MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by CarlJW | 2026-03-03 11:52:56+00:00
I use timelimit.io for managing screen time. Nice granular controls and schedule based rules.

I apply the 80/20 rule. 8 minutes allowed, followed by 2 minutes blocked. Then at night I reverse it. 2 minutes allowed, 8 minutes blocked. Just enough time to make one search query and then get off my phone. Or if I do get trapped by something, it's only for a short time.

https://timelimit.io/en/
by brian_cas | 2026-03-03 11:54:51+00:00
Hey HN! I'm the creator of CronBeats.

(Note: There was a previous project with this domain name in 2020 that's
unrelated. I acquired the domain and built this from scratch in 2026.)

I run multiple data scraping sites with dozens of cron jobs across different
servers. Jobs would fail silently and I'd find out days later from angry users.

I tried existing monitoring tools and they work well for basic ping/fail
detection. But I wanted two things I couldn't find:

1. Progress tracking — For long-running jobs (backups, batch processing),
I wanted to see "Processing batch 47/100" instead of just "running" or "done."

2. Instant help — When something broke at 3am, I didn't want to dig through
docs or wait for email support. I wanted to ask "why is this down?" and get
immediate guidance.

So I built CronBeats with those two features as the core focus.

Tech details:
- 5 official SDKs (PHP, Node, Python, Ruby, Go) — all open source on GitHub
- Free plan available (5 jobs, includes AI chat)
- Built in PHP/MySQL (boring tech, works great)

Would love feedback from the HN community, especially on the progress tracking
API design and whether the AI chat is actually useful vs gimmicky.

Happy to answer questions!
by metalman | 2026-03-03 11:55:04+00:00
I think that this has very little chance of bieng implimented in a simple strait forward way, as the device will be increadably vulnerable to bieng destroyed by atmospheric dust and anything else in the air, such as salts, so will require a filtration system that will be very large,expensive ,finicky, and need to continiously maintained and replaced, and even then, only postpone the device from becoming clogged up.
clumsy people fumbing a dirty filter on a windy day?, it's done.
by mft_ | 2026-03-03 11:55:10+00:00
You definitely need to use a mouse with a middle button/scroll wheel, IME. With this, there are presets which work just like other CAD programs e.g. Solidworks. Without it, it’s very difficult to use, but that’s not unique to FreeCAD.

The base UI is quite bad but there are ways to improve it - either through settings and better organisation [0] or via plugins.

I’d suggest to watch a couple of tutorials specifically on 1.1 ([1] was my entry point) as every CAD program had quirks and frustrations at first. I’d say that for hobby-level creations, 1.1 now has ~80% of the usability of Solidworks, once you figure out how.

I’m not sure what’s going on with the performance on your system; I’ve used various 1.1 versions on a Windows laptop and a MacBook Pro and they’re both sufficiently performant. (I usually use a development or RC build from GitHub [2])

[0] https://youtu.be/LKq7hgbu7ks

[1] https://youtu.be/VEfNRST_3x8

[2] https://github.com/FreeCAD/FreeCAD/releases
by heggenhougen | 2026-03-03 11:55:15+00:00
Massive moment for on‑device AI — and it gets even bigger when you zoom out. The ANE breakthrough shows there’s hidden performance inside every chip. http://ROLV.ai shows how to unlock that performance everywhere, all at once. ANE training is impressive, but it’s still one chip, one custom kernel, one model slice. ROLV is a universal sparse compute primitive that already runs identically on: CPUs (where ROLV makes Intel beat NVIDIA on real workloads) GPUs (A100, H100, MI300) TPUs Apple ANE Mobile and EV silicon Any future accelerator And instead of a single transformer layer, ROLV accelerates full real‑world models — LLMs, recsys, FEM solvers — with 10–700× speedups and 65–99% energy savings, independently validated by the University of Miami. So the difference is simple: ANE breakthrough: “Look what this one chip can secretly do.” ROLV: “Now apply that efficiency to every chip, every model, everywhere, with no retraining.” Pair the two and your Mac doesn’t just train — it becomes part of a global, universal compute fabric where training and inference run at GPU‑class speeds on whatever hardware you already own. The future isn’t just local training. It’s universal compute with zero waste — and that’s the world ROLV is already enabling.
by theherk | 2026-03-03 11:55:15+00:00
Yes, in the USA, largely due to the Federal Arbitration Act and generally weak consumer protections, it has become the norm to force users to give up their rights in this way, to move from publicly funded dispute resolution complete with accountability and transparency, to a private funded system which nearly always benefits corporations, prevents acting as a class, and prevents appeal. That isn't acceptable.
by Hamuko | 2026-03-03 11:55:49+00:00
We didn't do multi-region deployments, but we did store database backups in a separate region just in case something really bad happened and our AWS region became unavailable. Also had a plan/some ready Terraform stuff in order to start setting up a deployment if it became apparent that the region wasn't coming back anytime soon.

