MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by beAbU | 2026-03-08 21:46:43+00:00
My partner wanted to try the same thing. And cloth nappies and exclusive breastfeeding, and infant hand signals, and every other zeitgeist baby thing you can think of.

In principle EC sounds interesting, but then our daughter arrived, it has balls to the wall survival for 3 months bow. We ended up bottle feeding, use disposable nappies and sometimes we put her on her side to sleep so that she can fall asleep easier. Terrible parenting if you ask any parenting influencer! Neither of us have the time, energy or mental fortitude to get baby naked and over the toilet in the 20 seconds between when the grunting starts and the poop comes!

My advice to you as a new father, assuming you will also be the father and your partner the mother: go into all this with an open mind, and focus on doing what your baby needs, not what you want, and definitely not what the internet says you should be doing. Sun Tzu said the best laid plans don't survive contact with the enemy, so don't get hung up when your plans fall apart when your little one arrives. Support your partner in the things she wants to try, but be pragmatic and prepared for all alternative outcomes. Keep baby's butt dry, keep their belly full of milk (breast or formula or both is perfectly OK), keep them warm and love them loads. That's literally all you need to do, and you will be awarded with the most amazing smiles and giggles by month 2-3.
by e1g | 2026-03-08 21:46:46+00:00
Pure TUI is solid - I’ve been running all my pets inside that cage for several weeks with no issues. Auto-updates work, session renewals work, config updates work etc.

But lately I’ve been using agents to test via browsers, and starting headless browsers from the agent is flakey. I’m working on that but it’s hard to find a secure default to run Chrome.

In the repo, I have policies for running the Claude desktop app and VSCode inside the same sandbox (so can do yolo mode there too), so there is hope for sandboxing headless Chrome as well.
by eloisant | 2026-03-08 21:47:00+00:00
I think that even if the models were to plateau today, there are still a lot of room for improvement in all the tooling around them, people finding ideas of applications, and users getting used of them. So we're not done with the disruption.

Some of the apps made possible by smartphones only appeared a decade after they were made technically possible. A lot of the new use cases made possible by the Internet and broadband connections only became widely used because of Covid.

I was already using Skype 20 years ago to make video calls, but I've only seen PTA meetings over Zoom since Covid.
by lich_king | 2026-03-08 21:47:14+00:00
Many HNers strongly argue that it's absolutely impossible to distinguish between AI text and non-AI text. Some of it seems to be a knee-jerk reaction to some of the occasional, one-sided stories of people who were accused of using LLMs and fired from their jobs. And some of it seems to be just hedging so that we don't develop a culture that could penalize their LLM-generated posts or code.

My main problem with that is that you can just generate an infinite supply of LLM op-eds about LLMs, and is this really what we want to read every day? If I want to know what ChatGPT thinks about the risks or benefits of vibecoding, I'll just ask it.
by winwang | 2026-03-08 21:47:26+00:00
I don't think lived experience matters too much to me.
In some sense, AI has very unique "lived" experience, which is what creates the voice it uses ("doesn't have a voice" seems like an impossibility to me by definition).

I find AI very "human-esque", and its "self-reported" phenomenology is very entertaining to me, at least.

I also think AI writing might feel trashy also because most human writing is trashy.
by mufeedvh | 2026-03-08 21:47:37+00:00
Author of this silly project here!

Sharing a bit of backstory on why I decided to work on this; Firstly, “for fun” but primarily because I felt like I started losing the childlike wonder/whimsy I once had with programming.

So I started this new hobby where I ask myself “can I hack on this?” upon getting/seeing something.

For instance, I got this new Aula F75 keyboard (really good keyboard for the price btw, it sounds good too!) and it only has dedicated control software for Windows. So I downloaded the driver files, software executable, and manual sheet and reverse engineered the full protocol/packets and rebuilt it for my Mac. Then played snake with the backlights. Fun.

