MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by davidw | 2026-03-05 15:22:35+00:00
> Did democrats offer primaries in the last elections?

Uh, yeah? I voted for Biden/Harris.

And in any case, focusing almost exclusively on one race is part of the problem. Where I live, we also had a Dem primary for the house district, and a more electable candidate won - and then went on to win in the general. It was one of the very few red->blue flips in 2024.

Our former congresswoman, incidentally:

https://newrepublic.com/post/207234/trump-labor-secretary-ch...

Then there are all the races for school boards, city council, county commission and all those things that provide the base and the bench to build off of.
by mmavrispb | 2026-03-05 15:22:45+00:00
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Show HN: LPBacked – Find and connect with limited partners behind venture funds
by veritas9 | 2026-03-05 15:22:46+00:00
I’ve been working on LPBacked.com, a database of limited partners that invest in venture funds.

If you’ve ever tried to figure out who actually invests in VC funds, you probably know how messy the data is. LP information is scattered across SEC filings, university reports, press releases, and random PDFs. There’s no simple place to search it.

LPBacked tries to pull that information together and make it searchable.
Right now you can:
Browse LPs (family offices, endowments, pensions, foundations, fund-of-funds, etc.)

See which venture funds they’ve invested in
Filter by LP type
Export the data
The original motivation was helping emerging managers find potential LPs, but I’ve also found it useful for research and just understanding how capital flows in venture.

It’s still early and the dataset is growing. I’m continuing to add LPs and fund relationships as I find them
by omnibrain | 2026-03-05 15:22:53+00:00
Nobody that is not already writing (L)GPL licensed software wants to pull LGPL licensed libraries into his software. I'm not a lawyer. If you have it in separate object artefacts that you can dynamically link to, you should be fine. Everything else may be more difficult.

See what FFmpeg writes on this topic: https://ffmpeg.org/legal.html
by hypeatei | 2026-03-05 15:22:56+00:00
Well, government spending could go down along with that too. Obviously, that ain't happening with Republicans (see: the OBBB and failed DOGE project) but in theory you could do major reform and craft coherent policy while not triple dipping tax-wise. I think you could implement quite a high consumption tax model and be okay -- you'd have the added benefit of very simple collection and enforcement since it's all at the tail end.
by tmarice | 2026-03-05 15:23:03+00:00
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by any1 | 2026-03-05 15:23:04+00:00
That reminds me.

I worked for a company where we punched in using an iButton (it's a pretty neat 1-wire thing that fits on a key chain).

The punch clock system was logged and then at the end of the month, they printed out a single A4 sheet for every employee for us to make corrections and sign. Of course, someone had the unenviable job of going over all those and applying the corrections.

We also had to write down hours spent on different projects in a completely different system that wasn't at all integrated with the punch clock system.

At some point in the last couple of years that I worked there, they switched to Workday. That was not an improvement.
by samiv | 2026-03-05 15:23:04+00:00
"The traffic light though is very simple. Yellow means “it was green and will turn red”. Red+yellow means “it was red and will turn green”."

That was not the point, that's the standard way the lights will work.

The point is that sometimes you have a light combination where actual light post only has yellow/red for example (no green light). Sometimes you have a light post that has red only (on, off).
Show HN: Msplat – 3D Gaussian Splatting training in ~90s on M4 Max, native Metal
by rayanht | 2026-03-05 15:23:20+00:00
Hey HN, I built msplat because I wanted to train 3DGS scenes on my Mac without pulling in torch. Most ports I came across go through autograd and hence come with ~2GB of framework overhead, which felt overkill for a pipeline that's just a few dozen GPU kernels + an optimizer.

