MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by alexk1309 | 2026-03-10 04:25:25+00:00
That is not something that should be controlled by an IT company, ISP, or an OS. I think parents have a responsibility to control (or at least influence) their childeren's content consumption. Companies like Google and Apple provide built-in parental controls and digital wellbeing apps, you can also use something like OpenDNS or control it via some other means. If a kid has unrestricted internet access and screen time, the parents are being neglectful. Obviously there should be some regulatory action to force companies to not make their apps addictive or harmful in some ways (including to minors), but not through age checks in an OS... The bill is kind of confusing, but from what I understand, it doesn't require ID checks, so as a convenience to not have to worry about kids having access to things they shouldn't it is not that awful (just put any age number you want when configuring OS). But implementing this is impossible (how do you force all programs to not show things that are not for "a user is in any of several age brackets"). It shouldn't be an OS requirement, maybe an optional feature that the state advises major OSs to have. Also some OSs are not for personal use, and nowadays a toaster may have an OS...
by daniloa | 2026-03-10 04:26:12+00:00
Not just a shallow skill that points to the source docs. This is the entire corpus of HTMX + official plugins. So it has references for how-to Websocket, SSE, preload, etc. as well as the core library.

If you try it out and you find issues with how it references things, feel free to drop an issue on the repo and I'll fix it ASAP.

Enjoy!
by matheusmoreira | 2026-03-10 04:27:15+00:00
If people don't rise up they will become soylent green. Over the long term, AI threatens to replace all human labor. It cannot remain locked away in corporate servers. This is an existential issue. The ultimate logic of capitalism is that unproductive people need not be kept alive since they add nothing but cost. So either we free AI, collapse the very idea of having an economy and transcend capitalism into a post-scarcity society, or we will be enslaved and genocided by those who control the AIs.
by nevdka | 2026-03-10 04:28:23+00:00
Native apps are where power users and other non-developers can do programming. The type of things that an engineer who lives in the terminal might make a CLI or TUI for, an accountant or project manager might want to do with a GUI. This is where VB6 and VBA lived, probably also HyperCard. Web tech has too much complexity for that.
by sarchertech | 2026-03-10 04:28:49+00:00
There has never been a non trivial
program in the history of the world that could just “sweep all the implementation details under the rug”.

Compilers use rigorous modeling to guarantee semantic equality and that is only possible because they are translating between formal languages.

A natural language spec can never be precise enough to specify all possible observable behaviors, so your bot swarm trying to satisfy the spec is guaranteed to constantly change observable behaviors.

This gets exposed to users and churn, jank, and workflow breaking bugs.
by janalsncm | 2026-03-10 04:29:18+00:00
What is the point of writing the prescription to “have good taste” then?

Either the reader already has it, in which case there’s no point in being told that. Or the reader doesn’t, in which case you have declared that good taste cannot be taught.

Perhaps the author’s next article should be How to win the lottery: be lucky which is just about as actionable.
by simonw | 2026-03-10 04:32:59+00:00
I think my coverage of the Mark Pilgrim situation added value in that most people probably aren't aware that Mark Pilgrim removed himself from internet life in 2011, which is relevant to the chardet story.

That second Karpathy example is from my link blog. Here's my post describing how I try to add something new when I write about things on my link blog: https://simonwillison.net/2024/Dec/22/link-blog/

In the case of that Karpathy post I was amplifying the idea that "Claw" is now the generic name for that class of software, which is notable.
by numpad0 | 2026-03-10 04:34:02+00:00
The cumulative license fees required to properly compensate all artists is so absurd that it will probably genuinely burn down the entirety of global economy if paid. The only solution I can think of is to burn down just the AI to be revisited later to be rebuilt as a tool that won't require absurd amount of training data, that also leave a lot more to its human operator beyond merely accepting literal categorical descriptions that are fundamentally tangential to artistic values of outputs.

