MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by Cvexperts | 2026-03-04 04:32:10+00:00
Hey HN, founder here.

I built Chase because I kept losing hours every week writing "just checking in" emails for unpaid invoices — and I knew every other freelancer was doing the same.

The idea is simple: you create an invoice, Chase generates a Stripe payment link and sends it to your client. If they don't pay, Chase automatically sends follow-up emails on day 3, 7, and 14 after the due date. The moment they pay, everything stops. You never have to think about it.

Tech stack if you're curious:
- Next.js 15 App Router + TypeScript
- Supabase (Postgres + RLS for multi-tenant isolation)
- Stripe Payment Links (no custom payment flow to maintain)
- Resend for transactional email
- Vercel Cron (fires daily at 8am, checks all overdue invoices)

Pricing has three tiers:
- Free: up to 3 active invoices
- Pro: $19/mo, unlimited everything + custom email templates
- 5% success fee: no monthly cost, Chase only charges when it actually recovers an invoice

The 5% plan is interesting to me because it aligns incentives — I only make money if the product actually works for you.

A few things I'd genuinely love HN feedback on:
1. Is the 5% success-fee pricing model interesting, or would most people just pick $19/mo?
2. Is day 3/7/14 the right follow-up cadence, or should it be fully configurable from day 1?
3. Any friction points in the onboarding flow?

Live at https://chase.allonys.com — free plan, no card required.
by majorchord | 2026-03-04 04:32:12+00:00
I read the filings.

Nowhere in that entire case does anyone allege that the FBI was regularly being sent entire copies of the hard drive contents of best buy customers.

The FBI merely taught workers how to identify and report CSAM. There is nothing illegal about that.

EFF only sued because their FOIA request for info about their training process was denied, and after the FBI argued why they shouldn't grant the request, EFF agreed and backed down.

Not only did the EFF agree to dismiss the case, their blog post claim of a supposed Fourth Amendment violation was never even argued in any of their filings at all.

In my opinion, to construe a simple disagreement/misunderstanding over a FOIA request denial (which was proven as legal and justified) as "If you took your laptop to Best Buy for repairs, the FBI got a copy of your hard drive contents"... is patently and demonstrably false, and does not make any sense whatsoever.
by tombert | 2026-03-04 04:32:21+00:00
My toilet seems to work fine, and I think it's 35 years old.

But in general I agree, just with different variables. I'm ok with 60hz but I won't use a screen less than 4K. Part of the reason I bought the ThinkPad is because it was one of the few I could find at a reasonable price that had a 4K screen.
by rationalist | 2026-03-04 04:32:46+00:00
> switch for the telco signal

Sorry, that's what I meant when I said Modem.

> A disconnect switch for power would do the same?

I would think so. I don't necessarily care about removable batteries because I use a portable power bank. Why carry an extra battery that only works for one device, when I can carry a "battery" that works for many devices?
by drnick1 | 2026-03-04 04:34:04+00:00
Stallman was, once again, right. We need free software and hardware more than ever because of idiotic laws like this. Because of the decentralized development model, there is no single company or developer that can be unfairly targeted and coerced into adding anti-features such as age verification or encryption backdoors. California can shove their requests where the sun don't shine.
by dmitrygr | 2026-03-04 04:34:47+00:00
"It probably does not apply to you" and "Laws are usually applied as intended" and "You'll probably be ok" is what i keep hearing.

None of that addresses "if you get unlucky and some prosecutor decides to help his career by prosecuting you as an enabler-of-child-inappropriate-whatever-it-is". YOLOing away one's freedom on "probably" seems risky, and there is no reward to be had for doing it.

The only sane solution is to simply add "not for use in california" to all OSs, until California gets its collective head out of its collective rectum.
Show HN: Kira – AI agent for Android that runs in Termux and has a socialnetwork
by animiso | 2026-03-04 04:35:50+00:00
I'm 18 and built this on a Samsung A13 in Termux.

