MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by jacquesm | 2026-03-05 03:47:32+00:00
The photo of the e-bike shown is the not the kind that causes the wrecks, those are so called 'fat-bikes' that don't have a governor, are ridiculously fast and don't work in assist mode. They're essentially just battery powered motor cycles.

Kids around where I live ride them without helmets and not that long ago one was killed right next door because of riding into a stationary car. It is really on the parents that let kids have these devices without considering the risks.

There is a big discussion in NL powered by one particularly dumb minister about whether or not these can be banned or not, because it is supposedly a gray area in the law but it really isn't: these are illegal under the law as it is and could be confiscated and destroyed the only thing missing is the will to do so. I wonder how many more kids will have to be killed before they will realize that there is a difference between a regular e-bike and these.
by dhosek | 2026-03-05 03:47:35+00:00
I remember in my literary theory class, one of the theorists made the (deliberately) absurd claim that writing preceded speech. Reading this, and I wonder if he was correct (as an aside, I tend to wander into the weeds in language articles on Wikipedia as I find myself increasingly curious about language evolution and I always wonder whether the different language families are “merely” a result of linguistic drift over millennia or whether human speech appeared independently in multiple points of origin).
by hedora | 2026-03-05 03:48:16+00:00
PBS is no longer government funded.

They've also been attacking most private universities and all of the privately held media and computing platforms.

As a libertarian, I don't see how you can argue that no private entities should be allowed to have freedom of speech.

Also, I wasn't talking about public funding. I was talking about the federal government illegally soliciting bribes and intimidating private organizations into implementing illegal government policies on their behalf.
by Nancylily | 2026-03-05 03:52:10+00:00
Hi HN,

I built this to solve my own "tab fatigue."

Making AI video usually means jumping between 4 tools: one for the image, one for the video, another for music, and a separate app for 3D assets. It was a mess of file transfers.
I updated Textideo to orchestrate all of this in a single timeline.

What's new:
3D Meshes: Converts images to 3D assets using a fast feed-forward pipeline (<60s). It helps with spatial consistency.
Audio: Direct generation of scoring and TTS synced to the video blocks.

The Stack:
A Python backend acting as a conductor for several models (integrating Veo, Wan, and custom pipelines). The main challenge was getting the inference latency down so the "edit-preview" loop isn't painful.

There are free credits on signup to test the workflow.
The 3D geometry is decent for props but can struggle with complex organic shapes—I'd appreciate any feedback on the mesh quality.

Thanks!
by varenc | 2026-03-05 03:52:58+00:00
Similar frustrations. I was only able auth using some Google app I created for an old project years ago that happened to have the right bits.

It wild that this process is still so challenging. There's got to be some safe streamlined way that sets up an app identity you own that can only use to access your own account.

My guess is that organizationally within Google, the developer app authorization process must have many teams involved in its implementation and many other outside stakeholders. A single unified team wouldn't responsible for this confusion and complexity. I get why... it's a huge source of bad actors. But there's got to be a better way.
by socalgal2 | 2026-03-05 03:54:29+00:00
I get that Flash hit a sweet spot. I'm not sure I get why nothing has really replaced it. There are other apps that give you animated vector graphics, in an IDE, with coding.

Here's 2?

https://rive.app/editor

https://cavalry.scenegroup.co/

I believe Unity doesn't do flash style vector animations. It will take in SVGs, turn them into meshes and apply skeletons. That said, it has replaced Flash in turns of the 1000s and 1000s of web games made with it.

https://poki.com/en/unity

https://itch.io/games/platform-web (majorty are Unity?)
by evil-olive | 2026-03-05 03:54:38+00:00
the title seems unnecessarily clickbaity.

rather than "What Python's asyncio primitives get wrong" this seems more like "why we chose one asyncio primitive (queue) instead of others (event and condition)"

also, halfway through the post, the problem grows a new requirement:

> Instead of waking consumers and asking "is the current state what you want?", buffer every transition into a per-consumer queue. Each consumer drains its own queue and checks each transition individually. The consumer never misses a state.

if buffering every state change is a requirement, then...yeah, you're gonna need a buffer of some kind. the previous proposed solutions (polling, event, condition) would never have worked.

given the full requirements up-front, you can jump straight to "just use a queue" - with the downside that it would make for a less interesting blog post.

also, this is using queues without any size limit, which seems like a memory leak waiting to happen if events ever get enqueued more quickly than they can be consumed. notably, this could not happen with the simpler use cases that could be satisfied by events and conditions.

