MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by AndrewKemendo | 2026-03-08 15:41:17+00:00
Parent of three teens headed to college/trades in the next year.

While I completely understand your positivity nihilism, this kind of parent as victim mentality needs to stop altogether.

I’m looking around where I live and literally zero of these people have to raise their children because they didn’t have the access to abortion, contraception or public services.* 99% of parents decided to keep and raise a child.

It is objectively bad to park your kids in front of an iPad for hours a day so you can work

It is objectively bad to have your kids all over social media

It is objectively bad to feed your children ultra processed foods

Etc…

If raising your children is not the most important thing in your life, to the extent that you’re going to actually do scientifically demonstrated correct things like providing them vaccines reducing sugar limiting screen time encouraging outdoor play and exploration and community building etc…then you should not have them.

If you do not have a community that can provide this if you are not independently capable enough… then you should probably not have them.

Being a parent is a transcendent privilege across every period of time, history, class and race - it literally is the driving factor of society.

*In the 18 months since Dobbs between .9% and 1.2% (should be zero but here we are) were victims of rape and forced into birthing that child according to:

https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/64-000-pregnancie...
by AnthonyMouse | 2026-03-08 15:41:29+00:00
> Because they're statutory damages, because the actual point of the exercise is to make an example of the person breaking the law.

That's quite inaccurate. Punitive damages are typically treble damages, i.e. three times the original amount, not 750 to 150,000 times the amount.

The actual point of statutory damages is that proving actual damages is hard, and then if you caught someone with a pirate printing press it's somewhat reasonable to guestimate they were personally making hundreds to thousands of copies. The problem is they then applied that to P2P networks and people who were on average making a single copy.
by georgemcbay | 2026-03-08 15:42:44+00:00
> Then, what about the people making and maintaining all the facilities for these people we don’t need anymore?

And all the small businesses like local restaurants and coffee shops that they frequent, etc, etc.

There are so many 2nd order contagion impacts if the knowledge work economy implodes that very few people won't be negatively impacted to some significant degree.

And some people seem to think that outcome means the government will step in and engineer some sort of soft landing. And outside of the US this may very well be true, but here in the US? Seems unlikely.
by donkeybeer | 2026-03-08 15:42:46+00:00
And you know what's the worst thing? I don't know if its my sample bias, but I see very rarely Israelis complaining about actual "gas the kikes white power" hateful antisemite filth which have actually risen in quantity quite a lot recently. The only people who get smeared with the antisemite label are people who hundreds of times even to the point of most normal people would stop seeing the distinction between jews and Israeli actions but they still clarify the various ways they aren't talking about jewish people or judaism as a religion but Israeli governments actions, and perfectly reasonable people like the Irish get labelled as "extreme antisemites". You know what signal this sends? If repeatedly clarifying the difference between jews in general and criminal actions of Israel gets the label of antisemite and actual blood and soil neo nazis get ignored then perhaps people should become actual loud and proud antisemites, this is what Israelis mindset signals to people.
by post-it | 2026-03-08 15:43:15+00:00
> If you watch slow-motion video of a guitar string vibrating, you’ll see a complex, evolving blend of squiggles. These squiggles are the mathematical sum of all of the string’s different harmonics.

This is incorrect. If you watch a video like [0], the squiggles aren't real, they're an artifact of a rolling shutter camera. A real slowmo camera will correctly show the entire string vibrating[1].

The rest of the article is correct, but you can't see harmonics happening to the string.

[0] https://youtu.be/XOCGb5ZGEV8
[1] https://youtu.be/6sgI7S_G-XI
by einpoklum | 2026-03-08 15:43:43+00:00
> it sounds more like a procedural oversight.

But the "oversight" is likely due to the fact that those policy-makers only see MS Excel used around them, and only expect people to use MS-Excel - which is why they did not think there might be any problem with requiring its use in a procedure. So, the people doing policymaking, and other related technical work, at the EU do actually need their MS license to work.
by aw1621107 | 2026-03-08 15:43:49+00:00
> when mixing crates from various editions and how changes interact together.

