MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by gladiatr72 | 2026-03-01 15:45:22+00:00
The world needs more humor

From TOS

Despite our sincere desire to pay you fifty dollars for video evidence of a rogue black hole, our lawyer has compelled us to state the following: this is a novelty product, not a real insurance policy of any kind. It does not provide actual financial coverage, protection, or benefits.

For $5.00 USD, you receive a personalized PDF policy document covering an extraordinarily unlikely event. That's it.
by throwaway290 | 2026-03-01 15:45:30+00:00
"liquid crap" is obviously exageration but if you take a truly random slice of population 90% will be any combination of not interesting/not a nice person/hidden agenda or want to exploit you/have crazy views/...

many of them are higher class than me. in absolute numbers it's more lower class simply because there are fewer rich people than poor people but take 5 truly random people of either high or low, I think you would agree with me that only 1 at best you would want something to do with.
by gus_massa | 2026-03-01 15:46:06+00:00
Here in Argentina every artist has an Instagram account where they post their artwork. They follow other artist and hope that they follow back. Also going to exibitions and talking to people is usefu. Anyway, transforming all that activity into sales is hard.

I'm not going to buy it, but I hope you can get some a future career as artist or in the cleaning business.
by no-name-here | 2026-03-01 15:46:30+00:00
1. Open source models are already at Sonnnet 4.5 levels. For a lot of people’s needs, that's going to be sufficient.

2. Costs will come down as more efficient AI hardware continues to roll out, and once demand eventually catches up with supply in the coming years.

3. So super low cost (or free ad-supported) options will exist, and people will only pay more (in money or ads) for superior quality.

… unless training sources become pay to play?
by heavyset_go | 2026-03-01 15:46:46+00:00
The US does. I live near a base and there's a votech high school on the same property that nukes are transported to/from.

During the Cold War, the US government even had maps of potential Soviet ICBM targets and there's a nice dot here where hundreds of thousands live. The US knew the risk but put bases and nukes smack in the middle of that anyway.
Ask HN: What forms of human labor cannot be replaced by intelligent machines?
by cs702 | 2026-03-01 15:47:14+00:00
Since the advent of civilization, technological innovations have been displacing human labor while simultaneously creating new kinds of occupations for human beings. Many AI experts now believe that AI software and robots could render all forms of human work unnecessary, displacing all human labor without creating new kinds of occupations for human beings. Maybe the smart people on HN can think up some answers to the following existential question:

What, if anything, can human beings do that society will value but intelligent machines will not be able to do?
by acdha | 2026-03-01 15:47:23+00:00
That’s true, but it’s not always good—Americans have stark examples of the risks of octogenarian leaders whose experience leads them astray by discounting how much the world has changed since they were young.

I think of mental faculties and experience as two separate overlapping curves where there’s a sweet spot in the middle where both are high but either one being low can become a big problem.

They also just don’t have the same energy they used to so even if they have a good idea they’ll be less effective at motivating people to embrace it, and the younger people behind them are going to be acting with more thought to succession politics.
by zerfallen | 2026-03-01 15:47:36+00:00
Hello HN,

A while back my main drive kept mysteriously losing space. After some digging with existing analyzers, I found that a program's failing updates were silently dumping 1GB files each attempt into the Windows Installer folder. I wished I could have just compared a snapshot of my disk from last week to today and quickly determined what changed.

I had an idea that what if the disk space analyzer could compare the current scan to a previous scan you did like a week ago just to see the changes in sizes, number of files/folders, new files/folders, and deleted files/folders. That's basically what Delta's goal is. It's an open source, free, lightweight native disk space analyzer that has the ability to store your current scan and compare with previous full disk scans. Currently supports Windows and Linux platforms.

A demo video is provided in the GitHub readme. I built this to mainly learn something new.

