MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by john_strinlai | 2026-03-13 16:13:13+00:00
>Many discord users I have seen talk about this issue frame this as an attack on freedom

good! ideally, someone is helping them organize and action those thoughts and feelings outside of whatever discord channel you are in.

i am referring to how it is being framed by the people pushing the agenda. age verification laws (as an easy example) arent being advertised as "we want to spy on you", they are being advertised as "this will protect children from harms".

talk to debbie in accounting instead of babmorley420 in discord, and ask her opinion. she is not likely to frame it as an attack on privacy/freedom. she is likely to frame it as a necessary sacrifice for the greater good. and her opinion also matters, she also votes. we need to convince the debbies of the world -- they outnumber the babmorley420s
by jsontwikkeling | 2026-03-13 16:13:15+00:00
It was not the goal and I was posting in my personal capacity. I just used it together with Claude Code on my personal project. Because I work with it regularly it is natural that I used it.

I wanted to mention the tools I used including Claude Code. I hope it does not seem that I am here to promote Anthropic tools as well?

I just thought it appropriate to mention for the correct attribution, because the heavy lifting was done by the tools, not by me
by agenticbtcio | 2026-03-13 16:13:20+00:00
The persistence layer is probably more valuable here than the visual canvas itself. When running multi-agent workflows on complex tasks, the hard part isn't the agents working in parallel — it's maintaining coherent state when something fails mid-run or needs revision. A canvas that preserves intermediate results and lets you surgically re-run specific branches without starting over would solve a real pain point. Curious how Spine handles partial failures — does the whole workflow restart or can it pick up from the last valid checkpoint?
by refulgentis | 2026-03-13 16:13:24+00:00
This sounds so cool but I can’t tell if it’s a practical joke, even after sitting on it for 2-3 hours. Key points where I lose understanding/trust are when a WASM interpreter suddenly appears in the model, and when we’re representing code in weights.

It is unclear to me how this WASM interpreter is / could be deterministic.
by agenticbtcio | 2026-03-13 16:14:15+00:00
The benchmark discussion misses what practitioners actually care about: not whether the model can produce merge-ready code unsupervised, but whether the delta from 'AI draft' to 'acceptable PR' shrinks over time. What I've noticed improve is the number of back-and-forth clarifications needed before the model is working in the right direction — fewer misunderstandings of intent, more accurate scoping of what to change and what to leave alone. That's harder to measure than merge rate on a frozen test set, but it's what actually reduces time spent on a task.
by dheera | 2026-03-13 16:14:37+00:00
Yes, Seek RevealPro gives raw temperature data in radiometric tiff files. They are tiff files with temperatures in Celsius as float32 values in the second page of each .tiff. GUI image editors can have trouble dealing with these multi-page float tiffs but Python's PIL package can read it just fine.

Here's a basic script that converts them to greyscale uint8 with a fixed linear mapping, making them compatible with GUI panoramic stitching software.

https://github.com/dheera/iceland-thermal/blob/master/script...
by agenticbtcio | 2026-03-13 16:14:44+00:00
The benchmark discussion misses what practitioners actually care about: not whether the model can produce merge-ready code unsupervised, but whether the delta from 'AI draft' to 'acceptable PR' shrinks. What I've noticed improve is the number of back-and-forth clarifications needed before the model is working in the right direction — fewer misunderstandings of intent, more accurate scoping. That's harder to measure than merge rate on a frozen test set, but it's what actually reduces time spent on a task.
by Tadpole9181 | 2026-03-13 16:15:21+00:00
I'm not convinced Humpty will come together again at all. The US population doesn't seem to care nearly enough to effectuate change while the regime talks about brown shirts at polling stations, delayed elections, Fed oversight of ballots, and preventing married women from voting.

Our relationships have crumbled and there's no reason to trust us: friend or foe. We're ramping up debt harder than ever, we've made tourists scared, we killed our academic imports, and we've made it impossible to start a business while letting private equity gobble up entire markets to play financial games with loans - setting up a time bomb for catastrophe. Now we're shutting down food inspection systems, disabling ecological oversight, firing every qualified person we can and installing sycophants in their place. Some with for-life positions! The economy is only desperately clinging on pretending everything is fine and they can weather the store - but the King has no clothes and has taken full control of economic levers with no oversight.

