MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by Temporary_31337 | 2026-03-06 11:06:46+00:00
My father was pretty serious about this as a hobby - SP7DRV - had shortware CW and voice connections with pretty much all the coutries, remote islands (when there was an expeditions) and some countries that do not exist anymore so his tally was more countries than there are in the world.
Personally I prefer the convenience of fibre connection + TCP/IP but I get that in a time of hypothetical crisis or war this could prove useful.
War in Ukraine shows it's more Starlink + Internet rather than HAM radio but there's still a use case.
by ukblewis | 2026-03-06 11:07:40+00:00
I wonder if instead of shaking their fist at the sky in anger with billionaires, we could run influence campaigns to:

Collect enough money to run marketing campaigns for billionaires to give more money to charity. (I don’t super trust politicians to tax them more and I am not sure that taxing them would even be effective given that there are always tax havens and loopholes, but persuasion should be possible, not extraordinarily expensive and have a high cost-benefit IMHO)
by Traster | 2026-03-06 11:08:34+00:00
I'm in two minds about this. I think that by and large We Have A Problem. And i don't mean a problem with children on the internet. We have a problem with people on the internet. There are so many examples of grown adults who have clearly become addled.

I live in the UK, I work in London. I can go on X and look at what Elon Musk is posting about the UK and as a reasonable person I can quite reasonably say he's gone mental. The algorithm has broken that mans brain. And it's not just him, a whole slew of establishment women lost their absolute minds about the trans issue (and Graham Linehan). Mumsnet became a centre for radicalization. You know and some one who grew up on the internet at quite a sweet spot I'm very comfortable looking at that stuff and going "Oh yeah, you guys are being groomed by these algorithms and you're defenceless to it".

There's a whole load of "How do we protect the children from this", but I don't think there's actually been much a reckoning with how grown adults are getting sucked into this vortex. The algorithms on the internet clearly have some trap doors that just absolutely funnel people into crazy places.

All of which is to say: We have a serious problem that's effecting everyone not just kids, and I think we've got almost no answers for how to tackle it.

The result is this- poorly thought through sweeping laws that aren't solving the problem, and have massive negative side effects. I think Jonathon Haidt has a lot to answer for in funnelling this complex issue affecting everyone into this reactionary "won't someone think of the children!" campaign for banning technology for kids.
by ap99 | 2026-03-06 11:09:16+00:00
Technology and national defense are 100% part of the same conversation.

I'm not saying the government can't overreach or over control, but if I or you or any of us were in charge of the defense of a country then we'd want to make sure technology from our country at the very least wasn't used to hurt us and if possible used to help us.

That's what alignment means and it's totally reasonable.
Show HN: WiseLocals – Vetted B2B sourcing agents for manufacturing hubs
by Sharanxxxx | 2026-03-06 11:09:39+00:00
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by senfiaj | 2026-03-06 11:10:25+00:00
I agree this is bullshit. But at least you can lie to the OS about your age. Technically it's almost the same as OS asking you "Pick a date and a number from 1 to 100 and I'll report it to the software / websites. But don't worry, I'll not verify you.". If you pick randomly (over age 18 or whatever), technically, you don't provide any useful information.

This would be the least of evils (such as ID verification). But a bigger problem is that the implementation is very flawed. It doesn't appear to be very effective. People, including children, can lie. Multiple people can share the same account. Also there are many devices that cannot be updated (such as embedded). My concern is that these idiots might introduce even more extreme laws when they see that it isn't efficient enough.

I hope it will cause so many problems (implementation, backslash, etc) that it will be eventually cancelled.
by JuniperMesos | 2026-03-06 11:10:26+00:00
I'd much rather live in a society where Jeff Bezos has more wealth than me and I can buy things on Amazon, than in a society where Amazon no longer functions as a company because it was destroyed by a military insurrection and also the leaders of said insurrection have unequal access to resources compared to most other people (because they're the leaders of a military insurrection; there's not a whole lot of equality in a military)
by Terretta | 2026-03-06 11:10:50+00:00
Who has to comply with removing PII? Your profile, yours, mapped to a special snowflake ID, is packaged and sold across a network of 2500 - 4000 buyers, including in particular those that clean, tie (a surprisingly small footprint turns into its own "natural primary key"), qualify, and sell on to agencies. No step in this is illegal.

https://www.theverge.com/2024/10/23/24277679/atlas-privacy-b...
by cronin101 | 2026-03-06 11:11:18+00:00
Serious (but not easy) answer:
You can move to a different country that more aligns with your moral standings or interests. You're (presumably) a valuable asset that will provide a net-positive contribution wherever you move, and a loss will be incurred when you emigrate.

