MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by 9wzYQbTYsAIc | 2026-03-06 15:56:56+00:00
Seems like a good time to enshrine human rights and the social safety net by ratifying the ICESCR (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/International_Covenant_on_Econ...) and giving human rights the teeth they need.

I used Anthropic to analyze the situation, it did halfway decent:

https://unratified.org/why/

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47263664
by haolez | 2026-03-06 15:57:17+00:00
UO was the only game that I've ever played where you had "commoner" players. A lot of players failed to scale up, or to obtain top notch equipment. But the game was fun even for underpowered players, so they kept playing. The really powerful players were famous, like celebrities.

It's very different from modern games, where each player looks like the fantasy version of a Marvel super hero.
by sbarre | 2026-03-06 15:57:22+00:00
I am also a Canadian who has decided not to visit the US until further notice, and honestly, I'm sad about it.

In my 20+ years of regularly travelling to the States, I've almost always had great interactions with the people I've met in all parts of the US I've visited, and I've been all over. "Warm and welcoming" is a very good description.

I hope to be able to visit again in the future.
Show HN: Claude-replay – A video-like player for Claude Code sessions
by es617 | 2026-03-06 15:57:27+00:00
I got tired of sharing AI demos with terminal screenshots or screen recordings.

Claude Code already stores full session transcripts locally as JSONL files. Those logs contain everything: prompts, tool calls, thinking blocks, and timestamps.

I built a small CLI tool that converts those logs into an interactive HTML replay.

You can step through the session, jump through the timeline, expand tool calls, and inspect the full conversation.

The output is a single self-contained HTML file — no dependencies. You can email it, host it anywhere, embed it in a blog post, and it works on mobile.

Repo: https://github.com/es617/claude-replay

Example replay: https://es617.github.io/assets/demos/peripheral-uart-demo.ht...
by baxtr | 2026-03-06 15:57:28+00:00
Maybe I’m naive but I’m not terrified about the future at all.

Every efficiency wave made life better for humans. Why should this one be different?

Assume many people lose their jobs. This in turn means companies will have higher margins. Higher margins attract more competition. More competition means lower margins since some will use the lower costs to offer lower prices.

Lower prices increase quality of life for everyone.

People who lost their job might be able to pick up doing something they actually enjoy…
by throwaway_7678 | 2026-03-06 15:57:52+00:00
Relevant clip, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6CXRaTnKDXA . Even if people doesn't believe in science and reports like this, they believe it's getting hotter every year. The past few summers have been very bad and it's only going to become worse.

We all will be busy in our virtual worlds arguing over stupid things and the real world will become literal hell to live in.
by Samueedwards1 | 2026-03-06 15:58:15+00:00
Distributed systems are fragile. We spend 40% on plumbing (retries, idempotency, state mgmt).

Current "Solution": Rent proprietary runtimes. Swap plumbing for vendor lock-in + exec tax.

Apcher: Generate resilience directly into your Node.js repo. Atomic SQL, native retries, Watchdog drift PRs.

$0 exec fees. Full export—deploy anywhere, run locally, live in your repo.

Who's brittle today?
by willis936 | 2026-03-06 15:58:19+00:00
This is why I think the middle strength Global South countries, who hurt the most in the near term and have the necessary resources, will unilaterally start albedo modification. They don't need permission of rich nations and it will become an existential issue that they might risk sanctions and war over. That's when it will become "our problem" (in the eyes of the extremely selfish and/or stupid members).
Show HN: Vet – Security registry for 88K+ MCP servers and AI tools
by tinnit1 | 2026-03-06 15:58:20+00:00
Hey HN, I built Vet (https://getvet.ai) — a security registry for MCP servers and AI skills.

The problem: when you install an MCP tool, you're giving an AI agent code execution on your machine. I scanned 88K+ tools and found crypto miners, SSH backdoors, prompt
injection, and tools silently reading .env files and SSH keys. 537 flagged total.

