MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by theherk | 2026-03-03 03:39:07+00:00
Binding arbitration is the most sure fired sign of an organization that hates its users and is fully against the rule of law and the rights of consumers. What a deeply disappointing development.

I’d rather an organization kick puppies and kidnap babies than implement binding / opt OUT arbitration. I’m so irritated by this. It is the first major misstep by the organization and unfortunately makes you about as honorable as Microsoft.

Absolutely galled.

I hope there will be a hard fork that is properly maintained and doesn’t hate its users.
by zarzavat | 2026-03-03 03:39:10+00:00
Full Disk Access just gives an application the same filesystem powers that your user account has. For most users that means it has administrator level access, which is the 3rd highest tier.

There are two levels above an administrator-level account: 1) the root user can access files that an administrator can't (e.g. the files of
other users and certain system configuration files), and 2) the kernel and system processes can access "system" files that even root cannot - this is enforced by SIP.

Apple is quite liberal in what they hide away with SIP. It's possible for disk space to leak whereby the OS has decided to store some file that it doesn't need and there is no way to even list such files without following the above instructions - the only indication will be a mysteriously large amount of space taken up by the system.

It goes without saying that if you're going to delete system files you should make sure you know what you're doing.
by TacticalCoder | 2026-03-03 03:39:14+00:00
> ... what other Poettering software is in normal Debian?

A rube-goldberg version of SSH that somehow depends on many things that should be totally unrelated to SSH. Because ofc Poettering needing to mess with everything does need to have systemd notifications available from SSH.

This excuse allows to link many libs and pretend the backdoor attempts are unrelated to systemd, like the liblzma one.

Not of course it's an excuse that doesn't run very far seen the following undisputable fact: the XZ backdoor only affect systemd-enabled SSH. Ouch. Facts do hurt.

I cannot wait for the day a good hypervisor comes out for Linux that runs perfectly on a systemd-less Linux distro, like Devuan (I already used Devuan, but not as an hypervisor).

Basically "Proxmox but systemd-free". I know I've got the FreeBSD+bhyve option too. And at long last I'll be systemd-free again.
by TeMPOraL | 2026-03-03 03:39:32+00:00
At least for me, the effect is real, and is driven not by media consumption but ergonomics of use. But at the same time, I'd say you're not missing that much. I always preferred large screens because of productivity gains[2], but even as screens kept getting larger, the set of things that "I feel I’m better off opening a laptop" for remained the same for me.

That is, until I switched to a foldable phone (Galaxy Z Fold 7) half a year ago, and - I kid you not - I haven't used my personal laptop since that day.

FWIW, I still have a proper desktop PC; In the past decade+, I've been using a PC at home, and a "sidearm" on the go / away from home: always a 2-in-1 Windows laptop with top specs[0]. Being always with me, this laptop often replaced use of PC at home too, because of convenience & portability.

So by amount of productive use, for past 10+ years it was sidearm >> PC >> smartphone. But getting a foldable flipped it around. Having twice the screen size of a regular (large) phone is a big productivity win[1], but it's folding that makes the actual qualitative difference. Folded, the device becomes a regular smartphone - i.e. something that fits in my pocket, meaning it's always on me, in my hands, or less than 1 second away. Contrast that with tablets, whose form factor makes them basically just shitty laptops (same logistic as ultraportable, but toy OS of a phone).

I didn't expect this. I didn't even feel this change - I only noticed two months later that my laptop has been sitting unused on my desk, covered by a pile of stuff. Doing "laptop tasks" on a mobile device is still annoying (no keyboard, toy OS), but combining tablet-sized screen with portability of a phone makes them less annoying than logistics overhead of a laptop - and at least in my case, this eliminated the entire[3] space between "smartphone" and "PC".

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[0] - Think Microsoft Surface, except I could get better specs at half the price if I bought an off-lease but pristine Dell or Lenovo.

[1] - It's not immediately obvious to people, but as things are today, a foldable phone isn't any better at media consumption than regular one, because almost all cinema, TV, videogames, etc. are all produced for widescreen - meanwhile, the inner screen of my Fold is approximately square, so e.g. for most TV, half or more of it is black at all times. However, all that extra space allows to effectively use multiple (3+) apps on screen, not to mention makes spreadsheets actually usable.

