MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by jdboyd | 2026-02-26 16:11:49+00:00
In my city, travel habits and condition, I find I wish for more torque and lower speed. Every place I want to go has significant hills that the motor can't handle, and easing climbing hills is the main reason I want an ebike. My ebike's minimum speed for the motor is 15kph, which is ok by myself, but my family likes to go slower, so I have to go fully manual with them. When I look at ebike ads it feels like nobody else cares about these two areas of performance. When I talk to local ebike shops they are unprepared to talk about torque and minimum speed.
by miloignis | 2026-02-26 16:12:14+00:00
I'm big into DnD podcasts, so Dragon Friends (Australian comedians doing DnD), The Adventure Zone (McElroy boys & dad doing DnD), Not Another DnD Podcast, etc.

Matt Levine's Money Stuff has a podcast with his friend and reporter Katie Greifeld, which is a lot of fun chatting about Money Stuff in an informative way.

I go through cycles of being obsessed with Blank Check (which goes through director's filmographies), and often more specifically, The Phantom Podcast (and sequels) where they watched The Phantom Menace over and over again under the guise of it being the only Star Wars movie.
by em-bee | 2026-02-26 16:12:18+00:00
gig economy is like working as a freelancer except the pay is lower. and that's the problem. working as a freelancer only works out because i get a higher per hour rate so that i can deal with downtimes where i get no work.

gig work should have a higher minimum wage. double from normal at least. if minimum wage is $12 per hour. then gig-minimum should be $24 per hour. and there should be minimum hours of work guaranteed. these may be negotiable, but the big issue is that gig workers don't have the negotiation power and competence to work this out on their own. that's the whole reason why we have laws to protect employees in the first place.

as a freelancer i have no protection, but i knew that going in and made a choice. gig-workers don't know that, and they often do gig work as a last resort, so they have no choice. laws haven't caught up yet to protect them.
by rhazn | 2026-02-26 16:12:20+00:00
I can understand the feedback and I agree if you are building a product, you want to make it easy to use and intuitive for the majority. In my opinion, as a government you have an obligation to create processes differently though. You should provide and focus on a flow that is 100% in your/the citizens control with the messaging to match.

So in your email example, I think the governments messaging must be neutrally on email (and arguably the government should provide free Email accounts to citizens), but they could add convenience buttons to open GMail or similar.

But I recognize my opinion is probably an outlier, especially on hackernews. I can see your point as well and taken with an open mind :).
by lunar-whitey | 2026-02-26 16:12:21+00:00
> Urban centers are not set up for large-scale rainwater collection.

This is correct. Even in suburban areas, rainfall may be irregular and supplies to collect it (and render potable, depending on the manner of collection) also unavailable to most people.

> What would actually happen is the military and national guard would be mobilized. They would use pumps and water trucks to visit acquifers and wells, and distribute water by truck neighborhood by neighborhood. A continuous stream of trucks constantly resupplying cities.

At this point, I will be explicit concerning my opinion of your 28 million direct casualty estimate upthread. I think this only makes sense if you think in terms of individual city centers being destroyed, which is a massive underestimation. Modern weapon systems with independent reentry vehicles and warheads yielding around 100 kilotons do not destroy cities; they erase whole metroplexes.

In such a scenario there are no major population centers left to supply or contingents of military to supply them at a meaningful scale. I don’t have much interest in arguing how survivors in outlying areas might migrate in response to the supply chain collapse that follows.
Show HN: Portable Secret – Open-Source HTML files that self-decrypt offline
by alcazar | 2026-02-26 16:12:30+00:00
Hey HN, We've decided to open-source our Portable Secret. It's a free tool that generates self-contained HTML files which decrypt locally in your browser.

Check it out at https://alcazarsec.github.io/portable-secret/.
Source code: https://github.com/alcazarsec/portable-secret

The project is inspired by an old post (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34083366) by mprimi, who coined the term "Portable Secret." I really liked the idea and wanted to improve the security of the KDF and the UX. I hope he's honored that so many people have iterated on it over the years.

