MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by DamnInteresting | 2026-03-02 16:10:21+00:00
GarageBand is fun, and capable of making surprisingly complex music. Logic Pro is also available on iPad now, but it's only available with a $15/month subscription, so I haven't tried it.

For artists, there are a lot of good tools: Procreate, Art Set 4, Adobe Fresco, Artrage, etc.
by leptons | 2026-03-02 16:10:32+00:00
>There are enough "enemies of the people" in the US at the moment that the MAGA leadership doesn't have to go after American citizens.

Tell that to any trans person that is an American citizen. They are literally trying to make "trans" into a terrorist designation.

Tell that to the many Latino American citizens who have been arrested by masked armed ICE agents, thrown into unmarked cars and taken away simply because of the color of their skin.
by hmokiguess | 2026-03-02 16:10:43+00:00
Who are these people? I was skeptical at first and seriously thinking surely not the software engineers out there as we see in HN how risky and wild this is. Then, to my surprise, a coworker came and told me they were running it and happy with that setup. I was baffled, but I work with Gen Z in a pretty niche Gen Alpha market, so I kinda feel like they’re somewhat more likely to go for these things. What’s your experience?
by buttercraft | 2026-03-02 16:10:58+00:00
> moves when you try to move away the mouse over it

They already did that. I sit down at my computer and try to activate the window I want to work in, and the "location" icon temporarily appears in the notification area which causes all the taskbar icons to shift left. I accidentally click the neighboring icon and launch an app that throws up a splash screen for 60 seconds while it loads.
by sporkl | 2026-03-02 16:11:26+00:00
Location: US, New York City area

Remote: Yes, also open to on-site

Willing to relocate: Yes

Technologies: C/C++, Python, TypeScript/JavaScript/React Native/Expo, C#, (System)Verilog/Vivado/FPGAs/embedded, OCaml, Rocq/formal methods and formal verification, relational/logic programming/symbolic AI, SQL, JUCE/audio/music programming.

Resume/CV: https://www.dmitrivolkov.com/volkov-resume.pdf

Email: dmitri@dmitrivolkov.com

Website: https://www.dmitrivolkov.com/

Finishing up a CS master's this semester, and looking for opportunities starting in the late summer or fall. I have experience as a full-stack (or fullstack, or full stack, whatever people ctrl-f for) developer as part of an intern/consultant position where I worked directly with customers to deliver features across databases/cloud infrastructure/web API integrations/frontends. I've also mostly-independently bootstrapped a commercial music production plugin (Pivotuner, more info on my website).

Open to most anything! I'm a fan of functional programming and programming language theory, currently doing research in logic/relational programming. I also have a background in music (I'm a published composer!) so particularly interested in audio/music-related stuff as well.
by pavel_lishin | 2026-03-02 16:11:30+00:00
When I was attending university, we went to an orientation where one of the things they kept hammering into us was that we should start using the university-provided email as our "professional" point of contact.

Then someone asked whether we'd be able to keep our emails after graduation, and the presenter hemmed and hawed and it became very clear that we should not, in fact, be doing that.

I don't even remember if I have an alumni email account; I think I tried to snag something like janitor@alumni.university.email, but I don't even remember where I'd go to check.
by dragonwriter | 2026-03-02 16:12:18+00:00
> It's not hard to imagine a small capable model that can boot strap itself into running on consumer hardware and stolen cloud resources being problematic on the net spreading its gremlin like behavior wherever it could.

If you understand what a model is and how you need separate traditional software to run it and turn is output from tokens into text and then (often in a separate piece of software) from text into interactions with the user or other i/o functionalities of the bost computer, it becomes harder to imagine a scenario where that is a problem primarily with an open model and not with the traditional software making up an open agentic framework (an OpenClaw successor is the threat here, not a Llama successor.)
Show HN: Clean Express – a native NNTP/Usenet client for iOS/macOS/visionOS
by jim180 | 2026-03-02 16:12:24+00:00
I still read/post in small communities over NNTP and always wanted usenet client that is modern and easy to use on macOS/iOS, so here it is.

