MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by xethos | 2026-03-03 05:08:34+00:00
> don't you have problems with apps that add events to calendar transparentny?

Not to be dismissive, but no, not at all. I'm not even sure which apps I'd want that add something to my calendar. A massage therapy place's app might do this, but I prefer the website when booking anyways. Beyond that, I'm not sure what types of apps would do this (though I'm confident you have examples that'll seem obvious as soon as they're listed).

I could imagine gMail doing something like this with Google Calendar, but I avoid the panopticon for myriad reasons - not least of which was, last time I had an issue with my eMail services provider, I recieved an intelligent, issue-resolving response from support, within 24 hours

> do you use Gemini for adding calendar events and tasks?

No, and the most I'd consider is a locally-run LLM on something like a local Home Assistant with a few microphones around the home. I don't believe I'm a person of interest, but "We kill people based on metadata" has left me with little appetite for something so personal being run and controlled by for-profit, American entities.
by SchemaLoad | 2026-03-03 05:09:44+00:00
It's because the AI overview is most of the time directly summarising the search results rather than synthesizing an answer from internal model knowledge. Which is why it can hyperlink the sources for the facts now. Even a very dumb lightweight model can extract relevant text from articles

I just can't see how this is sustainable since they are stealing from the sources who are now getting defunded.
by tamersalama | 2026-03-03 05:10:34+00:00
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by indecisive_user | 2026-03-03 05:13:13+00:00
I think you're missing the parent's point.

Cities in northern Europe, like Stockholm and Oslo, already have sunrise times as late or later than Vancouver will have under permanent DST.

If the effects of shifting the clock an hour are as extreme as purported, then we should already see those negative health effects in populations that live their entire lives under those conditions, but we don't.
by AnonC | 2026-03-03 05:13:22+00:00
Journalists and bloggers usually write about others’ mess ups and apologies, dissecting which apologies are authentic and which apologies are non-apologies.

In this incident, Aurich Lawson of Ars Technica deleted the original article (which had LLM hallucinated quotes) instead of updating it with the error. He then published a vague non-apology, just like large companies and politicians usually do. And now we learn that this reporter was fired and yet Ars Technica doesn’t publish a snippet of an article about it.

There’s something to be said about the value of owning up to issues and being forthright with actions and consequences. In this age of indignation and fear of being perceived as weak or vulnerable due to honesty, I would’ve thought that Ars would be or could’ve been a beacon for how things should be talked about.

It’s sad to see Ars Technica at this level.
by llbbdd | 2026-03-03 05:13:24+00:00
I upgraded to Alexa+ and initially hated it but I've kept it because it's sooo much better at some things. This last December I bought a handful of smart plugs for my Christmas lights all around the house, and I did almost all the setup trivially over voice, e.g. fuzzy run-on stuff like this just worked on the first try:

- "Alexa, name the new unnamed outlet 'Living Room Lights', and the other unnamed one 'Stair Lights', then add them to a new group called 'Christmas Lights', and add the other three outlets as well"

- "Alexa, create a routine to turn off all the Christmas lights if there's nobody in the room and it's after 11pm"

- "Alexa, turn off all the Christmas lights except the tree in this room and the mantle"

That same fuzziness has definitely fucked up things that used to work more reliably like music playback though. Sometimes it works when I fall back to giving it more "robotic" commands in those cases but not always. They've also gone completely overboard with the cutesy responses because it's so trivial to do now ("I've set your spaghetti sauce timer for ten minutes. Happy to help with getting this evening's Italian-inspired dinner ready!")
by greentea23 | 2026-03-03 05:14:33+00:00
This makes me more sad than hopeful. Great they get use out of it, but there instead should be a medically approved HIPAA compliant device for this purpose built by scientists in the open for all to enjoy. Instead the disabled are coersed to give up all privacy of themselves and others around them both digitally and physically. And more importantly they have to give up their sovereignty over the means of their enhancement by it being closed off and eventually enshittified for customers yet opened up for exploitation by facebook and their corporate and government customers.

Sadly the disabled have no choice but to accept the status quo, and facbook gets to virtue signal while holding humanity back another cycle by not selling us an open platform that would actually help people at scale not just now but forever.
by JosifA | 2026-03-03 05:15:22+00:00
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by cyberax | 2026-03-03 05:15:45+00:00
> How would you prove to the government in step 2 that you are the person whose age they're certifying?

