MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by jdprgm | 2026-03-14 06:17:29+00:00
This is a comically short lifespan. Didn't they launch less than like 6 months ago? To just torch it and shut it down is wild and right from the jump referencing downsizing the team... I got the impression this was a fairly small team from the beginning. Not to mention it was backed by stupendously wealthy cofounders making fortunes off the web 2.0 run of original digg and reddit, yet can't seem to stomach a bumpy 2 quarter initial launch?

There was a lot in the new digg that I was concerned or at least not optimistic about but come on - are we even going to try anymore?
by mech422 | 2026-03-14 06:17:35+00:00
Off the top of my head, I can think of the following during my career:

1. COBOL (we actually did still use it back in the 80s)

2.AI back in the 80s (Dr. Dobbs was all concerned about it ...)

3. RAD

4. No-Code

5. Off-shoring

6. Web 2.0

7. Web 3.0

8. possibly the ADA/provably correct push depending on your area of programming

TBH - I think the AI's are nice tools, but they got a long way to go before it's the 'end of computer programming as we know it'

edit: formatting
by blululu | 2026-03-14 06:17:57+00:00
Just to be clear the parent is still 100% correct that wired headphones:
* Do not need charging
* Are hard to lose.
* Offer better audio
* Never glitch out with pairing.

BLE Audio offers lower need for charging and better (but not equivalent) audio. So 2/4 are not as bad with BLE Audio (and arguably only 1 since you still need to charge). The other two 2/4 are related to the form factor. Wireless headphones have advantages but they are not the decisive winner.
by derefr | 2026-03-14 06:18:28+00:00
> a zillion decent-spec chromebook style machines

The interesting/unique thing about Apple's offering at this price point is the build quality, not the spec.

If you're a school IT department buying these in volume, you want something that actually lasts more than a year before pieces of plastic begin chipping off, hinges start wearing out, etc. And you want something that's easy to clean / sanitize sticky little kid fingerprints off of, and also to undo e.g. residue (from kids who thought it'd be a good idea to stick stickers on their take-home laptop) without worrying about either the adhesive or the thinner permanently damaging the chassis.

In both cases, Apple can actually promise this with the Neo, while none of the Chromebook OEMs can for their equivalent offerings at this price point. (The other OEMs can promise it, but only for offerings at higher price-points schools aren't willing to pay.)

Also, Apple can now promise that you can keep a pile of spares and spare parts, and swap parts between them easily, replace consumables like batteries, etc. (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PbPCGqoBB4Y). Which is essentially table stakes for the education market, but it's good that they've caught up.
by FpUser | 2026-03-14 06:18:41+00:00
Some time in the 90s I used to live at XXX Some Street West apt #1234 and my close friend at XXX Some Street East apt #1234. One day someone knocks on the door. I open and there is a pizza man. We argued for a while and he kept insisting that I did order it. Finally I asked him to show the order. Of course it was all the same but East instead of West. Anyways I called my friend and thanked for a pizza. This was so funny.
by stahtops | 2026-03-14 06:19:02+00:00
Why downplay the mass surveillance aspect by saying it's a request by "the military". It's a request by the department of defense, the parent organization of the NSA.

From what has been shared publicly, they absolutely did ask for contractual limits on domestic mass surveillance to be removed, and to my read, likely technical/software restrictions to be removed as well.

What the department of defense is legally allowed to do is irrelevant and a red herring.
by scarecrowbob | 2026-03-14 06:19:03+00:00
I work with a lot of audio in a professional capacity. You're correct if you're saying that neither tech is universally "teh best".

And you're correct that wired phones have a lot of advantages.

Tack on that they don't have latency, though I've never really tried to track vocals on wireless cans. I have a pretty nice collection of what I consider to be quality mid-tier stuff for my studio (hd280, dt770, mdr7506, k240), and I think they mostly sound better and I can use them longer than I can use the various wireless stuff I use.

And the "real" UHF wireless audio I use professionally (well, to collect rather than listen to audio) is very reliable and good sounding but also, like, $1000/ch once it's cased and cabled and properly accessorized.

However, for almost all of my day to day listening I use either airpods or a some bluetooth'd 3M ear muffs. I even went back to airpods after going through both wired and other wireless solutions.

I don't enjoy having my in-ears ripped out along with my pocket. And universally the cord ends and the physical connector on my phone are the weak spots that have had me replace stuff- I haven't bought a phone in the 5 years since I got one that could charge wirelessly and never has phones plugged into it, and I don't intend to get another one any time soon (knock on wood that my case keeps the screen from breaking and needing me to repair it).

