MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by softfalcon | 2026-02-27 20:38:08+00:00
I think we're having a completely different conversation now. The parent comment I originally replied has been edited so much that I think the context of what I was referring to is now gone.

Also, I wasn't talking about building network layers, I was explicitly referring to things that use a network layer... That is, an application receiving streams of enumerable network data.

I also agree with what you're saying, we don't want UInt8, we want bits and bytes.

I'm really confused as to why the parent comment was edited so heavily. Oh well, that's social media for you.
by bradfa | 2026-02-27 20:38:21+00:00
I give you $100 cash and you give me $100 worth of stock in return. Now you give me $100 cash to buy something from me that cost me $80 to produce. I end up with $100 worth of stock in your company which cost me only $80. No?

NVIDIA gross margins lately are like 75%, so it's more like you give me $100 to buy something from me that cost me $25 to produce, hence I end up with $100 worth of stock in your company and it only cost me $25.
by palmotea | 2026-02-27 20:38:22+00:00
> I was just applying the same false dichotomy and "so your argument is" logic you've been applying to others in this thread. I was wondering whether it would 1) appeal to you, 2) make you realize the error of your approach, or 3) reveal hypocrisy. Now I know.

No, it's option 4: you didn't really understand the narrowness of my point (which I was really explicit about), and kinda aped bits of the structure without really getting it. The proof is how you want on about teen pregnancy in response to me, like that had anything to do with what I was saying or where I was coming from.
Show HN: Ore – a Rust-Based Kernel for Managing Local Models/AI Agents
by alpha_mike | 2026-02-27 20:38:28+00:00
Hey HN, I got annoyed that running multiple AI agents kept crashing my laptop and had zero security. So I wrote a tiny kernel layer in Rust that acts as a GPU Bouncer and a Prompt Firewall. It's rough, but it works. Let me know what you think.
by jonah-archive | 2026-02-27 20:38:28+00:00
This someone jogged a memory of an all-time favorite line from a 2005 laptop review (well, more of a rant than a review): https://web.archive.org/web/20090709072628/https://arstechni...

> [The power] light informs the user that the X41 is on—no, really. There should be an ontological indicator next to it to let the user know the computer really exists.
by danielmewes | 2026-02-27 20:38:44+00:00
Author here.

We originally developed our evolution-inspired tool to optimize LLM prompts.
To our surprise, we found that the same method also worked well for getting better performance out of a base model on ARC-AGI tasks.

We're open-sourcing the evolver tool today. It is built to be adapted to many different optimization problems. (Some coding required)
You can read more about it at https://imbue.com/research/2026-02-27-darwinian-evolver/

Happy to answer questions!
by rayiner | 2026-02-27 20:38:49+00:00
The “power” focus for corruption is not useful. Corruption by people without power is more harmful to society than high level corruption. People skimming off the top is undesirable, but survivable. But ordinary people taking bribes and cheating grinds society to a halt and makes it impossible to develop societal wealth.

This is well evidenced in the development of asian countries in the 20th century. South Korea has plenty of corruption at a high level. But it’s clean at the lower level, and as a result it’s been able to become a rich society. By contrast, India has crippling corruption at lowest levels of society that imposes a huge drag on routine transactions and daily life.
by notfried | 2026-02-27 20:39:01+00:00
I love the website; the design, the video, the NSFW toggle, the simplicity.

I love the idea; definitely something I ran into a few times before and wish I had.

Unfortunately, I am not installing a closed-source daemon with access to the filesystem from an unknown (to me) developer. I will bookmark this and revisit in a few weeks and hope you had published the source. :)
by shevy-java | 2026-02-27 20:39:06+00:00
That is also my experience with DuckDuckGo but all search engines. They ALL suck including Google Search. I don't know why, but the results are simply crap.

> I thought there was going to be some substance to this post but it reads like someone congratulating themselves for a choice they made and then trying to backwards justify it.

I don't read that. Where do you see a backwards justification? Do you know the decision-making steps? I simply don't see how you can conclude this, unless you assume it. In which case the assumption may easily be totally incorrect.
by echelon | 2026-02-27 20:39:17+00:00
They don't need to reach AGI. They just need to put all of the engineers on HN out of work.

