MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by ryandrake | 2026-03-13 14:58:44+00:00
Why should the applications get to decide if they are appropriate for a particular age? Shouldn't that be up to the parent? I shouldn't need to tell my kid: "Well, to use this compiler software, you need to set your age to 18 temporarily, because some product manager 3,000 miles away decided to rate it 18+. But, set it back to age 13 afterwards because you shouldn't be on adult sites." It's stupid.
by bee_rider | 2026-03-13 14:58:49+00:00
I agree, sorry, I think my original comment was a little imprecise. My point was that the app can get the “exact” age only for users who undergo an age-bucket transition in an era that the app has logs for.

I mean, the app can query on a weekly basis, and then if you go from “under 18” to “over 18” it knows the week that you were born in. But, if the user was already an adult when the logging started, there isn’t a transition to go off.
by tshaddox | 2026-03-13 14:59:10+00:00
> TypeScript also was specifically designed so engine could strip types and execute result code.

That's no less a build step than concating, bundling, minifying, etc. When people say "I'm against processing code before deploying it to a web site" but then also say "TypeScript is okay though" or "JSX is okay though," all they're really saying is "I like some build steps but not others." Which is fine! Just say that!
by JitseLambrichts | 2026-03-13 14:59:46+00:00
Great question. Currently, we don’t track a formal disagreement rate between the judge and candidate 1, so I can’t give a reliable percentage yet. By design, the judge synthesizes advisor outputs and is instructed not to introduce new ideas, which usually leads to refinement rather than completely new conclusions. That said, advisors run independently and can produce different lines of reasoning, so the judge can still diverge from candidate 1 when another advisor’s argument is stronger. This keeps the final output grounded in the council’s collective input rather than the judge acting as a standalone model.
by remyp | 2026-03-13 14:59:56+00:00
Not a co-op, but similar: I'm working on an owner-operated SaaS incubator[0]. A few of us are pooling our own money to buy, operate, and grow a small SaaS company together. We're currently in the diligence phase.

It's an experiment and could fail spectacularly. But if it's successful then we'll finally own our own success and build wealth for ourselves, not VC or PE funds.

[0] https://www.notion.so/notventurescale/Wild-Built-Incubator-2...
by throw8fasdffdf | 2026-03-13 14:59:58+00:00
I'm surprised the "laboratory" of the globalist elite, India, hasn't implemented this yet.

Digital-ID (Aadhar) was heavily pushed by USAID and other US-deepstate associates; the same with digital-money and the "demonetization". Bill Gates's org actively tests out things on actual humans like guinea pigs, before globalizing the "solutions". These days all of this is kind of redundant since the phone-number + verification has become essentially a necessity to live in the city in any part of world today.

The prev. Govt. had considered doing this "login with your ID or no internet" scheme (to "protect" people no doubt) back in 2012s - there were explicit statements about disallowing people who would not authenticate with Aadhar, but it was shelved (likely because of their unpopularity).

If our current "Dear Leader" were to propose this, I think a significant population would opt-in simply because of a sense of belonging to a hero-worship-cult.

The state is determined to ensure that every human be their slave.
by DrScientist | 2026-03-13 15:00:25+00:00
In part because the composition of the commons changes over time - so if the term timescales are different then they won't necessarily agree at any point in time - but I do agree it would potentially become too politicised if you had that kind of vote.

Ultimately in the UK system, the commons has the final say ( ignoring the monarch in the room here ), so most of the time what the Lords do isn't typically a big public issue - it's quiet revision, have you thought of this?, type stuff. Not that common to have a big conflict - though it does happen.
by heraldgeezer | 2026-03-13 15:00:35+00:00
I am Swedish and never had this happen to me. Never had random things show up or ordered for me at all. What would the point be, you have to pay or get an invoice? For Klarna they use BankID so only I can order an invoice for myself in reputable shops.

I am in my 30s btw so I was alive before BankID and it was a worse time. Remember my parents paid bills with paper.
Show HN: Reixo – HTTP client with no-throw Result<T,E> and zero-dep OTel
by webcoderspeed | 2026-03-13 15:00:38+00:00
I kept copy-pasting the same boilerplate across every TypeScript project — retry logic, circuit breakers, auth token refresh, timeout handling. So I built reixo to handle all of it once.