Anywho, happy to see my blog on the front page. Would love to hear if anyones going through something similar or working on silly little projects! :)
by cogman10 | 2026-03-08 21:47:43+00:00
That's how it worked in my hometown, but I don't think the bill was 2k as it was essentially ran by the county.

Everything was basically either payed for by donations from a local business or funded by fundraising. Primarily because the county didn't want to have a tax to run the system properly. Same thing happened with my hometown's fire department. Though in that case you could effectively buy fire insurance from the county (and of course, some people decided not to buy that insurance).

Both are a bad way to run critical services, especially since my hometown was surrounded by a lot of farm and state owned land where lightning strikes causing a fire wasn't uncommon. I don't have a big issue with the volunteer portion of it, it was a small town which the county would otherwise not want to service. But the funding portion was just bad. Fire, famously, spreads. And giving people the ability to opt out is dumb because it makes a big problem if a fire starts on their property and spreads to someone else's.
by sthlmb | 2026-03-08 21:48:08+00:00
Hey! Author of the post someone linked here. Fair comment, though this wasn't really meant to be a review, or "go buy this!" type of post, it was more to highlight what I tested from the boards released in 2025 and share the results to those benchmarks via sbc.compare

Armbian do a great job of handling support for a whole host of boards (including most I included in this list), so you'll usually have Debian/Ubuntu-based flavours. Vendor kernels and vendor supplied images will be hit and miss. Mainline Linux support is a flag you filter by on the benchmark comparison site linked in the article, but it's a difficult one to keep up to date and define exactly. It could have some kind of support, but miss out on display functionality, or WiFi yada yada. What would we then class as having mainline support? All hardware etc functioning? If so, very, very few will meet that definition.

I get the desire for the information, and perhaps I should have envisioned these types of questions, but all I initially meant for the post to be was a recap for people following me to see which boards I'd tested that were released last year :D
by fc417fc802 | 2026-03-08 21:48:14+00:00
Groups of fish and birds both extend into that "extra" dimension so it's not as though there's additional empty space available to them. Yet both sorts of creature exhibit functional group behavior that coordinates high speed travel while being packed fairly tightly. Humans don't do that.

That said, failure likely looks quite a bit different. For both fish and birds there's nothing at the edges constraining the cluster aside from unusual situations such as a net or a cave. Whereas the most notable human failures involve what amount to walls on multiple sides.

It's amusing to visualize a flock of birds failing to maintain distance and all falling out of the sky as a result.
by ryandrake | 2026-03-08 21:48:20+00:00
One of the most helpful realizations I had as I played around with self-hosting at home is that there is nothing magical about a NAS. You don't need special NAS software. You generally don't need wild filesystems, or containers or VMs or this-manager or that-webui. Most people just need Linux and NFS. Or Linux and SMB. And that's kind of it. The more layers running, the more that can fail.

Just like you don't really need the official Pi-hole software. It's a wrapper around dnsmasq, so you really just need dnsmasq.

A habit of boiling your application down to the most basic needs is going to let you run a lot more on your lab and do so a lot more reliably.
by Aurornis | 2026-03-08 21:48:23+00:00
In my recent experience, local meetups and groups are unexpectedly more prone to self promotion and low effort spamming.

Local groups have a problem where members admit their friends or pressure others into inviting their friends who are not a net positive, but it feels too impolite to refuse or to kick someone out. Meeting someone in person also develops a sense of a social bond that makes it harder to downvote or flag their posts.

Local groups have always been a haven for affinity fraud, too. Running a scam is easier when you can smile, be charismatic, and pretend to be a personal friend before springing your ask on to your victims.
by oarsinsync | 2026-03-08 21:48:30+00:00
> Debian hasn't let me down, and I'm very familiar with it. I was on my way out the door before the Apple Silicon launch. They managed to briefly bring me back in

Debian (courtesy of the Asahi project) still wont let you down if you’re using an M1 or M2:

https://wiki.debian.org/InstallingDebianOn/Apple/M1
by teleforce | 2026-03-08 21:48:48+00:00
>French customs then took root through England and English affairs began to change in various ways

You can replace this statement with French language and it's still be true:

French "language" then took root through England and English "language" began to change in various ways.

