MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by Aurornis | 2026-03-09 19:28:12+00:00
> This is one the best pro-family policies that can be implemented

Hard disagree on that. You're coming from an angle of someone who wanted to have kids and do it in a mathematically optimal way. A lot of people see egg freezing as a way to delay having kids until they're older, which can become a disincentive to raising families when they're young and healthy enough to do it. If you want a pro-family policy, you should be spending the money on people with families and their children, not on a tool that is used to delay having children in common use.

Another huge problem with this proposal is that freezing eggs is only a small part of the cost. The cost of IVF later in life could push into six figures depending on how many rounds are needed. If we're talking about pro-family policies that can cost upwards of $50,000 to $100,000 per family, there are many more effective places to spend that like on childcare options.
by rilkeanheart | 2026-03-09 19:28:25+00:00
I appreciate the comment (and the candor). Coming from someone who’s been in the trenches and seen the burn rate firsthand, I can't argue with your perspective.

You’re right that the 'traditional' playbook (SEO, viral loops) is largely broken for new dating entrants. Largely because I believe there's a lot of dissatisfaction with current offerings, I've been able to build a decent sized list of folks who want to try it out.

I'm curious. Given your experience, do you think there's any room left for hyper-local, community-first growth, or is the market truly locked by the incumbents regardless of the tech?

I’d love to hear more about where you saw the biggest friction points during your release.
by zer00eyz | 2026-03-09 19:28:31+00:00
> It has a CRM focus because we asked a couple dozen hard-core OpenClaw users "what do you actually do", and it was sales automation, lead enrichment, biz dev, creating slides, linkedin outreach, email/notion/calendar stuff, and it's always painful to set up.

So basic automation and forcing the web to be "open"...

No one is talking about how AI is going to destroy business models that are dependent on dark patterns, on walled gardens, on poorly designed one size fits all implementations (so many things wedged sideways into sales force).
Show HN: A2UI for Elixir/Phoenix/LiveView
by maxekman | 2026-03-09 19:28:42+00:00
Hello,

I wanted to explore the A2UI protocol using my new favorite tech/stack, so I did a heavily LLM-assisted implementation of it.

It's a very early release and more of an experimental nature. I have yet to use it in a sharp situation, but my goal is to do that. Will report back later with real world usage, and of course update and tweak the API so it's as fluid as possible.

And as it happened last time for me, I found another implementation (ex_a2ui) just as I published this. Well, I think there is room for both, and the difference in API and implementation could be interesting.

Maybe someone of you find this interesting still!

Thanks,
Max
by nomel | 2026-03-09 19:28:43+00:00
I'm using the dictionary definition of "general":

> General: 1. affecting or concerning all or most people, places, or things; widespread.

To me, a general intelligence is one that is not just specific: it's affecting or concerning all or most areas of intelligence.

A calculator is a very specific, very inflexible, type of intelligence, so it's not, by definition, general. And, I'm not talking about the indirect applications of a calculator or a specific intelligence.

If you want to argue that we don't need the concept of AGI, because something like specific experts could be enough to drastically change the economy, then sure! That would be true. But I think that's a slightly different, complimentary, conversation. Say we have all these experts, then a system to intelligently dispatch problems to them...maybe that's a specific implementation of AGI that would work. I think how less dependent on human intelligence the economy becomes, and how more dependent on non-human decision makers it becomes, is a reasonable measure. This seems controversial, which I can't really understand. I'm in hardware engineering, so maybe I have a different perspective, but goals based on outcome are the only ones that actually matter.
by dyauspitr | 2026-03-09 19:29:12+00:00
Automobiles also run on electricity, there’s no need to bundle them up with fossil fuels. Car centric development is awesome. Big backyards, lots of space, convenient setups with parking attached to each shopping center. What’s not to like? It’s definitely better than living in apartments which are essentially cages where you’re forced to be mild mannered. Places like shenzen are 90% EVs and we’ll get there too.
by akramachamarei | 2026-03-09 19:29:22+00:00
I don't think you need scare quotes, this is discrimination. Discrimination isn't always bad. IANAL but it seems like these are cases where we just kinda ignore some laws, and society usually goes okay despite and in spite of it. Just my uneducated impression.

