MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by uncletammy | 2026-03-06 14:47:33+00:00
> Each SDK might be tattling on you, but unless you give them a key to match you across apps, each signal from each app is unique

Aren't there many examples of these? For example IMEI, IMSI, phone number, etc?

Even without "unique" signals, isn't it fairly trivial to identify a user with a handful of "not very unique" signals? User-agent, a few recent IP addresses, browser capabilities, list of installed apps, device operating system properties, etc?
by imtringued | 2026-03-06 14:47:36+00:00
This also explains why so many people tell you that you really need that $50k to $100k a year ivy league degree.

For some reason people keep telling you that you will get a better education if you pay a ridiculous amount of money for it and even if it's not better and you can't figure out how to pay the student loan off, you should still go for it, because education is it's own goal, as if it was a consumer product.

This obviously doesn't make sense from an educational perspective. If education is good for you, why make it unaffordable and out of reach? You'd want education to be as cheap as possible so nobody gets left behind, but getting left behind seems to be the entire point behind these inflated tuition fees. Low cost colleges are supposedly inferior and not everyone gets to become "an educated well rounded individual".
Show HN: A minimalist Docker TUI for everyday stuff
by pivovarit | 2026-03-06 14:47:39+00:00
I love the scriptability of Docker CLI, but for everyday operations (logs, exec, start/stop) it means a lot of repetitive typing and looking up container ids.

That's why I built tdocker, which is supposed to feel like docker ps on steroids, which has just the things you do dozens of times a day.

Would love some feedback, especially on you think is missing (or what I should resist adding)
by jmyeet | 2026-03-06 14:47:47+00:00
Colonizing Mars never made any sense. Mars has the worst of both worlds when it comes to atmosphere: too little to ever be useful, but enough to be really super annoying (eg by covering your equipment with razor-sharp dust because obviously there's been no water recently to erode those sharp edges). Gravity is still pretty low. There's no radiation protection. So yeah, you were going to be living underground. But you can do that on the Moon without all the atmosphere annoyances and the Moon alreaedy has documented lava tubes so you don't need to excavate.

Remember when Elon said the Moon was a "distraction" and they were going "straight to Mars" [1]? That was only a year ago. At the time my guess was that a) Starship is just badly designed for being a lunar landing vehicle and b) the project is way behind anyway so this was just a way of kicking the can down the street. So what changed?

It's NASA's overhaul of the Artemis and SLS programs (IMHO) [2]. NASA wants to improve these programs by launching them more often and that, in Elon's mind, turns them into more of a competitor and takes money away from SpaceX. It's as simple as that.

I stand by my criticism of Starship: I think history will show it to be the Cybertruck of SpaceX. It's a poorly designed platform and it's beiggest problem is going to be that it has to compete with Falcon 9. It's going to be fantastically expensive to develop. It's still many years away from its promise (eg in-orbit refuelling) and there simply isn't the demand to get payloads that large into LEO or geostationary orbit.

[1]: https://x.com/elonmusk/status/1875023335891026324?lang=en

[2]: https://www.cbsnews.com/news/nasa-artemis-moon-program-overh...
by Analemma_ | 2026-03-06 14:48:17+00:00
I can't find it now because Bluesky's search function is so dreadful, but after the January jobs report was better than expected, a bunch of people were assuming the BLS must have fudged the numbers. Then the person who was actually fired from the BLS by Trump actually showed up and posted saying that, as far as they can tell from talking to "surviving" colleagues, the blowback after that firing was so intense that there hasn't been further pressure on the BLS and that as far as they can tell, the numbers are still good.

If someone can find this post, please link it here, because this person was no fan of Trump and I considered it a matter of considerable personal integrity that they looked into the matter and determined they still stood by the numbers, instead of taking the easy win on Bluesky and denouncing them.

