MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by this-is-why | 2026-03-03 17:13:18+00:00
Have you noticed half the internet doesn’t work if you use a vpn? Even a good vpn? Even HN wont let you create an account with a vpn. The friction applied to preventing people from deploying privacy tactics is intense. I’m not sure how we can practically resist the privacy enshittification without abandoning the internet and its convenience entirely. I’m ready to go back to paper statements and visiting my bank and writing paper checks, but I don’t think GenZ is.
by elxr | 2026-03-03 17:13:24+00:00
> Could they technically create 300 models with every permutation? From cellular, to touch-screen laptop, oled/led screen, different ports, battery sizes etc.

Nice slippery slope.

All they need is 2-3 higher-end configs to start with (aka people who are already spending more on RAM/storage) with an additonal checkbox for 5G/cellular. It may not be optimal for business, but there's a market for it, I guarantee you.

They literally make $200 ipad keyboards that are extremely unremarkable yet they still sell well.

They make a vision pro, that can't even do a quarter the things a $1000 macbook can do; and still build them to this day, despite the massive complexity of that hardware combined with the tiny target market.

But a cell modem in a computer is too niche? You know the ipad has had modems right? Is a macbook any less deserving of a modem (or any less difficult to add a modem too) than an ipad?
by somenameforme | 2026-03-03 17:13:45+00:00
Rather than an affinity for artisanal stuff or there being some bias against AI itself, I think it's simply that most stuff that's going to be made with AI is going to be very derivative. Even before AI you'd read posts from people, including on here, like 'I made a highly competent knockoff of [popular indie game] but got no sales. Woe is me.' But games aren't commodities. If people like a game, that doesn't mean they want to play, let alone buy, a complete knockoff of it.

The biggest barrier to success has always been having a good idea and AI is just going to make that ever more apparent, because you'll be able to cook up knockoffs ever more rapidly.
by kudokatz | 2026-03-03 17:13:50+00:00
In about 1930, Keynes wrote "Economic Possibilities for our Grandchildren" [1] wherein he wrote:

"I believe that this is a wildly mistaken interpretation of what is happening to us.

We are suffering, not from the rheumatics of old age, but from the
growing-pains of over-rapid changes, from the painfulness of readjustment
between one economic period and another. The increase of technical efficiency
has been taking place faster than we can deal with the problem of labour
absorption; the improvement in the standard of life has been a little too quick ...

We are being afflicted with a new disease of which some readers may not yet have heard the name, but of which they will hear a great deal in the years to come--namely, technological unemployment. This means unemployment due to our discovery of means of economising the use of labour outrunning the pace at which we can find new uses for labour."

While there's no guarantee that what Smith got wrong then is the same as now, it can be a reasonable outcome that "the jobs" won't just disappear.

----

Keynes also speculated on what to do with newfound time as a result of investment returns on the back of productivity [1]:

"Let us, for the sake of argument, suppose that a hundred years hence we are all
of us, on the average, eight times better off in the economic sense than we are to-day. Assuredly there need be nothing here to surprise us ... Thus for the first time since his creation man will be faced with his real, his permanent problem-how to use his freedom from pressing economic cares, how to occupy the leisure, which science and compound interest will have won for him, to live wisely and agreeably and well."

The modern FIRE movement shows that living at a dated "standard of living" for 10-15 years can free one from work forever. Yet that's not what most people do today. I would suggest that there are deeper aspects of human drive, psychology, and varying concepts of "morality" that are actually bigger factors in what happens to "jobs".

[1] http://www.econ.yale.edu/smith/econ116a/keynes1.pdf
by max8539 | 2026-03-03 17:14:00+00:00
It could be about cost: big LLMs don’t work locally like most games, and even with server hosting, the context for a well-detailed and non-textual game would grow very fast, so processing it would become slow and/or expensive. These are the current limits for truly generative games.

