MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by dbmikus | 2026-03-13 21:29:43+00:00
From the article, it looks like they integrated with Docker because someone at Docker reached out about collaborating on the integration.

Regarding security, I think you need three things:

1. You need the agent to run inside a sandbox.
2. You need a safe perimeter or proxy that can apply deterministic filtering rules on what makes it into the AI agent's sandbox and the HTTP requests and responses that agent sends out from the sandbox.
3. The bot should have its own email accounts, or maybe be configured to only send/read from certain email addresses

I'm working on a product that makes it as easy to spin up remote agent sandboxes as it is to git push and git pull. Then when we get that working well we're putting a proxy around each sandbox to let users control filtering rules.

I personally see a future where there are many different types of *Claws, coding agents, etc. and I think they need a new "operating system", so to speak.

Self-plug at the end: https://github.com/gofixpoint/amika. The OSS part of my startup, focused on sandbox coding agents right now :)

PS: I enjoyed the entropytown.com blog! bookmarking it
by ricardoahague | 2026-03-13 21:30:01+00:00
I built ChronologyAI to explore a simple idea: extracting timelines from narrative documents and detecting contradictions in event sequences.

The engine converts narrative text into structured chronological events and highlights impossible sequences or conflicts.

Example:

Input:
"John arrived at the office at 8 PM. The meeting started at 7 PM. John says he attended the meeting."

Output:

Timeline
7:00 PM — Meeting started
8:00 PM — John arrived

Contradiction detected: John claims attendance before arrival.

The goal is to support document analysis in areas like investigations, legal review, and compliance analysis.

Future features planned:
• timeline visualization
• multi-document timeline merging
• contradiction detection across sources

Feedback and suggestions are welcome.
by throwaway5752 | 2026-03-13 21:30:42+00:00
Musk

* gave a Nazi Sigg Heil salute (twice) at a political even, on video. Famously.

* has consistently supported a German political party that re-uses Nazi slogans, minimizes or outright denies the Holocaust, minimizes the criminality of the SS

* frequently and consistently upvotes posts on X echoing white supremacist and Nazi ideology on his social media site

* owns the most popular site for neo-Nazis

To say "is not backed up by any kind of connection to reality" is actually verifiably false. I can't say anything about the other words, but there is evidence for miles that he is sympathetic to Nazi ideology.

And this is directly relevant here. It can't be ignored when you are talking about his business, or you have an elephant in the room. His personal flaws and meglomaniacal executive style are a package deal.
Show HN: Better HN – Realtime Comment Updates and Cleaner Look
by xpl | 2026-03-13 21:31:07+00:00
I'm sharing a userscript for for those who read the HN comments section a lot:

1. Updates comments without reloading the page — instantly see new ones as they appear.

2. Cleaner comment topline for less distraction — shows controls only when you hover over the topline.

There is a preview gif of how it looks in the README.
by daveguy | 2026-03-13 21:31:52+00:00
He doesn't have to fiddle with the model because he gets to inject his own opinion into the context MitM style.

But I get what you're saying now, a fact checker available to query during an online discussion would be helpful. Assuming the checkerbot was actually independent/neutral and backed responses with sources. Definitely not assumptions you can make with grok.
by xenadu02 | 2026-03-13 21:32:48+00:00
The list of companies imploded by LBO/PE is quite high though. Why do banks keep lining up to fund such deals? They must be making money somehow. These companies aren't worth much in liquidation. Are they able to extract enough value during the dead-man-walking period to make it worthwhile? Especially for retail or similar deals where the bank isn't going to foreclose on a bunch of real estate or assets worth selling.

