MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by matwood | 2026-03-05 14:38:55+00:00
Adventure can take many forms, you just have to look outside yourself to see. For example, I’ve flown to Paris many times, that’s no longer an adventure for me (though I do love visiting the Louvre any time I’m in Paris). Finding adventure and interest in everyday life whether it’s traveling to a new place or visiting my local coffee shop is the real adventure for me. So many people are amazing, but you have to be curious. I wish you luck on finding whatever it is you’re seeking.
by empath75 | 2026-03-05 14:39:13+00:00
I think the paper was just an exploration of various possibilities and doesn't come to any firm conclusion, because there isn't enough information to conclude anything.

I would assume that people in the past generally did things because they found it useful, though, and the idea that they were merely idly creating art is a more remarkable claim than that they were doing something primarily utilitarian, at least from their point of view.

To me, all of it seems like tally marks and counting and tally marks are among the earliest forms of writing we have in pretty much every case that I am aware of.
by _flux | 2026-03-05 14:39:53+00:00
I did a similar thing a while back: https://github.com/eras/midihidi

While that one might not be of much use, yours might be :). Actually I just have a small midikbd next to my computer, so maybe I could find use for this.

I did think of one potential use for midihidi: using MIDI as input device when running a tracked in an Amiga emulator.
by xyzzy_plugh | 2026-03-05 14:40:07+00:00
I'm no longer certain what point you're trying to make.

Getting close less than half the time given three paragraphs as input still sounds like red-handed copyright infringement to me.

If I sample a copyrighted song in my new track, clip it, slow it down, and decimate the bit rate, a court would not let me off the hook.

It doesn't matter how much context you push into these things. If I feed them 50% of Moby Dick and they produce the next word, and I can repeatedly do that to produce the entire book (I'm pretty sure the number of attempts is wholly irrelevant: we're impossibly far from monkeys on typewriters) then we can prove the statistical model encodes the book. The further we are from that (and the more we can generate with less) then the stronger the case is. It's a pretty strong case!
by general_reveal | 2026-03-05 14:41:30+00:00
That’s why I’m saying … tariffs with a pullback via Supreme Court is … too smart , especially if you simply want to signal the existence of the tool (Dr Strangelove).

Someone may have showed the existence of Covid, which was just the flu, but what a threat from a bio weapon standpoint (and the nsa and cia have reported it’s from Wuhan lab, hell, they knew it was from Wuhan on day 0). Things are happening at global scale, so be open to everything.

Remember, the fundamental thesis is that ALL of this horror pales in comparison to the Mexican standoff of nukes pointed EVERYWHERE. That’s the part no one is ready to hear. Banks will be emptied, birth rates will collapse, economic activity collapses.
by pfdietz | 2026-03-05 14:41:33+00:00
Fast reactors have an extremely serious potential failure mode.

In a thermal reactor, reactivity is maintained by a carefully designed lattice of fuel elements and moderator. Disrupt this lattice and reactivity goes down. Thermal neutrons are also highly absorbed by certain neutron poisons with resonances that enable neutron capture at low energy; these can be added to shut down any potential reaction.

Fast reactors aren't like that. If fuel rearranges (for example, by melting and flowing into coolant channels) reactivity can increase. A fasts reactor will have ~100 times the "bare core" critical mass of fissionable material in it, so there's plenty of room for serious rearrangement to bring fission material into a prompt fast supercritical configuration.

That by itself could give you an explosion. But if the explosion then compresses some other part of the system beyond supercriticality, one could get an even more serious explosion. The possibility with something with a yield in the kiloton range can't easily be ruled out. This would be far worse than Chernobyl.

The fast reactor concepts I've seen deal with this by saying "our design can't ever melt down". Color me skeptical on that, and dense in depth says you don't believe such claims when failure could be so catastrophic. Even if regulators can be convinced (or be made to say they are convinced), the first experience that indicates the assumption wasn't true will lead to all reactors of that design being permanently shut down. This would be a serious financial risk to anyone thinking of building them.