Let me know what you think. I love reading all feedback (good or bad). I'll be monitoring the thread to reply to comments.

Thank you!
by EdNutting | 2026-02-26 16:12:31+00:00
I'm not saying I do this but if I were as smart as I think I am I would have given a Gmail example rather than the example you've given to avoid bots just looking up my website and starting to bypass my setup... ;) ;) ;)

Also, spammers generally don't seem to be going to the effort to apply regex filters to the data they've scraped...
by ErroneousBosh | 2026-02-26 16:12:38+00:00
> Bigger panes of laminated glass is expensive, but you can start small, no? I'd go to the local glass shops and ask for their scraps, for example.

Go to a scrapyard and see if you can pull the windscreen out of a car. It's just a contaminant when it goes in the fraggie anyway.
by madjam002 | 2026-02-26 16:12:53+00:00
Does anyone know of any good firewalls for macOS? The built in firewall is practically unusable, and if client isolation can be bypassed, the local firewall is more important than ever.

I often have a dev server running bound to 0.0.0.0 as it makes debugging easy at home on the LAN, but then if I connect to a public WiFi I want to know that I am secure and the ports are closed. "Block all incoming connections" on macOS has failed me before when I've tested it.
by ptsneves | 2026-02-26 16:13:03+00:00
> if they've actually invented a new form of intelligence that can rival or surpass billions of years of evolution?

Human creations have surpassed billions of years of evolution at several functions. There are no rockets in nature, nor animals flying at the speed of a common airliner. Even cars, or computers or everything in the modern world.

I think this is a bit like the shift from anthropocentric view of intelligence towards a new paradigm. The last time such shift happened heads rolled.
by codingrot17 | 2026-02-26 16:13:06+00:00
The features they're citing as justification — AI-powered item naming, faster device setup — are convenience improvements, not security improvements. The actual security model (Secret Key architecture, zero-knowledge design) hasn't changed.
$72/year is still reasonable, but the gap with Bitwarden's family plan ($40/year, open source) is widening. For technically inclined users, the value proposition gets harder to justify with every increase. For non-technical family members who'd struggle with self-hosting — probably still worth it.
by kvinogradov | 2026-02-26 16:13:06+00:00
Over the last few years I've talked with hundreds of people in the dev community, and almost everyone shared the same concern: there's no sustainable funding for critical OSS maintenance, and without it the modern world runs on an increasingly fragile foundation.

I have personal experience with university endowments, and at some point noticed that the open source world is remarkably similar to a top research university. They share the same reputation-based culture and functions — collaborative creation of IP as a public good, educating each other within thematic clusters, and commercializing only a small fraction of what they produce.

For universities, humanity has just two sustainable funding models: public spending or private endowments. Government support won't work for OSS at scale — it's too globally decentralized. And yet nobody had built an OSS-focused endowment before. After understanding why, I started building one together with other OSS folks.

Today we're publicly launching the Open Source Endowment — a community-driven endowment fund dedicated to sustainably funding maintainers of the most critical open source projects. All donations are invested in a low-risk portfolio, and only the investment income (~5%/year) is used for grants, making it independent of annual budgets and tech market volatility.

We recently received US 501(c)(3) tax-exempt charity status. The fund is at ~$700K, formed by 60+ founding donors — including founders of HashiCorp, Elastic, ClickHouse, Supabase, Vue.js, Pydantic, Nginx, Gatsby, n8n, and curl. Everyone is welcome to join them and participate in governance.

There's no perfect model for distributing OSS grants. Our approach: make it open, data-driven, measurable, and developed by people with skin in the game — donors. I tested this by personally donating $5K to 800+ Python projects in Dec 2024 (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42312469). We're now looking to grow our donor community and together finalize the first model for grants in Q2 2026.

