MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by gwd | 2026-03-13 14:32:12+00:00
For the same reason there were more bank branches after the cost-per-branch was reduced.

Right now, software is really expensive; so 1) economics tends to favor large pieces of software which solve many different kinds of problems, and 2) loads of things that should be automatable simply aren't being automated with software.

With the cost of software dropping, it makes more sense to have software targeted towards specific niches. Companies will do more in-house development, more things will be automated than were being automated before.

Of course nobody knows what will happen; but it's entirely possible that the demand for people capable of driving Claude Code to produce useful software will explode.
by mlinsey | 2026-03-13 14:32:14+00:00
You and the GP that replied to me are way overstating what it means to be a "suspect". It just means the police are investigating you and consider it a possibility you've committed the crime. On its own, is not a sufficient status to search your home, subpoena your ISP, or arrest you - all of those things require a much higher burden of evidence, and oftena third party (judge's) approval. People routinely become "suspects" on much flimsier evidence than an unreliable software match - if I call in an anonymous tip that I saw you acting suspicious near the crime scene, you will probably become a suspect.

If you'd like, you can replace the term "suspect" in my post with "person of interest", which colloquially implies a lot less suspicion but isn't practically any different in terms of how the police interacts with you.
by Ray20 | 2026-03-13 14:32:55+00:00
That sounds dubious. The government's actual approval rating in Russia is, what, 5 percent? I remember watching a report about how people in Russia were literally jailed for giving the "wrong" answer to a street poll.

So, I suppose if they could somehow use money and influence to determine election results, they would use it in Russia, no?

So, I think the civilizational threat from Russia is about the same as from North Korea: nearly zero.
by user_7832 | 2026-03-13 14:33:29+00:00
> It would hurt a lot of productivity lol.

I know. That's exactly the point.

In such situations where one party (Meta) has enough money to lobby and is playing dirty, it's a massively asymmetric situation. In such cases, if you really want to make sure you're heard (which I'm not sure distributers want or care about tbh), you've got to play the game too.

Malicious compliance, if you will.

PS: For a "practical" variant, simply a warning might be sufficient - given how many hospitals/critical infra uses linux. For eg "There is a chance this server will fail to work on x date due to this y law. Not as glamorous/all-guns-blazing, but probably much more sensible and practical.

PPS: For an even more "safer" variant, one could go "Post x, please note that using linux/this server is a violation of law y. Please turn off the server yourself manually. Failure to comply with these instructions and violating the law will be borne entirely by the (no informed) sysadmin/manglement.
by wat10000 | 2026-03-13 14:33:30+00:00
Voting is far more important. If someone is falsely denied access to some web site, it doesn't matter. But everyone with the right to vote must be allowed to vote, no exceptions.

In any case, voting is substantially more intrusive. You must register with your full name and address, which is made public record. Each time you vote, that is also made public record (not who you voted for, but the fact that you voted). In states with closed primaries, your party membership is public record. In states with open primaries, it's public record which party's primary you vote in. It's way more invasive than a text box in your computer's account setup screen that asks for your age.
by Jeffrin-dev | 2026-03-13 14:33:39+00:00
The interleaved load trick is clever, i never thought about using vld4 that way. always assumed SIMD would struggle with sequential dependencies like this since each value depends on the previous one
curious how this holds up on older ARM chips, like would you see similar gains or does it depend heavily on the M4's specific pipeline. also wonder if there's a similar approach for AVX on x86 or if the instruction set makes it more awkward.
by perching_aix | 2026-03-13 14:33:44+00:00
I do not understand indeed. Another comment shared one more link, which states:

> BLM was required by Congress in the Helium Stewardship Act of 2013 to sell off the stockpile the government first began collecting in 1925.

Which was the Obama administration. But then was the Obama administration ideologically aligned with privatization? Not familiar with American politics enough to know, but that doesn't sound right to me.

