MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by bilsbie | 2026-03-08 13:20:26+00:00
Might be worth putting some focus on your physical health. That always pays dividends in every other aspect of your life.

Off the top of my head. Join a gym and just do a few machines or the treadmill. Gradually branch out into more.
Get a few minutes of noon time sun on your skin.
Prioritize good sleep.
Walk thirty minutes a day.
Start paying attention to what you eat.
by jqpabc123 | 2026-03-08 13:20:41+00:00
LLMs don't do reasoning --- they do probability.

With large enough training database, this can produce surprisingly similar results in a lot of simple cases.

The real problem is the only foolproof way to detect when they don't is by painstaking duplicating and verifying any results from an LLM.

But this verification negates much of the advantage LLMs are supposed to offer. So the natural human response is to simply skip the due diligence. And this is a liability issue waiting to happen.

The cost of AI liability has yet to be priced into the market. I expect that some companies and AI service providers will start to restrict or even prohibit the use of AI in some cases because the cost of liability outweighs any real benefit.

Liability disclaimers don't legally apply to a lot of professional services. Selling fake "intelligence" to doctors and lawyers is a risky proposition.
by maplethorpe | 2026-03-08 13:20:59+00:00
> A tool can be efficient and still be intellectually corrosive, not because it lies all the time, but because it lies well enough. Its smoothness hides uncertainty, which is important unless you want intellect-rot.

I keep seeing sentiments like this, but to me they're still very much stuck in the past.

We once needed to develop our intellects in order to solve problems. It was a necessary part of the process. Solving a particular problem would flood our brains with dopamine, and we would feel good for achieving our goal, and thus continue to develop our intellect in the hope of achieving a similar rush in the future.

Now that we have a machine that can solve our problems for us, intellect just plain isn't necessary anymore. We can solve our problems immediately and skip the roundabout intellect-building process entirely. That's a liberating thing.
by scott_w | 2026-03-08 13:22:02+00:00
> I would blame depression, but I have a great psychiatrist who has me on antidepressants, anti-anxiety meds, and mood stabilizers.

Allow me to be blunt: you’re still suffering the symptoms of depression. I’m not a psychiatrist but you likely have what I’d think of as “situational depression” (as opposed to ingrained depression). Once you either fix the cause (loneliness) or adapt to it, the depression will lift.

I think it’s worth saying that you need to learn how to be comfortable in your own company. That’s the easy bit, the hard part is figuring out how. I don’t think there’s a trick you can do, you need to put in some work. Maybe take your dog walking to more remote places than just a dog park? I guess if you’re in America this might be more difficult but are there any green spaces within a few hours drive you can spend the weekend at?
by jokethrowaway | 2026-03-08 13:22:18+00:00
I have a friend on anti depressants and she mentions the same hollowness and lack of wanting to do anything - despite having a good social life.

When I went through depression I refused meds, self medicated with weed (don't take it as medical advice) and got through the end of it.

I'd blame the meds and recommend gently weaning off them. Once you feel better rebuilding a social life is absolutely possible.

Best of luck with everything
by righthand | 2026-03-08 13:22:41+00:00
But even if Microsoft buys out all the major studios, and Nintendo and Sony, there would still be a healthy counter-culture indie market, which is what the article discusses as a solution to the crisis in the other mediums. So again what makes video games special that it can nurture a healthy market across many (locked-in even) platforms? Arguably it might be the many available distribution channels (miniclip.com vs Steam vs Itch vs random website).
by profer602 | 2026-03-08 13:22:57+00:00
Interesting approach to handling large numbers without relying solely on `BigInt`. The choice of base 10^9 allows for efficient arithmetic using standard JavaScript numbers, but the real win here is probably in the reduced memory footprint for certain use cases. I'd be curious to see benchmarks against native `BigInt` across various browser engines and node versions, especially when considering the overhead of managing the digit arrays.
by matt_heimer | 2026-03-08 13:23:03+00:00
It's not just a hobby you need, it's purpose. For some that is a hobby. If you go the hobby route, try to look for one that has in person meetups. Others going through this use self-improvement as their purpose (gym, suit up, etc). Church works for some. Consider some continuing education courses. Would charity work suit you? There are places like habitat for humanity that you can volunteer at. Maker spaces can be fun. You might also want to try out working from a co-working space.
by rramadass | 2026-03-08 13:23:29+00:00
By rethinking everything about yourself and your relationship to the World as a whole.

