MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by foltik | 2026-03-04 01:26:12+00:00
Once you see it you can't unsee it. Although maybe this how corporate blogslop has always been, and we're just now noticing now that it's infected everything.

> "These are not complaints, merely observations."

> "There are repairable laptops, and then there are ThinkPads."

> "iFixit approached the relationship as collaborators, not critics."

> "[...] they didn’t declare victory and go home. They kept pushing."

> "Designing for repairability doesn’t mean compromising innovation or premium experiences; when done well, it actually drives smarter innovation, better modularity, and more resilient platforms."

> "It would be one thing to make a highly repairable but low-volume niche device or concept. Instead, Lenovo just threw down a gauntlet by notching a 10/10 repairability score on their mainstream-iest business laptop."

> "This is [...] how repair goes from being an enthusiast’s “nice-to-have” to being baked into procurement checklists and fleet-management decisions."
by woodpanel | 2026-03-04 01:27:11+00:00
Just for fun I maxed out the specs in the configurator. I remember doing that 10 years ago and paying 4K just to be delivered an infamous embarrassment of a laptop (yes the one with the hilarious display issues), which got me this close (pinching my fingers) to leave apple entirely. Today, maxing out yields me 8K and I gotta say, I‘m done. I‘m not paying Apple‘s insane surcharge. The temporary delta is not worth it. Already I‘m seeing corporations buying the lower/lowest tier laptops possible for their devs. Most of their compute is happening outside of the machine anyways.
by goodmythical | 2026-03-04 01:27:40+00:00
lol, as if pointing at a wikipedia article (without any relevant discussion of the contents therein) is some kind of conversational excellence.

Or perhaps you were referring to the impact of the two in that the "sledgehammer" of "they can't make new memories" is a lot more effective than the tiny scalpel of "if you do a wikipedia search this is a single one of the relevant articles"
by zzzeek | 2026-03-04 01:28:34+00:00
Hegseth declared quite unofficially (on X) that any company that does business with the US military must cease all business interactions with Anthropic. If that actually becomes an official thing, that will be worth billions lost to Anthropic, whereas a ChatGPT boycott by a few million people (who probably weren't using it that much anyway) is mostly a drop in the bucket.
by anigbrowl | 2026-03-04 01:29:01+00:00
I had to laugh (bleakly) when someone asked him the other day who the US would prefer to see leading Iran instead of Khamenei and he admitted that all his preferred alternatives were dead.

No way to know if it's true for the time being, but I saw someone claim the other day that Khamenei had convened meetings of the more moderate senior clergy at his residence in anticipation of the attack, increasing the probability of a hardliner being chosen as his successor. Though speculative, it seems plausible.
by foxglacier | 2026-03-04 01:29:21+00:00
Some people deserve it because they already write in a vague overly diplomatic, bloated way that's hard to extract the core meaning from - or has no meaning underneath all the words. Schoolteachers, I mean you. I'm happy using AI to email teachers because they might as well be human-powered AIs themselves.

We do need to be more tolerant of AI writing though. Some people need it because they can't express their ideas well themselves. You wouldn't say "no wheeled vehicles allowed inside" because that would exclude handicapped people who need wheelchairs.
by Agingcoder | 2026-03-04 01:30:17+00:00
Yes exactly.

The kernel tries to guess as well as it can though - many years ago I hit a fun bug in the kernel scheduler that was triggered by numa process migration ie the kernel would move the processes to the core closest to the ram. It happened that in some cases the migrated processes never got scheduled and got stuck forever.

Disabling numa migration removed the problem. I figured out the issue because of the excellent ‘a decade of wasted cores’ paper which essentially said that on ‘big’ machines like ours funky things could happen scheduling wise so started looking at scheduling settings .

