MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by mahirhiro | 2026-03-06 03:39:34+00:00
interesting. My main USP was that I didn't want folks to even sign in or me to have any database where to stored your private data.

> Also I'd want it to connect to my messaging apps so I don't have to tell it when I connected with someone.

That's a valid feature request. For the first approach I didn't want poppy to access any external apps (if that's even possible with some API? / I wonder how that works in different regions.)

It's currently supported on Mac so technically if you have that you can try it on the desktop only.
by singron | 2026-03-06 03:39:51+00:00
It's sort of like the opposite of this idea:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roger_Fisher_(academic)#Preven...

> Fisher [...] suggested implanting the nuclear launch codes in a volunteer. If the President of the United States wanted to activate nuclear weapons, he would be required to kill the volunteer to retrieve the codes.

>> [...] The volunteer would carry with him a big, heavy butcher knife as he accompanied the President. If ever the President wanted to fire nuclear weapons, the only way he could do so would be for him first, with his own hands, to kill one human being. [...]

>> When I suggested this to friends in the Pentagon they said, "My God, that's terrible. Having to kill someone would distort the President's judgment. He might never push the button."

> — Roger Fisher, Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists, March 1981[10]
by majormajor | 2026-03-06 03:40:54+00:00
Outside of purchased-and-being-shutdown, these are still frequently "we want to do things but we're scared of breaking things" situations, not "we don't want to do anything." Even if the things they want to do are just "we want to move off this 90s codebase before everyone who knows how it works is dead."

In that sort of high-fear, change-adverse environment "get rid of all the devs and let the AI do it" may not be the most compelling sales pitch to leadership. ("Use it to port the code faster so we can spend more time on the migration plan and manual testing" might have better luck.)
Show HN: Chrome extension that tailors your resume to a job posting in one click
by dippatel1994 | 2026-03-06 03:41:53+00:00
Job tailoring advice is everywhere but it all bottlenecks at the same place: actually doing it 50 times. Copy resume, paste into ChatGPT, rewrite bullets, reformat everything that broke, repeat.
Ajusta sits on the job page (LinkedIn, Indeed, etc.), reads the posting, and rewrites your resume against the JD without touching your formatting or adding anything that isn't already there. The output is your resume with tighter language and better keyword alignment, not a new document built from a generic template.
The constraint we cared about was hallucination. A lot of resume tools will invent responsibilities or rephrase something so aggressively it no longer reflects what you did. Ajusta only works with what's already in your resume.
Still early. Would genuinely like feedback from anyone who tries it, especially on edge cases like non-standard formats or roles with heavy technical terminology.
by mahirhiro | 2026-03-06 03:42:41+00:00
Thank you for giving the app a try and especially for the feedback :)

I'll consider add an extra checkin from the flower too.

Interesting idea for the checkin date. I personally like it but I'll let it sit for a while more. In the mean time for a given contact you can scroll down to the "important reminders" part and set a date for the event. Maybe that was hidden?
by arttaboi | 2026-03-06 03:42:43+00:00
To state the obvious, I think when corruption and power in government go unchecked, companies eventually end up facing situations like this. It’s almost like making a deal with the devil.

At the beginning, they’re usually doing it for the money — and maybe some level of patriotism. Eventually they find themselves involved in things so ugly that they can’t really stomach it anymore. At the same time, they can’t easily back out either.

Then a new CEO comes in and thinks the previous guy was too soft, "He couldn’t handle it, but I can."

And the cycle continues.
by iamnothere | 2026-03-06 03:43:26+00:00
https://www.nysenate.gov/legislation/bills/2025/S8102/amendm...

> Requires manufacturers of internet-enabled devices to conduct age assurance to determine a user's age category and provide all websites, online services, online applications and mobile applications on such user's internet-enabled device and/or application store manufactured by the covered manufacturer with a digital signal that such user is a covered minor as well as the age category of such covered minor via a real-time application programming interface (API).
by huddert | 2026-03-06 03:43:26+00:00
It's downstream of this "everyone is equal" fantasy that dictates that non-White countries must only be the way they are because of socioeconomic factors. Because the alternative is to accept that Whites may have some virtue, which is intolerably anathema to self-loathing guilt-ridden Whites. "Everyone else is better than us and so if we're not seeing that manifest then it must be our fault and we must fix it."

Thankfully it's more of a boomer mentality, as the younger generations have been exposed to far more "diversity" which has allowed an up-close-and-personal education on race realism that is going to massively shake shit up in the coming decades.
by laichzeit0 | 2026-03-06 03:43:39+00:00
Like, bro, do you think 5.x is a drop in replacement for 4.1? No it obviously wasn’t, since it had reasoning effort and verbosity and no more temperature setting, etc.

