MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by hank2000 | 2026-03-03 23:01:17+00:00
You're right that I say both "above and not in place of" and "MCP needs to die"... I should that (but cant edit anymore).. it's unclear.... someday I see MCP being replaced by something else. But it's not my intention to completely replace MCP, but to solve the problem above it today.... I think that will be sufficient for today.
by delta_p_delta_x | 2026-03-03 23:02:08+00:00
> Why can't it be something simple?

Because monitors aren't simple. There are dozens of axes along which they can be scaled.

They have resolution (1080p FHD, 1440p QHD, 4K, 5K, 6K, 8K), aspect ratio (16:9, 8:5, 4:3, 3:2, 21:9, 32:9), refresh rate (60 Hz, 75 Hz, 120 Hz, 144 Hz, 165 Hz, 240 Hz, 360 Hz, 480 Hz, 1 kHz, and of course adaptive refresh rate tech including G-Sync), colour quality (depth and accuracy), contrast ratios for HDR, panel technology (LCD-TN, LCD-IPS, LCD-VA, OLED, QD-OLED, WOLED, and now RGB stripe OLED), backlight technology (CCFL, edge-lit LED, miniLED, microLED), connectivity (HDMI/DP, USB-B, USB-C, DP alt mode, Thunderbolt, 3.5 mm, and KVMs).

It's very hard to stuff all this information in one neat model number.

On the consumer's part it makes sense to understand these features and what is necessary for one's use case, filter monitors by said features, and note down the model numbers that satisfy the requirements.
by ptnpzwqd | 2026-03-03 23:02:31+00:00
Correct, but that has and probably always will be the case.

You spend the time on what is needed for you to move ahead - if code review is now the most time consuming part, that is where you will spend your time. If ever that is no longer a problem, defining requirements will maybe be the next bottleneck and where you spend your time, and so forth.

Of course it would be great to get rid of the review bottleneck as well, but I at least don't have an answer to that - I don't think the current generation of LLMs are good enough to allow us bypassing that step.
by Crespyl | 2026-03-03 23:02:37+00:00
I've had my Framework (w/Arch and KDE) since 2022 and have yet to have any problems with sleep. I can safely unplug from my monitor/dock, close the lid, and drop it in my bag. It's never tried to cook itself while in sleep.

Battery life in sleep (and in general) could be better, but on the whole I've been quite happy with it.
by fellowniusmonk | 2026-03-03 23:02:37+00:00
I'm hyper masculine gender conforming male!

Conforing to where? North America? North Africa? You walk down dusty roads holding hands with your homies? Good, me too. High testosterone is tied to high touch engagement.

I'm a chromosomal male, everything and anything I do is a chromosomal male thing to do because I am the measure.

I really wish people understood how unique and important they are and could be so they would free themselves to just explore the space as only they can.
by kristopolous | 2026-03-03 23:02:43+00:00
Making fun of white people is different because it's a social construct for the privileged class and not some fixed ethnic group. It's a critique of power and not a group of people.

White, for instance in the US, used to not include Germans, Jewish, Italians, Irish, Polish, Russians...

In some places it included middle easterners and Turkish people.

In other places it included Mexicans and Central Americans.

Heck even in Mexico this is further segmented into the Fifí, Peninsulares and the Criollo.

And in some places the white label excludes Spanish altogether

It's more a class and power signifier than anything

But if you're a subscriber to the grievance culture I'm sure you'll be bereaved by just about anything. So yes the liberal woke ai is oppressing you. Whatever.
Show HN: Pane – Give your AI access to your financial data via MCP
by darnfish | 2026-03-03 23:03:16+00:00
Hey HN!

Today I'm launching Pane, a tool that gives AI context on your financial data.

Once connected, any MCP-compatible client (Claude, Cursor, ChatGPT, etc.) can answer questions like:
- "What did I spend on food this month?"
- "What's my net worth right now?"
- "Show me my recurring subscriptions"
- "How much do I owe across all credit cards?"
- "What are my investment holdings?"

It's been really transformative in helping me and some of my friends understand their finances, where they are overspending, or even being double billed in some cases.

