MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by mindslight | 2026-03-03 04:26:28+00:00
Talking about the "middle" is the wrong way of framing it. The problem is that the Democratic party sandbags any meaningful reforms, as they're still beholden to that same Epstein class when it comes time to campaign. For example the Democrats' grand attempt at healthcare reform included making it mandatory to patronize the "insurance" cartel! Is it possible for regulatory capture to be any more brazen?

So people get frustrated with the hamfisted top-down plans tailored for those deeply wed to the system, tire of the hypocrisy, and then either stay home or vote for the alternative that doesn't even bother promising to try and constructively fix anything. It's a game of bad cop worse cop. We desperately need ranked pairs voting.
by zarzavat | 2026-03-03 04:27:04+00:00
> In contrast, you can’t really parse a file in Rust. Rust macros generate new source code, so parsing can’t be finished until all the macros are expanded.

Rust needs macros because the language is extremely strict and verbose. Macros are the main escape hatch, allowing you to simplify your code while maintaining memory safety without a GC.

Zig doesn't have memory safety as a goal so it seems like an unfair comparison.
by AlisonJJJ | 2026-03-03 04:28:11+00:00
Hello HN,

I'm Alison, founder of Black Water. I previously worked on growth and marketing at ByteDance/TikTok, but I've always been obsessed with fan fiction and emergent storytelling.

Today, we are launching our Technical Alpha: a browser-based narrative game generated by our self-developed gaming engine powered by Local LLMs & Unity.

The Problem:
AI Startups: Building "Co-pilots" or "Asset Generators" for devs, or tech demos where you just chat with an NPC. None of it was a cohesive, playable game.
Game Studios: Stuck in behavior trees and scripted dialogue. No one was successfully bridging the gap between LLM hallucination and Unity's rigid game states.

What we built: the Orchestration Layer that makes LLMs actually playable.
The Stack: Unity (Frontend) + Agent Orchestrator (Backend) + LLM (Reasoning).
The Breakthrough: We mapped unstructured LLM outputs to structured Unity game states. This allows the AI to not just "talk," but to drive the narrative flow, trigger events, and manage pacing—without breaking the game logic.

It's a "Wrapper," but...
Yes, under the hood, we are wrapping models. But the magic isn't the model; it's the State Machine that keeps the story coherent and "fun" (a metric often ignored in AI).

The Alpha:
It’s a single-player narrative experience. We focused 100% on Gameplay Loop and Aesthetics, not just tech.
Play here: [alpha.blackwaterlabs.io] (Access Code: BW2025)
Note: It’s early. We want to know if the "Emergent Narrative" actually feels like a game to you, or if it still feels like a chatbot in a costume.

Roast us in the comments. I’m here to answer questions about our Unity integration and prompt engineering architecture.
by kstrauser | 2026-03-03 04:28:58+00:00
> Mac OS X's market share in the US climbed from 12.17% in December 2022 to 22.08% in May 2023. The market share was consistent for the next few months until it dropped to 14.03% in December 2023.

What. MacOS doubled from December to the next may, then cut in half by the next December? I’m skeptical. It also talks about approval ratings for OS X Lion, from 14 years ago. I think that site is powered by a set of dice.

I think your overall point is correct, but I’m doubting that reference as an accurate data source.
Show HN: AsmForge: Open-Source AI-Powered Assembly IDE Based on Eclipse Theia
by pp10 | 2026-03-03 04:29:08+00:00
Why don't we have a open-source IDE for assembly language and low-level devs? AsmForge is a full-featured IDE for assembly programmers—embedded devs, firmware engineers, OS hackers, security researchers. Key features: multi-assembler (NASM/GAS), AI assistance (Claude 3.5 for explanations/optimizations), LSP autocomplete, GDB visual debugging (registers/memory/stack). Runs in browser or Electron, Docker deployable. MIT license. Feedback welcome!
by legitster | 2026-03-03 04:29:19+00:00
Context: This refers to a particular Evangelical quasi-cult called the "New Apostolic Reformation".