Could you link to some cases where this kind of thing has been tested? I have an amateur interest in law and this issue is puzzling to me. It's not at all clear to me why it's okay to discriminate against Uber drivers based on the genitals they are born with, but not e.g. their skin color or religion.
by wk_end | 2026-03-09 19:29:24+00:00
Well, you're guaranteed not to be interrupted by garbage collection, which is the point here. Segments of code that are provably free of garbage collection can satisfy hard timing constraints, but that doesn't mean that they just will. It's a paper about garbage collection; addressing all the other things that need to be done to ensure compliance with hard real-time requirements is clearly outside the scope of the work.

I'm speaking a little outside my wheelhouse here (experts, please jump in), but my understanding is that if you have actual hard real-time requirements, you very well might turn off interrupts, multithreading, etc. and work with uncontested access to CPU/memory resources during time-sensitive parts of your code, as needed.
by culi | 2026-03-09 19:29:46+00:00
According to NYT on March 4, the count of dead is up to 175. The school is called Shajarah Tayyebeh in the town of Minab.

https://archive.ph/ODMew

Also from the Wikipedia page:

> Subsequent investigations by The New York Times, CBC and NPR among others concluded that the United States was likely responsible for the strike. Sources involved with the United States military's internal investigation of the strike similarly told Reuters that the strike was likely perpetrated by the United States, though the investigation's final conclusion had not yet been reached.[12] The attack was condemned by the Iranian government, UNESCO,[13][14] and other international human rights organizations and activists as a violation of international humanitarian law.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2026_Minab_school_airstrike
by Retr0id | 2026-03-09 19:30:18+00:00
> Compiled to native code for low-latency plugin execution – no interpreter overhead, no JIT, no process startup cost.

If you're running the compiled code in-process, how is that not JIT? And isn't that higher-latency than interpreting? Tiered-JIT (a la V8) solves exactly this problem.

Edit: Although the example programs show traditional AOT compile/execute steps, so "no process startup cost" is presumably a lie?
by adiabatichottub | 2026-03-09 19:30:29+00:00
I'm not terrible familiar with Linux container systems, cgroups and all that, but I have been down the rabbit-hole with FreeBSD's jails, and I definitely wouldn't call them a capabilities system. You can lock down the environment quite a bit, and limit or even virtualize the network stack, but you can't say, "Here process, have your standard IO streams and nothing more. Go forth and compute." The process isn't blind to it's environment. You're still in the same basic UNIX user security model. It's really somewhere between chroot and full virtualization.
by TZubiri | 2026-03-09 19:30:32+00:00
No software can do everything,
Good software makes concessions.

More concretely the ideal software would require a volume and speed of user input that is unfeasible, and the size and complexity of such software would balloon such that development and maintenance costs would be unfeasible, furthermore the more features, the more customization users want, so customization is an additional dimension.

But sure, go make a system that reads my mind and decides whether I want to trust a USER to do SOMETHING.
by NoGravitas | 2026-03-09 19:31:10+00:00
“For better or worse, pessimism without compromise lacks public appeal. In all, the few who have gone to the pains of arguing for a sullen appraisal of life might as well never have been born. As history confirms, people will change their minds about almost anything, from which god they worship to how they style their hair. But when it comes to existential judgments, human beings in general have a unfalteringly good opinion of themselves and their condition in this world and are steadfastly confident they are not a collection of self-conscious nothings”
― Thomas Ligotti, The Conspiracy Against the Human Race
by LegionMammal978 | 2026-03-09 19:31:35+00:00
And where does all that electricity come from? Until the 40s or so, hydroelectric plants and wind turbines could provide hardly any power output compared to coal plants, later supplemented by gas plants; even the electric streetcars relied on fossil fuels further down the line. Renewable energy development would've had to scale an order of magnitude further than in reality to be a basis for industry and transportation, alongside advances in electricity distribution and storage to pull it from where it's generated.
by xorvoid | 2026-03-09 19:31:36+00:00
This makes a lot of sense. It makes me think of Go's approach to blur the distinction of heap/stack by just treating it as an escape analysis problem leading to an allocation choice. If it provably doesn't escape => optimize it by using the stack, otherwise fallback to the heap.