How would you prove to the black box ZKP that you are the phone owner? Same problem. An interpretive dance before the camera, singing the national anthem, scanning the passport, etc. Doesn't really change anything.

> This also seems like a lot of effort to maintain uptime and security of a service like this as scale, when errors would potentially keep people locked out of essential services.

This is also trivially solveable with classic crypto. Just pre-generate a few (hundred) tokens for each user. The user just needs to generate a bunch of one-time private/public keys and get the "user is at least 18" certificates for each of the public keys. Then the user can just use them one by one as needed.

Apple Pay works this way, btw. That's why you can make payments with an Apple Watch while it's completely offline.
by laksjhdlka | 2026-03-03 05:17:08+00:00
It is not clear to me that keeping prompts/conversations at something like this level of granularity is a _bad_ idea, nor that it's a good one. My initial response is that, while it seems cute, I can't really imagine myself reading it in most cases. Perhaps though you'd end up using it exactly when you're struggling to understand some code, the blame is unclear, the commit message is garbage, and no one remembers which ticket spawned it.
by dang | 2026-03-03 05:17:12+00:00
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by esperent | 2026-03-03 05:17:47+00:00
I assume there was a lot of variance? As in, some people interrupt others constantly and some do it rarely. Also probably a lot of adjustment depending on the situation, like depending on the relative status of the people, or when people are talking to a young child or non-native speaker.

All that to say, I'd imagine people are adaptable enough to easily handle 100ms+ delay when they know they're talking to an AI.
by hackyhacky | 2026-03-03 05:18:26+00:00
Being pro-Jew is not the same as being pro-Israel.

> I believe Musk

Generally, spreading lies rooted in the Protocols of the Elders of Zion about Jewish conspiracies to displace gentiles is not what I would consider "pro-Jew" behavior. Regarding Musk specifically, I have seen no evidence of any kind that he is "pro" anything other than his own self interest. Like Trump, he is a man without principles, religious or otherwise.

> The most anti-Jew people I encounter are hardcore leftists and atheists

What specifically did they do to make you think that? Did they criticize Israel?

EDIT: how fitting that besides coming to HN to defend a fascist billionaire, you are also promoting a crypto scam. That tells me everything about your ethics and political alignment.
by mech422 | 2026-03-03 05:19:12+00:00
Maybe I should just hang it up and go to bed:

That's a Claude Code issue — queued slash commands not executing between steps.

you didn't answer me - is that last rule we added to MEMORY.md active and working ?

● Your point: you're asking whether rule 4 ("restate before responding") is actually being followed, because I just failed to do it two messages ago.

No, it's not working reliably. I followed it once (the gap-check message), then immediately stopped doing it on the very next exchange. The rule exists in memory but I'm not consistently applying it.
by encom | 2026-03-03 05:20:09+00:00
Yes...? Didn't stop me before. Unless it's some locked down, domain-joined e-waste like I have now. Public sector IT policy literally prevents me from doing certain tasks at my job, and makes others take four times as long. Not even my email works properly.

Last job was a lot of SSH and webshit like Jira, Confluence, Odoo and Google apps. They didn't care if you used Amiga OS as long as your work got done.
by x0x0 | 2026-03-03 05:20:39+00:00
I think you are mistaken. The pages are split -- see that closed quote and parenthesis. That quote is a continuation from pdf page 3, which has the opening parenthesis. Each of the cells for classes A, B, C overflow onto one page (each) that follows.

So the C holders are entitled to a distribution on sale or repurchase, but not an annual distribution.

> The Preferred 'C' Shares are entitled to receive dividends (and shall rank equally with the 'A' Ordinary Shares and 'B' Ordinary Shares). On a return of the entire capital of the Company or a winding up (other than a redemption of Shares or the purchase by the Company of its own Shares), the surplus assets of the Company available for distribution among the members (the "Distribution

... which leads into your quote above.

Frustratingly, it seems to be impossible to link these pdfs directly.
by toomuchtodo | 2026-03-03 05:20:40+00:00
How much oil and electricity was needed for the 9/11 attack on the twin towers? Motivation was the primary ingredient. The developed world is exceptionally fragile unfortunately. Ideology has no supply chain to target.

