MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by tymscar | 2026-03-06 00:58:07+00:00
I still remember the massive shift to SDRP and HDRP.
Honestly, now in retrospect, almost a decade later, I think it was clearly done wrong. It was a mess, and switching over was a multi-week procedure for anything more than a hello world program, and what you got in return wasn’t something that looked better, just something that had the potential to.

Similar story with the whole networking stack. I haven’t used Unity in years now after it being my main work environment for years, but the sour taste it left in my mouth by moving everything that worked in the engine into plugins that barely worked will forever remain there.

Im sure its partly skill issue
by pixl97 | 2026-03-06 00:59:59+00:00
Between 2004 and 2008 I did many things in computing as a company that offered my services, one of these was information gathering automation. It almost never immediately lead to decreases in employment. The systems had a to be in place for a while, people had to get used to them, people had to stop making common mistakes with them.

Then the 2008 crash happened and those people were gone in a blink of an eye and never replaced. The companies grew in staff after that, but it was in things like sales and marketing.
by stinkbeetle | 2026-03-06 01:00:02+00:00
Similar to CPUs, where many arrays have spare yield capacity, even whole cores can get disabled (and possibly sold in a different bin). DRAM stores redundant electrons in capacitors to patch it up and boost yields. Everything in reliability is a spectrum.

"ECC" does not give you fully reliable RAM. UEs are still be observed.

What's the chance of fail? If you have one device that achieves equal performance with less reliable cells and redundancy to another device that uses more reliable cells without redundancy, it's not really any different.

NAND is horribly flaky, cell errors are a matter of course. You could buy boutique NOR or SLC NAND or something if you want really good cells. You wouldn't though, because it would be ruinously expensive, but also it would not really give you a result that an SSD with ECC can't achieve.
by lorenzosch | 2026-03-06 01:00:33+00:00
AI won’t change music mainly by making songs.
It will change music by changing what feels scarce.

When “pretty good” tracks become unlimited, creation stops being the bottleneck. Meaning, trust, and attention become the bottleneck.

Here’s how that rewires the whole chain:

› Record labels
Their edge shifts from “we fund and distribute” to “we create focus.” In a flood of content, labels become attention managers: narrative, moments, reach, cultural legitimacy.

› Artists
The defensible asset becomes the human signal: lived experience, point of view, refusal, risk, and presence. Live shows, mistakes, and real-time connection gain value because they cannot be mass-produced.

› Authors and composers
Routine, functional writing gets cheaper. Distinctive writing gets louder. Writers who build a world people recognize will matter more than writers who can fill slots.

› Publishers
Rights administration turns into provenance and reputation. Society will argue harder about authorship, influence, and what “original” even means when style becomes easy to simulate.

› Listeners
Personalization becomes a mirror. Discovery becomes a choice. The new status is curiosity: seeking songs that interrupt your taste instead of feeding it.

End result: two lanes of music grow at once
› › utility music that fits moods and contexts
› › authored music that creates identity and belonging

In an age of infinite songs, the rare thing is intention.
by slopinthebag | 2026-03-06 01:02:25+00:00
It's well worth the $20 to not deal with any limits and have it handle all the boilerplate repetitive BS us programmers seem forced to deal with. I think 80% of the benefit comes from spending that $20 (20%? :P) and just having it do the lame shit that we probably shouldn't have to do but somehow need to.
by jmward01 | 2026-03-06 01:03:35+00:00
I am evolving my views on personal privacy. I am, like many people, trying to passively defend myself. However, the environment today is more akin to people coming up and punching you than it is to just avoiding door to door sales people. We are being actively attacked, and real harm is being caused. People are loosing their entire livelihoods, or worse, to attacks on their privacy like this. At the moment all I see out there is sit there and take it. Nothing I do will keep my life private in a meaningful way. The best I can hope for is that companies wont tell me too loudly that they know when I go to the bathroom and how heavy I am, they will just show me targeted ads that prove they know those things and sell my data so corrupt agencies can decide how best to abuse it, legally. So, what options are left if the only tool you are given is sit there and take it but nobody is actually defending you?
by pixl97 | 2026-03-06 01:03:36+00:00
People: "Trump, we should start moving away from ICE cars so we're less dependent on fluctuations on oil prices"