A year ago I would have said that was crazy. In the last month, I've been using Claude Code to write 20kloc of Rust code every day (and I review all of it).

A week is now a day. If that figure doubles, I have no idea what will happen to us. And I think it's coming.
by whoami4041 | 2026-02-27 20:39:17+00:00
Shameless plug here for Lexega—a deterministic policy enforcement layer for SQL in CI/CD :) https://lexega.com

There are bridges here that the industry has yet to figure out. There is absolutely a place for LLMs in these workflows, and what you've done here with the Mendral agent is very disciplined, which is, I'd venture to say, uncommon. Leadership wants results, which presses teams to ship things that maybe shouldn't be shipped quite yet. IMO the industry is moving faster than they can keep up with the implications.
by dang | 2026-02-27 20:39:29+00:00
"Eschew flamebait. Avoid generic tangents." - https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

No doubt many of us agree with you, but this is not the kind of comment that should be stuck at the top of a thread, choking out more specific and interesting conversation.

Generic-indignant comments always get heavily upvoted, which is a failure mode of the upvoting system (and perhaps the human brain, who knows).
by gamblor956 | 2026-02-27 20:40:19+00:00
Why is it that given the choice, many people with financial means move away from America’s cities?

This is actually generally the opposite of true. SFV is heavily Republican. Given the choice, self-made individuals prefer to live in or near blue cities despite the high taxes, because the lifestyle is objectively better than it is in the areas around red cities.

Indeed, a not-so-hidden secret of Fox News is that almost all of their anchors and personalities actually live in LA or NYC. (This is why Fox News personalities are so familiar with and obsessed with LA's problems. They're locals.) The Murdochs, for all their money prefer Los Angeles and NYC as their U.S. bases over no-tax states like Florida and Texas.
by asadotzler | 2026-02-27 20:40:21+00:00
Except that it is absolutely called The Department of War and that's by Trump's own hand.

https://www.whitehouse.gov/presidential-actions/2025/09/rest...

"By the authority vested in me as President by the Constitution and the laws of the United States of America, it is hereby ordered:

"The name “Department of War,” more than the current “Department of Defense,” ensures peace through strength, as it demonstrates our ability and willingness to fight and win wars on behalf of our Nation at a moment’s notice, not just to defend. This name sharpens the Department’s focus on our own national interest and our adversaries’ focus on our willingness and availability to wage war to secure what is ours. I have therefore determined that this Department should once again be known as the Department of War and the Secretary should be known as the Secretary of War."
by mcfig | 2026-02-27 20:40:43+00:00
I appreciate the details in this, but I also notice it is very machine-focused. When a user wants to sandbox an AI agent, they don’t just want their local .ssh keys protected. They also want to be able to control access to a lot of off-machine resources - e.g. allowing the agent to read github issues and sometimes also make some kinds of changes.
by kmeisthax | 2026-02-27 20:40:52+00:00
The California bill basically says any OS with an app store needs to collect an age signal and provide age bucketing to an app store (presumably even third-party ones, but notably NOT extension stores) so it can forward that information onto developers in that store.

There's no further elaboration on what age signals are preferred, so my assumption is that a DoB field in the user profile and a system service to request the age bucket is good enough. It's absolutely silly, but DB48X could implement that.

There's a related question of who is actually liable under this law - it seems written to target just Apple, Google, and Microsoft; and it only makes sense in the context of consumer electronics. Like, how does this work with enterprise systems? Servers? Is IBM going to have to rush out a patch for z/VM to ask the system administrator what their date of birth is?
by bikelang | 2026-02-27 20:40:57+00:00
Random ideas:

- it could work like the Kagi smallweb. people submit sites and you can’t submit your own until you submit (and have accepted) enough of others

- I’m also envisioning a parallel world where the big tech monopolies next existed. Maybe there could be crawler/indexer companies whose product was the stream of new content. Then you as a specialist search engine could consume the stream to build your own custom index and weights
by skydhash | 2026-02-27 20:41:34+00:00
I'm not a finance expert, but it may be because investment and purchase are are taxed differently (I don't know). You gave $100 away as investments, got $100 back as revenue. Meanwhile you establish that your product are worth $100 (while costing $80) and you have $100 worth of shares. Without considering side effects, you gave away $80 worth of product for $100 (supposed) worth of shares. But shares are subject to side effects and those side effects can be quite nice (making the news, establishing price,...).

