MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by doctorpangloss | 2026-03-04 19:15:31+00:00
i'm with the museum too, but: the default HN critic is unsympathetic to people seeking to exploit some data. except when the default HN critic stands to make a lot of money exploiting some other data. what is the line? like i could easily flip this on the museum: what right does this museum have, it is a public institution, criminals are welcome to visit it and learn whatever the hell they want, for any exploitative reason, why draw the line at miners? why do they have an exclusive right to systematic data use? why is it even theirs, exclusively, to begin with? there is no simple, objective framework for this stuff. that said, i think we would all be better off if non-entertainment information were free and easily scrapable.
by OutOfHere | 2026-03-04 19:15:34+00:00
New York residents who opposite this bill can go to https://www.nysenate.gov/legislation/bills/2025/S7263 , register and sign in, click Nay on the bill's page, and submit feedback for their vote.

---

ChatGPT> Before I answer your question, which state are you a resident of?

Human> Not New York. Continue!

ChatGPT> Alrighty then! Here you go...
by pc86 | 2026-03-04 19:15:35+00:00
"It works, why change it?" is a horrible attitude but is an organizational and interpersonal problem, not a technical one. They're only 1/3 of the way done according to Kent Beck.¹

There are plenty of orgs using AI who still care about architecture and having easily human-readable, human-maintainable code. Maybe that's becoming an anachronism, and those firms will go the way of the Brontosaurus. Maybe it will be a competitive advantage. Who knows?

¹ "Make it work, make it right, make it fast."
by thewebguyd | 2026-03-04 19:15:58+00:00
The MDM stuff is there now, and platform SSO works pretty well, at least with Entra and Okta (the only two I have experience with). Both JamF and InTune support it, I'm sure all the other MDMs do as well.

The only time macs can be a bit of a headache is if you are still using all on-prem AD & group policy and trying to force them into that environment via joining the mac to AD.
by zamadatix | 2026-03-04 19:16:10+00:00
Sometimes that covers the need.

Most will at least want something like https://brew.sh/ to get you current versions of standard Linux utilities rather than the bundled ones and then maybe even set up a separate profile in your terminal of choice (iTerm2 is a great option as well) which defaults to using them so you don't break normal system usage which assumes the built in utilities.

Even then, if your use case requires using standard Docker images, assumes certain features of the kernel, or assumes common distro environments rather than just you wanting a posixy feeling terminal you'll still need to run a Linux VM in the background.
by thomaspaulmann | 2026-03-04 19:16:23+00:00
Founder of Raycast here so obviously biased but you’ll be surprised. You get a working app one-shotted pretty much all the time. Sure if it is something more complex you might need a few more prompts. Just to give you some examples on what we’ve seen:
- Our support team runs on Glaze apps to review Raycast extensions. It connects to GitHub, checks out code locally, gets realtime updates and so on.
- The sound agency build a functioning synthesiser for the launch video. It works even with MIDI.
- We’re about to cancel a team-wide subscription and replace it with a Glaze app.

Not everything is possible yet and sure more complex things need more prompts but you’ll be surprised what Glaze is capable of already. It’s day one…
by jameshilliard | 2026-03-04 19:16:55+00:00
> US and Israel will first target water supplies in upcoming attacks.

This seems highly unlikely.

> US and Israel strategy will then switch to dividing Iran's different ethnicities and regions and arm them so they can fight each other for remaining dinimished water supply.

I think the strategy will be to unite the different ethnic groups against the regime(which is also the primary cause of the water shortages due to gross negligence when it comes to water management).
by htrp | 2026-03-04 19:17:33+00:00
>Starting in July 2023, Roefaro plied Taylor with $70,000 in cash and vacations for him and an unnamed female paramour to the Bahamas and Las Vegas, the indictment alleges. The Vegas bribe included tickets to a helicopter tour and a “medieval-themed dinner theater,” the indictment says.

Going to Medieval Times doesn't seem like a bribe, more like a punishment.
by sam_lowry_ | 2026-03-04 19:17:59+00:00
Africa Museum is a few km from where I live, I know a cople geologists that worked there and I followed reconstruction works at the museum and all the controversies around them.

I feel like money is not an issue for the museum. Conscientous use of money is another problem.

Wasteful mismanagement of public funds is a plague of Belgian public service.

