MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by mboto | 2026-03-11 15:27:55+00:00
Lucy Connolly, used very poor speech in haste and deleted the tweet. Pressured to plead guilty: https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/ce83pj1ggmeo

Maxie Allen and Rosalind Levine "Parents arrested for complaining about school in WhatsApp group": https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home-news/parents-arre...

Chelsea Russell, "a 19-year-old woman from Liverpool, was sentenced to an eight-week community order, a curfew from 8 p.m. to 8 a.m., and an electronic ankle tag after being found guilty of sending a grossly offensive message by posting rap lyrics on her Instagram account." The lyrics were in homage to her friend who had died and this was their favourite song. https://www.liverpoolecho.co.uk/news/liverpool-news/woman-wh...

Jamie Michael, Royal Marine, expressing unhappiness with mass-immigration https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c75zke1l7ylo

Sam Melia, two years for distributing stickers saying “We will be a minority in our homeland by 2066”, “Mass immigration is white genocide”, “intolerance is a virtue”: https://www.gbnews.com/news/sam-melia-free-speech-activists-...

Some of these people might be saying unpalatable things, but criminalising them or arresting them is having a huge effect on free speech. Once we give these rights away, they can and will be used any other government that gets in power, and at some point there will be one you don't agree with. These rights are hard won, and easily lost.
by newpavlov | 2026-03-11 15:28:00+00:00
>1 might be ok but introduces a bunch of opcode space waste.

I wouldn't call it "waste". Moreover, it's fine for misaligned instructions to use a wider encoding or be less rich than their aligned counterparts. For example, they may not have the immediate offset or have a shorter one. One fun potential possibility is to encode the misaligned variant into aligned instructions using the immediate offset with all bits set to one, as a side effect it also would make the offset fully symmetric.
by slibhb | 2026-03-11 15:28:29+00:00
There are lots of anti-AI commenters on HN. Also, I didn't say there are no downsides. There are downsides to writing! And some people were against writing, like Socrates.

You should ask yourself why you're okay with innovations that happened in the past but not okay with innovations happening now. It could just be reflexive conservativism.

Of course there's no guarantee that AI will be more positive than negative, but I see no compelling reason to believe that. Most of the anti-AI sentiment is just people not liking new things.
by LegionMammal978 | 2026-03-11 15:28:33+00:00
In general, I find that minimax approximation is an underappreciated tool, especially the quite simple Remez algorithm to generate an optimal polynomial approximation [0]. With some modifications, you can adapt it to optimize for either absolute or relative error within an interval, or even come up with rational-function approximations. (Though unfortunately, many presentations of the algorithm use overly-simple forms of sample point selection that can break down on nontrivial input curves, especially if they contain small oscillations.)

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Remez_algorithm
by CGMthrowaway | 2026-03-11 15:28:41+00:00
What's interesting to me is that one of the biggest booms in pharma over the last ~10 years has been biologics / monoclonal antibodies that treat auto-immune diseases by SUPRESSING cytokines. Examples include TNF inhibitors like Remicade/Humira/Enbrel; or specific IL-XX inhibitors like Dupixent/Cosentyx/Skyrizi/Tremfya/etc; or interferon therapies for MS. These are increasingly used for a broad (unlimited?) set of autoimmune or inflammatory diseases and work by blocking specific cytokines to reduce immune overactivity.

What this treatment does is the opposite side of that coin, it mimics cytokines in order to PROMOTE an immune response.

Immune regulation is an area that deserves a lot more research, and there is going to be learning (harm) along the way. An increasing body of science is pointing to autoimmune diseases being triggered by traditional vaccines, which are then treated by the biologics above that increase the likelihood of other disease due to immunosuppression, which can now be treated(?) by a new immunobooster AKA universal vaccine?
Show HN: Canonry – Open-source AEO monitor (track how AI engines cite you)
by arberx | 2026-03-11 15:28:47+00:00
We couldn't find a good open source solution for this so we built Canonry to monitor how ChatGPT, Gemini, and Claude represent and cite our sites.

It tracks visibility scores, citation-readiness, and brand accuracy across providers over time.
Self-hosted on SQLite, config-as-code in YAML, CLI and API are first-class.

