MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by rootusrootus | 2026-03-05 21:46:49+00:00
I will be happy to be wrong, assuming that happens.

I want everyone who associated with Epstein to be under oath at some point, and I think we should prioritize based on how many pieces of evidence their name appears on.

You think Trump will ever let himself be questioned under oath? Any rational person knows that his refusal is tantamount to an admission, but I bet he does not see it that way.
by RickS | 2026-03-05 21:47:57+00:00
I (36) feel simultaneously as old and as young as I've felt since being an actual fresh grad / student.

Old because I can see behind the curtain now. Things feel different than they did when I first started working in tech around 2006-2008. So much of the fixation on recurring revenue, rent-seeking, optimization at all costs, dark patterns, manufactured addiction... I watched the industry as it slowly stumbled into these ideas, leaned in, and ultimately perfected them. But when I read accounts from people older than I am, they all have their version of this comment. The early days of the PC era and browser wars had no shortage of dark shit. It's not like corporate fuckery wasn't rampant in the 80s or 90s. I was just too young and dumb and optimistic to understand most of it. I've gotten much more cynical in the last ~15 years.

I feel young because AI tech actually feels new and promising and exciting in ways I haven't seen since the dawn of mobile and web2.0. There's suddenly this vast new surface area for innovation, a bleak geopolitical landscape, and a palpable rush to create. 2008-2012ish kinda sucked, economically. The fallout from GWOT + GFC, OWS, snowden leaks, etc. The nerdosphere had this collective feeling that the jaws were tightening around us. And yet the technology was moving so fast, was enabling whole new ways of interacting between people and machines. You could tell that the future was going to be completely wild, but it was early enough that it had to be built, and there was a frenzy of excitement, like we'd just been set loose across the louisiana purchase to figure out what was possible in a whole new kind of environment.

It was an oasis. A refuge from everything else that felt broken in every other part of the world. You could just duck down and build shit nobody had ever seen before in a week, and people would take it seriously because there was this shared understanding that nobody knew what the new rules were yet, and the next big idea might come from anyone.

It feels like the best time in a long time for technologists who thrive on curiosity, optimism, and inventiveness. We've finally got a gold rush for experimental tinkerers! Crypto is just grift tech, NFTs were transparently stupid, AR/VR has mostly felt like a gimmick, etc. AI is already so useful, and it's only the beginning.

The market's delusional, the US government is horrific, megacorps are squeezing every drop out of anyone they can stuff in their mouth... but did anyone really think we had a future where that doesn't happen? That snowball's been rolling since long before I was born. I'm just stoked at the chance to get to experience technology as magic again for a little while along the way. Maybe that's a cope. Or escapism. IDK, fuck it. So far, it's nice. The bad shit I've been expecting for many years. The good shit surprised me.
by ErezShahaf | 2026-03-05 21:47:58+00:00
So you would have preferred if this was managed actively? But then how would that be better than providing MCPs to cursor? I use mcps which can access all the comments in the company I work at including the PRDs, logs, databases, etc.

The idea of my project is that it is all done asynchronously, is that what you mean? You want it to happen outside of your personal computer?
by CloakHQ | 2026-03-05 21:48:08+00:00
the censorship circumvention angle is the most interesting part to me. the public_name flexibility essentially lets you dress the TLS handshake as something "approved" by a middlebox — which is a different threat model than most ECH discussions focus on.
from a browser fingerprinting angle though, there's a subtler problem: once ECH rolls out broadly, headless browsers that don't implement it correctly will become more detectable, not less. JA4 fingerprints will start incorporating ECH presence as a signal. you'll need the browser to negotiate ECH just like a real Chrome install would, not just encrypt the payload.
by sebastiennight | 2026-03-05 21:48:35+00:00
> it also changes the rule for the pronunciation of the last consonant of French words.

This was a very well explained distinction, with the exception of you using "Noël" as one of the examples, since "Noel" would still have a sounded "L". It would be weird to a French speaker but would most likely end up being pronounced somewhat like the English "null".

> And yes Moët (the champagne) is pronounced "moh-ett" in France and by French speakers.

My favorite Moët mispronunciation is one that it took me several months to understand: Russians pronounce it as if it was spelled in Cyrillic, so they say "mah- yacht".

There is a famous MORGENSHTERN song which I only understood was about champagne when I saw the music video for the first time.
by skorisep | 2026-03-05 21:48:56+00:00
Thank you! Awesome question. There are a few factors at play here.

One is friction on the other side. With Doodle you're asking someone to click a link, open a UI, parse a grid of times, check boxes, and sometimes connect an account. That's a real ask, especially for someone external who has no relationship with the tool. With Vela they just reply "Tuesday works" in the thread they are already in.

But beyond reducing friction, Vela is also doing the actual coordination work: herding people, following up with non responders, suggesting specific times that work best (not just available ones), handling rescheduling, and closing the loop. It's closer to what a human coordinator does than what a poll does.

