MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by BloodAndCode | 2026-03-13 15:34:14+00:00
interesting idea. the “local swarm of small agents” approach feels like a natural direction compared to sending everything to a single large model in the cloud.
i’m curious how coordination between the agents works in practice. is there some central planner deciding which agent handles what, or do they communicate more peer-to-peer?

also wondering how well this scales when the number of agents grows — does orchestration become the main challenge at that point?
by csb6 | 2026-03-13 15:35:18+00:00
Not sure if I agree with his conclusion that Dijkstra believed all programming should be done by an "elite corps" of programmers. He believed (rightly or wrongly) that undergraduate students could be taught his mathematical methods of programming, and that formal methods could make programming simpler and more manageable. Claiming he was against "working-class" programmers seems silly; anyone employed as a programmer will work for a living and so would be working-class.
by inglor_cz | 2026-03-13 15:35:42+00:00
That indicates that you live in a relatively high-trust society. Obviously there is a spectrum and aspects, but they tend to correlate.

I don't know of any real-world society that would be very high-trust in one regard (say, keeping their doors unlocked), but very low-trust in another (say, routinely poisoning their spices with lead to make them look more appealing - yes, this happens [0]).

[0] https://www.economist.com/leaders/2023/11/02/how-to-stop-tur...
by hbn | 2026-03-13 15:35:45+00:00
Not a decade, it was roughly a 4 year span - from the 2016 super thin chassis redesign with butterfly switches to when they started shipping Apple Silicon in 2020 (they also backtracked on the bad keyboards in 2019 with the i9 MBP I believe)

And anyway, it's an outlier. Exception proves the rule.

Apple's held to such a high standard that people still joke about antenna gate from a decade and a half ago, or the iPhone 6 bending 12 years ago. Every other OEM is nonstop putting out worse devices with worse QC but no one hears about it because no one is shipping units for any individual high-end device in anywhere near the numbers Apple is. They've got a massive magnifying glass on them that no one else does.

I could tell you a swathe of issues I've had with every Android I've owned, all worse than any iPhone I've owned. But most people probably have never heard of those issues and/or don't remember them because it's not notable unless it's Apple. For instance, the Nexus 6P failed so reliably after the first year, it got to a point where you could just call Google, say you're having issues, and they'd fastlane you to sending you a Pixel XL as a replacement. The Nexus 5P from the same year had even worse issues where they practically all started boot looping at some point. If Apple had a dud year to that level, it would have been MAJOR news.
by quesera | 2026-03-13 15:35:53+00:00
Voting errors and fraud are reversible. Instances of errors are reversed in every election. Instances of fraud are very very rare, but also reversed.

This happens before the winners are certified, and before they're given the ability to drop bombs.

I don't understand your confusion.

In the US, ACH transactions are reversible and trusted throughout the nation. Bitcoin transactions are not, and are not. This seems parallel to me.
by vite_throwaway | 2026-03-13 15:36:07+00:00
Probably. It's just that I've always used .js for my projects (decades). Such a rename would likely result in configuration changes to the other tools I use, but indeed they are better documented. When faced with a multiplicity of conventions I pick one and stick to it; the tools are flexible enough to work with it I'm sure, the real issue is of discoverability.
by upsuper | 2026-03-13 15:36:20+00:00
I contributed this change in Vite 8:

> Wasm SSR support: .wasm?init imports now work in SSR environments, expanding Vite's WebAssembly feature to server-side rendering.

While the process was relatively slow, I really appreciate the extra effort that the team have put on even this minor feature add. They not only guided me towards more compatible and idiomatic approach, but also added docs and helped keeping the code up to date before merging.
by lII1lIlI11ll | 2026-03-13 15:36:40+00:00
> Most of Europe has better internet access than the US for similar reasons: sensible regulation led to high competition.

Which "most of Europe" would that be? Switzerland and handful of northern countries? Because it is definitely not Germany or several "you can't access half of the internet during times when twenty men kicking a ball on a field" southern states.
by aruametello | 2026-03-13 15:36:43+00:00
from what i seen in "low end" ssds like the "120gb sata sandisk ones" under windows in heavy near constant pagging loads is that they exceed by quite a lot their manufacturer lifetime TBW before actually actually started producing actual filesystem errors.

