MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by c_and_c_ai | 2026-03-03 13:06:39+00:00
Code&Co | AI/ML Tech Due Diligence | Fully Remote (EU or US) | Full-time

We are Code&Co. We conduct deep-dive technical due diligence for leading VC, PE, and Growth investors. We get a full "under the hood" view of some of the world's most interesting companies (recent highlights include DentalMonitoring and Osapiens).

I’m looking for colleagues to help identify key AI/ML risks and opportunities across a diverse set of companies. You’ll be analyzing architectures, data pipelines, and models to help investors make informed decisions.

If you enjoy seeing how different companies actually build their tech and want to share your view on what's real vs. what's hype, please get in touch.

Also we have our own in-house platform for the whole process, no pixel-pushing in Powerpoint here.

Contact: drapes_working_0x@icloud.com

See here for more general job offerings: https://codeandcocom.notion.site/Code-Co-Careers-b8e783b53b3...
by Anonyneko | 2026-03-03 13:06:55+00:00
I was thrilled for new Windows releases between 3.11 and 8.1. I'm still reasonably fond of Windows for personal use. For now I can still de-enshittify it enough to get back the experience I'm used to, and it's comfortable and convenient. But I'm not sure if that will last for long, given the current trend.

That said, for work I've switched to Linux full-time years ago. Native containers are a killer feature for me, and the different UX and driver/dependency/repository issues aren't significant enough to make me want to go back to virtualization in Windows.
by hexage1814 | 2026-03-03 13:07:00+00:00
As a windows power user myself, many of my workflows don't translate that easily. If you are an experienced Windows user, you probably have programs that you use on Windows and that aren't available for Linux. It's not that you couldn't theoretically translate that workflow into Linux, but boy, it would be a headache.

To give an example: I use AutoHotkey, it's a scripting language for Windows that allows you to do a bunch of things. You can customize the keyboard, mouse, you can create menus and toolboxes, you can target specific applications inside. It's a fantastic tool. But it isn't available for Linux for obvious reasons; Linux is much more fragmented. You need like 3 or 5 different programs to achieve the same result in some cases, depending on your given script.

In other words: debloating Windows and customizing it is considerably easier than installing Linux. Let alone some really good software you end up finding along the way: Everything, which is an amazing search program that allows you to create custom categories and the like. EmEditor, which is really good software to open and visualize really large text files, like it can open a 4GB txt with no problems.

About the last sentence:

>If customisability is important

People value both things: customisability but also they value their time (of not having to come up with a new workflow), they value the programs and workflow they already learned to use through the years, and so on and so forth.
Show HN: Construct Computer – Agentic Cloud OS for Daily Work
by ankushKun | 2026-03-03 13:07:32+00:00
We are building Construct Computer a cloud OS where autonomous AI agents ("Constructs") live and do your day to day work.
You can observe them in real-time through a desktop OS frontend.

The idea is agent-native infrastructure: instead of agents being API calls, they're persistent processes with their own compute, storage, and network identity.

With integrations with a vast ecosystem of business tools, the Construct Agent can do anything from scheduling meetings, preparing documents, to deep researching the web, join meetings, and automate long running business operations with minimal human intervention.

demo video: https://x.com/use_construct/status/2028731937330954539
by brianjcohen | 2026-03-03 13:07:41+00:00
Confido Legal | Security Engineer (Senior Software Engineer – Security) | Remote (US) | Full-time

Confido Legal is a fintech platform that helps legal tech companies and law firms embed payments and finance features into their products. Security and trust are foundational to our mission.

We’re hiring a senior software engineer to join our core engineering team and own security across the platform. This is not a standalone security department role. You’ll remain an active contributor to the product—writing code, reviewing PRs, shaping architecture—while serving as the team’s point person on security.

You’ll lead PCI DSS Level 1 and SOC 2 compliance, drive secure-by-default architecture, harden our AWS infrastructure, reduce vulnerability noise, and embed security into every stage of our product lifecycle. You’ll also participate in customer security reviews and incident response alongside engineering leadership.

Stack: TypeScript, React, Next.js, GraphQL, AWS (Pulumi IaC), Docker, ECS.

We’re a small, high-ownership engineering team where engineers lead domains (security, underwriting, growth) while continuing to build product daily. If you’ve “seen this movie before” securing real SaaS systems and want meaningful ownership without leaving engineering, we’d love to talk.

