MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by jader201 | 2026-03-11 20:51:26+00:00
Can we also add “Don’t complain about AI-generated content. It does not promote interesting discussion.”?

I see this all the time, and even if I find the topic interesting, I don’t want to see comments littered with discussion about how the content was AI generated.

To be clear, I'm not condoning AI-generated content. I’m completely fine if the community chooses to not upvote AI-generated content, or flagging it off the FP.

But many threads can turn into nothing but AI complaints, and it’s just not interesting.
by fluffybucktsnek | 2026-03-11 20:51:33+00:00
I get what you are saying, but I disagree on the last part, "[...] way to convince you they are your own". If it managed to convince the author that it is their own, chances are, it is their own. Specially so if the author does review and edit the output prior to posting it.

The messiness may show glimpses of the process, but, in isolation, will likely distort and corrupt the desired message via partial framing.
by Nevermark | 2026-03-11 20:51:53+00:00
I am not understanding you.

Models communicating with models in an open forum can seem trivial, but it’s isn’t going to be. Which means observing how that works today, and over time, is important.

There can be lots of fraud and hype, yet still something important involved.

And Facebook certainly has an incentive from their perspective, to understand how that progresses. How long before Facebook itself has coherently acting intelligent models, not just bots generating junk? It’s going to happen sooner, rather than later.
by bakugo | 2026-03-11 20:51:55+00:00
The problem is, even if you do send an email and the mods eventually read it and take action, by the time that happens, it's likely that bunch of users will have already wasted their time unknowingly arguing with a bot. In my view, commenting something like "this is a bot account" is done primarily to inform other users that might not notice, not the moderators.

Even if you accept that prohibiting this is necessary to avoid what one might consider "AI witchhunting", bots are so prevalent now that being expected to communicate the existence of each one via email is unrealistic, for both the reporting users and the moderators. I think it's finally time to consider some sort of on-site report system.
by Kim_Bruning | 2026-03-11 20:52:07+00:00
> And it gets worse because LLMs destroy that signal in one direction - towards homogeneity.

Oh, right, yes, if you're not careful they can definitely do that.

But look at what julius_eth_dev is actually saying they're doing:

> "rubber-ducking architecture decisions, pressure-testing arguments before I post them."

That's more like using the LLM as a sparring partner; they're not having the LLM write their comments for them.

I thought you were going to go somewhere really interesting actually, like maybe 'the LLM convinces you that their arguments are better than yours, and now you're acting like a meat puppet.' Or something equally slightly alarming and cool like that! ;-)
by postalcoder | 2026-03-11 20:52:37+00:00
Funny, I remember being in third grade and writing a short paper but using Creative Writer’s icons to replace some words.

I was kindly told to use my own words. It was so disappointing to me. How dare they limit my creativity!

I’m sure your son was just as endeared as I to his creation but being an old fart now I’m more on my teacher’s side.
by TimTheTinker | 2026-03-11 20:52:37+00:00
Updating JSON.parse() to automatically create Temporal objects (from what shape of JSON value?) without a custom reviver would be a step too far, in my opinion.

This is effectively no different from Date:

serialize: date.toJSON()
deserialize: new Date(jsonDate)

in Temporal:

serialize: instant.toJSON()
deserialize: Temporal.Instant.from(jsonDate)
by taeric | 2026-03-11 20:52:49+00:00
Agreed. And again, fair that I was critiquing the headline. I think I just balked at the use of fractals there implying that they were, themselves, somehow contrasted to other descriptions.

On things happening strangely at different scales, I confess I always thought this had to have some parallel to how basic scaling itself changes for values between zero and one. Fun to read more on it.
by notepad0x90 | 2026-03-11 20:52:54+00:00
This is going to be a tough ask. I am with this 100% for "ai generated" but not "ai edited". What if I'm using AI for spellchecking or correcting bad grammar? what if it is an accessiblity-related use case? or translation?

It's just a tool ffs! there are many issues with LLM abuse, but this sort of over-compensation is exactly the sort of stuff that makes it hard to get abuse under control.

