MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by Rocked0205 | 2026-03-08 14:26:20+00:00
Hey HN, I built Tunn because I was frustrated with ngrok's latency and session limits.

It uses QUIC protocol instead of TCP, which gives ~4x lower latency with keep-alive connections (135ms avg vs 663ms for ngrok in my benchmarks).

Features:
- HTTP/TCP/UDP tunneling (ngrok doesn't support UDP)
- Built-in request inspector at localhost:4040
- QR code in terminal for quick mobile testing
- 0-RTT reconnect (instant reconnect on network change)
- Single binary, no dependencies

Written in Rust, uses quinn for QUIC transport.

Install: curl -s https://tunn.uz/install | bash
Then: tunn http 3000

Free tier available, pro is $3/mo for static ports and custom domains.

Happy to answer any questions about the QUIC implementation or architecture decisions.
by colmmacc | 2026-03-08 14:26:26+00:00
EC only works if parents are the sole carers, and every success story I've heard had one main parent doing 90% of the care-taking. No daycare would do it, and if you can find a nanny, au-pair, grand-parent or other carer who is up for it ... small kids still just behave differently around different people. If they have a different level of comfort, anxiety, or reluctance with a person it breaks down.
by noemit | 2026-03-08 14:26:38+00:00
I recently wrote a blog about how I'm prompting. I don't think it's boring. I think we don't have the correct language to talk about the techniques/processes but I bet that not everyone prompts/guides AI the same way. You can almost tell from the types of complaints people have that they are using it very differently. So, I think it's worth discussing.
by Avicebron | 2026-03-08 14:26:39+00:00
Do people like the Macbook Neo? When I saw it was announced I groaned thinking this was Apple's chromebook, cheap, representative of a disposable mindset. Underpowered and even more locked into the ecosystem..

I'd love to be proven wrong. But to me it feels regressive. I guess the only positive spin on it I can think of is that this is designed for kids in schools.
by ihavekids | 2026-03-08 14:26:50+00:00
I’ve tried it. My youngest (21 months) can definitely inform us that she needs to go to the bathroom. But she’s not quite ready to use the toilet. She either doesn’t want to sit on it, sit long enough, or gets distracted. The kid definitely needs to be open for potty training in order to it to work.

My oldest was potty trained at exactly 2 years. We just let her run around without a diaper and there was one specific time she peed that everything clicked for her.
by Forgeties79 | 2026-03-08 14:27:06+00:00
It is absolutely a distinct, new kind of product for them and I don’t understand how it is fanboyism to say so. They have very few, very clear lanes of products with few variations. This is an entirely different fleet/price point for their laptops. It doesn’t even use the M chip, which every other computer they offer does.

It’s a budget laptop. They didn’t have a budget laptop prior.
Show HN: BXP – An open standard for atmospheric exposure data
by BXP | 2026-03-08 14:27:07+00:00
Air pollution kills 7 million people a year. The sensors exist. The data infrastructure does not.

Every device, app, and agency stores air quality data in incompatible formats. A sensor in Accra cannot speak to a hospital in Nairobi. A researcher in London cannot access ground-truth data from Lagos. There is no open standard for atmospheric exposure data — the same way there was no open standard for the web before HTTP.

BXP (Breathe Exposure Protocol) is my attempt to fix that.

It defines:
— A universal .bxp file format any device or software can read and write
— BXP_HRI: a composite Health Risk Index incorporating all agents with WHO-derived weighting
— A complete REST API specification for federated node networks
— A privacy framework protecting individual exposure records by design

Like HTTP, PDF, or MP3 — BXP is a format layer. No hardware required. No licensing fees. No central owner. Apache 2.0. Forever free.

The reference implementation is live right now:

Live public node: https://bxp-node.onrender.com
GitHub + full source: https://github.com/bxpprotocol/bxp-spec
Spec DOI (Zenodo): https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.18906812
Implementation DOI: https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.18907003

You can clone it and run your own BXP node in under 3 minutes:

git clone https://github.com/bxpprotocol/bxp-spec
cd bxp-spec/reference-server
pip install fastapi uvicorn pydantic
python server.py

The spec covers 31 atmospheric agents — PM2.5, NO2, ozone, benzene, mold, heavy metals — with WHO thresholds, quality flags, geohash-based spatial indexing, and a federated network architecture where each node operator owns their own data completely.