I live alone with a hermit-like lifestyle (even though i live in the middle of a big city) and so perhaps my advice may be of some use.

Read Philosophy, Read Psychology and orient your entire Worldview accordingly. This is very important; you cannot choose solitude while thinking and longing for external socializations/validations. Self-Denial and Self-Control are the key attitudes to practice. A complete framework/discipline like Patanjali Ashtanga Yoga is a good one to follow.

Keep Body Active, Maintain proper Diet and Sleep. Whenever you feel down/depressed get out and walk (or do any physical activity). Become aware of what in the environment triggers your "loneliness" and consciously move away from it.

When you go to the grocery store/coffee shop/restaurant/etc. converse/joke/laugh with the employees/customers there since that is your much needed essential "socialization" fix. Understand how the self uses social-surrogates to satisfy its social needs eg. social media.

The key idea is that you limit socialization/interaction to the absolute essentials i.e. to that which is impelled by nature.

Also Mind and Body are one and so problems can be solved by approaching them via both avenues. This is why motion/exercise is so good for the mind.

Cultivate total Zen-like "mindfulness in the present" so that your mind forgets the self and is fully occupied in any activity you are engaged in which could be as mundane as house-cleaning/dishwashing/etc.

Live in the present, with your consciousness externalized momentarily but without any effort; when the mind stops linking itself to the past and to the future, it becomes no-­mind. If from moment to moment your mind dwells on what is and drops it effortlessly at once [just before moving on to something else], the mind becomes no-­mind, full of purity.

-- Yoga Vasistha

PS: Some of my previous comments which are relevant here - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40978488 , https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44987175 , https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41538322 , https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29777785 , https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32918811
by aquariusDue | 2026-03-08 13:24:33+00:00
He also made Treesheets which is where I first heard about him. I recommend people interested in Personal Knowledge Management or related stuff check Treesheets out because while uglier compared to Obsidian there's some really great ideas in there. I won't spoil the fun but if you've got 15 minutes it's pretty easy to go through the tutorial.

https://github.com/aardappel/treesheets
by nozzlegear | 2026-03-08 13:25:55+00:00
Surely that's only because China has a permanent position on the security council and wouldn't allow such a report to be made. Israel does not sit on that council, and while the current admin is quite cozy with them, the Biden admin became fed up with Netanyahu and his treatment of Palestinians, culminating in the US ambassador to the UN abstaining from votes against Israel rather than voting to protect it.

But that's beside my point. It's too late to edit my post, so pretend I used the word "culling" instead of "genocide." How does one weigh a Uyghur culling against a South American regime change? What's the exchange rate?
by tw04 | 2026-03-08 13:27:07+00:00
I don't think he's making a comment on the hacker spirit. He's making a comment on the fact that it has somehow become not just commmon, but accepted that a vendor can tell us and force us to use something in the way they want.

Imagine, for instance, if you bought a flat head screwdriver, but the manufacturer told you that you could never, ever, under any circumstances use it to pry something open. It was stricly to be used for installing or removing screws.

We would all laugh that vendor out of the room and tell them they're insane. Somehow we stopped doing that with all sorts of newer technologies.
by neya | 2026-03-08 13:28:02+00:00
I feel you. The fear of being alone is natural, it is uneasy because you are forced to confront your true self. It takes a while to get used to the lack of the social cushioning, but you don't have to do it all alone drastically. First thing you need to address is the fear of being lonely - the root cause is lack of self dependence. Or rather, too much social dependence. You need to (slowly) learn to be comfortable with your self. You do that by not looking at it like a punishment. It is just being at peace.