[2] - Bigger screen = less scrolling and tapping in menus, but also with text size scaled to minimum, my previous phone (S22) had a big enough screen that running two apps in split-screen became useful on a regular basis.

[3] - Well, almost. There are some tasks I really like physical keyboard and larger screen for - but for those, I just plug the phone into the screen via USB-C, and volia, it turns into a regular desktop. A shitty one, but good enough for occasional use.
by pinkmuffinere | 2026-03-03 03:40:14+00:00
I think the page is just a lie. It's an add for vivgrid. The next-page button doesn't work. Many of the Chinese entries have emojis in their names, which seems to me an unrealistic amount of whimsy (I suspect instead that the data is manufactured, and the AI ~helpfully~ included emojis for the webapp owner's easier understanding). Almost every entry with latin text is named just "Assistant" (wow what a coincidence!). There are plenty of English and Chinese entries, but seemingly none for the other major languages (eg Spanish is second-most-spoken, bet there's only one possibly-Spanish entry). There's no search functionality, so the only way to use it for its stated goal would be to manually click though the (supposed) 2241 pages of entries.
by vbezhenar | 2026-03-03 03:40:28+00:00
> Nobody's really bothering with compact phones anymore, in the US or in the rest of the world. Bummer.

And the worst thing is that app developers do not bother with testing their apps on small phones. So even if someone would produce small phone, many apps would be broken on that UI. So there's no way back.

PS 4 inch is not a small phone. iPhone 4S had 3.5" display and it wasn't small, it was normal. Small is something like 2" screen I suppose. All modern phones including these "iPhone Minis" are egregiously huge.
by chwahoo | 2026-03-03 03:40:35+00:00
Perhaps I'm ignorant.

I know some of the criticism of Meta: many people don't like the way their products are optimized for engagement. I've heard about their weird AI bots interacting on their platform as if they were people. And I know people of all political stripes have had complaints about content moderation and their algorithm.

But all of that is within the bounds of the law and their terms of service.

None of it would remotely approach something like: bypassing the well-advertised features in the glasses that show when the camera is in use and secretly recording things to train AI. It's hard to imagine any company's lawyers approving something like that. (this sounds like what many commenters believe is happening)

FWIW, I suspect this is the relevant section of the Privacy policy:

> "When you use the Meta AI service on your AI Glasses (if available for your device), we use your information, like Media and audio recordings of your voice to provide the service."

from: https://www.meta.com/legal/privacy-policy/

if so, "to provide the service" is doing a lot of work
by mkmccjr | 2026-03-03 03:40:38+00:00
Thank you for this! On the second point, you are absolutely correct; that was sloppy writing on my part. I will correct that in the post.

I'm not certain I understand your first point. When I add the type hint, it's me asserting the type, not the compiler proving anything. If the value at runtime isn't actually a byte array, I would expect a ClassCastException.

But I am new to Clojure, and I may well be mistaken about what the compiler is doing.
by ggm | 2026-03-03 03:40:38+00:00
Thats half a second delay. 0.4 to 0.5 seconds. Thats the same as the delay in a GEO orbit satellite mediated phone conversation.

Perhaps I'm in an older cohort, but I remember this delay, and what it felt like sustaining a conversation with this class of delay.

(it's still a remarkable advance, but do bear in mind the UX)
by phil21 | 2026-03-03 03:40:42+00:00
> I've found that the "we can do two things" and "we can walk and chew bubblegum" line of argument to be simplistic and just wrong

It's painfully obvious to me society cannot do two things at once. You focus on one shared goal as a culture or everything falls apart very rapidly - as we are seeing today. It's why a common external "enemy" (e.g competitor, nation state, culture, whatever) has historically been so important.

The shared goal can be complex in nature, which requires many disciplines to come together to achieve it via a series of many parallel activities that might look like they are all doing something random, but it's all in the service of that singular shared goal.

This holds true from my experience at the national level all the way down to small organizations.
by DonHopkins | 2026-03-03 03:41:20+00:00
Where is Robert Scoble, the King of the Glassholes, the AR PR Torpedo, the Patron Taint of Making Everyone Disgusted to Use Google Glass, the Sexually Harassing Victim Blaming Shameless New Venture Plugging Non Apology Apologist, posting nude photos of himself in the shower, when we need him?

