MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by kilroy123 | 2026-03-02 16:28:25+00:00
I have some inside knowledge here. When I was in college, I was very idealistic. I was in a special Greenpeace program where they took college students and trained them to become environmental activists. Picture a semester-long, hands-on training course.

You actually fully go out into the field to run campaigns and meet everyone from the President of Greenpeace to the front-end activist hanging banners and whatnot.

I actually liked the President and DC lobbyist folks more than the weridos out and about dropping banners and doing the extreme stuff.

I walked away being kind of turned off from the Organization and realized a lot of these folks were not pragmatic and more dogmatic than anything else. Don't get me wrong, I am very grateful and had a blast, but I dropped out of college and became a software engineer instead of an activist.
by OgsyedIE | 2026-03-02 16:28:27+00:00
Millions of higher ed employees in the world seeking immutable contact points for others to reach them across changes of institution. With the changes in student intake sizes as different regions respond to changes in birth rates, easily 50% of all professors are exposed to churn, so an established service could reach mid eight digits of ARR.

I have no idea if there is already a firm in this space doing this, though.
by wolvesechoes | 2026-03-02 16:28:50+00:00
It doesn't have, because no one sane thinks there is some Asia in other sense than geographical, yet many people believe there is some Europe that can have its own smartphone or other alternatives.

In all practical ways Jolla is as foreign to Romanian or French person as Apple is, because their domestic officials and institutions have zero control over it the same way they have zero control over Apple.

Unless, of course, they are blinded by some big yet empty words of European unity, as many here are.
by jasonshen | 2026-03-02 16:28:51+00:00
Many breakthrough technologies appear initially like toys. And this certainly qualifies. I've never been able to code anything more complicated than a memory game in javascript but I have worked with engineering teams for my entire professional career. But prompting my agent to write python scripts to pull down data from various tools via API without having to read docs, do trial and error for hours / days / indefinitely, and actually produce something coherent in seconds? Incredible.

Is my OpenClaw agent currently changing my life? No. It sends me a morning briefing based on my calendar, the weather, my Readwise highlights, and notes on who I'm talking to today based on call transcripts. I use it as a food diary (which I could have done on platform LLMs but this feels like a more personalized UX as we can write the logs to text files on my personal computer). I can absolutely see how transformative this agent can become in the next few years. Certainly my usage of LLMs has changed my life since ChatGPT first launched.

You are seeing the loudest / most hyped users. There's a reason it has so many stars and most of the people getting something out of it are not posting on X. They're just using it to do the thing.
by dentm42 | 2026-03-02 16:28:54+00:00
aver record new --title "TODO: fix manual link" --status new --priority 1 --description "Proofread better! Fix the link in the HN comment" --use-id HN-001

aver note add HN-001 --message "HN comment uneditable (edit window expired). User should proofread and check links more carefully!"

aver record update HN-001 --status closed

git add . &&
git commit -m "proofreading issue -apologies!" &&
git push origin master

#and that's how you handle issues with aver and communicate them to fellow devs.
by niam | 2026-03-02 16:28:55+00:00
So as to not mislead anyone who didn't read the article, the section following your quoted text is:

> Researchers from lower risk countries have been told they could lose access beginning in either September or December if at that point they have been at the lab more than 2 years or, under a waiver, 3 years.

In other words: they're also looking to bar foreign nationals outside of that quoted list, which to my mind is less understandable.
by pixl97 | 2026-03-02 16:29:05+00:00
Honestly this is a wonderful real life strategy.

Make a fictitious subject with all the traits of the person you really want to attack (Subject X). Have your social media bots attack Subject X. Anger spillover on social media will begin attacking your true target by trait association. The real target will have a difficult to impossible time coming at you via legal channels as there is no direct association.
by behnamoh | 2026-03-02 16:29:13+00:00
> Nowadays the average consumer can vibe code stuff and share it with his friends. So he needs a package manager not only an app store.

This is also developer fantasy for two reasons:

(1) Most vibed apps suck in unpredictable ways.