Fun facts, about one-third of modern English language are actually made up from French words and vocabulary.

I remember reading one posted announcement notice at a French university, and surprisingly understood most of the contents of the notice although it's written in French and I cannot speak French.

However, if I don't read the notice but relies on French to verbally reading the notice to me, I'd not understand the contents.

Apparently most of the working and professional words in English were taken from French (this made up most of the loan words from French to English). Thus the notice is easily understandable by reading it if you know English language since the notice is in professional setting (i.e university).
by nradov | 2026-03-08 21:49:09+00:00
No, you're still missing the point. I mean a massive US conventional attack. So far in the current conflict the US has used only a fraction of its capability, and only targeted military and government facilities. In a scenario where Iran claimed to have nuclear weapons then the US would hit much harder and aim to cause so much infrastructure damage and civilian casualties that Iran would be unable to build much of anything more complex than short-range rockets.
by em-bee | 2026-03-08 21:49:24+00:00
but that is being addressed. there is a difference between looking at 10 search results vs clicking "i am feeling lucky". asking an LLM always just gives you one answer without an opportunity to research and compare multiple possible answers.

a search engine always gives multiple results and it is on me to read and compare. i usually look at the first half a dozen or so results.

a well written wikipedia article will represent multiple views and critical opinions if there are any. but if there aren't then you may want to expand your search. same goes for other encyclopedias or articles you are reading.

the problem, again, is that an LLM answer does not have the quality of a well written article you may find elsewhere. that may change in the future, but until then i find LLMs are a waste of time for me.
by throwup238 | 2026-03-08 21:49:31+00:00
All the California satsumas I can find here in California have all converged on the dekopon/Sumo taste and form. It’s confusing because the satsumas on Google images are still mostly the round ones without the bumps.

The prices vary wildly. At the end of the season I can find them in some ethnic grocers for $0.33 a pound while right now they’re $1.50-2 a pound. When they were first coming out years ago they were $4 a piece at Trader Joes.
by JLO64 | 2026-03-08 21:50:01+00:00
My situation was nowhere similar to yours or OP’s, but back when I was dealing with depression a church group I was volunteering with was one of the main factors in my recovery. I met people that really helped me change for the better and helped give me at least a temporary purpose in life.

There were some days when I didn’t want to do anything, but due to my obligations as a formal member of the group I had to show up. This really helped me since it really forced me to get out and actually do something and not doomscroll YouTube Shorts.

I don’t want to make this specific to any religion or belief system, but in my experience groups centered around a place of worship and focused on service are some of the best ways to create social bonds as an adult. There are also other men’s groups that aren’t religious that fit this: Lions Club, Rotary Club, Veterans Outposts.
by eszed | 2026-03-08 21:50:55+00:00
Thank you! Glad to know what to look up.

To be honest, I don't know where I'd rank on an objective severity scale. My floaters often make it difficult to read, and I've got one that can lodge in the wrong place for long enough to make driving feel a little scary. That's maybe not bad enough - given the risks, which I don't know right now - to argue against it. I'm not necessarily questioning the doctor's judgment - he's maybe right! - just mad that he didn't even tell me about this procedure.
by verdverm | 2026-03-08 21:51:01+00:00
I'd pose a different perspective, that Show HN in non-hype cycles tend to have a higher self-imposed bar before posting. With the democratizing, there are many posts where time from first commit to Show HN is on the order of hours, 25m being the shortest I have personally seen. I would contend that community standards have not changed meaningfully, but due to the underlying mix changing, the front page changes too.

That being said, there is an above average, low quality submissions sub-trend, that are obviously trying to plant a money tree. This is largely driven by the "look ma, no hands" Ai tools like OpenClaw, mixed (venn) with the crypto crowd looking to make easy money with near-zero effort.

