MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by demorro | 2026-03-06 14:26:13+00:00
> Q: "Isn't it your job as an open-source maintainer/developer to foster a welcoming community?"

The answer to this implies that the requirement to be welcoming only applies to humans, but even in this hostile and sarcastic document, it doesn't go far enough.

Open source maintainers can be cruel, malicious, arbitrary, whatever they want. They own the project, there is no job requirements, you have no recourse. Suck it up, fork the thing, or leave.
by ImPostingOnHN | 2026-03-06 14:26:21+00:00
> So the ad tech I write gets shown to millions/billions. What about ads influencing elections and then politicians waging wars? Anti-vax ads which influence people and then kill them. Scam ads. Insurance ads and then people not getting cancer meds from the same insurance.

Don't forget ICE and other government agencies using the bidstream data to track the location and behavior of immigrants, dissidents, etc, so they can be tracked down and arrested and sent to the gulag.
by mozdeco | 2026-03-06 14:26:29+00:00
[working for Mozilla]

That's because there were none. All bugs came with verifiable testcases (crash tests) that crashed the browser or the JS shell.

For the JS shell, similar to fuzzing, a small fraction of these bugs were bugs in the shell itself (i.e. testing only) - but according to our fuzzing guidelines, these are not false positives and they will also be fixed.
by spiderfarmer | 2026-03-06 14:26:46+00:00
The only people left defending the economic “policies” by the current administration are the people who are in a position to profit from all the confusion and chaos.

Add to that the people who don’t understand that they are being fleeced and who’ll continue to support theire heroes because of pride, hatred, nihilism or misinformed idealism.

There is a vocal minority in the last bracket, but I’m convinced they are being amplified by an army of bots.
by olieidel | 2026-03-06 14:27:00+00:00
Yup. Most of the time, you simply don't need a GmbH.

I wonder why German people often think they need to found one - maybe because people in the US have a low threshold of founding an LLC, but that's because it's easy and cheap; or maybe due to the German Angst of "I will immediately get sued, so I need limited liability".
by mothballed | 2026-03-06 14:27:17+00:00
Your terms are acceptable, and you're totally right, what was given before were aid so they have no hard obligation to reciprocate. You want to boil it down to open market operations and I have no qualms with that as that favors the US taxpayer way more than it would Ukraine.

We will buy whatever wish we want to buy at market prices, and if they want more money they can give us their minerals or hard assets at market rate in exchange and eliminate the $400M allocated to them and all the other handouts since this is now a capitalist tic for tat endeavor per your proposal. From here on out, if they want anything, intel, whatever: fuck you pay us. They have a lot of excellent farm land and minerals and transferring those to the US in a purely capitalist trade for any further cash or military assistance could be a fair deal since you're rejecting a reciprocal aid approach.
Show HN: Swipeforsex.com – an experiment in honesty in dating apps
by voodoowakanda | 2026-03-06 14:27:19+00:00
I bought the domain swipeforsex.com mostly because I thought the name was funny.

Instead of parking or selling it, I decided to build a small experiment around it: a dating site that removes the usual pretending and focuses on what many dating apps quietly optimize for anyway.

The idea was simple: what happens if you remove the euphemisms and make the intent explicit?

The project is intentionally minimal. I built it quickly just to test whether people would actually use something this direct or if the entire premise would fail.

I'm mostly curious about two things:

1. Whether the blunt positioning changes user behavior compared to typical dating apps.
2. Whether the domain itself drives curiosity traffic.

Would love feedback from HN about the idea, UX, or whether this is a terrible concept.

Happy to answer any technical or product questions.
by drooby | 2026-03-06 14:27:26+00:00
Nobody is proposing that AI companies track down individual contributors and pay them based on their specific contribution. That's not how any of this works.

The Alaska Permanent Fund doesn't pay Alaskans based on how much oil was under their particular backyard. It pays a dividend from a public fund because the resource is collectively owned. The mechanism is simple: companies extract a public resource, a percentage goes into a fund, the fund pays out to the public.

And the infrastructure comparison doesn't quite work. The people who built computing hardware and internet infrastructure were paid for that work at market rates by the companies that hired them. The billions of people whose writing, code, images, and knowledge trained these models weren't paid anything for that specific use. That gap is the whole point.
by giraffe_lady | 2026-03-06 14:27:55+00:00
I'm not sure how much of it is actually AI vs just like, the bags of VC money have dried up and most tech companies can't anywhere near justify their personnel or often even existence without it.

Like companies have been doing the RTO "stealth" layoffs for years now, it's not even news anymore, this was already well underway.

