MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by Imustaskforhelp | 2026-03-05 17:11:16+00:00
I recently got recommended Fluxer by someone

At first, my thoughts were, Why not use matrix, Matrix is good and all but I finally decided to give it a try and My god, for a discord alternative is it good!

It is one of the few messaging apps that I am very excited to hear about in future from.

As I read more, I saw this blog of theirs https://blog.fluxer.app/how-i-built-fluxer-a-discord-like-ch... and they mentioned:

> And this brings us to the present year of 2026. On January 2, 2026, I tried to do a Show HN, to no avail (a bit surprising, given that this is a topic that gets brought up on HN almost every other week, with users being quite frustrated with the existing OSS community chat options).

This is surpising to me too because I spend quite a lot of time on HN and I couldn't see this post. It's a shame more than anything. I have upvoted their Show HN: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46468725&ref=blog.fluxe...

This is also a message to Dang/HN moderation to add their Show HN to the second pool if possible as even I would really appreciate it. Reading their blog shows that they have been working on this project for 5 years.

I want Hackernews community to show some love to fluxer that it deserves.

Please do note that infra might have some issues and I wanted to create a hackernews community on fluxer but its resources are streched so thin that I wasn't able to change the logo (No worries tho!)

But that is also why I am sharing because this is a new project in which early supporter backing could go a long way and I don't want someone to be de-motivated for a project which is so so good, I am not kidding.

I have created an invite link to hackernews community for fluxer: https://fluxer.gg/crVKp7Rb

One of the biggest things that I find it interesting which can be relevant here is that I read on hackernews itself once that the reason discord won from teamspeak was that people could view messages before properly signing up. Fluxer does that too and that feature was what made them win my hearts because that isn't available in matrix or anything and it all felt frictional but with fluxer, that friction was removed and I really appreciated this and many other decisions they have made.

If you have a discord community or you have a github project and have discord as a link for people to go ahead and talk to you. I'd suggest to use fluxer now because this can have its own network effects and actually turns out that fluxer is a new app so even your minor decision of supporting it in any form right now would be a huge decision for its future.

I am tinkering with for an hour or two and am absolutely loving this project and the software behind it. I hope the community shows this project love as well.
by appsoftware | 2026-03-05 17:11:23+00:00
While building AS Notes (A wikilink-based knowledge management VS Code extension - https://github.com/appsoftwareltd/as-notes) - I ran into a subtle and genuinely interesting bug involving WebAssembly linear memory.

TLDR: sql.js loads SQLite into a WASM module with a single linear memory buffer. After indexing 18,000+ files that memory is large and fragmented. Reconstructing a Database() object on that same heap fails with "memory access out of bounds". The fix is a build-time esbuild plugin that injects a resetCache() function into the sql.js bundle, allowing the WASM module to be fully discarded and reloaded from scratch on rebuild.
by john_strinlai | 2026-03-05 17:11:26+00:00
>I don't have the experience to know, but my guess is that classic WoW was more of a shallow want, where people were very happy to get it, but the deeper want was more about a style and feel of gameplay. The players would be happier with new stuff that kept the magic of the classic game, [...]

>In a perfect world, some designer would come along and incorporate carefully selected bits and pieces of the new version, probably with some novel changes to balance it out, and end up with something superior to both classic and new WoW.

this is exactly what they put a lot of effort into for 5-10 years or so. years! blizzard convinced themselves that the players asking for classic didn't really want classic, they just wanted some of the feeling of classic bolted on to the current game.

but players actually, really, 100% truthfully, no exaggeration, wanted classic WoW. not retail WoW with some classic-feeling bits. they wanted (basically) bug-for-bug classic.

and it worked out great in the end! classic is thriving. retail is thriving. no balancing act between the two player bases needed.
by koher | 2026-03-05 17:11:37+00:00
I have a doubt regarding the generation mode for the infinity run; can that also not be done without AI implementation, similar to how Minecraft, Flappy Bird or other similar platformer games work using procedural generation? Or rather, how much easier would it be to use AI for level generation? It looks good though, and does sound like a good idea for games with complex systems and multiple assets!
by PaulDavisThe1st | 2026-03-05 17:11:38+00:00
The justification is pretty simple, even if you disagree with it. It goes something like this: we, the people of the UK, believe that a non-commercial broadcaster and news and production company are of significant value to us, and that in order to fund these social goods we will levy a license fee on the use of any television within the UK.

