MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by Someone1234 | 2026-03-14 17:28:15+00:00
Yep, healthcare, grocery, logistics, data science. Heck it would be easier to list industries that DON'T have any CSV. There aren't many.

In terms of interchange formats these are quite popular/common: EDI (serialized as text or binary), CSV, XML, ASN.1, and JSON are extremely popular.

I 100% assure everyone reading that their personal information was transmitted as CSV at least once in the last week; but once is a very low estimate.
by thyristan | 2026-03-14 17:28:47+00:00
> The Gladwellian direct/indirect dichotomy (or continuum) is a misapprehension of how language works. All communication is indirect in some sense because we don't have mind control powers over our fellow humans. Even saying ‘I want to buy this bread’ is indirect in a sense

If you take 'direct' vs. 'indirect' literally, you are right. Everything is somehow indirect, because language tries to represent reality, but isn't identical to reality.

But you are missing the point. The real issue is information density. Indirect communication generally has lower information density: You give examples of various possible interpretations of one phrase, and the more possible interpretations there are, the lower the information density is. The longer the phrase is, the lower the information density. One can come up with a few counter-examples, where for example a very long and very indirect phrase might just have one very unique and direct interpretation, but those are rare. In general, direct communication conveys more information with less words.
by conartist6 | 2026-03-14 17:30:56+00:00
As to the simplicity of the syntax I think you would understand what I mean if you were writing a parser.

It's particularly gratifying that you can easily interpret CSTML with a stream parser. XML cannot work this way because this particular case is ambiguous:

<Name

What does Name mean in this fragment of syntax? Is it the name of a namespace? Or the name of a node? We won't know until we look forward and see if the next character is :

That's why we write `<Namespace:Name />` as `:Namespace: <Name />` - it means there's no point in the left-to-right parse at which the meaning is ambiguous. And finally CSTML has no entity lookups so there's no need to download a DTD to parse it correctly.
by Papazsazsa | 2026-03-14 17:31:12+00:00
Sorry, did I miss the period when economic data was reliable?

EDIT:

- GDP is a construct

- CPI has been overhauled many times

- Unemployment has always been politicized wrt what to count

- Trade data misses entire segments ie services, transfer pricing, digital

- Job creation is a black box

- The Fed

- The lag between monetary/fiscal/trade/regulatory policy
by paulsutter | 2026-03-14 17:31:23+00:00
> The integrity of U.S. statistical data is under threat from shrinking agency budgets, low response rates to government surveys, and political interference.

Just as both "sides" are upset about gerrymandering, yet neither "side" makes any proposal for an apolitical fair approach for redistricting...

So too with this debate. Haven't we heard the exact same arguments made, by the other "side"? I thought we weren't supposed to have flaming political bait on HN?

The solution to all of these problems is at hand, and we are the ones to build it. Let's just build.
by cineticdaffodil | 2026-03-14 17:31:31+00:00
Palestine is a total nothing burger and is just the last rallying point for western diabolists, a disgusting racist ideology in which only white westerners can be evil acteurs inflicting suffering upon the inferior other. The worst part of that ideology is that it claims wanting to help. but refusing cultural comparisson, preventing analysis and encouraging fruitless revolutionaryself butchering , results in great missery with no improvement for the culturally stuck in almost 70 years. A legacy of blood and ashes, nativist celebrations of cultural fail, while trampling all hope. This ideology should be as shunned and banned as its national socialist totalitarian school of thought. Pure outdated evil
by brandonb | 2026-03-14 17:31:57+00:00
The basic principal behind this shift is that exposure to bad cholesterol acts like radiation dose. Both the intensity (how high LDL/ApoB is) and the time exposed (how many years) matter.

These newest guidelines from the AHA/ACC, released yesterday, operationalize this partly by using a new set of equations that predict cardiovascular risk over a 30-year period (rather than 10 years).
by DHFFounder | 2026-03-14 17:32:20+00:00
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by PaulDavisThe1st | 2026-03-14 17:32:22+00:00
While it is not a true "externality", data center use of water is a strong community/regional cost that effectively removes 1 person/1 vote. Those with the financial resources to buy more water get the water, those without do not.