With that being said, I have definitely seen some real bangers that have large Ai contributions. So I am generally in favor of minimally changing how HN works today. One small change would be adding to the Guidelines and FAQ, giving the agents something to read before posting (such that they know that automated submissions are not allowed[1])

https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&que...
by theshrike79 | 2026-03-08 21:51:04+00:00
You can use (and create) tools to codify what you think of as "quality".

There's the new frontier for delivering good or the best products. Less relying on the feels of an experienced programmer and more configuring and creating deterministic tools to define quality.

Unless you get actual joy and enjoyment from writing 42 unit tests for a CRUD API with slight variations for each test. Then go ahead =)
by cadamsdotcom | 2026-03-08 21:51:37+00:00
I am in my early 40s and live in Bondi. Fatbikes are everywhere and it is absolutely NOT a problem.

99% of the time they’re used safely. It’s pretty clutch to see a kid pull a thumb trigger to do a wheelie. Besides, if you mess your bike up by dropping it, there’s no hiding it from your parents.

Article is exaggerated for the clicks.

If you find yourself getting outraged, come touch grass by touching the sand at our beautiful beach. Life is actually pretty awesome, and kids having fun & letting off steam with e-bikes is a fantastic use of technology.
by divmain | 2026-03-08 21:51:37+00:00
This is what I was going for with Treebeard[0]. It is sandbox-exec, worktrees, and COW/overlay filesystem. The overlay filesystem is nice, in that you have access to git-ignored files in the original directory without having to worry about those files being modified in the original (due to the COW semantics). Though, truthfully, I haven’t found myself using it much since getting it all working.

[0] https://github.com/divmain/treebeard
by apt-apt-apt-apt | 2026-03-08 21:51:41+00:00
I was going to suggest emotional leetcode, but LLMs do well on this.

When given a conversation about Alice and Suzy having a one-upmanship conversation (my husband rich, my kid is a genius) and what emotions they are feeling, and what Suzy could have said instead to improve the conversation, it gave accurate responses (e.g. they're feeling insecure, competitive, envy).
by thrtythreeforty | 2026-03-08 21:52:04+00:00
The one that took us the longest was (3). He knew he needed to go, knew all the steps, and would pee in his pants just to spite his parents.

It's really eye opening and frustrating to see children be stubborn just for the sake of it. They're literally still developing and it's normal, but they are just too young to reason with. You have to create the environment where positive feedback happens, and... wait a very long time for them to work it out.
by NalNezumi | 2026-03-08 21:52:18+00:00
Reminds me of my bachelor thesis work that was flock/crowd simulation.

The 3 rules worked fine but couldn't catch geometric constraints so we had to only use it as base-case and move on to a bit more particle and potential based interactions to apply it to interesting cases (geometric variation, sudden appearance of threat etc)

Cool that you can do it with neural networks, I guess. Gotta agree with everyone that the LLM-ness makes it really cheap, and wonder if the project would've had more caveats and funny exploration of how it could be extended had it not been driven by what I assume is LLM prompt back and fort (novelty is hard to prompt from LLM)
by wolvoleo | 2026-03-08 21:52:24+00:00
Now you should go and reinforce the two lines on top of the screen, make them wider. Or replace them with something softer. Otherwise they will crush your topcase to a pulp. Like they did on every genuine macbook out there for many years because Apple never bothered to fix it.

Personally I thought the later plastic macbook with the rounded edges was a much nicer design. Or the earliest white iBooks, which had a transparent case with white paint inside so they had this really cool glow. Unfortunately that caused shadows on the tiniest scratch which acted like a magnifying glass, so you really had to keep it pristine. But in those days a macbook was super expensive so I always kept mine in sleeves.

