MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by lukan | 2026-03-09 21:13:28+00:00
"and better for the soul"

Well, if it works again ..

https://xkcd.com/1994/

If you have a habit like me of only partly fixing things, because a unforseen problem came up and deciding to get back later on it, you will just pile up electronic garbage and run out of space. (It was really good for my soul getting rid of most of it recently)
by raw_anon_1111 | 2026-03-09 21:14:02+00:00
An even less sophisticated analysis would know that it doesn’t matter if their marginal cost > marginal revenue…

What next? Are you going to say look at where Apple was pre Jobs as evidence? So all they have to do is resurrect Jobs from the dead and let him take over Waymo?

There is a reason that “look at Amazon!” is meaningless
by MattRix | 2026-03-09 21:14:13+00:00
Fun fact: because WFC is graph-based, you can do stuff like creating a graph where it uses time as a dimension, so you can create animations that “wrap” in time.

In this rabbit example I made 8 years ago, the WFC solver ensures that the animation must loop, which means you will always end up with an equal number of births and deaths.

https://xcancel.com/MattRix/status/979020989181890560
by skorisep | 2026-03-09 21:14:16+00:00
This!!! This is exactly where we shine. There is still a lot of work that we have to do (especially on an individual level). But we try to understand as much about an industry, organization, culture, and person as possible to infer those human dynamics that make scheduling such a human problem.

And each industry differs with this respect. So we collect the data and generalize it across our customers if they fit the group: all while giving them enough flexibility to schedule their own individual way.

This is why we believe it is important to have a self-learning and adapting system as well.
by gusgus01 | 2026-03-09 21:14:40+00:00
An of EROI of 4 would probably already include the poor sunlight conditions of Ireland or would be some old numbers based off old solar technology. Plus there's contention around EROI because it does ignore the fact that renewables can be recycled and many are used past their lifetimes, and of course it ignores the negative externalities of spewing the one time use fossil fuels into the atmosphere. There are plenty of studies and papers arguing over EROI and its veracity.
by SunshineTheCat | 2026-03-09 21:14:48+00:00
I've actually felt the same way about some (not all) but some "productivity" hacks I've seen people post online with their OpenClaw setups.

I chuckle when I see some of them because you could achieve the same (or often faster) result by jotting a note onto a notecard and sticking it in your pocket.

Most of the other automations running don't really seem to serve any real purpose at all.

But hey, if it's fun, have at it.
by tambourine_man | 2026-03-09 21:15:12+00:00
Photopea is a really impressive project, don't mean to diminish it in the slightest, but it's a toy next to Photoshop.

> exceeds CS6

I wish. It's not even on par with Photoshop 4.
No LAB mode, handles only 4 profiles. I could be here all day listing missing features. Also, have you tried to open a 6GB PSB file with it?

I've used Photoshop almost daily since 1994. I really wish there was an open source competitor. There isn't.
by kazinator | 2026-03-09 21:15:30+00:00
Token prediction is a form of "learning" that is reinforced by the goal of reproducing the correct next token of the work, rather that acquiring ideas and concepts. For instance, given the prefix "Four score and seven years", the weights are adjusted until "ago" is correctly predicted, which is a fancy way of saying that it was stored in the model in a lossy way. The model "learned" that "ago" follows "four score and seven years" exactly the way your hard drive "learns" the audio and video frames of a movie when you download a .mp4 file.

I dispute the idea that token sequences reproduced from the model are not derived works.

I predict, no pun intended, that a time is coming when the idea that it's not a derived work will be challenged in mainstream law.

The slop merchants are getting a free ride for the time being.
by tamimio | 2026-03-09 21:15:36+00:00
They do exist, WIP, a bladless VTOL

https://newatlas.com/aircraft/jetoptera-bladeless-hsvtol/

> Jetoptera is developing VTOL (Vertical Take-Off and Landing) aircraft that use a "Fluidic Propulsion System" (FPS) instead of traditional rotors or propellers, acting like "bladeless fans on steroids". These systems use compressed air and the Coanda effect to generate high-speed thrust, promising quieter, more efficient, and faster flight (up to Mach 0.8) for aerial mobility.
by scubbo | 2026-03-09 21:15:42+00:00
> they serve the interests [...of] the incumbents

Yes. The employees. That's the point.

