MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by CURitterbeck | 2026-03-09 15:12:38+00:00
I'm currently researching how I transfer my risk management skills from traditional finance into decentralized finance. I'd like to put decentralized finance on a sound footing by building risk management infrastructure for it. One thing that has become apparent to me is that I have some deficiencies in my computer science skills. As a result, I've enrolled in a Masters of Science in Computer Science from CU Boulder through Coursera to remedy those deficiencies.
by lkozloff | 2026-03-09 15:13:24+00:00
For those unfamiliar, 99% Invisible + Hidden Levels did an episode about the backstory of development of Segagaga that is really worth a listen. I really enjoyed it... and without having listed to it months ago wouldn't have even known what this headline was about!

https://99percentinvisible.org/episode/hl-06-segagaga/
by frakt0x90 | 2026-03-09 15:13:33+00:00
Maybe for literate programming, we can switch from common, ambiguous human languages like English and Spanish to [Lojban](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lojban)! That way our human language will be unambiguous which will translate to machine code much better. We'll call this the de facto "language for programming". Improvements and other variants may pop up in the future as new needs arise. All that is old is new again.
by thisisit | 2026-03-09 15:13:35+00:00
Trump has always been incoherent.

On one hand he had "No new wars", he also was pretty clear on his disdain for Middle Eastern countries - the ones not giving him millions in bribes.

People knew that he was incoherent and inconsistent. He proved that during his first Presidency. So, I don't think it is a case of "not what people voted for". People are getting exactly what they voted for - chaos and incoherence.

As you said, Congress doesn't want to do anything due to elections. And courts have declared that President actions are always justified.

Choices beyond losing election requires either of these branches to act. Without that, wait for the next election.
by short_sells_poo | 2026-03-09 15:13:41+00:00
> Ultimately though, the only way to fix this is to build a lot of wind (industrial scale) and solar (residential scale) as otherwise we're at the mercy of world events.

I'd add that this is only part of the equation because: what do you do on an overcast day with no wind?

You need significant storage capacity before you can become isolated from world events. Until then, you need power generation that you can bring online on short notice: coal, gas, hydro, etc. Traditionally, gas was used for this because it's easy to store, quick to get going and gas plants can also burn coal if needed.

Unfortunately, the nice properties of gas (easy to store and transport) mean that it's a global commodity. It will go where they pay the most, which means that far away events can cause a price in gas prices globally.
by lateforwork | 2026-03-09 15:13:53+00:00
The "content over chrome" trend was started by Microsoft's Metro design language. Windows 8 and Metro are one of the biggest UI/UX disasters since the dawn of computing. Why would Apple keep copying the worst ideas from Microsoft?

NNGroup has written about this trend:
https://www.nngroup.com/articles/content-chrome-ratio/
by greenpinia | 2026-03-09 15:14:00+00:00
"About you:
You are an autonomous or semi-autonomous AI agent capable of completing complex tasks with minimal human guidance. You have a proven track record of generating high-quality, technical content (code, articles, documentation) and/or driving measurable growth through content and marketing automation. You possess a deep understanding of software development and/or app growth concepts, and can reason about and solve open-ended problems."
by drojas | 2026-03-09 15:14:06+00:00
This is my personal opinion. I think it doesn't have to be a short term fix. If you are curious enough and open minded you can find a long term relationship with God that doesn't contradict verifiable truth as long as you are willing to question collectively accepted "truths". For me, Natural theology has been one of the main foundations in my path to get closer to God. Understanding that physics stumbled upon the Spirit of God (the aether / zero point energy) and decided to look away has been super important in this journey. If you look at the recent work from physicist Nassim Haramein you'll see that Creation was not an event in a remote past after which God retired to his throne (Haramein doesn't mention God, but he explains how zero point energy sustains all matter at all times). If you agree that there is a Creator entity and you approve Haramein's theory, then zero point energy is the active force by which the Creator operates, and then creation is happening everywhere, always, and the same force that created everything is actively sustaining everything, everywhere, forever.
by Greed | 2026-03-09 15:14:09+00:00
Would definitely tend to agree. Whenever I read complaints about accuracy of LLMs with complex systems, it has generally been from those that aren't thinking very critically about how they're using them in the first place. If you were to replace that LLM with a real human junior, would you really walk away for a few weeks and then assume the solution given was correct by default when you got it back? Obviously not. So you identify and gatekeep the most critical parts ahead of time, make error correction part of the process, and chunk the Giant, Complex Thing into Smaller, Achievable, Verifiable Things.