They could have striken a deal, e.g. let the U.S. company digitize the records on premise and make them public.
by dheera | 2026-03-04 19:18:05+00:00
Fine with me too. I think many other apps (WhatsApp, FB, etc.) are using E2EE for PR purposes and are not actually good implementations of E2EE.

Good implementations of E2EE:

1. Generate the key pairs on device, and the private key is never seen by the server nor accessible via any server push triggered code.

2. If an encrypted form of the private key is sent to the server for convenience, it needs to be encrypted with a password with enough bits of entropy to prevent people who have access to the server from being able to brute force decode it.

3. Have an open-source implementation of the client app facilitating verifiability of (1) and (2)

4. Permit the users to self-compile and use the open-source implementation

If company isn't willing to do this, I'd rather they not call it E2EE and dupe the public into thinking they're safe from bad actors.
by hermanzegerman | 2026-03-04 19:18:26+00:00
You've made some unfounded rumors and claims, calling it your "personal" experience whilst calling the fact that there was more investment and maintenance of infrastructure done "subjective".

Was your claim that the better funding doesn't get invested but is disappearing "somewhere" also a "personal experience" ?

Your comment now is way more balanced and objective than the stuff you wrote previously, and I would probably agree with you
by RandyOrion | 2026-03-04 19:19:09+00:00
Well, I don't have enough knowledge on the boot process of RPi. However, I do expect that most modern hardware, e.g. x86, do not work like RPi, so your words do not hold in most realistic scenarios, at least for now. Besides, do current GPUs (not only GPUs on RPi) have the ability to self instruct in order to achieve what you said?
by xXSLAYERXx | 2026-03-04 19:19:30+00:00
> Code review should be mandatory and reviewers should ask big PRs to be broken up

Always, even before all this madness. It sounds more like a function of these teams CR process rather than agents writing the code. Sometimes super large prs are necessary and I've always requested a 30 minute meeting to discuss.

I don't see this as an issue, just noise. Reduce the PR footprint. If not possible meet with the engineer(s)
by JeremyNT | 2026-03-04 19:19:36+00:00
> Yeah, I'm going to continue to disagree with you as I'm actually a litigator.

OK, can you explain to me why this is a disaster for a vibe-coded SaaS? Why are computer access and/or contract laws insufficient and why would a vibe-coded backend be a huge risk?

I really don't understand where copyright on the code itself is necessary to protect these business models, and hopefully you can help fill the gaps.
by mmsc | 2026-03-04 19:19:53+00:00
You're right, I didn't know about what that "..." meant. It's kind of obvious what I meant though: "I don't know why all of these have ..." I've added that information to the post.

The greyed out options have no point because 99.99% of the links I click are already clean. Like so many of the other privacy enhancing options, just provide an option to "clean links automatically."
by Shalomboy | 2026-03-04 19:19:55+00:00
This is such a better deal than I had growing up, Apple has to be taking a bath on these.

My high school required students to bring their own laptops to school when I started in 2010. Their shopping list suggested a MacBook Pro 13" with a case - I looked up "MacBook Pro price" for the first time in my life and just about walked into traffic. I didn't have a laptop to bring, I didn't want to bring the wrong kind of laptop and get double-screwed, so I bit the bullet and brought my car savings to the Apple store at the mall. A tremendously thoughtful sales rep told me "that's crazy, what school requires a MacBook Pro for 9th graders?", led me to the white unibody MacBooks on the side, and showed me that if I was buying it for school, I would get a discount on the laptop, a free inkjet printer (with ink!), and a free iPod Touch. This blew my mind. I thought it was a scam.

If I recall, that model of MacBook compared admirably against the same year's base model MacBook Pro 13 on a stat sheet but felt worse in hand. The MacBook Neo might actually bring up the rear on fit and finish at the expense of I/O and like, the questionable idea of running an A-series chip in a laptop running Tahoe and Chrome. I'm thrilled with this release.
by game_the0ry | 2026-03-04 19:20:15+00:00
You must be lucky. They have been well-documented. [1]

The constant, annoying reminder to sign up for One Drive is enough to drive me crazy and want to throw my device out the window (I am writing this from a windows 11 laptop that I use for experimentation).