I was not saying this is how they make money - I was saying I honestly don't know. If you do know please share. I would love to understand why the banks are so keen to fund what looks to my eyes like super shady vulture capitalism. We start with a profitable company and end with a smoking husk. The Wall Street guys are doing it to steal as much value as they can before it all blows up. Someone is eating the eventual loss. Who? Or are you saying the majority of these deals don't end up with the company being eviscerated?
by em-bee | 2026-03-13 21:33:18+00:00
some people are working on that, among others there is bruce perens: https://web.archive.org/web/20251206160538/https://perens.co... (sadly his site seems broken, the static files still work however: https://perens.com/static/DEVELOPMENT_LICENSE.txt )

FUTO is also exploring this space: https://sourcefirst.com/
by iLemming | 2026-03-13 21:33:49+00:00
So, the trivia behind the name is interesting. It all starts with a project called "Mjolnir" (Thor's Hammer). The original idea was for a lightweight automation engine with pluggable architecture. Someone wished to have "batteries included" version, the author said they're not interested in that direction, so the fork was born. What's meant to be a hard-fork, so really not a fork, but rather a "spoon", hence the name.
by girvo | 2026-03-13 21:34:04+00:00
At work I regularly hit my 7.5mil tokens per hour limit one of our tools has, and have to switch model of tool, and I’m not even really a remotely heavy user. I think people don’t realise how many tokens get burned with CoT and tool calls these days

At 7.5mil per hour hard limit, 84 days to hit the grandparents $3k

That said local models really are slow still, or fast enough and not that great
by themafia | 2026-03-13 21:34:12+00:00
> and they can probably deprive him of the floor the second he starts to say anything "interesting".

So, move the show off the floor, never has it been easier to reach the population as an individual. Are the citizens that enraptured by "the floor" as it is? It seems to me, that if you were serious, this would be no problem at all.

> there are serious problems with the way Congress is organized

None of that is dictated by the constitution. You can change the way committees work overnight if you want. Some would argue that this happened in the 1970s and 1990s when party politics fully invaded what used to be assignments of seniority and experience.

> but there's probably a reason

Corruption. It's worth a lot of money to certain people. You can either design that out of the system or reduce the total power of that system relative to the population.

I'm not sure you can do much until you get down to the bedrock problems here.
by jfengel | 2026-03-13 21:34:28+00:00
Effectively, it's a continuation of the Gaza and Ukraine wars.

Israel and Iran have been fighting for years, with Iran generally using various intermediaries. The October 7 attacks were orchestrated and funded by Iran.

Having spent several years punishing the Gazans for it, Israel is moving on to Iran itself. It has enlisted the help of the US, who are going along with it for a variety of reasons.

One of those reasons is Ukraine. Iran has been helping arm Russia, and evade sanctions. The Ukraine war has been called "World War III" for four years now, pitting the West against a coalition of opposing forces, of which Iran has long been one.

This is the best I can do to "sanewash" it. In fact, a good chunk of it is arrogance, stupidity, warmongering, and distraction.
Show HN: Agents shouldn't operate software–they should coordinate commitments
by csehammad | 2026-03-13 21:34:34+00:00
I've been working on Covenant Layer — an open protocol and framework for shifting AI agent systems from tool orchestration to outcome coordination.

The core idea: agents shouldn't operate software step by step. They should publish objectives, compare competing provider offers, accept the best one under policy, and let providers fulfill outcomes with evidence and settlement.

Why this matters: we're still building agents as "software operators" — better interns that click through UIs and call APIs. That forces probabilistic models to produce deterministic side effects. The failure modes (wrong clicks, prompt injection, "probably right" becoming "committed") keep piling up.

https://github.com/csehammad/covenant-layer

Covenant Layer moves the edge from procedures to commitments. The agent handles intent, comparison, approval. The provider handles execution, evidence, accountability.

What's in the repo:
- Protocol spec
- Rust + Solidity implementation (onboarding, conformance, registry)
- E2E demo: JFK→CDG flight booking with 3 competing providers on Base Sepolia
- Architecture diagrams and security rationale

Early draft. Would love feedback on the model, weak assumptions, or missing pieces.
by gkfasdfasdf | 2026-03-13 21:35:35+00:00
The grok button on twitter is pretty awesome. Instantly summarize / explain any tweet, even memes, including replies. Ask follow up questions. Not sure many people know it's there.

Also grok in the Tesla is fun, get answers to questions without looking at a phone. I once had it search up a blog post and read it out to me while driving. The NSFW mode is pretty...disgusting so I leave that off.

I hope they find a way with Optimus or something. FSD is incredible. More competition is a good thing.
by mikeocool | 2026-03-13 21:35:44+00:00
Kinda seems like we’re rapidly headed for the complete collapse of the internet as we know it.

