MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by legerdemain | 2026-03-09 00:19:56+00:00
I have seen this perspective a lot and I don't understand it at all. When I meet a stranger, I don't wonder if they exercise enough for me to befriend them. Same for their clothes-shopping habits, past some very basic threshold. Same for whether they pay for me.

A lot of this advice for how to improve yourself so that other people like you comes off so incredibly vain, neurotic, and juvenile.
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by jstummbillig | 2026-03-09 00:21:00+00:00
> Is this what motivates Sundar Pichai to work harder for Google? More money? Surely there's nothing he could want that he doesn't already have.

I think the confusion stems from mapping normal people money usage on people, that have much more money than they can use on themselves: They don't do that. You can use excess money to make things happen as you see fit.

Money enables you to do things in the world, and if you want to do things in the world, a few hundred million are very easily spent. I am sure most people around here would have no trouble allocating that amount of money towards something they would like to see happen or improved, and that's how a lot of money, that someone does not feel they need, is used.
by BoxFour | 2026-03-09 00:21:30+00:00
> There was no contract, the government wanted to have a contract where they'd be able to use the tool to violate privacy rights of its citizens and issue kill orders without a human present and the company said no.

So the contract process worked. The seller wanted certain clauses, the buyer rejected them, and the deal didn’t happen.

Setting aside the supply chain risk designation, which I already said was an extreme overreaction, this is basically how it’s supposed to work.

> The government shouldn't be able to coerce a business to do whatever it wants.

Governments coerce businesses all the time to do what the government wants. Taxes are the obvious example, but there are many others like OFAC sanctions lists or even just regular old business regulations.

It mostly works because we rely on governments to use that power wisely, and to use it in a way that represents the wishes of the populace. Clearly that assumption is being tested with the current administration and especially in this particular situation, but the government coerces businesses to do what they want all the time and we often see it as a good thing.
by lagrange77 | 2026-03-09 00:21:46+00:00
> coming AI wasteland: motivated individuals join small local groups and are validated face-to-face at meet-ups. Local trusted leads gatekeep their chapter’s posts, and this scalable moderation works up the tree. Bad leaves get culled out reasonably fast,

Wow this is really cyberpunk.

I'll bring my Yubikey!
by shrink | 2026-03-09 00:21:51+00:00
https://e.ml A free inbrowser inbox for inspecting .eml (email) files. There are many one-off .eml viewers around but I found myself inspecting the same files many times which evolved into this concept of an inbrowser inbox. Plus, world's shortest domain (3 characters) and the domain is an exact match for the file extension, a fun novelty. Very easy to remember!

https://milliondollarchat.com a reimagining of the million dollar homepage for the AI age. Not useful, but fun. A free to use chatbot that anyone can influence by adding to the context. The chatbot's "thoughts" are streamed to all visitors.
by alephnerd | 2026-03-09 00:21:53+00:00
> The most compelling hypothesis I've heard for why Iran is bombing GC neighbors is in an attempt to pop the AI bubble

Huh?!? ADIA, Mubadala, and the PIF are significant players but not that significant.

The Gulf States and Iran have had bad blood for generations.

There's a reason why car bombings in Al Ahvaz and Sistan-ve-Balochistan were and are respectively a constant occurrence - Khuzestani Arabs and especially Baloch from Makran are overrepresented in defense and policy roles in Gulf states like Kuwait, Qatar, UAE (especially Abu Dhabi), and Oman.

And Iran and the Gulf States (and before that the British Empire) fought each other over delineating the Arab/Persian Gulf. It was a major reason the Gulf turned to the US when facing both Iraq and Iran in the 1970s-80s.

I'm dismayed how conspiracy pilled HN has become.
by flohofwoe | 2026-03-09 00:22:40+00:00
FWIW, it's possible to setup an IDE-like debugging environment with VSCode and a couple of plugins [1]. E.g. I can press F5 in VSCode, this starts the debuggee in Chrome and I can step-debug in VSCode exactly like debugging a native program, and it's even possible to seamlessly step into JS and back. And it's actually starting faster into a debug session than a native macOS UI program via lldb.

