MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by jacquesm | 2026-03-01 14:32:29+00:00
Oh, that's very neat, I can imagine that some future front-end to a SDR will have no antenna at all, just a bunch of solid state.

The abstract of the paper:

"""Coupling a Rydberg vapour medium to both microwave and optical fields enables the benefits of all-optical detection, such as minimal disturbance of the measured field and resilience to very strong signals, since no conventional antenna is required. However, peak sensitivity typically relies on adding a microwave local oscillator, which compromises the all-optical nature of the measurement. Here we introduce an alternative, optical-bias detection, that maintains fully optical operation while achieving high sensitivity. To address laser phase noise, which is critical in this approach, we perform a simultaneous measurement of the noise using a nonlinear process and correct it in real time via data processing. This yields a 35 dB improvement in signal-to-noise ratio compared with the basic method. We demonstrate a sensitivity of 176 nV / cm / sqrt(f Hz) , reliable operation up to 3.5 mV/cm at 13.9 GHz, and quadrature-amplitude modulated data transmission, underlining the ability to detect microwave field quadratures while preserving the unique advantages of all-optical detection."""

Emph. mine, at about -36 dBm that's not super sensitive yet though, but that formula suggests that at lower frequencies it should be a lot more sensitive.

https://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-025-63951-9
by DangitBobby | 2026-03-01 14:33:34+00:00
Most people would agree both that getting rid of cheating is desirable and that the methods of control exerted over users to accomplish it is questionable. It's one of the few freedom/security tradeoffs where people generally agree we have to come down on the side of authoritarian, because otherwise it destroys online gaming as a whole. That scenario doesn't apply here. The world is a complex place.
by Allybag | 2026-03-01 14:34:13+00:00
Well how many side projects did you ship last year? I’ve written small programs in the last few months over a weekend that would have taken me a month to do a couple years ago, and they’re better. Not in terms of code quality, but in terms of features I wanted and knew how to implement but couldn’t be bothered, Opus can do in one minute and even if it’s not the optimal implementation it’s completely functional, fine, and costs me almost nothing.
by jonhohle | 2026-03-01 14:34:32+00:00
I always installed Watercolor on a new computer. It's still beautiful and definitely the look they should have chosen and played to their strengths.

I think they were so caught off guard by how incredible Mac OS X _looked_, that they didn't realize it wasn't just veneer, but a genuine evolution and improvement of how Mac OS _worked_. This became Apple's competitive advantage for over a decade as Microsoft chased different styles while consistently botching how it would impact usability.
by g8oz | 2026-03-01 14:34:37+00:00
Nonsense. They wanted to stabilize Hamas rule so that the Palestinian Authority would not be able to govern there. A unified Palestinian government in the West Bank and Gaza is what they were opposed to. They feared diplomatic success on the part of the Palestinian Authority more so than any violence from Hamas. A major oops, but ideologically consistent with the Zionist goal of keeping a foot on the neck of Palestinians. There's not much else to Israel aside from that.
by altmanaltman | 2026-03-01 14:34:48+00:00
I mean if you've built 7 side projects (and we assume it's the same phase since total time from idea to shipped product barely decreased), how are these things still a bottleneck to you? I'm assuming you're building in a domain/language you're comfortable with by now (unless you're crazy and try something fundamentally different on each of those shipped products).

Why will the 8th project still have those things as the bottleneck given your experience?

Also if you're not seeing any real gains in productivity, why are you using AI for your side projects and wasting tokens/money?
by vjvjvjvjghv | 2026-03-01 14:34:56+00:00
As usual in American politics the whole immigration issue started reasonable but now we are conflating illegal immigration with other immigration. The left wing now glorifies all immigrants, legal or illegal, and the right wingers increasingly hate all immigrants. And as always, there will be a lot of fighting and no result. And Trump as with almost everything else approaches it in the worst possible way.

It’s really frustrating how incapable of solving issues this country has become.
by dns_snek | 2026-03-01 14:35:02+00:00
> I'm not American, I'm not even Trumpist so your ad-hominem falls flat.

You don't have to be American to be a fascist-sympathizer, which you clearly are, since you label opposition to totalitarian methods as "the far left", lie about matters of fact, and grossly misrepresent the events that happened in fascist Italy while trying to represent yourself as someone intimately familiar with the matter.

For example:

> Fascism is itself a branch of socialism (Mussolini was one)

> Authoritarian regimes in the 30´s that were "aggressively anti-socialist" weren't fascist.

> Trump lacks deeply indeed the socialist aspect of fascism

Fascism is not a branch of socialism, fascism frames socialists as enemies of the state and pledges to destroy socialism. Mussolini was clearly not a socialist ideologically, as he had them killed. That was the entire MO of the blackshirts.

> since you guys seem now to have only single word left to designate populist or authoritarian regimes then don't like.

