MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by benj111 | 2026-03-08 11:33:05+00:00
True. The other side of 'fair' in this situation is what was the company earning.

Busting a gut to make some shareholders/managers loads of money isn't exactly fair if you aren't also being rewarded.

On the other hand, in the UK the NHS has traditionally paid people extra on the understanding that these things happen. But when it did happen the staff were asking for even more.
I know this probably comes across as right wing, but my point is how we reward people for black swan events.
by Tade0 | 2026-03-08 11:33:10+00:00
> Well it’s not just a “text predictor” is it?

It is, by definition, design and architecture a system that produces believable text.

Here's a task to give it which pulls the veil right off:

Ask it to add tests to a piece of code where code coverage is 100%, but it doesn't actually test functionality 100%. You'll start seeing nonsense sooner or later.
by merlindru | 2026-03-08 11:33:16+00:00
> It has just merely moved from "almost, but not entirely useless" to "sometimes useful"

[citation needed]

:P

This thing has changed the way I work. I barely touch my editor to actually edit anymore, because speaking into the chat field what changes I want it to make is more efficient

The tooling does need to get better, yes, but anecdotally, I do a fundamentally different job (more thinking, less typing, less sifting through docs, less wiring up) than 3 months ago

So much of my career was spent on especially rummaging in docs and googling and wiring things up. I believe that's the same for most of us
by vrganj | 2026-03-08 11:33:25+00:00
What's not normal is that the US has a Secretary of War that seems to get off on the cruelty and on breaking international law.

> “Death and destruction from the sky all day long,” Pete Hegseth, wearing a red, white and and blue tie and pocket square, bragged to reporters at the Pentagon near Washington. “This was never meant to be a fair fight, and it is not a fair fight. We are punching them while they’re down, which is exactly how it should be.”

> As defence secretary Hegseth has vowed to “unleash overwhelming and punishing violence” on enemies and promised to dispense with “stupid rules of engagement” – rules designed to restrict attacks on civilian populations.

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/mar/08/pete-hegseth...
by aardvark179 | 2026-03-08 11:33:39+00:00
I recommend actual human reviewers who you can stick with over time and who do not just say that a book is good or bad but something about why. Those don’t have to be professional reviewers, they can just be people you know or follow who talk about what they read.

Looking at award shortlists and nomination lists is also a good filter providing you know a little about the award (I wouldn’t go to the Clarke Award shortlist for mil sf stuff, for example).
by kator | 2026-03-08 11:34:40+00:00
The "calculator ruined the world" argument was actually studied to death once the panic subsided. Large meta-analyses of 50 years of data show it was mostly a non-problem. Students using calculators generally developed better attitudes toward math and attempted more complex problems because the mechanical drudgery was gone.

The only real "catch" researchers found was timing. If you introduce them before a kid has "automaticity" (around 4th grade), they never develop a baseline number sense, which makes high-level math harder later on.

It's a pretty clean parallel for LLMs. The tool isn't the problem, but using it to bypass the "becoming" phase of a skill usually backfires. If you use an LLM before you know how to structure an argument or a block of code, you're just building on sand.
by jprs | 2026-03-08 11:34:47+00:00
Below the link to the North America file, you should see a few examples:

> A spirited attack on daylight savings from Canadian intellectual Roberton Davies in 1947: [full quote]

> A story of a public clock in Nashville in the 1950s with “dueling faces”—one time for conservatives and another for liberals.

> An account of the “day of two noons” in New York City in 1883, when standardized time zones were adopted and “local time” was abandoned forever.

> A detective story about ascertaining the proper chronology of time zones in Resolute Bay, a tiny community north of the Arctic circle.
by ChrisMarshallNY | 2026-03-08 11:35:14+00:00
Probably, yes. If we don’t have a clear understanding of the fundamentals, it can make life difficult. Having that understanding, often helps us to verify new information. My personal experience has been “layers,” with the new layer building upon, and often subsuming, the substrate.