So I wrote the whole training pipeline from scratch as Metal shaders: projection, tile-based rasterization, SSIM loss, backward pass, Adam, and densification. Everything runs on the GPU

msplat trains 7k iterations of full-resolution Mip-NeRF 360 scenes in ~90s on my M4 Max. In the README I compare against gsplat's published numbers, which were measured on a TITAN RTX. Ofc these are different hardware classes, so take the wall-time comparisons with a grain of salt

Python bindings are on PyPI (pip install msplat), and there are Swift bindings if you want to embed this in a native app. Happy to answer questions about any of the internals

Repo: https://github.com/rayanht/msplat (Apache 2.0)
by drooby | 2026-03-05 15:23:41+00:00
The training data commons is to AI what oil reserves are to petroleum economies: a collectively generated resource of immense commercial value. Every book written, every forum post answered, every photo shared, every line of code contributed... billions of people built the knowledge base that makes these models work. Without that collective human output, AI is nothing.

Alaska and Norway understood something critical when oil was discovered: if you don't assert collective ownership of the resource before private companies capture all the value, you never will. Alaska amended its constitution. Norway built the largest sovereign wealth fund on earth. Both were acts of people saying "this belongs to us, and we deserve a return on its extraction."

We are in exactly that window right now with AI. The resource is being extracted at an incredible pace and almost all the value is flowing to a handful of companies. The longer people wait to assert sovereign ownership over the collective intelligence that makes AI possible, the harder it becomes.

If you think this is crazy, ask yourself what’s actually crazier: demanding a share of the value built on your collective labor, or watching trillions of dollars get extracted from it and saying nothing.

the idea of Alaskans getting a check just for existing sounded crazy too, right up until it didn’t.
by don_esteban | 2026-03-05 15:23:56+00:00
Note that I did not say he won the primaries.

I said the leadership of the democratic party did dirty tricks to prevent him winning.

The mainstream media was also against him.

Not anywhere close to a level playing field.

Note, that I am not against voting or calling your elected officials and all the related stuff. That is necessary. But, sadly, far from sufficient. If you think that that is sufficient, you are delusional.

Your subsequent generalizations are lazy and unsubstantiated, in fact they fit the classical smear patterns established by the mainstream media.
by marginalia_nu | 2026-03-05 15:24:08+00:00
In many organizations, software just isn't what makes the money. It's a supporting role at best. The software needs to work reliably, and it needs to keep working for a long time, but it doesn't need to gain new features at a rapid pace.

If the janitors swept the floors 10x faster, we wouldn't any KPIs to shoot up from that. You still need it to happen regularly and reliably and on demand in case there's a mess, but it doesn't need to be fast.
by toomuchtodo | 2026-03-05 15:24:13+00:00
https://ember-energy.org/focus-areas/clean-electricity/

https://ember-energy.org/data/china-cleantech-exports-data-e...

https://ember-energy.org/latest-updates/global-solar-install...

https://ember-energy.org/latest-insights/solar-electricity-e...

https://ember-energy.org/latest-insights/indias-electrotech-...

https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/installed-solar-pv-capaci...

https://ourworldindata.org/electric-car-sales

Trajectories are favorable and compelling. We can go faster though. “You can just do things.”
by ndriscoll | 2026-03-05 15:24:26+00:00
Yeah just like a star could appear inside of Earth from quantum pair production at any given moment. But realistically, it can't. And you can't even show a test where any model can get more than a few tokens in a row correct.

These companies just don't want to deal with people complaining that it reproduces something when they don't understand that they're literally giving it the answer.
by nebula8804 | 2026-03-05 15:24:27+00:00
How do we fix this should be the question asked. Is it even possible at this point?

I guess there is no free lunch, each person who realizes the importance of education has to start taking it seriously right now and spend their lives getting their community to start taking it seriously and maybe hopefully the next generation can emerge much better off. We let this mess fester for decades and now we are paying for it for the rest of our lives because there is no free lunch.
by tw04 | 2026-03-05 15:24:43+00:00
I think you’re grossly underestimating how much the average American can deny with the assistance of social media.

The number of people I personally know who thought the country was going to end on J6 who now call the entire thing a “political hoax” breaks my brain.

