MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by pubby | 2026-03-11 14:36:16+00:00
Lego's original moat was their patent. This expired in the 80s, and so their new moat became their manufacturing tolerances. None of their competitors could match the quality of their product. This lasted until about the 2010s when clone brands in China finally caught up, and coincidentally, Lego's own quality started slipping. Thus, they needed a new moat, and the choice was obvious: licensing.
by lich_king | 2026-03-11 14:36:20+00:00
This is an LLM-written article. It also doesn't say anything. I get it that it's a cue for us to reminisce about childhood and say that LEGO isn't what it used to be, but we're being played for clicks. Open the article and look for a single statement that actually tells us something meaningful. It's just a sequence of impressively-sounding factoids like this:

> A 2x2 brick can withstand over 4,000 Newtons of force, which lets children build tall structures.

> But in an assembly system like LEGO's, small errors accumulate. Stack ten bricks end-to-end and the cumulative tolerance is ten times larger. This is why LEGO models larger than 1 meter become difficult to build

> The lesson isn't that everyone should match LEGO's tolerances. It's to understand what your product actually requires, then build your manufacturing system to deliver that at the scale and cost your business model demands.

I know I'm tilting at windmills, but come on.
by red-iron-pine | 2026-03-11 14:36:22+00:00
most of the surplus land is marginally habitable, and costs increase dramatically when you get rural.

plus "land" doesn't mean anything if you're not near the people and things you want do to, places to work, etc.

do you want to do a 1.5 hour commute and hustle to live around Toronto, or do you want to live in Outer Nowhere, Manitoba, population 400, and where it regularly gets to -40C?
by patchnull | 2026-03-11 14:36:38+00:00
The webhook inspector endpoint is probably the most useful one for me day-to-day. When debugging Stripe or GitHub webhook integrations, I used to spin up ngrok plus a local server just to see what payload format they actually send. Now I just POST to /devtools/api/hooks/create, get back a unique URL, point the webhook there, and GET the captured payloads. Dead simple and no signup required.
by StilesCrisis | 2026-03-11 14:37:03+00:00
The output from this model is horrible! It's GPT-2 level babble and repeats entire paragraphs verbatim. It also reuses the same fake citation `(Jenkins, 2010)` over and over again. From the start of their video (which scrolls by fast enough that you don't see the slop clearly...)

```
Ecosystem Services and their impact on the Ecosystem

Ecosystem services refer to the services provided by ecosystems to the human society. These services include water, air, energy, nutrients, and soil (Jenkins, 2010). For instance, water is the most important service provided by an ecosystem and it helps in the conservation of water, irrigation and sanitation (Jenkins, 2010). On the other hand, air provides the oxygen needed for life.

The water cycle is a significant ecosystem service because it involves the cycling of water among the different parts of an ecosystem. It also involves the movement of water through the atmosphere, from one place to another. It is also the process of evaporation and condensation of water from the atmosphere. It also involves the movement of water from the air to the soil and water into the oceans.

The water cycle is a significant ecosystem service because it involves the cycling of water among the different parts of an ecosystem. It also involves the movement of water through the atmosphere, from one place to another. It is also the process of evaporation and condensation of water from the atmosphere. It also involves the movement of water from the air to the soil and water into the oceans.
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by tsoukase | 2026-03-11 14:37:17+00:00
I can't imagine how I and hundreds of millions of others can heat their homes during cold nights without fossils or a 30cm thick XPS insulation, about which hardly anyone talks about. I have solar on the roof and batteries and they are totally dead for 2.5 months in a row in a sunny country.

How can millions of car batteries be managed efficiently without heavy environmental damage? EVs don't scale for all even with serious infra (recycling, on spot change, fast chargers).

The only viable solution is to continue burning and burning, if we don't want to severely degrade our quality of life: now fossils, a little woodchips like Sweden and in the end biofuels, synthetic fuels and hydrogen. And let anyone use nuclear at their own taste. Solar/batteries cannot extend beyond a small window and wind is not reliable.
by dripdry45 | 2026-03-11 14:37:36+00:00
I see you’ve probably never spent time in a large, ossified bureaucracy.

