MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by globular-toast | 2026-03-01 21:02:13+00:00
Odd. I never felt that moving rectangles around was my shot at happiness. My whole career I've spent doing things I genuinely believe are useful and help people. If moving rectangles is no longer useful then so be it, I'll do something else.

I love software engineering but I've never really been great at it, if I'm honest. I'll be sad if it goes away, but there are much more important things: nature and access to the outside away from noise and cars, for example.

What I find quite funny is I don't think we ever really got that great at software. There are bridges in my country that are 150 years old and carry 200 trains a day. Most software projects don't even last 5 years and are riddled with bugs.

It still remains to be seen whether LLMs can really do software, though. It will be interesting times ahead, for sure. Maybe we'll realise that recycling old content over and over again isn't good for us, before it's too late.
by danielodievich | 2026-03-01 21:03:26+00:00
My recently deceased mother had a talent for talking to anyone at any time in any language. She's always been incredibly social and could establish connections with strangers very rapidly. One time she brought in a school teacher/sheep farmer from Dagestan selling yarn from his sheep's wool, she met him at the market and bought all yarn and asked if he had somewhere to stay before going back, and he didn't. He stayed in our house for a couple of nights, and then we visited him in that little village in mountains of Dagestan on a summer vacation, talk about going back a few centuries in time, an incredible and unusual experience.

I've had to spend week and a half battling Gmail daily email account limits sending batches of 500 emails just to notify people in her address book, receiving hundreds of responses. Her memorial was attended by hundreds of people.

It served her very well in her chosen career of real estate sales, although I think she'd might have done really well in community organizing or even politics where those skills are also very useful.

On the flip side, it was sometimes difficult to be there as family wanting some attention, since her bright light was always shining in many directions.

I've inherited just some of that talent, and I think it is a talent, but trainable.

I miss her already.
by kevinsync | 2026-03-01 21:03:26+00:00
Correct, but I was replying to the assertion that more slop == decreasing ability to create something good and successful. That's a common trope that people deploy with regards to everything: music, movies, books, social media accounts, brands, blogs, pizza shops, whatever, and it's consistently shown to be false. Plus, we don't live in a monoculture anymore, the SNR you're thinking of is proportional to the mainstream. Successful things nowadays are far more siloed, specific, and serve distinct niches.

And you're right that people still have limited, fixed bandwidth with regards to attention available to give to things.. but the same amount of things that break through doesn't change from what could break through and stick before (in the monoculture). The amount of niches/verticals where you have the opportunity to break through inside of is significantly higher than ever. That gives you a better chance for success, because your audience is more targeted, more receptive, hungrier for authenticity, hungrier for quality, and desperate for connection to something they like.

TL;DR if you have a good, valuable idea that people want (or don't yet know that they want), execute it well, deliver something that is undeniable, promote it effectively, and stick it out for the long haul, you'll find success. There's no magic formula beyond that, and it doesn't matter if there are 10 or 10 million amateurs clogging the toilet bowl next to you.
by SequoiaHope | 2026-03-01 21:04:07+00:00
After a bad breakup in 2015, I followed some advice from the socialskills subreddit to “talk to everyone” so that you get better at talking to women you might want to date. The advice was not to only talk to attractive people but everyone. The old man reading a Russian newspaper, the kid on bike doing tricks, people in the elevator.

I do that now and it brings me a lot of joy. Recently while leaving a botanical garden I spoke to a man who was excitedly looking for a few specific plants. He is a botanist (amateur? professional? unclear) and I enjoyed sharing in his passion for a moment. Then I saw a maintenance guy moving with great intention who took a moment to ask me and my family if we had a nice time. We did, and I asked him about the papers in his hand. “Gotta get approval for this purchase request asap.” He said. We talked a bit about how nice it is to work at such a beautiful place.

I highly recommend talking to strangers! People are lovely. Go out and try it.
by mike_d | 2026-03-01 21:04:18+00:00
That is exactly how clinical research works. My mother worked running clinical trials for two decades.

When she was diagnosed with leukemia she was able to get into a research study herself that gave us 10 more years together.