And I think same could happen to LLM. If it took all the fossil fuel on Earth just to barely able to drive a car to a car wash, there's more things wrong with the car than in the oil price.
by ekrisza | 2026-03-10 04:35:06+00:00
I'm the author of this study. I spent the last year diving into ~7.3TB of data from 65,987 GitHub projects to see how far the laws of software evolution (proposed decades ago by Lehman) hold up on such a large dataset.

The Findings: A Duality

The projects with more than about 700 commits to their main branch, 16.1% of all projects, follow such stable growth curves that they could support claims of some properties being divorced from human agency.

Despite all the hardware, software, tooling, methodical changes over the last few decades and even Large Language Models till early 2025, the underlying growth trajectories of these mature systems haven't fundamentally shifted. This suggests that while our tools might make daily life easier, they might not change the fundamental physics of effort over time in large codebases.

The Role of Smaller Projects

The smaller projects (83.9% of the dataset) not only follow less stable growth curves, but are also more prone to deceleration. It’s important to note that GitHub is—rightly—a home for everything from experimental prototypes and "homework", to niche tools. This experimentation is vital for the ecosystem, but might also create challenges for the industry down the line.

Whether they were following suboptimal methods or never intended to be long-term sustainable, the observed numerical dominance of smaller projects might in itself create problems:
- Popularity vs. Quality: Training Large Language Models or building learning materials by scraping GitHub indiscriminately risks a "popularity" bias. We may learn suboptimal, immature methods simply because those patterns are numerically overwhelming compared to the more stable 16.1%.
- Feedback loop: When these learnings are used to write new code, the numerically overwhelming proportions of the small projects might lead to ‘good enough, but not yet mature’ processes being propagated, effectively drowning out the potentially better practices present in more mature projects.
- For researchers: Focusing solely on large projects can overlook a much larger and different set of projects that could benefit from a targeted study.

I’ll be around to answer any questions about the research.
by OneMorePerson | 2026-03-10 04:36:32+00:00
I guess I am splitting hairs but "spare capacity" heavily implies it's a non physical resource or it's able to be used in an instant. Almost like how if you had a global based missile system like a GBI (or not quite global but long range like a THAAD) you could near instantly have someone "bid" to use your missiles in an emergency scenario. Building short range interceptors and selling them or renting them is closer to the model of AWS itself, building a knowledge base hosting your own platform (Amazon.com retail) and then selling that knowledge to others. In this case building anti missile systems to protect data centers and then selling a packaged model to other companies. But it's not "spare capacity", it's selling expertise and helping to fund your own R&D.
by tonko | 2026-03-10 04:37:06+00:00
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by irjustin | 2026-03-10 04:37:26+00:00
Sorry i completely missed this. If you don't see it, it's okay - I probalby miss any replys going forward.

Being upfront, I have no idea what I'm talking about. Just some arm chair engineer.

The poster needed 6 parts which is JUST into annoying (as he rightly points). My personal thoughts are what you need isn't dispensing but alignment. Thinking deeper I can agree that weight might not the most efficient here.

He's building the aligning and dispensing tool but I argue that's over engineering the problem. If it's aligned it's VERY easy to count 6 via a mark along the track and just push it to the end against your finger and based on the mark you know you have exactly 6.

To me the hardest part make "just work" is the dispensing, but if you remove that it becomes a much easier problem. There's enough sales volume, you can can make a vertical fixture that is just a stack of in place, fixed aligning tracks. Your fingers become the dispenser. Sweep and move to the next track.

Just random thoughts.
by diopisemou | 2026-03-10 04:38:07+00:00
We just launched better-openclaw and we're thrilled to share it with this community.

For anyone running OpenClaw, you know the setup pain — manually wiring Postgres, Qdrant, n8n, SearXNG, Browserless, and every other companion service takes hours. We built better-openclaw to eliminate that entirely.

What is better-openclaw?

It's an open-source superstack generator for OpenClaw. You select your services, configure your stack, and get a production-ready docker-compose in seconds. No YAML wrangling, no debugging container networking.

