MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by kelnos | 2026-03-02 21:20:00+00:00
> I'm trying to make Instagram be what my parents said Facebook was.

Hell, you're trying to make Instagram be what Instagram used to be. Back in the early (pre-Meta) days, it was just a reverse-chronological feed of the posts from people you followed.

A decent part of why I bailed on Instagram back in 2019 or so was because it had stopped being this for a while (posts reordered, some not even shown, so many ads).
by nout | 2026-03-02 21:20:02+00:00
I think the edge that will actually bring new widely used mobile linux based OS is going to be gaming devices. Steam Deck and many of retrogaming devices are already running Linux. Some devices have option for user to either boot linux or to boot android. They are selling, they have support and some market fit already. One can guess that there will be Steam Deck mini at some point and that could be followed by Steam Phone...
by EastLondonCoder | 2026-03-02 21:20:03+00:00
Location: Norrköping / Stockholm, Sweden (CET)

Remote: Yes (EU/UK preferred); hybrid Stockholm OK

Willing to relocate: No

Technologies: React, TypeScript, Next.js, UI architecture/design systems, accessibility, performance profiling, realtime/event-driven UI (WebSockets), Playwright/Vitest, Node.js, SQL (Postgres/SQLite), Rust

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Senior frontend/product engineer focused on high-performance, tool-like interfaces for expert users. Strong on component architecture, accessibility, profiling-driven performance, and the “last 10%” polish (latency, UX sharpness, reliability) that keeps teams out of refactor holes. Comfortable owning frontend architecture end-to-end in small, high-agency teams; background includes realtime/concurrent UI systems and long-lived products where correctness matters. AI-assisted workflow when useful, gated by small diffs and tests so speed compounds rather than creating debt.
by foxfoxx | 2026-03-02 21:20:17+00:00
Thanks! I'll look into these UX/UI ideas. As for the news, it's front and center because I want Govbase to be a site/app people regularly visit and policy does move slow. Even when a bill is introduced it can take weeks for the actual text content of the bill to show up on congress.gov. Plus on weekends/recess the government doesn't move.

I am planning to bring out more of the impact highlights from the policies to see what's "trending" or what certain reps are working on but just plans for now.
by emptybits | 2026-03-02 21:20:18+00:00
I'm in BC. The astro-nerd in me would have preferred to see permanent Standard Time instead of a permanent +1 offset. Instinctively, I think morning light is important to our biology for a daily reset and the solar cue of "high noon" is also a real thing. I'm sure I've read that sleep health experts have historically supported a change to permanent Standard Time, not DST.

I respect there are economic arguments for permanent DST. But I question the road safety stat I hear with announcements like this. Kids walking, biking, and being driven to school in mornings in darkness ... that's also what permanent DST gives us.

Oh well, I am in the minority it seems. So R.I.P. "high noon" ... I'll never see you again here. And, yes, I understand that depending on where one is within a time zone, a true "high noon" is only in theory. But it's a nice ideal. :-)
by jasomill | 2026-03-02 21:20:22+00:00
My immediate reaction to this is that the OS has a hard time establishing intent, and in some cases it probably should be this hard to delete data that's required for the system to boot on the grounds that you'd probably want it if you understood what it was, and ideally also hard for malware to delete data it doesn't want on your computer (forensically useful logs, backup copies of files encrypted by ransomware, etc.).

But none of this applies to caches and temporary files, which could be reasonably managed for 99% of users by adding a "clear all caches" checkbox in the reboot dialog with a warning that doing this is likely to slow down the system and increase battery usage for the next few hours, or to system-managed snapshots that mostly just need better UI and documentation.

