MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by mandevil | 2026-03-09 23:20:25+00:00
After the crash, the Wright's built a new plane, the 1909 Military Flyer. It came back the next year to Ft. Myer and became the first plane, anywhere in the world, to be bought by a government (1). Orville Wright taught three Army officers to fly on that plane, and then, the Army being what it is, a fourth guy got a letter from Wright explaining how to fly and told "take this plane to San Antonio and teach yourself to fly at Fort Sam Houston." After he had done about 40 more flights, only some of which ended in crashes, the 1909 Military Flyer was retired in 1911. It was given to the Smithsonian. While the other Wright airplanes (2) in the Smithsonian collection have been cleaned up and restored, made to look more like they did when brand new, the Military Flyer has been kept in its 1910 parts: there is a stain on the bottom wing (right below the engine) that is from the use of this airplane more than 115 years ago.

1: The contract was for a plane to fly for an hour, at 30mph out and back, carrying two people (pilot and observer). There was a 10% penalty on the 25,000 for every mph by which the plane was slower than 30mph, and a 10% bonus for every mph by which the plane was above 30mph. The Military Flyer averaged 32 mph on the loop it did, so the Army paid the Wright's $30,000.

2: There are 8 surviving original Wright Airplanes left in the world, the Smithsonian owns three of them: the 1903 Wright Flyer, the 1909 Military Flyer, and the Model Ex Vin Fizz.
by belorn | 2026-03-09 23:21:02+00:00
With 75% in 2023, it means there are still headroom for expansion without hurting the economics too much of existing wind farms. Denmark had a very clear growth of wind farms up to about 100% of demand during optimal weather, and then a very clear stop in growth afterward. On average it still only produce about half the energy consumed in Denmark, so over time I do not expect to see Ireland to go much higher than 50%. It might get a slight advantage given the improved wind farm technology to utilize low wind conditions.

I do see in the political goals for Ireland that they, like Germany and many other countries in EU, are relying on the idea to turn wind into green hydrogen once they hit that 100% during optimal weather. Peoples faith in that strategy has gone down significant in the last 5-10 years.
by 0x457 | 2026-03-09 23:21:31+00:00
I agree, but it would be nice if it had similar fine-grained APIs for network calls. That said I solved it by using LD_PRELOAD and socks5. It's not perfect, but good enough.

Landlock is one of my favorite linux-only APIs almost feels like it was FreeBSD's answer to some Linux feature.
by dqh | 2026-03-09 23:21:33+00:00
Cortical Labs CTO here. My focus is on the system itself rather than applications, but for what it's worth ..

When the neurons didn't get stimulated by the application, performance did not improve. The only explanation our data science people has is that the neurons began to learn and perform the desired (highly abstracted) task of 'playing Doom'. This was not a surprise as we've shown this before with a version of Pong using a different platform. We built the CL1 and the CL API to enable rapid iteration on this sort of work.

One benefit to this is that when you have a measurable learning effect, you can measure this before and after exposure to an experimental drug or other molecule. It becomes possible to test the impact on neuron function, not just survival.
by triwats | 2026-03-09 23:21:47+00:00
1. flopper.io - a resource to find AI infrastructure benchmarks and soon - compare providers. Reach out if you're a provider!

2. boulderinglist.com - a catalog of climbing gyms across the world

3. livedsupport.com - AI driven support for colorectal issues

4. radiusing.uk - find where people are willing to do something to improve the social fabric of where they live

5. llmstxt.studio - AI-SEO via sitemaps, llms.txt, and AI search

6. probe.bike - tell stories with your cycling data

need to find a way to get more sleep
by jazzyjackson | 2026-03-09 23:22:09+00:00
Transformative is not the only component of determining fair use, there’s also the economic displacement aspect. If you’re doing a book report and include portions of the original (or provide an interface for viewing portions à la Google Books) you aren’t a threat to the original authors ability to make a living.

If you’ve used copyrighted books and turned them into a free write-a-book machine, you are suddenly using the authors own works against them, in a way that a judge might rule is not very fair.

