MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by SunshineTheCat | 2026-03-09 15:48:50+00:00
Does anyone else ever find it odd that in posts like this the person posts a sad picture of a pig instead of a screenshot of the page of the bill they're talking about?

I think "a provision that would condemn millions of pigs to a lifetime in gestation crates" is in fact horrific, however, outrage is the currency on places like X.

Posting a page number sounds specific, but then why not post the page (or quote it)? Particularly in any even remotely political environment where the default is "vote for (or oppose) this bill or you want [insert cute animal, baby, person, minority group] to die."

Just a tiny bit of source referencing could go a long way to help people better understand what you want them to support (or oppose).
by socalgal2 | 2026-03-09 15:49:24+00:00
I knew this response would come up. Would you be okay to give Sam Bankman-Fried a leadership position? How about Martin Shkreli? Elizabeth Holmes? It's one thing to give someone that made a few minor mistakes a 2nd chance. It's another let a convicted child molester work at a kindergarden. Executives that committed fraud shouldn't be executives again.
by Aurornis | 2026-03-09 15:49:29+00:00
> I know 1 person who is "allergic to pork". But European pork is fine. Even Canadian pork is fine. But what's different with US pork? Ractopamine.

Ractopamine is used in Canada.

This sounds like a possible case of the nocebo effect: Someone experiences symptoms based on a belief that an ingredient is bad for them. When they consume the same thing without the belief that the ingredient is present, the effects are absent even though the ingredient is present.

This happens with people who believe they have WiFi sensitivity disorders, too. If you put them next to a WiFi router with blinking lights they will experience the pain of their condition. If you turn off the lights on the router but leave the WiFi transmitting, they stop feeling the effects.
by edgolub | 2026-03-09 15:49:45+00:00
"distributed neural network" is just AI-bro speak, most likely generated by an LLM.

So I would just ignore that whole comment.

What you said is the truth.

Cheap, efficient, fast manufacturing process. I am a software dev, I happen to have worked with Chinese software APIs related to manufacturing and logictics. Move fast and ship broken stuff on monday, and forget to fix it - that is the reality, but somehow people expect they maintain some level of quality now.

Just try working with products like TikTok, their APIs and documentation, the endless headache you will get will show you how they do itterate, but quality is still only barely a factor.
by mentalgear | 2026-03-09 15:50:12+00:00
The problem is they don't get rid of their ICE cars any more - most of the world is transitioning to EVs and China - their previously biggest importer - has strict EV quotas and no one wants to buy German EVs that are too expensive and less capable than Chinese made EVs.

Germany was ahead in EVs and solar - both industries have been cuto off by conservative/free-market ICE lobbysts and these 2 huge global markets are now dominated by China instead.
by astrashe2 | 2026-03-09 15:50:34+00:00
I think the big problem is that this is more like a sanction, more than the government saying they don't want to do business with them. They government is saying that anyone they do business with can't do business with Anthropic.

So it's extremely important that they get an injunction that allows the cloud compute companies to continue to work them. I think they probably will, but it's really crazy that the government is actively trying to kill them off over this.
by kayo_20211030 | 2026-03-09 15:50:57+00:00
There's a declaration that a 915 MW power-plant was removed from the grid, and moved to emergency status only.

However, every other number in the piece is mentioned as some multiple of Wh's (GWh typically). That makes it very hard to tell what proportion of capacity was removed from the system as a proportion of the total generating capacity. I think the writer might have served us better with the use of some helpful percentage comparisons.

From the SEAI report (2024) (https://www.seai.ie/data-and-insights/seai-statistics/key-pu...)

- Electricity demand in Ireland was 32.9 TWh in 2024, up 4.1% on 2023-levels

- Commercial services, which includes the ICT sub-sector, accounted for 41.2% of electricity demand.

- The residential sector accounted for 25.5% of electricity demand in 2024.

- Data centres accounted for 21.2% of all electricity demand in 2024.

- Data centres account for 88.2% of the increase observed in Ireland’s electricity demand since 2015.

If I've done my math correctly, Moneypoint generates about 8TWh, if operating continuously; which it's probably not. Can we say 6-7 TWh?

