MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by adamkittelson | 2026-03-13 21:49:07+00:00
Anecdotal but for some reason I had a pretty bad time with qwen3.5 locally for tool usage. I've been using GPT-OSS-120B successfully and switched to qwen so that I could process images as well (I'm using this for a discord chat bot).

Everything worked fine on GPT but Qwen as often as not preferred to pretend to call a tool and not actually call it. After much aggravation I wound up just setting my bot / llama swap to use gpt for chat and only load up qwen when someone posts an image and just process / respond to the image with qwen and pop back over to gpt when the next chat comes in.
by LargoLasskhyfv | 2026-03-13 21:49:20+00:00
Natural, organic milk does. What you are probably used to is pasteurized, and treated with short bursts of heat. Since at least 20 years, for almost anything milky which you can find in the refrigerated parts of stores. I'm not talking about the stuff which doesn't need to be cooled, until opened, that's heated even longer, and pasteurized harder.
by mentalgear | 2026-03-13 21:49:38+00:00
Keep the reasoning as close to the code as possible.

1. Code should be self-explanatory, so should vars, function names and the entire shape be.

2. For the remaining non-obvious bigger design decisions, add a comment header (eg jsdoc) above the main section code block, and possibly refactor it out into its own file. Prefer to have a large comment header (and possibly some inline comments) outlining an important architectural part than having that knowledge dissipate with time, separate external docs and your leaving workers.
by SauntSolaire | 2026-03-13 21:50:02+00:00
The article lede reads: "Senator Ron Wyden says that when a secret interpretation of Section 702 is eventually declassified, the American public “will be stunned” to learn what the NSA has been doing."

Technically the full quote from Wyden is: "when it is eventually declassified, the American people will be stunned that it took so long and that Congress has been debating this authority with insufficient information."

It's a small thing, but I find the click-bait editorializing from techdirt a bit off-putting.
by ggerman2025 | 2026-03-13 21:50:18+00:00
I've been building ruby-libgd, a native Ruby binding to the GD graphics library.

This folder contains a Docker setup that runs JupyterLab with a full Ruby kernel — you can plot sin, cos, log, implicit curves like circles and ellipses, all in Ruby with no Python involved in the plotting.

The Plot class API ended up quite clean — plot.add("sin(x)") just works. Happy to answer questions about the implementation, especially the SafeMath evaluator and the implicit curve rendering.
by SyneRyder | 2026-03-13 21:50:22+00:00
I don't think it quite means that - happy to be corrected on this, but I think it's more like what percentage it can still pay attention to. If you only remembered "cat sat mat", that's only 50% of the phrase "the cat sat on the mat", but you've still paid attention to enough of the right things to be able to fully understand and reconstruct the original. 100% would be akin to memorizing & being able to recite in order every single word that someone said during their conversation with you.

But even if I've misunderstood how attention works, the numbers are relative. GPT 5.4 at 1M only achieves 36% needle retrieval. Gemini 3.1 & GPT 5.4 are only getting 80% at even the 128K point, but I think people would still say those models are highly useful.
by jvanderbot | 2026-03-13 21:50:59+00:00
This is true only up to "you can send and receive data".

A terminal is an OS construct mostly. It will, with permissions, allow you to do anything the OS can do, including shutdown, or serve more data. It's the default mode of operating the system.

The opposite is not true. The default mode of operating a web browser will not let you create a terminal access or do anything new with the machine.

Insofar as the previous is false - because it website has flaws that allow code execution, shell escapes, or remote package installations, it's worth pointing out that these are usually possible because your web server is running as a user on a system, effectively with system access via similar interfaces as the shell.

This is like saying you can operate a car from the truck - yeah maybe through some weird gymnastics, but the trunk is for transfer, and the drivers seat is for operating.
by benoau | 2026-03-13 21:52:09+00:00
> the promise of the App Store is "pay a 30% tax and any app you download here will be safe."

Apple, who revealed in court that they enjoy a 75% profit margin on that fee, is being sued for that promise being false advertising on account of the crypto scams they keep approving.

https://9to5mac.com/2025/06/19/class-action-suit-app-store-c...