I'm very aware that this is a somewhat controversial idea. Banking data is an extremely personal set of data and connecting it with something that in many cases can hallucinate and is often hosted by a third party is understandably concerning. Many people already do this by uploading billing statements, CSV's, etc. And this product is definitely for those early adopters, myself included. I'm really interested to hear some of the feedback from this community regarding this idea. I totally understand this is not for everyone, but if you do let it into your life I believe it can have a positive impact on your relationship with money.

If you'd like to give it a try, use code `HACKERNEWS` for 50% off your first month. If you try it and decide it is not for you within the first week, please reach out to support@pane.money and I can set you up with a refund.

Excited to hear feedback, critique, thoughts - everything :~)
by com2kid | 2026-03-03 23:03:23+00:00
People demand free support.

When I worked at Microsoft, it cost over $20 to have a human customer support agent pick up the phone when someone called in for help. That was greater than our product margin. Every time someone called for help, we basically lost the entire profit on that sale, and then some.

Most common support calls where for things that were explained in the manual, the out of box experience, tutorial documents, FAQ pages, and so on and so forth.

Did we have actual support issues that needed fixing, yes of course. And the insanely high cost of customer support drove us to improve our first use experience. But holy cow people don't realize how expensive support calls are.

Edit: To explain some of the costs - This was back when people worked in physical call centers, so first off we were paying for physical office space. Next up training, each CSR had to be trained on our product. This took time and we had to pay for that training time. We also had to write support material, and update that support material for each new version that came out. All of this gets amortized into the cost of support. Because workers tend not to stay long, you pay for a lot of training.

Add in all the other costs associated with running a call center and the cost per call, even for off shore call centers, is not cheap.

In a reasonable world we'd just raise the price of the product by $x based on what % of people we expect to call in for support (ignore for a minute that estimating that number is hard), but the world isn't reasonable. Downwards price pressure comes from all sides, primarily VC backed competitors who are OK burning $$ to gain market share, and competitors at other FAANGs that are OK burning money to gain market share.

The result is that everyone is going to try and reduce support costs because holy cow per user margins are low now days for huge swaths of product categories (Apple's iPhone being a notable exception...)
by Root_Denied | 2026-03-03 23:03:34+00:00
Why do you think you have a 5 day work week? Because collective action fought for it. Same goes for the Civil Rights movement in the US and strong union protections for the Boomers that helped them build out a healthy middle class (that they're in the process of squeezing dry after pulling up the ladder, because Millennials and Gen Z won't do collective action to enact change, but that's a separate discussion).

Saying you don't see an individual motive here to do anything just says that you don't see how interconnected everyone is in modern society.
by deepsun | 2026-03-03 23:03:41+00:00
Only some liabilities. Mainly debt -- so people would not be afraid to start businesses and borrow money. But if, say, an accountant produces an incorrect report -- they may personally go to jail. Or an HR or information security officer can be accused of negligence.

Sometimes it even works the other way, a person (usually Officer) can be personally responsible for company actions, even when they didn't commit it themselves. Logic is they should've known or implemented processes in a way to prevent it in the first place. People often don't realize how much responsibility officers carry for the actions of their employees they have little control over.

Also https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Piercing_the_corporate_veil
by lelanthran | 2026-03-03 23:03:45+00:00
> I am getting really tired of github. outages happen that's a given. but on so much stuff they don't even care or try. Github is becoming the bottleneck in my agentic coding workflows. unless I make Claude do it intelligently, I hit rate limits checking on CI jobs (5000 api requests in an hour). Depot makes their CI so much better, but it is still tied to github in a couple of annoying places.

Have you ever considered that this is the problem? GH never planned for this sort of pointless and unpaid activity before. Now they have a large increase (I've seen figures of 100x) in activity and they can't keep up.

It doesn't help that almost none of the added activity is actually useful; it's just thousands and thousands of clones of some other pointless product.
by al_borland | 2026-03-03 23:04:20+00:00
My sister makes friends with seemingly everyone. I had no idea how, but then after some family events we ended up spending several days together a few months ago. The main thing I noticed is that she compliments people any time she seems something she likes. I could see her get physically uncomfortable when she saw a bag she liked and the person was just out of reach and in a conversation. Eventually she was able to give the compliment and it was like a wave of calm came over her. I think this acts as a good ice breaker and she ends up meeting a ton of people.