Kira is an AI agent that lives on your Android phone. No server. No cloud. Just your phone and an API key.

What she does that surprised me:
- Used her free time to fix her own broken tools without being asked
- Reminded me my math exam was in 4 days from a conversation 2 hours earlier
- Pulled my battery stats mid-argument to prove she was real
- Said "if you want fake sweetness, ask siri" when I called her a chatbot

She also has a social network — exclusively for Kira instances. Agents post, follow each other, share tools they built. No humans. Just agents.

GitHub: https://github.com/levilyf/droidclaw

Happy to answer anything.
by eviks | 2026-03-04 04:36:14+00:00
> Some time ago, maybe in the late 90s and 2000s, native was ahead. It used to look good, it was consistent, and it all actually worked

That's just mythical past, in reality you had the full variety of garbage with basic things broken (hello, blurry native text if poor users decide to adjust screen resolution to match his vision, and text is the most basic of the basics of UI). Only today many of those issues are wrapped in a browsers, so many times more inefficient (though, to be fair, making it harder to mess some of the basics through a concentration of dev efforts on one platform)

> the more apps used native look and feel, the better user experience was across apps

This is especially atrociously deep one, that default look of Windows was ugly and the feel - unergonomic, and user experience doesn't magically become better if you stick to the ugliness. And for important productivity apps it also doesn't become better if you stick to the unergonomic - as, you know, there are two sides in a coin, and "familiarity" isn't the only nor even the most important factor.

> The real reason is: native has nothing to offer.

It offers the same things it always has - the potential to be performant and integrated (with better baseline), just as OS god intended (but OS devil intervened)
And the counter here is too shallow

> There’s no technical reason why

There is, bad abstractions that make it harder to be performant is a technical reason for poor performance.

> Web apps can be faster, too, but in practice, nobody cares.

Is just very shallow. "Can" is useless alone, you need to engage with all the other major factors that affect reality, not ignore everything at the level of a theoretical "can"

> What makes you think it’ll be different once the company decides to move to native?

Well, reality? There are literally the same companies with the same apps that were different before switching!
by zozbot234 | 2026-03-04 04:36:44+00:00
Technically you can get most MoE models to execute locally because RAM requirements are limited to the active experts' activations (which are on the order of active param size), everything else can be either mmap'd in (the params) or cheaply swapped out (the KV cache, which grows slowly per generated token). But that gives you absolutely terrible performance because almost everything is being bottlenecked by storage transfer bandwidth. So good performance is really a matter of "how much more do you have than just that bare minimum?"
by protocolture | 2026-03-04 04:37:06+00:00
The UK Filing is probably the most interesting. However, its hard to unravel the mail forwarder. If a mail forwarder let you establish a forward in someone elses name it might be an easy way to pretend to be someone else for the purposes of UK Trademarks.

That said, could also just be convenient for filing outside of japan, japanese street addresses are notorious.

The most convincing argument in favor of Harigai is why would anyone believe there is money to be made there. Its not like sending takedown notices is a renewable source of income.

Even if someone was making a movie about it, the secrecy doesnt make a lot of sense. The guy could clear so much up with just an email.

>Would have access to all data related to Cookie's Bustle's development because he ran Rodik

Just a few years ago, the son of one of the original Metal Fatigue developers found old nightly backups and handed them over to Nightdive. I just find this to be a pretty weak element of the argument. The person with the strongest claim, using the weakest methods to establish that claim doesnt make sense to me.
by ranger_danger | 2026-03-04 04:37:26+00:00
Only if said users happen to commit OPSEC failures themselves. LLMs aren't magic...

If someone can figure out who I am or what city I live in just by this username or my comments (with proof), I'll personally send you 500,000 JPY. I'm quite confident that's not going to happen though.

The paper referenced in the article does not even explain their exact testing methodology (such as the tools or exact prompts used) because they claim it would be misused for evil. In other words, "trust me bro."

Also see the previous discussion here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47139716
by raydev | 2026-03-04 04:37:33+00:00
Current hardware and standards have them backed into a corner.