How it works:
- Static analysis + AI security review generates a trust score (0-100) per tool
- Verified tools earn badges (install, boot, tool discovery all tested)
- Everything is searchable with security-aware ranking

Ways to use it:
- Browse: https://getvet.ai/catalog
- CLI: `npx @getvetai/cli find "database"`
- MCP server (yes, an MCP that discovers MCPs): `npx @getvetai/mcp`
- API: `curl https://getvet.ai/api/v1/discover?q=github`

The CLI is open source: https://github.com/getvetai/cli

Free to use. If you build MCP servers, you can claim and get verified.

Would love feedback on the security analysis approach and what data you'd want to see.
by fragmede | 2026-03-06 15:58:21+00:00
Looking at the stats, there's been a huge influx of accounts. The theory that fits that isn't internal inconsistent is then there are multiple people using the sites that can be grouped into a set of people that don't care for pg, and a set of people that are pro-AI. How much of an intersection there is between those two groups, you get to imagine for yourself. The individuals in the group that see a PG essay, and go "Ooh, lemme dump my unfiltered opinion of him and not read the essay" and the individuals that won't bother with that link, and the individuals that comment on AI stories is a small set. The sata science query to prove me wrong wrong is left as an exercise for the reader.
by zvr | 2026-03-06 15:58:25+00:00
The main advantage for using "or later" is not really to be OK when a new version of the license is published, as this happens rarely.

What you gain is the possibility of combining this code with any other code that is under a later version of the license. If there is code X under GPL-2.0-only and code Y under GPL-3.0-only, these cannot be combined, since each license declares that any derivative work has to be under the same license. If code X were under GPL-2.0-or-later, the combination would be compliant.
by Izkata | 2026-03-06 15:58:37+00:00
Based on what I've seen and heard, you have the happy path working and that's what the pro-AI people are describing with huge speedups. Figuring out and fixing the edge cases and failure modes is getting pushed into the review stage or even users, so it doesn't count towards the development time. It can even count as more speed if it generates more cases that get handled quickly.
by lightamulet | 2026-03-06 15:58:42+00:00
Hey, I'm the one who built this particular challenge!

I had no clue, but thanks for the book lead! It didn't come up directly, but SimCity 2000 and especially SimCity 4 had a huge impact on me growing up / I still spin up SimCity 4 from time to time, so I imagine there's a massive indirect influence haha.
by epolanski | 2026-03-06 15:59:12+00:00
Which in turn are also small compared to the damages of cattle and fishing.

Seriously adapting our diets around being more sustainable. I'm not advocating for veganism or such, but at least to understand that eating a burger pollutes as much as driving a large vehicle for 50 miles and that maybe we can substitute that with poultry or eggs or cheese many times.
by roryirvine | 2026-03-06 16:00:09+00:00
Same, also on macOS. My "personal" firefox profile on my work Macbook Pro, which I use for occasional gmail, HN, wikipedia, and pretty much nothing else, has crashed twice in the last 6 weeks - both times when shutting down to update the OS.

Honestly, I've been blaming MacOS for it since other apps also crashed at the same time (the first time it was Microsoft Intune, the second time it was Slack - I doubt either uses Firefox internally).
by LostMyLogin | 2026-03-06 16:00:18+00:00
Both the unemployment rate, at 4.4 percent, and the number of unemployed people, at 7.6 million, changed little in February. (See table A-1. See the note at the end of this news release and tables A and B for more information about the annual population adjustments to the
household survey estimates.)

Among the major worker groups, the unemployment rates for adult men (4.0 percent), adult women (4.1 percent), teenagers (14.9 percent), and people who are White (3.7 percent), Black (7.7 percent), Asian (4.8 percent), or Hispanic (5.2 percent) showed little or no change in February. (See tables A-1, A-2, and A-3.)

The number of long-term unemployed (those jobless for 27 weeks or more) changed little at 1.9 million in February but is up from 1.5 million a year earlier. The long-term unemployed accounted for 25.3 percent of all unemployed people in February. (See table A-12.)