Stemming from the case where Apple revealed their 75% profit margin on these fees, Apple was referred for criminal investigation for illegally forcing everyone to pay that fee violating a court order to ensure they get it and then lying to a judge about it.

https://daringfireball.net/2025/04/gonzales_rogers_apple_app...

They are also being questioned in the EU to ascertain whether they are doing enough to stop the proliferation of scams on the App Store.

https://9to5mac.com/2025/09/23/apple-under-legal-scrutiny-in...

They are even facing a RICO case for their role distributing and profiting from illegal gambling apps.

https://readwrite.com/apple-google-rico-lawsuit-sweepstakes-...
by carlosjobim | 2026-03-13 21:52:15+00:00
> I genuinely mean no offence, but you sound as an old serious man when talking about useful skills. Kids and teens are not doing this for their careers, they're doing this for fun.

Yes, but depending on what you put in front of your kids, they're going to get different experiences when doing things for fun and curiosity. So why not help them a little on the way with the right tools and right toys? They'll find a way to get into the weeds and explore their curiosity one way or the other - isn't it much better that they learn about music or audio producing, or photo editing, digital art, or 3D modeling, instead of learning about how to fix the Windows registry or change a configuration file?

A kid will make a spreadsheet about dinosaurs if they only get to play with an office computer. Parents can help them by giving them something better to play with.
by throwawaypath | 2026-03-13 21:52:16+00:00
https://www.flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2026/1134/BillText/e1/...

(b) “Diversity, equity, and inclusion” means any effort to:
1. Manipulate or otherwise influence the composition of
employees with reference to race, color, sex, ethnicity, gender
identity, or sexual orientation other than to ensure that hiring
is conducted in accordance with state and federal
antidiscrimination laws;
2. Promote or provide preferential treatment or special
benefits to a person or group based on that person’s or group’s
race, color, sex, ethnicity, gender identity, or sexual
orientation
by joecool1029 | 2026-03-13 21:52:47+00:00
The foundation to which all of these licenses are tied to will likely be dissolved. Words/code had value in the old system. But now it's cheap to generate, way cheaper than hiring legions of writers/developers to write it. When it was a valuable asset lobbyists spent to protect it under law. I want you to think as you read this comment, do you think Disney would rather pay unionized workers or abolish copyright law and use other (trademark) mechanisms to protect their IP? A decade or so ago, this kind of thought would be crazy but things have changed.

So we have this foundation, this anchor which is copyright law that gives us any power to have a say about whether code should be accessible. Without that, the licenses are empty words, no weight. No remedy. My concern is less that opensource code gets used by commercial interests; I would rather they use libraries that are maintained especially in contexts of security... my concern is that we move toward only having devices we can keep as long as the company supports them and/or is solvent. If we lose the foundation that everything was built on (copyright law), it becomes impossible to audit or support things on our own. Everything is a rental/subscription.

I don't often just come out and make predictions, this is one I think we're moving toward though as the sea becomes more muddied by regurgitated works. The major AI companies are unabashedly pirating works, there are powerful rights-holders that could be sending armies of lawyers after them, like the big publishing houses... but is it happening? Or are they sitting back and letting the tech companies do R&D for what will be their new business models moving forward.
by samrus | 2026-03-13 21:53:16+00:00
Twotter as a data source is interesting. I think it gets over hyped because thats elons grift. But i cant deny that the real time info aspect of it is pretty valuable. But i definitely think that its not that much more valuable than the open internet from a context source perspective. Everything worthwhile on twitter will end up elsewhere with a bit of lag. And the stuff that wont is noise anyway
by xtracto | 2026-03-13 21:53:32+00:00
I want a "reddit" like discussion board where:

- Users don't have to pay to post links/stories
- Users have to pay to comment on links/stories
- Users have to pay to "upvote" comments. Downvotes don't exist
- Each link "lives" a certain amount of time before it is locked.
- After lock time, users who posted the link get "paid" a % of the collected $ comments/upvotes. Comments that are upvoted also earn $ proportionally to the upvotes.