Our customers are mostly folks coordinating 30+ meetings a week across multiple people. For them, time spent compounds significantly.

Doodle is great too btw, but it really only works well when the people involved already know each other and at a small scale. Vela is built for the more complicated scenarios where companies have tried everything and decided nothing works but putting a team member on the job.
by hobofan | 2026-03-05 21:48:59+00:00
How does this compare to solutions like e.g. Clara[0] that have been around for a decade?

A lot of similar solutions came up in the early chatbot era, when Facebook published Ducking and it became trivial to parse dates from natural language. I also looked into building such a product in the time, but ultimately found it hard to find an entry to the market: Most people that actually need something like this do have secretaries (who will also schedule a lot of other things in regards to the meeting) and most other people that have a less severe form of that problem rarely want to actually pay for such a product.

[0]: https://claralabs.com
by mitthrowaway2 | 2026-03-05 21:49:26+00:00
... No?

The government signed a contract with Anthropic, then changed their minds and decided they don't like the terms of the agreement that they had already voluntarily signed, and then they designated Anthropic a supply chain risk.

It's like ordering a pizza to the Pentagon, and then saying "actually we made a mistake with our order; we want that pizza delivered to Venezuela, please do that". And then when Dominos politely says that's outside of their service area, you call them a threat to national security, say they're trying to dictate terms, and ban them from ever doing business with any of your vendors ever again.
Show HN: Tarmac – Know what Claude Code will cost before you run it
by sarthakaggarwal | 2026-03-05 21:49:39+00:00
I built this because I kept getting surprised by Claude Code bills. A complex refactoring task that I expected to cost $2 would end up costing $15, and there was no way to know beforehand.

Tarmac analyzes your prompt and gives you a cost range before Claude Code starts working. It uses conformal prediction trained on 3,000 real SWE-bench tasks — hitting 81% in-range accuracy on an 80% target.

npm install -g tarmac-cost — fully open source, runs locally, no tracking, no accounts.

Would love feedback on estimate accuracy for your use cases - that's what I'm most focused on improving
by dasil003 | 2026-03-05 21:49:58+00:00
I don't know how that relates to what I said, and it's certainly not something I believe. Personally I don't think any form of knowledge work can be learned quickly in 21st century, otherwise it would have been automated away already (well before the current wave of AI that further accelerates the trend). That goes for product management, design, operations, strategy equally to software engineering, data science any other technical disciplines.
by theropost | 2026-03-05 21:50:13+00:00
It always kinda amazes me how people panic about gov data use but barely blink at the private sector doing the exact same thing… except way less transparently.

Like yeah, sure, governments collecting data deserves scrutiny. 100%. But at least in most democracies there are audits, oversight bodies, privacy commissioners, courts, access to information laws, etc. There are actual mechanisms where someone can ask “why are you doing this?” and force an answer.

Meanwhile we hand over our location, browsing habits, shopping patterns, sleep schedule, and probably our favorite pizza topping to dozens of private companies every day. Those companies can aggregate it, sell it, profile you, feed it into ad markets, train models with it, or ship it across borders… and most of the time nobody outside the company even knows it’s happening.

So yeah, data collection in general is worth debating. But the irony is wild when people lose their minds over the one place that at least has some governance and accountability, while the entire private ad-tech ecosystem is basically “trust us bro” with a 40-page terms of service nobody reads.
by ntonozzi | 2026-03-05 21:50:14+00:00
IMO the core of the issue is the awful Github Actions Cache design. Look at the recommendations to avoid an attack by this extremely pernicious malware proof of concept: https://github.com/AdnaneKhan/Cacheract?tab=readme-ov-file#g.... How easy is it to mess this up when designing an action?

The LLM is a cute way to carry out this vulnerability, but in fact it's very easy to get code execution and poison a cache without LLMs, for example when executing code in the context of a unit test.
by epistasis | 2026-03-05 21:50:25+00:00
Glad to see another example of this! Remote unlocking of your personal server's encrypted hard drive is PITA.

Other options that I've investigated that involve having a second server:

* A second server with Tang, and Clevis in the initramfs OS

* Keylime

Putting tailscale in the initramfs, and then updating the certs on a frequent enough schedule, seems risky to me. I've already played around with limine enough that I know I don't want to install much in the initramfs...
by cyanydeez | 2026-03-05 21:50:29+00:00
Nah, it's "We dont want to provide a consistent model that we'll be stuck with supporting for a decade because it just takes up space; until we run everyone out of business, we can't afford to have customers tying their systems to any given model"

Really, the economics makes no sense, but that's what they're doing. You can't have a consistent model because it'll pin their hardware & software, and that costs money.
by voice_vector | 2026-03-05 21:52:03+00:00
Telnyx just added Rime Arcana V3 to their voice AI platform, bringing native code switching between 10 languages (English, Spanish, French, German, Arabic, Japanese, Portuguese, Hindi, Hebrew, Tamil) to their Voice API and AI Agents.