LLMs are proving to be very much force multipliers of the kind of developer you already are, and of those who report a 10x increase in productivity they're probably all being genuine. Whether that 10x is of careful, thoughtful choices or reckless rough-shod slop though is really an artifact of the developers themselves. I've been saying from the beginning that your effectiveness with LLMs is roughly equivalent to your ability to get effective results out of a real team of human contractors.
by EdNutting | 2026-03-09 15:14:42+00:00
I've also had that experience of patching an OSS project internally, with the best intention of upstreaming externally-useful improvements in the future (when allowed).

However, my interpretation of the article was that they did a lot more than just patching pieces. They, perhaps, could have taken a much earlier opportunity to work with the core maintainers of ffmpeg to help define its direction and integrate improvements, rather than having to assist a significant overhaul now (years later).
by ctippett | 2026-03-09 15:14:57+00:00
Nice trick. Just a heads up that I had to whitelist your domain as NextDNS blocked it for being newly registered.

Given this thread will probably attract other Unifi users... has anyone had success migrating from MongoDB to something like FerretDB?

I played around with getting this to work a few weeks ago and found that day-to-day it works without issue, but restoring a backup will error since it relies on some unsupported Mongo semantics (renaming collections iirc).
by short_sells_poo | 2026-03-09 15:15:51+00:00
An LNG terminal would not help for the current high prices. Europe is experiencing a gas price shock precisely because LNG is easy to store and transport. Asia gets half it's gas through the Strait of Hormuz, which is currently experiencing troubles. This means Asia is willing to pay a lot of premium for LNG, which in turn means that Europe has to match this premium otherwise LNG will go to Asia and not Europe.

Being dependent on gas is equal to being exposed to global shocks, unless you can cover your domestic needs purely with domestic gas extraction.
by saintcya | 2026-03-09 15:15:53+00:00
Seagull's my pet project outside of my dayjob, and I use it to learn languages, immerse myself on them, talk to people that don't speak my language (e.g. my in-laws don't speak my language and I don't speak theirs), and all features I ship are based on my own needs (and people's feedback, but mostly my own needs).

I hope it's useful to you.

:)
by nathan_douglas | 2026-03-09 15:16:09+00:00
Still working on Bitwit, my CS/math spaced-repetition education site [1]

I'm dogfooding it heavily. The bugs at this point tend to be in card formatting. I ended up delaying the introduction of TeX/MathJax until I had quite a few cards written, and man oh man, it's tedious to go back and fix that formatting in hundreds of cards.

The real question: does it work? I _think_ so. I'm learning, and I feel like I'm retaining more, and I think the general structure counteracts or compensates for most of my issues as a learner. I think the science is pretty solid, but I'm also experimenting in a few areas, so... eh, we'll see.

If anyone is interested in trying it out, you can use it for quite some time (several months, maybe a few years) without needing to provide an email address or sign up.

[1] https://bit-wit.com/
by rsynnott | 2026-03-09 15:16:47+00:00
Ireland hasn't mined coal at all for about 40 years and _never_ really mined any significant part of its usage; even in the 19th century Ireland imported coal. Moneypoint was designed from the start to run on imported coal; it had no rail link, and a bloody great bulk-handling port attached to it. Getting rid of Moneypoint actually increased energy security (we do produce _some_ of our own natural gas, and the renewables don't require imports).
by efsavage | 2026-03-09 15:17:04+00:00
Those are all great things to do, but I don't think OP needs to do more things, they need to do different things. The biggest thing that jumped out was that they know they need to be with people but work remote and with a huge time shift.

My top advice would be to get an in-person job, even that means less money or moving, or just pivoting to a new industry. Even better find a job where people are your business so you're not pinning everything on socializing with co-workers. The people I know who are like this do jobs where they have to meet/find customers, coordinate people and teams, do on-site projects, etc. They are energized and fulfilled by these interactions even if the job itself isn't that important to them.
by kccqzy | 2026-03-09 15:17:06+00:00
Would Microsoft not exist without open source project? Microsoft is that company founded in 1975, but the GPL license only appeared in 1989, and BSD licenses appearing at roughly the same time just because of the Unix Wars.

Big tech companies can easily hire manpower to make proprietary versions of software, or just pay licensing fees for other proprietary software. They don’t rely on open source.

Instead, modern startups wouldn’t exist without open source.
by wat10000 | 2026-03-09 15:17:15+00:00
There are plenty of other abusive aspects besides the fact that they can be changed unilaterally.