Every site that is driven by user posting seems to be headed towards being overrun by AI bots chatting with each other, either for sake of promoting something or farming karma.

And there’s really not much point in publishing good content anymore, since AI is just going slurp it up and regurgitate it without driving you any traffic.

Though it’ll be interesting to see what happens to ChatGPT and the like once the amount of quality content for them to consume slows to a trickle. Will people still use ChatGPT to get product recommendations without Reddit posts and Wirecutter providing good content for those recommendations?
by skrebbel | 2026-03-13 21:36:25+00:00
I agree but he's arguing with people who's personal attachment to their OSS work goes a lot deeper than "I did a few code dumps back in the day".

It was stupid of me to say that he does "not really do OSS" because that opened the door for all kinds of definition arguments. That's a super tired discussion and it wasn't really my point. I can't edit anymore but I meant to say something like "doesn't do OSS in the same way as a large % of the OSS community".
by torginus | 2026-03-13 21:36:49+00:00
Hold on, I was sharing an anecdote from a friend living in a foreign country, and somehow you're somehow connecting this to a dastardly geopolitical plot by a league of evil nations?

Also may I ask who the heck you are to call my story uninformed? As far as I recall, there's nothing inaccurate about what I said, I might be missing some context or nuance, but there's no disinformation in there, and there's certainly no hidden motive (what would even that be?) you seem to imply.
by beeflet | 2026-03-13 21:36:54+00:00
Fabrication of microchips is based on massive economies of scale. Thanks to apple, the majority of top-of-the-line microchips are going into locked-down computers. What happens when Apple or similar companies control 90% of the market, and you are paying exorbitant prices for crappy microchips in exchange for the privilege of running user-controlled software?

A decade or two ago, Intel introduced the Intel Management Engine to new computer processors. Their competitors followed suit. The market has stopped making products without these trusted computing "features" a long time ago. Eventually, you stop being able to choose.

These are the consequences of a computer market led by consumers that don't understand computers. The invisible hand is legally blind.
by Groxx | 2026-03-13 21:37:11+00:00
I thought somewhere online there was a breakdown of how Android selects "main" colors (because it does a fairly good job imo), for the Palette¹ class... but I'm having no luck finding it at all. I can (and will) just read its source code, but it doesn't carry along any qualitative justification or comparisons or etc and it'll take a fair bit of time to re-research that knowledge.

Does anyone know how this strategy differs? I've been wanting to build a product-color-selection-thing for stuff like fabric, where finding something that has similar tones is important, but I'm struggling to find much with concrete details about the strategy like this article has.

1: https://developer.android.com/reference/androidx/palette/gra... with most of the color selection logic here: https://cs.android.com/androidx/platform/frameworks/support/...
by wbobeirne | 2026-03-13 21:37:21+00:00
> AWS doesn’t charge you in mysterious ways. It charges you in specific, predictable ways that nobody taught you to look for. That’s a knowledge gap. The purpose of this post is to shed some light on this.

Or it's a UX gap. If this is such a common complaint that's causing meaningful reputation damage, surely there'd be a better way to communicate this in the product? I think it's fair to assume that there's less interest in building features that encourage users to spend less money.
by moogly | 2026-03-13 21:37:40+00:00
I'd read Masters of Doom (the psych eval/juvie story and the cat story stand out). You might think "oh he was so young back then", and it's true, but keep in mind that book details id Software up to and including Doom 3 development, and he was in his early 30s there. I'm sure you can find excerpts if you don't want to read the whole thing. It's an interesting book though; great glimpse into trenches of 90s game development.