$175k–$225k. Fully remote (US).

Full Job Posting: https://confidolegal.com/about

Apply:
https://confidolegal.com/security-engineer?hsCtaAttrib=31427...
by ssl-3 | 2026-03-03 13:07:47+00:00
He needs 6 screws at a time, and the goal is to save time compared to counting manually. I'd guess that 7 would probably be fine occasionally -- maybe even 8 from time to time if the process is fast enough. I'd further guess that 9 screws is a non-starter (screws are inexpensive, but 9 represents 50% waste, which is quite a lot).

The lower limit is hard-set at 6 because the kits that he's producing and selling require exactly 6 of these screws for end-user assembly.

A small cup that would reliably scoop out at least 6 screws and no more than 7 or 8 screws sounds like a simple and elegant concept.

What does this cup look like? Is it faster to use this cup than counting by hand is? (Is it faster than the reproducible screw counter that he's already built?)
by Vinnl | 2026-03-03 13:07:54+00:00
I'm not saying it won't be a lot of work, and I'm not saying it'll be at feature parity in five years. But I'm saying that we shouldn't assume it'll take as much work/as long as it got Android to get to the current point, to get to the point where it's viable for some use. For example, when a usability baseline for some common usage patterns is achieved, it could be at the point where some external event could push a hardware vendor to start experimenting with specific support.

(I'll also note that there has been a lot of non-"fancy little bells and whistles" work that has been going on in the Linux world, specifically with lots of lessons learned from mobile. Think atomic distros, and sandboxing, for example.)
by user_7832 | 2026-03-03 13:08:05+00:00
> A long time ago, I used "7+ Taskbar Tweaker"…

Way to make me feel old! I'm still using it!

> …to Windows 7

Aah that's better.

The tool still works on 10 btw, and offers some options not available otherwise - eg properly narrow taskbar when vertical (about small icon width wide).
by plutokras | 2026-03-03 13:08:09+00:00
The comment section under any AI-related article is unbelievably negative, and the headlines are feeding the fire too.
Ashley Belanger's articles are the most notorious examples, like "Bombshell report exposes how Meta relied on scam ad profits to fund AI". The actual content has nothing to do with AI; Meta simply spends on AI infrastructure from profits made elsewhere...

I still read and sub to Ars - as they are the least bad source of day-to-day technews - but quality is dropping.
by stego-tech | 2026-03-03 13:08:18+00:00
Exactly. This is something I’ve chewed on constantly for nigh on 20 years, and this is the best compromise I’ve been able to come up with. Smaller teams or individual creators need more copyright protections than large corporations, but the law doesn’t reflect that - and it’s why copyright is so widely abused as a result.

This ain’t working for the interests of the public anymore, and AI has exacerbated it (large corps getting settlements, smaller creators getting shafted). We need a new model entirely that addresses these issues.
by Kamil_KKA | 2026-03-03 13:08:22+00:00
I’m bad at marketing. I never knew what worked, what didn’t, or what I should do next. I’d post something, disappear for days, then feel guilty and start over. So I built a small tool for myself.

It does two things - give inspiration where to promote + log marketing actions as they happen.

Post a tweet → log it.
Send an email → log it.
Reuse copy or images → keep them in one place.

That’s it. Over time, patterns started to show up. I felt more consistent, less scattered, and more certain about what to do next. I use it daily and store all my marketing texts and images there now.

I ended up turning it into Build Emotion so others who struggle with consistency can use the same simple framework and get inspired too.

I think this tool is amazing at the beggining of the life of the project.

Happy to answer questions or hear how others stay consistent with promotion.

Kamil
by api | 2026-03-03 13:08:45+00:00
I’m sure it’s always been around. “There is porn of it, no exceptions.”

I actually didn’t say my opinion on bans. I’m generally against them with the exception of CSAM. I’m generally against legal restrictions on speech for any reason since it’s historically a slippery slope. I was just saying it’s gross and its popularity is a little disturbing.

I feel the same way about extreme degradation porn. I don’t think it should be banned. I’m just a little bothered sometimes by how many people are turned on by that stuff. Note that I’m not even talking about typical BDSM, but things that seem like reenactments of war atrocities.
by cmiles74 | 2026-03-03 13:08:56+00:00
The article isn't clear on this point, I believe because Meta isn't clear on this themselves. Other bits of this piece highlight third parties reviewing the responses of the AI assistant; it's possible that people are recording and some sound they make triggers the AI assistant which, in turn, leads to the video being reviewed.

