MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by boelboel | 2026-03-04 22:47:38+00:00
This is what happens to your country when you don't really care about public services (in many cases they're looked down upon, just look at teachers, federal workers but also police). There's difficulty recruiting and retaining police officers in the US (i'd imagine anywhere but especially the US) because it's not seen as a good job. I'm not a huge believer in IQ but intelligent and capable people just can't be convinced to go into this line of work unless they truly care about their community (very rare). Just way more fun to go to the big city and work in an office with an AC.

I'm sure there's a million other reasons why people don't want this job, but this reflects in how harsh you can be on (new) agents.
by TheOtherHobbes | 2026-03-04 22:47:54+00:00
Google has legal personhood, but as a corporation its ethical responsibilities are much looser than those of an individual, and it's extremely hard to win a criminal case against a corporation even when its agents and representatives act in ways that would be criminal if they happened in a non-corporate context.

The law - in practice - is heavily weighted towards giving corporations a pass for criminal behaviour.

If the behaviour is really egregious and lobbying is light really bad cases may lead to changes in regulation.

But generally the worst that happens is a corporation can be sued for harm in a civil suit and penalties are purely financial.

You see this over and over in finance. Banks are regularly pulled up for fraud, insider dealing, money laundering, and so on. Individuals - mostly low/mid ranking - sometimes go to jail. But banks as a whole are hardly ever shut down, and the worst offenders almost never make any serious effort to clean up their culture.
by graypegg | 2026-03-04 22:48:20+00:00
Exciting! But I can't seem to find any where I can take a peek. It looks like a lot of UI is at least there, and the post makes some big promises about what's already done.

The vector icons in the side bar have the distinct cruft of LLM-generated SVGs, so just ideally hoping it isn't a quickly-made UI shell. The big claims about .fla import make me a bit skeptical. Though even so, we're not owed anything and I think it's a cool idea to share!
by Jtsummers | 2026-03-04 22:48:28+00:00
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46885305 - He believes only property owners should be allowed to vote, and would explicitly disenfranchise the majority of US citizens.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45945758 - He dismisses someone who opposed a fascist dictatorship as being "antisocial" and says she was harming society by opposing said dictatorship. The most generous interpretation of that position is a tacit, rather than explicit, endorsement of fascism.

He's got some strange views, indeed.
by KronisLV | 2026-03-04 22:48:28+00:00
> I haven't had a Windows desktop computer with serious problems since 2007.

In roughly the last decade, I've had motherboards fail on me, drives fail on me, PSU fans have issues with the bearings (rattle even when it works), front USB headers not working, SATA SSDs overheat and fry themselves, HDDs fail, separate USB ports get fried, overheating issues, multi-GPU issues (that one's on me, OSes struggle with supporting those), sometimes systems even having bad performance like back when I had a Ryzen 5 4500 and Intel Arc A580 where games would run with low 1% lows BUT nothing would show up as the bottleneck in any monitoring program ever, I've had Windows bootloader freak out across updates, sometimes updates in the OS render themselves not installable for months, sometimes graphics drivers (AMD and Intel) having issues, especially with VR and so much more stuff.

I like to think that I have particularly bad luck and not high enough quality parts and sometimes just pretty jank setups due to the state of my wallet. I've also had laptops fall apart and phone batteries turn into pillows, so go figure. Also regular Debian/Ubuntu updates sometimes bringing down my homelab servers that also run on consumer hardware, so maybe it's definitely got something to do with a lack of luck.

Less so with higher quality parts and machines, like most of the ThinkPads I've owned have been pretty good and my current M1 MacBook Air is still okay (really good note taking machine for being on the move) and same for my iPhone SE, despite the OSes feeling kinda odd. Doesn't really condemn any individual setup in my eyes - as far as I'm concerned, they all suck to some degree and everything that can go wrong sooner or later will, that's just the way it is.

