MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by falkensmaize | 2026-03-05 02:23:46+00:00
Clearly the target audience for this device are the 90% of users who are going to use this to watch YouTube, talk to ChatGPT and upload photos to Insta, or whatever the kids are doing these days. It’s not designed or marketed at power users, although my past decade plus experience with Macs is that they can stretch a lot further than their specs would suggest.
by ycombiredd | 2026-03-05 02:23:48+00:00
If this sounds interesting, and you have a moment and a favorite API, I'd appreciate your experience testing it out, or if the README needs more detail, etc.

I have been solely using an old X86 Darwin MacBook Air for this, so that's the extent of the platform(s) tested. (Writing this has caused me to realize I might want to document the process of installing the FUSE driver on a mac, but I do link to the MacFUSE webpage, which is probably more broadly useful than my experience on this dated laptop.)

Anyway, I actually went searching before posting because it hadn't occurred to me that this might have already been done somewhere else (yeah, one might think searching for an existing solution would be a first thing...) and was happy to see that it doesn't seem to have been exactly put out there before, while also being a bit surprised to see that so many spiritually-related FUSE implementatations have been created since last I had occasion to do anything with FUSE. It might be the case that if I have done this correctly, very-specific niche FUSE implementations will be unneeded, as my hope is that apifusefs is capable of handling any swagger-type, OpenAPI-spec API.

(Eventually, anyway. For example, there exists a massive openapi.json for the GitHub API, but due to the way the root endpoint refers to other endpoints, and each has its own context and auth-requirements, this initial release of apifusefs isn't magic for api.github.com/ even with the spec file, and I had to mount specific endpoints by their URL given in the response to "GET /", to varying degrees of success or failure, which is what caused me to add the --json-file mode,so I could just redirect the output of a curl request to a file and test with that.)

That said, it does now support a variety of ways to pass authentication tokens, so my hope is that if anyone here has an API to try it out against, that it will work for you without hassle.
by ajross | 2026-03-05 02:23:56+00:00
> If a DM made such a suggestion, they wouldn't be playing the game anymore. That's not an "in game" action

Again, you're arguing from evidence that is simply not present. We have absolutely no idea what the context of this AI conversation was, what order the events happened in, or what other things were going on in the real world. You're just choosing to interpret this EXTREMELY spun narrative in a maximal way because of who it involves.

> I'm not blaming the AI, I'm blaming the humans at the company.

Pretty much. What we have here is Yet Another HN Google Scream Session. Just dressed up a little.
by Leftium | 2026-03-05 02:23:56+00:00
Built this to display the weather forecast exactly as I want: https://weather-sense.leftium.com

Same thing for hacker news: https://hn.leftium.com

Same thing for bookmarks/start page: https://multi-launch.leftium.com

This one allows (dancer) friends to create/manage a web site without any programming knowledge: https://veneer.leftium.com Samples:

- https://www.vivimil.com

- https://veneer.leftium.com/s.1RoVLit_cAJPZBeFYzSwHc7vADV_fYL...

---

- All my projects are hosted on Vercel (and/or Cloudflare), within their free/hobby tiers.

- No plans to monetize any of them.

- I find it more interesting to work on projects that are used by someone, whether that is myself or others.

- These projects are for learning. I would love to make a living developing novel UX like these projects. Perhaps a future project, or through someone I meet via these projects. (I did get a GitHub sponsorship, which was partially made possible by my work on these projects.)
by casey2 | 2026-03-05 02:24:19+00:00
It's just selling a scam. I've never been impressed by a flash game, but I'm impressed by programs written in general languages daily and for longer than flash has existed.

The worst thing about tech is people who don't know any better get advertised tools that aren't sustainable and aren't suited to the job. If someone sees a flash game and says "WOW! that's so cool I wanna do that", then I don't have problem with it. But if people want to learn a language and are handed an SRS app, or want to make a unique game and are told to use an engine that's when it becomes harmful (and in many cases viral due to network effects)
by SpicyLemonZest | 2026-03-05 02:24:20+00:00
Some of my friends lost their research funding when Trump unlawfully cancelled a bunch of grants, and one still hasn't found new employment.