I am looking for developers, researchers, and institutions who want to implement BXP, contribute to the spec, or run a community node. Particularly interested in connecting with anyone working on air quality infrastructure in developing countries where the data gap is most severe.

Happy to answer any questions.
by petterroea | 2026-03-08 14:27:31+00:00
The lifestyle I am describing definitely works best in Tokyo, but I have lived in Kyoto as well and while accessibility wasn't as good, I still had Osaka ~40 mins away for any Tokyo-scale market needs. Osaka has its own Akihabara I could buy electrics at, if I so didn't want to order online. Compared to Kyoto, I do notice that I feel a lot more integrated in Tokyo - people don't necessarily assume I am a tourist. They are definitely fed up in Kyoto and I found myself having to explain that I was not a tourist a lot.

> In all rich (non-micro-state) countries, outside of big cities, they are all driving nations

I think this is a key takeaway. Urban life is a city thing no matter where you live. Of course, if you lived in Tokyo, you could live an hour away from things and still live in a city with good public transport (Saitama, yokohama, chiba, etc). But then you could probably afford a house with a car as well. Seems like a nice life.
by hagbard_c | 2026-03-08 14:27:46+00:00
Fatbikes are a problem in the Netherlands as well. Th Netherlands, also known as the #1 country - or at least in the top 3, no need to quibble about who comes first - when it comes to creating cycling infrastructure. Bicycle paths everywhere but those don't help against fatbike gangs. They don't care about safe cycling infrastructure, they hardly care about safety - especially other people's safety - at all.
by Sem_pre | 2026-03-08 14:28:19+00:00
Appreciate the thoughtful response — and yeah, the integration angle is interesting. PayWatcher as a verification layer for chains QBitFlow doesn't natively cover yet makes a lot of sense architecturally. Keeps your stack lean while expanding chain support.

The primitive vs. full-stack split maps well to how developers actually buy tools: start with the smallest thing that solves the immediate problem, then add layers as complexity grows. Tip jar → PayWatcher. SaaS with MRR → QBitFlow. Both valid.

Happy to explore the integration idea — hello@paywatcher.dev if you want to take it offline.
SonicBit for iOS: Your personal assistant in the cloud for torrents
by Ludoq | 2026-03-08 14:28:39+00:00
SonicBit works as a cloud download manager specializing in torrents. Its main function is to act as a seedbox: you add the torrent file from your mobile or tablet, and the app's servers are responsible for downloading it for you, 24 hours a day and without the need for your device to be on or connected. This allows you to handle very heavy files (over 100GB) without occupying a single megabyte of your iPhone or iPad's memory. When finished, the file is stored in the SonicBit cloud.

To start, the app is free and offers you 4GB of trial storage without needing to pay. If you need more space or additional features, it offers subscription plans (such as Cypher, Xyron, or Vega) with different capacities and prices. An important detail is that, according to its policy, the developer claims not to collect any user data.

Official website link: https://my.sonicbit.net/login
by dangus | 2026-03-08 14:29:24+00:00
Like it or not, they’re a Silicon Valley institution. They’ve affected technology more and stuck around longer than most everyone else.

It’s like caring about Bell Labs if it still existed, or Kodak at its peak. Sure, they were part of big monopolistic companies, but the other side of that is a unique entity with a resume of accomplishments that make them worthy of national pride.
by disinz | 2026-03-08 14:29:26+00:00
> in my experience LLM code is actually better documented

Most LLM documentation is extremely poor unless you literally can’t understand code. It’s communicating obvious things that the code makes apparent. Good documentation covers what’s not obvious from reading the code. I’m amazed at how many devs think running Claude init is a good idea.

I’ve noticed a constant trend throughout my career that low performing devs generate and are impressed with this kind of documentation.

> and structured than what most dev teams produce

Left alone, LLM structure is terrible. Speed running the cheapest outsourced slop is not a good thing unless you’re already paying for outsourced slop. Huge win in that case.

