MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by giardini | 2026-03-14 19:32:41+00:00
mark_l_watson says"The wealthiest people in the USA are now in the mode of grabbing what they can while the 'grabbing is still good.' "

(1)This is normal human behavior usually described as "capitalism". It has been well-studied & the literature awaits you, e.g., The Wealth of Nations, published in 1776 by Scottish economist Adam Smith. Go ahead: if you read the entire tome you may be the first man to do so. Perhaps you could write a usefully shortened version or versions of it.

mark_l_watson says"Without this immoral looting, our government could do a better job of protecting US citizens as our empire collapses."

(2)the behavior isn't immoral, as you will find by merely educating yourself [see (1)].

(3)There was/is no [US]"empire". And certainly none in the sense of the Persian, Mongol, Roman, incan, Spanish, British, French, or even, God forbid, Belgian empire, all of which were true empires.
Show HN: Generate a /mu/ style essentials chart for your last.fm history
by vagabund | 2026-03-14 19:32:43+00:00
Check out mine here:

https://mymuguide.site/example

https://files.catbox.moe/n453mi.png

___

There's a shareable link and you can configure style/display settings and export to one of those classic ultra-long images. Just built for fun -- some costs incurred per generation so it'll work as long as the site credit pool is sufficient :)
by neya | 2026-03-14 19:33:01+00:00
It is fraud. But these parties are protected by OnlyFans themselves. Similar to how dating apps promote (and actually lot of them enforce) fake accounts with fake pictures because it boosts everything - engagement and revenue. So they always turn a blind eye.

Last week, I used a dating app where they used a fake profile tailored specifically for me, using a married woman's photo. I deleted the app. Every app in this space is scummy and the people at the top running these are just trash. That's the real reason.
by spacedcowboy | 2026-03-14 19:33:43+00:00
"Free speech has consequences" almost never refers to those consequences being imposed by the government of the day. It's generally used when (to pull an example out of the air) some woman cycling around might come across the Trump and Trumpets out and about in their convoy. Said woman might clasp one bicep while vigorously pumping that arm up and down in the air, with one single finger extended towards the top.

Sadly, that woman's employer might be more delusional than herself, support the pedophile rapist, and decide to terminate her employment. Now those are indeed consequences of her exercising her right to free speech, at least in a symbolic form, but it wasn't the pedophile-in-power imposing them, it was the toadying employer.
by 4k93n2 | 2026-03-14 19:34:08+00:00
it will be interesting to see what the consensus is 50 years from now when people have more hindsight on this. how long will a wireless headset last until the battery no longer holds a charge, and if its only something like 10 years then that means someone is having to buy 4 or 5 headsets over the course of their whole life instead of 1 or 2 cheaper wired headsets

theres also the issue of whether the wireless protocols that are in use now will still be supported in 50 years. removing the headphone jack from phones was mostly just a money grab to force people to buy wireless headsets so i wouldnt be surprised to see other tactics in the future where support is dropped for older versions of bluetooth, or whatever gives them a slight uptick in sales
by asdff | 2026-03-14 19:35:28+00:00
Ergonomics are only very recently hitting the office. When you think about it, the analog office experience was even worse. Reading and writing constantly with the neck craned far lower than even a keyboard would be placed. Exclusive use of one hand, no doubt introducing wear and fatigue in the writing side and atrophy in the side not being used at all really over the work day.

Maybe kids learning handwriting ought to be taught to write ambidextrously just to even out...
by ivanppp | 2026-03-14 19:36:05+00:00
Buying CDs isn't really the point. The point is choosing deliberately. With Spotify I was spending the same money every month but had zero control over where it went, most of it flowing to artists I never chose to listen to. A CD purchase is a conscious decision: this artist, this album, my money. The listening habits follow from that intentionality, not from the physical format.
by tren_hard | 2026-03-14 19:36:08+00:00
On the last earnings call Zuck empathized how much revenue is being allocated to salaries and RSUs. I take those types of comments during earnings calls to be signals to investors that cuts will be coming to bring expenses down by the next quarter. How many rounds between earnings is speculation, but you know at at least one big one.