Unless we consider all mainstream politicians to be aligned that way, but then I'd argue there's not much ideology going on anymore.
by epiccoleman | 2026-03-13 14:34:02+00:00
> Granting kids access to our own minercraft servers: My god, I felt dirty about what the other parents had to go through to enable that.

This is a hobby horse of mine to the point that coworkers probably wish I'd just stfu about Minecraft - but holy shit is it crazy how many different things you need to get right to get kids playing together.

I genuinely have no idea how parents without years of "navigating technical bullshit" experience ever manage to make it happen. Juggling Microsoft accounts, Nintendo accounts, menu-diving through one of 37 different account details pages , Xbox accounts, GamePass subscriptions - it's just fucking crazy!
by concats | 2026-03-13 14:34:22+00:00
Just knowing someone's name, address, and ID number isn't enough to like, open a bank account in their name or such. You'd need a proper ID card or passport for that. Similar thing with most businesses if you try to pay for some product with credit, they won't accept just a few digits and a pinky promise, you'll need to identify yourself properly (the BankID app for instance).
by maplethorpe | 2026-03-13 14:34:33+00:00
I suppose I see the split a little bit differently. To me it's more that one camp of developers can still get a hit of satisfaction as if they built something themselves even if it was entirely generated by AI.

Would they get the same satisfaction from cloning a public repo? Probably not. It's too clear to their brain that they didn't have anything to do with it. What about building the project with cmake? That requires more effort, yes, but the underlying process is still very obviously something that someone else architected, and so the feeling of satisfaction remains elusive.

AI, however, adds a layer of obfuscation. For some, that's enough to mask the underlying process and make it feel as if they're still wielding a tool. For others, not so much.
by bitexploder | 2026-03-13 14:35:00+00:00
It is a powerful neuron hormone. The mechanisms are different. It is still important to recognize the rather dramatic influence this has on the brain. That was what this article was about. This pathway can easily lead to depression and significant broad down regulation in the brain. Serotonin inside of the brain works very specifically. The vagus nerve signal has a very broad impact and should not be hand waved. If your vasovagal system has dysregulation it can lead to all sorts of specific brain internal negative outcomes systemically. I think your model of how this works is not very accurate regarding how broadly connected the vagal signaling pathway is and how that impacts how your brain functions.
by echelon | 2026-03-13 14:35:02+00:00
Should archive team get on this?

On the one hand, this absolutely is a time capsule. It's hard to get something this real and authentic. It is a legitimate snapshot of 2009 - 2012 and probably has no like anywhere else in the world.

On the other hand, do these folks even know? Would they be okay with it?

I suspect Google might close this if it gets enough eyeballs.

I think Archive Team should archive these. It's a fleeting glimpse at a disappearing world, where smartphones were brand new. We won't be able to recover it if it's lost.
by jeroenhd | 2026-03-13 14:35:27+00:00
Work on a standardised solution has already been done and proposals are already being discussed. Things aren't moving as fast as they could be because every time something like this hits a front page somewhere a bunch of people have to come in and comment that they dislike the law, but the people behind open source projects don't seem to be bothered by the time they need to put into this. Their employer is probably just paying them to do so anyway.

Linux desktops already have APIs for profile management. This is just another field to add to those APIs.

Very few core Linux desktop development is coming from hobbyists compared to the massive corporations maintaining Linux as a real option. Companies like Red Hat and System76 isn't going to drop California as a customer base to make a statement that no politician will ever listen to.
by kettss | 2026-03-13 14:35:38+00:00
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5+ years building production web apps. I care about the gap between "it works" and "it's good" — performance, a11y, design systems, the details that actually matter to users.
Recent work:

- audit-core — open-source accessibility audit engine (npm) defaulting to APCA contrast instead of WCAG 2.x, built from scratch (not an axe-core wrapper)
- Traça — full-stack social reading platform (Next.js 15, TypeScript strict, PostgreSQL, Prisma, NextAuth v5) with visual bookshelves, a reread system, and a Spotify Wrapped-style annual retrospective
- Accessible OKLCH color picker for blind/low-vision users, with APCA contrast checking and computational CVD simulation

