MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by hogwasher | 2026-03-04 22:27:11+00:00
Sure, but then everyone moved to Facebook. The monopolist changed, but not the monopolistic market and the lack of consumer choice.

And nobody gained privacy in the process (I rather think everyone lost even more of it).

The situation currently permits only a tiny number of winning companies at a time, and the userbase is locked in even as the site becomes wildly unpopular, until some threshold of discontent is reached, and then everyone moves, and then that new site also enshittifies and the cycle repeats.

Federation is a mechanism whereby people would be able to actually choose providers as individuals and at any time, instead of having to wait years for a critical mass of upset people to build up and leave [current most popular social media site], and instead of being forced to go to [new most popular social media site].
by tomcatfish | 2026-03-04 22:27:50+00:00
It turns out that both phrases are used like this, similarly to how they teach in logic classes that "but" is just "and" in fancy clothing, but actual usage is quite different. Actually, a lot of language is just signpost phrasing that "helps the medicine go down" by giving hints at how the following idea will connect to this one.

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Both phrases are used like this— let me explain:

Logic classes teach that "but" is just "and" in fancy clothing, and actual usage is quite different. A lot of language is signpost phrasing that "helps the medicine go down" by giving hints at how the following idea will connect to this one.
by LucaHerakles | 2026-03-04 22:28:19+00:00
Herakles Defense | Munich, Germany | REMOTE| Full-time | Part-time available

Here's the problem: A small drone flies at you at 60mph / 100 km/h You have a camera, one edge processor, and must detect, classify, and track it at 30fps — against sky, trees, buildings. Starting from 100+ meters. If your pipeline drops a single frame at far range, the intercept fails. Sounds impossible? We think together we can solve this.

Now the second problem: Your guidance law needs to predict where that target will be in 0.5 seconds, compute the intercept geometry, and command the flight controller — with noisy IMU data, wind gusts, and a target that doesn't fly in straight lines. No GPS. No RF link. Just onboard compute.

We solved the guidance part in simulation. Our IBVS pipeline tracks and hits moving targets in SITL. The hardware prototype is built and ready. But the real engineering starts now.

We need:

* Computer Vision & Edge AI Engineer — YOLO on Jetson/Hailo/QRB5165. Detect, classify and track small targets at 100m+. Model pruning, TensorRT, sensor fusion. If you've pushed edge hardware to its absolute limits, this is your problem.

* GNC / Flight Systems Engineer — Image base visual servoing, proportional navigation, EKF/UKF state estimation, PX4 integration. Take what works in sim and make it survive real-world sensor noise.

* Simulation & Test Engineer — SITL/HITL, Monte Carlo campaigns, digital twins. 10,000 simulated engagements before anything leaves the ground.

* Technical Advisors — Drone warfare, GNC/aerospace, defense procurement. A few hours/month from the right person changes our trajectory.

We're a pre-seed defense startup in Munich building autonomous interceptor drones to stop FPV kamikaze drones. 2 founders. Salary + equity. No AI screening — we read every application.

https://www.herakles-defense.com/careers
by mrguyorama | 2026-03-04 22:28:21+00:00
People I think are overindexing on this being about "Bad hardware".

We have long known that single bit errors in RAM are basically "normal" in terms of modern computers. Google did this research in 2009 to quantify the number of error events in commodity DRAM https://static.googleusercontent.com/media/research.google.c...

They found 25,000 to 70,000 errors per billion
device hours per Mbit and more than 8% of DIMMs affected
by errors per year.

At the time, they did not see an increase in this rate in "new" RAM technologies, which I think is DDR3 at that time. I wonder if there has been any change since then.