Two things I haven't seen in other HTTP clients:

1. tryGet/tryPost/tryPut etc. return Result<T,E> instead of throwing — no try/catch needed at the call site. Works like Rust's Result or Go's (value, err) pattern.

2. Full W3C traceparent/tracestate/baggage injection with zero @opentelemetry/* dependencies. One builder method: .withOpenTelemetry({ serviceName: 'my-service' })

Also ships with: in-flight request deduplication (thundering herd fix), runtime detection across Node/Bun/Deno/CF Workers/Vercel Edge, transient network error classification (ETIMEDOUT vs DNS vs connection reset), circuit breaker, offline queue, GraphQL client, WebSocket, SSE, and a MockAdapter for tests.

Would love feedback on the Result API design — specifically whether Ok/Err should carry more metadata or stay minimal.

npm: https://www.npmjs.com/package/reixo
by john_strinlai | 2026-03-13 15:00:55+00:00
they have "personal" and "public" modes.

"personal mode" is (extremely briefly) described:

"Information requested and retrieved in a Personal tab is not shared with anyone else. No record of your activity is recorded on BitTorrent. Use Personal tabs for logging into social media and other accounts. Also use them if you do not want to be associated on BitTorrent with any of your browsing activity in Ceno."

i wish the faq had even the tiniest bit of information on how this works, but it does not. i am guessing it is discussed somewhere in the whitepaper (https://gitlab.com/equalitie/ouinet/-/blob/main/doc/ouinet-n...) but i dont have the time at the moment to read through it
by Noumenon72 | 2026-03-13 15:01:03+00:00
> Also these phones no longer shut down when you shut them down. They continue operating and sending telemetry so the government can eventually know where they are at all times. https://android.stackexchange.com/questions/228682/why-do-ce...

That's not much of a source -- a 100-karma user in 2020 based on "I've known this for a long time. A quick google confirms that many people think the same." I don't believe it is true.
by randusername | 2026-03-13 15:01:40+00:00
Aren't you worried about overcorrection?

If my old man slapped me on the back at 13, called me a man, and made me scroll through the morbid reality subreddit and do a book report on the Nanjing Massacre or My Lai I think that would be really damaging.

I think the stories we tell our children about the world, naive as they can be sometimes, tell us a lot about what we value in our societies and the ways in which we hope future generations will surpass us in overcoming our own failings. Everyone has to learn later that the truth is messy, yet the existence of brutality doesn't disqualify idealism and goodness.

I don't mean to imply that I'm denying your experience, but for most people, I hope, cynicism is temporary response to the disillusionment of the complexity of the world and not a persistent worldview.
by genthree | 2026-03-13 15:01:48+00:00
I'm a computer nerd who started on DOS on IIRC a 286, all the Windowses (OK not quite all, though my first job did expose me to a couple NT versions and 2K in addition to nearly-all the home versions I upgraded through on my own) and various Linuces (Gentoo as my primary OS, even, for like... five years, LOL)

These days there are two things I use my "real" non-server computers for in my personal life:

1) Media piracy, only because I've been too lazy to set up a headless torrent system on my media server w/ VPN connection (why does the media server exist? Again, purely for piracy, remove that use case and it'd be gone as a waste of electricity and space the very next day). I could fix this in a Saturday and remove this entire use case, improving my process significantly at the same time, just haven't yet.

2) Video games. Really hoping that new Steam console doesn't end up being sky-high expensive, because I'm excited about "consolizing" this use case and ditching my last "real" PC tower (other than one server that I go months and months without directly messing-with; and that "real" PC tower is already running Bazzite to make it Steamdeck-like, it's just janky as fuck because it's Linux on frankensteined hardware so of course it's janky as fuck, so I'm still eager to swap it for something designed and with support for that actual use case).

Everything actually-important happens on iOS, and usually on a phone.

In my personal life, I've concluded that I just have no idea what more-useful-than-the-time-it-takes stuff I'd even do with a "real" computer, despite spending absolute fuckloads of my time screwing around with them from ages like 7-30. What I learned in that time was "how to computer" to a pretty advanced level, and luckily that per se has paid the bills and then some, but in all that time the actually-directly-useful-to-me stuff I've done with it has amounted to very little.