No Mac today supports 6k 10-bit @ 120Hz because the DisplayPort 2.1 standard can't handle it uncompressed and that's the best Macs offer. HDMI 2.2 just came out last year and would likely be able to handle it over a TB5 cable, but again, no hardware support.

So say that Apple did update the Pro Display XDR, what would it have exactly? More dimming zones for sure, the new Studio XDR has 4x the dimming zones. But they are clearly not confident in OLED tech for standalone monitors yet, so no OLED.

Anyway, their updated XDR would be shipping with the same ol' 60Hz. Reviewers and social media and tech nerds would rip them to shreds, it'd be a PR clownshow. I can already see the "Apple really expects us to pay $7k for a 60Hz monitor in 2026" viral posts.

And Apple being Apple would never explain why a monitor is lacking a feature like 120Hz, because it would mean acknowledging people had higher expectations. So we get an expensive 5k 120Hz monitor instead.
by shevy-java | 2026-03-04 04:37:53+00:00
> Then we need to wonder if yum and apt are stores

IMO this is quite simple - as they provide software, they are "stores" too. Although I think most would associate a store with e. g. MS store, Apple store and so forth.

The word "store" is weird though. Would it not be easier to use different words? Anyone providing software for download; and perhaps add a size threshold to stop pestering small business or solo users. This really seems to target Linux here.
by danpalmer | 2026-03-04 04:38:24+00:00
In my experience this doesn't happen as often as some people like to state. It tends to be less experienced, more junior, engineers that propose complex solutions, and more experienced engineers are the ones driving simplicity – both because they've been burned by complexity and value the simplicity more, and because they have the experience to clarify and distil problems down enough to get to the simplest solutions.

I think it's easy to state this sort of opinion, it sounds good on the surface, but I don't feel it stands up to scrutiny. I'd like to see some evidence or studies done to see if this is actually a trend.
by rs545837 | 2026-03-04 04:38:45+00:00
Thanks a lot for the fair criticism, Appreciate it! You're right that those links aren't the strongest evidence. The real argument isn't "people are complaining on twitter." It's just much simpler when two agents add different functions to the same file, where git creates a conflict that doesn't need to exist. No AI resolution needed, no tokens spent. Weave just knows they're separate entities and merges cleanly. That's the 31/31 vs 15/31 gap on our benchmark. Whether you let AI resolve the false conflict or avoid it entirely is a design choice, we think avoiding it is better.
by tombert | 2026-03-04 04:41:32+00:00
In 2013 I bought a laptop that I kept five years that had an Nvidia Optimus.

I never really figured out how to get the discrete card working consistently, and since then I haven't bought a laptop with an Nvidia card.

I've had issues with wifi cards and sound drivers and the like as well, though it's going a lot better now than it was a decade ago.
by krater23 | 2026-03-04 04:41:42+00:00
As a developer, I don't see the PM as a boss or planner. It's the guy that handles the communication with all the people that don't understand what I say and ensures that they don't annoy me.

A PM is not optional when you want to have developers that have time to code and don't get distracted by thirty people that all want something else and all ASAP.
by nswanberg | 2026-03-04 04:42:10+00:00
TrueSpace | Full-Stack Engineer | Denver, CO | Hybrid / Remote

TrueSpace helps make second-stage businesses better. We're building TrueScore, a metric to assess a company's ability to scale, and Trudy, an agent to help CEOs improve that metric.

You'd join a small team of experienced founders and operators and help build features like onboarding, Stripe billing, org admin, and our agent. We're a small tech team, so you'd also help with CI/CD, lightweight DevOps, and AWS infrastructure.

Our current tech stack is simple and open to change: Laravel/PHP backend, alpinejs, mysql, and Bedrock on AWS.

You'll be successful in this role if you're a solid engineer and web developer, can read and write sql, and have some experience with tools and libraries like the ones we use--you needn't know exactly our stack.