The issue is that there's no organic force behind those changes and it makes everything hollow. You could create a market inside a deserted area and make it appear like a metropolis.
by alwillis | 2026-02-27 20:42:00+00:00
After Quicksilver, I went to LaunchBar, a fine app. It seemed to lose momentum after a while… I tried going built-in with Tahoe's upgraded Spotlight, a big improvement compared to the original. But it wasn’t enough.

I resisted Raycast since it seemed like the Mac bloggers and podcasters were using it. But I finally gave in.

Now after giving Tuna a try, I realize what's been missing since Quicksilver: some whimsy; a Mac-assed[1] launcher. As capable as Raycast is, it has no personality; it’s just a tool. It's not fun to use.

Compared to the others, Tuna is fun to use. It looks right at home on the Mac.

[1]: https://daringfireball.net/linked/2020/03/20/mac-assed-mac-a...
by JojoFatsani | 2026-02-27 20:42:05+00:00
There was nothing like Red Dwarf on TF (British or American) back then - a laugh-tracked show that could be simultaneously the most hilarious dry wit, not-so-dry bawdy humor, and a compelling and thought-provoking sci-fi action-adventure all at the same time.

I fell off it after they had that comeback season roughly in 2000 where the whole ship got revived. Then I saw a few clips from a later season where everyone was pretty schlubby. I'll need to track down some way to re-watch the whole thing.
by zeapo | 2026-02-27 20:44:22+00:00
Hey,

I've been abusing Claude Code for the last few months; however, something that always slowed me down is task management, a real one.

I built Swarmit for a simple objective: ask Claude to plan and organize itself using a proper task management system. Since building it, it creates tens of epics and hundreds of tasks, and has been able to reliably use them to manage parallel agents, manage dependencies among tasks, and, most importantly, not forget about what it was supposed to do.

Why not GitHub/Jira/Asana? This lets you do everything locally. It’s meant to allow Claude to quickly organize itself without reaching external services or polluting your official issue tracking with AI-generated micro-tasks.

I added a simple TUI that allows you to quickly see what the agents are doing, to comment and interact with the tasks. Started working on Insights so that agents can add some gotchas.

I hope you'll enjoy using it as much as I do :)

PS: 100% dogfooded, and my first fully claude code built tool.
by WarmWash | 2026-02-27 20:45:50+00:00
The problem isn't Google.

The problem is that people want a "free internet" without ads, and without any form of data harvesting. But they also don't want to pay any money, because the internet, as we all know, "is free".

In 30 years, no one has figured this out. So I feel pretty confident in stating that it's either gonna be ads or payments. And if we switch to a payment model, then the internet becomes another system where the poor are naturally disadvantaged and the rich get unlimited benefit, so I don't think any of the complaining will go away anyway. Just a new set of problems.
by dang | 2026-02-27 20:45:52+00:00
> It reminds me of the way children play with Duplo blocks.

WTF? I appreciate your technical expertise but you can't be aggressive like this on HN, and we've had to ask you this before: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45663563.

If you'd please review https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html and stick to the rules when posting here, we'd appreciate it.
by syrusakbary | 2026-02-27 20:46:04+00:00
I also disagree with that.

Wasmer can run now Python server-side without any restrictions (including gevent, SQLAlchemy and native modules!) [1] [2]

Also, cool things are coming on the JS land running on Wasmer :)

[1] https://wasmer.io/posts/greenlet-support-python-wasm

[2] https://wasmer.io/posts/python-on-the-edge-powered-by-webass...
by Barrin92 | 2026-02-27 20:46:09+00:00
>Christian references in the Cantos were probably incidental,

They're not at all incidental. The themes and the literal Catholic Church don't just make it into the books by osmosis, they're central to it and deliberate.

