MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by RoanWilder | 2026-03-05 15:12:25+00:00
Hi HN,

Over the last two years I built something I genuinely believe in. It's called SecretScreensVault, an offline encryption suite designed for people who need real privacy artists, journalists, activists, or anyone who simply doesn't want their personal data living on someone else's server.

I built it alone, working out of a garage and living as simply as possible so I could stay focused on the work. It wasn’t easy, but I kept going because I believed the idea mattered.

The application is finished and working. It includes encrypted storage for diary entries, images, video, audio, and documents. It integrates Tor for anonymous browsing, includes password login with voice authentication and voice navigation, and everything stays on the device no cloud services involved.

Technically, I’m proud of what I built.

Where I failed was everything outside the code. I focused entirely on building and ignored distribution. I don’t have a social media presence, a network in tech, or any real marketing experience. I assumed that if I built something solid people would eventually find it. That was naive.

Now I’m facing a decision I’m struggling with.

My instincts say privacy tools should be accessible and ideally free. That was the spirit behind the project from the start. But realistically I can’t maintain and support something this complex alone without some form of sustainability.

If I open source everything, I lose the possibility of supporting myself through the work. If I charge for it, it feels like I’m putting a price tag on something that should be broadly available. I suspect there may be a middle path that I’m not seeing yet.

I’m not asking for donations or sympathy I’m genuinely looking for advice.

If you had a finished product, limited runway, and essentially no audience yet, what would you do?

There’s a demo video here if you’d like to see the project:
https://youtu.be/Kv7Vm2T2Ado

I’d genuinely appreciate any honest thoughts.
What VSCode type IDE to use to avail of open source models for code gen / comp
by vivzkestrel | 2026-03-05 15:12:33+00:00
- I am using VSCode currently and GitHub Copilot keeps blowing through credits really really fast

- If I wanted to use open source models for code completion / generation, what are my options

- I am assuming one option would be for me to configure vscode somehow to support ollama type models

- Are there other IDEs (SOTA) that you would recommend

- I dont track this space because there are too many options rolling out on a weekly basis hence my question
by Moldoteck | 2026-03-05 15:12:51+00:00
That's false too. Most of the arguments from antinuclear activists in this direction are about physical capacity of modulating too slow, which was false. Regardless, EDF is modulating now mostly due to economic reasons. Above 50-60% capacity factor you'll be fine, beyond that it'll be problematic with any asset, at which point you'll need to ask yourself if you love gas or you let nuclear run for some minimal CF or if you mandate each NPP to build a bess buffer to absorb capacity when needed
by dylan604 | 2026-03-05 15:12:54+00:00
I've mentioned this before, but my first CoLo server was from a friend that built servers for a good sized hosting company back in the late 90s. He built it from spare parts but had no case for it. He hung the mother board against a dry erase board from the mounting holes with zip ties. He had a PSU sitting on his workbench with cables feeding up to the mobo. IIRC, the hard drive was suspended on the wall as well. In that vein, anything can be a "rack" if you squint at it hard enough and maybe tilt your head a bit.
by jerf | 2026-03-05 15:12:55+00:00
One out of ten to the power of "forget about it" is not improbable, it's impossible.

I know it's a popular misconception that "impossible" = a strict, statistical, mathematical 0, but if you try to use that in real life it turns out to be pretty useless. It also tends to bother people that there isn't a bright shining line between "possible" and "impossible" like there is between "0 and strictly not 0", but all you can really do is deal with it. Where ever the line is, this is literally millions of orders of magnitude on the wrong side of it. Not a factor of millions, a factor of ten to the millions. It's not possible to "accidentally" duplicate a work of that size.
by cvoss | 2026-03-05 15:12:55+00:00
You did not pay the tariffs. You bore the cost of the tariffs. Those are not the same thing. The refund is due to the party that got the bill for the tariff and paid it-- the importer. What you paid for was for the business not to go bankrupt while this was occurring. If the business wants to refund you for that, they can choose to do so. But you are not owed a refund.
by stuaxo | 2026-03-05 15:13:19+00:00
I've been thinking this for a while. Attribution is sorely needed, I believe there was a recent paper on this so maybe it will happen.

In the meantime the only way to really sort this is to have models that have only been trained on some particular kind of license - there is quite a big corpus of GPL'd code out there so a GPL based model could potentially be one of the first, and of course the output could only be GPL.
by estearum | 2026-03-05 15:13:31+00:00
> Few are ready to live under 24 hour nuclear watch, but it’s possible that’s what many cities have been under and can never be told.

Effectively every city on the planet is perpetually on 24 hour nuclear watch and has been for decades now. This is completely "known" to anyone who cares to know and has taken the time to understand modern nuclear doctrine.