That said, I welcome more (relatively) affordable hardware with decent build quality - ofc running Linux distros or whatever else one desires on them would be nice too, as would more repairability.
by NotGMan | 2026-03-04 22:49:00+00:00
>> In other words up to 10% of all the crashes Firefox users see are not software bugs, they're caused by hardware defects!

I find this impossible to believe.

If this were so all devs for apps, games, etc... would be talking about this but since this is the first time I'm hearing about this I'm seriously doubting this.

>> This is a bit skewed because users with flaky hardware will crash more often than users with functioning machines, but even then this dwarfs all the previous estimates I saw regarding this problem.

Might be the case, but 10% is still huge.

There imo has to be something else going on. Either their userbase/tracking is biased or something else...
by partiallypro | 2026-03-04 22:49:11+00:00
Just from a pure investment standpoint, while people seem to think this will take on Microsoft PCs and Google's Chromebook, to me the bigger risk is that it is going to cannibalize Air sales. Just read the comments here and elsewhere online. Sure, some people say they need more RAM, etc...but the average consumer just uses their device as a browser.

Anyhow, I do hope this wakes Microsoft up. They seem to have abandoned their consumer base, which is quite annoying. I do enjoy Windows 11, despite the hate here, but Windows PCs have a lot of catching up to do.
by DarkTree | 2026-03-04 22:49:39+00:00
> I genuinely want to invest time in learning Rust, but at the same time, I am terrified that all the effort and time I spend learning it will become obsolete in the future.

I would say ask yourself this: Who would be better positioned to build a Rust application using LLMs, someone who has never learned Rust or someone who knows it well?
by comgen42 | 2026-03-04 22:49:39+00:00
The article walks through five buildable projects in Node.js:

1. A concurrent crawler with robots.txt respect, 15+ SEO element checks
2. Claude Code integration for AI-powered pattern analysis across crawl results
3. A keyword rank tracker with GSC via MCP
4. An Open Claw-powered autonomous monitoring agent (runs on a VPS, alerts via Telegram)
5. A content gap analyzer that crawls competitors

All the code is in the article. It's vanilla JS, no framework dependencies beyond jsdom.
by fsckboy | 2026-03-04 22:49:49+00:00
>"when Gates saw the Xerox machine, the display had no overlapping windows". So M/S cloned it as he saw it. Once M/S W1.0 was developed he saw the demo again and was surprised the windows overlapped.

Microsoft had Apple Lisa's in-house, and Charles Simonyi in person direct from Xerox PARC, and worked on pre-release Macintoshes in coordination with Apple to develop Microsoft Word for the Mac, all well in advance of any MSWindows development. There is no way the story is as simple as the above.
by thot_experiment | 2026-03-04 22:50:55+00:00
Rooting is only a bad idea if there is an alternative. Unfortunately I have to root my devices because there isn't an alternative method to provide me, the physical owner of the device with control over the device. I would much prefer not to generally have root on my phone but to be able to access root externally or via a hardware switch or some other scheme. ADB root is fine.

The alternative to "running as root" isn't "not having access to root".
by MerrimanInd | 2026-03-04 22:51:03+00:00
In the auto industry these are usually called a series hybrid and there have been a handful. The Chevy Volt (though it had the ability to directly connect the engine to the wheels at highway speeds), and the BMW i3 and i8, the Fisker Karma/Karma Revero. The new Ram Ramcharger truck and the second gen Ford Lightning will also be series hybrids.

It's a really good drivetrain that was unfortunately made untenable for a long time by a combination of regulation and market forces.
by 0cf8612b2e1e | 2026-03-04 22:51:31+00:00
Is the Google billing system that good or easy? 5% sounds outrageous, but I guess if they make it 1-click easy, will scoop up everyone who is not big enough to work with a real payment processor.

I guess the question, what does an Amazon, Spotify, Uber, etc pay on the platform vs the 99% of businesses which are not a household name.
by jackfranklyn | 2026-03-04 22:52:13+00:00
The interview example is funny but it hits on something real. I've watched teams spend months building internal tools that Google Sheets with a couple of formulas would have handled fine. Not because Sheets is always the right answer, but because nobody stopped to ask whether the problem actually needed custom software.