Not to mention the endless posts about “where are all the people claiming COVID was so deadly now?” Who literally completely ignore the MILLIONS of deaths caused by COVID…

Until these people have their own son or daughter killed by X - they’ll happily claim it’s not actually a problem. Or find something completely unrelated to blame instead if it doesn’t align with their Twitter feed.
by lhl | 2026-03-05 15:24:50+00:00
I am not a theoretical CS or math expert by any means, but I have been wrangling coding agents for a while and reading the paper and the problems Stapper had with dealing w/ Claude (context management, instruction following, etc) decided to see if I could replicate with a slightly better harness. The results were pretty interesting: https://github.com/lhl/claudecycles-revisited

- My original setup left traces of the PDF paper and after GPT 5.3-Codex xhigh reached an impasse it went looking for it and found it!

- I went and did cleanroom (basically one-shot) passes for GPT 5.2 xhigh, GPT 5.3-Codex xhigh, and Claude Opus 4.6 ultrathink and 5.2/5.3 found alternate solutions for odd m >= 5 , Opus 4.6 did not find any proofs but tried more approaches to solving.

Full comparison/analysis here: https://github.com/lhl/claudecycles-revisited/blob/main/COMP...

I've also included the session traces and analysis in the repo branches. Also, the AGENTS.md was pretty simple, but that harness produced consistent process outcomes across all three models:

- All built verifiers first

- All maintained worklogs with exact commands

- All archived machine-readable artifacts

- All documented failed approaches

- All maintained restart-safe context capsules
by fallingfrog | 2026-03-05 15:24:51+00:00
Personally I very much doubt that any civilization would build Dyson spheres in their naive spherical shell form, because the gravitational field inside a hollow shell is zero and therefore nothing would stick to the inner surface and would instead drift towards the host star. (Proved by sir Issac newton)

But more than that- the concept of the sphere is making a ton of hidden assumptions about the desirability of always wanting more and more space and energy which are probably a side effect of the kind of authoritarian power structures that rule most humans currently. But that may not be common.

Cool work though- good to know what to look for
by magicalhippo | 2026-03-05 15:24:59+00:00
> No, they have a record of who handed the money over to the government. This does not tell you who paid the duties.

The entity that handed over the money to the government is the entity that paid the duties, and is the one the government must refund.

If an entity has passed those costs on does not change that, and does not turn the 130B into a slush fund.

However I agree that consumers will be likely be royally screwed by this debacle, that much was obvious from the start.
by hellojesus | 2026-03-05 15:25:18+00:00
Probably the lack of pictures. Maybe the moderation. Maybe the slight niche.

It could die if it becomes profitable to spamers. Or maybe it's dead now and one or both of us are llms.

But as long as the content quality meets my personal utility threshold, it makes sense for me to visit it, regardless of whether it is a victim of DIT. Ultimately it's probably up to webmasters to understand if the traffic on their site is either profitable or of a high enough quality to justify the operating costs of a hobby.
by simiones | 2026-03-05 15:25:24+00:00
The copyright argument is the only relevant argument. If the new work is a derived work of the original, then it follows by definition that the new work is under the copryight of the original's author(s). Since the original chardet was distributed by its author(s) only under the LGPL, any copy/derivative of it that anyone else creates must be distributed only under the LGPL, per the terms of the LGPL.

Now, whether chardet 7.0.0 is a derivative of chardet or not is a matter of copyright law that the LGPL has no say on, and a rather murky ground with not that much case law to rely on behind it. If it's not, the new author is free to distribute chardet 7.0.0 under any license they want, since it is a new work under his copyright.
by Aurornis | 2026-03-05 15:25:52+00:00
You could eat raw eggs in most modern countries and be mostly fine. It’s not as uncommon as you would think. There are many drink recipes with raw eggs as an ingredient. You just happened to be exposed to it in Japan.

Eating raw chicken is risky even in Japan. There are cultures that eat raw chicken, pork, and other meat products by choice but it’s always a risk. There are outbreaks of serious food borne illness in Japan from raw chicken: https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/18406474/
by nebula8804 | 2026-03-05 15:25:58+00:00
>I worked with a company that could not keep up with the rising SWE salaries and thus attracted a different kind of SWE.