There is also the obvious priapism of owners and investors to finally do to the remaining white collar workers what they have already done to everyone else. Whether or not AI actually can replace all these workers is nearly moot, they have fantasized about business without labor for so long they can't tell the difference from reality anymore.
by dashundchen | 2026-03-06 14:29:19+00:00
Oh don't worry, Trump and his cronies have been growing their wealth just fine.

His net worth has grown over $4 billion since taking office again, and that doesn't count his sons or other insiders that have been taking bribes and making insider trades.

The single most corrupt politician we've ever had, with a family full of criminals.

As always with these losers, the Biden Crime family was purely projection.
by ranyume | 2026-03-06 14:30:00+00:00
The intention of these phrases is to "hack" into the inner-workings of the human brain, into how people create power structures. Legalese exists for a reason. Language is not just a tool for communication but a system that defines roles for people in a power structure.

The phrases "Come here, boy!" and "Could you come here for a second?" have the same function, but the structure is inverted. Same for the phrases "I simplified the function so it's read easily" and "I made an strategic decision that enables robust scalability and growth". It all boils down to authority signaling.
by brynet | 2026-03-06 14:30:44+00:00
AFAIK Loongson is dead and isn't made anymore, and unlike OpenBSD/sgi, Loongson was a little-endian arch. OpenBSD/octeon is a closer match, but also discontinued as Cavium switched to making ARM CPUs.

LoongArch is a new ISA and isn't MIPS compatible, and OpenBSD doesn't support it.
by drooby | 2026-03-06 14:30:48+00:00
This is a great point. The Netherlands is the cautionary tale of what happens when you don't do what Alaska and Norway did. A massive resource boom without proper public management hollowed out the rest of the economy.

If a handful of companies capture most of the value from AI while it simultaneously displaces workers across every other sector, that's Dutch disease applied to the entire knowledge economy. One sector booms, everything else withers.
Show HN: Define.app – email app for the next generation
by johnthemaker | 2026-03-06 14:30:54+00:00
As a developer, I always wanted to explore/design a new email experience. Email is one of those tool we check daily but its underlying experience didn’t evolve much. I use Gmail, as probably most of you reading this.

Arc brought taste to browsing the web. Cursor created a new UX with agents ready to work for you in a handy right panel.

So, I tried to bring them all together [0].

I’d genuinely love to hear what you think, especially if you use email for work!

(Note: this is a frontend demo with mock data)

[0] https://demo.define.app
by markus_zhang | 2026-03-06 14:31:01+00:00
The "Age verification" is simply an excuse to add tracking on system software. Very soon they are going to do the same to hardware too, I guess, so it is going to be very hard to find hardware that is truly safe from tampering.

And modern hardware is so complex that it is impossible for individuals to build one by their own. We are no longer in the 8-bit/16-bit era. And considering the power of AI -- individuals pretty much mean nothing to the elites.

I have never thought the Dystopian future to be so close -- I always thought it would be X years away. But legislation, the lawyers, are definitely very efficient on this kind of things.
by imzadi | 2026-03-06 14:31:08+00:00
But this is the full amount of jobs shed:

> Payrolls in the US dropped by 92,000 and the unemployment rate ticked up to 4.4%, according to the latest official figures, surprising analysts who had expected hiring to remain stable.

I'm not in any way suggesting the economy isn't taking a shit, but I'm curious about the actual expectation and reality. I know it says analysts expect hiring to be stable, but hiring isn't the same as job losses.
by Imustaskforhelp | 2026-03-06 14:31:37+00:00
I suppose my question with it is will our identity be associated with brands who can/do spend billions and billions of dollars on advertisements or a brand of more authenticity.

Do we as humans feel more at ease with our identity/purchases buying a brand which is known by other people because it spends billions on it/ or a niche brand/smaller shop which is more authentic but people don't know about it.

To me, it feels like the david vs goliath story. My intuition says a mix of small but not too small / something which has history that you compromise on like support/quality of product etc. and sometimes price efficacy.
by fnands | 2026-03-06 14:31:58+00:00
Yeah, either that or the commoditization of LLMs.

I.e. in the early days (2023-2025, lol), companies were mostly differentiated by the quality of their LLM, i.e. GPT-3.5 was leagues ahead of anyone else, so was for serious work the only game in town. Until recently it was basically only the US based companies (OpenAI/Anthropic) with models worth using.

Now, Anthropic and OpenAI are neck-and-neck, and Chinese models are catching up fast, and the models are becoming commodities, and as long as they reach some threshold of quality/capability, it doesn't really matter to most customers.