Trump: "Drill baby drill, electric windmills cause liberal bird testicular cancer"

Also Trump: "I am the peace president"

Also Trump: "So yea, I started a stupid war and gas prices are going to go way up, oh yea, and go buy a new 6 ton family sedan that gets 10 miles per gallon"

The inmates are running the jail.
by deckar01 | 2026-03-06 01:04:19+00:00
> If you truly wish to be helpful, please direct your boundless generative energy toward a repository you personally own and maintain.

This is a habit humans could learn from. Publishing a fork is easier than ever. If you aren’t using your own code in production you shouldn’t expect anyone else to.

If anyone at GitHub is out there. Look at the stats for how many different projects on average that a user PRs a day (that they aren’t a maintainer of). My analysis of a recent day using gharchive showed 99% 1, 1% 2, 0.1% 3. There are so few people PRing 5+ repos I was able to verify them manually. They are all bots/scripts. Please rate limit unregistered bots.
by krapp | 2026-03-06 01:04:28+00:00
>Life for most humans is just sitting in various boxes only accessible by car, interspersed by car rides between them

And a hundred years ago life for most humans was just sitting in various boxes only accessible by walking, or horse if they were rich enough, and there were far fewer boxes to choose from.

There isn't always a car between members of our species and intersubjective experiences happen more often than they did prior to mass transit because cars allow for greater range and more efficient travel, and thus access to more people and more experiences.

There are entire cultures that have developed around cars and car ownership that facilitate bonding and community between individuals.

I'm all for reducing automobile usage and creating more walkable environments but the premise that cars primarily serve to alienate and isolate people seems wrong on its face.
by jug | 2026-03-06 01:04:41+00:00
As a community alpha tester of GW1, this was a fun read! Such an educational journey and what a well organized and fruitful one too. We could see the game taking shape before our eyes! As a European, I 100% relied on being young and single with those American time zones. :D Tests could end in my group at like 3 am, lol.
by xp84 | 2026-03-06 01:04:51+00:00
> Following Black Lives Matter protests in the US in 2014, funding for police training at all levels of government skyrocketed, and some cities proposed additional police training facilities. A similar facility was approved in New York City in 2015 following the police killing of Eric Garner, and also in Chicago following a string of police killings in that city between 2014 and 2016.[11]

Protestors: Police should have better training.

Police: Build big training center

Protestors: No, not like thaaaat!!
by bluefirebrand | 2026-03-06 01:05:46+00:00
I've been feeling this a lot

I don't know what I'm going to do next but I have very little interest in or respect for LLM assisted coding, so I think the industry is likely not a good place for me anymore

If I could retire I would but I'm not quite 40. I don't have the savings to stop working now. So I'll figure out something new I guess

What a bummer. I loved my career to this point and I'm very sad that LLMs have ruined it

I guess I'm glad I'm not alone in this
by 6thbit | 2026-03-06 01:05:47+00:00
This is also the part i don't get. People flocking over to pay anthropic which _has already been used in a war_ and cancelling existing subs to a provider that has not yet but will?

Ethical boundaries seem difficult to draw here. I don't really see people taking the stance of "No longer paying any of them" which would make a bit more sense to me.

Anthropic already had layed in bed with pentagon, how did that fit their overall ethical standpoint as they were already being used and before they tried to walk back their terms?
by j45 | 2026-03-06 01:06:14+00:00
Ah, I’m not speaking about JavaScript within the content of wikipedia as you are.

I’m referring to the use of JavaScript in general in the building of web apps themselves. My comment is the same about 2FA.

I’m making these comments from the general perspective because I see it as a security risk when front end scriptability and app logic are more available than say server side apps.

Hope that clarifies my comments.
Show HN: I made a design portfolio reviewer
by eldardesign | 2026-03-06 01:06:28+00:00
Just launched evalv earlier this week.

