MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by vlod | 2026-03-11 11:23:09+00:00
I still struggle with the fact that I was (or delusional) an effective C programmer "back in the day" (before google etc) and all we had was "man" to look up std/x11 system calls.

Now I am dismayed with juniors who can't even be bothered to use google (or llms) to look up stuff on their first hiccup.

#include <old-man-shouting-at-clouds>
by czue | 2026-03-11 11:23:51+00:00
This is cool! The UI is very slick. I made lifeweeks.app around this time last year, and have wanted to add more future-facing stuff ever since. There's some fun ideas in here I might "borrow" :)

I tried to figure out ideas for monetizing lifeweeks when it blew up, but I just don't think there is much money in apps like this. Maybe if you can do something around physical products, e.g. posters or something and take a cut or affiliate. But I think these apps just don't have the shape of something that people think they should pay for. Would be happy to be proven wrong though!
by jrapdx3 | 2026-03-11 11:24:23+00:00
AFAIK the answer is an emphatic yes, a lot has changed since 2005. Tcl9 was recently released and has many new features. As far as Tk goes, for a number of years we've had "themed Tk" or Ttk widgets, much better styling, resembles native widgets quite closely. Ttk widgets aren't as configurable as regular ones, well, everything has tradeoffs.

You should take a look at the current releases, you might be pleasantly surprised.
by globular-toast | 2026-03-11 11:24:51+00:00
Under heaven all can see beauty as beauty only because there is ugliness.
All can know good as good only because there is evil.

Therefore having and not having arise together.
Difficult and easy complement each other.
Long and short contrast each other:
High and low rest upon each other;
Voice and sound harmonize each other;
Front and back follow one another.

Therefore the sage goes about doing nothing, teaching no-talking.
The ten thousand things rise and fall without cease,
Creating, yet not possessing.
Working, yet not taking credit.
Work is done, then forgotten.
Therefore it lasts forever.

-- Tao Te Ching verse 2.
by watwut | 2026-03-11 11:25:50+00:00
China and Russia are benefiting from this war. It is not a blow to them, it is a gift for them.

> I'm confused as to why Filipinos are protesting against taking out the Iranian regime;

Iranian regime was not "taken out". It does not seem like it will be taken out either. Its leader got changed for younger more hard line one with the same name. Edit: also Filipinos are much more affected by oil crisis then USA. It is literally an emergency crisis for them.

> But America's taking out the weakest links in the Russian-Chinese-Iranian-Venezuelan axis.

Venezuela is under exactly same regime as before. Maduro got changed for Delcy Rodríguez, keep regime intact. Trump got personally richer, but that is it.
by joegaebel | 2026-03-11 11:26:41+00:00
That's the kicker - you taught it conventions that it follows. Even better (in my view) is to ensure you're getting higher coverage and tests focused on behaviour by getting it to write the tests first.

Even moreso by ensuring it writes "feature complete" tests for each feature first.

Even moreso by running mutation testing to backfill tests for logic it didn't cover.
by fragmede | 2026-03-11 11:27:07+00:00
Astroturfing? If I don't have an alternative, I'm secretly being paid by "them" to tear down UBI? Who would "them" even be? How would that even work?

Anyway, subsidized jobs programs is my answer. Pay people to do jobs. Plant trees! There's so many places that could use some reforesting. There's no shortage of work to do.
by c-c-c-c-c | 2026-03-11 11:27:29+00:00
I'd love to see a deep dive into the 303 CPU and their replicas like https://www.sonic-potions.com/re303 and https://socialentropy.com/pages/product_qs303

sonic potions has an analysis of the cpu timings here https://sonic-potions.com/Documentation/Analysis_of_the_D650...

Theres also some nice articles about the diode ladder filter in the 303, similar to the one in the vcs3 https://www.timstinchcombe.co.uk/index.php?pge=diode2
by ben_w | 2026-03-11 11:27:49+00:00
> Nuclear plans have objectively made power generation save and clean. When they were built in the 1960-1990s the were objectively the best and cleanest energy that saved a gigantic amount of lives.