95% agentic (not vibed) coded, just because I can and wanted to see if I'm able to drive AIs to build something that is usable :)

Coming soonish to AppStore, ofc.
by DevOpsMaster | 2026-03-02 16:12:28+00:00
SEEKING WORK: EU, Remote Worldwide

I'm a Senior DevOps engineer, Cloud Architect and Infrastructure Engineer.

I provide contract or ad-hoc services and support to startups, growth companies and enterprises. I'm often called to set up greenfield DevOps installations, architect and build cloud infrastructures, design platform architectures, build cloud-based, SaaS and mobile products and assist with emergency or short-staffed situations.

What makes me unique is that my services are tuned precisely to each of my clients: their products and customers, and the way their teams work. I only provide solutions that fit.

Here are some examples of some of my fixed-price services with are often ideal for startups:

* Azure / AWS Cloud Platform cluster build-out: $950
* Azure DevOps setup for a small org < 5 repos: $500
* Cloud platform security review: starting at $750
* DevOps Practice Checkup: starting at $600
* Alerting and monitoring solutions: starting at $870
* Scale-up infrastructure assessment: $1,500

I also provide emergency services, support, workshops and training.

BOOK YOUR FREE CONSULTATION HERE: https://ondemanddevops.com/?sid=hn2603F
by O1111OOO | 2026-03-02 16:12:36+00:00
> that Google spends >$1B/year to develop.

Let's see...

https://www.techpolicy.press/the-true-cost-of-browser-innova...

* Most of the personnel involved in developing web technologies are engineers, but they also include product managers, sales, marketing, legal, customer support, and other functions.

* Given the complexity of Chrome and web technologies, the engineering teams skew towards higher levels of seniority. Assume that Staff Software Engineer is the most common engineering level represented across the web technologies teams, which is towards the more senior end of Google’s software engineering job ladder.

* The average base salary for Google employees working on web technologies is $240k and the average annual take-home pay is $500k, including salary, bonuses, and stock payments. These estimates are close to the current average base salary and take-home pay for Google Staff Software Engineers listed on industry salary data sites.

* Google has approximately 2000 staff working on web technologies.

Using the above assumptions, the estimated personnel cost for web technologies is 2000 * $596k = $1.2B. Of course there are additional costs associated with these businesses. Based on this sketch, it seems fair to assume that Google spends at least $1-2B annually on Chrome, Chromium, and the evolution of the web platform.
by parsimo2010 | 2026-03-02 16:12:40+00:00
North Dakota voted 67% overall for Trump, this is not too far from being representative of the general population. Considering that anyone who is openly hostile against energy companies is going to be removed during selection I don’t see the jury as the issue.

Edit: and considering this was the Southwest district, looking at results by county, 75% seems about right. This isn’t necessarily a biased jury in the sense that selection was unfair, this is probably the makeup you’d get with a fair selection. https://apnews.com/projects/election-results-2024/north-dako...
by meisnerd | 2026-03-02 16:12:43+00:00
"Orchestrating amnesiacs" — that's a good way to put it, and it's a fair critique of any system spawning claude -p sessions.

Mission Control's mitigation is treating the shared data layer as the durable state rather than the session itself. Each agent session is ephemeral, but it reads from and writes to persistent JSON files — tasks, inbox, decisions, activity log — so the accumulated state of all previous sessions is available to the next one. There's also a compressed context snapshot (ai-context.md, ~650 tokens) that gets regenerated and gives each new session situational awareness: what's done, what's in progress, what's blocked, what decisions are pending.

So agents aren't fully amnesiac — they inherit the project state — but you're right that they can't replay their own previous reasoning. If an agent tried approach A in session 1 and it failed, session 2 only knows that if someone (or the agent itself) wrote it down in the task notes or activity log. That's a manual bridge, not a structural one.

Named, resumable sessions with full transcript replay would be a better foundation. That's more of a Claude Code platform feature than something I can build on top — but if claude -p ever supports session IDs or transcript export, wiring that into Mission Control's task history would be a natural fit.