I work well async, ship with care, and communicate clearly across time zones.
by officeplant | 2026-03-13 14:35:42+00:00
> A Chromebook’s ceiling is made of web browser, and the things you run into are not the edges of computing but the edges of a product category designed to save you from yourself. The kid who tries to run Blender on a Chromebook doesn’t learn that his machine can’t handle it. He learns that Google decided he’s not allowed to.

As someone who lived on a chromebook for fun because it was a cheap way to get a browser machine that also had Linux access. I don't really get this. You can run blender on a chromebook as soon as you turn on the linux container. It will run even better if you install linux on it after a quick firmware flash.

If it's locked down by a school that's not really the chromebooks fault, schools are gonna lock down Macbook Neos via management policy the exact same way.
by cdelmonte | 2026-03-13 14:35:59+00:00
Versione leggermente rifinita:

Author here. I work on large-scale Delta Lake deployments.

The article grew out of noticing the same pattern across the data stack: protocol layers separating from execution layers.

You can see it in Delta Kernel, Arrow, and engines like Comet.

It also suggests that the common framing — “will X replace Spark?” — misses the structural change that is actually happening.
by george_api_dev | 2026-03-13 14:36:06+00:00
The irony is that AI agents are actually creating a new class of tools that need human operators who understand the domain. I work in web scraping/data intelligence - AI helps generate code faster, but knowing WHAT to scrape, how to handle anti-bot measures, and how to structure data for specific use cases (compliance, lead gen, market research) still requires deep human judgment.

My advice: lean into the areas where AI is a tool multiplier, not a replacement. Domain expertise + AI tools = more valuable than either alone.
by awongh | 2026-03-13 14:36:20+00:00
I guess there's the distinction between capacity that could be taken up by other things, and free capacity that doesn't necessarily cost anything.

For a server built in the cloud those cycles could actually be taken up by other things, freeing the system and bringing costs down.

For a client computer running electron, as long as the user doesn't have so many electro apps open that their computer slows down noticeably, that inefficency might not matter that much.

Another aspect is that the devices get cheaper and faster so today's slow electron app might run fine on a system that is a few years away, and that capacity was never going to be taken up by anything else on the end user's device.
by shadowgovt | 2026-03-13 14:36:30+00:00
> liqour stores and porno shops, for example, who already seem to do an acceptable job of checking ID without destroying people's privacy

The difference being, of course, that as an adult one can simply refrain from frequenting a liquor store or porno shop if one chooses not to.

It's not practical to refrain from using a computer while participating fully in modern society. The UN has indicated Internet access to be a human right.
by george_api_dev | 2026-03-13 14:36:40+00:00
This is why automated security testing and OSINT enrichment matter so much. Most organizations have no idea how much internal data is exposed through their chatbots and APIs until someone (or something) probes them. The fix is straightforward but often neglected: proper access controls, input validation, and regular automated audits of what information each endpoint actually returns vs what it should.
by mihir_kanzariya | 2026-03-13 14:36:40+00:00
The biggest pain point with TUIs has always been the design iteration loop. You're basically writing code blind, running it, tweaking numbers, running again. It's like writing CSS without a browser preview.

Something like this could genuinely help for the layout/positioning phase, even if you still hand-write the interaction logic. The debate about whether these are "real TUIs" kind of misses the point imo. Textual and Ratatui already blur that line with mouse support and rich widgets. The ship sailed on pure keyboard-only text interfaces a while ago.