[1] https://floooh.github.io/2023/11/11/emscripten-ide.html
by ytoawwhra92 | 2026-03-09 00:22:51+00:00
Every baby is different. Some are relaxed, others are highly strung. Some will happily sit in a comfortable seat, others will demand to be held. Some will feed quickly, others will take their time. Some will sleep in a crib from the day they're born, others will need practice. Some will be happy, others will cry for hours for no apparent reason.

Every family is different. Some parents have lots of external support, others have none. Some parents have generous parental leave, others have to return to work almost immediately.

What's common is that babies have a constant, high-frequency stream of demands that need to be met by an adult in the household (need food, attention, comfort, to be cleaned, to be dressed, to sleep, etc.). Meeting these demands typically requires the full attention of an adult in the moment, but there's also some amount of preparation and cleanup that needs to be done. That stuff has to be done by another adult, or if one is not available, fit around the immediate demands of the baby. You can't effectively fold the laundry and comfort a crying baby simultaneously.

All of this to say: elimination communication is known to work, but whether it will work for your family will depend heavily on your specific baby and your specific family circumstances.

When you commit to EC, you are committing to another immediate demand that needs an adult's full attention in the moment. If your baby is otherwise not very demanding, or if you have a lot of external support this may work well for your family. Lots of parents, though, opt to use nappies specifically because it shifts an immediate demand ("I'm pooping") into a problem that can be solved within the next few minutes.

If you're the only adult in the house, you've got a big armful of clean laundry, and you see your baby making the poop face do you want to drop the laundry and rush to the toilet or do you want to fold the laundry and then change the baby? Your answer will be different depending on how much time in the day your family has to get the laundry done.

Parenting influencers don't share the broader context of their families or their babies. And like all influencers, many of them are liars and do not practice what they preach. EC is in vogue right now, so a lot of them are advocating for it. I personally find the idea quite appealing but our family simply did not have the time or circumstances to even attempt it.
by kristianp | 2026-03-09 00:22:59+00:00
> "Do we really need to continue focusing mostly on inflation when 89% of the private economy is in a recession and the 11% which is booming — new era pursuits — are by their very nature 'disinflationary'?"

I've been thinking the same thing about Australia. The federal government has withdrawn power bill subsidies, which boosted inflation figures, causing the central bank to raise interest rates. Does it really make sense to raise interest rates when peoples power bills are going up? Wouldn't higher power bills reduce people's spending without requiring interest rates to be raised? The same with gasoline prices.
by marcus_holmes | 2026-03-09 00:23:19+00:00
It's the courts' opinions that count. And they say that copyright only attaches to human creative work, and that does not include LLM output.

I can see there's going to be some huge court fights over this in the next ten years - there's no way some of the big media companies are going to be OK with their content being public domain, and no way are they going to just miss out on being able to produce it so cheaply with an LLM.
by jkmcf | 2026-03-09 00:23:24+00:00
I was going to use this quote yesterday, but correlation is not causation.

I prefer the one where the national debt increases more under "fiscally responsible" republicans.

More correlation: more jobs are created and inflation is lower under democratic administrations.

GDP is also better with a Dem president, but it partially depends on the makeup of congress.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/U.S._economic_performance_by_p...

https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/deficit-us-presidents-sinc...
by 8cvor6j844qw_d6 | 2026-03-09 00:23:25+00:00
Agreed, in theory all participants are equal and being banned by one participant shouldn't lock you out of a decentralized network.

In practice, the vast majority of handles (98.9% as of 2024) are under bsky.social [1]. Yes, alternative PDS providers exist, but if the default onboarding funnels everyone into one provider, and the average user doesn't even know what a PDS is, then decentralization is an implementation detail, not a user-facing reality.

[1]: https://arxiv.org/html/2408.12449
by kazinator | 2026-03-09 00:24:00+00:00
You've not done it long enough to have worked with machine language programs that used instruction timing to click a speaker.