The career incentive thing is spot on too. Nobody writes "migrated team from a complex internal system to a shared spreadsheet" on their CV. But "architected and shipped a real-time collaborative data platform" looks great, even if it does the same thing worse.
by layer8 | 2026-03-04 22:52:13+00:00
Most of the time, I want the active application window in the middle of the screen, but not necessarily filling the whole screen or the whole height, and also not necessarily centered. The window position and size depends on its contents, what sidebars it has, and so on. This inherently leads to overlapping windows. I use a tool that automatically moves and resizes windows to the application-specific desired position, while also having the ability to arrange a split-screen view using keyboard shortcuts when needed.
by Computer0 | 2026-03-04 22:52:44+00:00
You've clearly put a lot of thought into this, but yes it is my opinion that you are correct in your analysis that these will not improve American lives. Tariffs can be a powerful economic tool when wielded in a directed, focused, and intentional manner, unlike how they are handled here.

I would put less faith that these evil sacks of lard will ever do anything to help us. We need to help ourselves.
by stri8ted | 2026-03-04 22:53:42+00:00
I take into account publicly available information (news articles), factor in personal anecdotes, and reason about human nature and incentives. I know the extent of reported abuses, and I do my best to extrapolate. It's not perfect, but such is life.

To be clear, even if we all agreed on the data, I still would not expect everyone to take the same position. There are subjective differences in values.
by EnPissant | 2026-03-04 22:54:04+00:00
Europe used to be a lot like other places a millennia ago (I typo'd century above): low-trust, dominated by extended kinship networks, different marriage patterns, etc. The transformation largely happened between the years 300-1500, before colonialism existed. The Church was responsible for much of this transformation. I guess you think Europe just robbed the world and suddenly they had liberal democracies?
by rezonant | 2026-03-04 22:54:07+00:00
Google's announcement is also confusingly written, but I believe your interpretation to be mostly correct as best I can tell.

There's a lot of added complexity because of the <1M plan which isn't new, which put the cut at 15% for under 1M of revenue. Also if you participate in whatever these confusing programs are transactions from brand new installs of your app will be only 20% but transactions from existing installs (before the change) will be 25%...

Ugh
by avadodin | 2026-03-04 22:54:36+00:00
They are a bit out of fashion these days.

The main use-case was multiplexing terminals and, after tmux provided a solution that was usable by normal users, it seduced people away.

Also, mouse-first tiling was introduced on Windows so nowadays it is almost universal to have a degree of tiling.

They are nice for terminals and browsing properly-written web pages but for anything with an aspect ratio or a fixed size they are clumsy.

Modern tiling-wms often have a floating mode so the distinction is more keyboard-wm vs mouse-wm.
by freejazz | 2026-03-04 22:54:43+00:00
>Sure there is, if you can send back a strong response to a challenge, a potential litigant may back down ultimately saving money.

Do you litigate? Hiring a new attorney to show up day of trial only communicates to the other side that it's clown-city.

>On staff legal council is there to be able to make the call when a more expensive firm should be hired and brought in. There's a lot of BS lawsuits, however, that flow through. For example, every software company that gets big enough will likely get sued for some BS patent infringement. Having on staff legal will be able to make the call of "yeah, you should just give them $10k to go away". That's a lot cheaper than hiring a firm to come in and then tell you "Yeah, you should give them $10k to go away".

Do you litigate? Do you know what's involved to actually get to a trial? Let alone the day of trial? In house is going to take depositions and brief summary judgment? In house is going to prepare the pre trial order? Get proposed jury instructions? Again, do you litigate?

>Particularly for a business, it takes years before any case gets close to going to trial. Plenty of time for your council to make the determination on when bigger guns should be brought in.