One of the horrible but necessary parts of trials is the control group, who receives placebo. This is only done in a few of the trial phases but is essential in measuring efficacy. If someone wants to throw their brainpower and a little bit of AI/tech at the problem, you could end up eliminating a lot of suffering.
by cyberpunk | 2026-03-01 21:04:20+00:00
I hear this sentiment a lot but it doesn’t ring true for me.

What is an idea really and what’s your definition of new?

If i get a LLM to spit out, I dunno, a deployment system written in haskell that uses bittorrent or something, none of those bits are new, but certainly there will be unique challenges to solve in the code and it’s a new system.

Where is the line for new? Is it in combining old ideas? If not then does any software have “new” ideas? It’s all combinations of processor instructions after all…
by srean | 2026-03-01 21:04:22+00:00
Ah! Your comment helped me understand the parent comment so much more. I thought it was more about data hygiene needs.

Yes a DT on raw pixel values, or a DT on raw time values will in general be quite terrible.

That said the convolutional structure is hard coded in those neural nets, only the weights are learned. It is not that the network discovered on its own that convolutions are a good idea. So NNs too really (damn autocorrect, it's rely, rely) on human insight and structuring upon which they can then build over.
by slopinthebag | 2026-03-01 21:04:48+00:00
It can be a useful tool to do all that, that's what I use it for. Unfortunately a lot of AI boosters have the sfba move fast and break things mentality and that leads to all sorts of slop being pushed.

I think broadly speaking, we need less software that's higher quality. Commercially at least, LLM's seem to be creating more lower quality software. Less software but much higher quality, and then let the gaps be filled in by houseplant programming. Instead we get half-baked vibe coded Cloudflare-isk slop being promoted, or CEO's of saas-slop providers salivating at the chance to fire half of their workforce.

I want to see more houseplants being posted here, LLM generated or not. At least they would tend to have more care and love put into them.
by johannes1234321 | 2026-03-01 21:04:58+00:00
Is it commercial if a non-profit sports club uses it to collect member fees?

Is it fornprofit if I use it and somewhere in a small note on my website it has a way to give me a tip?

It's trivial to come up with more such cases.

And you being fine with my usage, doesn't mean I can rely on it.

And then let's go international.

In case of doubt the answer is to avoid it, which can be fine and match the author's intention. However it can be nom-trivial.
by jfkimmes | 2026-03-01 21:05:12+00:00
Funny, I was just configuring ghostty. I finally made the jump in order to get rid of tmux as a layer of indirection.

Here's what I landed on: This config tries to emulate as much of tmux with native ghostty features (splits and tabs).

https://codeberg.org/jfkimmes/dotfiles/src/branch/master/gho...
by just6979 | 2026-03-01 21:06:30+00:00
Nobody leaves the cables attached. Except wanna be pro gamers who think a couple milliseconds will help them more than practice to "git gud". Every mouse I have is wireless, and I almost never use them plugged in, except for the one on the server that get used so rarely it's self-discharged should probably be wired but I simply don't have any wired ones left. Just plug them in overnight every once in a while, golden.
by ibeckermayer | 2026-03-01 21:06:43+00:00
Good thought... I think you're wrong because the dominant factor is bandwidth over the interconnect. In this case they're using 5Gbps over Ethernet; compare that to 80-120 Gbps for a Thunderbolt 5 connected Mac Studio cluster: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bFgTxr5yst0
by koonsolo | 2026-03-01 21:06:43+00:00
Here's a tip from an old timer: read the official docs.

I work a lot with juniors, and they all seem to prefer watching video's. But videos in my opinion are a slow way to gain superficial knowledge.

Do it the hard way and read the official docs, it will be your superpower. Go fast over the easy parts, go slow over the hard parts, it's that simple.
by lowsong | 2026-03-01 21:07:18+00:00
> Coding agents are here to stay, and you’re a fool if you don’t use them.