Curious what you're using for the persistent session layer — custom wrapper around the API, or something off-the-shelf?
by Anon1096 | 2026-03-02 16:12:51+00:00
Can't believe that I haven't seen the obvious answer, that OpenClaw is simply more fun to use. Sure, you MAY be able to do what OpenClaw does through 5 other dedicated tools, but you are going to take way longer to do so with a ton more drudge work. And above all else: it is extremely enjoyable to talk to the computer in normal language and just have stuff happen. And it's got a personality that you can tweak to your liking. Personally it's the most fun I've had using a computer in a long time.

IMO OpenClaw or a similar agent will be on everyone's phone in a couple years. It's basically what Siri was always supposed to be. For the average user it's obvious that this is the way computers are meant to be interacted with.
by basch | 2026-03-02 16:13:01+00:00
I’ll disagree with you a little. The reason I don’t use voice is because of context switching.

With a mouse and keyboard I can switch windows.

With my voice, the computer can’t yet automatically determine if I am dictating a transcription or giving editing commands. What I really need is the interpreter listening to me to intuitively to know whether I am in the equivalent of VI command mode or insert mode.

It is the roadblock to not needing a screen at all, right now I want to visualize whether it understood me correctly because if it didn’t switch from insert to command automatically, I now have all my commands written into my paragraph. I also don’t want to listen to the computer talk back to me to confirm it listened. I want to just keep going, to keep narrating my thoughts and trust it’s doing the right things, not having to check. Having it slowly chime in to repeat that it listened derails my flow and train of thought.

TLDR The future of voice is headless vi.
by ericd | 2026-03-02 16:13:01+00:00
But to put this in context, the average American family’s carbon footprint per year is roughly 50,000 kg, and one flight is usually on the order of >1,000 kg, or 700 pounds of milk, assuming that 3kg CO2 per kg milk high end figure. So if you like milk, there are probably other places you can cut first.

Does seem like a lot of carbon for a kg of plastic, though, how does that compare to normal plastic’s carbon footprint?
by semi-extrinsic | 2026-03-02 16:13:04+00:00
> the software giant can’t risk getting more hatred towards their expensive investment in Copilot, especially since Microsoft’s head start in AI is starting to be overshadowed by competitors like Anthropic, Google, OpenAI, and maybe even Apple in the near future

This sentence is from TFA, and I can't for the life of me understand it. "Head start"?? WTF?
by delta_p_delta_x | 2026-03-02 16:13:07+00:00
+1 to Objective-C++. It makes for some surprisingly clean, compact code, best of both worlds, really. And the bridging between ARC and CF types is really quite magical, more languages should have that ability to be expressed in an older language without stripping everything out.

I just wish there were Objective-C bindings for more CF classes without having to mess with C.
by zbrozek | 2026-03-02 16:13:51+00:00
Scraping is almost always for obscurity to try and impede cloning. I don't really know why folks bother; it's not effective. Especially with LLMs, it's never been easier to vaguely describe a chip's connections and get plausible part numbers back. Add in traditional decapping / xray / other microscopy and it's really just not that hard to know what you're holding.
by stefs | 2026-03-02 16:14:31+00:00
in my area, one of the biggest groups using those vehicles were food delivery riders. for those guys, those electric mopeds were a gamechanger, as they were able to make many more runs that might have made the difference between "just enough" and "just not enough". now those are becoming illegal (on bike paths & without registration), but they're not making sense one the roads due to congestion. it's a lose-lose situation for the delivery riders and the people that order online, but a win for bicycle safety.

as far as i can tell most full time riders didn't switch to "pedal assisted e-bikes" but probably went looking for other work. we're back to students riding their private bicycles to make some money on the side.
by ceejayoz | 2026-03-02 16:14:47+00:00
People can hide their biases (or claim they can set them aside, which will often be acceptable during jury selection), and in a county with 30k people you're gonna run into people who recognize you at the grocery store a lot. This certainly wouldn't have been a pressure-free scenario.