A friend who works in a growing division within Meta also said last week they are re-orging again.. this time flattening out everything and making first level SDMs go back to IC. It’s always been a cut throat final-stage capitalism place to work. Nothing they do should be surprising.
by RunSet | 2026-03-14 19:36:11+00:00
He *did* really do OSS. But he don't really do OSS.

> id Tech 4 is licensed under the terms of the GNU General Public License v3.0 or later, and is to date the last id Tech engine to be open-sourced.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Id_Tech_4

> At QuakeCon 2007, Carmack told LinuxGames that he would integrate as little proprietary software as possible into id Tech 5, as "eventually id Tech 5 is going to be open source also. This is still the law of the land at id, that the policy is that we’re not going to integrate stuff that’s going to make it impossible for us to do an eventual open source release." Carmack resigned from id in 2013, and no source code release followed the launch of id Tech 6 in 2016.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Id_Tech_5#Marketing_and_licens...
by colesantiago | 2026-03-14 19:36:17+00:00
Good idea.

The MIT license and other "pushover" licenses was built in the pre-LLM era.

I don't think it is fit for purpose anymore since now maintainers are getting burnt out and most code is now being generated from OSS.

A new OSS license for the AI age must be made for newer libraries, projects and existing projects that want to change licenses.
by pndy | 2026-03-14 19:36:35+00:00
It's either some personal unquenched thirst for power or he thought that new digg will be as popular as these ~20 years ago, and that he'll be able to control content submitted and get paid for "promoting" it.

I've seen something similar over the last ~17 years: a bunch of same terminally online accounts uploading content from our local media outlets on country-related subs and local digg-like sites - both active and long defunct for 10 years now. Some of those users even appeared on mastodon and bsky.

The social link aggregators were created for people to share their favorite links, places from the Internet so others could see these and have fun, expand their knowledge and so on. For me it was the cherry on top of the web2.0 period where everything was fresh, beta and innocent. That lasted for a while up until other people, entities figured out that such sites can be used to promote their content, insert ads. The next stage was and remains till today opinion control by "curating" the content and/or reactions in discussions - still done by humans but more prevalent presence of convincing bots.

Reddit itself lost its impartial and independent status a while ago. Big subs related to media franchises or big corporations are heavily controlled to the point it's impossible to submit content that's critical. It's all happy world seen by pink glasses, or as some say toxic positivity.
There are still niche places where moderation is limited but as I said last time, from my own experiences: such subs were targeted by bad actors who by submitting forbidden content tried to impose lockouts so later they could take these in their control.

hn isn't free of some of these issues either. while discussions still remain on good levels (tho degradation to reddit levels already happens), there's no control over content: there are accounts who do nothing but upload links every few minutes, hours.

I'm not sure if it's possible to have link aggregators or multi-thematic forums that could be free of such... issues. The similar problem with establishing "real estates" happened on lemmy when some part of userbase decided to abandon reddit due to controversial changes.
by mristin | 2026-03-14 19:37:20+00:00
Have a look at Asset Administration Shells (AAS) -- it is a data exchange format built on top of JSON and XML (and RDF, and OPC UA and Protobuf, etc.).

https://industrialdigitaltwin.org/

(Disclaimer: I work on AAS SDKs https://github.com/aas-core-works.)
Show HN: Zap Code – AI code generator that teaches kids real HTML/CSS/JS
by eibrahim | 2026-03-14 19:37:51+00:00
Zap Code generates working HTML/CSS/JS from plain English descriptions, designed for kids ages 8-16.

The core loop: kid types "make a space shooter game", AI generates the code, live preview renders it immediately. Three interaction modes - visual-only tweaks, read-only code view with annotations, and full code editing with AI autocomplete.

Technical details: Next.js frontend, Node.js backend, Monaco editor simplified for younger users, sandboxed iframe for preview execution (no external API calls from generated code). Progressive complexity engine uses a skill model to decide when to surface more advanced features.