LLMs are median equalizers. I think a large contingent of devs (especially given the money grab around 2021) are not that good, and LLMs really are a step improvement for them. I’m not denying there are use cases for competent devs, but so far that seems much narrower (albeit insanely impressive) than the benefit low performers (think) they receive. This fact is important to keep in mind when discussing the future of dev.
by grey-area | 2026-03-08 14:30:11+00:00
It’s a remarkably powerful computer for a decent price. I like this new direction from Apple and also think chromebooks were a great idea even if the execution on them hasn’t always been great. I don’t see how they are disposable, perhaps for you their price makes them so? For many it just means they are actually attainable unlike other Mac products.

If you’re looking to a corporation to save you from corporate lock-in I’m not sure what to say.
by nkrisc | 2026-03-08 14:30:34+00:00
Diapers are overall a tiny expense compared to what you’ll spend over the course of their childhood.

It only lasts a few years and then you’ll never have to think about diapers again (at least until the next kid).

Just do whatever is easiest and keeps you sane. There are bigger things to worry about.

My oldest was trained at 3 years, and my youngest at 18 months.

The oldest only trained for a week, and the youngest trained for almost year.
by onlyrealcuzzo | 2026-03-08 14:30:54+00:00
I'm actually very excited for the Macbook Neo.

I do all of my development on cloud servers. I just want a cheap laptop with a good battery life and, crucially, a keyboard and track pad that aren't complete trash.

I'd strongly prefer to have Linux over Mac - but this seems like the best option (and I kind of hate Apple tbh).

I don't think a better product exists at this price point, though I haven't tried it yet.
by tim333 | 2026-03-08 14:31:55+00:00
I thought it was kind of interesting. It's a guy who left Neuralink and is now doing a YC startup with a 2mm x 30nm chip that goes behind the retina and gives instant vision restoration in people where the retina wasn't working.

>In the history of artificial vision, this represents a new era. Blind patients are actually able to have meaningful central vision restoration, which has never been done before.

says the Moorfields / UCL guy. Apparently the surgery was done at Moorfields where I had them poking things in my eye while drugged up on fentanyl a couple of years ago to fix a hole in my retina.
by JKCalhoun | 2026-03-08 14:31:59+00:00
I think Steve Lemay is a good guy. I kind of fought with him when I was an engineer, he was a young, new designer (at Apple). But I always respected his point of view—even when we argued.

When Jobs came back to Apple in the latter 1990's "Design" slowly came to have an outsized role. I was one half of the engineering team that owned Preview (the application) when Steve Lemay became a seemingly regular presence in the hallway. As the new "Aqua" UI elements arrived in the OS like the "drawer" and toolbar, Steve and his boss (forgetting his name right now—Greg Somebody?) were often making calls about our UI implementation.

The bigger argument I remember with Steve revolved around the drawer UI element. With regard to PDF's, (the half of Preview that I worked on, another engineer handled images), the drawer was to display thumbnails for each page. If the PDF had a TOC (table of contents) the drawer is where we would display that as well.

So when you opened a PDF in Preview, the PDF content of course would appear in the large window—thumbnails, TOC (later search) would be relegated to a vertical strip of drawer real estate alongside the window—the user could open/close the drawer if they liked to focus perhaps on the content.

Steve Lemay insisted the drawer live on the right side of the window [1]. This was inexplicable to me. I saw the layout of Preview as hierarchical: the left side of the content driving the right side. You click a thumbnail on the left (in the drawer) the window content on the right changes to reflect the thumbnail clicked on.

Steve said, no, drawer on the right.

"Why? Why the hell would we do that?"

Steve was quick: "The Preview app is about the content. The content is king."

I admit that I still disagreed with him after the exchange, but I had a new respect for him as a designer because he was able to articulate a rationale for his decision. I suppose I was prejudiced to expect hand-waving from designers.

(Coda: some years later after I had left the Preview team, an engineer still on the app let me know that the thumbnails, etc, were at last moving to the left side of the app. The "drawer" as as a UI element had by this time gone away: resizable split-views were the replacement.)

