MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by gjm11 | 2026-03-05 00:04:01+00:00
It's a standard way of proving that transcendental numbers exist, because it's easy to construct very well-approximable numbers, but so far as I know it isn't a common way to prove that a number you were already interested in is transcendental. For pretty much every number you might be interested in, the best-known lower bound on that exponent is 2, which of course isn't good enough to prove transcendence.

At least, that's my understanding of where things stand, but I'm not an expert. Do you have counterexamples?
by westurner | 2026-03-05 00:05:34+00:00
The objective with adding a third party repository key IIUC, would be to not need to prompt about installing from unauthenticated sources if they're installing from a third-party repo; so the fdroid key for the APKs that they or a CDN host would be verifiable.

It would be good to scan the sources with SAST and DAST and scan the APKs once they're built too.
by happymellon | 2026-03-05 00:05:37+00:00
> Some folks lament that its not as UI feature rich as KDE, but for me thats a bonus.

Yep, I know it is opinionated and I really like a lot of their decisions. Most of what he says in that is "it doesn't clone Windows therefore it breaks my muscle memory". I don't care about your opinions and it isn't the same as mine.

But the best part is that it's optional.
by badboyshah | 2026-03-05 00:06:21+00:00
Hey everyone,

I routinely need to format JSON, decode JWTs, or test regex patterns. But pasting production tokens, database URLs, or sensitive customer JSON into ad-ridden, random online utilities has always felt like a massive security risk. You never know what's being logged on their servers.

So, I spent the last few weeks building DevUtility Hub.

It’s a unified suite of 165+ developer tools (Encoders, Formatters, Generators, Hashers, CSS tools, AI prompt tools).

The core architecture rule: Everything runs 100% on the client-side. The tools use native Web APIs and WebAssembly directly in your browser. Your payload never leaves your local machine. There are no tracking scripts harvesting your data.

It's completely free, and I focused heavily on a clean, modern UI without the bloat.

I’d love to hear your feedback, especially if you have a specific niche tool you constantly find yourself needing that I can add to the suite!
by throwup238 | 2026-03-05 00:07:26+00:00
ES6 modules. Tooling can take care of generating UMD from that as a single source of truth and since it’s the language standard for years now it’s the best supported format in the ecosystem. At this point UMD/CommonJS/etc are historical artifacts only useful to legacy codebases and by now they’ve all adopted whatever ESM->legacy compilation pipeline they need.
by PKop | 2026-03-05 00:07:29+00:00
> then that's the correct answer.

Obviously. But they don't care about that answer, they care about the design of a new system so I'm saying the interviewer is dumb for not just asking directly for the solution he wants to see (while also giving credit for the original right answer).

The interviewee is dumb (if he wants the job) to not know this is what they want to hear, so he can just say "I really do think Postgres would satisfy the requirements here, but as an alternative a custom solution would look like.."

What is the point of not demonstrating your own well rounded knowledge when given the opportunity? Is it not obvious what they want to hear? Then why not tell them, again given that he did want the job
by numpad0 | 2026-03-05 00:07:43+00:00
IMO "build quality" is not the right term here. At least to me, "build quality" refers to how evenly examples are made and how close the real world examples adheres to manufacturing blueprints.

If finishes and gaps are tight, all around bodies and across examples, the build quality is GOOD. If every units looked slightly different and some were outright broken straight out of the box, then the build quality is BAD. Even if they were worthy of included in the MoMA collection.

Both Microsoft and Apple(or their paid Chinese outsources) are top notch. Every units looks the same and flats on the bodies are really flat. Industrial design and usability, like sharp corners and fugly aesthetics, are different issues entirely.
by GaggiX | 2026-03-05 00:08:38+00:00
>That isn't to suggest that this editor doesn't/won't exist, that the editor uses LLM-generated code (which is not a sleight) or that the claims are not truthful.

If you look at the icons of the tools in the image they appear to have been generated using a LLM. So yeah it's probably vibecoded a lot, it would be cool if the author reports how much and how it was used but I don't think newgrounds would like it much.
by 3eb7988a1663 | 2026-03-05 00:08:56+00:00
You reminded me of the hilarious SV pizza making robot startup which has its own robot arm.

In this video you see the unnecessary robot arm move the pizza to the oven: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bN45bTsBUW8

For contrast a How it is Made video of frozen pizzas being created at dozens (hundreds?) per minute: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0UrSIOtv8a0
by trhway | 2026-03-05 00:09:48+00:00
>sometimes abused by politicians to field armies at affordable prices in the service of their own greed and vanity.

After Khamenei death Russian Foreign Ministry issued a statement that Russia is "against killing of the leaders of sovereign countries". Somehow they didn't mention nor regular citizens nor rank-and-file soldiers of sovereign countries.

