MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by macintux | 2026-03-07 01:43:52+00:00
Tangential at best, but as a fan of his books I was happy to stumble upon one of W. Richard Stevens’ earlier examples of technical writing: a guide to Forth for Kitt Peak national observatory. Apparently Forth was commonly used in observatories; I have no idea whether that’s still true.

https://www.forth.org/KittPeakForthPrimer.pdf
by gravisultra | 2026-03-07 01:45:06+00:00
This is all from today, there's much more but it's not on me to do your homework for you. This isn't even going into how every day Israel is more hated by the entire world. The Zionist project has been defeated.

* https://x.com/SilentlySirs/status/2030078082556572129

* https://x.com/ME_Observer_/status/2030084954399420597

* https://x.com/FORTRESSMAXXING/status/2030068566637060390

* https://x.com/business/status/2030040295300088071

* https://x.com/MintPressNews/status/2030070045582446957

* https://x.com/AryJeay/status/2030061526510436854

* https://x.com/pakistanwalli/status/2030005466320015484

* https://x.com/AryJeay/status/2030064971913007455

* https://x.com/ShaykhSulaiman/status/2030054441013989680

* https://x.com/AryJeay/status/2030057116434833746

* https://x.com/ME_Observer_/status/2030049581300425046
by 999900000999 | 2026-03-07 01:45:13+00:00
From what I've seen, and of course the models get better everyday, if you have very simple grunt work that needs to be done. Coding agents are basically magic. The moment something gets either difficult or subjective, coding agents love to add completely incorrect solutions.

Try to tell Claude Code to refactor some code and see if it doesn't just delete the entire file and rewrite it. Sure that's cute, but it's absolutely not okay in a real software environment.

I do find this stuff great for hobbyist projects. I don't know if I'd be willing to put money on the line yet
by libraryofbabel | 2026-03-07 01:46:26+00:00
I think your comment really captures some of the reasons behind the differences between people’s reactions to Claude pretty well.

I will add though, on 2 and 3, during most of the coding I do in my day job as a staff engineer, it’s pretty rare for me to encounter deeply interesting puzzles and really interesting things to learn. It’s not like I’m writing a compiler or and OS kernel or something; this is web dev and infra at a mid sized company. For 95% of coding tasks I do I’ve seen some variation already before and they are boring. It’s nice to have Claude power through them.

On system design and architecture, the problems still tend to be a bit more novel. I still learn things there. Claude is helpful, but not as helpful as it is for the code.

I do get the sense that some folks enjoy solving variations of familiar programming puzzles over and over again, and Claude kills that for them. That’s not me at all. I like novelty and I hate solving the same thing twice. Different tastes, I guess.
Show HN: Copyworks – Chinese character worksheets with tone colors
by loqu8 | 2026-03-07 01:47:02+00:00
I built Copyworks to teach my kids Chinese at home. Existing options were either static PDFs, expensive subscriptions, or web-only tools that couldn't work offline.

It generates printable practice worksheets with tone-colored characters (color-coded by tone), step-by-step stroke order guides, and traditional grid layouts (米字格, 田字格, etc.). Includes 1,200+ lessons covering HSK 1-9, YCT, TOCFL, and 33 textbook courses.

Free tier: tone colors, stroke order, all grid types, HSK Level 1 content. No account needed, works fully offline.

Family plan ($29/yr or $49 lifetime) unlocks the full content library, additional character modes, and PDF export without watermark.

Built with Flutter. Desktop (Windows, macOS, Linux) is live. iOS and Android are in App Store/Play Store review now.