There are plenty of things in the world that are hard only because they’ve been made difficult by people who either don’t want them done, don’t understand, or greatly benefit from their not being done, but would be a fantastic idea to do.

Such as get a new coffee maker for our office, but it would take two years, multiple committees, and an electrical study in order to do so. No i am not kidding
by ismailmaj | 2026-03-11 14:37:38+00:00
You drop the memory throughput requirements because of the packed representation of bits so an FMA can become the bottleneck, and you bypass the problem of needing to upscale the bits to whatever FP the FMA instruction needs.

typically for 1-bit matmul, you can get away with xors and pop_counts which should have a better throughput profile than FMA when taking into account the SIMD nature of the inputs/outputs.
by flohofwoe | 2026-03-11 14:38:05+00:00
> HLSL evolution roadmap

...that's just because of the traditional-game-dev Stockholm syndrome towards C++ (but not too much C++ please!).

> Khronos future for Vulkan

As far as I'm aware Khronos is not planning to move the Vulkan API to C++ - and the 'modern C++' sample code which adds a C++ RAII wrapper on top of the Vulkan C API does more harm than good (especially since lifetime management for Vulkan object is a bit more involved than just adding a class wrapper with a destructor).
by bettercallsalad | 2026-03-11 14:38:23+00:00
As someone who lives in WA, I despise how bad any state government run program here is. Literally it took me 3 months to get a SSN and I couldn’t get hold of anyone. Also on top of this tax, they have this care tax which also taxes 1% of your income for “long term care”.

I would love to pay my taxes if I had seen reasonable outcome. So far all I see is a corrupt state government with no accountability and transparency.

Also isn’t this illegal? I thought the state constitution says it is illegal.
by colesantiago | 2026-03-11 14:38:32+00:00
This is fine.

The internet is going to be filled with bots anyway so might as well restrict it to this age group. They should be outdoors with no access to the internet.

Why not extend this to under 25s or the elderly?

I'm sure the online safety act also needs to extend this to chatbots and anything that can heavily manipulate and distort this age group.
by patchnull | 2026-03-11 14:38:38+00:00
The biggest practical gap I've hit isn't between any two levels — it's context rot. An agent at level 5+ that runs for 20 minutes will rediscover the same architecture, re-read the same files, and make the same wrong assumptions it corrected earlier in the session. The token window is a hard ceiling that no amount of prompt engineering fixes. The teams I've seen get real mileage from higher levels all converged on the same pattern: file-based state that persists between agent invocations, not longer context windows.
by A_D_E_P_T | 2026-03-11 14:38:45+00:00
Re 1: You experience the world in real time (or close enough) via your senses, which combine to form a spatiotemporal sense: A sense of being a bounded entity in space and time. The LLM has none of that. They experience the world via stale old text and text derivatives.

Re 2: There's something tremendous in the fact, staring us right in the face, that LLMs are unable to meaningfully contribute to academic/medical research. I'm not saying that they need to perform on the level of a one-in-a-million Maxwell, DaVinci, or whatever. But as Dwarkesh asked one year ago: "What do you make of the fact that these things have basically the entire corpus of human knowledge memorized and they haven't been able to make a single new connection that has led to a discovery?"

Re 3: Sure, you can hold it by the hand and spoonfeed it. You can also create for it a mirror reality which doesn't exist, which is pure fiction. Given how limited these systems are, I don't suppose it makes much of a difference. There's no way for it to tell. The "human in the loop" is its interaction with the world. And a pale, meager interaction it is.

