MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by menaerus | 2026-03-10 06:51:56+00:00
What does it mean "remotely competitive combustion engines"?

China has been building ICEs for decades, that's for sure, and if they had not been anywhere to remotely competitive people wouldn't be buying them and therefore OEMs wouldn't be producing them, no? But they do. And still do.

The last notable example is [1] twin turbo-charged 4.0 V8 from GWM reportedly delivering 450kW and 800Nm of torque. You can't build such an engine without the very deep expertise in materials, mechanics, chemistry, and everything it takes to manufacture such a beast.

GWM builds traditional gasoline and diesel engines too but then you have other similar OEMs like Geely, BYD, MG, Chery which have been doing the same.

And then you find out that China builds their own diesel engines too but for heavy machinery like trucks, vessels, tractors, ...

So, I see no evidence that they are not capable in manufacturing ICEs. Quite the contrary. Reason why we don't see it in European or American markets, or have not so far, is of a different kind and not competitiveness.

[1] https://www.motor1.com/news/758255/china-twin-turbo-v8-engin...

[2] https://sdec-engine.com/
by davidtome | 2026-03-10 06:52:05+00:00
Hi HN — I’m David, a theatre nurse in the UK. I built this after noticing a recurring problem when using AI systems to analyse policy, governance and regulatory documents.

LLMs often produce fluent answers that look correct but include things that are not actually stated in the source document. Sometimes they infer missing elements (actors, actions, enforcement mechanisms), and sometimes they silently omit parts of the document structure. In governance or legal contexts that matters, because the difference between what a document states and what a model assumes can have evidentiary implications.

This project experiments with a simple idea: before an LLM reasons about a document, a deterministic gate checks whether the structural components needed for interpretation are explicitly present.

The gate looks for things like:
• Actor — who is responsible
• Action — what must be done
• Conditions / dependencies
• Outcomes / consequences

If these are missing, the system records that absence instead of letting the model silently infer it. The result is an admissibility record that shows exactly what the document explicitly contains and what it does not.

Each element in the output is labelled as one of four types:
• Grounded — directly supported by the document
• Citable — external statute or regulation
• Inferred — logically implied but not stated
• Absent — the document does not contain this information

There are two LLM layers involved in the demo:

• A locally running Llama-3B model handles relatively basic tasks inside the pipeline (segmentation and structural checks).
• A hosted Anthropic model is used as the descriptive layer that converts the structured record into readable output.

Anthropic usage is relatively expensive for me, (note: please be kind and not go crazy with my credits) so the system will automatically fall back to full Llama-3B output if that credit runs out.

The system is designed primarily for authoritative texts such as governance documents, legislation, regulatory notices, and policies.

If you want something to test it with, this UK ICO enforcement notice tends to work well:

https://ico.org.uk/media2/xfbl1uaa/lastpass-uk-ltd-penalty-n...

It’s long, structured, and contains a mix of explicit commitments and contextual explanation, which tends to highlight the difference between grounded statements and inferred ones.

Curious what people here think about the idea of structural gating before LLM inference for document analysis. Happy to answer questions about the architecture or the reasoning behind it.
by danaris | 2026-03-10 06:52:15+00:00
Which is more unethical:

Raising animals compassionately, slaughtering them for meat as painlessly as possible after a healthy, happy life

OR

Letting people who require meat in their diet to live (there are a number of reasons this may be the case) die slow, painful deaths as their bodies fail around them?

It's real easy to say that "no one should ever kill an animal to live" when you ignore the disabilities and chronic conditions that make surviving on plants alone impossible, or prohibitively expensive.
by klardotsh | 2026-03-10 06:52:38+00:00
Oftentimes comically lower. I remember in Chicago the interstates having posted speed limits of 45mph... the average flow of traffic outside of rush hour was easily north of 70mph.

Looking even at normal arterial streets, many streets in Seattle are marked 25, but you'd be hard-pressed to find even a cop going under 30 most of the time.