Looking for feedback on the UX and what features would matter most.
by meebee | 2026-03-07 01:47:03+00:00
So excited to be getting to my backlog of apps that I've wanted but couldn't take the time to develop on my own. I'm 66 and have been in the software field in various capacities (but programming mostly as a hobby). Here's a partial list of apps I've completed in the last few months:

- Media Watch app to keep a list of movies and shows my wife and I want to watch

- Grocery List with some tracking of frequent purchases

- Health Log for medical history, doc appointments and past visits

- Habits Tracker with trends I’m interested

- Daily Wisdom Reader instead of having multiple ebooks to keep track of where I'm at

- A task manager similar to the old LifeBalance app

- A Home Inventory app so that I can track what I have, warranty, and maintenance

- An ios watch app to see when I'm asleep so that it can turn off my music or audiobook

- An ios watch chess tactics trainer app

- some games

Many of these are similar to paid offerings, but those didn't check off all the features I really wanted, so I vibe-coded my own. They all do what I want, the way I want it to.
by tern | 2026-03-07 01:47:07+00:00
I hear you, but I have subtle disagreements:

> Why not read books, manuals, or take online classes? There is free access to all these things, the only cost is time and energy.

Sure, but it's just way faster now. I can get the exact right piece of knowledge I need to advance my understanding on demand, rather than having to spend minutes or hours tracking down the right information, then scanning around the text to filter out all the irrelevant stuff.

There's also a motivational effect: the activation energy of bothering to do this was such that in many domains, it didn't seem worth it.

> Everyone has tons of ideas

Most people have profoundly bad ideas

> Those nuances and details don't go away. They don't matter any less. They only become less visible. But those things falling apart is also incredibly valuable. What doesn't break is the new foundation to begin again.

Agree, however that's the challenge of this time. Things are becoming less visible. On the other hand, you can implement and get that feedback ten times faster, or point ten minds at stress-testing a concept in 3 minutes. For many of my projects, that's the difference between getting anything done vs idly fantasizing. For others, it could easily be irrelevant.

> The bottleneck has never been a shortage of ideas nor the hands to implement them. The bottleneck has always been complexity. As the world advances do does the complexity needed to improve it.

I don't think this is a coherent statement. How could you possibly surmount complexity with anything other than better ideas and more hands?
by BLKNSLVR | 2026-03-07 01:47:27+00:00
Additional explanation: this is primarily a personal setup.

There would be a lot of refinement and contingencies to implement something like this for corporate / business.

Having said that, I still exist on the ruthless side of blocking equation. I'd generally prefer some kind of small allow list than a gigantic block list, but this is how it's (d)evolved.
by dddgghhbbfblk | 2026-03-07 01:47:55+00:00
I recently installed Fedora with KDE Plasma on a new computer and I can't say I feel the same way. The UI is still clunky (eg the file explorer is clunky) and I'm running into minor bugs pretty regularly. Windows will be sized incorrectly after a restore sometimes (failing to take into account the bar I added at the top), switching between multiple windows of the same program and a separate program seems non-deterministic, random UI components occasionally crash and restart.

I don't want to be negative for the sake of it but I constantly read these really positive comments about Linux on the desktop (in general or in specifics) and it gave me a false impression of what to expect. Not the first time I've fallen for this either over the years.
by quesera | 2026-03-07 01:49:50+00:00
Something important must be different about our Slack environments. Maybe it's the number of users, or possibly the OS?

We're a small company (155 users, just checked), and I've run the Slack (Electron) app on a 16GB M2 (macOS) and a 4GB Chromebook (running a non-ChromeOS Linux), and it has never had any noteworthy performance issues.

It still sucks, but not because of performance.
by drivingmenuts | 2026-03-07 01:49:58+00:00
My main worry is: what is the license on the code produced by Claude (or any other coding agent)? It seems like, if it was trained using open-source software, then the resulting code needs to be open-source as well and it should be compatible with the original source. Artwork produced by an AI cannot be copyrighted, but apparently code can be?

If the software produced is for internal use, the point is probably moot. But if it isn't, this seems like a question that needs to be answered ASAP.
by YZF | 2026-03-07 01:50:38+00:00
I don't need you to do any homework for me. I actually know what's going on in Israel since I'm from there and I know many people and I follow what's going on very closely. I've also seen all the many previous conflicts and the damage.

You are living in fantasy land. You can link to a thousand social media postings. The property damage in Israel from these wars is not a secret. We know the $ cost. Israel has no problem taking that.