(There is a separate issue where for the last 2-3 years, the BLS's later revisions to jobs numbers have been almost entirely downward, instead of evenly distributed like they used to be, indicating some kind of systemic methodological issue, maybe some secular change in how labor markets work post-covid. The February numbers could mean maybe they've fixed the problem, or maybe they haven't and this will later get revised to something even worse. But that issue predates Trump.)
by toddmorey | 2026-03-06 14:48:41+00:00
It accounts for 3% of the economy and provides around 15 million jobs. That’s absolutely going to make a dent.

And international tourism supports local tourism. I think Las Vegas will continue to be a shell of what it was until international tourism rebounds.

BEA used to have these cool interactive tables on GDP by industry, but they’ve now been discontinued. It really feels like our current administration just does not like public data.
by taurusnoises | 2026-03-06 14:49:00+00:00
At the risk of being the person who says, "it's capitalism," (I know I know).... When making profit is the dominant intent of a company, a worker doing something faster doesn't lead to the worker doing less. It leads to the worker producing more in the same time. If doing more yields too much of the thing produced for the market to handle, the company either A. creates more need for the more produced (fabricate necessity), or B. creates a new need for a new thing, and a new thing for you to produce. There's no getting off the wheel for the worker in capitalism.
by sigseg1v | 2026-03-06 14:49:05+00:00
I've done this multiple times in various codebases, both medium sized personal ones (approx 50k lines for one project, and a smaller 20k line one earlier) and am currently in the process of doing a similar migration at work (~1.4 million lines, but we didn't migrate the whole thing, more like 300k of it).

I found success with it pretty easily for those smaller projects. They were gamedev projects, and the process was basically to generate a source of truth AST and diff it vs a target language AST, and then do some more verifier steps of comparing log output, screenshot output, and getting it to write integration tests. I wrote up a bit of a blog on it. I'm not sure if this will be of any use to you, maybe your case is more difficult, but anyway here you go: https://sigsegv.land/blog/migrating-typescript-to-csharp-acc...

For me it worked great, and I would (and am) using a similar method for more projects.
by ben_w | 2026-03-06 14:49:25+00:00
Pumped hydro doesn't need a river, "just"* rock which isn't water porous and some nearby body of water (lake, sea, whatever).

The economics works out even if you were lifting concrete blocks rather than water, hence why you get pictures like this: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Energy_Vault_Test_Tower_2...

The argument against lifting concrete is that you can dig a hole in the ground an pump water in/out of it for more reliability and lower cost than having a crane lift and lower concrete, and it's easy to make it much bigger both horizontally and vertically, so why bother.

But it does appear to be economical even with that, and water is cheaper.

We make lots of holes in the ground on a regular basis, including for extracting fossil fuels. Here's two, note scale bar, though I have no idea what the rock around it is like regarding water losses: https://www.google.com/maps/@50.9063171,6.4418046,17655m/dat...

* it's never "just" with things on this scale
by abetusk | 2026-03-06 14:49:36+00:00
I only skimmed, and I was expecting a treaty on how "brand" is the new currency, but instead the thesis is the opposite:

> ... Is there some edifying lesson we can salvage from the wreckage? ... One obvious lesson is to stay away from brand. ... Sure, you might be able to make money this way ... but pushing people's brand buttons is just not a good problem to work on ...

> Go where interesting problems are, and you'll probably find that other smart and ambitious people have turned up there too. And later they'll look back on what you did together and call it a golden age.
by danans | 2026-03-06 14:49:38+00:00
> Why is this on the top of hackernews?

Fundamentally because a lot of people here think it should be, but sure behind that, it's at the top for many of the reasons you state. This is a forum about work after all, something that has lots of uncertainty at the current time.

> Or is just a slow news day

I don't think these exist anymore
by joe_mamba | 2026-03-06 14:50:21+00:00
How much of that 3% is from foreign tourists versus domestic Americans?

And what types of jobs are those 15 million? High paid high skilled or low pay low skilled?