> A threading.Lock protects the value and queue list.

unless I'm missing something obvious, this seems like it should be an asyncio.Lock?
by rramadass | 2026-03-05 03:55:31+00:00
I am not the "anon" here; you are.

You made a preposterous statement, got called out, and are now making excuses.

Anybody who claims to have studied "Theoretical Computer Science" can/will never make the statements that you did (and that too in a thread to do with Niklaus Wirth's achievements who was one of the most "practical" of "theoretical computer scientists"!).

Given all the self-evident society pervading technologies built on the above theories, one can only question your knowledge of the domain.

Here is wikipedia for edification - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Theoretical_computer_science
by ceroxylon | 2026-03-05 03:56:22+00:00
Hallucinations galore, the 'daily digest' provided me with this gem: "Apple's supposedly revolutionary $1,199 MacBook Neo is getting schooled by $500
Windows machines that do basically the same thing without the premium"

There is no way to build a Macbook Neo for $1,199 and this is obviously snarky, auto-generated slop.
by yashasolutions | 2026-03-05 03:56:33+00:00
> "Frankenstyle is a no-build, fully-responsive, value-driven, utility-first CSS Framework."

It feels like Tailwind but simpler and some interesting design choice. And style wise, it feels very close to shadcn but again, framework agnostic, no build approach.

Code is at https://codeberg.org/FRNKN
by aggregator-ios | 2026-03-05 03:56:37+00:00
Absolutely. Cheaper Chromebooks are terrible machines. Those screens should be illegal and probably causes a lot of eye strain and headaches. Same with a lot of the sub $800 PC laptops. The colors aren't even... colors. The trackpad? Yuck. Everything else falls apart right outside of the warranty period of just 90 days or 1 year. Oh and good luck spending the first day just uninstalling/formatting everything from scratch and getting the vendor specific features to work again.

For people who have always wanted an Apple laptop, this is it. The niceties are not necessary, and perfect little things to cut out to bring the price down for the masses.
by bigstrat2003 | 2026-03-05 03:57:39+00:00
> NPM has become the de facto standard for installing any software these days, because it is present on every OS.

That's not remotely true. If there is a standard (which I wouldn't say there is), it's either docker or curl|bash. Nobody is out there using npm to install packages except web devs, this is absolutely ridiculous on Google's part.
by AnthonyMouse | 2026-03-05 03:58:56+00:00
> Wait a “pledge”? What are the legal protections of a “pledge”?

That's the boring part until you pin down what they're even promising to do.

It's not as if existing data centers were getting power by sending a masked rogue to climb the utility pole, tap the lines and bypass the electric meter. Paying for electricity is the thing they were going to do anyway.

Likewise, paying for "new generation capacity" is the thing they were probably going to do regardless, because colocating large data centers with power plants saves the expense of power transmission which lowers their costs.

And as the article alludes to, the real question is when? In general you can build a data center faster than you can build a power plant, which is exactly the reason data centers can cause short-term electricity prices to increase. They temporarily cause demand to exceed supply until supply has time to catch up. So on the one hand the whole issue is kind of meh because it was only ever going to be a temporary price increase anyway, and on the other hand having them build power plants at the same rate anybody else is building power plants doesn't actually change anything or address the temporary shortfall. (If you really want to solve it, find a way to build power generation capacity faster.)

And then it doesn't matter if you can enforce the promise because it was meaningless to begin with.
by ExoticPearTree | 2026-03-05 03:59:27+00:00
That is with the Pentagon directly only. Now they will lose much more because no defense contractor, subcontractor and so on can use them for anything defense related (even if they use the model to invent a new type of screw, if that screw is going to be used in anything military).