By the way I love what you've done with the EL film powering the back apple light. That looks amazing. It should always have been implemented like this, so you can drive it separately.
by tlb | 2026-03-08 21:52:36+00:00
Isn't that essentially what happened? In the 1930s, the channels were allocated at 6 MHz spacing, but only needed about 3 MHz of bandwidth for the luma channel. There might have been some foresight involved, but the gaps between channels also allowed for cheaper, less precise tuners. Then in the 1950s they added a 1 MHz chroma signal on a 3.58 MHz upper sideband, expanding the channel bandwidth to just under 6 MHz.
by beAbU | 2026-03-08 21:52:49+00:00
The irony of your comment is that it is actually possible to train cats to use the toilet, and it's not even that difficult.

But other than that, I fully agree with your sentiment that it's like war. My sibling comment to yours quoted Sun Tsu: "even the best laid plans will not survive contact with the enemy". My favourite example is when our 3 month old decides to have her weekly Big Shit after we get her all cleaned and dressed up for going out somewhere, right as we walk out the front door.
by borski | 2026-03-08 21:53:07+00:00
> They switch between AI providers (OpenAI → Google) like you can "just change the LLM bro"

You can. They’re not the same, but you can absolutely “just switch the LLM, bro,” and most consumers would never notice a difference.

As for the rest: this is about the future, not the present. All of your comments about the present are thus not particularly relevant, imho.
by SoftTalker | 2026-03-08 21:53:48+00:00
I'd suggest: new accounts are read-only for at least a week. Then they can comment (rate limited at first, gradually relaxed) and vote, and then after some additional amount of time and/or karma they can submit a post. Maybe some of these mechanisms are already in place? Bots can probably game this too but drive-by bots maybe won't be patient enough.
by famouswaffles | 2026-03-08 21:54:30+00:00
People just overstate their understanding and knowledge, the usual human stuff. The same user has a comment in this thread that contains:

'If you actually know what models are doing under the hood to product output that...'

This is usually the point where i just bow out. Any one that tells you they know 'what models are dong under the hood' simply has no idea what they're talking about, and it's amazing how common this failure mode is.
by sillyfluke | 2026-03-08 21:54:45+00:00
>You can't train LLMs on proprietary data, at least not if you want to make that LLM as accessible as Gemini. Otherwise random people can ask it your home address.

If this is your only criteria I think you have a misunderstanding of what proprietary data is and ways companies can mitigate the situation in the inference stage.
by simonask | 2026-03-08 21:54:56+00:00
I would also have liked to see some motivational examples, but I think the most interesting upside of an effect system is composability.

Rust is actually really unique among imperative languages in its general composability - things just compose really well across most language features.

The big missing pieces for composability are higher-kinded types (where you could be generic over Option, Result, etc.), and effects (where you could be generic over async-fn, const-fn, hypothetical nopanic-fn, etc.)

The former becomes obvious with the amount of interface duplication between types like Option and Result. The latter becomes obvious with the number of variants of certain functions that essentially do the same thing but with a different color.
by oarsinsync | 2026-03-08 21:55:14+00:00
> > The big idea with Linux/BSD/fully-open-source is that you can fix whatever you don't like.

> That's a great theory, and sometimes it's actually true, but in reality for most users most of the time, Linux is as "fixable" as Windows or macOS, because most people, even the technically savvy ones aren't driver developers.

But there a whole lot more people who are happy to pay Claude $200/month now than there used to be. Claude isn’t a driver developer, but it’s taken a bunch of different open projects and modified for them for me in such a way that it’s made my life meaningfully better.

Things I couldn’t do for years, that I’ve wanted for years, got accomplished in 2 evenings: one to implement and deploy, one to optimise because the original deployment was a good POC but not good enough to keep running (e.g. doubling or tripling of CPU usage or RAM from prior to modification).

Sure, you could argue I’m paying a doctor, but there isn’t a doctor for the apple ecosystem. There’s just “suck it up, sunshine.”

(Written from my iPad, where I continue to suck it up)