It's a huge undertaking, but you _can_ vote where your tax money gets sent. You can ensure it bootstraps a more equal system instead of propping-up an unequal one.

I did this myself, and I feel good about having done it.
by cam_l | 2026-03-06 11:11:41+00:00
I dunno about that. I bought a Casio at a garage sale in the late eighties for 20 cents, and sold it to a mate 10 years later, give or take, for a couple of bucks. It was still running, still keeping time.

Expensive watches are way closer to bitcoins than useful assets. They inherently rely on the gullibility of other rich prick wanna be's. Still a good bet probably.. sadly..
by Cort3z | 2026-03-06 11:13:00+00:00
So, are we way into diminishing returns for these models at this point? If so, I think we can calculate when it will be available at home. Given this requires a GB200 NVL72 which has about 1,440 PFLOPS, the current 5090 chip has about 1,676 TFLOPS, so about a 1000x scale-up to the GB200. If we can assume Moores law, which might be broken, but still. We are looking at log2(1000) = 9.96, or about 10 years.
by fsflover | 2026-03-06 11:13:09+00:00
> then other sensors which have been demonstrated to be able to capture audio can't be trusted, either, and in many demonstrations some of those sensors have been shown to be capable of recording what is effectively audio. That's old news, so you shouldn't have any difficulty finding evidence of your own.

You (and strcat) have no idea what you are talking about. And you are constantly shifting goals. Sensors are much harder to use as microphones. Was it ever caught in the wild, not in a lab? Sensors are also switched off on Librem 5 by the three kill switches: https://puri.sm/posts/lockdown-mode-on-the-librem-5-beyond-h...

> If you think the kernels in well-maintained Debian and Fedora VMs still need to be separated by a hypervisor to be trustworthy, you're in for a bad time trying to run that kernel on a PinePhone.

This is misleading. There are different degrees of security. Qubes provides the highest achievable degree (for certain threat models). It doesn't mean that Debian and Fedora have no security at all. Moreover, if you only run trusted application, they are reasonably secure, unlike OSes with (partially) closed source.

> You've got the attention of one of the sharpest security minds on the planet and that is what you come up with?

I don't care about personalities. Famous and smart people are wrong more often than you seem to think.* I care about arguments. This is why I'm on HN.

> Regardless, nine sentences across two paragraphs isn't a wall of text.

I am talking about all comments together, not one comment.

> It's becoming increasingly difficult to see you as anything but someone who deliberately attempts to derail any threads relating to Graphene OS. Help me out: why shouldn't I?

I do not have any hope that you try to understand me, since you immediately started fighting with me, without even considering my point of view. Many of your replies (see example in this very answer of mine) did not address my concerns. Some of your replies ignored my links (LoC).

* (Me included; I argue here, because I want to find out where I'm wrong.)
by glerk | 2026-03-06 11:13:45+00:00
Oh I thought he was throwing a tantrum because Jeff Bezos has more money than him. You're saying he is throwing a tantrum because Jeff Bezos and some other people other than him don't have the same amount of money.

It's like instead of growing out of being a toddler, he just became an oversized toddler who can use language to make himself sound like an adult. Makes total sense.
by bonoboTP | 2026-03-06 11:14:29+00:00
Depends on how much people want the hidden content. People in Eastern Europe, regular people, noch tech wiz kids, know how to use torrent and know about seed ratios etc. At least it was so ca 5 years ago. People can learn when the thing matters to them.

Regular people want to get things done, the tinkering is not a goal for them in itself and they gravitate to simple and convenient ways of achieving things, and don't care about abstract principles like open source or tech advantages or what they see as tinfoil hat stuff. But if they want to see their favorite TV series or movie, they will jump through hoops. Similarly for this case.
by IndySun | 2026-03-06 11:14:46+00:00
Who decides the 'nature' of the content? Who decides what constitutes age appropriate?

These questions of liberty are as old as the hills. And the keepers of the internet and virtually every single government past and present have repeatedly and endlessly shown themselves to be lying, conniving, self interested parties. When will 'we' ever learn?

*who decides who 'we' are.
by Kim_Bruning | 2026-03-06 11:15:37+00:00
Tantaman's work is a very interesting block of research on why one group buys into the demographic transition more than some others. I think it's an interesting angle.

On interpreting data, seems like they're coming at LessWrong from a different angle? Bayes? Scientific Method? [1]

A bit more detail:

Demographic transition has been an explicit policy goal for decades. I imagine most moderate+ people have bought into the family planning concept. Yes the logistic equation predicts it could happen automatically too [1]. And no, collectively we've decided we don't want to find out for sure.

Some conservative confessionals just haven't bought into it. Because fair-or-not they might not buy into anything without a century of thought first.

This pretty much covers a big chunk of Tantaman's data from a different angle I think.

