MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by Cyphase | 2026-03-09 01:55:22+00:00
I've been on sabbatical (not on leave from anywhere, just decided to take a break from work) for months now, taking some time for myself. Minimal tech stuff until more recently, but now I'm back in the deep end.

The main thing I'm currently working on is a platform for organizing and discovering in-person events. Still not certain about the boundaries for "Phase 1", but I have a bunch of ideas in that space that I've been incubating for a while. One subset of features will be roughly similar to that app you've probably heard of that starts with 'M' and ends with 'p', but hopefully an improvement, at least for the right audience. But wait, there's more. :)

Currently building it; it's not public yet, so no link. Next month.

Thinking about how to grow the userbase is intimidating, but I think it might end up being fun.
by stagas | 2026-03-09 01:55:23+00:00
This looks amazing! Well done! Are these visualizers open-source somewhere? I'd love to use something like that in my music livecoding project[0], it's open-source[1], I've only now started adding a little support[2] for shaders but only very simple stuff still. Yours look incredible! Are you interested in collaborating maybe?

[0]: https://loopmaster.xyz

[1]: https://github.com/loopmaster-xyz

[2]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47303785
by FireBeyond | 2026-03-09 01:55:58+00:00
> my options now are either buy a car, pay insurance, maintenance etc. north $1,500/mo for the convenience

Huh? Decent car payment at $300-500/month, insurance at $200/month, and I'm wondering what $1,000/month of car "maintenance" looks like, considering $250/month will get you a full tank of a gas a week.
by ed_balls | 2026-03-09 01:56:09+00:00
I wanted to build a landing page for my gf, but since LLMs make it so simple I'm building SaaS for Psychoeducation.

Modifications to my Land Cruiser j90

- LED daytime running lights / off-road LED light bar

- Winch

- Front left – tie rod end (both)

- Rear axle – pinion bearing (loud while driving)

- Right rear brake caliper – brake fluid leaking from the piston

- Boost chip (chip + turbo tee), Kill switch
by falsaberN1 | 2026-03-09 01:56:40+00:00
Hot take here, but I think the version of this experiment that used rat neurons instead of human neurons was more interesting. I can't look for the link right now but there's a video on Youtube, the equipment and techniques are fairly similar.

We know a human can play Doom, so it kind of makes sense a portion of a human brain can do so in some fashion. But it's way more interesting when an animal that normally doesn't play Doom can, specially if it's just a portion of its brain.

Outside of that, I'm personally not very fond of hardware that can rot or die from malnutrition though. It's fun as an experiment, but as a thing you can actually use I just don't see it. It has a literal limited lifespan, requires more maintenance and imagine trying to debug it ("Turns out it caught some bacteria and it's malfunctioning" kinda scenarios? No thanks.)
by komali2 | 2026-03-09 01:57:30+00:00
Yes, because that's several million people, and the elected democrat officials count in the hundreds.

It's actually tens of millions, if you count eligible voters that didn't vote. Not to mention the tens of millions of voters for the other Party.

People don't lose elections, campaigns do. And when they do, out of a refusal to accept responsibility, they cast blame outwards. They try to get people to blame each other, rather than the frankly quite obvious people at fault.
by bediger4000 | 2026-03-09 01:57:54+00:00
Hey, the link leads to a summary of a 60 Minutes segment.

We know that CBS News Editor-in-chief Bari Weiss has spiked at least one major 60 Minutes story that was unfavorable for Trump. Why did Ms Weiss let this one through? Given her history and predilections, we can surmise that she thinks this story is good for Trump, or at least bad for his enemies. Looks like 60 Minutes bills it as a "massive CIA cover-up". Trump must be hunting for CIA heads for some reason. Has Iran War intelligence been particularly useless or something?
by wktmeow | 2026-03-09 01:57:54+00:00
Yes, being born in the Soviet Union this is how my parents toilet trained me, and we did it with our daughter as well but were only able to catch it for defecation and not urination, but even having done that was so handy. She eventually would grunt to let us know, which as she learned to talk transitioned easily to a verbal cue. I think we had not had a soiled poopy diaper after I want to say 12 months old, but can’t remember exact age now. Potty training for urination came much easier after this as it wasn’t such a foreign concept.