I truly don't understand US road design. The construction of the road and the posted speed limit almost never are even gently correlated other than on a few select residential side streets in a few select cities who have rebuilt streets based on safety studies.
by smackeyacky | 2026-03-10 06:53:13+00:00
When I first started my career we were selling PCs into a market where two programs were major roadblocks to windows 3.0 upsells: Lotus 1-2-3 and WordPerfect.

If you were a legal secretary WordPerfect was near irreplaceable in a market where the user had transitioned from a typewriter only 5 years ago. Non technical users who has mastered mail merge in WordPerfect would rather beat you up and leave you in the gutter for dead rather than look at Word.

Lotus users were just as fanatical. It’s probably lost to the mists of time but Lotus could be had for Sun workstations and some users who hit the limit of MS-DOS with Lotus switched to that. It was nuts the things people built with that: prop trading in Lotus on a Sun? Why not.

I’d like to see this blogger do Lotus Notes but I suspect unless you’d actually seen the crazy that Notes developers went to you wouldn’t really understand why it elicited audible groans from pre sales staff when they heard the client was a big Notes user but “was running into problems”.

1-2-3 was damn cool though, Notes was written by devils simply to drive men mad.
by lurking_swe | 2026-03-10 06:53:20+00:00
but as someone in my 30s, it’s kind of true…looking back.

I can only speak as a man. I spent my late teens thinking with my penis instead of my brain. Things worked out well for me by pure luck.

Most teens have no real experience with “real” relationships or what makes a great life partner. This is CRUCIAL when parenting. They’re also not thinking about a stable career so they can actually support a baby. Never mind the money…most jobs in the U.S. have garbage health insurance, unless your employer is great.

Many people THINK they know what their life should look like. Then again most teens think they have life figured out lol. A tale as old as time…

I would say mid 20s is an ideal time from a maturity perspective. The best time depends on the person obviously. You can’t plan falling in love. :)
by sofixa | 2026-03-10 06:53:30+00:00
On the contrary, Netflix would have been decent because WB is bigger than them (in terms of IP, existing content, brands, etc) and would have probably (at least that's what they said publicly) left it mostly alone. And it's weird how people assume that just because Netflix produce a ton of content, all of it is low quality. A lot of it is for people half paying attention, but there is plenty of actually good stuff. Them having WB would improve them on both fronts.

Nepo baby is coming with a political angle and wants control of the news media part of WB. The American media landscape is already without much competition nor diversity in political views, now there would practically be none.
by DaedalusII | 2026-03-10 06:53:50+00:00
you have never worked in africa. its cheaper to build a data centre in low earth orbit than most of africa

1 physical security is a problem, and in some countries like equatorial guinea or south africa foreigners arent allowed to own assets outright

2 cheap labour cant actually do anything. they are nice people but they cant read instruction manuals. cant set up data centres

3 no infrastructure. why zambia and kenya etc are 99% cellphones, is because there is no grid and no landlines because people steal all the copper wires

https://iol.co.za/the-star/news/2026-02-18-r23-billion-lost-...

stories engineers have told me about building things in africa:
- i was working on an oil rig and one day the local employees started playing hide and seek and trying to kill us until a ransom was paid. for 48 hours we hid in a ventilation area until the ransom was organised, then had to go straight back to work with the people who were trying to murder us with power tools the day before for a month
- the person who gave my company a contract was chainsawed to death on a beach
by Sniffnoy | 2026-03-10 06:54:19+00:00
Ah, but who's "they"? Names of departments are determined by Congress, and Congress has not renamed the DoD. The executive branch does not normally determine the names of its own departments. If you imagine the American government to be a single coherent entity, one might say "they have full naming rights", but it isn't, and in this case, the part doing the rename isn't the part that properly has the power to do so!
by wiseowise | 2026-03-10 06:54:23+00:00
> and why so many of native toolkits feel uninspired and lacking any real innovation.

You ever thought that it’s the reverse? That native toolkits were left to rot, because it’s always the cost center (looking at you Android team, you’re a fucking disappointment), while web continued to evolve?

