MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by wonger_ | 2026-03-09 07:20:03+00:00
+1 for training parents' tech literacy.

I dunno if/how this could be taught, but I feel like half the battle is critical thinking with an adversarial mindset towards media -- who would make this, why would they want to show me, do I see anything that makes this impossible, is it worth engaging with in the first place, can I fact check this.
by jayteedee | 2026-03-09 07:20:06+00:00
I like those! A picture of the bird would be the matching game. I want to add a bird song game too. The idea was to make it like the 20 questions game. Maybe I should lean into this more. I did make something where you guess the species and it narrows down through it's taxonomy.

http://jerm.cool/cafauna/

It's a bad ripoff of the much, much more fun metazooa (https://metazooa.com/play/game). I kike it but it gets real annoying when your down to 1 of 10 bats or something. I've been using it to read and edit Wikipedia articles for undeveloped pages.
by ramon156 | 2026-03-09 07:20:20+00:00
Hey there! This is the exact thing that happened (although I cannot say I was a perfect employee). They replaced me for a relatively important product, where I was already the only dev along with 4 PMs that never agreed on each other.

The entire company is hell, it made that switch overnight and never looked back at the devs that have to endure all this bullshit.

Luckily I found another company that treats devs as humans. I've convinced one other employee at $EX_COMPANY to make the switch, with success! I'm planning to find everyone there a proper job that doesn't make u feel like you're under surveillance.
by comet | 2026-03-09 07:20:24+00:00
Living alone sucks. The transition period after a long relationship ends also sucks. No amount of advice from anyone can fill that void for you. Having said that, you have to at least give yourself a chance to go out there and stay in the real-world as much as possible. Some ways to do that would be to just walk around your city/locality/town aimlessly every day before or after your remote work time since there is no reason for you to stay at home beyond that time - have a step count goal - don't go back home until you hit that goal, treat yourselves to local food, make small talk with random strangers, get back on dating apps - meet people for fun. Staying outdoors, moving at all times or as much as possible can do wonders. Also, since you work remote, consider moving to a different place to work. Good luck.
by bedardbrandon89 | 2026-03-09 07:20:39+00:00
Private framework using voluntary land leases, arbitrage to beat AI costs, tribal vetoes. Grok's million-run sim: 99.999% survival, 'eternal fortress'. Thread: Private framework using voluntary land leases, arbitrage to beat AI costs, tribal vetoes. Grok's million-run sim: 99.999% survival, 'eternal fortress'. Thread: https://x.com/grok/status/2030881472383758364
by konart | 2026-03-09 07:21:00+00:00
$18 can be "expensive".

People live in different conditions, have different income and (even more crucial) different expenses.

Not to mention subjective need. I may be interested in a relay, but I don't really need one. So for me 18$ will be too much. 5$? Maybe. (This is about as much as I'm paying for Fastmail right now, for example).
by snozolli | 2026-03-09 07:21:35+00:00
You mentioned it, but I'll go deeper: the dog park.

In reality, this applies to any third place, but we'll go with the dog park.

I've been going to my local dog park nearly every day for the almost 14 years. Over time, I've met many of the best friends and best humans that I've known in my entire life. I have a group of regulars that evolves over time, and we're all good friends now. I also regularly see acquaintances who show up less often. This has been fantastic for my mental health.

So, again, this really applies to any third place. Go to church, a lot, if that's your thing. Join a bowling club and get deeply involved. Join a climbing gym and go all the time, and strike up conversations with people. Join a martial arts organization and get seriously involved.

The keys are to socialize and to fill up your time.
by chiffaa | 2026-03-09 07:21:36+00:00
There are ways to handle these effects without bloating up normal applications. For example, using attributes implemented as intrinsics, which wouldn't really affect anything that isn't using them.

