MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by aeonfox | 2026-03-07 23:36:46+00:00
Has a registered business that's been around longer than 6 months.

Has a confirmed business phone number, called by a human that verifies another human is on the other end.

Has a confirmed business address (mail them the confirmation code).

Has a website that's been around longer then 6 months.

Has a Google Maps location that's been around longer than 6 months.
by yuliyp | 2026-03-07 23:36:47+00:00
"only 8 cents of every dollar shows up as direct aid and grants"

That's an extremely misleading statement. For instance, a food bank giving away food does not count as "direct aid and grants". The salary for the warehouse worker operating the food bank is also not counted in that 92%.

Other cherry-picked statements like "32% of donors trust charities less today than they did five years ago" (not giving the percentage that trust charities more, or any other way to contextualize) make it clear that this is just a hit piece.
by thinking_cactus | 2026-03-07 23:36:51+00:00
I agree in some ways.

Like, I think in a way it's just not viable to patch every little loophole a corrupt or morally bankrupt administration could exploit and all damage it could cause, and probably not without making the administration itself useless. It's a still a good idea to patch as much as feasible, in part to if slightly discourage the worse from seeking power in the first place. But in a way, it's garbage in, garbage out. Laws will never be able to magically turn corrupt and misguided decisions into ever good ones. The robust solution is promoting wisdom, ethics, civility and education, so people make good democratic choices for themselves and others.
by Yodel0914 | 2026-03-07 23:37:18+00:00
Being able to join an instance with its own culture, while still being able to connect outside that culture, is the only reason I use any social media at all.

I understand it can be confusing for people coming from Twitter or Facebook or wherever, the local instance culture is Mastodon’s greatest strength. That, of course, and the lack drive to turn a profit from users.
by nkov47as | 2026-03-07 23:37:22+00:00
For the past year, we've been running AI agents that spin up cloud VMs, execute code, browse the web, and tear everything down, thousands of times a day.

The dirty secret? Most cloud infrastructure wasn't built for this. Sessions time out, costs spiral, and cold starts kill your agent's momentum mid-task.
So we built Coasty (coasty.ai), sandboxed cloud VMs purpose-built for AI agents. Isolated, fast (ready in under 2 minutes), and 70% cheaper than the alternatives. No 24-hour session caps. No noisy neighbors. Just clean environments your agents can destroy guilt-free.

We're running our own marketing agents on it right now. It eats its own cooking.

If you're building agent pipelines and tired of fighting your infra, we'd love to show you what we've got. Early access is open.

What's the most destructive thing your agents do?
by raw_anon_1111 | 2026-03-07 23:37:48+00:00
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Secretary_problem

How do you vet mid level and entry developers? I know that sounds like a dumb question. But I only expect a mid level developer especially enterprise developers to turn well defined requirements into code. The bar is especially low in the age of AI. One is basically interchangeable to another. I have only interviewed senior level developers - ie people who I expect to operate on a higher level of scope, impact and ambiguity.

Those are easy to filter out via a few behavioral questions.
by stopbulying | 2026-03-07 23:38:25+00:00
> These loans can be extremely risky because they're expensive: The national average annual percentage rate (APR) for a payday loan is almost 400 percent. That's over 20 times the average credit card interest rate.

> And often, borrowers can't pay back the loan right away. The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau found that nearly 1 in 4 payday loans are re-borrowed nine times or more, while Pew found it generally takes borrowers roughly five months to pay off the loans — and costs them an average of $520 in finance charges. That's on top of the amount of the original loan.

500 + 520 = 1020
by Aachen | 2026-03-07 23:38:45+00:00
Yeah they're not very popular, partly because they're not very powerful: it's always multiple-choice, answer order doesn't randomise, and I don't think you can see how many unique people even voted (which can vary wildly depending on how many options people click on average). Fwiw, I do like multi-voting better as a default than the usual default of FPTP, but still

There was a short burst of activity shortly after introduction, probably a decade ago by now. Would be interesting to plot how many per week^W year make it to the front page or get more than a dozen votes
by lkjdsklf | 2026-03-07 23:39:21+00:00
I have similar types of bindings. I just found a keyboard that can use ZMK. There's quite a few out there.