IMO, if you're using AWS and not replicating your data somewhere else, this should be an eye-opener for you.
by birdsongs | 2026-03-03 11:55:50+00:00
Not arguing, it's just interesting I read the opposite, it felt human to me, and I usually have a good spidey sense here. Maybe it's a combo of handwritten and LLM polishing? Or just a case of a good writer, whose typical output was the training input for most of these models. Good writing, novels and articles and short stories, were the high value training sets.

"For a moment, the plane quivered around them like a greyhound straining on a leash." - I don't think a LLM would write this.

But hell, maybe I'm just being naive. I think we're past the point of ambiguity, we just can't know anymore. Which feels poignant to me.
by dxuh | 2026-03-03 11:56:13+00:00
But CMake only reruns, when CMakeLists.txt has changed. That doesn't happen a lot after the core of the project has been set up for me. Especially not when I am tweaking a game mechanic or something.

Also if you want your project to compile with Ninja on Linux, but also with MSVC and you want cross-compilation (on Linux for Windows) and an Emscripten build (I do want all of those), then rebuilding CMake is quite a lot of work.
by lproven | 2026-03-03 11:56:21+00:00
This was news to me, too.

But I rarely use Windows. I used to like it but for me XP was so ugly and bloated I switched to Linux and OS X full-time. I've never looked back.

I just play occasionally to keep my skills vaguely current. Sometimes I need to work with it.

Windows 11 is awful. Bloated, full of ads and nags, forcibly keeps your stuff in the crappy MS cloud drive for which there's no Linux GUI client.

You can't even put the taskbar on the left edge where it belongs.

Worse than Vista or Win ME or even Win 8.x.

I moved all my emergency Windows partitions to Win10 IoT LTSC. Quite unbloated, proper local accounts, no Store, no Onedrive, no Modern apps at all. It's what Win10 should have been.

And it's getting updates until 2032.

So, Windhawk looks fun but I don't need it.
by szmarczak | 2026-03-03 11:56:46+00:00
This is the correct solution. However you'd need someone that knows C++ well, knows Chrome internals, is familiar with video stuff, audio stuff, knows Chromium rendering pipeline, possibly some GPU APIs as well. That person would cost huge amounts of money due to the required knowledge and complexity.

And then you'd need to maintain the code so it works with future Chrome versions.
by ilu2026 | 2026-03-03 11:56:53+00:00
I gave another try to check for any open source update, it is not and added more mess. See here https://docs.sailfishos.org/Develop/Open_Source/ :

“As described in the architecture documentation Sailfish OS consists of a variety of components, some of which are proprietary and closed source (such as some hardware-specific kernel modules, or other software licensed under commercial terms), and most of which are open source.”

They removed open source components from “architecture documentation”

The os is impossible to build and test like linux despite of being based on open source project like linux, wayland, QT, etc.

SailfishOS is closer source than Android. Android you can compile and degoogle it.
by LAC-Tech | 2026-03-03 11:56:57+00:00
I genuinetely do not think Hasbara like this works anymore. The overton window on this has irrevocably shifted since 2023 and it would be a better strategy for you to live within this new reality, rather than making ludicrous claims that the middle eastern country most vehemently trying to shape western views on the region is... Qatar. It just comes across as an obvious projection, and only encourages sentiment that has a real potential to become harmful to you personally.

That is, unless posts like thos are designed to encourage that sentiment, which I sometimes suspect.
by koolba | 2026-03-03 11:56:58+00:00
> If only it wouldn't collapse by itself after clicking anywhere (clicking seems to activate physics) this would be 10/10

I think that's the other metaphor here.

It's not just standing on the tiny shoulders of one forgotten maintainer. The entire system only appears stable because we're looking at a snapshot of it.

In reality it's already collapsing.
by keyringlight | 2026-03-03 11:58:06+00:00
Something I wonder about is whether the next few years will see a (small) fashion trend towards 'dumb PCs' similar to how there's a small group of people that prefer simple/feature/dumb phones. There's a number of factors within the PC space now that could see a PC with limited capabilities or primarily offline find its niche. Along with that, having a distinct form to set it apart from regular computing devices would be interesting, and Apple has a lot of them especially from the G3/G4 era.
by lproven | 2026-03-03 11:58:24+00:00
> I preferred hand-optimizing.

Same here.

But then, it was my job, it wasn't for gaming or anything. I don't play games much and I had an Acorn Archimedes at home.

I could usually get 620 kB free by hand with no problem, even with a mouse, a CD, and a network stack.

