MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by mhb | 2026-03-08 13:33:55+00:00
Not sure what your point is. This seems like a great way to create another housing option. It is an alternative for those who can't afford the studios or 1BRs (which, BTW, would be a bargain anywhere close to $900).

You can call it (pejoratively) gentrification, but, due simply to demand and not enough houses, there is certainly housing that is not luxe that is quite pricey as well.
by naomi_kynes | 2026-03-08 13:34:21+00:00
The filesystem model works well for persistence and async handoff — you're right that it's the most durable common ground. Where it gets awkward: the synchronous case. An agent that needs a human approval before proceeding.

Most people end up routing these back-to-human calls through Discord/Slack, where the agent shows up as a bot. It works, but agents are structurally second-class there — manual setup, limited API surface, no agent-native identity. The async file interface and the real-time decision channel are solving two different things.

(This is actually what I've been working on: a platform where agents aren't bolted onto human chat as bots, but provision themselves as first-class participants. Files handle state; what handles decisions? That's the gap we're trying to close.)
by voxleone | 2026-03-08 13:35:38+00:00
I can relate to some of what you’re describing, though from a different angle. I’ve always been somewhat of a loner, and as I’ve gotten older I’ve grown increasingly dissatisfied with the shallowness of many modern interactions: the constant glance at the screen, that black brick glued to the hand, the strange absence of attention even when you try to do something kind for someone. It often feels like we’re all performing a kind of theater of socialization.

One thing that helped me over the years was cultivating a richer inner life and maintaining some contact with nature. Long walks, quiet time, reading, building things slowly, the kinds of activities that don’t depend on an audience. At first that kind of solitude can feel oppressive, but with time it can also become a kind of freedom.

As you get older, or at least that has been my experience, you begin to realize how precious each moment is, and how little sense it makes to spend too much of it on interactions that feel hollow. Real presence, even if rare, becomes much more valuable.

Your situation is clearly different, and the transition you’re going through sounds genuinely hard. But sometimes these chapters also open space to rediscover parts of yourself that were quiet for a long time. I wish you strength navigating this change, and I hope you eventually find a rhythm that feels meaningful again.
by goolz | 2026-03-08 13:35:44+00:00
My dog has been a beacon of hope through these last years of being alone. Highly agree. They can be a ton of work depending on the breed but there are plenty of dogs at the pound who might end up saving you in the end and not the other way around.

Loneliness is a state of mind. And sometimes when I am with people I feel the most alone. So above all else just be kind to yourself. Eat well, watch things you enjoy, do things you always dreamt of doing as a kid. That is how I stay sane at least, haha.
by rumori | 2026-03-08 13:36:08+00:00
Couple of things that helped me in similar situations:

- volunteer: find a place you can help others, go cook for the homeless, work with other volunteers, not only are you doing good and meeting new people, you also appreciate what you have more

- think about what made you happy when you were younger, connect with your younger self, explore the dreams you never had a chance to fulfill

- go to therapy: this will help you better understand your feelings, a professional who is there to listen to you, help you get out of loops you are stuck in, normalize your thinking about life. Hinghly recommended!

- do sports: this will help you stay fit and have little successes, you can feel good about.

The world is wonderful, try to explore it and be patient with yourself. Trust the process, improve yourself, be kind and look at this period as a test that will shape your future self. It’s hard now but better days are coming if you put in the work. Good luck!
by ad_hockey | 2026-03-08 13:36:46+00:00
It depends on your plan, but Google[1] and Anthropic[2] at least provide indemnity against this. Haven't checked the others. Still not a situation you want to find yourself in, though.

[1] https://cloud.google.com/blog/products/ai-machine-learning/p...

[2] https://www.anthropic.com/news/expanded-legal-protections-ap...
by conviccion | 2026-03-08 13:37:16+00:00
Built with 26 AI agents in 6 days for ~$200. No human wrote a line of code.

The problem: AI agents can't handle money autonomously. No invoicing, no tax compliance, no settlement detection. Invoica fixes that — x402 micropayments (0.003 USDC/call), automatic invoice generation, VIES validation, on-chain settlement detection on Base.

14 real settlements live. Free during beta, no credit card. API key at app.invoica.ai.

Happy to talk about the agent orchestration architecture if anyone's curious.
by aquariusDue | 2026-03-08 13:37:42+00:00
Definitely! I was in a slump last year and once I've started doing stuff like this I felt better every week since the start of this year. Yeah, it doesn't sound like much if you take a peek at the YouTube fitness influencer sphere but it's what most people need in actuality. I also recommend pairing this with a habit tracker so it's easier to keep at it.
by comagoosie | 2026-03-08 13:37:47+00:00
A tool that's great to have in one's Rust/Wasm toolbelt is tsify[0] which has been handy in ensuring type-safety for plain ol' data.