And beyond requiring regime change, the US can no longer solve such issues without constitutional amendments. Our government has proven to be fundamentally broken. Which simply will not happen because it is broken.

The US seems to be on an unrecoverable path to third world theocratic state status. We will lose our democracy and we will lose our economy. And I see no path out of it anymore.
by khat | 2026-03-13 16:16:15+00:00
Does this surprise anyone, just over a decade ago there was a whistleblower who said the government was spying on its own citizens. The president and half the country called him a traitor. The only way to stop this from happening is half the country refuse to buy any tech that implements OS age verification. That includes working any job that also requires the use of that tech(Basically all jobs). The only thing that talks is money and when half your workforce is not working(or buying anything because they aren't working) then things will get changed real quick. But most people don't want to do that because no one is willing to suffer short term for long term gains. The govt and 1% know this that's why they increment it slowly overtime with generic causes like "save the children"
by sandos | 2026-03-13 16:16:34+00:00
I dont know nothing about this particular leak, but I have worked at Skatteverket.

Let me just say, the likelihood that CGI would have any _actual_ real personal data is close to 0%, at least on servers outside of Skatteverket. I had access to absolutely nothing even working inside. I have never worked in a more closed-down system, maybe excepting the swedish military "complex". No, actually that was less locked down in a way, at least once you were "inside" the system.
by bcollins34 | 2026-03-13 16:17:58+00:00
We’re running a student hackathon this weekend and thought it might be interesting to the HN community.

The idea is simple: take a business idea and turn it into a working mobile app over the course of a weekend. The event is open to all undergrads and MBA students.

So far ~250 teams from 30+ schools have registered. The goal is to help students who have ideas but no technical background actually ship something.

Compete for $65k in prizes (cash + credits) from companies like OpenAI, Anthropic, Stripe, RevenueCat, Clerky, Supabase, Monologue and others.

Happy to answer questions. Check out the event page to register: www.withwoz.com/buildfast
by teiferer | 2026-03-13 16:18:16+00:00
Autism is a quite strong diagnosis at the end of a spectrum. Not every tech-loving introvert is autistic. That's the kind of arrogant attitude that marginalizes nerds and on a forum like HN people really ought to know better.

As somebody who identified a lot with what's in that article I can say that I haven't just made peace with having been "different" but I love it and wouldn't want it any different comparing my life today with that of the arrogant non-nerds who made fun of us back in school.
by deaux | 2026-03-13 16:18:17+00:00
> You criticize these websites when they affect minorities, but you use them yourself to look up men. That seems inconsistent.

This is very close to the "Yet you participate in society, how curious" mean, especially since they're implying they would vote in favor of a law that changes it so that the data is no longer public in the same manner.

But then your comment history reveals enough about your intent.
by gzread | 2026-03-13 16:18:47+00:00
In a sense, surveillance is a multiplier on your goons, creating virtual goons. If you have 5 goons but you can send them directly to the house of people who disagree with the government with 99% accuracy, it's like you had 500 goons waiting outside 500 houses then only entering the ones where people disagree with the government.
by selfradiance | 2026-03-13 16:19:16+00:00
This is interesting — kernel-level containment is the right foundation for agent security. I've been thinking about how it fits into a broader stack: containment (what you're building), deterministic policy authorization (Predicate-secure is doing this), and economic accountability for actions that can't be predefined in policy. Wrote up how the three layers complement each other: https://medium.com/p/3dd5e76ebaf1?postPublishedType=initial
by gilbetron | 2026-03-13 16:19:29+00:00
I swear some people are using some other tech than I'm using the past few months. Where I work, Claude Code is developing major changes to our very large code base (many repos, millions upon millions of lines of really important code) and pushing to prod regularly. Even the most bearish of engineers are now using it to ship important code daily. It still has issues and you have to know how to use it, but it is a shocking productivity increase (although Amdahl's Law applies for software engineering, too. Coding is only a relatively small percentage of what is done)
by wolvoleo | 2026-03-13 16:19:36+00:00
It is, there were tools like NX that made it entirely usable even latencywise. And these days we're really going more and more to remote computing.

