MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by judah | 2026-03-10 01:19:58+00:00
Increasingly, there just aren't enough incentives to write native apps.

This isn't a criticism of the article, but rather a tangential observation about why so many people turn to the web instead of using native toolkits to build apps, and why so many of native toolkits feel uninspired and lacking any real innovation.

If I choose to build an app using web tech, I get:

- Universal distribution

- No download and install process

- No "please wait while we update this"

- Users can easily share my app

- Users can link to individual pages within my app

- Users get autofill for forms and passwords and credit cards

- Users can block ads

- Users can scale and zoom my content

- Users can find text on any page in my app

- No "SmartScan couldn't verify if this app is safe" because it wasn't signed with a cert.

- A clearer security model: web apps prompt the user for access to e.g. microphone, camera, or secure disk locations. Native apps can kinda do whatever they want.

Why would I give up all those things to write a native app? A knee-jerk answer is often "performance", but honestly, most web apps load faster than their native counterparts these days.

Another common answer is app store distribution, but web apps can now be published to the major app stores without Electron or other frameworks. Google Play and Microsoft Store both support PWAs, and iOS App Store supports web apps via web view.

There are some scenarios where a native app is warranted. For example, hooking into some native component or OS API; e.g. HealthKit on iOS. But for many apps, the web is good enough.
by whatisthiseven | 2026-03-10 01:20:08+00:00
If you want to listen to the audiobook Rendevous with Rama, I strongly recommend against the version as narrated by Peter Ganim. One of the worst narrators. His pacing is so bad it sounds like he is inserting periods into the middle of sentences. By the end his cadence improves, but it seriously made me stop listening to the story multiple times because of the poor narration.

Which is a shame, because the story is great. The "aha"! moment the ending gives is a huge rush.
by maxdo | 2026-03-10 01:20:54+00:00
This week my spending is > $2000 , and my ceo is very happy, another top user burned $1600.

You personally will not pay , but these who will will replace people who are not productive.

That’s actually the limiting factor. There will be top 5% of developers who will throw away on the street remaining 95%. No EU socialism will protect the rest . It is very unclear what is the new world market , with no web developers , no custom dashboard teams , no analytics teams , no devops whose role is to babysit human devs. From one side it’s a market for opportunity to automate , but human devs are generators of unlimited inefficiencies. Once the market settles down , the demand for lots of tools will shrink.

On my spendings to anthropic . I’m a manager, and top user I burn tokens on tickets creation , planing , even sprint filtering , for sure the most went to coding. Bugs are getting fixed by just sharing a screenshot and a sentence or two of description in 80% of the cases , all the way including to PR creation and making sure release is live and good with tests.

There are ways to cut the cost a bit , maybe 30-40% but it’s not practical .
by bayarearefugee | 2026-03-10 01:21:01+00:00
> Why would the war with Iran mean rising homeland threat? Aren't we "fighting them over there so we don't have to fight them over here"?

It turns out that when you do things like bomb a school and kill 175 innocent people (most of them children) it radicalizes their friends and families against you.

Who would have thought?
by Aurornis | 2026-03-10 01:21:27+00:00
I tried not to comment directly on the site because I wanted my points to stand on their own. However, Lesswrong has a long history on the internet. It’s part of the “rationalist” writing sphere which has become oddly preoccupied with topics like race and IQ, eugenics-adjacent topics, and never ending flirtations with reactionary ideologies.
by wilkystyle | 2026-03-10 01:22:25+00:00
> That means the code is sketchy sometimes, sure, but it's in my control. I wrote it, I understand it, and when it breaks, I know exactly where to look.

This resonates with me so hard. I'm not a "no external packages" purist, but there are a number of pieces of functionality that I wrote for myself because there wasn't anything quite like what I wanted.

One example is a function to expand the region (selection) to any arbitrary set of pairing delimiters that I define in a defvar (parens, quotes, brackets, or I can can supply a custom left/right regex for matching). Then, when I execute the function, it waits for a second keypress, which is the trigger key I've defined for that matching pair, and it will expand the region to the left and the right until it meets the applicable delimiter.