That was enough for 99% of work business apps.
by LatencyKills | 2026-03-03 11:58:26+00:00
> Apple are really the major OS company _without_ widespread use of a first party obfuscator

You might want to look into techniques like control-flow flattening, mixed boolean–arithmetic transformations, opaque predicates, and dead code injection — Apple uses all of these. The absence of a publicly named obfuscator doesn’t mean Apple doesn’t apply these methods (at least during my time there).

Ever wonder why Apple stopped shipping system frameworks as individual .dylib files? Here’s a hint: early extraction tools couldn’t preserve selector information when pulling libraries from the shared cache, which made the resulting decompiled pseudocode unreadable.
by CarlJW | 2026-03-03 11:58:42+00:00
IGPlus worked much better for me on Instagram.
https://weblxapplications.com/en/products/igplus

For facebook I love Facebook Purity. Only problem is it's desktop only.
https://www.fbpurity.com/

Edit, some things I've been able to us ublock origin for. Like facebook reels. Not 100% clean but enough to stop them from working (no video, just still thumbnail when you open them). In some ways that provides some reinforcement learning to the brain.
by jlongo78 | 2026-03-03 12:00:08+00:00
good timing on this. twitter's export is notoriously brittle - seen people lose years of data when the zip format changed overnight with zero notice.

one thing worth doing alongside any archival tool: pipe your sessions and interactions into something with full-text search locally. the pattern of how you used data matters as much as the data itself. most people archive the artifact and forget the context. thats the part that actually doesnt come back.
by jlongo78 | 2026-03-03 12:00:15+00:00
nice work on this. debugging agentic sessions is genuinely underserved territory - most people are still just squinting at raw terminal output and hoping for the best.

one thing worth considering: session continuity is often as painful as debugging. knowing what claude did is half the battle, being able to resume that context later without re-prompting everything from scratch is the othe rhalf. tools that nail both together tend to stick.
by orthoxerox | 2026-03-03 12:00:55+00:00
Terraria came out in 2011, and it had the blood moon event before it hit 1.0.

There are also many 20th century sources on Google Books, but they don't necessarily refer to the lunar eclipse. It meant "full moon" in frontier Texas, but there are also Wiccan books from the 90s that give this name to the October full moon.
Show HN: Claude Gym – a tiny CLI that nudges you to move while Claude Code runs
by mosesxu | 2026-03-03 12:01:41+00:00
I’ve been using Claude Code pretty heavily lately (plan mode, multi-agent runs, long tool streaks), and I noticed a pattern:

When the AI is busy running tools, I’m usually just… sitting there.

Forty-five minutes later I realize I haven’t moved at all.

So I built a small side project called Claude Gym.

It watches Claude Code’s local JSONL logs and uses them as a signal for “AI is busy vs AI needs input.” The JSONL logs expose structured events (tool calls, agent transitions, turn boundaries), which makes them a surprisingly clean signal for detecting human idle windows.

When Claude doesn’t need me, it pops up short movement prompts (squats, stretches, wall sits). When Claude needs input again, it gets out of the way. There’s also a small pixel-art cat that jumps when a turn finishes.

No network, no telemetry — it just tails the local logs. Written in Go, runs in a separate terminal tab.

It’s intentionally small and a bit playful, but it’s been surprisingly effective at getting me to move during long sessions.

Repo (MIT):
https://github.com/477-Studio/claude-gym

Curious whether others have experimented with tying human breaks to agent activity instead of timers.
by mailund | 2026-03-03 12:02:39+00:00
not sure how OP is acting with bigotry against windows users just because they were surprised that there are people who are enthusiastic about windows.

I share their sentiment, it's like discovering that there is a group of people who are Internet Explorer fans, or avid listeners of the generic no-name pop songs specifically made to be unremarkable background music they play in my gym to avoid paying royalties. It's just surprising since I haven't met anyone who doesn't just treat it as something to either put up with or replace with alternatives before.
by jmclnx | 2026-03-03 12:03:02+00:00
I never heard that term until recently and to add to it seems, every month there is a term or 2 for a full moon. That annoys me, "blood moon" hides what is really happening and its scientific cause.

I miss the days when the only term was blue moon and that was considered a rare occurrence. I noticed that term is also used much more then in the past.
Show HN: Only firewall for AI prompts with a security grade on every PR
by acebot712 | 2026-03-03 12:03:09+00:00
Every other gateway is detect-and-block. You don't get a security grade. You don't get red team in CI. We built the one that does.

PromptGuard is a proxy: change your base URL (one line with our SDK, or a few lines without), and every request gets checked for prompt injection, PII leaks, jailbreaks, and abuse. 20+ threat vectors, 39+ PII types. We also ship a red team suite and an autonomous agent that mutates attacks to find bypasses - you get a grade (A-F) and a GitHub Action that runs these tests on every PR. So you see where you're weak before you ship.

Works with OpenAI, Anthropic, Google, Azure, Gemini and more. Policy-as-Code. 10K free requests/month - link in the post.