As for generated content in regular games, I don’t see an issue if the content is high quality and free of errors. People don’t like low-quality content regardless of who generated it - human or LLM. It’s just that there’s currently more bad content coming from LLMs, that’s all
by bookofjoe | 2026-03-03 17:14:04+00:00
A couple years ago I was at the Virginia DMV along with about 50 other people doing DMV things when all of a sudden someone comes out from the back and gets in front of all the service windows and announces "The DMV is now closed for the day due to a computer problem. Please leave now."

Some of the people in that crowd had driven hours to get there.

That's why the person who made the coding error should have been disciplined.
by ramses0 | 2026-03-03 17:14:31+00:00
I want to pitch to my local makerspace "log-10" manufacturing.

Basically there's a ton of traction at the zero-to-one (making the first prototype) and then you start looking at how to "scale" your manufacturing (ie: making 10 at a whack), and then eventually you MAY get to building/assembling 100 at a whack, and up to 1000's or more (where you'd "graduate" to partnering with a "real" manufacturer).

Maybe it's just the way that I'm wired, but I've done 3-4 projects where I've gone down the B.O.M. rabbit hole and have scaled to at least 100 assembled/packaged items.

It seems like a local makerspace is the perfect launch-pad for having flexible "staff" (ie: other makerspace members) that can handle ambiguity and would be invested in the success of a locally owned/managed product!
by rayiner | 2026-03-03 17:14:41+00:00
I edited the post because I decided it was a tangent and wanted to make room for a point that was more relevant. I’m happy to address the point on the merits.

> Here, you equate "American families" to "white families." Your source (below) says that Hispanic and black student enrollment didn't change, just white enrollment. Maybe there are other factors

The article says that there was no “statistically significant relationship” for other races. That doesn’t mean you can infer that people from other races didn’t move away. It could be that there simply weren’t enough hispanic and black families in the sample to draw an inference. The study looked only at affluent school districts in California. There’s not a lot of black and hispanic students in those school districts to begin with. And the white families are much more likely to be wealthier and have more freedom to move.

I suspect the trend would hold true for affluent native-born black and hispanic families too. There’s just very few school districts where you have affluent asians living alongside affluent black or hispanic people. In fact, I’m not aware of any. I live in a county with a lot of affluent black people, adjacent to the most affluent black-majority county. My daughter is the only Asian in her class, which is otherwise about 70-30 white/black.

> Are Asian immigrants in the California suburbs (the location of your source study) coming from this type of poverty

My dad’s family was actually affluent landowners. That’s just what most of Asia was like until very recently. My sister in law is Taiwanese. The communists killed much of her extended family during the revolution.
Show HN: VibePod CLI – Run AI agents with isolation and better observability
by nezhar | 2026-03-03 17:15:24+00:00
I built VibePod CLI because I wanted to switch between AI coding agents without changing my workflow — and make it easier for others to get started quickly on a project.

Each tool (Claude, Gemini, etc.) makes slightly different assumptions about environment, setup, and execution. Experimenting across them — or onboarding someone new — often means extra setup friction and subtle environment differences.

VibePod provides a thin Docker-based runtime so you can swap agents without spending too much time on setup. It doesn’t modify the agent’s default behavior — the focus is:

- Consistent workspace across agents
- Clear runtime boundaries
- Better observability into what the agent is doing
- Reproducible, isolated environments
- Faster project onboarding

Project: https://github.com/VibePod/vibepod-cli
Quickstart: https://vibepod.dev/docs/quickstart/

It’s early, but functional. I’m especially interested in feedback on:

- Is a unified runtime for agents actually useful?
- What kind of visibility do you want into agent behavior?

For context, this grew out of lessons learned building claude-container: https://github.com/nezhar/claude-container

Would really appreciate thoughts from people actively using multiple AI coding tools.
by bryguy23 | 2026-03-03 17:15:47+00:00
Location: New Jersey, USA

Remote: Yes (open to 1-2 visits per quarter)

Willing to relocate: No

Resume: https://www.brytech.dev/Dave_Bry_Resume.pdf

Email: dave.bry@proton.me

Technologies:

* Languages: C#, Java, JavaScript, TypeScript, SQL, HTML5, CSS3

* Frameworks & Libraries: .NET, ASP.NET, Spring, React, Next.js, Node.js, Tailwind CSS

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* Additional Tools: Git, Bash, Netlify, Vercel, GitHub Copilot, Claude Code, Cursor AI

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Equally effective leading teams, mentoring engineers, and architecting systems that scale to thousands of users.
by wpm | 2026-03-03 17:15:51+00:00
If "just hotspot your phone" was hunky dory why does Apple sell iPads with cellular modems?