This worked well in 1980's microcomputers which used an accurate, crystal oscillator clock. IC's like the MOS6502 or Intel 8086 don't have built-in clocking. The boards were large and costly enough to afford a clock; and often it was dual purposed. E.g. in Apple II machines, the master oscillator clock from which the NTSC colorburst clock was derived also supplied the CPU clock.

These processors had no caches, so instructions executed with predictable timing. Every data access or instruction fetch was a real cycle on the bus, taking the same time every time.

Code that arranged not to be interrupted could generate precise signals.

Some microcomputers used software loops to drive serial lines, lacking a UART chip for that. You could do that well enough to communicate up to around 1200 baud.
by AGsist | 2026-03-09 00:24:04+00:00
HN note: the SSRN page is still being processed and temporarily shows the standard “under review” placeholder.

The working preprint version is available here:

https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.18912296

The paper explores a structural asymmetry in macroeconomic accounting:

Capital accumulates and appears as a stock variable.

Human lifetime accumulates historically as well, yet it never qualifies as a macroeconomic stock and only enters models as a flow or demographic constraint.

The argument is that stock variables require two institutional properties:
(1) detachment from biological identity
(2) continuity across generations.

Capital satisfies both. Lifetime does not.

Curious how economists or system designers here think about this constraint.
by khuedoan | 2026-03-09 00:24:10+00:00
Git itself is decentralized, and we can use email to send patches, but GitHub's role is more like a social network to discover and "star" projects.

I really hope Forgejo/Gitea can get federation to work to the point where we can ditch GitHub, they already have the federated star feature [1] - I'm doing my part by hosting my own Forgejo instances and using Woodpecker CI + my own CI/CD system, and it's faster than GitHub Actions.

[1]: https://codeberg.org/forgejo/forgejo/pulls/1680
by devonkelley | 2026-03-09 00:24:11+00:00
Sandboxing solves "prevent the agent from doing damage." The failure mode it doesn't catch is when the agent operates perfectly within its permissions and still produces garbage because the model degraded or the tool stopped returning useful results.

That's a 200 OK the whole way down. "Prevent bad actions" and "detect wrong-but-permitted actions" are completely different problems.
Show HN: lovable-downloader – download Lovable projects locally (Rust CLI)
by DirecktHit | 2026-03-09 00:24:36+00:00
I didn’t want to connect my GitHub to my Lovable account just to download a quick prototype.

So I did what any sane person would do. I vibe-coded a CLI that downloads your Lovable project directly to your machine.

It’s written in Rust, reconstructs the full project directory locally, and handles assets (up to a certain size, determined by Lovable's API) so you end up with a (mostly) complete copy of the project.

You can install it quickly via cargo.
by hkonte | 2026-03-09 00:24:58+00:00
Same feeling. 50+ here, and what Claude Code changed for me isn't just the speed — it's that the gap between "I have an idea" and "it exists" collapsed. That friction was the thing that killed side projects before they started.

One thing I've found pairs well with it: being intentional about CLAUDE.md and prompt structure. The quality delta between a vague instruction and a structured one (role, constraints, examples, chain-of-thought) is bigger than most people expect. I built a free tool specifically for this — flompt (https://flompt.dev, https://github.com/Nyrok/flompt) — visual prompt builder that also works as an MCP server so Claude Code agents can decompose/compile prompts natively. No account needed.
by Lerc | 2026-03-09 00:25:01+00:00
If that were not the case there would be no need for Hanlon's razor.

The fact that Hanlon's razor needs to be said at all is to warn people about attributing malice to instances where none exist.

"Never attribute to malice that which is adequately explained by stupidity."

It's not saying that instances that actions attributable to malice do not appear. It's saying it usually isn't malice.
by varenc | 2026-03-09 00:25:46+00:00
fun fact about `sandbox-exec`, the macOS util this relies on: Apple officially deprecated it in macOS Sierra back in 2016!

Its manpage has been saying it's deprecated for a decade now, yet we're continuing to find great uses for it. And the 'App Sandbox' replacement doesn't work at all for use cases like this where end users define their own sandbox rules. Hope Apple sees this usage and stops any plans to actually deprecate sandbox-exec. I recall a bunch of macOS internal services also rely on it.
by OneDeuxTriSeiGo | 2026-03-09 00:26:03+00:00
Yeah it's worth noting that blacksky provides accounts to non-black users but their posts don't get included in the blacksky feed. And non-blacksky PDS users who are confirmed black still are allowed to be included in the blacksky feed.