If I were dead set on a fast reactor I'd look at something like a fast MSR (chloride salt) where such rearrangement could be ruled out.
by sillysaurusx | 2026-03-05 14:41:45+00:00
That’s smart though. If you don’t want to lose your rights to tariff refunds, don’t sell them. Would the alternative be to forbid companies from selling those rights in this case?

As for whether consumers should get anything, I’m sympathetic. It’s a matter of implementation though. How would you refund so many people? You’d have to quantify how much overhead they’ve paid in tariffs, and that seems like an IRS-scale job. Dealing with it at the scale of individual companies is at least tractable.
by TZubiri | 2026-03-05 14:41:59+00:00
Interesting.

While I am obviously Team GPL and not team "I 'rewrote' this with AI so now it's mine", I'm team anti-fork, and definitely not team 'Chardet'.

Forking should be a last resort, one better option is to yeet the thing entirely.

And chardet lends itself perfectly for this, using chardet is a sign of an issue and low craftmanship, either by the developer using chardet, or the developer that failed to signal the encoding of their text. (See Joel Spolsky's "The absolute minimum every developer should know about character encoding") (And let's be honest, it's probably the developers problem, not everything is someone else's fault.)

Just uninstall this thing where you can, and avoid installing it always, because you always can.

You know I'm right. I will not be replying to copium
by sigseg1v | 2026-03-05 14:42:51+00:00
Is there a way you can reasonably use that data offer to a large extent? For example, I know my provider has a setup where you can register your device MAC, connect to their city-wide wifi, and then it will let you use your data as wifi. In this scenario if it's really unlimited, is there a way you can chain devices together to get something crazy like 20Gbps up/down and do a bunch of heavy operations 24 hours a day on that for a few days?

Warning: I imagine if you do this they will say "it's not really unlimited bro that's not that we meant"
Ask HN: Do we need a standard way to signal "this site does not track you"?
by fbilhaut | 2026-03-05 14:43:00+00:00
I run a few small websites/apps that deliberately avoid tracking technologies. They only use first-party session cookies and minimal server logs for operational purposes.

Interestingly, I’ve noticed that some users find this suspicious because there is no cookie banner... People may have become so used to seeing them that a site without one can look dubious or unprofessional. And some maintainers probably include them just to conform with common practice, or due to legal uncertainty.

So I’m wondering whether a simple, community-driven, public declaration could help. Something like a "No-Tracking Web Declaration". It could be a short document describing fair practices that websites could reference, for example:

- only first-party session cookies
- server logs used only for operational purposes
- etc.

A website could then display a small statement such as "This site follows the No-Tracking Web Declaration v1.0". This might help legitimate the approach, and give visitors and operators confidence that avoiding a cookie banner is actually compliant with applicable regulations.

I’m curious what the HN community thinks:

- Would something like this actually be useful?
- Does anything similar already exist that I might have missed?

And I’d love feedback from developers or maintainers who actually run minimal or privacy-respecting websites.
by projektfu | 2026-03-05 14:43:29+00:00
Self's environment was a panning desktop where you would inspect an object's slots and as you kept opening things, they would exist in some space nearby. You could, in theory, keep these things open and have a much more spatial feeling about the system.

I don't remember there being any way to collapse and re-expand this context so that it could persist yet be out of the way when you didn't want to look at it.
by ShenSeanChen | 2026-03-05 14:43:31+00:00
Great questions.

On edge cases: the agent doesn't try to "fake" answers. If it doesn't have enough context from the website/knowledge base, it asks follow-up questions or flags the conversation as needing human review. We're also adding explicit escalation rules so certain intents immediately route to a human.

For handoff: the idea is that the agent handles the early conversation layer (answering questions, capturing requirements, qualifying). If the conversation becomes complex, the thread can be handed to a human with the full conversation history and extracted lead data.

On ICP: today we're mostly seeing traction with businesses that already receive inbound inquiries (often on WhatsApp) but don't have a structured way to capture or follow up on them. The agent sits in front of that chaos and structures it into leads.