UI transparency is my only real complaint. A reasonable amount of data the system wants to make difficult to delete is fine, so long as it clearly explains what it is and why. "System Data" is only acceptable as a description for the root of what should be a well-documented hierarchy.
by agentifysh | 2026-03-02 21:20:25+00:00
been working on something in three.js and ended up building an editor inside it

its kinda insane how much i can get done with codex

half way through i realize i need a way to build levels and codex suggests you need a editor, here's the PRD following the safety harness and framework in your AGENTS.md and I come back to get coffee and its done....

also have a appreciation for how much game engines do for you, every step of the way I want to add a simple feature and realize we are not using a game engine so those have to built as well
by robviren | 2026-03-02 21:20:49+00:00
For me it is an active question if coding training data "purity" matters. Python has Go on volume, but within that is a ton of API changes, language changes, etc. Is that free regularization or does it poison the dataset? As the author points out Go code is nominal because basically all published Go code looks the same and the library APIs are frozen in time to some degree.

I actually spent some time trying to get to the bottom of what a logical extension of this would be. An entirely made up language spec for an idealized language it never saw ever, and therefore had no bad examples of it. Go is likely the closest for the many reasons people call it boring.
by jibal | 2026-03-02 21:20:50+00:00
> The golden rule disagrees.

No, that rule does not say "it is rude for others to do unto you differently from how you would do unto them"--it's about how you should behave toward others, not a justification for your negative judgment of how others behave toward you.

I agree that the platinum rule is better, but that difference is not the problem here.
by jcranmer | 2026-03-02 21:20:51+00:00
A lot of people hate standard time in winter because the sun sets at 4 or 5, and they want the sun to instead set at 8 or 9 like it does in summer. DST in winter doesn't actually give you the 8 or 9 sunset, it gives you a 5 or 6 sunset (which doesn't get you all that much) combined with moving your sunrise to 8 or 9, which causes its own set of issues most people don't think about.

The last time we went to year-round DST, we stopped almost immediately because people experienced what winter DST was actually like and went "wait, this sucks."
by ericmay | 2026-03-02 21:20:54+00:00
> Right, just like all of those people who put their money into Brewdog and then got nothing for it

Just like anyone who puts their money into an investment that fails... Stocks go up, stocks go down. I don't recall the exact details of the Brewdog investment scheme but some people losing their hat here is just a normal thing that happens in capital markets, otherwise investing wouldn't work. There's a reason that the predominant advice is to just set it and forget it with S&P 500 funds or total market (US or global) funds. It's up to you as an independent person to identify good opportunities for yourself or to consume and understand advice.

> You do not have access to the investments or financial instruments that the ultrawealthy do. Your investments are not like their investments, your returns are not their returns, the rules and regulations you face are not the ones they face. They are playing a different game than you, even when they're doing it with your money.

This is directionally true and angsty but it's beside the point. What's the alternative? Nobody gets to invest in anything?

While "the wealthy" have access to other opportunities that you don't have access to, you still have access to enough opportunities to make money.
by gck1 | 2026-03-02 21:22:25+00:00
No. I run a similar setup and with $200 subscription, I usually hit weekly quota by around day 3-4. My approach is 4-5 hours of extreme human in the loop spec sessions with opus and codex:

1. We discuss every question with opus, and we ask for second opinion from codex (just a skill that teaches claude how to call codex) where even I'm not sure what's the right approach
2. When context window reaches ~120k tokens, I ask opus to update the relevant spec files.
3. Repeat until all 3 of us - me, opus and codex are happy or are starting to discuss nitpicks, YAGNIs. Whichever earlier.

Then it's fully autonomous until all agents are happy.

Which is why I'm exploring optimization strategies. Based on the analysis of where most of the tokens are spent for my workflow, roughly 40% of it is thinking tokens with "hmm not sure, maybe..", 30% is code files.

So two approaches:
1. Have a cheap supervisor agent that detects that claude is unsure about something (which means spec gap) and alerts me so that I can step in
2. "Oracle" agent that keeps relevant parts of codebase in context and can answer questions from builder agents.

And also delegating some work to cheaper models like GLM where top performance isn't necessary.

You'll notice that as soon as you reach a setup you like that actually works, $200 subscription quotas will become a limiting factor.
by whockey | 2026-03-02 21:22:53+00:00
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by lock1 | 2026-03-02 21:23:07+00:00
There's no special keyword, just a "generic" type `IO<T>` defined in standard library which has a similar "tainting" property like `async` function coloring.