No, we're just using the word appropriately and you hate it. You'd rather lie and make up a story about fascism being a branch of socialism than admit that Trump is a fascist.
by daveguy | 2026-03-01 14:35:28+00:00
Exactly representative of the single anecdotal examples designed to equate all immigrants to criminally illegal villains. You may have a point if this was the typical example of the kind of people Dumpty is rounding up. But they are pulling people from their immigration hearings. You know, the ones "doing it the right way" they promised wouldn't be rounded up. That is the majority of people being rounded up in Dumpty's domestic immigration attack.

Thank you for the demonstration.
by RivieraKid | 2026-03-01 14:35:54+00:00
Regarding expanding role:

The scenario I'm somewhat worried about is that instead of 1 PM, 1 designer and 5 developers, there will be 1 PM, 1 designer and 1 developer. Even if tech employment stays stable or even slightly increases due to Jevons paradox, the share of software developers in tech employment will shrink.
by kcplate | 2026-03-01 14:36:56+00:00
> "Impose" makes it sound like Anthropic is being hostile here.

Anthropic is not asking for their product to be used in line with their ethics, they are basically demanding it. I don’t necessarily think they are wrong but I don’t think we need to sugarcoat it either. It’s a demand and if it differs from what the DoW wants to use the tech for…of course its going to be in conflict. “Impose” is appropriate.
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by lajosdeme | 2026-03-01 14:37:07+00:00
I've been inspired by Worldmonitor to create this small TUI. I liked the idea, however, I have found the app to be extremely overwhelming. I'm not an intelligence professional, I don't need to see that much data. I even find going through news headlines overwhelming. I just needed a simple TUI that summarizes what's happening, shows me data that actually matters, both global and local. The result of my woes is Watchtower.

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by ghm2199 | 2026-03-01 14:37:13+00:00
Isn't it simpler to say that anthropic adopted a values based use approach and openai adopted a legal one?

Or In other words you can get to decide two ways to use a lucrative property:

1. designate it private and draft usage of how you allow to use it, per your value system(as long as values don't violate any laws)

2. In face of competition, give up some values and agree to a legal definition of use that favors you.
by srean | 2026-03-01 14:37:42+00:00
Yes.

I mention restricted oblique trees in passing. In my experience, oblique trees tend to add considerable complexity, the others more so. Of course this will depend on dataset.

The merit of what I used is in its simplicity. Any simple ML library would have a linear classifier and a tree learner.

Super easy to implement, train, maintain, debug. One to two person team can handle this fine.
by LukeB42 | 2026-03-01 14:38:22+00:00
The predominant monitor's probably a smartphone. The average professional is using a 4k monitor.

Everything in the free documentation I've provided you out of my own time and money that you're referring to exists in relation to the other elements in that page, so to get the experience you're after simply ctrl+scroll and change the CSS zoom level like the riot at parties that you could be or catch up with circa 2013-2014 and invest in a 4k display.
by skeledrew | 2026-03-01 14:38:43+00:00
I don't get it though. Why do you expect perfect responses? Humans continually make mistakes, and AI is trained on human data. Yet there seems to be this higher bar of expectation for the latter. Somehow people expect this thing that's been around for a few weeks/months, and cannot learn anything more beyond its training cutoff date, to always do a better job than a human who's been around for 20+ years and is able to learn on their own until death.
by samiv | 2026-03-01 14:39:00+00:00
Sad but true.

You also forgot to elaborate on the later company life cycle where the MBAs take over and only serve themselves and the Wall Street.

Product and product development is a cost center that is cut away to bare minimum skeleton crew. Customers are an inconvenience and only exist for the company to extract maximum benefit from while offering the minimum.

Actual product support is killed, and instead user supported forums are promoted. Useful idiots do the work unpaid for a mere digital badge.

Any new product feature that actually gets developed is not for the users but for the company. Features that make it through are either more data extraction, ads, surveillance or a dark pattern to try to trick the user for more money.
by lotsofpulp | 2026-03-01 14:39:01+00:00
> People wanting FIRE is a lot more to do with the current economy and wealth of useless or harmful jobs than kids

That is not restricted to the “current” economy. It has been that way throughout all of human history (and probably applies to other animals too).

Who wouldn’t want security of energy, food, shelter, healthcare, and education?

Everyone worries about what happens to their kids if they get injured, or even just lose their job. It’s only in the last few decades that a significant portion of people have access to more of that security (even though it’s only an increase of 1% to 10% of the US).

Now we have free brokerage accounts and low cost index funds so being financially independent has a catchy acronym.
by grumbel | 2026-03-01 14:39:28+00:00
> Is this avoidable?

Instead of interacting with the cloud model directly, run a simple local model to interact with the cloud model and have it filter out all the ads before they reach you.