Perhaps you think that the distribution of financial resources reflects what is in society's best interests - that Meta, Google et al. have demonstrated their utility in ways that make them literally more important than people with insufficient wealth to outbid those companies for water.

Many of us do not.
by thatwasunusual | 2026-03-14 17:32:25+00:00
> When I was in middle school (1970s) we learned how to file a tax return. For some reason this is no longer taught today.

We have the same problem in Norway; youngsters aren't taught proper private economy at school, just the "normal maths." Which leads to people getting into financial trouble because of stupid stuff. :/

Thanks for updating me on the US tax system! Hope all is well over there! :)
by throwaway5752 | 2026-03-14 17:32:52+00:00
The US is doing much, much worse. This is no compliment to China. The US

* murdered a political leader the were negotiating with in Iran after using the military to kidnap the leader of Venezuela.

* is credibly threatening military allies in Greenland, countries with which it has mutual protection treaties and is credibly threatening, without casus belli, to militarily invade another weaker neighbor, Cuba.

* spent months threatening to invade Canada. This wasn't trolling, it is forgotten with their strategy of constant chaos, but they really tried and Canada has made alliances with other countries as a result

* is actively murdering thousands of people in Haiti via a Republican allied private military contractor

* is actively subverting domestic elections

* is building and filling concentration camps with people who have committed no other crime than illegal residency, without due process, and giving them substandard care, leading to many deaths in custody.

* has masked secret police detaining people without due process and deporting them to foreign prison camps, frequently in violation of judicial orders

* has masked secret police arresting citizen because of their nationality and because they are not carrying "their papers"

* is using the power of government to force mergers and ownership changes of corporations to political allies

* is using the power of the government to hide an embarrassing a criminal conspiracy involving leadership in the country, in violation of the US Constitution, since it was ordered by Congress.

* has completely disregarded conflict of interest laws which the leader of the country is using to enrich himself and his family at completely unprecedented levels in US history.

I could go on, but China is a more ethical superpower by a lot of measures and that is a very painful conclusion to state.

This is not even touching on the subject of competency.

The internationally accepted US hegemony and the privileged role of the US dollar was the result of almost a century of goodwill. It is now gone, and then some. The next two decades will not be pleasant for regular Americans who have grown accustomed to, and frankly taken for granted, the level of privilege they had.

edit: and speak of the devil, and competency: https://mitsloan.mit.edu/ideas-made-to-matter/what-happens-w... just made it to the top of the front page. Even with everything I wrote above, I had neglected to include that the US lies about embarrassing economic data now due to political intererence.
by gambiting | 2026-03-14 17:33:00+00:00
>>Europe won't be able to catch that. If we cut the chip supply right as things take off, China might not either.

My immediate thought is - why is it a race. Like holy shit imagine if we could actually work together instead of having this mentality of "if we work hard the other countries won't catch that". As someone who grew up in the golden age of globalization and rise of the information superhighway, the way countries are just siloing themselves and treating everything as a zero sum game is both sad and scary - that's exactly how you lead the world on a path to another world war - telling yourself that you don't need anyone else and in fact you need to beat them to the punch and everyone else is your opponent. If an alien race was looking at us right now they'd be shaking their heads.
by tombert | 2026-03-14 17:33:17+00:00
The fact that you only want to hire workers who won’t call you out when they feel like they have been disrespected is a great way to breed a team of people who resent you.

Regardless, you kind of proved what I was trying to say. Most people don’t actually want directness. The fact that when I was direct with someone you’re treating it like some mafioso retribution is telling.
by 9wzYQbTYsAIc | 2026-03-14 17:33:22+00:00
> Toss a fair coin until the number of heads exceeds the number of tails. This determines a stopping time. What is the probability that this stopping time is even?

