MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by yellowapple | 2026-03-03 09:07:05+00:00
Per your link, only 6% of those games made more than $10k.

Also, the AI disclaimer covers the very broad category of “AI has touched some part of this project at some point, no matter how minor, and no matter if it was eventually replaced with non-AI assets”. The original article seems to be more about the narrower category of “AI is a significant part of this project”, which would exclude nearly all of the top-12-grossing games that your link covers.
by edurevilla | 2026-03-03 09:07:23+00:00
Hi HN. I built ClipMason because clipboard managers just store text - I wanted one that actually does things with what I copy.

I'm a developer and I constantly copy code, URLs, hex colors and screenshots.
I was tired of switching between tools to format JSON, encode Base64, resize an image or run OCR on a screenshot.

ClipMason sits in the menu bar and detects what you copy. Depending on the type, it shows relevant actions:

- Text (22+ actions): case conversion, camelCase/snake_case, JSON pretty print, Base64, URL encode, MD5/SHA-256, sort/deduplicate lines
- Images: resize (percentage or exact pixels), rotate, flip, grayscale, invert, annotate, OCR
- Colors: detected automatically from hex strings, copy as HEX/RGB/HSL/SwiftUI/CSS
- URLs: open in browser, extract domain, convert to Markdown
- Files: open, reveal in Finder, copy path Built natively with SwiftUI and SwiftData. No Electron. Everything stays local on your Mac.

Happy to answer questions or hear what other actions would be useful.
by ho_schi | 2026-03-03 09:07:25+00:00
Tenth of millions of devices were sold (somewhere between 20 to 35 Million?). You could build multiple plants for it, with government funding in Europe.

The MBAs at Apple noticed:

* Big size is a status symbol in Asia. And TV replacement. Their a lot of people in Asia.
* Due to vendor lock-in people need to purchase anyway. So just sell them the standard phone.

They got the sales anyway. We don’t have a “functional market”. But Apples marketing was weird. They named it Mini instead of Compact or Air. And launched it against the SE? A lot people already refused to move from the SE 1st Gen to the Mini, to due the increased size and missing TouchID.

So Apple assumed people want even bigger Max or Air. The Air which is actually much thicker most other phones. Both seem to fail.
by sodic | 2026-03-03 09:07:31+00:00
This looks like a compilation of emails made available through various court cases and leaks over the past 15+ years. Each conversation lists a source (look for small text after all the messages). There's a bunch of different sources.

As to why it's relevant now - I don't think it is. It's likely just a spin-off of similar renders that started popping out in relation to the Epstein files.
by 97-109-107 | 2026-03-03 09:09:34+00:00
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by clone1018 | 2026-03-03 09:10:48+00:00
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by Rounin | 2026-03-03 09:11:04+00:00
With regards to GOG and privacy, though, it's worth noting that GOG write that they "may use Google Adwords, Doubleclick, Sizmek Versatag, Yandex.Metrica, Twitter Pixel or Facebook Pixel and other similar technologies" as well as "Google Analytics, Google Optimize, Matomo, Hotjar", and that they incorporate either the privacy or cookie or ad policy of most of these services by reference into their own cookie policy:
https://support.gog.com/hc/en-us/articles/115000498685-Cooki...
So if they really are a privacy- and consumer-oriented company, that must be the slip-up of the century.
by dns_snek | 2026-03-03 09:11:36+00:00
I use 5 different banking apps and 3 other financial/investment apps and they all work fine, you should check compatibility with yours [1]. And to be precise, contactless payments work but not through Google Pay - I've heard that Curve is a viable alternative, and some banks might have their own systems that aren't based on Google Pay (though most seem to be).

[1] https://privsec.dev/posts/android/banking-applications-compa...
by gwd | 2026-03-03 09:12:16+00:00
> the article doesn't include any facts that indicate this.

It does include two facts:

1. That the reporter's bio on the webpage changed "...is a reporter at Ars" to "...was a reporter at Ars". On the one hand, that's pretty thin sauce. On the other hand, that's not exactly the sort of change that gets made randomly.