Why would they be here to stay? The crux of the author's argument is that using them is detrimental in the long term. The correct response to that is not a lukewarm response of "maybe do some coding now and again", it is "don't use tools that make you worse".
by Jcampuzano2 | 2026-03-01 21:07:29+00:00
But should this extend to anything that could end up in Claudes context? Should we be using xml even in skills for instance, or commands, custom subagents etc.

And then do we end up over indexing on Claude and maybe this ends up hurting other models for those using multiple tools.

I just dislike how much of AI is people saying "do this thing for better results" with no definitive proof but alas it comes with the non determinism.

At least this one has the stamp of approval by Claude codes team itself.
by bigyabai | 2026-03-01 21:07:33+00:00
It's too late. An "AI winter" won't protect you from AI used in military deployment, or set-back the agentic coding that is causing job churn. Pressing the button would just come with a different set of AI-related consequences.

Slowed progress would almost exclusively and disproportionately reward privately-owned AI services. Without downward competitive pressure, the AI market would ossify against public interest and exacerbate the disinformation crisis by making it more subtle.
by plaidfuji | 2026-03-01 21:07:40+00:00
The key difference is that Anthropic aired their disagreement with the DoD publicly, and the DoD is not going to work with a company that tries to exert any amount of control over their relationship via the public sphere. Same goes for Trump.

I think Anthropic knew full well that by publishing their disagreement, it would sink the deal and relationship, and I think they also calculated (correctly) that that act of defiance would get them good publicity and potentially peel away some of OpenAIs user base. I think this profit incentive happened to align with their morals, and now here we are.
by GuestFAUniverse | 2026-03-01 21:07:59+00:00
At least Samsung doesn't sync folders.
Meaning: if they were organized before by topic they aren't there after syncing via their "Samsung Smart Switch Mobile" to a new Samsung phone.
A lot gets synced, but it's not like an image with full DSC (desired state configuration) afterwards.

Pretty mediocre -- not totally useless, but far from a seamless experience.
by metatheory | 2026-03-01 21:08:15+00:00
I built ContactTool after realizing I was accidentally applying to the same companies multiple times across LinkedIn, Indeed, and Glassdoor.

While job hunting, I’d see a posting and think, “This looks familiar…” — then realize I had already applied two weeks earlier on a different site.

There was no cross-site memory.

So I built a small Chrome extension, a contextual CRM, that lets you:

• Select any company name (or unique string) on any HTML webpage
• Date-stamp it instantly
• Optionally attach a note
• See a popup next time you highlight that same string

It works anywhere on the web (except PDFs). It doesn’t depend on a specific job board.

The goal is simple: answer the question
“When did I last contact or apply to this company?”

Design decisions:

No accounts

No backend

No scraping

Local storage only

Manual selection = intentional tracking

I’m curious how others are managing cross-site job tracking. I'm happy not to be making a trip to my Mail for yet another search.

Would love feedback on UX, edge cases, or alternative approaches.
by dyauspitr | 2026-03-01 21:08:31+00:00
It doesn’t make sense to hire juniors at all other than as a service to society. I haven’t hired a junior in 4 years. The one I hired 4 years ago was because not only did he do reasonably well on the interview but he literally begged me because he trained himself to do it while painting houses so I saw a lot of passion in him.
by re-thc | 2026-03-01 21:08:34+00:00
> he was replacing his entire customer service team with Claude Code, an AI tool that can write and deploy software on its own

Right. So it clearly has nothing to do with AI. You didn't keep the customer service manager or someone knowledgeable to escalate, to verify AI works, to help improve AI, etc just means you don't care.

If you didn't care you could have replaced with documentation + automated responses etc. No difference.

I mean lots of tech startups ran with "no support" for as long as they can anyway (and some still do).

> We saw this as early as late 2024, when Klarna announced that it had ditched Salesforce’s flagship CRM product in favor of its own homegrown AI system

Stop the lies. The CEO came out and said this was false [1].

So are you sure there's an SaaSpocalypse? Or more propaganda?