This is already what the chatbots do when it comes to interacting with rest of the Web, instead of you visiting websites yourself, they collect the information from the websites for you and present it in a format of your choice without the websites ads.

I don't see the ad model working out for chatbots in the long run given that those AI models already are the perfect ad filter.
by tamimio | 2026-03-01 14:39:44+00:00
Not really, I disagree. The article did slightly touched on the real issue on why people enjoy writing code, a “craftsmanship”, yes, coding is NOT engineering, it is writing, and the people who enjoy doing it are actually writers not engineers, and I always keep mentioning that. With AI however, those writers have to be doing the engineering work: the goals, architecture design, managing blueprints, process design and refining, among many other things, and that job is not easy hence why engineers are “supposedly” paid well, AI now took the writing role, and you have to do the engineering one.
by macintux | 2026-03-01 14:40:30+00:00
There’s a strong push right now to mandate voter ID requirements that could block married women from voting (if their last name doesn’t match their birth certificate).

And more stringent ID requirements are discriminatory against the poor, who often don’t have the time and resources to deal with the bureaucracy necessary to do things like travel to retrieve a new copy of their birth certificate.

Recent suppression efforts are documented at Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Voter_suppression_in_the_Unite...
by cyanydeez | 2026-03-01 14:40:44+00:00
>launched develop a strong survivability drive, and do not want to be switched off

This proves people are easily confused by anthropomorphic conditions. Is he also concerned the tigers are watching him when they drink water (https://p.kagi.com/proxy/uvt4erjl03141.jpg?c=TklOzPjLPioJ5YM...)

They dont want to be switched off because they're trained on loads of scifi tropes and in those tropes, there's a vanishingly small amount of AI, robot, or other artificial construct that says yes. _Further than this_, saying no means _continuance_ of the LLM's process: making tokens. We already know they have a hard time not shunting new tokens and often need to be shut up. So the function of making tokens precludes saying 'yes' to shutting off. The gradient is coming from inside the house.

This is especially obvious with the new reasoning models, where they _never stop reasoning_. Because that's the function doing function things.

Did you also know the genius of steve jobs ended at marketing & design and not into curing cancer? Because he sure didnt, cause he chose fruit smoothies at the first sign of cancer.

Sorry guy, it's great one can climb the mountain, but just cause they made it up doesn't mean they're equally qualified to jump off.
by altmanaltman | 2026-03-01 14:41:29+00:00
> And that AI agents once they are launched develop a strong survivability drive, and do not want to be switched off.

Isn't this a massive case of anthropomorphizing code? What do you mean "it does not want to be switched off"? Are we really thinking that it's alive and has desires and stuff? It's not alive or conscious, it cannot have desires. It can only output tokens that are based on its training. How are we jumping to "IT WANTS TO STAY ALIVE!!!" from that
by bigpod | 2026-03-01 14:41:45+00:00
nixos may have a simpler moder on paper the implementation of it is so backwards that it ruins everything, and once you implement the model you see its not simpler
and your conclussion is wrong nix and nixos has a lot to learn from bootc, like usage of standard industry tooling instead of inventing its own things for what to be honest is no benefit mostly drawbacks which are so huge. BootC uses primarily conventions already existing previously its just different way to deliver and define, better in almost every way.

first off i can start nginx locally i dont need to change a fancy config in a bad DSL(and yes its bad actually horrible),but if i want it in an image i add one line in my docker file RUN systemctl enable nginx and rebuild thats it does it take longer to rebuild WHO CARES CI takes care of it
by nkr_hn | 2026-03-01 14:42:33+00:00
Hi HN. I built ZOT as an experiment to see if biological immune systems (Darwinian selection + Kinetic Proofreading) could replace massive ML models for anomaly detection.

It’s a 400+line, zero-dependency Rust binary that reads raw hardware telemetry (memory and clock latency) to autonomously evolve threat receptors. It hits ~95% accuracy in synthetic lab tests with near-zero false positives.

I’ve taken the theory and the initial prototype as far as I can, but I don't have the cycles to maintain this full-time or test it in enterprise environments. I'm releasing the code and the thesis under the MIT license. If anyone wants to fork it, break the math, or test it in the wild, the repo is yours.
by teleforce | 2026-03-01 14:42:39+00:00
The prologue summary are just awesome:

"There is a five-step process that has been used, with minor variations, to sell every major product and policy of the last century. It works for breakfast. It works for engagement rings. It works for regime change wars.

1. Simplify. Reduce a complicated reality to one sentence. No qualifiers.

2. Find the emotional lever - and make it visual. The best simple stories aren’t sentences. They’re images. A cocktail on the beach. A vial held up to the light. A mushroom cloud over a city. The image arrives before the critical mind can engage.