Maybe im misunderstanding you but I would think that any level of SWE skill would be a minimum amount of competence such that they wouldn't fall for Trumps tricks? SWE is rearranging bits accordance to logic...so you need to know logic no?
by raincole | 2026-03-05 15:26:06+00:00
Sinix even explicitly says that AI is an IP theft machine but it's okay to use AI to generate 360 rotation video to market your 2D works[0].

To summarize this era we live in: my AI usage is justified but all the other people are generating slop.

[0]: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z8fFM6kjZUk

[1]: Disclaimer: I deeply respect Sinix as an art educator. If it weren't him I wouldn't have learnt digital painting. But it's still quite a weird take of him.
by mothballed | 2026-03-05 15:26:06+00:00
I don't see how a vote against is a vote against the administration. The whole point here is their corruption machine profited more off the justices voting against the tariff and for refunds. The tariffs were a mechanism to feign a tax for public purpose but then 'refund' them turning it into a tax to private business and Lutnick's financial engineering. Funneling the money straight into corrupt private enterprise via 'refund' is even easier for Trump than having to launder it through public coffers.

The key is whether they had insider information given their association with these justices.
by SunshineTheCat | 2026-03-05 15:26:23+00:00
Tariffs don't work like that.

These are taxes that businesses have to pay and as a result, they pass on to the consumer.

Larger companies have some room (in some cases) to absorb some of these costs. While smaller companies do not. These can literally put people out of business overnight.

Here is a specific example: https://nypost.com/2025/04/08/us-news/idaho-business-owner-c...
by bell-cot | 2026-03-05 15:26:23+00:00
> ...bought the rights to their potential tariff refunds for 20% of the value...

So - with umpteen $billion on the line, and all the big-shot lobbyists and Washington insiders and experts that all those huge companies had on payroll to advise them - they decided to sell at 20 cents on the dollar.

Theory: When the far-smarter-than-us money bets big, they might know the actual odds.
by haskman | 2026-03-05 15:26:33+00:00
> FUTO not being FOSS means that the community cannot fork and maintain the keyboard in case of a rug pull

> But they can? It literally says anyone can do it as long as it's non-commercial.

Commercial use doesn't only mean payment. If you modify FUTO, you can't use it at work for example.

In addition, FUTO License says this -

"Notwithstanding the above, you may not remove or obscure any functionality in the software related to payment to the Licensor in any copy you distribute to others. You may not alter, remove, or obscure any licensing, copyright, or other notices of the Licensor in the software. Any use of the Licensor’s trademarks is subject to applicable law."

> It's free on google play.

You are right. I had confused it with the donation link.
by irishcoffee | 2026-03-05 15:26:43+00:00
> 3 of the justices were nominated by Trump.

You can blame RBG for one of those. It fascinates me that Biden made the same mistake RBG did, I’ll always wonder how different the would would be if she had stepped down and the democratic party had held a real primary.

I don’t like trump, I think he stinks. The democratic party has a few own-goals in this current game.
by ritzaco | 2026-03-05 15:26:47+00:00
interesting we have a very similar internal flow - we like working in markdown but our customers want to leave feedback in Google docs, so we also have an md -> gdoc tool. We don't do the reverse as we ask them to only leave comments/suggested changes and we apply those directly to the markdown and re-export.

I ran into similar issues as you for the image handling, and the work around I use is to use pandoc to convert to docx as a first step and then import that as a Google Doc using the API, as Google Docs seems to handle docx much better than markdown from what I've seen.
by gruez | 2026-03-05 15:26:50+00:00
>.... what? 3 of the justices were nominated by Trump. You think the people appointing them didn't have internal deliberations before they were appointed, including about things Trump had thought about like tariffs?