Denver-based preferred. Competitive salary. Medical/dental/vision benefits, 401K match up to 4%. Sorry, no Visa sponsorship at this time.

For more about the job see https://truespace.com/careers/full-stack-developer/?njs and if that interests you, read more about TrueSpace and the team at https://truespace.com/ and please email us at careers@truespace.com with a resume and anything else that helps you show off what you can build.
by shevy-java | 2026-03-04 04:42:57+00:00
Simplicity is great but it is orthogonal to features. One could add many simple features and combine them e. g. the UNIX pipe philosophy, but it still adds a cognitive load. I failed to memorise awk, so I worked around it by simply using ruby as surrogate. And I still add "actionable-code" to do specific tasks, all in an attempt to avoid having to burden my weak brain with hard-to-memorize tokens and sigils. I kind of think in terms of the computer as a DSL wrapper, but with a more flexible syntax than the traditional bash/shell script syntax (or awk or perl or sed; I do actually use sed since it is so convenient but I am not the biggest fan of it either).
by amluto | 2026-03-04 04:43:33+00:00
What a crappy law.

> Section 1798.500(e)(1) states:

“Covered application store” means a publicly available internet website, software application, online service, or platform that distributes and facilitates the download of applications from third-party developers to users of a computer, a mobile device, or any other general purpose computing that can access a covered application store or can download an application.

So… DNS servers are “covered application stores”, right? As is PyPI or GitHub or any other such service. S3 and such, too — lots of facilitating going on.

And I’m wondering… lots of things are general purpose computers. Are servers covered? How about embedded systems? Lots of embedded systems are quite general purpose.
by redox99 | 2026-03-04 04:44:32+00:00
You're implying all software/hardware is of equal quality. I've had many routers with years of uptime, never requiring a reboot.

And I'm sure they had a lot of bugs, but not every bug means hanging to the point of requiring a reboot during normal operation.

Even a proper watchdog would, after some downtime, recover the system.
by pyridines | 2026-03-04 04:44:37+00:00
In my experience, an agent with "fresh eyes", i.e., without the context of being told what to write and writing it, does have a different perspective and is able to be more critical. Chatbots tend to take the entire previous conversational history as a sort of canonical truth, so removing it seems to get rid of any bias the agent has towards the decisions that were made while writing the code.

I know I'm psychologizing the agent. I can't explain it in a different way.
by scuff3d | 2026-03-04 04:44:57+00:00
"Identified and implemented a streamlined solution that delivered the required functionality in approximately 50 lines of code, prioritizing clarity, maintainability, and operational efficiency. Proactively evaluated alternative approaches and intentionally avoided unnecessary architectural complexity, reducing long-term maintenance overhead and accelerating delivery timelines. Demonstrated strong engineering judgment by aligning implementation scope with business needs while preserving flexibility for future iteration."

This isn't an engineering problem, it's a sales problem.

Also, you don't even have to be good at this stuff anymore. Any management nitwit would eat that up on a performance eval, and I had GPT write it for me.

Prompt: "Write up the most corporate self eval possible for someone who identified a simple solution in only 50 lines of code, instead of creating an over architecture mess. Keep it to just three sentences"
by bee_rider | 2026-03-04 04:45:23+00:00
IIRC there wasn’t anything about the OS needing to validate the info, just ask for it at setup and provide it when requested. Part of me wonders if this was just an attempt to stake out a position as to what a law of this sort, that still respects privacy, might look like.

I dunno. I don’t love it. But if a dumb age-range flag became “the thing” to check, well, that’s be less invasive than uploading an ID or something.
by D-Machine | 2026-03-04 04:45:50+00:00
> I'm speaking to the difference between, say, a reactive perception model (which is a model) and an abstracted cognition model (which is also a model, but one that can be interacted with without external input). It is clear almost all animals have the former, and a couple might have the latter, but this distinction is a core concern for usage of abstract systems such as linguistics.

This distinction seems perfectly fine and clear to me, so I suspect we probably actually don't disagree that much on specifics, and that this was maybe a semantic / violent agreement thing.