Also, have you ever used an iPad with a cellular modem? It's a far better experience than tethering. One (larger) battery to run down instead of two, lower latency (the extra hop from iPad to phone over Wi-Fi is gonna add at least a few dozen ms to every single web request), and best of all, I don't have to think about it. I don't have to wait, or fumble around with my phone. I take my iPad out on the train, turn cellular data on in the control center, and in half a second I'm connected to 5G. It's a vastly better way to connect on the go. Tethering is a last resort for me.
by lux-lux-lux | 2026-03-03 17:16:00+00:00
This is absolutely a factor; New College lost half its teaching staff when DeSantis took a wrecking ball to it over ideological disagreements, Florida is not a great place to be in the field right now.

I’d add that Florida higher education pays below average vs. nationally and the state is dealing with some serious cost of living issues at the moment (e.g. insurance).
by joha4270 | 2026-03-03 17:16:05+00:00
Can you not take some of those virtual bits and get more buckets that way? I am sure it will make things more complicated if nothing else by them possibly being mapped to the same physical page, but it doesn't sound like an impossible barrier. Maybe something terrible where a cache line keeps bouncing between different buckets in the rare case that does happen, but as long as you can keep the common case as fast...

Otoh L1 sizes hasn't increased since my first processor, those CPU designers probably know more than I do.
by OrangeMusic | 2026-03-03 17:16:21+00:00
All right here's my position:

- filming people without their consent is wrong

- the vast majority of people are not creeps and are not discreetly filming random people

- the vast majority of people are not interesting, and nobody is filming them

- today, in a public space, everybody already has lots or cameras pointing to them (e.g. anyone with a phone), without a way to know if they're being filmed. So this is not a new 'problem'.

- banning smart glasses doesn't make sense if you're not also banning all devices that can film discreetly (so, smartphones)

- 'creeps' use hidden miniature cameras, not glasses with an obvious camera right there on their very face
Show HN: RUOK – Self-hosted personal OKR system with AI-powered analytics
by lzl1234 | 2026-03-03 17:16:26+00:00
Hey HN - I built RUOK because I was running my personal OKR system in Obsidian + Dataview and hit its limits. Sync was painful, it got slower over time, and my family couldn't use it. So I built a dedicated app (with Claude).

RUOK is a self-hosted personal OKR system. You plan at four levels - yearly, monthly, weekly, daily - and everything rolls up. Built-in time tracking, custom daily metrics, and Fitbit integration (sleep, HR, steps via OAuth2).

The differentiator is the analytics engine. Write JavaScript in a sandboxed editor (QuickJS/WASM, Monaco, Plotly) against all your data, or describe what you want in English and let AI generate the query. Save queries as dashboard widgets or wire them into automatic key result scoring. Supports Claude, Gemini, ChatGPT, Ollama, OpenRouter - BYOK.

SQLite, runs on a Raspberry Pi, no cloud, no telemetry, multi-user.

Would love feedback, especially on what data sources you'd want to connect.

Follow what I'm building next: https://x.com/lizonglin1234
by matthewfcarlson | 2026-03-03 17:16:31+00:00
I think it's all about relativity. Are they private compared to an open source privacy focused OS like grapheneOS and the fantastic folks running that project? No. Are they more private than a company like meta or google who has much worse incentives for privacy than Apple? Probably.

Do I wish Apple was way more transparent and gave users more control over gatekeeper and other controversial features that erode privacy? Absolutely.
by Ajakks | 2026-03-03 17:16:32+00:00
You clearly only get sloppy from the machine -> hence your entire understanding, you did some googling, found others with the same experience and you took up this position.

