MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by idle_zealot | 2026-03-13 21:57:43+00:00
Seconding this. I find MacOS unusable without it. I'll ask here because websearch is failing me: is there a way to fix the focus stealing that happens when you have multiple windows of an application on different displays? Specifically, say workspace 1 and 2 are on monitor Left, while 3 and 4 are on Right. Application A has a window on workspace 1, B has one window on 2 and another on 3, and C has a window on 4. Workspace 1 is active on display Left, workspace 4 is active on Right. If I switch to workspace 3 the following happens:

- the switch goes through, Left displays workspace 1, right displays 3 (desired state)

- Application B is focused, presumably because its window on 3 becomes active (also desired)

- Display Left switches to display workspace 2, presumably because it contains a window belonging to the newly focused application B? (I don't want this)

- the window of application B on workspace 2 steals focus from the one on workspace 3 (???)
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by amarant | 2026-03-13 21:58:24+00:00
I do know what it is, I've even read the licence in full!

What specific paragraph in the GPL prohibits training of AI on it? I guess it might be a matter of interpretation, but by my reading, it is allowed.

Ps. In the future, try to refrain from using demeaning rethorical questions like the one this comment starts with, it only serves to foster toxicity. Please and thank you
Ds.
by nephihaha | 2026-03-13 21:59:07+00:00
Sherlock Holmes is great. Tinker Tailor was repeated through my childhood, so I saw it a few too many times. I watched it again recently and found it slow... However the cast of it and Smiley's People are great. Karla is a notable early appearance of Patrick Stewart.

There were some great period dramas at the time, if a little set bound (like I, Claudius)
by kybernetikos | 2026-03-13 21:59:23+00:00
Everything relating to a datacentre that you can do in space you can do more easily on earth, regardless of 10000x inference growth or supply chain or production or starship or silicon.

By the way, 10,000x inference growth would look like what happened with cryptocurrency mining - after a couple of years, you'd be needing to upgrade all your machines with ASICs and the market would be flooded with very cheap graphics cards. I doubt that upgrading space data centres would be fun.

I think this is a lot more of a hyperloop than a spacex idea.
by freehorse | 2026-03-13 21:59:47+00:00
Because not liking something does not imply liking any possible alternative.

Which one is the "undesirable part changed" here? Wikipedia is written by humans, it has a not-for-profit governance model, it encompasses a large, international community of authors/editors that attempt to operate democratically, it has an investment/commitment in being an openly available and public source of information. Grokipedia, on the other hand, is AI-generated, and operated by a for-profit AI company. Even if "grokipedia" managed somehow to get traction and "overthrow" wikipedia, there is no reason on earth why a company would operate it for free and not try to make profit out of it, or use it for their ends in ways much more direct than what may or may not be happening to wikipedia. Having a billionaire basically control something that may be considered "ground truth" of information seems a bad idea, and having AI generate that an even worse one.

I can understand somebody not liking something in how wikipedia is governed or operating, after all whatever has to do with getting humans work together in such a scale is bound to be challenging. I can understand somebody ideologically disagreeing with some of the stances that such a project has to take eventually (even if one tries to be neutral as much as possible, it is inevitable to avoid some clash somewhere about where this neutrality exactly lies). But grokipedia much more than "wikipedia but different ideologically".
by applfanboysbgon | 2026-03-13 22:00:03+00:00
Another example: in some regimes merely using Tor is illegal, or say in the US using it is enough to justify a search warrant for probable cause, with no evidence of any actual wrongdoing. The EU Chat Control lobby is also trying very hard to criminalise encryption. The simple act of trying to communicate privately is taken as indicative of criminal wrongdoing. Being able to communicate securely without adversaries knowing you're communicating securely is a boon.
by SpecialistK | 2026-03-13 22:01:09+00:00
Because Windows isn't really an OS anymore, but a "platform" to deliver advertisements and lock you into Microsoft services. The OS core itself is fairly solid (and has been since Vista/7) but it's all of the crud shoved on top which really ruins everything.

The LTSC IoT releases are easy to find (wink-wink) and don't have 80% of the annoyances, including constant "feature upgrades" - still not Linux, but better than consumer Windows.
by wat10000 | 2026-03-13 22:01:30+00:00
A concrete example: a few weeks ago, Musk was making a big deal about how most of his massive net worth was not held in cash, and by a total coincidence the phrase "primarily derived from equity stakes rather than cash" showed up on his Grokipedia page in the section about net worth. I checked the pages of several other extremely wealthy people and none of them had such a comment.
by snowwrestler | 2026-03-13 22:01:37+00:00
This is all true and it kind of defines the scope of the harm he is talking about: bad enough for vague warnings, but apparently not bad enough to risk consequences to seniority etc. by outright revealing it.