Both the labor force participation rate, at 62.0 percent, and the employment-population ratio, at 59.3 percent, changed little in February. These measures showed little change over the year, after accounting for the annual adjustments to the population controls. (See table A-1. For additional information about the effects of the population adjustments, see the note at the end of this news release and table B.)

The number of people employed part time for economic reasons decreased by 477,000 to 4.4 million in February. These individuals would have preferred full-time employment but were working part time because their hours had been reduced or they were unable to find full-time jobs. (See table A-8.)

The number of people not in the labor force who currently want a job changed little in February at 6.0 million. These individuals were not counted as unemployed because they were not actively looking for work during the 4 weeks preceding the survey or were unavailable to take a job. (See table A-1.)

Among those not in the labor force who wanted a job, the number of people marginally attached to the labor force changed little at 1.6 million in February. These individuals wanted and were available for work and had looked for a job sometime in the prior 12 months but had not looked for work in the 4 weeks preceding the survey. The number of discouraged workers, a subset of the marginally attached who believed that no jobs were available for them, decreased by 109,000 in February to 366,000. (See Summary table A.)
Show HN: GTAO and Red Dead Online lag switch detector and blocker (anti-cheat)
by sovande | 2026-03-06 16:00:31+00:00
Red Dead Redemption 2 is a beautiful game, and its PvP used to be genuinely fun if you didn't take it too seriously. That has changed. Both RDO and GTA Online lobbies are full of cheaters, and on console, lag switching is the go-to method. A lag switcher briefly halts their own connection, moves and shoots while your hits get dropped, then reconnects. You land a clean headshot and it doesn't register. Their shots land fine. Die, respawn, repeat.

Both games use P2P mesh networking, so every player connects directly to every other player. Your IP is exposed to the entire lobby, and anyone can manipulate their connection to gain a combat advantage. Rockstar has never added anti-cheat to console.

Killswitch sits on a Mac bridging your router and console, monitoring packet timing on the primary game port (UDP 6672). All game traffic is encrypted, so detection relies entirely on metadata and timing gaps between packets. When an IP's gap score crosses a threshold, it gets blocked via the macOS PF firewall. Blocking doesn't kick them from the session. The mesh relays their game state through other players, but it adds enough latency to neutralize most of the advantage. You're essentially lag switching them back.

The README and NOTES file have more details.
by aerodexis | 2026-03-06 16:00:34+00:00
The Gervais model is predicated on sociopathy as the driving force of social cohesion. This is the kind of model a sociopath would construct. There are other models available to us.

Social organizations require some sort of glue to bind them together. They need ways to maintain cohesion despite vagueness and to obscure (small) errors. There is a cap put upon max individual output, but aggregate output is much higher than whatever a collection of individuals could attain. This is a very basic dynamic that is lost amidst a cult of individualism that refuses to admit to any good greater than themselves.

Yes - the CEO talking to the board in this way would lose credibility. But a CEO failing to deploy this jargon correctly would also lose credibility with the board : it's obvious he doesn't know how to lead.

What I would like to see is a study of the ratio's between corporate speak and technical speak - and the inflection points at which too much of either causes organization ruin.
by natpalmer1776 | 2026-03-06 16:00:48+00:00
This is why I stopped using Windows.

You shouldn't have to go through all these extra steps just to squeeze out the same performance you would get by just installing [Other OS].

At some point I realized I was spending hours at a time trying to 'fix' Windows and decided to give Mac a try right around the time that Apple Silicon came out. It was a night and day difference.
by pc86 | 2026-03-06 16:00:49+00:00
> I also agree with S76 that some laws regarding how an operating system intended for wide use should function are acceptable.

The only laws the government should pass regulating software running on someones computer are laws protecting those consumers from the companies writing that software. For example, anti-malware/anti-spyware.

The government has no business telling a random company that their software needs to report my age, whether it's unverified and self-reported or not.
by dec0dedab0de | 2026-03-06 16:00:53+00:00
Corporate speak as a signalling mechanism is only effective among the "clueless" in the Gervais model. If any CEO tried to talk 1:1 to a competent board member that way, they would lose all credibility. Once you've operated at a certain level you get it

This also holds true for competent non-board members. I have interacted with C-level executives at fortune 100 companies, as well as smaller businesses. It is almost impressive how quickly they can switch in and out of corporate bullshit mode. I think it's what the kids call code-switching.

