MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by jrflowers | 2026-03-10 05:06:44+00:00
> In reality, it is a struggle to find a single one who traces their fortune back to the first Gilded Age.

This is a good point because there are no oil billionaires and things like trusts, family offices, offshoring etc. actually pose no challenge to accurately numerating and identifying people that ‘have’ or effectively control over a billion dollars at their discretion because they all just sign up for the list.

Of course there’s the Panama Papers and the Paradise Papers but that doesn
by Nition | 2026-03-10 05:06:49+00:00
Oh the options get way better than that. Check these guys out: https://accessanalog.com

They have 60+ rack units with little robot grabbers physically controlling the knobs.

Re analogue summing, yeah it does near nothing in reality. What you're missing though is that what people actually want with analogue summing isn't really technically better sound but technically worse sound. Analogue gear might have a little bit of harmonic distortion, a little bit of crosstalk between channels, certain transformer characteristics etc that theoretically make it sound more glued together or warm etc etc. But ultimately summing is summing and those differences vs. digital are very small (and won't always contribute positively either).
by matheusmoreira | 2026-03-10 05:07:26+00:00
It's impossible to get hit by cars if there are no cars around you. Vehicles are not going to materialize out of nowhere and crash into you. They are going to be funneled into your path by the roads. If you look at the road and see zero traffic, then you cannot be hit by traffic. Even if you run a red light.

Obviously, if you can't see the road where the cars will come from, then you cannot know if there are any cars coming towards you in a potentially intersecting trajectory.
by rationably | 2026-03-10 05:08:30+00:00
While we have you here, could you please clarify a point in your privacy policy?

> For data collected from the UI or other usage: We retain the personal information described in this privacy notice for as long as you use our Services

I have two quick questions:

1. Why are UI prompts and responses kept for the entire life of the account?

2. When an account is closed, is the data actually deleted or just de-identified?
by lelanthran | 2026-03-10 05:10:02+00:00
> But, to not give a ride because of some perceived idea that they would claim you assaulted them or something is a bit "this person should go touch some grass" or whatever.

Pretty much the same advice any normal person gives their son; a single baseless claim from a woman is enough to ruin a man's life.

"Unless you already know the woman, don't spend time alone with her" is pretty good advice.
by protocolture | 2026-03-10 05:10:22+00:00
>They know the car was yours so, by extension, you should be aware of its whereabouts at any given moment.

Lol your "Tool" analogy breaks down here.

Its not the responsibility of the defendant to prove their innocence, no matter how you want to twist it.

> expect them not to question any you further

Wow. No one expects you to not be questioned, but for questioning to take place before punishment because duh.

Build a case, test it. Not issue fines based on an assumption.
Why is GPT-5.4 obsessed with Goblins?
by pants2 | 2026-03-10 05:10:49+00:00
After the 5.4 update, ChatGPT uses "goblin" in almost every conversation. Sometimes It's "gremlin." A recent chat of mine used goblin 3 times in 4 messages:

> this stuff turns into legal goblins fast

> hiding exclusions like little goblins

> But here’s the important goblin

I am not the only one to notice this, there are many Reddit threads on it:

https://www.reddit.com/r/ChatGPT/comments/1roci77/anyone_elses_chatgpt_obsessed_with_goblins_since/

https://www.reddit.com/r/ChatGPT/comments/1rll8hb/suddenly_obsessed_with_goblins_and_gremlins/

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This is such a weirdly specific word that it chooses to use in over half of its conversations (IME, you should search your chat history for goblin/gremlin and report).

I'm genuinely curious what happens in their post-training that leads to something line this.

What's ironic is OpenAI has been touting 5.4's great personality, but these quirks irritate me like a tiny chaos goblin.
by maplethorpe | 2026-03-10 05:11:56+00:00
It's interesting you interpret the consumer's response as a desire for the expansion of IP laws. As an artist whose work exists in many of these training sets, I'm of a different opinion: IP laws can stay the same, but they should have purchased a license to use my art before including it in their training data.

Since the didn't, they should go to jail. The same way I would have gone to jail if I built Sora in my basement and sold it to the public.
by Retric | 2026-03-10 05:12:26+00:00
> is so absurd that it will probably genuinely burn down the entire global economy if paid.

Where did you get that idea. Global economy is ~200T/year PPP. 0.1% of that split across every artist you want the training data from would be insanely difficult for the vast majority of them to turn down. Which makes sense as art isn’t that big a percentage of the global economy compared to say housing, food, medical care, infrastructure, military spending etc.

Obviously the incentive to take without compensation is far more appealing, but that doesn’t mean it was impossible to make a reasonable offer.
by parl_match | 2026-03-10 05:12:47+00:00
> When people talk about the pancakes/waffle thing in this context

That makes sense. The original meme was widespread and this is fairly niche.

