MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by credit_guy | 2026-03-09 19:46:14+00:00
I know this is not related to the legal merits of the case being discussed, but who runs a red light? In my experience, this is an infarction that occurs very infrequently. Speeding or illegal parking happen all the time, but running a red light? Most people are not suicidal.

Edit: Nevermind, I think crossing on yellow and catching a tenth of a second of red counts as running a red light. If it does, it’s something I did myself a few times (of course, all in the distant past, the statute of limitations has pased now …)
by pfraze | 2026-03-09 19:46:30+00:00
This move came from Jay so that she could focus more on the atproto ecosystem and forward looking development. Personally, I'm happy for her. The CEO role gets extremely wrapped up in operations & org building, and as a technologist I'm not sure it would be for me.

I've met with Toni a couple of times and he seems really excellent. He was CEO of Automattic (Wordpress) from 2006 to 2014, and that means a fair amount of expertise making an open-source-first company work. He cares about an open internet and protocol, and seems very keen to drive the mission forward.

For a little extra assurance, atproto is hopefully quite close to establishing an IETF working group, and the DID PLC Directory is likewise close to establishing the independent entity. Our priorities for an open network are unchanged.
by Retric | 2026-03-09 19:46:31+00:00
> can be more efficient at narrowly defined tasks

My point was in narrowly defined task of turning chemical energy to motion, a Jet engine is less efficient than muscle fibers if you use ATP as the point of comparison. Biology got really efficient at that very narrowly defined task.

> Evolution has never had the goal 'evolve human consciousness as quickly and efficiently as possible'

Evolving as efficiently as possible isn’t the goal. But turn an egg into human consciousness as efficiently as possible is definitely a goal, of course it gets to leverage everything else the brain needs to be doing rather than starting from scratch here.
by lich_king | 2026-03-09 19:46:41+00:00
It is a zero-sum game in some sense, because you go where your friends or "influencers" are.

Mastodon ended up losing its user base to Bluesky during the early Twitter exodus because many influencers and journalists wanted to have an "elite" status and a special relationship with the platform, so they preferred a platform owned by Dorsey to some hippie open-source thing. Bluesky, in turn, ended up losing back to Twitter/X when it turned out to be a place where you mostly talk about how awful Twitter/X is.

I want to say that we don't need social networks where we constantly interact with hundreds of thousands of strangers, but I'm writing this on HN, so...
by delfinom | 2026-03-09 19:46:46+00:00
Shit, HR doesn't even exist to protect the company sometimes. Sometimes they get so cancerous that they start to operate as if the company works for them.

Hence my megacorp's most recent CEO fired the CPO, and hired a long time former company employee with no HR background to go clean house of the infestation of Vice-Vice-Vice-Vice-Vice-Vice-Vice-Vice Presidents in HR.
by rvz | 2026-03-09 19:46:47+00:00
What did Mastodon win exactly?

Threads being the biggest Mastodon instance and federating with mastodon.social (Meta signed contracts with instance maintainers to do so) and the other 3 largest instances (Pawoo, baragg (d_o_t) net, and mstdn (d-o-t) jp) taking up more that >70% of the total users using it?

That doesn't sound good.

The CEO sold all of us out and was the only one that made real money on Mastodon.
by joe_mamba | 2026-03-09 19:46:58+00:00
>The current operation at week 1 has already a worse public approval than the Vietnam war after 5 years of american dying in ground operations.

Do you have a source for this? Numbers I find online vary wildly.

Edit: I found Al Jazeera was the one saying what you said, but I can't classify them as objective and accurate in this case, sorry.

If the war with Iran is indeed that unpopular we'll see at the midterms.
by cogman10 | 2026-03-09 19:47:16+00:00
I disagree.

Coal requires transport and extraction which are both pretty expensive processes.

In my home town of ~300 people, there was just a couple of houses which used coal for heating. That's because sourcing and transporting coal was quiet expensive.

Electric heating was much more common. Even the old expensive baseboard resistive heaters.