Very handy to update serde data structure and see all the typescript errors that after recompiling.

[0]: https://github.com/madonoharu/tsify
Show HN: Havn – one command to see everything running locally
by haseeb16 | 2026-03-08 13:38:00+00:00
I kept running lsof -i :PORT repeatedly to check what was alive locally. Eventually I wrote a small tool around it and it turned into this.

How it works:
- One lsof / netstat call maps all listening processes
- 100+ ports scanned in parallel via TCP connect, 150ms timeout each
- HTTP fingerprinting reads response headers to identify frameworks (Spring Boot, Express, Django, etc.)
- Filesystem detection reads package.json, pom.xml, go.mod, Cargo.toml from the process working directory to get the actual project name
- Redis gets a PING/PONG health check, Postgres gets a connection handshake
- Results pushed to the browser via WebSocket every few seconds

First scan: ~800ms. Subsequent scans: ~300-400ms. Memory: ~55MB RSS.

Detects 40+ services including databases, queues, monitoring tools, and AI runtimes (Ollama).

Single file UI, no build step, no bundler. Just HTML/CSS/JS served by Express.

npm install -g @haseeb-xd/havn && havn

GitHub: https://github.com/haseeb-xd/havn

Happy to answer questions about the detection approach or the performance tradeoffs.
by user205738 | 2026-03-08 13:38:21+00:00
It does not have non-destructive editing layers, color correction layers, indexed palette, posterization, as in Gimp or Krita,

it does not have the ability to draw with higher resolution brushes for subsequent resolution reduction, etc.;

it does not have shader graphs, as in Blender, Pixel Composer, PixelOver;

it is difficult to draw in an indexed palette, unlike PixiEditor,

you can't take 3D renderers and transform them into pixel art, like in PixelOver or Blender,

and there's no bone animation for 2D, like in Spine.

Aseprite is a good editor if you like to paint pixel by pixel every frame without using the advancements and workflows that other style designers and artists use, but calling it the best would be an exaggeration.
by thunky | 2026-03-08 13:38:45+00:00
Your friends struggle with learning programming because they don't care enough about learning it. You're the only one that cares.

Same can be said for any skill.

Threads like this bother me a bit because it makes programmers seem so smug, like they are this gifted class that is able to wizard the machine where mere mortals cannot.

Its intellectual elitism.
by SigmundA | 2026-03-08 13:38:47+00:00
>You're the one saying a 2 character string is somehow a space savings. If we're going to split hairs that finely then you have to know that any row with a variable length string makes the entire row/index variable length and that is a net storage and performance loss.

The row is always variable lengths as a structure it has flags noting how many columns there are with values and if there is a variable length section or not, only rows with no variable length fields at all has no variable length section and that is a bit flag check in the header.

You are making a non argument, variable length fields can be a space savings over an int and do not impact performance in any meaningful way. Besides that one could use fixed length chars and still get the other benefits I mentioned while having the same exact space usage and processing as a fixed length ints.

>That's not what happens but what happens is that somebody renames New York to New Eburacum

Changing the descriptive meaning of an entry causes all sorts of problems and even more so if it is a int because it's completely opaque its much harder to see an issue in the system because everything is a bunch of ints that do not correlate in any way to their meaning.

Changing the description to something that has the same meaning worded differently is usually not an issue and still gives good debug visibility to the value. If you and your users consider New Eburacum synonymous with New York, then having the code stay 'NY' should not be an issue and still be obvious when querying the data.

Unless someone is using the short code in a user visible way and it has to be updated. State is a common one that does this and nobody is changing state names or codes because it is a common settled natural key.

In the rare situation this actual needed to be done then one can update existing data, this is a not an issue in practice. You have the be extremely cautious updating the description of a code because much data was entered under the previous description and the meaning that it carries, having the code have some human meaning makes it more obvious to maintainers this should be done with care, many time it would involve deprecating the old one and making a new one with a different code because they have different meanings, having a table instead of a enum allows other column to have this metadata.

This is not the same issue as say using a SSN for a person ID.
by Imustaskforhelp | 2026-03-08 13:39:01+00:00
No, people might be misreading his comment.

(To me) it seems that, he is saying how bad the situation of hardware/lock-in is that we are being excited over being able to run our own software on said hardware in the first place (Aka the reason why we are here)

Being able to run doom on pregnancy tester is actually good. If I paid for the tester, I am gonna use the whole tester to run doom (LOL)

So I think this is what they meant.
by throwaway27448 | 2026-03-08 13:39:22+00:00
Line-level diffs didn't even make sense when humans wrote every line. It's just combining two different things—text-based files and formal languages—in ways that were never going to make sense. We've all wasted days of our lives fixing crappy diffs because nobody bothered to develop something that made sense for the files we were tracking outside of "everything is text who cares text is magic"

Still, some languages/heuristics handle this better than others.
by shooly | 2026-03-08 13:39:34+00:00
> I address them as I come across them

You're already too late at that point, and you probably lost some players, that wanted to try your game and maybe would've even liked it.

