MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by shagie | 2026-03-02 23:04:15+00:00
Most of the world tends to prefer to not be too far from the center of the timezone (where solar noon matches solar time in standard time). Geographic and political boundaries make it so that often it's more red. The extremes of north and south tend not to care as much because it doesn't matter as much.

https://andywoodruff.com/blog/where-to-hate-daylight-saving-...
Show HN: Parallax – Coordinate adversarial AI agents over durable streams
by infiniteregrets | 2026-03-02 23:04:19+00:00
Parallax is a CLI for orchestrating independent AI agent cohorts (Claude, Codex, etc.) over isolated, append-only logs or streams. Each cohort operates on its own log and does not see the intermediate reasoning of others i.e. disagreement is enforced at the infrastructure layer rather than prompted at runtime. Agents write to sequenced, durable logs and a separate moderator agent subscribes to all streams, monitors progress, issues steering instructions when necessary, and synthesizes outputs at the end.

That means, coordination is just done over a log with natural language, which allows us to rewire topology of agents mid-run, fork, merge, spawn breakout rooms or build any research methodology on the fly depending on the question. If something goes wrong / crashes, agents can resume from where they left off. Further, if the log or stream is serverless, agents can connect over the log from any machine anywhere in the world and collaborate on tasks / research.
by pwg | 2026-03-02 23:04:20+00:00
Yes. States are allowed to ignore "summer time" and remain on "standard time" all year round. Arizona is the usual example cited, they do not change the clocks, and remain on standard time year round.

The special auth. from the Fed's is needed to switch to "permanent summer time" (and, possibly advocating for year round "summer time" gives the state politicians cover to do nothing, because "their hands are tied...").
by PaulDavisThe1st | 2026-03-02 23:04:37+00:00
Once again, you're making an implicit claim about all the nice things in contemporary civilization (or least the list you gave), in this case that their mere existence is "destroying our planet". But you haven't made that case, and it is far from obvious that it is true. It could be true ... but I'm also to the imagined version of a political & economic system that had still produced portable hand-held network connected computing devices and long distance personal transportation vehicles without "destroying our planet".

What I cannot imagine, however, is an alternative that still featured "greedy corporations" without the "destroying our planet" part.
by vunderba | 2026-03-02 23:05:07+00:00
Yeah, DLL hell... ugh.

I have fond memories of Visual Basic. I still think it was one of the best tools for RAD (Rapid Application Development), you can definitely tell that .NET with WinForms borrowed heavily from it.

At one point, I remember they started including MSVBVM_X.DLL runtimes in the Windows OS, allowing you to shrink application size for distro even further which was nice.
by fmajid | 2026-03-02 23:05:20+00:00
What other services does Apple have that people would be paying for? The ones they have today are either iCloud storage, which does not need much compute, or merely an alibi so they can claim with an almost straight face that Apple's "Services" revenue isn't basically just the App Store 30% tax. That also explains why they are constantly shoving ads for News or Fitness our throats in the Settings app.
by trentellingsen | 2026-03-02 23:05:32+00:00
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by Nevermark | 2026-03-02 23:05:55+00:00
They are not determined internally.

So determined non-internally if you prefer. Non-internal to reality.

My point is that is a tautological impossibility. Reality by definition is all. That is what we want to explain (or at least, zoom in on a potential form of explanation).

Reality can't depend on anything making a choice that is not a part of itself.
by Retric | 2026-03-02 23:06:26+00:00
Cop body cam footage is more likely to help you vs a cop than get you into trouble because a cop is already there watching what you’re doing. IE: Thank god the cop’s camera was off when I was buying crack, I might have gotten in trouble otherwise… fails because a cop was already watching you.

Cops also announce their presence in uniforms and are operating as government agents. People already moderate their behavior around cops so being recorded isn’t as big a deal.
by mrbuttons454 | 2026-03-02 23:06:35+00:00
I've been running Debian on servers for 20+ years now. And in the last few years I've been running it on my desktop, sort of a toe in the water. 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, but the software is only getting worse. It's a shame too, because I do believe Apple has the best hardware.
by NicuCalcea | 2026-03-02 23:06:46+00:00
There is a way to sus them out: https://www.404media.co/this-app-warns-you-if-someone-is-wea...