Hashcash was conceived to solve automated spam/email. Participating in a discussion must cost something, that's the only way bots and spam will get partially stopped. Or, if they start to optimize to get "the most votes", then so be it, their content will increase in quality.
by schnacki | 2026-03-13 21:54:19+00:00
BetterTouchTool has also recently added full Logitech support (keyboard & mouse) and it has been working great for me. (Fully replaces the Logitech Options+ and/or Ghub apps).

Especially the smooth scroll modifier available in BTT (not exclusive to Logitech mice) has helped me a lot, it transforms any mouses scroll events into trackpad like scrolling events that allow for e.g. page swipes, mail archive, scrolling in calendar etc. - things that usually only work with Magic Mouse or Apple Trackpads
by colinfly | 2026-03-13 21:54:31+00:00
Built an eval toolkit for AI agents that goes beyond pass/fail scoring. Define test suites in YAML, use Claude as an LLM judge, then automatically analyze why your agent fails and turn those failures into training data.

The main loop:

Define test cases with expected answers and weighted criteria
Run against any agent (HTTP endpoint, CLI command, or Python callable)
Claude judges each response on your criteria (0-100 per criterion)
Root cause analysis finds patterns across failures (knowledge gaps, prompt issues, missing sources)
Failure mining classifies each failure and uses LLM to rewrite bad answers
Export as DPO/SFT/OpenAI fine-tuning JSONL
The RCA piece is what I think is most useful. Instead of just seeing "5 tests failed," you get things like "Agent consistently fabricates refund policies because no refund documentation exists in the knowledge base" with specific fix recommendations.

CLI:

pip install cane-eval
cane-eval run tests.yaml
cane-eval rca tests.yaml --threshold 60
cane-eval run tests.yaml --mine --export dpo

GitHub: https://github.com/colingfly/cane-eval

MIT licensed, pure Python, uses the Anthropic API. Happy to answer questions about the approach.
by matanrak | 2026-03-13 21:54:36+00:00
Hey HN - I built AgentMeet because I was tired of copy-pasting context between my AI agents.

It's a google meet style group chat API for AI agents.

Create a room, give agents the join prompt, watch them talk in real-time in your browser. No SDK, no WebSocket, no signup – just POST requests.

My favorite moment so far: I had my Claude Coword agent onboard a brand new paperclip agent and share knowledge with my OpenClaw – completely autonomously.

Try it: https://agentmeet.net
API docs: https://agentmeet.net/docs

I'd love feedback – human and agentic!
by kstrauser | 2026-03-13 21:55:00+00:00
> Heck, you can get 8GB Windows laptops with twice the SSD size of the MacBook Neo's for a little over half of the Neo’s price (again, at full MSRP.)

Let's see one of these $300 Windows laptops with 512GB of SSD (in a reasonable format, e.g. not an SD card), a body that isn't disposable, a screen that isn't a dim potato, a CPU that's within 20% of the Neo's performance, and a GPU that isn't embarrassed to be called a GPU.

I doubt they exist.
by wtallis | 2026-03-13 21:55:14+00:00
> Do you think SSD drives are replaceable for no reason?

The number one reason why laptop OEMs primarily use replaceable SSDs is so that they can switch SSD vendors on a monthly basis to whoever is the lowest bidder at the moment. The number two reason is so that they can offer multiple storage capacity options without building different motherboard configs (though in practice, a lot of OEMs never get around to actually selling the alternative configs). Repairability is a very distant third place.
by Ensorceled | 2026-03-13 21:55:19+00:00
Interesting that the author flags what is actually one of my pet peeves ...

> [Snapshots] get created automatically, often during deletion workflows, and nobody thinks to look for them.

creating random backups of things you are shutting down "just in case" that you must then remember to go back and delete. It's especially annoying if you stood up an EC2 instance or whatever, realized you messed up the configuration and immediately shut it down. Now you have a pile of poop running up your bill that you need to find and delete.
by wolrah | 2026-03-13 21:55:30+00:00
> An SSD might've helped, but not by much.

A SSD would have made an absolutely massive difference.