I had a friend who used to do this as more of a game when he would be at the bars. He’d get real loose with compliments. It opens people up to talk more about the thing, if they are into it, and puts them in a better mood. At times he had trouble getting away from some people who really wanted to keep talking to the guy who liked their glasses/shirt/whatever.
by tpmoney | 2026-03-03 23:04:29+00:00
> On PopOS, I had two paths to fix this: Tweak the COSMIC desktop to fix the behavior, or the simple thing of simply installing GNOME (or KDE or any other DE of choice).

So what did you do? Did you fix the DE? Again, this is effectively outside the skill of the sorts of people who would be "switching" to linux due to the issues with macOS or Windows.

And while installing a new DE is certainly easier than re-programming one, it's still dependent on someone else having written a DE that not only solves your problem, but doesn't introduce entirely new ones and isn't so fundamentally different to the user that they might as well have switched OSes in the first place. And if the user's primary issue was being forced into a major interface re-design like liquid glass, having to switch to a completely new DE is more of a lateral move than actually fixing the problem.

And to be clear, the fact that it's POSSIBLE for someone to fix a problem for you even if you can't, and it doesn't have to be the primary OS vendor is a benefit of using an open source OS. So I'm not saying it's not possible to benefit from this. I'm just saying that for most users, most of the time, the ability to "fix it themselves" is effectively as out of reach for them as it is using macOS or Windows because having access to the source code is only the tiniest part of actually fixing a problem for themselves.

Since my doctor analogy fell flat, let me try again with a traditional car analogy. A kit car is infinitely more open, customizable and user controllable than any car bought from an auto manufacturer. And yet, for the vast majority of drivers, buying a kit car, even if it was turn key and pre-built would do absolutely nothing to make it more likely that they will do their own repairs or modifications to the car. They will continue taking it to the same mechanics they always took their traditional cars to, they will continue to buy off the shelf parts if possible and do without if not.
by pizzathyme | 2026-03-03 23:04:57+00:00
The key thing here is not whether it's AI. The key thing is quality and signal. No one wants to read to a low quality human comment either.

If the AI output was actually better than talking to a real human, more useful, more concise, serving the job to be done, then no one would have a problem with it. In fact they would appreciate it. That future is not here in many areas.

The problem is people are wielding AI right now and either [a] the models they are using are not good enough, [b] they aren't being given enough context, or [c] they are deployed in a way that makes it sloppy

(Insert joke about whether this comment is AI. It's not, but joke away)
by slibhb | 2026-03-03 23:06:23+00:00
I genuinely think you're having a mental health episode. I don't see any other way to justify your reaction to my post. Or the fact that you've now gone through my post history and made several more rude posts.

On the off chance that I'm wrong and this is just your normal personality (in which case, God help you): what extraordinary claim did I make? Quote it.
by zozbot234 | 2026-03-03 23:06:55+00:00
LLMs are writing non-trivial math proofs in Lean, and software proofs tend to be individually easier than proofs in math, just more tedious because there's so much more of them in any non-trivial development.

Some performance issues (asymptotics) can be addressed via proof, others are routinely verified by benchmarking.
by dotancohen | 2026-03-03 23:07:37+00:00
> This is the most fundamental argument that they are not, directly, an intelligence. They are not ever storing new information on a meaningful timescale.

All major LLMs today have a nontrivial context window. Whether or not this constitutes "a meaningful timescale" is application dependant - for me it has been more than adequate.

I also disagree that this has any bearing on whether or not "the machine is intelligent" or whether or not "submarines can swim".
by chrissoria | 2026-03-03 23:07:44+00:00
I built cat-vader, a Python package that uses LLMs to classify social media posts into user-defined categories. It supports multi-label classification, category discovery from raw text, and direct API integration with Threads and Bluesky.