The government is working hard to control the media. Regime allies have conducted ideological purges at the Washington Post and CBS News so far, and another has promised Trump to conduct one at CNN if he's allowed to buy their parent company Warner Brothers (https://www.cnn.com/2025/12/10/media/trump-cnn-sold-paramoun...).

Our courts are strong in some ways and weak in other ways. There's a number of cases where ICE unlawfully kidnapped someone before eventually being ordered to let them go and eventually complying, after days or weeks of holding them in overcrowded facilities with absolutely no basis.

Is Trump Hitler? Probably not. It's true that people are protesting, it's true that public dissent is alive, and it's unlikely IMO that he will be able to engage in mass detention of citizens. But he's extremely open about the fact that he thinks it should be illegal to dislike him, or to try and stop him from doing what he wants to do.
by stevefan1999 | 2026-03-05 02:25:46+00:00
This laptop is almost perfect for me, nix the 8GB to be a little cheapskate in 2026, but given the RAMageddon and SSDageddon artifically caused by the solid state cartels lately from Micron, Samsung, SK Hynix, WD, all of you pieces of shit who is part of this cartel...we have had to accept 8GB for the moment, but for future? At least 12G, because a lot of slop software are using electron to run.

I just want a small laptop or handheld device where I can use ssh and kubectl, maybe sometimes running VSCode to have remote access. The 13 inch form factor is a godsent. I missed my 11-inch MBA 10 years ago so much.
by tombert | 2026-03-05 02:25:52+00:00
I think Adobe should have open-sourced the Flash player like 20 years ago.

If they had done that, then it could have been incorporated into the web standards (or at least something somewhat inspired by it). Instead it took like 10+ years for web standards to catch up, Flash Player got crappier and crappier and eventually murdered in 2020.

If they had FOSS'd it, Adobe could still be the de facto leader of web-authoring tech.
by egypturnash | 2026-03-05 02:27:24+00:00
There were zero open-source options at the time. Flash/Animate was the only digital ink-n-paint solution that was even vaguely affordable to the hobbyist or small studio for many years. Most studio-quality 2D programs were proprietary solutions developed in big studios like Disney.

People started using Flash for professional work around 1995. "Open source" barely existed as a concept then, Wikipedia tells me the name "open source" was coined in 1998 and it took a while before anyone but programmers gave even half a damn about it.

The first open-source studio-quality 2D animation package I know of was OpenToonz from 2016, which was a relicensing of a commercial package that dates back to the late eighties or the early nineties - Wikipedia just mentions v3 from 1993.

But anyway now there is a dude working on an open-source Flash clone that can read the editor source files, so all these people you have next to no sympathy for have something to celebrate.
by alephnerd | 2026-03-05 02:27:43+00:00
From TFA (becuase apparently HNers can't read): "Sharp Increases in the Cost of Insurance and Utilities"

> "The largest increase by a wide margin was for employee health insurance, which saw an average increase of 14.2 percent among manufacturers and 12.9 percent for service firms"

> "The next largest cost increase was for utilities, which climbed by 8.5 percent over the past year for both types of firms, with about 15 percent of all respondents reporting increases of 20 percent or more"

> "Business insurance—which includes liability, property, auto, and workers’ compensation, among other things—climbed by about 7 percent, on average, for service firms and by 7.5 percent for manufacturers"

I alluded to this before on HN [0] - much of the insurance woes faced are the legacy of the COVID pandemic, as a large portion of workers compensation funds are insolvent and healthcare pools are heavily stressed, leading to perverse incentives.

[0] - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47047646
by layer8 | 2026-03-05 02:28:52+00:00
In addition, if you consider a "Print" dialog, it would be conceivable that it only provides a print preview, but no further inputs, and has only command buttons "Print" and "Cancel". In that case, I still think the menu item should be "Print…" with an ellipsis, despite the lack of further input.

Conversely, you might conceivably have a command that requires additional input, but where the dialog box taking the input doesn't offer the option to cancel the operation. In that case, I would consider an ellipsis misleading, even though a lack of ellipsis might be confusing as well if the command doesn't make sense without additional input.
by beepbooptheory | 2026-03-05 02:29:00+00:00
I do not believe the Ring of Gyges preceded Plato making it up for The Republic... Where are you getting 4000 years?