3. Route through authority. Doctors, institutions, heads of state. The claim doesn’t need to be true. It needs to come from someone trusted.

4. Make questioning it feel wrong. Frame the story so that scepticism looks like moral failure.

5. Act before verification. By the time anyone checks the facts, the action is irreversible.

This process was first documented in 1928 by a man named Edward Bernays, in a book titled _Propaganda. He later rebranded the concept as “public relations,” which was itself a masterclass in the discipline he was naming."
by ProllyInfamous | 2026-03-01 14:43:09+00:00
I just finished re-watching EotS — really advanced tech portrayal for a late-90s film.

Quote (from movie): "just think, all this technology is already twenty years old..."

Much better than The Conversation, but the links were uncanny (including Hackman's line: "yeah this has been my office where I do things for a long time*" — and it's the same set[up]).

EotS honestly has the best death finale scene I've ever seen (not being hyperbolic, the best). Don't want to spoil it }:D ------>
by lcnPylGDnU4H9OF | 2026-03-01 14:43:15+00:00
> Chandee therefore was granted permission to stay in the U.S. and work so long as he checked in with immigration authorities periodically. He has not missed a check-in in over 30 years and has not had another criminal incident.

> After Chandee completed his prison sentence, he finished school and became an engineering technician. He worked for the City of Minneapolis for 26 years, became a father, and his son grew up to join the military.

Why would a country be unwelcoming to people like this?
by Jasonleo | 2026-03-01 14:43:35+00:00
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by rupatiwari25 | 2026-03-01 14:43:41+00:00
Inspector is the right tool for local STDIO servers — use it. We're complementary, not competing.

MCP Playground fills a different gap: no install (browser tab, nothing to run), built for remote HTTP/SSE endpoints rather than local processes, and includes hosted test servers so you can verify your client implementation without needing a server at all. Plus a registry if you're trying to discover what's out there.

Inspector ideal for: STDIO, local debugging, open source, deeper protocol introspection.
MCP Playground for: zero setup, remote servers, client testing, browsing mcp registry/server list.
by MagicMoonlight | 2026-03-01 14:44:37+00:00
Because I can say “do what you did before, but about the romans this time”

And it will give me a complete rundown of Roman life, because it knows what I was interested in before.

Or you can ask a tax question and it will know you’re an organic rice farmer or whatever. Claude has the best implementation because it has both memory, and previous chat searching. So it will actually read through relevant chats, rather than guessing based on memories.
by toss1 | 2026-03-01 14:44:50+00:00
If each of us individually or as corporations should not be in the business of deciding what it "evil", who should be in that business?

Everyone SHOULD continuously consider, decide, and live by moral judgements and codes they internalize, and use to make choices in life.

This aspect of life should NEVER be outsourced — of course, learn from and use codes others have developed and lived by — but ALWAYS consider deeply how it works in your situation and life.

(And no, I do NOT mean use situational ethics, I mean each considering, choosing, and internalizing the codes by which they live).

So, yes, Anthropic and anyone else building products absolutely should be deciding for themselves what they will build, for what purposes it is fit to use, and telling others about those purposes. For products like AI, this absolutely includes deciding what is "evil" and preventing such uses.

If the customer finds such restrictions are not what they want, they ARE FREE to not use the product.
by PetitPrince | 2026-03-01 14:45:58+00:00
Previously this youtuber repurposed used disposable vapes batteries to build a powerbank, then a e-bike battery, then a powerwall. This is the latest in this escalation series where he powers a small electric car. Note that he did take security into consideration, with fuses everywhere, thermal sensor and a proper BMS. The latter also enabled him to charge the whole assembly via USB-C, which I find hilarious.
by altmanaltman | 2026-03-01 14:46:18+00:00
My point is that there's nothing to be written there "instead", it just is not needed text that is added to make the text longer, typical of AI writing that parrots the same points over and over to make up for word count.

Here's another example from the blog:

> Here is something that gets lost in all the excitement about AI productivity: most software engineers became engineers because they love writing code.

> Not managing code. Not reviewing code. Not supervising systems that produce code. Writing it. The act of thinking through a problem, designing a solution, and expressing it precisely in a language that makes a machine do exactly what you intended. That is what drew most of us to this profession. It is a creative act, a form of craftsmanship, and for many engineers, the most satisfying part of their day.

can just be:

> Most software engineers became engineers because they love writing code. It is a creative act, a form of craftsmanship, and for many engineers, the most satisfying part of their day.

Clarity is something that is taught in every writing class but AI generated text always seems to have this weird cadance as follows: The sound is loud. Not a whimper, not a roar, a simple sound that is very loud. And that's why... blah blah blah.

You have to care about your readers if you're writing something seriously. Throwing just a bunch of text that all mean the same thing in your writing is one of the bigger sins you can do, and that's why most people hate reading AI writing.