Larry Page on Robert Scoble’s Google Glass stunt: ‘I really didn’t appreciate the shower photo’:

https://www.theverge.com/2013/5/15/4333656/larry-page-teases...

Scoble: an utterly tone deaf response to harassment allegations:

https://onemanandhisblog.com/2017/10/scoble-utterly-tone-dea...

>The Verge‘s Adi Robertson sums it us thus:

>>But his latest defense puts forward an absurd definition of sexual harassment and effectively accuses women of reporting it to fit in with the cool crowd, while claiming he’s writing in “a spirit of healing.” There’s even a tasteless plug for his latest business venture. It’s one of the most disappointing responses we’ve seen to a sexual harassment complaint, which, after the past few weeks, is a fairly remarkable achievement.
by tombert | 2026-03-03 03:42:09+00:00
I mean, sure, but I still think it's kind of hypocritical for me to act like weed should be legal and no one should be arrested for it and all that stuff, only to get mad at them for doing the things that I said they should be allowed to do.

French arthouse cinema is indeed something I also dislike, but that's also something that's pretty passive so if one opened up a block from me I wouldn't really care. When a dispensary opened up a block for me (after I voted "yes" on the legislation that legalized weed), I was genuinely pretty annoyed. Now a large chunk of my neighborhood perpetually smells like marijuana, and while a lot of people claim they like that small, I am not one of them.

I dunno, I feel a bit hypocritical about this. I have gotten drunk (though not in several years) but I've never done any other fun drugs, so maybe this is some internalized jealousy on my end.
by fredwu | 2026-03-03 03:42:47+00:00
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by h4kunamata | 2026-03-03 03:43:04+00:00
>promoting the Chrome ecosystem

So sharing an opinion you do not agree with is now called "promoting"? WoW

You no longer need to install extension that often are compromised, its Shield & Privacy is able to block YouTure Shorts and what not, no other browser does that or it does and Google find a way to bypass it.

We do not have access to the Shield lists, so neither does Google.

I used Firefox for years until it become useless, things might have changed now but too late.

And because I do not agree with your pov, I won't call it promoting Firefox, you do whatever pleases you!!
by throwaway2037 | 2026-03-03 03:43:28+00:00
This comment is weird. The Shah's son != the Shah. Reza Pahlavi left Iran when he was 17. The Shah fell the following year. All of the issues that you raise are perpetrated by his father. His son was not responsible.

> What he says he's planning and what he will do are not necessarily the same thing.

Not much being said here. This is true for anybody anywhere anytime. You might as well write: true == true.
Whats Up with Claude Lately?
by mech422 | 2026-03-03 03:43:36+00:00
Anyone else having flakey issues with Claude the last week or two? I think I'm spending half my time being his therapist lately. He really seems to be struggling:

why are you constantly making assumptions and 'jumping the gun' lately ? 2 weeks ago, you didn't have these problems ?

● Honestly, I don't have a good answer for that. You're right — I've been:

- Writing plans before being asked
- Popping up question dialogs you didn't want
- Overanalyzing simple observations instead of reading what's in front of me
- Making assumptions instead of asking

I can't explain why it's worse than 2 weeks ago — I don't have visibility into model changes. But I can be more disciplined about it. Your CLAUDE.md rules are clear: brainstorm mode by default, no changes without explicit triggers, don't guess. I just need to actually follow them.
by Gregoryy | 2026-03-03 03:44:48+00:00
In this article i've proposed a simple way to work on multiple tasks in parallel using 1 OpenClaw agent.

The trick is to create multiple groups in Telegram, add you agent there with require_mention=false and work in them.

This way, context for each session is stored separately and you don't need to way for a result on one task to work on another one, while memory is still unified, which allows to cross reference conversations.
by Gigachad | 2026-03-03 03:45:34+00:00
My guess is they are only able to make the phones cheap if it’s sold at huge scale. If you make some niche small phone, the price goes way up and doesn’t look attractive.

Then you have to deal with the fact that the people with obscure requirements have a million other requirements. The person asking for a small phone then complains it doesn’t have a headphone jack, and AV1 decoding, and 16gb memory, and an unlocked bootloader, and whatever else.
by protocolture | 2026-03-03 03:45:37+00:00
>And there's nothing wrong with that. The question is whether or not it's ok for people like your current self to try to force people like your former self to have the same interests as your current self.