Still early though — we're learning a lot from users right now.
by dec0dedab0de | 2026-03-05 14:43:41+00:00
No, it's simply untrue. Players only object against AI art assets. And only when they're painfully obvious. No one cares about how the code is written.

This reminded me of a conversation about AI I had with an artist last year. She was furious and cursing and saying how awful it is for stealing from artists, but then admitted she uses it for writing descriptions and marketing posts to sell her art.
by dcveloper | 2026-03-05 14:44:43+00:00
You're ranting.

Many governments, at least the ones that matter, are bankrupt. Quick google shows all G8 countries run a deficit.

My "smart play" wasn't on the merits of idea, largely the game theory aspect of moving forward to their policy goals after decades of having no traction. It's a unique idea, policy wise. Don't know if it will be effective. Neither do you.
by maccard | 2026-03-05 14:45:07+00:00
> You say "likely familiar with" but interviews are conducted as if it's a pop quiz. Which I never understood.

Sure - the point of being familiar with it is so that we don't have to spend a chunk of the very limited time we have explaining a problem space, and we can talk about the technical stuff.

> If you want to have a decently technical discussion, why not just tell me ahead of time what topic and I come to the interview with research?

I try really hard to design interviews to not require take home work. I don't have stats to say whether this is right or not, but my goal as a HM is to try and keep the process to recruiter/HM call, 1/2 tech interviews and an interview with someone else on the team who is not a programmer (I hire in games so you're pretty much guaranteed to be working with Artists/Designers).
by ismailperim | 2026-03-05 14:45:11+00:00
Great questions - you're right on both fronts.

*Node metrics:* Currently we're container-only (docker stats/logs), so yes - we'd miss noisy neighbors or node-level memory pressure. Prometheus integration is on the roadmap to correlate container events with node/cluster metrics. Right now we catch the obvious cases: "this container OOMKilled at its 512MB limit."

*Permissions:* Funny story - I built this while working with OpenClaw (an AI assistant framework). OpenClaw has broad system access by design, but I wanted to explore: what if we made a micro-agent with the minimum permissions needed?

So OnCallMate offers two modes:
1. *Direct socket* (if you trust it / testing): bind /var/run/docker.sock
2. *docker-socket-proxy* (production): read-only layer, no exec/restart/POST

The proxy approach:
- Agent connects via TCP, never touches the socket directly
- Whitelist: containers, logs, stats, inspect (GET only)
- Blacklist: exec, restart, swarm, secrets
- Even if AI hallucinates "docker restart nginx", it physically can't

All tool calls are logged for audit trails.

You're right that we should emphasize this more in the README. Principle: treat AI agents like untrusted input.

Have you seen other patterns for safely exposing Docker APIs to automation?
by NickC25 | 2026-03-05 14:45:48+00:00
You forgot to mention that Mr. Lutnik is also a close personal friend of a pedophile-turned-Mossad-agent-turned-pedophile named Jeffrey Epstein and visited his island. Mr. Lutnik deliberately and purposefully lied to congress about it, and faced no charges for lying to congress.

In a just world, someone like that would be jailed indefinitely and made to publicly take stand about his activities, and called out to his face during depositions about his lies.
by Jooror | 2026-03-05 14:46:01+00:00
Irrespective of the domain you specifically listed in 3 (game dev is, believe it or not, one of the “more complex” domains), you have completely failed to miss the point.

> 2. They're coincidentally good at things I'm good at, and shit at things I don't understand.

This may well be! In the perfect world this would be balanced with the knowledge that maybe “the things you’re good at” are objectively* easier than “things you don’t understand”. Speaking for myself, I’m proficient in many more easy things than hard things.

*inasmuch as anything can be “objectively” easier
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Kiploks Walk-forward validator that tells if your trading bot will lose money
by kiploks | 2026-03-05 14:46:11+00:00
Hey HN,

I built Kiploks after watching my own backtested strategies collapse the moment
they hit live markets. The strategy looked great on paper 40% annual return, low drawdown but it was overfit to historical noise. Lost real money finding that out.

