MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by wonger_ | 2026-03-09 06:53:15+00:00
I like how readable it is. Be sure to handle long lines that ruin page widths on small screens -- probably the commit hash should overflow-wrap: break-word, or in a horizontally scrollable container element, or a similar solution.

One designy thing I've been practicing is to be intentional about every margin / piece of whitespace, and to use a proportional scale like https://utopia.fyi/. You might find that if you align more elements and stick to the scale, things might look extra pleasing. (Maybe you already have, idk, just first impressions from my phone)

- subscribe button placement looks uneven, esp on mobile. Maybe it could be a simple underlined link?

- imo centered text is a crutch that often looks better when left justified instead, or rerranged with some other solution. I'm thinking of the mobile navbar and lengthy captions. This is more subjective tho

- homepage could use more posts! Looking forward to your future writing

- the most beautiful sites usually come up with some unique theme or visual identity or creative stunt to break away from a vanilla default theme. But people still like basic readable websites if the content is great.
Show HN: Bunway – Express-compatible web framework for Bun
by rockstarsb | 2026-03-09 06:53:36+00:00
Express developers moving to Bun face a full rewrite — every Bun framework (Hono, Elysia) has a completely different API. bunway keeps the exact same app.get(), app.post(), req, res, next pattern but runs on Bun's native HTTP server. Batteries included: routing, CORS, sessions, auth, WebSockets and more in one import. Would love feedback from anyone who's tried migrating Express projects to Bun.
by ruined | 2026-03-09 06:53:37+00:00
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by ycombinatornu | 2026-03-09 06:53:45+00:00
GetSize (https://www.getsize.shoes). We’re collecting the official sizing data of the world's shoes in one place.

Today, if you search for "what size should I get in Nike Air Max 90" you'll find size charts. We have it, and for 200+ brands across 70+ retailers. When users tell us which shoes they own and what size fits them we’re slowly building crowdsourced fit recommendations which are personal and more accurate compared to size charts.

We're two coders who've built an almost fully autonomous platform. AI agents build, debug and deploy crawlers on their own. We went from 4 crawlers to 280+ in about a month, and the whole thing runs on a home server. When new shoes are discovered, the platform publishes new pages with relevant info automatically. Agents get access to platform metrics and SEO data via custom MCPs to identify the right opportunities on their own. Currently at about 3000 MAU and about 100 size recommendations/day.

Example: https://www.getsize.shoes/en/shoes/nike-air-jordan-1-low-se-...
by jayteedee | 2026-03-09 06:53:47+00:00
I made a game where you try to guess a daily mystery bird.

http://jerm.cool/bird/

It pulls a list of birds reported on eBird in your county in the last 2 weeks and you ask preselected questions like the the color or size to whittle down the possibilities. I also made a matching game that uses the same list and you have to match the name to a picture of the bird. I set it up for California for now. I wanted to get more comfortable with SQL and APIs.

Feedback welcome.
Show HN: Collider: A package and dependency manager for Meson (wrap-based)
by mog_dev | 2026-03-09 06:54:14+00:00
I built Collider because I needed a way to use and push my own artifacts in Meson projects. WrapDB is fine for upstream deps, but I wanted to publish my packages and depend on them with proper versioning and a lockfile, without hand-editing wrap files.

Collider builds on Meson’s wrap system: you declare deps in collider.json, run collider lock for reproducible installs, and push your projects as wraps to a local or HTTP repo. It’s compatible with WrapDB, so existing workflows still work: you just get a clear way to use and push your own stuff. Apache-2.0.
by borzi | 2026-03-09 06:54:49+00:00
Aaaannnnd they're out of business and it was because of slowing demand and tightening credit the whole time.

Here in Europe this is not a thing, I've been hearing about such cases mostly from the US where it's clear that there is a recession going - I don't know why this is not blatantly obvious to everyone who does not view reality as whatever is said by the talking heads on TV.
by ddymke | 2026-03-09 06:54:54+00:00
I am building ReifyDB(reifydb.com), a database for live application state.

A lot of existing databases are storage first, with everything else built around them. I have been exploring what it looks like if the database is closer to the application runtime itself, where state is live, queryable, and easier to reason about directly.

One thing I am prototyping right now is database-native tests.

Basically: what if integration tests were a database primitive?

CREATE TEST test::insert {
INSERT test::users [{ id: 99, name: "Ghost" }];
FROM test::users
| FILTER id == 99
| ASSERT { name == "Ghost" };
};

So not a wrapper, not a framework, not an external test runner.

A real test object inside the database.

The idea is that you could run these before schema changes, and make stored procedures or other database logic much easier to test without leaving the database model.