Because from what I can tell you about EU tourism jobs, most jobs tourism creates over here are low pay, hard labor, unskilled jobs, mostly filled by minimum wage migrant seasonal workers who then send the money home, meaning the biggest beneficiaries from those jobs are the wealthy land/business owners who exploit cheap mirant labor, and not the local workforce who mostly suffers gentrification as they don't work in tourist jobs but have to deal with increased prices from tourism. Plus, the massive black economy tourism creates where a lot of the money is under the table.
by nerdsniper | 2026-03-06 14:50:24+00:00
Even a single CBP employee scrolling through your texts feels like too much to me. But when they take your phone, they're making copies of all the content in the phone and as much as possible from any apps/websites you're logged into. And that permanently lives in a database which doesn't afford you even the very thin veil of protection against misuse that a US citizen might be granted.

It does all seem to be too much.
by kevstev | 2026-03-06 14:51:04+00:00
The numbers are seasonally adjusted- the reports themselves are not very difficult to read, I suggest you go to to the source: https://www.bls.gov/news.release/empsit.nr0.htm

The bigger question is the impact of immigration policies- the US population is smaller than expected due to immigration effects, so some of the extrapolation typically done may be skewed. I doubt this will make the numbers look better though. These numbers may be volatile for some time until the true effects of the lack of immigration are understood and modeled properly.
by the_duke | 2026-03-06 14:51:18+00:00
Musk is actually a brilliant marketer. He built his companies around a "vision", used it to attract high quality talent and push that talent to give their best.

For Tesla it was "electrify transport to end dependence on fossil fuels and save the planet", for SpaceX it was "save humanity by becoming a multi-planetary species".

With how much he talked about it, he did probably actually believe in Mars.

But now both of these ideals have come into conflict with his newfound political affiliations, so they have to be dropped.
by Imustaskforhelp | 2026-03-06 14:51:39+00:00
> No conspiracy necessary. The CIA bought the rights to the 1954 film Animal Farm, modified the ending to fit propagandist ends,

yea, I remember reading the book and then watching the movie and it had differences iirc, its available on youtube for free and I remember some comments talking about the different ending.

IIRC, in the movie, the animals finally kick the pigs out and everything. It was a good ending.

but in the book, there was not a good ending, the humans and the pigs were celebrating together and then ended up fighting in between each other

> Twelve voices were shouting in anger, and they were all alike. No question, now, what had happened to the faces of the pigs. The creatures outside looked from pig to man, and from man to pig, and from pig to man again; but already it was impossible to say which was which.

This is the last paragraph I found from the book (had to download it via archive.org to find the last para)

So am I correct or is there more to the story?
by hibikir | 2026-03-06 14:51:40+00:00
It's a bit better: They are forms of obfuscation and lowering information in a channel. They are designed for environments where being clear is very risky. In certain organizations, you are better off being unclear than asking for approval or consensus on a tricky decision: You produce an incomprehensible, vague mess of a message, and avoid argument, as argument in those places leads to paralysis.

Now, does this mean it's the right way to talk everywhere? Of course not. And since it's often seen as safe, it's overused. But it doesn't just arise, as a bug. plain language that means what it says creates more conflict, and isn't always better.
by BeetleB | 2026-03-06 14:51:42+00:00
I dunno. Having looked at cheaper watches, I don't see imperfections. I'll grant that over time they'll show up (quicker wear and tear).

Here's the thing: Ever since I was a kid, the following features were basic:

1. Tells time

2. Tells date

3. Stopwatch

4. Alarm

5. Chrono (yes, I used that a lot for years).

All this for $50 or less.

I'm assuming the >$100 watches have all this? If not, IMO, the watch is simply failing at the very basics. It shouldn't even be called a watch.

Then Tier 2:

- Timer

- Multiple alarms

- World time

I pay extra for these (and use all of them).

The next tier (Tier 3):

- No batteries and/or solar. Definitely no manual winding.

The next tier:

- Stuff like GPS, sunrise/sunset, etc.

Personally, only after Tier 3 would I consider paying extra for all the things you mentioned. But paying $300+ for a watch without a timer or world time? You've been scammed.

