MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by stockresearcher | 2026-03-02 22:56:23+00:00
From an outsider just going by what you wrote: you are trading a $2000+ year-old computer for a new $2000+ computer because you are annoyed about some temporary problems (yes, they are temporary).

Apple marketers are just going to think that in another year you’re going to get annoyed by some Linux thing (yes, there will be something annoying) and buy a brand new $2000+ Mac.

These kind of posts get a lot of upvotes, but they do nothing to change corporate behavior.
by lgvld | 2026-03-02 22:56:24+00:00
Location: Paris, France

Remote: Remote first, but I enjoy spending time with my collaborators (especially at the beginning of a mission) and traveling for work from time to time.

Willing to relocate: Temporarily, depending on the job but not for more than 6 months. Might be only available 2 days/week during the next months.

Technologies: Can learn anything web related very quickly but I'm especially proficient as a full stack working with a boring Python/Django/PostgreSQL stack. I enjoy working with Vue.js or Svelte but I will keep using HTMX or Alpine.js whenever I can out of simplicity. Happy to use low-code tools and vibe code stuff when it makes sense. I can also use Cloud solutions (GCP, Render, Heroku, AWS) or administrate a Linux server.

Résumé/CV: https://louis.ga/cv/en/#exp

Email: hn [AT] louis [DOT] ga

Python/Django specialist looking for projects bridging tech and physical world. Currently available for freelance work. I bring 5+ years building production software—from co-founding a legal tech startup where I wore every hat from Linux sysadmin to team lead, to a recent stint at Louis Vuitton on JS/TypeScript. Comfortable across the stack, with particular depth in data pipelines, ML/computer vision, and making things work reliably at scale. M.S. in Computer Science (computer vision) from Sorbonne, dual B.S. in Math & CS, plus a foundation year in applied arts. This mix shows up in my work—I care about both what's under the hood and what users actually see.

I'm quite good with people and enjoy being part of a team. Looking for interesting projects at the intersection of software and visual/creative domains, or anything hardware / real world related -- but honestly, I enjoy hard problems wherever they live.

Open to contracts, part-time collaborations, or interesting project-based work. Based in Paris, remote-friendly.

Don't hesitate to get in touch. ;-)

Regards.
by armcat | 2026-03-02 22:56:29+00:00
This is an outstanding write up, thank you! Regarding LLM latency, OpenAI introduced web sockets in their Responses client recently so it should be a bit faster. An alternative is to have a super small LLM running locally on your device. I built my own pipeline fully local and it was sub second RTT, with no streaming nor optimisations https://github.com/acatovic/ova
by JonHunter | 2026-03-02 22:56:35+00:00
Hey HN,

I built Cowabunga Link because I was trying to market my own ebook and got really frustrated with the current options. Either very expensive paid placements, or you need a huge social media following to get any traction, or people just pay sites to be on top of lists with no real meritocracy behind it.

So I made this instead: a simple, no-algos place where indie creators can share links to their work (music packs, ebooks, art bundles, screenplays, courses, templates, digital downloads, etc.) or cool finds they love. Anyone can post a link + short desc + tags. Community upvotes surface the genuinely good stuff to Hot/Rising/New feeds (using an HN-style hotness formula for velocity + decay).

No payments on-site — just external links to Gumroad/Etsy/Bandcamp/etc. for direct sales. Anonymous posting is allowed, but logged-in users get profiles and bookmarks.

Tech: FastAPI + SQLAlchemy/PostgreSQL on Replit, Jinja/Bootstrap frontend, HTMX.

It's a very early MVP (just shipped this week), seeded with examples, no real users yet.

Would love honest feedback:
- Does the voting/meritocracy feel fair for discovering hidden indie gems?
- Any obvious spam or moderation holes I should plug early?
- What creative niches should I seed more (screenplays? art? courses?)?
- UI/UX annoyances or bugs?