Any feedback on the general idea and the app welcome and appreciated.

https://github.com/chuunibian/delta
by weatherlite | 2026-03-01 15:47:41+00:00
My nightmare scenario (which might start to materilize) is that our last years in the industry will be becoming prompt monkies / agent "managers" working on codebases we barely understand in such velocity there's no way we can gain real understanding. Whenever something breaks (and it will , a lot) A.I will fix it - or so we'll hope. And the sad thing is - this might work; you'll get more stuff done with fewer people. Sure, we didn't sign up for this, it's not a fun job what I've described, but why should management care? They have their own problems and A.I is threatening their jobs as well.
by cf100clunk | 2026-03-01 15:48:03+00:00
In the context of the OP the TPMS sensors are culprits, and on U.S. cars the software requires that TPMS modules be present. I've read about Ford owners in the U.S. using FORSCAN to disable the TPMS software components and then removing the TPMS modules from the tires. No idea if this is still possible of if similar solutions are workable for other manufacturers. Having said that, I mentioned Canadian-spec vehicles that don't have TPMS enabled in the first place.
Show HN: SkillMesh (role-based tool routing for Claude/Codex)
by VarunReddy023 | 2026-03-01 15:48:29+00:00
Built this because loading full tool catalogs into coding agents was wasting context, and manual tool picking was annoying.

SkillMesh flow is:
1) install a role bundle
2) route top-k tools/cards per prompt

Example:
skillmesh roles list
skillmesh Data-Analyst install
skillmesh emit --provider codex --query "build a KPI dashboard with governance" --top-k 5

I ran a 10-task benchmark (BI/ML/DevOps):
- all cards baseline: 5567.5 avg prompt tokens, 0.768s median latency
- routed full catalog (top-k=5): 1485.3 tokens (-73.3%), 0.766s
- role+routed (top-k=5): 1457.7 tokens (-73.8%), 0.171s, top-1 role match 9/10

repo: https://github.com/varunreddy/SkillMesh

Would like feedback on failure cases:
- wrong role selected
- cross-domain prompts
- MCP install/list UX
by victorzidaroiu | 2026-03-01 15:48:37+00:00
When I got to the part where it said that developers chose software engineering as a job because they like to code not because they want to review or "manage" code I really felt that. But while I enjoy coding & building as solo developer on my projects I can't really say I've ever enjoyed it as a job. Or are you not supposed to like your job? Is that how the world works?
by Tharre | 2026-03-01 15:48:57+00:00
> Seniors come from juniors. If you want seniors, you must let the juniors write the code.

Companies know this as well, but this is a prisoner dilemma type situation for them. A company can skip out on juniors, and instead offer to pay seniors a bit better to poach them from other companies, saving money. If everyone starts doing this, everyone obviously loses - there just won't be enough new seniors to satisfy demand. Avoiding this requires that most companies play by the rules so to say, not something that's easily achieved.

And the higher the cost of training juniors relative to their economic output, the greater the incentive to break the rules becomes.

One alternative might just be more strict non-competes and the like, to make it harder for employees to switch companies in the first place. But this is legally challenging and obviously not a great thing for employees in general.
by CharlesW | 2026-03-01 15:49:02+00:00
> It's mainly that people on here, regardless of profession, speak incorrectly but confidentally about things that could be easily verified with a Google search or basic familiarity with the thing in question.

Yep. And if your heart wants to call Haiku a "reasoning model", obviously you must listen. It doesn't meet that bar for me for a couple reasons: (1) It lacks both "adaptive thinking" and "interleaved thinking" (per Anthropic, both critical for reasoning models), and (2) it also performed unacceptably with a real-world collection of very basic reasoning tasks that I tried using it for.¹ I'm glad you're having better luck with it.

That said, it's a great and affordable little model for what it was designed for!

¹ I once made the mistake of converting a bunch of skills (which require basic reasoning) to use Haiku for Axiom (https://charleswiltgen.github.io/Axiom/). It failed miserably, and wow, did users let me have it. On the bright side, as a result I'm now far better at testing models' ability to reason.
by sunir | 2026-03-01 15:49:25+00:00
Why would there be a lack of original ideas? People who are born to code so to speak will do it. Information wants to be free as the saying goes. It only takes one time for an innovation for it to be to copied everywhere.

We don’t need the same volume of developers to have the same or faster speed of innovation.