> - Users can block ads

Google fuckers are desperately trying to fix the “feature”.
by thomasmg | 2026-03-10 06:54:28+00:00
Well, the parent wrote "I honestly just don't believe that Rust is more complex to onboard to compared to languages like Python." And you wrote "The language itself is not more complex to onboard." So... to contract Rust with Scala, I think it's clearer to write "The language itself is not more complex to onboard _than Scala_."

To that, I completely agree! Scala is one of the most complex languages, similar to C++. In terms of complexity (roughly the number of features) / hardness to onboard, I would have the following list (hardest to easiest): C++, Scala, Rust, Zig, Swift, Nim, Kotlin, JavaScript, Go, Python.
by scuff3d | 2026-03-10 06:54:34+00:00
Gonna see a lot more of this in the coming years. The real cost of LLM tools has a delay. Devs don't tend to notice it until they're neck deep in code then don't understand, swearing the next prompt will get them out. CEOs won't notice until it starts costing them money, and that of course assumes anyone will be willing to admit it. Lot of people have their careers on the line spending a metric shit ton of money on untested tools.
by jychang | 2026-03-10 06:55:20+00:00
> I find it likely Opus is larger.

Unlikely. Amazon Bedrock serves Opus at 120tokens/sec.

If you want to estimate "the actual price to serve Opus", a good rough estimate is to find the price max(Deepseek, Qwen, Kimi, GLM) and multiply it by 2-3. That would be a pretty close guess to actual inference cost for Opus.

It's impossible for Opus to be something like 10x the active params as the chinese models. My guess is something around 50-100b active params, 800-1600b total params. I can be off by a factor of ~2, but I know I am not off by a factor of 10.
by JAlexoid | 2026-03-10 06:55:22+00:00
You should realize that this is happening not only in the space of images(where conglomerates aren't a thing), but also in music.

Music conglomerates have money and their lawsuits will probably settle the issue.(unless they settle) That will be applied for all copyrighted works, regardless of the medium.

I believe going against the big guys is the reason why the big ones don't yet have music generation LLMs.
by AusiasTsel | 2026-03-10 06:55:38+00:00
Thanks for trying it, and for the honest feedback on purchase links, you’re right. Right now they link to a search on each store rather than directly to the specific edition page. It’s a known limitation: matching an ISBN to a direct product URL across different stores (each with their own catalog system) is surprisingly hard, but it’s on the roadmap.
Glad the core discovery part was useful though. And cool project with the quote finder; we all start rough!
by georgemcbay | 2026-03-10 06:56:38+00:00
> why. unlike with the gulf of mexico, in this case they have full naming rights.

They actually don't. The official name is still the Department of Defense and only Congress can approve a real name change.

The Trump Executive Order just gives the department permission to use the Department of War name without actually changing the name of the department from the Department of Defense.

That said, despite being anti-Trump I'm fine with calling it the Department of War, it seems a lot more honest.
by pjmlp | 2026-03-10 06:56:53+00:00
All fine and good, yet even me that used to have M$ on the email signature, and signed to Linux Journal during its whole print lifetime, starting around when it was still on early issues, now runs Windows/WSL.

I am not paying for Apple margin's, their lack of options in customising hardware, nor I want to spend evenings reconfiguring BSD/Linux installions.

If there is a good PC (laptop) at a consumer store pre-installed with GNU/Linux, 100% supported hardware, I will consider it, buying online isn't my thing.

Thus my house is full of Android and WebOS powered devices and none GNU/Linux one.
by Barrin92 | 2026-03-10 06:57:16+00:00
>Gaming ages. Not sure why you are under the impression it does not

Individual games do. Characters don't. Tifa and Cloud don't age even when you republish Final Fantasy VII decades over. The Toy Story characters and Mickey Mouse are ageless.

Hollywood has the problem that is has to resurrect actors from the dead or painfully de-age them and they still move like old people. It makes the morbid character and false economy of nostalgia very hard to ignore. If animation and game characters had creaky knees and sagging skin because they've been doing the same thing for 40 years maybe we'd let them retire and focus on something new.
by e1g | 2026-03-10 06:57:20+00:00
Yes, you're correct about 'no nested sandboxing'.