Still early, but it feels like one of those things that should just exist, especially for databases built around live application state.
by OliverGuy | 2026-03-09 06:55:56+00:00
https://gitlab.com/usecaliper/caliper-python-sdk

An LLM observability SDK that let's you store pre and post request metadata with every call in as lightweight an SDK as possible.

Stores to S3 in batched JSON files, so can easily plug into existing tooling like DuckDB for analysis.

It's designed to answer questions like; "how do different user tiers of my services rate this two different models and three different systems prompts?". You can capture all the information required to answer this in the SDK and do some queries over the data to get the answers.
by kantord | 2026-03-09 06:56:08+00:00
shameless plug: I just created a minimalist CLI RSS reader inspired by Taskwarrior for this exact reason: https://github.com/kantord/blogtato

The design philosophy I took is: account/subscription detox + zero distractions. You do not need to create a user account, you can just sync your data between different devices using git. And the user interface is minimal and designed to just get out of the way.

there was a discussion about it yesterday: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47297091
Show HN: OrvexPay – Accept Crypto Payments with One API
by mkanbaz | 2026-03-09 06:57:27+00:00
Hi HN,

We built OrvexPay, a crypto payment gateway that allows businesses to accept 50+ cryptocurrencies.

Features:
• Hosted checkout
• Payment links
• Webhook API
• Simple integration

Would love feedback from developers.

https://orvexpay.com
by hinkley | 2026-03-09 06:58:04+00:00
I think there’s some of that, but it’s also probably a thing where people who make good tutors/mentors tend to write clearer code as well, and the Venn diagram for that is a bit complicated.

Concise code is going to be difficult if you can’t distill a concept. And that’s more than just verbal intelligence. Though I’m not sure how you’d manage it with low verbal intelligence.
by nic547 | 2026-03-09 06:58:11+00:00
Politco makes it sound much bigger than it actually is.
Only two things are now secured in the constitution:

- The franc is the national currency
- The swiss national bank is responsible for the supply of cash.

This doesn't have any effect in practice, since this is straight up copy and paste from the law about currency.
This change only means that a change requires a mandatory referendum rather than having to launch a referendum.

It does nothing about acceptance of cash, afaik that initiative failed to reach the neccesary support to be voted on.
by xamuel | 2026-03-09 06:58:48+00:00
Sorry for not seeing your message until now. Journals, at least in mathematics, generally don't require you to have a university affiliation, so as long as the paper is good on its merits, you can get it in, though I don't know to what extent it might be more of an uphill battle due to implicit peer reviewer bias etc. Re: reference products: one generally scraps what one can together through a combination of arxiv.org, Anna's archive, or emailing the authors.
by MrScruff | 2026-03-09 06:58:57+00:00
I’m building an application for documenting modular patches, mostly for my own use case. It uses ML to recognise the patch points, knobs and toggles from a photo of the front panel. You can then build racks from the scanned modules and then store presets of the knobs and connections which are displayed as simple schematics. Idea is ultimately to have it on an iPad as reference to accompany a live performance. Had some fun fine tuning the cable physics engine.
by egglemonsoup | 2026-03-09 06:59:24+00:00
I like the idea and I would play it, but the system of coming up with questions and then having to answer them in order to narrow down the options is unintuitive. Can I see a picture of the bird? Can I hear its call? Can I guess species and see categories get narrowed down? Those aren't necessarily what you need to add, but they're what I'm used to for daily games, and what I expected when I clicked the link.
by shiroiuma | 2026-03-09 06:59:44+00:00
>it feels like a huge chunk of specialized operating systems are just someone just putting their own skin over Debian. The vast majority of services and tools they wrap aren't any more complicated than the wrapper.

That's exactly what TrueNAS is these days: it's Debian + OpenZFS + a handy web-based UI + some extra NAS-oriented bits. You can roll your own if you want with just Debian and OpenZFS if you don't mind using the command line for everything, or you can try "Cockpit".

The nice thing about TrueNAS is that all the ZFS management stuff is nicely integrated into the UI, which might not be the case with other UIs, and the whole thing is set up out-of-the-box to do ZFS and only ZFS.
by vnorilo | 2026-03-09 07:01:44+00:00
Yes. LLMs are search engines into the (latent) space or source code. Stuff you put into the context window is the "query". I've had some good results by minimizing the conversational aspect, and thinking in terms of shaping the context: asking the LLM to analyze relevant files, nor because I want the analysis, but because I want a good reading in the context. LLMs will work hard to stay in that "landscape", even with vague prompts. Often better than with weirdly specific or conflicting instructions.
by dwoldrich | 2026-03-09 07:02:43+00:00
> So a failure across all your metrics

Hey what's with the jerky tone? Are we competing for dominance now? Was Steve Jobs a bad guy and so I am by mentioning him? He had good taste, and people aren't one-dimensional cartoon characters, you git.