“ Effect of the use upon the potential market for or value of the copyrighted work: Here, courts review whether, and to what extent, the unlicensed use harms the existing or future market for the copyright owner’s original work. In assessing this factor, courts consider whether the use is hurting the current market for the original work (for example, by displacing sales of the original) and/or whether the use could cause substantial harm if it were to become widespread.”

https://www.copyright.gov/fair-use/
by riazrizvi | 2026-03-09 23:22:54+00:00
"The null reference was my billion dollar mistake responsible for innumerable errors, vulnerabilities and system crashes" (paraphrasing). I don't know. This design choice exposed the developer to system realities, and modern language approaches are based on decades of attempts to improve on it, and they are not necessarily better. Safer yes, but more weighty.

Can anyone suggest a better approach for a situation like this in the future? What's better than exposing addressing the problem with a light solution?
by saulpw | 2026-03-09 23:23:02+00:00
I'm actually becoming an AI convert myself. If there is ideology here, it's not about AI, but about keeping trash off the streets.

For example, I checked out their "Fictional Encyclopedia". It's an absolutely terrible project, much worse than useless, because it claims to be an "encyclopedia" right in the name (the tagline is "Everything about everything"), yet it's engineered to just completely make things up, and nowhere on the page does it indicate this! I looked up my own niche open-source project, and was prepared to be at least somewhat impressed that it pulled together facts on the fly into an encyclopedic form. For the first couple of paragraphs that seemed like it might be the case, then it veered into complete fantasy and just kept going.

Like what is the point of this? I can already ask a chatbot the same question and at least then I have explicit indicators that it might be hallucinating. But this page deliberately confuses truth and reality for absolutely zero purpose. It's a waste of brain cells, for both the creator and the consumer, with no redeeming value. It's neither interesting, nor different, nor valuable. AND it's burning tokens to boot!

I mean, come on, the bar is not that high. Some of stavros' projects may even be over it. But the first projects I checked were sub-basement, and I am not interested in searching through mounds of trash for what might be a quarter dollar. I'm actually kind of disappointed that stavros didn't have (or apply) the sense or taste to whittle down that list of 11 (!) projects to some 3 that show off the value of their work. Which I'm starting to understand is everyone's issue with AI brain rot; it seems to just encourage "here's everything, I dunno, you figure it out" which is maddening and deserves the pushback it gets.
by wat10000 | 2026-03-09 23:23:11+00:00
I'm reminded of Mitch Hedberg's bit about getting a receipt when buying a donut. "I don't need a receipt for the donut. I'll just give you the money, and you give me the doughnut. End of transaction!"

Why do we need massive TOS for stuff? I'll just give you the money, and you give me the service. End of transaction!
by anotherpaulg | 2026-03-09 23:23:51+00:00
The Earth is generally expected to spin more slowly over time, due to tidal friction. But it has been spinning faster and faster since the 1960s. As shown in the figure in the wikipedia article [0].

I have read numerous explanations, but haven't found a really authoritative discussion.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leap_second#Rationale
by przemelek | 2026-03-09 23:24:04+00:00
To be honest I had always a lot of thoughts about this how Rama would be filled with air.... I mean it spins, but how Ramas filled it with air? Central Sea was one of sources, but water wasn't possible there before whole Rama being filled with air. So my thinking was always, air enters in the center, goes in all directions, hits surface which is 750 km/h... so ~40% of speed of molecules... how much it "slows down" Rama? Would there be needed some additional force to spin it? How long it would take to "calm down", and build gradient of oxygen/air in Rama...

Always was thinking about writting some simulation for it, but it was always "someday" ;-)
by salawat | 2026-03-09 23:24:28+00:00
I mean. Yeah. GPL's genius was that it used Copyright, which proprietary enterprise wouldn't dare dismantle, to secure for the public a permanent public good.