Repeating the same key presses results in selecting the left and right delimiters themselves, and another repeat will extend to the next set of matching delimiters, and so on.

Even though I use a treesitter-based expand-region plug-in, my custom function is still invaluable for when I want to jump past a series of valid treesitter object expansions, or when certain text objects are just not defined in treesitter.

Some of the helpful custom expansions I have defined are:

"w" to select what Vim considers a lowercase-w word

Space to select what Vim considers an uppercase-W word

"$" to select ${...}-style expressions

"/" to select everything between forward slashes

"*" to select between asterisks (useful when editing markdown)

It's really an invaluable function for me, personally, but I always talk myself out of trying to open-source it because it has some gotchas and limitations, and I just don't want to be on the hook for trying to make everyone who uses it happy.
by shiroiuma | 2026-03-10 01:22:26+00:00
Are you talking about the same Rama sequels by Gentry Lee?

I admit it's been a long time since I read them (maybe 20 years), but I certainly don't remember anything quite like this. I remember it more like the other poster here said: they basically said everyone was corrupt. In a nutshell, Rama comes back to Earth with instructions that a bunch of humans need to come aboard to live out their lives there. But instead of sending their best, some parts of Earth send their worst: criminals and such. So pretty quickly there's several different "cities", with one of them basically run by some crime boss. One of the main characters' daughters gets involved with the crime boss somehow and murders him before killing herself, as payback for killing her father. Later, the human habitat goes to war with the aliens in one of the other habitats, because the humans had broken through to their side and invaded them for some reason I forget. There was even one plot point that the father had hacked into the ship's environmental controls because the humans insisted on having wood-burning fireplaces, even though this messed with the environmental control systems. Instead of just not burning fires, the basically forced him to change the system to accommodate their fireplaces.

But I don't remember any sex slaves. Maybe I forgot that part.
by rcruzeiro | 2026-03-10 01:22:57+00:00
I remember being in 20 years old, at the start of my career, and complete broke. I thought Twitter was just a toy website, until one day I radically changed my mind.

I was a customer of a bank that treated me with nothing but contempt. Whenever I called the bank because of a problem, I would stay on the line forever to eventually talk to an unbothered representative. One day, instead of calling, I complained on twitter and tagged the bank. Half an hour later the bank apologised and fixed my problem.
by jrapdx3 | 2026-03-10 01:23:32+00:00
Probably not what most on HN would think of, but for writing a simple app with a GUI, I'd suggest that Tcl/Tk is hard to beat. Of course the simple approach wouldn't suffice if the program had to be compiled to a native binary. Though Tcl/Tk has an excellent C API, so a binary version of the app could be built if considerably more work to accomplish.
by vanderZwan | 2026-03-10 01:23:36+00:00
> I'll bite

Tasteless joke, dude.

You're calling a direct quote of a testimony given by one of Epstein's victims "hearsay". ctrl+f "bit" in that PDF.

Pretending to be oblivious to the many complaints that the attacks in Iran are another attempted distraction from the Epstein files isn't fooling anyone either.

You may feel like it's "off-topic", but I don't see why people should be allowed to talk about and glorify military techology, but not voice their disgust at it, how it is used, or why.
by Rover222 | 2026-03-10 01:23:47+00:00
From the author:

In this work, we develop a fully analytic model showing that the hydrogen spectrum of quantum mechanics can emerge from dynamic vacuum physics.

The key takeaway: quantization can emerge naturally from a dynamic vacuum that varies in space and time, rather than being introduced as a separate postulate.

This represents an important step in strengthening the scientific foundations of the dynamic vacuum framework we are developing at Casimir. If the vacuum behaves as a physical medium with dynamic structure, it could fundamentally change how we think about energy interactions with the vacuum.
by matheusmoreira | 2026-03-10 01:24:00+00:00
It depends. Traffic lights are just mutexes. They are there to stop traffic so that other traffic may pass safely. There's no point if there aren't any other cars.
Obviously anyone running a light on a busy intersection deserves to get fined but if you know the terrain, have good visibility into the road where the other traffic comes from and can clearly see there are no vehicles present, running the red light is utterly harmless.

