a container network to the host without the need for the root-level privileges.
by Rendello | 2026-03-08 01:36:12+00:00
There are also some 'mobile supermarkets' run to help the elderly in some rural villages, as seen at 11 minutes in here:

https://youtu.be/IiU3Nk16BLQ?t=664

I know my neck of the woods has a not-for-profit called Meals on Wheels that does something similar.