[1]: https://x.com/klarnaseb/status/1896698293759230429
by bloppe | 2026-03-01 21:08:39+00:00
I've been thinking about this a lot lately in terms of my personal clauding, and it's hard for me to think of a scenario where an mcp server makes more sense than CLI tools and AGENTS.md. But if you're deploying an agentic product, it's probably different. Seems like you could just deploy little Bash sandboxes for each customer. Or you could deploy mcp servers. The latter feels much easier to reason about in terms of attack surface and potential side effects.
by frizlab | 2026-03-01 21:09:06+00:00
I’m probably gonna be downvoted to hell but I was rebutted by the part where the guy just throws away food because it was not vegan (and stopped reading after that). He did mention health issue concerns, so maybe it was on good faith, but AFAIK if you’re hungry, and I mean really hungry, you don’t care. You just eat what you have as long as it is edible.
by kiwijamo | 2026-03-01 21:09:29+00:00
Maybe Samsung has changed how the first boot works compared to stock Android, but this definitely has not been my experience across several Samsung devices. Also many apps store their data in different ways which doesn't always survive a device migration/backup. Only cloud-only apps have a good experience, wheras anything that stores data on device can be hit and miss depending on how easy individual apps manage its backup.
by generic92034 | 2026-03-01 21:09:50+00:00
> Actual product support is killed, and instead user supported forums are promoted. Useful idiots do the work unpaid for a mere digital badge.

Wow, that is a misanthropic take if I have ever seen one. People helping out other people for free are called "useful idiots".

While it might be an ethically bad move of the company, it certainly should not be used to disparage helpers. Otherwise, would you classify all unpaid FOSS work the work of "useful idiots"?
by candiddevmike | 2026-03-01 21:11:18+00:00
The irony of living in poverty and then owning a house that you list on Airbnb "for extra income". And deluding yourself into the key to financial success is being a bag holder for rich people, yikes.

This guy sounds like another "everything sucks but I got mine and everyone else should figure out how to get theirs". I get the struggle but I didn't really see him demonstrate empathy for others in his situation.
by oDot | 2026-03-01 21:11:22+00:00
I find the decay of human connections an interesting problem to solve. I used to have an app that encouraged meeting in person by utilizing friends inviting other friends[0]. This solved many app-problems like correct matching and safety.

Didn't catch on, though. Setting up events turned out to be too prohibitive. If this interests anyone feel free to contact me at contact [at] eventful [dot] is

[0] https://blog.eventful.is/p/the-perfect-dating-app
by re | 2026-03-01 21:11:23+00:00
I didn't get that sense from the prose; it didn't have the usual LLM hallmarks to me, though I'm not enough of an expert in the space to pick up on inaccuracies/hallucinations.

The "TRAINING" visualization does seem synthetic though, the graph is a bit too "perfect" and it's odd that the generated names don't update for every step.
by SteveMoraco | 2026-03-01 21:12:01+00:00
made this last week, a few agents use it now and its getting quite popular, figured ya'll would like to give it to your claudes. All you need to do is ask them to make a wallet and send $10 to it or whatever and voila, access to any paid APIs you want in pay-as-you-go fashion. There's a place to suggest we add new APIs on the bottom of the page so feel free to make suggestions.
by parineum | 2026-03-01 21:12:05+00:00
This is what happens when ebike companies take every opportunity to skirt the laws like putting easily removable limiters on motorcycles with pedals and a chain with a gear ratio that makes pedalling practically impossible.

I don't know if there was an existing attempt at regulation in NJ specifically but that's happening all around the country.

The problem is that, while ebikes have a ton of really good use cases, the big market for them is basically kids who want to drive a motorcycle before they're allowed. Ebike companies are going to try to sell to that market any way they can.
by baconner | 2026-03-01 21:13:19+00:00
I was trying to make no particular call on the actual reason aside from pointing at how obviously not the real story and false the statements made so far are. What a knot you have to tie yourself into to seek out an explanation where OpenAI has not made an ethical compromise to stay in the game here. I can stretch and think of some ways but they are far from the simplest explanation.