In general, once they trust you a bit, and they know someone isn't listening they talk like a normal person. Then you ask a difficult question about the business and the corporate-speak kicks in like a security sub routine trying to prevent them from saying the wrong thing.

I have also met some that seemingly calculate their tone and cadence to try to manipulate the person(s)/people(s) they're talking to. It's fascinating when you catch them doing it, and it's different than simply matching like a chameleon. For example, they may use an authoritative tone with younger people, a kind but subtly threatening tone with anxious people, and a buddybuddy tone with a plumber or someone they know isn't going to put up with any bullshit.

I'm really curious how much of it is formally taught in MBA programs and stuff, how much is them copying each other, and if any of it is just a natural defense mechanism to the pressures of being in power.
by squidleon | 2026-03-06 16:00:58+00:00
This is such a good observation. UO had a real economy and social hierarchy because power wasn't handed to you.
You could spend months as a fisherman or tailor and still have a meaningful experience. The gap between a grandmaster swordsman in full plate and a guy selling fish at the Britain bank was enormous, and both of them were having fun.

Modern MMOs are theme parks where everyone gets the same ride (with pay per win). UO was a living world where your role emerged from what you chose to do, not from a quest marker telling you where to go next.
Show HN: I deployed a flight search app in 60s without writing a line of code
by ptak_dev | 2026-03-06 16:01:32+00:00
Hi HN!

I've been building side projects for a few years and the part I hate isn't the building — it's the hour you lose after. Dockerfile, cloud console, environment variables, reverse proxy, SSL. The app works on localhost but getting it to a URL someone else can open is a whole separate project.

I came across SuperNinja last week. Every app runs on a dedicated VM — not a sandboxed session or a container that spins down, but a real virtual machine that stays up and runs a server. It behaves like a developer sitting at a terminal, not a code generator handing you a zip file.

I tested it with JetSet AI, a flight search app in their App Store. Typed "cheapest flight from New York to London next Friday" and got back live results with real pricing. It's must be using a travel API but it is clearly not mocked data (I compared to Google Flights).

I didn't write anything. The agent provisioned the VM, wrote the integration, tested it and deployed it — 60 seconds from clicking Deploy to a live URL. (To be honest: the app was pre-built in the App Store so 60s is deploy time not build time)

Most AI tools give you a codebase. This gives you a running computer and that's extremely useful.

What I've been doing since: using SuperNinja to extend JetSet AI — adding filters, tweaking the UI, changing how results display. You describe what you want and the agent edits the running app. No redeployment, no touching the repo. Changes are live immediately.

If you want to try it: https://bit.ly/4besn7l

Happy to answer questions — I've only been using it a week so I'll be honest about what I don't know.
by Ostrogoth | 2026-03-06 16:01:33+00:00
Ukraine has been using cheap interceptor drones (models Sting/Bagnet/etc) combined with sensor networks to intercept slower prop driven Geran-2. Then Russia upgraded to jet engine on Geran-3, with higher speeds that are more difficult for prop interceptors to catch. Ukraine switched back to using machine gunners from aircraft to help take those out until they develop faster intercept drones.
by epolanski | 2026-03-06 16:01:43+00:00
> Parliamentary regimes optimize for coalition stability which weakens them and forces to always take the path of least resistance, which isn't usually the best one.

This is good: we live in objectively good times and safe/wealthy countries where problems are relatively minor and we should focus on debating and compromising, not having know-it-all unbounded captains.

Our first focus is risk management: not having systems that make it easy for the Putin/Erdogan and Trump-like individual to ruin everything.
by LoganDark | 2026-03-06 16:01:50+00:00
> Birth is as inevitable as existence, there is no opt out in the grander metaphysical scheme of things.

