MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by dudeinhawaii | 2026-03-05 23:59:37+00:00
This is marketing. The same way Apple cares about your privacy so long as they can wall you in their garden.

Not a value judgment, just saying that the CEO of a company making a statement isn't worth anything. See Googles "don't be evil" ethos that lasted as long as it was corporately useful.

If Anthropic can lure engineers with virtue signaling, good on them. They were also the same ones to say "don't accelerate" and "who would give these models access to the internet", etc etc.

"Our models will take everyone's jobs tomorrow and they're so dangerous they shouldn't be exported". Again all investor speak.
by 9wzYQbTYsAIc | 2026-03-05 23:59:42+00:00
I built a Human Rights Observatory (observatory.unratified.org) that scores HN stories against UDHR provisions using multi-model consensus on Cloudflare Workers. One routine eval landed on gemini.google.com: -0.15 HRCB.

Then I asked Gemini to evaluate my site. It called it a "sovereign citizen platform" on "WordPress." Next session: "AGI development tracker" with a "sightings log for machine consciousness." The domain name "unratified" threw it off completely - two different fabrications across two sessions.

Here's where it got good. When I showed Gemini the actual site, it self-corrected beautifully. Updated its description five times in one conversation, found real gaps in my methodology (no confidence intervals, no machine-readable scoring endpoint), helped me design a fair-witness.json schema, and called the site a "Truth Anchor." Genuine, useful peer review.

Then I opened a new session. Same fabrication. The .well-known/ endpoints we'd built together the day before — unread.

So now I had a finding: in-context correction works great. Cross-session? Doesn't exist. Models don't read your identity files during inference. The pattern matching happens first.

The neat part: Gemini's valid critiques actually improved the observatory. I added Wolfram-verified Wilson confidence intervals the next day. Built the methodology endpoint. Every exchange left both sides better. That's peer review working as intended — just at machine speed.

Thanks Google. Genuinely useful interaction, even (especially?) the confabulation part.

Blog post: https://blog.unratified.org/2026-03-05-peer-review-gemini/

Transcripts (31 rounds): https://github.com/safety-quotient-lab/unratified/tree/main/...
by santadays | 2026-03-05 23:59:50+00:00
But maybe this time is different?

Usually technology brings us trade offs, good or bad we are stuck with them. I have no idea what the plateau is for AI. What do the people betting billions on it expect?

It certainly feels very much like we are being pushed into this hyper efficient dystopian post-truth world that nobody likes, even before we start seeing the second order effects. It could be said that it started happening before llms appeared on the scene, but llms have a common ancestor in the algorithmic content curation being trained to hijack people's dopamine system. And sure we have our own personal responsibility, but we don't make the same arguments for heroine.
by vladdoster | 2026-03-06 00:00:08+00:00
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by uchibeke | 2026-03-06 00:00:49+00:00
Pattern matching is a good start — catching curl | bash before it runs is real value. The hard problem is what happens when the pattern is legitimate but the context isn't: the agent has permission to read files, but not these files, not right now, not without a human in the loop.

We ran into this building APort. Blocklists catch the obvious bad stuff but can't express "this tool call is fine for this agent in this workflow, but not from an untrusted prompt chain." That requires identity + policy, not just pattern detection.

Happy to compare notes — the category needs more tools like this.
Show HN: AthenaFlow – it browses your app, then writes Playwright tests
by nadeem1 | 2026-03-06 00:01:31+00:00
E2E tests don't break once, they drift. AI tools that generate tests without seeing the app produce code that passes today and fails silently until CI goes red. The real cost isn't writing tests, it's maintaining them.

AthenaFlow runs a real browser, maps interaction paths, writes a human-readable spec first, then implements Playwright tests from that spec. The spec step is intentional, it's reviewable before any code runs, and every generated test traces back to a TC-ID. Self-healing works by resolving semantic identifiers rather than selectors, so when the DOM shifts, the identifier survives.