But it does mean that there’s limits. A lot of folks start at points higher than mine, and can go much further than me.

That’s fine; as long as I understand and accept my limitations, as well as my strengths.

It’s a long story, but I spent the majority of my career at some pretty demanding and high-functioning places. I had to learn to be self-critical, without being self-abusive.

Also, I have terrible memory. I suspect it comes from … experimentation … in my youth. Doesn’t make me stupid, but has given me a talent for leveraging reference materials.
by ahartmetz | 2026-03-08 11:35:29+00:00
It is pretty well known that C++ templates really are dynamically typed, it's compile time duck typing.

What you did sounds like Eigen, which probably takes expression templates much further than you did due to the long time it's been around. It is weirdly absent from its documentation, but Eigen does have explicit SIMD support for several architectures and SIMD instruction sets. https://libeigen.gitlab.io/
by poizan42 | 2026-03-08 11:35:53+00:00
Hmm the comment was a bit difficult to parse, but I think they got it correct. Remember that we have arbitrarily defined the time during local winter as the "standard" time. If we want to keep to that then "permanent daylight savings" is a contradictory term. So what is actually meant is abolishing DST while at the same time changing the standard time to be at the offset of DST before the change. So what I think they are saying is that DST is being abolished, but the actual effective offset at the time when it's abolished is unchanged.
by rubansk | 2026-03-08 11:36:21+00:00
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by eviks | 2026-03-08 11:36:56+00:00
Indeed, creating a file is of little use in a file viewer, and is [p]age up old enough?

> if you want to be pedantic

I don't, the question is how you justify that in the search for consistency? I don't get the C-j, the issue with consistency is J/K, why do digraphs matter, are they more important than basic navigation?
by gritzko | 2026-03-08 11:37:52+00:00
Was "sem" named "graft" last week and "got" a week before that? Everyone is vibing so hard it is difficult to keep track of things. Also, idea theft gets to entirely new levels. Bot swarms promote 100% vibed stolen projects... what a moment in time we all enjoy.

Still, my two cents: Beagle the AST-level version control system, experimental

https://github.com/gritzko/librdx/tree/master/be#readme

It genuinely stores AST trees in (virtually any) key-value database (RocksDB at the moment). In fact, it is a versioned database for the code with very open format and complete freedom to build on top of it.

be is in fact, more of a format/protocol, like in the good old days (HTTP, SMTP, XML, JSON - remember those?)
by shevy-java | 2026-03-08 11:38:38+00:00
Well ... that kind of explains why nobody uses wasm.

Initially I fell for the hype too. Now it seems the number
of people using wasm, is mega-low. It's like the tiniest
ever fraction of javascript-knowing folks. And this will
probably never change either.

I guess it is time to conclude:

- wasm will remain a small niche. At the least for the, say,
close future. But probably forever.
by amaury_bouchard | 2026-03-08 11:38:55+00:00
Nothing special happens. µJS doesn't change anything for direct URL access. The server renders the full page as usual. µJS only intercepts navigation once it's initialized on the page. This is actually one of the advantages of this approach over a true SPA: every URL is a fully server-rendered page, so direct access, bookmarks, and sharing links all work out of the box.

Let's take an example. Say we have a website with 3 pages:

- Homepage "website.com/"

- Products "website.com/products"

- About "website.com/about"

Your browser can load any of these pages directly, as usual. But when you are on the homepage (for example) and you click on the "About" link, µJS load the "/about" URL, and replace the current page's `<body>` tag with the fetched page's one.

It's that simple.
by chantepierre | 2026-03-08 11:39:31+00:00
Here is a 6in f/5 travel truss dob kit by my friend :

https://www.printables.com/model/1325533-smallest-telescope-...

Wallace, my 6” f/2.8 :

https://www.printables.com/model/997327-wallace-6-f28-telesc...