ZMK (or it's free software cousin QMK) are super flexible and you can create lots of custom behaviors for keys (tap/hold behaviors, double press, layering, etc...). It takes some time and effort to learn how to set it all up. Some of the more complicated behaviors require using their dsl for mapping the keys instead of their GUI editor. Considering the ridiculous amount of hours I spend at my computer using a keyboard, I felt it was worth the investment in learning.
by bilbo0s | 2026-03-07 23:40:50+00:00
Well, ok.

But this just goes to show that we need watching and monitoring infrastructure even for the organizations who claim to be watching and monitoring on our behalf. We have to know who's full of it, and who is acting in a more trustworthy fashion.

What you point out is a huge miss. There is little chance that it wasn't intentional. There should, at minimum, be an explanation presented as to why they did that?
by Mariovega | 2026-03-07 23:41:26+00:00
Built this after watching friends spend weekends fighting Docker configs just to run OpenClaw. Clawy is hosted OpenClaw in the cloud — 60-second onboarding, works via WhatsApp/Telegram/Discord.

Two options: $9/mo with AI included or $99 lifetime BYOK. 81 founding spots left on the lifetime deal.

Happy to answer any questions about the architecture or how we handle multi-tenant OpenClaw instances.
by joeyguerra | 2026-03-07 23:41:51+00:00
the job-to-be-done is connecting the job to the right person. Not job verification.

I built a mobile app dev team in fintech years ago. I remember one person was literally selling their house and moving and was looking for a job. Call it luck, serendipitous, what you will, but the "connection" was made at the right time, right place.

How do we solve that problem more effectively? Cuz right now it's a roll of the dice, constant linkedin messages, etc.
by jonhohle | 2026-03-07 23:41:53+00:00
I’ve mentioned this before, but at my previous employer we set up staged Artifactory so tha production couldn’t pull from anything that hadn’t been through the test stage, and test couldn’t pull from anything that hadn’t been through CI.

Because releases were relatively slow (weekly) compared to other places I worked (continuous), we had a reasonable lead time to have third party packages scanned for vulns before they made it to production.

The setup was very minimal, really just a script to link one stage’s artifacts to the next stage’s repo. But the end effect was production never pulled from the internet and never pulled packages that hadn’t been deployed to the previous stage.
by mikehall314 | 2026-03-07 23:42:01+00:00
It’s easy enough to say “put the zip first because that will tell you city, state and country in one input”.

What happens to customers not in the United States? They have no zip to enter. Or if they have a postal code of some stripe, it has a different format.

What about folks who are in Turkmenistan, that you’re grumpy about having to scroll past? How are they signing up?
by bitwize | 2026-03-07 23:42:03+00:00
If you sound like a car ad from Road & Track, I'm going to flag you as bot.

"No rough handling. No struggles to accelerate. Just pure performance. The new Toyota GT. It's not just a car—it's a revolution."

Most of the tropes listed on this page give text a more "car ad" (or sometimes "movie trailer") quality. I wonder if magazine scans and press releases unduly weighted the training set.
by lsaferite | 2026-03-07 23:42:23+00:00
Unfortunately you still need country first. But past that, the point stands well. You'll need to adjust the form based on the country, obviously.

For the US you can use zip-5 to prefill bunch of data and zip+4 practically fills it all out for a lot of addresses.

Each country has some particular nuance though, so it's only as simple as "zip first" or "postcode first" in some locations.
by ajross | 2026-03-07 23:43:19+00:00
This is theater. I say this every time it comes up, but the solution here IS NOT to just add vain and silly friction between potentially-malicious upstreams and package users. You'll never win that war.

The solution is independent audit. "Package managers" need to be (as they are in the Linux world) human beings responsible for integrating, validating and testing the upstream software for the benefit of their users.