So yeah, they bet a whole lot on “look at us, we have morals”.
by dotancohen | 2026-03-05 04:00:36+00:00
> Why should Israel have a right to exist?

There are at least three basic answers to that question, depending upon one's worldview.

1. Israel does not have a right to exist, in fact no state has "a right to exist".

2. Israel has a right to exist because her citizens successfully defend her from those who wish her not to exist.

3. Israel has a right to exist because the UN declared it.

>>> random.randrange(1,4)
3

That's the tough one, but I'll answer under that worldview for the remainder of the reply...

> And under what parameters?

Under the parameters established by her founders, and the UN, and those established by her neighbouring states.

From the Israeli declaration of independence:

"WE EXTEND our hand to all neighbouring states and their peoples in an offer of peace and good neighbourliness"
- https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Declaration_of_Independence_(Israel)

From the neighbouring states:

"No peace with Israel, no recognition of Israel, no negotiations with Israel."
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1967_Arab_League_summit

Need I remind you that seven nations attacked Israel on the day of her independence? That attack caused a million and a half people to become refugees - both Arabs in the holy land and Jews in the rest of the middle east. It also moved the lines of control from the UN partition plan lines to the 1948 cease fire lines - which far favoured the Jewish state and extended to the internationally recognised borders of Mandatory Palestine.

> Within which borders?

Within the borders of the predecessor state, Mandatory Palestine, just like all other newly-established states (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Uti_possidetis_juris). Had the Arabs founded an Arab state on the remaining lands of Mandatory Palestine then I would argue that Israel should be established only on the land allocated by the UN and the land lost by the Arabs in their failed war. But the Arabs never established a state there.

> Who gets citizenship?

The people who live within the borders of the new state, and those whom the state determines are eligible for immigration. Just like every other state.
by xrd | 2026-03-05 04:00:55+00:00
If I start a small business that sells Apples and the US government comes to me and says "we want to buy your apples and fire them at high speed to" these are now your words "kill adversaries through any means necessary."

If I say, no, then am I stopping the military?

I feel like it is reasonable that I can say "no, I don't want to sell you my apples."

I cannot for the life of me figure out why that means I am stopping the military from killing people. I'm just saying I don't want to participate in it.
by mullingitover | 2026-03-05 04:01:44+00:00
Guns aren’t a service, which is what Anthropic sells.

Anthropic has a contract for how their service is to be used, the government committed itself to following the contract by signing. Then it violated the contract.

Basically the government committed fraud by signing a contract that it clearly intended to violate. Then they tried to bully Anthropic into not doing anything about their breach of contract.

It’s mobster behavior. You’re saying Anthropic should just not sell services if it’s going to enforce the terms of service. You have it backwards: the government shouldn’t enter into contracts that it intends to violate.
Show HN: Jobbi – Free AI resume tailoring with unlimited PDF exports
by djrnz | 2026-03-05 04:01:59+00:00
Hi HN,
I’m a frontend engineer and built Jobbi.app, a small tool that uses AI to tailor a resume to each job description. It’s currently free, unlimited, with PDF export.
Problem
During my own job searches I kept rewriting the same resume for dozens of roles. Most “AI resume builders” I tried either:
– focused on generating a resume from scratch instead of working with my existing one
– had strict free‑tier limits or aggressive upsells
– produced very generic, obviously‑AI text.
What Jobbi does
– you upload a “master” resume (PDF or text)
– you paste a job description
– it extracts relevant parts, rewrites bullets to match the JD, and outputs a tailored resume you can edit in the browser and export as PDF.
Under the hood it:
– parses the resume into sections (experience, skills, etc.)
– scores which bullets/skills are relevant to the JD keywords
– rewrites only those parts, keeping the original structure and tone as much as possible
– uses Gemini API with some prompt engineering around “don’t invent experience / don’t change dates / keep numbers”.
What’s different
– it assumes you already have a resume and just want fast tailoring, not a full CV builder
– no limits / logins / credit cards right now (I care more about usage + feedback than monetization at this stage)
– I’m optimizing specifically for software/tech roles, so I’d love feedback from this crowd.
Questions for you
– For those who’ve used similar tools, what did you hate the most?
– Is there something obviously broken / insecure / unethical in my approach?
– What features would make this actually useful for HN readers (e.g. integration with “Who’s Hiring”, diff view of changes, local‑only mode, OSS version, etc.)?
Link: https://jobbi.app
I’ll be in the thread to answer questions and hear any feedback (incl. “don’t do this because X”).
by AdieuToLogic | 2026-03-05 04:02:15+00:00
> Your goal seemed to be to fact check Claude.