Given that the 2/3 justices appointed by Trump voted against the tariffs, what's the implication here? That Trump deliberately picked anti-tariff justices just so he can engage in a rube goldberg plan to enact tariffs, buy tariff refunds on the cheap, and then have them revoked?
by tomcatfish | 2026-03-05 15:26:58+00:00
That seems like it cannot be true? The words are 11, 5, 2, 12, 7, 7 letters long. It cannot be "stop throwing your gloves on the ground".

The correct answer is XER?APUOBIA LEADS TO INDIVIDUALLY WRAPPED CARROTS

I do not know why you did not spot check the number of letters!
by Aardwolf | 2026-03-05 15:27:06+00:00
What exactly is this:

Is this fast GPU like instructions that anyone can use in any operating system to run any open sourced LLMs on CPU with all your RAM rather than on a discrete GPU with its own limited amount of VRAM?

Or is this a proprietary thing that only works in Windows for some specific use cases and irrelevant for Linux users?
by Aboutplants | 2026-03-05 15:27:18+00:00
Most of these Data centers will be powered by Natural Gas, which flows from production through interstate pipelines, which already are fully subscribed meaning there isn’t any space left. As these data centers come online they will suck supply from these interstate pipelines, drastically increasing prices for all other forms of Natural gas usage (including residential power generation). This has a direct impact on prices for the end user and there is nothing that can be done in time to facilitate this from not occurring.

Building pipelines is a long and arduous process and one that will not be done in time to reasonably accommodate the increase in natural gas demand presented by these data centers.
by kibitzor | 2026-03-05 15:27:46+00:00
CO2 increase of 400ppm decreases cognitive function by >20% [1]

I frequently send this medium article [1] to friends + family for a basic dive into how CO2 affects our thinking and abilities at various levels in common areas.

The article cites a study [2] which graphs cognitive score for different activities at different CO2 concentrations. Each activity's cognitive score is worse at higher CO2 concentrations, EXCEPT "focused activity" or "Information search" (up to some point)

[1, note it is from 2016] https://medium.com/@joeljean/im-living-in-a-carbon-bubble-li...
[2]https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/26502459/
by xerox13ster | 2026-03-05 15:27:53+00:00
That’s not the same procedural generation as GPT or diffusion and you know it.

It’s not even in the same ballpark as Elite, NMS, terraria, or Minecraft.

The levels are all hand drawn, not generated by an algorithm, even if they’re shuffled. Eric Barone, the developer, has publicly said as much. Are you calling him a liar?

It’s like the difference between sudoku/crossword and conways game of life
by KaiserPro | 2026-03-05 15:28:10+00:00
> Is there anything Flash could produce that wouldn't render these days with SVG + CSS + JS?

probably not. The only difference is that it'd be build once display everywhere. Flash meant that everything looked the same regardless of browser or platform.

Its a lot better nowadays, but its not as easy as flash was.

The _key_ thing thats missing is the flash IDE/designer. There are no compelling editors/environments that allows both artists and coders to work in the same space.

Sure I can use Illustrator to make graphics, but there are no animation systems out there that allow me to animate well (I can render a unity app to HTML/JS but thats not quite the same)
by burkaman | 2026-03-05 15:28:21+00:00
He presumably did not have access to the court's opinion before it was released, but he did have access to internal White House legal opinions before the tariffs were announced ("Mr. President this is illegal and very likely to be overturned by the courts"), and he obviously had access to the entire federal legal team during the court cases.

I can't prove that there was any White House advisory memo before the tariffs were announced, but hypothetically, would this not be considered material nonpublic information? It seems the same as a corporate insider dumping stock because a company lawyer privately told them "we're definitely going to lose this case".
by red_admiral | 2026-03-05 15:28:41+00:00
Depends on who wants to take what away.

If I release blub 1.0.0 under GPL, you cannot fork it and add features and release that closed-source, but I can certainly do that as I have ownership. I can't stop others continuing to use 1.0.0 and develop it further under the GPL, but what happens to my own 1.1.0 onwards is up to me. I can even sell the rights to use it closed-source.