I can see this could be a weaker spot in the durability of this device, but certainly it still could take a few years of abuse before anything breaks.

an outdated study (2015) but inline with the "low end ssds" i mentioned.

https://techreport.com/review/the-ssd-endurance-experiment-t...
by corroclaro | 2026-03-13 15:36:45+00:00
Absolutely. One of the root causes for these terrible tender processes is a fear of in-housing competence and skill for systems.

It's the same reason major govt. IT orgs keep pushing for closed source (recently the Swedish Tax Authority was in the media for _pushing for Office 365_ as necessary for operations), out-sourced designs, big firm purchases over FOSS or real standards.

You need people that care (and they exist, even in the gigantic state orgs.) in positions to make good decisions. Right now, everything is up in the hands of nebulously defined managerial staff with none-to-doubtful technical competence.

Another recent case: the Swedish digital exams platform flopped at a rough cost of a billion SEK. Can't sustain 150K concurrent users, despite paying a "large company". Like, come on.
by havaloc | 2026-03-13 15:36:54+00:00
There was quite a bit of discussion about that when the M1 first came out, but none of it really seemed to have happened six years later. The target audience isn't in danger of wearing it out and the ones that will push the limits will grow tired of it and sell it in a year or two or move on to the Neo 2, which might have 12gb of ram due to the expected chip.

I still think it's a great machine, but I think all these worries about NAND dying really haven't come to fruition, and probably won't. I have about a hundred plus of various SSD Macs in service and not one has failed in any circumstance aside from a couple of battery issues (never charged and sat in the box for 2 years, and never off the charger).
by svilen_dobrev | 2026-03-13 15:37:18+00:00
it depends which part of the PM trio+ dominates..

* product part - functionality, overlaps with BA / business-analyst

* project part - people AND resources, follow timing/deadlines

* program management - not-sure what that exactly means and how big a company has these but it's different from above, higher level

say, in a 3-5 people company, the all-tech-lead usually apart of tech-stuff also does product stuff, and sometimes also project stuff - and only when that gets too much, a dedicated person is hired, most times also taking general QA hat (as being closest to product-input).

so.. if a team in much bigger company works like a tiny company, i guess any INBOX-managers and similar-reminder-proxies will be automated. While politics / human-relations , and understanding product will not. Or.. should not. But it may not be you doing them, esp. product part.

btw beware, current job market is very tough. Too many people for too few positions, companies either do not hire (waiting for something??) or are extremely picky when do.
by Prajol | 2026-03-13 15:37:24+00:00
Hi HN

We’re building Kubegraf, an AI-powered SRE for Kubernetes that helps engineers quickly identify the root cause of incidents.

In most Kubernetes incidents we’ve seen, engineers spend 1–2 hours manually correlating logs, metrics, events, probes, and scaling behavior just to understand what actually broke.

Kubegraf tries to automate that process.

It connects to your cluster observability data and analyzes relationships between signals to surface the most probable root cause and timeline of what happened.

The goal is simple:
Reduce the time spent debugging infrastructure so engineers can focus on building.

Some things we’re working on:

• Incident timeline reconstruction
• Cross-signal correlation (logs, metrics, events)
• Root cause suggestions
• Faster MTTR for Kubernetes teams

We’re preparing for our launch and opening early access.

If you work with Kubernetes, we’d really appreciate feedback from the HN community.

Early access:
https://kubegraf.io

Happy to answer questions or hear how your team currently handles Kubernetes incident debugging.
by butILoveLife | 2026-03-13 15:37:48+00:00
It essentially was $600/mo ERP and costing software for their company.

We were supposed to build it for them because it didn't have enough features and was expensive.

I have great concerns your last paragraph is wishful thinking. I want to believe, but I also saw him, a marketer by degree, actually solve the problem better than the $600/mo software.
by a24venka | 2026-03-13 15:37:57+00:00
Really appreciate the detailed feedback and questions! And yes, we'll take the website criticism as a compliment :)

Good callout on the canvas navigation, we'll look into middle mouse button support.