In my city, certain traffic lights literally turn off at night. There's not enough traffic flowing to justify them.
by ternaryoperator | 2026-03-10 01:25:44+00:00
J6 is not a strong counterexample, IMHO. Part of the problem with Epstein is "proof beyond a reasonable doubt," for which evidence is needed--and, it appears, hard to come by. Whereas with J6, there were thousands of hours of footage showing the crimes being committed (and in many cases bragged about), which made prosecutions much easier.
by shiroiuma | 2026-03-10 01:25:55+00:00
>as happened to Foundation. (I actually like the Apple TV version, but it’s definitely its own thing.)

This is not necessarily a bad thing. Others have noted that a faithful adaptation would have been a snooze-fest and inconsistent at best. There's lots of cases where a movie/TV version departed greatly from the source material, and was better for it.

>Rama may turn out unrecognizable after the Hollywood script jockeys have been through with it

It's being helmed by Denis Villeneuve, the guy who did Blade Runner 2049, Arrival, and the new Dune movies. If anyone can do a good job with it, he can.

>For sci-fi takes on truly alien first contacts,

Don't forget Villeneuve's "Arrival".
by UltraSane | 2026-03-10 01:26:53+00:00
They were absolutely not hopelessly outdated. Nuclear reactors can last 60 to 80 years.

When I checked electricity maps today Germany was emitting 17 times as much CO2 per Watt of electricity as France. That is what idiotically shutting down nuclear reactors instead of coal plants does and German environmentalists should be ashamed of themselves.
German electricity is also some of the most expensive in the world and is causing companies to close plants in Germany. BASF, a major German chemical company, has implemented plant closures due to high production costs. Germany's energy policy is a disaster that has made electricity both expensive and dirty.
by esseph | 2026-03-10 01:27:19+00:00
They're one ~ 3 main companies in the US that will sell you quantum computers, and the only one offering a quantum PaaS.

They do a lot of stuff. Also own Hashicorp now, so they have things like: Ansible / RedHat Linux (already owned), Terraform, Consul, Nomad, Packer, etc. A lot of "let's build modern infra" tooling.
by andrewingram | 2026-03-10 01:28:44+00:00
I used something similar for my Super Mario Maker 2 level viewer (eg https://www.smm2-viewer.com/courses/1HH-CJ8-KYF)

In the level data, the start/goal tiles (approx 10x10 blocks of solid ground under the player and goal) and slopes aren't represented by their tile offset in the level data -- whilst all other "ground" tiles are. Instead, for slopes you're only told the start and end coordinates, and they often overlap.

So to render the slopes correctly I had to work out all the rules for which tiles were allowed next to each other, and solve some ambiguity rules -- I figured out that shallow slopes take precedence over steep ones. Eventually I cracked it, but it took quite a week or so of iteration to figure it out.
by unselect5917 | 2026-03-10 01:29:28+00:00
I don't like paltry sums like this. $300 is a significant financial impact to someone who's barely making ends meet, and absolutely nothing at all to a billionaire. "If the penalty for a crime is a fine, then that law only exists for the poor."

Make it a tiny % of net worth, with a modest minimum and watch EVERYONE obey. Or at least something meaningful to everyone, or don't make it a fine. Use some other carrot or stick.
by gruez | 2026-03-10 01:29:41+00:00
>With J6, in the matter of 2 or so years the FBI has secured over 1000 convictions.

Again, large numbers, but no context. How many people did you think were at the riots? 10k? 50k?

Moreover, Jan 6th was an event that definitely happened. The same can't be said for whatever happened at Epstein's island. The island exists, Epstein's a convicted sex offender, and people flew there, but associating with sex offenders isn't a crime, no matter how despicable it might seem.
by cyw | 2026-03-10 01:29:50+00:00
If your main working machine is Windows and you're working with multiple coding agents in parallel, you know the pain. So I built this terminal based IDE in Rust with GPUI. Beside the features that tmux offers (status notifications, custom layout and pane window adjustment), Codirigent also lets you paste images directly into the session, and if you close the app without ending the session, it automatically resumes with the same permission mode!