You're still talking with a human!, there is no actual "AI" you're not talking to an actual artificial intelligence. "don't message me unless you've written it with ink, on papyrus". There is a world of difference between grammarly and an autonomous agent creating comments on its own. Specifics, context, and nuance matter.
by mschuster91 | 2026-03-11 20:53:02+00:00
> I’m guessing it’s lingering PTSD from being stuck on underperforming systems with too little RAM that makes us buy much more RAM than we actually need

Mac devices have been able to get away with less RAM (and higher priced upgrades) for well over a decade. During the Intel era, they were the first ones to adopt SSDs as the default option while everyone else still installed spinning rust. That alone provides for way faster swap storage to conceal a relative "lack" of RAM.

And when they went for their own fully integrated stacks of soldered RAM and SSD? Then everything went off the rails - close proximity and no sockets means very low latency for both RAM and persistent storage on one side and on the other side it also allows for much higher bandwidth because of much cleaner signals - remember, even at "measly" hundreds of megahertz you're already in the territory requiring precise PCB design.

On top of that, macOS's scheduler seems to be much, much more efficient and outright better in constrained RAM (and CPU) settings to provide the feeling of "the system is still responding" than either Windows or Linux. The only setting where macOS goes into molasses is when you not just run out of RAM but of free disk space as well.
by toddmorey | 2026-03-11 20:53:02+00:00
I see many, many startups that promise to be an automated marketing agent that will do this exact thing: scour sites for conversations and post links to your product.

Obviously that burns down the human Internet, but it’s also a business that will have a short lifespan and bring about its own demise.

I guess they don’t care about anything enduring as long as they can grab some quick cash on the way out.
by happyopossum | 2026-03-11 20:53:03+00:00
> obvious signs of AI speak like emdashes

Some of us were trained/self taught to write that way. Even "it's not X, it's Y" is a legitimate and subjectively effective communication tool, and there are those of us who either by training modeling have picked it up as a habit. It's not Ai that started this, Ai learned it from us.

Crap - I just did it, didn't I? Awww double crap! Did it again...
by MisterTea | 2026-03-11 20:53:10+00:00
> but that kind of person can't get a security clearance or get taken seriously by the State Department.

This feels similar to the early Area 51 law suits which were thrown out because the government denied the facility existed. I feel that yes, the government was aware of the situation but downplayed it because they have something to hide.

My tin foil hat explanation is that the US government was fully aware of what was happening. Why is unknown though I could guess that A. the US denied knowledge of such weapons to give plausible deniability which leads to B. The US deployed such a weapon on premises to use/test against Cubans and inadvertently sickened their own people in an accident.

I don't doubt Cuba could initiate such an attack but I find it very unlikely the US would be befuddled when the US government along with others have developed and experimented with sonic weapons. Given the recent trends towards more authoritarian governments these weapons are easy to deploy against citizens. This article was posted to hn recently: https://earshotngo.substack.com/p/sonic-attack-on-a-silent-v...
by 1-more | 2026-03-11 20:53:24+00:00
The pathological case with scheduling is: It's 2015. You live in NYC. Your pal in Santiago, Chile says "hey next time you're here let's hang out." You say "great, I have a business trip there next April. Let's have dinner at 7pm on the 15th." They agree. You enter it into your calendar. If you store it as UTC, you're going to show up to dinner at the wrong time—the DST rules changed in between when you talked and when you expected dinner to happen. If you'd stored it as a local time with tzdb name America/Santiago you'd be there at the correct local time.
by crab_galaxy | 2026-03-11 20:53:56+00:00
Fine in what way? What people?

I have not seen or heard of a single person who is excited about AI generated blog posts, or TikToks, or commercials, or images. In fact it’s the opposite, the internet coined the term AI slop, and my non-internet addicted friends hate the fact that chatGPT is killing the environment.

