MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by matthewfcarlson | 2026-03-02 20:24:41+00:00
It's interesting to me as well as an ex-microsofter who worked on surface devices. Leadership (at least below the VP level) knew they were getting killed by Chromebooks and tried a few times to get a low cost device (Surface Go 1/2 for example) that ran a slimmed down version of windows (Windows S?). It tries to be more like chrome OS (hard to mess up, easy to flatten and restore a fresh OS on) but kind of just throws away the things you would pick windows for in the first place (legacy app compatibility) to be not bad at the thing Chromebooks are good at.

That said, I don't believe the Chromebook lock-in. It's just chrome and the web, which you can get on literally almost every laptop/pc sold today. Should Microsoft be concerned that you don't need windows as more and more things move onto the web? Absolutely. They should be doubling down hard on the gaming ecosystem (which atm still requires windows for certain games) as their hold is eroding week by week.
by qezz | 2026-03-02 20:24:55+00:00
The big difference is that with `(T, error)` as a return type, any value on the caller side will look like a valid one (thanks to zero values).

a, err := f()
// whether you forgot to handle the `err` or not,
// the `a` carries a zero value, or some other value.

In rust it's not the case, as the `T` in `Result<T, E>` won't be constructed in case of an error.
by bri3d | 2026-03-02 20:24:57+00:00
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by wffurr | 2026-03-02 20:25:17+00:00
I found a thread on macpowerusers.com that recommended Jamf or Zoho that both have a free tier for Apple MDM. https://talk.macpowerusers.com/t/mdm-for-family-home/39714/8 I'm kind of curious to try it out on my kids' iPads to make them interchangeable.
by SilverElfin | 2026-03-02 20:26:18+00:00
I don’t think this is the right argument, and I say that as someone who wants legislation to prevent such data from being accessible to federal agencies.

Those cases that WERE solved using Flock data could have impacts worth far more than $2 million. For example if one kidnapped child were recovered, what is that worth to the parents? What about to society, who can feel secure about their kids and also actually experience higher safety due to better deterrence? That’s worth more than the few thousand dollars you could say was spent to support that one search of Flock data.

Ultimately, the data is also only as good (and bad) as how it is used. If local jurisdictions use it to solve crime and to actually prosecute criminals (rather than letting them go) then it can be very beneficial. A lot of people are frustrated by criminals not being brought to justice. And obviously, if their privacy is lost, that’s a downside, but it’s not the sole thing to weigh here.
by aibuildersdig | 2026-03-02 20:27:00+00:00
There is a trap that 90% of technical founders fall into: The AI Feature Fallacy.\n\nIt goes like this: You find a really cool new AI capability (like instantaneous speech-to-speech translation). You immediately build a product around it (\"A real-time translation app!\"). \n\nThen, you launch it... and no one cares. Why? Because you built a technology, not a product. \n\nThe most successful AI companies in 2026 did not start with the technology. They started with a painfully boring, deeply human problem, and then asked: \"Can AI make this 10x cheaper or 10x faster?\"\n\nThree rules for building AI products:\n1. Hide the AI: The best AI products don't mention AI in their marketing. Think of Grammarly—it's AI, but users just view it as a spellchecker that actually works.\n2. Focus on the 'Last Mile': AI is great at generating the first 80% of a task (like a draft of a contract). The true product value is building the UI that allows the user to easily complete the last 20%.\n3. Sell the Outcome, Not the Tool: Don't sell \"An AI agent that writes marketing copy.\" Sell \"A tool that increases your Facebook Ad CTR by 20%.\"\n\nIf you found this helpful, I write a weekly newsletter for AI builders covering deep dives like this.
Show HN: CrowPay – add x402 in a few lines, let AI agents pay per request
by ssistilli | 2026-03-02 20:27:04+00:00
Hey HN – I've been building in the agent payments space for a while and the biggest bottleneck I see isn't the protocol (x402 is great) — it's that most API providers have no idea how to actually integrate it. The docs exist, the middleware exists, but going from "I have a REST API" to "agents can discover and pay for my endpoints" still takes way more work than it should.

CrowPay fixes that. We integrate x402 payment headers into your existing API and configure USDC settlement on Base. You go from zero to agent-accessible in days, not months.

How it works:

You have an existing API (Express, Next.js, Cloudflare Workers, any HTTP server)
We add x402 payment capability — your endpoints return 402 with payment instructions, agents pay in USDC and get access
USDC settles to your wallet on Base. You get a dashboard with real-time analytics on agent payment volume.