2. They reached out to the various people involved, and although nobody has confirmed it, it's also the case that nobody has denied it.
by u1hcw9nx | 2026-03-03 09:13:24+00:00
Filming vs. Publishing

Filming is legal. In public spaces (streets, parks), there is no "reasonable expectation of privacy." You do not need permission to point a camera. The exceptions are usually for offensive or harassing type of filming.

Publishing is regulated. In EU, once you share the footage , you are "processing personal data" under GDPR. There are also exceptions where publishing without permission is legal. Legitimate Interest (security footage or incidental background), Public Interest/Journalism, and Artistic Expression.

Generally you must ask permission to publish, not to film. Although asking permission to film is good ethical principle too.
Launching raw MVPs with live feature roadmaps – RawLaunch.app
by fojia | 2026-03-03 09:13:36+00:00
Hi HN,

I’m excited to share RawLaunch – a platform for makers to launch even raw products, gather feedback, and iterate faster.

Key features:

Launch early: Share your MVP even if it’s not polished.

Feature Roadmap: Public roadmap showing upcoming features and progress.

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RawLaunch is designed for early-stage projects, side projects, and makers who want to validate ideas quickly without waiting for a "perfect" launch.

Check it out: https://rawlaunch.app/

Would love to hear what the HN community thinks and any feedback you have!
by mapleoin | 2026-03-03 09:14:19+00:00
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by henrikschroder | 2026-03-03 09:14:41+00:00
The reason for daylight savings, as batshit insane as it sounds, is that it's easier to authoritatively tell people what time it is, with a one-hour jump twice a year, than to tell people to change business hours twice a year for a better experience around daylight.

It's absolutely fascinating from a psychology standpoint.

My one big hope for when countries now stop doing the stupid clock change thing, is that people become a lot more flexible around business hours and school hours, and adapt a schedule that fits people.
by Veedrac | 2026-03-03 09:15:56+00:00
My confusion is that this is just Many Worlds / the Schrödinger equation, and Quantum Darwinism doesn't seem to add anything that wasn't already obvious by inspection. But after reading more, I think that's kind of the point? It's ultimately just an argument for why the Schrödinger equation produces these locally classical regions, plus a bunch of overly flowery prose and dressing up in invented jargon that can mostly be ignored. I think the article failed to ignore that second part and ended up confused.
by nicktikhonov | 2026-03-03 09:15:56+00:00
Glad to hear! I built my blog on top of NextJS - it basically just renders .mdx files with contentlayer. One of the things I discovered is that you can easily vibe-code these explainer widgets. Seems like a perfect use case for vibe coding - each is a simple react component and I can keep iterating until I get it working just the way I like. And super easy to interleave with content. Seems like this could be an obvious feature addition to all the blogging platforms.
by yellowapple | 2026-03-03 09:17:33+00:00
In the second demo, the audio for “Mama Tried” ended up in the track titled “Row Jimmy” instead of the track titled “Mama Tried” ;)

Also, the demo UI drops the playback state if you switch from one tab to the other; if you play a track in one tab, switch to the other tab, and switch back to the first tab, there's no option to pause the already-playing song. Thanks to this I'm currently listening to five instances of the Grateful Dead singing “Mama Tried” offset by about 5 seconds lmao
by Poacher5 | 2026-03-03 09:17:35+00:00
There's a noticeable increase in sleep disorders and related conditions in the far west of the single time zone [0]. I think when it's on the order of a single hour's shift for daylight savings the effects are pretty negligible but they are measurable.

[0] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FY9mXPcloaM
by br121 | 2026-03-03 09:18:02+00:00
It's just a reference to how CRT-era games look better on CRT as the devs were working with CRTs in mind and taking advantage of their way of rendering images[1].
I don't think there is actually a noticeable difference for the website itself, CRT performs a sort of interpolation which is great for old games that accounted for it, but for content that is already high-enough in resolution there is not any improvement

[1]https://wackoid.com/game/10-pictures-that-show-why-crt-tvs-a...
by dijit | 2026-03-03 09:18:04+00:00
Many people used low iPhone mini sales to point at the idea that small phones aren't popular anymore.