When we talk about extreme rural areas, what you end up finding is solar and batteries end up being the most preferred energy sources. This has been true for decades. That higher upfront cost is offset by not having to transport fuel.

It's why you'll find a lot of cabins in pretty remote locations are ultimately solar powered. This is long before the precipitous price drop of solar.
by red-iron-pine | 2026-03-09 19:47:39+00:00
the parent is a dramatic simplification, but yeah kinda starcraft-ish.

seeing where everything is, identifying whats a friend and not, and being able to react and move quickly.

automation and battle language and interfaces, etc.

a cursory academic overview: https://netlab.gmu.edu/pubs/10F-SIW-058.pdf

essentially, the interface discussed in the pdf is automated on the backend via AI, various JBOSS functions, etc.

the other piece is automated target recognition via arial and satellite images. imagery analysis has been a thing since WWI and with satellites you can get visibility to the point you can see license plates at the correct angle. scanning that level of detail 24/7 is very hard... but not with strong AI tools...
by svilen_dobrev | 2026-03-09 19:48:00+00:00
i've been following this for a while.. and the trend for copyright (of any form - books code pictures music whatever) being laundered by reinventing the "same" thing in-some-way.. is kind-of clear.

But what happens with the new things? Has the era of software-making (or creating things at large) finished, and from now on everything will be re-(gurgitated|implemented|polished) old stuff?

Or all goes back to proprietary everything.. Babylon-tower style, noone talks to noone?
Ask HN: What should an international dev do today?
by jzu | 2026-03-09 19:48:55+00:00
I have worked as a dev at the same company for years but they cancelled my contract out of the blue, and I haven't been able to find work since.

Ironically the only interview I have managed to get was with Amazon, but I did not pass the Technical Phone Screen. I was doing LeetCode for a while but it does not seem so fruitful anymore.

I don't live in the US but they pay much more than local jobs, so I want to target a remote role. The problem is that I don't know how I should break in.

It appears that there aren't a lot companies open to international devs, and those that are have too many candidates.
Other options to consider would be freelancing or trying to launch some sort of product, but I don't have any experience with those.

What I really should do is to get working on a project that shows what I can do, since all my work was at the company and I have nothing to show for. But I'm not sure what would be the best to invest in, from contributing to existing projects, creating extensions for them or building something from scratch.

Any thoughts are welcome.
by AJRF | 2026-03-09 19:49:03+00:00
I've found lately that between age gating and twitter being - well I don't want to get into it - I am no longer looking for replacements - I just want to stop using those parts of the internet.

Now I am down to file sharing, email and functions related to my job, a little youtube - but trying to ween myself of that. The internet as I knew it is dead.
by butILoveLife | 2026-03-09 19:49:21+00:00
I'm agnostic, not atheist.

There can be a God, but I don't see him writing any messages in the sky. I def don't think the doctrines given to us by old men are god.

(Also, I try really hard to stay away from contemporary philosophy because most people are academia, and academia is awful. I genuinely think they are subpar, but mostly because they are indoctrinated with platonic realism and that permeates/infects them.)
by webstudioltd | 2026-03-09 19:49:24+00:00
We are a small web agency and we were paying for GitBook for every client docs site. $65/month per site + $12/user. It adds up fast.

So I built a replacement. Took a while, but the result is something I'm genuinely happy with — and I figured others might find it useful too, so I open-sourced it.

What it is: A self-hosted documentation platform. Think GitBook, but you own it.

What makes it different:
- 4 files — `index.php`, `api.php`, `auth.php`, `.htaccess`. That's the entire thing. Upload to any PHP hosting and you're done.
- No database — everything is stored as JSON files. No MySQL, no Postgres, no Docker, no nothing.
- No build process — no npm, no webpack, no React. Just upload and it works.