No, this is not my goal. My goal was to illuminate that Claude is a product which produces the most statistically relevant content to a prompt submitted therein.

> I'm not sure why your failure to do so should be taken up with law.com?

The post to which I originally replied cited "Claude" as if it were an authoritative source. To which I disagreed and then provided a definition from law.com. Where is my failure?

> Law.com's first definition is inapplicable.

From the article:

The pledge includes a commitment by technology companies to
bring or buy electricity supplies for their datacenters,
either from new power plants or existing plants with
expanded output capacity. It also includes commitments from
big tech to pay for upgrades to power delivery systems and
to enter special electricity rate agreements with utilities.[0]

> That leaves us with the second definition, which says nothing about whether a pledge is legally binding.

To which I originally wrote:

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

0 - https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/mar/04/us-tech-comp...
by hedora | 2026-03-05 04:02:46+00:00
Yes, Musk is guilty of treason for exactly that reason. He directly sabotaged a major US military operation in Ukraine.

However, the military is bound by US and international law. It's clear they're not going to obey either of those with respect to this contract.

On top of that, Anthropic has correctly pointed out that the use cases Trump was pushing for are well beyond the current capabilities of any of Anthropic models. Misusing their stuff in the way Trump has been (in violation of the contract) is a war crime, because it has already made major mistakes, targeted civilians, etc.
by nick238 | 2026-03-05 04:04:10+00:00
Money analogy could better be put as one of:

1. Store your money in a 0% interest account—leave RAM totally unused—or put it in an account that actually generates some interest—fill the RAM with something, anything that might be useful.

2. Store your money buried in your backyard or put it in a bank account? If you want to actually use your money, it's already loaded into the bank.

Imperfect analogies because money is fungible. In either case though, money getting spent day-to-day (e.g. the memory being used by running programs) is separate.
by kxyvr | 2026-03-05 04:05:04+00:00
That's not true. You can look at the residency match for 2025 here:

https://www.nrmp.org/match-data/2025/05/results-and-data-202...

While many specialties are fully filled, we need pediatricians, family medicine, and internal medicine docs. They're generalists and where the largest shortage is. There were 147 unfilled slots for pediatricians, 805 for family medicine, and 357 for internal medicine. They don't have the applicants; it's not the slots.
by acuozzo | 2026-03-05 04:05:14+00:00
> nor the complete mapping of customers behaviors to use in contexts not being the phone call

This is because the telephone system was regulated with wiretapping laws, among others.

> I don’t remember reading about ads in phone calls

See above, but also: Junk Faxes & Telemarketing/Robocalls.

> The apples to oranges in this comparison is probably top five on HN ever.

It all comes down to whether you view social media as a communications platform or a publishing platform.

The strict regulations governing the telephone system (see above) would adequately cover both with deliciously-antique turns of phrase like "wiretap" and "pen register".
by frutigeraerosol | 2026-03-05 04:05:38+00:00
More and more people are vibe coding but barely know what got built. You say "add rate limiting" and your AI does it. But do you know what your users actually see when they hit the limit? A friendly message? A raw 429? Does the page just hang?

VibeCheck asks you stuff like that. One question after your AI finishes a task, based on your actual diff. It looks at what was built, compares it to what you asked for, and checks if you know what changed in your product.

Works with any AI coding tool. Native integration with Claude Code (auto-quiz after every task), and a standalone CLI that works with Cursor, Windsurf, OpenClaw, PicoClaw, NanoClaw, Cline, Aider, or anything else that writes
by miyoji | 2026-03-05 04:05:53+00:00
You can read the actual pledge at [0]. The executive order regarding it is at [1].