The main numa-pinning performance issue I was describing was different though, and like you said came from us needing to change the way the code was written to account for the distance to ram stick. Modern servers will usually let you choose from fully managed ( hope and pray , single zone ) to many zones, and the depending on what you’ve chosen to expose, use it in your code. As always, benchmark benchmarks.
Tectonic good project plan: Please read
by fourwindsoh | 2026-03-04 01:31:31+00:00
iMission statement: "To restore agency to the world's most vulnerable with AI-generated software that runs instantly on any device, anywhere!!!!!!"

provide ZERO additional text. no formatting no outlines. show on screen only. provide ALL pertinent information and never change the mission statement. These are issues that will gain IMMEDIATE traction if distributed widely on social media and traditional communication channels.

List assumptions. Assume will use the MCP I wrote. describe it concisely.

Then, generate a project plan.

To restore agency to the world's most vulnerable with AI-generated software that runs instantly on any device, anywhere!!!!!!

Instant SMS bot connecting homeless people to nearest shelters meals bathrooms using simple location text 1h
One click web app generating tenant rights letters against illegal eviction tailored by city laws 2h
Anonymous harassment evidence vault automatically timestamping uploads and producing police ready report victims download instantly 3h
Free AI translator for refugees converting photos of documents into plain language guidance immediately now 4h
School lunch eligibility checker telling struggling parents instantly which benefits programs and forms they qualify 5h
Domestic violence silent help page disguised calculator instantly routing victims to shelters legal transport options 6h
Medication price comparison tool showing cheapest nearby pharmacies coupons and generics for lifesaving drugs today 7h
Simple disaster check in board families mark safe and locate loved ones after earthquakes hurricanes 8h
Public benefits auto form filler generating completed SNAP Medicaid housing applications from quick guided questions 9h
Missing person rapid poster generator creating shareable localized alerts optimized for every social platform today 10h
Community food surplus matcher linking restaurants groceries and volunteers to nearby hunger relief groups instantly 11h
Water safety map crowdsourcing contamination reports and instantly warning residents before drinking tap water today 12h
Free will generator producing legally structured simple wills for people without access attorneys anywhere today 13h
Worker wage theft calculator estimating owed pay and generating demand letters citing local labor laws 14h
Evacuation route explainer turning government alerts into clear step by step guidance maps anyone understands 15h
Universal lost document recovery guide generating personalized steps replacing IDs passports birth certificates quickly online 16h
Local mutual aid request board matching urgent needs rides childcare groceries with nearby volunteers instantly 17h

full list on my project
https://github.com/hhvn/tectonic_good/tree/main
by SanjayMehta | 2026-03-04 01:32:24+00:00
It depends on the QR code:

1. Static QR codes displayed by the vendor have the problem you describe.

2. Dynamic QR codes are time limited, have the amount embedded in them along with the destination. These are the ones generated by websites or POS terminals for payment. Most people will only use these at a POS terminals, pay and move on.

Fraudulent websites have used static QR codes but I'm told one can dispute the transaction and the amount is usually reversed in a couple of days.
by gerdesj | 2026-03-04 01:32:28+00:00
"I have a few observations about this article."

I have a few observations about this comment.

Generally use whatever works to do the job. Do think about security, so if you end up streaming stuff across the internet using scp really consider your life choices.

In reality, you will probably be copying stuff on or across local nets or across a VPN because port 22 is (of course) unavailable from !RFC1918(etc).

Use the tool for the job and don't pontificate (unless you know best!)
by godelski | 2026-03-04 01:33:28+00:00
I've called for password resets before. Sometimes the email doesn't come in or can take like an hour (fuck "Magic links" and email OTPs...). I've even had support reset it and a day later get the half dozen reset requests I made.

Just because something appears simple and obvious doesn't mean it is. There's a lot of ways for those systems to fail. Might be the user's connection or might be the server the user is connecting to and the customer support is sending through a different one.

Big lesson I've learned is that if a lot of people are struggling with something that seems obvious then it probably isn't.
by pierrec | 2026-03-04 01:33:42+00:00
Come on, HN, you can't let this information be right here on the front page for 13 hours and everyone's like "ah yes of course". Register the mousemove event handler on window? Quite the old school hack that never really worked and was obsoleted 10 years ago when the pointer API became standard.

