MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by al_borland | 2026-03-03 03:16:15+00:00
There is an app called Be My Eyes where blind people can use the app to be connected to someone who can see and ask questions. An example might be, “is this a red or brown sweater.”

It actually looks like it added AI functionality, so not every question goes out to a live helper, but they still do have that option.

Something like the Meta glasses could mean a lot less reliance on app that reach out to actual people, or looking for the phone all the time, for day-to-day help with things like this.
by godelski | 2026-03-03 03:16:25+00:00
For reading I've honestly found e-ink way better. Not just on the eyes (neither blinded at night nor makes me squint if I'm outside or by a window) but the UI. The iPad gets the job done but it just feels like Apple doesn't want people to be using it that way and god Fitbit if you do something the non-Apple way.

For browsing the web, yeah I think my comment reflects that experience. But I won't go to places like HN because typing is just a shitshow on iOS. Don't get me started on swipe... and how is it 2026 and there isn't a universal gesture for back?

Idk, anyone with a remarkable browse the web? How is it? I'd get one in a heartbeat but that price is outrageous
by sivers | 2026-03-03 03:16:26+00:00
Thanks for this very important point. It often gets lost in the discussion.

The big idea with Linux/BSD/fully-open-source is that you can fix whatever you don't like.

That was the breaking point for me with Tahoe. I never loved MacOS before that, but it never got in the way. Then with Tahoe, it got in the way, so I went to fix it, and found out that fixing it is actually impossible! That was the breakup moment.

Sophisticated LLMs make it even easier to fix or tweak any Linux/BSD/fully-open-source software to our liking.
by autoexec | 2026-03-03 03:16:28+00:00
> If you wanted to make commercial radio even minimally acceptable as an emergency alert system you'd be... guess what... reinventing EAS and EAS-a-likes, except more expensive

Exactly, whatever it costs to operate and maintain the emergency and weather services commercial radio would need to make enough money to pay for that, and then also make enough money on top of that to stuff their pockets with profit. The people shouldn't be on the hook for those extra expenses while private companies do everything in their power to degrade the service in order to lower their costs to increase profits even farther.
by giobox | 2026-03-03 03:17:04+00:00
Given one can only run Apple's software on their own machines, whether we talk about OS sales or hardware sales, we are talking about the same thing. Are you really prepared to argue 25 percent of the corporate computer market userbase are sabotaging their careers? I'd argue thats absurd, personally.

I'm not responding to the Samba critique because millions of people share files at work between virtually any OS and Macs, every day, just fine. Would I like Apple's Samba implementation to be better? Sure.

There are many studies that prove the opposite of your point, including one from IBM, and find the modern Mac significantly cheaper to support than Windows machines in business environments with less helpdesk tickets to boot:

https://www.jamf.com/resources/press-releases/ibm-announces-...
by physicles | 2026-03-03 03:17:27+00:00
Not sure why you're getting downvoted. When I read the headline, my first thought was "how are they going to update the tz database on all Linuxes in the world in time?" I expect some confusion on November 1.

Here's the thread on IANA time zone mailing list where this is being discussed: https://lists.iana.org/hyperkitty/list/tz@iana.org/thread/66...

BC should've timed this better. They just released 2026a.

In the future, you can check if your database has been updated with this: (it should show no transition in November):

zdump -v America/Vancouver | grep 2026
by zahlman | 2026-03-03 03:17:30+00:00
> the compiler had enough static information to emit a single arraylength bytecode instruction.

I'm skeptical.

If it can prove that the input actually matches the hint, then why does it need the hint?

If it can't, what happens at runtime if the input is something else?

> We replaced a complex chain of method calls with one CPU instruction.

JVM bytecodes and CPU instructions really shouldn't be conflated like that, although I assume this was just being a bit casual with the prose.
by Bender | 2026-03-03 03:17:37+00:00
That cost per shot is just the energy utilized by the C2 targeting and laser system. I have no idea what the overall cost of the system is. I have not yet found it published. I would wager the overall system is rather expensive but worth it to the point of using expensive ballistics to neutralize a 40k drone which is at risk of being overwhelmed.

I also can't find the accurate time to target stats, just overall dwell time.
by logicprog | 2026-03-03 03:17:47+00:00
And then you have what happened to Andreas Kling: make an apolitical space for people like him to make something needed and useful. And then people came knocking on his door, making a huge mess, and whining about how he ran the place without contributing. See also Contributor Covenant stuff. Talw as old as time.