Main thing that was focused on was the gap between block-based coding (Scratch, etc.) and actual programming. Block tools are great for ages 6-10 but the transition to real code is rough. This tries to smooth that curve by letting kids interact with real output first, then gradually exposing the code behind it.

Limitations: AI-generated code isn't always clean or idiomatic. Content is filtered for age-appropriateness but its not perfect. Collaboration features are still basic. The complexity engine needs more data to tune well.

Free tier, 3 projects. Pro at $9.99/mo.
by sebastiennight | 2026-03-14 19:38:22+00:00
This is an Internet forum and one of the ways such places are valuable is that it enables you to ask questions to other humans and allows those other humans, if they'd like, to answer.

You will get better results asking questions like GP's than Googling because you're asking the specific person who made a claim to quote an example, so you can judge from the specific example they provide, rather than the Google results. The best answers are often technically interesting niche tools which don't have great SEO.

Case in point: the platform you recommended does not show up anywhere on my first page of Duck.com results.
by bpavuk | 2026-03-14 19:38:53+00:00
we have a solution for that: GPL + commercial dual-licensing. the problem is that a) there is an entire anti-GPL crowd; although I'd just not give a shit about them, it's worth mentioning, b) who's gonna enforce the license?, c) how are you going to monetize internal use? what if your tech (e.g. a build system) is only really useful internally?
by autoexec | 2026-03-14 19:39:44+00:00
Yeah, I'm going to believe the many many documented cases of these problems in VA alone over your non-example

https://www.businessinsider.com/living-next-to-data-centers-...

https://www.businessinsider.com/data-centers-northern-virgin...

https://www.nytimes.com/2024/09/15/opinion/data-centers-ai-a...

https://virginiamercury.com/2026/02/19/legislature-considers...

https://www.wdbj7.com/2026/02/04/virginia-lawmakers-look-add...

https://news.vcu.edu/article/northern-virginia-data-center-a...
by peddling-brink | 2026-03-14 19:39:45+00:00
Well yes, ideally any code running on macos will have paid the requisite fees to Apple so the scary message goes away.

That being said, I'm quite confident it would be possible to both get that assurance and have the software behave in ways that are unexpected or undesirable.

Furthermore, it does appear to be open source, so you could always download a copy from github and go over the code line-by-line if you desire.

My point was that, at the point where these devs seem to be at, it's quite innocuous that they haven't paid the apple tax yet.
Toolpack SDK, an Open Source TypeScript SDK for Building AI-Powered Applications
by sajeerzeji | 2026-03-14 19:39:57+00:00
Just Released Toolpack SDK — a completely Open-Source unified TypeScript SDK for AI development

If you've worked with multiple LLM providers, you know the pain: each has different APIs, different tool formats, different quirks.

Toolpack SDK gives you a single interface across OpenAI, Anthropic, Gemini, and Ollama.

It comes with 77 built-in tools for file ops, git, databases, web scraping, code analysis, and shell commands. You can also create and integrate your own custom tools.

The workflow engine plans and executes tasks step-by-step. You get Agent and Chat modes out of the box, plus the ability to create custom modes tailored to your needs. There's also a custom provider API if you want to add other LLMs.

Full TypeScript support included. And if you prefer a terminal UI over code, the CLI gives you an interactive chat interface to work with AI and tools from the command line.

Toolpack SDK:
npm: npm install toolpack-sdk
GitHub: github.com/toolpack-ai/toolpack-sdk
Docs: toolpacksdk.com
Note: Remember to setup the configuration and set your API keys in the environment variables as per the documentation.

Toolpack CLI (interactive terminal UI):
npm: npm install -g toolpack-cli
GitHub: github.com/toolpack-ai/toolpack-cli
Note: Once installed, open it with `toolpack` command in your terminal. Remember to set your API keys in the environment variables as per the documentation.

https://toolpacksdk.com
by allears | 2026-03-14 19:39:59+00:00
Sounds better if you say "Free speech may have consequences." As in the classic example, you're not free to yell "Fire" in a crowded theater (unless there really is one I suppose). And "free speech" only addresses the government's responsibility not to restrict speech. Any citizen or business has no legal requirement to allow free speech. Right-wingers are using the term to claim that their views are discriminated against, but no publisher is legally required to publish anything that anybody submits. There's always some sort of discrimination that needs to be involved.
by themafia | 2026-03-14 19:40:30+00:00
> comparable to the Internet and electricity.