NPM, PyPI, Cargo et. al. continue to think they can short circuit that process and still ship safe software, and they verifiably cannot.
by Forgeties79 | 2026-03-07 23:43:45+00:00
We aren’t debating AMD vs. Nvidia and I shouldn’t have gotten distracted with it tbh. I am talking about what it takes to build a computer now.

Ram and storage have ballooned PC costs. That’s the issue. Whether you are buying an AMD GPU or an Nvidia GPU, it is still substantially increasing build costs. Nobody is spending $1500 on an Nvidia GPU and then going “well nothing else matters now.” The ram and storage has gone from $200-$300 to $800-$1000. That’s still a huge portion of the budget. They’ve gone from near-line item status to 1/3rd (or more) of the cost. Affordable builds have become incredibly difficult to achieve
by mapmeld | 2026-03-07 23:44:13+00:00
If you participate in certain online communities where posts used to generally share real ideas and ask real beginner questions, you get tired of it. I am especially tired of seeing "it's not X - it's Y" on /r/MachineLearning posts, claiming that they've found some "geometry" or basic PyTorch code which they think will solve AI hallucinations. And it's becoming clear these people are not just doing this sort of a thing on a whim, but spending days in delusional conversations with the AI.
by zettabomb | 2026-03-07 23:44:21+00:00
I fail to see how you can claim this to work for sites which serve areas outside the United States, but have either no ZIP code, an overlapping code, or something else entirely. Germany has 5 digit PLZs, but putting some valid ones in doesn't get a result. It really seems like the author does not think about other countries.

I don't disagree with reordering the entry by relevance, but you have to start with country. That can also be a nice search - it will be a very short lookup, even if you put every country name in every language. Only after that is postal code (of whatever kind - it's only ZIP in the US) relevant.
by Aachen | 2026-03-07 23:44:43+00:00
I'm not sure where you think goalposts were moved (especially since my initial response was "we've had this conversation"; it's not a new position when they keep reposting the same fallacies) or what makes you think I'm posting here just to annoy some people I've never even met and whose work is generally good. What in the world even is "high quality trolling"? But if you want to feel like you've found evidence for GrapheneOS' regular claims that everyone is always attacking them then I probably can't dissuade you of that no matter how much more time I waste reiterating the exact same, eh, goalpost¹ you called it I think

It does bother me that I spend time answering in a clear way, since apparently it wasn't clear previously so I spend more time, and then it gets dismissed as disingenuous flamebait, or whatever the definition of trolling is

¹ (Not sure, as a non-native speaker, but to me that word sounds like there might be a material objective beyond coming to a common understanding. I don't have such an ulterior objective. If I'm right about that connotation then please read "point" in place of this word)
by fortran77 | 2026-03-07 23:44:59+00:00
There's two sides to this. Companies need to be able to make sure they're able to locate (and not miss) viable candidates. But job-seekers need to know there's a legitimate company and an actual job. There are many job scams out there, especially for entry level, low-skill jobs.

In my early days, I once went through three interviews for a small "start up." On the third round, the founder admitted he couldn't pay me in anything but "equity" even though I specifically asked about funding and compensation on the first interview. (I got a very early "Craigs List" to pull the job listing--with an personal reply from Craig Newmark--and the "employer" settled with me for several thousand after I sent a demand letter and filed a claim in Santa Clara County small claims court for fraud.)
by goloroden | 2026-03-07 23:45:50+00:00
I entered my zip code… well, wrong country: I’m living in Germany.

And even if you knew that, the only thing you could have known from the zip code is the city. At least roughly, because multiple small villages share one zip code.

Or, to cut it short: This doesn’t work at all on a general and global level, so I guess there’s a reason why websites do this differently…
by exmadscientist | 2026-03-07 23:46:00+00:00
Related, on the country drop-down front: please put the United States (or whatever your customers' main country is) at the top. You can probably tell I want the US from a combination of, you know, 99% of your sales being to the US and my language being set to English. And, sure, put Canada and even the UK next to it. Go wild, have the top ten English-speaking countries there if you like! It makes things so much easier.