What's inside:
- Block editor with 14 block types (code with syntax highlighting, tables, cards, timeline, callouts, collapsible sections...)
- Slash commands — type `/` to insert blocks, just like Notion
- Full-text search (Ctrl+K)
- Dark & light mode, custom accent colors, logo, favicon
- Spaces, tree navigation, drag & drop pages
- Cover images with gradients
- Auto-generated OG images for social sharing
- Code blocks with Prism.js (200+ languages) and copy button
- Undo/redo, drag & drop block reordering
- Mobile responsive
- Setup wizard with bcrypt password hashing
- i18n ready (English + Slovak built-in)

Live demo: https://docs.web-studio.sk (password: DemoPassword@123)

GitHub: https://github.com/webstudio-ltd/docs

MIT licensed. Free forever. We're also working on a premium version with advanced features for teams, but the open-source version is fully functional and will stay free.

Would love to hear your feedback. What would you add? What's missing?
by BSTRhino | 2026-03-09 19:49:40+00:00
https://easel.games

A 2D game programming language with automatic multiplayer. Normally when you make a multiplayer game, you have to constantly think about how every bit of state is going to be synchronized. Easel bakes the multiplayer into the programming language itself, underneath all your code, so you can just code as if all players are in one shared world, like a singleplayer game, and Easel just makes your game multiplayer completely automatically. It’s intended as a fun way for beginners to learn to code - like a combination of Scratch and Roblox.
by scottlamb | 2026-03-09 19:49:53+00:00
> ...then again I did a search for a couple strings and ran across https://github.com/keshavdv/unifi-cam-proxy . It's the opposite direction of what I want (makes a standard camera work with Unifi Protect) but maybe contains the protocol details I'm looking for...

Actually, yes. I got lazy and just asked Claude Code to write a server, using that as a reference...and it worked. It was able to change the password and have it start streaming flv video. Not exactly a production-quality implementation but as a proof-of-concept it's quite successful.
by ryandrake | 2026-03-09 19:49:54+00:00
It seems like this employee was in a no-win situation. If he engaged in the non-work-related conversation the co-worker was trying to initiate, he would have been fired. If he ignored the co-worker, they would have found a reason to fire him. Instead, he responded saying he was advised to keep communication to just work topics... and he was fired. The company was clearly planning on firing him for any possible reason.

His first mistake was complaining to HR about another employee griefing him. HR is always going to consider the initial complainer as "the problem."
by fweimer | 2026-03-09 19:50:08+00:00
Apparently the harvesting procedure typically (but not always?) involves general anesthesia. That alone is never entirely risk-free. In this context, the temporary loss of bodily autonomy could be particularly problematic. All that comes on top of the required hormone treatment. It's not a trivial procedure.

On the other hand, it may be a useful tool to resist expectations to become a mother until it becomes socially acceptable to say no. So it might be important even if the eggs are not getting used.
by vivekraja | 2026-03-09 19:50:10+00:00
We don't support docker-in-docker yet, but that's something on our short term roadmap. We have the need for this ourselves! For now, you could call a different service to spin up your sandbox with the image of your codebase. Not ideal, but this is what we do now.

Yes, you can use your own subscriptions as long as you follow their guidelines
by ApolloFortyNine | 2026-03-09 19:50:30+00:00
The logic is fine, but hit and runs just became a lot easier to get away with then no? Especially with tinted windows being so prevalent you very well might not even be able to give a description at all of the driver, and they can just later say they found their car like that.

Probably a lot of other issues arise from that. If your car gets towed for being illegally parked, what if you just say you didn't park it there? Seems like a similar violation to a red light ticket.
by thrance | 2026-03-09 19:50:53+00:00
Lesser of two evils, I guess. People are tired of Israel/The US annihilating girl schools with expensive missile strikes and then have to hear from Netanyahou that it was actuall an Hamas/Hezbollah/Whatever hidden base. Also notice that you won't find any support for these terrorist organizations here, so I don't know what listing them achieves.
by rayiner | 2026-03-09 19:50:55+00:00
Bill Clinton passed sweeping laws to curb illegal immigration, including the ban on using federal dollars to support illegal immigrants: https://scholars.org/brief/how-americas-1996-immigration-act.... Progressives meantime took positions that were fringe in the 1990s, like cultural relativism, and redefined that as “rejecting hate.”