I've (unoriginally) always been impressed by his technical ability and work ethic, and while I used to religiously read his .plan updates (you might not know what that is, because I'm an old, OK? It's the precursor to blogs) and also follow the old Armadillo Aerospace development blogs, and watch the very long QuakeCon talks, I haven't kept up much as I got older, just come across things here and there (like this Twitter post), and I have not picked up a big change in demeanor or humility in regards to labor, political and societal issues from back then, and those are things he's written about. It's very much objectivism, the criticism of which is beyond this topic, but suffice it to say it's not a philosophy conducive to empathy. I seem to recall he made a bunch of libertarian rants on Facebook when he worked there too, but I'm not going to give Zuck the traffic. I'm sure you can find some.
by ahmed-fathi | 2026-03-13 21:37:40+00:00
When you struggle through a hard problem, you get two things: the answer, and a slightly sharper mind. AI gives you the first and skips the second.
That's fine once. Scaled across an entire generation of knowledge workers, over a decade that's the collapse Acemoglu is worried about.
We're not just outsourcing tasks. We're outsourcing the friction that makes people grow.
Show HN: Hardened OpenClaw on AWS with Terraform
by aleks2 | 2026-03-13 21:38:09+00:00
I work on AWS infrastructure (ex-Percona, Box, Dropbox, Pinterest).
When OpenClaw blew up, I wanted to run it properly on AWS and was surprised by the default deployment story. The Lightsail blueprint shipped with 31 unpatched CVEs. The standard install guide uses three separate curl-pipe-sh patterns as root.
Bitsight found 30,000+ exposed instances in two weeks.
OpenClaw's own maintainer said "if you can't understand how to run a command line, this is far too dangerous."

So I built a Terraform module that replaces the defaults with what I'd consider production-grade:

* Cognito + ALB instead of a shared gateway token (per-user identity, MFA)
* GPG-verified APT packages instead of curl|bash
* systemd with ProtectHome=tmpfs and BindPaths sandboxing
* Secrets Manager + KMS instead of plaintext API keys
* EFS for persistence across instance replacement
* CloudWatch logging with 365-day retention
Bedrock is the default LLM provider so it works without any API keys. One terraform apply.
Full security writeup: https://infrahouse.com/blog/2026-03-09-deploying-openclaw-on...

I'm sure I've missed things. What would you add or do differently for running an autonomous agent with shell access on a shared server?
by ranger_danger | 2026-03-13 21:38:25+00:00
My experience with lemmy has not been nice. A majority of people there are just downright awful, and the mods are often power-hungry and overzealous in their actions. Many times entire servers are defederated from many others due to how a large percentage of their users behave.

Example: https://0x0.st/8RmU.png
by mongrelion | 2026-03-13 21:38:37+00:00
Apparently there is a whole science behind running models. I have seen the instructions that unsloth publishes for their quants and depending on the model they'll tweak things like the temperature, top k, etc.

The size of the quantization you chose also makes a difference.

The GPU driver also plays an important role.

What was your approach? What software did you use to run the models?
by Horos | 2026-03-13 21:39:09+00:00
this makes sense for your workload, but may the right primitive be a function of your payload profile and business constraints ?

in my case the problem doesn't arise because control plane and data plane are separated by design — metadata and signals never share a concurrency primitive with chunk writes. the data plane only sees chunks of similar order of magnitude, so a fixed worker pool doesn't overprovision on small payloads or stall on large ones.

curious whether your control and data plane are mixed on the same path, or whether the variance is purely in the blob sizes themselves.

if it's the latter: I wonder if batching sub-1MB payloads upstream would have given you the same result without changing the concurrency primitive. did you have constraints that made that impractical?
by alexlitz | 2026-03-13 21:39:26+00:00
The buried lede is this, if you have two dimensions and use rope, and hard-max attention you could simply store addresses as a given theta. With RoPE and sufficient precision that pretty easily gets you relative addressing with just one head and absolute with three (treating BOS as a sink getting rotation relative to it with orthogonal unit queries then using the result to counter rotate your own relative position with the complex conjugate). With less precision just add a few more heads with different thetas.
by shufflerofrocks | 2026-03-13 21:39:27+00:00
....are you being dense on purpose? Just because something takes time and effort to learn doesn't mean it was monopolised and undemocratised lol. It's the natural course of things, and I cannot believe I have to explain that to you.

The knowledge was freely available for the past few decades, way before LLMs - ergo democratised. The skill was freely available to learn - ergo democratised.

By your logic,

- cooking is a skill that is not democratised (despite the fact that you can do it everyday).