In the time when wayland was invented it made sense because we did everything purely local. But now it's as outdated as X11 was in 2010.

And yes I still use it a lot. It works well. Networks have become a lot better and even most cloud compute I use is geographically nearby.

What made it slow back then was that I only had a 128kbit uplink at home. And the uni had 2 mbit for the whole computer science building :)
by avallach | 2026-03-13 16:20:04+00:00
Isn't this actually improving safety by openly admitting how things always were in practice?

Any e2e encryption provided by the same entity who fully controls both the blackbox clients, and the server in between, is just a security theatre that they can selectively bypass anytime with very little risk of detection. Not really much better than simple client to server encryption.

Truly safe e2e requires open source client provided by a trusted entity who is as much as possible independent from the one who provides the untrusted transport layer. Eg how pgp email works.
by vidarh | 2026-03-13 16:20:29+00:00
> if we replace the real coding experience learning curve with LLMs from day one.

People will learn different things. They will still learn. Most developers I've hired over the years do not know assembly. Many do not know a low-level language like C. That is a downside if they need to write assembly, but most of them never do (and incidentally, Opus knows x86 assembly better than me, knows gdb better than me; it's still not good at writing large assembly programs). It does not make them worse developers in most respects, and by the time they have 30 years experience the things they learn instead will likely be far more useful than many of the things I've spent years learning.

> But every tool, without an exception, provides replicable results.

This is just sheer nonsense, and if you genuinely believe this, it suggests to me a lack of exposure to the real world.
by yamarkov | 2026-03-13 16:20:38+00:00
VOYGR team here. We built this because we kept running into the same problem: LLMs confidently recommending places that turned out to be closed, fabricated, or in the wrong neighborhood. We wanted to measure how bad it actually is.

Setup: 345 prompts across 50+ cities, 5 task types (discovery, place details, navigation, booking, sharing), each run across ChatGPT, Gemini, Claude, and Perplexity with search ON and OFF. 2,415 total evaluated responses. Every recommended place was verified against Google Search and Maps.

What surprised us:

1. Search makes booking tasks worse. Enabling web search improved discovery by ~8 points but hurt transactional tasks. Claude and Gemini both lost 5+ points on "help me book a table" prompts. Models switched from giving step-by-step advice to quoting search snippets.

2. Every model confidently books you a table at closed restaurants. We tested a permanently closed Buenos Aires restaurant. All 7 configs gave booking guidance and seating tips. Even search-equipped models didn't catch it.

3. The real gap is constraint matching. Models find real places but ignore parts of the prompt: price range, neighborhood, cuisine type. Ask for "affordable rooftop bars in Gangnam" and you get champagne lounges with $30 cocktails. This gap is 16 points between the best and worst provider.

The full methodology is in the report. We're planning to open-source the benchmark
repo (all 345 prompts, evaluation pipeline, and raw results) in the coming weeks.

We built a *Business Validation API* designed for AI developers and agents, catching these failures before they reach production. Pass in a place name and address from any LLM response and get back: existence verification and operating status. These are the exact checks that would have caught fatal flaws in this benchmark. Link is in the report if you want to try it.

Happy to answer questions about methodology or anything else.
by kristjan | 2026-03-13 16:20:53+00:00
I've been doing something similar! I've got a Home Assistant dashboard on my desk and wanted the media controls to match the current album art. I need three colors: background, foreground, and something vibrant to set my desk lamp to [1].

The SpotifyPlus HA integration [2] was near at hand and does a reasonably good job clustering with a version of ColorThief [3] under the hood. It has the same two problems you started with though: muddying when there's lots of gradation, even within a cluster; and no semantic understanding when the cover has something resembling a frame. A bit swapped from okmain's goal, but I can invert with the best of them and will give it a shot next time I fiddle. Thanks for posting!

[1] https://gist.github.com/kristjan/b305b83b0eb4455ee8455be108a...
[2] https://github.com/thlucas1/homeassistantcomponent_spotifypl...
[3] https://github.com/thlucas1/SpotifyWebApiPython/blob/master/...
by deaux | 2026-03-13 16:21:42+00:00
GP here, this is indeed exactly whT I was getting at, thanks for wording it for me; you put it better than I would've.