Three repos make up the stack:

athena-flow-cli is the workflow runtime. It hooks into Claude Code's event system, receives runtime events over a Unix domain socket as NDJSON, persists sessions to SQLite, and renders a live terminal UI. Sessions are fully resumable. In CI, exec mode emits JSONL with clean exit codes for every failure mode.
https://github.com/lespaceman/athena-flow-cli

agent-web-interface is an MCP server that exposes semantic page snapshots to the model instead of raw DOM or full accessibility trees. Keeps context window usage low and action resolution stable across layout changes.
https://github.com/lespaceman/agent-web-interface

athena-workflow-marketplace holds the QA domain knowledge as a Claude plugin -- composable skills for codebase analysis, coverage planning, browser exploration, spec generation, and test implementation, wired together as a multi-phase workflow with checkpointed progress.
https://github.com/lespaceman/athena-workflow-marketplace

npm install -g @athenaflow/cli
https://athenaflow.in/
by jasomill | 2026-03-06 00:01:39+00:00
Even in the US, are there any non-DRM examples where reverse engineering for the purpose of interoperability in violation of a license agreement have been used as the basis for copyright claims, even when the results are incorporated into a competing product?

For example, I don't recall Microsoft ever being sued by WordPerfect or Lotus for reading and writing their applications' unpublished file formats, which wouldn't have necessarily involved disassembly or decompilation, but was still the result of reverse engineering that almost certainly involved using a licensed copy of the competitor's product.
by reikonomusha | 2026-03-06 00:02:42+00:00
Logan Skelton, a music professor at the University of Michigan, really made be find profundity in this poem, not just for its message, but also its construction. I was blown away by his video about it [1]. Really, it was a mind-blown thing for me.
I really recommend watching it, it's reasonably short, but the TL;DR is that the meter and choice of silence can be interpreted as meaningfully as the words and context in which it was written.

[1] https://youtu.be/DiCXBn18XYw?t=3m35s
by mcint | 2026-03-06 00:03:42+00:00
Enterprises moving slow, or preferring to remain on old technology that they already know how to work...is received wisdom in hn-adjacent computing, a truism known and reported for more than 3 decades (5 decades since the Mythical Man-Month).

Sounds like someone who's responsible, on the hook, for a bunch of processes, repeatable processes (as much as LLM driven processes will be), operating at scale.

Just in the open, tools like open-webui bolts on evals so you can compare: how different models, including new ones, perform on the tasks that you in particular care about.

Indeed LLM model providers mainly don't release models that do worse on benchmarks—running evals is the same kind of testing, but outside the corporate boundary, pre-release feedback loop, and public evaluation.

https://chatgpt.com/share/69aa1972-ae84-800a-9cb1-de5d5fd7a4...
by BeetleB | 2026-03-06 00:04:21+00:00
While I wouldn't call them ugly, I agree that they look just like, well, watches to me. I wouldn't pay a premium for any of them.

Since I'm not into luxury watches, a common occurrence is:

Me to a stranger: "Wow, cool watch! Which one is it?"

Stranger: "Random cheap brand I found on Amazon."

If you've never heard of Omega, Rolex, etc, chances are you won't be able to distinguish a cheap watch from an expensive watch. It's just the brand.

(OK, OK, chances are the material is a lot better - scratchproof, etc - but probably still costs less than 10% to make than what they sell for).
by CGMthrowaway | 2026-03-06 00:04:59+00:00
>I've heard other brands do this (Ferrari?)

It's called relationship-based allocation or more simply purchase history requirement, and its practiced by both Patek and Rolex but add to the list famously Hermes, Bugatti, high jewelry from VCA/Bulgari etc, getting access to prestigious artists at galleries, etc.

The devil's advocate/ other side of the coin is that it's not just a moneygrab, it protects the brand image by controlling who is seen wearing / using your products. When the value of these goods is so influenced by who else has them, that kind of control is intrinsically important for the seller.
by loeg | 2026-03-06 00:05:23+00:00
It's not even ECC price/availability that bothers me so much, it's that getting CPUs and motherboards that support ECC is non-trivial outside of the server space. The whole consumer class ecosystem is kind of shitty. At least AMD allows consumer class CPUs to kinda sorta use ECC, unlike Intel's approach where only the prosumer/workstation stuff gets ECC.
Show HN: Shutdown.live – a live US Government shutdown counter
by macjo | 2026-03-06 00:05:25+00:00
I built a small site that tracks how long the current US government shutdown has lasted in real time.

It shows a live timer and the exact duration since the shutdown started. The idea was just to make something simple people could check or embed instead of looking up articles to figure out how long it has been going.

https://shutdown.live

Curious if anyone has ideas for additional data that could be useful to include (historical shutdown comparisons, cost estimates, etc).
by dworks | 2026-03-06 00:05:29+00:00
Very interesting. Is this related to CoPaw and AgentScope? I think the AG-UI integration for dynamic UI would be useful here, are you using that?