- A person who doesn't take time to learn cooking from cookbooks or youtube tutorials is somehow "lacking access" and in an undemocratic position

- An experienced chef is monopolising his mastery of cooking skills bc they dedicated time to learning them

- a robot that manufactures food is "democratising cooking skills"

See how silly that sounds?

Not to mention, using an AI to do a job is NOT equivalent to learning the skills of the job. Me having a printer doesn't mean "painting skills were democratised".
by gnabgib | 2026-03-13 21:39:27+00:00
The arc:

Grammarly is offering ‘expert’ AI reviews from famous dead and living writers (132 points, 8 days ago, 208 comments) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47259366

Grammarly is using authors' identities without permission unless they opt out (33 points, 3 days ago, 7 comments) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47327106

Grammarly says it will stop using AI to clone experts without permission (6 points, 2 days ago) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47339728

One of Grammarly's 'experts' is suing the company over its AI feature (3 points, 2 days ago) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47344238

Grammarly Is Facing a Class Action Lawsuit over Its AI 'Expert Review' Feature (2 points, 2 days ago) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47344724
by vessenes | 2026-03-13 21:40:09+00:00
I'll bite. I think their conversation (voice) model is more fluid than competitors. It's also very good at hitting up twitter for realtime information, and was that way before the current tool use models got fully up and running. Anecdotally, I think it has better theory of mind than its era (gemini 2.5) - I found it a useful issue spotter for negotiations and planning in a way that oAI and claude were not near its launch date. It led the vending bench for some time after launch.

Taken together, I infer that RL training toward a slightly less homogenous cultural standard than the other frontier AI labs adds some capabilities, or can at times.

It's quite long in the tooth right now, though. But I'll definitely talk to the next version; I like heterogeneity in the model space, and Grok is very different than the other big three.
by nextos | 2026-03-13 21:40:19+00:00
In the US, cheap ThinkPads like E14 sometimes sell for a bit less when you factor in all typical discounts. They are good machines that run Linux well and can be repaired.

In EU, and I imagine other markets, there's nothing remotely close. I hope this puts some pressure on Lenovo and the rest of manufacturers to be more competitive.
by 9rx | 2026-03-13 21:40:43+00:00
The whole thing? That is what Agile Manifesto, and the associated 12 principles, is about: A thought experiment about flat organizational structures. Each of the 12 principles outline the things one needs to consider when they don't have a manager taking watch.

Where you find a VP, Agile isn't applicable. At least not in its entirety. It it is likely that you can still cherry-pick some ideas from it to apply to your non-Agile situation. "Do your manager's job for them" is often considered common wisdom after all.
by hazelnut | 2026-03-13 21:40:50+00:00
Is Kevin Rose known to know how to address bot problems? I think it's a little absurd to address a bot problem with bringing back the original founder. I believe he was great at community building and functionality, but bot prevention is a different beast. The post mentioned that they also worked with third parties which I believe should have more bot prevention experience than Kevin.

To be fair, I don't know Kevin Rose personally, so maybe he knows more than the industry, but I highly doubt it.

Reddit has the same problem. They are fighting it more or less successfully. I would look more in that direction.
by dirk94018 | 2026-03-13 21:41:11+00:00
We wrote the linuxtoaster inference engine, toasted, and are getting 400 prefill, 100 gen on a M4 Max w 128GB RAM on Qwen3-next-coder 6bit, 8bit runs too. KV caching means it feels snappy in chat mode. Local can work. For pro work, programming, I'd still prefer SOTA models, or GLM 4.7 via Cerebras.
by armadyl | 2026-03-13 21:41:40+00:00
FYI Logitech also offers an air gapped version of Options+ which cuts out a lot of the slop and telemetry in the normal version: https://prosupport.logi.com/hc/en-us/articles/10991109278871...

If you have to use Options that's probably the way to go (if none of the third party options work for you).
by sunaookami | 2026-03-13 21:42:10+00:00
The "new" Digg was just Reddit with the exact same type of comments you can find there and I left it (Digg and Reddit) because of that. There are very few sites where real discourse is still possible without it being filled with memes, running jokes, "witty" one-liners and the constant need to "one-up" and call-out each other. What does Digg even want to be? Nobody needs a second nu-Reddit. It speaks volumes that this post also seems to be AI-generated.