Also maybe not seeing the message or connection here... That myth isn't really about who has power or not, right? It's kind of just a trite little "why should do good even when no one is watching" thing. It just serves Socrates for his argument with Thrasymachus, and leads us into book 2 where it really gets going with Glaucon and all that. This is from memory so I might be a little off.
by Forgeties79 | 2026-03-05 02:29:20+00:00
Would you though? As somebody else pointed out it could be a good public works/job creation program. You could probably put 4-5 people to work cleaning up a year for less than 1 cop. I’m kind of making up numbers here but I feel like that can’t be too far off what with salary, pension, equipment, etc.

A few hundred people dedicated to taking care of litter would likely make a difference anywhere. You can get that for far less than $6 billion. You could pay 1000 people $1000/day to do it and you’d be at $365mill.
Show HN: RecruitPhysician – An easier way to find physicians
by healthtal | 2026-03-05 02:29:22+00:00
I’m a physician. We are notoriously hard to recruit because our job turnover is incredibly low, and getting past the gatekeepers at hospitals or private practices is a nightmare for recruiters and health-tech startups.

Having seen this friction firsthand, I realized that modern tech has made it easier than ever for me to just build the solution myself. So I built RecruitPhysician.

It’s a searchable database of over 250,000 active U.S. physicians with direct contact info to bypass the usual bottlenecks.
by ndriscoll | 2026-03-05 02:29:46+00:00
I think you misunderstand what I mean by "centralized". I mean e.g. at your gateway/firewall/router. As in a single place for you to enforce policy on your network.

At least in the US, what happens outside of your network is mostly irrelevant (except perhaps that free, open wifi should be liable for any lack of filtering). Centralized (as in e.g. government) control is non-existent, and centralized monitoring is easily defeated if you'd like with a variety of methods (though like I said we could have laws against the monitoring).
by eviks | 2026-03-05 02:29:53+00:00
> But the real bad news is that we can’t get rid of these things by simply toggling some option in about:config.

In a better designed customizable browser like Vivaldi you can just see the menu itself and move/edit/remove/add items aroudn.

In a better mythical app you would be able to add an easy way to do those edits right there from the page context menu
by camgunz | 2026-03-05 02:31:41+00:00
Not necessarily. The referenced guidance [0] says: "...copyright will only protect the human-authored aspects of the work, which are 'independent of' and do 'not affect' the copyright status of the AI-generated material itself." If you read the paragraph or two above that one, it really seems like products of agentic coding cannot be copyrighted, as there wouldn't be significant authorship involved.

[0]: https://www.federalregister.gov/d/2023-05321/page-16193
by lelandbatey | 2026-03-05 02:32:29+00:00
The author of that post effectively re-defines "memory"/"RAM" as "data", and uses that to say "accessing data in the limit scales to N x sqrt(N) as N increases". Which, like, yeah? Duh, I can't fit 200PB of data into the physical RAM of my computer and the more data I have to access the slower it'll be to access any part of it without working harder at other abstraction layers to bring the time taken down. That's true. It's also unrelated to what people are talking about when they say "memory access is O(1)". When people say "memory access is O(1)" they are talking about cases where their data fits in memory (RAM).

Their experimental results would in fact be a flat line IF they could disable all the CPU caches, even though performance would be slow.
by jackmott42 | 2026-03-05 02:33:04+00:00
oh, paul grahams eassays!

Speaking of, how are his efforts to help this administration cut down no woke youth?

Does he still think racism isn't as bad a "the left" thinks, after Elon's Nazi salute and the thousands of ICE agents brutalized immigrants, murdered citizens, while cheered on by half the country, then invaded Iran because the Christian right thinks its a holy war against Muslims?
by ggm | 2026-03-05 02:33:10+00:00
Absolutely fascinating study. I look forward to more as the density of materials rises.

I would observe that calligraphy such as in Islamic art, frequently conveys two messages. One is more abstract such as it's compelling beauty, but it can also be strongly representational. A word about swans in the shape of a Swan.