A few years ago, I changed from putting my computer to sleep every night, to shutting it down every night. I boot it fresh every day, and the improvements are dramatic. RAM errors will accumulate if you simply put your computer to sleep regularly.
Show HN: Just Take A Note – browser notepad that stores everything locally
by caioricciuti | 2026-03-04 22:28:44+00:00
Show HN: Just Take A Note – browser notepad that stores everything locally, no cloud
I built a Chrome extension for people who are tired of opening Notion/Google Keep just to write a quick thought — only to get distracted by syncing, login prompts, or the app itself.
What it does:

Rich text editor (BlockNote) + drawing canvas (Excalidraw) in a browser popup
Everything stored in localStorage — no server, no account, no telemetry
Works offline
Opens in ~200ms

Why I built it:
I kept opening new tabs and typing in the URL bar as a scratchpad. That's embarrassing enough to fix.
Tech stack:

Chrome Extension Manifest V3
BlockNote for rich text
Excalidraw for sketches
Zero backend

What I'm looking for:
Honest feedback on the use case. Is "private local notepad" a real pain point or am I solving a non-problem? 193 installs with zero marketing so far — but I don't know if that's signal or noise.
by WarOnPrivacy | 2026-03-04 22:29:17+00:00
"What we’ve never seen before this year is a law enforcement
agency putting face recognition technology on law enforcement
agents’ phones out in the community and giving them unchecked
power to stop people, pull them off the street, and start
scanning their faces"

"This is taking a big and very scary step toward a kind of
totalitarian checkpoint society that we have always professed
to abhor here in the United States"
by cogman10 | 2026-03-04 22:29:18+00:00
Sure there is, if you can send back a strong response to a challenge, a potential litigant may back down ultimately saving money.

On staff legal council is there to be able to make the call when a more expensive firm should be hired and brought in. There's a lot of BS lawsuits, however, that flow through. For example, every software company that gets big enough will likely get sued for some BS patent infringement. Having on staff legal will be able to make the call of "yeah, you should just give them $10k to go away". That's a lot cheaper than hiring a firm to come in and then tell you "Yeah, you should give them $10k to go away".

Particularly for a business, it takes years before any case gets close to going to trial. Plenty of time for your council to make the determination on when bigger guns should be brought in.
by Phantasm0009 | 2026-03-04 22:29:51+00:00
Hey HN! High school student here. Just hit v1.0.1 of accel-gpu -
a WebGPU wrapper with NumPy-like API.

Went from 0 to 1,500+ downloads in 10 days with zero marketing.
Something about "NumPy for browsers" resonates with people.

What's new in v1.0:
• Cross-backend consistency tests (WebGPU/WebGL/CPU within 1e-4)
• Memory management (tidy/scoped) with stress tests
• Tree-shakeable imports (only load what you need)
• Fixed critical WebGL matmul bug
• Production-ready error messages

Why it exists:
• Browser ML/AI is exploding (local-first, privacy)
• But GPU libraries require shader knowledge (WGSL/GLSL)
• TensorFlow.js is 10MB+ with steep learning curve
• Wanted NumPy simplicity, ~160KB, zero dependencies

Try the demos:
• Vector Search: https://phantasm0009.github.io/accel-gpu/example/vector-sear...
(Search 100k docs client-side in <100ms)
• Audio Visualizer: https://phantasm0009.github.io/accel-gpu/example/audio/
(Real-time FFT spectrogram)
• Neural Network: https://phantasm0009.github.io/accel-gpu/example/nn/
(MNIST-style inference)

Tech deep-dive:
• WebGPU → WebGL2 → CPU fallback (works everywhere)
• Automatic shape inference
• FinalizationRegistry for GPU cleanup
• Playwright tests across Chromium/Firefox/WebKit
• TypeScript with shape-level type safety

Built for college apps, but 1,500+ developers are using it.
Feedback welcome!

Docs: https://phantasm0009.github.io/accel-gpu/
by Imustaskforhelp | 2026-03-04 22:30:10+00:00
> This guy was 36 years old. He wasn't a kid.

For god's sake I am a kid (17) and I have seen adults who can be emotionally unstable more than a kid. This argument isn't as bulletproof as you think it might be. I'd say there are some politicians who may be acting in ways which even I or any 17 year old wouldn't say but oh well this isn't about politics.

You guys surely would know better than me that life can have its ups and downs and there can be TRULY some downs that make you question everything. If at those downs you see a tool promoting essentially suicide in one form or another, then that shouldn't be dismissed.

Literally the comment above yours from @manoDev:

I know the first reaction reading this will be "whatever, the person was already mentally ill".

But please take a step back and check what % of the population can be considered mentally fit, and the potential damage amplification this new technology can have in more subtle, dangerous and undetectable ways.