(2) Most avg consumers don't even know what Claude is, let alone Claude Code, let alone being good enough at vibing to produce anything of value.
by dazbradbury | 2026-03-02 16:29:25+00:00
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by DFHippie | 2026-03-02 16:29:38+00:00
> believe in an "interior enemy" (for MAGA it's the deep state)

It's their neighbors, not the "deep state". Renee Good and Alex Pretti were the enemy within. People in inflatable costumes or pussy hats are the enemy within. Uppity kids in high school who get thrown to the drown and put in a choke hold. People filming ice on public streets. They are the enemy within to MAGA. It isn't distant and abstract. It's personal.
by bluGill | 2026-03-02 16:29:47+00:00
There are a lot of plastics that are disposable. The first plastics over 100 years ago were made from milk (I suspect the Romans knew the process - it wasn't industrially useful though). Many decomposable plastics have been made over the year. The PLA commonly used in 3d printers is decomposable (in the right environment).

Oil based plastics are generally a lot cheaper than the above though, and they are typically not decomposable. Depending on your use this can be good or bad (I don't want my plastic plumbing pipes to decompose, but other plastics are used up and I want them to decompose)
by jhirshman | 2026-03-02 16:30:00+00:00
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by just6979 | 2026-03-02 16:30:16+00:00
Pointers are still very useful for many paradigms. Think about something like Blender or a game level editor: there can be _a lot_ of controls visible at once, trying to navigate them all with the keyboard is just unfeasible. And doing a fully context sensitive setup to limit visible controls, like the MS Office Ribbon, is also infeasible because the changes would be happening almost continually as different objects are selected and modes are chosen.

Your bad UI example of resizing windows is way less about the round corners or lack of obvious grab area (handle). It's more that the handle is way too small. It's a couple pixels (maybe just one?) wide/tall on screens that are thousands of pixels wide! It's just too easy to overshoot. I'd say it comes from the obsession with minimalism and flat design such that there is almost no visible seperate border to act as a target. Combined with trying to remove ambiguity as to which window the click should go to (if you click two pixels "outside" a window, should the click go to the window beneath or be interpreted as trying to grab the border?), the grab handles are tiny, almost matching the actual (lack of) pixels of the border, instead of being a usable target to click on.

To me it points to a lack of usability testing, or at least lack of generalized usability testing, ie: they tested their own workflows, which seem to be just always leaving windows as the OS creates them initially, or maximizing everything, not much resizing at all. Similarly, generally testing a [mostly] keyboard interface is tough to do thoroughly without providing a thorough cheat sheet. You know the commands because you made them, easy to test how you work, but others need to learn them first.
by Viacheslav_HM | 2026-03-02 16:30:36+00:00
Location: London, UK / Kyiv, Ukraine

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Willing to relocate: No

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by astout55555 | 2026-03-02 16:30:44+00:00
Location: Phoenix, AZ, USA

Remote: Yes

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Technologies: JavaScript/TypeScript, React, Node.js, Ruby, SQL, Express, Jest, PostgreSQL, PGVector, MongoDB, Claude, Cursor, Mastra AI, OpenAI API, AWS (CDK, SDK, EC2, EKS, S3, Lambda), Vite, Zod, Docker, Nginx...

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by kube-system | 2026-03-02 16:30:51+00:00
Criminal cases aren't a substitute for civil suits, not for copyright... or for any other type of loss.

People generally do have to pay their own way to bring a civil case to recover for damages in a copyright infringement case... or any kind of case.

The fines/jail time typically ascribed by a criminal case do not go into a victims bank account. A criminal case is between the government prosecutor and the defendant. The copyright holder wouldn't even be a party to the case.
by cogman10 | 2026-03-02 16:30:57+00:00
Ok, so a lot of this boils down to the fact that this sort of software really wants to be running on linux. For both windows and mac, the only way to (really) do that is creating a VM.

It seems to me that the main issue here is painful disconnects between the VM and the host system. The kernel in the VM wants to manage memory and disk usage and that management ultimately means the host needs to grant the guest OS large blocks of disk and memory.

Is anyone thinking about or working on narrowing that requirement? Like, I may want the 99% of what a VM does, but I really want my host system to ultimately manage both memory and disk. I'd love it if in the linux VM I had a bridge for file IO which interacted directly with the host file system and a bridge in the memory management system which ultimately called the host system's memory allocation API directly and disabled the kernels memory management system.

containers and cgroups are basically how linux does this. But that's a pretty big surface area that I doubt any non-linux system could adopt.
by nephihaha | 2026-03-02 16:31:00+00:00
"Has no one else noticed that we increasingly talk about the world like it's fiction playing out in front of us?"