Obsession with the end times stems from a particular Biblical interpretation called "dispensationalism" that was introduced into America in the 1800s. If you're wondering why certain Christian sects became more obsessed from retreating from society than improving it, these are the head waters. It's a successful theme that took off on radio, then with televangelists, and now on social media.

The New Apostolic Reformation is kind of the ultimate culmination of these beliefs. It's one of the key components of what is being called Christian Nationalism.

It's not even clear what parts of the movement are earnestly held and which are purely opportunists trading on the fears of the naive. Many Christians may cross-pollinate in these circles without knowing it - but it takes a very specifically indoctrinated person to think Trump is divinely anointed
by rps93 | 2026-03-03 04:29:35+00:00
Will we be in the same up in arms once Apple releases their AI Glasses?

How about if their glasses either...

1. Can not take pics or videos but its camera is just for AI vision?

or

2. All pics and videos taken through Apple's smart glasses the pics/vids of anyone not in your network (Apple already automatically list faces & sometimes names in your network under "People & Pets," and has done so for years & they are the privacy company) show as anonymous/randomized faces.

I own two pairs of Meta Glasses since 10/2023 and find them very useful to capture or record my own life experiences only. Tho I share hate for them because Meta makes trashy non-durable smart glasses that quickly become dumb glasses. A software update killed my 1st pair in March 2025 and then my next pair couldn't handle water splashes in June 2025.
by eru | 2026-03-03 04:30:05+00:00
Well, 'zero' is what I actually did. For regret, you'd need to select a counterfactual of what I could have done. (And at least one of them needs to differ from zero to give you any results. Or more generally, two scenarios need to differ in at lest one aspect to produce a meaningful comparison. Identical scenarios in back-testing give identical outcomes here.)
by wlesieutre | 2026-03-03 04:30:22+00:00
Somehow not a problem I have - still have my original 2018 iPad stylus, and I don't lose regular pens either.

Suspect this is a mindset thing if you mostly use 10 cent Bic pens you'll never care to make a habit of keeping them, and then when you're using an expensive gadget pen those habits carry over.

Even a pen that costs a few bucks (Signo UM-151 for instance) I know where they're at.
by Nursie | 2026-03-03 04:31:11+00:00
I have time for them all - I have a debian workstation, an ubuntu server, I mostly work on my Tahoe macbook and I run windows 11 on my games box.

Windows seems like windows. I don't care. I'll keep updating to the latest so long as MS wants to give me free updates. My Mac desktop changes looks a bit on each new release but otherwise it's all entirely unremarkable. Maintaining my linux boxes is a little more involved, which is fine, I enjoy it and learn about the internals. SystemD works OK, I don't like its philosophy or the whole binary logs thing, but I quite like the service files metaphor.

The last time I got annoyed enough to change anything was Gnome 2->3 being forced by an update on debian testing, which is why I now run Xfce on any given linux box. I haven't yet gone to Wayland.

Maybe I'm just easy. Or maybe it's all the time I spent switching between Linux/Windows/HPUX/AIX/Solaris/whatever in the 00s. I just look for how I can get on with my day and then ... get on with my day.
by ritahuang | 2026-03-03 04:31:16+00:00
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Hello, I'm Rita. I am an independent software engineer with over 4 years of full-stack development experience, specializing in building clear, maintainable, secure, and reliable applications with Ruby on Rails (RoR) and postgreSQL.

I recently used RoR 8, Tailwind CSS, and PostgreSQL to build the 'Pet Feeder Tracker' deployed on Render. This application is designed to help pet owners discover their pets' eating preferences and visualization of eating trends over time.
by StellarScience | 2026-03-03 04:31:21+00:00
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Company: We're a small scientific software development company that develops custom scientific and engineering analysis applications in domains including: space situational awareness (monitoring the locations, health and status of on-orbit satellites), image simulation, high power microwave systems, modeling and simulation, laser systems modeling, AI/ML including physics-informed neural networks (PINN), human body thermoregulation, computer vision and image processing, high performance computing (HPC), computer aided design (CAD), and more. All exciting applications and no CRUD. We emphasize high quality code and lightweight processes that free software engineers to be productive.