Like Gene Wolfe he's part of a pretty small group of US authors who wrote Catholic speculative fiction. Like Wolfe his writing is also fairly un-American. If Heinlein or Asimov are examples of archetypal US science fiction, Simmons is about as far as the other end as you can be, with the post-modern structure, the Canterbury Tales as a template for the story and so on.
by Joel_Mckay | 2026-02-27 20:46:10+00:00
Part of the inferred problem is a lack of respect for others, because some simply don't respect themselves. This was part of the PSA workable measures video.

Note, we also still buy inexpensive private insurance coverage mostly for travel, as it is tax deductible unlike the public coverage.

You should get outside for a walk, and meet real people. =3
by johnea | 2026-02-27 20:46:25+00:00
I'm, again, glad to run linux. The distro I run has no affiliated online "account" at all, and I would expect this exempts it from the requirement.

I'm no democrat, although I'm sure as hell no republican, and as a resident of the state, I'm also a routine critic of the California state government.

I agree that a lot of their activities are indeed, performance art in nature.

However I do agree with the identification requirements on guns and ammo.

You can't shoot someone with a computer, no matter what OS you run.

The idea that lethal weaponry is the same as any other consumer product is just not accurate.
by pwdisswordfishy | 2026-02-27 20:46:42+00:00
OpenLibrary is such an unfortunate case of semi-failure. It hasn't failed exactly (it's still around), and there's enough of a heartbeat that people can claim that it's going strong and there's nothing wrong (especially stakeholders closest to the chest who are least likely to stomach criticism). But its scope is both exactly what I want for a hypothetical book-related IMDB-like platform, and the same time it's not at all something that I use with any regularity that leaves me feeling that it has been helpful for the task at hand and thinking, "It's a good thing it exists."

At this point, it's probably a bad thing that it exists, because if it didn't exist and you were trying to describe how you wish there was a good site that was like an IMDB for books that was editable like Wikipedia, then they couldn't say, "There is! It's called OpenLibrary", or dismiss your criticism by telling you that whatever is wrong with it you can help fix because it's both editable and the code is all open source.
by ben_w | 2026-02-27 20:47:09+00:00
> I give you $100 cash and you give me $100 worth of stock in return. Now you give me $100 cash to buy something from me that cost me $80 to produce. I end up with $100 worth of stock in your company which cost me only $80. No?

Sure, but how's that a cheat code? If you normally sell something for $100 that costs $80 to make, and then use that $100 revenue to buy $100 of stock, this is an identical outcome for you.
by nephihaha | 2026-02-27 20:47:29+00:00
I have watched the American pilot, and one thing I found curious was that the two female characters were the most interesting (Cat and the Computer played by Terry Farrel and Jane Leeves who were both in major series - Deep Space Nine and Frasier). Holly/Computer has been female for much of the British series and Cat did work as a female character. Contrast with the British show which was very male except for computer (sometimes) and Kochanski when she became a regular character (Chloe Annette didn't really work. I wish Clare Grogan had been a regular instead.)
by mrweasel | 2026-02-27 20:47:29+00:00
To some extend it feels like Google just gave up on search. I don't really share the notion that Google is still better than e.g. DuckDuckGo or Ecosia. In my experience if Ecosia can't find something, neither can Google.

However, I've noticed that search seems to become less and less useful, like huge chucks of the net is just missing. A ton of pages also doesn't really make their content searchable, in the sense that videos and images aren't tagged in any meaningful why.

Mostly I feel the internet shrinking around me, the number of pages I go to becomes fewer and fewer. Brand new topics/content mostly comes from blogs recommended by friends and colleague.
by websap | 2026-02-27 20:47:36+00:00
Yeah, the article is slop. Not even AI slop. More like guilty conscience slop.