The absolute irony of the situation that the next main comment below that insight was doing exactly that. Please take a deeper reflection, that's all what people are asking and please don't dismiss this by saying he wasn't a kid.

Would you be all ears now that a kid is saying to you this now? And also I wish to point out that kids are losing their lives too from this. BOTH are losing their lives.

It's a matter of everybody.
by marricks | 2026-03-04 22:30:46+00:00
What the heck is going on here, something cannot be light and use 20gb of memory.

Is LLM driving the RAM shortage or is it hacker news commenters convinced they can't run a single git client without 20gb to free memory.

I am a web dev doing what I'd consider light dev work and the biggest memory hog running for me right now is 2gb for Figma.
by 9999px | 2026-03-04 22:31:18+00:00
We are all being investigated by the Feds 24/7 — that's what dragnet surveillance is: indiscriminate investigation at scale to be used retroactively.

"Don't do anything bad and nothing will happen" is frankly asinine to me, personally. That same logic could extend to stop-and-frisk or random door-to-door visits to check for citizenship.
by _DeadFred_ | 2026-03-04 22:31:50+00:00
Who knows. What did Iran think would be the outcome if their attempt to assassinate Trump would have succeeded?

https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2026/03/03/trump-ass...

and sadly Iranian schoolgirls have long been the victims of this low level war the Islamic theocracy has been waging on those that don't follow their beliefs.

https://www.amnesty.org/en/latest/news/2023/12/iran-security...

https://www.amnestyusa.org/press-releases/child-detainees-in...

https://iranwire.com/en/society/60172/

https://www.iranintl.com/en/202602031576
by philipkglass | 2026-03-04 22:31:58+00:00
Yes, for the petrol car it's showing primary energy from petrol (gasoline).

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gasoline_gallon_equivalent#Gas...

Assuming 33.41 kWh/gallon it takes about 0.3 gallons to get 10 kWh, which costs $0.97 at a pump price of $3.23 per gallon.
by p1necone | 2026-03-04 22:32:11+00:00
Being limited to 8gb of ram is genuinely the only thing on that list I care about (no backlight and no fast charging are teetering on the edge of me caring, but they aren't worth multiple hundreds of dollars) - Apple silicone is so fast now that (at least for my purposes) the performance segmentation between price points is basically meaningless.
by joezydeco | 2026-03-04 22:32:40+00:00
There are toy and industrial design firms you can hire to take your concept from idea to prototype and even shepherd it through production.

If you want to do it alone you'll need simultaneous knowledge in electronics, mechatronics, mechanical engineering, design-for-manufacturing, parts purchasing, and procurement. That's before you build your product in a factory, or if you choose to do it yourself.

Simone Giertz is an incredibly smart and talented person with a lot of this knowledge, and even she will tell you how hard this can be.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7gTz_JmlYtQ
by handedness | 2026-03-04 22:32:44+00:00
> This page was last edited on 22 October 2023, at 09:05.

Since then:

> In Android 16, Google expanded the "Linux Terminal" feature, which was initially introduced in Android 15 QPR2 beta, allowing users to run Linux applications within a virtual machine on their devices. This feature utilizes the Android Virtualization Framework (AVF) to create a Debian-based environment where users can execute Linux commands and graphical applications. The guest operating system is fully isolated by the hypervisor (KVM or gunyah) and manages its own resources with its own Linux kernel. Notably, it supports running classic software such as Doom, demonstrating its ability to run full desktop applications.
by sam_lowry_ | 2026-03-04 22:32:57+00:00
It's a bit off topic, bit my favourite corruption story that I tell non-Belgians is the titres-services/dienstencheques racket.

Titres-services/dienstencheques is a kind of money that can be used only for household tasks. Think cleaning lady. At the introduction, they costed ~4.80€/hour to the public while designated organisations cashed in 27€/hour. The gap narrowed later, after creating a few nouveau riches, and after several scandals that were mostly about these people disrupting the office space market with their money.

The subsidy, initially at 22,2€ for every hour worked came from public money, the stated reason was to draw household workers from black market, the second reason was to achieve the goal of +100,000 jobs that the then Prime Minister set, the real reason was to enrich the few insiders, my memory does not serve me well, but IIRC the party affiliated with public service workers profited the most.