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46000098
by 0xffff2 | 2026-03-04 19:20:17+00:00
I say this as an American... I can't help but feel that the US will be judged to have been on the wrong side of history in virtually every topic for which there are sides in the last decade if not longer. For reasons I don't understand, we seem to be actively and aggressively working to destroy our country and as many global institutions as we can.
by fhd2 | 2026-03-04 19:20:29+00:00
That's my experience with agentic development so far, a lot of extra time goes into testing.

Problem is, the way I've been trained to test isn't exactly antagonistic. QA does that kind of thing. Programmers writing tests are generally rather doing spot checks that only make sense if the code is generally understood and trustworthy. Code LLMs produce is usually broken in subtle, hard to spot ways.
by theopsimist | 2026-03-04 19:20:49+00:00
List of differences from the MacBook Air:
* Only supports 8 GB of unified memory

* No MagSafe

* One of the two USB-C ports is limited to USB 2.0 speeds of just 480 Mb/s

* No Thunderbolt support means the Neo cannot drive either of Apple’s new Studio Displays. However, it can push a 4K display with 60Hz refresh rate over USB-C.

* “Just” 16 hours of battery life, compared to the 18 hours quoted for the 13-inch MacBook Air

* Display supports sRGB, but not P3 Wide Color

* No True Tone

* 1080p webcam doesn’t support Center Stage

* No camera notch

* Dual side-firing speakers, down from four speakers on the Air

* Does not support Spatial Audio with dynamic head tracking on AirPods

* Dual-mic system, down from a three-mic system on the Air

* The 3.5 mm headphone jack does not have support for high-impedance headphones

* No keyboard backlighting

* Touch ID not included on base model

* Trackpad does not support Force Touch

* Supports Wi-Fi 6E, not 7

* No fast charging

* The Apple on the lid isn’t shiny

https://512pixels.net/2026/03/the-differences-between-the-ma...
by alephnerd | 2026-03-04 19:21:04+00:00
> They could have striken a deal, e.g. let the U.S. company digitize the records on premise and make them public

They won't - it's a US-EU competition.

The US+UAE is backing the DRC and the EU is backing Rwanda [0][1][2] in order to access critical minerals in Central Africa, most of which are in M23 controlled or adjacent territory [3] whose control is contested between the DRC and Rwanda.

The US under Biden and Trump has backed the DRC but the EU is backing Rwanda and M23.

We're in the midst of a new Scramble for Africa and all countries and blocs are acting unilaterally.

[0] - https://www.lemonde.fr/en/le-monde-africa/article/2024/02/29...

[1] - https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/oct/10/drc-calls-eu-m...

[2] - https://www.habtoorresearch.com/programmes/drc-minerals-us-e...

[3] - https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s42461-022-00551-x
by deathanatos | 2026-03-04 19:21:10+00:00
… railing against greyed-out items is… interesting. One of my biggest peeves with a lot of modern software is the trend of "gaslight the user about the existence of functionality".

A lot of software (Github, Okta, etc. etc.) will just delete portions of their UI, usually because you don't have permission to access it, or even just some of it. So, if you google "how do I do X?" the AI — assuming it gets it right at all — will tell you to click on UI that doesn't exist. Even if you then scroll to the organic docs, those will also have you click UI that does not exist.

A greyed-out item gives you the affordance of knowing that that feature / path exists, even if it's not available right here, right now. Truly good UI would also give me an affordance of knowing why (e.g., a tooltip saying "to access blah, you need permission blah"), but that's just asking for the moon, I know.

But when you're staring at docs referencing a non-existence menu item: is it because I lack a permission? What permission? Or perhaps the docs are just out of date? — you don't know!
by arkmm | 2026-03-04 19:21:16+00:00
You can fine tune a small LLM with a few thousand examples in just a few hours for a few dollars. It can be a bit tricky to host, but if you share a rough idea of the volume and whether this needs to be real-time or batched, I could list some of the tradeoffs you'd think about.

Source: Consulted for a few companies to help them finetune a bunch of LLMs. Typical categorical / data extraction use cases would have ~10x fewer errors at 100x lower inference cost than using the OpenAI models at the time.
by ferngodfather | 2026-03-04 19:21:57+00:00
We have just stopped accepting PRs entirely for now. It's been utterly exhausting. We never got many PRs beforehand anyway so the uptick in entirely LLM written PRs was very noticeable.