I ran an experiment where I set DDG as my default on all surfaces. About 3 - 4 months in, I actually started hating searching, and a few weeks later most of my queries had the prefix !g

Gmail is hands down the best. I pay for Gemini, and Gemini outside gmail is much much better than Gemini inside gmail. I pay for ChatGPT, but for some reason, I trust Gemini with my email rather than ChatGPT.
by impendia | 2026-02-27 20:47:40+00:00
Yes, they likely scraped the conference web site.

Academia, at least in math, has a tradition of being public. Conferences will advertise at least the list of speakers, and sometimes the full list of attendees. This is widely considered a good thing; people trying to decide whether to go to a conference will want to know who else will be there.

Moreover, the conference organizers have sent out multiple emails to the attendees warning that scammers were targeting them, and emphasizing that there were no third parties legitimately involved.

So I can't and don't fault them.
by nikisweeting | 2026-02-27 20:47:43+00:00
Inspired by the recent post where a guy figured out how to read the private accelerometer APIs on Apple Silicon macs: https://github.com/olvvier/apple-silicon-accelerometer

I created a set of tools that you can pipe together like a modular synth, sensor data is outputted via stdout as a mono audio signal, and then it can be piped around and outputted to outputs like your speaker, screen-brightness, keyboard-brightness, a TUI visualizer, and more.

Some examples of silly things that are possible:

lid-angle | speaker # sounds like a theremin as you move th elid

accelerometer | metronome | screen-brightness # tap on your palmrest and it will flash to the beat

microphone | metronome | speaker # play a tone in sync with whatever beat is audible to the microphone (syncs the phase too)

microphone | bandpass 0.4 6 | volume-shift 2 | tee >(visualizer) | keyboard-brightness

gyroscope | fan-speed

Lots more here: https://github.com/pirate/mac-hardware-toys
by verdverm | 2026-02-27 20:47:52+00:00
It's not hate, it's about keeping HN high quality

1. Posting content with obvious mistakes is low quality. Have you recognized it yet? It's clear you didn't read the Ai output before posting.

2. Primarily using HN for self promotion breaks the HN rules, as evidenced by your submission and comment history. Please review the Guidelines and FAQ linked at the bottom of most pages.
by dpoloncsak | 2026-02-27 20:48:54+00:00
>The only losers where ad buyers, who IMHO are exactly the ones that should be affected.until they realize that ads are not effective.

Honest question, what do you envision will keep the free-internet free in lou of ads? Do you think a pay-walled internet, $3 for this site, $5 for this....would ever take off?

I too block ads, but feel like i'm slowly contributing to the death spiral of the internet
by varispeed | 2026-02-27 20:49:34+00:00
The plumber example actually undermines your argument. Plumbers typically provide services to individuals, not businesses, which places them outside the scope of Chapter 10 entirely. They can self-declare as outside IR35. But if that same plumber were delivering services to a corporation meeting Chapter 10 criteria, the client would have to perform a status determination, and depending on their risk appetite they could absolutely deem that engagement as inside IR35 to cover their compliance exposure. IR35 has nothing to do with number of clients, type of trade, or whether you are a plumber or a software developer. Presenting plumbers as inherently outside IR35 by nature of their work is misleading.

You dismissed the tax yield comparison as "a Communist Party pamphlet." That is not a rebuttal. If the stated purpose of IR35 is protecting tax revenue, and the structure generating the most tax for the Treasury is the one being constrained while the structure generating the least is left untouched, then the policy is not achieving what it claims to achieve. You have not addressed this because you cannot.
You say the three workers create "completely different contracts, working structures and tax arrangements" and that my "brain won't allow me to see the answer." The working structure is identical. The contracts differ because the law requires them to differ depending on who owns the supplying company. The tax arrangements follow from that. You keep pointing at the consequences of the policy and presenting them as the justification for it. That is circular reasoning.

You have repeatedly described how you think IR35 works, inaccurately in several places, while avoiding the question I am actually asking. I am not asking about the mechanics. I am asking about the design. Why does the deemed-employment test activate based on who owns the company supplying the labour, rather than being applied universally to all companies supplying labour in identical working conditions?

Resorting to personal attacks and dismissing inconvenient arguments as "rants" is not the same as answering the question.