Meanwhile, random person, gets the exact same AI that you used to create literal DaVinci'esque, visibly masterpiece inspired - maybe not "masterpiece" but "masterpiece adjacent" - thats apparently, its not perfect art, but it could have been created in a workshop...

You can't do that. Rather, you cant nake the AI do that.

What is the difference between you and the random person with artworks in the style of the old masters? What do we call that gap?

Isn't that gap normally stuff like talent, ability, skill, knowledge?

All arguments made in this vein are just people whining about their personal lack of ability, as if its a machines fault.
by toss1 | 2026-03-03 17:16:51+00:00
>>A prompt can be a masterpiece.

I don't think that word means what you think it means.

You have an extremely low bar for calling something a masterpiece.

A prompt can be clever, insightful, unique, and even uniquely productive.

But it is nowhere near the level of decades-deep skill and creative inspiration required to create art anything worthy of the label "masterpiece".

>>AI can be used as another kind of brush

Perhaps that is a valid analogy, but we do not give copyrights to brushes, no matter how much cost or effort was required to make the brush. The brush is not the only tool required to make the art. To continue the analogy, the artist must also select and mount the canvas, mix and color each shade of paint, build up the base layers, and on and on and on...

It doesn't matter if your "brush" is a five hundred billion dollar machine and you spend six months whispering to it to find just the right incantation to generate your file of pixels — SCOTUS is right, you have not make art to which you can claim a copyright.

And the starving student artist in their garage mixing their paints and using the dollar-store brush did make art worthy of a copyright claim.
by rademaker | 2026-03-03 17:16:58+00:00
In his latest essay, Leonardo de Moura makes a compelling case that if AI is going to write a significant portion of the world’s software, then verification must scale alongside generation. Testing and code review were never sufficient guarantees, even for human-written systems; with AI accelerating output, they become fundamentally inadequate. Leo argues that the only sustainable path forward is machine-checked formal verification — shifting effort from debugging to precise specification, and from informal reasoning to mathematical proof checked by a small, auditable kernel. This is precisely the vision behind Lean: a platform where programs and proofs coexist, enabling AI not just to generate code, but to generate code with correctness guarantees. Rather than slowing development, Lean-style verification enables trustworthy automation at scale.
by GeekyBear | 2026-03-03 17:16:59+00:00
The most interesting change for the M5 Pro and Max is Apple moving to a bonded chiplet strategy from a single monolithic die.

> The tech giant says the chips are engineered around its new Fusion Architecture, an advanced design that merges two dies into a single, high-performance system on a chip (SoC), which includes a powerful CPU, scalable GPU, Media Engine, unified memory controller, Neural Engine, and Thunderbolt 5 capabilities.

https://techcrunch.com/2026/03/03/apple-unveils-m5-pro-and-m...

They also replaced the efficiency cores on the CPU chiplet with a new higher performance design.

> The CPU now features six “super cores,” which is Apple’s term for its highest-performance cores, alongside 12 all-new performance cores. Collectively, the CPU boosts performance by up to 30% for pro workloads.
by autoexec | 2026-03-03 17:17:05+00:00
> I click “accept the cookies” almost every time. I just personally don’t feel it’s worth the effort and cost to try to avoid it.

the effort and cost to download an ad-blocker that automatically removes the prompt to accept/deny entirely is practically zero and the amount of clicks you'd save yourself would quickly exceed the clicks it took to install the blocker.

> I just don’t think it is something that is worth stressing out about and fighting against. Maybe I am actually naive

It seems like you are, but that's just how our brains work. We're very bad at judging long term and abstract risks, especially when the consequences and their connection to the cause are intentionally kept unclear. For example, when people's cars started collecting data on their driving habits and selling that data to insurance companies a lot of people saw their insurance rates go up, but none of the insurance companies said that it was because of the data collected from their cars. I'd be willing to bet the data being collected by tracking your
browsing history has already been screwing you over in various aspects of your life, online and offline, but you won't be told when it happens or why.
by jon-wood | 2026-03-03 17:17:19+00:00
As much as this saddens me I think its because most computer users these days never think about files. Everything we do on a day to day basis exists as database records, either in sqlite databases hidden away in application data directories, or in the databases behind a million SaaS products. Music is done in Apple Music, photos are managed in iPhoto, and so and so forth.
by hedora | 2026-03-03 17:17:24+00:00
- Prosecution of criminals.