This is a pure community charity, and there are two things I'd love from HN:

1) Join as a donor — any amount — and help make OSE the most efficient long-term funding solution for OSS maintainers

2) Nominate OSS projects you think are critically underfunded on the Funding page at endowment.dev
by ProllyInfamous | 2026-02-26 16:13:24+00:00
>the grid seems fine now

Time tells all.

One benefit of the previous Texas winter disaster is that the highest MWH fee was reduced from $9000/per to $3k/p [normal would be ~$30/p].

In my personal opinion the winterization of LNG lines is still not enough for the next major storm (the cause of previous two decade storms was lack of adequate heat-tracing along pipelines — not windmills [Hotwheels' deception]). This has been discussed in every post-disaster report, since the 1980s. Private grid operators see little incentive to prepare for these storms, particularly since they make so much money when the grid is stressed (just how it's set up).

Instead of the stupidity of isolation, Texas could easily amalgamate its resources with the entire rest of Lower 48 USA, and not have to spend nearly as much prepping for emergency gas lines (instead: buy power from somewhere else).
by otterley | 2026-02-26 16:13:34+00:00
What, exactly, is "safe" about TypeScript other than type safety?

TypeScript is just a language anyway. It's the runtime that needs to be contained. In that sense it's no different from any other interpreter or runtime, whether it be Go, Python, Java, or any shell.

In my view this really is best managed by the OS kernel, as the ultimate responsibility for process isolation belongs to it. Relying on userspace solutions to enforce restrictions only gets you so far.
by chasd00 | 2026-02-26 16:13:52+00:00
The thing is though, Google Gemini is pretty good and it's not super hard to switch to and, the real moat, Google can just keep improving, integrating Gemini, and gathering customer while just waiting for OpenAI to go bankrupt. Basically, everyone on the planet has to pay OpenAI to keep them in business. If they don't get the vast majority of the market OpenAI can't pay their bills. Google is going to just starve OpenAI out.
by murphyslab | 2026-02-26 16:13:59+00:00
A Bonferroni correction would be suitable. I usually see it used in genome-wide association studies (GWAS) that check to see if a trait or phenotype is influenced by any single nucleotide polymorphisms (SNPs) in a genome. So it's doing multiple testing on a scale of ~1 million.

> One of the simplest approaches to correct for multiple testing is the Bonferroni correction. The Bonferroni correction adjusts the alpha value from α = 0.05 to α = (0.05/k) where k is the number of statistical tests conducted. For a typical GWAS using 500,000 SNPs, statistical significance of a SNP association would be set at 1e-7. This correction is the most conservative, as it assumes that each association test of the 500,000 is independent of all other tests – an assumption that is generally untrue due to linkage disequilibrium among GWAS markers.

https://journals.plos.org/ploscompbiol/article?id=10.1371/jo...

cf: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bonferroni_correction
by mschuster91 | 2026-02-26 16:14:32+00:00
Just because something is mandatory, doesn't mean it's enforced. You got 6 million trucks registered in the EU alone [1], plus fleets of trucks registered in adjacent states such as Turkey or Serbia, or old trucks out of the new Eastern European states that predate their EU membership and, with it, mandatory governors. And loggers can be manipulated as well, if you do it right there is no chance of finding that out without taking apart the truck.

Not every country is as thorough as Germany is in technical inspections, trucks from outside the EU don't need speed governors, and as long as you don't race your truck in Germany, France or Austria, chances are high no one will be bothered enough to pull your truck over for a detailed inspection on an examination wheel. Or you simply have two datalogger cards, that you swap out when going into one of these countries.

[1] https://trans.info/de/eu-lkws-alternde-flotten-449472
by HardCodedBias | 2026-02-26 16:14:37+00:00
Wait it gets worse for the "article"

ITEP gets the number by dividing Meta’s current federal tax expense ($2.82B) by its domestic pretax income ($79.64B), which is about 3.5–3.6%.