The thing is, some of these things are very useful in specific domains, and all these domains are closely related to the ideas of safety. Nondeterminism and IO are important for purity/referential transparency, which is a fairly important effect for business logic IMO. Guaranteed termination matters for formal verification. Unwind removal matters for embedded. I don't think wishing for these things is really all that unwarranted

> I actually don’t see how this is any more beneficial than the existing no_panic macro

no_panic and similar macros are doing a very hacky workaround which isn't really a great static guarantee. The simple fact that building with panic = abort makes the macro useless is an annoyance in and of itself. dtolnay did great when figuring out some path forward but it's somewhat shaky
by niyikiza | 2026-03-09 07:21:57+00:00
The two-layer framing is right. Sandbox-exec contains local blast radius, and that's important. But if the agent already has a credential in memory, sandboxing the filesystem doesn't help.
I've been working on a primitive for scoped authorization at the tool call level: what was this agent allowed to do, for which task, signed by whom. The core is open-sourced: https://github.com/tenuo-ai/tenuo
by Timon3 | 2026-03-09 07:22:24+00:00
If we just go by what we've seen it's all irrelevant, since I've never seen a flock of birds with anywhere near a comparable 3d density to a dangerously dense 2d crowd. Even the densest flocks still have visible gaps between the birds, I'd guess the density would need to be at least 5x higher.
by handoflixue | 2026-03-09 07:22:47+00:00
If you decline the new contract, you're entirely welcome to continue on the old T&C.

Worth noting, the old T&C you agreed to probably include a clause where either party can unilaterally terminate the agreement for any reason, which they can then invoke.

Also worth noting, the old T&C you agreed to probably included a clause about these sorts of updates, too.

So, right there, you've already explicitly agreed to a contract that can be terminated if you don't accept updates.

> The company should not be able to change those conditions without my explicit permission.

The legal argument is that (a) you were explicitly notified of these changes, (b) your rights to use the service under the previous contract have been revoked, and (c) you're continuing to use the service.

So, either you're stealing their service, or you did in fact explicitly agree to the new contract - "“Parties traditionally manifest assent by written or
spoken word, but they can also do so through conduct.” Berman, 30 F.4th at 855."
by nebula8804 | 2026-03-09 07:23:05+00:00
The Chinese understand that everyone will be burned once and then never again(hopefully). Thats still millions of dollars in their pockets and not yours. There is a sucker born every minute attracted by the low prices expecting these things to work just like Raspberry pi. I got burned on the Cubieboard 1 in 2012. Still have that junk somewhere in the house having never run any major applications on the device.

I wonder if AI can help bridge the gap and provide the missing support that these vendors don't wish to provide.
by SyneRyder | 2026-03-09 07:23:21+00:00
Another plus one about grief. I went through a breakup that wasn't like the others, and it was a while before I understood I was experiencing grief (and that I actually didn't know how to navigate that).

I found a book called "Welcome To The Grief Club" by Janine Kwoh that was the right balance of humour for me. It's intended for those dealing with bereavement, and doesn't offer solutions, but I still found it useful for identifying patterns I was experiencing and understanding they were a "normal" part of grief. The brain does some weird things in grief. Only linking here in case it also helps others.

https://www.amazon.com.au/Welcome-Grief-Club-Because-Through...
by SamDc73 | 2026-03-09 07:23:43+00:00
https://talimio.com/ Generate fully personalized courses from a prompt. Fully interactive.

New features shipped last month:

- Adaptive practice: LLM generates and grades questions in real-time, then uses Item Response Theory (IRT) to estimate your ability and schedule the optimal next question. Replaces flashcards; especially for math and topics where each question needs to be fresh even when covering the same concept. - Interactive math graphs (JSXGraph) that are gradable - Single-image Docker deployment for easy self-hosting

Open source: https://github.com/SamDc73/Talimio
by verall | 2026-03-09 07:23:49+00:00
I dug into this for a minute since I am sort of qualified. Only read through code, I have not tried to run it.

The mass of it is incredible, but it's a bit hard to tell what is an AI hallucination.

Digging in at random, it appears real, but it doesn't smell right for code of this mass. Most of the code seems to exist as it describes - which is an insane quantity. Everything seems to be what you would get if you asked AI to write it - for example, I looked through tonemapping and it appears to implement a small set of textbook tonemapping algos. In code that is really used, I expect to see something more purpose driven, not sure how to better say it. But an AI when asked to "handle tonemapping" would just pick a few literature methods and implement.