Having said that, I always like to join hobby groups on meetup.com (say cycling or DIY crafts or book clubs) and get to meet new people that way. It helps. The other thing I love to do is attend conferences or tech talks. It really removes that feeling of being lonely and since you do it on your terms, you will come to a point where you realize loneliness is just a choice and you can be around people whenever you like.

Also, look into real passion projects - you can spend time working on stuff you love to do and it will offset any emptiness you feel. I love working on my car and speaker building. Some of the projects can take years and I will spend one weekend or a random weekday working on it. It really turns being alone into an advantage.

When I felt alone early in my career, I used to go to this shared office space near my house or WeWork once or twice a week and surrounded myself with people there. It helped a lot. The day you realize you can live with yourself without needing anyone around is when you will also start feeling less depressed. People come and go, you are the only one for yourself.

Hope this helps and if you ever feel like talking to someone, don't hesitate to shoot an email (in my profile). Always love to meet new people :)
by talkingtab | 2026-03-08 13:28:07+00:00
I initially read this as "I want to experience aloneness, how do I do it". I read it that way because to me, being alone is an incredibly wonderful and useful experience. You can know things when you are alone that you cannot otherwise know. Like your true size in the universe. There is nothing like being alone at night, outside, when the temperature is 20 without anything or anyone around you.

This is not something you will experience when being alone, locked in a room or a building. Or surrounded by people. You need to be in the wild, in nature. Do it.

In those moments of being alone you learn something that allows you to be more alive. More deeply in the world. And a way to give you a context for not being alone.

So my first suggestion is to go someplace where you are completely alone and on your own for a while. Out in nature.

People can be the most wonderful creatures on earth. And the worst. There is a pretty good way to find them at their best, and it is hilarious. Go on a quest.

What is a quest? It is not an intellectual thing, it is a thing of the heart. It does not have to be a great thing, but it does have to be one that matters to you - you have to care about it.

For example, you might decide to spend the night outside, alone in the winter. Do not read a book about this. Start asking people. Tell them why you are going on your quest and ask them if they know anyone who can help you learn how.

Now the secret to a successful quest is to follow it. If someone says Joe and Josie know, then go ask Joe and Josie. And of course you are honor bound to actually do the quest. People are utterly wonderful about helping someone, so ask for help.

Finally, write. Get a fountain pen and a notebook (or cheat and get a ballpoint pen). Sit down. Set a timer for one hour and write. The goal is to write sentences continuously for one hour. It matters not what you write. If you want (and can actually do it) you can write the same one over and over, but it has to be some sentence - no matter how broken.

We all get stuck in the past. The cure for the past is the future, the new. You have open doors in front. One or more of those has better things than anything in your past. So go there.
by onlyrealcuzzo | 2026-03-08 13:28:51+00:00
I'm working on this now.

It's a Profile Guided Optimization language - with memory safety like Rust.

It's extremely easy to optimize assuming you either 1) profile it in production (obviously has costs) or 2) can generate realistic workloads to test against.

It's like Rust, in that it makes expressing common illegal states just outright impossible. Though it goes much further than Rust.

And it's easier to read than Swift or Go.

There's a lot of magic that happens with defaults that languages like Zig or Rust don't want, because they want every cost signal to be as visible as possible, so you can understand the cost of a line and a function.

LLMs with tests can - I hope - do this without that noise.

We shall see.
by mschuster91 | 2026-03-08 13:29:11+00:00
> Imagine, for instance, if you bought a flat head screwdriver, but the manufacturer told you that you could never, ever, under any circumstances use it to pry something open. It was stricly to be used for installing or removing screws.

Try filing a warranty claim if it bends, the manufacturer will go and tell you to kick rocks.
by cam_l | 2026-03-08 13:29:30+00:00
I have seen them fall off their bikes in the middle of intersections on more than one occasion, hit people riding on the footpath, more than a few try to bully me off the road, doing dumbarse stunts in the process. One I saw got taken to hospital.

The issue is not so much the bikes or where they are riding, it is the brain dead groupthink mentality of a bunch of antisocial little rich boys who haven't been taught basic self preservation.. or what is feels like to be punched in the face on account of doing 50ks on a crowded footpath.
Show HN: tmuxy – the missing GUI for tmux
by flplima | 2026-03-08 13:30:04+00:00
I've been looking for the perfect tmux replacement.