Pretty sure no one, (but me anyway) saw overt theft of IP by ignoring IP law through redefinition coming. Admittedly I couldn't articulate for you capital would skill transfer and commoditize it in the form of pay to play data centers, but give me a break, I was a teenager/twenty something at the time.
by jazzyjackson | 2026-03-09 23:25:10+00:00
You don’t get to simply claim fair use based on how transformative your derivative work is.

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Section 107 calls for consideration of the following four factors in evaluating a question of fair use:

Purpose and character of the use, including whether the use is of a commercial nature or is for nonprofit educational purposes: Courts look at how the party claiming fair use is using the copyrighted work, and are more likely to find that nonprofit educational and noncommercial uses are fair. This does not mean, however, that all nonprofit education and noncommercial uses are fair and all commercial uses are not fair; instead, courts will balance the purpose and character of the use against the other factors below. Additionally, “transformative” uses are more likely to be considered fair. Transformative uses are those that add something new, with a further purpose or different character, and do not substitute for the original use of the work.

Nature of the copyrighted work: This factor analyzes the degree to which the work that was used relates to copyright’s purpose of encouraging creative expression. Thus, using a more creative or imaginative work (such as a novel, movie, or song) is less likely to support a claim of a fair use than using a factual work (such as a technical article or news item). In addition, use of an unpublished work is less likely to be considered fair.

Amount and substantiality of the portion used in relation to the copyrighted work as a whole: Under this factor, courts look at both the quantity and quality of the copyrighted material that was used. If the use includes a large portion of the copyrighted work, fair use is less likely to be found; if the use employs only a small amount of copyrighted material, fair use is more likely. That said, some courts have found use of an entire work to be fair under certain circumstances. And in other contexts, using even a small amount of a copyrighted work was determined not to be fair because the selection was an important part—or the “heart”—of the work.

Effect of the use upon the potential market for or value of the copyrighted work: Here, courts review whether, and to what extent, the unlicensed use harms the existing or future market for the copyright owner’s original work. In assessing this factor, courts consider whether the use is hurting the current market for the original work (for example, by displacing sales of the original) and/or whether the use could cause substantial harm if it were to become widespread.
“””

https://www.copyright.gov/fair-use/
by hathawsh | 2026-03-09 23:25:36+00:00
I believe the GP post is saying that if we react to the new AI-enabled environment by arbitrarily strengthening IP controls for IP owners, the greatest benefactors will almost certainly be lawyer-laden corporations, not communities, artists, or open source projects. That seems like a reasonable argument.

It seems like the answer is to adjust IP owner rights very carefully, if that's possible. It sounds very hard, though.
by cucumber3732842 | 2026-03-09 23:26:00+00:00
>but I don't buy that argument. We have plenty of non-money civil remedies. Code enforcement departments can require changes to property. Family courts can make all kinds of requirements. It's not outside of constitutional bounds for a traffic rule to result in forfeiting a license without criminal proceedings.

All of which are an affront to people's rights.

The fact that we use a "special word" (civil) for the category of laws where we won't throw you straight in prison if you don't comply, we'll add the extra step of waiting for noncompliance and then charging someone with contempt doesn't fundamentally alter the relationship between the enforcers and the people, so why should the people have to put up with their rights being ignored in those cases?
by 0xbadcafebee | 2026-03-09 23:26:20+00:00
> the Judge also spent some ink criticizing the law because paying the ticket removes the ticket from your driving record

Weird thing to point out, as in Florida, if you get any traffic citation, you just hire The Ticket Clinic for ~$80. If they don't get your ticket expunged or points eliminated, you get your money back. They don't lose often. You can keep racking up tickets, but not get any points, as long as you've got $80.
by mulmen | 2026-03-09 23:27:07+00:00
I’m not sure if it was COVID or the social movements around the same time like defund the police. Here in Seattle when defunding the police was suggested the police department threatened to close the precinct in a large residential area. Basically they attempted to extort the voters. I think the police have realized that crime is good for them because the more of it voters see the more they think police are needed.
by tlogan | 2026-03-09 23:27:29+00:00
True, but the BlueSky audience is not really into following professional sports. I believe there was statistics (or just rumor) showing that conservative-leaning people are about 50% more likely to follow professional sports than liberal-leaning people. Sadly, I cannot find the source, but it might be so obvious that nobody bothered to run a proper poll. Or this is just what everybody believes so everybody goes with it.
by db48x | 2026-03-09 23:27:55+00:00
> … the owner of the car gets the ticket, and it's up to them to figure out if they were driving, …