The interesting part: this works as a single utterance without breaking voice identity. So when a customer switches from "Hello, I need help with mi cuenta" or "Can you help me avec mon problème?" mid sentence, you get the same voice maintaining prosody across completely different phonetic structures.

Most multilingual TTS solutions handle this by routing to different voice models per language (your agent sounds like different people) or adding latency from language detection. Arcana V3 processes mixed language input as one continuous stream.

This is part of Telnyx's hub approach. Instead of being locked into one TTS provider's strengths and weaknesses, you get access to multiple frontier models through the same API. Arcana V3 for multilingual, other models for different specializations.

Particularly useful for voice AI serving bilingual communities where code switching is the norm, not the exception. Available now across their Voice API, AI Agents, and standalone TTS.
by alanwreath | 2026-03-05 21:52:31+00:00
But for how long? If Claude is a supply chain risk. That means anyone hosting him would also be a supply chain risk.

Ergo AWS/Azure/GCP - nobody will host them because it’s Anthropic or the lucrative government contracts. Hegseth/Trump didn’t just say “you’ll never do business with the US” - it’s that they will never do business IN the US. Hopefully that means they’ll be able to take up shop elsewhere in the world.
by AuthAuth | 2026-03-05 21:52:32+00:00
I have no data to back this up but patent trolling seems to happen far less than companies that already own significant infra/talent ripping products from smaller companies and out competing them with their scale. I'd rather have patent trolling than have Amazon manufacturer everything i launch.

The problem with IP laws and the US is that the big companies already do what IP is suppose to protect and the US refuses to legislate effectively against them.
by subscribed | 2026-03-05 21:52:43+00:00
> big names such as Costco Wholesale, FedEx and Pandora Jewelry—seeking to recoup their money.

Oh, so it was always only about a money transfer from the customers (who fully and wholly bore the cost otlf the tariffs already) to the companies which will now get the refunds for what their customers already covered?

What a robbery.
by sarthakaggarwal | 2026-03-05 21:52:46+00:00
Happy to answer any questions about the approach. The key insight is that conformal prediction gives you calibrated confidence intervals — if we target 80% coverage, we actually get 81% of actual costs landing within the predicted range. No ML runtime needed, just feature extraction + dot product. Runs in ~5ms per estimate.

Biggest limitation right now: it only sees the prompt text, not your codebase or conversation history. Short/vague prompts get wide ranges.
by fc417fc802 | 2026-03-05 21:53:29+00:00
They don't get in trouble because you can't abuse a utility to launder money. The onus is on you to provide an example here.

You only need to look into your customers to the extent required by law; beyond that it's not your problem. In your example with an intermediary a failure to report suspicious activity could potentially result in you being viewed as an accomplice.
by CloakHQ | 2026-03-05 21:54:12+00:00
session compromise at this scale is usually less about breaking auth and more about harvesting valid sessions from environments where the browser itself leaks state. most "secure" sessions assume the browser is a neutral transport - but the browser exposes a surprising amount of identity through fingerprint consistency across tabs, timing patterns, and cached state that survives logout. the interesting question here isn't the auth model, it's what the attacker's client looked like at the time of the requests.
by spwa4 | 2026-03-05 21:54:22+00:00
So only Europeans colonizing counts? I mean, I get that you must hold this opinion, because colonizing is all muslims do. Literally every square mm muslims live is colonized land. Conquered by muslims, population exterminated or exploited as slaves, in some cases to this day.

But I guess such details don't count as colonization?
by chasd00 | 2026-03-05 21:54:31+00:00
from the last paragraph of the wiki article you linked

> In June 2020, BAE announced they had completed test firings of the APKWS from a ground launcher for the first time

so it seems like they've got them launching from the ground. That seems like a real possibility to defend against these kinds of drones. However, I don't think it's a problem of technology or cost right now but of availability.
by renewiltord | 2026-03-05 21:54:31+00:00
To everyone else who reads this and thinks to themselves "Man, this guy has a refined palate that PG doesn't have. PG can't appreciate beauty", go take a look at the Nautilus yourself https://glennbradford.com/products/patek-philippe-nautilus-0...

It looks like an Aliexpress Timex.
by notnullorvoid | 2026-03-05 21:54:52+00:00
IP Address is all you need to get fairly accurate (town or neighborhood) location for most of North America.

But it is necessary to send it somewhere, otherwise the internet wouldn't work.

Unfortunately it seems to have become accepted for our devices to communicate constantly and often with services we never explicitly started communication with (like Ad networks used in Apps).