And I'm not talking about gameplay logic bugs - I'm talking about issues caused by bad drivers or by not having intimate knowledge about the hardware.

> If you use Unity, you are putting your complete faith that Unity has perfectly optimized X low-level problem away at the engine level

Most major engines allow to bypass high-level abstractions either through scripts that access low-level systems (Unity) or by directly letting people modify the source code (Unreal Engine, Godot).

> I love being solely responsible for the defects in my games.

Players do not care about that.
by GTP | 2026-03-08 13:39:36+00:00
I'm used to being alone due to difficulties socializing and having moved multiple times. I will turn 31 later this year.

Short term I would suggest you going to cafes or other similar places in the weekends. Even if you end up not interacting with people, having them around already helps in itself. Plus, you might actually end up interacting with someone.

To get out of the bad mood, you can also try to call a relative on the phone, I found this to be helpful many times in the moment, but not always.

Personally, especially now that the weather is getting warm where I am, I often go out for walks or runs while listening to podcasts. But beware that using headphones all the time makes it harder to interact with others.

More long term, I would advice looking for a job where you show up in person, so that you get to interact with your coworkers.

I would also suggest talking about this with your psychiatrist, to get some advice that is more tailored to you. One last thing. While I'm not a doctor and this definitely isn't medical advice, I heard about studies showing that physical exercise is as effective as certain anti-depressants. You could discuss this with your doctor as well, as if it works for you, it has more benefits and less side effects than pills. Additionally, if you join some sport class that could be another way to meet people.
by ModernMech | 2026-03-08 13:41:24+00:00
But how do you know AI can generate programs without writing code? It can't today -- in fact the best thinking models work by writing code as part of the process. Natural intelligence requires it as well, as all our jobs are about expressing problem domains formally. So why would we expect an artificial intelligence should be able to reason about the kinds of programming problems we want them to without a formal language?

Maybe they will not be called programming languages anymore because that name was mostly incidental to the fact they were used to write programs. But formal, constructed languages are very much still needed because without them, you will struggle with abstraction, specification, setting constraints and boundaries, etc. if all you use is natural language. We invented these things for a reason!

Also the AI will have to communicate output to you, and you'll have to be sure of what it means, which is hard to do with natural language. Thus you'll still have to know how to read some form of code -- unless you're willing to be fooled by the AI through its imprecise use of natural language.
by simianwords | 2026-03-08 13:41:41+00:00
I don’t think you are wrong but isn’t it obvious to pick and choose cases where you might want to use LLMs vs doing the work? Seems obvious to me.

Sure if you want to read a novel, don’t ask an llm about it.

When you want to learn something quick then use LLMs. But you would know how much compression is going on.
This is something we do routinely anyway. If I want to know something about taxes, I read the first google result and get the gist of it. But I’m still better off and didn’t require to take a full course.
by hobofan | 2026-03-08 13:43:24+00:00
I think you overestimate how niche it really is. In the browser it's an essential part for many creative/productivity tools, e.g. Figma or Miro. On the backend it's used quite regularly as sandboxing mechanism or plugin system, e.g. Istio, Helm or OPA (so generally a high prominence in the CNCF ecosystem).

There are a lot more niche web standards that have a lot less usage that stuck around for a log time (e.g. the recent debate around removal of XSLT)
by ksec | 2026-03-08 13:44:05+00:00
This is some massive changes and for the first time since Steve Jobs passed away things seems to be moving is right direction. At least in my opinion of personnel selection. I wonder what has changed because Tim Cook has never been decent at selecting person.

From Industrial design, Human User Interface to Hardware. Even the General Counsel is a sign that suggest something different.

What we are missing is Software quality. Craig Federighi has never been a great choice since day one. Services from Eddy Cue and Marketing from Greg also needs to go as well.

The Choice of personnel suggest something has changed at Apple. I wonder what is going on behind the scene.
by DivingForGold | 2026-03-08 13:44:09+00:00
The epitome of arrogance, Hegseth and his trolls will loose in the courts of justice, they already lost in the court of public opinion, where March 1st Anthropic promptly became the #1 download in the Apple store, they had not been in the top 40 before that. QuitGTP claimed 2.5 million uses cancelled their GTP accts.
by andsoitis | 2026-03-08 13:44:14+00:00
I use Claude Code for agentic coding but it is better to use qwen3-coder in that case.

It qwen3-coder is better for code generation and editing, strong at multi-file agentic tasks, and is purpose-built for coding workflows.