Bill Clinton Democrats had the vocabulary to articulate why foreign cultural enclaves like Little Bangladesh were undesirable. Progressives today have no such vocabulary. They don’t even have the vocabulary to justify existing immigration laws, because they’ve gone from believing that individuals should be treated equally to believing that culturally different groups should be treated as being fungible with assimilated Americans.
by youarentrightjr | 2026-03-09 19:51:20+00:00
> I think the argument is generally: nobody has a right to drive a car, it's something we permit by issuing a license and other regulations. One of the conditions is that the owner of a vehicle is ultimately responsible for it.

Do you know you can be licensed to drive a vehicle without owning one, and similarly, own one without being licensed to drive it?

Why would the owner of the property be responsible for someone else's actions with that property?
Show HN: PDF to JPG converter that runs in the browser (no uploads)
by touchsomegrass | 2026-03-09 19:51:26+00:00
Built a free PDF to JPG converter that processes everything client-side using PDF.js and the HTML Canvas API. No files are ever uploaded to a server.

Features: batch PDF support, quality slider up to 300 DPI, download all as ZIP, memory-safe (revokes Blob URLs after each batch to prevent OOM crashes on large documents).

Useful for anyone converting sensitive documents like contracts or medical records who doesn't want them passing through a third-party server.
by litoE | 2026-03-09 19:51:44+00:00
Florida must be using cheap cameras. My daughter got a red light ticket in Beverly Hills a couple of years ago. They mailed the ticket to her as the registered owner of the car, including the photographs from the cameras which showed that a) she entered the intersection on a red light, b) her car front and back showing the license plates and c) the face of the driver, establishing it was her. From her expression on the photograph you could tell she was saying "oh, shit!" She just paid it.
by systoll | 2026-03-09 19:52:05+00:00
From the first version of iWork, the inspector panel had the same basic purpose and layout as the sidebar. (Screenshot: http://www.macosxtips.co.uk/index_files/120609-inspector-win... ).

The formatting bar was an (IMO unnecessary) option added in iWork 08.

With iWork 2016, they took the existing inspector panel setup and docked it into each window.
by Ekaros | 2026-03-09 19:52:41+00:00
In Finland there is fun thing on that. There is both tickets by municipality where the ticket goes to keeper. But as private parking fines are contractual violations they need to track down or at least reasonably prove the person who parked...

Still, seems to me that it is reasonable to prove who did such violation. Maybe photo could identify person. Or maybe other data could be requested like phone location data. Doesn't seem unreasonable or high hurdle. Probably not cost effective in every case.
by xvxvx | 2026-03-09 19:53:00+00:00
I get plenty of antivirus 'your payment has failed, click to update' attempts in my spam folder, but to see a paid ad hosted on the free version of Outlook for Windows 11 is very troubling. I have Gmail connected to the Outlook app and this is where the ad showed.

https://imgur.com/a/O9bjjQQ
by stavrosfil | 2026-03-09 19:53:01+00:00
We're trying to be a bit more opinionated one layer up: deployable agent runtimes with first-class tasks, persistent /workspace, and rollout/ops primitives like versions, rollback, logs, and secrets.

For example we make it easy to have automatic deployments from your github ci (using our cli), and you can monitor and manage all your deployments in our platform, along with logs, conversation transcripts etc.

I'd think of us more of the deployment, monitoring and storage layer rather than just the compute runtime.
by tonymet | 2026-03-09 19:53:30+00:00
Employers encouraging egg freezing by offering egg freezing benefits is an abysmal conflict of interest. Employers reap tremendous benefits and the woman bears all of the risks -- in this case the biggest risk of all .

Employers should be required to pay for future maternity disability care insurance e.g. 2-3 years of maternal leave fully paid, elective at any time, even after they separate from the company. Also disability compensation in the event that fertility fails. e.g. $500k / missed fertility .