So I don't see "it's just decoration" as a strong rebuttal. It may be decorative. It can also convey meaning.
by creddit | 2026-03-05 02:33:20+00:00
That he's talking shit about Altman who is, at least in public, only talking up Anthropic. This will only play well with people who hate Altman, which is not the majority or even much of the public. It plays right into Altman's hand who can do what he always does which is play his "smol bean billionaire" role and act like a victim of big bad Amodei.

Just because you hate Altman doesn't mean everyone else does! Most people just know him as the guy who makes ChatGPT which most people like.
by AdieuToLogic | 2026-03-05 02:33:33+00:00
Using Claude to provide a legal definition of "pledge" is unconvincing at best.

> What are the legal protections of a “pledge”?

To answer that question is to first agree upon the legal definition of "pledge":

pledge

v. to deposit personal property as security for a personal
loan of money. If the loan is not repaid when due, the
personal property pledged shall be forfeit to the lender.
The property is known as collateral. To pledge is the same
as to pawn. 2) to promise to do something.[0]

Without careful review of the document signed, it is impossible to verify which form of the above is applicable in this case.

> A pledge is a public commitment or statement of intent, not a binding legal contract.

This very well may be incorrect in this context and serves an exemplar as to why relying upon statistical document generation is not a recommended legal strategy.

0 - https://dictionary.law.com/Default.aspx?selected=1544
by rayiner | 2026-03-05 02:33:34+00:00
I was, but my dad was active in politics in a third world country, and worked in international development. Also, I still have family in Bangladesh so I can watch third-world people overthrowing their government again in real time on Facebook. My views on democracy and culture are directly borrowed from my dad’s crushing disillusionment with third world people and their attempts at running a democracy.

If I had to rely on my American K-12 education I’d be completely unprepared to understand what life is like for the majority of the world that wasn’t born on “socio-cultural third base.”
by creddit | 2026-03-05 02:33:38+00:00
That he's talking shit about Altman who is, at least in public, only talking up Anthropic. This will only play well with people who hate Altman, which is not the majority or even much of the public. It plays right into Altman's hand who can do what he always does which is play his "smol bean billionaire" role and act like a victim of big bad Amodei.

Just because you hate Altman doesn't mean everyone else does! Most people just know him as the guy who makes ChatGPT which most people like.

EDIT: Also, it doesn't help to brag about how this is good actually because now they are getting app downloads! People sympathize with victims of unfair situations. They don't like seeing people take advantage of those unfair situations though. No one has ever found the welfare recipient bragging about their welfare to be sympathetic.
by macintux | 2026-03-05 02:34:03+00:00
Gruber said something[0] that parallels your point, and emphasizes the target audience for this Mac:

> If you know the difference between sRGB and P3, the Neo is not the MacBook you want.

Apple has made extensive tradeoffs to make this price point, but they all seem to be reasonable tradeoffs for casual users.

[0]: https://daringfireball.net/2026/03/599_not_a_piece_of_junk_m...
by epistasis | 2026-03-05 02:34:42+00:00
We really need to switch to a National Health Service style of administration of health costs. Right now we have Medicare which makes unilateral cost determinations, and doctors and hospitals end up accepting below-cost reimbursement that because how could they turn away all the retired people, but they end up subsidizing these unilateral decisions with money from private insurance payors (namely everybody who's working).

Medicare might not technically be a monopsony, but it acts like one, and all the rest of us working folks end up paying the gap that rounds out the rest of the costs.

We have a few generations that have had easy lives, where they had easy access to homes, to higher education, to wealth building, and decided to cut off access to the same as soon as they got it, while still living off the labor of current working people that are not even allowed to build new apartments next to these wealthy people while they pay for all their health care.

The economy is a massive multiple player rpg with a point system economy that's fixed by federal and state laws, and it's been rigged both at the health care level and at every level to extract wealth for those that had it easy in the past.
by SpicyLemonZest | 2026-03-05 02:34:43+00:00
I don't think there's any mechanism in US law for anyone to make a binding promise about terms they plan to include in contracts they might sign with unspecified local governments in the future.