And my tiny but mighty 3” f/4 : https://www.printables.com/model/1475113-76300-pocket-dobson

Wallace is built, but Gromit, a 16.5” F/3, is under progress. Working on the mirror and CAD :)
by spwa4 | 2026-03-08 11:39:31+00:00
The problem with this reasoning is that it is self-contradictory. How long the Iranian government lasts is driven by how extreme they are, how resolved.

Whether they'll reopen the strait of Hormuz is also driven, in reverse, by how extreme they are. But the more extreme they are, the less likely they'll ever reopen it.

Having the strait of Hormuz closed is a big problem for Europe and China, a medium problem for the US, and an existential problem for the middle eastern countries (except Israel/Lebanon and a few others like Yemen). And ... a good thing for Russia (in fact they've been trying to get here for decades).

But the Iranian regime chooses to fight against the entire world. The correct action for Iran/IRGC, frankly obviously, is to ... guarantee the safety of ships in the Hormuz strait. Literally to the point they cooperate with the US on the water, while the US is murdering their government, while the US is torpedo-ing their ships. Really, going that far. That is required for them to have a chance to win this. But they're, literally, too stupid to see this themselves, and too extreme to take that simple truth from anyone, including their closest allies.

So my "strategic assessment" on this is, first, that it was unavoidable we'd get to this point with Iran anyway. The clock was ticking where we'd be in the same situation even if we never fired a shot, and it could just as well have happened 10 years ago. And once we're in this situation, the only way out for oil markets, but especially for middle eastern countries is fighting until the regime is out. So unfortunately we'll fight this war to the end, whatever it takes, and US/Israel will get more and more allies as it drags on (already Saudi Arabia and UAE have said they'll join the war, and if they will, everyone will. Since then France, UK, Ukraine are also looking what they can offer)

And ironically, Trump is probably forcing this because he'll lose the midterms.

It's already leading to total insanity: do you know the Taliban are currently fighting on the US and Israel's side? Right fucking now, Taliban fighters have died and are dying fighting Trump's war. I doubt anyone asked them, but here we are.
by riedel | 2026-03-08 11:40:39+00:00
Totally agree. I was quite impressed with UI and bling bling when one of our employees installed it to monitor one of our servers (university team of 15 people) .However it turned out to be a total cognitive overload and very hard to bring it down to the strictly necessary to maintain the server. Then the cloud login stuff was a show stopper. We moved from nagios via icinga to checkmk, but we are still quite unhappy with good metrics based monitoring (we had munin at some point). A lot of the solutions seems overkill or oversimplify alarm states leading to a lot of false positives or duplicate notifications.
by amaury_bouchard | 2026-03-08 11:41:04+00:00
No worries! You can prevent the page from scrolling to the top by adding `mu-scroll="false"` to the link or form triggering the request. You can also disable it globally with `mu.init({ scroll: false })`.

In the Playground, the scroll-to-top behavior is intentiona, it's there to illustrate that feature.
Ask HN: How to Be Alone?
by sillysaurusx | 2026-03-08 11:41:17+00:00
For the first time in my life, at 38, I'm alone. When I was 18 I basically moved out of my parents' straight in with my highschool sweetheart, and we were together ever since. That chapter of my life is over now, and I'm finding the adjustment very difficult.

There are a few parts to the difficulty. One is that when I have something to say about my day, there's nowhere to say it; no one on HN cares whether I fixed up the blinds or cooked pork steaks. I hang out in an IRC chatroom for that, but sometimes nobody's around for hours.

Another is that weekends are hard. I used to be in a house filled with life each weekend, and now it's me and my dog (and my cat, when he decides to grace me with his presence). Having animals helps somewhat, but it's still hard simply being alone with myself for ~60 hours.

I'm also finding it difficult to think of things to do. My default action is to play games, but it feels empty, both because I used to be able to play games alongside someone else and because I have no one to share the cool moments with.

I understand that many of you find alone-ness to be natural, and even required. All I can say is that I haven't ever lived that way. I sometimes panic when it's been too long since I've seen another person.