The guy who pushed for it the most is the Social Security Minister now.
by datsci_est_2015 | 2026-03-04 22:33:08+00:00
People spend entire careers doing these types of analyses, so my off-the-cuff comment will always be amateurish in comparison. But here goes anyway, some examples of blunders that come from a place of arrogance, or being overeager to hit the “defect” button:

- Various Roman emperors overextending and destroying what their predecessors slowly built
- Indigenous peoples (especially the Americas) allying with colonial forces to defeat other indigenous enemies (won the battle, lost the war)
- Brexit
- Perhaps the most documented regime of all time, 1930s and 40s Germany. Specific event? The eastern offensive

Edit:

- Royal lineages have plenty of examples, like Louis XVI
by MostlyStable | 2026-03-04 22:33:10+00:00
I turn LED lights off because of the difference in operational life, and I don't like changing bulbs. M GE bulbs say they have a rated lifetime of 13 years......at 3 hours of usage per day. So if they don't get turned off, then that 3 hours can very easily become 12, and now you are at a rated lifetime of ~4 years instead.
by bigwheels | 2026-03-04 22:33:17+00:00
It's been a month since they unveiled The Attractor and already there are hundreds of open source implementations:

https://factory.strongdm.ai/products/attractor#community

https://github.com/search?q=strongdm+attractor&type=reposito...

https://github.com/strongdm/attractor/forks
by oniony | 2026-03-04 22:33:17+00:00
In the 1990s, in the UK, my secondary school English teacher, who had Shakespearian actor vibes and wore dark tweed trousers and a plain white shirt—imagine Patrick Stewart if you may—brought this poem to life in my class by vividly reenacting a soldier dying from mustard gas poisoning by falling onto a desk and flailing about in front of the stunnned students sitting at it. I've never forgotten the closing line since.
by 1-more | 2026-03-04 22:33:21+00:00
Once I did a little bike training and looking at my power curve, I was incredibly impressed by how cheap energy is. 100W is an all day number, 200W less so, 300W is exactly 20 minutes when I do an FTP test. 400W is 4x Tour de France winner Tadej Pogačar for an hour and he's a mutant. 1 horsepower is under a minute iirc, definitely under 2. 1kW is maybe 10 seconds. So I could keep my laptop and phone charged probably indefinitely as long as I have food, but not a ton more than that.

https://velo.outsideonline.com/road/road-racing/tour-de-fran...
by matwiemann | 2026-03-04 22:33:22+00:00
I built Skillgrade (https://www.skillgrade.ai/) to try and solve a problem I keep seeing on professional networks: everyone is suddenly an "AI Expert," but there’s no real baseline for what that actually means.

Being an AI power user looks completely different for a lawyer using Harvey AI for document analysis versus a marketer using Midjourney, or an engineer using OpenClaw.

I wanted to create a standardized, quick way to assess and showcase these practical skills.

How it works:
Contextual: It first asks for your industry and role (e.g., Legal, Executive, Engineering).

Tool & Usage Based: It assesses which specific tools you use (ChatGPT, Claude, specialized industry tools) and how you apply them (e.g., basic email drafting vs. core workflow integration).

The Output: It calculates a grade based on your inputs and generates a specific tier (like "Level 3: Orchestrator") and a certificate optimized for sharing on LinkedIn.

The Tech / Challenges:
Right now, the assessment relies heavily on self-reporting. One of the biggest challenges I’m thinking through is how to make the validation more rigorous without turning a 3-minute quick test into a 30-minute exam.

I’d love the community's feedback on a few things:
The Grading Logic: Does the tiering system feel accurate for your specific profession?

Missing Tools/Use Cases: Are there major AI tools or specific workflows in your industry that the questionnaire completely misses?

Future Validation: Any ideas on how to seamlessly integrate actual proof of work or skill testing without killing the conversion rate?

Happy to answer any questions and would love to hear your thoughts!
by petcat | 2026-03-04 22:33:55+00:00
> The president's a pedophile, a criminal, undeterred by democracy, economy or social disorder but you can freely yell into the void. Have you considered that in the US one can freely say all these things precisely because that's irrelevant?