That is not an insubstantial portion of the total.
by Joel_Mckay | 2026-03-09 15:51:08+00:00
Some fun channels if you are bored, and I hope you feel better soon =3

https://www.youtube.com/@project-326/videos

https://www.youtube.com/@Asianometry/videos

https://www.youtube.com/@PhysicsExplainedVideos/videos

https://www.youtube.com/@TwoMinutePapers/videos

https://www.youtube.com/@DrBenMiles/videos

https://www.youtube.com/@professorjenniferhaslersci8510/vide...

https://www.youtube.com/@RobertFeranec/videos

https://www.youtube.com/@AdvancedTinkering/videos
by sarthaksaxena | 2026-03-09 15:51:15+00:00
I am building npm for LLM Models, you can now install run and ship AI Models.

It’s a CLI tool that makes open-source LLMs installable like packages.

llmpm install llama3

llmpm run llama3

You can also package models with your projects so others can reproduce the same setup easily.

Website: https://llmpm.co

GitHub: https://github.com/llmpm/llmpm-dev
by orwin | 2026-03-09 15:51:37+00:00
8 years ago, a new unskilled factory worker in china made the equivalent of 700-800€ hourly, with free food and accommodation (this cause issues in rural areas but this isn't the subject).

I assume salaries have gone up soon since, but even if they stagnated, what's the entry-level pay for unskilled factory work in Germany? Just to be sure it's more than 21k.
by mschuster91 | 2026-03-09 15:51:37+00:00
Not even two years ago, see https://www.golem.de/news/nach-hausdurchsuchung-deutscher-to...

And it's not just a one off occurrence either. Tor exit node operators getting v& has been a thing for decades: https://www.heise.de/news/Anonymisierungsserver-bei-Razzia-b...
by swsieber | 2026-03-09 15:51:53+00:00
I'm writing a print farm manager for my wife, who has 8 bambu printers. I've put one of them in lan mode for testing, but I'm pretty close to replicating the important handy (Bambu's cloud app) features, at which point I'll be able to start adding the really nice.

She sells a product with 16 different printed parts, and she prints the parts in bulk batches across 7 different pause points, some of which have pause points for embedding magnets.

The idea is to integrate inventory management and print scheduling into the tool, which will be nice.

I have working so far:
* Pulling camera images
* Pulling the currently printing file, including the preview image (rendered in bambu studio and bundled with the print; standard for bambu studio), and the pause points
* A dashboard with projected timing information
* Notifications about jobs starting, stopping & pausing
* Remote printer control

Next on the list:
* Delayed printing - schedule a print to start in the night. Mostly useful so that if there's a pause point we don't leave a print paused for hours on end.
* Print queueing - manually build a list of prints so that after switching plates we can just "next print" for a printer
* Print scheduling - select a quantity of print files or groups of files to print, and have it schedule the prints, including projected switch times, to maximize printer utilization by avoiding jobs ending at night
* Tracking magnet & filament usage, and integrating BoM and production quantity tracking.

I've been mostly AI coding this, but I've go in to make it extract out components, etc. And I lay down and enforce the DB schema. I've had to ask it to back out a few things entirely. And I've had to give it the Bambu API docs I found github. But it's been going pretty well.
by wpm | 2026-03-09 15:51:55+00:00
My favorite rendition of this phenomenon is video player controls that only appear if you mouse over the content. So, if I want to pause a video to focus on something, god help me if that something is in the lower third of the frame and centered (for Quicktime Player on macOS) or in the lower 100 pixels (YouTube), because odds are the fucking play/pause button is going to block it and it won't fade away if the video is paused.

But we're making the UI gEt OuT oF tHe WaY .
by rdevilla | 2026-03-09 15:51:56+00:00
You will be better served investigating alternative definitions of God, such as the pantheistic god; the panentheistic god (encompassing not just the physical universe but the intellectual one as well); or simply the Aristotelian "first cause" proven (non constructively) to exist of necessity by various cosmological arguments, rooted in ex nihilo, nihil fit and rejection of infinite regress (preferring axiomatics in the Munchhausen Trilemma).