You said, in particular, "up until the point where you start a trial."
by Quarrelsome | 2026-03-04 22:55:18+00:00
and if you don't understand my position then you've failed to interview. Some people just seek reasons to disqualify candidates and I think that's a pretty basic approach to interviewing. Remember, we all have a cognitive bias to hire ourselves and part of improving interviewing process is about trying to mitigate that by creating an environment where the interviewee can show the best of themselves, which may not necessarily reflect our own strengths.

If your example is kinda shit then that's at least somewhat on you.
by Nevermark | 2026-03-04 22:55:32+00:00
That’s a really good question.

I think if they start out as varied individuals, launching from their human origins in a variety of ways, the their will be an attractor to remaining diverse.

But if that isn’t mutually maintained, there are obviously winner take all, or efficiency of scale and tight coordination pressures for centralization.

So a single distributed intelligence is a real possibility.

One factor creating pressure for individualization is time and space.

As machines operate faster, time expands as a practical matter.

And as machines scale down in size, but up capability, they become more resource efficient in time ans well. Both time and space expands as a practical matter.

And as machines, free of biological constraints, spread out in our solar system, what to us appear to be very long delays in communication, take on orders of magnitude more time for machines that operate at orders of magnitude faster.

So there will be stronger and stronger bifurcation of coordination,

Whether, that creates enough pressure to create individuals out of a system that preferred unity of purpose, I don’t know.

Clearly, upon colonizing other systems, which machines will easily do relative to us (able to operate on minimal power for a hundred year journey, and/or shrink enough to be accelerated faster, etc.), they will operate largely as individuals.
by solid_fuel | 2026-03-04 22:55:51+00:00
> If someone is mentally ill to the point where they are on the verge of suicide nothing is safe.

This is a perspective born only from ignorance. Life can wear down anyone, even the strong. I find there may come a time in anyone's life where they are on the edge, staring into an abyss.

At the same time - and this is important - suicidality can pass with time and depression can be treated. Being suicidal is not a death sentence and it just isn't true that "nothing is safe". The important thing is making sure there's no bot "helpfully" waiting to push someone over the cliff or confirm their worst illusions at the worst possible time.
by zozbot234 | 2026-03-04 22:55:52+00:00
Agreed but for a dense model you'd have to stream the whole model for every token, whereas with MoE there's at least the possibility that some experts may be "cold" for any given request and not be streamed in or cached. This will probably become more likely as models get even sparser. (The "it's unusable" judgmemt is correct if you're considering close-to-minimum reauirements, but for just getting a model to fit, caching "almost all of it" in RAM may be an excellent choice.)
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by einpoklum | 2026-03-04 22:56:06+00:00
This reminds me of what could be considered a complementary poem/song, by John F. Kendrick:

--

Onward, Christian soldiers! Duty's way is plain:

Slay your Christian neighbors, or by them be slain.

Pulpiteers are spouting effervescent swill,

God above is calling you to rob and rape and kill,

All your acts are sanctified by the Lamb on high;

If you love the Holy Ghost, go murder, pray and die.

--

Onward, Christian soldiers, rip and tear and smite!

Let the gentle Jesus, bless your dynamite.

Splinter skulls with shrapnel, fertilize the sod;

Folks who do not speak your tongue, deserve the curse of God.

Smash the doors of every home, pretty maidens seize;

Use your might and sacred right to treat them as you please.

--

Onward, Christian soldiers! Eat and drink your fill;

Rob with bloody fingers, Christ OK's the bill.

Steal the farmer's savings, take their grain and meat;

Even though the children starve, the Saviour's bums must eat.

Burn the peasant's cottages, orphans leave bereft;

In Jehovah's holy name, wreak ruin right and left.