I have a bluetooth receiver with an analog out that I keep in my workbox, which I used for program music at a show tonight. It's nice to start my truck and my podcast just starts playing, too, without having to get out my phone and plug it in.

You're right that wired stuff is better for some things. I still find wireless stuff to be superior in a lot of situations.
by luzejian | 2026-03-14 06:19:06+00:00
The interesting meta-pattern here is how often the tooling around a problem lags the problem itself by 5-10 years. The operational complexity exists, the pain is real, but because it's distributed across many small actors rather than concentrated in a few large ones, the market for structured solutions is slower to develop. That's usually a signal rather than a dead end — it means the first tool that actually fits the workflow has real leverage.
by jandrewrogers | 2026-03-14 06:19:47+00:00
This post is a poor exposition of Crocker’s Rules.

Crocker’s Rules were a reaction to the avoidance of direct discussion of topics where some people treat the mere act of discussion in any capacity as offensive. Sacred cows and taboos for which there are social consequences even when asking honest questions. Crocker’s Rules, practically speaking, were a declaration that no good faith discussion was intrinsically offensive ipso facto for the person making the declaration. All taboos were open to good faith arguments and attempts at rigorous intellectual inquiry.

This article is focused too much on communication style and not enough on the subject of communication. The latter was the crux of it. Crocker’s Rules were about being able to rigorously discuss topics that society has deemed to be beyond discussion without taking offense at the fact it is being discussed.

I was present when Crocker’s Rules were “invented”. I see a couple other handles here that may have been as well.
by syveen | 2026-03-14 06:20:07+00:00
first ，stop telling story to yourself its a prison，second，treat this as a new chapter and accept the building adjustment，third，stop characterizing your self to a stable，static statue，instead，let it flow. last, don’t escape , don’t try to fix or solve anything, all such self talk points to same underlying thing - it’s a problem. No, it’s not, it’s a status. More intention of fixing it, more problems you would sense. no many suggestions，we carrying something while building something.

Edit to add few experiences.

I travelled alone and also travelled with my once-deeply loved boyfriend. I travelled for 11 days to other countries. I had most romantic days with that boyfriend in the travel, i took the travel alone as some evidence that I could live without him. And in that single journey, I met guys and had a few deep conversations with each one. I saw views I ignored when i was with him.

In the single journey, it’s still beautiful. Sense them, allow them.
by chickensong | 2026-03-14 06:20:28+00:00
I found two obvious issues in the first playlist I tried, and used /suggest, but two out of ten doesn't inspire confidence. Maybe in addition to /suggest, extend your app to include a checker on the compiled playlist. The two songs I noticed, one was released over 30 years later, the other wasn't even from the same century and was an unrelated genre. Just comparing song release date against the playlist year would easily have caught these.
by yallpendantools | 2026-03-14 06:20:29+00:00
Actually, a week ahead of the BBC, my sister informed me wired headphones are making a comeback. With a smug grin I told her, "Comeback? It never left my side."

I've had to ally myself with a brand I've once sworn off just to get a flagship model Android with a headphone jack. Killing Reader is a greedy betrayal (they were pushing us onto Plus, the whole social web thing) but removing headphone jacks from Pixels is a cowardly betrayal! Eyeing you too there, Samsung. You and Google both have made it extremely difficult to maintain a modicum of principle in today's consumer landscape! You made me justify my purchase with a utilitarian "Better the jacked devil than the blue-toothed one".

(And before you ask, I only generally buy flagships because I upgrade my phone like, every five years, and in my experience flagships are just more bang for buck. YMMV tho.)

Anyway, honestly, wired is not perfect. Wired and wireless each have their inconveniences it's just that I'm more willing to put up with the inconveniences of wired. Wired connections have known failure modes, something which I really value in tech. I have a Sony WH-1000XM3 which can work both as wired and wireless and I love it for that.

Long live wired connections! Here's to a future with cheaper flagship models with a headphone jack!
by vladdoster | 2026-03-14 06:20:58+00:00
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by tpm | 2026-03-14 06:20:58+00:00
> Israel, as a country, ignoring the fringe right, has had no desire to either have war or expand its borders.

Oh please, this is a straight lie. I'm pretty sure you are familiar with Area C, for example.

> Hamas initiated the last war like Russia initiated their war on Ukraine.