Any side effect has to be performed inside `IO<T>` type, which means impure functions need to be marked as `IO<T>` return. And any function that tries to "execute" `IO<T>` side effect has to mark itself as returning `IO<T>` as well.
by przemek2122 | 2026-03-02 21:23:08+00:00
Location: Kraków, Poland

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Technologies: C++ (14/17/20), Multithreading, Low-latency systems, Socket programming, Memory optimization. (I'm highly adaptable to other languages—solid engineering fundamentals > syntax).

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To showcase my networking and architecture skills, I built and maintain a full-stack C++ communicator from scratch (comm.sqrll.net).

I'm looking for a team where performance is a core feature, not an afterthought, and where GitHub contributions speak louder than ATS keywords.
by iwantchips | 2026-03-02 21:23:09+00:00
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Remote: Yes

Willing to relocate: No

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AI Platform & LLM Systems: RAG architectures, LLM orchestration, control planes, routing & fallback logic, evaluation frameworks (Langfuse, deepeval), trace-level observability, prompt/version management, context engineering, agentic workflows

Distributed Systems & Infrastructure: High-availability design, autoscaling concepts, failure modeling, SLO/SLA enforcement, load balancing (HAProxy/Nginx), Kubernetes, Docker, cloud-native architectures(AWS/GCP/Azure), Rackspace, Terraform, Ansible, Chef, Linux, Solaris, ZFS

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by input_sh | 2026-03-02 21:23:22+00:00
> You are talking 0.05% if you are lucky.

That's... completely fine? One of my biggest pet peeves on this forum is someone like you mentioning half a million devices sold annually and somehow simultaneously calling that a failure.

You don't have to take over the whole market to be a successful company, many companies would be perfectly happy with selling half a million devices every year (AKA 0,05% of over a billion smartphones).
Show HN: I built a sub-500ms latency voice agent from scratch
by nicktikhonov | 2026-03-02 21:23:40+00:00
I built a voice agent from scratch that averages ~400ms end-to-end latency (phone stop → first syllable). That’s with full STT → LLM → TTS in the loop, clean barge-ins, and no precomputed responses.

What moved the needle:

Voice is a turn-taking problem, not a transcription problem. VAD alone fails; you need semantic end-of-turn detection.

The system reduces to one loop: speaking vs listening. The two transitions - cancel instantly on barge-in, respond instantly on end-of-turn - define the experience.

STT → LLM → TTS must stream. Sequential pipelines are dead on arrival for natural conversation.

TTFT dominates everything. In voice, the first token is the critical path. Groq’s ~80ms TTFT was the single biggest win.

Geography matters more than prompts. Colocate everything or you lose before you start.
by win311fwg | 2026-03-02 21:24:05+00:00
The most striking thing about Go codebases is that, for the most part (there are exceptions), they all look the same. You can choose a random repository on GitHub and be hard-pressed to not think that you wrote it yourself. Which also means that LLMs are likely to produce code that looks like you wrote it yourself. I do think that is one thing Go has going for it today.

But for how long will it matter? I do wonder if programming languages as we know them today will lose relevance as all this evolves.
by Schmerika | 2026-03-02 21:24:44+00:00
The Harvard educated doctor, magna cum laude, with a long history of fighting for a better America for all Americans.

The Jewish lady who was smeared as a Russian agent because she was at a diplomatic dinner that Putin also attended.

The woman who challenged election results in 2016, only for the response to be to make it harder to question election results (and that certainly never blew-back on all of us).

The lady who was then put under Senate investigation for two years over the so-called collusion with Russia which turned up precisely zero evidence.

Who put up the single best fight against two entrenched pro-genocide parties of anyone else in America's 350 million people.

The 2024 candidate with the highest vote to campaign funds ratio of any candidate by a factor of about ten despite having a tiny fraction of the election coverage.

What exactly are you saying the comparison is here? That Americans tend to cheer for the villains and boo the heroes just because the media tells them to?
by beAbU | 2026-03-02 21:24:54+00:00
> and double the starting storage at 256GB

Is massive storage on a mobile device really still a thing that's important?

I'm saying this as someone with 512GB, but I just checked and I'm using 85GB at the moment, including the OS.