The only people I’ve ever seen champion AI are the few who are excited by the bleeding edge, and the many many peddlers
by al_borland | 2026-03-11 20:54:13+00:00
Dormant account reuse should be ok, assuming proper notice is given. Though 30 days is far too strict. A life event could leave someone offline for a month.

Selling I have an issue with, especially the arbitrary selling of “rare” handles. This leaves normal users stuck with junk names and encourages Twitter to be even more of a place for corporate communication above all else.
by jedberg | 2026-03-11 20:54:25+00:00
I'm absolutely 100% for this policy.

My only caution is that good writers and LLMs look very similar, because LLMs were trained on a corpus of good writers. Good writers use semicolons and em-dashes. Sometimes we used bulleted lists or Oxford commas.

So we should make sure to follow that other HN rule, and assume the person on the other end is a good faith actor, and be cautious about accusing someone of using AI.

(I've been accused multiple times of being an AI after writing long well written comments 100% by hand)
AITutor – vimtutor, but for AI-assisted coding
by thehecticbyte | 2026-03-11 20:54:45+00:00
I built an interactive terminal tutorial that teaches AI coding concepts — context windows, tools, MCP, hooks, subagents, and more.

I use Claude Code, Cursor, and GitHub Copilot daily, and I kept noticing the same thing: most developers (myself included, at first) use these tools without really understanding how they work under the hood.
What's a context window?
Why did the AI "forget" something?
What does MCP actually do?
Why do some prompts work better than others?

AITutor is like vimtutor for this stuff. 15 lessons across beginner/intermediate/advanced tiers, each with theory, an interactive ASCII visualization you can play with, and a quiz. It runs entirely in your terminal.

Built with Go and the Charm ecosystem (Bubbletea, Lipgloss).

Try it: npx @aitutor/cli@latest
Or: brew tap naorpeled/tap && brew install aitutor

GitHub: https://github.com/naorpeled/aitutor

Would love feedback on the curriculum — what's missing, what's wrong, what concepts you wish someone had explained to you earlier.
by adeptima | 2026-03-11 20:54:54+00:00
My expectations to dear fellow humans - more sophisticated personal insults (ex. give me your cute comments), a freudian slips, hidden messages and motives, first viewer experience with the next cool toy from the hype train, sharing all kind of insecurities, heavy f.. word if very dramatic first person experience happened, border line exposure to the insider info, sharing something your corporate HR gestapo wont appreciate but might help another guy on the line, "i knew the guy who actually did it" stories, motivational statement toward my non-native english, etc

->> ◕ ‿ ◕ <<--
by zarzavat | 2026-03-11 20:55:05+00:00
Consumers don't read spec sheets. My mother doesn't even know the difference between RAM and SSD - it's all just "memory" right? But she knows that when she goes to the Apple Store the computers are built to an impressive standard.

Quality speaks for itself, and the way that people buy computers is through their eyes and fingertips, not their heads.

Go to the Apple Store and just observe how people make their buying decisions. They don't just look at the spec sheet, they lift, type on, caress the computers. They want to know how it will feel to own one.
by wvenable | 2026-03-11 20:55:07+00:00
I don't think the real issue is LLM posts. The issue with low quality on the Internet has always been quantity. The problem always has been humans who post too much, humans that use software to post too much, and now it's humans who use LLMs to post too much.

The problem with a medium that is completely free and unrestricted is that whomever posts the most sort of wins. I could post this opinion 30-40 times in this thread, using bots and alternative accounts, and completely move the discussion to be only this.

Someone using an LLM is craft a reply is not a problem on it's own. Using it craft a low-effort reply in 3 seconds just to get out is the problem.
by gdulli | 2026-03-11 20:55:11+00:00
Your comment doesn't make sense because the fact that "dead internet" has been coined since then (along with the popularization of "slop" and "hallucination") means there is a line and we have crossed it. Denial doesn't stand up to any scrutiny.