Israel intercepts most incoming attacks. It has advanced warnings. There are bomb shelters. Israel's enemies are sitting ducks with jets flying overhead dropping tons of bombs on their targets.

The censorship is not to "hide the damage". The censorship is to not give the enemy information about what hit and where so they can adjust. Israel really isn't taking as much damage as you think it is and if that wasn't the case I'd have no problem acknowledging that.

Only in your imagination has Israel been defeated. What's left of Assad's Syria? What's left of Hamas? Iran is a paper tiger getting crushed. Hezbollah is on its last legs. Good wins over evil.
by samiv | 2026-03-07 01:51:07+00:00
As a principal engineer I feel completely let down. I've spent decades building up and accumulating expert knowledge and now that has been massively devalued. Any idiot can now prompt their way to the same software. I feel depressed and very unmotivated and expect to retire soon. Talk about a rug pull!

My experience is that people who weren't very good at writing software are the ones now "most excited" to "create" with a LLM.
by padolsey | 2026-03-07 01:51:38+00:00
My approach is that, "you may as well" hammer Claude and get it to brute-force-investigate your codebase; worst case, you learn nothing and get a bunch of false-positive nonsense. Best case, you get new visibility into issues. Of _course_ you should be doing your own in-depth audits, but the plain fact is that people do not have time, or do not care sufficiently. But you can set up a battery of agents to do this work for you. So.. why not?
by socalgal2 | 2026-03-07 01:51:43+00:00
And yet tons of people do buy brand. Specifically to show it off. "Look at me! I'm rich! See, I'm wearing LV pants, Jimmy Choo shoes, I've got tUMI luggage, a Rolex watch, and a Prada bag.

Seems related to me.

You can buy this Prada keychain, only $525!

https://www.prada.com/us/en/p/saffiano-leather-keychain/2PP0...

Or you can buy some other that will be just as functional

https://www.etsy.com/search?q=keychain+leather+black+triangl...

But not advertise your $$$$.

Maybe a better example: Is this $2950 Prada bag

https://www.prada.com/us/en/p/re-nylon-and-saffiano-leather-...

Any better than 1000s of < $100 bags? It's not more durable. It's not going to last longer. It's not going to carry more or less stuff. You can find 100s of not 1000s of bags who if you slapped a Prada tag on would be considered just as stylish (meaning if you did a double blind test and either put the logo on both or removed it from both, no one would tell which was which)

> It's perfectly healthy to use brand as a heuristic to help yourself more easily buy products that work well.

Sure, though I know lots of people that assume expensive = quality and confuse that with expensive brand = quality. It doesn't. The chintziest items I've owned have been expensive "high end" brands. That's not to say all expensive brands are bad. Only that expensive well known brand only means they're good at marketing. It does not mean their product are quality. They might be, they might not.
Show HN: Claude-consensus – Multi-model code review plugin for Claude Code
by k_git | 2026-03-07 01:51:49+00:00
It's a Claude Code plugin that runs multiple AI models (GPT, Gemini, Grok, Kimi, Qwen, etc.) in parallel for code review and planning, then converges them on consensus through structured rounds.

Each model reviews independently with no visibility into what the others found. Then they synthesize, surface conflicts, and run convergence (approve / changes needed, max 2 rounds).

Technically it's markdown command files orchestrating Claude Code's team system — no custom runtime, just CLI piping.
by gzread | 2026-03-07 01:51:53+00:00
Yes, many times. Once you explain what a Tor exit node is, you can't be convicted of downloading CP or whatever the anonymous user did, because you quite plausibly didn't do it. However, a verdict of innocence only happens after your life was already ruined by the process of getting to that point...

Some countries like Germany have strict liability, where you must pay a fine for any copyright infringement that happens on your connection unless you register yourself as an ISP yourself. If you're not sure, consult a lawyer to make sure you're not in one of those places.
by moirnz | 2026-03-07 01:52:21+00:00
I'm new to this so bear with me. The coder works on Ollama models or Cloude. Take your pick. Can type the problem in or use speech recognition and that's it.

tommoirnz/NLAutocoder: Natural Language AutoCoder v1.0

tommoirnz/autocoder-error-cache: Seeded error cache for autocoder.