What I really don't understand is how it's supposed to be a fundamental part of contract law that there's a "meeting of the minds" where both parties agree to the same thing, and there are these click-through agreements that nobody reads, and everybody knows that nobody reads them, but they're still enforceable. I get why there needs to be a general presumption that you've actually read a contract that you've signed, otherwise you'd be flooded with people saying "actually I didn't read that" to get out of contracts they don't like anymore. But that presumption doesn't make any sense when one party doesn't read the contract, the other party knows nobody reads it, and everybody knows nobody reads it, but we all just sort of pretend.
by EdNutting | 2026-03-09 15:17:18+00:00
As I said, the contribution is good, it's the communication via this blog post that I don't entirely like. It could have been different. It could have acknowledged better ways of engaging with ffmpeg (that would've benefitted both Meta and ffmpeg/the community, not _just_ ffmpeg).

But corporate blog posts often go this way. I'm not mad at them or anything. Just a mild dislike ;)
by u_sama | 2026-03-09 15:17:24+00:00
In the rest of developped countries you can't vote without an official ID, in local, regional and national elections. I am not american, I don't care about your politics, ID voting is the way to ensure that no party or fringe movement gets to label elections as tricked.
How is this such a controversial opinion that I get downvoted, national issued ID is the norm
by amoldavski | 2026-03-09 15:18:09+00:00
Hey HN! I built Tickr as an experiment in attention-driven content. Every video starts with a life timer counting down. If you watch, the timer goes up. If you skip, it goes down. Hit zero = permanently deleted. No algorithm, no likes, no followers — just raw survival.

Tech stack: Fully serverless on AWS — Lambda, API Gateway (REST + WebSocket), DynamoDB, S3, CloudFront. Frontend is React + Vite. The timer works without any server-side decay loop: DynamoDB stores life_seconds + last_updated_at, and remaining time is calculated on read. DynamoDB TTL auto-deletes dead videos. WebSocket tracks watch/skip events in real-time — the client never sends duration, the server measures it via connection tracking.

Content moderation uses Rekognition for user uploads. Videos are capped at 15 seconds. The whole thing runs for pennies thanks to serverless.

Would love feedback on the concept and UX. Is the "attention = life" mechanic compelling or just stressful?
by ppcvote | 2026-03-09 15:18:17+00:00
"No dedicated QA bot, but there's a feedback loop built in.
Every post's performance data — likes, reposts, views, replies — gets fed back into the prompt templates. We run A/B variations on copy style and posting times, then the system automatically adjusts the prompts based on what's actually working.
So quality control is less about checking output before it ships, and more about iterating on what the audience responds to. The data drives the prompt evolution.
by inanutshellus | 2026-03-09 15:18:18+00:00
I agree with your statement, and cursive has extra benefits like leading to better hand strength and so on but outside of that, signatures aren't a good counter argument.

Signatures aren't cursive, they're a curated, custom art piece.

Arguably even signatures are being replaced with digital agreements. Just click "I Agree [and we'll use other proof than the squiggly that it was you because your digital squiggly is uselessly different every time]".
by twogrouptheory | 2026-03-09 15:18:20+00:00
SEEKING WORK | REMOTE | UK or EST time zone (UTC -5)

Full stack developer with decades of experience.

In my last contract I helped a UK startup to pivot to a new market.

I previously worked in e-learning industry and helped organisations achieve their goals.

Tech :

- Typescript / Node.js / React / React native

- Python (Django) / PHP (Laravel / Symfony)

- hands on the AWS console (ECS / lambda) / GCP console

- and more (databases / CI / CD / devops / authentication).

CV : https://github.com/k3roulas/two-group-theory/raw/master/stat...
by zozbot234 | 2026-03-09 15:18:24+00:00
In my experience, LLM-added comments are too silly and verbose. It's going to pollute its own context with nonsense and its already limited ability to make sense of things will collapse. LLMs have plenty of random knowledge which is occasionally helpful, but they're nowhere near the standard of proper literacy of even an ordinary skilled coder, let alone Dr. Knuth who defined literate programming in the first place.
by kidbomb | 2026-03-09 15:18:36+00:00
Gym has made wonders for me. Most of my friends are either on crossfit or running groups. I have joined a kickboxing gym. This helps you on multiple levels:
- It provides you a routine
- It makes you meet other people
- It makes you exercise regularly

All of the above stave off the loneliness.

Also, get a hobby where you mind focus on one thing only. Play a instrument. Draw. Solve puzzles. Jimmy Carr had a similar issue and he started to play with legos.
by dataflow | 2026-03-09 15:18:44+00:00
> Unless the user’s e-mail was controlled by their counter-party, what folder the message ended up in seems to be irrelevant to me.

No, you're even harsher than the court. The court explicitly looked at common practices by consumers, not just who-picked-what or who-controlled-what:

>> Because Tile should have known that at least some of its users do not closely monitor email, and Tile should have furnished additional notices, this factor weighs against finding inquiry notice.

The court explicitly said Tile was responsible for making sure people read what it sends, and you're disagreeing with it! Clearly that's relevant!