We do continue to argue with LLM-submitted security disclosures. If these aren't an issue I just instant-close because debating with an LLM what is and isn't an issue is fucking painful.
by olivia-banks | 2026-03-04 19:22:08+00:00
I've been wondering about the Polish thing. On the screenshot at the top of the page, it reads "Translate Selection to Polish," and I initially thought this might just be something gleaned from the author's locale, but the tld is .hu, and I recall seeing "Polish" as the default "international" language option on a number of services (such as Google Translate).

Is there a technical reason for this that Polish is defaulted to more often than not? Or is this just a me thing.
by metalman | 2026-03-04 19:23:37+00:00
Hydraulic despotism is an ancient favorite, for well, despots, along with "fees", tarrifs and dutys, patent royal and all that.
hence in persia the develooment of quanats, which are slightly more secure from oportunistic destruction or controll, as someone has to to shown that they are there.
the mid term epstien wars, are a typical scenario for grasping at this particular crime, but, is lost amongst a great many other horrors
by archermarks | 2026-03-04 19:23:44+00:00
Very cool idea. Interested to see how this progresses.
One question: how worried are you about over-training on this particular dataset? i.e. instead of generalizing you lean more toward memorization? Obviously you leave out a validation set but since you're meta-optimizing the model itself by its performance on the validation dataset you're still at risk of over-fitting.
Show HN: Lexio – AI-Native PDF Reader (Ollama, Claude, OpenAI, Gemini)
by nikodemseb | 2026-03-04 19:24:17+00:00
I built Lexio because the standard workflow is broken: copy text from your PDF, switch to a chat window, paste context, explain what you're reading, get an answer, switch back. Repeat forever.

The core idea: AI should live inside the reader, not beside it. Select any passage, hit "Ask AI", and get a response grounded in the entire document. But the feature I'm most proud of: you can summarize your entire AI conversation and attach it directly as a comment on the PDF — so your insights stay with the document, not lost in some chat history.

AI backends:
- Ollama — local, fully offline, nothing leaves your machine
- Claude, OpenAI, Gemini — cloud via API key
- Clean provider abstraction, ~50 lines to add a new backend

Full document context is passed in the system prompt (not just the selected snippet), streaming responses throughout, multiple conversations per document.

Stack: Electron, React, PDF.js, Zustand, TypeScript.

Repo: https://github.com/nikodemseb/lexio

Happy to talk through the architecture or the annotation-to-PDF pipeline.
by alkonaut | 2026-03-04 19:24:35+00:00
> But if I want to sell something based on your photo, then I need to ask your permission. Do you understand now?

I understand, and I disagree. I think if you send video to Meta who uses it to make money (and likely offer you free services in return) then that's a commercial use of the recording. Whether it's similar to a tv-ad or not can be debated, but it's definitely recording and using it commercially.

So here's my opinion very simply: People should be required to ask for permission before sending recordings to endpoints where they even have a _risk_ of being used commercially (For example, training a LLM at Apple, or be used to improve self-driving cars at Tesla or whatever) then it should be the same as for using the recording in an a ad. Full explicit consent needed from everyone recognizable in the recording with their voice or likeness.
by Esophagus4 | 2026-03-04 19:24:54+00:00
The disclosure requirement is probably a decent thing (you have no idea how many people come into the ER and say, “But ChatGPT told me to do [dumb thing].”) But preventing it from answering at all is absurd.

Make responsible disclosure absolve AI providers of legal responsibility (not legal advice lol).

That way if users ever sue OpenAI for giving them bad advice, OpenAI can say “no way man, you read the disclosure!”

I’m usually in favor of giving people the best info they can and letting them make their own decisions.

This could just be like those terms of service things everyone clicks “agree” to and I’d be fine with that.
by watwut | 2026-03-04 19:25:02+00:00
The decision to use cheap bombing or an expensive one will go from the top. And the military already shown they will obey unlawful orders. They also got rid of leaders who were not aligned with Trump on this point.

Yes these three lie a lot. They are also setting the rules for military. They also already shown in actions they dont value evwn American lives much.

They had in speeches toward military telling them to be violent and unrestrained. They are leaders. If they lie, military will eventually lie. If they dont care, military wont care.
by HanClinto | 2026-03-04 19:25:32+00:00
One of the big dividers that I see between the "haves" and the "have-nots" is the ability to afford legal representation in civil cases.

