MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by autoexec | 2026-03-09 04:22:59+00:00
> Climate change is real. That doesn’t mean we should halt economic growth.

I've never seen "halting economic growth" as a suggestion for dealing with climate change that was being taken seriously. There might be some crackpots out there insisting that we need to being the economy to a halt and move into caves or something, but I think the vast majority understands that it isn't going to happen. That said, there are things that could be done which would hurt the profits of the ~50 companies who are responsible for most of the global CO2 emissions and/or trillions in climate related damages without causing the entire global economy to grind to a stop or collapse (as much as they'd love for us to believe otherwise).

The greatest societal behavior that needs to be changed is the way we allow a very small number of people get away with making insane amounts of money by causing insane levels of harm. Until that changes, the harmful systems that those people have created for themselves to profit under won't change either.
by sarthaksaxena | 2026-03-09 04:24:02+00:00
https://llmpm.co

I have built npm for LLM models, which lets you install & run 10,000+ open sourced large language models within seconds. The idea is to make models installable like packages in your code:

llmpm install llama3

llmpm run llama3

You can also package large language models together with your code so projects can reproduce the same setup easily.

Github: https://github.com/llmpm/llmpm-dev
by nickandbro | 2026-03-09 04:25:00+00:00
First thing is going outside. Staying inside is only going to compound depression and cause days gone by to become a blur. Just doing that is a step in the right direction, bonus points if it involves moving the body.

Second, start writing. Writing can help prevent circular thoughts and force the brain to plan how to change your lifestyle and get you to a life worth living. If you don’t write, it’s very easy to repeat patterns over and over again.

Third, don’t lose hope. Having a positive outlook and a growth mindset is going to help you navigate setback and push through obstacles. It’s easy to resort to a fixed mindset, but the saints are the sinners who keep on trying as they say.

Best of luck!
by donkeybeer | 2026-03-09 04:25:41+00:00
>Israel apologized the same day of the incident. They also paid $13m in reparations (much more if we adjust for inflation).

That's the "public" view yes. Many survivors disagree of course.

The entity who committed theft was Israel not Mordechai, however I reread it and it looks like it was a secret collaboration with South Africa not theft. But the main point is, why should you listen to whining about Iran having nukes from a country that blatantly lies about its own nukes and refuses to let its nukes be inspected? Iran is a much more responsible party clearly when it comes to the nuclear department.

It's also very well known that Israel secretly sold western defence tech secrets to China.

You seem to have mistakenly passed over part of my message that mentioned Pollard, so have a link: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jonathan_Pollard
Show HN: TextBoi – Proofread text anywhere with a hotkey (Cmd+C+C / Ctrl+C+C)
by bangcoderpro | 2026-03-09 04:25:46+00:00
Hi HN,

I built TextBoi, a desktop tool that lets you proofread or translate text anywhere using a simple hotkey.

Most AI writing tools or GPT wrappers follow a workflow like this:

select text → trigger shortcut → choose an action → run

Even though it’s faster than copy-paste, it still breaks the writing flow if you repeat the same task many times.

TextBoi takes a slightly different approach.

You choose the action first (for example proofreading, translation, or rewriting).
After that, the workflow becomes:

select text → press Cmd+C+C on Mac (or Ctrl+C+C on Windows) → done

Because the action is already selected, you can repeat the same task very quickly without opening menus or switching apps.

The goal was to make AI feel more like a native desktop shortcut rather than a chat interface.

It works across apps like browsers, email clients, Slack, and IDEs.

There is a small free tier for light use (around 30k characters), and a $5/month plan designed for heavier usage (up to around 10M characters per month).

I'm a solo developer and built this as a side project over the past several months.
I'd really appreciate feedback from the HN community.
by abrax3141 | 2026-03-09 04:25:58+00:00
I have successfully reanimated the Logic Theorist, the world's first AI[], on an IPL-V emulator written in Lisp! This dribble shows it proving 11 complete theorems from the original Principia (or, at least from Simon and Newell's original inputs, which claim to have been from the Principia. I haven't checked.)