It was Israeli Army that bombed unknown tens of thousands of civilian
to death and destroyed the vital infrastructure for millions. It's for a reason we call it a genocide (while of course you called it war, because Palestinians lives don't matter). But anyway that's a nice example of how the rules don't apply to you if you don't like them and about the very selective enforcement by the international community, especially the US.
by recursivecaveat | 2026-03-14 06:20:58+00:00
The drivers or whatever can influence the wireless experience a lot. Apple has the best bluetooth reliability of any manufacturer I've experienced. I can be out in a field next to my house and somehow the half-asleep laptop finds my headphones instantly unless I remember to switch its bluetooth off. On my windows machine sometimes, for seemingly no reason, you will be left standing around waiting and waiting for it to find the device right next to it.

The convenience of being able to get up and walk around the house, or got out with the phone without wires getting caught makes it worthwhile though. On the other hand for stationary peripherals like mice I would never go wireless. I hate that feeling of complete helplessness to the pairing/connection lottery and the time waste of it.
by lich_king | 2026-03-14 06:21:02+00:00
If you're running your open source project or other hobby endeavor, you can do it however you want. People will either adapt to your style or leave. The same, with some caveats, applies to running your own company (the caveats being lawsuits and needless drama if you take it too far).

But if you're a line employee for a corporation, this is the wrong approach, for two reasons. First, you will encounter many people who misinterpret directness as hostility, simply because your feelings toward another person are hard to convey in a chat message unless you include all that social-glue small talk. And if people on average think you're a jerk, they will either avoid you or reflexively push back.

But second... you're not that brilliant. Every now and then, the thing you think is wrong isn't actually wrong, you just don't understand why your solution was rejected beforehand. Maybe there are business requirements you don't know about, maybe things break in a different way if you make the change. Asking "hey, help me understand why this thing is the way it is" is often a better opener than "yo dude, your thing is broken, here's what you need to do, fix it now".
by sph | 2026-03-14 06:21:03+00:00
This is the first time I hear someone equate furries and trans with “results-oriented personalities.” [1] Not saying they necessarily are not, but it’s finding correlation where there absolutely isn’t one just to disagree with actual evidence.

Yeah, I’m gonna go with Occam’s razor on this one.

1: where is the trans furries representation in senior management and other “results-oriented” fields?
by igor47 | 2026-03-14 06:22:24+00:00
Yeah, I also highly value consistency in my projects, which forces me to keep an eye on the LLM and steer it often. This limits my overall velocity especially on larger features. But I'm still much faster with the agent. Recent example, https://github.com/igor47/csheet/pull/68 -- this took me a couple of hours pairing with Claude code, which is insane give the size of the work here. Though this PR creates a bunch of tables, routes, services -- it's not just greenfield CRUD work. We're figuring out how to model a complicated domain, integrating with existing code, thinking through complex integrations including with LLMs at run time. Claude is writing almost all the code, I'm just steering
by text0404 | 2026-03-14 06:23:35+00:00
> What I don't understand is why you blame Google for being forced

They weren't forced. I linked to sources showing they voluntarily handed over the information. There is no resistance.

> Have you ever seen the interface that the police forces of many countries demanded be delivered

No, but I'd imagine it looks a lot like the comprehensive information that Google provided without warrants in the first two links I provided.

> Are you aware all Telcos, from AT&T to BT do the same, except 1000x bigger scale?

Also terrible. Doesn't excuse Google.

> Are you aware that an EU country

> Are you aware that a US police officer

These are states and agents of the state, which Google is not. Google also doesn't execute people in public hangings, but that doesn't excuse their actions as a company.

Google unethically assists state actors. It's why they removed "Don't be evil" as their motto. They are not a force for good in the world, they are a company that exists to maximize shareholder value. The benevolent ideals you ascribe to the company are not based on the reality of their actions.
by benguild | 2026-03-14 06:25:09+00:00
If you try to create a new iOS/macOS software project and sign it with a "com.apple." prefix in the bundle ID, Apple's system blocks it… for example.

It's pretty clear this type of ID'ing is an issue in general, unfortunately. Companies often protect themselves as a band-aid but not others in the same situations since the problems aren't frequent enough to warrant a design change. So, when it does become a problem, it could end up being a deep one.
by sarchertech | 2026-03-14 06:25:48+00:00
I mean I’ve been using AI close to 4 years now and I’ve been using agents off and on for over a year now. What you’re describing is exactly what I’m doing.

I’m not seeing anyone at work either out of hundreds of devs who is regularly cranking out several thousand lines of pretty good working code in 30-45 minutes.

What’s an example of something you built today like this?
by hakfoo | 2026-03-14 06:26:08+00:00
The tech people have done a terrible job of using their leverage.