Experience: Except for interns, we currently require a Bachelors degree in physics, engineering, math, computer science, or a related field. Masters or PhD is a plus. (Roughly 25% of our staff have PhDs.)

Technologies: Lots of C++23, Qt 6.9, CMake, git, OpenGL, CUDA, Boost, Jenkins. Windows and Linux, msvc/gcc/clang/clangcl. AI/ML and analysis projects use Python and C++. Web projects use Java and Typescript/React.

Apply online: at https://www.stellarscience.com/careers/.
by anonymous908213 | 2026-03-03 04:31:24+00:00
> Shopify SimGym, and Javier Moreno's tech blog about it

The embodiment of what our industry is becoming. A spambot-generated article about a service selling you spambots to visit your storefront, which has literally negative real world utility. There is zero indication that this thing has made any money. It's also completely unrelated to the topic at hand, which is specifically about OpenClaw and the viral marketing trend of people buying Mac Minis as a platform to run their own spambot wrapper. For bonus points, that article is also spambot-generated. There is already a spambot comment in the thread from an obvious spam account with hundreds of upvotes that was already nuked once before but went back to spamming. Marvelous. What wonderful technology we've built.
by tzs | 2026-03-03 04:31:39+00:00
That's a ridiculous comparison. The California special redistricting was done via a voter initiative that was approved by a majority of California voters, and imposes a temporary change on the rules for drawing districts that reverts to the neutral rules when after the next census.

It was specifically proposed to counter the Texas special redistricting which was done by the Texas legislature and government with no concern over whether or not Texas voters approved (and polls show that more Texas voters disapprove than approve).
by ggm | 2026-03-03 04:31:40+00:00
Calling people stupid who are voting for what they want feels counter-productive.

I don't know them, and I don't see a reason to call anyone stupid. Turkeys voting for thanksgiving is not "stupid" it's normal. Turkeys do what turkeys do.

I would have said "Unfortunately Christian Nationalists want what is being offered them by this administration, are extremely wealthy and fund PAC accordingly." but even "unfortunately" is argumentative. Of course to ME it's unfortunate, but thats me.
by kshacker | 2026-03-03 04:32:52+00:00
I was having an extended incognito chat with claude.ai, and then it stopped responding. I saved the transcript in a notepad and checked in another tab whether it was down. i wonder if the incognito session is gone, and whether by reposting it i can resurrect it. I have done so with Gemini but there it has codes like "Gemini said", which I do not see here. If anyone knows that, appreciate a solution.
by dang | 2026-03-03 04:33:51+00:00
Could you please stop posting unsubstantive comments and flamebait? You've unfortunately been doing it repeatedly. It's not what this site is for, and destroys what it is for.

If you wouldn't mind reviewing https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html and taking the intended spirit of the site more to heart, we'd be grateful.

We've already had to ask you this recently so it would be good to fix. I don't want to ban you - your good comments are fine. But bad comments do more damage than good comments add goodness... a sad fact of life.
by hackyhacky | 2026-03-03 04:33:59+00:00
Sure, there are nice parts of C++. And there are also brain-dead parts that add needless complexity such as:

* rvalue references

* the difference between auto, decltype, typeof

* unreadable template monstrosities

* various different flavors of "smart" pointer

* the continued existence of footguns relating to UB, dangling pointers, unexpected temporary lifetimes, etc

* total absence of a build system or package management

* legacy APIs that still take raw pointers

* concepts, a half-assed attempt at generic constraints
by gotham64 | 2026-03-03 04:34:00+00:00
Project Engram is a three-tier memory architecture for desktop AI agents. It replaces flat key-value memory stores with a biologically-inspired system modeled on how human memory works: incoming information flows through a sensory buffer, gets prioritized in working memory, and consolidates into long-term storage with automatic clustering, contradiction detection, and strength decay. The result is agents that remember context across sessions, learn from patterns, and forget gracefully.
This document describes the architecture as implemented in OpenPawz — a Tauri v2 desktop AI platform. The system implements three memory tiers, a persistent graph, hybrid search with reciprocal rank fusion, background consolidation, field-level encryption, and full lifecycle integration across chat, tasks, orchestration, and multi-channel bridges. This is our passion and looking for more minds to get involved!
by dlev_pika | 2026-03-03 04:34:38+00:00
Kinda?