To me, personally, I've realized PCs are a solution looking for a problem, and that so rarely does my trying to bridge that gap result in an actual net-benefit (usually, not even close) that I've mostly stopped trying. That impulse got me where I am, can't complain, that "wasted" time over literal decades gained me a bunch of skills that are (it turns out) almost entirely useless to me personally but that others are willing to pay for, great, but I find myself a computer nerd who doesn't actually know WTF to do with a "real" computer. I just use my damn phone.

I suppose I'd still find them a lot more useful if iPads and iPhones didn't exist and so I needed to do banking and reading and such on some other computery device, but those do exist, so... yeah, not a lot of motivation to even own a "real" PC anymore, to include a MacBook—I doubt I'll replace my M1 Air when it finally dies.

To sum up, as a lifelong computer dork, I don't even know why I need a "real" computer any more, let alone why anyone else does.
by BobbyJo | 2026-03-13 15:01:59+00:00
This is all just unenforceable theater. Are they going to jail or fine open source developers if they create an OS that doesn't support the requirements? Are they going to do customs checks for OSs? Firewalls?

These kinds of laws just seem like unworkable messes to fool the tech ignorant into thinking they care about kids.

Application side I get, there is an entity there running the application, that can be fined or banned or what have you. But software itself? No.
by NoMoreNicksLeft | 2026-03-13 15:02:04+00:00
>Plenty would prefer their children not be able to learn about communism

Plenty of people would prefer that children not learn about scientology from pro-scientology cultists too. It's not that they can't know about scientology (they probably should, in fact, because knowledge can have an immunizing effect against cults)...

And it's not that they can't know about communism (they probably should, in fact, because knowledge can have an immunizing effect against cults)...
by morpheuskafka | 2026-03-13 15:03:07+00:00
So apparently this was opt-in, much like Telegram's OTR chat feature, and thus completely different than WhatsApp where it has always been default. Not a good look regardless, but the few who went into chat settings for a specific person to turn this on in the first place will likely just switch to WhatsApp or another app rather than continue without it.
by jiehong | 2026-03-13 15:03:07+00:00
Depending on how the TUI is made, it can be very visual, but lacks structure for a screen reader (unless you stay in the very simple "input field: value" kind of prompt, but even then auto completion is tricky).

Web browsers offer the DOM to tools such as screen readers (OSs offer their own accessibility sdks). Someday perhaps the TUI application could talk to the terminal emulator that would itself talk to the accessibility sdk of the OS and that info would somehow then be accessible.

There was a beginning of discussion at bubble tea[0] about this for example.

[0]: https://github.com/charmbracelet/bubbletea/issues/780
by JasonADrury | 2026-03-13 15:03:16+00:00
The provenance according to the Met:

>Henry II, King of France (until d. 1559);

>Carl August, Grand Duke of Saxe-Weimar-Eisenach, Residenzschloss, Weimar (by 1804–d. 1828);

>by descent to Wilhelm Ernst, Grand Duke of Saxe-Weimar-Eisenach, Residenzschloss, Weimar, later Schloss Heinrichau, Lower Silesia, Germany (now Henryków, Poland) (1901–d. 1923);

>his widow, Feodora, Grand Duchess of Saxe-Weimar-Eisenach, Schloss Heinrichau (1923–1929;

>sold in May, 1929, to Kahlert & Sohn);

>[E. Kahlert & Sohn, Berlin, 1929;

>sold on December 14, 1929, for $135,000, to Sir Joseph Duveen for Mackay];

>Clarence H. Mackay, New York (1929–d. 1939; his estate, 1939, inv. no. A-17;

>sold through Jacques Seligmann & Co. on May 15, 1939, to MMA).

Unfortunately, this does not answer "why did it leave France?"