Now of course, you can disagree about the value proposition, and you can disagree about the choice on how to fund it. But that's the justification, and it's not hard.
by Gud | 2026-03-05 17:11:52+00:00
I believe it’s a “bad thing” and prefer my FreeBSD + jails setup and installing my packages using the FreeBSD package manager.

Docker sucks and only exists because after all these years, Linux STILL doesn’t have a great way to handle third party applications.

Unlike FreeBSD, which has both the excellent ports and package systems.

FWIW I am not married to FreeBSD. I use Arch Linux as well.
by kube-system | 2026-03-05 17:11:53+00:00
Courts have ruled that you can't assign copyrights to a machine, because only humans qualify for human rights. ** There is not currently a legal consensus on whether or not the humans using AI tools are creating derivative works when they use AI models to create things.

** this case is similar to an old case where a ~~photographer~~ PETA claimed a monkey owned a copyright to a photo, because they said a monkey took the photo completely on their own. The court said "okay well, it's public domain then because only humans can have copyrights"

Imagine you put a harry potter book in a copy machine. It is correct that the copy machine would not have a copyright to the output. But you would still be violating copyright by distributing the output.
by sciencejerk | 2026-03-05 17:12:52+00:00
I'll acknowledge that there might be some abuses of the use of Flock data by authorities (thanks for sharing citations). I would argue that this is an access control problem: do police departments have broad, unrestricted, unmonitored persistent access to these video feeds? (I oppose this). Is Flock insisting that police departments should have this access?
by keiferski | 2026-03-05 17:13:13+00:00
Right now, 30 seconds ago, I asked ChatGPT to tell me about a book I found that was written in the 60s.

It made up the entire description. When I pointed this out, it apologized and then made up another description.

The idea that this is going to lead to superintelligence in a few years is absolutely nonsense.
by MrManatee | 2026-03-05 17:13:33+00:00
Exactly - it very likely was trained on it. I tried this with Opus 4.6. I turned off web searches and other tool calls, and asked it to list some filenames it remembers being in the 7-zip repo. It got dozens exactly right and only two incorrect (they were close but not exact matches). I then asked it to give me the source code of a function I picked randomly, and it got the signature spot on, but not the contents.

My understanding of cleanroom is that the person/team programming is supposed to have never seen any of the original code. The agent is more like someone who has read the original code line by line, but doesn't remember all the details - and isn't allowed to check.
by drooby | 2026-03-05 17:14:39+00:00
Alaska and Norway aren't communist. They're capitalist economies with thriving private sectors. Oil companies still operate, still profit, still compete. The public just gets a share of the value extracted from a collectively owned resource.

The Alaska Permanent Fund has been running since 1982 inside the most conservative state in America. Norway's sovereign wealth fund is the largest on earth and their economy is doing fine.

These models work.. work well... And they exist comfortably within mixed market economies.

The question is whether the public gets a cut when private companies build fortunes on a collectively generated resource, or whether they don't. We already know the answer can be yes without anything breaking.

Our entire white collar system might be a house of cards with AI, what I am proposing is a safe hedge against a future with potentially massive wealth inequality, and increased unemployment. But this isn't just about protection from injury... people should BENEFIT massively.
by bluefirebrand | 2026-03-05 17:14:47+00:00
> They wouldn't really need to cull the population proactively, they just need to make sure they can defend themselves against the inevitable uprisings when people can't afford to eat and feed their families.