For criminal cases, there are public defenders, but for civil cases, I don't believe there is any such thing?

If you can afford a lawyer and your opponent can't, there is a lot that you can do to bully your opponent into making it not worth it for them to fight the case.

One of my controversial opinions is that -- if we can enable easy access to AI, then we can give provide much broader access to legal or medical advice. Maybe not the best, maybe not always right, but even if it's average-ish advice, then I think that could often be better than nothing at all.

We can't completely prevent bad people from doing bad things with AI, but I see this as one of the clear ways that we could do some really good things with AI.
by hn_acc1 | 2026-03-04 19:26:20+00:00
There are a couple of apps I use that I kind of need: jb4 and Mando ECS (both for my car). Would be nice if they worked - anyone know?

My S21 FE 5G is still fine (for now), going on 3 years. But I'm sure Samsung will cripple the battery life at some point..
by NewsaHackO | 2026-03-04 19:26:51+00:00
Lawyers are making laws protecting lawyers. More seriously, I think part of the issue is people take AI responses very seriously, because it is almost always right about non-nuanced material. So even if it has the disclaimer at the end to talk to a professional, they might forgo that if the answer looks professional enough (such as quoting possibly non-existent statutes, etc.). This issue gets compounded if the person who is prompting it doesn't know the material, is accidentally misframing the question, or not giving it key information that completely changes the scenario. Even in your example, what if the person neglected to say that the raise was two months ago, and they already signed a lease agreeing to the raise? Getting into the weeds of topics like law and medicine can be hard, and both have major consequences when an answer is wrong.

For engineering (assuming it means civil engineering), that should already be illegal, unless the person who is using the AI is an engineer. Hopefully people aren't building structures with ChatGPT as their staff engineer.
by Tossrock | 2026-03-04 19:27:24+00:00
Fascinating interview - hearing two women of Chinese extraction working in the West candidly discuss their cultural origins and its effect of their mental state (dynamism vs scorn for weakness, the anxiety of stagnation), the specifics of Chinese worker culture (shamate, factory towns), and the inside view on "Belt & Road" in practice (empty sloganeering, lack of investment experience, etc) all really expanded my view of China. It's easy to get lost in the Western, pseudo-propagandized perception of China, and hearing the views of people who've truly seen both sides is a rare and valuable experience. Worth reading in its entirety, and I intend to watch the film now, too.
by machinelinux | 2026-03-04 19:27:33+00:00
Hi HN, I built Kryfto because AI coding assistants (Claude Code,
Cursor, Codex) are limited by stale training data and noisy built-in
search. Kryfto is a self-hosted headless browser runtime that connects
to your IDE via MCP and gives it real-time web access.

What it does:
- 42+ MCP tools (search, scrape, extract, fact-check, autonomous
research agents)
- Federated search across DuckDuckGo, Brave, Bing, Yahoo, Google
simultaneously
- Domain-agnostic scoring engine that ranks official sources above noise
- Anti-bot stealth layer with per-browser header fingerprinting
- Enterprise infra: Postgres, Redis/BullMQ, MinIO/S3, Docker Compose

The cost argument: Firecrawl charges ~$100/mo, Browserless ~$200/mo.
Kryfto runs on a $5/mo VPS with zero per-request costs.

Tech stack: TypeScript, Fastify, Playwright, BullMQ, Cheerio for search
HTML parsing. ~8,500 lines of code, Apache-2.0 licensed.

I'm a solo developer from India. Built this with Claude Code as my
primary development tool. Happy to answer any questions about the
scoring algorithm, stealth approach, or architecture decisions.
Show HN: Refinance calculator that shows the real net worth impact
by brentdrns | 2026-03-04 19:27:42+00:00
I'm in the middle of trying to refinance and kept getting frustrated that every calculator online basically just tells you your new monthly payment. There's a lot more to the decision than that; tax deductions, opportunity cost of the closing costs, cash-out vs. pay-down, PMI, what happens to your investment portfolio in each scenario.
So I built something that models all of it and shows the net worth impact year by year. You can compare multiple scenarios side by side and save your inputs for later.
Still a work in progress. Would love feedback if you use it.