MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by MonkeyIsNull | 2026-03-09 16:27:52+00:00
wow, ok. I definitely need this! This is my life now with French, Russian, German and whatever language of the moment I am messing around with.

However, it stills looks like it's tied to localhost? I get a web socket error (to localhost:8081) and when I type the name of the title into the search title. Nothing happens and the button doesn't look like I can click it (no highlighting)
by lnsru | 2026-03-09 16:27:53+00:00
You wrote my thoughts. Add one more thing: Germany is federation with insanely complex administration. With many different (outdated) education systems, too many public healthcare insurers. It’s too much of regulation of everything decreasing real efficiency to zero.

Latest example (I am electrical engineer AND electrician): from this year on my buddy heating system specialist can’t help me with photovoltaic system installation on the roof. Last year he was qualified, this year not anymore. He can however install air conditioning unit on the roof this year too. But not the solar panels… Every year some shady lobby group writes some special law crippling last pieces of working system.

There should be some deregulation and centralization institution in Germany with a real short time efficiency increase plan. Otherwise it will stay there as a country of Oktoberfest and Cologne Carnival.
by kyle-macmillan | 2026-03-09 16:28:03+00:00
I'm not 100% sure I understand your first question but this opinion is not "precedent" in the legal sense (i.e. future 9th Cir. courts must follow it). Of course, that doesn't mean that it will have zero influence on how future judges may decide similar cases. If a later judge finds the reasoning in this opinion persuasive they are free to adopt it. But they are not bound to adopt the reasoning like they would be if this were a "published" opinion that is precedential.

I'm only a law student and not a practicing lawyer so my intuition for decisions to litigate are not strong. That said, my understanding is that there were some pretty notable assumptions and questionable doctrinal maneuvers in the opinion that a future judge might be hesitant to also adopt. An example of each: (1) the court states that users who submit an email during registration assume they will receive TOS amendments by email and (2) the court doesn't seem to distinguish between TOS formation and amendment. These, and others, might be correct assumptions and reasoning, but the opinion doesn't convince me of that, so maybe another judge wouldn't be convinced either.
by capnrefsmmat | 2026-03-09 16:28:06+00:00
Several reasons:

1. The post mainly reiterates a single idea (Capsicum enumerates what the process can do, seccomp provides a configurable filter) in many different ways. There is not much actual depth, code samples notwithstanding. Nothing on why different designs were chosen, how easy each is to use, outcomes besides the Chrome example, etc.

2. There are a lot of AI writing tells, like staccato sentences, parallelism ("Same browser. Same threat model. Same problem."), pointless summary tables, "it's not X, it's Y" contradiction ("This is not a bug. It is the original Unix security model"), etc.

3. The author has roughly a blog post a day, all with similar style and on widely varied topics, and in the same writing style. Unless the author has deep expertise on a remarkably wide range of topics and spends all their time writing, these can't reflect deep insight or experience, but minimal editing of AI output.

So yes, it's pretty sloppy.
by OskarS | 2026-03-09 16:28:10+00:00
It was an essentially pointless platitude about the GIL from a very new account not really related to the article, and all comments from this account are the same: top level comments with lots of em-dashes that are just a vague piece of pablum somewhat related to the subject. If it was just this comment, sure, it could be possible it's a rather uninteresting human. But given the history, this account is pure AI slop.
by rayiner | 2026-03-09 16:28:20+00:00
The republican party in the 2010s had a similar percentage of non-religious people as the democratic party in the 1990s: https://religionunplugged.com/news/2023/11/6/the-religious-c.... The percentage of republicans who never go to church in 2022 is similar to where democrats were at in 2008. With both parties seeing a shift towards non-religiosity during the Trump era.

Obviously Democrats in the 1990s weren’t theocrats. Maybe your point is that it’s not about religious attendance per se that makes for a theocracy, but the content of the religious beliefs?
by firefoxd | 2026-03-09 16:28:25+00:00
I value that opinion because it resonates with me. When I use an LLM to write an article, it's usually because I don't have the time or energy to go through my normal process of writing.