However, the book "Merchants of Art, 1880-1960: Eighty Years of Professional Collecting" (1961) by the rather famous art dealer Germain Seligman offers this missing link:

>Parade armor of King Henri II, embossed, damascened and gilded. Later presented by King Louis XIII to Bernhard von Weimar.
by Apocryphon | 2026-03-13 15:03:25+00:00
Freedom doesn’t flow one way though. Their GDPR example just gives freedom to non-state malefactors to impinge upon user freedoms. You’re crying about 1984 and they’re crying about Neuromancer. An age-old dilemma.

https://theonion.com/the-future-will-be-a-totalitarian-gover...
by bee_rider | 2026-03-13 15:03:40+00:00
IIRC the age buckets were defined in the California law. They were something along the lines of age ranges that would intuitively map to adults, teenagers, and kids, I forget the exact borders.

I think the intent was for the OS to know the user age, but only provide an age range, so it could automatically upgrade people as they aged (but I could be wrong about that).
by matteocantiello | 2026-03-13 15:04:07+00:00
You are 100% right. I started with the 5 year interval for simplicity, and then I noticed what you pointed out for the exact same reason (I grew up with Grunge so this was very obvious to me as well). I started adding more granularity, so e.g. USA now has the full 2010–2025 charts set. My hope is to populate the whole map with higher temporal density moving forward (the https://88mph.fm/suggest feature is there for that reason too). Will probably have to think of a slightly different UI for the time selector, which is a fun challenge
by bediger4000 | 2026-03-13 15:04:10+00:00
I notice that the story says "ballots" and "ballots destroyed" after two years, as per AZ state law.

That means that AZ has paper ballots. Further, the ballots are human readable. A hand re-count was conducted.

This is all good practice, CO, WA and CA (at least) do the same. But it means that "voting machines" is a misnomer at best. The machines so named are tabulators at best. Any accusations of Chinese, or Venezualan or Ukrainian tampering with "voting machines", or talk of "PCAPs" showing mysterious tampering is almost certainly propaganda in service of Trump's authoritarian takeover.

It's not like the 2000 presidential election. Some states, Florida included, used actual voting machines, where no per-voter-ballot existed, and hand recounts were impossible. It seems to me that since that election was decided by 5 votes, shenanigans could actually have been done.
by shagie | 2026-03-13 15:04:28+00:00
From my days... this is what an old photo of a "proper" BBS looked like https://beeline.org/beeline/?view=a29ed68f4f4d53 (note the wire wrapped custom modem controller) - the description is "Original Apple IIe with 11 modems and two 4-port homemade serial cards"

And to keep better time, https://beeline.org/beeline/?view=c0a8000daa11ca

It was later upgraded to a 486 https://beeline.org/beeline/?view=188870d0bbc894
by zelphirkalt | 2026-03-13 15:04:32+00:00
You cannot indefinitely ask employees to do more for less money. According to law and job contracts you can only do so much unpaid overtime. Usually 10h instead of 8h, and only when justifiable. Everything else is illegal. Paying 60% and working less is hoping for the environment or situation at the market to change, whether or not that is realistic.
by jasongill | 2026-03-13 15:05:37+00:00
This almost confirms it then, each machine has an external modem tied to 1 phone line per modem, and there are no internal modems in use. The picture shows 50 modems that I can see, and the original article indicates that it's around half of their total setup. Scott notes that they had a T3 (likely a frac T3) with 140 dial-in nodes, which aligns with the articles guess of 134 machines.

So I would say that almost definitely, they are using 1 (or 2 for some on the right side of the photo) external modem per PC connected to the 66 block, those analog phone blocks tied back to the channel bank/multiplexer, and the carrier's T3 tied in there.

No internal modems used at all.

And the person who posted the photo on twitter is none other than Scott Miller, founder of Apogee Software, publisher of some of the most revolutionary games of the late 80's and early 90's, and this BBS (Software Creations) was the cornerstone of distributing the shareware versions of those games. Very cool bit of history, I remember dialing in to Software Creations to download Commander Keen!
by vablings | 2026-03-13 15:05:43+00:00
This is just patently false. There are many companies and workers that have the knowledge required to pass NRC approvals. The NRC are not some NIMBY gatekeepers for the nuclear industry they do care about safety and the have a vested interest in getting reactors approved and under construction

You can read all of the approvals and communication with the NRC here: https://www.nrc.gov/reactors/new-reactors/large-lwr/col

There are just not that many people building nuclear reactors because it's very a expensive process and other investment vehicles are way more ludicrous

Also bonus addendum I just realized, the NRC has a plain writing plan

https://www.nrc.gov/public-involve/open/plain-writing/nrc-pl...

