MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by lxgr | 2026-03-02 11:14:05+00:00
> Seems like an absolutely rare edge case to me.

Bank and payment card transactions are arguably a pretty big part of everyday life to most people.

> I doubt there is a law that says that.

Reg E/Z in the US and PSD2 in the EU pretty firmly put the burden for these types of situations/losses on the bank/PSP. They don't specifically mandate the "how", but for better or worse, industry perception and common practice is for that to include root detection, blocking VoIP numbers from receiving SMS-OTPs etc.

> That means the law should be changed.

The law that makes banks liable for most cases of account compromise? I'm actually quite happy with that, even if it comes with some unfortunate externalities.
by bluebarbet | 2026-03-02 11:14:32+00:00
This project has been going for years. Good to see it lives on.

IMO there's a paradox with these privacy-focused mobile solutions. Just as with the expensive flagship corporate devices, the massive price tags suggest an assumption that we are doing all our computing on mobile. That's now the case for most normies. But for anyone who really cares about their privacy (not to mention sanity), there's a better solution available: repatriate most of one's computing to a laptop. At which point all these mobile devices become unjustifiably expensive. Hence the paradox.

PS: downvoting a reasoned opinion, apart from being lazy and toxic in any community, does not constitute a rebuttal.
by ChrisMarshallNY | 2026-03-02 11:15:59+00:00
> boots paradox

For those that don’t know what they meant, here you go[0].

I’ve always been a fan of Quality, but Quality costs, and people that get rich, generally do so, by selling lots of lower-quality stuff. Hard to compete against.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boots_theory
by animuchan | 2026-03-02 11:17:42+00:00
Staying sane is a gradient.

But personally the current war gives hope. Ayatollah was Putin's serious leg to stand on, not just in the region. If Iran's new govt is normalcy-adjacent, not just the terrorist orgs suffer without support, but also the Putin's war thing collapses. A decade (or less) of peace and prosperity is upon some of us.

And AI is neat, it highlights so many things about people. We start to value agency in fellow human beings. People understand context better now, and give more context proactively when talking; but also understand that there's context poisoning, which is why derailing is bad.

In the end everything is a tool: AI is a tool, war is a tool. We think AI is for coding, and war is for power, but in the end AI makes us know ourselves better. War makes us know ourselves better (and also gave us fast airplanes). This is the important, this is what will remain -- when the kingdom is ash, and the echo still drums.
by samrus | 2026-03-02 11:17:54+00:00
> Sources at NIST contacted by ScienceInsider say they have yet to see any written versions of the proposed rules, which have been conveyed in meetings. Patrick Gallagher, a former NIST director now at the University of Pittsburgh, says the lack of clear communication and the short notice being given to foreign scientists is creating a sense of chaos. “I’m as disappointed as to how this is unfolding as to what is unfolding,” Gallagher says. “At the very least NIST owes an explanation to the country. If there is a good reason for what they are doing, they should flat out say what it is.”

This is the sort of "high agency", not waiting for permission mentality that works great for a startup thats making tinder for cats, but is really bad for foundational institutions that provide a critical service to not just the nation but humanity in general. I feel like musk and his DOGE initiative infected the government with this move fast and break things bullshit. Or they were at least correlational with it
by HunOL | 2026-03-02 11:17:56+00:00
I'm currently looking for a new Android phone. I don't like the Pixel and deep integration with Google. I looked at the Fairphone with /e/OS and the Pixel with GrapheneOS, but unfortunately there's no certainty that everything will work or where the boundary is between Google Android and "clean" Android. For example, it turned out that Android Auto is essentially Google Auto and I don't what find out what is dependent on Google. I want something that just works. A phone isn't something I want to tinker with like Linux ten years ago. So basically the choice comes down to Samsung and Chinese brands.
by carlosjobim | 2026-03-02 11:18:05+00:00
Motorcycles have all those advantages against cars, except being able to bring them indoors. Yet people aren't all riding around on motorcycles. E-Bikes have their niche, but they're not going to replace cars, since motorcycles didn't.