Arguably the best way to defend against the threat of uprising is to get rid of it before people reach that breaking point

I dunno, maybe by starting detainment camps under the guise of deporting people who are in the country illegally

Who knows. We have no really good examples of this sort of large scale population culling to draw from in history
by mister_tars | 2026-03-05 17:14:48+00:00
The barge-in cancellation challenge is real — we've found that tracking the exact timing of when Twilio's media stream sends the interrupt signal vs when ElevenLabs actually stops generating is the key to isolating whether it's a network, provider, or orchestration-layer issue. Have you tried correlating Twilio's call event timestamps with ElevenLabs' generation logs?

I built something that automates exactly this kind of cross-provider investigation across Twilio + ElevenLabs + Deepgram — happy to share if you want
by nerevarthelame | 2026-03-05 17:14:54+00:00
It's a diacritic marker that indicates how the word is supposed to be pronounced, with a syllable break on the marked letters - as though readers might get confused and think the word is pronounced "reel-ection" as opposed to "re-election." It's a pretty archaic practice, but The New Yorker persists. They have a lot of unusual stylistic preferences, like preferring the spelling "vender" over "vendor," which also occurs in this article.

A more common example of the diaeresis would be the name "Zoë" - the "ë" indicates the pronunciation is "zoe-y" (2 syllables) not "zoe" (1 syllable).

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Diaeresis_(diacritic)#English
by patcon | 2026-03-05 17:15:21+00:00
Maybe good software is like a living thing?

It grows and grows and eventually slows or grows too much and dies (cancer), but kinda sheds its top-heavy structure as its regrown anew from the best parts that survived the balanced cancer of growth?

Just forks and forks and restarts. It's not the individual piece of softwares job (or its community's) to manage growing in the larger sense, just to eventually leave and pass on its best parts to the next thing
by dgxyz | 2026-03-05 17:16:05+00:00
I'm not saying it was entirely intentional or there was an agenda, it's just unprofessionalism over and over and over again. At some point it becomes institutionalised at which point you become a propaganda outfit for a foreign entity publishing their statements verbatim.

See my other post in the thread for some further extrapolation of the side effects, but this was quoted over and over again by social media using the BBC's reputation to legitimise it.
by scuff3d | 2026-03-05 17:16:06+00:00
Literally the most useful LLMs have been to me is dealing with the pile of corporate bullshit we have to put up with day to day.

For example, we have to plan 8 to 12 sprints in advance. Full acceptance criteria, story points, and slotted into a sprint with points balanced across the team. Of course this is utterly useless, anything past the second sprint is going to be wrong, but they want it done. LLMs got me through that in a few hours instead of a few days.
by luckypowa | 2026-03-05 17:16:20+00:00
Multiplayer management games look simple. Numbers grow, players compete, markets evolve. In reality they are extremely difficult to test because simulation systems collide with unpredictable human behavior.

While building Global Business Tycoon, I found that traditional QA methods do not work well for multiplayer economies. The real challenge is not testing features but understanding how players reshape the system itself.

The problem

Single player testing asks familiar questions.
Is the economy balanced
Does progression feel good
Are upgrades meaningful

Multiplayer changes everything. When many players optimize the same system simultaneously, cooperation, specialization, and exploits emerge naturally. Economies can stabilize or collapse without any rule changes.

You stop testing mechanics and start observing emergent behavior.

Simulation before players

We first used automated agents with different strategies such as random decisions, aggressive profit seeking, long term investment, and irrational behavior.

Running thousands of simulations exposed instability quickly. We tracked inflation, wealth concentration, monopolies, and resource depletion. If bots broke the economy, players would too.

Parallel sessions

Testing multiple matches at the same time revealed something unexpected. Identical rules produced completely different outcomes depending on player behavior.

Competitive groups accelerated monopolies. Cooperative groups stabilized markets. Social dynamics mattered as much as balance values.