What I'd actually want from a tool like this is to export to multiple TUI frameworks. Right now you're locked into one ecosystem and the code export isn't even working yet, which makes the whole thing feel premature.
by gravity2060 | 2026-03-13 14:36:51+00:00
In the demo video you shared (yt link) how many credits did that whole project take? What is the prices to fix elements of it (for example of you dislike a minor aspect of the generated spreadsheet do follow up instructions utilize only the narrow subset of agents that has been demoed to that subtask, or does it create new agents who have to create new context in the narrow follow up task?)
by gruez | 2026-03-13 14:37:05+00:00
>Age signals from the OS? Need to provide a channel of information available to applications. Applications already talk to servers with unchecked commonality.

This is a non-issue because it's almost certainly going to be gated behind a permission prompt. There are more invasive things sites/apps can ask for, and we seem to be doing fine, eg. location. Moreover is it really that much of a privacy loss if you go on steam, it asks you to verify you're over 18, and the OS says you're actually over 18?

>Biometric data? Today it unlocks your private key. Tomorrow it's used to verify you are the same person that was used during sign-up -- the same that was "age-verified".

Given touch id was introduced over a decade ago, and the associated doom-mongering predilections did not come to pass, I think it's fair to conclude it's a dud.
by janadiamond | 2026-03-13 14:37:53+00:00
Exactly. That’s the core of it. Accessibility isn’t really about one perfect design, it’s about whether the system can adapt to different real human needs instead of assuming one “normal” user.

High contrast helps some people, hurts others. Reduced motion matters. Larger text matters. Keyboard navigation matters. The lesson isn’t “pick the one right setting,” it’s “build the underlying structure so people can override presentation safely.”

If the semantics are good, users and assistive tech have options. If all the usability is trapped in the visual layer, things fall apart fast.

Also totally agree on advertising. A lot of ad tech is basically an anti-accessibility machine. It optimizes for attention capture, even when that makes the actual experience worse for everyone. Advertising frequently triggers me, with all the flashing and strobing and moving parts. That one was me, from the post. And I'm the one that needs the high contrast, too ;- )
by otherland26 | 2026-03-13 14:38:37+00:00
I built a thing. Relevant if you use Copilot or Claude Code in autopilot mode.

Copilot's hook system lets you intercept commands before they run, but it ships without any. No rules, no protection. If you don't install a hook, everything goes straight through.

I kept thinking about this after an agent ran rm -rf in one of my sessions.

So I wrote HAL. It sits in the hook, checks every command against a set of rules, and blocks the destructive ones. git reset --hard, rm -rf /, docker system prune -a that sort of thing. It knows --force is dangerous but --force-with-lease is fine. It knows rm -rf node_modules is safe but rm -rf src isn't.

You might say "I just won't use autopilot" or "I'll review each command myself." That works with one session. It doesn't work with several running in parallel.

And the thing that asks "allow Bash?" every time trains you to click yes without reading...

Also it parses commands as tokens, not strings. So git commit -m 'fix rm -rf bug' doesn't false-positive.

Rules are YAML files, not code. About 400 lines of Python total. Covers git, filesystem, Docker, AWS and Azure out of the box.

pip install openhal && hal install

Open source, contributions welcome https://github.com/otherland/hal
Ask HN: What makes a great programmer vs what makes a great SRE?
by ernesto905 | 2026-03-13 14:39:34+00:00
I'm curious what the community thinks the differences and similarities are in terms of:
- what deliberate practice looks like for each
- what sort of content they consume and why
- how they approach their career in the long term, assuming they want to remain technical (keeping this one purposely vague)

If anyone has lived in both worlds, I'd especially love to hear your thoughts.
by shadowgovt | 2026-03-13 14:39:36+00:00
To be fair, "it's just a fucking hobby" no longer being an excuse has been a long time coming, much in the same way that driving cars or flying airplanes started as just a hobby but became no longer one when practicing it had outsized consequences to non-practitioners.

Signed, someone who notes frequently that the default apache configs probably put a web developer in violation of the GDPR (since if you just left on collecting IP addresses for no reason, you are de-facto not collecting them for "network security.")
by coldtea | 2026-03-13 14:39:45+00:00
>Then you should have no shortage of examples to show as proof.