Re 4: Static, old images/video that they were trained on some months ago. That, too, is no way of interacting with the world.
by wat10000 | 2026-03-11 14:39:14+00:00
While it's hard to overestimate the clownishness of this administration, I'd want to see the original wording of this denial before concluding that they said something that stupid, versus the author of this article paraphrasing it in a stupid manner. I'm not sure if this is what they're referring to, but the only response from the SSA that I found with a brief search doesn't say anything so foolish: https://dailycaller.com/2025/09/02/social-security-administr...
by SecretDreams | 2026-03-11 14:39:24+00:00
> No one wants to read a blog post by an AI because it’s boring

Nah. Humans can be boring too. No one wants to consume AI art in any form because art isn't just about what it is, but also how it came to be. We care about art and history because those things involved humans. And we like understanding the takes of our fellow humans. We don't care about the take of a statistical model on the topics of art and creativity.
by afavour | 2026-03-11 14:39:27+00:00
If I had to make a wild guess, xAI. The article states they took a job at a government contractor.

It’s interesting (horrifying) to think of the implications actually. People wouldn’t buy this data directly, it’s too obviously illegally procured. But laundered through an LLM to provide “insights” without citation? That’s plausible deniability.
by pixl97 | 2026-03-11 14:39:29+00:00
>The level 6 and and 7 is essentially death of enterprise software

Enterprise software that you sell, or enterprise software you use internally?

The amount of self created, self used software in enterprises is staggering, that software will still exist, and still have a massive maintenance cost. So maybe we need a better definition of enterprise software here, like externally sold software? Also a huge amount of that software still has regulatory requirements, so someone will have to sign off on it. Maybe it will be internal certification, but very often there is separation of duties on things like that where it's easier to come from a different company.
Show HN: Open-source browser for AI agents (~90% on Mind2Web)
by theredsix | 2026-03-11 14:39:30+00:00
Hi HN, I forked chromium and built agent-browser-protocol (ABP) after noticing that most browser-agent failures aren’t really about the model misunderstanding the page. Instead, the problem is that the model is reasoning from a stale state.

ABP is designed to keep the acting agent synchronized with the browser at every step. After each action (click, type, etc), it freezes JavaScript execution and rendering, then captures the resulting state. It also compiles the notable events that occurred during that action loop, such as navigation, file pickers, permission prompts, alerts, and downloads, and sends that along with a screenshot of the frozen page state back to the agent.

The result is that browser interaction starts to feel more like a multimodal chat loop. The agent takes an action, gets back a fresh visual state and a structured summary of what happened, then decides what to do next from there. That fits much better with how LLMs already work.

A few common browser-use failures ABP helps eliminate:
* A modal appears after the last Playwright screenshot and blocks the input the agent was about to use
* Dynamic filters cause the page to reflow between steps
* An autocomplete dropdown opens and covers the element the agent intended to click
* alert() / confirm() interrupts the flow
* Downloads are triggered, but the agent has no reliable way to know when they’ve completed

As proof, ABP with opus 4.6 as the driver scores 90.5% on the Online Mind2Web benchmark. I think modern LLMs already understand websites, they just need a better tool to interact with them. Happy to answer questions about the architecture, forking chrome or anything else in the comments below.

Try it out: `claude mcp add browser -- npx -y agent-browser-protocol --mcp` (Codex/OpenCode instructions in the docs)

Demo video: https://www.loom.com/share/387f6349196f417d8b4b16a5452c3369
by aa-jv | 2026-03-11 14:40:04+00:00
>common issues that arise when you buy a niche product from a tiny company thousands of kilometers away.

Sorry, this is just negative - but anyway, have you played with both?

I have. There are differences but they are minor and you can very definitely accomplish an approximation of the CS80 'sound' with the DD. It sold out for a reason.

Either way though, if you have an opportunity to have a real CS80 in the studio, as I do, you are very right in saying that it is an amazing beast.
by TheJoeMan | 2026-03-11 14:40:12+00:00
The "free" federal tax filing service I use in Florida, makes their money by charging for state filings. It will add an additional hour or two of effort to every resident of the state, even if they are below the state income threshold which is quite an externality.