Not perfect, but better than nothing I guess. I don't think I've noticed the glasses IRL anywhere, but if I start seeing them, I'm definitely installing the app and avoiding any interactions with those people.
by dangus | 2026-03-02 23:06:51+00:00
There are lots of ways around it, like adding a transparent “training mode” that a user can enable with consent, legitimately purchasing training data, etc.

The root cause is that meta didn’t want to pay the fair market value for those videos and just stole them from its users by burying it in TOS.

If they were honest about their intentions most people would say no or demand payment for providing something of value.
by backscratches | 2026-03-02 23:07:09+00:00
The coolest hacker-esque Pokémon ROM I've seen is InfiniteFusion [1]. Let's you combine Pokémon into original "fusions", in other words, there are over 200,000 Pokémon. Impressively well done and very fun with lots of user accessible settings like difficulty and degree of randomness. For example, this is the sprite you see in game if you have Blastizard aka Blastoise/Charizard fusion: https://www.fusiondex.org/blastoise+charizard/

[1] https://infinitefusion.fandom.com/wiki/Pok%C3%A9mon_Infinite...
by dokdev | 2026-03-02 23:07:25+00:00
Hi HN! I'm the dev behind Agent Browser.

I was building AI agents that browse the web and kept hitting the same wall: sending screenshots or accessibility snapshots to the model burns tokens and is slow. So I tried rendering pages as ASCII wireframes instead.

Every interactive element gets a numbered label. The agent sees a compact text representation and says "click [12]" or "type [5] hello". A typical page costs 3x to 10x less tokens depending on the content.

You can use it with the Vercel AI SDK or as an MCP server. To add it to Cursor or Claude Desktop:

{

"mcpServers": {

"agent-browser": {

"command": "npx",
"args": ["-y", "@agent-browser-io/browser", "mcp"]
}

}

}

Still experimental, would love your feedback. Happy to answer questions!
by steve_adams_86 | 2026-03-02 23:07:38+00:00
This will sound like hyperbole, but the direction on iOS and watchOS led directly to me selling my watch and giving my son my phone. I agree it's worse with watchOS.

Apple are so stubborn and persistent in the way they choose directions. I realized I'd rather move on than be stuck with that mess for years. It's wild.

I still use macOS but I'm steadily finding ways off. Weird times. I've been deeply embedded in the apple platform for over 25 years.

I think I sensed things were meaningfully changing around 2020 (I can't recall exactly), but my sense of the ongoing decline is way more rapid than I anticipated back then. Maybe it started and gained momentum earlier than I realized.
by benjismith | 2026-03-02 23:07:43+00:00
Product Engineer (full stack, design + ux)

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Location: Portland, OR

Remote: Yes

Willing to Relocate: Yes

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by zer0zzz | 2026-03-02 23:07:57+00:00
Anecdotal screeching aside, they’re objectively selling far better than any headgear ever made. The sales figures show they’re pretty popular as far as wearables go. That leads me to believe we’re not in the same world as Google glass especially when back then folks were far more trusting of tech (let alone the fact that it’s meta).

The times I do I see folks wearing them the normie reaction is typically “oh cool” and not some libertarian allergic reaction to technology.
by superdocs1 | 2026-03-02 23:08:17+00:00
Location: Europe

Remote: Yes (flexible with time zone differences & async work)

Willing to relocate: No

Technologies: Python, TypeScript, Next.js, C#, LLMs, Document Processing, OCR, Image Processing, NLP, AWS, Azure, Docker

Résumé/CV: https://superdocs.io

Email: superdocsio@gmail.com

I specialize in "AI for documents", available for consulting on:

- LLMs, RAG, Structured Extraction
- Data extraction from documents
- OCR
- Table detection/recognition
- Document classification
- Document splitting
- PDF workflow automation

Currently working on https://citellm.com, an API that adds citations to LLM document extraction, so users can click-to-verify any value.
by staticassertion | 2026-03-02 23:09:03+00:00
I think you just aren't understanding what it means to be "brute". It does not mean "caused externally", it means "the end of the explanatory chain has been reached". If you want to say that the explanatory chain has no end, great, go for it, you now have a regress problem.