For context, I think what many people (including probably the OP, and definitely Kling) consider political is skewed in favor of the status quo, and their own comfort, and that some amount of explicitly shared values in a space can improve it; but at the same time I've seen the kind of horrible never ending purity spirals and toxicity that happens when you really take "everything is political and we need to be fighting over it all the time" to its logical conclusion. See also: Mastodon.
by jedberg | 2026-03-03 03:18:38+00:00
> because Amazon did get on the agent bandwagon with Alexa Plus

Which just launched last year, about four years after ChatGPT had AI voice chat. And it costs extra money to cover the costs. And as you aptly point out, all the guardrails they had to put in made the experience less than ideal.

> Also, my Alexa does advertise stuff to me when I talk to it.

Yes, that is how they try to make money. And it's gotten worse. But how many times does it get you to buy something?
by wolvoleo | 2026-03-03 03:19:00+00:00
MicroG has two huge advantages: you can inspect the code it's running, and you're not tied to Google services. For example you can replace the location service with a privacy respecting one. With the sandboxed play you can't do that, you're stuck with the Google version. The only thing you still need Google for is the push notifications, because the backend of the apps only speaks to them.

It would be amazing if grapheneos would support microG as an option. But they are too much "not invented here" for that to happen.
by owenversteeg | 2026-03-03 03:19:39+00:00
That sounds like murder to me. I couldn't believe that and thought you must have been misrepresenting the facts. Nope, your summary is correct; the full case is there, in black and white, on page 22 of the Ontario Solicitor General's report, as you linked; and amazingly it was reviewed by a committee that didn't seem to find much wrong with it. That is very deeply disturbing. I have quoted the case overview below:

>CASE 4B
Case Overview
Mrs. B was a female in her 80s who had a challenging medical trajectory following
coronary artery bypass graft (CABG) surgery. She experienced several post-operative
sequelae, including wound dehiscence, osteomyelitis, and respiratory failure. She
required specialized care in hospital, including additional surgical procedures. Due to
physical and functional decline, Mrs. B elected for a palliative approach to care. She
was discharged home with palliative supports (i.e., palliative care team and home care
support services, including adaptive aids and personal support services).
Mrs. B reportedly expressed her desire for MAiD to her family. In response, and on the
same day, her spouse contacted a referral service on her behalf. The following day, a
MAiD practitioner assessed her for MAiD eligibility. She reportedly told the MAiD
assessor that she wanted to withdraw her request, citing personal and religious values
and beliefs. She communicated that pursuing in-patient palliative care/hospice care and
palliative sedation was more in-keeping with her end-of-life goals.
The next morning, Mrs. B presented to the emergency department (ED) of her local
hospital. Her spouse was noted to be experiencing caregiver burnout. Mrs. B was
assessed to be in stable condition, and thereby discharged home with continued
palliative care. Her palliative care physician completed a referral for in-patient palliative
care / hospice care due to her social circumstances (i.e., caregiver burnout). Her
request was denied for not meeting hospice criteria for end-of-life, and a long-term care
application was offered.

On the same day, Mrs. B’s spouse contacted the provincial MAiD coordination service
requesting an urgent assessment. A different MAiD assessor from the previous day
completed a primary assessment and determined Mrs. B to be eligible for MAiD. The
former MAiD practitioner was contacted. This MAiD practitioner expressed concerns
regarding the necessity for ‘urgency’ and shared belief for the need for more
comprehensive evaluation, the seemingly drastic change in perspective of end-of-life
goals, and the possibility of coercion or undue influence (i.e., due to caregiver burnout).
The initial MAiD practitioner requested an opportunity to visit with Mrs. B the following
day to re-assess; however, this opportunity was declined by the MAiD provider due to
their clinical opinion that the clinical circumstances necessitated an urgent provision. An
additional MAiD practitioner was arranged by the MAiD coordination service to complete
a virtual assessment. Mrs. B was found eligible for MAiD by this third assessor. The
provision of MAiD was completed later that evening.
by jp3dro | 2026-03-03 03:19:40+00:00
Hey Hacker News! Check out WaitQ

This project started at the end of the Summer of 2025 after witnessing firsthand tourists lining up for small restaurants in the Azores. Crowded entrances, zero visibility on wait times, and overworked staff constantly being asked "how much longer?". This mix of impatient customers and stressed employees felt like a problem worth solving.

So we set out to build a simple digital queue tool to help everyone involved: us the customers, the staff and the business owners. WaitQ pays for itself by keeping customers in your waitlist without walking away, giving them full transparency and predictability of waiting times. The waiting time feels shorter when you can see live updates in your hands. Customers can go for a walk and will be notified when it's their turn, so crowding the door of a location can be a thing of the past. The staff can focus on service instead of crowd control. Everyone's less stressed.