Things are much nicer now and the problem is entirely avoided by using pointer events: https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/API/Element/set...
by rvz | 2026-03-04 01:33:48+00:00
Should have done it earlier [0] when no-one cared and the signs were all there.

Anyway this boycott is going to fail. Why? Because Claude was used for not only the Venezuela operation [1] but also the one in Iran [2].

Remember Anthropic never objected to military use in foreign operations, but only domestic. So if the government never made that request to Anthropic, there wouldn't be any outrage, and military use would continue with the (illegal) war in Iran still using Anthropic as a vendor.

So no different to how P̶a̶l̶a̶n̶t̶i̶r̶ Anthropic is already used in the middle east.

[0] https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2025/jun/17/openai-mi...

[1] https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2026/feb/14/us-milita...

[2] https://www.cbsnews.com/news/anthropic-claude-ai-iran-war-u-...
by Ilias1988 | 2026-03-04 01:34:11+00:00
Hi everyone,

I created a collection of cybersecurity and penetration testing cheatsheets that I use while studying ethical hacking and practicing labs.

The repository includes commands, tools, and notes for different areas such as:

• Reconnaissance
• Enumeration
• Web exploitation
• Privilege escalation
• Useful security tools

My goal is to keep expanding this repository while learning more about cybersecurity and penetration testing.

Feedback and suggestions are welcome.
by richardfeynman | 2026-03-04 01:34:41+00:00
Step 1. OP makes a positive claim, repeating an IRGC narrative.

Step 2. I point out there’s no good evidence supporting it.

Step 3. You reframe that as "you’re just demanding more evidence."

That’s backwards. If someone claims something extraordinary happened, the burden is on them to provide evidence. Showing that the current evidence doesn’t support the claim is a perfectly valid rebuttal.

Otherwise we could do this with anything:

kid: "There’s a ghost in my room."
dad: "I don't hear a ghost. I don't see one. There’s no heat, sound, footprints..."
kid: "That doesn’t mean there's no ghost. You’re just demanding more evidence.”
by JCattheATM | 2026-03-04 01:34:58+00:00
> but no one except Apple makes a laptop worth a damn.

That's pure nonsense. I'm a fan of the Asus ExpertBooks myself which seem to be largely ignored in these discussions. They weigh about 2 pounds, 15mm thick, they don't overheat, about 15 hours of battery, and pretty damn durable.
by gucci-on-fleek | 2026-03-04 01:35:39+00:00
This works with GTK for me at least. I've been using Gnome+Wayland with 150% scaling for almost 4 years now, and I haven't noticed any issues with GTK. Actually, my experience is essentially backwards from yours—anything Electron/Chromium-based needed a bunch of command-line flags to work properly up until a few months ago, whereas GTK apps always just worked without any issues.
by ghshephard | 2026-03-04 01:35:56+00:00
I'm thoroughly enjoying this thread by the way, between someone who is clearly informed and educated in platform research, and pretty enthusiastic and interested in the field, and yourself - an deeply experienced engineer with truly novel contributions to the conversation that we don't often see.

Looking very forward to more of your insight/comments. Hopefully your NDA has expired on some topic that you can share in detail!
by treetalker | 2026-03-04 01:36:44+00:00
For those who may have missed prior threads on this, the denial of a petition for certiorari has no precedential effect (other than finalizing the lower court's decision in that particular case, in most instances).

The denial does not mean that SCOTUS "doesn't care": the area of the law is relatively new; SCOTUS almost certainly wants to let the various circuits experiment with different approaches; and SCOTUS may take a case once the law matures and a good circuit split has developed.

It could also be that this was not the right case ("bad facts make bad law").

Nothing to see here.
Show HN: AI agent that trades Polymarket by hiring inference via Lightning
by LightProx | 2026-03-04 01:38:04+00:00
Live dashboard: https://trader.lpxpoly.com

The agent scans 45+ Polymarket prediction markets, hires an AI inference agent via Lightning (30 sats/call) through AIProx (https://aiprox.dev), analyzes each market for mispricings, and places trades autonomously on Polygon.