(It does break at the end, and I haven't started to track that down -- it may actually be my own runaway limiters that tripped it. I haven't looked into that yet.)

[] Or at worst the second -- depending on whether you count Arthur Samuel's first checkers player. But certainly the first cognitive model, and first explicitly symbol processing AI.
by ajross | 2026-03-09 04:26:11+00:00
> Manchester is the poster child city for the industrial revolution.

Which is to say, you cherry picked the data rather than looking at aggregates. Manchester industrialization being terribly managed isn't an indictment of steel machining or electrification, it means the government fucked up.

What you are claiming (that the industrial revolution led to lower quality of life generally) is simply false, period. And it won't be true of AGImageddon either, no matter how deeply you believe it. Economics just doesn't work that way.
by upmostly | 2026-03-09 04:27:42+00:00
I'm building DB Pro, a better database client.

I just released support for dashboards. I've kept a devlog for the past 6 months.

https://youtu.be/EEA73e6MH1c

And the biggest update is coming soon, DB Pro Cloud, which will let you connect to and manage any database through your browser as well as collaborate with your team.

Imagine Postman but for databases.

https://dbpro.app
by galkk | 2026-03-09 04:28:39+00:00
The deeds are horrifying to read. You can do nothing wrong and die by hands of some piece of shit just because you were at wrong place at wrong time. follow up actions of some are even more sad and scary. Killing another human being meant nothing to some of murderers, like killing a fly.

Those apologies are too little too late. Good riddance.

I have no sympathy for them, and I’m all in for using those for involuntary dangerous drug testing and stuff like that. Those pieces of shit lost their human privileges after what they did.
by ynac | 2026-03-09 04:28:56+00:00
* Remote viewing stock market trading programs - One version is with a buddy who shows me a colored board depending on the outcome for the week. The other is a solo version using a Swift app on Mac. We're just out of buggy beta (the analog version was laughably more difficult to get clean. We'll see if either works and which one wins.

* Telephone handset for my mobile phone with side talk.

* First draft of a book / workbook on Work Flow. Outcrop of the work flow consulting I do, stuff I've learned, and so on.

* Short film script - trying to convince a local actor to play the lead before we lose the rainy season here - otherwise we'll need special effects or just wait until the fall.

* Polishing firmware, OSX, and iOS suite for a wearable neuromodulator unit. Deadline in a week!

* Nmemonic community and app - been poking at this for years and finally had a breakthrough on the UI. My first app to release in the wild, so pretty exciting.
by OneDeuxTriSeiGo | 2026-03-09 04:29:49+00:00
v0.01 took Linus months of work and even then it barely ran anything. It wasn't POSIX compliant. It couldn't run GNU userspace. It only ran on one arch and had no concept of multi-arch support and limited to no real driver compartmentalization.

It wouldn't be until 2 years later that almost a hundred devs joined the Linux project and they'd gradually have achieved compatibility with GNU userspace. Full POSIX compliance wouldn't come until later.

And it wouldn't be until another year or two later that they'd finally reach a "production ready" 1.0 by which point hundreds of devs were contributing to the project.

You are vastly underestimating the insane amount of work that went into the Linux kernel in the early days to get it to where it is today that it can be developed at such scale and with support for so many intermixed, overlapping, or mutually incompatible features, devices, and platforms. To call that effort (just for core linux, not the drivers) anything less than herculean is frankly an insult to all the people who have dedicated so much time and energy towards that project.
by daxfohl | 2026-03-09 04:30:09+00:00
I was there for three years. Every year a new top-level initiative, every year the new initiative failed to make a dent in the market. I think this shift was just an admission that the business is now in maintenance mode, harden up the existing cash cows and drop the new initiatives. That said, the existence of AI will impede hiring because if investors say "you should look into blub!", corp can say "our AI is already looking into it," rather than keeping extra humans on hand.
by jandrewrogers | 2026-03-09 04:30:29+00:00
> As a European I'm always baffled how Apple got so much market share among the actual techies and power users in the US.

I know exactly how this happened, I was there. It filled a gap for a practical desktop UNIX when none existed.