That's exactly what makes it unconstitutional here in the US. The Constitution specifically requires that they have evidence of who committed the crime _before_ charging someone with it. If you do it the other way around then you are making an assumption about who is guilty in advance of the evidence.
by sowbug | 2026-03-09 23:28:06+00:00
I get your point, but I doubt the fine could have been ethically higher. Domino's drivers killed dozens of people in speed-related accidents before they ended their 30-minute guarantee.

I don't think our society is ready for the combination of automatic enforcement and truly punitive penalties. We readily demonize the accused; just having your mugshot taken can end your employability. Yet many of us break laws daily -- speeding, jaywalking, watering the lawn during the day, even plugging in a microwave oven without a building permit in some jurisdictions -- and society still works because we don't expect much enforcement. We are heading toward a future where everyone will have marks on their permanent record, but today our society tut-tuts, or much worse, at anyone who does.
by tsoukase | 2026-03-09 23:28:39+00:00
Everything that is happening now in the world was completely known and predicted since the 90's (energy and demographic crisis, China's rise, even decline of the West). Large projects were designed and implemented to combat these (with names in Germany like Innovation, Leistung, Kompetenz). But the results weren't enough and only mediocre.

In a nutshell: Germany, like almost all of Europe, cannot innovate, not only in IT but in any intelligence-intesive sector. We will remain stuck in traditional industries and hope at least to reduce our dependency on the US. Hopefully, this last need will help Europe keep its domestic market and maintain its quality.
by jiggawatts | 2026-03-09 23:29:04+00:00
I don't know why you're being downvoted because clearly modern warfare is as much (or more) about the economic warfare aspect as the military one.

There are some rather bizarre examples such as Gaza attacking Israel, despite getting something like 50% of their electricity and 10% of their fresh water from Israel!

Attacking the supplier of critical civilian and industrial inputs would seem like a mistake nobody in their right mind would make, but... there you go.

I wouldn't be surprised if a future conflict with China over Taiwan would be primarily economic.

They threaten to stop shipping, we threaten to cut off the Internet and their banking, etc...

Similarly, the most knowledgeable experts are predicting that China's strategy with Taiwan will be to simply blockade the island and wait for them to capitulate.

Last but not least, this is also Iran's current strategy. By halting shipping through the Straight of Hormuz, they're waging war on the global economy much more effectively than bombing a few small military air strips in the region.
by digitalPhonix | 2026-03-09 23:29:09+00:00
> generally because the operators lower the yellow light time to increase fees

I'm skeptical of this claim because the red light camera operators are usually contracted by municipalities. They don't have any direct control over the light cycles.

(Yes, obviously they can be in cahoots with the municipality, but I would be surprised if that was common and not the exception)

Do you have any evidence of this?
by hungryhobbit | 2026-03-09 23:29:10+00:00
I largely agree with the author that AI can't just magically remove license agreements by rewriting code.

However, I take issue with his version of history:

>The history of the GPL is the history of licensing tools evolving in response to new forms of exploitation: GPLv2 to GPLv3, then AGPL.

GPLv3 set open source backwards: it wasn't an evolution to protect anything, it was a an overly paranoid failure. Don't believe me? Just count how many GPL3 vs. how many GPL2 projects have been started since GPL3 dropped.

Again, I'm very pro-OSS, but let's not pretend the community has always had a straight line of progress forward; some stuff is crazy Stallman stuff that set us back.
by thedatamonger | 2026-03-09 23:31:11+00:00
$ dig vivianvoss.net A +short @ns11.infomaniak.ch.