Most of our world is a fiction or at least a highly distorted version of reality.

My advice to people is: Get out into nature, stop believing everything on the news and meet people in person.

Most of the news is ragebait designed to get you angry at specific targets rather than the systems themselves.
by SR2Z | 2026-03-02 16:31:03+00:00
Is it? AI isn't going to be a winner take all market. Competition between American AI labs and even Chinese ones have seen to that.

The winners for AI will be the product companies, because soon enough the top-tier models are all going to have good enough performance that companies can just pick the cheapest. It'll be a race to the bottom for inference and OpenAI is very poorly placed to compete in that kind of thing.
Show HN: CosmicMeta – Daily AI and tech analysis with a humanization pipeline
by appmuzzik | 2026-03-02 16:31:04+00:00
I built CosmicMeta.ai, a tech platform that publishes daily analysis on AI,
machine learning, and emerging tech.

The interesting technical bit: every article goes through a two-pass
humanization step that detects and rewrites 24 specific AI writing patterns
(significance inflation, copula avoidance like "serves as" instead of "is",
em-dash overuse, formulaic conclusions, etc.). It's based on research from
the blader/humanizer framework.

Tech stack: Spring Boot, OpenAI + Perplexity APIs, WordPress for publishing,
Firestore for data. The pipeline is fully automated - from topic selection
to research to writing to humanization to publishing.

I'm curious what HN thinks about the humanization approach. Is stripping AI
patterns enough to make AI-generated content genuinely useful, or is there a
deeper issue with AI-written tech analysis?

https://cosmicmeta.ai
by CloakHQ | 2026-03-02 16:31:21+00:00
The plan.md approach solves something I've been struggling with on a browser automation project. When you're building something stateful (browser sessions, fingerprinting logic etc.) the "why" behind decisions gets lost fast. Not just for other devs, but for the AI itself in future sessions.

One thing I've added on top of the plan/project structure: a short `decisions.md` that logs only the non-obvious choices, like "tried X, it caused Y issue, went with Z instead". Basically the things that would make future-me or a future agent waste time rediscovering.

Do you find the plan.md files stay useful past the initial build, or do they mostly just serve as a commit artifact?
by jlongo78 | 2026-03-02 16:31:42+00:00
The compressed context snapshot is a smart workaround - basically hand-rolling what session continuity would give you for free.

For the persistent layer, we're using the API directly with conversation IDs stored our side, then replaying relevant message windows rather than full transcripts. Full replay gets expensive fast, so we filter to decision points and errors. Similar tradeoffs to your activity log, just at the API level rather than filesystem.
by donovandikaio | 2026-03-02 16:31:59+00:00
Opus 4.6 has been a hit-and-miss for me. It does extremely well on very complex, long-running tasks but also struggles with very basic, seemingly straightforward work and often provides conflicting recommendations. For example, just this morning Opus 4.6 provided two options, recommended option 1, and at the end of the same message asked to start option 2; this does not happen in Opus 4.5.

For now, my workflow will be for everyday tasks claude-opus-4-5 and opus 4.6 for more complex work.
Show HN: MCP server ONLY app for personal finances
by bjpless | 2026-03-02 16:32:05+00:00
We're a team of founding Plaid engineers, backed by the funds of the Plaid CEO and Max Altman.

https://res.cloudinary.com/dxxog3y9j/image/upload/v177246957...

We've to build a conversationa way to talk to your money. It lives entirely in Claude right now -- no standalone mobile or web app.

To our knowledge, there are few, if any, full-featured consumer apps that exist entirely as MCP servers. We believe that's chat surfaces with MCP servers will become the primary user interface of the future.

The user experience is genuinely very cool, from cleaning your Plaid transaction history to projecting future cash balances.

We initially started with ChatGPT for obvious distribution reasons but found that Claude is the only viable option right now for consumer MCP experiences due to its multi-tool calling ability -- it's critical.

A potential next step goal with this project is to make it self-hosted and remove all third-party data sharing, aside from your bank.
Show HN: U2m.io – Free URL shortener with bulk API, QR codes, and geo analytics
by appmuzzik | 2026-03-02 16:32:05+00:00
I built a free URL shortener with features that competitors
typically charge $20-200/month for.