As a designer, I kept asking myself:
How do I know if my portfolio effectively communicates value?
Feedback is usually:
• Subjective
• Inconsistent
• Too vague to act on
• And takes time find

So I decided to try building something.

Evalv analyzes your portfolio’s structure, storytelling, and visuals, and then matches it against specific job listings to surface strengths and gaps.

This is very much in beta. It is imperfect. It will evolve.
If you’re a designer, engineer, or someone curious feel free to try it out.
If you have thoughts, I genuinely want them.
by jumpalongjim | 2026-03-06 01:06:45+00:00
I've enjoyed SW engineering always. It started as a hobby and I'm fortunate to do what I enjoy as a profession. Do I still enjoy it? I find the rise of AI mesmerising. It's delightful to me to use AI and build with it in the partner role. Doesn't mean I don't have misgivings or doubts about where we end up, but I've never been so enthralled with tech.
by ramses0 | 2026-03-06 01:06:57+00:00
Very true, but you're a decade or two late for that. IIRC Cash4Clunkers put like a $3k floor on used car value (~$5-7k in today's dollars) meaning you'd never sell your old car for $2k to an individual when you could sell it to the government for $3k.

Per google it was started in 2009, which means any car worth less than $5k around 17 years ago isn't materially impacting new or used car prices today.
by agent_invariant | 2026-03-06 01:07:54+00:00
That’s exactly the mental split we’ve been leaning on.

The ledger part turned out to be more useful than we expected. Every freeze/reject event becomes a concrete example of where the agent tried to do something inadmissible, which is much more informative than hypothetical rule design.

On the governance layer: for us keeping the core extremely small and deterministic is proving interesting. The gate itself doesn’t try to understand intent or policy: it only enforces mechanical invariants like sequencing, replay resistance and bounded actions.

So when the agent evolves, we’re mostly not changing the kernel. What changes are the constraints around it (things like ceilings, roles, or context updates). That keeps the maintenance burden manageable because the core logic doesn’t grow with the agent’s complexity.

Early days though the real test will be how it behaves once the agents start doing more varied workflows.
by ses1984 | 2026-03-06 01:08:24+00:00
I presume that hundreds of billions in profit refers to money extracted over multiple years, not per year, there’s no other way it makes sense.

>and most of that is probably not even insurance related since a large portion comes from UNH's enormous healthcare provider business

Isn’t that part of the problem? There are interdependent layers in the health care industry each designed to extract as much wealth as possible.

In the case of UNH, how much money flows as an expense on the insurance side into income on the provider side? Isn’t the relative profitability between these two sides an accounting trick?

It seems strange to me that you’re saying doctor salaries are too high, yet the majority of profits come from their provider business, which is where doctor salaries would be tracked as an expense, right?

“Less than $50b/yr profit” as if that’s a small amount.

I agree that retail investors would not want to be shareholders of insurance companies, but that’s mostly because I think retail investors are just chum in the water for institutional investors and prop trading firms to feast on.

If it’s so stupid to be a health insurance shareholder, then where does that leave their senior leadership and major shareholders? They’re morons for not immediately divesting and moving into fast food, right?
by zelphirkalt | 2026-03-06 01:08:29+00:00
This has led to a completely overblown design of at least their website. All these cutesy pictures of bubble tea, way too big graphical wrappers, no simple page that is labeled "screenshots", no explanation what "bubbletea" actually is, ... One would think it to be a simple task to mention somewhere that this is a TUI library, where one can see it at the first glance. But apparently not. Instead I am seeing:

Your new coding bestie, now available in your favourite terminal. Your tools, your code, and your workflows, wired into your LLM of choice. This is artificial intelligence made glamourous.

Eh, so something about AI tools? And is "Crush" another tool than "bubbletea"? Why am I seeing something about "Crush" and not about "bubbletea"?

Maybe it's simply not my taste. For a TUI library, I expect serious listings of what it can do, what it supports, what it helps you with. Is it a layer on top of ncurses? Features and use-cases over meaningless authority arguments like "Look who uses this too!".