If you have indie work, feel free to drop a link and see how it does: https://cowabungalink.com

Thanks for taking a look!
Jon (Livermore, CA)
by armadsen | 2026-03-02 22:56:42+00:00
Thanks for sharing about your daughter. It's good to hear from other parents dealing with it. My daughter with spina bifida is only 18 months. It's early of course, but so far she's right on track cognitively and socially. I expect she'll be in a wheelchair full time, but don't know for sure yet. She's also just the most joyful, loving, social, happy toddler.

I know what you mean about elevating otherwise normal kid illness. She had her first shunt failure in January. It was pretty stressful going from "hmm, she's fussy" to surgery within less than 24 hours. But she was back to her happy self with hours of the surgery too, which was a pretty stark indicator of how much the shunt is doing for her.
by webdevver | 2026-03-02 22:56:46+00:00
i mean theres kind of no way around it. how else are you gonna get the training data you need? the only way to bootstrap ai is to tag the data with bio-ai first (humans).

different companies 'launder' it differently: with voice, it was done by "accidental" voice assistant activations. i guess with glasses, maybe there will be less window dressing this time. after all, it is clearly pitched to see what you see, at all times of the day.

similar controversy happened with the various roomba products, although arguably that was a combination of data harvesting + lazy engineering.
by staticassertion | 2026-03-02 22:56:55+00:00
No, that means it's not a brute contingent fact. It is still a brute fact. And it is a metaphysical claim that there is no alternative.

> And that it can't be the full reality if it is not self-determining, draws from anything else, any other domain, depends on any non-internal choice, any wisp of external determination?

No, brute contingent facts do not require external determination, so I reject this obviously.
Show HN: We filed 99 patents for deterministic AI governance(Prior Art vs. RLHF)
by genesalvatore | 2026-03-02 22:56:56+00:00
For the last few months, we've been working on a fundamental architectural shift in how autonomous agents are governed. The current industry standard relies almost entirely on probabilistic alignment (RLHF, system prompts, constitutional training). It works until it's jailbroken or the context window overflows. A statistical disposition is not a security boundary.

We've built an alternative: Deterministic Policy Gates. In our architecture, the LLM is completely stripped of execution power. It can only generate an "intent payload." That payload is passed to a process-isolated, deterministic execution environment where it is evaluated against a cryptographically hashed constraint matrix (the constitution). If it violates the matrix, it is blocked. Every decision is then logged to a Merkle-tree substrate (GitTruth) for an immutable audit trail.

We filed 99 provisional patents on this architecture starting January 10, 2026. Crucially, we embedded strict humanitarian use restrictions directly into the patent claims themselves (The Peace Machine Mandate) so the IP cannot legally be used for autonomous weapons, mass surveillance, or exploitation.

I wrote a full breakdown of the architecture, why probabilistic safety is a dead end, and the timeline of how we filed this before the industry published their frameworks: Read the full manifesto here: https://salvatoresystems.medium.com/the-death-of-probabilist...

The full patent registry is public here: https://aos-patents.com

I'm the founder and solo inventor. Happy to answer any questions about the deterministic architecture, the Merkle-tree state persistence, or the IP strategy of embedding ethics directly into patent claims.
by sivers | 2026-03-02 22:57:35+00:00
“I don't feel like we own them.” ← Well-put!

I was 100% Apple: Mac Mini on the desktop, Macbook Air laptop, iPhone, and two iPads.

Then came Tahoe.

I hated it so badly and it wouldn't let me change the things I hated.

I noticed a subtle sneer as I worked, having to use this stupid computer that wouldn't let me adjust it to my liking anymore.

Then I noticed I wasn't working as much as I used to because I just viscerally hated having to work in that Tahoe environment.

At first I did the thing of erasing the entire computer and doing a USB install just go back to the previous.

But then like you said: “I don't feel like we own them.” I didn't trust Apple to not keep making it worse.

So I switched. Got a Linux desktop, and a Framework laptop. Sooooo nice!! Snappy-fast Linux just the way I want it.

While I was at it, got my first Android phone and installed GrapheneOS on Google Pixel. Sooooo nice! So quiet, doing only what I want.