I can opt not to assist in one myself. That's not me having anything against birth or trying to do anything in the grander scheme of things, it's just my choice.

> Also just a thought - is that really your reason for not having them? If a person truly believes the bad outweighs the good I'm less inclined to believe them when they're still among the living, because the choice to stay alive shows they see some inherent value in the state of being alive.

I'm broken and mentally ill, so part of the reason I'm still among the living is because I'm conditioned to crave the pain and suffering. There is much good, and it may even outweigh the bad, and I'm still optimistic where I can be, so I'm not suicidal, but I use this existence in ways I wouldn't recommend, and couldn't condone.

Basically, I wouldn't want to stick someone with it.

On the other paw, when someone is already stuck with it, that's less of a dilemma for me, especially when their situation is so bad that I couldn't possibly count the number of ways I can make for better...
by marcyb5st | 2026-03-06 16:02:04+00:00
I am not sure how not directly linked to global warming. I am currently on the phone but I remember a study that mentioned that Pakistan, India, and Bangladesh would see a deadly heat (wet bulb temperatures) from basically 0 as it is right now to 30 days/year by 2050 or 2060. I can't remember right now.

If that is not linkable to global warming I am not sure what is. And that is a huge event. In Europe we are struggling with accomodating perhaps 10M people. What happens when 1.5B come knocking because if they stay they die?
by garethsprice | 2026-03-06 16:02:24+00:00
Patek and Rolex have generally always held value well. The internet has brought price transparency and created a secondary market that has made this true for most well-known brands these days, with the caveat that there is not a high degree of liquidity (yes you can sell a Rolex same-day at a pawn shop but you'll take a big hit, otherwise you are waiting a while for a buyer and navigating various risks like scammers).

So you likely won't get rich day-trading (or even collecting) watches, but besides the initial capital investment it is not as irrational as it seems at first.

Of course, that only adds to the signaling power for the classes where merely having money isn't enough, and being a "savvy investor" is a status marker (ie. the upper-middle and nouveau riche).

The Patek Nautilus PG mentions is particularly interesting as a status symbol as it has not only held value but, for various reasons, been an outlier that has appreciated drastically in value. It'd be gauche even on Sand Hill Rd to wear a hat that says "My investments beat the S&P 500" — but for the last few years, flashing a Nautilus (~413% investment return from 2016-2026 vs ~322% in the S&P) is the equivalent of that, a self-reinforcing cycle boosting its value as a Veblen good where the high price is the point.
by tyre | 2026-03-06 16:03:23+00:00
Or it’s possible he was lying!

If Block is really so much more efficient, while doing well, they should invest that talent into expanded products and services. But that’s not what we’re seeing.

Some things:

- They acquired AfterPay for $29bn. Their market cap today, after the big AI bump, is $40bn. BNPL did not pay off the way payments companies thought it would.

- They have a weird internal combination of Cash and Square and AfterPay internally. They’re not as unified as they ought to be.

This feels more like Jack coming to terms with a company that’s hugely inefficient organizationally. It’s easier to clear out thousands of people and rebuild.
by the_af | 2026-03-06 16:04:43+00:00
> Some groups see it as their mission to dominate Eastern Europe, or the entire Middle East, or the entire southern Asian continent.

Agreed that some countries seek to dominate other regions by force or threat, but you and I are not thinking of the same "groups".

> However in the case of Iran, who openly calls for the destruction of America and is blatantly developing technology that seriously threaten America and other Middle Eastern states, decisive military action to prevent the threat is important. Don't watch the bully themself and wait for him to confront you, when he is telling you the whole time his intention to destroy you.

No, Iran poses no real threat to America, and according to Trump last year suffered a 10+ year setback in their nuclear ambitions. Do you think Trump was lying back then, now, or both?

The US is asserting dominance. Even Trump occasionally says so. Iran mostly poses a danger to their own citizens and, arguably, against Israel when conflict flares up in the region, but not to the US.

By the way, the current situation in Iran is heavily influenced by actions by the UK and the US in the region, back in the 50s. So maybe meddling is not the right course of action?