And conversely if there is stagnation there is a capital opportunity to out compete it and so there will be a human desire to do the work.

Tl;Dr. People like doing stuff and achieving. They will continue to do stuff.

ps it’s too much to claim other people don’t experience creative ideas using AI. You don’t really know that’s true. It hasn’t been my experience as I have had the capability and capacity to complete ideas on my back burner for decades and move onto the next thing.
by sidk24 | 2026-03-01 15:49:36+00:00
This resonates. I wrote about a related angle a few weeks ago, the cognitive load of babysitting AI output is a hidden tax that doesn't show up in productivity metrics. Engineers aren't just writing code, they're managing context windows, re-checking hallucinations, and compensating for model degradation over long sessions. The "easier to write, harder to engineer" framing nails it.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46934404
by vel0city | 2026-03-01 15:49:46+00:00
> Cable TV in the 80s started out ad free.

This is untrue in the US. There were ad supported cable TV channels before 1980. Most of the first cable TV channels were ad supported from the start or adopted advertising within the first few years of going on-air. For example, TBS, ESPN, and USA had ads from day one, with those launching in 1976, 1980, and 1977 respectively. Nickelodeon was ad-free at its launch in 1979 but adopted advertising in 1984.

And this also ignores that for decades before "cable" was just all the broadcast stations piped over coax as a paid service. That had ads, since those broadcast stations had ads. And even when cable channels did start appearing, most of the channels on the dial we're still these broadcast channels. So most content you were paying for had ads since day one.

There were ads from the start.
Show HN: Chromectl – CLI to give an AI agent its own Chrome session
by bartek_gdn | 2026-03-01 15:50:14+00:00
Most browser automation tools (Playwright MCP and similar) create a browser process owned by the agent. chromectl flips that: you start a named session, and the agent connects to it. The session is isolated — no cookies, no saved logins, no way for the agent to wander into your banking tab.

This also unlocks human handoff. Start a session, navigate to a site, log in manually, then hand control back to Claude. Useful for anything behind auth that you don't want to automate credentials for.
Each session gets a dedicated Chrome profile. Stop it, start it again tomorrow, you're still logged in.

Claude Desktop can drive Chrome too, but it requires a plugin and works inside your main browser profile — there's no way to scope it to a clean session.

Cloudflare and Anthropic have both written about why agents work better through code than through tool definitions — MCP front-loads every tool description into context whether it's used or not. A CLI is lighter still: give Claude a terminal and `--help`, and it figures out the rest. No tool schemas, no context bloat.

Standard stuff like navigate, eval, screenshot, and scrape is there, plus `pick` — click any element on a live page and get back its selector, HTML, and computed styles as JSON. Paste into Claude and say "fix this."

Sharing in case it's useful — curious how others are handling the browser problem with agents.

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Sources:
- Cloudflare Code Mode: https://blog.cloudflare.com/code-mode-mcp/
- Anthropic on code execution with MCP: https://www.anthropic.com/engineering/code-execution-with-mc...
by jmyeet | 2026-03-01 15:50:56+00:00
It's interesting to watch industry after industry hollow itself out from the inside then inevitably die long after all the financial people, investment bankers and management consultants have all cashed their checks.

Steve Jobs famously accurately called this out years ago [1].

Xerox, Boeing, PC manufacturers (who basically created the Taiwanese makers through a series of short-term outsourcing steps), etc. But there are two examples I want to talk about specifically.

First, one lasting impact of the 2008 GFC was that entry-level jobs disappeared. This devastated a generation of millenial college graduates who suddenly had a mountain of student loan debt (thanks to education costs outpacing inflation by a lot) but suddenly no jobs. It became a bit of a joke to poke fun at such people who had a ton of debt and worked as baristas but this was a shallow "analysis". It was really a systemic collapse. Those entry-level workers are your future senior workers and leaders. Those jobs have never come back.

The rise of DVR/TiVo and ultimately streaming brought on a golden age of TV in the 2000s. It was kind of the last hurrah for network shows that produced 22 episodes a year before streamers instead produced 8 episodes every 4 years.