In the old days, there many flavors of proprietary UNIX, like Solaris, IRIX, HPUX, AIX, et al plus a few open source versions like FreeBSD and early Linux. The early Internet was a purely UNIX world (still mostly is) but UNIX was a fragmented market of dozens of marginally interoperable OS.

During the dotcom boom, Solaris on Sparc became the gold standard for large servers. These are very expensive machines and not particularly user friendly. If you were a dev in those days, you were either using some type of Sparc workstation or FreeBSD or Linux (which wasn’t very good in those days). You wanted your desktop environment to be UNIX-ish but the good + cheap options were limited. Linux became better on the server and started to displace FreeBSD there but was still very limited as a desktop OS. Linux was much worse than Windows NT on the desktop at the time but Windows NT wasn’t UNIX.

MacOS X came along and offered UNIX on the desktop with a far better experience than Linux (or any other UNIX) on the desktop, and much cheaper than a Solaris workstation. It filled a clear gap in the market, and so Silicon Valley moved from a mix of Solaris and Linux desktops for development to MacOS X desktops, which were better in almost every way for the average dev. It was UNIX and it ran normal business applications like Microsoft Office.

MacOS X was a weaker UNIX than many of the other UNIX OS but it offered a desktop that didn’t suck and it was cheap. For someone that had been using Linux or Solaris at the time, which many devs were, it was a massive upgrade.

MacOS still kind of sucks as a UNIX but that’s okay because we don’t use it as a server. Silicon Valley needed a competent UNIX desktop that didn’t cost a fortune and Apple delivered.

Apple is just a remote UNIX system for manipulating the other UNIX systems your code actually runs one.
by jrdres | 2026-03-09 04:31:22+00:00
The CBS field-sequential color system did have one application after the 1950's: it was the system used for color transmissions from the Apollo moon landings.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apollo_TV_camera#Westinghouse_...

If you watch footage of the Apollo 17 LEM liftoff from the moon, you can see color artifacts in the burst of fragments off the platform. Their motion is too fast to stay in the same color band.
by onnimonni | 2026-03-09 04:31:27+00:00
> Everything feels hollow now.

I'm slightly younger than you are but I remember how video games and sitting in front of my computer made me feel like this. You asked how to be willing to be alone but I will pivot my answer here that maybe you don't have to be alone? If you don't want to be alone here are the steps I would take nowadays.

I would recommend finding a improv class. This helps you to get used to laugh to yourself and make a fool of yourself. Also the people attending improv classes are more open in general. When you are more comfortable with these feelings then it becomes easier to open up a conversation with strangers. First times it feels awkward but you can frame the narrative that this is just you learning social skills and your body adapting to the new situation. When you do this enough it becomes easier to find new people into your life. You might feel creepy and they might feel that you're creepy but it becomes easier when you practice. Be open about your learning: "Sorry if I'm bothering you. I'm trying to learn how to speak to others. How is your day going?"

If the chit-chat goes well ask them for coffee or a lunch or if they want to join you for a walk with your dog. Strangers often ask if they can pet my dog when walking in the public with her. Put your focus into them rather than your feelings. Ask how their day has been. Ask how do they spend their time. Ask follow up questions: "Oh you like knitting? It reminds me of my Grandma. Are your granparents still alive? How often do you see them?". This way other people feel that you are actually paying attention and it helps you to connect with them.

Read also this one: https://www.experimental-history.com/p/good-conversations-ha...

Learn how to use your calendar and start planning stuff together with the people you meet. Most of the people are just self-centered and want to have someone who would listen to them. If you provide this for them you will find people who are interested in your company. Hopefully eventually you will meet also few people who will listen to you as well.

When you start having more friends/acquaintances the hollow feeling did go away for me. The hollow feeling still comes every now and then but I've somehow accidentally built a routine that when it comes I will reach my phone and suggest something to do for my friends.