There’s no way you can switch model versions without testing and tweaking prompts, even the outputs usually look different. You pin it on a very specific version like gpt-5.2-20250308 in prod.
by majormajor | 2026-03-06 03:44:45+00:00
Most of the folks I work with who uninstalled Cursor in favor of Claude Code switched back to VSCode for reviewing stuff before pushing PRs. Which... doesn't actually feel like a big change from just using Cursor, personally. I tried Claude Code recently, but like you preferred the Cursor integration.

I don't have the bandwidth to juggle four independent things being worked on by agents in parallel so the single-IDE "bottleneck" is not slowing me down. That seems to work a lot better for heavy-boilerplate or heavy-greenfield stuff.

I am curious about if we refactored our codebase the right way, would more small/isolatable subtasks be parallelizable with lower cognitive load? But I haven't found it yet.
by agnivade | 2026-03-06 03:45:05+00:00
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by frinxor | 2026-03-06 03:46:28+00:00
Its incredibly simple - they want to get off the supply chain risk list.

Its very evident in his statement, he's trying very hard to clarify what that list means for corporations and downstream business with large commercial and strategic companies.

Imagine if Microsoft, Amazon, Google, etc decided that they don't want to ANY sort of minuscule risk (real or perceived) to their massive public sector business lines (via all their DoD DoJ NHS and other 3 letter agencies, state agencies, city and local municipals etc) - and decide to cancel their enterprise Anthropic licenses - which is a VERY possible scenario.

And these are the big players, theres a whole slew of medium and small players all with existing government contracts that need to tread carefully.
by ChrisArchitect | 2026-03-06 03:46:44+00:00
A related piece from 2022 that gets a bit more into the why, readability and Accessibility Guidelines evolution etc.

Please Stop Using Grey Text (2022)

https://tangledweb.xyz/please-stop-using-grey-text-3d3e71acf... (https://archive.is/QictZ) [https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31420938]
by krapp | 2026-03-06 03:47:40+00:00
"Someone else" colonizing a place or culture doesn't negate the effect of further European colonization, nor does it justify it.

Africa, Asia and the Middle East were very obviously colonized by Europeans. The phrase "the sun never sets on the British empire" exists for a reason. Many national borders still exist because of the British Empire. Western civilization rests on a foundation of a thousand years of Christian conquest, rape, slavery and the plunder of far more land and peoples than any Islamic power ever accomplished.

Being particularly precious or indignant about that is just childish. It is what it is.
An experiment: funding an independent dance theater piece like a startup
by megbroome | 2026-03-06 03:48:05+00:00
Hi HN,

I’m a dancer and small business owner who runs a Pilates studio in NYC. Recently I decided to do something slightly irrational and produce an evening-length dance theater piece independently.

Normally projects like this rely on grants or institutions, but I’ve been curious whether it’s possible to approach funding a piece of art more like a startup experiment.

The “product” is the performance itself. The costs are things like rehearsal space, paying the second performer, costumes, and building a small set.

Instead of waiting on grants, I started trying to raise the budget directly from people who believe in independent work.

It’s an unusual experiment and I’m learning a lot about what it takes to make something exist without institutional backing.

If anyone here has thoughts about creative funding models or ways artists might approach this differently, I’d genuinely love to hear them.

And if you’re curious about the project itself, I’m happy to share more.

Thanks for reading.
by mahirhiro | 2026-03-06 03:48:24+00:00
> I see the merit in this project as well but no way in hell i share this data with a third party

If get a chance to read the website / privacy policy you’ll find that I actually don’t have access to any data, you don’t need to sign up to begin using the app. The sales pitch is entirely privacy first :) so all the data stays on your device.
by gpm | 2026-03-06 03:49:08+00:00
The US supreme court declined to hear a challenge to the claim that if you explicitly disclaim any human input to make a point then the art isn't copyrightable in the US. The copyrightability of "actually I had some design input" is still up in the air in the US, and copyrightability in general is still up in the air in probably the entire rest of the world.

There's absolutely nothing stopping you granting a license to public domain work... granting a license is just waiving rights that the author might have to sue for copyright infringement under certain circumstances...

Personally I'd be unwilling to use this work without the license, because I would not be confident that it was public domain.
by deaux | 2026-03-06 03:49:17+00:00
You shouldn't have a hard time believing it. There are thousands of different domains out there. You find it hard to believe that any of them would perform worse in your scenario?

Labs are still really optimizing for maybe 10 of those domains. At most 25 if we're being incredibly generous.

And for many domains, "worse" can hardly be benched. Think about creative writing. Think about a Burmese cooking recipe generator.
by Forgeties79 | 2026-03-06 03:50:27+00:00
I see plenty of well meaning people use ChatGPT and think they’re being helpful. You’re better off with patience and polite explanation than assuming they’re all cynical/selfish assholes trying to cut corners. Some people just get excited and don’t really think about what they’re doing. It doesn’t excuse the behavior, but you should at least try to explain it to them once. Never know when you might educate someone.
Show HN: Netwall
by dogancan | 2026-03-06 03:50:37+00:00
Netwall (https://netwall.org) is an ultra-simple, text-only public wall.