I also see:

We make the command line glamorous.

I don't want my command line to change! I configured it to be just how I like it. What they mean is, that they make command line applications using their library "glamorous" (whatever that means). I have a suggestion for a better slogan: "Your advanced command line widgets library" or "Library for advanced TUI applications".

Maybe I am nitpicking too much.
by jimbokun | 2026-03-06 01:10:50+00:00
Early in my career I would sometimes be told to not worry about making the code “nice” just get it working and move on. I would nod and just write good code like I always did, knowing it didn’t take longer than writing bad code, and would be much easier to modify and extend and fix later.

I feel like there’s a similar vibe coming with vibe coding. Just let the AI generate as much code as it wants, don’t check it because it doesn’t matter because only the LLM will be reading it anyway.

My gut tells me that

1. there will still be reasons for humans to understand the code for a long time,

2. even the LLM will struggle with modifying code last a certain size and complexity without good encapsulation and well thought out system architecture and design.
by ipnon | 2026-03-06 01:11:31+00:00
I think this is one of the weaknesses of rationalism and effective altruism, is that it tries to make a clean break from the common law legal reasoning that the government, and thus corporations, operate on. While I find rationalism to be a useful lens, the fact is that the common law legal framework is totally dominant, and so these deontological arguments made rationally collapse very quickly when translated to the dominant framework.
by jazzyjackson | 2026-03-06 01:11:31+00:00
DoD still has not meaningfully moved to the DoW moniker, to me it represents the most fascist tendency, to make announcements and presume that’s enough to change the truth on the ground. The legal entity one contracts with is DoD. Going along with “DoW” is signal to me that a party has capitulated to the most absurd form of governance.
by xp84 | 2026-03-06 01:12:01+00:00
Written like an enthusiast who knows what the filesystem is. The target market of this laptop includes almost no one like you and me. This is for grandmas and teens, and even Gen Z, who is basically 30 now, never learned to use the filesystem, since they grew up using Google Docs and "apps" where all your data is just "in the app."

Apple makes it incredibly difficult to manage usage of the disk, for instance, they only offer you two choices for Photos: All photos locally, or "Optimize disk storage" - i.e. Apple Magic.

iMovie too uses a "Library" which is code for "Apple Magic." If you have a project in progress and want to move it to a USB disk because you need the space on your tiny SSD to download a single game, good luck actually getting that simple task done, because everything including your imported clips and your project files, is in a "Library."

Basic users have no idea how to handle these "libraries," and honestly, neither do I, beyond being able to forcibly move the entire library "bundle" to an external drive, which may as well mean deleting it, since this stuff expects to be left alone in-place.
by hglaser | 2026-03-06 01:12:11+00:00
It is incredible how far the overton window has moved on this issue.

When I graduated in 2007, it was common for tech companies to refuse to let their systems be used for war, and it was an ordinary thing when some of my graduating classmates refused to work at companies that did let their systems be used for war. Those refusals were on moral grounds.

Now Anthropic wants to have two narrow exceptions, on pragmatic and not moral grounds. To do so, they have to couch it in language clarifying that they would love to support war, actually, except for these two narrow exceptions. And their careful word choice suggests that they are either navigating or expect to navigate significant blowback for asking for two narrow exceptions.

My, the world has changed.
by trinsic2 | 2026-03-06 01:12:13+00:00
Yeah I have been doing that for years now. I do most things the hard way. I forgot exactly how it started. I think it started when I decided I wanted to develop my own sense of discipline. I think right after I read the constructive living book by David K. Reynolds. The premise, as I understand it, is that depression is a direct result of not taking full responsibility and immediate action in your life.

Looking back, I realize that started me on the path of not doing things the easy way. It was really hard a first, but over time it got easier. Most people in my line of work don't take accurate notes of what has transpired, don't keep a proper history of business exchanges and don't have clear agreements and contracts in place that spell out what is expected. Once I started this process of improving my life, I realized the more I made the effort to keep detailed track of everything I do/did, my life and business started to improve. I think you are right, taking to the most convenient path in life is a sure way to bring about pain and suffering.
by garagon | 2026-03-06 01:14:21+00:00
Aguara is a static security scanner built specifically for AI agent skills and MCP server configs. 173 rules across 13 categories: prompt injection, credential leaks, data exfiltration, supply chain, SSRF, and more.