For cloud based ie say Claude it rarely makes mistakes and can retrieve from the internet. For ollama models it has a seeded error_cache you can download and a mistake memory if it makes 3 or more mistakes so it can remember between sessions. It can also retrieve from the internet. You'll need a free Brave api key for internet and I use openrouter if you want cloud access. I only added the cloud access in the past few weeks. Been running on ollama but most of them make so many errors on more difficult tasks I introduces the seeded error cache which you will need. Kind of self healing. Uses openai whisper for speech recognition if you want to use that of course or you can just type in the query. It has a new creativity button I introduced which gives nice results.

Demos at various stages.

Cloud based Auto Coder

Can AI be creative

Auto Coding with internet search

The Edinburgh Cube Auto Coded

Claude says this about it for comparisons

What's common:

Copilot, Cursor, Claude etc. — all suggest code inside an IDE but you still run it manually

Simple "generate and copy" tools — AI writes code, user pastes and runs it themselves

Notebook-style tools like Marimo or Jupyter AI — some automation but manual execution

What makes NLAutoCoder unusual:

Fully autonomous loop — generates, executes, reads the error, fixes, retries without any human involvement

Persistent mistake memory across sessions — most tools have no memory at all between conversations

Voice input to running code — the full pipeline from speech → code → execution is rare

Self-installing dependencies — automatically pip installs whatever it needs in a sandbox

Internet-aware code generation — fetches live data and weaves it directly into the generated code

Cloud + local model switching — seamlessly routing between Ollama and OpenRouter in one UI

The closest things that exist:

Devin (very expensive, cloud-only, enterprise)

OpenHands/SWE-agent (research tools, complex setup, no voice)

GPT-Engineer (generates but doesn't autonomous-loop on errors)

Anyway, hopefully somebody can make something of it
by tjpd | 2026-03-07 01:52:36+00:00
Agree on getting tax advice. But because QSBS is such a gift to VCs I really don’t want to jeopardize it particularly when a bunch of startups are raising $20m on $0 revenue, so the balance sheet is basically just cash. At ~5% that’s $1M/yr of interest, which can easily be the only income the company has. If that cash is sitting in an investment portfolio instead of boring cash equivalents, it feels like you could start getting into weird territory with the 80% active business asset test. The probability is Low but the impact for us is massive.
by johnnyanmac | 2026-03-07 01:52:38+00:00
>do you have a realistic proposal?

Realistic in this administration? No. They will keep taking and taking from the working class and pitting them against one another. There's no solution there when the government is actively looking to sabatoge the system.

Arguing over tobacco premiums is pennies on the dollar. Pretty much every other civilized country has figured something out with regards to universal healthcare. I'm sure there's dozens of solutions out there to choose from. The only real steps to take right now is to have Americans stop licking the boot and actually push for something that helps them.
by sgc | 2026-03-07 01:52:45+00:00
The English language has the ability to be ambiguous, but I bet AI use will change the way we use the English language colloquially, to say more specifically what we mean. I worked as a home inspector for a while. Writing for an LLM is very similar to writing a home inspection report or legal brief (or talking to a group of teenagers). Navigate the minefield with very specific intention.
by BLKNSLVR | 2026-03-07 01:52:57+00:00
Pretty much. I think there's also a responsibility on the part of the network owner to restrict obviously malicious traffic. Allow anonymous people to connect to your network and then perform port scans? I don't really want any traffic from your network then.

Yes, there are less scorched-earth ways of looking at this, but this works for me.

As always, any of this stuff is heavily context specific. Like you said: network admins need to be smart, need to adapt, need to know their own contexts.
by al_borland | 2026-03-07 01:53:38+00:00
I think I'd add a #4 to this list, and that's helping people. I like making things that people can use to make their life easier. That's probably my number one.