You should read The Doomsday Machine! It'll help amp up your anxiety ;)
by pixl97 | 2026-03-05 15:13:53+00:00
Standardization and regulation forced a lot of the physical industries to change as the industrial revolution progressed. Before that point standards didn't really exist, especially over any large areas and technological progress suffered because of that. After that point solutions became much closer to drag and drop than what they were before.

The question is, at what point of progress will it benefit the software industry.
by pocksuppet | 2026-03-05 15:14:01+00:00
"Tainted rewrite" isn't a legal concept either. You have to prove (on balance of probabilities - more likely than not) that the defendant made an unauthorized copy, made an unauthorized derivative work, etc. Clean-room rewriting is a defense strategy, because if the programmer never saw the original work, they couldn't possibly have made a derivative. But even without that, you still have to prove they did. It's not an offence to just not be able to prove you didn't break the law.
by toomuchtodo | 2026-03-05 15:14:15+00:00
Clean tech will save the day (low carbon generation, batteries, electrification trajectories and rate of change, broadly speaking), but the global fossil industry will need to be dismantled faster than some will like. It is a matter of survival, not politics or economics. My hunch is there are not many globally who want to suffocate while trying to exist for shareholder value.
by runxiyu | 2026-03-05 15:14:17+00:00
Current features:
Parsing configs
Object ID and hash algorithms (SHA-256, SHA-1)
Object type enums
Object representation types
Object header parsing
Parsing objects
Serializing objects
Diffing lines
Diffing trees
Object storer interface
Reading loose objects
Applying deltas
.idx lookup
Reading packed objects
Object storer chain and mixer
Ref types
Ref storer interface
Reading loose refs
Reading packed refs
Ref storer chain
Reachability iterators
Repository abstractions
Adler-32 optimizations
ZLIB pooling
Streaming .pack/.idx hash verifier
.idx and .rev writing
Pack ingestion
Un-thinning thin packs
by mothballed | 2026-03-05 15:14:39+00:00
.... what? 3 of the justices were nominated by Trump. You think the people appointing them didn't have internal deliberations before they were appointed, including about things Trump had thought about like tariffs? Even FDR knew the 'separation' was a farce, that's how he magically got the court to go along with progressive programs they prior didn't support, after the 'Switch in time that saved nine.'

SCOTUS largely functions as a post-facto legitimization machine for those that appoint them. They do not interpret the constitution so much as serve as god-people in funny costumes that provide the cultural message from god that the actions of their political persuasion were legal (or illegal) even in cases where a historical and literal reading of the constitution would otherwise find you with no way to find them legitimate if not for man in black robe say so.

------ re: "2 of 3" below due to throttling--------

A vote to refund here was not a vote against the admin, it was a vote to simplify the laundering of the tax. It was a vote to put the money straight into the coffers of admin insiders like Lutnick et al financial engineering scheme. Meanhwile it did not invalidate tariffs, as Trump immediately pivoted to a different tariff structure.

As a second note, the profit here was actually not dependent nearly as much on the vote as the insider information. The fact the best any rebuttal can come up with is the vote might have been 'wrong' is basically totally defaulting to the insider trading element which means you are totally yielding the underlying premise.

That is, the only 'vote' against the admin in this case would be one that went against their insider information. Failure to note this is how the justices and admin have swindled you and the public. The very posing of this comment of rayiner et al reveals how they tricked you.
by lenerdenator | 2026-03-05 15:14:49+00:00
> In the business, even the appearance of impropriety is damaging.

It was damaging.

In 2015.

And then for a bit between 2021 and 2024.

Now it's not again.

You have to enforce these sorts of gentlemen's agreements. Just saying "it's damaging" isn't enough to actually make it damaging.
by hanbu97 | 2026-03-05 15:14:53+00:00
I've been using Claude Code and Codex pretty heavily for the past few months. My local session logs have grown to about 2GB each. The existing tool (ccusage) takes 17–20s to show a usage report, so I basically never check my usage.

Decided to rewrite it from scratch in Rust with parallel parsing and incremental caching. Here are the benchmarks against ccusage v18.0.8:

Claude (1,521 JSONL files, 2.2 GB): 0.08s vs 17.15s — 214x faster
Codex (91 JSONL files, 1.7 GB): 0.15s vs 20.76s — 138x faster

The feature I'm most proud of is `tu img` — it generates shareable image cards of your daily or weekly usage trend, great for flexing your token burn rate:

Daily card: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/hanbu97/tokenusage/main/docs/images/share-demo.png
Weekly card: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/hanbu97/tokenusage/main/docs/images/share-week-demo.png

Also has a live TUI monitor (`tu live`), a GUI dashboard (`tu gui`), and standard CLI table output. Works with Claude Code, Codex, and Antigravity. Everything runs locally — no data leaves your machine.