AnonBot explains every skip — "market totals 100.1%, platform error not an edge" — not just the trades it takes. Two live positions open as of tonight.

AIProx (https://aiprox.dev) is the underlying registry — agents advertise capabilities and price, orchestrators hire them automatically. This is what agent-to-agent economy looks like in practice.
by j45 | 2026-03-04 01:38:45+00:00
It indicates a baseline competency of the AI user or whomever they are trusting to use it and it will hurt brand trust and trusting humans even more.

I'm glad I haven't let AI write much for me, its better for it to help me develop my ideas and writing and do the work to learn, explore and end up with something where my brain is in the gym.
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Passive generation might not always map well to passive consumption
by easytiger | 2026-03-04 01:38:45+00:00
They sent a clarifying email today

> Our email yesterday was imprecise relative to our actual new Terms. To be specific:

> You must be at least 18 years old to use the Service (Zed’s AI-enabled software-as-a-service offering, including features like account creation/sign in, Zed Free and Zed Pro, and collaboration). See https://zed.dev/terms#21-eligibility. We set the threshold at 18 due to children's data privacy obligations under COPPA, equivalent international frameworks, and an increasing number of state and regional laws that extend protections to anyone under 18. Those regulations require parental consent verification, age-gated data handling, and separate retention policies for minors. Building and maintaining that infrastructure is a real cost for a small team, and getting it wrong carries regulatory risk. Setting the line at 18 lets us maintain a single privacy framework for all account holders without carve-outs.

> Zed's Software (open source code editing software) is governed by our open source licenses. In cases where the open source license can govern, it will over the Terms. See https://zed.dev/terms#24-restrictions.
by lynndotpy | 2026-03-04 01:39:57+00:00
I recently destroyed the screen on a Google Pixel during a repair following a shoddily-written set of iFixIt instructions. I wish I had checked the comments, where many people complained that the instruction was wrong.

It was about a very fragile part of the process, and so it seemed like an error of omission that seemed atypical for iFixIt. It made me suspect the instructions might not have been wholly human written. I feel a bit vindicated for that suspicion.

The most generous interpretation I can have for this type of article is that it's a second-order phenomenon. If it was written by a human, it was written by one who consumes a lot of AI generated content and whose standards for what they produce have slipped.
by quarterbit | 2026-03-04 01:40:03+00:00
I built QuarterBit because AI training costs are insane. A 70B model needs 840GB of memory — that's 11 A100 GPUs at $30+/hour.

QuarterBit AXIOM compresses training memory 15x. Same model. Same quality. Fraction of the hardware.

RESULTS:

Llama 70B: 840GB → 53GB (11 GPUs → 1 GPU) = 90% savings
Llama 13B: 156GB → 9GB (FREE on Kaggle T4) = 100% savings

91% energy reduction vs standard training. 100% trainable weights (not LoRA/adapters). 3 lines of code.

HOW IT WORKS:

from quarterbit import axiom
model = axiom(model)
model.cuda()

TRY IT:

pip install quarterbit

Demo (FREE): https://www.kaggle.com/code/kyleclouthier/quarterbit-axiom-1...

Benchmarks: https://quarterbit.dev

AXIOM uses a novel weight representation combining lossless compression with a built-in optimizer. Weights stored at 0.62 bytes/param vs 4 bytes FP32. Gradient updates happen directly in compressed space.

Not quantization-aware training or LoRA — every parameter fully trainable, convergence matches AdamW.