It will be when it actually exists.

> which is why right now everyone is trying to apply it to everything

And are any of them actually succeeding? Where are the new AI businesses? Where's the new wealth and money? Where's the one guy AI pioneer doing what used to take 100s?

> because they're the ones who actually pay for the AI revolution

Their customers do. The customers are getting ripped off. They want the AI revolution, what they got was a crappy search engine, and copyright whitewashing service instead.
by lyu07282 | 2026-03-14 19:40:35+00:00
UBI finds broad appeal by liberals and the right, you can find right-wing people supporting it in this very thread who despise unions passionately, that should already tell you a lot.

It's effectively liberals seeking a liberal solution to mass starvation and obscene wealth inequality, they see a soon to be trillionaire like Musk alongside children starving on the street and try to find a solution within their narrow world view that demands the protection of capitalism, that's how it ends up so incoherent. It's same with the 'abundance movement' it's neoliberals seeking to fix neoliberalism with more neoliberalism.

Don't expect much clarity from these people, they are deeply confused and propagandized, to them their workplace is ought to be like family, collective bargaining is viewed as breaking the mutual trust you should have with your bosses. It's gibberish.
by perrygeo | 2026-03-14 19:40:42+00:00
Try CodeCompanion if you're using neovim. I have a keybind set up and takes the highlighted region, prepends some context which says roughly "if you see a TODO comment, do it, if you see a WTF comment, try to explain it", and presents you an inline diff to accept/reject edits. It's great for tactical LLM use on small sections of code.

For strategic use on any larger codebase though, it's more productive to use something like plan mode in Claude code.
by Lerc | 2026-03-14 19:40:59+00:00
I have never seen sleepy used that way before.

I did a quick run of the numbers and it is rather hard to tell what the average hourly rate ìs. But it look a like if you went for four 40 hour weeks to get 320 it seems to be a little below the average pay for a call center operator.

In one sense this is a story of someone feeling bad about being paid to do something wrong.

It is not quite so simple when the reason why this happens is the income differential between countries makes it possible for people to be paid enough to put aside their ethics. That becomes easier when the processes is normalised so that they are not the only person making the same compromise.

Adding to the complexity of the situation is the fact that paying people like this puts money into the their economies and that can spur regional development to provide a higher pay level all round, causing the ethically dubious work to become less attractive.

In the very long term the only way to avoid the higher power of foreign weather from doing this is to balance incomes around the world. That requires accepting that the current wealthy countries cannot get cheap things by paying poorer people low wages, and that means having less for themselves.
by Groxx | 2026-03-14 19:41:02+00:00
Yes - deadlocks are not hard to perfectly prevent. It comes with some consequences, but they're not too crazy. Though without provable termination, I don't know of any that prevent livelocks (and many deadlocks just become livelocks in a deadlock-free system, though design habits often change to mitigate this somewhat).

The only ones I know of that prevent both are really proof-oriented languages that cannot run an infinite loop, which disqualifies them on many technical and practical considerations. But they do exist.
by staticassertion | 2026-03-14 19:42:12+00:00
Yeeesh. Looking at other posts from that user, they seem to have a serious grudge against software devs, presumably for not responding to their emails. "You should starve" - words taken from another post.

Look, no one wanted to write code for you idk what to tell you. Now you can have AI do that for you. Congrats, best of luck. Whatever weird personal issue you have, I doubt anyone was not working for you out of some whatever this perceived snobbery is and it's just like... we all have jobs?
by Levitz | 2026-03-14 19:42:30+00:00
>The real problem is that most people don’t want to let go of the very thing that is the problem: anonymity.

Anonymity is not the problem though. We've gone with anonymity for a long while and it has worked fine. Would a removal of anonymity suddenly fix all this? No, absolutely not. Astroturfing and PR campaigns happened before AI comments were a concern, same as bad actors.