It supports Claude Code, Codex CLI, Gemini CLI with status detection and notifications, which wasn't a thing in Windows (or did I miss anything?).

Let me know if you have any issues!
by joegibbs | 2026-03-10 01:30:18+00:00
They don't get killed adjacent to the farm, the abattoir is usually far away from it, you put them on a truck to send them there. They wouldn't care about being a slave from birth, they don't have the concept. A cow is happy to be eating grass and chewing cud, it doesn't have any highminded ideas about escaping to live a better life.
by TheDong | 2026-03-10 01:31:59+00:00
I think the AI labs need to be the ones to build AI-specific languages so they can include a huge corpus in the model training data-set, and then do RL on it producing useful and correct programs in that language.

If anthropic makes "claude-script", it'll outmog this language with massive RL-maxing. I hope your cortisol is ready for that.

If you want to try and mog claude with moglang, I think you need to make a corpus of several terrabytes of valid useful "mog" programs, and wait for that to get included in the training dataset.
by 137audio | 2026-03-10 01:32:42+00:00
The intriguing part is whether this framework can reproduce the full operator algebra or just mimics the statistics—stochastic electrodynamics had similar ambitions but struggled with multiparticle systems. There's a detailed technical breakdown at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wuBOrL3WGwI that covers the mathematical machinery if you want to see how far the formalism extends.
by underlipton | 2026-03-10 01:32:48+00:00
Random thought: this also accurately describes the financialization of home ownership. It was supposed to provide stability in shelter, and instead created a market that's completely unaffordable to the prime home-buying generations, in favor of protecting those who've come to depend on unconscionable valuations.

No one, gun to their head and hand on a Bible, should defend a status quo where the only way to afford a median house is to have twice the median income.
by EPWN3D | 2026-03-10 01:33:22+00:00
That's not true at all. I don't like HR departments, and I think they're the scum of the corporate world, especially the latest batch of HR geniuses to slither out of whatever business school swamp spawns them.

But their job is to protect the company. If you report behavior that presents a liability for the company, HR will take it seriously. I know people who've been fired through these processes.

What you shouldn't do is report frivolous complaints. A lot of people misunderstand HR the same way they misunderstand the legal system in America. They use it in place of having a grown-up conversation. Like judges, HR people will have little patience with matters that could've been resolved by putting on your big boy or big girl pants.
by NoLinkToMe | 2026-03-10 01:33:39+00:00
True.

But: EU is the only effective player in the world that drives energy policy outside its borders, by being a massive market with regulatory power regarding its imports.

If you look at three figures: energy use per capita, emissions per capita, and GDP per unit of energy/emissions, and include imported consumption, the EU's are all trending in a positive direction for many years now.

So stating the EU has de-industralized and its progress on shutting down coal is therefore 'fake' and misleading because it imports its industrial consumption from other countries to which it has simply offloaded its emissions, isn't true.
by diogenes_atx | 2026-03-10 01:34:40+00:00
There is a plausible explanation for the reluctance of the US government to admit the authenticity of Havana Syndrome: the US military may have developed its own energy weapon that causes similar injuries and symptoms.

What is the evidence to support such a hypothesis? President Trump himself recently revealed the existence of a new secret energy weapon that was used to disable Nicolás Maduro's security team during the raid to capture the Venezuelan president [1].

According to one of Maduro's guards quoted by the New York Post: “At one point, they launched something; I don’t know how to describe it. It was like a very intense sound wave. Suddenly I felt like my head was exploding from the inside,” the witness said. "We all started bleeding from the nose. Some were vomiting blood. We fell to the ground, unable to move. We couldn’t even stand up after that sonic weapon — or whatever it was."

[1] https://nypost.com/2026/01/24/us-news/trump-reveals-to-the-p...
by rgoulter | 2026-03-10 01:34:57+00:00
While this is a problem for the default user experience, I think if you're an enthusiast there's less of a problem because you can get an external keyboard you like.