They might be right, but the "Mini" was more like a return to the size of the 6 & 8; not the same size as the 5 or prior SE. So for me it was still too large.

https://imgur.com/a/iphone-mini-vs-iphone-5-vs-iphone-6-case...

The "usable screen" is where my thumb can reach, not whatever idea people have in their heads about the total size of the phone or anything, truthfully.

Anyway; hit recognition of the keyboard is so far behind where it was in the iPhone 4/5 generation that I doubt modern iOS would even be functional; even if you excused the padding issues that would inevitably be an issue.
by surrTurr | 2026-03-03 09:19:34+00:00
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by noduerme | 2026-03-03 09:19:51+00:00
>> but this is totally distinct from your recordings ending up getting labeled

The distinction here occurs wherever the data is processed, and it sounds as if the difference between using your video for labeling versus privately processing it through an AI is deliberately confusing and obscured to the user by the way the terms of service are written. Once the video is uploaded, which is necessary for the basic function, it's unclear how or whether it can be separated from other streams that do go through labeling. This confusion also seems to be an intentional dark pattern.
by buran77 | 2026-03-03 09:20:25+00:00
> They deleted the article

This was a big disappointment. I read the original article and the comment from the source highlighting the error, knew what was wrong with it, and still think it was the wrong move to just delete the article and all the original comments, and replace it with an editorial note.

This is a kind of cover-up. It's impossible to hide the issue but they went to great lengths to soften the optics and remove the damning content from the public record. They obscured the magnitude of the error. It looks like another "person uses AI and gets some details wrong".

What they did so far, the decisions that allowed the issue to occur in the first place (e.g. no editorial review before publishing) and the first reaction to deal with the incident (just destroy the content, article and comments) is everything I need to know about the journalistic principles at ArsTechnica. it's a major loss of trust for me.
by dahateb | 2026-03-03 09:20:47+00:00
I have been using GrapheneOS now for 8 month and its been quite a smooth ride. The biggest worry I had was flashing it onto a brand new Pixel phone I had just bought. Everything else works fine though. Currently using 3 (german) banking apps and I haven't had a single issue. Also still using Google apps like camera and maps. Also Gboard as the default GrapheneOS keyboard is a bit uncomfortable. Really nice that you can just remove the network permissions and it works like a charm
by digispecial8x | 2026-03-03 09:20:53+00:00
I built this out of frustration with every AI prompt pack I could find online.

The pattern is always the same: someone aggregates 100 generic prompts with no context for when or why to use them, packages it as a PDF, and sells it. The output you get from these prompts is exactly as generic as the prompts themselves.

What I built instead:
The Prompt Library — 40 prompts across 8 marketing disciplines (content, SEO, paid media, email, social, analytics, growth, AI strategy). Each prompt has three parts: the situation it's designed for, the structured prompt itself with output specifications, and a pro tip based on running that task in real campaigns.

Example: instead of "write 5 email subject lines", the prompt specifies the exact scenario (re-engagement, 90-day inactive subscribers, B2B SaaS), the psychological angles to test (curiosity, social proof, urgency, pattern interrupt), the format (table with subject line, angle, rationale), and the constraint that forces quality (under 45 characters, no specific overused words).

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Happy to answer questions about the prompt engineering approach or the audit methodology.
by winwang | 2026-03-03 09:21:48+00:00
Kind of agreed. I like vibe coding as "just" another tool. It's nice to review code in IDE (well, VSCode), make changes without fully refactoring, and have the AI "autocomplete". Interesting, sometimes way faster + easier to refactor by hand because of IDE tooling.

The ways that agents actually make me "faster" are typically:
1. more fun to slog through tedious/annoying parts
2. fast code review iterations
3. parallel agents
by alkonaut | 2026-03-03 09:21:54+00:00
Maybe if we weigh legitimate use cases against privacy and end up deciding that the privacy is more important, then we just don't accept those use cases?
That is: we invent new awesome life-changing technology and we just... don't use it?