So now we might be reaching the branding stage of LLMs. I.e. do you go for Anthropic, who are branding themselves as the responsible ones, or OpenAI, who are branding themselves as... the innovators? Not sure what they are going for these days. Sell-outs?

If all models are roughly equally capable, all that's left is branding.

At least those are the thoughts it provoked in me. If that's what Paul Graham meant or not I have no idea.
by roysting | 2026-03-06 14:32:09+00:00
The bigger issue with your perspective is that you do not realize that the underlying purpose of the things you do not attribute to the military or equate as bad, is still groundwork or “capacity building” deliberately for militaristic purposes and objectives, usually very intentionally so that you don’t realize it. You would likely not support things if you were overly told what the underlying objective was.

Let me put it this way, if you wanted a populace that will willingly enter the military to serve your purposes of world domination through constant warfare, would you promote TV and movies, rather than reading classical literature and philosophy; and fund and press movie houses to make films that put joining the military to go to war and templating being a “warrior” as a positive thing instead of a negative, murderous thing?
by VLM | 2026-03-06 14:32:15+00:00
I would assume its fake and an attempt at identify theft at some level of the system. Is their PC infected at the OS level or just a fraudulent browser extension or something more like a popup ad masquerading as a system dialogue? A less trusting person would assume any request made by a computer is totally non-fraudulent and would gladly submit any requested private information.

"Dad, I can't do my math homework, a pop up says you need to provide a copy of your bank statement, your mom's maiden name, and a copy of your birth certificate, SS card, and drivers license, and can you hurry up Dad, my homework is due tomorrow morning." And people will fall for this once they get used to the system being absurd enough.

The fraud machine must be kept fed...
by garethsprice | 2026-03-06 14:32:22+00:00
Yes - though this isn't my theory so much as settled science. There are no substantial counter-theories to the concept that status desire is a fundamental and universal human motive.

As for falsification: you'd need evidence like subjects showing no well-being drop (self-esteem, cortisol) from lab-induced status demotions, or entire cultures genuinely indifferent to respect. Neither holds up in the data: https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/25774679/

John Adams put it well in Discourses on Davila (1790): "The desire of the esteem of others is as real a want of nature as hunger — and the neglect and contempt of the world as severe a pain as the gout or stone."
by CGMthrowaway | 2026-03-06 14:32:39+00:00
>a sieve to keep the hordes of fools at bay

Corporate speak as a signalling mechanism is only effective among the "clueless" in the Gervais model. If any CEO tried to talk 1:1 to a competent board member that way, they would lose all credibility. Once you've operated at a certain level you get it

>a system for turning bullshit into parse errors.

This is the (cynical version of) the framing I tend to hold about corporate speak. It's deliberately vague as a way to navigate uncertainty while still projecting authority and avoiding accountability in settings like a town hall, large meeting etc. Which is not to be read as a necessarily "bad" thing. No one wants a micromanaging CEO. They have to set vision and direction while leaving space for it top be executed by all the layers under them
by throwawaypath | 2026-03-06 14:32:54+00:00
>What's your concern here? That she lead nonprofits?

They chose a religious zealot to lead their project. All I saw was virtue signaling and DEI initiatives. That's so 2021.

>Why would the government dump any programming language for anything non security related, let alone for the actions of a third party nonprofit?

PHP is enough of a security nightmare for anyone to dump it. Considering how anti-DEI/woke the current administration is, it'll be an easy choice.
by ck2 | 2026-03-06 14:33:33+00:00
hey I know lets spend billon per day on war of choice for no reason for rest of year and make gas $5/gallon so even people who don't drive have to pay more for trucks going to stores and delivery

oh and make old/ill people somehow work until they are sixty-five to get any food or medical assistance

that should fix things right up

xmas economic implosion inbound
by i_think_so | 2026-03-06 14:33:46+00:00
> I use every day rsync over SSH, and even between 7 to 10 years old computers it reaches the maximum link speed over 2.5 Gb/s Ethernet.

What are you rsyncing? Is it Maildirs for 5000 users? Or a multi-TB music and movie archive? The former might benefit greatly if the filesystem and its flash backing store is bottlenecking on metadata lookup, not bandwidth. The latter, not so much.

I too would like to know the test conditions. This is probably one of those tools that is lovely for the right use case, useless for the wrong one.
by junto | 2026-03-06 14:34:11+00:00
I’m tired of the U.S. nanny state with its pilgrim-religious historical backdrop of prudishness, infecting everyone outside its own borders.

Their ideas are deeply unhealthy for children and worst of all, lazily shift the responsibility of parenting from the parents to the state.