Could you elaborate more on this? It's not obvious to me right now why (for example) Crate A using the 2024 edition and Crate B using the 2015 edition would require both full access to both crates' source beyond the standard lack of a stable ABI.
Show HN: Claude Code Container – Zero-Config Docker Isolation for Claude Code
by Luxusio | 2026-03-08 15:44:03+00:00
Claude Code's `--dangerouslySkipPermissions` flag is incredibly productive, but it's called "dangerous" for good reason. In practice it has deleted home directories, wiped database files, and read sensitive files completely unrelated to the project. But the default permission prompts interrupt flow constantly -- you end up spending more time approving edits than actually working.

The obvious fix is containers. But every existing approach has painful tradeoffs:
- Dockerfile per project: you're now maintaining infrastructure just to use your AI assistant
- devcontainer: complex config, slow to set up, breaks differently per IDE
- Manual docker run: env vars don't forward, SSH keys aren't available,
clipboard copy/paste stops working inside Claude sessions,
and localhost:8080 from your host is unreachable from inside the container

I wanted full isolation with zero configuration.
ccc (claude-code-container) handles all of this automatically, without any configuration:
npm install -g claude-code-container
ccc # that's it

What it does:
- Creates a per-project container (named by path hash, so --continue/--resume work correctly)
- Forwards host env vars, locale, timezone automatically
- Mounts SSH keys and SSH agent (git push just works)
- Transparent localhost proxy so Claude can reach your host's dev servers at
localhost:3000, :8080, etc. even from inside the container
- Clipboard works normally in Claude sessions
- mise integration for per-project Node/Python/Java/Go versions
- Container auto-stops when the last session exits
- Chromium + chrome-devtools MCP pre-configured: Claude can open a browser,
navigate pages, take screenshots, run JavaScript, and interact with your web app autonomously -- no extra setup

The transparent localhost proxy was the hardest part -- it uses iptables on Linux and a userspace proxy on macOS/Windows (Docker Desktop doesn't support --network host), with automatic fallback to host.docker.internal.

GitHub: https://github.com/Luxusio/claude-code-container

Would love feedback, especially from people who've tried other approaches to this problem.
by advael | 2026-03-08 15:44:12+00:00
Yes, now they involve calling the cops to enforce a law that microsoft lawyers wrote and then sent lobbyists to bully or trick most of the world into signing. The corruption of the rule of law in modern nation-states into effectively brutal mafia-style enforcement of otherwise untenable business models certainly has facilitated quite a shift in the hardware multinationals use to secure their various unfathomably excessive bags
by yjftsjthsd-h | 2026-03-08 15:44:13+00:00
> Most computers in the world don't need the ability to have their operating system changed or run custom user built software.

That's not true? Nearly every laptop, desktop, and server can trivially run whatever OS+software, of course, but also currently at least virtually all Android devices can run arbitrary user built/supplied software (I grant that, unfortunately, replacing the OS is often harder). Embedded stuff varies, but frequently anything capable of running a general purpose OS (which IMHO is generally the line to call it a "computer") can have it replaced.
by DrewADesign | 2026-03-08 15:44:47+00:00
And what good does today’s software demand do for late career developers laid off during the .com bust? Just in time to have the derivatives shenanigans kill their retirement accounts right when they needed them? The fact that companies making more money than ever are laying off software engineers indicates that at the very least, this demand isn’t imminent. I don’t think it even makes sense to imagine there’s going to be another internet revolution in the near future.

I don’t care about the health of the industry — that will do fine. I’m more concerned with the wellbeing of people pretty likely about to get run over by the productivity train. People’s mortgages, cancer treatments, tuition for kids, and retirement plans don’t care if Microsoft is doing great in 10 years if there’s 8 years until the market needs them again.
by PeterStuer | 2026-03-08 15:45:27+00:00
I am running both Qwen-coder-next and Qwen 3.5 locally. Not too bad, but I always have Opus 4.6 checking their output as the Qwen family tends to hallucinate non existing library features in amounts similar to the Claude 3.5 / GPT 4 era.