The distinction of stack vs heap objects is an old distinction that is deeply encoded in the semantics of C. It's not obvious that's the right choice.

It's worth pointing out however that you do want to have control sometimes. When you're coding for performance, etc it can be very important to control exactly where objects live (e.g. this must be on the stack with a certain layout). I feel like sometimes it's underappreciated in modern PL design that low-level coding needs this kind of control sometimes.

I think there exists a happy medium solution ultimately though.
by burgreblast | 2026-03-09 19:31:52+00:00
I don’t get this comment. Inspection does work but the suggested alternatives don’t.

Having the client register their IPs isn’t tenable for most folks. What’s my IP at the shop? (No idea) Will it change? (Yes) now it’s broken.

Seeing where folks log in from isn’t nearly the same as where their UniFi networks are located. (Store vs home.) Broken.

So neither of the those are robust approaches whereas the author’s solution is bulletproof and simply works in all cases.

No offense, but why suggest “other approaches” that have such major holes? Why not just cheer on the solution that works all the time?
by bryanlarsen | 2026-03-09 19:31:56+00:00
If you're going to make that comparison, you need to compare apples-to-apples and include solar efficiency in the coal too. After all coal's energy originally came from the sun. Plants converted the sunlight into energy at an efficiency of about 1%. A miniscule fraction of that energy went into the plant growth, and then a miniscule fraction of that energy was captured when the plant was converted into coal.
by jofla_net | 2026-03-09 19:32:07+00:00
Buyer be warned i think this is extremely brand-dependent.

While i've had generally solid experience with sandisk for almost 20 years and had a few old drives (which i hear are slc-based so its not surprising) hold files for over 5 years no issue, i recently almost lost over 4 years of photos.

I had purchased some lexar drives from costco since they were dual interface (usb A / usb C) about 2 years ago, and it was usefull to just get some pictures off my phone. I usually don't rely on such a setup for long term but as with all things I was delayed tending to it. I figured there were 2 per box so i just copied them twice, and diffed them several times to make sure they were exact copies.

After 24 months, one of the drives had a %95 loss, almost every picture was lost cut-off bottom half or so. The other drive surprisingly seemed fine, though it had been plugged in every 6-9 months I recall, as I wanted to browse it a few times, it seems that this action saved the volume. Upon further inspection the good drive still lost 10 pictures in about 5 thousand, so it wasn't perfect.

Lexar.

https://www.ebay.com/itm/176810492981?chn=ps&_trkparms=ispr%...
by ArisLee | 2026-03-09 19:32:19+00:00
Yeah that's exactly the idea I'm curious about.

In big MMOs the feeling of a shared boss fight is great, but it requires a lot of investment to get there. I wondered if a tiny version of that loop — just contributing damage to a shared world event — could still feel satisfying on its own.

Seeing people compete on the leaderboard and slowly push the dragon down has been pretty interesting so far.
by tuesdaynight | 2026-03-09 19:32:42+00:00
Maybe this video[1] helps you understand this better: a lot of Americans live in constant fear. They live in one of the safest countries on Earth, but if you see the discourse around safety there, you would think that USA is a big cartel neighborhood.

Maybe the 24 hours news cycle is responsible for that, I don't know. It's pretty weird, though. And I say that as someone who has lived in unsafe neighborhoods in my native country.

[1] https://youtube.com/watch?v=kpgrd6sTGFo
by M00NL1G7 | 2026-03-09 19:32:54+00:00
Author here. I built this because Chainsaw made Sigma-based triage standard for Windows IR but nothing equivalent existed for Linux. ChopChopGo applies Sigma detection rules to syslog, auditd, and journald logs and flags hits with MITRE ATT&CK tags.

v1.1.0 just dropped with auditd event correlation (groups related log lines by event ID before rule evaluation), a tokenizer, and YAML-based field mapping so Sigma rules work across different log schemas without forking the rules.
Go, single binary, no runtime dependencies. CSV/JSON output for pipeline integration.