In this specific case I'd go one step further and say that even if it did a web search, it's still almost certainly useless because of the low quality of the results and their outdatedness, two things LLMs are bad at discerning. From weights it doesn't know how quickly this kind of thing becomes outdated, and out of the box it doesn't know how to account for reliability.
by gruez | 2026-03-13 16:22:35+00:00
>but that's different because that drive has those 256GB split over several NAND chips inside, so wear is spread out and shuffled around by the controller to extend lifespan. But when your entire wearable storage is a single soldered chip, I'm not very optimistic about long term reliability.

I thought wear leveling worked at the page/block level, not the chip level? On an SSD, if there was a failure of an entire chip, you're still screwed.
by pessimizer | 2026-03-13 16:23:54+00:00
I was afraid this would never happen again. Two very good episodes, too.

I just pray that we'll get to see a few more Troughton episodes. He's the doctor that set the standard that all future doctors followed, yet the least known because the moronic BBC wiped basically his entire run, and now we only have about half of it.

Tom Baker was "my Doctor" because he's the one who made me love the show when I was a kid, but Troughton (and Zoë and Jamie) are my favorite era.

edit: Zoë and Jamie are from way back when the companions were expected to be useful, before Sarah Jane. Zoë was better at math than the Doctor; imagine them doing anything like that now.
by a24venka | 2026-03-13 16:24:13+00:00
Great question. The core of Spine is coordinating multiple specialized agents across multiple models, using the canvas to store and pass context selectively so each agent works with exactly what it needs.

On the eval side, we ran Spine Swarm against GAIA Level 3 and Google DeepMind's DeepSearchQA and hit #1 on both.Full writeup: https://blog.getspine.ai/spine-swarm-hits-1-on-gaia-level-3-...
by LaurensBER | 2026-03-13 16:24:23+00:00
Amen, my OpenClaw instance broke last week.

Some update broke the OpenRouter integration and I haven't been able to fix the issue. I took a quick look at the code, hoping to narrow it down and it's pretty much exactly what you would expect, there's hidden configuration files everywhere and in general it's just a lot of code for what's effectively a for loop with Whatsapp integration (in my case :)).

Not to mention that their security model doesn't match my deployment (rootless and locked down Kubernetes container) so every Openclaw update seemed to introduce some "fix" for a security issue that broke something else to solve a problem I do not have in the first place :)

I've switched to https://github.com/nullclaw/nullclaw instead. Mostly because Zig seems very interesting so if I have to debug any issues with Nullclaw at least I'll be learning something new :)
by Aurornis | 2026-03-13 16:24:33+00:00
The older cousin case doesn’t scale. True ZKP could be fully automated to dispense verification tokens from a website to every visitor. If the proofs are truly zero knowledge there is no way to discover who is giving millions of kids their ID.

When we hear about “zero knowledge” ID checks in real proposals they’re not actually zero knowledge altogether. They have built in limits or authorities to prevent these obvious attacks, like requiring them to interact with government servers and then pinky promising that those government servers won’t log your requests.
by dearmmv | 2026-03-13 16:24:35+00:00
Hi HN,

I'm a Data Engineer and in my day-to-day, I constantly need to format huge SQL queries, convert nested JSONs to CSV, or test Regex. I always hesitated to paste sensitive company data into random online converters because of privacy and compliance concerns.

To solve my own itch, I built DataSwift. It’s a suite of 8 developer tools that run 100% locally in your browser. No data is ever sent to an external server.

The current tools include:
- JSON to CSV (flattens nested objects automatically)
- JSON to Code (generates Pydantic, Java, or TS models)
- CSV to SQL (infers data types for CREATE/INSERT statements)
- SQL Formatter
- Regex Tester
- Fake Data Generator
- Base64 Encoder/Decoder

It's completely free and requires no login. I built the frontend using Next.js, Tailwind, and Shadcn UI.