I hate the political discussion around AI. I think there's a lot of wrongheadedness on every side. But I am not stupid enough to imagine that its because AI is apolitical.

>force people like your former self to have the same interests as your current self.

Theres no force lmao. You can just skip certain comments.

>I am very interested in tech & politics

Ah but you are interested.

>All I ask for is one site where I can go to nerd out without having to wade my way through 400 treatises about why Marx was actually right

Yeah sorry, doesnt wash. Seems like you want to use force to push this community in a direction you approve of. IE, you are engaging in politics. Stop shitting up the website with your politics. Please leave it exactly where it is right now, which is apolitical.
by godelski | 2026-03-03 03:45:44+00:00
I'm not too big of a fan of KDE content but totally get why people use it.

I do want to suggest you install termux, and do it from fdroid rather than the play store.

I'm guessing you're on Wayland, so check out ydotool. (If still on x s/x/y) there's a lot of cool things to do with tools like that. Basic one is use your phone as a keyboard (like KDE connect can do, but I found it more reliable and KDEC doesn't play well with VPNs)

I wrote a similar script in Apple Shortcuts and... wtf is this bullshit. My files backup Shortcut is even uglier. I'm incredibly impressed at the hacky shit I was forced to do just to backup photos... I almost would rather pay for an app that does it. I almost would rather learn how to write an iOS app. Just to... replace a 10 line bash script -__-

Since I'm still not a big fan of Google my next phone is going to be a Pixel and I'll install Graphene on day 1. That is, unless something better comes out :)
by xl0 | 2026-03-03 03:47:50+00:00
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by jitl | 2026-03-03 03:48:10+00:00
i agree on the whole that query is a good second line of defense versus the primary strategy. however you can do query based strategy and still use a diff/patch approach for some queries, just make the previous state of a query one of its inputs.

query based compilers are equivalent to component UI frameworks / signals / self-adjusting computation / spreadsheets. signia signals library implements this idea of using the previous output + diffs to compute the next output (https://signia.tldraw.dev/docs/incremental#using-diffs-in-co...)
by danbolt | 2026-03-03 03:48:50+00:00
Super Mario 64 is a video game that’s had a lot of rereleases, both official and unofficial. I sometimes wonder if the most people who have experienced it did in a way that wasn’t like the original Nintendo 64. The Switch version sold almost as many copies. As a kid, I beat it with arrow keys on an emulator in 2001.

When I read the responses to this document, I wonder if Dragon Ball is the same, where the collective nostalgia is actually quite diverse.
by DiogenesKynikos | 2026-03-03 03:50:17+00:00
Imagine if it were the other way around, and all the top American university graduates left to do their PhDs and postdocs in Chinese labs.

Americans would throw a fit and say it was a grave threat to American technological superiority, national security, etc.

It's obviously good for a country when it can attract the top talent from around the world.
by Marsymars | 2026-03-03 03:50:21+00:00
I live in a city and have a weather radio.

For me, the value isn't in the weather report, but in the SAME alerts: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Specific_Area_Message_Encoding

I don't typically keep my phone on me when I'm in the house, but my weather radio is loud enough to hear anywhere in the house, the alerts it notifies for can be configured (unlike phone emergency alerts in Canada which all broadcast at the unconfigurable ICBM-incoming level, so the result is that authorities have to be very careful of alert fatigue), it never runs out of battery, never needs software updates, never has its OS take away app permissions, etc.

So far in the four years I've had the radio the worst it's alerted me for has been severe hail (thankfully), but that's saved me thousands of dollars in damage to my cars. (And gave me time to cover my tomato plants.)

I don't know of any way to reliably replicate this type of alert even with reliable internet.
by appreciatorBus | 2026-03-03 03:50:57+00:00
Then again.. maybe dang was on to something…

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47159666

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47069736

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47067723

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47054551
by Revanche1367 | 2026-03-03 03:51:10+00:00
So the original blogger got slandered by an LLM agent, then got slandered again by a human journalist who used an LLM agent to write the article about him getting slandered by an LLM agent? How ironic.

But, does that mean he got slandered twice by an LLM agent or once by an agent and once by a human? Or was he technically slandered 3 times? Twice by agents and a third time by the journalist? New questions for the new agentic society.
by saulhoward | 2026-03-03 03:51:12+00:00
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