Claude Code did pretty well:

> Zero.
>
> The stopping time always falls on an odd toss. Here's why: after >n tosses, heads minus
> tails equals S_n = X₁ + X₂ + ... + X_n where each X_i takes >value +1 or −1. The sum
> of n odd numbers shares parity with n. For S_n = 1 (the first >time heads exceeds
> tails), we need n odd.
>
> No even stopping time exists. The probability equals exactly 0.
>
> Cogitated for 38s
by ghusto | 2026-03-14 17:33:37+00:00
> It's on the way out, though it'll be a slow death

At the very most, it's on its way out in the same way normal computers are on their way out for non-IT professionals. There are situations where wired is a must, not a preference (studios being the most obvious).

Aside from that, wired offers the highest sound quality possible, plug-and-play, and all at a lower price. Wireless headphones don't appear to even be trying to catch up.
by saltcured | 2026-03-14 17:33:53+00:00
As someone who grew up during the transition, the killer feature of the CD was amazing audio quality and the lack of degradation from every playback. The period where we started finding albums marked "DDD", for fully digital production, was also amazing.

It saddens me a little that, in spite of all the technology, actual Hi-Fi listening seems to have become less accessible or prevalent. I'm still not sure how much this is really for the commonly stated reason of convenience, and how much that is really cope and denial of a bigger socio-economic decline. I.e. it simply isn't as realistic for regular people to have a Hi-Fi listening space...
by dpark | 2026-03-14 17:34:05+00:00
Eh, I think the author is also exaggerating the problem significantly.

“I hope this is okay to bring up and sorry for the long message, I just wanted to flag that I've been looking at the latency numbers and I'm not totally sure but it seems like there might be an issue with the caching layer?”

This isn’t a problem of overpoliteness. It’s a problem of almost nonsensical rambling. I’ve never worked with anyone who actually communicated like this and if they did, they would get pretty direct feedback that they need to stop this. This isn’t polite, it’s dithering. Professor Quirrell level lack of confidence.
Show HN: VibeNVR – Open-source self-hosted NVR with REST API and Homepage widget
by spupuz | 2026-03-14 17:34:13+00:00
Hi HN! I built VibeNVR, a privacy-first, self-hosted NVR that runs fully locally via Docker Compose.

Key features:
- Full REST API
- Homepage.dev dashboard widget (cameras, events, storage, uptime)
- ONVIF camera support
- Runs 100% locally, no cloud required

The public roadmap is now live with upcoming features: Advanced ONVIF (PTZ + audio back-channel), Dual-Stream Support, Privacy Masking, AI/ML motion detection, Timeline-based playback, and Multi-tenancy.

Documentation has also been migrated to MkDocs: https://spupuz.github.io/vibe-nvr-site/docs/

Roadmap: https://spupuz.github.io/vibe-nvr-site/#roadmap

Looking for feedback, especially on the HA integration side and API design.
by testdelacc1 | 2026-03-14 17:34:45+00:00
Why is there always a both sides-er in these discussions?

FWIW, one party generally deferred to nonpartisan commissions to draw boundaries to avoid gerrymandering. So one “side” did far more than propose a solution, they did the right thing even when the other side wasn’t.

Gerrymandering is the worst example to pick when you’re pushing both-sides-bad.
by pixl97 | 2026-03-14 17:35:01+00:00
The particular problem is said speech quite often leads to calls of violence. And when a few people get banned for that you get dog whistles, sentences that are encoded calls for violence. Eventually the new slang is recognized for being violent and then it looks like the site has allowed calls of violence for months.

A short version of this is, if you let a nazi come to your bar, you have a nazi bar.
by saghm | 2026-03-14 17:35:26+00:00
At the very least, it's a bit weird to be calling it a Right to Compute if the actual goal is to enable investments. It's hard not to be concerned about whether it's even about establishing a right at all, or if that's entirely posturing to try to build support for something that isn't really about rights at all. At that point, it's hard to trust anything else they're saying about the motives, since they've established that they're willing to fudge things to make it harder to argue against.

The point isn't whether it's bad or good, but that it establishes a pattern of inconsistency.
by jeremychone | 2026-03-14 17:35:46+00:00
Fair point, but because I spent a year building and refining my custom tool, this is now the reality for all of my AI requests.