> while [...] ignoring the larger consequences like the whole company

Good. That is, again, the point - to advocate for the employees when their interests are in opposition to those of the company.

You say they're counterproductive - sounds like they're working exactly as intended.
by shepherdjerred | 2026-03-09 21:15:47+00:00
I really like Dagger. I had a _lot_ of weird issues with Earthly, like edge cases. Dagger has been mostly solid.

It still has gaps. I don't think they've landed on the right model for CI. Like Earthly, their model is a CI runner + local cache. I believe a distributed cache (like Bazel) makes more sense.

If I were choosing between the two I'd personally always pick Dagger, but I think there is a strong argument for Earthly for simpler projects. If you're using multiple Earthfiles or a few hundred lines of Earthly, I think you've outgrown it.
by fpoling | 2026-03-09 21:15:57+00:00
There is absolutely enough coal to make liquid fuel for the current civilization. But if oil/gas would not exist, then electrical cars would be on the road much earlier as burning coal to produce electricity is much more efficient then converting it into liquid fuel to burn in a car engine. As electrical cars produces roughly the same amount of CO2 when using electricity from coal as ICE car running on gasoline, the climate impact would be roughly the same.

Then in a hypothetical scenario of 20th century without oil/natural gas nuclear energy would be much more widespread at this point and CO2 impact would be lower.
by dleslie | 2026-03-09 21:16:01+00:00
Health care is more efficiently delivered to higher density populations. Low density populations increase the time to access health care, which increases the risk of delivering emergency care but it also encumbers access to primary care with the associated access time. Suburban areas are a great deal more expensive in terms of health care delivery.

Consider that in the absence of suburbanization there is decreased demand for energy. Higher density housing is cheaper to service overall, but also provides greater efficiency in accessing services. The reduced efficiency of suburban residences _requires_ the existence of high density forms of readily accessible and consumable energy; it simply isn't viable to build an American suburb without cheap energy, because it is a hideously inefficient model.

But other models _do_ exist, and _are_ successful. The suburb can die and society will be better off for it.
Show HN: Agents with Verifiable Human Claims
by lukepuplett | 2026-03-09 21:16:06+00:00
When a human delegates work to an agent, some services may want to verify the agent is actually authorized by a human and potentially even see attributes of the human.

I've built and designed several things that come together to solve this. It's real and can be used now.

The first thing is a proof-of-person check and an attestation, like a stamp in your wallet. Zipwire Attest will do that and since we have key-values from the ID doc, we attest to a Merkle root, too, and link the attestations.

Next comes an attestation from your human-attested wallet to your bot's wallet. I've not gotten around to making a UI for it yet, but this is easily done from Ethereum Attestation Service using the IsDelegate schema (on Base).

Then you can make a special JWT. This is where ProofPack comes in. It's an open source data type and lib for reading and writing proofs/verifiable data exchange. The proof (JSON or JWT) has a Merkle tree of data and a 'pointer' to an attestation.

You can make a JWT via Zipwire's API and choose any key-values to reveal, like `nationality`.

You'd then present it in a header and then the API you're calling can be like, 'Wass iss dis?' because nobody supports it, yet. But if an API dev wanted to, the ProofPack lib can read and check the JWT, and walk up the delegation attestation chain, so one agent can delegate to a sub-agent, and check the human and the claims/Merkle hash.

https://docs.zipwire.io/tools-and-integrations/proofpack-age...
https://github.com/zipwireapp/ProofPack
by anthk | 2026-03-09 21:16:26+00:00
That means nothing when everything it's either RHEL bound, Ubuntu LTS or docker containers among standalone services written in Go which are everywhere.

Serious GUI software will be written in QT5/6 where the jump wasn't as bad as qt4->5. Portability matters and now even more. Software will run in any OS and several times faster than Electron.
by watwut | 2026-03-09 21:16:32+00:00
> and that in fact you may have been the instigator, then protecting the company probably means getting rid of you.