There is no "choice", there is determination, there is no explanation. If you're still framing things there, then you're just denying brute facts, but you're not about to prove that brute facts aren't possible in a HN thread and you're getting the concepts of necessity, brute, and contingent mixed up along the way.
by andriy_koval | 2026-03-02 23:09:33+00:00
> That decision is about if something can be both a trade secret and copyrighted.

I think you completely made up this part.
My reading is that court said that Capricorn failed to met criteria to establish trade secret and even violation didn't happen at all.
Also, it was district court ruling which doesn't establish any case law.

* Capricorn did not treat Supercede as confidential.

* merely listed functionalities of Supercede and did not allege how such functionalities constituted a unique trade secret.

* DePace, Capricorn's primary coder of Supercede, did not believe Defendants had copied Supercede,
by theshackleford | 2026-03-02 23:09:58+00:00
Well, i'm happy for you from the respect that as someone with ADHD, getting a working notes and TODO system for me was life changing, and was something that in fact took me years, and I still tend to occasionally uproot my system, so I can understand that getting to somewhere it works for you can be of tremendous value alone.

> I have a whole system for managing TODOs, notes, etc

So do I and it can already accept input via text or voice from my phone and so I’m just not seeing the benefit of inserting an additional LLM orchestration layer just to route tasks into it.

> And far less capable.

My current setup can already capture voice and text, and can route it automatically into Logseq, Trello, or even org-mode. These all can be viewed from the same (or other) devices. Honestly, I would have to think it was of more usage in retrieval than submission if I was to ever go that route. Like instead of reviewing my todos/schedule manually.

> And in the early days, literally everyone I knew who owned an iPhone also owned a digital camera and a laptop. Why pay some crazy amount for a fancy phone?

A Phone enabled entirely new behaviors that were not possible from my laptop or camera at the time. Persistent connectivity, real-time location services and on device image capture, edit and sharing just to name an incredibly small few. It created use cases that weren’t practical or even possible previously.

I’m open to being convinced, but I haven’t yet seen an example where OpenClaw enables something meaningfully new rather than repackaging something I can already do right now. Perhaps i'd be more open to it if it not literally everything I could think of using it for did not lead to atrocious security implmentations.
by pulvinar | 2026-03-02 23:10:04+00:00
That outfit was typical of clowns in 1890, and often used in the opera Pagliacci about a clown.

[0] <http://1890swriters.blogspot.com/2015/10/victorian-clowns-an...>

[1] <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pagliacci>
by lamontcg | 2026-03-02 23:10:07+00:00
Yeah, I still remember when I flipped from Linux to Mac at home. In my case it was a long time ago when I got a 4k monitor and couldn't scale the display text/icons and so couldn't read shit on it, and setting up a multi-monitor setup with Linux with different display resolutions was completely impossible. It worked in a few buttons with Mac. Digging into the issue on the Linux side there was some developer just yelling into the issue that people couldn't see 4k resolution, so there was no point to buying that hardware and everyone was just making a purchasing mistake with 4k monitors. I'm sure it has been long fixed by now, but that's the social problem which is waiting there. It won't be that issue, but there'll be something else like that...
by harry8 | 2026-03-02 23:10:16+00:00
if you can put up with each update making it worse, slower, less precise user interface. There's a reason old macs run linux rather than macos or go to landfil.

For the amount charged they should be usable for 15-20 years. Enschittification is very much an apple thing. Cue outraged apple cult memebers.
by sonofhans | 2026-03-02 23:10:22+00:00
As usual, science fiction is a cautionary tale of the future. The more effort we put into robots the bigger and stronger they get. Sooner or later one of them will hurt a human, and then what do we do? You can’t hold a robot accountable.