YMMV but for me it has been a long journey but definitely worth it and doable for others if they can endure the anxiety during the way. Also remember to sleep/eat/excercise in addition like others said. When you don't everything else falls apart.
by jedberg | 2026-03-09 04:31:55+00:00
One thing we did at reddit for a while was put posts from new people in "jail". They would show up in a special yellow box at the top of the home page to accounts that tended to be early upvoters of things that became successful later (our Nostradamusus so to speak), and then if it got enough upvotes from that group it got out of jail and placed on the regular /new page.

So maybe some sort of filter like that? Only show it to those kinds of accounts at first?

The downside is that if that group isn't big enough you get a lot of groupthink, but if your sample is wide enough, it can be avoided. To be honest, I don't recall why we stopped doing it.
by fubdopsp | 2026-03-09 04:32:07+00:00
It's in a lot of people's interest to keep platforms like HN free of LLM spam, frankly. It's in our interest as people who want to keep our discussion site for actual human discussion (though from the other comments in this thread, this sentiment isn't universally shared, god knows why). It's also in the interest of AI companies since if they destroy internet spaces like this they lose valuable future training data. So I'm (perhaps foolishly) optimistic--or at least not completely pessimistic--that there's hope yet for us.

Incidentally I foresee similar issues to this training data pollution arising with LLM coding taking over software engineering--which it inevitably is going to continue to do, at least in the short term. If LLMs torpedo human engineering, who is going to create the new infrastructure (tools, frameworks, programming languages, etc) that LLMs are making such good use of today? It feels to me like we risk technological stagnation as our collective skills atrophy and the market value of our skills plummets. Kind of like airplane pilots forgetting how to debug planes or handle edge cases because they just rely on autopilot all the time.
by qrush | 2026-03-09 04:32:20+00:00
I’m working on a new word game, called Wordtrak:

https://wordtrak.com

(Sign up and I’ll send out beta codes tomorrow!)

I’ve had a few friends call it “fun”, and one said it’s “Scrabble that doesn’t drag”.

Working on some social media shareable replays you can post after matches tonight, thanks to Remotion:

https://x.com/qrush/status/2030849966105559104?s=20
by bangcoderpro | 2026-03-09 04:32:37+00:00
Happy to answer questions.
One thing I tried to improve was the workflow.

Most tools do:
shortcut → choose action → run.

TextBoi flips that:
choose the action first, then repeat the shortcut.

I also tried to keep pricing simple — around $5/month instead of expensive “unlimited AI” subscriptions.

Curious how others handle quick proofreading while working.
by Benjamin_Dobell | 2026-03-09 04:33:49+00:00
Continuing to make fantastic progress on Breaka Club, where we teach kids to code, be creative and make games:

https://breaka.club/blog/why-were-building-clubs-for-kids

The recent Netflix Games edition of Overcooked with K-Pop Demon Hunters is cool, but not nearly as cool as kids coding and playing their way through Overcooked levels in our custom educational mod for Overcooked:

https://youtu.be/ITWSL5lTLig

I'm also maintaining GodotJS, strongly typed TypeScript bindings for Godot, which is used to build the Breaka Club RPG (see first link):

https://github.com/godotjs/GodotJS

And last week I also put together the first release of MoonSharp in ~10 years; Lua runtime for Unity. That's not for Breaka Club though, I also consult for Berserk Games on Tabletop Simulator:

https://github.com/moonsharp-devs/moonsharp/releases
by Nursie | 2026-03-09 04:34:17+00:00
It's tough, and I must admit the times I've lived on my own for any length of time weren't always easy. I've done it twice.

First time I realised I was spiralling a bit and looked for a form of exercise I enjoyed, which was cycling, and getting into that, doing long-ish rides every so often, it really helped my outlook, I got a little fitter and it made me feel more positive. There are also cycling groups in most places that you can join, that make it more of a social activity, some more relaxed than others. It doesn't need to be cycling, but some sort of stimulating activity is always good, even better if it can casually involve other people.

Second time, I just spiralled into drinking too much, too often, and it wasn't healthy. So, you know, I'm only so good at following my own advice.

You've already identified the cliches - 'get a hobby' being a big one, but the thing is they are clichess for a reason. If you can find something that interest you outside of the house, you'll probably naturally meet people while doing it.