It was not particularly difficult to implement and we didn’t spend a lot of time focusing on it - we caught it by being attentive a few times and it just got easier from there. Highly recommend it
by Barrin92 | 2026-03-09 01:58:10+00:00
>But perhaps something getting close to human intelligence

this isn't getting close to human intelligence. They're using about as many cells as a fruit fly has (of course not actually functioning like an animal brain) processing signals to play Doom. The treatment of a single farm chicken is about a few magnitudes more worrying than this.

I'm sorry to tell you that you're made out of human cells and I don't think you got consent from each brain cell before firing up the old boomer shooters.
by Cyphase | 2026-03-09 01:58:21+00:00
I posted another comment about my main project, but on the side, I'm working on an ergonomic local sandbox management tool. Yes, for AI agents, but also for anything else. Crowded space — there's one at the top of the homepage right now — but at the very least it'll work the way I want it to. Currently dogfooding that; if it gets decent I'd likely open-source it.

Also a bunch of other smaller projects and ideas.
by wek | 2026-03-09 01:58:40+00:00
I'm excited about Agents helping many tiny teams succeed. There has been hype around the "who will be the first solo founder to a billion" but I am hoping for many small teams to succeed and I think this is the more interesting story.

I agree its in the 2-7 person range.

The challenge for those teams is distribution. They will crush at building, but I'm not sure how they can crack distribution. Some will, but maybe there is a way to help thousands of small teams distribute.
by geooff_ | 2026-03-09 01:59:02+00:00
One other thought to drill deeper into regarding lingering.

I'm the type of guy that always moves with purpose. When I'm done doing something, I'm quick to leave. Looking back on my life so far, I think this has often been mistaken as antisocial.

Every event involving humans is default social. Leaving quickly precludes much of life's social whimsy.
by huherto | 2026-03-09 01:59:12+00:00
I am working on creating an Even Driven Architecture framework for Kotlin.

I went through the Software Architecture Patterns for Serverless Systems book, which I think it is fantastic. I learned a lot but I still had a lot of doubts to actually use the ideas in real life. So I started dissecting the companion framework, which is in written in Typescript. I have been going piece by piece and converting to Kotlin which I think it is more expressive (and fun) and it is allowing me to understand how everything fits together.

Typescript framework: https://github.com/jgilbert01/aws-lambda-stream
by CamperBob2 | 2026-03-09 01:59:54+00:00
I got a firsthand demo of this yesterday when I wanted to see how a .NET DLL full of CIL bytecode was put together and how it fit into a larger application. I asked Opus 4.6 for a disassembly, and it basically regenerated a fully-commented C# source file that looked like it came from the company's private repo. Amazing.

Too soon to say "Everything is open-source now," but that's where we're headed.
by delotrag | 2026-03-09 02:00:08+00:00
In a world where everyone by default had unlimited rights to use, modify, and redistribute software, sure, copyleft would be unnecessary. But we don't live in such a world. You believe users ought to have unlimited rights to do what they want with their software- copyleft hijacks the copyright system to ensure these rights can't be removed downstream. "What's good for the goose" is exactly the rationale behind copyleft- if large corporations can use it to restrict user rights, the community can use it to protect them.

By not supporting copyleft, what you seem to think you're doing is consistently opposing copyright encumberances. But practically speaking, you're just giving up the fight- large corporations can enforce copyright and restrict users, and you don't support fighting back because you believe it would be philisophically inconsistent.

My contention here is that you're wrong, in the sense that we share a goal (software freedom) and your strategy will less effectively accomplish that goal than the one you oppose. Opposing copyleft will not end copyright, but it _will_ give all the benefits of copyright to those looking to restrict user freedom.
by arjie | 2026-03-09 02:03:41+00:00
The top of my page reads:

345 comments | 64 hidden | 50 blocked | 15 green

So I don't see people who annoyed me for one or other reason in the past, I auto-hide the top 1000 accounts by word count, and I hide all green users. This was trivial to write for myself and I think more people should work on something like this for themselves.
by smelendez | 2026-03-09 02:03:43+00:00
It’s interesting, a lot of use cases have migrated to tools like that, including Apple Notes, Notion, Slack Canvas and, of course, Gmail and Outlook.