That's it. You don't have to learn how x402 works under the hood, run blockchain infra, or change your API architecture.
Why this matters now: There are over 72,000 AI agents paying for services via x402, with $600M+ in annualized volume across 960+ live endpoints. Stripe just added x402 support. CoinGecko is charging agents $0.01/request. This is going from experiment to real money fast — and most API providers are leaving it on the table because the integration is still too annoying.

The agent-side story: We also handle wallet creation and spending budgets for agent builders. If you're building agents that need to pay for things, Crow lets you create a wallet, fund it, set spending limits, and let your agent loose. The agent gets a budget, and you don't wake up to a surprise $10k bill.

What I'd love to hear:

What's keeping you from adding agent payments today?
Is it technical complexity, uncertainty about demand, or something else?
Agent builders: how do you handle spending controls? Is "agent gets a wallet with a budget" the right abstraction?
by klibertp | 2026-03-02 20:27:06+00:00
Also, disable the formatting if stdout is not a terminal. That way, your colors and cursor movements won't be visible when piping to another program, and your tool will be usable in apps that don't understand the CSI and chars that follow. Use a command-line switch with more than two states, e.g., `ls` (and probably other GNU tools) has `--color=always|auto|never` which covers most use cases.

Also not mentioned in the article: there are a few syntaxes available for specifying things in control sequences, like

\x1b[38;2;{r};{g};{b}m

for specifying colors. There's a nice list here: https://gist.github.com/ConnerWill/d4b6c776b509add763e17f9f1... You can also cram as many control codes as you want into a control sequence, though it probably isn't useful in a modern context in 99.9% of cases.
by jpalawaga | 2026-03-02 20:27:18+00:00
drinking out sucks now. it's too expensive. landlords are killing drinking out.

I love drinking craft beer. but when a single craft beer reaches up to $15 a beer, there's only so much I will partake, especially if I can have a $1 coors at home (which imo is still an expertly made product).

similarly, canned vodka sodas or malt bevages (like whiteclaw) easily hit the $10-$15/can mark at establishments. it's no wonder people don't want to drink out.
by onion2k | 2026-03-02 20:27:35+00:00
I'm experimenting with building an agent swarm to take a very large existing app that's been built over the past two decades (internal to the company I work for) and reverse engineer documentation from the code so I can then use that documentation as the basis for my teams to refactor big chunks of old-no-longer-owned-by-anyone features and to build new features using AI better. The initial work to just build a large-scale understanding of exactly what we actually run in prod is a massively parallelizable task that should be a good fit for some documentation writing agents. Early days but so far my experiments seem to be working out.

Obviously no users will see a benefit directly but I reckon it'll speed up delivery of code a lot.
by TZubiri | 2026-03-02 20:27:43+00:00
I'm confused, why would companies be unable to create Polymarket accounts.

By talking about aged accounts and shell companies, I meant that there's black markets for aged accounts from social media platforms, and there's markets for shell companies (and to some extent warmed up emails). In both cases the age of the company gives it some value, as anyone doing due diligence on the accounts will weigh the age of the account as a positive signal.

Age of an account is a costly signal and significantly slows down Sybil attacks. Spammers pay some cost for aged accounts (even if it's just waiting and holding the inventory) and for defenders it works as a PoW system, they don't need to ignore the age signal, it works just fine.
by StrugglingDev | 2026-03-02 20:28:04+00:00
I completely agree with you here, you are being considerate and aware. There are times and places where things are more appropriate and although I do think we can all benefit in lowering our guard and being more brave in having conversations with others. I disagree with the other poster about how every good socially successful person has creeped someone out, I think this is always something we should be considerate about and not just take it as a fact. Conversations involve two people, and we should always be considerate of the other instead of using it transactionally to further our own growth at their expense. I also really dislike the shared source of where their idealogy comes from (alpha male.. yuck). I think you are participating in your community and talking to many people, if you find that you'd like to lower your guard and talk to strangers, I have a strong feeling that what is intuitive to you would be the right thing to do
by D-Machine | 2026-03-02 20:28:22+00:00
It's not even really the researchers' fault, academic psychological personality research is in general philosophically very weak / poor, in that they also almost always conflate "models of / talking about personality" with actual personality, and rarely actually check if things like the MBTI or Five-Factor Model actually correlate meaningfully with real behaviours.

Those that do find correlations between self-reported personality and actual behaviours tend to find those to be in a range of something like 0.0 to 0.3 or so, maybe 0.4 if you are really lucky. Which means "personality" measured this way is explaining something like 16% of the variance in behaviour, at max.
by staticassertion | 2026-03-02 20:28:59+00:00
> So yes, I deny the coherence of the concept of "brute facts".