It can be quite hard to get a jury to go against a locally powerful large employer in a small town.
by trimethylpurine | 2026-03-02 16:15:18+00:00
It would be very easy for an energy company to make hundreds of thousands of donations through "private supporters" to Greenpeace so as to cause problems for their competitors without liability, including defamation, and violent protests. They could be profiting by encouraging angry kids to go ruin their lives, and there would be no consequences for the executives behind it all. In fact, if this were actually happening, then in this story they would have just gotten back half of their marketing budget, which they can recycle for another violent campaign against this or any other competing energy company. And college kids around the world would help to supplement that marketing budget by donating to what they think is an environmental cause.
by maxweisel | 2026-03-02 16:15:43+00:00
Normcore.io | Senior SWE Kubernetes / Devops Engineer | Full-time | $100-140K USD | Remote PT/ET Hours | Kubernetes/Typescript/Node/Postgres roles

I'm the founder of Normcore.io, an autoscaling game server hosting service and Unity plugin that includes all of the pieces you need to create a multiplayer game. We launched a few years ago and have hosted over 1 billion multiplayer games since launch. I'm actively scaling the team to keep up with the scale of our systems.

We’re all ex-Unity/Google folks working on making great SDKs and tools for multiplayer game development. We also make our own VR titles that are built on top of our own networking tech: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=djsPTbs7R_w

Reasons you’d love working with us:

* Work with a small, focused, and extremely talented team of developers.

* Fully remote job with flexible working hours and vacation (Our whole team is remote too)

* High-quality codebase, code reviews, tests.

* High work satisfaction, own entire features, and work on an SDK that’s already used by 100,000+ developers.

If you're interested, please send me an email to careers@normalvr.com with your LinkedIn and a few sentences about why you would be a good fit for the role.

---

Normcore.io | Head of Strategic Finance (SWE role) | Full-time | $100-140K USD | Remote PT/ET Hours

I'm the founder of Normcore.io, an autoscaling game server hosting service and Unity plugin that includes all of the pieces you need to create a multiplayer game. We launched a few years ago and have hosted over 1 billion multiplayer games since launch. We also make our own VR titles that are built on top of our own networking tech: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=djsPTbs7R_w

I'm looking for a software engineer to be our head of Strategic Finance. In addition to modeling our revenue streams in Excel/Sheets, we make heavy use of Claude Code to create tools to track popular titles, store charts, basically any data we can use to understand the gaming market. We then use that data to determine the direction for the company.

Reasons you’d love working with us:

* Work with a small, focused, and extremely talented team of developers.

* Fully remote job with flexible working hours and vacation (Our whole team is remote too)

* High-quality codebase, code reviews, tests.

* High work satisfaction, own entire features, and work on an SDK that’s already used by 100,000+ developers.

If you're interested, please send me an email to careers@normalvr.com with your LinkedIn and a few sentences about why you would be a good fit for the role.
by DiogenesKynikos | 2026-03-02 16:15:51+00:00
Are we supposed to generalize your third-hand anecdote about one Chinese PhD student to all Chinese PhD students?

> Chinese PhD types can 'buy' their way into labs. They have so much money no one wants to turn them away.

The way it works in the US is that labs pay the PhD students, not the other way around. I have never heard of a student paying the lab, ever.
Show HN: Free CLI Tools – Zero Dependencies, MIT Licensed
by a_m73110 | 2026-03-02 16:16:12+00:00
I built 59 single-file CLI tools because I was tired of:
- pip install hell for simple tasks
- Leaving terminal to use web converters
- Writing "quick scripts" that took 2 hours

Everything is zero-dependency Python. Copy, paste, run.

Highlights:
• HTML → Markdown converter (with article extraction)
• JSON formatter with validation
• Port scanner with banner grabbing
• Password generator with entropy analysis
• Duplicate file finder (saved me 40GB)
• Git repo health analyzer
• SSL certificate inspector
• 52 more...

All MIT licensed. No signup. No dependencies.

Live: https://workspace-ivory-one.vercel.app
Repo: https://github.com/barrowryan89-cloud/pd-researcher (currently mirroring to Vercel)

Would love feedback on which tools you'd actually use.
by thecrash | 2026-03-02 16:16:17+00:00
Some of the jurors had financial ties Energy Transfer, the district is heavily conservative and economically dependent on the oil industry. The deck was massively stacked against Greenpeace at trial.