The problem here is the "recent" development of trusting whatever you read online. Of insisting that content should be personal, trustable and real, when none of this can ever be ensured. The separate, but related problem of engagement-based economy makes it way worse.

And remember: social media sites don't actually want to get rid of bots, for the most part. That's not in their interest, as long as bots increase engagement, does anyone trust them to actively hurt their bottom line in order to promote honest, productive discourse? Please.
by deanc | 2026-03-14 19:43:16+00:00
You kinda skipped the bit I wrote alongside this about strong authentication. There are numerous ways to do this. For example, in Finland you have to physically identify yourself to open a bank account and you can then use that to authenticate. It's used for all public sector services and a few others with strict accreditation.

The issue is that it solves nothing if you can't distinguish between text that is written by AI and isn't, regardless of strong authentication.
by arendtio | 2026-03-14 19:43:39+00:00
I don't think that this is a good idea. For medical applications, I can understand that LLMs are not the best solution, since they are so bad with numbers/probabilities. But for legal advice, I think they should be pretty good.

So the only reason I can think of to forbid such use cases is that people in those professions fear being replaced by machines.
by jmclnx | 2026-03-14 19:43:44+00:00
Sounds like they are saying use a repo like git for your documents to help AI read/"understand" your docs. Is that correct ?

I am all for using a source control system for your documents, I usually use RCS. But give AI access to your docs, no thanks. If I upload any of my docs to a public server (very rarely happens), they are compressed and encrypted to make sure only I and a few people can view them.
by jFriedensreich | 2026-03-14 19:43:49+00:00
8 frameworks except the only decent looking one (opencode) seems a very weird choice, especially as the claw naming is mentioned too much on this page to my liking (Which would be zero times). Also the choice of naming an agent prompt SOUL.md for any harness level stuff is just cringe, not sure if people understand that a SOUL.md is not just injected in context but used in post-training or similar more involved steps and part of the model at a much more fundamental level and this looks like trying to cosplay being serious AI tech when its just some cli.
by aleks2 | 2026-03-14 19:43:59+00:00
Right now the module handles secrets at the infrastructure layer (Secrets Manager + KMS, IAM least-privilege for the EC2 instance), but you're right - agent-level credential scoping is a genuinely different problem that it doesn't address yet. Great feedback, adding it to the roadmap.

On the CVE count - yeah, it really is a baseline hygiene problem, not a hardening problem. The hardening conversation can't even begin until you have a clean image. The fact that this is the default recommended deployment for a tool with 300K users is pretty telling about where the industry is right now. Everyone's shipping "deploy your AI agent in 5 minutes" experiences where minute six is when someone else's agent is running on your infrastructure too.
by asdff | 2026-03-14 19:44:28+00:00
Taking someone out for a dinner and footing the bill does not require you to be some cassanova. Escort services are a thing and honestly somewhat increasingly normalized. The latest chris hemsworth movie had him using an escort and didn't paint him as weird for it or anything, kind of just seemed like a gym membership or any other service the way it was casually broached (he played a certain healthy/rich/clean cut professional thief/perhaps even autistic character).
by watwut | 2026-03-14 19:44:39+00:00
There is "pointing out something that bothers you" which was the first part of the story. But, the reaction to interviewer who tries to explain himself "Listen, I don't really care. I'm sure your reasons are valid to you but from my perspective it just looks like you were happy enough to let me waste half the interview just sitting around staring at my watch." is an asshole reaction.

And yes, if roles were reverts, the manager saying the same "I dont really care" thing after you are trying to explain yourself would also be an asshole.
by comet_browser | 2026-03-14 19:45:02+00:00
Digg's death in 2010 was essentially the original case study for how to destroy platform trust overnight. The v4 redesign wasn't just bad UX — it was a signal that the company had fundamentally changed its relationship with users. When Kevin Rose tried to "fix" the front page by giving power users less influence, he accidentally revealed that the whole value of Digg was those power users.

What's interesting is that every subsequent attempt to revive Digg has been a bet that brand nostalgia outlasts institutional memory of why it failed. It doesn't.