Cool, that is fine. I deny lots of things as well. It's a position you can hold.

> If something is determined, something determined it.

That's fine but you'll likely find yourself in an infinite regress. That's a cost you'll have to take on under your theory.

> People invent ways to explain away our ignorance of the reasons behind things, instead of accepting the reality of ignorance, almost like an attractor fractal pattern, over and over.

That's not what's happening here. These concepts are pretty rigorously discussed and debated, it's certainly not a "cop out" - it's a metaphysical cost to your world view that you have to justify.

> Scientists can "believe" that is a valid viewpoint. But inherently cannot every demonstrate any evidence for it.

You've already said that you don't believe all things can be proven via evidence, so that's fine.

But it's incorrect to say that there is no evidence for the position. There are many arguments to support the view of brute facts or brute contingencies. One example is that it seems to not accept them would lead to infinite regress, which many people have reasons to reject as well. These are well evidenced positions, that is why so many scientists believe in them.

This has nothing to do with religion or mysticism. There is nothing about this that requires "magic". Many of our most advanced cosmological models support this view. You are just not aware of this, and so it sounds like magic, but it isn't. If you think it is then I would just suggest that you learn more about it, there are many scientists and philosophers writing on the topic and I'm sure quite a few youtube videos on the topic.
by qezz | 2026-03-02 20:29:09+00:00
> requires you to run an extra tool

And the more I work with Go, the less I understand why warnings were not added to the compiler. Essentially instead of having them in the compiler itself, one needs to run a tool, which will have much smaller user base.

But anyway, in Go, it's sometimes fine to have both non-nil error and a result, e.g. the notorious EOF error.
by KolmogorovComp | 2026-03-02 20:29:17+00:00
I've been subconsciously doing this forever and after hundreds if no thousands of interaction have lately been assessing its outcome as more neutral than the article frames it. On the long run while mildly pleasant, you realise how shallow these conversations are and they have not brought anything valuable to your life. Maybe stopping for a while would lead to further realisation but I don't think so.

The most positive effect it has had on me is to make me enjoy even more deep conversations with my friends.
by HerbManic | 2026-03-02 20:29:22+00:00
This is why I am impressed by the works of Enhance Games. Their titles Tetris effect, Rez Infinte (UE4), Humanity and Lumines Arise (Unity) dont show any of the usual traits of those engines. They have done a great job of avoiding the defaults of these engines and crafting something new with the engines as the base foundation.

But I suspect that when you have multiple years to build Tetris, you can spend a lot of time crafting your own style.
Show HN: Exquisite.Monster – Telephone Pictionary with strangers and friends
by Swayworn | 2026-03-02 20:29:23+00:00
If you come to my house for dinner, there is a non-zero chance I will try to get you to play my favorite party game: Eat Poop, You Cat! (aka Telephone Pictionary aka Telestrations aka Broken Picture Phone)

You've probably played it: The first player comes up with a sentence. The second player draws a picture of the sentence. The third player writes a sentence describing the picture, and so on. After all players have contributed, the full sequence is revealed.

Are there existing online implementations? Of course. But:

- They all expect you to fingerpaint on your phone. It's hard to make great art that way! ExMo does have a drawing tool (it's expected), but players are encouraged to create their art however they like (past media include paper & pen, SculptrVR, collage, diorama, and Procreate) and upload a picture.
- The best way to play is at a party with your friends, with each player writing a starting sentence on a piece of paper and then they all get passed around. Party Mode captures that experience (and is therefore the second-best way).

Stack: SvelteKit/TS, Supabase for database and file storage, Clerk for auth. I was using BullMQ for background jobs, but switched to just leaning on the database for a simpler stack. I used server-side events for notifications, but that meant keeping Vercel running constantly which is unnecessarily expensive; polling does the trick.

Code is cheap these days, so it's open source (see footer). Happy to discuss any of it.
by arbayi | 2026-03-02 20:29:49+00:00
For a fun side project, we built a quick demo to interview our OpenClaw agent called Mahmut. We used LemonSlice, LiveKit, and ElevenLabs. We just shared the full interview, and here's the repo if anyone is interested in building the same thing: https://github.com/openserv-labs/openclaw-voice-avatar

Our avatar was a really hard one to handle, but I think it's still really good. All we did was connect the APIs. LemonSlice is really cool.
by SirMadam | 2026-03-02 20:29:59+00:00
If SCOTUS is saying that AI works, even those co-authored by humans, are not eligible for copyright/patenting;

Doesn't that mean any code-base that uses AI generated code does not have an implicit copyright holder? And thus even the human constructor does not have the right to apply any license [closed/open] onto it whatsoever?
by lunatuna | 2026-03-02 20:30:33+00:00
Amazing start and look forward to see it evolve. Reminds me a lot of MIT's Open Government Information Awareness [0]. But really like the different track that this takes. I really hope to see this become something people go to.