The "creating something" idea... That's more complex. With agentic coding something can be created, but did I create it? Using agentic coding feels like hiring someone to do the work for me. For example, I just had all the windows in my house replaced. A crew came out at did it. The job is done, but I didn't do anything and felt no pride or sense of accomplishment in having these new windows. It just happened. Contrast that to a slow drain I had in my bathroom. I took the pipes apart, found the blockage, cleared it out, and reassembled the drain. When I next used the sink and the water effortlessly flowed away, I felt like I accomplished something, because I did it, not some plumber I hired.

So it isn't even about learning or solving puzzles, it's about being the person who actually did the work and seeing the result of that effort.
by sameerds | 2026-03-07 01:53:48+00:00
> everyone that claims it makes them so perceptively and clearly faster - how do you know?

For me, AI tools act like supercharged code search and auto complete. I have been able to make changes in complex components that I have rarely worked on. It saved me a week of effort to find the exact API calls that will do what I needed. The AI tool wrote the code and I only had to act as a reviewer. Of course I am familiar with the entire project and I knew the shape of the code to expect. But it saved me from digging out the exact details.
by idopmstuff | 2026-03-07 01:54:18+00:00
I am currently using a Claude skill that I have been building out over the last few days that runs through my Amazon PPC campaigns and does a full audit. Suggestions of bid adjustments, new search terms and products to advertise against and adjustment to campaign structures. It goes through all of the analytics Amazon provides, which are surprisingly extensive, to find every search term where my product shows up, gets added to cart and purchased.

It's the kind of thing that would be hours of tedious work, then even more time to actually make all the changes to the account. Instead I just say "yeah do all of that" and it is done. Magic stuff. Thousands of lines of Python to hit the Amazon APIs that I've never even looked at.
by greatgib | 2026-03-07 01:54:20+00:00
Honestly I hate so much infinite scroll. It is a nightmare to see it spread like that.

Before you would easily go to see pages at random far positions. With infinite scroll there is this frustration of not reaching a bottom and after a few times scrolling and waiting for data to load, you give up, and never go past the fifty or hundred last entries at most.
by icedchai | 2026-03-07 01:55:36+00:00
I'm a few years younger than the OP, but I remember the early Internet days. I started with Perl CGI scripts, ASP, even some early server side JS, in the form of Netscape Livewire.

Over the past couple months, I've created several applications with Claude Code. Personal projects that would've taken me weeks, months, or possibly forever, since I generally get distracted and move on to something else. I write pretty decent specs, break things into phases, and make sure each phase is solid before moving on to the next.

I have Claude build things in frameworks I would've never tried myself, just because it can. I do actually look at the code. Some of it is slop. In a few cases, it looks like it works, but it'll be a totally naive or insecure implementation. If I really don't like how it did something, I'll revert and give it another attempt. I also have other AIs review it and make suggestions.

It's fun, but I ultimately gain little intellectual satisfaction from it. It's not like the old days at all. I don't feel like I'm growing my skill set. Yes, I learned "something", but it's more about the capabilities of AI, not the end result.

Still, I'm convinced this is the future. Experienced developers are in the best position to work with AI. We also may not have a choice.
by cowlby | 2026-03-07 01:55:42+00:00
I'm starting to think for software it's produce 2,000 loaves per month. I'm realizing now software was supply-constrained and organizations had to be very strategic about what apps/UIs to build. Now everything and anything can be an app and so we can build more targeted frontends for all kinds of business units that would've been overlooked before.
by FabHK | 2026-03-07 01:55:43+00:00
Oh, that contains an ELI5:

> Plain Language Summary
The rise in global temperature has been widely considered to be quite steady for several decades since the 1970s. Recently, however, scientists have started to debate whether global warming has accelerated since then. It is difficult to be sure of that because of natural fluctuations in the warming rate, and so far no statistical significance (meaning 95% certainty) of an acceleration (increase in warming rate) has been demonstrated. In this study we subtract the estimated influence of El Niño events, volcanic eruptions and solar variations from the data, which makes the global temperature curve less variable, and it then shows a statistically significant acceleration of global warming since about the year 2015. Warming proceeding faster is not unexpected by climate models, but it is a cause of concern and shows how insufficient the efforts to slow and eventually stop global warming under the Paris Climate Accord have so far been.