In the Spanish series "El Cid" there is a nice depiction of how a battle and the whole war immediately ends once the king of one side is killed in that battle. Everybody just went back to their regular business.

A translation of saying in Russian, not sure whether it exists in English - "One's heroism is always a result of incompetency and idiotism of somebody else."
by toomuchtodo | 2026-03-05 00:10:48+00:00
Ember Energy: Solar electricity every hour of every day is here and it changes everything - https://ember-energy.org/latest-insights/solar-electricity-e... - June 21st, 2025

> Batteries are now cheap enough to unleash solar’s full potential, getting as close as 97% of the way to delivering constant electricity supply 24 hours across 365 days cost-effectively in the sunniest places.

What does this mean? It means we are most of the way there with solar and batteries alone, even if we need a bit of carbon based generation to bridge the gap while solar and battery deployments scale globally. Solar and batteries will only continue to get less expensive and better.

Our World In Data: Installed solar energy capacity -
https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/installed-solar-pv-capaci...

Solar PV go brrr.
by dgxyz | 2026-03-05 00:11:45+00:00
I've seen worse. For 2 years I received the results weekly, that I didn't ask for, of a $1m a year burn reporting stack. This was launched during a massive back patting ceremony like something out of Severance.

So one day I stared at it randomly and noticed that the pie chart percentages on one thing didn't even add up to 100. Looked back at history and it turned out this had been the case since day one. Spent a day taking it to bits and a good 50% of it made no sense at all and people had been making business decisions on it without checking it.

And to remediate it? They replaced it with some AI generated slop which is even worse.
by IvanK_net | 2026-03-05 00:11:52+00:00
In 2012, I created IvanK.js - a Javascript library with the "Flash API" for quickly remaking ActionScript 3 games into the web environment. But it required WebGL, which as not very well supported back then.

I could remake several of my flash games quickly into web.

https://lib.ivank.net/?p=demos&d=bitmaps
by maxglute | 2026-03-05 00:12:50+00:00
AKA defending itself against separatists and sovereignty intrusions from much less powerful aggressors with unreasonable amount of restraint. One would argue overly peaceful, and irresponsible to the point of detrimental peace disease. BTW PRC settled most border disputes in recorded history with most concessions, majority over 50%, that objectively makes PRC the most peaceful rising power in recent history. Even in SCS PRC was second last to militarize, the other disputees started land reclamations and militarization first (apart from Brunei), aka a fucked around and find out situation. Even then all PRC did was build a bigger island, instead of glassing theirs, PRC coast guard last to weaponize as well.
by sabatonfan | 2026-03-05 00:13:19+00:00
But why would say Iran take security or software from a company which could be funded In-Q-Tel for example

I mean thanks for the share, but this proves my suspicion even more because if In-Q-Tel/CIA are able to have a public company which does it. And CIA isn't hesitant of having spies. The dangerous combination of two is definitely possible.

Obviously its still suspicion but still. Might I know what your thoughts are on it too?
by PaulDavisThe1st | 2026-03-05 00:13:25+00:00
Who has authored anything they actually cared about using Flash in the last 15 years?

I don't know Animate - is it basically Flash Updated (I've read here that Adobe kept some elements of Flash in Animate, but it is unclear what).

Also, there are non-Flash players for .fla files (not editors, however).
by nomel | 2026-03-05 00:14:08+00:00
> I wonder, why is it physically painful for some Apple owners

This wasn't necessary. I was just pointing out that 8GB hardware is not the full story. It's also true with windows, as you correctly point out. If you're coming from a slow SSD, or even Linux (it's a relatively new feature to have on by default) you might be pleasantly surprised.

Also, I'm an Apple owner and I have no problem saying it's not enough for anyone on this website. I tried it for a few years as my "second screen" computer, and would bump against it all the time, with glorious screeching as the audio skipped. But, I'm also a developer/power user.

The majority of people aren't power users.and that's the target audience for this. Clearly.

8GB has been completely fine for every non power user I know. Again, the majority of people do everything within a browser, maybe play some music/video at the same time, maybe open an office type app. It's completely acceptable for that, and that should not surprise you, as someone who has an understanding of memory usage and paging, and high bandwidth SSDs, in the slightest.
by NoPicklez | 2026-03-05 00:14:32+00:00
These sorts of takes are silly. If a person was doing this, I think we'd place a chunk of the blame on the person.

Mental health is guided by its surroundings and experiences.

If someone with existing or non-existing mental health issues was found to be coerced by somebody to do wrong things, I think we'd place some of the blame on that person.
by wpietri | 2026-03-05 00:15:01+00:00
Agreed. To me that's related to the question of minions vs professionals.