I prompt, press run, and then I get this flow:
dev setup (dev-chat or plan)
code-map (incremental 0s 2m for initial)
auto-context (~20s to 40s)
final AI query (~30s to 2m)

For example, just now, in my Rust code (about 60k LOC), I wanted to change the data model and brainstorm with the AI to find the right design, and here is the auto-context it gave me:

- Reducing 381 context files ( 1.62 MB)

- Now 5 context files ( 27.90 KB)

- Reducing 11 knowledge files ( 30.16 KB)

- Now 3 knowledge files ( 5.62 KB)

The knowledge files are my "rust10x" best practices, and the context files are the source files.

(edited to fix formatting)
by pastage | 2026-03-14 17:35:50+00:00
I am wary to continue this, because you post unrelated tidbits and opinions.

My opinion is that opaque financial markets only benefits people with lots of money and power. Financial privacy is important here in Sweden, but having the net worth and income as public records has worked for us the last 250 years. I do not know where you come from and what society you live in. I do sense fear in your posts and that is usually a personal feeling. It might be different for us since it has been ingrained for so long.

I am talking from experience in our safe society (fact). Which obviously has severe flaws (opinion).
by rapind | 2026-03-14 17:35:59+00:00
There is a valid both sides argument to a lot of these issues IMO, but where the discussion ought to be is at how extreme “one” side has taken it.

Whether it’s executive orders, corruption, pardons, appointments, obstruction, gerrymandering. pedophilia, lying, etc. I don’t think there’s a valid defence of just how far one particular side has gone (and proactively I might add).
by runjake | 2026-03-14 17:36:23+00:00
I’m standing in a line on my iPhone, waiting to get into a basketball game. So apologies for being sloppy.

Ok, so you’re talking about technologies that already exist and practically everyone has them.

First, you don’t need a new HTTP protocol, you’d use regular HTTPS with certificate authentication.

The glove you speak of is a biometric device with a Secure Enclave (SE) (eg Apple Watch) or secure access to a device with an SE.

This SE stores the private key of a key pair in a manner inaccessible without biometrics. This is also how PassKeys work.

A key challenge here is that everyone has a variety of devices from a variety of OEMs that are all simultaneously talking to multiple services synchronously. More often than not, a web request actually isn’t initiated by a human.

So, you’ll need to get everyone to agree on a standard. You’ll need to address the privacy concerns of privacy-minded people, because if you can attest that a person is actually there, doing something that is going to set off warning bells for private people. It’s also going to set off dinner bells for advertisers and governments.

Again sorry, I’m on mobile and in a line. These exact scenarios (and their drawbacks) are routinely discussed in technical and privacy circles.

Read up on technologies like PKI, certificate-based Auth, PassKeys, Secure Enclave, and biometric devices. The Apple Platform Security Guide is a good first step on what a commercial product is already doing.
by FuckButtons | 2026-03-14 17:37:25+00:00
I don’t understand why more people aren’t focused on how to get the benefits of ai but on your own machine. If the last 20 years of software transitioning off of our desktops and into the cloud has taught us anything, it’s that letting corporate entities run the software you rely on end to end gives you: worse software with more bugs, surveillance and subscriptions. Why on earth would you want that for everything you do.
by p_ing | 2026-03-14 17:37:58+00:00
You've defined every OS that doesn't let you customize what services run, which Windows certainly does. As you strip away certain services, functionality is going to be limited, but the capability is there and has been since NT was released - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VxIgY0tQqR4.

You have options on macOS via launchctl, but I'm not sure how low you can go.

Neither give you the same capability as Linux, of course.
by jonathanlydall | 2026-03-14 17:38:42+00:00
I’m also “old” (44) and feel that rainbow LEDs are gaudy.

Seems these days that they’re not optional for most things remotely gaming related (e.g. motherboards, graphics cards) , but fortunately can generally be disabled or if illumination is useful (e.g for a keyboard), they can be configured to be white only, which was useful for the Steel Series keyboard I purchased. (I wouldn’t recommend Steel Series keyboards though, has stupid design choices and reliability issues.)