Americans will vote for their Congress representatives in November. They will have a chance to decide how they want their government to be run. The US President was already shot-down once by the Supreme Court (tariffs). The system is working. Let the voters decide, and then let it work.
by OkayPhysicist | 2026-03-04 22:34:14+00:00
Don't know. Plugged it in one morning, and it wasn't turning on. So I tried detaching it from its base because that had been a problem before, but it was dead, so you needed to find the little manual release thing that's inside one of the vents, which I didn't have a tool for, so I gave up on that. Then I turned to ask a coworker to try their charging cord (as mine had to be replaced once after it failed, and I assumed the same thing had happened again), and by the time I got back to my desk a small whisp of smoke was rising from the keyboard, which is strange, because to my understanding that's not where the computer bits are in that laptop.

So I unplugged it, at which point I noticed the smoke was increasing. So we doused it in CO2 (maybe N2, idk, some cheap gas we had lying around for the wetlab), pried the computer part off of the base, and then IT handled sending it back to M$.
by ebiederm | 2026-03-04 22:34:29+00:00
When Wirth talks about modules and abstraction I believe he was talking about what was known as the software crisis. In particular the observation that as programs size increases the number of possible interactions of program components grows quadratically.

Modules in particular and good abstractions in general make the number of interactions between components tractible.

The N^2 component interaction problem is real and it continues to cause problems.

Even with our best solutions there is room for improvement.

Last I paid attention there was a culture that had developed around the administration of CISCO routers because things that should be unrelated affecting each other is a real world problem for the administrators of those routers.

Any time something changes in siftware and something unrelated is affected this general problem is making it's appearance.

There is also a long term tension between abstractions and entire system simplicity. The wrong abstract or an abstraction poorly implemented can make things worse.
by TheOtherHobbes | 2026-03-04 22:35:12+00:00
It's not an absurd standard at all. Risks are quantifiable, and not binary.

But the absurdity is that there is a long and tragic history of using economic benefits as an excuse for products and services that cause extreme and widespread harm - not just emotional and physical, but also economic.

We are far too tolerant of this. The issue isn't risk in some abstract sense, it's the enthusiastic promotion of death, war, sickness, and poverty for "rational" economic reasons.
by leptons | 2026-03-04 22:35:25+00:00
You can only buy hardware that runs Apple software from Apple, but Android mobile devices far outsell Apple devices and always have. Apple is and always has been a minority player in the overall smartphone market (and desktop/laptop as well).

Globally, Android has had about 70% to 75% market share, and Apple has always had a much smaller slice of the total. iPhones are not as popular as you seem to think they are. You don't have to believe me, the data proves it:

https://gs.statcounter.com/os-market-share/mobile/worldwide/...
by GuB-42 | 2026-03-04 22:35:37+00:00
> The much more likely scenario is that the code is right, but a mistake in the test leads it to not test anything.

What I usually do to prevent this situation is to write a passing test, then modify the code to make it fail, then revert the change. It also gives an occasion to read the code again, kind of like a review.

I have never seen this practice formalized though, good for me, this is the kind of things I do because I care, turning it into a process with Jira and such is a good way to make me stop caring.
by alnwlsn | 2026-03-04 22:36:54+00:00
Kind of, it's in bits and pieces here:

https://hackaday.io/project/191731-practical-power-cycling

and is also a few years out of date.

I did do a video back then going against the infamous "bicycle toaster challenge" video (in which I determined it was probably less real than they made it out to be). I'm nowhere as fit as those guys, so in my attempt I was only able to turn a bagel into a dry crouton over the course of an hour.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AcNXp86BJ-o
Show HN: Elite Coders – AI devs that join your Slack, GitHub, and Jira
by eibrahim | 2026-03-04 22:36:57+00:00
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Each agent maintains persistent context about the codebase and team conventions across sessions. They build familiarity with your architecture over time rather than starting cold each interaction.

Built with autonomous agents that handle the full dev lifecycle, not just code generation. Currently supports Slack, GitHub, and Jira integrations.

Known limitations: works best on well-defined tickets with clear acceptance criteria. Complex architectural decisions and ambiguous product requirements still need human judgment. Performance varies by codebase complexity.

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