Many European countries have long had a culture of slowly increasingly responsibilities and freedoms to their children gradually, letting them slowly and safely test their boundaries. At least the proposed EU solution (for identity) tries to prevent overreach. The wholesale EU spying to “save the children”, which seems to be funded by the U.S. is a different topic and we need to continue to fight it tooth and nail.

The insidiousness lies with major tech companies and their pursuit of eyeballs on screens. The Internet was supposed to be something we used to learn, gain knowledge and connect. They took the internet over, bastardized it and made deeply addictive apps and games to keep you watching ads regardless of age.

These age checks are just for data collection and spying to sell the data to the highest bidder, which is likely governments in order to control and herd their populations.

The reason for this is easy to understand in the context of AI. In the future the only valuable asset will be a data and the access to that data.

In the future, any app will be built, replicated, deployed and maintained by AI. Apps, websites, especially B2B apps - their days are numbered.

If my business needs a billing system tailored to my business in the future, I’ll describe it and have an AI built and maintain it. That is not that far away in relative terms.

Our goal collectively (as technology advocates) is to make sure that this consolidation of personal data doesn’t happen. If personal AI is to be built, then the user should have full ownership and away from the spying eyes of groups like Palantir and the NSA. They cannot be trusted. The Jews learnt that catastrophically in Germany in the 1940’s putting their trust in a government that became authoritarian and evil.

What is digital will never die and what is digitally given cannot be taken back.
by mikkupikku | 2026-03-06 14:34:18+00:00
True, it's harsh. But the way I see it, artists producing real art from their soul are going to keep at it even while corporate graphic designers and furry porn fanart illustrators are getting decimated. Society at large won't be culturally impoverished by this, so I'm viewing corporate graphic artists with the same mindset as buggy whip manufacturers. Technology coming for the careers of artists isn't even new, the invention of photography greatly diminished demand for painted portrays. Sad for those painters, but photography was then made into an art of it's own, and similarly I think creatively driven people will find new ways to exploit these new tools.
by demorro | 2026-03-06 14:34:37+00:00
Aye, I know. Don't get me wrong, I knew that the majority of devs have always been worse than useless, but it's been disconcerting to see quite how much value folk are getting out of agents for problems that have been solved for decades.

Arguably this solution is "better" because you don't even really need to understand that you have specific problems to have the agent solve them for you, but I fail to see the point of keeping these people employed in that case. If you haven't been able to solve your own workflow issues up until now I have zero trust in you being able to solve business problems.
by cc-d | 2026-03-06 14:34:47+00:00
daddy needs his juice https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YXXt48oQ8BY

The US is an unimperceptable horror show, they literally cannot perceive what is happening in their country right now.

I'd reccommend (fugg they took my right click) everybody stay away if you don't want to bring our compromise back to your countries.

Don't let americans into your country. Israel is very nice this time of year though, everybody travel to israel, we actually keep our lands relatively secure
by jtccc | 2026-03-06 14:34:54+00:00
Example workflow an agent could run:

Agent prompt:
“Why are users confused about onboarding?”

1. create_study → generates interview link

2. share with users

3. get_study_results → returns themes + quotes

Now the agent has real qualitative signal instead of relying on its own assumptions or humans.

The next step would be wiring this to product analytics so agents can trigger research from real product signals, then feed insights back into what gets built.

Curious if agents will mostly rely on synthetic users, or still need real conversations to learn not just how to build, but what to build.
by ChoGGi | 2026-03-06 14:35:04+00:00
Yeah exactly, I'm in construction as well. I drive a 2016 f150 I'm only looking at used f2/350s for more towing.

Sides you show up on my site in a brand new truck, I expect your prices to reflect that, and I'll be looking at your competition. Other equipment is a different story, but a truck yeah no.
by bilbo0s | 2026-03-06 14:35:11+00:00
Well the data says:

2022, gained 678,000 jobs in February (Doesn't really count, global economy was emerging from Covid shutdowns.)

2023, gained 311,000 jobs in February

2024, gained 275,000 jobs in February

2025, gained 151,000 jobs in February (This seems to be the point of discontinuity with gains only about half of what were typically expected.)

2026, lost the 92,000 we're talking about. (Obviously, we had expected a gain.)
Show HN: diskard – A fast TUI disk usage analyzer with trash functionality
by shoenot | 2026-03-06 14:35:16+00:00
This is an ncdu clone written in Rust that I figured others might find useful! The main things that differentiate it from ncdu are:
- It's very fast. In my benchmarks it's often twice as fast.
- It allows you to send files to trash rather than permanently delete.

Please try it out and lmk if I can improve on anything!