I would love to hear your feedback, bugs you might find, or if there are any specific local-first tools you'd like me to add next!
by budman1 | 2026-03-13 16:24:44+00:00
in the 1990's there was a woman prime minister of Turkey.

she ended up resigning in a scandal caused by her husband accepting a boat (or work on the boat..i don't remember). the scandal was caused by the amount of the bribe. it was too low. the Turkish people could understand some corruption, but to be able to bribe the top leader for $50k. Unacceptable. If it would have been $100 million, it would not have been a scandal.
by john_strinlai | 2026-03-13 16:24:59+00:00
one thing to consider is how just the optics of major players using e2e was an overall benefit.

people who otherwise would have gone their entire lives without ever hearing about encryption were exposed to the term and the marketing convinced them that encryption and privacy was a valuable thing, even if they didnt fully understand the mechanisms or why e2e might not necessarily be very effective in specific circumstances.

later, when presented between option a and option b, where one has encryption and the other doesnt, they are more likely to choose the one with it ("well, if instagram and facebook use it and say it is good...")
by jamiequint | 2026-03-13 16:25:20+00:00
This is cool, like qmd as a service with real-time integrations where it matters?

How do you handle more structured data like csv/xlsx/json? Would be cool if it were possible to auto-process links to markdown (e.g. youtube, podcast, arbitrary websites, etc) a la https://github.com/steipete/summarize (which can pull full text in addition to summarizing).
by UltraSane | 2026-03-13 16:25:27+00:00
https://www.google.com/search?client=firefox-b-1-d&q=Iranian...

https://www.iranintl.com/en/202601255198

https://www.pbs.org/newshour/world/iran-says-3117-killed-in-...

https://www3.nhk.or.jp/nhkworld/en/news/20260122_07/

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c62v248xkl5o

https://www.cnn.com/2026/01/17/middleeast/iran-supreme-leade...
by flavionm | 2026-03-13 16:25:44+00:00
We don't need to have every human care about every single other human to thrive as a species. If anything, if we did, we wouldn't be able to thrive at all.

The issues you mentioned are, in the vast majority of cases, caused by the lack of peaceful coexistence to begin with, because as long as me and everyone else is coexisting peacefully, getting more for myself isn't taking anything away from those in the situations you mentioned. Resources might be scarce, but that doesn't mean they're zero sum.
by collinmanderson | 2026-03-13 16:26:06+00:00
> "Red/green TDD" is apparently the nomenclature

From your link:

> what "red/green" means: the red phase watches the tests fail, then the green phase confirms that they now pass.

> Every good model understands "red/green TDD" as a shorthand for the much longer "use test driven development, write the tests first, confirm that the tests fail before you implement the change that gets them to pass".
Ask HN: Is Rust coming to the Anthropic sandbox?
by weinzierl | 2026-03-13 16:26:11+00:00
I just realized that crates.io has been added to the allowlist of the claude.ai sandbox. I don't know exactly how long it has been there, but since there is no Rust or Cargo in the sandbox its presence does not make sense.

Does it mean we will see a Rust toolchain installed in the sandbox eventually?
by BloodAndCode | 2026-03-13 16:26:16+00:00
got it — that actually makes sense given how locked down the apple ads api access is.
using csv import/export as the integration layer is a pretty pragmatic workaround. a lot of marketing tools end up doing something similar when direct api access is painful or restricted.

and how far you can push that approach in practice — does it mostly cover campaign/bid management workflows, or are there parts of the apple ads workflow that still require manual steps in the UI?
by BoredomIsFun | 2026-03-13 16:26:29+00:00
> But once you start adding mouse clickable tabs, buttons, checkboxes etc. you left the UX for TUIs behind and applied the UX expected for GUIs, it has become a GUI larping as a TUI.

TIL that VIM is not cease being TUI the moment I type :set mouse=a.

Hot taking, LARPing and teenage angst (caused by generational gap with those has been using TUI since 1980s) is on your side.
by riffraff | 2026-03-13 16:26:40+00:00
> Opressive forces can just disable your spending and travel credits

"Disabled spending" already happened to the people in the ICC that acted contrary to Trump's diktats[0], without the need for a digital panopticon, both the banks and the government know who you are.

[0] https://www.irishtimes.com/world/us/2025/12/12/its-surreal-u...