Also, I would be wary bragging about buying your goods in Oregon, you technically may owe WA use tax https://dor.wa.gov/taxes-rates/use-tax.
by jurgenburgen | 2026-03-11 14:40:12+00:00
Software is already fantastically profitable. Productive SaaS companies right now collect ~500k in revenue per employee.

If what you describe happens (33% cut to salaries) then the bar for your own startup to be worth it is suddenly lower.

If large companies don’t pay us good salaries then why would we not go and build better competitors without the legacy and dead weight?
by armchairhacker | 2026-03-11 14:40:25+00:00
There’s an accurate way to confirm fraud: look for inconsistencies and replicate experiments.

If the fraudsters “fail to replicate” legitimate experiments, ask them for
details/proof, and replicate the experiment yourself while providing more details/proof. Either they’re running a different experiment, their details have inconsistencies, or they have unreasonable omissions.
by thewebguyd | 2026-03-11 14:40:41+00:00
> As a reminder, this tax does not affect income under a million US dollars.

For now. The legislature refused to add an amendment forbidding the threshold from ever being lowered to guarantee that it only applies to a million and above.

The way the Washington state constitution works is income is treated as property, and property taxes must be uniform.

So this bill isn't just a millionaire's tax, it's a state-wide income tax of 9.9% with the first million exempt.

It's a good thing, for now, but it does set precedent and the fact they refused to add language to the bill forbidding that exemption from every being removed or lowered is telling. The income threshold will eventually be lowered.
by pc86 | 2026-03-11 14:40:52+00:00
You deal with it by competing with other states, which is what happens now, and what is intended based on the very architecture of the federal and state governments. This will make Seattle less attractive to the type of person who makes a LOT of money almost entirely from W2 income. Private practice physicians, specialty attorneys, that kind of thing. "Working people" who happen to be very highly compensated.

If I was in that type of role and I could routinely expect to make $1.5-$2M/yr it would absolutely make me consider places like Florida or Texas more, especially with the marriage penalty mentioned in the article (although I'm curious how many households have two people both earning more than $1M/yr).
by PaulHoule | 2026-03-11 14:41:11+00:00
There's the concern that once we get, say, a $30 minimum wage, that will drive prices up further and then people will be saying we need a $50 minimum wage. So we could wind up back where we started except it is harder to plan for the future, interest rates are higher which drives up the cost of housing and housing construction, etc.

The counter to that is an increase in total factor productivity which really makes us richer by being able to do more with less. That is, Henry Ford changed the world by creating a production system where workers plus a reasonable investment in capital could produce cars that those workers could afford. Contrast that to child care, for instance, where it just takes a certain number of workers to take care of a certain number of children. In the case of child care you can subsidize it so along side "expensive and available" you will get a certain amount with is "affordable at point of service but rationed" that is never enough.
by mejutoco | 2026-03-11 14:41:23+00:00
I wish Lego would find a digital equivalent as universal as the bricks for programming. I think it could be another moat for them. But it seems they keep changing it and it does not seems as simple or as universal as it could be. I am thinking more programming with blocks than using a tablet etc. to program the blocks. IMO it is a wasted opportunity.
by stvltvs | 2026-03-11 14:41:40+00:00
Proof of citizenship is not the same as the driver's licenses people are issued by their state.

Not everyone has ready access to proof of citizenship in order to register to vote. It gets even more difficult if your current legal name doesn't match your birth name, e.g. if you took your husband's name.

Not every eligible voter has or needs a government issued ID. For example, retired people who don't drive. For them to get to the DMV to get an ID just to vote would be a challenge.

The US has large rural areas where government offices are hours away.