Worth noting his full quote is that people will be “stunned that it took so long” for the info to come out. Which is not quite the same thing as being stunned in general.
by Aurornis | 2026-03-13 22:01:57+00:00
> The problem is that the big tech companies aren't holding up their end of the traditional social contract.

This analogy feels too strained.

Google gives away Maps, Gmail, and other products for free. A little UI widget inviting users to submit fixes is hardly an onerous demand.

> and they will of course log your location history and sell it to the highest bidder.

Google does not do this, no matter how many times this myth gets repeated online.

I think a lot of people in the Reddit and Reddit-adjacent world believe this is true because it gets repeated so much, but it's not true.

Ironically, Reddit makes money by packaging up user's content and selling it to 3rd parties.
Show HN: Inverse Material Renderer on WebGPU
by michael123671 | 2026-03-13 22:02:10+00:00
This is a material solver for 3D scans that used flash photographs. I've only tested it on Chrome desktop (doesn't seem to work on a phone yet). The usual scanning programs give you a shape and color based on the photos, but this one also gives texture maps for materials. So the usual rendering model ("Disney BRDF" / Cook-Torrance and variants in Blender, UE, Unity, etc.) takes in diffuse reflectance, "metalness", "roughness", which change based on the physical materials that made up whatever you're scanning.

The idea is that if you use flash photographs, in your renderer, you can solve backwards to see which inputs give a really close render to the photographs at each point, and it all turns into nonlinear least squares for each texel. There's two academic papers that do this and also a startup, m-xr.com (they're calling their program "marso"), this online version I made happens to be a few times faster than both. Which, they're clocking times in the hours range with their expensive server PC with four GPUs, so I thought faster is good.

One neat thing I did, for the solving, WGSL (webgpu shading language) doesn't have templating or function overloading, which all the solver libraries need to do auto-derivatives on equations. So I wrote a python script that generated the equivelant wgsl instead, so the derivatives get generated and you don't need to do it by hand still, then solving can happen on compute shaders with that.

I wrote about it here too: https://www.reddit.com/r/photogrammetry/comments/1rt06rm/i_m...

p.s. I'm looking for work rn, market's awful
by kareiontech | 2026-03-13 22:02:11+00:00
Hi HN,

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The idea came from noticing how many prompts it normally takes to structure an app idea when using AI tools. VCC generates the blueprint in one shot.

You can also click *“Build This App in EMRG”* to open the EMRG AI builder and start generating the app.

Right now the tool is *free during beta* (limited to 5 blueprints per day).

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Thanks to anyone willing to test it.
by sota_pop | 2026-03-13 22:02:20+00:00
Is this whole concept essentially a fundamental misunderstanding of the difference between "encryption" and "encoding"? I don't mean to be pedantic and don't want to make assumptions due to my respect for the source, but I don't understand how you can meaningfully manipulate the data that has been _actually_ encrypted? Doesn't the ability to accurately manipulate it imply that you have some understanding of its underlying meaning? The article is light on algorithmic details:

> "...a mathematical transformation, sort of like the Fourier transform. It encrypts data using a quantum-computer-proof algorithm..."

I am assuming there is some deep learning at play here i.e. it is manipulating the data within the latent space. If this is true, then would the embedding process really be considered "encryption"? You could argue it is security through obscurity (in the sense that the latent space basis is arbitrary/learned), but it feels like two different things to me.
by why_at | 2026-03-13 22:02:37+00:00
>On the other hand, being cryptographically locked-down is an optional feature. If you don't like it, buy a computer without that feature.

But that's the thing, where can I buy a phone without a locked-down operating system? GrapheneOS on a Google Pixel is basically the only option right now, and this still has problems thanks to hardware attestation in a lot of apps that the ecosystem forces us to use.

This is largely because Apple has dictated the direction of smartphones for the past two decades. All of our expectations for control over our phones are completely out of whack compared to other computers.

Somehow we managed to survive without the majority of society being scammed out of their life savings before Apple came in with the iPhone and locked down iOS, and yet now people are earnestly defending the notion that 90% of people should not even have access to the filesystem on their own device.
It's hard for solo developers to gain attentions
by tonipotato | 2026-03-13 22:03:06+00:00
I've been building side projects for a while and I'm hitting the same wall every time, the building is the easy part. Getting anyone to notice is 10x harder than writing the code.

Reddit removes your posts if you're a new account. HN restricts Show HN for new users. Twitter/X algorithm buries you unless you already have followers. Product Hunt feels like a pay-to-play leaderboard now.