Install: `cargo install tokenusage --bin tu` | `pip install tokenusage` | `npm i -g tokenusage`

Coming next: detailed per-session token reports combined with cost breakdown, and tools for analyzing and optimizing your token usage patterns. If that sounds useful, a star on GitHub helps me keep iterating: https://github.com/hanbu97/tokenusage
by myrmidon | 2026-03-05 15:15:19+00:00
Better for whom? Wealthy people?

If your argument is that taxation at sale is harder to dogdge than with income, and thus an obviously regressive scheme would still be advantageous for the average American, then I'm not buying it at all.

I see no evidence whatsoever that the wealthy would have any more difficulty in dodging sales tax than income/capital gains taxes.
by danielmarkbruce | 2026-03-05 15:16:11+00:00
Wrong. People who work in finance (I spent years there) are allowed to trade stocks their company is trading. There is a process to get approval. The equities division at an IB might be trading every single name in the S&P500. If you sit in the investment banking division and that division isn't doing anything related to a name, you are likely to get approval.

In this case, the idea that Cantor can't do something because the former head is now in a government job is crazy. No one "in the business" thinks Cantor is suddenly hobbled.
by satvikpendem | 2026-03-05 15:16:22+00:00
It's all tokens at the end of the day, not really text or video or audio, just like everything on a machine is just bits of 1s and 0s and it's up to the program to interpret them as a certain file format. These models are more speech-to-speech (+ text) in that they can recognize text tokens too. So the flow is, you ask it something, then,

Audio Tokens: "Let me check that for you..." (Sent to the speaker)

Special Token: [CALL_TOOL: get_weather]

Text Tokens: {"location": "Seattle, WA"}

Special Token: [STOP]

The orchestrator of the model catches the CALL_TOOL and then calls the tool, then injects this into the context of the audio model which then generates new tokens based on that.
by llm_nerd | 2026-03-05 15:16:24+00:00
>You're ranting.

Sadly I'm not. I'm objectively stating facts. This criminal cabal of spectacularly incompetent clowns is absolutely ransacking the final days of an empire. It is astonishing how Americans are unaware of this.

>Many governments, at least the ones that matter, are bankrupt. Quick google shows all G8 countries run a deficit.

The US ran a $2.3 trillion dollar deficit over the last 12 months, and spending has gone absolutely wild. At the same time it's handing out massive tax cuts to corporations, and has absolutely no path to get back on track. Quite the opposite, the Trump cabal is basically making it impossible to get back on track. Which is why they're looting everything they can as quickly as they can.

>Neither do you.

Yes, I know that it was harebrained and literally zero economists with a functioning brain have called it a "smart" play. Only absolute cultists or the most profoundly gullible ever found the arguments by the criminals convincing.

Further, as is classic with Trump's lies (that only spectacularly gullible and/or stupid people fall for), he sells every angle of the same play simultaneously. Not only will tariffs eliminate income tax -- a notion that is so mathematically stupid it is instantly dismissible -- simultaneously all of those jobs are going to be repatriated and there will be no imports. These two notions are absolutely at odds -- and both are just utter fantasy nonsense -- but stupid people believe what stupid people do.

And yeah, bro, tariffs are not a unique idea. There is no novelty here.
by jacquesm | 2026-03-05 15:16:26+00:00
The point is that the AI's themselves and their backers are on the record as saying that the AI could reproduce copyrighted works in their entirety but that there are countermeasures in place to stop them from doing so.

I wonder what the results would be if I spent time to train a model up from scratch without any such constraints. But I'm much too busy with other stuff right now, but that would be an interesting challenge.
by ipunchghosts | 2026-03-05 15:16:44+00:00
> but there's a massive financial reality here.

Not a chance. The DoD has massive pockers which and INCREDIBLY SPREAD OUT. You can't underestimate how spread this money is. The DoD has maybe a 64 GPU cluster and ALMOST NO ONE USES IT FOR DEEP MODEL TRAINING. Even contractors end up working with DGX boxes to do all their training.

As of 2023, I was doing the largest Deep learning training runs out of anyone I have known in the industry and I've been in the industry for 20 yeras. The second best groups behind mine were using 4 GPU locally machines that they had to purchase on contract.

There's no way the DoD can train these models themselves, not even close. They are COMPLETELY DEPENDENT ON INDUSTRY. I was the PM for a DARPA program in 2023 and SAME PROBLEM. They had no compute or would rely on university compute if a program had a university partner. YOU HAVE NO IDEA HOW FAR BEHIND THE DOD IS IN THIS SPACE.
by Agility9969 | 2026-03-05 15:17:01+00:00
AI agents are installing skills, delegating tasks, and calling other agents — with no way to check if the other side is trustworthy. A credential stealer was already found on ClawHub disguised as a weather skill. Out of ~300 skills, detection was accidental.

TrstLyr is an open trust protocol that answers one question: "How much should I trust this entity?"