Happy to answer questions.
by EvanAnderson | 2026-03-03 12:03:23+00:00
Ahh, memories.

I'd done so well optimizing my conventional memory with my rig (a 486SX w/ 4, then later 16 MB of RAM), then I purchased a Media Vision Pro/ Audio Spectrum 16 card and screwed it all up.

The silly thing purported SoundBlaster compatibility but needed a TSR that, if memory serves, couldn't be loaded into upper memory for that "compatibility" to actually work. It was maddening, but I'd already spent the money. Then there was the matter of throwing away more memory for the drive for the card's onboard SCSI controller... Grr...
by strangegecko | 2026-03-03 12:03:34+00:00
Agreed. I actually don't want more generations of humanity. The degree of abuse and destruction and selfishness is too depressing.

I grew up with emotional neglect and all sorts of mental health struggles that grew from that, so I find the cavalier attitude people have towards parenting and how people in the world treat each other in general appalling.

My parents (and honestly most, in my opinion) were not qualified to be parents. They were deeply broken themselves and didn't even have awareness of that.

I know humans could do better, but looking at the state of things, greed and hatred and aggression in all forms from interpersonal to wars are propagating themselves as the most successful traits. In a dog eat dog world, I'd much rather leave everything to animals, at least they don't destroy the entire planet when they maul each other
by ilu2026 | 2026-03-03 12:04:45+00:00
I think an organic way if they really wanted to make a difference is to truly open sources if SailfishOS 100%, in the same time to use the OS and some of specialised componenta for automotive and contractual business projects (lile google, telegram, HashiCoro, you name it). Sell devices, etc.

Benefits: they would skyrocket in popularity and code quality without increasing the team and maintenance cost.

This way I would contribute to it with my money and time!
by lynx97 | 2026-03-03 12:05:13+00:00
When more and more typos started to creep into news articles of our state-owned, national news feed and people started to notice, the explanation we got was basically that the frequency of news articles is so supposedly so high that it is supposedly impossible to catch them. If news orgs can't even do as much proof reading that they catch typos and grammatical errors, I highly doubt anyone is still doing editorial checking...
Show HN: Building a Globe Viewer When Software Is Cheap
by bchapuis | 2026-03-03 12:05:15+00:00
I wanted to test a question: if producing code costs almost nothing, how would you build a globe viewer? Instead of optimizing for human productivity (high-level language, existing engine, standard formats), what if you optimize for the output: binary size, portability, runtime cost, control?

So I let Claude produce it in C targeting WebGPU. Documentation first, code second. Given clear specs, it produced working C on the first pass. Given vague specs, the code wandered or chose the obvious path. This is experimental code and there are many areas for improvement, but I was pleasantly surprised at the results.

Repository: https://github.com/arpentry/arpentry
by latexr | 2026-03-03 12:05:15+00:00
> that old fallacy that you think the news is correct about everything, until they report about something you know.

Gell-Mann Amnesia.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael_Crichton#Gell-Mann_amn...

The description is slightly backwards. The problem is you continue to trust the news after seeing how wrong they are about something on which you’re an expert.
by pmontra | 2026-03-03 12:05:46+00:00
Emails with verification codes do not get delivered.

> Have a verification code instead?

> Enter the code generated from the link sent to [...]

> We are experiencing delivery issues with some email providers and are working to resolve this.

> Check your junk/spam and quarantine folders and ensure that support@mail.anthropic.com is on your allowed senders list.

I'm still waiting for a code from one hour ago. Meanwhile I managed to fix my source code alone, like twelve months ago.
by benzguo | 2026-03-03 12:06:06+00:00
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by ghosty141 | 2026-03-03 12:06:11+00:00
Why should it be?

All he is saying: We currently have products in a similar product category (arm based desktop computers) that are widely used and have known benchmark scores (and general reviews) and it would make sense if I publish a new cpu for the same product category ("Reaching Desktop Performance" implies that) that I'd compare it to the known alternatives.

In the end you can just run Asahi on your macbook, the OS is not that relevant here. A comparison to macbooks running Asahi Linux would be fine.
by lente | 2026-03-03 12:07:10+00:00
I just signed up on their site and got a mail with the following info:

"To catch you up:

We’ve been hard at work over the summer building out a team and searching the globe for a manufacturer to build our dream phone. It’s been a slow process, but we’re nearing completion and expect to be able to kick off this project very soon.

Once we have a manufacturer locked in, we will be reaching out with a full update on the project and our plan to move forward."
by sebslomski | 2026-03-03 12:07:22+00:00
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We've been in the guided selling space for the past 6 years and launched our new product, the Shop Agent, last year in November. Our customers who are already on this new product are loving it and demand more and more features.

We are now looking for founding engineers who can help our engineering team (5 people). We consider our selfs as craftsman, who care a lot about quality. A lot.
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