I get why platforms do this. There's a real spam problem. But it creates a dead end where you need an audience to get distribution, and you need distribution to get an audience.

What's actually worked for you? Not the generic "build in public" advice, but specific things that got your first 10-100 real users.
by d--b | 2026-03-13 22:03:07+00:00
Of course Apple doesn’t want people to use their device in a way that’s not how they designed it. They’re very anal about the user experience, they don’t want kids to install ArchLinux on their grandparents iPhones, and have the grandparents complain that their phone is shit. I get that.

Conveniently, the way they designed the phone allows them to charge 30% of every transaction that happens on the device…

But that’s beyond the point. The point is that the iphone is a capable device, that probably can run macos, and it’s a waste that we’re not allowed to.
by fragmede | 2026-03-13 22:03:31+00:00
We almost had that with the browser wars, when Microsoft was forced to have customers choose which browser they wanted when they got a computer. Operating system choice was already lost to Windows, but at least browser, they were forced by EU directive to let the customer choose which one they wanted. Then the game changed, and now it's basically Google or Apple for your smartphone, with a tiny bit of competition that doesn't really count. If the EU really had guts, they'd say that computing devices must let the user install a OS of their choice, at their risk, and businesses would be able to just sell phones, with the option of GrapheneOS alongside Android and iOS or Windows Mobile or FirefoxOS or WebOS. We didn't get that future, unfortunately.
by apothegm | 2026-03-13 22:03:32+00:00
TFA may have been about a hand recount, but the comment I was originally responding to seemed to suggest the existence of paper ballots negated the incentive to tamper with the computers.

Do those vote by mail states that audit audit only mail ballots? Or also ballots tallied at polling places? Because there are very few states that are mail-only; and mail ballots typically reflect different demographics and thus different voting tendencies than in-person ballots.

My state tallies paper ballots by machine, and doesn’t even show me whether it read my ballot correctly. I just have to take it on faith that tallies are correct and never tampered with.
by notepad0x90 | 2026-03-13 22:03:50+00:00
But that's slow, and it's one more thing you have to setup and that could fail. What is the benefit to me if I used ipv6 and those nat services? what if I run into a service that blocks those nat IPs because they generate lots of noise/spam since they allow anyone to proxy through their IP? Not only does it not benefit me, if this was commercial activity I was engaging in, it could lead to serious loss of money.

At the risk of more downvotes, I again ask, why? am I supposed to endure all this trouble so that IPv4 is cheaper for some corporation? even then, we've hit the plateau as far as end user adaption goes. and I'll continue to argue that using IPv6 is a serious security risk, if you just flip it on and forget about it. you have to actually learn how it works, and secure it properly. These are precious minutes of people's lives we're talking about, for the sake of some techno ideology. The billions and billions spent on ipv4 and no one in 2026 is claiming ipv4 shortage will cause outages anytime within the next decade or two.

My suggestion is to come up with a solution that doesn't require any changes to the IP stack or layer3 by end users. CGNAT is one approach, but there are spare fields in the IPv4 Header that could be used to indicate some other address extension to ipv4 (not an entire freaking replacement of the stack), or just a minor addition/octet that will solve the problem for the next century or so by adding an "area code" like value (ASN?).
by bigyabai | 2026-03-13 22:03:51+00:00
I think it's a lost cause. Anthropic is still getting used at Palantir[0], their software is used in strike planning whether they consent or not. We can support them all day and fight OpenAI to the last breath, but ensuring AI is used responsibly is not up to any of us. It's the government's job to hold itself accountable, and they can't do it. By digging in their heels, Anthropic is preparing for an unwinnable fight against an enemy that doesn't play fair.

Considering how many lines Anthropic has crossed, it all feels like forced outrage to me. I feel ethically justified supporting none of these companies, it's reminiscent of the forced duopoly between iOS and Android.

[0] https://www.cnbc.com/2026/03/12/karp-palantir-anthropic-clau...
by win311fwg | 2026-03-13 22:04:19+00:00
The Agile Manifesto was published in 2001. You asserted earlier your software career began in 2006. What brought you to the Wasatch Mountains at that time when you had no ties to the industry?

Winston Royce, in his book, invented the waterfall methodology as a hypothetical of what not to do in order to help explain his core thesis. It is not a real thing. Why do you suggest the Agile Manifesto was created to help avoid leaning on a strawman?
by raw_anon_1111 | 2026-03-13 22:04:34+00:00
Stock options aren’t magic. I bet you that the remaining Twitter employees won’t see a higher comp than equivalent employees at BigTech companies between their cash + RSUs when SpaceX IPOs.