OTOH, Meta could just be desperate for training content and they're just slurping up all recordings by people who've opted into the AI function. It would be great for them to clarify how this works.
by XorNot | 2026-03-03 13:09:01+00:00
I mean if you want to put your geopolitical blinkers on, sure...but how to beat America is old news at this point: cause casualties however you can, and wait for the US to give up.

Complain about it all you want but what are you going to do? The US is already bombing them.

Perhaps all of this goes into the big bucket labelled "war is expensive and unpredictable, maybe try diplomacy?"

Which the current administration has made a note of promptly tearing up prior agreements with everyone anyway so...whoops I guess.
by dirk94018 | 2026-03-03 13:09:08+00:00
Author here. This started because our C inference engine was slower than Python, which was annoying.

We got it to 400 tok/s prefill, 100 tok/s generate, 1,800 lines of C++, no dependencies beyond MLX. Just not redoing work was a 125x improvement.

Favorite moment: the model suggested enabling MetalFX to speed up inference. That's Apple's game graphics upscaler. It makes explosions look better.

AMA about any of it. We are working on the Qwen3.5 models. Local AI is going to get a lot better.
by Nursie | 2026-03-03 13:09:37+00:00
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clearcast

They're a private company functioning as industry self-regulation, not a government department.

Broadcasters sign up to the code, Clearcast pre-clears ads against the code.

Ofcom is the regulator in this space, Clearcast appears to be an industry effort to pre-empt Ofcom by making sure things comply before they've gone out. Broadcasters want Clearcast's seal of approval before broadcast so they know they're OK to broadcast it.

Entirely private sector, I'm not sure there's a lot that's wild about it.
by radiohead89 | 2026-03-03 13:10:02+00:00
Here’s a list of some international shortwave radio stations in english if anyone is interested. Some stations only broadcast at certain times:

North America

- WBCQ The Planet: 6.160 MHz, 7.490 MHz, 9.330 MHz (Maine, USA) - Primarily 21:00–05:00 UTC. WBCQ on 9.330 MHz often broadcasts in USB (Upper Sideband); if it sounds distorted on a standard radio, try tuning slightly off-frequency or use a radio with SSB (Single Sideband).

- WRMI Radio Miami International: 5.800 MHz, 5.850 MHz, 5.950 MHz, 7.730 MHz, 9.395 MHz, 9.455 MHz, 15.770 MHz (Florida, USA)

- WWCR Worldwide Christian Radio: 4.840 MHz, 12.160 MHz, 15.825 MHz (Tennessee, USA)

- CFRX Toronto: 6.070 MHz (Ontario, Canada)

Europe & Africa

- BBC World Service: 9.410, 11.810, 12.095, 15.490, 17.690 MHz (Targeting Africa) — Primary blocks: 04:00–08:00 UTC and 15:00–22:00 UTC.

- Voice of America (VOA): 4.930, 6.080, 13.590, 15.580, 17.895 MHz (Africa) — Primary blocks: 03:00–07:00 UTC and 15:00–22:00 UTC.

- Radio Romania International: 6.030, 7.325, 9.500, 11.630, 15.250 MHz (Europe) — 1-hour news windows at approx. 12:00, 18:00, and 21:00 UTC.

Asia & Middle East

- BBC World Service: 6.035, 6.155, 12.080, 17.575 MHz (Asia) — Primary blocks: 00:00–03:00 UTC and 09:00–16:00 UTC.

- KBS World Radio: 9.515, 9.580, 9.680 MHz (East Asia) — English news blocks at 10:00, 13:00, and 16:00 UTC.

- CGTN (China Radio International): 6.110, 6.140, 9.435, 9.580, 13.825 MHz (Global/Asia) — Extensive news coverage throughout 00:00–24:00 UTC (varies by frequency).

- Voice of America (VOA): 7.470, 7.555, 12.150 MHz (Middle East/Asia) — Primary blocks: 00:00–04:00 UTC and 14:00–18:00 UTC.

Pacific

- Radio New Zealand Pacific: 7.390, 9.700, 11.725, 13.755, 15.720 MHz (Pacific Islands) — Active roughly 18:00–12:00 UTC; frequency shifts every 3–4 hours to follow solar conditions.