- No accounts, no sign-ups.

- You type a message, hit enter, and it deletes itself after exactly 1 hour.

- If the community likes a post, they can click "+5m" to vote to keep it alive a bit longer.

Stack: Vanilla JS, Node/Express, Postgres. It features a few classic terminal themes (including Solarized Dark and the Openwall mailing list aesthetic), and sits behind OpenAI's Moderation API to keep it from turning into a complete swamp.

Let me know what you think!
Show HN: Agent-pulse – local gateway that fans out AI agent events to clients
by SantiagoBobrik | 2026-03-06 03:50:48+00:00
I wanted Claude Code to notify my ESP32 when it finished a task. A `curl` in the Stop hook worked — until I needed a local dashboard too. The dashboard couldn't expose an HTTP endpoint, it needed to subscribe. And every new client meant editing hook configs across all my projects.

So I built agent-pulse: a local gateway that captures AI agent lifecycle events and fans them out to registered clients.

You register clients once in a global YAML. Projects just call `agent-pulse hook --provider claude --event stop` from their hooks. The gateway handles routing, per-client filtering, and parallel dispatch. It auto-starts on the first event.

Two delivery modes: HTTP POST fan-out for webhooks and scripts, SSE stream (`GET /events/stream`) for dashboards and anything that can't expose an endpoint. You can also attach project metadata via `.agent-pulse.json` that travels with every event.

Single Go binary, zero runtime dependencies. Claude Code and Gemini CLI supported today, OpenCode and Codex CLI in progress.

Note: Claude Code recently added native HTTP hooks, so you can POST directly to an endpoint without any intermediary. agent-pulse is useful when you have multiple clients, need SSE, or want one config across projects.

Thanks!

https://github.com/SantiagoBobrik/agent-pulse
by sirnicolaz | 2026-03-06 03:50:58+00:00
"fully autonomous weapons and mass domestic surveillance"

I still don't buy this discussion. How exactly do they want to use an llm for autonomous weapons, given it's not even possible to reliably have a piece of code written without having to review it?

And how is a 1M token window model suppposed to be useful for mass surveillance?

Honest questions, I am sure I am missing some details. Because so far it looks like a very sophisticated marketing strategy.
by dpb001 | 2026-03-06 03:51:03+00:00
I don't doubt your experience, but out of curiosity, what led you to the conclusion that branding is "absolutely necessary"? It seems to me that the presence of a name on black rectangle wouldn't matter to the average consumer. I get that there's a percentage of the consumer market that wants to advertise that they're rocking an Apple/Samsung/whatever device, but I would think that price/performance would be the major factor. Of course, that's probably why no one has ever put me in charge of marketing strategy.
by carlosjobim | 2026-03-06 03:51:16+00:00
The video is four minutes of a voice over talking about all the features and use cases of the new laptop, while the video is showing only the computer software and hardware. That's exactly how ads used to be and should be, and to me there's not much about branding in it.

There's no beautiful people, no successful lifestyle or even a face in the launch video.
Ask HN: How common are fake job postings when searching for jobs online?
by BelVisgarra | 2026-03-06 03:51:47+00:00
I'm researching problems people face when searching for jobs online.

Many people mention fake job postings, duplicated listings, or companies that never respond after applying.

I'm curious how common this actually is.

Have you encountered fake job postings during your job search?

If so, what were the signs that made you realize the job wasn't legitimate?

Did you notice any patterns (for example: certain job boards, suspicious requests, or companies that never replied)?
by westurner | 2026-03-06 03:52:23+00:00
> Despite NTS becoming an IETF standard in 2020, uptake has been slow. There's been some success: Canonical, which maintains its own time servers, switched to NTS in 25.10. But the NTP reference implementation, ntpd, does not support NTS. A number of clients, such as NTPsec, chrony, and ntpd-rs, do support NTS. They are not, however, widely adopted.

> [...]

> To help spur wider adoption of NTS on Linux distributions, other Trifecta staff are also working on a patch for systemd-timesyncd.

"NTS support for systemd-timesyncd"
https://github.com/systemd/systemd/pull/39010

"RFC 8915: Network Time Security for the Network Time Protocol" (2020) https://www.rfc-editor.org/rfc/rfc8915.html
by Swizec | 2026-03-06 03:52:32+00:00
Good branding is recognizable without the logo, especially to the target audience.

For HN, macs are a good example. You can remove all the apples and we’ll recognize the laptop.

My Triumph motorcycle has a similar property. You could remove all the logos (there’s just 2 stickers anyway) and even my girlfriend who is not into bikes will recognize it by the engine sound alone.