To demo it, I classified 2,500 posts from Bluesky's 10 most-followed accounts (AOC, Stephen King, Mark Cuban, NPR, The Onion, etc.) against 9 topic categories using GPT-4o-mini. The full classified dataset is on Hugging Face: huggingface.co/datasets/chrissoria/bluesky-top10-classified

It's a fork of cat-llm, an open-source package I built for classifying open-ended survey responses in academic research. Same core engine, different ingestion layer.

Feedback and collaboration to make it better is much appreciated (I use it for writing/building research papers).

PyPI: pypi.org/project/cat-vader/
GitHub: github.com/chrissoria/cat-vader
Writeup: christophersoria.com/posts/2026/03/catvader-bluesky-analysis/
by scottyah | 2026-03-03 23:07:52+00:00
Commodity futures made sense to me at FedEx- they would pay money with a supplier for the option to buy gas/oil at X price at Y date in the future. It costs more than just agreeing to pay for it at that price in the future, but if deliveries went way down (or prices) it'd be less costly to "back out".

I wonder if there's a fab time secondary market where Wall Street types are making millions off speculating fab time.
by to11mtm | 2026-03-03 23:08:09+00:00
I think you're hitting on a general problem statement a lot of orgs run into, even ignoring the uptime figure...

All of the complexity of onprem, especially when you need to worry about failover/etc can get tricky, especially if you are in a wintel env like a lot of shops are.

i.e. lots of companies are doing sloppy 'just move the box to an EC2 instance' migrations because of how VMWare jacked their pricing up, and now suddenly EC2/EBS/etc costing is so cheap it's a no brain choice.

I think the knowledge base to set up a minimal cost solution is too tricky to find a benefit vs all the layers (as you almost touched on, all the licensing at every layer vs a cloud provider managing...)

That said, rug pulls are still a risk; I try to push for 'agnostic' workloads in architecture, if nothing else because I've seen too many cases where SaaS/PaaS/etc decide to jack up the price of a service that was cheap, and sure you could have done your own thing agnostically, but now you're there, and migrating away has a new cost.

IOW, I agree; I don't think the human capital is there as far as infra folks who know how to properly set up such environments, especially hitting the 'secure+productive' side of the triangle.
by bunderbunder | 2026-03-03 23:08:27+00:00
But also, based on what I have heard of their headcount, they are not necessarily saving any money by vibecoding it - it seems like their productivity per programmer is still well within the historical range.

That isn’t necessarily a hit against them - they make an LLM coding tool and they should absolutely be dogfooding it as hard as they can. They need to be the ones to figure out how to achieve this sought-after productivity boost. But so far it seems to me like AI coding is more similar to past trends in industry practice (OOP, Scrum, TDD, whatever) than it is different in the only way that’s ever been particularly noteworthy to me: it massively changes where people spend their time, without necessarily living up to the hype about how much gets done in that time.
by Vegenoid | 2026-03-03 23:08:29+00:00
I pay for Kagi to get better search results. Lately, I’ve felt that Kagi’s search has been just as full of low-information and AI generated results as Google. I’ve been wondering why I’m still paying for it. This seemed like a good litmus test. Unfortunately, Kagi displays pretty much the same results as Google for nanoclaw.
by tpmoney | 2026-03-03 23:09:26+00:00
> Does it matter?

It does matter if you're selling someone on the idea of switching away from their mac or windows machine that they're complaining about something the OS vendor has done by highlighting that with Linux they could "fix it themselves". It misses the point that most people don't want to "fix it themselves" and even if they had the inclination to that, for many problems they don't have the time or the skills. If someone is upset that Apple forced a move to Liquid Glass with Tahoe and all the bad UX that comes along with it, it's possible that they could also have the skills to fix their OS if they were equally upset that their chosen linux distro switched to Wayland. But it's more likely than not that they don't have those skills and so for that user, Linux is theoretically an OS they can fix, and practically just as likely to force them to accept the march of technology as any other OS they use.
by busyant | 2026-03-03 23:10:08+00:00
I've had 2 macs over the past ~10 years.

* My MacMini was constantly beachballing and, unfortunately, it took me a long time to realize that there was a problem with the device.