This also applies to sandboxing an Electron app: Electron has its own built-in sandboxing via sandbox-exec, so if you're wrapping an Electron app in your own sandboxing, you have to disable that inner sandbox (with Electron's --no-sandbox or ELECTRON_DISABLE_SANDBOX=1). In the repo, I have examples for minimal sandbox-exec rules required to run Claude Code[1] and VSCode[2] (so you can do --dangerously-skip-permission in their destop app and VSCode extension)

[1] https://github.com/eugene1g/agent-safehouse/blob/a7377924efa...

[2] https://github.com/eugene1g/agent-safehouse/blob/a7377924efa...
by sebastiennight | 2026-03-10 06:58:06+00:00
Nice. I will now start using it when I feel a compulsive need to escape boredom during unfocused Zoom calls.

A few remarks:

- some sentences (many) seem to be cut off on desktop. I only see, eg. "content to keep the site from going viral" or "around here. We're not that ambitious".

- It's interesting that for users who have their device set to the superior scrolling direction ("reverse" scrolling, drag your fingers up to see what's at the top), your website behaves correctly but gives the opposite feeling. It's the first webpage where I've ever felt like "normal" scrolling (drag your fingers down to pull the page down) would be more natural.

- scrolling for long enough to get the first sound effect was quite a surprise
by dragonwriter | 2026-03-10 06:58:33+00:00
No, the President does not have “full naming rights” over entities defined and named in statute law. The President is bound to faithfully execute that law, but to change it (even if that change is merely to the name of a department or title of an officer specified within it) requires a bill to that effect to be passed by a majority of each house of Congress, which the President may then sign into law, effecting the change.
by aziaziazi | 2026-03-10 06:58:35+00:00
I cook more with feeling than recipe and I as I hike for multi days I try to vary the meals to avoid getting bored. My typical bag includes multiples zip bag with ingredients and I pick a few to make a meal:

- semolina of wheat, whole wheat, rye, lentils and chickpeas

- flakes-instant smashed potatoes / adzuki beans. Instant quinoa packed with prots but miss carbs.

- sesame seeds, sunflower seeds, pumpkin seeds

- dried seasoning algae, yeast, zaatar or thyme. Curry powder or other spice mix.

One of my favorite mix is 1/3 lentil semolina, 2/3 wheat semolina, sesame seeds and yeast. Mix together, add water and cover for a few minutes.
by extortionist | 2026-03-10 06:59:08+00:00
These kind of coordinated efforts come from think tanks, lobbyist groups, etc. If you look around you'll see a lot of nearly-identical bills introduced in several states more or less simultaneously, not just about this topic but about all sorts of things.

I don't think there's any requirement anywhere that legislators write their own bills. But they do have a lot of incentive to introduce bills on behalf of their larger campaign donors.
by al_borland | 2026-03-10 06:59:53+00:00
Changing a global time system is not a trivial task.

We’re still using a calendar developed over 400 years ago and just making minor tweaks. Without some central global authority, change is unlikely. And even with that, it would be extraordinary disruptive.

The middle for the day, on our time keeping devices, being light outside goes all the way back to the first sundials over 3,000 years ago.

Small and regular maintenance is more realistic than expecting a complete overhaul of timekeeping at some point when are lack of maintenance becomes so problematic that the whole system needs to be thrown away.
by jiggawatts | 2026-03-10 07:01:27+00:00
"Filed for bankruptcy" != "out of money" in the ordinary plebeian sense.

These are the kind of criminals where they judges will let them stay under home arrest in their twenty-bedroom mansion, have their chauffeur drive them around in a car worth more than my entire life savings, etc... because it would be "unconscionable" for them to lose the life that they're accustomed to. I.e.: Affluenza.

Just look at Prince Andrew or whatever he's called now. He raped children and his rightful punishment would be to sit in a jail cell with no access to anything even resembling luxury or his millions, instead he's luxuriating in a lifestyle you and I would envy.

I can list far, far more examples of billionaires or mere hundred-millionaires living luxuriously after committing capital crimes or "going bankrupt" than not.

Find me an ex-billionaire living out of a motor home, then I'll cede your point.
by applfanboysbgon | 2026-03-10 07:01:43+00:00
> GenAI at fault, and nothing to do with amazon laying off 30k people

GenAI is literally the direct reasoning they used for laying off 30k people.