Suits any business: a small café or a big restaurant, local barber shops, clinics... It's built for the businesses that don't have a dedicated IT team and it's super easy to set up and manage as you can see in our demo video.

If you are looking for a tool like this, give it a try.
by vdivyanshu | 2026-03-03 03:19:45+00:00
I went on digging down the rabbit hole for the last 6 hours on what compute around training can be extracted from M4/M5 Neural Engine chips:
- was able to offload
@karpathy's NanoGpt training run(partially) on Apple Neural Engine.
- moved the Classifier & Softmax layers directly onto the ANE - Classifier is 10x faster, and Softmax is 34x faster
- fixed memory exhaustion: original repo had an ARC memory leak that capped training at ~119 compile loads per process.
- patched the C-bridge, allowing continuous, stable training

Repo - https://github.com/vipuldivyanshu92/ANEgpt
Show HN: A Puzzle Game Based on Non-Commutative Operations
by alius | 2026-03-03 03:20:10+00:00
While solving a Skewb[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Skewb] cube I thought it would be interesting to have the subproblems of it presented as puzzle games, one thing lead to another and here is the result.

I have definitely some UX problems so looking for feedbacks and thoughts.

The best part of this game is, level generation and difficulty analysis can be automated. I have here 15 tested and 5 experimental levels.

I enjoy 15th level the most, has an intuitive solution.

You can try the competitive mode with a friend, you need to share the link with them.

If I can bring the level count to thousands, I will add a ranking system.

My mind keep racing about the possibilities, but kind of cannot prioritize at the moment.

All kind of feedback, collaboration requests are welcome!
by autoexec | 2026-03-03 03:20:24+00:00
I'd be willing to bet that Canada takes in more than enough tax payer dollars to cover the expense of this critical service. I'd even be willing to bet that there's more than enough tax payer money just in waste and fraud to cover the expense if somebody cared to dig into the finances and government contracts to track it down. The idea of cutting this service as a cost savings measure is laughable.
by godelski | 2026-03-03 03:20:51+00:00
I find the last part really surprising. That seems, and feels (I do have an iPad), standard to me. But markup is, to put it lightly, fucking terrible.

I lean towards the iPad's success mostly being brand name and advertising because I've never experienced the "just works". I understand that from the non techie people, but not when talking to nerds
by petekp | 2026-03-03 03:20:54+00:00
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by al_borland | 2026-03-03 03:21:13+00:00
> it is difficult to prevent others to intentionally or unintentionally provide data to surveillance companies

One that bothers me a lot are all the apps that want people to share your contacts to find your friends. This is a quick way for them to get all the contact information, which may also include birthdays and other more sensitive details.

Even if I were to never make a Facebook account, I could almost guarantee they still have my name, address, phone number, DOB, and maybe more.
by generallyjosh | 2026-03-03 03:21:31+00:00
Hey you can try it if you like. That's one of the beauties of the current moment, nobody REALLY knows what works best, just a whole lot of people trying stuff

And no, I wouldn't ever give it a year of changelog.md. I give it a short description of the current functionality, and a well-trimmed list of 'lessons-learned' (specific pitfalls/traps from previous work, so the AI doesn't have to repeat them)

If you think git logs are a good way to give context, try it and and see how it works! My instinct's that it won't work as well as a short readme, but I could be wrong. It's so easy to prototype these days, no reason to not give it a shot
by wiredpancake | 2026-03-03 03:21:52+00:00
I was thinking about this the other day when watching a video about Chernobyl.

They flew countless helicopters over the exposed reactor core and because this was 1986, helicopters didn't have a million sensors or electronics in it. It was entirely mechanical. Effectively all in-use aircraft nowadays could not complete such a mission as the electronics would be rendered null almost instantaneously, even with ECC, etc.

Do these high energy lasers fry the electronics, or are they able to simply ignite and burn holes through the aircraft?
by tyleo | 2026-03-03 03:21:53+00:00
It's actually intentional. The literal strings are just routed to pages.

However, if users are trying to do it, it should be a behavior. I'll make a note to change this.

For now, if you'd like to see more posts, you can go to www.tyleo.com and scroll down to the Writing section.

This is a WIP. I hadn't anticipated the popularity my site reached/extent of the blog.
by tombert | 2026-03-03 03:22:37+00:00
In theory I'm ok with drugs being legalized, but I will admit that I have a strong distaste for people who routinely use drugs and drug culture.