I think a lot of people “need” Word the same way they “need” a pickup truck. It feels better to buy it up front than to worry about needing it on short notice and not having it.
by zackwu | 2026-03-09 02:03:48+00:00
As pointed out by many comments, the post seems US-centric and using zip code doesn't work for all countries.

But just for reference, in Singapore, we use 6-digit zip codes, each of which can uniquely locate a single building, so yes, a lot of local websites essentially just expect a zip code plus unit number, without the hassle of typing out the address at all.

Maybe what I wanted to say is, the idea is cool and _can_ work to enhance user experience with proper localization.
by sfpotter | 2026-03-09 02:03:57+00:00
Oops, talked to my wife and realized I got a detail wrong: we did not keep the diapers from the service, we gave them back. And the diapers we got from the service were almost surely used by plenty of other people before.

Someone else on here seemed confused about the logistics off the service. We lived in Brooklyn at the time. A big truck would drive around our neighborhood and pick up and drop off diapers from many people throughout the neighborhood at once. More amortization at work.

Also, one more thing: we're big on line drying. We will primarily line dry these diapers instead of drying them in a machine.

Oh, and one MORE thing: we got our current washer and dryer free from a friend who was about to throw them out when replacing them.

There are so many ways to mitigate and reduce environmental impact beyond the simple-minded apples-to-apples comparison many in this thread seem to be doing.
by jazzyjackson | 2026-03-09 02:03:57+00:00
Why do you feel this way? Did you also feel Iraq would be a short war? After all it was really no trouble gaining air superiority and replacing any nominal authority with our own.

I’m totally open to theories of how America and the world at large will recognize a new Iranian leadership, but as is the strategy seems to be “create a power vacuum and pray”
by czhu12 | 2026-03-09 02:04:03+00:00
I’ve been working on an open source tool that turns your Kubernetes into a Heroku like PaaS — https://canine.sh — for about two years

A problem that we had at my last startup was that we got stuck between not wanting to spend too much time on devops, and getting price gouged by Heroku.

We were too big for the deploy to a VPS type options like coolify, but too small to justify hiring a full time Devops.

Eventually a few of us had to just suck it up and learn Kubernetes properly. Was pleasantly surprised how elegant it all was.

I was surprised there wasn’t something that “just worked” and plugged into our Kubernetes cluster, made it user friendly, teams, roles, etc.
by JumpCrisscross | 2026-03-09 02:04:18+00:00
> Risk taking should be penalized harshly when the risk is high, that’s the nature of risk

If the odds (and pay-outs) are 10,000:1 and you cap pay-outs at 1,000:1, you've made a high-risk/high-reward risk unworkable in your economy. Systems that target a distribution tend to wind up in that mode, with the risk takers taking their risks (and producing their rewards) outside the system.

Keeping distributions stable means capping upsides. There are better ways to redistribute wealth.
by diacritical | 2026-03-09 02:05:18+00:00
Are they great at detecting normal prompts that don't try to make the LLM speak non-LLM-ishly? If you make the LLM not use em dashes, "it's not; it's" phrases and similar things, and if you make it make a few mistakes here and there, would it still be detected? My point is that if people aren't trying to hide their LLM use, it might work, otherwise it probably wouldn't. How would a detector tool work against output where the prompt tells the LLM to alter the way it writes? Or if the LLM output is being modified by another LLM specifically designed to mimic certain styles?

Like, why would my comment (or yours, or any other comment) pass or fail the LLM check the I/you/someone else used specific prompts or another LLM to edit the output? It seems like these tools would work on 99.9% of the outputs, but those outputs likely weren't created in an adversarial way.
by seltzered_ | 2026-03-09 02:05:50+00:00
My perspective of that situation is Link was a fairly popular poster, and had a post that was a quote post of someone from the Bluesky team with an image of an assassinated figure and an alt text that couldve been perceived as a threat to the bluesky team.