Wrote up a detailed post on the architecture and design decisions: https://www.m00nl1g7.net/blog/building-a-forensic-triage-too...
Happy to answer any questions about the implementation.
by lithocarpus | 2026-03-09 19:33:02+00:00
It's definitely worth practicing willpower because I can't always avoid temptation. Constant practice with the smaller things helps with the bigger things, like any practice or habit.

AND, avoiding temptation is hugely useful for me. With the right firefox extensions for example I've rid myself of most of the really enticing internet time sinks. I never have sweets or sugar or processed food in the house.

It doesn't have to be one or the other. I'd say for me avoiding temptation is the low hanging fruit that is obviously worth doing, and then practicing the choices I want to make is the real work. But avoiding temptation gives me more spaciousness of mind to practice my choices.
by ratelimitsteve | 2026-03-09 19:33:21+00:00
> If it wasn't you driving, you know who.

I don't have to prove who was driving. I don't have to prove I wasn't the one driving. The state has to prove that I was the one driving.

>If someone shoots a person with your gun, you gonna say it wasn't you and expect them not to question any you further?

I don't expect them not to question me further and that's not what this is about. This is about whether your car running a red light is proof, in and of itself absent any other facts, that you ran a red light in your car.

>This is how it works in Poland

This is not how it works in the US

>I assume, most/all of EU and the rest of the world.

You assume incorrectly
by stavrosfil | 2026-03-09 19:34:12+00:00
Yep, this whole area still feels pretty unsettled. The thing we've become convinced of is that workspace state needs to be a first-class product primitive instead of something tied to one sandbox. That's why we model filesystems separately from tasks and focus on durable mount/sync semantics.

We're currently rolling our own but we've been meaning to experiment with other tools.
by Legend2440 | 2026-03-09 19:34:22+00:00
>that they feed to original code into a tool which they setup to make a copy of it

Well, no. They fed the spec (test cases, etc) into a tool which made a new program matching the spec. This is not a copy of the original code.

But also this feels like arguing over the color of the iceberg while the titanic sinks. If you have a tool that can make code to spec, what is the value in source code anymore? Even if your app is closed-source, you can just tell claude to write new code that does the same thing.
by bo1024 | 2026-03-09 19:34:33+00:00
Interesting. I don't quite agree. It's one thing to predict what general topics will be hot and popular this year. But that's not the same as what particular research problem will be important and have lasting influence.

There are a few kinds of important research. One is solving a well-defined, well-known problem everyone wants to solve but nobody knows how. Another is proposing a new problem, or a new formulation of it, that people didn't realize was important.

There is also highly-cited research that isn't necessarily important, such as being the next paper to slightly lower a benchmark through some tweaks (you get cited by all the subsequent papers that slightly lower the benchmark even further).
by written-beyond | 2026-03-09 19:34:51+00:00
Man I really loved MeeGo, I was in my early teens when I got the N9 specifically because it was such a beautiful experiment from Nokia. Amoled display, MeeGo os and the polycarbonate shell. The phone was hot garbage technically, would over heat had 0 apps and had idle battery times worse than a cup of tea left out on a cold day. However the phone was such a work of art I could accept just about any flaw.

Right after that I got a Blackberry Z10 and there's just something about the multitasking UI in both of these OSs' that just felt like it was the right way of doing it.

Blackberry OS 10 and MeeGo where so wonderful, I truly had a rich experience of mobile phone OSs' growing up.

I'm not sure about Jolla as much though. Like I enjoy having this additional option but I wished they digged deeper into features other than enhanced privacy. Not that I'm complaining, I enjoy having enhanced privacy but if they added more productivity features like the Blackberry Hub.
by jeroenhd | 2026-03-09 19:34:52+00:00
My banking app works fine on a rooted phone that I don't bother faking a proper Play Integrity signature for. Except for a warning about the phone being rooted when setting it up, of course. I'm not 100% sure what happens when you have integrity and lose it by rooting your phone, but I imagine the bank app will log you out.