Kitchenaid and Smeg appliances have a similar property. BBC hides all the logos and you can still recognize the standup mixers in their baking shows.
by DrewADesign | 2026-03-06 03:52:41+00:00
It’s not really good at writing the software either — it’s a moderate to decent productivity booster in an uneven, difficult-to-predict assortment of tasks. Companies are just starting to exit the “we’re still trying to figure this out” grace period. Expect more of that as soon as these chatbot companies have to start charging enough to pull in more money than they spend. I foresee some purpose-built models that are pretty lean being much more useful in long run. It’s neat that the bot which can one-shot a simple CRUD website for you can also crank out Scrubs-based erotic fan fiction novellas by the dozen but I don’t foresee that being a sustainable business model. Having good purpose-built tools is, in my opinion, better than some unwieldy tool that can do a whole bunch of shit I don’t need it to.
by dragonwriter | 2026-03-06 03:54:19+00:00
> They changed the name

No, they didn't. The name of the department at issue is “the Department of Defense” and of its head the “Secretary of Defense” — these are set in statute (the latter for slightly longer time than the former) and the relevant statutes has not been changed, since the office of the Secretary of Defense was created in 1947 and the Department of Defense was created in 1949. The executive branch has just decided to use a nickname for a government department (which is the historical name for a prior department which was split to form two of what are now the three main direct subordinate elements within that department.)
What I'm learning trying to build a dance theater piece like a startup
by megbroome | 2026-03-06 03:55:03+00:00
Hi HN,

I run a small Pilates studio in NYC, but before that I spent most of my life as a dancer. Recently I decided to do something that feels slightly irrational and produce an evening-length dance theater piece independently.

Normally projects like this rely on grants, institutions, or large arts organizations. Those systems can work well, but they also move slowly and can make it difficult for smaller experimental work to happen.

So I started wondering: what would it look like to approach producing a piece of performance art more like building a small startup?

The “product” is the performance itself. The budget mostly goes toward rehearsal space in NYC, paying the second performer, building a small set, costumes, and renting a venue.

Instead of waiting on grants, I’ve been experimenting with more direct community support — a mix of small donations, personal outreach, and sharing the process publicly.

A few things I’ve already learned:

• People respond much more to the story behind the work than to the work itself.
• Direct personal messages raise far more support than public posts.
• Funding creative work is strangely similar to early-stage startup fundraising — it’s mostly momentum and belief.

What’s been interesting is realizing that artists are rarely taught to think about funding this way. Most training focuses on the craft itself, not on building the systems that allow the work to exist.

I’m curious if anyone here has experimented with unconventional funding models for creative work or small projects.

Would love to hear any thoughts or experiences.
Show HN: Gluon – Project management with impact-based task prioritization
by cothi | 2026-03-06 03:55:47+00:00
I built Gluon because I was tired of switching between a project manager, a to-do app, and a calendar every day.

Gluon combines all three. The core idea is the Impact Score — each task gets a 1–10 score so you prioritize by importance, not just deadlines.

Features:
- Projects with task tracking and completion rates
- Calendar view with tasks and events side by side
- Location-based reminders (arrive/leave a place)
- Productivity stats with streak tracking and weekly insights

Available on iOS. Free to download with a Pro plan for advanced stats.

Would love any feedback — especially on the Impact Score concept. Is this something you'd actually use?

app store link: https://apps.apple.com/us/app/gluon-project-manager/id675893...
by westurner | 2026-03-06 03:55:53+00:00
Building on these ideas for replacing DNS and PKI from the other day, https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47212280 ; why not NTP too?

From "Decentralized DNS/PKI Enhances NTP Security" https://gemini.google.com/share/686f916c97cb :

> Securing NTP at scale requires moving away from fragile, centralized, trustful X.509 infrastructure. By assigning Decentralized Identifiers (like did:tdw or SSH-key DIDs) to individual time servers and managing their state with Key Event Receipt Infrastructure (KERI), we can completely bypass the TLS chicken-and-egg problem where a client needs the correct time to validate a server's certificate.

> To future-proof such a protocol, we can replace heavy certificate chains with stateless hash-based signatures (SPHINCS+, XMSS^MT) paired with lightweight zkSNARKs. If a node is compromised, its identity can be instantly revoked and globally broadcast via Merkle Tree Certificates and DID micro-ledgers, entirely removing DNS from the security dependency chain.
by xdennis | 2026-03-06 03:57:20+00:00
> what if the code you write or autonomous machine you contribute to used for killing?

This line of thinking, that creating machines that kill is unethical, will destroy the West. If the US wasn't so good at producing killing machines in WW2, you wouldn't be here to complain about DARPA ethics.

Instead of having engineers develop the most advanced machines for killing (i.e. protecting the West) such people go into producing the most addictive content delivery systems, destroying the brains of minors.