I'm not talking about people who drink during the holidays or smoked weed in high school, those people don't bother me. I'm talking about the people who need to lecture about how great weed is and feel the need to smoke it every day and make it a vital part of their identity. I find people like that insufferable. I think the people wearing cannabis-leaf t shirts are generally annoying, and I hate how everyone who smokes a joint and watches a Carl Sagan video seems to decide that they're a philosopher.

I'm a pretty boring American liberal, I think drugs should be legal, but I guess that's more in an abstract sense, sort of a NIMBY thing. I'm ok with people doing drugs, as long as I don't have to deal with those people and they do it far away from me.

I acknowledge the hypocrisy in this. Can't help how I feel.
Show HN: Lytok 2.0 – SDK for data serialization and structure notation
by joguel96 | 2026-03-03 03:22:49+00:00
Hi HN, Lytok 2.0 is officially out. It’s designed to be a lightweight and efficient way to handle data structures in web environments.

You can play with it in our interactive lab or integrate it directly into your project:
npm i @lytok/js

Feedback is more than welcome!
by carloshmccarlos | 2026-03-03 03:23:11+00:00
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by kuhaku22 | 2026-03-03 03:23:12+00:00
It also feels very shoehorned. You have "conversations" where there's only one party, testimony, memos, and interviews presented as casual conversation, entire messages that are actually "[editorial commentary]", no profile pictures, a useless reply button, everyone's status is "online", etc.

I guess someone saw the recent project for viewing the Epstein emails and needed a way to differentiate...
by vishnugupta | 2026-03-03 03:23:39+00:00
> great software

Most software is mundane run of the mill CRUD feature set. Just yesterday I rolled out 5 new web pages and revamped a landing page in under an hour that would have easily taken 3-4 days of back and forth.

There are lot of similar coding happening.

This is the space AI coding truly shines. Repetitive work, all the wiring and routing around adding links, SEO elements and what not.

Either way, you can try to incorporate AI coding in your coding flow and where it takes.
by throwaway39328 | 2026-03-03 03:23:42+00:00
Olanzapine. I was rather distraught that it worked so well after the psychiatrist suggested it. I mean, I'm not psychotic, so why the anti-psychotic? They used to call them "major tranquilizers" back in the day. And wow yeah. The edge is softened. The anger dissipates. Also the deeper significance to things, the untied threads that leave my mind racing, reaching for signs, signs which point to doom mostly these days, that gets significantly quieted too. I now get why people who have to take these drugs every day describe them as turning them into "zombies". But as a practical tool oh I don't know what I would have done this winter without it some nights.
by gigavega | 2026-03-03 03:24:05+00:00
I spent my career at some of the top quant trading firms in the US (e.g. HRT, JS, SIG, IMC, Headlands). Ironically seemed to LOVE variance. We'd bet on random things with no edge: card turns, elevators times, etc.

Also saw retail traders yolo into 0DTEs. Sports bettors pay insane vig.

Currently on my garden leave. Spending some time working on personal projects. One of these is a platform for pure financial variance. No house edge, no rake, no spread, instant settlement.

Messing around with yoss.gg -- peer-to-peer coin flips settled in USDC on Base with no fees. Can play against strangers or friends.

Someone flip with me!
by dumpsterdiver | 2026-03-03 03:24:30+00:00
> The president has no authority to rename the Department of Defense, but he and his administration demand consensus under the threat of legal consequences.

> they threatened Google when they didn't immediately rename the Gulf of Mexico to the "Gulf of America" on their maps

I don’t want to downplay the government pressure you cited in your second example, so I’ll start by acknowledging - that example, as stated, does indeed look like government overreach to me. It doesn’t have anything to do with what I said though.

The stance I was taking is that renaming your own “cool kids” club while you’re in a position to effectively do that - does not amount to Fascism, or anything close to it. No one else is in that club except them, and none of them will be in it later. The moniker will only stick if next group of cool kids carry it.

An important part of remaining credible (imo) is being able to support a point directly. When someone reaches for evidence that isn’t directly relevant to prove a point (e.g. Group A performed action B and it was bad, so if Group A performs action C it must be equally as bad), that’s a clear sign of a weak argument. That’s all I’m saying. I’m not trying to stick up for anyone, I’m just asking for stronger arguments.
by godelski | 2026-03-03 03:25:18+00:00
Because I didn't really speak about Microsoft's hostility to Linux.

I think the moment it turned from annoyance to hate was when they bought Skype and then removed features from the Linux version. Features like... conference calling... but there's a million things like that. Go talk to Linux nerds and I'm sure you'll get a unique story each time. We've all felt the pressure