But Meta’s total 2025 GAAP effective tax rate was actually 29.6%, because it also booked a huge $15.93B charge tied to the Corporate Alternative Minimum Tax and valuation allowances.
by kgwxd | 2026-02-26 16:14:39+00:00
We don't grant companies extraordinary powers to arrest/imprison/kill for any reason they see fit. The government involvement problem is VERY separate from the greedy company problem. And the government is supposed to be working for the people, we don't like being spied on, they should be making laws to prevent it, not looking to get in on it. There's even a document they're supposed to be referring to for guidance on such issues.
by bikenaga | 2026-02-26 16:14:59+00:00
Ars's recent issues with fabricated quotes were very disappointing. But
Beth Mole is consistently excellent. She has a PhD in microbiology, and is a very careful writer. In the linked article, she cites the following studies. The evidence for a reduced dementia risk seems pretty convincing, particularly given the "natural cutoff" studies:

* Cited research: "Herpes zoster vaccination and the risk of dementia: A systematic review and meta-analysis" - https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/38687552/
* Cited research: "A natural experiment on the effect of herpes zoster vaccination on dementia" - https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-025-08800-x
* Cited research: "Herpes Zoster Vaccination and Dementia Occurrence" - https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jama/fullarticle/2833335?
* Cited research: "Herpes zoster vaccination and incident dementia in Canada: an analysis of natural experiments" - https://www.thelancet.com/journals/laneur/article/PIIS1474-4422(25)00455-7/fulltext
* Cited research: "The recombinant shingles vaccine is associated with lower risk of dementia" - https://www.nature.com/articles/s41591-024-03201-5
* Cited research: "Recombinant zoster vaccine is associated with a reduced risk of dementia" - https://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-026-69289-0
* Cited research: "Association between shingles vaccination and slower biological aging: Evidence from a U.S. population-based cohort study" - https://academic.oup.com/biomedgerontology/advance-article/doi/10.1093/gerona/glag008/8430804?login=false
by cs702 | 2026-02-26 16:15:09+00:00
Original source (should replace the current link): https://www.ndss-symposium.org/wp-content/uploads/2026-f1282...

Summary: https://www.ndss-symposium.org/ndss-paper/airsnitch-demystif... (hat tip: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47167975)
by ACCount37 | 2026-02-26 16:15:15+00:00
Yes, quite unfortunately. That reeks to me of wishful thinking.

Maybe that was a sensible thing to think in 1926, when the closest things we had to "an artificial replica of human intelligence" was the automatic telephone exchange and the mechanical adding machine. But knowledge and technology both have advanced since.

Now, we're in 2026, and the list of "things that humans can do but machines can't" has grown quite thin. "Human brain is doing something truly magical" is quite hard to justify on technical merits, and it's the emotional value that makes the idea linger.
by ting0 | 2026-02-26 16:15:27+00:00
https://boehs.org/node/everything-i-know-about-the-xz-backdo...

This is the scariest part to me:

> A pull request (https://github.com/jamespfennell/xz/pull/2) to a go library by a 1Password employee is opened asking to upgrade the library to the vulnerable version
by harrall | 2026-02-26 16:15:37+00:00
What we actually need to get to is a world where countries have somewhat equal quality of life. This would allow a country to invest in processes that reduce pollution without fundamentally making them uncompetitive.

Of course a world where everyone has an equal quality of life is almost a dream but I’d say humanity has been very slowly, very slowly getting there.

What we do now is that “1st world countries” focus on high value manufacturing and growing countries unfortunately take up the dangerous and polluting manufacturing — but bear in mind, the US and other industrial countries also had the same phase.

What fucks up this is when trust breaks down between countries. Now suddenly you need to bring lower value manufacturing in house for national security even if it doesn’t make economic sense. It’s inefficient, puts the world back at square one, causes everyone to fight for survival instead of progress, and frankly leads us away from that “Star Trek” future.