To answer your questions:
1) GitHub integration is on our roadmap. Right now you can export outputs manually but we want to make this seamless.
2) All your canvases are saved and you can search them by name in your dashboard. We're also working on a dedicated section for deliverables across canvases.
3) Yes to both! You can manually add or edit blocks, or kick off new agent runs that build on existing work.
4) You can currently only share public links of your canvas to others (but you can make it private at any point). We are testing out a teams feature which allows you to share canvases with members on your team securely. Beyond that, we are working on adding roles and email-based sharing controls which is in our roadmap.
5) Claude Code in a block is a really interesting idea. We don't support that today but we're thinking about computer use and coding workflows.
6)BYOK (bring your own keys) is something we've heard interest in and are considering. Self-hosting isn't available right now, though we do support private deployments for enterprise customers if that's ever relevant.
7) Love the 'preferred web browser' framing. Right now you can search canvases but searchable artifacts across canvases is definitely where we want to head.

Thanks for giving it a real spin, this kind of feedback is incredibly valuable.
by delis-thumbs-7e | 2026-03-13 15:37:59+00:00
> He is going to go through System Settings, panel by panel, and adjust everything he can adjust just to see how he likes it. He is going to make a folder called “Projects” with nothing in it. He is going to download Blender because someone on Reddit said it was free, and then stare at the interface for forty-five minutes. He is going to open GarageBand and make something that is not a song. He is going to take screenshots of fonts he likes and put them in a folder called “cool fonts” and not know why.

”Mrs. Jonson, the result are back. You son has autism.”
by krystalgamer | 2026-03-13 15:38:06+00:00
i don't understand this doomer mentality regarding the internet.

internet is a service that you choose what to engage and how. don't like a platform? find another, build it or stop using it altogether.

personally, i find these things really great has it helps nudge people into the more decentralized web. a few years ago those who were pushing for privacy respecting apps and platforms were deemed too paranoid.
by vjvjvjvjghv | 2026-03-13 15:38:29+00:00
Just an observation from a non-MBA. I feel that the MBA management class likes to create two class society where there is management class and a worker class. The management class has high trust amongst each other but no trust for the workers. The workers need to be controlled tightly and can’t be trusted. They are extremely reluctant to take feedback from the people who do the work. Better to pay consultants a lot of money. I have seen that in almost every larger company where I was employee or contractor.
by HarHarVeryFunny | 2026-03-13 15:38:49+00:00
I have a hard time believing that Redbox had much of an impact on Blockbuster, and they certainly weren't changing the video rental paradigm.

Netflix's original DVD-rental by mail business no doubt ate into Blockbuster's business to some degree, and with their huge inventory was more of a head-on competitor than Redbox which could only offer a vending-machine full of options - the most popular ones.

What really killed Blockbuster was streaming video, not just a way of "automating" the DVD rental business - it was the paradigm shift, similar to the mobile banking vs ATM shift that TFA describes.
by selfradiance | 2026-03-13 15:38:50+00:00
Interesting project. Clean architecture (Next.js + SQLite + Drizzle, monorepo with Turborepo), and the SKILL.md format is becoming a real thing across Claude Code, Codex, OpenClaw, and OpenCode. The value prop is clear for teams managing lots of agent skills — structured editor, multi-model testing via OpenRouter, version history, one-click deploy. For solo builders who hand-maintain a few skills, it's probably overkill right now, but worth watching as the agent skill ecosystem matures.
by rglover | 2026-03-13 15:39:22+00:00
I had a similar opinion until I started to see a flood of outages, data leaks, money being pulled, etc starting to crop up right as co's started hailing AI as the second coming.

Now? I'm waiting for the inevitable reality check. AI doesn't go away (I personally don't want it to; it's a power tool for an experienced dev), but imo, the market is not too far from correcting the hype. Reality can only shoulder so much bs before the rubber has to hit the road.