(Addendum: Steve also invented the early Safari URL text field that also doubled as a progress bar. Instant hate from me when I saw it: it was as if the text of the URL you entered was being selected as the page loaded. So I'm old-school and Steve had some new ideas…)

[1] Localization was such that in countries where right-to-left was dominant, the drawer would of course follow suit.
by trollbridge | 2026-03-08 14:32:49+00:00
Yes. Requires complete consistency but by my third child, she consistently goes #2 on her little potty.

Once you don’t have to change poopy nappies anymore, you’ll never want to go back. EC is actually less work in the long run.

Note that my wife and I both share responsibilities for taking care of the kids. It is not that time consuming.
by sltr | 2026-03-08 14:32:58+00:00
The article expresses what a lot of us are feeling. I appreciated the read.

It conflates purpose with outcome. I don't accept the premise that software's purpose is to "automate away other jobs". That may be an outcome, but software's purpose is to enable completely new possibilities. Think bicycles of the mind.

The Apollo guidance computer didn't replace astronauts. It made the missions possible in the first place because no human can continually correct the spaceship trajectory every 250ms for 10 days on end.

We're not receiving some cosmic karma. We're more like cotton pickers after the cotton gin. Someone still has to plow and plant.
by Forgeties79 | 2026-03-08 14:33:28+00:00
I think mainly what upsets me about it is how it can only have 8gb of ram. Everything else you can kind of work with and stretch if you’re not a “power user,” but 8gb just isn’t enough in 2026 IMO if ewaste is a concern. Especially not in an era where people have ChatGPT open all the time

Would be interesting to see these specs in a mini body with 16gb ram but I have a feeling there isn’t really a market for that.
by lostmsu | 2026-03-08 14:33:30+00:00
My wife tried early teaching and cloth diapers with the first one, but with the second one we just use regular diapers.

IMO early toilet training is just wishful thinking combined with confirmation bias. If you are trying it and it is going hard... just don't, you are not doing anything wrong, you've been just misled. Just wait until your child can consistently follow instructions and does so willingly for important matters. Otherwise the result is as expected.
by currydove | 2026-03-08 14:34:18+00:00
There's never just one reason, obviously. Maybe phones are a big reason we're not socializing as much and it cascades from there. But as a young parent, I'm gonna tell you flat out - the core necessities, not the best of the best, are insanely expensive today than ever before as a share of our monthly take home.

I'm a huge fan of public schools, letting kids play and be out on their own till 10-11pm a night with other kids, etc, etc. But just the first 3 years until publicly funded pre-school kicks in is going to cost us over 100k. It doesn't become free after that of course, but definitely not 30k+ per annum.

We'll see how quickly we can potty train, I'd like to avoid using diapers after a while, but that's not the major expense for us since we're your run of the mill dual income couple. Just standard day care is 2500 a month in Chicago. Unlike the bay or NY, there isn't a wait-list or competition to get in but it's definitely priced at the high end. We're delaying using that until both our parental leaves finish up, which not everyone gets to have in the US. We also have my parents moving close to us to help with the kiddo. Most of the things that made a village what it was without professional services (except day care which is a big one) we're gonna do, and it still is going to be stupid expensive. My parents are in shock compared to what their expectations were based on how I grew up vs today's reality.
by wffurr | 2026-03-08 14:34:52+00:00
I think it's great to have a lower cost entry level option for the MacBook, especially given how resistant Apple has been to allowing local development tools and shared files on iPadOS. It seems like a worthy replacement to the M1 MacBook Air they were selling through Walmart this whole time. The colors are a really nice touch on a solid hardware offering. It doesn't seem especially disposable or more locked-in to any ecosystem than any other MacBook, and with less ecosystem lock-in than a Chromebook.

Personally I'm still waiting for a return of the 12" MacBook or 11" MacBook Air with an M-series chip in it. The current MacBook Air model just doesn't have the same feeling of super portable grab-ability that my old 11" MacBook Air had. Unfortunately, the age of the netbook is long past and hardly any manufacturer makes laptops with screens less than 13" unless you go all the way down to some kind of weird handheld thing without a keyboard. I liked how the 11" MacBook Air had just enough width and depth for the keyboard and a usable trackpad and no more.
by dangus | 2026-03-08 14:36:08+00:00
It’s easy for this style of journalism to get upset about “billions” but that’s just the reality of a country with over 300 million people.