Some commentary ( https://bsky.app/profile/mackuba.eu/post/3m2jtzlznu22o ).

IIRC it came during a week of discourse & tensions around bluesky moderation concerning some controversial writers ( https://bsky.app/profile/jay.bsky.team/post/3m25esnq4t22y )

I share this just to be helpful a tiny bit but theres likely a lot of context missing and different perspectives on this.
by AnthonyMouse | 2026-03-09 02:06:10+00:00
> What is?

The notion that statutory damages were intended to exceed actual damages by such an unreasonable factor on purpose (hundreds to hundreds of thousands, when the standard for punitive damages is 3) rather than the ridiculous result of applying a law written with one circumstance in mind to an entirely different circumstance.

> A person retains a single copy for himself. However he does indeed actively participate in the creation of many other copies (potentially hundreds of thousands as you say).

Many of the early P2P networks (and some of the current ones, especially for small to medium files) don't have more than one user participating in any given transfer. If you wanted to download something on Napster it would connect to one other person and download the entire file from them, with no other users being involved.

That is also what happens in practice in modern day even for the networks that try to download different parts of the same file from different people, because connections are now fast enough that as soon as you connect to one peer, you have the whole file. A 3MB MP3 transfers in ~30ms on a gigabit connection, meanwhile the round trip latency to a peer in another city is typically something like 100ms (even for fast connections, because latency is bounded by the speed of light). So it's common to connect to one peer and have the entire file before you can even complete a handshake with a second one, and rather implausible for a file of that size to involve more than a single digit number of peers. Hundreds of thousands would be fully preposterous. And then we're back to, the number of uploads divided by the number of users is ~1, so if the average transfer involves, say, four peers, the number of uploads the average peer will have participated in for that file will also be four. Not hundreds, much less hundreds of thousands.

Meanwhile you're back to the problem where splitting the files should be splitting the liability. If four people each upload 25% of one file to each of four other people, the total number of copies is four, not sixteen. If you want to pin all four on the first person then also pinning all four on the second person is double dipping.
by welanes | 2026-03-09 02:06:18+00:00
Data extraction: https://simplescraper.io

A project that I launched on HN that became a business. Simplescraper rode the no-code wave of a few years back ('instant structured data without parsing html').

Now working on increasing the surface area for AI agents: MCP support, screenshots API, and (experimentally) x402[1]

[1] https://simplescraper.io/blog/x402-payment-protocol/
by sfpotter | 2026-03-09 02:07:24+00:00
Cloth shopping bags are a really bad comparison here.

Some things working in favor of cloth diapers here are general greening of the grid, mitigating issues with electricity consumption.

Beyond that, line drying diapers works very well and even preserves the life of the diapers.

Cloth diapers hold their value extremely well and can easily be bought/sold/given away on sites like OfferUp or groups like Buy Nothing.

ALso, "2 car trips per week": do you have no idea how this works? No diaper service in their right mind would send out cars to make bespoke trips to individuals. They're done using a big truck on a schedule to amortize the cost of pick up and drop off as much as possible.
by JumpCrisscross | 2026-03-09 02:07:28+00:00
> What did your response have to do with your quote?

The notion that growth can be unequal is not something that has changed. The anomaly was the post-WWII eventide regime.

That doesn't mean there is anything natural about unequal growth. But if we want to return to that previous mode, we have to first understand what it was. And what it was was anomalous.
by anon373839 | 2026-03-09 02:07:35+00:00
But the end results aren’t actually close. That is why frontier LLMs don’t know you need to drive your car to the car wash (until they are inevitably fine-tuned on this specific failure mode). I don’t think there is much true generalization happening with these models - more a game of whack-a-mole all the way down.
by embedding-shape | 2026-03-09 02:07:50+00:00
> I work remote, and that's currently my main way to gratify social cravings. But it's not a consistent way, since the time zone difference is quite large (I'm -7 hours vs them).