Something powerful and scriptable, but usable without memorizing dozens of keybindings.

Something that supports persistent remote sessions that I can jump into from anywhere, but not so terrible to use from my phone.

Turns out, tmux was all I needed.
It just needed a better UX, not a replacement.

That's why I'm building tmuxy.

tmuxy is a GUI that wraps tmux into a web and desktop app.

How it works: A Rust backend connects to tmux through control mode (one of tmux’s hidden gems surprisingly few people seem to know about) and streams state updates to a React frontend via SSE, or Tauri IPC on the desktop version.

Besides the improved UX, being web-based allows it to support all kinds of fancy stuff like image rendering, markdown previews, pane groups, and floating panes, while under the hood it's still tmux.

It's early stage. Live demo here:
https://tmuxy.sh
by muyuu | 2026-03-08 13:30:20+00:00
> Please say "non-East Asians" when that's what you mean. There were already loads of Chinese and Koreans around in Tokyo 7 years ago.

it wasn't 7 years ago, it was 20 years ago, 7 years up to 2006
there were some Chinese, but really few and far between and in the Kanto area, mostly in Yokohama

i was studying Chinese back then, and I struggled to find people to practice

> The cultural adaptation you're talking about applies just as much to China and Korea, yet there's a huge reason for Europeans (not Americans, but they're the sole outlier) to work there as SWEs - post-tax + post-big-city-CoL, salaries are a lot better until you get to 10+ YoE.

probably it does - certainly Korea, China not as much - and also differently, and the topic here is Japan

> People tend to look at London or Amsterdam stated salaries and think this is impossible, but the tax and housing cost differences completely change the equation. 40k EUR at 40% tax is the same as 30k EUR at 20% tax.

40K is extremely low in tech, and where are you paying 40% tax on 40k??

>In big European capitals, for 800 EUR/month you get a parking space or a place to share with 3 others. In China or Korea in a tier 1 city for the same money you can rent a nice, newly built place for two (so 400 EUR/month/person) in a central location with private indoor parking and great transit links.

I can't speak of living in China or Korea, I have only visited. It wouldn't cross my mind to live in China, for reasons beyond the scope of this post.

RE in Japan is currently much better than in say the UK or SanFran or NYC. MUCH better. This wasn't the case when I was there, it was comparable or even more expensive. However the yen was stronger and salaries in tech were, although lower, much closer than they are now. If you are a computer scientist or an electrical engineer, you will easily make double or triple the salary, so rent doesn't make up for it. This is a volatile situation though, right now the situation for juniors seems to have deteriorated massively everywhere, so it's really hard to tell how it would work out either way. But unless you really want to learn the language and the culture and are willing to make strong sacrifices for it, moving to Japan in order to work in tech sounds like a crazy proposition.
by Majromax | 2026-03-08 13:31:57+00:00
As far as the timezone file is concerned, it's two changes but one shift. This is covered more fully in the complete news blob rather than the snippet shown at the top. Today, British Columbia moved from Pacific Standard Time (UTC-8) to Pacific Daylight Time (UTC-7); tomorrow the timezone is renamed to Pacific Time.

Unfortunately, the "PT" abbreviation is too short for the timezone database, so while they decide on another form they will temporarily use a bare -7 offset.
by moffers | 2026-03-08 13:32:28+00:00
Making friends as an adult, especially starting from zero, is a universal struggle, so try to avoid any negative self-talk or other things that may compound your loneliness. The usual advice works, but like all advice it only works when we’re ready for it to work. I wish I could offer more than platitudes, but you sound like you have a decent self-support system already, and maybe are just temporarily lacking in confidence.
by ajross | 2026-03-08 13:32:36+00:00
> PyPy is a fantastic achievement and deserves far more support than it gets

PyPy is a toy for getting great numbers in benchmarks and demos, is incompatible in a zillion critical ways, and is basically useless for large-scale development for anything that has to interoperate with "real" Python.