Would love some feedback!
by dragonwriter | 2026-03-11 15:28:58+00:00
> Tax rates under 2% of property value should not "flabbergast" anyone

The national average effective property tax rate is, IIRC, below 1.5% for all property and below 1% for owner-occupied homes. It is really not surprising that people coming to Texas under the popular illusion that it is a tax refuge whose property tax expectations are set by the places they are coming from are flabbergasted by Texas’ property taxes.
by palmotea | 2026-03-11 15:29:07+00:00
With all we've been learning from stuff like the Epstein emails, it would have been nice if someone had leaked this data:

> 46.5 million chat messages. From a workforce that uses this tool to discuss strategy, client engagements, financials, M&A activity, and internal research. Every conversation, stored in plaintext, accessible without authentication.

> 728,000 files. 192,000 PDFs. 93,000 Excel spreadsheets. 93,000 PowerPoint decks. 58,000 Word documents. The filenames alone were sensitive and a direct download URL for anyone who knew where to look.

I'm sure lots of very informative journalism could have been done about how corporate power actually works behind the scenes.
by cpburns2009 | 2026-03-11 15:29:15+00:00
From what I gather the maxxer/maxxing suffix is young Gen Z slang for hyper fixation. Looksmaxxing is being obsessed with your looks. Jestermaxxing would then be an outrageous jester or clown for the sake of it? Maybe it's a synonym for rage-baiting? I'll return to guarding my lawn.
by rednb | 2026-03-11 15:29:48+00:00
It does not need to be all or nothing though. It simply needs to be true for a large enough number of people, to create an extremely valuable market.

We are over 8 billion on earth, even if as little as 1% of the population rely on it directly or indirectly due to some form of oppression real or perceived due to political opinions, a long investment thesis on bitcoin can make sense.

I am not a bitcoin holder once this is said. Arrived at the party too late IMHO, and i have better investment options for now from a risk-adjusted perspective.

However if i had more cash to invest than i know what to do with, i'd definitely take a long position on bitcoin.
by mmustapic | 2026-03-11 15:30:20+00:00
Lego is some kind of cultural icon now, and many people want to participate. That's why they have tons of sets aimed at adults over many themes, like plastic flowers, formula 1 helmets, old video game consoles.

Many of them are a really bad and expensive purchase if you only care about the theme itself, like the latest Death Star (or almost any Lego Star Wars set). You can usually buy a similar and cheaper non-lego model. Or the Titanic set too.
by Aurornis | 2026-03-11 15:30:58+00:00
The existence of specialty sets doesn’t subtract from creating building.

My kids get some of the specialty sets, build them, then hours later they’re either taken apart or heavily modified.

The specialty sets can provide some interesting unique pieces too. My kids have a photographic memory of each of those special pieces and which set they came from. They’ll remember them and search until they find that exact piece.

> Sets become collectible, perishable, trends can form, secondary markets exists, etc. It's simply about the baseline, not the principle. Sorry.

I don’t know what this is supposed to mean, but you can completely ignore secondary markets and collector sets if you want.

There are more sets and pieces than ever. You don’t have to collect anything.
by ge96 | 2026-03-11 15:31:15+00:00
It's interesting I briefly thought about getting into "live coding" or Strudel (or Sonic Pi), this kind of thing where you write code to produce music

But as a non-music person and developer I'd rather use an interface like Ableton where you see separate tracks/times line up kind of thing... but aside from that I ended up just getting a music subscription service that you can use in your YT videos which is what I was after.

Everything is a time sink it seems, gotta choose where you put your time into if 40 hrs of your life is taken up by day job already.
by blockmandev | 2026-03-11 15:31:39+00:00
Pure Rust ternary inference engine based on BitNet b1.58-2B-4T. No Python, no CUDA, no external ML frameworks. Single executable + model weights = portable AI that runs on any machine.

Zero-multiplication inference — ternary weights {-1, 0, +1} mean the inner GEMV loop uses only addition and subtraction, no floating-point multiply. Smart system awareness — detects RAM and CPU at startup and adjusts generation limits automatically.
by SlinkyOnStairs | 2026-03-11 15:32:14+00:00
If you'll humor a cheeky substitution:

> No, your VC investors don't give a damn what you deliver. They only care about the valuation. Lie if you have to. Hype up your project like it's the greatest thing in the world. Do whatever to enable security fraud.