It should be noted that even the late Hitch was unable to defeat the Kalam version of the cosmological argument in debate against Dr. Craig at Biola University.

With 9 years of philosophy reading it should be trivial for you to prompt-expand this comment into its full ramifications.
by lgl | 2026-03-09 15:52:01+00:00
> the next generation of Ai companies will be easily valued at 10T

I'm not sure where this conclusion is coming from. We're very likely already in an AI bubble so I'm thinking that open/free models will eventually dilute the huge ridiculous valuations these companies have. Also the natural increase in consumer hardware power will eventually allow many people to just use local models instead both for privacy and cost reasons.

And seeing as most models are essentially only improved versions of the previous ones with larger context and more training data, unless some new "Attention Is All You Need" paper comes out that will give us a big step into AGI territory, I'm really not seeing a new company reach $10T valuation by just releasing marginally better models every couple of months imho.
by snowmei | 2026-03-09 15:52:10+00:00
Hi HN,

I recently built an experimental app that combines AI with the symbolic system of the I Ching (Book of Changes).

The idea is not to predict the future, but to create a reflection tool. Users can ask a question, the system generates a hexagram, and the AI produces an interpretation that explores possible perspectives on the situation.

The I Ching has been used for thousands of years as a framework for understanding change and decision-making. I was curious whether modern language models could help translate its symbolic meanings into something more accessible for everyday reflection.

The app currently includes:
- hexagram generation
- oracle-style interpretations
- deeper analysis through a "Full Insight" mode
- a small knowledge library about the I Ching

I’d love feedback on a few things:

- Does the interpretation feel meaningful or too abstract?
- Is the interface intuitive for someone unfamiliar with the I Ching?
- Are there features that would make this more useful as a reflection tool?

You can try it here:
https://oracle-answer-engine.lovable.app/auth

Thanks for taking a look.
by wffurr | 2026-03-09 15:52:23+00:00
Why do they do this? I just don't understand the regression in user interfaces in the major operating systems over the years. Is there some academic discourse about this? Is there some trend in UX or designer education that's produced this? It can't be just change for change's sake as there's a trend to minimize the OS chrome to the point that it's unusable.
by alephnerd | 2026-03-09 15:52:30+00:00
Both China and the US have enacted trade barriers against EU originated auto drive goods. A Chinese VW ID4 is manufactured in Shanghai and an American one in Tennessee.

And where else can Germany export?

The individual EU states are protective about exports leaning hard on nationalism and union support as seen in France+Italy, India demands China-style JVs as well, Japan and SK prefer buying domestic, and ASEAN is flooded with Chinese, Japanese, and Indian manufactured cars already.
by maqnius | 2026-03-09 15:52:56+00:00
Depends on where you work in the industry, there's a huge level of division of work. Upstream departments should work more on new products and marketing etc. But a little more downstream, there isn't much todo if not enough cars are ordered.

The intention of Kurzarbeitergeld is to prevent large layoffs. I honestly can't tell if that makes sense in the long run, but it seems reasonable for a political party trying to make it to the next term.
by DangitBobby | 2026-03-09 15:52:57+00:00
It's easy to imagine that scaling up a neural network made up of actual human neurons will quickly achieve something resembling "intelligence" and "qualia" since it's made of the same parts that presumably produce those phenomenon in us. The ethical implications are much harder to deny. Though I am sure it could be attributed to some failure of empathy as you've implied.

Perhaps people fear this leads to a future where we have technology that interacts meaningfully with existing wetware (cybernetically enhanced animals, including people).
by domaisi | 2026-03-09 15:53:02+00:00
Hi HN,

I’ve been building NutriAI, an AI-powered platform that helps people improve nutrition and training.

The platform can generate personalized meal plans, calculate calories and macros, recognize food from photos and even generate workout programs.

It also includes nutrition calculators (TDEE, BMR, BMI, macros) and more than 1300 nutrition guides.

The goal is to make nutrition planning simpler and more personalized.