If each person in this country buys a product for $10 they’ve spent $3 billion. Now it’s a scary headline about how billions in wealth has been siphoned.

I for one am not going to use cloth diapers. Sorry not sorry. I don’t give a shit (pun very much intended) about the benefits: I’m not cleaning diapers out, I’m not saving soiled diapers in my diaper bag to take home when I’m out and about. It’s just not something I’m going to do when Costco will sell me over 100 disposable diapers for $20.

To your point, diapers at under $100 a month is nothing compared to a single night of babysitting or a month of daycare.
by xtiansimon | 2026-03-08 14:37:30+00:00
Here’s a trivial case I noticed on IG the other day. News host goes to NBC studios to tape his Colbert Late Night Show appearance. After taping was done a friend shares a polymarket on what he will talk about. But of course he had just finished taping the show and it had yet to air.

https://www.instagram.com/reel/DTv8QzJkmL2/
by Imustaskforhelp | 2026-03-08 14:38:17+00:00
> Can you share your home country/culture? I am curious.

I live in India and we have a very vegetarian society comparatively to the rest of world and our cuisine is developed with this in mind.

From Samosas and gol gappas to Pav bhaji to Shahi Paneer to the more European style cuisine like french fries, burgers and even the Chinese cuisine like spring roll, finger chips and momos are all vegetarian food.

And I can eat all of this by moving like what 100-200 meters, there's a shop which makes these foods and before that there comes a locally owned convenience store and also an shop owned by an uncle who used to work in our military and they have specific canteens where they can buy things from cheap (as a sort of thank you to service to nation)

And I live in a random city within India where my family has been living for generations at this point. The place I eat my fries, they are a couple who make food and I have seen them eating their own food so they are a foodie too.

So its absolutely sad to me to see some people pick some videos on the internet and portray it as bad when its actually really cool :<

Another point is that street food is one of the cheapest here. I can eat till my heart desires in less than 3-4$. Usually when I eat something from outside, it costs 2$.

I think my point is that this is genuinely a really great place for vegetarian food and Indian cuisine is very spicy.

For what its worth tho I should mention that I used to eat eggs/egg rolls sometimes but I used to eat them so few that I have just stopped eating them for the most part now.

> All of the reactionary screed that you are seeing on YouTube or reading from low quality news sources about negative reactions to foreigners can be generally ignored. It is not the reality on the ground. Yes, there will be isolated incidents by assholes, but they are far, far less than 1% of common interactions. Also, if you speak even a tiny amount of Japanese (100+ words) and make an effort to speak Japanese and be polite, they will immediately see that you are not some annoying tourist and treat you better.

Yeah, I do get that in the sense that certain negative aspects of a country which doesn't reflect the ground truth can be shown to everybody on youtube. I do realize this point.

I'd say the same is true for India as well even within the northern and southern state where Northern Indians prefer Southern Indians to speak Hindi and Southern prefer if Northern Indians speak Kannada and the local language. And both might want somewhat of the same thing if you are foreigner as well.

Here we are more likely to take selfies with foreigners (I have never seen one in my city fwiw) so I am curious if japan feels the same way or is there something more to it?
by cam_l | 2026-03-08 14:39:26+00:00
>This was the greatest act of political courage and decency of our lifetime.

What a frighteningly hyperbolic thing to say. I think you have been watching too much sky news.

It was a cynical play at retaining gov in the face of what was sure to be, and what was, a massive swing against the gov.

Anyways, I already outlined the issues with the implementation of the tax. I don't need to repeat myself.
by kllrnohj | 2026-03-08 14:39:44+00:00
> RGB on the other hand is device dependent

No, it isn't. RGB is just a color model. You cannot convert between a color model and a color space any more than you can covert between float and Euros.

In order to convert between RGB and L*a*b you need a color space. That could be an ICC profile, sure, but it could also just be any well defined color space like sRGB, Display P3, or bt2020