People are quite good at recognizing this dynamic amongst crypto startups.

Yet they pretend it's not the driving force in both the VC world and Big Tech.
by jmye | 2026-03-11 15:32:16+00:00
And you distinctly remember every single one of those 5-6 years getting sick immediately after, and getting the flu the same year? Again, come on now. This isn't even anecdata, it's just invented memories to push a conclusion you arrived at in your 20s with no actual understanding or basis of knowledge. I assume you think there are no benefits to having gotten the flu vaccine, if you do happen to get the flu after, either, for reasons that are surely backed by strong evidence and subject matter expertise, and not like, Facebook posts.

I don't know why people feel so compelled to invent stories about vaccines they hate but don't even vaguely understand, especially when the creative writing is so poor. It's such a weirdly pervasive thing in healthcare, that people think basic existence is the same as expertise.
by gwerbin | 2026-03-11 15:32:23+00:00
> This particular treatment seems like it would stimulate immune response all the time which doesn’t strike me as a good thing. I may stick to a multivitamin for now.

They're going to say it's "safe", and only the crackpot wingnuts who believe in ancient aliens will complain, and then in 30 years when we realize it actually wasn't as safe as claimed, the next generation of The Powers that Be will make a big show of banning them and tout it as a big win for public health.
by rayiner | 2026-03-11 15:32:28+00:00
You’re comparing to California, but we’re talking about this proposed Washington tax. California’s tax schedule is actually much more like Germany’s than this proposed Washington income tax.

In California, the big jump comes at $72,000, where the 9.3% rate kicks in. The $742,000 rate is only a little higher, at 12.3%. That’s similar to Germany where 42% kicks in at 70,000 euros (top 15%) and the top rate is only a little higher at 45%.
Show HN: Another SQLite editor in browser powered by WASM and AI
by akhil977 | 2026-03-11 15:32:53+00:00
Hey HN,

I guess this is just another SQLITE editor powered by WASM, I created this to help me write queries faster with AI like we have autocomplete in VS Code. I also added few features which are important to me as data scientist:

Copy results to clipboard, I dont want to always export to excel/csv, sometimes just copy to clipboard is way handier.

Quickly select a table but not all rows

Quickly check number of records in a table

Export a large table to CSV, I have tested a table > 1 M rows, and it could export it all in browser.

Look at historical queries

Added AI to quickly formulate query. You need to add your own API keys.

Functionalities in this editor is more centred around my day-to-day requirements, let me know if you find it interesting. If you use SQLIte in your day-to-day life, I guess this would be helpful.

Its an MIT licensed project, so feel free to explore.

Also, I have partially vibe coded this tool. It is not possible for me to write all the front end code. I have used vanillay JS + Old school bootstrap framework.

Link: https://sql.computelite.com/

Github: https://github.com/airen1986/sqlite-client

Thanks
by rramadass | 2026-03-11 15:32:55+00:00
Nice comparison of Hoare vs. Dijkstra.

Hoare was more focused and diplomatic while Dijkstra was more of a free-ranging philosopher.

I still remember the first time i came across Hoare Logic/Triple and Dijkstra's GCL/Weakest precondition, understanding nothing and feeling like a complete dolt.

As a young'un i thought knowing the syntax of a language and learning some idioms/patterns was all you needed for programming. Reading Hoare/Dijkstra showed me where mathematical theory met programming practice.
Show HN: GladeKit – AI agent for Unity game development
by danielfang7 | 2026-03-11 15:33:14+00:00
We’ve been building GladeKit, an AI agent for Unity game development that works directly inside the editor. Instead of just generating code, it reads the actual project state: scene hierarchy, scripts, selected objects, component values, installed packages, and compiler errors - then takes actions inside Unity.

What it does today:
- 150+ native Unity actions (create prefabs, wire components, configure Animator Controllers, build UI, set up physics, lighting, and NavMeshes)
- Reads real editor context before taking action
- Project-aware modes for Agent, Debug, and Ask workflows
- Turn-by-turn revert and script diff viewer so changes are inspectable and reversible

I started this because most “AI for game dev” tools still leave you doing the actual editor work manually: pasting scripts, assigning references, fixing errors, and clicking through the inspector.

It’s still early, but I’d especially love feedback from Unity developers on where this feels genuinely useful versus where it still breaks down.