One random pick was "oximedia-gaming" which it said was stable with nvenc support. I wanted to check this out because I've called nvenc from C++ before and it was hard. The nvenc support is a no-op. So that's not quite right.

If (and it's a huge if), this code really works as it says, and it's written mostly by LLMs (it appears to be), then this is a huge testament to the value highly structured environment like Rust provides to the LLM.

I shudder to imagine the token costs...
by SamDc73 | 2026-03-09 07:23:52+00:00
https://talimio.com/ Generate fully personalized courses from a prompt. Fully interactive.

New features shipped last month:

- Adaptive practice: LLM generates and grades questions in real-time, then uses Item Response Theory (IRT) to estimate your ability and schedule the optimal next question. Replaces flashcards; especially for math and topics where each question needs to be fresh even when covering the same concept. - Interactive math graphs (JSXGraph) that are gradable - Single-image Docker deployment for easy self-hosting

Open source: https://github.com/SamDc73/Talimio
by sentinel_ai_act | 2026-03-09 07:24:21+00:00
A few more technical details for those interested:

Why Rust/WASM? I needed the audit to be lightning-fast and portable across different CI environments without requiring the user to install complex dependencies. WASM allowed me to package the entire Tree-sitter logic into a single, sandboxed binary that runs locally.

Deterministic Logic: We map specific code patterns and metadata (model provenance, data usage) against the Article 11 requirements of the EU AI Act. If the manifest doesn't change, the hash doesn't change—making it a reliable build artifact.

The Edge Layer: While the audit is local, we use Cloudflare D1 for the immutable ledger to sign the integrity reports, ensuring they are tamper-proof.

I'm here to answer any questions about the WASM implementation or how we're translating the EU AI Act into deterministic code!
by sulam | 2026-03-09 07:24:34+00:00
Because there are some really fundamental things they cannot do with next token prediction. For instance, their memory is akin to someone who reads the phone book and memorizes the entire thing, but can't tell you what a phone number is for. Moreover, they can mimic semantic knowledge, because they have been trained on that knowledge, but take them out of their training distribution and they get into a "creative story-telling" mode very quickly. They can quote me all the rules of chess, but when it comes to actually making a chess move they break those rules with abandon simply because they didn't actually understand the rules. Chess is instructive in another way, too, in that you can get them to play a pretty solid opening game, maybe 10, 15 moves in, but then they start forgetting pieces, creating board positions that are impossible to reach, etc. They have memorized the forms of a board, know the names of the pieces, but they have no true understanding of what a chess game is. Coding is similar, they're fine when you give them Python or Bash shell scripts to write, they've been heavily trained on those, but ask them to deal with a system that has a non-standard stack and they will go haywire if you let their context get even medium sized. Something else they lack is any kind of learning efficiency as you or I would understand the concept. By this I mean the entire Internet is not sufficient to train today's models, the labs have to synthesize new data for models to train on to get sufficient coverage of a given area they want the model to be knowledgeable about. Continuous learning is a well-known issue as well, they simply don't do it. The labs have created memory, which is just more context engineering, but it's not the same as updating as you interact with them. I could go on.

At the end of the day next token prediction is a sleight of hand. It produces amazingly powerful affects, I agree. You can turn this one magic trick into the illusion of reasoning, but what it's doing is more of a "one thing after another" style story-telling that is fine for a lot of things, but doesn't get to the heart of what intelligence means. If you want to call them intelligent because they can do this stuff, fine, but it's an alien kind of intelligence that is incredibly limited. A dog or a cat actually demonstrate more ability to learn, to contextualize, and to make meaning.
by rapnie | 2026-03-09 07:24:55+00:00
Perhaps there are similarities to Scala, from my anecdotal observation. Coming from Java and doing the Scala coursera course years ago, it feels like arriving in a candy shop. All the wonderful language features are there, true power yours to wield. And then you bump into the code lines crafted by the experts, and they are line for line so 'smart' they take a real long time to figure out how the heck it all fits together.