The trick, then, is that you don't remove anything from the alphabetical list. With modern computer technology, we can have two places to find something! So if I miss your fancy shortcut, or it's not applicable to me, everything will still be in the regular old familiar place. It just works.
by cthalupa | 2026-03-07 23:46:05+00:00
They did. Hamilton even argued that presidents should be subject to “forfeiture of life and estate” if crimes deemed it so. Federalist 77.

Article I, Section 3, Clause 7 of the constitution makes it clear that while impeachment is limited to removal, but that after they are fair game for criminal processes.

Wilson wrote 'far from being above the laws, he is amenable to them"

Anti-federalists went even farther - they believed that the Federalists' reliance on the impeachment process, for example, left far too wide of a gap to be exploited.

(They seem to have been correct.)
by capnrefsmmat | 2026-03-07 23:46:07+00:00
I work on research studying LLM writing styles, so I am going to have to steal this. I've seen plenty of lists of LLM style features, but this is the first one I noticed that mentions "tapestry", which we found is GPT-4o's second-most-overused word (after "camaraderie", for some reason).[1] We used a set of grammatical features in our initial style comparisons (like present participles, which GPT-4o loved so much that they were a pretty accurate classifier on their own), but it shouldn't be too hard to pattern-match some of these other features and quantify them.

If anyone who works on LLMs is reading, a question: When we've tried base models (no instruction tuning/RLHF, just text completion), they show far fewer stylistic anomalies like this. So it's not that the training data is weird. It's something in instruction-tuning that's doing it. Do you ask the human raters to evaluate style? Is there a rubric? Why is the instruction tuning pushing such a noticeable style shift?

[1] https://www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pnas.2422455122, preprint at https://arxiv.org/abs/2410.16107. Working on extending this to more recent models and other grammatical features now
by snapetom | 2026-03-07 23:46:08+00:00
> Assignments that require original thinking and regular engagement can reduce incentives to cheat and improve learning outcomes.

At some point in college when I was thinking about law school, I learned about the Socratic Method. It was weird because up to that point in college, I just pretty much flew under the radar and took exams. It was far different than high school, and I realized my high school did pretty much use the Socratic Method. It wasn't as intense as law school, but every class, maybe 4-5 people would we grilled by teachers. This was called "participation."

Shy? Anxiety? Yeah, that didn't matter. Your number would eventually be up a few times a month. You had to prepare and know the assignments, otherwise your grade would suffer and public humiliation was a real thing.
by cowsandmilk | 2026-03-07 23:46:53+00:00
I don’t even get the point of this site. They say:

> Most of this spending isn’t waste. Hospitals need staff. Universities need facilities. Even small charities need people to run programs. The problem isn’t intent. It’s that the reporting system was designed to satisfy the IRS, not to show donors where their money went.

The complaint seems to be that the form filed with the IRS has the information the IRS is interested in, not the information whoever made the site wants.

The reality is that I know how the places I donate my money and time to use their money because I’m not relying on their IRS filings to get that information. I would suggest others do the same and donate to places where they understand what the org is doing and where the money is going.
by resoluteteeth | 2026-03-07 23:47:19+00:00
https://techcrunch.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/03/nintendo-c...

I think you are correct that the headline is wrong because Nintendo is not asking to be refunded $200 billion, but to be precise the number doesn't seem to be the compensation sought by all the companies that are suing either.

Nintendo is the only plaintiff in this specific suit so joined in this article does not mean they are all plaintiffs in one suit, just that they have all filed suits.