I would love feedback from the HN community.
by derefr | 2026-03-09 15:53:24+00:00
Metro worked perfectly well on tablets. And every OS since W8 has actually kept some version of Metro (in the form of e.g. larger touch-targets), because having a single version of Windows UI for both touchscreen and mouse-and-keyboard computers, is what enabled the creation of the "2-in-1" or "convertible" touchscreen notebook, a design that basically every modern Windows notebook instantiates.

Liquid Glass also makes more sense on tablets. I think Apple is copying Microsoft because Apple is also moving toward full UI-level unification between their desktop mouse-and-keyboard UI and their mobile/tablet touchscreen UI. They've already done it for some apps (e.g. Notes.)
by remus | 2026-03-09 15:53:25+00:00
Nothing revolutionary, but there is a small organisation called The Himalayan Database [1] who have recorded (in great detail) climbing expeditions to peaks in the area. The data is available in a downloadable format, but it is a little awkward to browse. I have been working in collaboration with them to build a website for making the database more accessible https://himalayan-database.climbing-history.org/

[1] https://www.himalayandatabase.com/
by cbeach | 2026-03-09 15:53:54+00:00
For Ireland, it's not so much the sourcing of fossil fuels, but the imposition of political taxes on fossil fuels onto consumers.

About 50% of the retail price of petrol in Ireland is tax (excise + carbon + VAT).

Overall fuel taxation in Ireland is ~50%, compared to 15-20% in the US. Although to be fair, most of Europe is doing the same thing to its population (during a cost of living crisis).
by BobaFloutist | 2026-03-09 15:54:13+00:00
Because the US doesn't have a default federal ID.

Most people use state-issued drivers licenses (with varying levels of federal acceptance) as their primary ID.

Historically, US States used "poll taxes" to defacto discriminate against recently freed slaves, who obviously had no money, so we have explicit laws against fees for voting, and an ID that you have to pay for is kind of an indirect way of implementing a fee for voting.

There's a lot of complicated history involved, and I totally get why the system feels weird to an outsider, but you accidentally blew a dog whistle that usually belongs to people trying to find sneaky ways of preventing minorities from voting (that as I alluded too, have the potential to backfire in modern times).

Maybe you wouldn't find it interesting, since you said you don't care about our politics, but the history of voting discrimination, voting rights, and the various schemes to try to surpress then while following the law in the US are kind of fascinating and worth digging into if you're genuinely curious.
by n8cpdx | 2026-03-09 15:54:36+00:00
Is there realistically a path to the west learning any of these lessons without going through WW3?

It’s not like any of this is news. My newspaper of choice has been telling me about how fast china moves, in vivid detail, since at least 2018 - others probably knew much earlier than I did. I watched a graphic documentary on YouTube about Shenzhen in 2019 that gave me all of the same information in this tweet, minus the accomplishments that have happened since then.

My own eyes have seen how their consumer goods have transformed in a very short time. Maybe other Americans don’t notice because the key categories (tech, cars) have so much protectionism. I’m not sure about the Europeans.

The west is better at coming up with excuses and red tape than actually solving problems, it seems.
by criddell | 2026-03-09 15:54:47+00:00
Here's a link to the bill if you are interested in who sponsored and cosponsored it. It's a total of 24 people, so it had a fair bit of support.

If you live in the district of one of these people you might consider contacting them to let them know your opinion.

https://www.congress.gov/bill/119th-congress/house-bill/4673...
by artemavv | 2026-03-09 15:54:58+00:00
I'm building a personal habit tracker, solely for my own use. It is intended to be pretty basic - just a html file, with data saved by vanilla JS in browser's local storage. Currently about 50% of the work is done by AI (Cursor).

After adding a couple of extra features and having a "finished" tracker, I will try re-implementing this tracker in React, Svelte, Vue, Preact and some others.

My goal for this project is twofold: to get familiar with these frameworks and to practice using AI as a personal tutor (leading my way and answering my questions).

I've tried learning React, Laravel, etc before, but I've used them to build a fresh project from scratch and I've always got stuck early on due to the lack of knowledge/understanding.