The combo of free long running tasks on Qwen overnight with steering and corrections from Opus works for me.

I guess I could just do Opus/Sonnet for my Claude Code back-end, but I specifically want to keep local open weights models in the loop just in case the hosted models decide to quit on e.g. non-US users.
by a4isms | 2026-03-08 15:45:39+00:00
There is a quantum of earned generosity. Someone saying, "This doesn't seem right" has jumped to a conclusion, but they aren't getting personal about the author or the work.

Whether it's testes or testy language, getting personal and insulting does not meet my personal standard for assuming good intent and being worthy of an open-minded attempt to create constructive dialogue.

But I applaud you for wanting to lift the standard of discourse!
by SoftTalker | 2026-03-08 15:45:40+00:00
Sounds true because (at least in some cases) it is. All the books I've bought in the past 20 years have been online, mostly from Amazon. When I was a kid my town had at least six bookstores that I can remember. Barnes and Noble and Borders came and they were fantastic but all the locals had closed up within a decade. Then Borders closed and a few years later Barnes and Noble was gone. I go there today and there aren't any bookstores. Nobody thinks a bookstore in a small town is a viable business in the Amazon ere, so none have been opened.

Big cities I'm sure still have some, they have enough population to support them even if most people don't patronize them.
by KronisLV | 2026-03-08 15:45:48+00:00
This might seem quite pedantic but I like the fact that they’re calling stuff like that out - over here office documents are more or less synonymous with MS Office, despite me having used LibreOffice for years with no significant issues (aside from their bibliography being broken while writing my thesis, super annoying but I found a workaround).

I’ve never actually had anyone complain about me sending them ODT or ODS files since even the said MS Office doesn’t have a big issue with those.

Oddly enough, if you ever also see a CSV, LibreOffice Calc will give you a nice import dialog whereas by default MS Excel will happily open it wrong and fuck everything up for you.

Edit: oh wait there was a case in university where I did a presentation in front of like 60 people and it referenced fonts that weren’t on the other machine and they didn’t get embedded in the presentation file. It fucked up all of the font layouts. Since, I do presentations in PDFs (the archival kind). Except recently I also wrote my own presentation tool that outputs HTML pages and can also serve everything from a folder, or I might just put them on my server. I think I reinvented worse Google Docs.
by steppi | 2026-03-08 15:46:13+00:00
Yes, people try this. Check out dynamic tonality. It doesn't necessarily need a system. Experienced guitar players often find themselves unconsciously making little microtonal adjustments through bends and other techniques when playing leads. I found myself doing this just because it sounded better to me. I didn't even notice there was a consistent pattern until I eventually learned the math. For example I'd always want to bend minor thirds slightly sharp and bend the neck to slightly detune major thirds.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dynamic_tonalityhttps://en.wik...
by ajross | 2026-03-08 15:46:29+00:00
Sorry, the with statement is non-responsive. The question isn't whether you "can" write PyPy-friendly code. Obviously you can.

The question isn't even whether or not you "should" write PyPy-friendly code, it's whether YOU DID, or your predecessors did. And the answer is "No, they didn't". I mean, duh, as it were.

PyPy isn't compatible. In this way and a thousand tiny others. It's not really "Python" in a measurable and important way. And projects that are making new decisions for what to pick as an implementation language for the evolution of their Python code have, let's be blunt, much better options than PyPy anyway.
by konne88 | 2026-03-08 15:46:36+00:00
TLDR: 80% of kids used to be potty trained by age one. Nowadays parents train later, because diapers are so convenient that its feasible to wait until the kids are older where it's easier to train them. This provides massive revenue to diaper companies.

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This seems roughly plausible. I have never been successful at training 1 year olds to be potty trained, because there is so much exposed poop & pie involved over such long times, that it's just way easier to push it back by a year or two when they can figure it out more or less by themselves.