Ah, yes, lots of ICE officers are locked up in state prisons, and Trump's empire is being dismantled out from under him. There are lots of state-level investigations involving the $4B in bribes he took this year.

- Free market economics.

If this were true, it would be possible to buy fire insurance in California, and Biden would have broken up dozens of monopolies. No spending bills would pass without provisions to do more of this because a coalition of the moderate democrats, libertarian republicans and far left democrats have more than enough votes to fillibuster and override vetos.

- Freedom of speech / privacy / assembly

California is rolling out mandatory age verification laws for operating systems this year.

Remember: I'm talking about moderate democrats. These are the ones that are more likely to vote for Trump appointees than some Republicans. These are the ones that cast the deciding votes to make sure health care would be rolled back for millions of americans this past January. There are about 10 of them in the senate, which is enough to give the republican leadership the ability to pass whatever the heck they want, even with internal consent.
by i_think_so | 2026-03-03 17:17:29+00:00
Location: USA
Remote: Sure, I'm good at that.
Willing to relocate: Negotiable
Technologies: OSes (Linux, BSDs, Solaris); Networking (IP, firewalls, physical plant); Systems (x86/64, Sparc); Security (yes, please)
Résumé/CV: It's big. Tell me what you're doing and I'll filter it down for you.
Email: ddyc2603@fastmail.com

Infrastructure syseng/sysadmin guy with a few decades of experience. I was doing DevOps before it was cool. :-)

If you want to lock me in for a guaranteed 5 years, put the word "Security" in my job title -- that would advance my goal of getting a CISSP -- even if it's just "Datacenter and Security Mess-cleaner-upper".

I'd also relish a justification to spend an hour or more per day on code. That's not "I want to be a programmer"...who wants to make that career change in 2026? But it would be nice if I could actually "do" Bash/C/Perl/Python/Whatever, just a bit, consistently, instead of only when something is messed up and all I get to do is poke and prod until it starts working again.
by nephihaha | 2026-03-03 17:17:42+00:00
People fantasise about a lot of things (not just sexual), but that doesn't mean they are right.

There are reasons beyond sex why incest (even with non-blood relatives) and bestiality are off the table. Not because of "vanilla" as you put it, but because they come with other costs. As does unprotected sex with multiple strangers, another stupid trope promoted in porn.
by integralid | 2026-03-03 17:17:45+00:00
As a technical person, who only ever used Android, I have no idea how files really work on my phone. I even used adb a few times but still. From my PoV there are no "files", just photos, videos, screenshots, downloads, application data, applications and system data - all completely different kinds of data.

In my files app i see "downloads" "images", "videos", "apps", "starred", "safe folder". In "images" i see pictures tagged "downloads", "camera", "DCIM", "screenshots" and one odd "2024-12-03_description_here" that I clearly names myself but don't remember doing that.

I have no clue how that maps to a physical phone filesystem, even though I know it's there. I'm sure teenagers don't know that too.
by mikkupikku | 2026-03-03 17:17:49+00:00
Specifying a junior dev on his first day is a plain deliberate rhetorical ploy to frame systemic blame as more legitimate than individual blame. If not, then why not make it a senior developer? Anybody can fuck something up, but we give special consideration to noobs who make noob mistakes, and that's what is being implicitly appealed to, illegitimately. This journalist wasn't a noob, and using ChatGPT to write his article was an error in judgement but not an actual mistake.
by justice-to-yu | 2026-03-03 17:18:00+00:00
The weather?
Do some self disclosure? Or make something up? Be silly?

"oh it's such a nice day innit? It's a shame the lizard people won bingo but we'll get them next time eh?"

Be silly, get a laugh, and hopefully things unfold from there. Give a compliment! Or share something you're excited about. Imo Self-disclosure is the simplest route towards spurring conversation.

Think of conversation as a medium through which gifts are given. Through giving gifts, bonds are forged.