Sure, I still end up with a polished article, but a lot of it is not entirely my idea or something I would have written through the filter of my own experience. So in order to share my true take on a subject, I have to go through the struggle of writing and bouncing of ideas in my head, which almost always results in a better output.
Show HN: Built a small CLI for self-improving OpenClaw agent loops
by j0xnvm | 2026-03-09 16:28:33+00:00
It reviews a plan or output with 1–3 LLMs and returns: PASS / REVISE / BLOCK

Use case:

- review a plan before execution
- review an output before sending or relying on it
- loop until the result is good enough to proceed

Very small repo (255 lines of code)
by mrguyorama | 2026-03-09 16:29:05+00:00
This source also offers an option of $1 Trillion USD to do it with battery storage.

All of Europe. $1 Trillion USD. Oh, and that figure has already fallen by 1/3rd in reality and the article claims it should drop by half again.

And that seems to be assuming you only have wind power as input. The long lull periods that drive the high storage requirements are, as that article claims, caused by large high pressure air masses. High pressure systems like that often come with clear skies! Indeed, go look at weather history for that same 2015 period and you see that the skies were calm and clear, and precipitation was about half the "normal" amount for that time of year. While there is perfect correlation between a windless day and a night without sunlight, battery to get you through the night is trivial and solved far more cheaply than this article seems to understand. Enough battery to maintain 24 hour output for a solar farm is cheap enough to compete with fossil fuels. Long term, wind and solar do not correlate, so it's very rare to have long lulls in both at the same time.

So this article is leaving out important details and also is way more pessimistic than even it admits is true.

That also ignores that even in the "lulls", wind never seems to go to zero, so even in lulls, you can always just have more wind. Building 10x as much wind as you need is not as feasible as building 10x as much solar as you need though IMO.

Oh, and a very very very important fact: Renewable generation is almost entirely a one time cost, or one time every 30ish years on average. OPEX per kilowatt hour is dramatically lower than fossil fuels. In fact, today Europe imports 10 million barrels of crude oil a day, and at $100 a barrel (a number which will rise quite a bit in the coming months), Europe spends $1 Trillion every few years.

Europe's current energy spend is to buy an entire continent's worth of energy storage and just turn it into CO2 every few years. Every single day of crude oil import, Europe could instead pay for one of the Coire Glas model plants this article is doing the math with.

Storage is beyond feasible and will reduce energy costs.

Note: This article is about making wind energy constant over month long time scales, not about building enough storage to power Europe durably, so that explains some of it's misses, but also doesn't really explain much. The 2.1 TWh of storage it suggest would be enough to power all of Europe for 8 hours a day.
by riskassessment | 2026-03-09 16:29:15+00:00
> They teach us Scientific Realism in school.

I'd argue the opposite is true for anyone who has studied statistics which is largely built on Instrumentalism (think George Box: 'All models are wrong, but some are useful') and Popperian falsification (Null Hypothesis testing). We are absolutely taught to treat models as predictive tools rather than metaphysical truths.
by dxxvi | 2026-03-09 16:29:30+00:00
I agree. IMO, Scala can be written in Li Haoyi's way and it's a pleasure to work with. However, the FP and Effect Scala people are too loud and too smart that if I write Scala in Li Haoyi's way, I feel like I'm too stupid.
I like Rust because of no GC, no VM and memory safe. If Rust has features that a Joe java programmer like me can't understand, I guess it'll be like Scala.
by jonthepirate | 2026-03-09 16:29:33+00:00
I'm a former Lyft & DoorDash engineer exploiting a talent loophole.

Mission: get startups access to senior & principal big-tech engineers at a 90% discount and without hemorrhaging equity.

The hack is that I'm tapping into a hidden supply of people hiding in plain sight: top engineers that are already full-time employed in big-tech with benefits who enjoy helping smaller startups, and, recently retired people who want something to do.

The name I'm using is Low Touch Advisor because we are selling what I call "low touch" help in the form of async Slack based guidance. By having access to senior people perfectly matched to your team's needs, you can use your actual engineers to do the hands on and majorly reduce the likelihood that a major rewrite is needed after 6 months of effort on new projects.