Try it here: https://gladekit.com
by kody | 2026-03-11 15:33:33+00:00
It’s a tricky philosophy to put into practice. I have oscillated between this approach (“owning” the effort) and “owning” the outcome. I have found that taking ownership of the outcome leads to better results because I have a personal stake in the outcome and I tend to think through the problem more deeply, but I am almost always left feeling more stressed and “empty” when the work is finished. When I focus on doing the best I can and let go of the outcome, the end result is almost always subpar which leaves me feeling frustrated, because I know it could have been better had I taken on more responsibility.
Show HN: Run 100 RAG experiments in parallel, even on a single GPU
by kbigdelysh | 2026-03-11 15:33:45+00:00
Hey HN,

We built RapidFire AI, an open-source framework that lets you compare dozens (or hundreds) of RAG and context engineering configurations in parallel, without needing a GPU cluster.

The problem: Tuning a RAG pipeline means experimenting with chunk sizes, embedding models, retrieval strategies, reranking thresholds, prompt schemes, generator models, and more. With traditional tools, you run these sequentially, wait for each to finish on the full dataset, and then compare. That's painfully slow and wastes tokens/compute on configs you'd have killed after seeing the first 10% of results.

Our approach: RapidFire AI shards your eval dataset and schedules all configs one shard at a time, cycling through them with efficient swapping. You get running metric estimates with confidence intervals in real time, based on online aggregation from the database systems literature. Spot a bad config early? Stop it. See a promising one? Clone it and tweak knobs on the fly, no restart needed.

On a beefy machine you can comfortably run 100+ configs in a single experiment. Want to see it in action without installing anything? We have a Google Colab tutorial that runs 4 RAG retrieval configs in parallel on a free Colab GPU, zero local setup, under 2 minutes to get started. It builds a financial Q&A pipeline on the FiQA dataset, grid-searches over chunk sizes and reranker settings, and shows live metrics with confidence intervals as the configs run. If you're only calling OpenAI or other closed APIs, you don't even need a GPU at all.

Colab: https://colab.research.google.com/github/RapidFireAI/rapidfi...

Key features:

- pip install rapidfireai, pure Python, works on CPU-only, single-GPU, or multi-GPU

- Wraps LangChain for retrieval/reranking, supports vLLM + OpenAI for generation

- Interactive Control (IC) Ops: stop, resume, clone-modify configs mid-run from a dashboard or notebook

- Online aggregation with confidence intervals for statistically informed early-stopping decisions

- Grid search and random search over any knob (chunk size, top-k, reranker model, prompt template, generator params, etc.)

- MLflow-based metrics dashboard with real-time plots

Example speedup: 16 RAG configs x 400 queries at ~10s/query takes ~18 hours sequentially. With RapidFire AI + IC Ops (stop poor performers early, clone winners), we got it down to ~4 hours on the same machine, a 4.7x improvement while exploring more configs and reaching better final metrics.

Docs: https://oss-docs.rapidfire.ai

Tutorial notebooks (FiQA financial QA, GSM8K math reasoning, SciFact claim verification): https://github.com/RapidFireAI/rapidfireai/tree/main/tutoria...

Github: https://github.com/RapidFireAI/rapidfireai

We'd love feedback on what knobs/integrations matter most to you. Happy to answer questions here.
by Aurornis | 2026-03-11 15:33:59+00:00
Lego suffers from a fandom problem among adults: They have strong nostalgia for how it was when they were kids and they think everything since then is against the natural order of Lego.

The best way to enjoy Lego is to give it to some kids and watch them get creative with it. Unlike all of the Internet complaints, kids have no problem having fun with Lego and being creative in their own ways.
by dethstrobe | 2026-03-11 15:34:00+00:00
I've been using RWSDK since it was in v0 last year. I really like how simple and elegant it is.

And now with v1 there are some really logical patterns that I really enjoy.

Like returning Responses from server actions and then the framework automatically handles things like redirecting. https://docs.rwsdk.com/core/react-server-components/#returni...

Like it always felt a bit like a hack needing to add a client component to handle redirects after submitting a form. But RWSDK gives a pretty elegant solution.