Congress could pass a new law requiring it, of course, but I think we all understand that this would not accomplish the administration's real goal of letting Trump prove he's the specialest boy and everyone has to give him what he wants.
by alephnerd | 2026-03-05 02:35:18+00:00
This underestimates the SUI premium hikes following the COVID layoffs. Most states charge businesses a risk premium when employees are terminated, and given that most states UI and Workers Compensation funds are now insolvent [0] they fight tooth and nail to increase premiums.

[0] - https://oui.doleta.gov/unemploy/docs/trustFundSolvReport2025...
by badeeya | 2026-03-05 02:36:06+00:00
More context: Hi all! I ran into an issue with getting tailscale to work for larger payloads from my WSL (windows) box, and I detailed my journey on debugging what the issue was, in a pretty roundabout way. Towards the bottom I hit a huge wall in my investigation where I basically actually had to look up stuff and really learn beyond the abstraction I already knew, and then I try to explain it all. Would welcome any feedback here on the correctness specifically, just so I'm not internalizing any _wrong_ learnings. Thanks!
by tombert | 2026-03-05 02:36:36+00:00
I gotta admit I don't really know what you're talking about.

I think Flash was fun to develop in. It was easy and fun to write a game in it and it was something a lot more approachable and easier to distribute than trying to cobble together something with OpenGL or DirectX.

Also, I think a lot of the games on Flash actually are fun. I played through Mystery of Time and Space a few months ago and it still holds up. The puzzles are clever, the jokes are funny, the art is likeable, it's a good game.

But what I liked about Flash was that, because it was so approachable, there was a lot of creativity to stuff. A lot of the games weren't good in any kind of "objective" sense, but there was at least a distinct lack of cynicism with a lot of them. The people who made the games weren't doing it for money, they were doing it because they thought it would be cool to make a game. Some games, like Pico's School for example, were unlike basically anything that had come before it. Is Pico's School a masterpiece of game design? Nah, but it's certainly unique, and it was something that could be played on pretty much anyone's computer.
by myiosaccount765 | 2026-03-05 02:36:55+00:00
I wondered this too after reading the original New Yorker article a few weeks back and was quite surprised.

However, the article also made me think that once a practice is adopted it’s hard for it to change even if the evidence support changing. (Which is how I expected it to be from the outside)

I figured there was some context that I was missing as to why some things are quicker to adopt and others less so. Maybe because adopting this change was seen to be “saving” lives by being more cautious about the how medicines and feeding interact - and reverting the change is “risky” in case there is truth to it.
Show HN: MarkNote – Local-First Wysiwyg Markdown Editor (Tauri/Rust)
by cacao-cacao | 2026-03-05 02:37:56+00:00
I've been a long-time user of Typora, which I still think is a fantastic piece of software. However, as I used it daily, I felt there were areas that could be pushed further—specifically regarding modern extensible editor engines, more flexible diagram support, and overall performance footprint. This led me to build MarkNote.

Why Tauri & Rust?
I chose Tauri over Electron because I wanted MarkNote to be as lightweight and fast as possible. By leveraging Rust, we get a much smaller binary size and better memory management while maintaining full cross-platform support (macOS, Windows, and Linux).

Key Philosophy:

WYSIWYG: Built on CodeMirror 6, providing a seamless "what you see is what you get" experience without a split-pane.

Local-first & Privacy: Your data never leaves your machine. No accounts, no cloud required.

No Subscriptions: I personally dislike the "everything as a service" trend. MarkNote is a one-time purchase ($39), with a generous free tier.

Developer Friendly: Built-in support for Mermaid, PlantUML, and even Excalidraw.

I'm currently in the early stages and would love to hear your feedback—especially from those who use Markdown for documentation, note-taking, or technical writing.
by alephnerd | 2026-03-05 02:38:03+00:00
Yep! Both private and public insurance funds are nickel and diming wherever possible to make up for losses during the COVID pandemic which went on for 3 years.

Edit: can't reply

> This started decades before COVID, and has been summarily ignored for the entire time. We’re still insuring properties in areas we known sea level rise and climate change make uninsurable

It's not property insurance that's causing the issue as I as well as the article pointed out.