Cyberattacks can also be performed from anywhere cost effectively. I certainly hope we haven’t underfunded and crippled CISA.

> "Our critical infrastructure is quite vulnerable. They look for outdated systems, systems that haven't been patched or are so old that they're not even patched anymore. They're weak spots and an unfortunately, as you accurately point out, those systems are largely what is the back end of so much of our critical infrastructure," he said.

https://abc7chicago.com/post/federal-agencies-us-cities-aler...
by dang | 2026-03-03 05:20:44+00:00
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by Dylan16807 | 2026-03-03 05:21:45+00:00
The big problem with checking IDs is not the checking, it's the people with the right to vote that don't have IDs. (and can't get one super easily)

So with that noted, when people make false claims of high levels of voter fraud, to justify government intervention that disenfranchises people, that falls into the fascism bucket.

And anyone that stays in favor of those actions despite these explanations gets to be in the same bucket.

Whether modern American fascism should actually get the word "Nazi", I'm not very fussed about. It doesn't make a person automatically right or wrong.
Show HN: A visual sitemap tool to simplify SaaS navigation
by epic_ai | 2026-03-03 05:22:02+00:00
Many SaaS products lose conversions because their navigation is too deep or confusing.
Common issues:
Important pages buried 3–4 levels down
Multiple paths to the same feature
Orphan pages
No clear flow from landing → core action
I built a simple visual sitemap tool inside EPIC(https://no-edit.lovable.app)to fix this.
It lets you:
Map your full navigation structure
See hierarchy depth instantly
Identify redundant or broken flows
Spot where key CTAs are too far from entry
It’s lightweight and focused only on structure — not UI design.
Would appreciate feedback from other builders on:
How you audit your product navigation
What metrics you use to measure structural clarity
by godelski | 2026-03-03 05:22:57+00:00
That's good to hear about graphene. I've been able to get most of my friends to move to signal but yeah the walled gardens are annoying. Does graphene not support the same RCS that Google does?

As for Android, I think the real magic happens when you just realize your phone is another computer and you can do normal computer things with it. It just starts unlocking so many doors. One thing I like to do is have my desktop sit behind my TV. Big screen for movies and games. For everything else, there's ssh. Your phone is just another terminal in that environment. But the modern version of a terminal means your local machine can actually do meaningful things too. Tbh, it's really what the big tech companies are doing too, they just pretend they aren't.

Also, since you're new to Android check out revanced. I'm not sure if you need this on graphene but you can recompile apps. Mostly used for removing ads but there's more to it than that.

I'm hoping one of these days we can just treat computers like computers. Stop creating these walled gardens. It really slows down innovation and honestly, I believe the big companies would make more money doing it. After all, their whole business sits on top of open source work. The computer is nothing without the program. The smart phone is nothing without the app. Why can't we recognize that the success of these machines is that they're environments. You can't create a product for everybody, but building environments doesn't have the same limitations
by vessenes | 2026-03-03 05:23:01+00:00
I agree with this. Like I'm the most paper forward person I know, by a lot. But, there's still a lot of information that comes digitally. FWIW, I did build out a paper integration system here that lets you print out cards to do analog management as well. In practice, printing cards isn't easy on the printers I've tested. But, I do like the analog research as well. It's just much more useful when it can incorporate digital information.
by palmotea | 2026-03-03 05:23:14+00:00
> The problem isn’t that the candidates are appalling. They’re not. It’s that the left is shit at messaging.

The "the left is shit at messaging" is an excuse to distract from having a bad message (or at least a message with bad parts), so that message doesn't get revised into something better. Basically: "we don't want to change so we can win, so lets hope all we have to do is say stuff better."

Here's something to think about:

> And the stakes of politics are almost always incredibly high. I think they happen to be higher now. And I do think a lot of what is happening in terms of the structure of the system itself is dangerous. I think that the hour is late in many ways. My view is that a lot of people who embrace alarm don’t embrace what I think obviously follows from that alarm, which is the willingness to make strategic and political decisions you find personally discomfiting, even though they are obviously more likely to help you win.