The core problem: most traders validate strategies on the same data they optimized on. Walk-forward analysis fixes this, but doing it properly is surprisingly hard to get right WFE calculation, OOS retention, parameter sensitivity, performance degradation across regimes. Most people skip it or get the math wrong.

Kiploks does this automatically:

- Splits your backtest into IS/OOS windows and measures how much performance survives into out-of-sample

- Detects parameter fragility (one parameter with R²=0.93 sensitivity = profit island, not an edge)

- Gives a deployment verdict: REJECT / RESEARCH ONLY / APPROVED

- Currently supports OctoBot exports; Freqtrade and raw CSV next

It's invite-only right now at kiploks.com. Happy to give HN access to anyone who wants to try it.

The biggest insight I kept seeing: strategies don't fail because the logic is wrong they fail because the backtest never tested what happens when the market regime changes. That's what I'm trying to make visible before you deploy, not after.

What would you want to see in a tool like this?
by jacquesm | 2026-03-05 14:46:17+00:00
It's not smart, it's extortion by someone connected to the state and self dealing.

If you think this is smart then you may as well go around clubbing old ladies over their heads, as long as you don't get caught it's like free money right?

The alternative is not to forbid companies from selling those rights, the alternative is to undo this deal and pay the whole amount back to those that originally forked it over and who needed to sell these 'rights' in order to keep their companies alive.
by coldpie | 2026-03-05 14:46:18+00:00
> It’s a matter of implementation though. How would you refund so many people?

This was the point of the tariffs, wasn't it? The White House now has a $130B slush fund to distribute more or less however they want, with no accountability because accountability is by-design impossible. Sure maybe half of it will go where it ought to as a fig leaf, but a very large chunk of that cash will be making its way to Trump's loyalty crew.
by darkwater | 2026-03-05 14:46:40+00:00
That take and the link within it to https://github.com/chardet/chardet/issues/36 which is from 2014 (!!) and revived in 2021 (!) make me think now that Dan Blanchard is in good faith, but still acted in a naive manner. Rewriting from "scratch" with Claude Code and basically taking over the project by changing the license, all in one single pull request, well... it's not going to end well on the public relations side.
by angiolillo | 2026-03-05 14:46:41+00:00
My situation was similar. I lived in a small city that trumpeted their aspirational walking and biking infrastructure but did nothing to change a driving culture and police force that were actively and physically hostile to anyone on foot or bike.

We initially moved to Arlington, MA. The Minuteman Bikeway runs right through the center of town and it's packed with commuters in the morning heading into Cambridge or Boston. It's also adjacent to Cambridge and Somerville where more than one in ten commutes are by bike, and fewer than half are by car.[1]

We eventually ended up moving slightly further out and sacrificing some walkability/bikeability for lower housing costs. But the bike racks at our schools are well-used even in the winter and I'm never the only cyclist on the road. There's also a growing network of rail trails like the Bruce Freeman and the Mass Central that are bringing out a lot more recreational cyclists. And contrary to their reputation, I've found Massachusetts drivers basically respectful of other road users, at least insofar as they generally give a wide berth and I've never had a MA driver throw something at me or do a punishment pass.

If you're curious about moving to a bike-friendly town in MA more generally, see https://www.redfin.com/blog/most-bikeable-cities-in-massachu... and peopleforbikes.org ratings.

[1] In 2024 Cambridge had ~11% bike commute mode share https://www.cambridgema.gov/-/media/Files/CDD/Transportation... and in 2021 Somerville had ~15% bike commute mode share https://s3.amazonaws.com/somervillema-live/s3fs-public/HSH_5...
by mrprincerawat | 2026-03-05 14:46:48+00:00
you're right, nothing stops me. i still can. but that's not really the point.

when everyone around you is shipping in hours what used to take weeks, the pressure to keep up changes how you approach things. you know the answer is one prompt away. that changes your brain. it's like saying you can still use a paper map when GPS exists, technically true, but you won't, and you know it.

the post isn't about going back. it's about acknowledging that something shifted in how we learn by building.
by magicalhippo | 2026-03-05 14:47:10+00:00
> refunded to the importer of record. Not the people the costs were passed to

I mean the importers were the ones who paid the duties. It's not a given they passed it on, and if it was then in many cases it was spread out. That is importer paid for one container of items, which in turn got sold to individuals which the government has no record of.