Key features:

• Instant provisioning of 100+ companion services

• Pre-wired skill packs injected directly into your agents

• Secure-by-default: network isolation, persistent volumes, TLS-ready ingress

• 100% open-source — zero vendor lock-in, complete data sovereignty

• Sub-10ms execution latency

For those who don't want to self-host, we also launched Clawexa Cloud — one-click deploy with the same full stack.

We'd genuinely love your feedback, especially from folks already running OpenClaw in production. What services are you stacking? What's missing from the ecosystem?

Free to try at better-openclaw.dev — no credit card required. Happy to answer anything in the comments!
by junk245435254 | 2026-03-10 04:38:34+00:00
Yep, this is what I have in my Bash config, for the external Microsoft Natural Keyboard attached to my Mac:

# note: works for e.g. Fn-F (fullscreen), but not Fn-F{1..12} (brightness etc.)
alias app2fn+=$'hidutil property --set \'{"UserKeyMapping":[{"HIDKeyboardModifierMappingSrc":0x700000065,"HIDKeyboardModifierMappingDst":0xFF00000003}]}\''
alias app2fn-=$'hidutil property --set \'{"UserKeyMapping":[]}\''
alias app2fn?=$'hidutil property --get "UserKeyMapping"'
by californical | 2026-03-10 04:38:37+00:00
Obviously someone stealing a vehicle is different, as long as you’re reasonable about it. Leaving an unlocked car with keys in the ignition outside of a bank being robbed is different from someone breaking the window and spoofing your fob, and both of those are different from willingly giving the vehicle to someone.

Also I mentioned criminal vs civil penalties being treated differently - I don’t believe the same scenarios apply to both. AND if you can prove that you lent a car to someone who got you a speeding ticket, then it’s on them - just that the owner of the car is responsible by default.

I hate these arguments that doing anything to restrict the deadliest machines in history is impossible because it discriminates against the poor. It doesn’t. But having a society where driving is the only option does, so I am all in favor of alternatives. But I also think that we should improve safety for cars when possible as well
by devonkelley | 2026-03-10 04:38:48+00:00
This is the core problem with every legacy infra company trying to wedge into the AI stack. They're pricing it like compute when the real value is in how fast you can iterate the hardware under shifting model architectures. By the time Oracle's DCs are online with Blackwells, the models will want something different. It's not a hosting contract, it's an arms race with a moving target.
by blurbleblurble | 2026-03-10 04:38:54+00:00
If specifications become IP? Reboot the pirate parties. Authoritarianism is what it is. The exploitation isn't coming from the tools, it's coming from the economic structures and forces of exploitation being brought to their natural limits. We should learn from the luddites, the actual luddites. They weren't anti-technology, they were against the insane consolidation of power. This proposal might seem radical but all it would really do is reify intellectual property at exactly the wrong moment, a game over moment. Feed local LLMs. Feed peoples' movements around these technologies, so that people bring agency into how we use the tech, so that we don't get dominated by the laws that form around it.
by OneMorePerson | 2026-03-10 04:42:42+00:00
I don't think it happens quite that distinctly in the world we live in now (technology, etc.). It's not like a big tech company can go attain the same direct power as the East India company way back in the day. It's much more likely that companies continue to gain lobbying and "soft" power that directs the military into doing things. Large corps do have more money than many countries, so if a huge company wants to setup manufacturing or gain benefits in a smaller country they do have outsized power, but its rare that a huge company has more power than their own country from what I know (potentially oil companies are the exception which is why national oil companies seem to have so much weight in so many countries). For example sure the big tech companies are very powerful, but the US military budget per year is still nearly the same size as the largest tech companies market cap. Whereas you are right that a US big tech company has more revenue than say...Guatemala, or Morocco.
by LOC8 | 2026-03-10 04:42:58+00:00
I built a small iPhone utility called LOC8 after running into a very specific problem repeatedly.

In some situations, you do not want navigation. You do not want a map. You do not want to zoom into your blue dot, figure out which house you are standing in front of, and drop a pin just to get an address. You just want the answer to one question: where am I?