Motorcycle culture is something you choose if you participate in. If you're a lady commuting to work on a scooter, few people will expect you to participate in that.
by necovek | 2026-03-02 11:18:38+00:00
Even that will pass (for most — for some, it might simply "end" :/). I've been sitting in a cellar and bomb shelters in 1999 myself: yes, your struggle is worse and longer, but it will pass. The information you need today is very limited, so focus on that (what will be hit next; are there potential targets around you at all times, where do you get water/food in case systems break down, etc).

We are all victims of this weirdo game of global, live Risk, and unless you commit yourself to politics, really not much you can do here either: survive and focus on what's next!

Stay safe and good luck!
by AnssiH | 2026-03-02 11:19:01+00:00
That site lists many of candidates as "support" just because they have not publicly opposed, so it is not a realistic view on the opinions of EU parliament.
Better to look at actual votes cast.

Also, they are not distinguishing between supporting mandatory monitoring and other forms (e.g. present legal situation where monitoring is allowed).

The current proposals do not include mandatory monitoring. If mandatory chatcontrol had the wide support that site suggests, it would have been introduced and passed long ago.
by Cthulhu_ | 2026-03-02 11:19:13+00:00
I had a colleague (now friend :D) whose dad was a manager for a company, he taught him to talk to anyone so he's got a number of conversation starters / makers. I mean I (think I) can tell it's a very active intellectual process for him, like it's not natural and he's analysing responses and storing them and the like constantly, but he's doing it and it makes him a great asset. I don't think he aspires any leadership positions - conversations cost him energy and he likes to write code, after all - but he has the techniques for it.
by cultofmetatron | 2026-03-02 11:19:59+00:00
we have a pretty intensively used postgres backed app handling thousands of users concurrently. After 6 years and thousands of paying custoners, we are only now approaching to the limits of what it can support on the horizon. TLDR: when you get there, you can hire some people to help you break things off as needed. if you're still trying to prove your business model and carve yoruself a segment of the market, just use postgres
by WillAdams | 2026-03-02 11:20:15+00:00
Several times in my life, when I've needed to study/learn something, I just found or made a wiki on it, and categorized everything which I learned on it --- then when I had trouble recalling a fact, it was there in that structured site --- on the flip side, there almost certainly are folks who will aver that I ruined the Shapeoko CNC project wiki by using it as a personal notebook. Fortunately, @julien, a native French speaker from the Carbide 3D Community forums wanted to improve his English, so he made a gitbook:

https://shapeokoenthusiasts.gitbook.io/shapeoko-cnc-a-to-z/

which re-worked the essentials from that wiki, discarded the chaff, and has become a reference which a number of projects have re-purposed. I did resurrect the notes aspect on the /r/shapeoko wiki though.

Similarly, when I wanted to set up the ultimate commuter/long-haul mountain bike, I put down all the gear I learned about at:

http://old.reddit.com/r/bicyclegear/wiki

(probably out-of-date now, but I found the notes useful)

Unfortunately, I've lost access to the two e-mail archives from when I worked as a graphic designer/typographer --- really should have forwarded any notable e-mails (which I would have wanted to refer to later) to myself --- at least one of them wound up being printed out by a startup composition house and distributed to new employees.... maybe one of these days I'll finish the type composition book I was asked to write by an editor at a major publishing house.

For now, I've been working on:

https://willadams.gitbook.io/design-into-3d and https://github.com/WillAdams/gcodepreview
by karel-3d | 2026-03-02 11:20:16+00:00
In go, you can do mmap with some help of external library :) you can mmap a file - https://github.com/edsrzf/mmap-go - and then unsafe-retype that to slice of objects, and then read/write to it. It's very handy sometimes!

It's unsafe though.

You also need to be careful to not have any pointers in the struct (so also no slices, maps); or if you have pointers, the must be nil. Once you start unsafe-retyping random bytes to pointers, thing explode very quickly.

So maybe this article has a point.
by jacquesm | 2026-03-02 11:20:32+00:00
Yes, but this is an S-Pedelec, top speed is 43 and then the assist goes completely off and I am not strong enough to maintain that speed without assist for more than a few minutes on this bike.