If you ordered delivery by say FedEx and they paid the duty and passed it on to you, you should have a reasonable case to get it refunded from FedEx when they get the money back. Ideally they handle it automatically since they have all the necessary details.

For manufacturing companies it's less clear, as some might have swallowed all or some of the duties, and multiple components might have been affected by different rates etc.

Will be interesting to see how companies who passed it on will handle this, given it's a massive PITA to do anything but screw over their customers.
by throwayaw84330 | 2026-03-05 14:47:14+00:00
This is super interesting. Exploring the basis for Free Software (the 4 liberties, Richard Stallman)... if AI-code is effectively under Public Domain, wouldn't that actually be even MORE defensive than relying on copyright to be able to generate copyleft? Wouldn't the rewrite of code (previously under any license, and maybe even unknown to the LLM) constitute a massive win for the population in general, because now their 4 liberties are more attainable through the extensive use of LLMs to generate code?
by d4rkp4ttern | 2026-03-05 14:47:15+00:00
Ok, I was wrong. I just tested ChatGPT voice, Claude Voice and Gemini Live. And all three are able to do web search. For some reason, I thought when I tested ChatGPT voice a few weeks ago, it sometimes said it can’t directly open links, but it can do web search, which was strange.
by matiremi | 2026-03-05 14:47:33+00:00
We built Bronto as a telemetry datastore, and from the start we wanted teams to be able to build any visualisation, dashboard, or workflow on top of their telemetry data, not just the ones we ship.

Vibe coding tools like Lovable finally gave us the right way to make that real. We exposed everything behind the Bronto UI through a REST API and built a Lovable project template that connects directly to it. Remix it, drop in your API key, and you're querying live telemetry data instantly.

From there the canvas is open. New visualisations, custom dashboards, entirely new ways of exploring logs and traces. If you can describe it, you can build it.

It's early and rough around the edges in places but we'd love feedback from anyone who tries it.
by kanddle | 2026-03-05 14:47:41+00:00
There are definitely social consequences if they don't. So far, if you were to look at it, a lot of Not In My Backyard groups have decided to reject data centers within their area because of sound complaints that were never fixed, environmental complaints that were never taken care of, as well as the fact that the electric bill would likely go up.

There's a lot of data centers that are not being built because they're not fixing it. The trend is going to continue. The hate for AI is going to grow. You basically have a lot of people that will vote a lot of people into office to take down all AI progress inside the United States if they don't fix their problems.

It'll be cool to shit on big tech as a politician.
by Imanari | 2026-03-05 14:47:47+00:00
I don't know who you are and how you are so sure about 'what top labs are actually doing' but I have a similar feeling about the issue. The models dont have to 'actually learn', the setup has to approximate 'actual learning' just well enough to be usefull.

> AND it can inherit all the accumulated memories/docs from its predecessor.

So we are talking about a whole system, not just the model? Reminds me of something I heard a while back 'AGI will be a product, not a model'
by littlestymaar | 2026-03-05 14:48:03+00:00
Every developed country on earth has an immigration policy and an administration dedicated to enforcing it.

No other developed countries have masked goons abducting people in public wearing civil clothes and masks and disregarding every laws of the country (violating private property and foreign embassies, deporting national citizens, and numerous other preposterous bullshit).

Immigration policy enforcement is normal, the madness that has been running in the US for a year isn't.
by deltarholamda | 2026-03-05 14:48:18+00:00
>They've totally lost the plot with iPads IMO. It's a fantastic device to consume media, gaming, and some niche areas like drawing... but other than that

Every construction admin, supervisor, field inspection guy, etc. has a top of the line iPad Pro, in an Otterbox, with a kind of sling that helps you hold it with one hand, and an Apple Pencil, and they spend all day in Plangrid.

This setup has completely eaten the entire market.