This is also why we’re having to worry about asking these questions now when we didn’t so much have to 20 years ago. We’re living in a mildly cooked part of humanity’s timeline where trust seems to be fleeting.
Show HN: I run a team of AI agents on my Kubernetes cluster
by gjkim042 | 2026-02-26 16:15:47+00:00
I built Axon, an open-source Kubernetes controller that turns AI coding agent runs into a declarative API. I can define my development workflow in YAML so that Axon handles the rest — isolation, credentials, git workspace, agent plugins, output capture.

I use it to develop Axon itself. I run a team of specialized agents on my cluster, each with a different job:

Workers — Watch for GitHub issues, pick them up, investigate, write code, open PRs, self-review, and iterate until CI passes. If an agent gets stuck, it pauses and asks for my feedback. I respond on the issue, and it picks back up.

Fake User — Runs daily. Pretends to be a new developer trying Axon for the first time. Reads the README, tries CLI commands, reviews error messages. When it finds rough edges, it files issues. This catches things I’d never notice as the author.

Strategist — Runs twice a day. Thinks about new use cases, integrations, and API improvements. Reads the codebase, checks recent activity, and proposes ideas as issues. Some of the best feature ideas in Axon’s backlog came from this agent.

Triage — Classifies new issues by type, checks if they’re already fixed, detects duplicates, and posts a triage report.

The whole setup is YAML files you can kubectl apply on your own cluster.

Repo: https://github.com/axon-core/axon

Self-development pipeline: https://github.com/axon-core/axon/tree/main/self-development

It’s not magic though. The workers produce mediocre PRs sometimes and I still do the final review before merging. The fake user occasionally files issues that make no sense. The strategist sometimes suggests things that already exist. But even with the noise, it improves itself pretty well.
by logicprog | 2026-02-26 16:15:54+00:00
This seems like a very credible, thorough, and telling survey from Pew on what average people think about AI: https://www.pewresearch.org/internet/2025/04/03/how-the-us-p...

Key findings (to me):

- Way more people think AI will have a negative effect on the US over the next 20 years than think it will have a positive effect (35% vs 17%)

- Even more people think increased usage of AI will personally harm them than benefit them (43% vs 24%)

- Women and men have a huge gap on this: 53% of men say increased use of AI makes them feel more excited than concerned, versus 30% of women (probably due to deepfakes, but also likely due to women being more likely to be progressive, and the big anti-AI memes going around progressive spaces).

- 64% of people think AI will net eliminate jobs over the next 20 years versus just 14% that think it will even just not make much of a difference

It's also worth noting that AI experts were wildly out of touch with those attitudes compared to the general population.
by darrenf | 2026-02-26 16:15:56+00:00
That link clearly says you don't have to use an app.

If you are unable to use the app, you can apply online through ImmiAccount for another visa that suits your needs.

This triggered me because I've been to Australia tens of times (albeit not since 2023) and have always used my Immi account. I just logged in to check and sure enough I can still lodge an application there, no app required. Ironically I would prefer an app and will use it for my next visits because I've always found the Immi site cumbersome. But the site is still there.
by shufflerofrocks | 2026-02-26 16:16:15+00:00
I'm a 30 year old and I have a similar experience. Facebook has almost always been a pleasant experience for me - not just updates from friends but also the new stuff that comes in the feed, which is why I kept getting confused about the reports of fb being a hell hole, until I understood the rabidity & variability of their algorithm.

FB Groups are one of the best corners of the internet imo.
by chaboud | 2026-02-26 16:16:23+00:00
When I was a kid growing up in Texas, our ocean visits were to the Gulf of Mexico, off the Texas coast, and you would grab little alcohol wipes for when you got out of the ocean, to wipe the oil off.

Years later, swimming in Hawaii, I found myself looking for wipes. I mentioned it to a snorkel-outfit operator, and she looked at me like I was insane. They didn't even put damaging sunscreen in the water, and there was no expectation of little 1-2 inch sticky spots of oil.

The good old days, in the 80's, where we swam in oceans filled with slow-motion natural disasters. I wonder how much of it was place (Hawaiians seem to have a stronger relationship with the land and nature surrounding them) and how much of it was the time (20 years later).