Recording behavior

Instead of focusing only on bugs, we logged player decisions over time. Investment timing, market reactions, and snowball moments explained balance issues better than feedback ever could.

Players rarely describe systemic problems, but their actions make them obvious.

Hosting matters

Latency affected auctions and trading fairness more than expected. Community hosted games exposed edge cases that internal testing never revealed.

Infrastructure became part of gameplay testing.

Testing understanding

Players must understand why outcomes happen. When causality is unclear, players assume randomness even in deterministic systems.

UI clarity became as important as economic accuracy.

What we learned

Multiplayer management games behave more like economic experiments than traditional games. Effective testing relies on observation, simulation, and real player behavior.

You are not balancing numbers. You are balancing human strategy.
by eszed | 2026-03-05 17:16:45+00:00
Thank you. Yes, this is the reason to be concerned. Not because it's extortion, or anything else like that, but because having to evaluate a counterparty's degree of connection to the State before doing a deal is not the way that free enterprise or open markets are supposed to work. Lutnik Jr's involvement puts every other bidder for these contracts at a disadvantage (even if it's illusory, and he's not personally acting badly), and distorts pricing signals. It's unfair not (or not primarily / directly) to customers, but to the rest of the legitimate players within an industry.

Yes, I know this isn't the first time this has happened, and that people likewise benefit from connections to governments led by other political parties. Those instances are also bad!
by EvanAnderson | 2026-03-05 17:17:48+00:00
> If you have a device you don't trust, don't allow it on your network...

That's what I do. That means large swaths of potentially interesting "smart" devices are unavailable to me (since they won't work without Internet access and I'm unable to inspect their traffic). I'm not too heartbroken about it, but it does make me a little sad that I don't get to use some of this "we're living in the future" tech.

> ...devices are right to not allow MITMing their traffic and to treat that as a security hole...

> ...a security hole you can use for jailbreaking is also a security hole that could potentially be exploited by malware...

Yes. Complete agreement. Devices are right not to allow unauthorized parties to MiTM their traffic, tinker w/ their innards, etc. I would never suggest otherwise.

Owners, with physical access, should be permitted to MITM the traffic, tinker with the innards, etc. They're authorized parties.

Device manufacturers should compelled by regulation to allow device owners, with physical access, to examine and manipulate the device internals. I'm thinking of the "developer mode" physical switches on Chromebook devices. If I own it I should have the same access to the device the manufacturer does.

If a manufacturer's business / security model isn't compatible with this regulation the manufacturer should be required to deal with any e-waste concerns and it should clearly be marketed as a rental and not a sale.

None of this will ever happen. I know I'm tiling at windmills. The tech world will continue to get more locked-down, the public will lose unfettered access to general purpose computers, and the personal computer revolution will become a distant memory. We already lost and could never really win because "normies" don't care about this stuff.
by qingcharles | 2026-03-05 17:17:50+00:00
Out of all the places to be incarcerated, county jails in the USA have a pretty poor record on healthcare. They are run by the counties, not the states, and therefore it is open season on how they provide the services. Most [1] just contract to the lowest bidder private provider. These providers' jobs are to dispense the lowest amount of healthcare to the lowest amount of patients in order to maximize profits. Mostly providing only emergency care to those who are in immediate risk of death. Many also require the prisoners to use the funds provided by their family (for phone calls, letters, clothing, food etc) to pay to even put a medical request into the system in the first place.

In terms of dental, most county jails will only do tooth pulls, not any other type of dental work. They will not try to save teeth at all.