Photos and videos are the likely reason why the phones have so much storage, but these days both apple and google offer decent cloud backup solutions which negates the need for massive on-device storage. I'd rather the storage be smaller, and the savings going toward more battery or whatever.

Am I the only one?
by enlyth | 2026-03-02 21:25:19+00:00
Yep, archiving feature flags and deleting the dead code is usually thing number 9001 on the list of priorities, so in practice most projects end up with a graveyard of them.

Another issue that I've ran into a few times, is if a feature flag starts as a simple thing, but as new features get added, it evolves into a complex bifurcation of logic and many code paths become dependent on it, which can add crippling complexity to what you're developing
by AnthonyMouse | 2026-03-02 21:25:26+00:00
It's not just that. How many bugs or ridiculous misfeatures do existing phones have because the OEMs are teaching to the test for benchmarks or just don't care to fix them?

You were reading something on your phone, switched to a different app for 3 seconds and then back, and now it's an error page because you're in a poor cell coverage area but the device is nefariously aggressive at unloading apps to try to eek out a marginal advantage on battery life reviews. Worse, for well-behaved apps that actually degrades battery life because having to reload the app requires the device to do more work than letting it stay idle in the background.

Separate the software from the hardware and you don't have to worry about that, because they can mess up the stock image however they want for the reviews and you just have someone replace it with a version with those bugs removed.
by bill_duckduckgo | 2026-03-02 21:25:41+00:00
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by Schmerika | 2026-03-02 21:25:44+00:00
Saving this thread in case anyone ever tries to claim this forum is full of intelligent discussion.

Life pro tip: A 345 million dollar judgment against a company worth less than 10% of that for the crime of maybe telling some protesters to engage in direct action against a company leaking oil into their water supply is not remotely sane, no matter how 'legal' the jury of oil-connected people may say it was.
by kvinogradov | 2026-03-02 21:25:51+00:00
We explicitly explained to the IRS that our endowment plans to make awards and grants to individual OSS developers and maintainers in the US and other eligible countries. Given our limited target scope — not just any software, but critical nonprofit independent OSS — it was acceptable, and the IRS approved our 501(c)(3) status. And we plan to operate within what is described in our application.
by well_ackshually | 2026-03-02 21:25:54+00:00
I'll eat my left nut if Tim "I'd rather die than give good amounts of RAM" Cook bumps the top end iPhone's RAM any higher than 16GB by 2035, especially with the current shortages. They already use relatively cheap LPDDR5X-9600 RAM in there, and are being slowly bumped off order lists on high end fabs to make room for AI hardware. Notwithstanding the fact that there's no hardware improvement in the upcoming years that either makes RAM ultra fast, or with higher capacities easily.

A claim like that is at best naive, and in any case ridiculous
by triceratops | 2026-03-02 21:26:40+00:00
> So the Texas Two-Step supports the idea that companies can’t just put liabilities in a subsidiary and put it into bankruptcy. The Texas Two-Step is an effort to work around that rule.

Sorry I'm having trouble parsing this because the first and second sentences seem to contradict each other. Or I'm just bad at reading.

> Disclosure: I was on the team that won the appeal against J&J on this issue

That's actually pretty cool. If I may ask, given that LTL was funded with many multiples of its liabilities, why was the bankruptcy appealed?
by cameron_b | 2026-03-02 21:26:50+00:00
Tilapia, because the grow-out plan is very well documented. I'd happily sacrifice growth rate for a fish with higher "desirability" factor, and perhaps a lower optimal temperature.
I previously tried Bluegill and lost them, I think, due to stress from temperature variation. I'd like to try them again or go with Catfish. Catfish are the top species (for food, by weight) produced in the US, and they seem nearly as durable as Tilapia in small systems.

The pescalators sound great. There are so many tools like that where the application specifics ( species, system, life stage ) could make room for a scalpel-precise optimization of some tool, but the benefits would have to come from scale, and there just haven't been many first-movers ( or they keep quiet and defend the moat ) who seem poised to raise the tide for the whole industry. It is very ripe for the work you are doing to help the downstream gains over generations of stocks.

Cheers to you guys!