There are the usual suggestions: go to the dog park more often, pick something and build it, read books, hop on dating sites, find a hobby, and so on. But I'm finding it hard to actually do any of that. I would blame depression, but I have a great psychiatrist who has me on antidepressants, anti-anxiety meds, and mood stabilizers.

I work remote, and that's currently my main way to gratify social cravings. But it's not a consistent way, since the time zone difference is quite large (I'm -7 hours vs them).

Everything feels hollow now. That's the main thing that's hard to adjust to. I was hoping for some psychological tricks to deal with that, or just to hear stories from other people who have had to undergo similar situations. In many ways it feels like being imprisoned, except at least in prison there are other inmates to socialize with. "Solitary confinement with internet" is probably a better analogy.

I was hoping to hear from anyone in the community who's transitioned from a family dynamic to being on your own, and to learn from any lessons you've picked up along the way. Or just to hear some stories in general about your experiences. Thanks.
by pjmlp | 2026-03-08 11:41:24+00:00
Exactly because security matters is why this week we had as part of Meet with Apple sessions, 5 h about language extensions to C, hardned runtime for C++, hardware memory tagging, additional macOS security mechanism, and finally approaches to rewriting unsafe code into Swift.

"Fortify your app: Essential strategies to strengthen security"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UZeSyodAszc
by srean | 2026-03-08 11:41:46+00:00
Yes am familiar with Eigen. And yes I am/was that lunatic you mention in your other comment.

This thing I wrote, predated Eigen (by a few years, I think) had a better support for pipelines and dataflow oriented programming (at least in the context of what I needed) than Eigen. It was more like itertools, functools of Python.

Unlike Eigen, mine had no explicit support for intrinsics, for that I relied on a smart enough compiler, GCC was surprisingly good.

Too bad MSVC was quite bad at optimising and inlining away to the expression trees that Eigen (and mine) generated.
by chadtd1 | 2026-03-08 11:42:20+00:00
I've shipped 6 AI-powered web apps in the last year while working full-time as a Director of Sales Enablement. Some things that changed my trajectory after years of the same pattern you're describing:

Stop building in isolation. I started posting build updates on HN, DEV.to, and Reddit from day one — not for marketing, but for feedback loops. The comments saved me from at least two bad architectural decisions.

Ship the smallest possible paid tier immediately. My medication tracking app (PillPal) has a 25-40% free-to-paid conversion because the free ceiling is set exactly where real users hit friction — 3 medications, but the average user who needs the app has 5+.

The $2,200 isn't lost. It's tuition. The pattern recognition you built is worth more than any single project.
Show HN: Utter, a local-first dictation app for Mac and iPhone
by hubab | 2026-03-08 11:42:23+00:00
I use dictation a lot for writing, notes, and prompting agents. After trying a bunch of dictation tools, I kept running into the same issues: recurring cost, unclear privacy/data handling, and not much control over how the final text was cleaned up.

So I built Utter.

The main idea is simple: it should work as both a fast dictation tool and a longer-form voice note / meeting capture tool, while still giving the user control over where processing happens and what the output looks like.

A few things it does today:

- global dictation with customizable shortcuts

- saved modes for different workflows, with different prompts/models

- remembers the last mode used per app

- meeting recording with speaker-labeled transcripts, summaries, and action items

- file transcription for audio/video

- saved audio/transcripts with export options

- prompt-based post-processing for turning raw speech into notes, messages, summaries, etc.

- built-in note editor

- iPhone app with dictation keyboard

A big motivation was being able to use it locally. It supports local transcription, optional local post-processing, BYOK, or cloud providers depending on the workflow. I also wanted phone-to-desktop capture to feel simple, so it syncs through iCloud and doesn’t require an account.

Curious to hear from people who use dictation heavily, especially on:

- where current dictation tools still fall short

- whether the “modes” idea makes sense in practice

- what would make you trust a tool like this for daily use
by KaiserPro | 2026-03-08 11:43:00+00:00
> That being said CI/CD is a luxury for coders at lean startups,

Really? even before github actions, circleCI did that sort of thing.