[1] some larger areas like Cook County have their own healthcare systems and can be somewhat more sophisticated and less constrained by monetary concerns
by gadders | 2026-03-05 17:17:54+00:00
I agree, but it's not a shoestring budget. They also seem to run a surplus every year:

The Wikimedia Foundation (WMF) maintains a significant financial surplus and a growing, healthy balance sheet, with net assets reaching approximately $271.5 million in the 2023–2024 fiscal year. This surplus is largely driven by consistent, high-volume, small-dollar donations, with total annual revenue often exceeding $180 million.
by PaulDavisThe1st | 2026-03-05 17:18:13+00:00
The BBC obviously wants to avoid losing their income stream, and the current UK government has made clear verbal statements that they not only want the BBC to avoid losing their income stream but that they also want a change to a more sustainable and enforceable model for this. The BBC has not argued that the current license fee is the only model, but they have argued that if this is the model that is going to be used, something about it needs to change if they are to have the income stream that they need.

It also isn't clear to me that the TV license is an outdated model in entirety. The notion that a country would levy a fee on more or less any instance of an activity in order to fund a non-commercial institution related to that activity doesn't seem strange to me at all. What is true is that the nature of the activity and the enforceability of the fee have both changed, and that therefore something probably does need to be done.
by red_admiral | 2026-03-05 17:18:14+00:00
As far as I know, all the (L)GPL does is make sure that if A releases some code under it, then B can't release a non-free enhancement without A's permission. A can still do whatever they want, including sell ownership to B.

Neither GPL nor MIT (or anything else) protects you against this.

(EDIT) scenario: I make a browser extension and release v1 under GPL, it becomes popular and I sell it to an adtech company. They can do whatever they want with v2.
by danlitt | 2026-03-05 17:18:15+00:00
As long as you never read the original code, it is very likely that whatever you write is yours. So I would not be surprised to read judges indicating in this direction. But I would be a little surprised to find out this was an actual part of the test, rather than an indication that the work was considered to have been copied. There are for instance lots of ways of reproducing copyrighted work without using a copy directly, but naive methods like generating random pieces of text are very time consuming, so there is not much precedence around them. LLMs are much more efficient at it!
by xp84 | 2026-03-05 17:18:17+00:00
Idk... If the tiny population of those bored "hobbyists" taking up space is the only reason a given route was overcrowded, I'd be surprised. If it's basically at capacity in general, I'd rather they add more busses than to crack down on the elderly, because I guarantee that if you just subtracted those "abusers" (and not elderly people who actually need to ride the bus for legitimate trips) the same bus would still be basically as crowded.
by latexr | 2026-03-05 17:18:29+00:00
> VC funding gets you paid

So does robbing a bank. But it’s far from the only option. Plenty of indie developers thrive without any VC funding, and I thank every one of them for it. VC funding is essentially a guarantee that if the software isn’t shit now, it’ll be in the future, and that the creators care more about the money than doing something good. Case in point, the deterioration of 1Password.
Story Builder – AI branching narrative generator (CLI tool)
by loder-coder | 2026-03-05 17:18:33+00:00
Hi HN,

I built *Story Builder*, a CLI tool that generates branching narratives using AI.

The idea came from experimenting with interactive fiction and game prototyping. Writing branching story structures manually quickly becomes messy, so I wanted a tool that could generate a story graph from a simple prompt.

Example usage:

pip install story-builder-sdk

story-builder generate "cyberpunk detective story"

The tool generates a branching narrative structure that can be used for:

* interactive fiction
* game narrative prototyping
* story graph exploration

Features:

* AI branch generation
* prompt-based story graph expansion
* CLI workflow for developers
* exportable story structure

There are two versions:

Lite (open source on GitHub)
Basic story generation.

Pro version (Gumroad)
Adds controlled branching, reproducible outputs, and extended export options.

GitHub (Lite version):
https://github.com/loder-coder/story_builder

Pro version:
https://synergy314.gumroad.com/l/orcohgk

Feedback or ideas are very welcome.
by lateralux | 2026-03-05 17:19:40+00:00
It’s awesome to see Unix descendants still alive and active. NetBSD has been doing some really cool stuff lately, like PVH boot support.
Kudos to the SmolBSD team, a really fun project that made NetBSD PVH boot support, allowing it to boot a microVM on QEMU in ~10 ms https://smolbsd.org