I hope that re-implementing something that I already know and understand fairly well would make my learning process much more effective.
by butILoveLife | 2026-03-09 15:55:01+00:00
I find it odd we need legislation to prevent this.

There are not enough consumers to care? Or maybe with legislation we get better outcomes due to scaling effects?

If we are willing to use legislation, could we tax such gestation crates, and use that tax revenue to breed unconscious pigs? Or find a way to disable consciousness in their brain? Or fund lab meat? I'm sure small labs are doing this, but if we are at the point of legislation, I imagine there is enough willpower to solve this problem rather than bandaids.
by kenhwang | 2026-03-09 15:55:03+00:00
It's not redundancy, it's capitalism.

There is a large number of competing and overlapping suppliers because they're all competing for business and none have gained market dominance.

The US and most of the west is largely in a post-capitalistic market, where competition is no longer necessary because monopoly/duopoly status has been reached and segment leaders can simply use their capital to prevent challengers instead of competing on product/service quality, and margins can be widened and quality can decrease because there's no other option.

To me, it seems the solution is to make it possible again for smaller more agile players to compete against bloated and stagnating established companies. The large legacy companies are preventing innovation to protect their domain instead of innovating to keep up.
by snowwrestler | 2026-03-09 15:55:20+00:00
If this is true, it implies that such marketing on Reddit is not worth much. Because if a marketing tactic is easy and effective, intense competition will drive up the price of doing so.

Conversely if Reddit astroturfing was actually valuable, "upvotes cost nothing" could not be true. Like, we know that Meta and Google ads are effective, and those cost something. Not because they're hard to do, but because everyone is trying to do them at once.
by AusiasTsel | 2026-03-09 15:55:43+00:00
I'm a multilingual reader (Catalan/Spanish/English/Italian), and I kept hitting the same wall: I'd hear about a book and have no way to know if it existed in my language.
Turns out this is a genuinely unsolved problem. There's no single database that tracks which books have been translated into which languages. ISBN registries are fragmented by country. Open Library has great English coverage but gaps elsewhere. Wikidata has surprisingly rich translation data but it's locked behind SPARQL. Google Books is inconsistent across regions.

So I built Zenòdot to cross all four and piece the picture together.

What I found building it:

-The ISBN system is far more broken than I expected. ISBNdb has millions of English records but almost nothing for languages like Basque, Icelandic, or Bengali. Books exist in these languages, they just don't exist in the databases.

-Wikidata was the biggest surprise. It has structured translation data for thousands of works, but extracting it requires SPARQL queries, title resolution across scripts (try matching a book title in Chinese to its English original), and author alias caching. Hard to build, but the results fill gaps that no other source covers.

-The most interesting output isn't what the tool finds; it's what it doesn't find. When someone searches for a book in a language and there's no result, that's a demand signal. "Someone in the world wanted this translation and it doesn't exist." That data could be genuinely useful to publishers.

The tool prioritizes your selected languages, so it shows you editions relevant to you first. The philosophy is "documentary infrastructure”: no recommendations, no social features, no accounts. You search, you find (or don't), you go buy the book wherever you want.

Stack: Next.js 15 (App Router), Supabase, Vercel, TypeScript. Solo project, no funding, about 4 months of work.

If you're multilingual or learning a language, I'd especially love your feedback. Try searching for a book you love and switching between languages, that's where the tool shows its value.
How do you track and optimize your AI API spend?
by CostsentryAI | 2026-03-09 15:56:28+00:00
Running several projects that collectively hit $2k+/mo in API costs across OpenAI, Anthropic,& AWS Bedrock. Started doing monthly audits then found I was overspending by about 60%.
Biggest wins so far:
Model routing cut costs 55% with no quality loss on final output
Prompt compression saved 70% on my most called endpoint
Request deduplication on retries eliminated 15% of wasted calls
Caching semantically similar queries knocked out another 20-30%

But I feel like I'm still missing things, especially on the infrastructure side (GPU instance sizing, spot vs. on-demand, etc).
So what tools or approaches are others using? Is anyone doing this systematically or is everyone just eyeballing their dashboards? Let me know!