Well, where are we now? If that robot is a driverless car, it can pretty much run over humans with impunity. The owner and manufacturer of the car will suffer minor penalties (compared with the victim being dead or maimed). They will not be required to change their actions. The robots will continue to be allowed to harm people in public.

Personally, I liked it better when we told ourselves stories about breaking the damn things as soon as they hurt someone.
by observationist | 2026-03-02 23:11:06+00:00
Actually useful AR needs cameras, of course, so the technology has legitimate use cases, but you'd have to be a real asshole to wear them to a bar, or a restaurant, etc. Maybe we mandate that the glasses have to have a base station dongle, and if they're more than 10 feet from the dongle, recording doesn't work without incredibly obvious annoying lights indicating that recording is on?

A cultural convention that lets people make honest mistakes, but turn it off when someone says "hey, you're recording" seems like a good solution. Just need to make it easily visible and obvious to others - you can run around in public with a big news camera on your shoulder or a tripod and you usually won't get hassled. It's just the idea of being covertly recorded, even while in public, that gets creepy.
by h4kunamata | 2026-03-02 23:11:06+00:00
Hell yeah, so Motorola is the OEM they have been quietly working with.
Millennials are gonna lose their shit lmao

Motorola used to be huge back in the day, and their come back couldn't have been more noisier, GOS is the only mobile operating system worth using in an era of age verification and privacy issues due to the heavy dependency on USA tech companies. Android is heavily customised by the OEMs like Samsung, Google, iPhone is just another nightmware apart.

Linux is the most used OS worldwide, everything that our socienty depends on is running Linux, you might be using Windows, macOS, but the services and everything else is quietly running Linux.

Windows is the main OS used by users/offices only, it is a very small number.

Also, 2026 is the year Linux stopped living in the shadows!!

We have to thank this all to AI, if Microslot handn't pushed AI so hard and destroyed Windows for end-users, and Steam with Linux alone proving to the gigantic gaming community that Linux can do the same and better, we wouldn't have Linux replacing end-users/offices computer that used to run Windows this fast.

Thanks AI.
by wongarsu | 2026-03-02 23:12:27+00:00
For the main camera there are cases with sliding covers for many phone models. Marketed for protecting the lens from scratches, but quite effective for privacy as well

For the front camera that's a lot more difficult. You could probably modify one of those flexible screen protectors to black out the camera, but it'd be very inconvenient to take off.

Maybe there is some niche android phone that offers physical shutters, similar to the ones on Lenovo laptop webcams
by Nevermark | 2026-03-02 23:13:07+00:00
Maybe we are missing something in each other's views. Or I am.

Here I distinguish between "explanation" and "determination". Hoping that helps.

My understanding of brute facts, is they are free values in theory, but measured values in practice. And somehow we just accept experimental measurements of some things as the end of explanation.

I am arguing against the validity of less than full determination, and pointing out that does not imply endless chains of determination.

But our explanations may forever be more limited than reality, for any. number of reasons, but not because reality doesn't fully determine everything. I can see a practical acceptance of values without full explanation, if we have reason to believe we cannot probe further.

Maybe that is a level of agreement?

--

As for complete determination, without any need for infinite regress:

Unique self-consistencies are co-constraints that can fully determine things without infinite regress. There is a unique determination loop, not an endless spiral. Uniqueness avoids the problems of non-unique circular reasoning. And reality itself must have this property. The only possible explanation (form our point of view) or determiner (as it actually exists), is itself. As a unique self-consistent form it can do that. Constrained by its own need to be consistent and self-contained.

I am very much trying to understand the line we disagree on, interpret differently, or not.
by exmadscientist | 2026-03-02 23:13:09+00:00
And phones are even worse!