Shortwave station lists:

https://shortwavedb.org/

https://www.eibispace.de/

https://www1.s2.starcat.ne.jp/

https://www.short-wave.info/

https://www.hfcc.org/
Show HN: Ablo - AI slides without the generic look or layout restrictions
by lukasanderss | 2026-03-03 13:10:05+00:00
I hate the feeling of sitting in front of an empty deck or slide trying to figure out where to begin. But I don't want that same AI generic output for every slide deck, it's just sad.

That's why I've tried to the death of me to make AI slide generation truly free, free in the sense that it can create whatever you want without being locked into fixed template systems or rigid layout grids like Gamma imposes.

As of now it does that. Layout calculations can still break when placing multiple elements simultaneously, cards or charts can fall off the edge, but it's easily fixed by prompting the AI to read the slide and correct it. I'm pretty proud of where it's gotten. Style references work well, mentioning McKinsey, Apple, Microsoft, or Bauhaus gives the AI a clear visual target. It can pull in images and content from URLs, generate images, and everything is fully editable on a DOM-based slide canvas with modern CSS.

It runs on Claude Sonnet 4.6 for cost reasons. I'm not funded, so I can't let people go completely loose for free, sorry about that, and that's why sign-in is required.
I was an investment banking / coding kid who turned vibe coder until I got reasonably good at actual coding. Would love to hear what you think and whether you'd use this over Gamma / Chronicle / PowerPoint with Claude / Canva.

Please try it out, roast me, send me some slides on X, would love to see what you create
https://x.com/Lurrree
Show HN: ReleasAI – Paste Git commits, get polished release notes in <1s
by pramhatibie | 2026-03-03 13:10:23+00:00
I hate writing changelogs. Every release I'd spend 20 minutes turning "fix: stuff" into something readable.
Built a free tool: paste your git log, choose format (GitHub Release / npm CHANGELOG / Slack / customer update), get polished markdown in under a second. No signup, no API key needed.
Uses Groq's LPU for the speed — it's genuinely instant compared to GPT-4.
by Zigurd | 2026-03-03 13:11:29+00:00
I was indeed making light of a grim situation. Not only did the people in Epstein's web commit particularly heinous crimes, those crimes were subsequently used to gain influence over people with economic and national security responsibilities, in order to bend them to the priorities of foreign powers. I take all of that very seriously.

Nevertheless, apparently without any hidden agendas, Stephen Elop destroyed a legendary company and lost thousands of dedicated and competent people their jobs.
by Latty | 2026-03-03 13:11:33+00:00
It doesn't matter, because any process that seems right most of the time but occasionally is wrong in subtle, hard to spot ways is basically a machine to lull people into not checking, so stuff will always slip through.

It's just like the cars driving themselves but you need to be able to jump in if there is a mistake, humans are not going to react as fast as if they were driving, because they aren't going to be engaged, and no one can stay as engaged as they were when they were doing it themselves.

We need to stop pretending we can tell people they "just" need to check things from LLMs for accuracy, it's a process that inevitably leads to people not checking and things slipping through. Pretending it's the people's fault when essentially everyone using it would eventually end up doing that is stupid and won't solve the core problem.
by mrexcess | 2026-03-03 13:11:53+00:00
There seem to be two sides to politics:

1) Deciding the really important issues. This occurs with minimal public involvement, and that always to the overt reticence of the ruling class. "Expert" voices are projected downward to the masses, pronouncing authoritatively both about objective truth and characterizing the subjective preferences of the masses.

2) What are often called "wedge issues", or more recently "culture war" issues. These issues are often sensational by nature, and further sensationalized by the media to evidently encourage public participation in the discourse. Expert voices continue to guide the conversation along an established Overton window, but without making the public feel unqualified to give their opinion, just the opposite.

Is this what democracy is supposed to resemble? The hoi polloi fighting amongst themselves over what genres of pornography are acceptable, while the leaders run off to back rooms to make global-reach decisions about war, macroeconomics, and the shape of our society to come?