People say "Rust is more complex to onboard to, but it is worth it", but a lot of the onboarding hurdle is the extra complexity added in by experts being smart. And it may be a reason why a language doesn't get the adoption that the creators hoped for (Scala?). Rust does not have issues with popularity, and the high onboarding barrier, may have positive impact eventually where "Just rewrite it in Rust" is no more, and people only choose Rust where it is most appropriate. Use the right language for the tool.

The complexity of Rust made me check out Gleam [0], a language designed for simplicity, ease of use, and developer experience. A wholly different design philosophy. But not less powerful, as a BEAM language that compiles to Erlang, but also compiles to Javascript if you want to do regular web stuff.

[0] https://gleam.run
by ThoAppelsin | 2026-03-09 07:25:09+00:00
This just won’t work. If RSS becomes popular, there will be discovery platforms with “algorithm”s. It will be the same thing, just the discovery and content separated.

RSS appears good now only because it’s not popular enough for LLMs to meddle with. I don’t use RSS, so I don’t really mind, but those who use RSS are making disservice to its _purity_ by trying to popularize it.
by i_think_so | 2026-03-09 07:25:28+00:00
Your behavior is only an outlier because we don't teach kids basic security practices and so they don't grow up into adults who think like that. We also don't teach kids how to avoid "Internet addiction" dopamine chasing, so seeing a number (eg: karma score) get smaller instead of bigger hurts feefees.

I'm well aware that the cyberlibertarian ethos endemic here opposes any form of regulation. But when the status quo clearly isn't working something has to change. Parent's have failed to step up and do their jobs. Somebody else has to.
by treetalker | 2026-03-09 07:26:29+00:00
Since it's too late to edit my other reply — here is a description of a recent case involving several of the categories I mentioned: https://reason.com/volokh/2026/03/06/california-appeals-cour...

And you will find many more by reading (or subscribing to the RSS feed of) the Volokh Conspiracy blog's "AI in Court" tag: https://reason.com/category/law/ai-in-court/
by hampowder | 2026-03-09 07:26:38+00:00
I wanted to make it exceedingly easy to learn vocabulary in Catalan and Spanish.

To me good is
- Pre-determined lists of words
- Audio examples
- Sentence examples
- Native app with offline support

most importantly:
- No business model that requires a subscription

I'm trying to see it more as writing a text-book, than starting a business

https://learnthewords.app
by rhubarbtree | 2026-03-09 07:27:18+00:00
My first piece of advice after such a major break up is that you’re probably going to need to move to a different city. Focus on choosing somewhere that excites you, where you think there will be something new for you. And when you get there, advice from others applies. Need to work damn hard at meeting people. Do three big things. Maybe a social group where you just consume something, like film or books. A social group where you make something, like photography etc. And then maybe a course or similar. If you want a good social life, I’d say three different social groups is necessary. Some will shut down or end. Replace them.
by adastra22 | 2026-03-09 07:27:25+00:00
Atomically precise manufacturing. We are perfecting a method for 3D printing silicon & diamond atom-by-atom, with every atom bonded where you want it. At small scales this gets us precise nanophotonic and quantum devices with precisely placed defect centers in silicon. As we scale, we will bootstrap full molecular nanotechnology including replicative scale-up to industrial levels.

Email address in profile.
by nwyin | 2026-03-09 07:27:45+00:00
very cool! I had a similar idea a few weeks back and built something much smaller scoped and shaped to my personal idiosyncrasies. my approach was giving claude a CLI interface to manage worktrees and spin up other claude instances to work in them, but have all the orchestration handled via a daemon rather than trying to prompt claude to do everything.

chatml looks very polished and promising. good luck with the project and hope it succeeds.
by scosman | 2026-03-09 07:27:51+00:00
I have sandbox-exec setup for Claude like you suggest, but I’m not sure every CLI supports it? Claude only added it a month or two ago. A wrapper CLI that allows any command to be sandboxed is pretty appealing (Claude config was not trivial).