You could look into volunteering things that are going on in your local community. My local community does a 'planting day' each year where volunteers plant shrubs and trees in an area undergoing regeneration. There's some light socialising, you're doing something useful, it's good for you. They do various other volunteer days throughout the year, and they aren't a big, regular commitment that way.

I love games too, but IMHO they're really good as respite from other things, not as a replacement for social interactions.
by llbbdd | 2026-03-09 04:34:18+00:00
I appreciate the recommendation and I will read it (I also appreciate that you made a recommendation instead of downvoting me), however I don't think free will has much to do with this. If they were predetermined to be like this then I have sympathy for the bad dice roll, but once they've stomped an infant to death they're always that person. It doesn't change much about how to deal with them; you can't trust that they won't do it again no matter how much time passes, and that means that saying sorry and making Pascal's wager come off as completely hollow.
by zengar212 | 2026-03-09 04:35:26+00:00
I think what you really need might be to make new connections. During difficult times in my personal life, what helped me most was really finding some community. I started online, on Reddit and Discord servers for Make Friends Over 30 and others (https://www.reddit.com/r/MakeFriendsOver30/). I'd highly recommend it. Also, finding things that get you out of the previous patterns you had for awhile. Gaming will be fun again another day. For now, go join a dart league or something (anything) to get around other people.

Sorry you're dealing with this. Hope things brighten up for you a bit.
Show HN: Mir – Portable participation history across platforms (open sandbox)
by ruusvuu | 2026-03-09 04:36:22+00:00
MIR (Memory Infrastructure Registry) lets platforms query a user's behavioral history across
other platforms — without those platforms ever talking to each other.

Every platform starts from zero. A seller with 500 five-star reviews on one marketplace is a
complete unknown on another. MIR is the infrastructure layer that fixes this. Partners
submit events via API, and when any partner resolves a user, they get aggregated signals
from all participating platforms — with partner identities anonymized.

The sandbox gives you an instant API key (magic link login). Two curl commands to try it:

curl -X POST https://myinternetreputation.org/events \
-H "Content-Type: application/json" \
-H "x-api-key: YOUR_KEY" \
-d '{"userExternalId": "user-123", "eventType": "transaction.completed"}'

curl https://myinternetreputation.org/sandbox/resolve?userExternalId=user-123 \
-H "x-api-key: YOUR_KEY"
Use user-123 — when multiple people submit events for the same user, resolve returns history
from all of them.

Stack: Express, TypeScript, PostgreSQL, Redis. Sandbox is isolated from production,
rate-capped at 5k events/day.

Happy to answer questions about the architecture or trust model.
by brynnbee | 2026-03-09 04:36:29+00:00
I made an idle version of the 1999 MMORPG "EverQuest". There's maybe around 50 people playing at any given time and has a enthusiastic discord group for it. It's relatively fully-featured to the original game, and has a lot of new mechanics to make the idle format work well. The 3D graphics aspect of it is really more of a screensaver, though, and all game interactions are done through menus.

I recently converted a bunch of stuff to be client side instead of server side (turns out running a real-time MMORPG server is expensive) so there's a new round of bugs I'm still resolving, but it's still fun to play:

https://www.idlequest.net/
by pibaker | 2026-03-09 04:36:56+00:00
I frequently come across comments from people who think raspberry pis are overpriced and you are better off buying from one of the numerous Chinese SBCs with better bang for the buck. Your comment is why these people are often wrong.

Most of those SBCs have very poor software support. You will often need to go on GitHub or the manufactuer's support website to hunt down an OS image that hopefully works. If you want to stay up to date, tough luck. You will be lucky if your board is still receiving updates two years after release.

In the meanwhile in raspberry pi land, you can just go to download a reasonably new OS image from their website anytime you want and it will run on all their models. Even the Pi 1 model B+ which is over ten years old still receives updates, and will continue to do so until at least 2030.

Unless reviewing and playing with random boards is your hobby or job, in which case more power to you and thank you for providing valuable information to the community, you are likely better off buying a boring raspi so you can just get things done.