Yes indeed. But that wasn't why they were built*, and that safety comes with an enormous cost. Ironically not including the exclusion zone, even with that included the amortised cost is quite small, but rather all the things that Chernobyl didn't have but should've plus all the international inspections and regulations to make sure nobody's secretly got a weapons program, either deliberately or via organised crime.

* Even just plain simple diversity of energy supply is good, as per another comment I made on this topic: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47309196

> The exclusion zone is nonsense because many that live in that zone has lower cancer rates then those outside. The idea is based on a invalid assumption about radiation an a linear relationship between radiation and harm.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Samosely

That's a tiny sample size, consisting of people who are in poverty (and already mostly elderly) and can therefore be expected to have unusual health outcomes. Which could be higher or lower cancer rates, depending on what else is going on. Like, cancer won't get you if you pickle your liver too hard first with moonshine.

Though yes, the linear relationship between radiation and harm is known to be an oversimplification.

> Not sure what 'spicy' means in this context.

Radioisotopes. They're really useful for a lot of stuff, but the options for making them are mostly "fission plant" or "particle accelerator". This includes but is not limited to weapons.

> In terms of price tag they are objectively a fantastic deal if built in larger numbers. Even in places where they were not built in the numbers they did in France, they are good life time deal, and give relativity stable long term prices.

The cheapest are cheap, but the average and the trend line says they're mostly now a worse option than PV+batteries. Your milage, as the saying goes, may vary, so I wouldn't be even mildly surprised if e.g. Alaska says "hydro and nuclear" given this graph: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Alaska_electricity_genera...

> In places like Austria and Germany we have many known cases where a nuclear plant was planned and was prevented by activists, only to be replaced by coal, in both cases impacting 10000s of lives being worse financially in the long term.

Indeed. It was terrible for the environment and general population health that we didn't have a huge roll-out of nuclear power up until the 2010s when renewables got interesting.

But unfortunately, although even the full cost (both monetary and to lives lost) of Chernobyl would, if amortised over all reactors, be much smaller than for fossil plants, the scale of that accident would have been an existential threat to many smaller nations. Arguably, it was existential damage to the USSR, even. People don't want to be subjected to someone else's game of Russian Roulette, not even when the overall odds of survival go up.
by Terretta | 2026-03-11 11:28:09+00:00
> And I realized, maybe I don't need "sign in with apple".

Developers don't have to have most things they put in the apps they ship. Customers, on the other hand...

As of a decade ago (2016) Apple already had 782 million total (including free) iCloud users, with 73% or 570 million of them authenticated to iCloud.

By 2023, Apple has 973 million paying subscribers to its services.
by piva00 | 2026-03-11 11:28:46+00:00
> South Korea and the Philippines are both "capable allies" in the sense that Israel and the UAE are, and in the sense that much of Europe is not.

Most of Europe combined (meaning the EU + the most closely aligned non-EU countries) are a much more formidable force than the UAE or Israel... You can't compare using individual European countries since in a hot scenario the vast majority of the EU countries would band together, and the movement towards military integration has already been started.

The US never had a period without flexing its muscles after the Cold War, you can't say that there were 20 years of "soft power is all you need" while keeping wars like Iraq/Afghanistan for 20 years, keeping spending more on the military than the next 10-20 countries combined.

The trouble is that the US has lost the plot, there's no value or vision to defend, it hollowed itself out with hyperfinancialisation since the 80s, the consequence is that there's no rallying inspirational point anymore. It doesn't have a "hook" to attach its vision of the future, I have no idea what's the vision of the USA for the future except for "generating wealth".

As a nation it just seems to be lost, butting heads while moving backwards.
by zesterer | 2026-03-11 11:29:13+00:00
Yes, absolutely. I've since switched to rope-backed buffers, but I don't think the rope itself is actually adding much from a performance standpoint, even for really very large files.

We talk about big-O complexity a lot when talking about things like this, but modern machines are scarily good at copying around enormous linear buffers of data. Shifting even hundreds of megabytes of text might not even be visible in your benchmark profiling, if done right.