I'm building a web UI workspace right now where I have been planning to integrate the agent as an app or component instead of having it be the entire UI. I may fork PageAgent for that, lets see.
by salawat | 2026-03-06 00:06:05+00:00
Seconding the "Gee, must be nice to be able to set money on fire" sentiment. Personally, haven't quite converged on a config where I can seem to get the tooling successfully talking to my locally hosted models, and running, albeit slowly. Yet. Damn well not using other people's money to subsidize some cloud provider's build out. So no, I suppose I don't have your problem. I also don't know if I'll ultimately stick with the tooling. It's so damn different from how I'm used to dealing with things, I'm not entirely sure that I'll ever use most LLM's as anything but boilerplate generators, summarizers, or delvers into the latent space of humanity to bring back breadcrumbs, and validate understanding/analyze/cross-reference, etc. For everything else, there's grep.
by stinkbeetle | 2026-03-06 00:06:13+00:00
At that level, they are not different. They could suffer from UE due to defect, marginal system (voltage, temperature, frequency), or radiation upset, suffer electromigration/aging, etc. And you can't replace them either.

CPUs tend to be built to tolerate upsets, like having ECC and parity in arrays and structures whereas the DRAM on a Macbook probably does not. But there is no objective standard for these things, and redundancy is not foolproof it is just another lever to move reliability equation with.
by aforwardslash | 2026-03-06 00:06:31+00:00
Going to be downvoted, but I call bullshit on this. Bitflips are frequent (and yes ECC is an improvement but does not solve the problem), but not that frequent. One can either assume users that enabled telemetry are an odd bunch with flaky hardware, or the implementation isnt actually detecting bitflips (potentially, as the messages indicate), but a plathora of problems. Having a 1/10 probability a given struct is either processed wrong, parsed wrong or saved wrong would have pretty severe effects in many, many scenarios - from image editing to cad. Also, bitflips on flaky hardware dont choose protection rings - it would also affect the OS routines such as reading/writing to devices and everything else that touches memory. Yup, i've seen plenty of faulty ram systems (many WinME crashes were actually caused by defective ram sticks that would run fine with W98), it doesnt choose browsers or applications.
by zahlman | 2026-03-06 00:06:49+00:00
Please don't post like this. We could trivially get this take ourselves if we cared for it. It would be obvious that this is ChatGPT even without a disclaimer, and the analysis is exactly as formulaic and facile as you'd expect. (How could it reasonably conclude that pg's just-written essay is "controversial among economists and designers", let alone why? It's not making social media rounds; it was just published today; search engine results are mostly unrelated stuff and certainly aren't pointing to discussion...).
by drdaeman | 2026-03-06 00:07:15+00:00
I’m afraid you don’t understand humans. Yeah, if you completely strip every detail you get a picture like that, a very convenient one to blow all the righteous steam on some amorphous homogeneous “programmers” mass. World is not simple, it’s the opposite of that.

When a poor lad comes on a work visa and is elevated from a literal poverty to a somewhat decent standard of living, would you expect them to stand up and make sure some camera recordings can’t be used in a way they aren’t supposed to be used? Do you expect them to even consider if their management may abuse that some years in the future (when the code is an unholy mess of duct tape and all the effort goes into making it work for the stated purpose), when their mind is all busy thinking about bills, health, family abroad, and the general sense of doom impending with pandemics and wars and extreme corruption all around? Nah, that lad’s also being exploited here, not exploiting others. Not that any sins are absolved but he’s a lot less of a monster than your comment paints. And there are corporations with tens of thousands of such lads and lasses and other folks. And that’s just one of myriad of possible nuances that break the trope of evil programmers screwing the world up.

Blame the rot that starts at the head, it’d be at least a bit more accurate.

> I can’t think of another profession

That’s because you framed the criteria so narrowly that it includes almost only programmers. And even then you still confused between management and implementors. And even then you’re forgetting the management, who’s definitely more to blame than workers.
by hunterpayne | 2026-03-06 00:08:36+00:00
You can design a load following nuclear reactor (that's the industry term, only activists and marketers say flexible). Nobody does that because the basic NPP design that everyone uses is for a base load reactor. We have had load following NPP designs for 50 years but getting them approved is a political process that greens block.