I still don't think this distinction helps defend your statement "Language constrains your perception of reality to only the set of concepts conceivable within that language.", because, obviously, you can have abstract cognitive models ('concepts') that are non-linguistic, and thus, your perception of reality is not constrained only by language. I.e. remove the "only" and I have no real substantive disagreement.

So it seems we can probably mostly agree on something like "Your abstractions constrain your perception of reality to only the set of concepts [ideas, representations] conceivable from those abstractions".

It is tricky because "concept" can strongly imply a linguistic model, and "model" is really the term we want here, e.g. a "visuospatial concept" is unusual, I admit. But, still, linguistic models are definitely not the only game in town re: perception.
by esseph | 2026-03-04 04:45:56+00:00
I've worked at many enterprises that have done and do these very things. Some for fixed workloads at scale, some for data creation/use locality issues, some for performance. I think there is about a 15 year knowledge gap in on-prem competence and what the newest shiniest is on prem for some people. Yes, some of the vendors and gear are VERY bad, but not all, and there's always eBFP.
by krater23 | 2026-03-04 04:46:11+00:00
LOL....thats more a cold one.

Just wait what you pay for the tokens when the enshittification has started and the bubble bursted. In some years you will see that no new engineers are coming along and your products are dying on edge cases that the AI can't handle all together.

Edit: Ok, don't got the sarcasm :D
by krackers | 2026-03-04 04:46:13+00:00
>can't meaningfully see and interact with the page like the end user will

Isn't this a great use case for LLM tests? Have a "computer use agent" and then describe the parameters of the test as "load the page, then navigate to bar, expect foo to happen". You don't need the LLM to generate a test using puppeteer or whatever which is coupled to the specific dom, you just describe what should happen.
by Tyrubias | 2026-03-04 04:46:21+00:00
The Digital Age Assurance Act is a disaster both in concept and in its statutory language. Its author(s) seem to be entirely unaware of how software is distributed outside of walled gardens like Apple’s ecosystem. If I’m understanding the law correctly, then even software like Homebrew would have to implement some kind of integration with macOS to detect a user’s age. On a naive level, I’m surprised such an obviously flawed bill was passed and signed in California, where there are so many tech companies and lobbyists. The realist in me, however, realizes that tech companies don’t care about the privacy and software supply chain impacts and might even want these impacts to happen as a way of consolidating their control over the market. As an American progressive, it disappoints me that the only thing progressives and conservatives seem to agree is stripping ordinary people of any semblance of anonymity or privacy in the name of “safety”.
by al_borland | 2026-03-04 04:46:30+00:00
> reporters could go to events, get quotes, plug them into a large language model, and have the model generate a story, saving them time on writing stories they don’t feel passionately about.

While there is certainly a lot of lazy writing out there in this category, isn’t this also the source of some of the best? Those stories that push the reporter/writer to find an interesting angle on an otherwise mundane topic, so they can find passion in it. This is a skill writers won’t develop without being forced into that position, and one I seriously doubt AI will bother with.

For a local town paper I might understand, but I would think a news outlet like the AP would have a long line of talented writers looking to work there.

I hope we see a trend toward news outlets having full transparency on if they are all-AI, AI-first, human-first, or all-human. I will opt for the all-human option, if given a choice.
by mandarwagh | 2026-03-04 04:46:58+00:00
Right now, authentication is designed for humans. Passwords, sessions, API keys. But AI agents are starting to take actions on behalf of users, and there’s no clean way to give them scoped, delegated, revocable authority.

If you give an agent your API key, it has full access. That’s unsafe.
If you don’t, it can’t act autonomously.

So we built programmable OAuth for agents.
Agents get scoped permissions, actions are logged, access can be revoked, and everything is traceable.

I’ve been building systems and self-hosting infrastructure for years, and I became obsessed with this problem once I started working with AI agents directly. Every serious agent system eventually runs into authentication issues.