I just can't imagine a functional democracy where the main discussion or topic of focus for any serious person, at this time, is incest porn.
by vbarrielle | 2026-03-03 13:11:59+00:00
I'm in strong agreement with this. Even though I'd prefer winter time all year round, I would rather enjoy permanent summer time over switching twice a year. And I'm living in France, so my "winter time" is actually already a DST compared to the standard time (France's timezone should be UTC like the UK, but WW2 changed that to UTC+1 and we never switched back), so the "summer time" is actually a "double DST".
by ndriscoll | 2026-03-03 13:12:03+00:00
Stop legally protecting trade secrets then. Why would we have a system that simultaneously grants a limited benefit for sharing information while granting unlimited protection for not sharing? This obviously creates an incentive to only patent things you expect others will soon figure out anyway, which means the patent only harms society.

Make the incentive "if I don't share my information in exchange for a patent, any of my engineers could leave for a competitor and share all of my information tomorrow anyway." You take the offer society gives, or you get nothing.
Show HN: FileShot – zero-knowledge file sharing, nothing locked behind accounts
by GraysoftDev | 2026-03-03 13:12:22+00:00
I'm a CIS student who built this after getting fed up with every file sharing platform making the wrong tradeoffs. They're either expensive with good encryption, free with no encryption, or free but lock basic features behind signups and paywalls.

Technical implementation:
- AES-256-GCM encryption runs entirely in the browser before upload
- Decryption key lives only in the URL fragment — the server receives and stores only ciphertext. Zero-knowledge is real, not marketing
- P2P mode: WebRTC direct transfer, nothing touches our servers at all

What's free without an account (competitors charge or require signup for these):
- Password-protected links
- 50GB per file, unlimited storage total
- File previews on the download page
- Full tool suite (file conversion, image tools, etc.)

The only reason to create an account: persistent file management. That's it. No dark patterns, no feature gating to force signups.

I noticed some "zero-knowledge" competitors literally ask for your name on signup. If you're privacy-first, why do you need my name? FileShot asks for nothing — you can use every feature anonymously.

Desktop app (Electron), browser extension (Chrome), and PWA also available.

Happy to answer questions about the encryption implementation, P2P architecture, or anything else.
by 0xDEAFBEAD | 2026-03-03 13:12:24+00:00
>The US mentality might be different, but at least having grown up and living in Germany, such an annoying hustler who wants to use some journalist as a marketing influencer for his private project is a huge no-no. In other words: it is a very reasonable decision (perhaps even the only right one) for any journalist to fob off such a hustler.

Yeah there seems to be a thing where in the US, what's seen as "selling yourself" or "putting your best foot forward" is considered excessive self-promotion / tall poppy behavior in other cultures.
by tsoukase | 2026-03-03 13:12:46+00:00
Plastic is a permanent disaster for the environment. Trees are planted, CO2 will go away, temperature can fall, but the great Pacific plastic patch with stay for thousands of years. Only nuclear can be worse. What awes me is that with 1000 worth of plastic someone can destroy a beautiful beach. All recyclable plastic going to the oceans is crime to humanity. And the greedy xxlionaires will not give up the convenience and price of plastic to put their products inside. The Japanese bacteria that presumably eat plastic are dumped to the ground.
by cleverhoods | 2026-03-03 13:13:52+00:00
TL;DR

1. Include rationale — the "why" turns a single rule into a class of behaviors; the agent generalizes from the reason, not just the prohibition
2. Keep heading hierarchy shallow — 3 levels max (h1, h2, h3); deep nesting creates ambiguity about which level governs; if you need h4, you need a separate file
3. Name files descriptively — file name is the first filter before content; api-authentication.md tells the agent relevance instantly, guide.md forces a round trip
4. Use headers — agents scan headers as a table of contents; one topic per header prevents instructions from competing for attention
5. Put commands in code blocks — a command in a code fence is a command, a command in a sentence is a suggestion
6. Use standard section names — ## Testing carries built-in context from millions of READMEs; creative names are noise
7. Make instructions actionable — if the agent can't execute it right now without a clarifying question, it's a wish, not an instruction
by h14h | 2026-03-03 13:14:40+00:00
Not surprising, but it's sad to accept that the only major company building consumer-focused computing devices is Apple.

My hope is that LLMs allow linux to gain market share quickly. I know personally I've had a much smoother time moving to linux now that I can delegate a lot of the annoying troubleshooting/customization to claude.

Being able to say something like "I don't like the window colors make them more consistent with my terminal color scheme" and have it "just work" feels like a superpower. I've even gone as far as asking Claude to directly edit the icon pack svg files to whenever if I encounter something that feels out of place.