That protects other employees. If you are instigator and then go to complain to HR trying to make them punish the victim, firing you protects everyone around you. And it protects the culture from becoming toxic.

HR can play negative role, but this scenario is not one of those.
by triceratops | 2026-03-09 21:16:33+00:00
Respectfully, from reading all your other comments all over this thread, I don't think you understand everything that modern technology stands on top of. You're handwaving away enormously difficult, complicated things and processes with "just use hydro". It doesn't work like that.

Your heart is in the right place and I sympathize with you about car-oriented development in North America. But I think you have a massive blind spot.

Fossil fuels were good and necessary for the modern world. Their owners have perpetrated heinous lies to keep us tied to them for far longer than was good or necessary.
by gregnr | 2026-03-09 21:16:36+00:00
Hey I'm the maintainer docker-mac-net-connect. Just an update that the issues caused by the latest Docker desktop changes have been fixed in the latest version. The battle with Docker Desktop is a bit frustrating and likely ongoing, but fwiw I've made some improvements that catch these much earlier now via dependabot and integration tests.

As another commenter mentioned, Colima is a good alternative to Docker Desktop if you're looking. It doesn't expose container IPs either, but docker-mac-net-connect does support Colima ootb now.
by tovej | 2026-03-09 21:16:45+00:00
You most definitely did contradict yourself. First you said you don't prove anything about the code you write, then you said you do. But that's fine. We can agree to disagree.

And I have not made any statements about how you use LLMs, only about how the LLMs produce code. All statements about how you use LLMs have been made by you, not me. I haven't discussed it since it is not related to the arguments, which are: 1) whether LLMs are goal-oriented and 2) whether humans and LLMs both merely maximize plausibility when writing/generating code.

Both claims that you made. Note, however, that if you are correct in your own points, then you should indeed be able to "just dump out code without any process in between". So if anyone is claiming this, it's you.
by thesz | 2026-03-09 21:17:05+00:00
An old paper on the expressiveness of the programming languages [1] had to add an implicit binary operator into whitespace to make Haskell not be ten times more expressive than most imperative languages.

[1] https://www.researchgate.net/publication/2743686_Are_Ours_Re...

So, yes, it can be done and it was done. Yes, expressiveness rises. No, reading comprehension of such languages does not suffer. Yes, it has to have a lot of scaffolding.
by PaulHoule | 2026-03-09 21:17:12+00:00
… most social networks give you a “notification” if somebody follows you or engages with a post but there are two exceptions: (1) is LinkedIn which gives you a double-dose of main feed items you didn’t click on and that you never clicked on anything like ever so it’s a chance to prove their model is right… most social networks play a “ding” sound if somebody likes your post but LinkedIn dings when you post something because their standards are low. (2) Threads posts “notifications” that are somewhere between completely senseless and “political outrage of some kind but I can’t tell if they like Trump or hate Trump”
by Karrot_Kream | 2026-03-09 21:17:22+00:00
> Although, I guess that is the audience bluesky was targeting when they first started. So I guess I understand the criticism.

I was in the invite only cohort of Bluesky users and I don't really think so. I think what happened is after the election a bunch of very online, political news addicted anti-Musk folks migrated to Bluesky and created the current culture. Even though I'm pretty sure most folks on the network shared pretty much the same politics, the culture on the network changed completely within a few days of this.
by riclib | 2026-03-09 21:17:32+00:00
Author here. Yagnipedia is a personal encyclopedia I've been writing — humorous entries on tech concepts, tools, and practices, written in the voice of someone who's spent 20 years building software and has opinions about most of it.

The Boring Technology entry started as a love letter to Dan McKinley's original talk, filtered through the experience of choosing Go, HTMX, and server-rendered HTML for a product in 2026 while everyone around me reaches for React and microservices. The boring choice is almost never the exciting one. It's almost always the right one.