The Nintendo complaint specifically mentions $200 billion, but I think this is just supposed to be the rough amount the us government collected in total based on the tariffs that the supreme court found to be illegal from all companies/countries (as background information), not what Nintendo or any other specific companies that are suing are requesting be refunded.
by salawat | 2026-03-07 23:47:54+00:00
Every damn major problem of AI Alignment is something we've been tackling for decades. We just call it something different. Corporate Governance and resource allocation. Thing is, the decision timescale and ability to come to a definitive conclusion about the outcome of something has been on a slow enough timescale we do eventually catch on. Throw a computer in the mix... Not so much.
by axi0m | 2026-03-07 23:48:07+00:00
I'm observing pretty much the same pattern in my job. The sad truth is, people -especially non-technical- get too easily impressed by vibe-coded projects or contributions made in a few hours, because it's shiny and it gives the impression of a productivity boost. Don't you dare asking how that is supposed to scale, if it's secure or even extensible, or you'll be the one killing the mood in the room. Even though that's precisely the hard part of the job.
by bee_rider | 2026-03-07 23:49:00+00:00
In that list, I think I’d only really miss apples and dairy (really just cheese) by their own virtue. Pork/beef/meat due to familiarity (which is to say, they had other meat sources, which I’m sure were just a good, if I’d grown up on venison I’m sure it would just taste like cow to me).

Potatoes and corn, losing though would be absolutely tragic. Also avocados.
by FpUser | 2026-03-07 23:49:01+00:00
>"High core count CPUs are only useful for specific workloads and should not be purchased as general purpose fast CPUs. Unless you’re doing specific tasks that scale by core count, a CPU with fewer cores and higher single threaded throughput would be faster for normal use cases."

I design multithreaded backends that benefit from as many cores as possible while not being a champion in a single core task. I think this is very common use case.
by modeless | 2026-03-07 23:49:05+00:00
> From those 5 characters you can determine the city, the state, and the country

False. Many zip codes include more than one city, and some even cross multiple states. And you can't always tell the difference between codes from different countries. Now you're not just instantly filling the rest of the form, you're implementing fancy multi-country filtering logic, editable drop downs, etc. Given the obvious incompetence of the people implementing most web forms, you're asking for disaster here.

Instead, learn to use your browser's autofill feature, and design your sites with it in mind. If you do it right the user literally doesn't have to type a single character. That's even better than typing a numeric code. Sadly even this seems beyond the abilities of the people who implement web forms.
by bombela | 2026-03-07 23:49:29+00:00
You know very well what I meant by "compile to machine code". But you decided to interpret it in a combative way. Even though you seem very knowledgeable, this makes me want to stop discussing with you.

Ultimately you should read the code of rkyv_dyn to understand what it does instead of making random claims.

It will be faster for you to read the code than for me to attempt explaining how it works. Especially since you will most likely choose the least charitable interpretation of everything I say. There is very little code, it won't take long.
by hbrav | 2026-03-07 23:49:45+00:00
This generates a really annoying features with some browsers. Suppose I want to select "United Kingdom". I open the drop-down and there are all the countries in alphabetical order, plus "United States" at the top of the list. I hit the 'U' key. It does not take me to the alphabetically listed countries beginning with 'U', it takes me to the "United States" entry at the top of the list. I might be able to type 'U-N-I-T-E-D-K' and get to the "United Kingdom" entry, but there are browsers where that does not work. (Nor does repeatedly hitting 'U' bring me to the later 'U' entries.)
by amaury_bouchard | 2026-03-07 23:50:16+00:00
Thanks for the feedback! The RDFa `resource` attribute is an interesting angle I hadn't considered. That said, µJS's default behavior actually requires zero `mu-` attributes; it intercepts standard `href` links and `action` forms out of the box. The `mu-` attributes are only needed when you want to override the default behavior, use patch mode (updating multiple DOM fragments in a single request), or trigger requests from elements that are not links or forms. So in the simplest case, a single `mu.init()` call is all you need. That said, if you want something even more minimal, htmz takes that philosophy to the extreme.
by decker_dev | 2026-03-07 23:50:21+00:00
The debugging skills gap is the most concerning finding here. AI can write code fast, but when something breaks in production at 2am, you need developers who understand the system deeply enough to diagnose it.

The paradox: AI lets you ship faster, but the code you ship may be code you don't fully understand. That's fine for prototypes, but dangerous for production systems.

I think the right mental model is treating AI as a pair programmer who writes first drafts, not as a replacement for understanding. The developer's job shifts from writing code to reviewing and understanding code - which is actually harder.