They're inventing the cool hardware and infrastructure, but for some reason, they let the content people dictate terms. I want to see the LGs and Samsungs of the world announching "we're making this amazing 16k OLED panel, and the only interface it has is unencrypted DisplayPort. If you don't want to your precious movies on it, there are still stock traders who will buy it to fill with graphs or programmers who will fill it with StackOverflow tabs and vim windows."

Sure, Sony could try to make some sort of sealed box viewing system that never let the raw bitstream out-- by the darkness, they've spent the last 30 years trying-- but most of the content firms don't have the technical chops or the market power to make it happen. I can fully imagine them trying to sell multiple different set-top boxes, each of which is only capable of decoding one studio's DRM.

On the other hand, what ended up liberating the music market wasn't some grand audiophile product, it was the market full of $29 no-brand/minor-brand "MP3 players". It was such a fragmented market, running random bare-metal firmware on the cheapest MCUs available, that nobody except Apple could possibly make a play out of selling anything but DRM-free content.
by shit_game | 2026-03-14 06:26:43+00:00
This sounds like a platform that has no appeal to the average person, and an incredible appeal to people wishing to launder money or use money to run an influence campaign. Deliberately determining popularity proportionally to the amount of money spent is little different than advertising, but this would be under the false premise of "someone thought this was important/valuable enough to pay money to suggest I see it".

If this were to exist today, I know I would be incredibly critical of it.
Show HN: Oareo – an iPhone app for scanning rooms into 3D using Lidar
by gvs46 | 2026-03-14 06:27:22+00:00
Built Oareo, an iPhone app for scanning rooms into 3D using LiDAR.

I made it because a lot of spatial capture tools felt too heavy or fragmented for simple room scanning on mobile. The goal here was to make the workflow straightforward: scan a space, review the capture, and export something useful.

Would love feedback on the product, the framing, and which use cases feel most interesting to you.

[oareo.com]
by retsibsi | 2026-03-14 06:27:24+00:00
> If we accept that any one person can take responsibility for their feelings then it follows that everyone is responsible for their own mind.

I don't think this follows! People are very different, so something can be genuinely true of a subset without generalising to everyone.

Crocker's Rules definitely wouldn't work for me, but it's explicit in them that they can only be self-invoked. Some people seem genuinely to be very thick-skinned (but easily annoyed by indirection and politeness) and able to 'take responsibility for their own feelings' in this sense. I doubt (m)any of them are truly unoffendable... and one could argue that they should be taking responsibility for their own feelings of frustration triggered by normal politeness... but I assume they know themselves well enough to know that they are better off when people try to be as direct as possible when interacting with them.

Where it breaks down is if/when they treat this as an objectively superior state of being and mode of interaction, and use it as an excuse to be rude to others.
by kuboble | 2026-03-14 06:28:04+00:00
Yes, exactly.

I strongly prefer directness in technical communication at work.

But the way the article author phrases his preferences as absolute truth rubs me the wrong way.

Also if I worked with that person then after reading the article I would have perhaps the opposite reaction to the author's intentions.

You still have to walk on eggshells to not offend him by including any bit of information that he might consider not relevant enough.
by alienchow | 2026-03-14 06:28:51+00:00
If this is a skill issue, feel free to let me know. In general Claude Code is decent for tooling. Onduty fullstack tooling features that used to sit ignored in the on-caller ticket queue for months can now be easily built in 20 minutes with unit tests and integration tests. The code quality isn't always the best (although what's good code for humans may not be good code for agents) but that's another specific and directed prompt away to refactor.

However, I can't seem to get Opus 4.6 to wire up proper infrastructure. This is especially so if OSS forks are used. It trips up on arguments from the fork source, invents args that don't exist in either, and has a habit of tearing down entire clusters just to fix a Helm chart for "testing purposes". I've tried modifying the CLAUDE.md and SPEC.md with specific instructions on how to do things but it just goes off on a tangent and starts to negotiate on the specs. "I know you asked for help with figuring out the CNI configurations across 2 clusters but it's too complex. Can we just do single cluster?" The entire repository gets littered with random MD files everywhere for directory specific memories, context, action plans, deprecated action plans, pre-compaction memories etc. I don't quite know which to prune either. It has taken most of the fun out of software engineering and I'm now just an Obsidian janitor for what I can best describe as a "clueless junior engineer that never learns". When the auto compaction kicks in it's like an episode of 50 first dates.

Right now this is where I assume is the limitation because the literature for real-world infrastructure requiring large contexts and integration is very limited. If anyone has any idea if Claude Opus is suitable for such tasks, do give some suggestions.