[1] All methods that study how priors shape what you explore.

[2] For instance: house, food, and fuel prices are signals for this kind of thing. I can imagine lots of conversations going "Can we really afford one more? We're up short as is!"
by srean | 2026-03-06 11:16:42+00:00
I find the technical side of the hobby very interesting but the thought that it requires having a conversation with strangers and that too synchronously, is a personal deterrent.

I don't know if there are others like me.

EDIT: Glad to see that there are others around. Happy to meet you. Async acks are great. So is the joy of engaging with something intellectually challenging.
by wiseowise | 2026-03-06 11:16:44+00:00
Supposedly you’ll be at the helm, Lenin style.

Also, who said anything about Amazon? Why are you myopic? The whole system is rotten to the core when a single person can make it in a minute more than 99% of world’s population and not use the money to advance the world. And before you mark (ha, get it?) me as a communist – I’m not against wealth and personal ownership. It’s one thing to own a Ferrari and an expensive home, and is another to live in a cookie clicker world watching number go up and doing nothing with it but multiply the money.
by k_kelly | 2026-03-06 11:18:00+00:00
People shaking their fist at this on hacker news is weird.

Yes there is growing wealth inequality in the world. Because we invented a way to turn capital in to more capital without humans.

Bezos is just the first of many. He also has on average made other people richer than he has pocketed, he doesn't own more than 50% of Amazon, his investors (shareholders, pension funds, the US government) have all done incredibly well out of his vision and enterprise.

I love Prime, I love AWS, I love that I can get rare books over night at a great price. Should he be wealth capped? Should he innovate less as he get's more? Not as long as the primary way he makes money is through computers, that would just be self defeating. As someone who lives in Europe, the tech sector is America's growth engine and has defined the gap between the two economies, we'd love a Jeff Bezos.
by gbin | 2026-03-06 11:18:06+00:00
Here: 20 years of desktops and laptops basically installing the latest kernel asap on Gentoo then Arch. I did break stuff, especially Gentoo, a lot... but out of those I maybe got hit once by a kernel regression?

I don't think people realize how long it takes for the kernel to eventually catch up with your hardware.

My one year old framework laptop motherboard STILL don't have properly implemented usb-c PD apis in the kernel today. Imagine if I took a 5y old kernel?
by pothamk | 2026-03-06 11:18:24+00:00
Even if individual signals are noisy, the aggregation layer is where things become powerful.

Adtech infrastructure wasn’t designed to identify a single user with perfect certainty — it was designed to correlate large volumes of probabilistic signals across time. Once you combine location hints, device fingerprints, behavioral patterns, and repeated bidstream events, the system doesn’t need a perfect identifier to narrow things down dramatically.

That’s why these datasets end up being useful for surveillance even if any single data point looks weak on its own.
by master_crab | 2026-03-06 11:18:52+00:00
No. I would choose a group that has been suffering from genocide in one area, and ethnic cleansing in many others. Not a hundred years ago. Not 75 years ago. Today, in the here and now.

We can go back and forth on this however many times you want. The issue I am raising is that all three religions are dangerous when used to justify murderous goals. You unfortunately are hung up on the idea that a religion is less bad or more bad than the others.

That is an irrational foundation for me to spend any more time debating against.
by rglullis | 2026-03-06 11:19:00+00:00
I'll repeat here what I am saying since 2022 [0]. Focusing on wealth inequality does not work. Concentration of wealth is a symptom of the large problem of concentration of power. Get rid of the mega-corporations, and it will be virtually impossible to have this much wealth in the hands of a single individual.

Just put a cap on the size of a company. Break any corporation that has more than 150 employed people. Count independent contractors as employees if more than 1/3 of their income is dependent on any single customer.

[0]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31317641
by samiv | 2026-03-06 11:19:10+00:00
Won't take long until the apologist come in defending the billionaires, how they create businesses and value and prop up the economy with their spending yadi yadi.

When the process that skews the wealth distribution has run this course, the billionaires and their cronies own everything and you have nothing do you think they'll show up to pay your child's education or your health care or your elderly care? They won't.

They'll kick you to the curb and remove democracy since any real democracy is a direct threat to them. Then they'll continue their lavish parties on their yachts while you and your family go hungry in the slums.
Show HN: Boosterpack Forms – block spam, deliver instantly, store nothing
by Martibis | 2026-03-06 11:19:30+00:00
Hi HN, I built Boosterpack Forms, a form backend for developers.

The idea is simple: point any HTML form at the API, and it blocks spam invisibly, delivers submissions straight to your email or webhook, and stores nothing.

I built it because I kept running into the same tradeoff with forms on websites and client projects: the simpler tools were fast but limiting, while the more advanced ones often came with dashboards, stored submissions, more complexity, and more overhead than I actually wanted.