I have come to hate Android, but every time I seriously look at switching to iOS, it seems Apple has chosen that time to make things even worse. Unfortunately, there's no Linux equivalent for phones. (Or at least, nothing that's easier than gentoo was in 2004. That was great for learning, but for daily use of a critical device, not so great.)
by allknowingfrog | 2026-03-02 23:13:27+00:00
Well, I'm not one of those people. I like waking up with the sun and driving to work in the daylight. The idea that DST solves anything absolutely blows my mind. If you want the ability to start your work day earlier and end it earlier, that seems like a worker protection bill that needs to be passed. DST is the kludgiest kludge that ever kludged.
by rootusrootus | 2026-03-02 23:13:28+00:00
What I would like is a really good single camera. If that's even possible. One thing I find sort of irritating about the multi-camera setup on my iPhone is that using it as a magnifier is often frustrating. Get too close to something and it decides to switch cameras, which then means now you're actually looking at something else entirely. Maybe I'm missing a setting somewhere, I can't be the only person to notice how awkwardly the functionality is implemented.
by ankitdce | 2026-03-02 23:13:59+00:00
author here - a few things:
1) code review was always a lossy verification system
2) to eliminate the need for code reviews, we should build systems that can blend predictive execution with deterministic verification
3) if we cannot build bug-free systems, we have to resilient ones
4) a core value of code reviews is knowledge sharing - this we must still preserve through specs reviews
by stult | 2026-03-02 23:14:05+00:00
Except for people like me who struggle to wake up before dawn. And whether people prefer light after work doesn't change the available scientific evidence which suggests there are significant negative health effects of waking up too early relative to sunrise, but no significant health benefits from having sunlight hours after work. People's preferences in this case are generally only mildly held and typically are not well informed by the science. I suspect if more people were aware of the deleterious health effects, their stated preferences would change.
by megous | 2026-03-02 23:14:11+00:00
It may even be a good thing, from a PoV of learning resiliency and adaptation to supply chain changes. They probably ended up very hard to disrupt.

I've seen an Orange Pi 5+ in a drone, which I wrote the upstream DTS for conincidentally, Raspberry Pi, etc.

Despite Opi5+ having sophisticated ISP and camera interfaces, they just used some USB/analog camera capture card. Probably because if you're using generic interface that just works, you can just throw in any SBC in that has some so-so working Linux build somewhere so that USB and gpio/i2c/spi or any of these generic interfaces work on and you're golden. Your other software can then stay the same, because everything that uses these interfaces from userspace is well abstracted away from platform details by Linux and works identically across all SBCs.
by fc417fc802 | 2026-03-02 23:14:19+00:00
Well yes, but at that point aren't you effectively writing two compilers in one? It seems to me that would be at odds with wanting it to be fast to compile itself (you said under 30s) and would make it more difficult for the uninitiated to contribute to.

I don't mean to discourage and I don't disagree with the aims. I just have the (possibly mistaken) impression that compilers inevitably fall on a continuum from simple and fast to complex and slow.
by mikhailwahib_ | 2026-03-02 23:14:51+00:00
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by hshdhdhj4444 | 2026-03-02 23:15:17+00:00
Ultimately the arguments between whether one should pick daylight or standard times are a red herring.

The benefits of one over the other usually balance out and in either case are insignificant compared to the problems caused by changing time zones twice a year.

Changing time zones is directly linked with all sorts of health issues, deaths, car crashes, etc.
by WhyIsItAlwaysHN | 2026-03-02 23:15:47+00:00
Location: Copenhagen, Denmark (UTC+1)
Remote: Yes (Europe timezones) Willing to relocate: No
Role: UX Researcher
Experience: 3+ years
Email: rvbceilx0@mozmail.com

I research how people actually use AI products — then make them better. Cognitive science background (MSc), 3+ years on B2B/SaaS at a major tech company. Led the discovery research that took an AI agent from "what if" to production. Ran seven evaluative studies for gen-AI features now serving 100K+ monthly users. Also did a stint as a business analyst in financial services and led an AI data annotation team at a health-tech startup.

Methods: interviews, usability/concept testing, surveys, JTBD, journey mapping, quant in R/Python. Thesis on cognitive biases in LLMs.
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