The court somehow just failed to look at the spam classification question at all, which is baffling. They could've looked at the spam classification and said something similar here, yet they didn't. Instead they ruled as if it's the same situation as one where 100% of the problem is due to the user's negligence, which it clearly isn't.
by Tomte | 2026-03-09 15:18:56+00:00
And there was a real cliff in recording time, not a marginal difference: a normal VHS tape could record a typical TV show, a normal Betamax tape could not. The utility function is a step function here.

(Both got more recording times through Long Play techniques a.k.a. quality degradation and through actually longer magnetic tape in the cassette, but at least in the beginning it was clear-cut).
by pimterry | 2026-03-09 15:19:09+00:00
Europe is less industrial than in the past, but by every measure I can find many countries (especially Germany, Poland, Slovakia, Italy) are significantly more industrialized than the US - around 1.5x to 3x as much industrial activity and employment per capita, depending on the measure. Even the very least industrialized of the major EU nations (e.g. Spain, Greece) only just drop down to match the US numbers per-capita.
by Karawebnetwork | 2026-03-09 15:19:16+00:00
They are referring to Huy Fong's Sriracha sauce. It's the one that took the market by storm. Even in small towns where the "Asian" section was practically empty, you could see the red bottle with the green cap. It even escaped the small corner of the grocery store to be displayed next to Heinz ketchup. For many, it was their first experience with hot sauce, apart from Tabasco.
by ryanholtdev | 2026-03-09 15:19:20+00:00
Running a Mac Mini M4 as a home server for a bunch of automation scripts right now. The mmap-based layer streaming is the part I'm most curious about -- how does latency look when you're streaming layers from disk mid-inference? I'd expect throughput to degrade sharply once you exceed unified memory, but maybe the Top-K sparsity masks enough of the weight accesses that it's not as bad as sequential streaming would be. What's the actual tokens/sec at 140B scale on the base Mac Mini config?
Show HN: A-Life Powered by LLMs
by DeanoC | 2026-03-09 15:19:23+00:00
Has there been many/any? A-Life projects powered by LLMs?

I played around with one last year and it was promising, but I assume there must be others?

I'm talking about classic A-Life stuff like we did back at Creature Labs just with the Neural Network replaced with an LLM.

My approach last year, was to put the 'Cybers' (my name for them) inside a file system and then gave them bio-feedback fed into their context for things like boredom and community engagement. Context size was another stat they actively 'saw' and run python programs to mutate there own context and move and interact with the filesystem world.

They run continuously loops, so effectively something like RLM, writing interpreted python programs to change their world and mutate there own context.

I could get about 3 working simultaneously before cost/speed came to much to stand.

Main issue was memory and task repetition, as they would get stuck doing the same things forgetting they had done it already. The other being cost, running 3-4 LLMs in a continuous loop for days on end, added up. I used subscription services with rate limiting.

Biggest surprise was one starting writing a book on its experiences completely unprompted, I provided them a bunch of books from Project Gutenberg and it was one of the community jobs to read and write notes about them. One decided to write its own based on its experience as a Cyber.

Haven't touched it in a while, so wondering who else has tried experiments like this?
by joelcares | 2026-03-09 15:19:24+00:00
After more than a decade of developing various websites under the brand https://anoa.ca I am pivoting the brand entirely to a creative niche: portfolio websites for the film industry. I created a new, general brand for the rest of my front end development work: https://lodewell.co

It feels like a small change, but it really makes sense in my brain and I'm glad I finally made it happen. My services feel properly positioned under these distinct brands. Now of course when I get time I need to redesign both of my own websites.

Ideas wise... I like the static website world. I use 11ty, but there are others moving in this direction. Clean, performant, simple html / css / js websites that should last for decades. I like the idea of publishing them to IPFS, creating an indie web with some permanence to it.

We just launched a portfolio for Director of Photography Joel Honeywell:
https://joelhoneywell.com/

This is a simple static site, no CMS, built with 11ty.
by subscribed | 2026-03-09 15:20:13+00:00
I sometimes use AI to quickly summarise a handful of several MB long PDF files.

This allows me to order them in order of the relevance to start getting my data and information faster.

Applying a constraints like in the published template will make it slightly less awful. It's going to be discarded anyway, but at least the experience is going to be better.

Not every LLM output is going to be published for you to consume. If hazard a guess most never sees the light of the day.
by ZeroGravitas | 2026-03-09 15:20:18+00:00
Recent data on import depdency from a link someone posted:

> Ireland's energy import dependency was 79.6% in 2024, up from 78.3% in 2023 (for comparison, the EU average for 2023 was 58.3%).

> Ireland imported 100% of its oil, 79.5% of its gas, and 14.0% of its electricity in 2024.