But what made this system work was an ecosystem. Living in LA, Atlanta and a few other places was relatively cheap so aspiring actors and writers and entertainmnet professionals could get by with secon djobs and relatively low income. These became the future headline actors and senior professionals. Background work and odd jobs were sufficient. Background work also taught people how to be on a set.

Studios still had large writing staffs. Some writers would be on set. Those writers were your future producers and showrunners.

Part of what supported all of this was syndication. That is, networks produced shows and basic cable channels would pay to rerun them. Syndicating some shows was incredibly profitable in some cases (eg Seinfeld).

So the streamers came along and stripped things down. They got rid of junior positions. They adopted so-called "mini writing rooms". Those writers didn't tend to ever be on set. The runs were shorter and an 8 episode series couldn't support a writer in the same way a 22 episode series could. The streamers then were largely showing just their own content so residuals and syndication fees just went away.

All of this is short-term thinking. Hollywood has been both a massive industry and a source of American soft power internationally by spreading culture, basically.

I think the software engineering space is going through a similar transformation to what happened to the entertainment industry. A handful of people will do very well. AIs will destroy entry-level jobs and basically destroy that company and industry's future.

I predict in 10-20 years we'll see China totally dominating this space and a bunch of Linkedin "thought leaders" and politicians will be standing around scratchin their heads asking "what happened?"

[1]: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K1WrHH-WtaA
by sgarland | 2026-03-01 15:50:58+00:00
I suppose if you had a proxying layer capable of query rewrites (ProxySQL can do so, and supports Postgres in newer versions), you could have it prepend the SET LOCAL commands to specific queries as needed. You could take this further, and have a sidecar that’s examining query performance (either by directly querying ProxySQL, or waiting for Prometheus stats), and performing adjustments as needed.

That’s actually an interesting idea, now that I think about it. You could have it running the queries as EXPLAIN in the background, then occasionally testing a change out with EXPLAIN ANALYZE before adjusting the settings to use for rewrites.
by gedy | 2026-03-01 15:51:14+00:00
We are probably talking past each other but I am saying I see:

Leaders thinking they will basically prompt out new revenue generating features with no human engineers to "figure it out". Not cost centers, low hanging fruit, etc. No these are not giant corps like Google or whatever and likely run by morons, but it was easier when they did not think they were "empowered". There is no opportunity for engineers to "think in higher abstractions" or whatever in these cases.
by EliRivers | 2026-03-01 15:51:53+00:00
"the skills that the new engineering landscape actually requires: system design, architectural thinking, product reasoning, security awareness, and the ability to critically evaluate code they did not write."

These, surely, are the skills they always needed? Anyone who didn't have these skills was little more than a human chatgpt already, receiving prompts and simply presenting the results to someone for evaluation.
by nunez | 2026-03-01 15:52:08+00:00
For now. Google just waged war on sideloading. I think the current state of it is that adb will throw a warning with a cancellation timer before the sideload initiates. It's only a matter of time before we get an "update about sideloading in Android."

Though you're right in that Android will always have the upper hand in browser freedom. I definitely miss running real Firefox (with real extensions) on my phone. If only Snapdragon could provide anything close to A-series CPU performance.
by mothballed | 2026-03-01 15:54:02+00:00
What does that mean in practical terms though? The absolute worst that can happen to trump is he is both impeached and successfully indicted. When the worst case is maybe by some extremely unlikely "luck" he loses his job and has to sulk back into his billions and golden towers, and on the other hand he can gamble with the lives of million of serviceman and the tax money Americans could otherwise spend on healthy food, healthcare, education and other things they need -- why not? He's not up for re-election anyways.

Trumps an unhealthy older man, with no prospect for re-election, and a big golden parachute even in the worst case scenario. The fact the war is all on him is seen as a plus because he gets all the credit for the history books and the mothers of the dead servicemen are just forgotten trash used to achieve his objective.