The promises being made over the last few years are not being fulfilled and big money likes results, not talk. So, unless we get another (significant) rabbit coming out of the hat in 2026, the momentum (again, imo) won't be there to sustain the necessary long-term growth (i.e., in terms of mass-adoption, this era of AI is closer to AOL than Facebook).
by orwin | 2026-03-13 15:39:30+00:00
This is not the first time I read comments from you, I just want to tell you you're probably one of the most annoyingly, reasonably correct person I read. And take it as a compliment, because each time I disagree with you I have to look at my position because I fear being on the wrong side of the argument (which is probably what I find annoying. I want to be unreasonable sometimes!).
by coldpie | 2026-03-13 15:39:55+00:00
> and I'm not sure how they're more flexible. ssh -> run -> gui opens

But this doesn't work on your phone, or on a Windows or macOS device, right? That's what I meant by flexible, X forwarding fits a pretty narrow set of usecases, while on the other hand keeping programs on the clients and data centrally located on a server allows for a whole lot more options for how to interface with that data.

(To be clear, nothing wrong with X forwarding! It's a cool tech and I'm glad you have a use for it! I'm just arguing that it's fine for Wayland to not try to support that kind of thing, because we've got other ways of working remotely now.)
by xxpor | 2026-03-13 15:40:07+00:00
The economic incentives line up much better there. You charge for tokens -> cost is GPUs -> you work very hard to keep GPUs utilized 100% and get max tokens out of those cycles.

Compare this to essentially any modern business app, the product being sold has very little relationship with CPU cycles, or the CPU cycles are SO cheap relative to what you're getting paid, no one cares to optimize.
by aurorabyte | 2026-03-13 15:40:09+00:00
Hi HN

I built PyroClaw, a lightweight personal AI assistant that runs entirely locally on your machine. It’s currently in beta. The idea came from wanting a simple AI automation tool that runs locally, doesn’t require API credits, and keeps all data private.

PyroClaw runs on Ollama with LLaMA 3.1:8B and focuses on practical automation tasks. Right now it can generate and send emails, rewrite and summarize text, analyze SQL databases, produce project summaries, rename files intelligently, summarize flight information, handle custom user tasks, and supports multiple chat sessions in a GUI so you can run many tasks at the same time.

I’m experimenting with a task marketplace where anyone can develop and submit new tasks to extend PyroClaw’s ecosystem. People could build tasks like developer productivity tools, Slack or Telegram messaging tasks, file system automation, research summarization, data analysis workflows, API integrations, or any other specific task. Documentation for using PyroClaw and developing new tasks is coming soon.

In the future, I plan to add workflow automation for multi-step AI tasks, support for different LLM models (local or external, like Gemini), and a larger ecosystem of community-created tasks. The current beta is Windows-only, with macOS and Linux builds planned next.

I’d love feedback from HN: what automation tasks would you want locally, how could a task marketplace be most useful, and any ideas to improve local AI workflows?

Thanks!
by ferguess_k | 2026-03-13 15:40:14+00:00
For young people out there, it is better to build a desktop gig instead of a laptop. You can't change much in a laptop, unless it is some legacy laptops, but definitely not a Mac. Parents should help their kids to build a 16GB Linux gig. It's going to be more expensive than $599 nowadays due to the price of everything, but still, it is very expansible, and the kid can earn $$ and decide which parts he wants to upgrade.

BTW a laptop is definitely the only choice if the kid wants mobility, though.
Ask HN: Why isn't there Just-in-Time hardware?
by zan137 | 2026-03-13 15:40:57+00:00
By drawing an analogy between CPU as dynamic interpreter, ASIC manufacturing as AOT compilation, and FPGAs as something between compilation and interpretation(closer to compilation by form),
why aren't ASICs manufactured or FPGAs reconfigured during program execution to speed up hot paths, as a JIT compiler does?

There are two potential problems:

1. The difference between assembly and HDL is much greater than between bytecode and assembly, meaning it is very hard to translate one language into the other efficiently and in a short period of time

2. Hardware manufacturing speed is limited by the speed of physical processes(FPGAs can be reconfigured in tens to hundreds of milliseconds, which is good enough)
by wafflemaker | 2026-03-13 15:41:19+00:00
It's my own idea for a super oatmeal. Working on the idea that it's not just about having fiber in your diet, but more so about variated fiber. Each kind of fiber is preferred by a different type of gut bacteria (I'm just repeating after some hippy that most likely made that up). And the best gut biome is the most variated one.
Usually pathologies stem from monocultures. Look at the most of the society. Bread, cookies, pretzels, even pizza etc. - it's all made of wheat. Sometimes you'll get oat cookies. But other grains show up in people's diets very rarely.