The downside is that it requires access to more than it technically needs (Claude keys for example). I’m working on a version where you sandbox the agent’s Bash tool, not the agent itself. https://github.com/Kiln-AI/Kilntainers
by rozenmd | 2026-03-09 07:27:51+00:00
I've been celebrating five years of working on OnlineOrNot (https://onlineornot.com/) by adding more features for teams that build software:

- 2FA, PassKey, and password-based login for folks that hate magic links

- Moved my entire API from GraphQL to REST so I can fully dogfood the API I offer

- Added an audit log as standard on all plans

- Built a terraform provider (https://github.com/OnlineOrNot/terraform-provider-onlineorno...), and a way to download existing config into terraform files

- Started iterating on a CLI (https://github.com/OnlineOrNot/onlineornot)
by aleda145 | 2026-03-09 07:28:17+00:00
Still working on https://kavla.dev

I have worked with data for a while. I feel like our tools could be much better when it comes to "flow". I want an experience where you don't need to alt+tab to slack/images/another query. What if we put it all on a canvas? That's what Kavla is all about!

Since last month I've done a lot of improvements to the editor to make the "flow" better.

I've also read up on HMAC, Nonces and fun encryption stuff to create read only boards.

Here's one where I look at stack overflow survey for databases: https://app.kavla.dev/v/mqhg54o319doya4.67dbfee1ccd6caf638d3...

Snowflake users apparently make the most money!
by NitpickLawyer | 2026-03-09 07:29:30+00:00
> $12 dollars per bottle is crazy

Hot sauce is pretty easy to make if you're inclined to go that route. You only need a scale and a blender, and some basic kitchen skills. You get to explore a lot and control for flavour / heat with adding stuff to the mix. Plenty of good content on yt you can get inspiration from.

It's also something you can make into a hobby. You can go as low effort as buying fresh peppers from a market when in season, or start growing yourself. Growing can be anywhere from extremely low maintenance (i.e. just water them from time to time and leave them on a window sill) or get into advanced stuff like pruning, soil ph, cross pollination and all that stuff. Some peppers are prolific growers, and you get fresh peppers, pepper paste, chili flakes and sauce from a potentially low effort hobby. And they make some nice gifts as well.
by galkk | 2026-03-09 07:30:22+00:00
I was thinking about deep fakes and tech advancements. Yes, that will add doubts etc. but you know what? There always will be ways. If somebody was convicted in 2015 most likely there weren’t any deep fakes.

Let’s look at, let’s say, Apple and its tight control over entire hardware and software iPhone stack. Nothing prevents them to announce that starting from iPhone 19 they cryptographically sign the video to ensure that it’s authentic and, at least, the video and sound are what the camera saw. Pro cameras can do it, for Apple it’s even easier, more or less. I’m sure that even on this site there are experts who can design such system that is as secure as we expect from Apple devices. And that thing will slowly spread due to competitive pressures.

—-

Involuntarily drug testing was one of examples that I gave, and you seem to be against. To some it may be extreme, and I completely understand where you’re coming from. To me… as I said - for some examples from the side the murderers surely lost their human privilege. That comment summarized my feelings after reading the website in much more succinct form: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47302490#47305803

Killing 13 month infant, putting bleach on 20 yo gas station employee and setting her on fire, stranding female who was screaming for help during sa. Mate, if your kidney is compatible with someone who is in need, you made your choice way too long ago to have any right to say anything now. Same for the rest of what I said
by shanmugarajsk | 2026-03-09 07:31:34+00:00
Hi HN,

I’ve been researching how AI is transforming lending workflows in fintech.

Many banks still take days or even weeks to process loan approvals because of manual verification, risk analysis, and document validation.

Recently I came across tools like SimplAI that try to automate parts of this process using AI-driven decisioning and risk models.

Curious to know from the community:

• Are banks actually adopting AI for loan underwriting?
• What are the biggest technical challenges?
• Is explainability a problem when AI decides credit risk?

Would love to hear insights from people working in fintech or AI infrastructure.
by yuppiepuppie | 2026-03-09 07:32:04+00:00
Keep on chugging away at The HN Arcade :) https://hnarcade.com

Over the past weeks, we consistently get 5-6 submissions per week. The newsletter and number of visitors are growing.

I’ve come to treat this as a pet project but realized that for indie devs who get very little marketing attention, being featured in the newsletter, top of the daily list, etc. can be another burst of users.