Gitlab's runners are nice an easy to configure. Plus all CI/CD is fancy bash with some git triggers.

FT.com used to deploy either directly through heroku to prod, or later via circleCI, and that was in 2015.
by maxglute | 2026-03-08 11:43:09+00:00
Renewables... and coal. If shit hits fan it's not just hammering EVs (including trucking/freight) but hammering coal to liquid/olefin to make diesel and plastics. This not talked about much, long term strategic hedge / resource autarky looks like electrify everything, and domestic coal+oil for industry/petchem. If Hormuz long term, PRC going to be ramping up coal for industrial feedstock including fuels, even if it's much more polluting or expensive, but expensive is relative, $80 barrel oil = coal + extra processing becomes economical.
by dsign | 2026-03-08 11:43:10+00:00
> The company would compensate them well: full wages for the whole time, even when sleeping, and a paid week off after.

Only a week??? I mean, we are all going to be replaced with AI any day now, but were it not the case, I'm fully expecting to see an American company to offer, as a benefit, "we will collect and bring your remains to the workplace if you by accident die outside."
by chadtd1 | 2026-03-08 11:43:20+00:00
Running one. I call it Clawbot. Daily brief every morning: platform health checks, Reddit/HN/DEV.to opportunity scanning, mention monitoring, engagement queue. The hardest part wasn't the tech, it was writing good judgment rules. What should it engage with versus skip? Took about 3 iterations to get that right. The agent is only as useful as the decision criteria you give it.
by Imustaskforhelp | 2026-03-08 11:44:26+00:00
minor point to say but I have seen in some locations colocation costs to be around $30-40 as well. $100 is usually reserved for say colocating within Hetzner for example (iirc)

Just as a rule of thumb, if your servers cost more than 1k$ per month or even 500$ maybe even, depending upon if you are okay with colocation and everything. I have found it to break even (more than even the cheapest say hetzner or similar actually so for GCP or anything which charge significantly more, maybe you should warrant a deeper analysis on what is better colocation or dedicated servers or for short burstable units maybe even vps)
by Insanity | 2026-03-08 11:44:40+00:00
“Attention is all you need” was published 9 years ago, and gpt3.5 burst onto the scene 4 years ago.

Progress is slower than people seem to think. Of course AI as a field is half a century old.

But on the other hand, AI had a period of rapid acceleration 40-ish years ago and was then hit by an AI winter. We might hit that winter again in a year and all predictions made today are off the table.
by jonex | 2026-03-08 11:44:41+00:00
Didn't it start with asm.js, a subset of javascript serving as a way to compile C code to be run in a browser? Then browser makers figured that it'd be better to have a dedicated target for this. So while it can be used to achieve performance in specific scenarions, it's largely designed with the goal in mind to be able to run non js code in a browser. The wasm toolchain Emscripten encompasses this notion quite clearly as it emulates things like filesystems etc. If the main goal was faster execution, they would probably have gone a different route. PRobably even gone for a new language altogether.

I'd like a toolchain better targeted for the pure acceleration use case though. Emscripten adds a lot of bloat and edges just to serve out of the box posix compatibility. Which is nice for quick demos of "look I can run Doom in the browser"-kind. But less useful for advanced web app usage, where you anyways will want to keep control of such behavior and interact with the browser apis more directly.
by markus_zhang | 2026-03-08 11:45:15+00:00
I think it's because housing is the biggest expenditure for my family. Like I said, you should build your own index, not using the CPI or other people's index. Similarly, change in life can increase expenditures, too, e.g. getting a child prompts the family to buy a house instead of staying in a condo.

For my family, housing is easily the primary expenditure -- around 6,000 CAD while (food + vehicle) amount to less than 2,500 CAD monthly. For a similar family in the same area with on vehicle, I estimate that housing probably takes at least half of their expenditure.