Basic model:
- Our customer (an early stage company) pays $1,500 / month with no long term commitments to get async Slack help from a vetted senior/principal engineer perfectly matched to their needs
- Of that, we ACH $1k / month to the engineer who provided the Slack-based help

Within the first 3 months of operating, I have $27k of monthly revenue booked in my sales pipeline.

So far I've done everything by hand but once I'm a bit further ahead, I'm going to look to begin automating this.

If you want to connect:
https://www.linkedin.com/in/jonathanblockengineer/
by mikkupikku | 2026-03-09 16:29:36+00:00
Is the US really no different? I can name at least a few US companies making a serious attempt at AI stuff, and while I haven't invested in any of them I can understand how billions of dollars are being thrown around here.

But in the UK? What UK AI orgs are there? Deep Mind is/was but they're owned by Google since a long time ago. Is there even a single large UK company taking money for AI that isn't just flagrantly scamming by any measure?
by isa_vbox2 | 2026-03-09 16:29:36+00:00
Wille se kulki kuin kuiskaus tuulessa,
sanat niin säästeliäät omassa suussa.
Lapsilla leikki on riemua vain,
mutta aikuisen maailma on toisenlain.
Tarinoita riittää ja viestejä monta,
historia muistaa sen tahratonta?
Ehkä on parempi vaiti nyt olla,
ja jatkaa vain matkaa tällä nollalla.
by kodablah | 2026-03-09 16:29:56+00:00
Duralade - a programming language for durable execution (but has many neat aspects)

Most of the work as of today is in a branch, can see the language spec at https://github.com/cretz/duralade/blob/initial-runtime/docs/..., and some samples at https://github.com/cretz/duralade/tree/initial-runtime/sampl....

May not amount to anything, but the ideas/concepts of this durable language are quite nice.
by TechnicalVault | 2026-03-09 16:30:06+00:00
They do have 3 already and they're building 3 more:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_high-voltage_transmiss...

The new one going to France will probably have the most impact initially, the French love to sell their Nuke's surplus capacity. The new British ones by the time they're finished should have access to British's big wind energy generation, much of which will be online at that point.
by psalaun | 2026-03-09 16:30:07+00:00
That's my point in France also: industries complain about the cost of workforce, therefore they've moved everything offshore for the last two decades and they are lobbying heavily for lowering the wages and taxes in order to "invest".

But there is nothing to invest into anymore, France's industry is dead (partly because of Germany with the Hartz agreement btw, lowering demand for italian or french goods which were already less competitive than german ones on export and domestic market because of the euro) and if they didn't care to put capital on automation when wages were high, why would they do it when work becomes cheap?
by z3ugma | 2026-03-09 16:30:13+00:00
Building a PCB milling software tool that combines converting Gerbers to toolpaths in G-Code and then actually commanding and operating a restored PCB mill from 1998.

Bringing back the hobbyist self-made PCB workflow since it can be a headache to get designs back from PCBWay / JLC between customers, tariffs, shipping..get more quick to close the prototyping loop.

Here's a YouTube playlist of how to make PCBs at home for anyone who wants a deep dive. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hm_JrACrmVs&list=PLWDQgxl-jH...
by Vvector | 2026-03-09 16:30:14+00:00
Leap Seconds need to be abolished. The only people who need it are Astronomers. They could just use an offset. Implementing leap seconds correctly is a huge burden, for no gain.

Where I live, high noon today occurs at 1:03 PM. No one is complaining that it is 3 minutes (or 63 minutes) off. It's a non-issue for 99.9% of the population.
by diacritical | 2026-03-09 16:30:17+00:00
I think that population is shrinking, not growing. They're surely vocal, though.

But if lab grown meat is cheaper, some part of the population would buy it. The farms would lose part of their business so economy of scale would help lab grown meat and hurt the farms. I think it would lead to a feedback loop where lab grown meat will get even cheaper and farm meat would get more expensive.