So it's multiple components really.

- The blacksky feed which is a curated feed and community built around the US black community on atproto.

- The blacksky client, appview, moderation team, and relay which provide the necessary infrastructure for blacksky to operate independent of the rest of the ecosystem if they need to and for them to tailor their experience to their community.

- The blacksky PDS which serves as a source of truth for data storage and auth for blacksky users that choose to use it.

And of course non-black users can use all of this infrastructure but if you aren't black and you want to host your account on a blacksky PDS you have to pay a small subscription/donation.

It's all for their community but they are more than willing to let other people use their infra as long as those people pay their fair share.
by abeppu | 2026-03-09 00:26:13+00:00
> Instead, Tegmark sees child safety as the pressure point most likely to crack the current impasse. Indeed, the declaration calls for mandatory pre-deployment testing of AI products — particularly chatbots and companion apps aimed at younger users — covering risks including increased suicidal ideation, exacerbation of mental health conditions, and emotional manipulation.

like, we should absolutely put in such policies but it's interesting to me that the presumption is that the welfare of children specifically should motivate pre-deployment testing. Surely adults also should not be emotionally manipulated or have mental health issues exacerbated or be driven towards suicide by AI?
by hansendc | 2026-03-09 00:26:14+00:00
"On x86-64, there are two CPU settings which control the kernel’s ability to access memory."

There are a couple more than two, even in 2021.

Memory Protection Keys come to mind, as do the NPT/EPT tables when virtualization is in play. SEV and SGX also have their own ways of preventing the kernel from writing to memory. The CPU also has range registers that protect certain special physical address ranges, like the TDX module's range. You can't write there either.

That's all that comes to mind at the moment. It's definitely a fun question!
by andrekandre | 2026-03-09 00:26:22+00:00
supposedly you can turn it off by passing `\no_think` or `/no_think` into the prompt but it never worked for me

what did work was passing / adding this json to the request body:

{ "chat_template_kwargs": {"enable_thinking": false}}

[0] https://github.com/QwenLM/Qwen3/discussions/1300
by mschuster91 | 2026-03-09 00:26:33+00:00
> It failed on Reddit because Reddit is maintained by a bunch of volunteers to whom Reddit provides woefully, woefully, horrifically underdeveloped tooling to automate their communities in a more nuanced way.

And on top of that, some of said "volunteers" are power-hungry, petty, useless fucking morons. Especially the large subreddits tend to be run by people I wouldn't trust to boil some pasta without triggering a fire alert, and yes I know people who manage that.
by salawat | 2026-03-09 00:26:50+00:00
Sorry. Was talking a few steps ahead of everyone else not realizing I hadn't filled in the gap.

Was referring to executives fascination with AI to replace human beings. It really doesn't matter the name on the building. There's a type of person elevated to those management positions, and it's specifically for their disconnection from the rest of humanity conferring them the capability to take risks other people bear the cost of. We're going to see a huge uptick in horrible things coming out of non-risk-averse people, because AI tooling won't say "no". As long as they can get away with it without being hindered, the only remaining feedback loop to hold them back is personal blowback. They'll optimize themselves ahead to the point they won't be able to stop the system in the time it takes to realize something is going wrong, and the only thing to warn them that anything is going to happen will be "You're right! Let me get right on that!"
by bluegatty | 2026-03-09 00:27:09+00:00
Yes, he's informational but a bit conspiratorial. These people are valid points of interest - it's worth entertaining facts and perspectives that are not well highlighted in the media. Even though they are usually kind of wrong.

The truth is nobody is really fully in charge, there are competing interests everywhere, Trump is making the decisions but even he changes his mind very frequently and objectives are not clear.

It's really hard to understand intentions when decisions have to be made in a reactive manner as well.