I'm not your search engine. If you're on HN long enough, you should have already seen a fair share of comments calling Apple users (and basically any other tech target group) names. Here's from a random 1-second search:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46812578

>Previous case isn't. You get banned if you call people idiots on HN

Must be new here.
by NegativeK | 2026-03-13 14:39:56+00:00
>> hobby

> You don't have to support

This isn't just a kernel thing. Expecting volunteers to dump time into compliance is ridiculous. Not because they oppose the idea, but because huge swaths of the internet run on people doing something for free -- and they'll just do something else if governments begin threatening them.

Europe realized this with their new infosec liability regulations. If you're giving your labor away, you're not liable for your software; if you're making money off your software, step up and do better. Maybe California and the others should learn more from the EU.
by bee_rider | 2026-03-13 14:40:15+00:00
Also, like, what about IOT devices. Are lightbulbs and thermostats going to need to attest the age of their users? There are so many computers without a useful concept of a user identity.

I honestly think the California law is well intentioned (in the sense that it just asks the OS to attest the age of the user, so, lawmakers probably thought this could be done in a privacy-preserving and minimally annoying fashion), but it seems very focused on desktop and cellphone use-cases.
by wwweston | 2026-03-13 14:40:15+00:00
The Nordic model does a great job of providing a poor-raising floor (which also launches entrepreneurs at a higher success rate than in the US). And Norway in particular seems to have figured out how to take commons resources and turn them into common wealth while industry retains profit incentives.

No one is “eviscerated.”

And it’s disingenuous to use that term for any proposal that has even the slightest public traction in the US. The most extreme proposals require single digit taxes on hyperwealth which might not have impact beyond stabilizing it and certainly wouldn’t make anyone not-wealthy.

No one is talking about eviscerating the wealthy. Yet. But if we pretend the only options are (a) unencumbered hyperwealth with attendant hyper income inequality and (b) eviscerating the wealthy for long enough, it’s more likely some people will eventually embrace the latter.

And this is particularly relevant for the age of LLMs. None of them approach intelligence with reliance on a huge data commons (and likely even data that isn’t intended for the commons) they’re an enterprise with a natural arrow from the commons to the common wealth, if we can remember a culture that sustains it.
by deafpolygon | 2026-03-13 14:40:32+00:00
More power to voters; make their votes count. Encourage run-off voting, etc. We don’t need to turn the US into a parliamentary government. Those are different matters. Things like ranked-choice voting, proportional representation, multi-member districts, electoral college reforms. We don’t necessarily need a large number of parties…

At this point, the political parties are incentivized to suppress votes and/or redistrict things to make voting favorable for their party. Negative partisanship becomes a too-effective political strategy. There are other issues such as focusing on swing state politics (rather than representing their constitutents) and primary capture of ideologically committed voters (reinforcing and/or encouraging extremism).

I agree, there is no magic bullet... but a two-party system has a tendency to devolve into a winner-takes-all mentality. It also increases polarity in every country where a two-party system has ever existed (primarily US, UK, Canada).

What happens when the two party no longer represents the majority of Americans and American interests?
by tptacek | 2026-03-13 14:40:33+00:00
This came up a few weeks ago. I don't think it's true. This lawsuit from 26 years ago is the only example anybody has come up with. Among the problems with this claim:

* Nobody can find a police department that administers any kind of general cognitive test.

* There are large states with statewide written police aptitude tests that are imperfect but correlated to general cognitive ability, and maximizing scores on that test is the universal correct strategy.

* It's a luridly stupid policy and most municipalities aren't luridly stupid.

I think this happened like, once or twice, in one or two of the 20,000 police departments across the United States, many of which are like one goober and his sidekick (no offense to them; just, you live in gooberville, you're a goober), and now it's an Internet meme that police departments specifically hire for midwittery. Nah.