Go back to working together with people, face to face, if that's something you maybe miss. Everyone works in different ways, some people need to spend their long days while working at least together with other people, and that's ok.
by abustamam | 2026-03-09 02:08:07+00:00
Yeah it's an interesting argument. Also, coffees (especially Starbucks coffees) rarely cost $3 anymore. Maybe if you just get a regular brewed coffee but when I think of Starbucks I don't think of their coffees on tap, I think of their $7+ lattes or frapps that are less coffee and more dessert. Anyway, I digress.

Point being, a small expense once is one small expense. A small expense daily can easily become a huge expense.

That being said, I'm not gonna be prescriptive and say that no one should get their daily coffee. But they need to be aware what it costs them. If they know the cost and are ok with it then by all means, order away! I hope your friends are at least now making a conscious choice to spend $1000+ a year on coffee :)
by happiness0067 | 2026-03-09 02:08:18+00:00
I'm building out https://measuretocut.com, which started as a tool for myself to help with planning board cuts (and now sheet cuts). It calculates how much material you need for your project and gives you a plan for the materials and shows all the cuts you need to make and where to make them.

First release was in December for 1D cuts. Last month I released sheet cutting for 2D cut calculation. It's been working well for my own projects and it started getting consistent daily users since my last update in February. You can save projects now on the site for you to come back to later.

Any feedback is welcome. I'm always looking for what features to add next.
by Macha | 2026-03-09 02:08:22+00:00
> although dresses were worn much longer than necessary for toilet training, so they must have had another purpose or benefit too

Easier to reuse across a wider range of child sizes (either the same child over time, or siblings). You don’t need to worry about e.g. leg diameter or crotch/knee heights like you would with trousers, so can get by basically just folding it to fit height and waist. In an era where people modified and repaired their own clothes more rather than having modern cheaper but more disposable clothes, that would matter more.
by Mockapapella | 2026-03-09 02:08:45+00:00
I'm working on a TUI-based agent orchestrator called Tenex: https://github.com/Mockapapella/tenex

It's gone a long way to solve the "review" bottleneck people have been experiencing (though admittedly it doesn't fix all of it), and I'm in the process of adding support for Mac and Windows (WSL for now, native some other time).

Some of the features I've had for a while, like multi-project agent worktrees, have been added as a part of the Codex App, so it's good to see that this practice is proliferating because it makes it so much easier to manage the clusterf** that is managing 20+ agents at once without it.

I'm feeling the itch to have this working on mobile as well so I might prioritize that, and I'm planning to have a meta-agent that can talk to Tenex over some kind of API via tool calls so you can say things like "In project 2, spawn 5 agents, 2 codex, 2 claude, 1 kimi, use 5.2 and 5.4 for codex, use Opus for the claudes, and once kimi is finished launch 10 review agents on its code".
by AdieuToLogic | 2026-03-09 02:09:00+00:00
Great post, thanks for sharing it!

When I saw the title, I thought of Lambda Calculus[0] and SKI combinators[1]. Given that there are "only six useful colors", I wonder if M&Ms could be used to implement them.

0 - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lambda_calculus

1 - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SKI_combinator_calculus
by komali2 | 2026-03-09 02:09:55+00:00
It sounds to me like the issue is you're mistaking the democrats for a left party.

An actual leftist party would ban private jets before it banned natural gas in homes.

The Democrats are a neoliberal conservative party. They'll always put the interests of Capital first.

I sympathize, I'm not sure what Americans are meant to do about their utterly captured government.
by sfpotter | 2026-03-09 02:10:51+00:00
The energy saving is clear and gets better year after year as the grid continues to green. You can also line dry cloth diapers which saves a lot of energy.

I never had any trouble with cloth diapers. You can always have a blow out with any diaper, but I didn't have any issues beyond that. Of course, there's some technique, but it's easy enough to find a YouTube tutorial if you need it. Snappies and decent covers help.
by JumpCrisscross | 2026-03-09 02:12:07+00:00
> another unproven allegation by Israel

There is substantial evidence Hamas stored munitions in hospitals and at schools. One hospital in particular has long been notorious for dual use issues [1].

We don't yet know if Iran is doing this. (There are allegations. But not yet substantiated.) But if a source is confused about whether Hamas waged war from hospitals and schools, it's not a reliable source for this war.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alleged_military_use_of_al-Shi...