No LLM, no cloud, no API keys. One Go binary, scans in milliseconds.

Four analysis layers:
1. Pattern matching (regex + base64/hex decoding)
2. NLP markdown analysis (AST walker, keyword classification)
3. Taint tracking (source-to-sink flow analysis)
4. Rug-pull detection (hash tracking across scans)

Every rule includes remediation guidance - when it finds a problem, it tells you how to fix it.

We also run Aguara Watch (watch.aguarascan.com), scanning 45,000+ skills across 7 public registries daily. The data shapes the rules.

Install: brew install garagon/tap/aguara
Docker: docker run ghcr.io/garagon/aguara scan /scan
GitHub Action: uses: garagon/aguara@v1

https://github.com/garagon/aguara
Show HN: MHA OC Maker – Create My Hero Academia Original Characters with AI
by newsapling1988 | 2026-03-06 01:14:56+00:00
Hi HN,

I built MHA OC Maker, a small AI tool that lets fans create their own original characters inspired by the My Hero Academia universe.

Link:
https://aiocmaker.com/oc-maker/mha-oc-maker

The idea came from seeing how popular OC (Original Character) creation is in anime communities. Many fans enjoy designing their own heroes, quirks, costumes, and personalities, but most existing tools are either static avatar makers or require drawing skills.

So I wanted to build something simpler:

What it does

Generate anime-style OC characters with AI

Inspired by the My Hero Academia art style

Text-to-image generation (describe your character idea)

Multiple visual styles and variations

No drawing skills required

Why I built it

OC creation tools like Picrew are popular, but they are usually based on predefined parts (hair, eyes, etc.). AI opens a different approach: you can describe almost any character idea and generate it instantly.

For example:

"A shy support hero with electric powers"

"A villain student with shadow quirk"

"A cheerful UA hero trainee"

Tech stack

AI image generation models

Custom prompt templates optimized for anime characters

Web interface for quick generation and iteration

Future ideas

Structured OC builder (quirk / hero type / personality)

Story generator for characters

Pose and costume customization

If you try it, I'd love to hear feedback from the HN community
by xp84 | 2026-03-06 01:15:09+00:00
Absolutely it is. And honestly, yes, the only person who will be able to use this device successfully and be happy is the person who would also consider, and (from a software perspective) be completely satisfied with the capabilities of, a Chromebook. Everything stored exclusively in cloud services, and preferably not the Apple ones, since iCloud Drive will just end up wasting more of their disk space.

I guess I'll agree that as a direct Chromebook replacement (And I mean literally, just download Chrome after first boot and ignore everything else on there besides maybe the Messages app), this can be a decent device.
by mempko | 2026-03-06 01:15:33+00:00
Long time ago I worked for a company that I learned was selling it's software to help target people during the Iraq war. I quit because I cannot support building software that kills people.

This is a message to people working for that line of business at Anthropic. You don't have to do it, you can quit. If you are helping this insane administration to conduct war on Iran quit. You don't need to have that kind of blood on your hands.

I saw a someone's hypothesis that a generative model was used to help classify buildings to decide what to bomb and that the Girls school was misclassified. If this was an Anthropic model, I can't imagine what it feels like being a worker there in that line of business.
by pixl97 | 2026-03-06 01:16:11+00:00
>friends are constructing a long ladder to get to the moon

Congratulations, you're working on a space elevator. A few trillion dollars would certainly get us out of the atmosphere, and the amount of advances in carbon nanotube and foam metal would rocket us ahead decades in material sciences. Couple this with massive banks of capacitors and you could probably generate enough electricity for a country by the charge differential from the top to the bottom.

Oh, I get it, you were trying to be clever by saying something ignorant because it makes you feel special as a human rather than make realistic statements for the progress currently being made in the sciences.