Aren’t employees also subject to a lock out period where they still can’t sell their stock until $x number of months after an IPO unlike employees of public companies that can sell as soon as they vest?

Honest question, I’ve worked for public $BigTech but haven’t been at a company pre IPO
by pessimizer | 2026-03-13 22:05:13+00:00
No, they're cute, neurotic, complain a lot, and fall in love with the Doctor (who is a Great Man with the weight of the universe on his shoulders.) They're all Sarah Jane.

There was the one companion where both elements happened at the same time; the last primarily useful companion, the first companion to be in love with the Doctor: Jo Grant, the UNIT agent with a certificate from an "Escapeology course," but would look up at the Doctor with puppydog eyes. She had suddenly replaced Liz Shaw, the super-competent UNIT scientist who sometimes seemed like she could barely tolerate him. They made Jo Grant a rookie and a klutz.

Up to Jo Grant, the companions were primarily there to do things, so the Doctor didn't have to be everything. Jo Grant was the one who would free them when they were tied up and locked in a storeroom; like how Zoë would make fun of how bad the Doctor was at driving the Tardis. Sarah Jane, by contrast, was as helpless as a fetus, constantly complaining, and hopelessly in love.

Leela, Romana, and Adric (although Adric was constantly humiliated, then killed) were still left to come, and Ace allowed the useful companions from the original series to go out with a bang(sorry), but in Nu Doctor Who it was to be strictly Sarah Janes forever.

People even thought Donna Noble was a breath of fresh air because even though she was useless and constantly complaining, at least she wasn't constantly simpering and crying over him. The absolute nadir of this trend was when Martha Jones, actually a medical doctor(!), was nearly suicidal with lust over him and he was just not into her at all. Doesn't like career women, I guess.

It's not you, Martha, it's me. Now I'm off to haunt a little girl's bedroom and cuck the sweet, perfect boyfriend who would be willing to wait 2,000 years for her. Maybe you should look up Mickey, that other guy whose fiancé I stole while I let him ride in the backseat. He's single; I ruined his girl for anyone else.
by moogly | 2026-03-13 22:07:30+00:00
I feel xAI is just a very big version of the Boring Co. "flamethrower": an unserious endeavor which is just a reskinned existing tool (it was a reskinned weed burner), but people were wowed by it anyway, since Musk was behind it, and they all pretended it was something new and notable.

The burning (heh) question is which SpaceX subsidiary will fail first, xAI or Tesla (not yet a subsidiary, but it's written in the stars (heh))?

Then again SpaceX is also jumping the shark what with their orbital data centers (remember those?).

Might be time to start a new Musk company soon.
by cyberax | 2026-03-13 22:07:51+00:00
> China also had made industry espionage their way to go in these things.

They're even espionaging from themselves in the future!

Dude, have you ever _been_ in China? They don't need espionage, they're now way ahead of the world in technology, except in a few areas like biotech research and semiconductor manufacturing.

For the last decade, China has been having more engineers in _training_ than the total number of engineers in the US. Sure, the quality of Chinese universities is not that great, but the sheer number of them has its own power.
by camel-cdr | 2026-03-13 22:08:08+00:00
> For example, should we use vrgather (with what LMUL), or interesting workarounds such as widening+slide1, to implement a basic operation such as interleaving two vectors?

Use Zvzip, in the mean time:

zip: vwmaccu.vx(vwaddu.vv(a, b), -1, b), or segmented load/store when you are touching memory anyways

unzip: vsnrl

trn1/trn2: masked vslide1up/vslide1down with even/odd mask

The only thing base RVV does bad in those is register to register zip, which takes twice as many instructions as other ISAs. Zvzip gives you dedicated instructions of the above.
by grey-area | 2026-03-13 22:08:15+00:00
Here's the context:

"We underestimated the gravitational pull of existing platforms. Network effects aren't just a moat, they're a wall."

It's a mixed metaphor which doesn't make any sense. There are really very few ways in which this can be considered good writing - I guess the grammar is ok even if it is nonsense.

So let's break it down - underestimated the gravitational effects - ok, this is nice, like where it's going talking about these big competitors sucking in users, but then we have the metaphor extended to breaking point:

Network effects are a moat, but not just a moat, they're a wall (which is really not anything like a moat). So which of these 3 things are they, and why are we mixing the metaphors of gravity (pulling in customers), moats (competitive moat) and walls (walled gardens).

It's just all a bit nonsensical and the kind of fuzzy prose that seems superficially impressive without actually saying anything meaningful in which LLMs excel. Go try generating an article from just the heads in this article, and see how similarly it reads.