What it does:
- Bulk API: shorten up to 100 URLs in one POST request
- QR code generation: PNG + SVG, customizable sizes (100-2048px)
- Click analytics: GeoIP (MaxMind) for country/city, device
classification, browser detection, UTM parameter preservation
- Custom short codes: 4-20 alphanumeric characters
- Hash-based deduplication: same URL = same short code, deterministic
- Redis caching layer for sub-millisecond redirect lookups
- URL sanitization for malformed Unicode characters

Why I built it:
Most URL shorteners either charge for analytics and QR codes,
or limit their free tier so aggressively that it's unusable for
real work. I wanted something API-first, with real analytics,
that I could use in my own projects without hitting paywalls.

Tech stack: Spring Boot 3.4, MySQL, Redis (Jedis), MaxMind GeoIP2,
ZXing for QR codes.

Try it: https://u2m.io

Happy to answer technical questions about the architecture or
design decisions.
by soulofmischief | 2026-03-02 16:32:07+00:00
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I've focused for several years now on agentic and generative work such as simulating networked LLM-augmented embodied agents, interface research, too much to list here but always happy to talk more over email. While the rest of the industry is just starting to latch onto agentic systems, I can offer years of experience, product insight and leadership.

Available for consulting, startups, projects, anything web or agentic.
by nhubbard | 2026-03-02 16:32:08+00:00
One of the important reasons that it works so well is because it uses the Hexagon DSP in the Snapdragon processors to catch the events. That's why it's so hard to replicate. It's possible to do it entirely in software, but it chews through battery if you do it that way. I can't find it now, but there was an article a few years ago that explained how the feature worked.

And there's no way to program the DSP without being the creator of the device because Qualcomm requires DSP programs to be signed, as far as I'm aware, and the key has to be trusted by the device vendor.
by kilroy123 | 2026-03-02 16:32:28+00:00
It's been utterly bizarre to witness. I've used n8n for years and told everyone who would listen to give it a try, well before LLMs. Same for huginn the open source project.

I just don't get all the hyper either. I think it's because people just create automation workflows by typing them out rather than being in the trenches.
by zhyder | 2026-03-02 16:32:43+00:00
I guess it could warn about it but the VM sandbox is the best part of Cowork. The sandbox itself is necessary to balance the power you get with generating code (that's hidden-to-user) with the security you need for non-technical users. I'd go even further and make user grant host filesystem access only to specific folders, and warn about anything with write access: can think of lots of easy-to-use UIs for this.
Show HN: Proxelar – MitM proxy with (rata)TUI, terminal, and web interface
by emanuele-em | 2026-03-02 16:33:08+00:00
I built this over the past couple of years as a way to inspect HTTP/HTTPS traffic (learning project). It started as a Tauri desktop app but I recently simplified the whole thing — dropped the
desktop GUI and replaced it with three simpler interfaces (TUI with ratatui https://github.com/ratatui/ratatui, terminal, web) that you pick with a CLI flag.

The proxy intercepts both HTTP and HTTPS, works as a forward or reverse proxy, and lets you search and drill into individual request/response pairs. The TUI is the default — it gives you a live table of traffic
with detail panels. The web interface streams everything over WebSocket if you prefer a browser. Terminal mode just prints colored lines, useful for piping or logging.

Setup is pretty minimal — install, run, point your system proxy at it.

Happy to hear feedback or ideas. Still a lot I want to improve.
by lxgr | 2026-03-02 16:33:36+00:00
Given that Claude Code runs without issues on macOS, I'd guess that it's more about sandboxing shell sessions (i.e. not macOS applications or single processes, for which solutions exist).

Unfortunately, unlike Linux, macOS doesn't have a great out-of-the-box story there; even Apple's first-party OCI runtime is based on per-container Linux VMs.
by croddin | 2026-03-02 16:34:12+00:00
In other news, "Show HN: This up votes itself"[1] from 14 years ago is still the 20th most voted story in HN history.[2]

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3742902
[2] https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&que...
by brunooliv | 2026-03-02 16:34:21+00:00
I really love Anthropic's models, but, every single product/feature I've used other than the Claude Code CLI has been terrible... The CLI just "sticked" for me and I've never needed (or arguably looked in depth) any other features. This for my professional dayjob.

For personal use, where I have a Pro subscription and adventure into exploring all the other features/products they have... I mean, the experience outside of Claude Code and the terminal has been... bad.