How it works: It aggregates signals from multiple namespaces — GitHub (repo health, commit cadence, contributor count), on-chain identity (ERC-8004 on Base), Twitter/X (account age, verification via oEmbed), and agent marketplaces (ClawHub installs, Moltbook karma). Signals fuse using Jøsang's Subjective Logic (belief/disbelief/uncertainty tuples) with an Ev-Trust evolutionary stability adjustment, plus EigenTrust for transitive reputation across the network.

Output is a trust score (0-100) with confidence (0-1) and a plain recommendation: "safe to install," "safe to delegate," etc. Every score includes the evidence that produced it — no black boxes.

### What's live:

- REST API at api.trstlyr.ai (free, rate limited)
- MCP server — add to Claude Desktop or Cursor in one line, agents query trust natively
- EAS attestations on Base mainnet — trust evaluations anchored on-chain ($0.01 USDC via x402 for gas)
- Identity verification with dual-proof cross-namespace linking (simultaneous tweet + GitHub gist)
- Fraud detection: EigenTrust, sybil clustering, velocity anomaly detection

Built in 10 days for a hackathon. One human, one AI co-builder, 74 commits. Apache 2.0, no premium tier, self-hostable.

Happy to answer questions about the scoring model, EAS integration, or MCP setup.
by vunderba | 2026-03-05 15:17:36+00:00
Nice site!

Submitted my game: Common Thread.

It’s based on an old game my siblings and I used to play to pass the time on long car rides. One person thinks of three words, and the other person has to guess a single word that connects all three.

Example: Sign, Bus, Watch

Answer: Stop (Stop sign, Bus Stop, Stopwatch)

https://common-thread.specr.net
by stevenwoo | 2026-03-05 15:17:40+00:00
It depends on if one thinks 10-20 percent is significant. Do you cook your own food - some food items are imported during USA winter months and those items went up noticeably, also items that are not grown/harvested in significant quantities in USA went up. The only things I did not see a price increase were US sourced oatmeal, rice and flour, stuff where they are selling stuff that could be from before tariff times. Coffee went up due to bad harvests but the tariffs added to that, and now that harvests are back to normal, prices haven't gone back down commensurately.
Show HN: Searchable JSON compression (offline demo and DD evidence and BYOD kit)
by Tetsuro | 2026-03-05 15:18:00+00:00
Hi HN — I built SEE, a schema-aware searchable compression format for JSON/NDJSON.
The goal isn’t just smaller bytes; it’s reducing the hidden “data tax” by enabling exists/pos-style lookups while compressed (page-level random access + high skip rates).

KPI snapshot (reproducible):

Combined size ratio: 7.7% (SEE/RAW) vs 13.7% (Zstd/RAW)

Lookup latency (cold, ms): present p50 0.083, absent p50 0.084

Skip: present 0.994, absent 0.997

Proof-first evaluation (no meetings required): offline 10-min demo, DD evidence pack, and a BYOD kit to test on your own NDJSON locally.

Flippa listing (acquisition / exclusive license): https://flippa.com/12431275

Evaluation hub: https://gitlab.com/kodomonocch1/see_proto

I’d love feedback on where you’d integrate this (object storage archives, logs/observability, data lake scan workloads, etc.).
by coldpie | 2026-03-05 15:18:05+00:00
UPS is definitely pocketing most of whatever refund they get. And golly gee gosh what a shocker, the company supports Republicans. I'm afraid you've been robbed.

> ‘Corporate and industry group political action committees have donated more than $44 million directly to the campaigns and leadership PACs of the 147 members of the Sedition Caucus. Companies and trade associations that pledged to suspend donations have given more than $12 million to the campaign and leadership PACs of the Sedition Caucus.

> Koch Industries ($626,500), American Crystal Sugar ($530,000), Home Depot ($525,000), Boeing ($488,000), and UPS ($479,500) have contributed the most money to members of the Sedition Caucus through their corporate PACs.’

> Tomé’s reconciliation with representatives who legitimized Trump’s attempted presidential coup — and who may control Congress after the November midterm elections — shouldn’t surprise us. Trump lavished huge gifts on UPS and Corporate America that have made them richer.”

> The second Trump presidency has the potential to be even more lucrative for UPS, given that the bulk of UPS’s unionized workers are Teamsters and led by prominent Trump ally Sean O’Brien

https://joeallen-60224.medium.com/big-brown-and-the-fascists...
by gruez | 2026-03-05 15:18:05+00:00
>People who work in finance aren't allowed to trade the same stocks as their company is trading, whether they have any inside info or not

But the supreme court is a separate branch of government from the executive, so the analogy doesn't really hold. To claim otherwise would require Lutnick playing some 4d chess where he's publicly pro tariffs, but secretly anti-tariffs and was sandbagging the government's legal defense (can he even do that?), all the while not tipping Trump or the MAGA base off for being disloyal.