How much have you paid for a pen? Montblanc ball point pens can exceed $1000. Apply everything you said to a (ballpoint) pen - one that most likely will write poorer than a good $50 fountain pen - and you'll see how people view what you are saying.
by lproven | 2026-03-06 14:52:00+00:00
You jogged my memory and I downloaded it, after a small detour trying to find a version that'll run on my 11YO iMac.

I have a whole collection of feeds alread, which I have no knowledge of at all. Many I've never even heard of. Is this a default thing, or was I accidentally bookmarking RSS feeds or something years ago and never knew?
by shadowtree | 2026-03-06 14:52:24+00:00
Fun fact:

DOW Chemical was producing Agent Orange, but was getting a ton of public pushback - so bad it decided to stop production, forcing the Pentagon to look for an alternative supplier.

That supplier? A German privately owned pharmaco called Boehringer-Ingelheim. It's Chairman at the time? Richard von Weizsäcker, future President of Germany.

The production site was in Hamburg, is contaminated for the next thousand years. Boehringer is legally forced to operate pumps to prevent the dioxins in that site from reaching the water table. If those did, it would wipe out the full population.

Oh those righteous Germans.

Disclosure - Boehringer denies the above:
https://www.boehringer-ingelheim.com/boehringer-ingelheim-di...

Judge for yourself.

NIH on Exposure, AO and BI:
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/books/NBK230789/

Deeper dive on that BI Hamburg site:
https://www.ebsco.com/research-starters/consumer-health/diox...
by pixl97 | 2026-03-06 14:52:46+00:00
>Actually, I think LLMs are a step in the wrong direction if we really want to reach true AI.

Any particular reason beyond feelings why this is the case.

We already know expert systems failed us when reaching towards generalized systems. LLMs have allowed us to further explore the AI space and give us insights on intelligence. Even more so we've had an explosion in hardware capabilities because of LLMs that will allow us to test other mechanisms faster than ever before.
by phkahler | 2026-03-06 14:52:50+00:00
>> If the government-approved numbers are this bad the real ones must be catastrophic.

Sadly my first thought was not to trust this report. The article even notes further down:

>> The US central bank would typically respond to a weakening labour market by cutting borrowing costs, in hopes of giving the economy a boost.

Our fearless leader has put enormous pressure on the Fed to lower interest rates from day 1. They keep refusing, and following the data so it makes sense (if you don't care about reality) to alter the data to get the desired result.
Show HN: IronDiff – Network Config Backup and Analysis
by MattRos | 2026-03-06 14:53:00+00:00
Hi HN, I'm Matt. I've spent over 15 years running an MSP (B-Comp Services) and managing infrastructure. One of the biggest, most persistent headaches my team and I face is tracking exactly what changed in a network config between the time it worked and the time it mysteriously broke.

Most existing solutions we evaluated were heavily bloated, wildly expensive, or required giving a third-party platform "God mode" write access to the crown jewels of the network. That never sat right with me from a security perspective.

I built IronDiff to solve this problem with a strict focus on security and simplicity. It is a SaaS platform designed to provide automated backups and deep analysis of your network configurations without the typical overhead.

Here is what makes it different:

Minimal Access via SSH: I designed IronDiff specifically so the platform doesn't need complex APIs or unrestricted agents. It connects via standard SSH and is strictly programmed to only issue the specific commands required to pull your configurations. It does what it needs to do and stays out of the way, keeping your attack surface as small as possible.

True Visual Diffs: Instead of making you manually compare raw text files in Notepad during a 2 AM outage, IronDiff provides a clean, side-by-side visual comparison of configuration changes over time. You can see exactly which line of code changed on a firewall, router, or switch at a glance.

Automated Backups: No more relying on engineers remembering to manually export configs. IronDiff automates the collection process on a schedule so you always have a reliable, point-in-time recovery option.

Built for Multi-Tenancy: Since I built this to scratch my own itch managing multiple clients, it natively handles multi-tenant MSP and enterprise environments effortlessly.

I'm officially launching it this morning. I would absolutely love to hear your feedback, hear how you handle this problem today, or answer any questions you have about the architecture.