Laptop keyboards will always be disliked by someone: the standard keyboard layout is awful, and dealing with this either involves trying to stick to the conventional design (wherein different people will dislike different changes); whereas a good keyboard design is going to be so far from the standard keyboard that laptops aren't going to do that.

(People will quibble about where to put the arrow keys or however many modifier keys there are or that caps lock is badly placed.. but the most glaring issue is that the spacebar doesn't need to be over 6x the size of other keys).

It's a problem if the OS is inconsistent/unclear about what scan codes are required to do things.
by Qwertious | 2026-03-10 01:35:33+00:00
Chinese state govt is building them in response to poorly thought out federal govt incentives. That plus backup plans (since China had plenty of coal but needs to import gas, so it could easily be navally blockaded by the US). Also gas turbines are a specialty of the West (which again doesn't work well geopolitically), and their demand has massively outstripped supply (we're even seeing jet engines being converted into gas turbines) and the order backlog is years out - all of which doesn't jive with China's "build everything right f'n now" strategy.

China is building everything at a pace never before seen in history. Partly because their construction industry is a jobs program, and their economy is so dependent on it that they prefer building things at a loss rather than not building at all. Which is financially dumb, but welcome to politics.
by UltraSane | 2026-03-10 01:35:45+00:00
Renewables have been built on the back of decades of subsidies, tax credits, mandated purchase obligations (RPSs), and net metering policies that shift integration costs to non-participants. Singling out nuclear here is intellectually dishonest unless you apply the same standard to all sources.

A grid running 70%+ renewables needs massive storage, transmission overbuild, and firm backup capacity costs that don't appear in solar/wind LCOE figures but are real and substantial. Nuclear provides firm, dispatchable, carbon-free baseload with a ~90%+ capacity factor. Solar capacity factors are 20-30%, wind 30-45%.

The OECD's 2020 Projected Costs study shows that at a 3% discount rate with a $30/ton carbon price, nuclear was the cheapest dispatchable option in most countries. Nuclear becomes comfortably cheaper than coal and gas under carbon pricing at low discount rates.
by dogcomplex | 2026-03-10 01:35:48+00:00
We should be removing IP law entirely, not strengthening it to cover entire classes of problem even when implemented entirely differently. Same for anyone trying to claim "colorful monster creatures" as innately Pokemon IP. Just because someone climbed a mountain first doesn't mean they own it forever. Nobody should be honouring any of these claims.

Nor should we be treating AI models themselves as respected IP. They're built on everyone else's data. Throw away this whole class of law, it's irrelevant in this new world.
by burningChrome | 2026-03-10 01:36:26+00:00
I have several hockey leagues and pick up sessions that only take payment via Venmo; prior to league or the session starting. Makes it way easier than going around to everybody in the locker room trying to round up cash.

I also use it for a few vendors for some small payments I make every month for my studio.

I don't use them a lot and I know some people that use them for 90-95% of the stuff they do which is crazy to me like yourself. I try and limit my use of the apps to as little as possible. Whatever works for people I guess.
by treyd | 2026-03-10 01:36:28+00:00
> if this transcends copyright and unravels the whole concept of intellectual property.

I have been saying this for years. Intellectual property is based on the concept that ideas can be owned, which is fundamentally a contradiction with how reality operates. We've been able to write laws that paper over that contradiction by introducing concepts like "fair use", but it doesn't resolve it.

AI is just making the conflict arising out of that contradiction more intense in new ways and forcing us to reckon with it in this new technological landscape. You can follow two perfectly reasonable lines of logic and end up with contradictory solutions. So how are we going to get out of this mess? I don't know, not without rolling back (at least parts of) what intellectual property is in the first place.
by nstj | 2026-03-10 01:38:38+00:00
> The Starfighter had a poor safety record, especially in Luftwaffe service. The Germans lost 292 of 916 aircraft and 116 pilots from 1961 to 1989, leading the German public to dub it Witwenmacher ("widowmaker").[0]

[0]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lockheed_F-104_Starfighter