All of this adds up to significant barriers to eligible voters. There's a reason even the GOP isn't bending over backward to pass the SAVE Act.
by randall0001 | 2026-03-11 14:41:44+00:00
Hey, I'm interested in some of the ML/fullstack roles and would like to apply, though the job pages seem to imply they are only open to US applicants. Any special process for remote Canadians? Somewhat worried picking no on the "Are you authorized to work lawfully in the US" question gets the application auto-rejected, would you prefer an email?
by Lord-Jobo | 2026-03-11 14:42:16+00:00
The value-cost ratio is all that matters to a company. Yes, that implies that they are assuming all variations of value are achievable by AI which isn’t true and probably won’t ever be.
But they do think that, nearly all of them. Because they don’t understand value. This has been true since the very first corporation.
And that’s the problem. They will see a totally cheesed and squeezed metric telling them AI can reach 40% of the value of a “ ___ engineer “ at 10% of the cost and lay off engineers until shit starts exploding.
And the stock market will strongly reward that decision.
by Imustaskforhelp | 2026-03-11 14:42:40+00:00
If this goes within the Ad Tech industry and knowing how Ad tech industry is, I don't feel quite surprised if we might see foreign adversarial nation buying the Social Security data from Ad tech/ (this Doge person in general either directly or through multiple layers) even in secretive manner at this point.

Either way this data is definitely going to spread behind closed doors.
by ryandrake | 2026-03-11 14:42:44+00:00
Not Asus, but I have a crappy Lenovo plastic laptop that was around that price range when new, and it's horrible. The hinges have so much resistance that the garbage display panel flexes when you try to open the lid. The junk trackpad is the size of a credit card, and requires some amount of force to actually pick up the fact that your finger is moving on it. The SDCard reader has failed twice (I'm on my third). It's just a piece of garbage and is even then it's about middle of the road when it comes to PC laptop quality. And outside of specific defects, (and this is what's endemic throughout the PC laptop ecosystem) the build quality just subjectively feels like it's barely held together with tape and glue. Like what you'd expect from a toy from an old cracker jack box. These OEMs have been shipping absolute trash for years, and it's about time the industry got a shock.
by unethical_ban | 2026-03-11 14:42:48+00:00
Republicans in Harris County sold voters on the Beltway 8 toll road in the 80s based on the idea that when the bonds were paid off the tolls would go away.

Clever hack: they never stopped issuing bonds.

At least they've made it really easy for them to take your money. You don't need a toll tag, they'll scan your license plate, mail you, and charge you extra for mailing you. No coins needed.
by rethab | 2026-03-11 14:42:56+00:00
Same issue here. What was the name of that question and answer site again where you had to manually copy and paste code from? ;-)

Official status is still green: https://status.claude.com/

But downdetector is clear: https://downdetector.com/status/claude-ai/

/edit: there's an official incident now: https://status.claude.com/incidents/jm3b4jjy2jrt
by temporallobe | 2026-03-11 14:42:58+00:00
My wife completed her PhD two years ago and she put a LOT of work into it. Many sleepless nights, and it almost destroyed our marriage. It took her about 6 years of non-stop madness and she didn’t even work during that time. She said that many of her colleagues engaged in fraudulent data generation and sometimes just complete forgery of anything and everything. It was
obvious some people were barely capable of putting together coherent sentences in posts, but somehow they generated a perfect dissertation in the end. It was common knowledge that candidates often hired writers and even experts like statisticians to do most of the heavy lifting. I don’t know if this is the norm now, but I simultaneously have more respect and less respect for those doctoral degrees, knowing that some poured their heart and soul into it, while others essentially cheated their way through. OTOH, I also understand that there may be a lot of grey area.

My eyes have been opened!
by superxpro12 | 2026-03-11 14:43:37+00:00
The educational system was working pretty well in terms of objectivity until the right wing started screaming about kids pissing in litter boxes and universities censoring right wing ideology.

The reality is that right wing ideology is unpopular when exposed to objective discussion. Turns out most people dont agree those concepts.

So now we have an administration who's actively working to censor universities to compel speech and censor ideas it doesnt like via lawsuits, executive orders, and funding elimination.