Bank apps only stop working because banks decided they know better than you.

Unfortunately my bank also switched to Google Pay which does require Play Integrity, so contactless payments are out of the question on that phone now. Maybe if Wero compatible terminals extend support for QR payments I could use my bank app again on that phone.
by orlandpm | 2026-03-09 19:35:10+00:00
I am a knot theorist (PhD student) and always tickled when the subject pops up on HN. Curious what the author had in mind including this in his algebraic topology notes. Even the Jones polynomial which is both algebra and topology is not usually called "algebraic topology", but rather "quantum topology".

If anyone is interested in a conversational intro to the subject with lots of pictures, I suggest these semi-famous "Knots Knotes" (amazing title)

https://mathweb.ucsd.edu/~justin/Roberts-Knotes-Jan2015.pdf
by fortyseven | 2026-03-09 19:35:30+00:00
Just ended up in a very similar situation at the end of 2024. My mother and I lived together for quite a long time after my parents split in the late 90s. We were both broke as fuck, so we took care of each other through the years. Splitting rent and groceries and shit. Just scraping by. We were good friends and roommates, even if we bickered all the time. Towards the end of the 2010s her health started going downhill fast, putting me in a caretaker role, until it came to a head in 2024 and she passed on US election night.

She was in the hospital for a fall, and it just kind of spiraled. A week later she passed.

And suddenly, just like that, I was alone after 40+ years.

I have IRL friends, but they don't live close by. We meet up semi-regularly for lunch. I've been putting events on my calendar to have at least SOMETHING to attend every month. Trying to travel more. Do stuff that was impractical to do as a caretaker.

But the day to day... I'm "lucky" because I'm a coder, gamer, etc. A great deal of my day job and off time is, well, computer shit.

And it gets to me, for the first time in my life. Like, I've literally had the words "How do single people... live?" pop up into my head on numerous occasions... how do I "do a human", if you will.

Been a year so far, and I still don't know. Just taking it a day at a time. I try to fill the void with exercise, trying to get fit. Probably going to explore cooking at some point. I found a love of hiking late last year and found out I had a whole bunch of great trails nearby that I never even knew about. I try to attend protests. Hang at the library a bit. Check the local events calendar (rarely anything interesting to me, but I try). Took a firearm safety course. My big one last year was taking the train into NYC to visit the Statue of Liberty -- that was a blast. Had to teach myself how to use the subway and stuff. Local comic book conventions are another fun stop.

Stuff like that. Scattered, random stuff of interest and within means.

But I do find myself struggling to make the effort just for me, you know? Like, I want to do this stuff, but I want to do it WITH someone. I don't even mean that in a romantic sense -- just another person in general. Because if it's just "me", it's a lot tougher to justify. I have to force it. (And I do.) Luckily I can drag some folks along now and then when the stars line up. :P

(And yeah, dating sites are awful now. They were a lot of fun around the late 2010s, but now they're just the worst. Between the predatory pricing of the services, and the ever-increasingly likelihood of generated scam content, it's not worth the effort now.)

Anyway, I wish I could say things get better. I haven't hit that point yet, just over a year in. I just got 'used' to it and found a routine, but it's tough. I don't know how the natural loners do it. It's scary stuff. Especially when you're older (49 here).
by mrguyorama | 2026-03-09 19:35:48+00:00
These machines are pretty cool

https://scottsmiraclegro.com/en-us/aerogarden.html

They cost a bit but they are idiot proof. The company also sells materials at an Okay price to grow whatever seeds you want, and you can use standard hydroponic supplements rather than their name brand ones.

I got a kit with Basil and it grew more Basil by accident than I could use. I was ripping off leaves and throwing them into store brand pasta sauce. I had a single plant in one of the $100 growers.

Their "salsa" kit is cherry tomatoes and Jalapenos so maybe it won't work so well on other peppers, but they have a Banana pepper kit. Pepper growers might have nutrient and growing recommendations to better manage flavor and spice profiles.