You are just trying to politicize the laws of physics due to your own lack of understanding of the topic. Meanwhile, your solar panels are manufactured mostly with power gotten from coal, in the 3rd world, and are mostly sited in places where they do little to no good while at the same time destabilizing the grid. Then you have the temerity to argue with actual engineers who spend their lives studying this topic. Seriously???
by d4mi3n | 2026-03-06 00:08:56+00:00
Well, in the case of a company trying to market to you, it literally _is_ their business. It makes them money.

The problem is that we have markets where we:
- Incentivize organizations to pursue profits at the expense of everything else, which includes social good and civic rights
- Rarely hold bad actors accountable (and almost never in a timely manner)

Which means, given enough time, we're always going to trend to whatever makes the most money. Targeted advertising makes money, and will continue to do so unless or until we collectively decide to make it a greater risk to profits than it is today.
by canpan | 2026-03-06 00:09:12+00:00
I preach to everyone to fail as loudly as possible and as fast as possible. Don't try to "fix" unknown errors in code. It often catches fresh graduates off guard. If you fail very loud and fast most issues will be found asap and fixed.

I had to help out a team in the cleanup of a bug that corrupted some data silently for a while before being found. It was too long out to roll back and they needed all help to identify what was real or wrong data.
Show HN: Sick Clock" by Obeo – Predict your next sick day
by jasnoor111 | 2026-03-06 00:09:37+00:00
Predict your next sick day. We combine your personal information (wearables/manual/voice input) with environmental data and regional social media data (what are people saying around you online that can be of concern/signal outbreak)

If you've heard of Death Clock, think of this as it's sick counterpart.

Trained on 66+ biomarker studies and backed by a physician advisory board. We are supported by people who come from Oxford, Northwestern, 1517 Fund, Thiel Fellowship/Foundation, Vanderbilt, Michigan, and more.

Check when you'll be sick next + prevention plan, now!
by BeetleB | 2026-03-06 00:09:40+00:00
Heh.

Just today I went to a watch repair person because the keeper on my strap broke. He said the only option is to buy the exact strap from the manufacturer.

The strap costs $120.

My watch costs $340 (although I got it on a discount for $220).

This is the most expensive watch I've ever bought. I typically would pay $50 or less (with the exception of one G-Shock that cost $80). I finally decide to buy something "pricey" and the darn thing breaks in less than 2 years - something that never happens with the cheap watches I've bought.

No thanks. I'm not paying $120 for a new strap. I'm getting a cheap watch that will last me over a decade (as most of my watches do).

I had the same experience with fountain pens. Every fountain pen I've paid more than $50 for has been worse than my favorite cheap ones.

If I were to plot quality on the y-axis, and price on the x-axis, I think I'll find a U or V curve, where on the very cheap end things are reliable and last long, and likewise on the very expensive end. But in the middle, you're just paying extra for crap.

Arguably, you could say I'm not paying enough. A $330 watch isn't expensive. I should have paid $3000. A $90 pen isn't expensive. I should have paid $250.

No thanks. When the <$50 products perform as well as the expensive ones, I'm not paying more.
by dashundchen | 2026-03-06 00:09:46+00:00
Seriously. These monarchists in this thread contort themselves in every which way to make sure their dear leader is always in the clear.

Shall we forget the shitcoin rugpull Trump has used to launder billions from foreign leaders?

The transparent bribes he's taken to his political org that have resulted in pardons for smuggler, drug lords and murderers?

The $200 million dollar contract Kristi Noem funneled to a company an operative of her for "marketing", formed days before the contract was awarded?

The secretary of labor using funds to throw herself a lavish birthday party and travel around the country?

Kash Patel flying himself and his girlfriend around on an FBI jet with an expensive security detail so they can party?

The fact that insiders are openly insider trading in crypto, the stock market, and these betting markets (both the illegal Venezuela and Iran invasions had huge extremely suspicious bets right before actions were taken).

This barely scratched the surface of this term alone. These fascists are so transparently corrupt.
by creatonez | 2026-03-06 00:09:46+00:00
> It has a lot of unusual stylistic choices that I don't believe an AI would intentionally output.

Indeed. One of those unusual choices is that it uses jQuery. Gotta have IE6 compatibility in your worm!

I'm not sure what to make of `Number("20")` in the source code. I would think it's some way to get around some filter intended to discourage CPU-intensive looping, but I don't think user scripts have any form of automated moderation, and if that were the case it doesn't make sense that they would allow a `for` loop in the first place.