> Taking political positions that’ll make it more likely to win Senate seats in Kansas and Ohio and Missouri. Trying to open your coalition to people you didn’t want it open to before. Running pro-life Democrats.

> And one of my biggest frustrations with many people whose politics I otherwise share is the unwillingness to match the seriousness of your politics to the seriousness of your alarm. I see a Democratic Party that often just wants to do nothing differently, even though it is failing — failing in the most obvious and consequential ways it can possibly fail. (https://www.nytimes.com/2025/09/18/opinion/interesting-times...)
by nosduhz | 2026-03-03 05:24:09+00:00
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by railflow | 2026-03-03 05:24:18+00:00
Getting rid of an existing CI system is an incredibly painful exercise. While newer companies are going to be on github, buildkite, etc, the enterprise still runs on jenkins (it's free).

I built a saas app for making jenkins suck less. anyone wanna try it out and give me some feedback. And yes, it also uses your own LLM to make sense of your CI data.

I think I will give Mendral a run for their money unless they will be solving for Jenkins :)
by russdill | 2026-03-03 05:26:08+00:00
I've experimented with having different sized LLMs cooperating. The smaller LLM starts a response while the larger LLM is starting. It's fed the initial response so it can continue it.

The idea of having an LLM follow and continuously predict the speaker. It would allow a response to be continually generated. If the prediction is correct, the response can be started with zero latency.
by applied_heat | 2026-03-03 05:26:19+00:00
>By default, all devices hit your main gateway through the wildcard CNAME. But you can override any individual device by creating a specific A record. Need to debug a misbehaving unit? Point it to your local development gateway. Rolling out to a new region? Route EU devices to Frankfurt without touching the firmware. Moving a customer to a dedicated cluster? Update one DNS record

Great idea !
by Rohunyyy | 2026-03-03 05:26:39+00:00
I am not sure about the low hanging fruit. Its not easy to make something robotic more human. Based on personal experience I thought it would be a low hanging fruit for text. Take a simple LLM answer to anything and replace the "-" and "its not x its y" thingy that people almost always associate with LLMs to something else. Guess what? Now those answers sound even MORE robotic. Obviously this was a pet project that I cooked up in less than an hour but the more I tried to make it human the more it became ai
Show HN: Word Doodle – A generative engine that turns text into dense doodle art
by koalux | 2026-03-03 05:27:11+00:00
I have always loved the look of dense, hand-drawn doodle sketches. The art that filled every part of a notebook page or paper with words and character drawings. Using word-doodle, I have recreated that feeling, including simulation of the process of filling the page but for text only and also emojis.

How it works:
The engine uses a three-step pipeline to transform raw text into art:

1. Frequency Mapping: It analyzes word frequency to determine visual weight of each word.

2. Scaling & Rotation: High-frequency words get bolded and enlarged, with a 15% chance of vertical rotation.

3. Collision Detection: It uses a randomized coordinate generator with a retry loop (up to 70 attempts per word) to pack the canvas as tightly as possible without overlapping.

The Goal:

Beyond just a word cloud, it is something relaxing to watch. It’s built with vanilla JS to keep it lightweight as possible.

GitHub Repo: https://github.com/j-ncel/word-doodle
by maxglute | 2026-03-03 05:27:22+00:00
Rural situation is interesting, little opportunities, many in informal economy.

Yes historically very UNDERemployed, but at this point it's, and this will sound callous, matter of bootstraps, i.e. rural youth, despite having shittier education are more educated than their rural parents. AKA they are minimal competent to do migrant blue collar work - lots of well paying factory jobs if willing to relocate. But that also hard life style so many choose to not, because modern shit rural life is frequently not as laborious as shit migrant dormitory life.

It terms of stats, rural marginalization = contradictions.

Technically/theoretically rural employment is always 0%. Rural hukou = own small plot of farmland = by definition rural residence are bucketed as farmers. But in terms of useful stats, whatever their unemployment hardly matters because they make so little money, like the bottom 1-2 quantiles in PRC (predominantly rural) aggregates to like 5% of PRC GDP. It's a blip for PRC economic health, but urban/rural divide is irreconcilably unjust. Though also practically unjust especially for PRC demographic trends, TLDR rural is where most of the undereducated old are, it's going to be nice low cost dumping ground for retired people who wants to chill in their gardens.