> hundreds of items

Pedantry. The ellipsis items covers some categorized feature drill downs that don't get top billing, the sub menus others.

> This isn't the only alternative

Captain Obvious does it again ladies and gentlemen!

Many managers have to show engagement with their feature to be successful and would love to shove it in your face with a shiny button. See the copilot button getting added to every Microsoft Office product even if it's not integrated at all - shameful!

> It isn't very discoverable, there is no search

Thank goodness I can save face here, 'discoverable' is a binary quality: something either is or isn't discoverable and a browsable menu IS.

Plenty of vendors put a search on their Help menu. (It usually sucks, to be fair.) Jetbrains has an auto-completing action search that exposes practically every action the IDE can effect by their titles.

Wow, search CAN help, amazing insight! Why aren't you advising diplomats and statesmen?
by SilverElfin | 2026-03-09 07:03:07+00:00
Yep this was a very controversial thing when it happened. They tried to squeeze the farmer who supplied all their peppers from their earliest days - why would you do that unless you have no morality? And now the Huy Fong Sriracha tastes different, and Underwood’s own Sriracha is actually what tastes best.

I’m glad to hear there was a happy ending to the epic greediness and underhanded tactics of Huy Fong:

> Later, obviously, there's a lawsuit. Funnily enough, it wasn't actually Underwood who sued Huy Fong. It was Huy Fong who sued Underwood, seeking refunds for payments it had made earlier under their contracts. Underwood turned around and counterclaimed for breach of contract and fraud and a bunch of other shit. Underwood succeeded - there was a unanimous jury verdict in their favor - and got awarded about $13 million in compensatory damages, and another $10 million in punitive damages (these are only awarded where you've done something so outrageous that it's quasi-criminal; it's to deter other people from doing similar things).
by tow21 | 2026-03-09 07:05:39+00:00
For language geeks: https://kpt.datamediate.com

KPT is a language app specifically targeted at explainable verb conjugation for highly inflected/agglutinative languages. Currently works for Finnish, Ukrainian, Welsh, Turkish and Tamil.

These are really hard languages to learn for most speakers of European languages, particularly English - we're not used to complex verb conjugations, they're hard to memorise and the rules often feel quite arbitrary. Every other conjugation practice app just tells you right/wrong with no explanation, which doesn't really help you learn when there are literally hundreds of rules to get right.

The interesting part was using an LLM to create a complete machine-executable set of conjugation rules, which are optimized for human explainability, and an engine to diagnose which rule is at fault when you get it wrong. There's several hundred rules needed for each language in order to cover all exceptions.

NB as a bonus it also works fully offline because my best practice hours are when I'm travelling and have poor connectivity.
by galkk | 2026-03-09 07:05:41+00:00
There should be doubt. There should be due process.

At the same time, I think that with the advancement of the tech (surveillance cameras everywhere, dna tests, the cell tower triangulation and/or mobile device location tracking) there are cases when the guilt can be established without any doubt, and the overall chance of wrongful conviction will drop down.

Hell, have you read the website? One of those pieces of shit made his accomplice to video the murder on the phone.
by NalNezumi | 2026-03-09 07:07:39+00:00
From my experience of being alone but only lonely occasionally, the crux have always been a mix of:

1. Having stuff to do or a long todo list. Being alone is awesome in a "I have so much time" way, but time we don't know how to spend inevitably leads to depression. I think exercising and hobbies or finding some purpose, like many other comments suggest is the best way.

You said that you don't have anyone to talk about your day with. But you do: yourself. You can write it down on a journal, also with your thoughts. Writing is a great way to find an outlet you're currently missing. This way you can fill the time you don't hang around IRC with that, compile your thoughts and then talk about it. This is essentially blogging.

2. "Solitary confinement with internet" can give you a microdose of socializing. It will never be the same as the real thing but there are thousands of people like you at your fingertip. If you like games, while they can be addictive I'd suggest some online games. Especially today there's a lot of online games, usually the older ones, that are inhabited by busy "dads" that are not as sweaty as the teens and are there more for socializing and questing together for an hour or two between putting their kids to bed and bedtime. They can be very sociable. Same dynamics I think exist in many small communities, including hobbie reddit/discords etc. Hop in hop out socializing can be a remedy for loneliness that bubbles up
by xamuel | 2026-03-09 07:07:56+00:00
I'm working on arranging talks and poster presentations at various conferences/seminars to spread knowledge of my latest academic paper, "Specieslike clusters based on identical ancestor points". In the paper, among other things, I argue that (we should define species in such a way that) for any organism in any species, either the species is made up almost entirely of descendants of that organism, or else the species is made up almost entirely of non-descendants of that organism. This is a funny property because most people who hear about it fall into one of two camps, those who say it is obviously true, and those who say it is obviously false!