Even got my first Android tablet to replace the iPad. (OnePlus Pad 3.) It's great too. I'm loving the whole Android ecosystem, when made nerdy like Linux.

So yeah I'm 100% off Apple now and will never go back.

That's how bad Tahoe is.
by mattnewton | 2026-03-02 22:58:09+00:00
If the task can’t be done in a few taps I feel I’m better off opening a laptop anyways.

However the market agrees with you so I must be missing something. I used to think it was driven by media consumption on phones, and that I try to avoid, but this isn’t the first time I have heard people tout phone productivity gains from a slightly larger screen.
by charcircuit | 2026-03-02 22:58:39+00:00
You can seamlessly take a photos without having to pull your phone out of your pockets and dedicate and arm to filming and you can listen to music without having to touch your phone. The audio recording of videos is 3D and when you play them back it's realistic where the audio is coming from.

>since they require internet connection.

Only the AI features require internet. You can technically take pictures and video without carrying around your phone, but realistically people are going to carry there phone with them.
by hollow-moe | 2026-03-02 22:58:55+00:00
"But it's the public space you can't expect any kind of privacy there, if you don't want private companies to do biometrics on your face from a rando glasses just don't go out :)"
The open air panopticon, where every inmate is also the warden, gov salivates at the idea.
(yes, yes, you're very smart, you, the reader: smartphones are already tracking and recording us everywhere. One more device, one more case isn't an issue anymore. So let's just keep adding them instead of trying to address them.)
by vunderba | 2026-03-02 22:59:25+00:00
Nice job. Feels like there's a bit of misunderstanding of what this project is. It has nothing to do with audio - it's purely a means of mapping MIDI to shell commands.

There was (still is) a very popular program called BOME Midi Translator that did something similar - think of it like AutoHotKey but specifically for midi.

Back when I made heavy use of Kontakt libraries I got frustrated at the lack of an easy way to audition the patches (of which there could be hundreds on a single sampler). To get around it, I created a Bome script so when I pressed an unused button on my midi controller it would trigger a mouse click to advance to the next patch in my DAW and then send a note-on / note-off for C4 for half a second.

Made previewing the sounds much easier.
by kjdointhings | 2026-03-02 22:59:27+00:00
I'm a contractor working with 11 client teams that each use different project management tools. Every morning I'd open Asana, Linear, Jira, ClickUp, and Monday just to figure out what I need to do today (and multiple workspaces within each). It was annoying.

So I built Huddle — a single dashboard that pulls your tasks from all of them into one view. You connect your accounts via OAuth and it shows everything in one place. Currently supports Asana, Linear, ClickUp, Monday, Basecamp, and Jira.

It's not trying to replace any of these tools — you still manage tasks in the original app. Huddle is just the read layer so you can see everything at a glance and not lose track of any of your work.

Would love feedback, especially on what other integrations people would want.
by armadsen | 2026-03-02 22:59:30+00:00
Spina Bifida is not primarily a genetic disease. It's caused by a failure of the neural tube in the developing embryo to close fully. No one knows the exact causes, but folic acid deficiency in the mother before and during pregnancy makes it more likely. It also seems to run in families a little, but only weakly, and we haven't identified any specific genetic cause. This treatment is very promising, but it's not a cure, just a (hopefully) even better treatment than the existing in-utero surgery that doesn't include stem cells.
by lnrd | 2026-03-02 23:00:00+00:00
Cameras in phones are pretty much locked up today, assuming you have an updated version of the OS from a respectable manufacturer. Apps will not be able to access the camera feed (or the microphone) without explicit consent and a visual warning.