That would reveal the true success rate of the procedure. If employers or fertility clinics believed it to be a deterministic process, the risks for the employer would be low.
by 0cf8612b2e1e | 2026-03-09 19:53:40+00:00
I cannot comment on the new language, but Typescript is a huge spec. Yes, it has guardrails, but there is a lot of complexity to handle.

Something purpose built to enable embedding allows it to be used in more contexts. Maybe I want a Mog plugin for my latest video game. Embedding JS is possible, but no fun.
by beachy | 2026-03-09 19:53:49+00:00
For some reason UI taste influencers have outsized influence within companies. IMO it's because they have the ear of execs who react viscerally to eye candy - as we all do - but lack understanding of basic usability principles. As an exec sitting there frustrated by the slow pace of software development, at least you can always yell at the UI guy and demand changes that your gut tells you "look cool", and you can be an active, though uninformed particpant in sessions with design mockups.

Car UIs are a great case in point. People have been yelling for years at the poor usability of touchscreens in cars as opposed to discrete buttons/controls. Yet the enshittification of car UIs continues unchecked. My ioniq 5 has multiple touch panels and buttons, yet something as simple as directing air flow to the dash vents requires me to prod at a tiny touch area and look at a separate tiny display area well away from the touch control to see what I managed to select. It is 10 times worse than an old school rotary dial that I could operate instantly by touch alone. My workaround now is to prod the control, wait for 5 seconds to see if I feel air start flowing, and if not, prod the control and wait again.

Peak usability of most computer UIs was back in the 90s when simple (to use) but deep and powerful hierarchical menus were uniformly placed at the top of the page. For cars it was in the 2000s before touch screens.
by dleslie | 2026-03-09 19:53:57+00:00
We had rapid social progress _despite_ suburbanization. It never came to pass that we could assume that every household had a car, there was always a statistically significant urban populations that preferred transit, and delivery of public services is less efficient with lower density populations.

I happen to believe that we would be a healthier, happier society if suburbanization had never occurred. If we walked more, and had better access to the services we need, then we'd be healthier and happier. And it would be cheaper to deliver services.
by Fnoord | 2026-03-09 19:54:18+00:00
Mistral OCR is OCR combined with LLM. In English, it as simple as 'just good OCR' though. Check the example on the webpage I linked. The screenshot doesn't show perfect handwriting. The (invisible) line also doesn't go straight.

FTA:

> Handwriting: Mistral OCR accurately interprets cursive, mixed-content annotations, and handwritten text layered over printed forms.

> Forms: Improved detection of boxes, labels, handwritten entries, and dense layouts. Works well on invoices, receipts, compliance forms, government documents, and such.

> Scanned & complex documents: Significantly more robust to compression artifacts, skew, distortion, low DPI, and background noise.

> Complex tables: Reconstructs table structures with headers, merged cells, multi-row blocks, and column hierarchies. Outputs HTML table tags with colspan/rowspan to fully preserve layout.
by reconnecting | 2026-03-09 19:54:27+00:00
This is far away from 4 files:

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by arjie | 2026-03-09 19:54:31+00:00
This is a common question we get. I will ask her again and add it there, but she described:

* feeling bloated during the process (and feeling heavy in the stomach)

* the discomfort of the actual injections (there are two daily)

* pain post-retrieval that was reminiscent of cramps

One of our other friends who had many eggs retrieved on a single cycle actually got ovarian torsion which is supposed to be outrageously painful.
by embedding-shape | 2026-03-09 19:54:38+00:00
> given there is no training dataset, any other language would work better with AI.

I guess it depends on what "would work better" really means, but I don't think it's always a given. I've made my own languages, there is no available training set on exactly those, but AI with a prompt can figure out how to effectively use them as much as any other language, it seems to me. I guess it helps that most languages are more similar to each other than different, but even experimenting with new syntax seems to work out OK for me.