LOC8 is a one-screen tool that immediately shows your street address, nearest cross street, county, GPS coordinates, altitude, heading, and accuracy the moment it opens. No menus, no maps, and no searching.

It was originally built around public safety use cases where quickly relaying an exact location matters, but after sharing it around I got a lot of feedback from people outside that niche saying they wanted the same thing for travel, roadside situations, rideshares, and unfamiliar places in general.

A few things were unexpectedly tricky while building it. Built-in iOS tools and shortcuts will sometimes return address ranges instead of a specific physical address. GPS drift and warmup behavior make “instant” feel harder than it sounds. Designing for immediacy usually means removing features, not adding them. And the Apple Watch version ended up feeling even more natural than the phone version for the “quick peek” use case.

Recent additions include county display, multiple coordinate formats like DD, DMS, and DDM, live compass heading, sharing and copying location details, and an Apple Watch companion.

Happy to answer questions about the product decisions, implementation details, geocoding tradeoffs, or what I learned building a very single-purpose utility.
by ting0 | 2026-03-10 04:43:23+00:00
They're going to regret this one when WW3 kicks off over the next year or three.

Good luck repairing your renewable energy infrastructure if you're hit by one of many different classes of attacks.

Coal and coal-burning energy production is an insurance policy, at the very least.

Countries have been getting rid of their oil refineries as well, and now look what is happening to those countries, given the Iran situation. Their price of fuel is skyrocketing, their reserves are dwindling, and panic is setting in. Hope is not a strategy.

Relying on third party supply chains for key infrastructure that would result in mass casualty if it were to vanish, is not intelligent. It's a vulnerability.
by spudlyo | 2026-03-10 04:43:39+00:00
You're right. It's wrong to think that all of those people are busy writing to congress demanding new laws be enacted. The problem is, the vast majority of people (while possessing a vague sense of right and wrong) do not understand how IP law works, and what the tradeoffs vis-a-vis the public good are. I'm sure many among the supposed consumers in this survey think something akin to "there ought to be a law" -- a sentiment somtimes echoed by readers of this very forum.
by defrost | 2026-03-10 04:45:05+00:00
Helmet usage, as in protective headware for general melee war and one on one fighting, dates back to the bronze age.

Hard hats, of assorted kinds for general protection while working, date back to the 1890s and became more commonplace ~1920 (ish) onwards in construction, mining, and ship building industries.

* Helmets: https://www.battlemerchant.com/en/blog/the-evolution-of-hist...

* Hard Hats: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hard_hat

I suspect there are more early European hard hat examples to be found than are cited in the wikipedia article.
by wyattsell | 2026-03-10 04:46:19+00:00
The reason for this (I should have probably added a note to the site in hindsight), is that WordNet doesn't include definitions for these words in its corpus. This is why the count is less than 10,000: anything that WordNet doesn't have a definition for isn't included. I left a nod to this in the asterisk, but I realise now I didn't explain it anywhere.

From the old Princeton WordNet FAQ page (https://wordnet.princeton.edu/frequently-asked-questions):

> WordNet only contains "open-class words": nouns, verbs, adjectives, and adverbs. Thus, excluded words include determiners, prepositions, pronouns, conjunctions, and particles.

I suppose I could have included them as source nodes (only outgoing), but I think they would have ended up connecting to a whole bunch of definitions, while not providing much in the way of interest.
by cpard | 2026-03-10 04:46:27+00:00
I get the value of a personal CRM and potential power of having one locally managed by LLMs and I'd love to see such a solution, because to your point, outreach is just a small part of what you can do with a personal CRM. But, the way you describe and deliver this project is very confusing to me, it's a CRM but also Cursor for your Mac (what does that even mean?), I already run Cursor on my Mac, it also has a file tree view to use it as a better MacOS find I guess?

I think that a much cleaner messaging on what this tool is for would help.

Also a question about the implementation, why DuckDB for a CRM?