With lab grown meat you also have the option not only for a perfect piece of meat, but for different kinds of tastes, textures and compositions that haven't existed before. Just like people eat processed meat (think ham or nuggets or deep fried pieces), they would love to try the new tastes. I know I would.
by bell-cot | 2026-03-09 16:30:37+00:00
There are lots of "how to" web sites for Community Organizing. I'd just skim through a few of those - assuming your unfamiliar - then try to find real, involved local people who are already involved:

- If you have a good local politician who'd likely support this (probably from already being a supporter of affected groups), you could ask them.

- If your area has even half-decent services for the homeless, or a church serving meals to the needy, or a Salvation Army, or etc., then the people you want to talk to are within 2 or 3 degrees of separation from those. Or if your local transit org has in-person monthly public meetings, you could attend one of those & ask around.

Yes, I'm biased toward established, old-fashioned groups, which are already doing stuff in your area. They're the ones with the accumulated experience, local knowledge, and track record. Vs. (say) AI phobics are more like Level 0 NPC's, with default-to-zero skills or experience getting along in a group.
by matheusmoreira | 2026-03-09 16:30:39+00:00
Let's make it easy for everyone. Here are the terms of pretty much every legal document people scroll through without reading:

> you own nothing

> the company owns everything

> you have no rights

> you promise not to try and exercise any right you think you have

> if you ever convince yourself that you actually have rights, you agree to binding arbitration with the firm we pay

> you cannot do anything the company doesn't like

> the company can do literally anything it wants whether you like it or not

> the company is not responsible for anything, ever

> the company makes absolutely no guarantees about literally anything

> in case of any damages it's exclusively your fault and you agree to indemnify us in all possible circumstances
by handoflixue | 2026-03-09 16:30:46+00:00
> I think the point of contention here is that in practice, there is no way to continue on the old terms of service/contract.

Yeah, because, as I said: the old T&C you agreed to probably include a clause where either party can unilaterally terminate the agreement for any reason, which they can then invoke.

So, when they terminate that old contract, it's based entirely on the terms of that old contract. You agreed to this up-front.

What's the alternative? Force companies to offer indefinite contracts?
by bondarchuk | 2026-03-09 16:30:48+00:00
Surely you can imagine that there are people who draw their ethical line for permissible suffering with animal farming on the "permissible" side and "slavery on an unimaginable scale" on the "not permissible" side? Imagine you or someone you love duplicated 5 million times and living through 1000 subjective years of pure existential horror (while doing menial industrial cognitive tasks). Some would say this is worse than eating meat.
by chmod775 | 2026-03-09 16:30:58+00:00
If I always choose the basket with the most apples, the numbers of apples do not represent the probability of my choice. The probability of me choosing the most apples is 100% and 0% for the other baskets. That is a deterministic outcome and definitely not a probabilistic one.

Text that the system "almost" generated, but didn't, really isn't of any interest during inference for normal use. We only care about the behavior that the system actually exhibitits.

You can trivially hand-construct a network that will always output "A" = 1.0 and "B" = 0.99, so A will always be chosen for the final output of the system, despite them being really close. There's a 0% chance of "B" ever being the final token, despite the numbers being close*. There's no element of chance here nor any probability.

These numbers may approximate probabilities of... something, but generally not the final system output. You can actually use them as weights for sampling, but that's generally for funsies.

Obviously temperature muddies this a bit, but useful systems won't ever choose a 0.01 token when there's perfectly good 0.9 tokens to be had. That will just get you%odd random mistakes!
by everforward | 2026-03-09 16:31:08+00:00
TOS are in a weird spot. The ruling contends that a “reasonably prudent Internet user” would have noticed and read the email, but I would contend the opposite with the acknowledgement that it would make TOS effectively obsolete.

A reasonably prudent internet user gets half a dozen of these a day, and prudence would dictate the obvious futility of reading all of them, much less remembering the terms bound by each service.