Lots of responses below give the likely real reasons most of which are probably true in part, but my opinion is it's the primary reason all who is in and who is out decisions are made by the trump administration - fealty. Skills, value brought, qualifications, etc. none of that matter above passing frequent loyalty tests, appealing to ego, bribes (sorry, i mean donations). Imagine thinking "hey, we'll work towards fully autonomous killbots because our adversaries will get them too but the tech isn't strong enough to allow them loose yet" or "yes you can use our ai for your panopticon surveillance, but just not on our own citizens because that is illegal" are lefty woke stances but here we are. Dario failed the loyalty test, as anyone rational would.
by borzi | 2026-03-01 21:13:27+00:00
This is 100% an issue on the side of the senior developers. Imagine saying "these juniors are useless" because you are making them work in assembly, but C has just been released. You are giving them menial work that is no longer required to do by humans. Instead of giving them the task "update these email templates", the norm should be: "create this new service that automates an internal process". They will make mistakes and they will learn - but what they will be doing is going to be very useful and also give them chance to grow the necessary skills for this new era, with the supervision of a senior.
by daxfohl | 2026-03-01 21:13:32+00:00
Nah, it makes teams useless. Maybe not quite yet, but soon, one engineer will be able to do a few sprint teams' worth of work, and deliver features orders of magnitude faster than a team working in parallel. Yeah, generally at first this will be seniors only. But before long, a junior will be able to come in and learn to manage one sprint team's worth of work under the guidance of a senior and partnered with a PM, and grow the product from there. Long term, I imagine 90% workforce reduction will be the norm. Just about all software is a rinse and repeat of some other software, not much true innovation, so picking and choosing and implementing some other software's feature into your own will start to become trivial single-day projects from start to finish. Hopefully AI creates some new industries that SWEs can roll into, but I'm feeling more doomer every day.
by happytoexplain | 2026-03-01 21:14:09+00:00
I appreciate what you're saying holistically speaking, but whenever we talk about the societal consequences of AI in the US, I find it insidious that we focus on the inadequacy of our social safety nets. As if to say: Yes, C-suite, all you have to do is support UBI and you are free to obliterate what remains of the middle class in the United States of America.
by chongli | 2026-03-01 21:14:21+00:00
Having a confidence score isn't as useful as it seems unless you (the user) know a lot about the contents of the training set.

Think of traditional statistics. Suppose I said "80% of those sampled preferred apples to oranges, and my 95% confidence interval is within +/- 2% of that" but then I didn't tell you anything about how I collected the sample. Maybe I was talking to people at an apple pie festival? Who knows! Without more information on the sampling method, it's hard to make any kind of useful claim about a population.

This is why I remain so pessimistic about LLMs as a source of knowledge. Imagine you had a person who was raised from birth in a completely isolated lab environment and taught only how to read books, including the dictionary. They would know how all the words in those books relate to each other but know nothing of how that relates to the world. They could read the line "the killer drew his gun and aimed it at the victim" but what would they really know of it if they'd never seen a gun?
by knorker | 2026-03-01 21:14:29+00:00
> I also don't expect the US would be okay letting the Iranian people pick who comes next.

Khamenei: Dead.
Ahmadinejad: Dead.

Maybe the US/Israel have a list of people they plan on making "ineligible" to run Iran? Then let the people choose from whoever's left?

We'll see how many people get ticked off the checklist, but if it's a long list then I would say regime change is a more plausible story.

Will it be as obvious as Karzai? Probably not.
by mitchellh | 2026-03-01 21:14:45+00:00
It's been extremely good. I should really blog about it in more detail because I do get asked this question regularly. It's been very good.

The large language changes are a burden, but it's something I knew going into it. And so far in every case, it's been well worth it. For example, 0.15 introduced the std.Io.Writer overhaul, but I really love the new API. I haven't started the std.Io change yet for 0.16. We'll see. And honestly, LLMs make this all way less painful... even though they're not trained on it, agents are able to run builds, reference docs, and work their way through the upgrade with huge success.

I thought that finding contributors would be an issue, but it hasn't at all. There's a lot of people out there eager to use Zig, the language isn't hard to learn (as long as you're already familiar with systems concepts), etc. It has been good.

I'll think about more to say if I write about this more but overall, I'm very happy with the language, the community, and the leadership. All good.