"We will also use plain writing for all notices that inform you of meetings and significant actions. We will even use plain writing for specialized technical publications, but we will consider the needs and subject matter expertise of our intended audience. In addition, we will use plain writing to develop licenses, license amendments, and guidance documents. Such documents are primarily intended for our licensees, who are technically proficient in nuclear matters. Nonetheless, we believe that these documents must be clear, concise, and well-organized because they explain how to comply with NRC requirements. In cases where these documents must necessarily be written in considerable technical detail, we will develop a brief executive summary to make the content accessible and easy for you to understand."

So, if you can read and understand plain English how about you go make yourself a couple billion dollars.
by rob74 | 2026-03-13 15:05:49+00:00
Yeah, remember good old Norton Commander (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Norton_Commander) - not that newfangled clone Midnight Commander, the original? Or the Borland text mode IDEs (https://ilyabirman.net/meanwhile/all/ui-museum-turbo-pascal-...), complete with windows, menus, buttons, scroll bars, file dialogs etc. etc.?
by dgroshev | 2026-03-13 15:06:23+00:00
Picking the best colour is a difficult problem, I don't think there's a good general answer short of ML magic. I assembled an adversarial collection of images:

https://github.com/si14/okmain/blob/main/test_images/IMG_134...

https://github.com/si14/okmain/blob/main/test_images/pendant...

https://github.com/si14/okmain/blob/main/test_images/pendant...

https://github.com/si14/okmain/blob/main/test_images/red_moo...

https://github.com/si14/okmain/blob/main/test_images/supremu...

For every heuristic, I can think of an image that breaks it. On the other hand, I just wanted to do better than the 1x1 trick, and I think the library clears that bar.
by latexr | 2026-03-13 15:07:31+00:00
So your solution to “I’d be interested in having a small ready-made tool and try this out” is “spend a bunch of time to get acquainted with the code base of something you may not even like, create a separate tool, and submit it without even knowing if it’ll be accepted”?

That’s like having someone looking at a display of ice cream in a supermarket saying “I’d be interested in trying a few samples before committing” and then getting a reply like “here are the recipes for all the ice creams, you can try to make them at home and taste them for yourself”.

I know I could theoretically spend my weekend working on a CLI tool for this or making ice cream. Every developer knows that, there’s no reason to point that out except snark. But you know who might do it even faster and better and perhaps even enjoy it? The author.

Look, the maintainer owes me nothing. I owe them nothing. This project has been shared to HN by the author and I’m making a simple, sensible, and sensical suggestion for something which I would like to see and believe would be an improvement overall, and I explained why. The author is free to agree or disagree, reply or ignore. Every one of those options is fine.
by CryptoBanker | 2026-03-13 15:07:35+00:00
> That c8i.4xlarge would cost you $246/mo at current spot pricing of $0.3425/hr, which is, what, 20% of the cost of that M1 Max MBP?

A 5 month ROI on a hardware investment would be excellent, so not sure what you're trying to say here?
Show HN: Secure Agent Execution for Your Repository via Virtualization
by anophelon | 2026-03-13 15:07:36+00:00
I’m working on openoman, an open-source runtime for secure agent work on real repositories. The goal is to let agents do useful work without getting your Git credentials, touching your normal environment, or owning the publishing flow.

Each task runs in an isolated disposable sandbox. Publishing stays on the trusted side. And the system is API-first, so tasks can come from cli, bots, or your own internal tools.

What makes it different from cloud-first agent runtimes is that it is designed for your infrastructure:
it can run against self-hosted gitlab and other non-cloud setups,
it is agent-agnostic, so you are not locked into a single provider or model,
and it can give agents enough isolated runtime to bring up the dependencies they need for real work — for example, a Docker Compose stack with postgres for tests.
by TrevorFSmith | 2026-03-13 15:07:42+00:00
This is a vibe coded app and isn't what I'd want but still, it's interesting to consider what a good implementation of "Figma for TUIs" could be, especially if it avoids the trap of simply treating the console as a crude raster instead of taking advantage of text and keyboards. IMO we don't need WIMP GUI shoved into terminal emulators.