Maybe back then diapers were so bad, that there was always a lot of exposed poop & pie involved anyway, so potty training didn't really make your life any worse.

I'd probably say those extra billion in revenue are well earned.
by anal_reactor | 2026-03-08 15:47:20+00:00
I don't think it's illogical nor irrational. When you look at artworks below €5 000 then there should be correlation between artistic value and price in euros. Not exactly a linear function, but clear correlation. Above that you're not buying artwork - you're buying the prestige and social status of owning an expensive artwork. It's the rich people's equivalent of buying Supreme clothes just to impress the ladies.
by codemastercpp | 2026-03-08 15:47:28+00:00
Hi, Maker here — wanted to address the abuse/moderation angle since I know it'll come up.

1. Moderation.
For legal reasons, the proxy itself also has to do moderation, which technically increases the surface area of prompt exposure, but naturally, it still remains decoupled from identity.

2. Abuse handling
Since the blindrsa tokens are blind, banning abusing users (which is generally a requirement for hosting such a service) is required. So to do so, I have to dial down the privacy a bit, and attach 1 blindrsa token permanently to the user (naturally server wouldn't know which user has which perm token). If server detects too many abusive usages from same psuedoanonymous token, it can ban it. (i have another monthly token, that rotates to avoid this token being stolen problem)
Show HN: I'm building an open source alternative to Topaz Photo AI
by vegidio | 2026-03-08 15:47:38+00:00
Before I start, I know that many people, including myself, have an aversion to "AI apps" nowadays, because these projects are often just thin wrappers around ChatGPT's API to do the heavy lifting.

This is not one of those projects. In this case, all the AI logic in my project is implemented directly: data pre-processing, post-processing, inference, tiling, tensor operations, and everything in between are handled entirely within the project, with no external API doing the heavy lifting.

With that said…

This project aims to be an open-source alternative to Topaz Photo AI. For those unfamiliar with Topaz Labs, they develop paid, proprietary AI applications for enhancing images and videos. While there are free and open-source tools that can achieve similar results, such as ComfyUI, they are often difficult to use. Topaz products, on the other hand, place a strong emphasis on ease of use.

Both Topaz and ComfyUI are excellent tools. That said, I personally rely on Topaz applications most of the time because they cover 90% of my needs with minimal friction. Recently, however, Topaz Labs switched to a subscription-based licensing model, which I strongly dislike. That decision motivated me to build an open-source alternative that matches Topaz’s usability without the subscription lock-in.

My project is called Open Photo AI, completely open source and free. It currently support enhancements like AI upscaling, face recovery and light adjustment. It doesn't have yet all the features that Topaz has, but it's a starting point. My goal is to continue developing it into a fully featured alternative to Topaz Photo AI. If that succeeds, I plan to move on to alternatives for Topaz Video AI and other tools.

I’d appreciate any constructive feedback.
by kantord | 2026-03-08 15:47:39+00:00
I was considering adding a full offline mode but here is my thinking: that is actually a feature/concern that would be separately useful, so it should not be baked into blogtato. And there might be already some pretty good options out there.

For instance, `wget` is a pretty widely used HTTP client that is able to mirror links for offline access. Then you can use standard tools such as `grep` to search in all the offline content. And `blogtato` does already have an export feature, so it is almost trivial to write a script that saves all posts for online content.

So perhaps what should be done here is find a user friendly tool for offline access/search for web content and just add some convenience features to `blogtato` so that they integrate very easily.
by tosh | 2026-03-08 15:47:44+00:00
I remember these Macbooks did tend to break apart at the corners of the palmrests.

But I like the idea of re-visiting Macbook plastic chassis w/ new inside.

I would love to know what the weight is in the end.