The manufacturer might access it, Apple states they don't, Google and Samsung I'm not sure. A bad actor with 0days might too.
by blakesterz | 2026-03-02 23:00:13+00:00
Meta aims to introduce facial recognition to its smart glasses while its biggest critics are distracted, according to a report from The New York Times. In an internal document reviewed by The Times, Meta says it will launch the feature “during a dynamic political environment where many civil society groups that we would expect to attack us would have their resources focused on other concerns.”

https://www.theverge.com/tech/878725/meta-facial-recognition...
by sdevonoes | 2026-03-02 23:00:15+00:00
I don’t have children, but I was a child once. I didn’t mind going to school in darkness (in winter) and enjoy 1h more of daylight in the evening. Having that extra hour of daylight in the morning always seemed a waste for me because I wasn’t doing something I wanted (I was doing something I had to do, this is, going to school)
by weaksauce | 2026-03-02 23:00:45+00:00
I'm rocking cachyos(arch based though) wayland+kde and https://github.com/RedBearAK/toshy. it's great to keep the keyboard shortcuts that I'm so used to from the mac almost seamlessly. kde lets you configure pretty much everything how a mac was if you want it though it did take a month or two to get everything the way I like it. I've found that it is nice to have an operating system that is mine and not the whims of some company trying to make money off me. I don't think I'll go back unless I'm forced to for a job.
by mnisjk2 | 2026-03-02 23:01:11+00:00
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by joeljoseph_ | 2026-03-02 23:01:20+00:00
[Experimental Project]

I use both OpenAI Codex and Claude Code daily on the same codebase. The biggest pain — they don't share memory. Claude fixes a bug, Codex repeats it next session. Every session starts from zero.

So I built Open Timeline Engine — a local-first engine that captures your decisions, mines patterns, and gives any MCP agent shared memory.

It also support gated autonomy
by anon84873628 | 2026-03-02 23:01:34+00:00
Or just have schools change their hours as needed.

Time changes are just a hack to make every business change their effective office hours back when the sign on the door - and coordination - mattered. Today brick and mortar is way less relevant. Way more people are working from home or going to work at random hours. The time change doesn't affect going to grocery store or restaurants or the gym. It's basically just schools, banks, and the DMV.

Why not have a given entity change its hours through the year, if the relation to the sun actually matters?

(And no, I don't buy that there needs to be time coordination between schools, since they are all already slightly different anyway. Different kids have different after school programs different days. Different parents are already going to work different hours. There's no way to coordinate for everyone to be happy, ever.)
by lamontcg | 2026-03-02 23:01:36+00:00
Yeah, apparently I should have been explicit that I was talking about air strikes and not occupation.

We aren't going to occupy Iran.

Comparing this to defeated nations in WWII is also a massive stretch, I almost can't believe people seriously think that is a parallel situation.

There's a lot of propaganda out there to dissuade people from thinking that this looks a lot like Libya at best--and that is assuming that decapitation airstrikes can even make the regime fall (which I doubt).
by epcoa | 2026-03-02 23:01:42+00:00
> US has an artificially small amount of residency slots.

Not really. There isn’t just one “residency”. ENT and dermatology residencies (to take just two examples) have more than enough US medical graduates to fill them. Residencies destined for primary care, internal medicine and family medicine would have unfilled positions if not offered to foreign medical graduates. The US grads don’t want these spots for reasons that are more complex than an HN comment, but can be read about elsewhere. It has little to do with the AMA for the last 40 years and little to do with training incentives or lack thereof.
by jlongo78 | 2026-03-02 23:01:55+00:00
Chaining really shines when steps have conditional branching based on previous output. A numbered prompt works fine for linear tasks, but falls apart when step 3 needs to decide between two different paths depending on what step 2 returned.

Also useful when steps have wildly different context needs - you don't want to stuff everything into one massive prompt. Keeping agents focused tends to produce cleaner outputs than one giant instruction list.
by Erlangen | 2026-03-02 23:02:05+00:00
I delayed upgrade to IPadOS 26.3 til reddit users shared on /r/ipad that its performance was on par with older version now. However, once I upgrade, the performance issues and bugs are noticeable instantly. For example,

1. switching between different browser tabs has a sub-second delay(est 200ms)
2. a tab in system settings menu takes 200ms to load
3. maximizing a video doesn't always work(sometimes it leaves a big white space on top)
4. double tabbing a keyboard key often triggers zooming into the browser page

I couldn't believe these issues haven't been fixed after 3 subversions.
by synapsomorphy | 2026-03-02 23:02:14+00:00
Full stack / Generalist Engineer

Location: US (GA)
Remote: Yes
Willing to relocate: Only to PNW or Bay Area
Technologies: Python, Linux, embedded C, SQL, React, ML (PyTorch, LLMs), electrical

Résumé/CV: https://synapsomorphy.com/resume.pdf (Contains email)

Hi! Generalist here looking to work on hard and meaningful problems with cool people.