If I go to a doctor and say, "Hey, please prescribe me a lot of morphine," the answer will be some version of "hell no". That's because doctors, even if you pay for the visit, have responsibilities to the patient, the profession, and society at large. Responsibilities that should not be overridden by money or power.

The same is true for actual engineers, like the ones that build bridges. But although we often call ourselves engineers, a lot of us don't act like it. We're often more like the minions in a supervillain's volcano lair: whatever the boss says, we do.

We could be different, though. There's the ACM code of ethics, for example: https://www.acm.org/code-of-ethics

Or the IEEE-CS code of ethics specifically for software: https://www.computer.org/education/code-of-ethics

We could, as a profession, agree to follow those. We could build an organization that supports people who do the right thing in the face of managerial pressure. We could censure those who don't. I'd love to see it happen, but I'm not going to hold my breath.
by hunter2_ | 2026-03-05 00:15:31+00:00
At first I was going to say that the opportunity to back out and the need for more input are identical: if the dialog consists only of a button to proceed and a button to back out, the user needs to choose one of those as input, and eliminating that need for input means eliminating the opportunity to back out.

But now I'm thinking that a need and an opportunity are very distinct. For example, browsers used to present a Save dialog during a download: was there a need for input? No, accepting the default filename works, and based on that, they no longer offer the opportunity to choose a filename. Thus, "..." indicates the opportunity, even if there is no true need.
by martin-t | 2026-03-05 00:15:58+00:00
This is what happens when a bunch of billionaires convince people autocomplete is AI.

Don't get me wrong, it's very good autocomplete and if you run it in a loop with good tooling around it, you can get interesting, even useful results. But by its nature it is still autocomplete and it always just predicts text. Specifically, text which is usually about humans and/or by humans.
by gpm | 2026-03-05 00:17:29+00:00
We could argue about whether fine tuning is still about predicting a distribution or not, but really I feel like whether or not that word is accurate misses the point of why the description is useful.

I like the phrasing because it distinguishes it from other things the generative model might be doing including:

- Creating and then refining the whole response simultaneously, like diffusion models do.

- Having hidden state, where it first forms an "opinion" and then outputs it e.g. seq2seq models. Previously output output tokens are treated differently from input tokens at an architectural level.

- Having a hierarchical structure where you first decide what you're going to say, and then how you're going to say it, like wikipedia hilarious description of how "sophisticated" natural language generation systems work (someone should really update this page): https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Natural_language_...
by thewebguyd | 2026-03-05 00:17:54+00:00
Not to mention that guns don't talk to you, simulate empathy, lead you deeper into delusions or try to convince you to take any sort of action.

That's why I don't buy the "an LLM is just a tool, like a gun or a knife" argument. Tools don't talk back, An LLM as gone beyond being "just a tool"
Show HN: A rec.us CLI for your Claw
by JakaJancar | 2026-03-05 00:18:55+00:00
I know I'm enabling snipers to compete with me, but oh well...

This is a CLI primarily designed for your Claw to search for available tennis courts and book them without slow browser automation (if you're in San Francisco or another area powered by rec.us).

Perhaps the most interesting part is the API documentation that was entirely written by Claude Code by reverse engineering the frontend and trying stuff, with minimal steering:

https://jakajancar.github.io/recus/api.html

To be honest, now that the docs are done, I'm not sure the CLI even adds value, as the Claw (if given the API docs) can curl its way around pretty efficiently and handles unforeseen situations much better.
by liz_ifixit | 2026-03-05 00:19:03+00:00
Hey, I head the editorial team at iFixit and honestly appreciate the feedback. Totally fair to suggest we should've flagged our relationship with Lenovo at the head of the article. It's a tricky thing, to figure out how to message our business relationships with companies when we're also scoring their devices. I've added a fuller note about our business relationship with them to the beginning.

What Lenovo pays us for: They send us devices. We score them and report internally on their repairability. Lenovo has actually made their repairability snapshot reports public, so you can see some of the documents we've given them, for instance: https://www.ifixit.com/Document/sunTY6dbbJvOMRjP/Repairabili...

What Lenovo doesn't pay us for: Any particular score (they've worked really hard for the 10/10). This blog post/press release.

There are other companies paying us for similar services, and most of them do not get 10/10s or glowing coverage on our site. Companies don't get any extra credit for working with us instead of providing repair in another way.

To be clear, our repairability scoring is an objective system that involves engineers taking apart dozens of devices in each category to calibrate each scorecard. Making a new scorecard takes us hundreds of hours. Giving a score to a product using that scorecard is also a time-consuming human thing, disassembling a product, building out a disassembly tree (like the one in the snapshot I linked above), turning the process into something legible to our spreadsheets.