Trump is acting completely rationally. His MO is to push the envelope until he is stopped. It is mostly others who are irrationally acting in the service of Trump that are acting irrationally.
by robhlt | 2026-03-01 15:54:05+00:00
All that Corporate IT stuff can work on Linux, we just have to start demanding Linux for them to put in the effort. Macs used to be in the same position, Corporate IT only knew how to manage Windows so that's what everyone got. Eventually the ability to use a Mac became enough of a recruitment draw that they had to make it work. The same thing can happen with Linux.
by wibbily | 2026-03-01 15:54:19+00:00
It’s not “clear communication” though. The prose that comes out of LLMs is awful - long, vapid paragraphs with distracting tropes. You can ask them to be concise but then they file down all the wrong bits of the sentence and lose meaning. There’s a reason people bother clocking it and complaining about it, it’s *bad*

It’s like everything else that AI can do - looks fine at a glance, or to the inexperienced, but collapses under scrutiny. (By your own admission you’re not a great communicator… how can you tell then?)
by zsoltkacsandi | 2026-03-01 15:54:22+00:00
I agree. But it’s not about that they have inflated value but it comes down to how “modern” software producing organizations work. Product managers and C-level people do not know what they are doing either. Most people are part of the “software engineering” theater, recruiters are recruiting, manager are managing, software developers are developing software, all of them just to get paid or gain status in the org. Most of the values come from that handful people who can really deliver.
by tpmoney | 2026-03-01 15:54:36+00:00
Unless your company is investing in actually teaching your junior devs, this isn't really all that different than the days when jr devs just copied and pasted something out of stack overflow, or blindly copied entire class files around just to change 1 line in what could otherwise have been a shared method. And if your company is actually investing time and resources into teaching your junior devs, then whether they're copying and pasting from stack overflow, from another file in the project or from AI doesn't really matter.

In my experience it is the very rare junior dev that can learn what's good or bad about a given design on their own. Either they needed to be paired with a sr dev to look at things and explain why they might not want to something a given way, or they needed to wind up having to fix the mess they made when their code breaks something. AI doesn't change that.
by nailer | 2026-03-01 15:55:38+00:00
What UK Prime Minister lost their office because they were rude and patronising to women?

Starmer is still in office, Sunak lost because the Tories were unpopular and because he didn’t win an election, Johnson lost because during Covid and people stayed at the office a little bit longer and had a birthday party, Cameron lost because he gave people a vote on Brexit, Brown lost for the same reasons as Sunak, Blair lost because of the Iraq war.
by kgeist | 2026-03-01 15:55:54+00:00
Research [0] from Anthropic about juniors learning to code with AI/without:

>the AI group averaged 50% on the quiz, compared to 67% in the hand-coding group

And why would they do better? There's less incentive to learn because it's so easy to offload thinking to AI.

[0] https://www.anthropic.com/research/AI-assistance-coding-skil...
by raw_anon_1111 | 2026-03-01 15:56:18+00:00
I did my first completely vibe coded not looking at a line of code implementation last year and my second this year.

I could care less about why either Claude, Codex or before that a developer was using a for loop or a while loop. I did and do care about architecture.

I’m no more going to review every line of code with AI than I am when I was delegating to more junior developers. I’m going to ask Claude Code about how it implemented something where I know there is an efficient way vs naive way, find and test corner cases via manual and automated tests and do the same for functional and non functional requirements.
by tim-tday | 2026-03-01 15:56:44+00:00
With 30,000 open claw servers, catastrophic security vulnerabilities in the code, opportunities for prompt injection, remote code execution, data exfiltration. The best use case I can think of for open claw is hacking you.

I never get around to dawning my black hat though so mostly I’m just ignoring it. I figure some hacker will figure out a mass compromise, pwn all the things and people will wise up and stop using it.
by butILoveLife | 2026-03-01 15:57:05+00:00
OpenAI made it easy, no import needed! How?

I bought the enterprise version, and it made it so the memory was no longer searchable...

Then after the obvious degredation in performance, I switched to claude and was happy with it... But by canceling enterprise, it lost all memory.

My wife was sad, the recipes it made were gone forever... But hey, makes it really easy to never give OpenAI money again.