78.46.78.181

$ curl -v https://vivianvoss.net/ 2>&1 | tail -3

* OpenSSL/3.0.13: error:0A00010B:SSL routines::wrong version number

* Closing connection

curl: (35) OpenSSL/3.0.13: error:0A00010B:SSL routines::wrong version number

$ curl -v http://vivianvoss.net/ 2>&1 | grep Location

< Location: https://www.safebrowse.io/warn.html?url=http://vivianvoss.ne...

$ whois 78.46.78.181 | grep -i netname

netname: HETZNER-RZ-NBG-NET

$ host 78.46.78.181

181.78.46.78.in-addr.arpa domain name pointer min2max.run.

The domain's authoritative nameserver (Infomaniak) points vivianvoss.net at 78.46.78.181 — a Hetzner box in Germany with rDNS min2max.run. That server redirects HTTP to SafeBrowse.io and responds to TLS handshakes with garbage. Not a local issue, not a DNS hijack — the A record itself is wrong.
by db48x | 2026-03-09 23:31:41+00:00
As with most things, it’s just history. Roundabouts were invented here in the US, but the inventor made a tiny but critical mistake. Originally drivers inside the roundabout had to yield to drivers entering it. Obviously we know now that this leads inevitably to gridlock during heavy traffic, but back then it wasn’t so obvious. The result is that roundabouts were written off as a bad idea, and signalized intersections (also invented around the same time) took off instead.
by sega_sai | 2026-03-09 23:31:44+00:00
Wow, I just saw in the article that NVIDIA called a new chip Vera Rubin (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vera_Rubin, also https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vera_C._Rubin_Observatory). How is it allowed for a commercial company to assign a name of a known person to a product ?
Show HN: I built an AI-powered technical interview prep tool
by wa5ina | 2026-03-09 23:32:17+00:00
LeetCode wasn't actually preparing me or anyone else for the pressure of a real technical interview.

Most platforms just give you a text box and a compiler. I wanted something that actually simulates the back-and-forth of an interviewer pushing you on time complexity, asking follow-up questions, and pointing out edge cases you missed.

> The Stack:
I built the backend with nestjs, prisma, postgresql, Webrtc for real time back and forth conv and [socket.io](http://socket.io) events in panel like code run etc…. claude-haiku-4-5 for conv and anthropic.claude-sonnet-4-6 for interview scoring.

> Where it still falls short:
It’s not perfect. Sometimes the AI gets overly pedantic about syntax instead of focusing on the core algorithmic logic. I’m still tuning the prompts to make it behave more like a senior engineer and less like a strict compiler.

I'm currently trying to stress-test the system. I’d love for you to try breaking the AI interviewer or tell me why this approach is flawed. Happy to answer any questions about the stack or the prompt engineering.
by floam | 2026-03-09 23:32:19+00:00
Preferred like people today prefer their private jet? It cost more than your typical annual salary at the time.

I just read that the trip was still a 5 day journey, involving 20+ stops and spinning that takeoff and landing roulette wheel quite a bit..

The novelty factor might have been just as big a deal as time savings. It was something cool to try as an ultra wealthy globe trotter.
by bdangubic | 2026-03-09 23:32:56+00:00
this is why going to court pretty much takes care of these tickets. of course, for a lot of people, going to court costs more money than paying the ticket so people pay.

disclaimer: I write software for court houses and am intimately familiar with the proceedings etc. in some jurisdictions these tickets will be outright dismissed and in others you may have to put up a bit of fight :)
by bakugo | 2026-03-09 23:33:13+00:00
Has there ever been any other topic that was not only the subject of the majority of submissions, but also had a subset of users repeatedly butting into completely unrelated discussions to go "b-but what about <thing>? we need to talk about <thing> here too! how can I relate this to <thing>? look at my <thing> product!"?

You can't just roll in to a random post to tell people about your revolutionary new AI agent for the 50th time this week and expect them not to be at least mildly annoyed.