Can the old Macbook chassis lead to a lighter weight computer than the current 1.23kg Macbook neo and Macbook air?
by thisislife2 | 2026-03-08 15:48:14+00:00
I never knew about "Christian zionism", or how it is so deeply tied with American politics till I watched these 2 interviews - https://tuckercarlson.com/tucker-show-fares-abraham-021826 and https://tuckercarlson.com/tucker-show-mike-huckabee-022026 (Yeah, I know it is from Tucker Carlson, and there is a lot of crap on his site. But there are some rare gems - good interviews - like these that offer us a rare insight into American and international politics. It is on his interview that the American ambassador to Israel publicly said that Israel has a "bibilical right" to the whole of middle-east and America is fine with those Israeli aspirations!)
by bluerooibos | 2026-03-08 15:48:51+00:00
Ah, the American individualist mindset. It's free, just like schools are free - because we choose to give everyone a basic level of education at no cost, rather than allow people from disadvantaged backgrounds (no parents, mentally or physically ill parents, etc) to grow up illiterate. It works in Europe and most of the developed world. Christ, I am tired of this argument. It's free to the people who use it - I didn't say it had zero cost. Is that easier to understand?

You benefit from this system whether you like it or not - the taxes used to build roads, transport infrastructure, schools and colleges - they benefit YOU, so yes - you can damn well pay back into the system. Feel free to move to Dubai or another low-tax "utopia" of your choice at any point.
by buran77 | 2026-03-08 15:48:53+00:00
PlayStation 3 similarly had the option to run alternative operating systems, virtualized [1]. I remember running Yellow Dog Linux on a couple of PS3s. (edit. just found the YDL 5.0, 6.0, and 6.2 buried somewhere on my NAS).

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OtherOS
by DeepSeaTortoise | 2026-03-08 15:50:27+00:00
Interesting, never heard anyone calling some place a Tier 1.5 city. Is this a recent development as "almost official" as the Tiers itself, something obvious I just never picked up on or people taking pride in their Tier 2s doing really well?

Also why does the Tier list keep expanding downwards? Wasn't being called a Tier 4 basically exclusively an insult? Sub culture not being satisfied with just embracing rotting anymore, but now racing for the bottom of the sea?
by Imustaskforhelp | 2026-03-08 15:50:39+00:00
> safari. Browsing the web from a headless vps has hurdles

Hooking things up to puppeteer maybe?

You can use pupeteer to then use the chromium control remote (debug?) option iirc which uses websockets underneath the hood

Then you can connect this from your pc or theoretically any Control server. Surprised to not hear much work on that front now that you mention it.
by karpathy | 2026-03-08 15:51:58+00:00
So the interesting part about this one is that when I had the model write up the results for that session:

https://github.com/karpathy/autoresearch/discussions/32

Look at its comment about this "improvement":

"""
Surprising non-results:

- Changing random seed from 42→137 improved by 0.0004. Seed 7 was worse. Make of that what you will.
"""

So the model knows! It knows that this is a weird thing to do after the fact. I think it's silly that the model even tried and that it ran this, but some part of it also knows that it was wrong. This means that this is fixable by prompt.md
by karussell | 2026-03-08 15:52:02+00:00
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by tetromino_ | 2026-03-08 15:52:18+00:00
> But cloth diapers are obviously much better for the environment

It's obvious only if you save and reuse the same set of cloth diapers for 2 or more babies. (Which places some constrains on brand, durability etc.) If you have only one kid, I am not sure which side is environmentally more friendly; growing and processing all that cotton (not to mention the plastic for all the waterproof covers) uses a lot of water and energy...
by throwaway2037 | 2026-03-08 15:52:22+00:00
There are two main reasons why housing is more affordable in Japan compared to many other highly developed nations: (1) There is functionally no NIMBY-ism. There is a single, unified national building code that screams YIMBY-ism. (You can Google about it.) Also, almost no buildings are protected from tear-down/re-dev. As a result, large cities in Japan appears to be constantly under construction. Tear-down and re-build is a very common pattern in urban areas. (2) Home loans for 30 years are less than 1%, and required down payments are tiny (0% to 10% is common). This dramatically changes the affordability equation.

The "free houses" you have heard about are called akiya (空き家). There are countless YouTube videos and blog posts to learn about how it works. You are basically buying an abandoned home from a local gov't agency.