> In summer 2019, the Province conducted a public engagement on time observance that saw participation from a record 223,000 people, with 93% supporting adopting year-round DST. Similarly, across all industry groups and nearly all occupational groups, support for year-round DST observance was higher than 90%.
by monero-xmr | 2026-03-03 04:35:07+00:00
The first QC that decrypts previously undecipherable text will have incalculable value to the government that surrounds it. QC companies are bullshit because they will take whatever free non-gov money they can, why not? They exist to absorb government money, rightly so, but their public profile is simply to get money from private sector sources
by aizk | 2026-03-03 04:35:36+00:00
I have a story with Benji.

Last year I went viral, and Benji was the first person to interview me. It was a really cool experience, we chatted via Twitter dms, and he wrote a piece about my work - overall did a decent job.

Then, 6 months later a separate project I was adjacent to was starting to pick up steam. I reached out to him asking if he wanted to cover us. No response.

Then, tech crunch wrote an article on our project.

I reached to Benji again saying "Hey would you like to chat again, now we have some coverage?" And he finally responded, but said he couldn't report on me because he had a directive that he could only report on things that didn't have any prior or pre-existing coverage (?)

I thought that was rather strange, especially since we already had built up a relationship.

I don't really have a moral or lesson to this story, other than that journalism can be rather opaque sometimes.

Oh one other tip for anyone reading this - if you do ever get reached out to by journalists, communicate in writing, not a phone call so you can be VERY precise in your wordings.
by tokyovigilante | 2026-03-03 04:36:05+00:00
Great article, but a couple of things jarred a bit.

I'm in a technical but non-IT industry that currently rents its software at commercial scale. The software in question that I use is terrible, and it is probably the worst on the market. The industry is such that it is not an exaggeration to say that people have died on account of its flaws. All other solutions in the domain are better but not good.

I have had a slowly-congealing dream/blueprint in my head for over a decade about how the system I use should work, and in the last 6 months I have been accelerated enough by AI (significantly more so by Opus 4.5/6) that I have built a version of the software that I am now using in production at in my job, and it is the most satisfied I have been in my career in the last decade.

Point being (and it was almost made in the article) that the software doesn't actually matter (no-one's reading the assembly either way) but the function and what it enables does. If it doesn't, no end user cares whether it was 25k SLoC or 25M.
by bluegatty | 2026-03-03 04:36:29+00:00
Those nations do not have the ability to defend civilian infrastructure - it's the weak point we see in Ukraine.

Nobody does.

These are large regions, AA coverage is narrow, using F16s to shoot down Shaheds wears down fast.

If Iran has stockpiles, and the wherewithal for mission planning, they can steer them around AA and hit the 'back office' at will.

Those states also have no practice coordinating the in-between methods - they have only very expensive ways to stop Shaheds, and only jet fighters outside of AA coverage.

Now - hitting a lot of things like civic buildings etc. doesn't have much effect, but it depends how the civilians react and cope.

Some very specific things like energy desalinization are acute problems.

These are authoritarian states that can keep information dispersal minimal and the civilians will just have to 'eat it' - but only for so long.

The biggest damage will be to Straight of Hormuz - of those drones can be used to hit Oil Tankers ... if there are enough muntions, it will be bad

All of that said, China and India would be super duper upset about that, and Iran may depend on China for parts. They would have 'no friends' at that point.

So it's all plausible.

But it requires Iran to have capabilities.