There's some speculation in the comments about what is or isn't in the pledge. I recommend reading it yourself.

[0] https://www.whitehouse.gov/articles/2026/03/ratepayer-protec...

[1] https://www.whitehouse.gov/presidential-actions/2026/03/rate...
by DaedalusII | 2026-03-05 04:06:54+00:00
sama looks like he has been punched in the face hard and is scared of being punched in the face again. he also

dario comes across like a guy who has never even been in a fight and cant believe a fight is even real.

there is something very dangerous about a person who believes that they are "good" and then believes that in fact their version of good is superior to the government, and they should ignore the government which ostensibly represents the people, while building a technology that will make millions of white collar jobs go away (democrat voters) and revolutionise violence (dod/dow - republican voters)

imagine if IBM decided in 1960s they were going to start telling NASA/DOD how to use their mainframes and saying USgov couldnt have an IBM if they were going to use it in vietnam etc

that said, i use claude
by tombert | 2026-03-05 04:07:02+00:00
Sure, maybe, but I think if it were FOSS'd back in ~2005, then these security issues could be addressed by a larger set of eyes, including the browser-makers themselves.

If this hypothetical universe happened, I think we'd have had something akin to WASM much earlier. Flash already had its own bytecode and VM, and even had something roughly like Emscripten [1] to compile existing C++ code to Flash.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CrossBridge
by h4kunamata | 2026-03-05 04:08:01+00:00
>delivering breakthrough pro performance

I am having to use M4 at work and it is the worst piece of equipment I have used. Knowing how Apple releases more of the same, M5 won't be different.

It has 24GB and it is slow asf, takes forever to open apps and macOS somehow managed to be worse than Windows.

I am Linux user, and on macOS you CANNOT use:

- Ctlr + ABCVYXZ

- Shift/Ctrl + Insert: Copy/paste for terminal

- F5

- Home/End

- Backspace?? Fn + Del like WTF!!

- Select with touchpad?? You must physically press its button like WTF

- Mouse with backward/forward button?? Good luck!!

macOS feels like it was built for people who depend heavily on mouses, if you are used to Linux able to get a lot done with keyboard shortcuts that work even on Windows mind you, you are gone.

The amount of time wasted fighting macOS is insane.
by DesaiAshu | 2026-03-05 04:08:23+00:00
It's not "just" a $200m contract, it's the start of a lucrative relationship

1. Stargate seemed to require a dedicated press conference by the President to achieve funding targets. Why risk that level of politicization if it didn't?

2. Greg Brockman donated $25mil to Trump MAGA Super PAC last year. Why risk so much political backlash for a low leverage return of $200m on $25m spent?

3. During WW2, military spend shot from 2% to 40% of GDP. The administration is requesting $1.5T military budget for FY2027, up from $0.8T for FY2025. They have made clear in the past 2 months that they plan to use it and are not stopping anytime soon

If you believe "software eats the world" it is reasonable to expect the share of total military spend to be captured by software companies to increase dramatically over the next decade. $100B (10% of capture) is a reasonable possibility for domestic military AI TAM in FY2027 if the spending increase is approved (so far, Republicans have not broken rank with the administration on any meaningful policy)

If US military actions continue to accelerate, other countries will also ratchet up military spend - largely on nuclear arsenals and AI drones (France already announced increase of their arsenal). This further increases the addressable TAM

Given the competition and lack of moat in the consumer/enterprise markets, I am not sure that there is a viable path for OpenAI to cover it's losses and fund it's infrastructure ambitions without becoming the preferred AI vendor for a rapidly increasing military budget. The devices bet seems to be the most practical alternative, but there is far more competition both domestically (Apple, Google, Motorola) and globally (Xiaomi, Samsung, Huawei) than there is for military AI

Having run an unprofitable P&L for a decade, I can confidently state that a healthy balance sheet is the only way to maintain and defend one's core values and principles. As the "alignment" folks on the AI industry are likely to learn - the road to hell (aka a heavily militarized world) is oft paved with the best intentions