Link: https://irondiff.com
by bellamoon544 | 2026-03-06 14:53:39+00:00
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by eykanal | 2026-03-06 14:54:06+00:00
For those (like me) who don't know the authors, apparently they are well-published authors in the field of climate science whose work is very highly cited:

https://scholar.google.com/scholar?hl=en&as_sdt=0%2C39&q=gra...

Not a perfect measure of whether this is a reputable article but at least readers should know this isn't from some randos in a basement somewhere.
by nerdsniper | 2026-03-06 14:54:22+00:00
They connect it to a little box that hacks into the phone and downloads everything. Search for "Cellebrite Universal Forensic Extraction Device (UFED)" or "Grayshift GrayKey". The border agent doesn't have to know anything about phones/computers, it's just "plug in, press button". With modern phones, they really only work if you unlock your phone before handing it to them, and they'll make you do that. If you don't unlock the phone and let them walk off with it for awhile, they'll refuse you entry into the USA and send you back.

US citizens are, of course, allowed in even if they refuse, but it can be a very stressful situation in which citizens may not know what their rights are in the moment.

https://www.dhs.gov/sites/default/files/2023-09/Test_Results...
by VLM | 2026-03-06 14:54:58+00:00
Two meta observations about the comments:

1) The issue doesn't matter much. Corporate takeover of the internet caused severe damage, but overrunning social media with LLM generated content is a mortal wound. Roughly the same number of humans will be using social media in 2030 as currently use CB radio. Remember near a fifth of the population was using CB radio at the peak in the late 70s. Its too little, too late, closing the barn door after the horses have left is pointless. Like re-arranging deck chairs on the titanic after it hit the iceberg. Once the advertisers get wise to the scam that nobody is seeing their ads except bots, the problem will kind of fix itself. I think TPTB want to use "protecting kids from social media" as the public face of why social media will crash and burn soon to avoid discussion of how LLMs actually killed it, because authoritarians love LLMs and they're in charge (although seemingly everyone else hates LLMs, so I'm sure this will end well).

2) Most of the anti commentary reads a lot like addict speak IRL. Talk to a drunk about how it would be a great idea not to drink or a carb addict about how they should not eat donuts and you'll get absolutely rage blasted in return for threatening their addiction, which in the case of an addict, is their identity. "Well it would be the end of the world if people (me) were not drunk and other people (projection of me) will do anything to feed their addiction so obviously no effort should be made to limit addictions and it won't work anyway because other people (me) will even drink mouthwash or homebrew their own moonshine to get drunk" etc. Note I'm not completely against the anti's and they make some very good points that should be considered, but raging like an addict after their drug of choice is threatened is a VERY bad look and is not helping their case at all, if anything it strengthens the case against the anti's. What the pro's don't understand is you can't fix an addiction externally, addicts gotta addict and punishing them and making them miserable might help the pro's feel superior or at least thankful they're not addicted, but it never helped no one. Social media is "an ill of society" and should be treated as such including sensible regulation, protection of threatened groups, treatment for the addicts, and some compassion and acceptance of the addicts either returning to the real world or dying in the addicted world.
by toddmorey | 2026-03-06 14:56:09+00:00
Edit: I do think it’s fair to say our economy is much more diversified and resilient to a drop in tourism then a country like Spain where it’s closer to 20% GDP.

But maybe the right way to frame it is it wouldn’t be felt as much nationally, but international tourism drops are pretty catastrophic to local economies of some of our biggest cities like New York Miami and Los Angeles Angeles.
by xp84 | 2026-03-06 14:56:21+00:00
Maybe they mean dangerous as in the opposite of “emotional safety” - the greatest actual, real-life danger of coming to the US as a tourist (who isn’t trying to do crimes or sneakily overstay your visa) is still being offended. Compare this to Mexico where you might be kidnapped by cartels, or the Middle East where… things aren’t as safe right now. You can definitely blame us for that in the most immediate sense, but a case can be made that if Iran does choose to be different the region will be more safe eventually.