Suggestion that you increase the education of what you're doing and how. For example looking at the Home Energy Freedom Act [1] some direction to more understanding for each of the sections would be great - what is the process for Legislative Progress - how is the Impact Analysis done. I also couldn't quite figure out if there was a narrative that was being pushed by the parties and how that aligns with media. I like the media ratings though.

[0] - https://www.media.mit.edu/publications/open-government-infor...
[1] - https://govbase.com/policy/bill-119-hr-4758
by general_reveal | 2026-03-02 20:30:40+00:00
The thing about people in comfort is that they literally do not understand the concept of one too many on a fundamental level. One dollar is not enough. Similar, one person that goes without, that’s not enough either. You need millions to go without before the wrinkles even show up on some people’s faces.

“One too many” ills shatters the benchmark of “life is good”. Not good enough (that much … you may actually understand).

We have been deficient, through and through.
by mikepurvis | 2026-03-02 20:31:24+00:00
Not a gamedev, but I think a huge thing in a modern studio context is being able to parallelize effort. With UE5 you get authoring tools up and down the stack, so your artists and storyboarders and level designers can all start creating the world and setting up the scripted events and cinematics, even if key assets or behaviours aren't in place and are just placeholders. The developers are basically writing plugins into this system in collaboration with the design process.

Very different world from 20-30 years ago where the initial "game design" was happening in paint programs or even graph paper notebooks.
by neilv | 2026-03-02 20:31:26+00:00
> About 200,000 people put money into the scheme, which offered a stake in the company, [...] But unlike the Equity for Punks' "ordinary" shareholders, TSG was given "preference shares".

Is the UK about to see public demand for investment reform?

We could use reform in the US lately. I'm not seeing many experienced people who believe in startup equity anymore, nor who are aligned with the success of the company. (Except for founders and VCs.)
by vardalab | 2026-03-02 20:31:58+00:00
I bought M1 pro ipad that ended up being on a windowsill in kitchen as a youtube tv or a again a youtube viewport while rowing, lol. What a waste, but I cannot find a better use for it. User interface also sucks, half the time i have to ask chatgpt to extricate me from some accidental split screen or what not. Kicker is that it needs to be charged almost daily while it is really only used about 30-45 min a day in the morning while my kids m4 air can go for a week.
by jlongo78 | 2026-03-02 20:32:10+00:00
Good clarification - yeah, "resume" is closer to what I meant. Less about rewinding and more about picking up context mid-task without losing your mental thread.

The named sidebar sounds useful for switching. My main need is the conversation history staying searchable and tied to that named scope, so when I return days later I can reconstruct what the agent was doing and why. Does ccmux persist that context across sessions?
by shuysman | 2026-03-02 20:32:31+00:00
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by godelski | 2026-03-02 20:32:48+00:00
I still don't get what they're for. Most people I know end up in the same situation as me, buying one thinking you'll use it mostly as a writing device but then either it ends up in a closet or just a web browser you use while sitting on the couch watching TV. In that case what does any of the improvements matter?

With first party native apps it's not great for writing, editing pdfs, nor drawing. I mean the notes app doesn't even have simple things like letting you zoom in. You'd think a common use case would be to use it as a drawing tablet for your computer? Maybe not a common use case but I think something a lot of people would end up using a few times a year (countless times I'd love to have a whiteboard on a zoom call but setting that up is annoying)

There's great third party apps to do this but I think it just shows that either Apple is disconnected or just trying to get money from developers.

It's also not great as a computer. I mean in another thread I've mentioned my laptop (macbook air) is a glorified ssh machine and frankly, an iPad should the perfect device for that because its size. But it seems they don't want me to use it like a computer and idk why iOS locks down third party terminals so much.

It also sucks as a second monitor (why is everything monitor related so bad with Apple?). Keeps disconnecting, I need to restart Bluetooth/airdrop constantly to detect it, and the angle it sits at when sitting on my desk... really?

I really want to know what you guys use it for because mine just really feels like expensive ewaste.