Also did LAN gaming back in the day. Computers were so much more work to lug around when you had a CRT and HDDs. These days desktop computers are far easier to transport.
by itsdesmond | 2026-03-14 17:38:47+00:00
If I were to hear about it and google it, I’d first search “ink” and then admonish myself for the useless search. If I then searched “ink web” I’d get the React thing. I am not invested in this project. I might stop there.

If I search “ink deploy” I get docs for deploying a different project than the two being discussed, and the second search result is a thread about THIS Ink on HN three days ago. So it’s not impossible to find, but if the necessary differentiation is built into the name they’ll improve discoverability.

Their domain already provides that differentiation. Call it ML Ink. That search brings up their site as the first result.
by dkersten | 2026-03-14 17:39:35+00:00
I don’t think they’re even saving much on vibe coding it, given how many tokens they claim they’re using. I know the token cost to them is much, much lower than the token cost to us, but it still has a cost in terms of gpus running.

Plus it’s not something we can replicate since we don’t have access to infinite tokens, so it’s not even a good dogfooding case study.
by readthenotes1 | 2026-03-14 17:39:47+00:00
The reported economic data has been squirrelly for many years.

For instance, the employment report (establishment survey) has an error rate or +/- 122,000 with 90% confidence--completely swamping the actual value.

It be like I said I was 2m tall on my dating profile and one date is frightened off by my being -0.2m tall and another by me being 4m tall.

https://www.bls.gov/news.release/empsit.tn.htm#
by zzleeper | 2026-03-14 17:40:22+00:00
Please don't "both side" this. As much as there is corruption in any administration, R or D, the levels we are seeing now are completely unprecedent and blunt. EG: https://www.cnn.com/2026/03/13/politics/trump-fundraise-emai... (from earlier this morning on the HN frontpage)
Show HN: I built a heartbeat and uptime monitoring for developers
by ramgale | 2026-03-14 17:40:26+00:00
Hey HN, been working on side projects for a while and kept running into the same problem: I needed something to tell me when my cron jobs stopped running or my app went down, but every tool I looked at was either expensive or crippled the free tier to the point of being useless.

UptimeRobot's free tier checks every 5 minutes, Cronitor charges extra for status pages, BetterStack starts at $29/mo.

So I built PulseMon.

What it does:

- Heartbeat/cron job monitoring. Drop a ping URL into your cron job, get alerted when it stops
- Full REST API with API key auth if you want to manage monitors programmatically
- Alerts via email, Slack, Discord, or signed webhooks (HMAC-SHA256)

A few things worth knowing:

- 30 free monitors at 2 min intervals. Most competitors cap free tiers at 5 min
- Pro tier goes down to 10s checks
- No silent recoveries. If the recovery alert fails to send, the incident stays open until it does

Just launched, would love feedback from people who've actually dealt with this problem. What am I missing, what would make you switch from whatever you're using now?
by wartywhoa23 | 2026-03-14 17:40:37+00:00
For me, wired multi-driver armature IEMs (in-ear monitors) are the best thing to happen in the audio field since the arrival of neodymium magnets.

For a fraction of price of professional monitor speakers, you get the closest thing to direct hardware-to-brain audio transmission. It's precise and fast transient-wise.

No reflections, no phase problems, nada. You can choose exactly the type of frequency response you need: flat, V-shaped, U-shaped, bassy, bright, whatever. There are even models with switchable curves.

No need to invest much more money than your speakers cost in your listening room, installing wool/foam pads/draping/soft furniture/bass traps/carpets etc to reduce the amount of reflections and bring frequency responce to anything resembling flat.

That said, there is a huge number of IEMs produced these days and they range from absolute trash to stellar. And to navigate this vast ocean, I find Crinnacle's resourses utterly useful:

https://crinacle.com/rankings/iems/

https://list.hangout.audio/iem

(disclosure: I'm not affiliated in any way, I just adore this guy's dedication!)