Happy to talk about any of it.
by rootusrootus | 2026-03-09 21:17:32+00:00
The Osprey has a reputation, for sure, but it's mid-pack. They called the F-104 the widow maker for a reason, for example. And the F-16 has a fairly high accident rate, too, slightly higher than the Osprey. Though I think the F-16's history is a bit more lopsided, they made some changes after early production airframes proved pretty accident prone.
by ChrisArchitect | 2026-03-09 21:17:39+00:00
While I definitely appreciate the sentiments of ATproto and a bit more openness of Bluesky as a platform for development fun and perks like domain verification etc...... having to relive all of the development that we went thru with Twitter for over a decade as they 'build in the open' is frustrating. The network effects are there (which are super important to break out of silos and gain explorability) a bit more thanks to the centralization and hashtags (moreso that the go nowhere Fediverse) but there's a bigger hole: say what you want about daily user numbers, so much mainstream and big accounts are just not there. From news organizations (including the ones that are there that post 'selectively') to politicians, sports like some others have mentioned, entertainment and more. Abandoned accounts, or just not there. A chunk of the conversation (or even the 'fight') and reachability of those entities, even the usefulness of having an official source on the platform for their content, is not there in many instances. And I don't know why this isn't a major focus for growth and legitimacy. Hope there's some more direction on that if you want it to be anything other than an 'escape' for left-leaning people and those looking for a bit more independence over their profiles.
by morkalork | 2026-03-09 21:18:00+00:00
I went through this with my partner and it cost around CAD $30K all-in. Thankfully it was 100% covered by insurance (for the drugs) and by a provincial program (for the procedure).

The drugs for stimulating follicle growth cost around $500/day and the first cycle didn't result in enough mature follicles to be worth attempting the egg harvesting. In the second attempt, the duration was extended after a scan to let more develop. Every extra day, is an another $500.

If it weren't for the government program we were seriously looking at going to one of the many clinics in Mexico offering these services.

We weren't so lucky with the numbers though; here's significant attrition at every step and if you aren't starting with a good number it can look like: 5 follicles > 4 mature eggs > 2 embryos > 1 child
by cbeach | 2026-03-09 21:18:29+00:00
> They're poor.

China is a nuclear-armed superpower with the largest Navy in the World.

> The developed world's past and current actions have done and continue to do harm. Work on that. If you want to push India and China to go faster, lobby your politicians to tariff high carbon emitters and subsidize developing countries' rollout of clean energy. To be clear it has to be both. That's all you can do about emissions outside your country.

That's all we can do, is it?

I don't think so!

It is through deliberate Western actions and inactions that we have allowed our own production capacity to be replaced by production capacity in China, a country that cares little for human rights, workers rights and environmental standards.

It is through decisive economic action, like America's tarrifs that we can quickly bring production capacity back to the West. This is already happening at pace, with huge inward investment in American factories, which will use cutting edge automation and will create many, many jobs.

Not only is this a vital geo political win (consider China's aggression towards Hong Kong, Taiwan and its neighbours in the South China Sea), but it is also a win for the working classes in the West, who have seen their opportunities torn up by globalist leaders in the West.
Show HN: React Trace – Development-time visual inspector for React components
by buzinas | 2026-03-09 21:18:50+00:00
React Trace is an open-source (MIT) devtool for React apps. You add one component during development, then hover any element to see which component rendered it, inspect props, and take actions on the source code.

Actions include: copying the file:line path, opening the file in your local editor (VS Code, Cursor, Windsurf, WebStorm, IntelliJ), previewing / editing the source in a Monaco editor directly in the browser, and adding review comments that can be sent to an AI agent (copy & paste or native integration with OpenCode).

It runs entirely client-side using source maps to resolve file locations. The plugin system is designed so you can build custom actions. In production, conditional exports swap everything for no-ops at zero cost.

Site: https://react-trace.js.org
Source: https://github.com/buzinas/react-trace
by nadis | 2026-03-09 21:19:30+00:00
Thinking a lot lately about how AI is changing software development, and what the ideal development experience might actually look like in the future.

I’m working on CodeYam. We just recently released a lightweight CLI and a feature called CodeYam Memory. The immediate motivation was that when using Claude Code, the AI would repeat the same mistakes and our claude.md files would get stale too quickly to manually maintain. The existing options, including Anthropic’s built-in memory features, didn’t really solve the memory challenge sufficiently for us.

CodeYam Memory runs a background agent that reviews coding session transcripts, looks for patterns of confusion, and generates targeted rules with proper scoping.