It's too bad we weren't more skeptical about the ways emerging technologies would eventually be used against us. Some warned about it but many (including me) ignored them. Perhaps we could be forgiven for that naivete, but there's no excuse to be ignorant of what's going on now.
by greatgib | 2026-03-11 20:55:19+00:00
I can tell for you specifically because everything is specific: machine, hardware, setup, projects...

But I always noticed this latency for everyone I ever saw using vscode or computer that I tried.

To be clear, you might easily not notice it if you are used to that and don't know better. And it is consistent with most electron based apps or editors. But there is a very subtile latency between the time you hit the key in the keyboard and the time that it appears on screen. Basically you are typing letters a little bit in advance. With Kate it is like with a basic text edit, characters appears instantly.

The effect is the same when you type anything in web browsers. In form, editor or whatever.
by jauntywundrkind | 2026-03-11 20:55:24+00:00
It's sad the iMac is gone. This is so close and it's silly that it's not also a computer.

I really love the All-In-One form factor. Especially when the displays are super thin, which Apple was at least starting towards with the iMac line. I want it just to be a giant holdable tablet+++, like some of the weird Android stuff happening, like the 27" LG StanbyME. https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2025/07/the-curious-rise-of-...
by mrcsharp | 2026-03-11 20:55:31+00:00
> AI is a great equalizer when it comes to communication in English.

Good argument for it but I think 80/20 split applies here. It is likely that 80% of the time it is used to farm for upvotes and add noise.

> And despite what people say, the way you write is very much judged as an indication of your education and intelligence.

I have come across plenty of content and online interactions in English where English was the Author's 2nd or even 3rd language and I find that putting a small disclaimer about this fact is more than enough to bypass such judgement.
Ask HN: What are the best product landing pages you've stumbled upon?
by chistev | 2026-03-11 20:55:36+00:00
I like the Stripe landing pages for their products. And, as an aside Stripe also has good API documentation.

Stripe just seems well planned and done.

https://stripe.com/checkout

https://stripe.com/connect

https://stripe.com/subscriptions

https://stripe.com/bitcoin
by OkayPhysicist | 2026-03-11 20:55:51+00:00
Reputation tracking is the key. The most simple option is open-invite invite-only spaces: Any user can invite more users, but only users with an invite can participate. Most Discord servers work like this, secret societies like the Oddfellows do, as does the other site.

If you keep track of the invite tree, you can "prune" it as needed to reduce moderation load: low quality users don't tend to be the source of high-quality users, and in the cases where they are, those high quality users tend find other people willing to vouch for them faster than their inviter catches a ban.
by 9rx | 2026-03-11 20:56:05+00:00
Resource allocation is entirely a social construct. Not being afford something is a 'pretend' state that only exists because everyone agrees to go along with it.

Now, let's imagine that a magical unicorn comes down from the sky to take over resource allocation and perfectly allocates resources to ensure that everyone has everything they could ever dream of. You say so many other problems will go away, but if people can't even get something as simple as resource allocation right, what makes you think they won't also screw up everything else, ensuring that all the other problems remain?
by tomhow | 2026-03-11 20:56:05+00:00
Something I've noticed through moderation is that people are much more easily duped by generated comments if they like the content and/or agree with the point. Hence we've seen several cases where a bot-generated comment has been heavily upvoted and sits at the top of the thread for hours, and any comments calling it out for being generated languish at the bottom of the subthread below other enthusiastic, heavily upvoted replies. This is another reason why it's good to email us (hn@ycombinator.com) rather than commenting when you see generated comemnts.
by freejazz | 2026-03-11 20:56:06+00:00
>If being more open and public correlates strongly enough with "links pedophiles with children", then yeah, true. I expect Roblox to do plenty to improve its platform safety with their track record. The recent introduction of their ID verification system to prevent communication between users outside of specified age buckets, solely in the context of improving child safety, is working and significantly reducing cases of child exploitation both on and off of the platform.

What are you, their PR agent?

>I don't agree that it facilitates this kind of behaviour.

It doesn't really matter if you agree that it does. It is a fact that it does.
by itsnotme12 | 2026-03-11 20:56:17+00:00
Those comments are spot on.