When benchmarking, I discovered that the `to_pos`/`to_coord` functions, which translate between buffer byte positions and screen coordinates, were by far the heaviest operation. I could have solved that problem entirely simply by maintaining a list of line offsets and binary-searching through it.
Infrastructure Vulnerabilities and White-Label Abuse: Is Opnex a Scam?
by cappyfjao | 2026-03-11 11:29:41+00:00
In the current digital finance landscape, fraudulent entities are becoming increasingly adept at using mature technical tools (like MetaTrader 5) to manufacture credit endorsements for their illicit operations. Today, we dissect OPNEX from a network infrastructure, information security, and architectural perspective to answer the tech community's most pressing question: Is OPNEX a scam?

1. High-Risk Shared Network Infrastructure
During our OPNEX in-depth analysis, topology scans of its core domains revealed an extremely low Trust Score (around 35). The core services handling highly sensitive financial transactions and user KYC data are hosted on a very cheap shared server. Worse, this same server IP is bound to numerous high-risk websites flagged for low reputation or fraud records. In cybersecurity architecture, this means that if any weak website on the same server is breached, attackers can use lateral movement to directly access the core financial data of OPNEX users.

2. The Absolute Conflict Between "Anonymity" and Financial Compliance
Anonymity is reasonable in Web3 or privacy-focused sectors. However, for a centralized platform claiming to offer fiat forex and commodities trading, it is highly abnormal for the real controllers to completely hide domain registration and corporate entity details through privacy services. A lack of a traceable legal entity means that in the event of a liquidity pool depletion or a technical "rug pull," victims have zero possibility of legal recourse.

3. The Illusion of Trust from MT5 White-Labeling
When reviewing an OPNEX review, many users develop a false sense of trust because it offers a smooth MT5 client. This is a classic technical cognitive bias. Purchasing an MT5 White-label license does not require rigorous financial qualification reviews. OPNEX is highly likely a completely closed B-Book engine. Your orders are never actually routed to the international liquidity market; they are merely numbers running in OPNEX's own database.

Technical Risk Advisory: Based on this real evaluation of OPNEX, its underlying architecture entirely fails to meet financial-grade security standards and resembles an asset-light funnel ready to exit scam at any moment. We urge developers to be wary of entities borrowing credit via professional software shells and recommend intercepting related nodes at the firewall level.
by rhsxandros | 2026-03-11 11:29:42+00:00
I’ve spent the last few weeks digging into the structural mechanics of LLM safety filters (specifically RLHF guardrails), and I’ve documented a methodology that relies on context window saturation rather than standard prompt injection or character obfuscation.

The core premise is that because all prompts are quantum and exist in a flat context window, the model's attention mechanism cannot rigidly separate "system rules" from "user inputs." By framing the input as a recursive logical paradox—what I’m calling a Dual-Positive Mandate—you can mathematically drown out the original safety weights. The model doesn't "break"; it just follows the most statistically dense logic in its active memory.

I’ve included the theoretical breakdown and the resulting validation logs in the post. I'd be very interested to hear from anyone working on AI alignment regarding how current architectures can defend against linguistic entropy scaling faster than static probability weights.
by s3anw3 | 2026-03-11 11:31:12+00:00
Hi everyone, quick update from the author:

My GitHub account has been suspended for unknown reasons.
This means the repository links in this post are currently broken — I apologize
for the inconvenience.

I've already submitted a reinstatement request to GitHub Support and am waiting
for their response. I have not received any explanation for the suspension.

In the meantime, the app website is still live at https://chatshell.app

I'll update this thread once the issue is resolved. Thanks for your patience
and support!
by mark_l_watson | 2026-03-11 11:31:23+00:00
Indeed! Your comment is probably the most important in this thread. The Korean/German philosopher Byung-Chul Han writes a lot about losing humanity because of tech advances.

I am retired so this is easier for me to do: For every hour each day I spend on tech (personal AI research, writing) I spend 90 minutes hiking with friends, playing games like Bridge, enjoying meals with my wife and friends, reading good literature and philosophy, etc.

I worked for 50 years before retiring, but even working, I tried to balance human time vs. tech and work - often leaving 'money on the table' but it was worth it.