It does mean that TOS would be almost wholly unenforceable, but that may be a bridge we need to cross as a society. These documents have gotten too large and updated too frequently to reasonably bind the population at large.
by delecti | 2026-03-09 16:31:20+00:00
Not to be glib, but the shelves of most American grocery stores do a pretty good job demonstrating that that segment of the population isn't dominant yet. There's a glut of processed food full of ingredients much harder to pronounce than an ingredient list that would read "Ingredients: Beef (cultured)".

And to be glib, I'm not thrilled about the idea of catering to the bar set by "things they don't understand" from that group in particular.
by 3tdimhcsb | 2026-03-09 16:31:21+00:00
Academics are cooked if Python ever gets good, it will be invaded by real developers who use JS.

Thankfully that piece of shit language is not only slow but has no consumer runtime environment like JS' browser, Swift's iOS, etc. and will slowly go the way of Ruby, PHP, etc.

Python devs need to abandon that trash and learn Node, or make it better and I'll do Python IDGAF
by fgdhtt | 2026-03-09 16:31:24+00:00
Nothing about learning in Duolingo that tartaruga means turtle but I don’t need that word in my vocabulary for now… was curious how easy it is to vibe code my own Portuguese learning app. Worked out great: I can add my own words and customize the topics. It’s using Gemini api, Google TTS + STT api, all in the browser with local storage. I’m very happy with it and it’s (almost) for free.
by necovek | 2026-03-09 16:31:56+00:00
Not really. Launchpad.net does not have any public branches I could share atm as an example, but Bazaar (now breezy) allowed having a nested "merge commit": your trunk would have "flattened" merge commits ("Merge branch foo"), and under it you could easily get to each individual commit by a developer ("Prototype", "Add test"...). It would really be shown as a tree, but smartness was wven richer.

This was made possible by using a DAG for commit storage and referencing, instead of relying on file contents and series of commits per reference. Merge behaviour was much smarter in case of diverging tip or criss-cross merges. But this ultimately was harder and slower to implement, and developers did not value this enough and they instead accepted the Git trade-offs.

So you seamlessly did both with a different VCS without splitting those up: in a sense, computers and software worried about that for us.
I Asked 15 DevTool Maintainers About Documentation Localization
by skytin1004 | 2026-03-09 16:32:12+00:00
Over the past few weeks, I reached out to around 15 maintainers and founders from DevTool projects to ask a simple question:

Why do so few developer tools maintain multilingual documentation?

I expected to hear complaints about translation quality or tooling limitations. Instead, the most common answer was much simpler: most teams intentionally avoid localization.

Across many fast-moving DevTool projects, the lifecycle of documentation translation often looks like this:

project grows
→ community starts translating docs
→ source docs evolve quickly
→ translations drift
→ maintainers stop maintaining them
→ docs return to English-only

Several maintainers told me they had experimented with translation platforms or community-driven localization in the past. But keeping translations synchronized became difficult as documentation and APIs evolved rapidly. Eventually many teams chose to revert to English-only documentation.

In fast-moving DevTool teams, documentation changes frequently: APIs evolve, installation steps change, configuration examples update, screenshots and diagrams become outdated. When documentation changes weekly, translations can quickly fall behind. Reviewing translation pull requests also adds extra work for maintainers.

Instead of maintaining official translations, many teams rely on a simpler structure:

official docs → English
community tutorials → other languages

Developers around the world often write guides in Korean, Japanese, Chinese, Spanish, and other languages, but these usually live outside the official documentation. This lets teams move quickly without adding localization maintenance overhead.

One interesting pattern from these conversations was this:

translation drift is a known problem
≠ teams are willing to pay to solve it

Even when maintainers acknowledged the issue, localization rarely ranked high enough to justify engineering time or tooling investment. Shipping features and keeping documentation current usually mattered more.

As developer tools grow globally, unofficial translations tend to appear naturally. At some point teams may want a way to keep multilingual documentation synchronized without slowing down development.

For now, though, many fast-moving DevTools seem comfortable with a simpler strategy: English-only documentation plus community translations.

Curious if others working on DevTools or documentation infrastructure have observed the same pattern.