The entire Middle East is lit up right now - and that puts US forces on a 'clock' - this is going to be an interesting form of attrition on all sides, not a good situation.
by dbreunig | 2026-03-03 04:36:35+00:00
Last year they pushed out an update stating if any “Meta AI” is left on, they can access image data for training,

I turned the AI off and used them as headphones and taking videos while biking. After a couple rides, I couldn’t bring myself to put them on because people started to recognize them and I realized I didn’t want to be associated with them (people are right to assume Meta has access to what they see).

Meta Ray Bans, if kept simple, could have been a great product. They ruined them.
by pornel | 2026-03-03 04:37:51+00:00
The complaint isn't that iPad is useless, but that it would be equally useful to nearly every happy iPad user if it had a few generations older CPU.

iPad works for lots of people, but the things that iPad is best for don't really need a powerful CPU.

There are few "Pro" apps that you can run to prove it's possible to run them (except for plugins, OS-level helper apps, extra hardware, background processing that doesn't randomly die, scripting more fine-grained than shortcuts, competent file browser, etc.) but you can max out the CPU for a few minutes and go back to a macbook for real work.
by trimethylpurine | 2026-03-03 04:37:54+00:00
They had deprecated, but still supported it for several OS versions afterwards.

Big deployment in that article. I would guess we can find similar size deployments from Microsoft to the contrary. Again, it's all marketing. I wouldn't make decisions based on that. You should be looking at your data as an organization and making decisions based on the entirety of your infrastructure.

And the same goes for individual employees. If you work in a company where most people are on Macs, where you're not the odd duck with problems, maybe it's a smarter move for you.

But most people aren't at those companies. And for those people, being the odd duck with problems that can't get to the file share, or the guy with slower access to files than the coworkers you're competing with, might be the difference between "That guy always nails it. What's his name?" and "Omg, this dude always has problems sharing files. Just go up and present it for him. This is embarrassing. In front of clients? Next time John should present."

Trust me, you would rather be John in that situation. And as a non-technical user, you're likely going to find yourself in made for Windows presentation situations more often. There are simply more of them.

Mac OS X Server is discontinued. Mac is just not for business, and Apple agrees, it seems. Unless of course your business is entirely cloud operated. That might be okay if your company is so big that you get Apple products and theirs or someone's cloud offerings for nearly free. But it's not practical for most companies of any size. Especially when you consider the delays caused by opening large files over the internet.

Apple users think Mac is better for graphics! How could you possibly think over the internet file sharing is the superior offering here? It makes no sense that they haven't fixed Samba if they want to be for business.
by 0xy | 2026-03-03 04:37:55+00:00
Given the NIH likely killed millions of people by funneling cash to EcoHealth which funded blatantly illegal GoF research in the Wuhan lab likely the source of COVID, this seems like an entirely reasonable measure.

It's extraordinarily risky. Even if you put aside this biblically bad criminality of COVID, their other grants routinely go to labs which have major safety issues.

The blood hasn't even stopped spilling and they want more cash to throw at these sloppy and irresponsible labs.
by andsoitis | 2026-03-03 04:38:20+00:00
” When analysts refer to Iran or Venezuela as a Chinese “ally,” the word ally is doing so much heavy lifting, since these Chinese partnerships, unlike Washington’s alliances, carry no presumption of obligation or binding security commitment.

Venezuela and Iran were not “allies” to China in the way the United States has allies, with attendant security obligations built into them. China has security interests in third regions and has increased its posture, but even in this domain, it has leaned into internal security and policing, not commitments to others’ external defense in which it has zero core interest.”
by SoftTalker | 2026-03-03 04:38:25+00:00
Those settings are IMO likely not doing what you think they are. Or might be doing strictly, precisely what they say they are.

[OFF] "Share data about your Meta devices to help improve Meta products." doesn't preclude sharing data for other purposes.

[OFF] "Allow your photos and videos to be sent to Meta's cloud for processing and temporary storage." doesn't preclude sending them to Meta's cloud for permanent storage.