> “As we roll out more Generative AI and agents, it should change the way our work is done. We will need fewer people doing some of the jobs that are being done today, and more people doing other types of jobs,” he [Amazon CEO Andy Jassy] bluntly admitted.
by bitwize | 2026-03-10 07:01:55+00:00
Mark: So how do I get started in Common Lisp?

Nolan: That's the neat thing—you don't.

One of the interesting and, depending on your perspective, perhaps unfortunate side effects of LLM-assisted development becoming the standard is that LLMs almost completely disincentivize choosing an unpopular language for serious work. Due to the much higher volume of training data, you're better off using TypeScript, Go, or Rust (or Swift if you're in Apple-land or Kotlin if you're in Android dev hell). Those languages with an LLM will make you far more productive than even an "expressive" language like Lisp.

Plus there are complete, modern IDEs for those that let you get started right from the jump, rather than having to build your own IDE out of Emacs and assorted parts before you can actually develop your application.
by esrauch | 2026-03-10 07:02:53+00:00
It is ad hominem that people who see it different are just pretty criminals.

Yes it is a genius move that copy left used copyright to achieve their goal. But the name is literally reflecting the judo going on in that case. Copyleft licenses also does have a lot benefits to big companies as well too so it's not strictly a David vs Goliath victory.

I don't think it's a commonly held belief that copyright benefits small YouTube creators more than it hurts them as a concrete example, they seem to live in constant fear of being destroyed in an asymmetrical system where copyright can take away they livelihood at any moment while not doing anything to meaningfully protect it.
by arjie | 2026-03-10 07:03:29+00:00
For this particular experiment, regardless of phrasing, I think the guys with the most appetite for risk have to be Cloudflare. They're shipping at an astonishing pace but I think there have been far more outages than there were before in jgc era. Perhaps Anthropic's application side teams are faster and more cowboy[0] but they are super AI-native so that makes sense.

0: I think this is the eras cowboys win so they're (unsurprisingly) smart about doing this
by fc417fc802 | 2026-03-10 07:04:05+00:00
Continuously dissipating 1 gigawatt of energy by boiling room temperature water would require approximately 1.38 million liters of water per hour.

Seems like the environmentally responsible thing to do be to build the datacenter near the coast and use the waste heat to desalinate water. Or at least dissipate the heat into the ocean rather than boiling off an inland freshwater supply.
by Towaway69 | 2026-03-10 07:04:46+00:00
I guess for the author its learning about how Linux can be ported to the browser. For us, it's more of a nice amusement.

But then again, I've never understood why Buddhist monks create sand mandalas[1] and then let them be blown away (the mandalas not the monks!).

I think one should see it from the authors PoV instead of thinking "what is in it for me". If I were to use this, then to create digital sand mandalas in the browser! ;)

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sand_mandala
by tcbrah | 2026-03-10 07:06:21+00:00
the spotify comparison is telling because spotify succeeded by being better than piracy, not by being more ethical. tess was trying to compete on ethics against tools that were just flat out better at the actual job.

i generate hundreds of images weekly for video content and the honest truth is i never think "i want this specific artist's style." i think "i need a documentary still that looks like 1970s film grain" or "i need a character that matches my last 50 frames." consistency and speed matter way more than provenance. the few times i tried artist-specific fine tunes the quality was noticeably worse than just prompting a good base model well.

the 6.5% artist signup rate buried in there is actually the real story. they cold emailed 325 high end editorial artists and got 21. those artists didn't want passive income from AI - they wanted AI to not exist in their market at all. paying someone royalties to automate away their livelihood is a weird value prop no matter how you frame it.
by tripthelight | 2026-03-10 07:06:24+00:00
This is the best blog post I’ve read in the past few years.

I wish I had the tenacity to do more than read 1/3 of it and skim the rest. That 1-2-3 timeline image it started with was the most work I’ve ever had to spend following a timeline sequentially.

The memories. Amazing.

LLMs- write like this. WRITE LIKE THIS!