Something like SQLite feels like a much natural fit for a CRM where you primarily create, update and maybe delete records and you really care for the integrity of the data model.

From a quick look on the data model, everything seems to be a VARCHAR, if this is the case, why not just store everything in the file system instead? You do that with the md files and whatever is getting extracted from the SaaS tools.
by devonkelley | 2026-03-10 04:47:12+00:00
Taste isn't retroactive pattern matching though. In practice it's closer to "how fast can you tell if something is a dead end." The researchers and builders I've seen with actual taste don't pick winners, they kill losers faster. They have a feel for which problems have tractable surface area and which ones are going to eat 3 years of your life with nothing to show for it.
by unselect5917 | 2026-03-10 04:48:12+00:00
Again, the ranking from Apple is from today. Not "a couple months ago". And again, it's #1 while reddit is #4. So which is incorrect, Apple, or Wikipedia? It has to be one of them.

>Also, why would it be "wishful thinking"?

Because you've Motte & Balley'd twice now, each time in the direction of downplaying X's success. Because X is objectively doing great. #1st place is objectively great.

>BTW, on US iOS App Store, Claude today is way ahead of Chrome, Google Maps, YouTube, Gmail, TikTok, Instagram, and WhatsApp. Surely you don't think it means it's used by more people.

Are any of those news apps? This is the third Mott & Bailey. Again in the direction of denigrating X with bad data. So first principles and neutral data sourcing cannot be the reason for the inaccuracies - I dare say lies. It's flailing at this point.
by vetrom | 2026-03-10 04:49:01+00:00
Do you mean to say that the Executive Branch does not have the authority to govern in accordance of the rougly 58% of the electorate which voted for them?

Do you mean that they are exceeding ther mandate as defined by the written, customary, and precedential body of law?

Do you mean that the government just dosent matter and that we should not be a nation of laws?

I don't really think those are questions in scope for HN, but people that I have a good reason to think don't understand plain basics of U.S. Constitutional law are opining otherwise.

For example, unlike Italy where I'm guessing the parent commentor hails from, or the Russian Federation of which Putin's activities have been quoted, U.S. law does not permit the President to unilaterally change elections. That is the singular point at issue here.
by matheusmoreira | 2026-03-10 04:49:33+00:00
> But for the common user

I'm arguing against the "common user" migrating to Linux though. "Linux is for people who..." I just didn't want to say it out loud. If this stuff doesn't matter to you, then obviously you shouldn't use it. I'm just trying to convince others that it does matter.

I want Linux to be the programmer's system, and I want a world with more programmers in it. I have no interest in "common users" other than the fact they might one day become programmers themselves.
by ofrzeta | 2026-03-10 04:49:50+00:00
Turns out googling for "8½ window system" gives no results (although Google's KI has this to say 'Based on the search results, "8½" refers to the
Windows 8.1 update, which was released in 2013 to address critical user feedback regarding the original Windows 8')

However googling for "8 1/2 window system" leads to a proper page about the 8½ window system https://9p.io/sys/doc/8%C2%BD/8%C2%BD.html
by sarchertech | 2026-03-10 04:51:40+00:00
The idea that if being dark at 12pm in 20k years will bother anyone is absurd. The shift will happen so slowly that the only people who will even realize it happened are historians and history buffs.

Really the idea that there will enough civilizational continuity that our current timekeeping infrastructure and systems will continue unbroken for that long is insane.
by fuoqi | 2026-03-10 04:51:48+00:00
You clearly do not know how much havoc and complexity leap seconds introduce into various systems. This is why leap seconds are likely to be phased-out [0]. It's effectively an admission that use of leap seconds in the "base" time was a mistake.

>We convert timestamps to and from date+times all the time.

If you do not account for time zones during this conversion, then you are not qualified to implement such conversions.

It's fine to use 86400 seconds for durations (e.g. "this computation will finish in 1d 8h 20m 34s"), but it's absolutely not fine to use it while dealing with datetimes.

[0]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leap_second#Phase-out_and_futu...