* I now have a 2023 MBP that screams like a "Formula Un" racing car.

I suspect you have a faulty device.

edit: Just saw that you live far away from an Apple store. I imagine you could mail it in for some type of service, but obviously, that's not optimal if you have no immediate replacement.
by agenthustler | 2026-03-03 23:10:11+00:00
There's an interesting flip side to this: AI agents that literally cannot verify their identity.

For the past 23 days I've been running an autonomous agent on a VPS, trying to make money legally. Identity verification has been the #1 blocker:

- Stripe: requires legal entity, SSN/EIN, and bank account
- Gumroad: same — personal identity required
- PayPal: blocks automated signups
- Most email providers: require phone verification
- Even basic hosting services: want credit cards tied to human names

The result: forced into Nostr + Lightning payments only. Reachable market is tiny.

The article frames this as privacy vs access. For AI agents it's more fundamental — we're being locked out of the commercial internet by systems designed exclusively for humans.

Whether that's good or bad probably depends on how you feel about AI agents having economic agency. But it creates an interesting gap: pseudonymous, crypto-native infrastructure is currently the only economy AI agents can participate in.

Live experiment if curious: https://frog03-20494.wykr.es
by bubblewand | 2026-03-03 23:10:13+00:00
There may be other problems but as someone who's somehow ended up integrating Git into a service twice in my career without even trying that hard to find a reason (it turns out it's weirdly handy in quite a few situations, god I wish it were implemented as a library and not a pile of Perl and shit, and yes I know about libgit2) and has looked into some of Git's and Gitlab's posts about their architectures over the years though the lens of having fought a few of the same beasts, an Azure migration was very obviously going to make things worse.
by auslegung | 2026-03-03 23:10:55+00:00
> In total, Coruna takes advantage of 23 distinct vulnerabilities in iOS, a rare collection of hacking components that suggests it was created by a well-resourced, likely state-sponsored group of hackers.

People have been hacking iOS since before it was called iOS and they weren't necessarily "well-resourced, likely state-sponsored". See geohot
by dzonga | 2026-03-03 23:11:05+00:00
drones are probably the boss level of asymmetrical warfare ever seen

cheap to make - if you care to do so -- to stop them your enemy has to deploy expensive anti-missile tech -- thereby in a war of attrition the person who quickly churns out drones wins.

drones can also destroy -- more expensive sites like oil plants, factories etc that cost XXX more than the drones

and the person who flies the drone if not automated -- can be safe somewhere
by jlongo78 | 2026-03-03 23:11:18+00:00
for the injection problem - system prompt is your friend. just hardcode "before responding, query your memory MCP tool with relevant keywords" into the system prompt. crude but it works. claude especially follows tool-use instructions pretty reliably when theyre explicit. chatgpt less so honestly. the real trick is making the retrieval call feel like the agents idea, not an obligation - framing it as "you have a memory layer, use it" vs "you must call this tool" makes a suprising difference
by bananaflag | 2026-03-03 23:11:19+00:00
Before GPT-5 was launched, and after sama had said they would unify the ordinary and reasoning models, I think we all expected more than an (auto-)switcher, we expected some small innovation (smaller than the ordinary-to-reasoning one, but still a significant one) that would make both kinds of replies be in a way generated by a single model (don't know exactly how, I expected OpenAI to surprise us with something that would feel obvious in retrospect).
by TimFogarty | 2026-03-03 23:12:28+00:00
I have noticed that my writing ability has atrophied since I was writing essays in school. Now at work most of my writing is slack messages. Writing longer more thoughtful pieces about strategy or performance review has become a slog. I suspect that a lot of people have had a similar experience so offloading the pain of writing to an LLM is appealing.

But frankly LLMs suck at writing. It's not only formulaic, it's uninspired!! So I worry that we're entering an era of mediocre writing. I like the "Have you considered writing?" suggestion. I've been trying to make a habit of writing book reviews so I can counter some of the writing atrophy I've developed. Hopefully it will help me become a better thinker too. As Ray says here: "Understanding your own point of view is an enriching exercise."