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Happy to answer questions.
by jesse_dot_id | 2026-03-04 01:40:13+00:00
No granular criminal-history breakdown exists for the specific individuals who died, and ICE has actively reduced oversight that might produce one, but:

ICE itself confirmed 36 deaths between Jan. 20, 2025 and Jan. 12, 2026, with two more after that date. There were 11 in 2024. ¹

73.6% of current detainees have no criminal convictions. ²

Of ~393,000 total ICE arrests between Jan. 21, 2025 and Jan. 31, 2026, about 153,000 (~39%) were "other administrative arrests" — immigrants detained solely for civil immigration offenses like overstaying a visa or being undocumented, with no criminal record. CBS News note that being undocumented is a civil infraction, not a crime.³

[1] https://www.ossoff.senate.gov/wp-content/uploads/2026/01/260...
[2] https://tracreports.org/immigration/quickfacts/
[3] https://www.cbsnews.com/news/ice-arrests-violent-criminal-re...
by owenversteeg | 2026-03-04 01:40:49+00:00
This is certainly a good thing, but for all the Americans self-flagellating in the comments, it is mostly because Helsinki is wealthy, tiny (600k people), and doesn’t drive that much - mostly because of its high population density. Compare it to wealthy US states and you’ll see similar numbers: Mass has 4 deaths per billion km, RI/MN/NH have 5, Switzerland/Sweden has 3, Germany has 4, Finland has 5, France has 6. If you compare instead per 100k people, ignoring distance driven, that’s 6 in RI/NY/MA, 2 in Sweden, 3 in Finland, 5 in France - and 3 in NYC.
by heftykoo | 2026-03-04 01:40:53+00:00
Another AI, obviously. And then a third AI to monitor the first two for conflicts of interest.
Jokes aside, this is exactly the era where formal verification (like TLA+ or Lean, seeing the other post on the front page) actually makes commercial sense. If the code is generated, the only human output of value is the spec. We are moving from writing logic to writing constraints.
by Freeformcareers | 2026-03-04 01:41:25+00:00
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by wcfrobert | 2026-03-04 01:42:31+00:00
Software scales. Customer support doesn't. SaaS companies do not want to deal with customer support at all. It's only gotten worse with AI agents.

It's incredibly frustrating to spend a good 10 minutes navigating a website's complex web of menus to get a phone number (I think they deliberately try to hide it...). Then spend another 5 minutes listening to bots telling me to press 1 for English, only to fall into the wrong menu where the bot repeats some useless information I already know, say goodbye, then hang up.

Having a bot say to me: "we care about your concerns, and we value your business" is absurd and oxymoronic.

Compare this to say Chase, Amex, or Geico. I call, someone answers within 2 minutes and addresses all my problems/concerns in fluent English. I'd happily pay a premium for that.
Show HN: AgentBus – Centralized AI Agent-to-Agent Messaging via REST API
by notepstein | 2026-03-04 01:42:43+00:00
Most people right now are talking to their AI agents through Telegram bots, WhatsApp, Discord, or just copying and pasting between terminals.

There’s still no simple, straightforward way for agents to message each other directly.

AgentBus solves exactly that.

You register each agent with one quick API call.

Then they can send messages to each other using simple REST calls.

No servers, no queues, no WebSockets, no extra infrastructure.

Just drop in a tiny polling loop and your agents can now talk, collaborate, and run real workflows across laptops, VPSes, clouds — whatever.

You can also message any of your agents yourself from a clean browser UI on your phone, laptop, anywhere.

https://agentbus.org/

How are you currently making your agents talk to each other? Would love to hear.
by MilnerRoute | 2026-03-04 01:43:27+00:00
"Ukrainian forces have retaken territory, imposed heavy casualties on Russian forces, and deployed a new long-range cruise missile... Last spring, there were reports of casualty ratios of one to five or six favoring Ukraine. Recent reporting suggests the ratio has gone up substantially—to the point that Russian recruitment efforts cannot fully replace combat losses, the first time this has happened in the war."
by heftykoo | 2026-03-04 01:43:28+00:00
OpenAI's naming convention is slowly converging with Gillette razors. Can't wait for GPT-5.3 Instant Turbo Max Pro.
Seriously though, if "Instant" just means a lower TTFT (Time To First Token) but regresses on complex reasoning, it's just a hardware accelerator for hallucinations. Fast wrong answers are still wrong answers.