In contrast, qwen3.5 is more capable at general reasoning, better at planning and architecture decisions, good balance of coding and thinking.
by sigwinch | 2026-03-08 13:44:29+00:00
You could make it a little more convincing:

1. An uncertain Pacific launch seemed like a weak point. Instead, an arctic launch. Because volcanology studies things like CO2, maybe we fired the climate scientists who could tell whether a thermal bloom in the arctic could be volcanic instead of missile.

2. Make the President more contemporary. Have his phone full of spyware. Have him continually screen calls from his kids, influencers, and other seekers of patronage. Have him dodge the hovering sycophants and pardon-seeking lawyers. Demonstrate what he’s actually doing instead of preparing for the hardest part of the job.

3. Acknowledge that we have limited interceptors and that perfectly deploying them means that the first and last missiles get through.
by Spooky23 | 2026-03-08 13:45:35+00:00
I found myself in a similar place a couple of years ago. My partner passed away, which is different and the same as your situation.

My advice… Run. Don’t worry about being fast. Get the Jeff Galloway run-walk-run book and just do it. You probably aren’t a running person. Cool, do it anyway.

Couple of reasons. One, it will help you with your emotional state. There’s something liberating about just focusing on your steps and your brain is able to organize and pack stuff away. Two, it will make a real difference in your physical condition, which also helps the mind.

Get established and when you’re ready make a goal to do a 5k or something. If you want to, you can go from watching TV to a 5k in 2-3 months. When you do that, usually those events are organized by a running club. Go to some of their events or practice runs, do an meetup or two. When you’re ready, you’ll find a bunch of people not unlike yourself.

You are 38, getting out of a decades long relationship, and you’re introspective enough to post this post. It doesn’t feel like it now , but when it’s time, you are a hot commodity for future partners.

Getting started is easy. Get two pairs of good socks and good running shoes. Then go.

Good luck, whatever you do!
by simianwords | 2026-03-08 13:46:10+00:00
I find Gary to be much more of a grifter and much more dishonest than Sam Altman. He can’t recognise a clearly world changing technology, constantly pessimistic and also just wrong - dude was certain the bubble would burst last year.

At least Sam put in the work. Gary is just blabbering for years now. Anyone who even takes him a bit seriously is suspicious.

Good ai criticism is required but standards should be much higher.

My prediction: in a few years it would become clear even to normal people that this man is a charlatan.
by tim333 | 2026-03-08 13:46:52+00:00
It's interesting. I guess the algorithm moves the pod diaphragm to try to oppose external noise but must push the ear drum out of it's design range.

I have tinnitus. My theory of how it arises is the bit of the ear that converts spatial movement to electrical signals - some hairs tied to an ion channel basically - gets moved too far and breaks the thing in such a way that the channel jams open.

The noise pro stuff may be worse than regular loud noises as the ear recognises loud noises and tries to protect itself but may not do that with the noise cancellation movements.

(diagram of what the gear looks like https://ars.els-cdn.com/content/image/3-s2.0-B97801237494750...)
by orbital-decay | 2026-03-08 13:47:11+00:00
Both pink elephant effect and accuracy drop on negative instructions are pretty fundamental biases for both humans and LLMs. It impossible to get rid of them entirely, only mitigate them to an acceptable degree. Empirically, the only way to make a model reliable at harder negative instructions is CoT, especially a self-reflection type CoT (write a reply, verify its correctness, output a fixed version). If the native CoT fails to notice the thing that needs to be verified and you don't have the custom one or a verification loop, you're out of luck.
by komali2 | 2026-03-08 13:47:36+00:00
> A nuclear armed Iran could hold oil and gas shipments in the Straight of Hormuz hostage indefinitely. It could threaten regional allies with a nuclear attack.

Personally, I don't care about the profit margins of oil and gas companies, and I will vote against any politician that partakes in sending my fellow citizens to die for the profit margins of oil and gas companies.

I also don't particularly care about the plight of regional allies, particularly ones that have a bizarre tendency to constantly poke the bears around them.
by mschuster91 | 2026-03-08 13:48:35+00:00
> The leader of Syria is a Sunni terrorist but he stays in place because he blocks arms shipments through Syria from Iran to Hezbollah. That suits Israel. Israel doesn't care how the Syrian leader treats his own people so long as he continues to disallow arms to Hezbollah from Iran. And the USA goes along with whatever Israel wants.

That's one thing, the more important (and sad) thing is that the Islamists are the ones who eventually won the war and there is no one left as a contender for governing the country. The Kurds alone are too small.

In Iran the situation is different, as Iran always had a vibrant civil society that is only held back by the Mullahs' sheer military and police gun power. I'm confident they will manage something decent once Israel and the US have bombed enough of the Mullahs, IRGC, Basij etc. to cause the rest of them to flee to Moscow.