M5 MacBook vs. ThinkPad E14 Gen 7, the ThinkPad wins on modular storage, modular memory, battery replacement is dead simple, it’s easier to get inside, and you only need a Phillips screwdriver and a pry tool for most common repairs. A lot of the concerns you bring up ("easily breakable," "flimsy") are matters of durability. We generally prefer clips over glues, and we didn't find the clips to be unusually breakable in our testing. Durability matters, but we try hard to separate it from repairability in our scoring. Assemblies and soldered ports absolutely played into why the E14 Gen 7 didn't get a 10/10.

Re: AI-generated prose... we do indeed use LLMs to support our small team of human writers when drafting content. That said, we don't publish anything without multiple humans reviewing. In this case, we were thorough in our human fact checking, but I agree we missed the mark on style.
by deepsun | 2026-03-05 00:19:24+00:00
> Gas heating (Single room) (1 hour of use) -- 2700Wh.

Wow dude, your room is very-very poorly insulated. Having a 2700W heater turned on constantly just for one room is a lot. If it's 0C outside and 20C inside, a typical room should not lose more than 500W, but better be in 200--400W range .
by ribosometronome | 2026-03-05 00:21:02+00:00
The bills going through Washington's legislature (where the original parent was talking about re: release via public information laws) do try and address this such that the systems aren't massive dragnets of everybody, always but far more targeted, I think.

See, for example, https://lawfilesext.leg.wa.gov/biennium/2025-26/Pdf/Bills/Ho... which would carve out:

An agency may access, operate, or use an automated license plate reader system and its associated data only for the following authorized purposes:
(a) Any law enforcement agency may use an automated license plate reader system for the purpose of comparing captured automated license
plate reader data with:
(i) Data on any of the following watch lists maintained by either a federal or Washington state agency: The department of licensing, the state criminal justice information system, the federal bureau of investigation kidnappings and missing persons list, and the Washington missing persons list; or
(ii) License plate numbers that have been manually entered into a state or local automated license plate reader system database, upon an officer's determination that the license plate numbers are relevant and material to an investigation of a vehicle that is:
(A) Stolen;
(B) Associated with a missing or endangered person;
(C) Registered to an individual for whom there is an outstanding
felony warrant; or
(D) Related to or involved in a felony.
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(b) Any parking enforcement agency may use an automated license
plate reader system for the following purposes:
(i) Enforcing time restrictions on the use of parking spaces; or
(ii) Identifying vehicles on a watch list for impoundment or immobilization under a local ordinance enacted under RCW 46.55.240,
provided the list includes only license plates of vehicles subject to
that ordinance.
(c) An automated license plate reader system may be used as a
component of photo toll systems authorized by RCW 47.56.795 or
47.46.105
(d) Any transportation agency may use an automated license plate
reader system for the following purposes:
(i) Providing real-time traffic information to the public,
traffic modeling, and traffic studies such as determining
construction delays and route use; and
(ii) Enforcing commercial vehicle systems at Washington state
patrol enforcement sites and weigh stations.

That said, the only thing that really stops them from being massive dragnets of everybody always would essentially be how they're configured, which obviously can change. I think we've seen enough misuse of systems and tools throughout history that it's worthwhile to be mindful of creating easily misused systems and tools.
by 65 | 2026-03-05 00:22:07+00:00
To make a different point, a regular consumer does not care about tech specs. They want a laptop that can browse the web, stream Netflix, and maybe open a Word doc. They will be more sensitive to hardware problems in my opinion. A janky touchpad is going to be annoying no matter what computer task you're doing. A wobbly keyboard will be the same. To me an average consumer is more interested in the "feel" of the computer rather than what it can do.
by thephyber | 2026-03-05 00:22:11+00:00
You are making lots of projections from a single anecdote and conflating a state’s policies/economy with that of a country of 25x the population.

Detroit was once one of the US’s largest population cities, at nearly 2.5 million residents in the late 1960s, falling to less than 1 million by the 2010s. On this scale, California is still in the peak days of the 1960s, but we aren’t showing any current signs of shrinking. Maybe AI will be the catalyst for massive job losses, but that’s for the future to unfold.

Machining is a low value part of the economic supply chain, like sweat shop clothing. While I don’t want to lose it, it’s being dominated by countries (China, Taiwan) which are willing to throw MASSIVE money at the industry. TSMC was literally a whole-of-country effort to centralize the entire world’s supply chain of cutting edge semiconductors on one island. China is winning because they have cut-throat competition between companies and they don’t slow down for legal concerns such as regulation or intellectual property. That is only going to last for a certain amount of time before people will demand better living environments (which is partly why they have such a terrible fertility rate).