With assist set to low or medium I would end up with a hospital visit after a single ride. I have half an Ikea in my right leg, two 40 cm long pieces of steel and a massive number of screws to hold it all together so I really can't risk another fall or overloading it.
by Thorrez | 2026-03-02 11:20:42+00:00
Are you asking (1) why I think what I think?

Or are you asking (2) how we wound up in this situation as a society?

(1) I think what I think for several reasons. Basically everyone speeds. Probabilistically that includes he very lawmakers writing the laws, the police, and the road designers. I've also read some articles talking about road design, and in it it's mentioned that the designers factor in that most people will speed if the road conditions are amenable. I've also seen police cars driving around without their lights on, passing people at higher than the speed limit, and when unable to pass, the appear annoyed to me.

(2) I think this situation arose in sort of a "normalization of deviance" manner. Police didn't want to be too strict, or didn't want to bother fighting tickets for people speeding only a little, so only gave tickets for people speeding a lot. Then over time many people realized that, and started speeding a little. More are and more people started speed just to fit in with the surrounding traffic, until eventually everyone was speeding. Peer pressure. I've heard driving the same speed as the surrounding traffic is generally safer than driving significantly slower (or faster). Once everyone is speeding, that includes lawmakers, road designers, and police. And they factor that in when they write laws, design roads, and enforce laws.
by lelanthran | 2026-03-02 11:20:42+00:00
> What they said is correct regardless of that though?

I don't think so.

Their post is basically:

>> It still works if the file doesn't fit in RAM

> No it doesn't.

Which is incorrect: it actually does work for files that don't fit in RAM. It doesn't work only for files that don't fit in the address space, which is not what the author claimed.
by skywhopper | 2026-03-02 11:21:15+00:00
Some people fetishize tool curation over results. But also, the true high-efficiency creators prioritize their tools over everything. To be truly efficient and to get in the flow, you need tools that work with your particular style and approach. This is why there are lots of idiosyncratic tools and opinions about tools out there. Since not everyone works the same way or has the same preferences, there’s a natural market for unique tools that work differently to suit all those people. The “religious wars” over editors are really just people missing the point and arguing for no reason. Emacs is better for some people. Vim for others. Vscode for others. Notepad++ for others. Nano for others. This is a good thing.

If you don’t care about your craft or workflow enough to care about what tools you use, I wonder what level of quality you can achieve.
by yard2010 | 2026-03-02 11:21:23+00:00
This is me. I learned to not talk to strangers because 80% of the time I just get disappointed. Either I need to reflect my disagreement with their (imo) stupid takes or just be unauthentic and agree.

Yesterday I got stuck with this kind of stranger for 3 hours for work stuff. It was just me and him driving. When he started telling racist jokes and expressed his dissatisfaction with human rights I thought here we go again and went for the unauthentic route. As the conversation rolled he became more easy and personal. Told me about his family, his immigration and less nice parts of his life. I felt compassion and it really feels like we ended up being more connected than the beginning.
Show HN: Claw – Let your AI agent operate any machine as if it were local
by d36ugger | 2026-03-02 11:21:30+00:00
I kept SSHing into machines to do what my agent could already do locally — check logs, grep for errors, edit configs. So I built Claw.

It's an MCP server that deploys a small Go binary over SSH and gives your agent the same tools it already knows (bash, read, write, edit, grep, glob) on any remote machine. Works with Claude Code, Cursor, or any MCP client.

No ports to open. No daemons. No root required.
by lionkor | 2026-03-02 11:21:31+00:00
That seems highly unlikely. Let's assume that all compilers use the exact same padding in C structs, that all architectures use the same alignment, and that endianness is made up, that types are the same size across 64 and 32 bit platforms, and also pretend that pointers inside a struct will work fine when sent across the network; the question remains still: Why? Is THIS your bottleneck? Will a couple memcpy() operations that are likely no-op if your structs happen to line up kill your perf?
by i_think_so | 2026-03-02 11:21:36+00:00
Published 5 hours ago. Check.

Contains realistic numbers and actual observation, not just hand waving. Check.

Punctures the hype bubble driving a trillion dollars of irrational CapEx. Oh dear. Alarms sounding in the distance.