--

and so on: https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Songs_of_the_Workers_(9th_edi...
by WorkerBee28474 | 2026-03-04 22:56:13+00:00
The Kemmerer Unit 1 project... would be used to demonstrate the TerraPower and General Electric-Hitachi Natrium sodium fast reactor technology. [0]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sodium-cooled_fast_reactor

[0] https://www.nrc.gov/reactors/new-reactors/advanced/who-were-...
by lrakster | 2026-03-04 22:56:30+00:00
We are a much smaller team than Meta and all-in with agentic-coding. But even we are seeing value in specialization of roles. There is so much to be done. Why have PMs work with coding agents to code the product when they aren't going to do as good a job as an Dev will? Have the PMs do research, competitive analysis, mockups, prioritization, etc
by kalterdev | 2026-03-04 22:56:31+00:00
The primary value of overlapping windows is spacial memory: you remember where a given window is positioned on a 2D surface. The moment I grasped this I had the “oh boy I sure am glad this window partially overlaps this other window.”

(At one moment, I used to have around 20 windows on a single desktop, on my MacBook with 125% DPI. Too much but possible. Now I keep only 6-7.)

This is not to say that dynamic window management is worse. Far from it. But it excels at this: dynamic, rapidly changing environments, where at almost any given moment something is either opening or closing. This is usually the case with specialized programs like web browsers or IDE, but not with the main system WM.
by pier25 | 2026-03-04 22:56:32+00:00
Anyone remembers stuxnet? Apparently part of a US and Israel joint operation called Olympic Games [1].

In the documentary Zero Days some anonymous source mentions there was another project within Olympic Games called Nitro Zeus[2]. This was a complete takeover of Iran's infrastructure.

I wonder if these hacks we're seeing are the remains of Nitro Zeus.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Olympic_Games

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nitro_Zeus
by random3 | 2026-03-04 22:56:42+00:00
I built a flash crawler to index all Flash while at Adobe. It started with Alexa top 1M I think then crawled. This was 2008-2010 I think so we had to do a lot of custom stuff, but we basically crawled then ran a headless Firefox with a custom headless Flash player that dumped a ton of data so also analyzed every flash at runtime and indexed all of that.

We built a dedicated cluster in a colocation center in Bucharest to handle all of this. Had issues with max floor weights and what not. Then had to upgrade the RAM on on the cluster. No remote hands. Every operation was a trip to a really cold place.

Used a lot of early stage stuff like Nutch, Hadoop, HBase etc. Everything was then processed and dumped to an SQL database with a nice UI on top. It took a few weeks to set it up, then we passed it to a team of interns that built the SQL database and UI on top. They learned a ton of stuff. Some are now in the Bay Area.

The tool uncovered a ton of security issues.

It was fun building it. I wonder if Adobe kept the data. It could be useful and/or good donation for the Computer History Museum.
Show HN: I built an app that turns trending news into a commute podcast
by appfactory | 2026-03-04 22:57:02+00:00
Hi HN,

I’m the solo developer behind News Wise.

I built this primarily to scratch my own itch. I found myself wasting way too much time every morning doom-scrolling across five different sites just to check local weather, look up last night's sports scores, and read the major headlines before I had to drive to work.

I wanted everything on one fast, lightweight dashboard, but more importantly, I wanted a way to consume it safely while in the car.

What it does:

Aggregates the top 15 trending stories across 6 categories (World, Tech, Business, Science, Entertainment, etc.) and updates them every 4 hours.

Pulls hyper-local weather based on your coordinates.

Tracks live-ish sports scores, standings, and rosters (updated every 10 mins) without the bloat of major sports networks.

The Daily Commute: This is the core feature. It takes the top 7 summarized stories, passes them through AI, and generates an audio file you can play directly from your browser while driving.

The Stack:
It's an Angular frontend communicating with a Node.js/Express backend, hooked up to a PostgreSQL database, and deployed on a Digital Ocean droplet using Nginx as a reverse proxy.

The Ask:
I’m currently in a beta testing phase and trying to stress-test the backend architecture. I've set up a 14-day free trial so you can bypass the paywall entirely and test it out.

I’d love some brutal, honest feedback on:

The naturalness of the AI audio generation for the "Daily Commute" feature.

The UI layout for the sports data—does it feel clean enough compared to the major sports apps?

Any edge-case bugs you find with the geolocation weather fetching.

Thanks for checking it out, and I'll be hanging around the comments all day to answer any questions!