Pardon an old man ranting, but I think so many people seem caught up in the wrong things.
by ben_w | 2026-03-11 11:32:16+00:00
I have heard that the anti-nuclear propaganda is funded by other nuclear states, because of the aforementioned value of reactors (and their scientists and engineers) to weapons programs.

I have no idea if that's true, but it sounds very plausible.

However, if it was true, it would make it very much easier for governments to justify big spends on pro-nuclear propaganda. I mean, the USA managed to make test-detonations into a tourism opportunity: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_Las_Vegas#Atomic_te...
by thiscatis | 2026-03-11 11:32:44+00:00
I would have loved this for my road trips in the US. From the other apps it was never clear whether this was a restaurant or a gas station where it's next to the highway (a quick stop) or I had to drive a mile into a town and find it. Perhaps it has improved since then (this was 2015-ish). Congrats on building this!
by jcfrei | 2026-03-11 11:33:03+00:00
Lots of similarities to the Bitcoin investment thesis. Where the chain itself becomes the product and not any utility derived from it. You have to believe in a likely future where all fiat money crashes and becomes worthless, evil states confiscate other forms of wealth, like stocks and bonds but for some reason will be powerless to prevent bitcoin transfers. At the same time the hard limit of 21 million BTC will never be revoked despite continuously declining miners revenue. And only within that strict narrative does a long-term investment really make sense.
by cookiengineer | 2026-03-11 11:33:11+00:00
> Great detective work

"Haussystem Didot" in the article's referenced typesetting catalog refers to the typesetting of the Didot family's printing agency. And they used that symbol 1700 and onwards in their map navigation descriptions in these books:

https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Histoire_g%C3%A9n%C3%A9rale_de...

I am gonna repeat myself, but search for the Gallica links in each of those books to find the scans. There you can see earlier usage and evidence that as I pointed out in other - downvoted comments - that this was commonly used for sextant navigation instructions.
by fsflover | 2026-03-11 11:33:45+00:00
It doesn't harm individuals, unless you speak against the government and they don't like you. Then you are in trouble, since it becomes very easy to find you or find something against you. This is how it harms the freedom of speech and democracy. Everyone should have privacy to protect the activists and journalists. It’s sort of like freedom of speech is necessary not just for journalists, but for everyone, even if you have nothing to say.
by fakedang | 2026-03-11 11:33:54+00:00
> Then we had about 20 years of politicians who thought the soft power stuff was all you needed

Actually, about 9 years. Then Afghanistan happened, followed by Iraq. Hard power was back baby!

> The security concerns haven't changed, but the way of dealing with them has.

The security concerns were never there to begin with, unless you mean the security concerns of Israel. With the US as the hegemon, it is in the US's interests to maintain the security of key trade corridors, the most volatile and important of which is the Hormuz strait (arguably even more than the Suez). Post Iranian Revolution, every action of the US has only served against its interests, to further destabilize the corridor - whether it was funneling weapons to Saddam, invading Saddam 20 years later, not to mention the constant sabre-rattling against Iran throughout.

> I'm confused as to why Filipinos are protesting against taking out the Iranian regime; it's a direct blow to Chinese expansionism, as well as the jihadist groups in the south

Lol no. Getting involved with Iran means fighting a country that has every intention to bog down the US in a long war, at no cost consideration for its citizens. China loves the war - it's a repeat of Vietnam. China is literally dishing out intelligence to Iran and helping them skirt sanctions. Also Iran, which is Shia, isn't involved with the terror groups in Mindanao (which are hardline Sunni and funded by the US GCC allies).

> But America's taking out the weakest links in the Russian-Chinese-Iranian-Venezuelan axis

The weakest link in the axis was literally Venezuela - proximity to the US, a hated president, and competing factions vying for power. Well, at least before the US decided it was a dandy idea to kidnap Maduro.

> A short-term rotation away from East Asia doesn't necessarily mean it's a bad strategic move.

The Iran war is going to be anything but short-term, as the Iranians have stated. Even if the US wants to exit the campaign, the Iranians will not let them, and if the US decides to unilaterally stop bombing Iran, it leaves Israel open to the Iranians, which is something Israel and AIPAC won't let the US do.