Energy Transfer had previously attempted other suits which failed to get any traction because the claims are essentially Trump-style conspiracy theories about who is "pulling the strings" and "paying for" a massive decentralized protest movement.
But they got lucky on this one. One of the advantages of having so much money you can just burn it on questionable lawsuits until one succeeds.
by danenania | 2026-03-02 16:16:17+00:00
I have a similar process and have thought about committing all the planning files, but I've found that they tend to end up in an outdated state by the time the implementation is done.

Better imo is to produce a README or dev-facing doc at the end that distills all the planning and implementation into a final authoritative overview. This is easier for both humans and agents to digest than bunch of meandering planning files.
Enaga: ECS-first language with fixed-point math – try it in the browser
by shimaenaga | 2026-03-02 16:16:18+00:00
Enaga is a language designed for ECS game development. Components, systems, and relations are language keywords, not library constructs. All arithmetic is fixed-point (no floats) for bit-exact determinism. The compiler (written in Rust) generates C11 with automatic 7-tier SIMD dispatch and optional OpenMP parallelization.

The link above is a browser playground — the full Rust compiler runs as WASM. No server, no install.

Source is not public yet (licensing undecided), but happy to answer questions about the design and implementation.
by HarakiriGod | 2026-03-02 16:16:26+00:00
A few weeks ago, I launched Refine.tools (a local-first, anti-SaaS career toolkit) and got about 150 of you to try it. It was glorious. I felt like Mark Zuckerberg for about 12 hours.

Then everyone vanished. I assume you all instantly got jobs at FAANG companies using my tool. You're welcome.

Since reality is probably that job hunting still sucks and you just forgot about me, I spent the last few weeks building some new, slightly more aggressive features to try and win you back:

1. The Resume Roaster: Because sometimes the AI needs to stop being polite and just tell you that your objective statement sounds like it was written by a 19th-century poet.
2. STAR Story Builder: To help translate "I did stuff" into "Situation, Task, Action, Result" without staring at a blank screen for an hour.
3. Resume Examples: Because I realized giving people a blank canvas is terrifying.
4. Follow-Up Email Generator: For when you're ghosted and need to send a "just checking in" email that walks the fine line between persistent and restraining order.

It’s still 100% free, local-first (IndexedDB), and zero-tracking.

If you're still looking for a job (or just want the AI to brutally roast your PDF), I'd love for you to give the new tools a spin.

Link: https://refine.tools
by oofbey | 2026-03-02 16:16:37+00:00
Oil is a global commodity. Its price is set across all supply sources. Restricting its movement from Canada to the US doesn’t actually change the price much at all. It just makes the supply more vulnerable to disruption. That dirty shale oil only comes out of the ground when prices are really high. Otherwise it’s not worth it. If prices are high it will come out of the ground and get burned. The only question is where and who has access to it.
Show HN: Browser-Based AI Watermark Remover – No Uploads, Client-Side Only
by axyz7732 | 2026-03-02 16:16:51+00:00
I built a simple, fully client-side AI watermark remover that runs entirely in the browser—no images are uploaded to any server, no accounts needed, no ads or watermarks added on output.
It targets common AI-generated watermarks like those from Grok, Gemini (Nano Banana / Imagen), Midjourney, etc., using a combination of inpainting heuristics and basic diffusion-style filling tuned for small logo/text overlays. (It's not a full advanced model like Lama or anything cloud-heavy—just lightweight JS + Canvas/WebAssembly ops for speed and privacy.)
Why this exists:

People keep asking for free, private ways to clean up watermarks from fun/experimental AI outputs without trusting third-party sites.
Most online removers upload your image (privacy risk) or add their own branding/paywalls.
This one keeps everything local, works on phones too, and is zero-friction.

Try it here: https://tools.geeksprep.com/ai-watermark-remover
(Drag/drop or paste image → process → download PNG)

Feedback welcome: Does it handle your specific watermarks well? Any edge cases (e.g., large/overlaid text)? Suggestions for improvements? Bugs? Happy to iterate if it's useful.
It's part of a bigger free tools collection at tools.geeksprep.com (200+ utilities, all client-side/privacy-focused).
Thanks for looking!