What I wanted was something closer to:
- invisible spam blocking
- no CAPTCHA for visitors
- email and webhook delivery
- simple integration with HTML forms
- no dashboard required
- less privacy/GDPR overhead

So that's what I built. There’s a free tier as well.

Would love feedback, especially from people building websites, client projects, or lightweight products. Curious whether this "barebones vs bloated platform" gap is something others have run into too.
by ivan_gammel | 2026-03-06 11:20:24+00:00
> That's not true

What exactly is not true?

> Are there other levers? Of course, but Mietpreisbremse (freezing rents) and Leerstand (empty houses) are certainly key levers.

They are not the key levers, which everyone with basic knowledge of economics should understand immediately.

Regardless of whether certain segment is operated by market, by regulation or by combination of two, it is always about supply matching the demand. If you have more demand than supply, either prices will increase or you enter the state of deficit, where non-market mechanisms will decide who will get home and who will not. In either case prolonged state of reduced supply leads to crisis. Neither of those levers does solve problem of supply reliably. There’s simply not enough empty homes on the market to consider efficient management of them a solution. Rent controls also do not help here, because they actually reduce supply, by creating black market of subleases and reducing mobility (people stick to their regulated contracts).

The solution to the problem requires multiple reforms at once, which will fix short term and long term supply:

1. Dramatically deregulating supply side and reducing NIMBY influence. Project approvals should not take 7 years as in Berlin Friedrichshain and should not be blocked by survival of some rare toads like in Berlin Pankow.

2. Streamlining microdistrict planning, where one project includes construction of thousands of homes along with the necessary infrastructure. May include rapid construction tech (Plattenbau 2.0). It is not enough to build one building here and there, we need to build a lot more.

3. Shifting from majority rental to majority ownership model in which mobility is supported by market, low commissions (remove notaries, reduce taxes) and fast registration of property rights. It must be possible to sell and buy in 2-3 weeks maximum. The large landlords should be re-privatized: first, state takes over, then rentals are converted to subsidized lease deals with tenants with transferrable rights, in which tenants will effectively own their homes, while continuing to pay the current, never increasing amounts.

4. Progressive tax on property ownership kicking in from 0% on 3-5 apartments to significant percentage of rent value on 50+ apartments. The for-profit landlord business model must become unattractive, while not putting too much pressure on small landlords which are more market-friendly.

This kind of reform is neither left, nor right. It’s anti-capitalist, because it prevents concentration of capital and negative redistribution, but it is also pro-market, because it hands over the ownership to millions of people which can then freely sell and buy for their own use.
by mikkupikku | 2026-03-06 11:20:49+00:00
To be fair, some of it might genuinely be refusal to adapt? If we go by HN comments, there definitely do seem to be at least some people who are letting their hangups prevent them from learning this tech.

> It can't think, it just predicts likely tokens

> I can't believe this industry I once cherished for rational professionalism has fallen for nondeterministism

> Sorry, I'm just not going to participate in destroying the planet with these power hunger DCs

> All this stuff actually costs 10x what a human developer costs but they're dumping the service at a low price to make us dependent.

> It's a bubble, or a scam, in a year or two everything will go back to normal.

Tell me sentiments like these don't get bandied about by devs who want to keep doing things the way they know and like.
by cmiles8 | 2026-03-06 11:21:16+00:00
While I’m not a huge fan of the budge bracket class existing, I would say that:

1. Bezos once said something along the lines of don’t judge me by how much money I have, rather look at how may other wealthy people I’ve made. That view may be over simplifying some things, but it’s not completely wrong either.

2. Jassy or Solomon are just employees at the end of the day. Well paid, but they didn’t create the company. The system rewards those that create the thing a lot more than those that run the thing.

3. I’m vastly more critical of trust fund folks than someone like Bezos. He created true value in the economy and has been rewarded for that. Trust fund folks that simply live off that income are generally not productive members of society. They live the lifestyle then live purely because of a rich relative and, with rare exception, would be unable to have earned that wealth themself as their performance in society is poor relative to those who created the wealth.
by gambiting | 2026-03-06 11:21:38+00:00
>>People shaking their fist at this on hacker news is weird

I mean I know(at the back of my head) that HN is owned by Y Combinator which is all about creating startups that explode and make you a billionaire. But personally I come here for the actual hacking - gameboy games running on a pregnancy test, that kind of thing. Bezos making more money than GDP of a small country in a day is a thing that kinda deserves us shaking our fists at it - it means the global system is broken, if one man can have this kind of power. But in a way, it's nothing new - emperors and khans had more riches than any current billionaire, comparatively. On the other hand, they were actual rulers, not just "regular" citizens.