2 YoE, coming off a year building the entire tech stack for a YC alum deeptech + biotech startup, from scratch, as the sole SWE or EE. (product: https://andsonbiotech.com/platform/)

I've also built/worked on rockets, drones, a lunar lander, a Mars helicopter at NASA, a LLM-driven car, AI benchmarks, and new type of 3D printer. Read about these: https://synapsomorphy.com/

Prefer early-mid stage, say seed to C, and core products that have 1 or more of [ML, biology, hardware], in order of preference.
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by rayiner | 2026-03-02 23:02:25+00:00
The exact issue in Brandenburg was about how specific the speech has to be. Broadly saying people should do stuff is different from advocating specific illegal conduct against a specific target. That’s harder to apply here because there’s a specific target. The issue here is more: how influential does the speech need to be on the people who actually took the illegal action. I think the standard should be so high you would need some sort of vicarious liability. Like you hired people to set fires.

> Even the way you write this makes it sound like you know it's problematic too.

That was intentional.
by ssl-3 | 2026-03-02 23:02:41+00:00
We seem to have a world where neither Linux, nor MacOS, nor Windows "just work". None of them have meaningful support channels for individuals. All of them have issues. They're very similar in these ways.

The first of these systems is actionable: When it doesn't work, it can generally be made to work. The whole journey may be an awful affair for the entire duration, but a person can usually (not always!) get there.

The other two systems are inactionable: When it doesn't work, there is no fixing it. There is no pathway, nor any journey. One can only accept that it is broken, that they are powerless to change it, and that this is the end of the road for that problem.

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There are probably healthier ways to learn acceptance than this.
by andreinaheredia | 2026-03-02 23:03:08+00:00
Location: Madrid, Spain

Remote: Yes, worldwide

Willing to relocate: No, but can travel for work

Technologies: Figma, Adobe Creative Suite, HTML/CSS/JS, Vite, Cloudflare Pages, Claude Code, Veo3, CapCut

Portfolio: https://efectoherlop.com

LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/andreina-heredia/

Email: contact@efectoherlop.com

I'm a freelance graphic and UI designer specializing in technical companies — healthtech, engineering, deep tech. 8 years, 80+ projects, 11 countries.

I design and build landing pages, UI, brand identity, pitch decks, technical catalogs, logos, packaging, event banners, print, and video. I also deploy what I design.

AI-native workflow with Claude Code, Veo3, and Adobe Creative Suite. If your tech is serious but your materials aren't keeping up, let's talk.
by mrbuttons454 | 2026-03-02 23:03:29+00:00
Keyboard shortcuts have been a big pain point, but I'm adjusting. I'm using Plasma 6, and trying to use the defaults vs emulating the mac shortcuts. Print screen as a screenshot button makes considerably more sense to me than Command-Shift-4, and Meta+Print Screen captures just a single window.

Logiops + Plasma's multi desktop support has given me something very similar to the multi desktop experience I had before, and the pager in the taskbar is a big improvement.

The tiling in Plasma needs work. I initially loved it until I released that when I arranged the tiles differently on one desktop, it changed them on the others... Hopefully that gets better.
by bitwize | 2026-03-02 23:03:43+00:00
Sci-fi mumbo jumbo that Dario, Sam, and the rest have read and were profoundly influenced by. Yudkowskianism is marked by a strong apocalyptic "evil AI will kill us all" streak, and a big part of the AI industry is a race to build "good" AI before "evil" AI gets a fighting chance. Of course that all goes out the window just like Google's "don't be evil" once advertisers and the Pentagon start wafting the scent of money into the air...