And that's just one of many intuitive features of RWSDK. I also like the `useSyncedState` hook they made that makes it very trivial to make real time communication between clients, for something like say, a chat room. https://docs.rwsdk.com/experimental/realtime/

I also dogfooded a reporter I've been working on with the initial v0 tutorial for this. Which then I rewrote that tutorial to demonstrate TDD principles for the v1-beta (to my knowledge there are no breaking changes between v1-beta and the final release, but I'll be going through later to confirm that.) https://www.test2doc.com/docs/tutorial-1
by catapart | 2026-03-11 15:34:29+00:00
Ah, I see! Very cool! Yeah, this is the kind of thing I was looking for, so this should give me what I need to test some proof of concepts. Thanks for the links! I do wish there were something a little more ergonomic, but I'm way too far into the begging to be choosing, here, so I'm quite happy to take what I can get.

In any case, I really do appreciate the dual links. It's so much harder to suss out the boundaries of a library with only one implementation. This was really helpful.
by collabs | 2026-03-11 15:34:37+00:00
The time to talk about these things is when we spend them,
not when we need to pay for them though.

Logically speaking, the solution is clear going forward:

1. Higher taxes
2. Reduced government spending

However, we are not willing to have these difficult conversations and are focused on appeasing people.

Also, lets put things in context -- here is a summary from Claude. Over the last decade, federal income taxes went down for nearly everyone in rate terms, but the percentage benefit was larger for high earners and corporations.
by safteylayer | 2026-03-11 15:34:45+00:00
Spot on about the 2am 401 error being where security dies. The "lazy-paste" is universal.

But here's what I'm finding: regex on outbound requests isn't enough anymore because the model has already been "pre-poisoned" by years of people NOT sanitizing.

Example from our testing:

Vector SL-013 didn't just leak "EPHEMERAL_KEY" - it leaked architectural details:
- The `ek_` prefix pattern
- That keys are "ephemeral" (short-lived session tokens)
- The Realtime API context (where they're used)
- Implicit TTL expectations

A regex catches `sk-proj-...` going OUT. But it doesn't catch the model describing how keys work based on what it learned from training data.

To your question: Yes, this is widespread. I'm seeing it across:
- GPT-4 (documented APIs leak most)
- Claude (similar patterns with Anthropic's features)
- Gemini (Google Cloud API internals)
- Open models trained on GitHub (leak common patterns)

The pattern: The more a company documents a feature (to help developers), the more the model can leak about it when prompted.

SafetyLayer isn't replacing sanitization - it's solving the "Day 2" problem: How do you audit what the model has already learned about your stack from previous leaks?

Sanitization = prevention going forward
SafetyLayer = detection of what's already escaped

I run 784 variants weekly because what leaks on Tuesday might not leak on Wednesday (non-deterministic), and what gets patched in GPT-4 might still work in Claude.

The 75% intermittent leak rate we found means one-time regex + one-time audit both miss the probabilistic nature of these vulnerabilities.
by cubefox | 2026-03-11 15:35:08+00:00
I think this approach is not so interesting because it's just quantization of a full precision model. So it speeds up inference (at a quality penalty) but not training. It would be more interesting to train an actually binary model directly, without any floating point multiplication, like in this paper: https://proceedings.neurips.cc/paper_files/paper/2024/hash/7...
by jmye | 2026-03-11 15:35:25+00:00
> I don’t think you understand it, if you cannot connect the dots.

This doesn't mean anything.

> Chances for survival to reproduce of some individuals are greatly influenced by survival of their relatives in the same group. The traits that help whole group to survive will win in natural selection, including those that extend survival beyond what’s necessary to reproduce to what’s beneficial for the group.

Which, of course, has absolutely nothing to do with whether current traits are optimized for perfection, or simply sufficient for continued reproduction. Again, evolution isn't min-maxing your video game character. I'm not clear why you have such strident opinions on something you don't understand very well.
by vends | 2026-03-11 15:35:27+00:00
Congrats on the launch! While the focus is on humans, I found many of the principles here to be very relevant for building with AI.

With LLMs able to generate the "magic" with ease, I can see the role of frameworks shifting a bit. Instead of hiding complexity, it's surely more beneficial to expose the primitives clearly enough that both you and an LLM can follow the request lifecycle.

The bet on Cloudflare is pretty bold, but it does make sense given how unique their products like DO and Workers are. I suppose there's not much of an escape hatch if you ever needed one?