McKinsey was on a spree to become the best tech consulting company and brought a lot of great tech talent but the 2023 crisis made leadership turn 180 and simply ditch/ignore all the tech experts they brought to the firm.

All the expertise has left the firm and now they are more and more becoming another BS tech consulting firm, with strategy folks that don't even know that ML is AI advising clients on Enterprise AI transformation.

The tech initiative was a failure and Lilli's problem is just a symptom of it.

I wonder what was the experience at Bain and BCG
by bonoboTP | 2026-03-11 20:56:34+00:00
Humans have more variability and "edge". If a person is passionately arguing for some point of view (perhaps somewhat outside the usual), it signals to me that they probably thought about this and it is a distillation of a long thought process and real-life experience. One could say that the logical argument should stand alone, but reality doesn't work that way. There are many things you have to implicitly trust and believe when you read. Of course lying and bullshitting already existed before ("nobody knows you're a dog" etc etc). But LLMs will really eloquently defend X, not X, X*0.5 and anything inbetween. There is no information content in it, it doesn't refer to an actual human life experience and opinion that someone wants to stand behind. It just means that someone made the LLM output a thing.
by chuckadams | 2026-03-11 20:56:38+00:00
The funny thing about the LinkedIn post is that the parody is dead-on as to the kind of mindless slop a human on LI would post. LinkedIn was the Dead Internet before LLMs were even a thing. And I guess AI doesn't even have to be posting everything for Dead Internet Theory to hold, it just has to be the default perception in order to cause everything to be treated skeptically.

I think I'll just take up blacksmithing.
by resters | 2026-03-11 20:56:50+00:00
I think it's similarly stupid to open source projects not accepting ai-generated code or pull requests. If the code is good, review it and accept it, if it's not, then don't. Same with HN comments. Reading is not such hard work that a literate person has to strain under the weight of ai-generated spam -- at least I haven't seen any concerning trends and I read HN often.
by derriz | 2026-03-11 20:57:03+00:00
Historically Lego was a construction toy. This is what it was in my youth. These days Lego sell model construction kits - most are constructed once and then the owner plays with the model. This represents a radical and fundamental change. I’m not sure when it happened or how suddenly it happened as there is a large (decades) gap in time since I played with Lego as a kid and my current exposure to Lego via my own kids. Our home is full of Lego models but I don’t recall seeing my kid using his vast amount (compared to the shoe box I used to store my Lego as a kid) of Lego to actually construct something. The “studless” change - with its inside-out building technique makes it virtually impossible to alter a model once built - unlike the old bottom-up approach where it’s trivial to alter. It makes me sad because I remember with nostalgia the hours I spent building all sorts of fanciful constructions with my box of generic Lego pieces but I also acknowledge that model building — which I do with my kids - is also fun. But it’s just not the same play/toy as it was years ago.
by Nevermark | 2026-03-11 20:57:10+00:00
That’s a reductive false-dichotomy.

There can be things that have fake, fraudulent or irresponsible aspects, associated with things that are real. Neither negates the other.

Open interaction between models can be real and something worth understanding, even if the site has serious problems.

All of Molt-world is riddled with lack of security. It is still a significant development, and some people are getting a lot of value out of it. At different levels of risk, depending on their defensive measures.
by moritzwarhier | 2026-03-11 20:57:16+00:00
> I just don't understand what's even intended by this.

I might be misinterpreting, but according to the landing page, this is the intention:

> Personal Computer gives Perplexity Computer and the Comet Assistant always-on, local access to your machine's files, apps, and sessions through a continuously running compact desktop.

> It's a persistent digital proxy of you. Controllable from any device, anywhere.

That being said, the grandeur and bombastic language also seems fitting for something less sinister, like an even worse version of MS Recall maybe? Combined with, let's say... agents!

That's it! You Personal Computer is your agent and not only may act on your behalf, it also communicates your preferences and intentions.

Futuristic, right?