Literally everyone who's ever tried it has the experience that you mock up a trial for your performance code, drop your jaw in amazement, and then run your whole app and it fails. Until there's a serious attempt at real 100% compatibility, none of this is going to change.

Also none of the deltas are well-documented. My personal journey with PyPy hit a wall when I realized that it's GC is lazy instead of greedy. So a loop that relies on the interpreter to free stuff up (e.g. file descriptors needing to be closed) rapidly runs into resource exhaustion in PyPy. This is huge, easy to trip over, extremely hard to audit, and... it's like it's hidden lore or something. No one tells you this, when it needs to be at the top of their front page before your start the port.
by bald_uncle | 2026-03-08 13:32:49+00:00
Hi HN!

I built Project Yellow Olive as a small experiment to see if Kubernetes practice could be gamified.

Learning Kubernetes often involves a lot of reading and YAML editing, so I wondered if turning concepts like Pods, Containers, and CrashLoopBackOff into small interactive challenges could make practice more engaging.

The whole game runs inside the terminal as a TUI built with Python.

It's not meant to replace proper Kubernetes learning resources - just a playful way to practice concepts.

Would love to hear what you think, especially from folks who work with Kubernetes regularly.
by tomburgs | 2026-03-08 13:32:57+00:00
did an llm write this? how is it so confidently ignoring rest of the planet?

despite the obvious flaws others have already noted, plenty of countries include letters in their zipcodes, rendering the "Invoke the right keyboard" argument not only incorrect but potentially damaging to users or businesses who choose to follow this. if the website won't allow me to physically enter my zipcode, i'll just take my business elsewhere.
by maininformer | 2026-03-08 13:33:43+00:00
Hey friend, I am also 38, and I am also recently "aloned". I had a break up in August and lived with my parents until February.

At first it was strange, I was acutely feeling the loneliness. But gradually I started seeing its upsides, and I am beginning to dangerously enjoy it haha.

I am using the time and space to take care of and express myself. Live slowly, cook myself warm dinners, nice coffees; I made a cozy nook for reading, I am planning on adding fragrant flowers to my terrace.

I am planning on a routine, which includes going to the gym and actually trying and enjoy moving my body. Sometimes I have the luxury of just sitting in the park next to the gym and soak up some sun, enjoy the sounds if birds and the water fountain.

I am hybrid so I get to go to the office and see my colleagues. Somehow, luckily, every weekend some social event happened, a dear friend came to visit. It was my aunts birthday. I also have a housewarming planned in two weeks which motivates me to make the place beautiful to show off.

My advice would be, simply, to focus on the current moment. Thoughts take you awry, try not to ruminate. Have a plan, and trust the process. There are five things absolutely needed for health and happiness(not in a particular order):

1. Good food
2. Exercising
3. Sunlight
4. Sleep
5. Friends

So while you are alone, I would question the rest too, do you eat well? Do you exercise? Do you go out? Do you sleep well?

The way our mind works is whenever a state comes up, it ups the likelihood of that state to come up again. So try to summon happy states, would be difficult and feel fake at first but it really works. Gratitude is a good one. Writing or expressing it doesn't work well for me, so I like to do it when I clean, I feel grateful as I am gently scrubbing the mirror for instance for helping me fix up my appearance. Find yours.

From what you wrote it sounds like you already know what to do, but you are reluctant. Why is that? One could identify with one's depression by ruminating over it.

In closing I highly recommend the book, the Power of Now by Eckhart Tolle, it has a free audiobook on YouTube too.

I wish you the best of luck. Life could be whatever you want it to be and there is no true self, all is constructed and you can engineer your psyche anew.

Cheers
by e-master | 2026-03-08 13:33:48+00:00
> The Azure pricing is at least as complex as AWS/GCP, plus the pricing tool seems worse. They also lag behind the other two major providers in CPU releases - Turin and Granite Rapids are still in closed preview at the time of writing this.

Small nitpick, but Turin-based VM's have been available for more than a month now [1], and they are a beast.

[1] - https://techcommunity.microsoft.com/blog/azurecompute/announ...