Rubio indicated 'we had to attack, because Israel was going to go first, and we were going to lose the element of surprise'. While that is an absurd and crazy reason to 'go to war' - it's actually a very rational tactic for 'when to start' as 'first mover advantage' is enormous in conflict. You can see how 'the most powerful entity on earth' is moved by events beyond it's control.

It's almost better to describe these situations in terms of all of the factions capabilities, influence, power, motivations than it is to say 'this is why it's happening'.

Once conflicts start, they have a way of perpetuating themselves in a 'circularly reactive' way, it fuels itself as both sides have difficulty standing down.
by mastazi | 2026-03-09 00:27:32+00:00
Same here, I don't know anyone who might send me an invite unfortunately. It's unlikely for this topic to come up organically in a conversation as in "hey by the way are you on lobste.rs" so my previous attempts were by sending messages in my company's notice board asking if someone is there. But in the last few years I have worked in smaller startups so the sample size is too small for this strategy to succeed.
by marcus_holmes | 2026-03-09 00:27:50+00:00
That's an opinion you have. But the opinion that matters is that of the judges and the various global copyright offices. And they all agree that if the creative work was all done by the tool, then no copyright applies. You can only copyright the creative work of humans.

How long they will agree this in the face of large media companies' lobbying efforts remains to be seen.
by wonger_ | 2026-03-09 00:27:55+00:00
Tasteful: https://colly.com/

Artsy: https://anhvn.com/

Simple yet elegant: https://www.lkhrs.com/ and https://arun.is/blog/

Maximalist: https://henry.codes/ and https://garden.bradwoods.io/ and https://blog.maximeheckel.com/

Old-school / indie web: https://ribo.zone/

Text mode / ASCII art: https://adelfaure.net/

Typography: http://davidcole.me/ and https://www.petemillspaugh.com/

I have more. You can keep rolling the dice on https://indieblog.page/random and eventually you'll stumble across some pretty sites. Usually the nicest ones are from frontend / design engineer types of people. EDIT - oh and the sites in the internet phone book! https://internetphonebook.net/ as well as browsing screenshots at https://personalsit.es/
by arcxi | 2026-03-09 00:28:01+00:00
I'm all for trying to be the best version of yourself, but I think it's discouraging to tie it with the person's worth as a friend. Replying with "find interesting hobby" to the poster who explicitly wrote he finds it hard to find a hobby in particular reads like condemnation, as if until you don't lock in and check those boxes don't even try to socialize. Imagine you meet an interesting person, learn they don't really have any hobbies, and break off a friendship because of it - I'd find that psychopathic. Why should we foster this attitude towards ourselves?
by jll29 | 2026-03-09 00:28:02+00:00
Thanks for opening this up.

As was already said in one of the reference videos, it's impressive what one person can do.

But the next step is to define an architecture where authors can defined/implement plug-ins with particular modular capabilities instead of one big monolith. For example, instead of front-end (GUI) and back-end (feeds), there ought to be a middle layer that models some of the domain logic (events: surces, filters, sinks; stories/time lines etc.).

I would like to see a plug-in for EMM (European Media Monitor) integrated, for instance ( https://emm.newsbrief.eu/NewsBrief/alertedition/en/ECnews.ht... ).
by sherry-sherry | 2026-03-09 00:28:15+00:00
Paper and ink have at best, a ~15:1 contrast ratio (bleached white paper and black ink).

> The majority of screens have crappy contrasts (100:1).

No idea where you're pulling this from. A MacBook Air display from 2010, a very average non-retina screen, has about 300:1. A modern MBA is over 1000:1 real-world contrast performance. A very average quality budget TN display from 2010s is 500:1.

I could not find a phone or desktop display at my local retailer with stated a contrast ratio lower than 1200:1 (stated vs real world will of course be different, but not hugely).

I agree apps/websites should take into account user preferences (with things like 'prefers-contrast' in CSS). I saw a great example recently where a website had a light/dark/hi-contrast toggle... but on first visit it defaulted to the one based on current system light/dark mode and 'prefers-contrast' indicators.

We can have both text that's easier for most people eyes and higher contrast and/or larger text for those who need it.