I expect everything about this to be downvoted into oblivion. As the emperor has so wisely commanded, the spice must flow.
by coldtrait | 2026-03-02 11:21:51+00:00
Thanks, I'll try more of Claude. Back in the day when I first tried it out I easily burned through message limits every day. I've been mulling over paying for Claude Code but I just keep using the free tier of Antigravity and some from my Pro plan.

I happen to have a Gemini Pro subscription that I got through my network provider in India, but i use it only for coding and Nano Banana slop. And occasionally live audio/video chat from my mobile which is actually the best use case I've seen so far although it gets old pretty fast and isn't great beyond basic tasks.
by veunes | 2026-03-02 11:22:01+00:00
Dumping panic traces to an agent works fine if it's just a vanilla page fault at an obvious address. But when your memory gets corrupted by some scuffed DMA sync or a race condition in an interrupt handler, the kernel panics a million clock cycles after the actual bug occurred. The dump is just pure garbage by then, and no LLM is going to untangle it because the root cause context literally isn't in the logs tbh
by ChrisMarshallNY | 2026-03-02 11:22:46+00:00
I have a friend that was just fired from a job, driving 18-wheelers, because he was being monitored by an AI, and the AI malfunctioned, yelling at him for hours to put on his seat belt (it was on). He put a piece of tape over the speaker, and was fired for that.

One of the best, and most experienced big rig truckers in the area. They lost an invaluable employee, and he got another job in minutes (truckers are still a valuable commodity).

One of the things about computers, is that they can’t cut you (or themselves) slack.
by trashb | 2026-03-02 11:22:57+00:00
Motorolla has had a similar desktop experience for a while. For example my Moto G100 has this feature since 2021. It actually works quite good, I really liked that your touchscreen turns into a mousepad in these modes.

I believe it is called "Motorolla Ready For" the marketing is not great (a bit confusing name if you ask me).
by JustFinishedBSG | 2026-03-02 11:23:42+00:00
I understand the idea but the way I work, a commit isn't "a" session, it's potentially tens of sessions with branching in each session.

I honestly don't know if I'm doing something very wrong or if I have a very different working style than many people, but for me "just give the prompt/session" isn't a possibility because there isn't one.

I'm probably incredibly inefficient, because even when I don't use AI it is the same, a single commit is usually many different working states / ideas / branches of things I tried and explored that have been amended / squashed.
by handstitched | 2026-03-02 11:24:07+00:00
> You don't have to trust us. Git itself verifies every object by hash on the client side. If we flip a byte, git fsck rejects the entire pack.

If I were to run 'git clone https://gitdelivr.net/$repoUrl` then I would also be getting the Git repository metadata through GitDelivr. You could return any valid git repo, eg. just add one commit on top of the real main with a malicious buildscript. I dont see how this security model works at all?
by riffraff | 2026-03-02 11:24:28+00:00
I think Bozhidar's other projects[0][1][2] are more relevant as "credentials" for an Emacs mode, although probably more niche :)

[0] Projectile, a project mode https://github.com/bbatsov/projectile

[1] Cider, a clojure mode https://github.com/clojure-emacs/cider

[2] Prelude https://github.com/bbatsov/prelude
by crote | 2026-03-02 11:24:31+00:00
Everything hinges on app support.

Smartphone apps have unfortunately become a hard requirement for basic day-to-day activities. Most companies offer them only for iOS and Android.

If your smartphone can't run the vast majority of apps, it is basically dead on arrival. Nobody is going to buy it when they need to carry another phone anyways.

The only way around this is either emulation (which Google is trying very hard to sabotage) or heavy-handed regulation forcing app developers to also support niche platforms. I don't think either option is likely to work.
Show HN: Ragtoolina – MCP tool that adds codebase RAG to AI coding agents
by slack812 | 2026-03-02 11:24:40+00:00
Ragtoolina is an MCP server that pre-indexes your codebase and provides targeted context to AI coding agents instead of letting them scan files one by one.