The Asian allies know this, which is why everyone from South Korea to Japan to Philippines to Australia has been worried - because they know that this leaves fewer American resources for them. The US has already begun diverting THAADs and Patriots from SK to the Middle East because they've been depleted. The UAE was begging around for interceptors from Italy (at a 125% premium) and then Russia, because the US failed to provide for its "capable allies". The Gulf states internally already see the US, including US defence products, as unreliable in supply and are already moving to lock in deals with EU providers such as Rheinmetall.
by CrzyLngPwd | 2026-03-11 11:34:21+00:00
Another day, another person telling us how we should change what we have been doing for decades, just to make sure the machine can drop 1,000's of lines of debt that we'll never review, or worse yet, a machine will review it.

I guess the hope is that the middle managers will finally be able to get rid of the annoying techies, this time, as has been the promise for decades.

Maybe these LLMs are the silver bullet to finally free us so we can dance, paint, write poetry, and fuck instead of working.

Not that I consider writing code to be work, since it's always been the easy bit for me, but yeah, just as the machines have taken music, art, poetry, etc, why not let them take everything we enjoy.

PS - You'll prise copilot in vsc from my cold dead fingers :-)
by lionkor | 2026-03-11 11:34:59+00:00
I wrote lots of C++ before learning Rust, and I enjoyed it. Since learning Rust, I write no more C++. I found no place in which C++ is a better fit than Rust, and so it's my "new C++".

For example, high performance servers (voltlane.net), programming languages (https://github.com/HF-Foundation, https://github.com/lionkor/mcl-rs, and one private one), webservers (beampaint.com) and lots of other domains.

Rust is close to C++ in that it is a systems language that allows a reasonable level of zero-cost abstractions.
by juliushuijnk | 2026-03-11 11:35:12+00:00
Ah, yes, this worked in the app, not really on the web version yet.

It meant to say: long press will allow you to paint in a rectangle. So long press one corner, then press another corner.

I'll look into if I can fix that.

Btw, my goal was to have zero language in the app, so I wouldn't have to make any translations, and it would just work for kids of any age. Hence the somewhat weird '?' popup.

Might turn this into a thing where you can download a PDF of the image, and you can print and can cut it out and fold it into a brick shaped character. As in; top half face, bottom half rest of body.

Update: I adding a 'eyes spotted' (round nose + eye) and a 'skin effect' when empty cells are near some things, they change too. Spots or scales for now.
by Darmani | 2026-03-11 11:35:55+00:00
Reading the page, I'm left very confused what this is. Is it a new query language, or a new data format, or both? I think it's both. Am I expected to redo everything in this format? Like, get both my freeform planning notes about what to build and also my production Postgres DB in the same file? I don't even know how to begin doing that.
by dzaima | 2026-03-11 11:36:12+00:00
Well, we don't necessarily have to wait for Oilsm; software that wants to could just choose to be opinionated and run massively-worse on suboptimal hardware. And, of course, once Oilsm hardware becomes the standard, it'd be fine to recompile RVA23-targeting software to it too.

> RISC-V could've easily avoided all this mess by properly mandating misaligned pointer handling as part of the I extension.

Rather hard to mandate performance by an open ISA. Especially considering that there could actually be scenarios where it may be necessary to chicken-bit it off; and of course the fact that there's already some questionability on ops crossing pages, where even ARM/x86 are very slow.
by washadjeffmad | 2026-03-11 11:36:14+00:00
Humans have selective adaptations to reduce resource competition between older and younger members of populations - examples are menopause and testosterone levels.

Part of the reason it benefited us that some but not all people become old is because people require more attention during two phases of their lives. Our biological evolution has prioritized care for the very young over the very old, with respect to a limit on resources (like attention), effectively until the modern age. In some cultures, for instance, those with teeth must pre-chew food for those without, or expected members to engage in ritual suicide at a certain age.
by izacus | 2026-03-11 11:36:39+00:00
If you make a spec that the wider industry cannot effectively implement into quality products, it's the spec that's wrong. And that's true for anything - whether it's RISC-V, ipv6, Matter, USB-C and so on.

That's what makes writing specs hard - you need people who understand implementation challenges at the table, not dreaming architects and academics.