> That seems unnecessarily hostile, especially given I was responding to this comment of yours.

No man, I really mean it. Maybe it's hostile, but also, people talking about this legitimately sound, I don't know... unhinged? Off? I am flustered, because of how ridiculous this all is to me. I'm serious.

Like, "the CEO of blue sky said waffles to me and it was a 4d comedy dunk!" or whatever. It's like a Ralph Wiggum quote. What the fuck?

So, I think this topic is at its end. But really, read aloud what you wrote. Seriously, try it, you might find it grounding.
by devonkelley | 2026-03-10 05:12:56+00:00
The 1 in 4 artists actually using the model for their own work is the most interesting data point here. If you're building a royalty system and 75% of the people being paid don't even want to use the tool themselves, that tells you something about the gap between "this is fair compensation" and "this is actually useful to my creative process." The royalty model might be the right thing ethically but it doesn't solve the adoption problem.
by kelseyfrog | 2026-03-10 05:14:07+00:00
Bro, your argument is a joke.

What should a woman in this position do? Look at the options and think to herself, "I could choose a woman driver, but I won't because that is discriminatory to men and I should accept the risk"?

Put yourself in her shoes. I don't mean this metaphorically. Put on women's clothes, makeup, and order an uber. In the time it takes for it to arrive, notice the thoughts that appear in your mind and get back to me.
by visarga | 2026-03-10 05:16:39+00:00
I thought it was at most a monetary fine, do people go to jail for copyright infringement? But you seem to want to own all the air around your work, the ground beneath it too. Nothing can exist around it, so a creative person would do better to avert their eyes rather than loading useless ideas. Why should I install in my brain your "furniture" when I am not allowed to sit on it? In these cases I think authors provide a net negative to society by creating more works that further forbid others from creating in the same space.

Here, for example, any comment is open to read and respond to. On ArXiv any paper can be downloaded, read and cited. Wikipedia contains text from many thousands of editors, building on each other. We like collaboration more than asserting our exclusivity rights. That is why these places provide better quality than work for direct profit or, God forbid, ad revenue, that is where the slop starts flowing.
by protocolture | 2026-03-10 05:16:47+00:00
I mean, thats also a thing in abstract.

We have this issue with imported deer, that the local hunters will gladly reduce their population, but not to zero. And baits and other methods are prohibited. Deer were likely imported for hunting, and hunters effectively protect the species from eradication by killing off their competition (roos mostly), and permitting them to breed within limits. Not to mention trying to protect them politically.

https://www.abc.net.au/news/2024-02-05/hunters-call-for-end-...

So yeah, guys walking with rifles in the woods cause deer.
by tptacek | 2026-03-10 05:16:57+00:00
Best bit:

Put in an unreasonable amount of effort

> Earlier I made an analogy to being an explorer; here's another I like even more. Think of yourself as a wildlife photographer. Obviously you need to be in the right place (you won't get a great picture of anything from your couch) and you need to be skilled at your craft. But once you've met those preconditions, the way to get the best picture is to just spend an unreasonable amount of time waiting for exactly the right circumstances to arise.
by n_u | 2026-03-10 05:18:13+00:00
Good article! Small suggestions:

1. It would be nice to define terms like RSI or at least link to a definition.

2. I found the graph difficult to read. It's a computer font that is made to look hand-drawn and it's a bit low resolution. With some googling I'm guessing the words in parentheses are the clouds the model is running on. You could make that a bit more clear.
by tdb7893 | 2026-03-10 05:19:15+00:00
You don't sign an EULA saying you can't do those things because scanning then distributing is already prohibited by copyright. The way to start a license war is to keep the status quo of these companies being able to ingest and essentially reproduce human work for free. One of my big worries about AI is that it will accelerate companies locking everything down and hoarding their own data.
by NetOpWibby | 2026-03-10 05:20:30+00:00
I’m always impressed by people who are hardcore EMacs or Vim devs, their setups are impressive af.

I’m a GUI guy though. As soon as I try delving in, I abort when I see things like “just type c-C dingle bob to do x thing.” I’m happy these people found something that works with their brains. I just want a GUI that works like what they use.

I recently saw a Zed fork stripped of AI stuff but there’s no binaries yet (you gotta compile and get an Apple dev account and I don’t care enough). Zed and Sublime Text are the closest to my stylistic sensibilities but I’m always on the lookout for something better.

If you’re one of these EMacs freaks who also love GUIs, sign me up to your app!
by comgen42 | 2026-03-10 05:21:01+00:00
Author here. This came out of a real project — scoping a custom RAG + agent system where the initial token cost estimate was off by 4x before we'd written any optimization code.