Here's the recipe. I'm using norwegian 5-grain oatmeal that has oats, wheat, barley, rye and spelt:

Recipe:
Use two parts oatmeal (either 4-korn or 5-korn).
Add one part nut mix and one part seed mix.
So for 50 g of oats, add 25 g of nuts and 25 g of seeds.

Seeds:
30% flaxseed
30% chia
20% pumpkin seeds
20% sesame

Nuts:
4 parts walnuts
2 parts pecans
1 part Brazil nuts

P.S.: since most of these ingredients are pretty cheap (oatmeal used to be poor mans food), you can upgrade to Eco versions of these and get much better taste, without going that much up in price. Especially nuts.

Also, I have the nutmix and seed mix pre blended in 2 liter jars, so that I only have to mix them once a month or two.
by starkparker | 2026-03-13 15:41:50+00:00
> I grieve for the web I've known. Not for writing HTML by hand, but I grieve for the open web as an ecosystem.

These seem more related than is stated. Shifting creation from individual people to corporate-owned AI tools is another step from being able to write it yourself in the common venue of the web, to being forced to either submit to owned tools or be relegated out of the mainstream.

We're still in a sort of purgatory between the two, but the DIY web is creeping into the rear view, and every moment of proprietary generative AI adoption accelerates it.
by aavci | 2026-03-13 15:41:54+00:00
I wonder if promoting open-source tooling and best practices could make it easier for new apps to adopt security features like E2E encryption. For example, someone building a chat app might not add E2E encryption unless they have access to user-friendly tools and are encouraged to do so.

Startups that initially choose the more private implementation version often face a disadvantage. They may not see immediate benefits and instead experience drawbacks, such as caring a bit more than their competitors. For example, an AI plugin using local large language models for privacy might not be rewarded as much as a competitor who fully embraces cloud-based solutions.
Show HN: Nixcage – Sandbox AI coding agents per project with Nix and direnv
by hamidr | 2026-03-13 15:42:12+00:00
I built nixcage to solve a problem that's been bugging me: AI coding agents like Claude Code have broad access to your filesystem, network, and system. That's powerful but uncomfortable, especially on client projects or machines with sensitive data.

nixcage creates per-project sandboxes that activate automatically when you cd into a directory (via direnv). It uses bubblewrap on Linux and sandbox-exec on macOS — no VMs, no Docker, no overhead.

Three isolation levels: strict (no network, empty home), standard (project writable, network on), and relaxed (home readable, project writable).

It also controls Nix store access (shared, readonly, copy, or fully isolated) so sandboxed tools can't pollute your host store.

Quick start: nixcage init --preset claude-code && direnv allow

A debug mode captures every blocked syscall so you can see exactly what's denied and tune your config.

https://github.com/hamidr/nixcage
Show HN: Gr∞ves – a macOS Apple Music companion for artwork and metadata
by woodenbrain | 2026-03-13 15:42:35+00:00
I’ve been working on a macOS companion for Apple Music called gr∞ves. It's my first new app in over 10 years. I'm looking for beta testers who use Apple Music on MacOS regularly.

The goal is to bring back the experience of browsing a record collection while listening — large album artwork, additional liner-style information, and easy access to extra material related to the album currently playing.

The app runs alongside Apple Music and displays artwork at full resolution, with slideshow views of additional images found locally or online. It also surfaces extended information like artist bios, curated album notes, and extended / enhanced track data.
It’s designed mainly for people who maintain their own digital music libraries, but it also works with Apple Music streaming.

Some features:

• large-format artwork display from local and online sources
• artwork slideshow including alternate covers and images
• expanded album and artist information
• PDF booklet discovery
• album change notifications
• gesture and hotkey support
• works with both local libraries and streaming

We’ve just opened a public TestFlight beta and would love feedback.