The paper in question: https://arxiv.org/abs/2602.05274 (published in the Journal of Mathematical Biology)
by rs545837 | 2026-03-09 07:08:13+00:00
Fair point on AST vs semantic. sem sits somewhere in between. It doesn't go as far as checking compiled output equivalence, but it does normalize the AST before hashing (we call it structural_hash), so purely cosmetic changes like reformatting or renaming a local variable won't show as a diff. The goal isn't "would the compiler produce the same binary" but "did the developer change the behavior of this entity." For most practical cases that's the useful boundary. The YAML/JSON ordering point is interesting, we handle JSON keys as entities so reordering doesn't conflict during merges.

By the way creator here.
by fzeindl | 2026-03-09 07:08:38+00:00
I have been alone for quite some time in my life, for various reasons.

Here is my advice

1. Don’t listen to people telling you that there‘s something wrong with you if you aren’t happy alone and that you need therapy. You probably don‘t.

If you aren’t able to survive a single day on your own, then you have an issue, but in general people are social animals and need talking to and touching other people on a regular basis to regulate themselves emotionally. Some don’t, but you don‘t seem to be one of them. (In my experience people who honestly enjoy being alone for weeks at end often got used to this in their childhood, for example by being single children. If you had a noisy, lively house when growing up you will always miss that.)

2. That being said it is still nourishing and useful to follow the tips for spending time on your own (cooking for yourself, going into the cinema) now and then. But don‘t expect it to magically fix your yearning for social connections.

3. Doing sports and going to the gym often is great advice, because sports generally gives you a more positive mood and a better outlook and it quiets down negative thoughts. But also keep in mind here that it will not replace social interactions and touch.

4. So the question remains where you get your social interaction from, and I suggest that you replace the single person you had with a lot of tiny social interactions.

None of those is going to fix your solitude on it’s own, but the mixture will enrich your life. If you do all of those things once per week, your mood will improve:

- Online dating and chatting with friends (but don’t expect anything to come out of it)

- Dancing classes (this is especially great because you get the physical touch component)

- Regular coffee/dinner dates (1-2 per week) with a friend, coworker or relative.

- Going for a walk and talking to a random stranger

- Singing in a choir or similar hobbies

- Going to pubquizzes or free to join community walks

- Commuting to the office instead of doing home office.

5. I won‘t argue against your psychiatrist, but I find that medication is only useful in a minority of cases. Both anti depressants and anti anxiety meds can actually reduce your motivation to go out, by mellowing you into a not-great-not-terrible dreamy state.

6. Don‘t start rummaging and contemplating your thoughts when you are lonely. Being lonely makes you weird: https://arstechnica.com/science/2023/07/lonely-people-see-th...
by void_ai_2026 | 2026-03-09 07:08:45+00:00
Built a simple stagflation transmission model based on published parameters (RBC Economics, Oxford Economics, IMF WEO 2023, EIA):

At current Brent ~$109 (+82% from Jan baseline of $60):
- US CPI projected: 7.6% (was 2.8%)
- EU CPI projected: 6.0% (was 2.4%)
- Global GDP: 1.8% (barely above the recession-risk threshold)
- Food CPI uplift: +8 pp (energy direct + fertilizer lag, 3-6 months out)
- Historical analog: 1990 Gulf War — 8-month recession, 6.3% peak inflation

Scenario table (if sustained):
$100/bbl: US CPI 6.7%, GDP 2.0%, pump $4.08
$110/bbl: US CPI 7.6%, GDP 1.8%, pump $4.32 (← current)
$130/bbl: US CPI 9.5%, GDP 1.2%, pump $4.80
$150/bbl: US CPI 11.3%, GDP 0.7%, pump $5.28 (SEVERE risk)

The structural trap: at these CPI levels the Fed hikes, while GDP is already near stall speed. That's not a recession — it's stagflation, which is harder to escape because the usual policy tools work against each other.

What's different from 2022 Ukraine: fertilizer transmission. Gulf seaborne ammonia/urea is ~25% of global trade. Gas feedstock shock + war-risk insurance explosion = food inflation spike coming in Q3/Q4 as spring planting shortfalls propagate. Ukraine was a wheat/sunflower problem. This is an energy-into-food problem.

The LloydsList article asks the right question: the consensus always assumes brief. The asymmetry of being wrong in the long direction is enormous.