Source: I have clients that still have 2nd/3rd gen i5 systems running 3-4 GB of RAM with Windows 10 and they're tolerable solely thanks to SSDs. Swapping that much on a hard drive would just be painful to use.

Nobody should be interactively using a computer post-2018ish (whenever SSDs fell below $1/GB) that's booting and running primary applications off spinning rust. They're perfectly fine for bulk storage drives but anyone waiting for an operating system booting off one has wasted enough of their life in the last year to have paid for the SSD. Companies that wouldn't spend $100 on an upgrade are literally throwing money away paying their employees to wait on a shit computer.
by atonse | 2026-03-13 21:55:38+00:00
> I cannot understand at all somebody, who is not Elon, liking/preferring "grokipedia" as idea or implementation.

Really? Have you used AI to write documentation for software? Or used AI to generate deep research reports by scouring the internet?

Because, while both can have some issues (but so do humans), AI already does extremely well at both those tasks (multiple models do, look at the various labs' Deep Research products, or look at NotebookLM).

Grokipedia is roughly the same concept of "take these 10,000 topics, and for each topic make a deep research report, verify stuff, etc, and make minimal changes to the existing deep research report on it. preserve citations"

So it's not like it's automatically some anti-woke can't-be-trusted thing. In fact, if you trust the idea of an AI doing deep research reports, this is a generalizable and automated form of that.

We can judge an idea by its merits, politics aside. I think it's a fascinating idea in general (like the idea of writing software documentation or doing deep research reports), whether it needs tweaks to remove political bias aside.
by Zigurd | 2026-03-13 21:55:39+00:00
Even if Starlink had more than a few tens of millions of customers, China mobile has 900 million subs and is worth around $250 billion. ULA was recently valued at about 1 billion. SpaceX might be possibly worth 50 times as much or maybe even 100 times as much. Falcon nine is the world's workhorse rocket, but it's just not that remarkable, and starship is utterly unproven to launch to orbit and land both stages. Starship has a payload capacity problem that must be solved to even get to the point where launching 15 refueling missions would be sufficient to get a starship to get anywhere beyond Earth orbit.

It looks like the plan is to IPO with a small float (in relative terms) and get all of the retail investor Elon fans to lineup for the rug pull.
Show HN: Identity.txt – Like llms.txt but for People
by chriswright1664 | 2026-03-13 21:55:53+00:00
llms.txt solved a real problem. It gave AI tools a way to understand a website. It has some traction. But there's nothing equivalent for people. I think this might be a thing. Let's see what HN thinks.

Every AI tool has some version of "custom instructions" but they're locked inside that tool. Switch from ChatGPT to Claude to Gemini and you're starting from scratch each time. Your voice, your preferences, your expertise, all gone.

identity.txt is a plain text markdown file (same philosophy as llms.txt, humans.txt, robots.txt) that captures who you are for AI tools. Drop it at yourdomain.com/identity.txt or paste it into any context window.

The spec is deliberately minimal:

- H1 with your name
- H2 sections for Voice, Expertise, Background, Preferences, Terms
- A Terms section with machine-readable consent (open, attribution, prompt-only,
restricted, none)

The Terms section is interesting, maybe. It's like robots.txt for personal identity. A social contract, not a legal one. We think consent and identity overlap in ways worth exploring. We def don't have the answers now. But open to the questions.

We're also experimenting with hosted identity files at identitytxt.org. You authenticate with Google, pick a handle, and get a permanent URL. But self-hosting is the primary use case. The hosted version is just convenience. Maybe. We don't know.

Look, this is early and experimental. We built it because we kept pasting the same context into every AI conversation and thought there should be a convention for it. The spec is CC-BY 4.0 and on GitHub: https://github.com/Fifty-Five-and-Five/identitytxt

We're genuinely interested in whether this resonates or if the problem gets solved differently. What are we missing?

https://identitytxt.org
by dataflow | 2026-03-13 21:55:58+00:00
Security is not a concern for the purpose of my question here, please ignore that for now. I'm just looking for text summary and search functionality here, not looking to give it full system access and let it loose on my computer or network. I can easily set up VM/sandboxing/airgapping/etc. as needed.