Permission systems on devices should care about Network connections just as much as Location. Ideally when installing an app you'd get the list of domains it requests to communicate with, and you could toggle them. Bonus points if the app store made it a requirement to identify which Domains are third parties and the category like an Ad service.
by jacquesm | 2026-03-05 21:55:02+00:00
> Incoming power service is on the complete opposite side of the house from where I really want the power handling gear.

Same in my house.

> It would still have to get the grid phase timing somehow to line them up before connecting, so something more than merely a dumb contactor.

Then you'll want a synchronous one. They match phase before making the switch, which is one reason why it's nice if you use one tied to your inverter, which already has the capability to steer its phase to match the grid.
by qingcharles | 2026-03-05 21:55:14+00:00
I don't know. I've communicated with Alex a few times over the last decade or so and he's always seemed one of the most rational, smart and pragmatic jail reformers I've ever know. He has always followed the legal path through the courts, even though it is often broken, trying to make it less broken for those coming behind.

You can't see inside anyone's mind. What caused him to commit his original offense that got him locked up for a decade? It wasn't a crime of necessity, I'm sure. Most crimes aren't. A lot of people commit crimes because some untreated mental health issue which lowers their self control. Then followed by ten years he was locked up, who knows what damage that did to his psyche which lay undiscovered?
by Asm2D | 2026-03-05 21:55:34+00:00
That's interesting - 200kB should not be a big deal for it - maybe it uses something that I usually don't, like many function calls, or insane number of branches, etc... I would be interested in that case, but I'm not sure whether I would be able to blindly improve AsmJit without a comprehensive test.

Definitely good to know though. When it comes to low-latency compilation my personal goal is to make it even faster when generating small functions.
by observationist | 2026-03-05 21:55:39+00:00
Are you sure?
Are you $150 million ARR sure?
Are you $150 million ARR, you'd really like to keep your job, you're not going to accidentally leave a hole or blow up something else, sure?

I agree, mostly, but I'm also really glad I don't have to put out this fire. Cheering them on from the sidelines, though!
by lubesGordi | 2026-03-05 21:55:54+00:00
It's funny that the context window size is such a thing still. Like the whole LLM 'thing' is compression. Why can't we figure out some equally brilliant way of handling context besides just storing text somewhere and feeding it to the llm? RAG is the best attempt so far. We need something like a dynamic in flight llm/data structure being generated from the context that the agent can query as it goes.
by jkuli | 2026-03-05 21:56:05+00:00
The author says they want freedom, but demands restrictions. They can't just make their own decision, they need to live everyone else's life too. This is part of a sustained attack on all internet users. They give multiple rationales.

Thousands of similar articles amount to brainwashing. The public is inundated with a false reality.

People like this claim to be injured by infinite scrolling, there is no way to have a consistent standard with claims that are so frivolous.

I expect a pile of down votes... my account is already tanked for similar reason. More manipulation of social media by people who claim to abhor it.
by spwa4 | 2026-03-05 21:56:09+00:00
If you look up history more accurately you'll find this isn't true. Or at least, it's not the whole story. Europeans took over India from muslim conquerors. Same with most of the places you mention.
European colonization is the reason slavery stopped in those places.
That was what muslims did there, better known as "black gold". Meaning for a millenium all muslim economies were 100% built on exploitation of slaves. And three guesses why it was called "black" gold ...
Oh and it wasn't one state. Muslims massacred their own empires out of existence every 2 centuries or so. But every empire they had was built on slavery. The first ("the propet" was a slaver and a slavetrader. In case you don't know: slaver means he invaded villages and killed people until the rest accepted to become slaves), the last, and every one in between.
by bigstrat2003 | 2026-03-05 21:56:12+00:00
Kinda. I think people want "classic WoW" because they aren't able to articulate what, exactly, would need to change with WoW to make them happy again. But they can pretty easily paint to the old version and say "I liked that, bring that back". I think it's plausible that you could (with time and effort) design something that isn't the same as classic WoW while keeping the players happy.
by embedding-shape | 2026-03-05 21:57:27+00:00
If only everyone shared the same use case :)

Maybe I have a server at home, with a locked cabinet and vibration sensors, that houses a server or two and they all use full disk encryption, but I still want to be able to reboot them without having to connect a physical keyboard to them. So no one has physical access, not even me, but I still want to be able to reboot them.

Or countless of other scenarios where it could be useful to be able to remotely unlock FDE.
by xyzzy123 | 2026-03-05 21:58:18+00:00
I think even if the US gov could nationalise an AI company, it would be quickly driven into the ground.

The government would do things like spend 2 years on contract negotiation for chips or power and end up with hardware that was obsolete by the end of procurement.

They would introduce so much red tape and administrative hassle that progress would grind to a halt.

The problem is that if they nationalised or "commandeered output", some bureacrat would suddenly become responsible for everything wrong with the system and would have to CYA.