The article covers why token consumption compounds in agentic systems in non-obvious ways, the full make-vs-buy math for Azure AI Foundry vs. self-hosted GPU VMs vs. on-prem hardware, and a 5-step framework for getting to a defensible budget range before you commit. Happy to answer questions about the architecture decisions or the cost modeling approach.
by lich_king | 2026-03-10 05:21:26+00:00
I get that it says something we like to hear, but it's a content-free post that's almost certainly LLM-generated to get clicks. Serious content mill vibes - here's their latest blog article:

https://www.yankodesign.com/2026/03/09/a-cluster-of-volcanic...

Different byline, but somehow essentially the same as this story that appeared several days ago elsewhere on the internet:

https://newatlas.com/architecture/volcano-in-hotel-of-arriva...
by numpad0 | 2026-03-10 05:21:49+00:00
It feels like i18n/l10n status on desktop OS is on a decline. I guess the effect of that is more profound on macOS than on Windows.

I came across this[1][2] the other day; the "bug" is that macOS Japanese input prioritize visually similar but unintended characters over ones matching in pronunciation being entered - it's hard to describe, but it's as if keyboard was autocorrecting word to "enterprising" over "entrepreneur" for entry "antreprenewer", just because the former is considered more common than the latter, or something like that. This apparently has been bugging Japanese users for YEARS, with no improvements or recognition.

I'm not saying who should prioritize what for whom, just that, I think non-English experience in modern computing environment is rapidly degrading lately, for some reason, unbeknownst to American English speakers.

1: https://discussions.apple.com/thread/256258979

2: https://discussionsjapan.apple.com/thread/256258975
by ipaddr | 2026-03-10 05:21:49+00:00
They failed because they gave advances that were never going to be paid back and expected artists to bring in customers.

The demand to produce something in an artists style is low. The volume required to make it interesting to artist isn't present.

AI adoption and pushed back is greatest with artists you would be better off asking for money to shutdown AI.

The tech itself sounds interesting and would love that writeup.
by kingofmen | 2026-03-10 05:22:13+00:00
X% of net worth is still a bigger deal to someone with a net worth of $20 than to someone with a net worth of $20M, even though the latter may get some sticker shock. And it's possible (if rare) to have a reasonably middle-class lifestyle and an actually negative net worth. Presumably you would not make it possible to pay off student loans by repeatedly violating a red light, although it would be very funny.
by iso-logi | 2026-03-10 05:22:23+00:00
I believe a service like this could succeed if the initial base model wasn't Stable Diffusion and wasn't trained internet scrapes without the copyright permissions.

Their solution basically just amounts of "Ethically sourced Styles" which still has all the red tape that a normal text2image model has because majority of the data is still unapproved for use in an AI model.

Businesses didn't want to get wrapped up in a pesudolegal model that really has no better legality than base SD.
by no-name-here | 2026-03-10 05:22:27+00:00
I read the grandparent comment's point as being about suggesting %-based fines.

> prove your claim by providing some evidence that the richer you are the more speeding tickets you get.

How/where did the grandparent comment claim that the rich get more speeding tickets? Even if the rich speed at a lower rate, would that make %-based fines a negative improvement?

> a problem that doesn’t exist

My assumption was the speeding is a problem no matter whether rich or poor, and that both exist. Is there disagreement there?

Instead, I think their point was that even a $100 fine for a poor person may impact their ability to pay for groceries, childcare, etc, whereas for someone who has $10 million, etc., even a $1,000 fine will not impact their ability to pay for groceries, childcare, etc as they still have $9,999,000.
by nailer | 2026-03-10 05:24:27+00:00
The comment you quote but don’t quite seem to have fully understood mentions that people have done it in arenas filled with thousands of people to the response of widespread applause.

If you really don’t believe it I took the time of doing five seconds of research:
https://youtu.be/XteSVPzL3fk?is=6J4V3GhqNvh-PhGI
by altmanaltman | 2026-03-10 05:24:53+00:00
I mean Nvidia has been naming thier chips after scientists for a while now Hopper, Blackwell etc. Names are not copyrightable, you can literally create a toaster and call it Einstein. It doesn't mean you're doing anything illegal. There are some exceptions like if the name is actually used by a brand (like Tesla now) or if the person is alive/recently dead, or if you claim they are in someway endorsing your project. Like claiming "Einstein always toasted bread with the Einstein toaster!" is not okay.

The way Nvidia does it is actually super respectful and it's honestly better to use names like these instead of ULTRA PRO MAX 5x etc.
by tsimionescu | 2026-03-10 05:25:40+00:00
I may have used "ticket" in a far too imprecise way, that may get a bit too much into the weeds of terminology and specific laws in specific states for me.