It’s a small first step toward the longer-term idea I'm exploring: what an AI-native development experience should actually look like. For now, it’s packaged as a lightweight CLI you can use anywhere you’re running Claude Code.

How to try it:

Install:
npm install -g @codeyam/codeyam-cli@latest

Then, from your project root run:
codeyam

This will launch a dashboard with further instructions for initializing CodeYam Memory.

Free, runs locally, no login required, and language agnostic. Would love feedback.

More context:

Background blog post:
https://open.substack.com/pub/codeyam/p/introducing-the-code...

90 sec demo on our own repo:
https://youtu.be/oJ2gTb-lxbE

Demo teaching Claude a real OSS repo (Plane):
https://youtu.be/CjOKBwBCcOs

Website:
https://codeyam.com/
by tsimionescu | 2026-03-09 21:20:11+00:00
Note that in civil cases, such as a traffic ticket, the fifth ammendment doesn't apply to the same extent, and the standard of evidence is typically not "beyond reasonable doubt", it is "a preponderance of the evidence".

Now, per the judge's ruling in this case, red light tickets are actually quasi-criminal, not purely civil, so the standards of criminal law might need to be applied.
by abmmgb | 2026-03-09 21:20:34+00:00
First there is no 'one' cancer
There are cancers, subtypes of cancers, subsequent molecular variants and so on..
Therefore, there isn't a need for ONE cure, but a whole arsenal of options to be able to tackle them all. And many subtypes are just too nasty, they are a death sentence unfortunately.
There are endless teams led by principal investigators (PIs) who invest their entire careers reading loads of peer-reviewed scientific articles, formulating hypotheses, applying for research grants, hiring staff, conducting research, publishing their own peer-reviewed papers, presenting at conferences, forming international collaborations with other PIs to expand their output, and generally try their best to push the conversation forward in search of solution, potential molecular / therapeutic targets. There are then clinical trials, treatment protocols etc The fight against 'cancer(s)' is a concerted effort, moves slow due to the super complexity of the matter. There are novel drug discovery pipelines, some leveraging AI such as Isomorphic labs, that promise to accelerate treatment discovery. The next 20 years we might see things getting accelerated. But for beings who have been evolving biologically over a very very long time, millions of years, spending 30+ years for the discovery of a single cure of a certain subtype of cancer is seen as a short time. That might change soon, but the tasks is so ridiculously difficult we don't need silly conspiracy theories to make sense of it.

Ffs
by NewsaHackO | 2026-03-09 21:21:02+00:00
>This feels sort of like saying "I just blindly threw paint at that canvas on the wall and it came out in the shape of Mickey Mouse, and so it can't be copyright infringement because it was created without the use of my knowledge of Micky Mouse"

IANAL, but that analogy wouldn't work because Mickey Mouse is a trademark, so it doesn't matter how it is created.
by saulpw | 2026-03-09 21:21:19+00:00
Some of them definitely do not. Like a fictional encyclopedia? What is the point of that? That's like "an alphabetical novel".

And even for the ones that might "beat the rap", I don't understand from your descriptions why they are interesting or unique. A voice note recorder? Cool. There are already hundreds if not thousands of those, why did you need to make your own in the first place? I'm not saying that yours isn't special, I'm just saying that it doesn't help to post the blandest description possible if you're trying to impress people with the utility of your utility.
by akerl_ | 2026-03-09 21:21:20+00:00
If you type your name and address into the HN comment box and hit submit, you have opted in to having your address visible in a comment on HN.

The ham registration is the same. Before you can take the test to get licensed, you have to go to the FCC website and enter your information into their public database. It’s clear what you’re doing, you have to actively choose to do it, and it’s the direct outcome of the action you take.
by sowbug | 2026-03-09 21:21:31+00:00
Consistent, low-impact enforcement is better at preventing unwanted behavior than the rare and severe but also capricious enforcement performed by human police.

It can also give permission for unwanted behavior. Cf. the Haifa study, where the rate of late pickups increased when daycares added a fine. One explanation is the fine turned a complex moral obligation into an ordinary financial transaction.