Like we could have navigational AR-glasses. The wearer sees arrows on the floor where to walk. And we could choose to not let anyone wear them in public even though what they do is useful, and there aren't any real privacy issues. But people around the wearer don't know that. That's the privacy concern.
by user_7832 | 2026-03-03 09:23:38+00:00
> ...but they keep circling around it, trying not to make iPads accidentally powerful enough for someone to skip buying a MacBook.

Kinda ironic for a company when it was Jobs who said"If you don't cannibalize yourself, someone else will"...

I have an ageing iPad, but the crap software really makes me reconsider ever wanting to spend so much money for a shiny toy.
by codingfox | 2026-03-03 09:23:42+00:00
I’ve written a deep dive into Software Design focusing on the "gray area" between High-Level Design (system architecture) and Low-Level Design (classes/functions).

What's inside:

* A step-by-step tutorial refactoring a legacy big-ball-of-mud into self-contained modules.

* A bit of a challenge to Clean/Hexagonal Architectures with a pattern I've seen in the wild (which I named MIM in the text).

* A solid appendix on the fundamentals of Modular Design.

(Warning: It’s a long read. I’ve seen shorter ebooks on Leanpub).
by jgraham | 2026-03-03 09:24:10+00:00
To be clear: I don't think it will happen.

But the point of comparison is something like the HTML specification. That's supposed to be a document that is detailed enough about how to create an implementation that multiple different groups can produce compatible implementations without having any actual code in common.

In practice it still doesn't quite work: the specification has to be supplemented with testsuites that all implementations use, and even then there often needs to be a feedback loop where new implementations find new ambiguities or errors, and the specification needs to be updated. Plus implementors often "cheat" and examine each other's behaviour or even code, rather than just using the specification.

Nevertheless it's perhaps the closest thing I'm familiar with to an existing practice where the plan is considered canonical, and therefore worth thinking about as a model for what "code as implementation detail" would entail in other situations.
by Incipient | 2026-03-03 09:24:45+00:00
Without being a cpu geek, a lot of the branch prediction details go over my head, however generally a good review. I liked the detail of performance on more complex workloads where IPC can get muddy when you need more instructions.

I feel these days however, for any comparison of performance, power envelope needs to be included (I realise this is dependent on the final chip)
by rcxdude | 2026-03-03 09:24:59+00:00
France has an unusual rung on their escalation ladder, in that they will use a low-yield nuke on a military target before they launch their big ones at cities, but this is still fundamentally about trying to avoid MAD, by hoping that the very expensive signal of _actually_ nuking something but not going all-out will precipitate some de-escalation by showing that they really are serious about it.
by rafaelmn | 2026-03-03 09:25:24+00:00
You fix something then the next system update breaks everything. Depending on the machine mood and what I'm currently running slack/chrome will crash while attempting to screen share. Audio routing will get messed up randomly every time I need to use a DAW.

Sorry but the level of stuff that Apple users complain about when they say "not working" is not comparable to the level of unreliability of linux for me - it's not even in the same class of reliability - Apple users are just spoiled and rightfully mad about the platform quality deteriorating.

I'm not a Linux noob, I've been running linux desktop on and off for a long time (I remember ordering the free Ubuntu CD's and having to go to customs with my father at 14-15 so over 20 year probably - holly shit time flies). The last attempt was like a year ago for two months. Linux is still very much a hobby you pick up to run your computer for me and every colleague I see using it just confirms this even if they won't admit it (issues connecting to calls, unmuting, turning on camera, etc.). Like I'm annoyed that I can't use HDMI 2.1 via my USB 4 dock on Mac because it doesn't support some protocol, on Linux HDMI 2.1 on my AMD card is a no go from the start (unless I want to go with some random dude unofficial kernel driver patches).

I still use my desktop as SSH workstation and run arch on it, but my client is MacOS - I just need something that works reliably for everyday productivity tasks.
by mariusb16 | 2026-03-03 09:26:33+00:00
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