By my understanding, though, this case wasn't about a citation to appear in court, it was about automatic issuance of a fine + points on the driver's license of the owner of a car filmed blowing past a red light. Of course, you can sue the government to contest the penalties, but unless you do, you are liable for even worse penalties if you don't pay.
by thedatamonger | 2026-03-10 05:26:04+00:00
Some further digging ...

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$ dig vivianvoss.net A +short @8.8.8.8

78.46.78.181

$ curl -v4 https://vivianvoss.net/ 2>&1 | grep -E "Connected|error"

* Connected to vivianvoss.net (78.46.78.181) port 443

* OpenSSL/3.0.13: error:0A00010B:SSL routines::wrong version number

$ curl -s https://ipinfo.io | grep org

"org": "AS7922 Comcast Cable Communications, LLC",

Same IP you're hitting, same port, but Comcast's xFi Advanced Security seems to be MITMing the connection before TLS completes.

I hate Comcast so much ...
by tb5z035i | 2026-03-10 05:27:06+00:00
Thanks for pointing out the possible security issue. But it's worth noting that, this connector works with cursor *cloud agent* API and telegram bot API, which means it does not exposes any reachable service to the public. This would lead to polling cursor cloud agent API for receiving new messages, but since this is a tool meant for personal use so I guess it's fine.

Is your test suite meant for this scenario? If so, I would be glad to provide a live sandboxed instance for you to test.

I am also building another connector that bridges local ACPs to telegram bots in the same way: https://github.com/tb5z035i/telegram-acp-connector. Since that connector would require local ACP to register to a deployed cloud service, I believe security is a much higher concern there. If you are interested, you can also run the test suite there when it's ready ;)
by altmanaltman | 2026-03-10 05:27:36+00:00
Let's go and assume that the chip is actually sentient (without any proof that it is). Even then, my comment fully stands. Blasting fully sentient beings with exhaust fumes in the face for hours is way worse than forcing them to play computer games. How we treat actual sentient beings is so abhorrent that this (worried about a chip playing Doom) is a misplaced first-world concern imo.
by Hansenq | 2026-03-10 05:28:27+00:00
I love this writeup--it's one of the refreshing looks into how startup innovation happens on-the-ground. We're inundated with new products and startups so often that it's easy to forget that the people working on the product are taking a bet with no promise of future payoff. In this case, it didn't work out, despite the team putting in their hard work, sweat, and clearly lots of stress.

Startups are not for the weak but the process detailed here is how we've gotten some of the most transformative and innovative products in technology. Props on attempting this unique idea; very sad that it didn't work out, but sometimes the market just can't support certain ideas!
by palmotea | 2026-03-10 05:29:11+00:00
> It's not at all obvious whether copyright net protects or destroys the little guy.

It's super obvious, unless your perspective basically stems from someone who was mad they couldn't BitTorrent a ton of movies.

I mean, FFS, copyright is the literal foundation for open source licenses like the GPL.

My sense is a lot of the radically anti-IP fervor ultimately stems from people who were outraged they could be sued for seeding an MP3 (though it's accreted other complaints to justify that initial impulse, and it's likely some where indoctrinated from secondary argumentation somewhat obscured from the core impulse).

That's not to say that there are not actors who abuse IP or there aren't meaningful reforms that could be done, but the "burn it all down" impulse is not thought through.
by comex | 2026-03-10 05:30:03+00:00
This article has a whole lot of "it's not X, it's Y"…

In reality this isn't much of a change. For decades it's been a given that mainstream CPUs have vector instructions. RISC-V was the odd man out in _not_ mandating vector instructions. Even so, most CPU code doesn't use them.

And this is unlikely to change anytime soon. Yes, ML workloads are becoming much more popular, but CPUs are still not parallel enough to do a good job at them. Only occasionally is it a good idea to try anyway.

Edit: Note that there is something novel about the approach that RISC-V and ARM are now following, namely being vector-length agnostic, but this is unlikely to have much impact on how much CPU code is vectorized in the first place. It improves scalability a little, but also gives compilers a little harder of a job. It is not something that's going to fundamentally transform the extent to which CPU code uses vector instructions.
by Qwertious | 2026-03-10 05:30:38+00:00
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by rtfeldman | 2026-03-10 05:30:39+00:00
Very cool!

The permission model is almost identical to Roc's - https://www.roc-lang.org/platforms - although Roc isn't designed for "Syntax only an AI could love" (among many other differences between the two languages - but still, there are very few languages taking this approach to permissions).

If you're curious, I've talked about details of how Roc's permission model works in other places, most recently in this interview: https://youtu.be/gs7OLhdZJvk?si=wTFI7Ja85qdXJWiW