I benchmarked it on Cal.com (~300K LOC, 40K GitHub stars):

- 63% token reduction across 5 diverse query types
- 43% fewer tool calls
- Cost: $3.01 vs $7.81 per 5-query session

The benchmark covers different complexity levels — from simple call-chain tracing to architectural understanding queries. RAG overhead doesn't pay off on trivial lookups (one query was actually worse with Ragtoolina), but on complex multi-file tasks the savings are substantial (up to 79% token reduction).

Quality evaluation was done via blind AI-judge scoring (the judge didn't know which answer came from which system) across correctness, completeness, specificity, and conciseness. Ragtoolina matched or exceeded baseline quality on 4 out of 5 tasks.

Works with any MCP-compatible client: Claude Code, Cursor, Windsurf, Claude Desktop.

Free tier available, would appreciate any feedback.
by Thorrez | 2026-03-02 11:24:57+00:00
> In the USA, they want a reason to fine you.

In my area of the US, I don't think so. I'll go 9mph over the speed limit when I drive by a police car. I've never been pulled over.

In some other areas of the US, you're right, which is why I'm less likely to speed in other areas.
by goldenarm | 2026-03-02 11:25:03+00:00
Building and maintainance cost are not linear, especially when you inherit legacy code. The AOSP codebase isn't great, is 4x bigger than the Linux Kernel, and full of "Ship now, patch later" mess.

But I agree that it is a significant endeavor. But the OSS community succeeded in similar projects before, and the current state of the Linux desktop makes me hopeful.
by stingraycharles | 2026-03-02 11:25:03+00:00
Yeah, it appears they have a lot of things backwards, for example:

> “We were very disappointed,” Franklin said. “That means perpetrators of crime, people who are maybe engaged in domestic abuse or stalkers, they can request footage and that could cause a lot of harm.”

The whole point is that they should have been collecting data on perpetrators of crimes only in the first place, not a massive dragnet.
by davidguetta | 2026-03-02 11:26:42+00:00
- AI will not replace human attention / domain expertise for a long time

- International conflicts do not impact you at all

- Human systems are anti fragile (they get stronger with challenges). Trump migh actually reinforce Europe by antagonize it.

- Stock market doesn't matter if you own a farm (methaphorically and practically).

- Rights are eroding some places but also increasing other places (lgbt rights have been generally on the rise in the past 10 years)

- in general the quality of life EVERYWHERE (except the middle class of developped countries) has WILDLY improved in the past years: medical access / water access / education access has increased in most countries.

You are what you feed yourself..

- feed yourself with more positive news

- learn to ignore what doesn't impact you or you can't control (stoicism)
by dwoldrich | 2026-03-02 11:26:43+00:00
If you open yourself to be cranked up, you'll get cranked up constantly.

Pollution is real - a legit problem and a worthy cause, but the anthropogenic global warming thing was always just wealth extraction by elites. They cranked up at least three generations scaring them half to death and making them crazy and depressed and now, oh ... it was nothing, we need more power for AI data centers, you can go sod off now. No one can claim otherwise: the models' predictions never panned out and the data was always cooked for $$$. The trash we sort into the blue bin goes to the same landfill as the grey bin.

Almost all the latest crazes are like that. How fast did we go from Covid-to-Ukraine-to-destroying Tesla dealerships? Just don't get cranked up, it is all intended to stun you. Live your life. Focus. The people doing this to you need you to be unproductive and vulnerable.

I said "almost all" because the wars are real. The isolation and despair brought on during Covid lockdowns was real, oxes were gored, people were emotionally stunted and scarred. Covid itself likely came out of a lab, and it seemed to be designed to kill the elders.

Regarding the real harms that happened to real people and myself, I keep them separate as lists in my mind, I try to remember to hold scoundrels accountable if I am ever personally given that honor, and I try not to go to bed angry and to forgive people.

"Do not let the sun go down while you are still angry, and do not give the devil a foothold."
by jacquesm | 2026-03-02 11:27:33+00:00
They are magical! A radio powered by the transmitter, it's an incredible thing, really. The trick is that the diode is a very low forward drop one, typically Germanium, which has only 0.2V forward drop. But for more magic, you can also use a razor blade or a little bit of lead and then seek for naturally occurring diodes on the surface of the material. These can be even more sensitive than the Germanium ones.