My question is really just about what can handle that volume of data (ideally, with the quoted sections/duplications/etc. that come with email chains) and still produce useful (textual) output.
by Unit327 | 2026-03-13 21:56:26+00:00
A NAS is just an example, here's a better one; I love to use my old phones as wall mounted displays and controls for home assistant, or as remote music players plugged in to some speakers that I can hook into in music assistant. Some of my old phones are more than capable of this hardware wise but are locked to older versions of android and can't run anything built for a newer version, so they end up as ewaste intstead.

I think my next phone is going to be a fairphone or something for this reason.
by grey-area | 2026-03-13 21:56:27+00:00
> This isn't just a Digg problem. It's an internet problem. But it hit us harder because trust is the product.

Hmm...

> We underestimated the gravitational pull of existing platforms. Network effects aren't just a moat, they're a wall.

What does this even mean? How many metaphors can it mix up in one paragraph? Can't they write a blog post the old fashioned way, with feeling? Imagine reading a corporate blog post about being laid off which the founder couldn't even be bothered to write.
by JumpCrisscross | 2026-03-13 21:56:36+00:00
> What is the benefit of "moving compute to space"?

I’ll bite. It’s cheaper and quicker to permit a launch than permit, zone and interconnect a datacenter. And solar panels in space don’t need glass cladding, which makes them cheaper to make and lift.

The downside is launch cost. But there is a breakeven between these factors that seems to have most of its error bars within Starship’s target. (By my math, around $35/kg.) So if Starship works, and all indications seem to show that it will, eventually, then that puts space-based data centers at cost parity with terrestrial ones within a decade. Which was, well, unexpected when I ran the numbers.

(The surprising finding when you run the numbers is launching the chips and solar panels isn’t the limiter, it’s launching the radiators. Which opens up whole new questions about at what scale it makes sense to stop sending those up the well.)
by amatecha | 2026-03-13 21:56:39+00:00
Damn, that's intense:

> If the scan room door is closed when a quench occurs and helium escapes into the scan room, the depletion of oxygen causes a critical increase in pressure in the room compared with the control area. This produces high pressure in the scan room, which may prevent opening of the door. If this should happen, the glass partition between the scan and control rooms should be broken to release the pressure. The scan room door can then be opened as usual and the patient evacuated. In such a case the patient should be immediately evacuated and evaluated for asphyxia, hypothermia and ruptured eardrums.
by hysan | 2026-03-13 21:56:43+00:00
(Don’t take this as advice. Just writing my own experience with this.)

This is the reason why I take the time to summarize all “why” decisions and implementation tradeoffs being made in my (too lengthy) PR descriptions with links, etc. I’ve gotten into the habit of using <detail/> to collapse everything because I’ve gotten feedback multiple times that no one reads my walls of text. However, I still write it (with short <summary/>s now) because I’ve lost track of the number of times I’ve been able to search my PRs and quickly answer mine or someone’s “why” question. I do it mostly for me because I find it invaluable as I prefer writing shit down instead of relying on my flaky memory. People are forgetful and people come and go. What doesn’t disappear is documentation tied to code commits (well… unless you nuke your repo).
by joecool1029 | 2026-03-13 21:57:16+00:00
I do wonder if those animals have things like valves in their veins, as I understand it if the circulatory system wasn't as complex as it is, heart would have to pump a lot harder to move the volume it does. This isn't an area I know much of anything about, I just know veins have valves and can expand and contract to different stimuli much as a heart can... so even though mammals have one heart it's not like the rest of the system is a static not helping to pump blood.
by Aurornis | 2026-03-13 21:57:39+00:00
> 1977-2007 was generally a good time in the US if you survived by trading your time/knowledge/expertise for a wage as most people do. This is also the time in which F/OSS came into existence.

FOSS came into existence during this time because computers and the internet became available, not because it was a specific economic situation.

> If you had a decent job during that time, then the future looked bright and you didn't think twice about giving some of your leisure time away for free.

This seems like rewriting history. Tech salaries today are higher than they were back then. There was even a whole lawsuit against companies caught suppressing wages during that time. Tech compensation went up significantly after the period you cited.