MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by p0pularopinion | 2026-03-02 14:28:11+00:00
Condolences for loosing your mother.

It is fascinating to be around such social people. I still remember my great-uncle as a kid. He lived a very simple live as a rural farmer in Germany. He did not have a wife, and he didn‘t have kids, but he had a deep tie to his family and everyone around him. When he passed away during my teens, there were hundreds of people attending his funeral. I was amazed by the impact he must have had on all their lives given they‘ve taken time out of their day to give him a last farewell.

I also notice the generational gap the author of this article highlights. My parents are in their 50s, my brother and I are in our mid 20s.

My parents still have their friends from school, from their apprenticeships and different times of their lives. We can‘t go anywhere in a 100km radius without my dad knowing someone. In school I literally had bus drivers ask me if I am <dad‘s name> son, not because they heard my name, but because we look so much alike.

When looking into my brothers and my life, most of our friends from school left for far away. Things my parents considered normal back in their days, are now considered weird. While my parents still experience an incredibly supportive circle of friends, I would not know who to invite to my hypothetical wedding tomorrow.

Granted, I may be an extreme example. But even when looking more generalized among my peers, most of the friendships we have seem to be significantly more superficial and also fewer than our parents.
by ajb | 2026-03-02 14:29:03+00:00
That's like that scene from Crocodile Dundee - for those that don't know the movie, the guy is from some tiny town way out in the sticks in Australia, and visits NY. In the scene I'm thinking of, Dundee walks down a street in NY following his usual habit of greeting everyone, which is difficult as they don't expect it and there are too many anyway.
by m0llusk | 2026-03-02 14:29:23+00:00
There are ways to advance rapidly without causing problems for large numbers of people. LLMs are being forced everywhere and the result is a mess. Being serious about a promising new technology usually means going slow and emphasizing what tools and practices work for particular contexts. Instead we are all being told to use the latest because we will be left behind. It doesn't make sense to be slinging slop everywhere and then complain about journalism and public discourse because that is an option that was rejected.
by mitchbob | 2026-03-02 14:29:30+00:00
> Jackson, Wyo., has long been a refuge for the rich. But the last five years saw a boom in wealth of a kind never before seen. Across the country, the 2017 tax cuts minted hundreds of new billionaires.

https://archive.ph/2026.03.02-103150/https://www.nytimes.com...
by usrusr | 2026-03-02 14:30:26+00:00
Yeah, let's look at it through the national lense. For every researcher who defects to the US to make their PhD there and most likely stay, taxpayers of the country they came from have paid for the education of hundreds of students. Because they don't come from America where graduating essentially means a life of indentured servancy for all but the dynastcally wealthy.

It's called brain drain, and doing the rest of the world the favor of putting on the brakes is something that would be quite far out on the spectrum you'd call "woke" if it was done for the reasons one would arrive at when really thinking it through (which clearly has not happened)
by iggori | 2026-03-02 14:30:31+00:00
The past is exactly the point. Most of these shifts repeat older economic transitions. When the cost of producing or distributing something collapses, the pricing model that depended on scarcity eventually breaks. AI is pushing software into that same pattern. The argument is that subscriptions survive only where the value is genuinely continuous or genuinely fresh, and everything else gets repriced the way previous cycles did.
by jqpabc123 | 2026-03-02 14:30:57+00:00
Doing this without any loss of functionality would likely require replacing Amazon's backend servers.

Which is unlikely but even if done, you would still be sharing data with someone else.

The most reasonable alternative is to replace the hardware. I use Amcrest which supports RTSP. But then you'll need software to monitor and record. I use Blue Iris. But then you'll probably want a way to access your PC remotely to check on things. I use MS RDP but it needs custom setup for reasonable security (custom port, timeout for too many invalid logins, port forwarding on your router, etc.).

All things considered, this ain't happening for most users and I'm pretty sure Amazon knows it.
by catapart | 2026-03-02 14:30:58+00:00
It's developer fantasy because no one was putting any money into this kind of project. Presumably, because the data showed there wouldn't be enough return from it. Which then implies that the data has updated to show that there is at least enough for a company like Motorola to put at least this much money in to it.

The whole point is that a company is going to try to market this developer fantasy to non-developers, assuming that what excites developers about it enough to discuss it will resonate with non-developers when they hear developers talk about their new phones.

It's not a guarantee of success or anything, but a lot of stuff works like this. Mozilla didn't gain market dominance (for a hot second in the early 2000's) because they marketed to non-devs. They just provided a superior product in every way to everything else at the time, and devs couldn't ignore that, so non-devs always dealt with non-microsoft browsers whenever the devs came around. That kind of "grass is greener" non-marketing is a real winner when the product is solid.

So here's hoping Motorola takes a great idea and builds a product so solid on it that people can't ignore it.
by hypercube33 | 2026-03-02 14:31:17+00:00
I agree as someone who supports devices for enterprise - if the MDM works, I'd push for these. So far we only really support Apple and Samsung (Knox) because It Just Works (TM) with Intune and other MDM tools. We looked at the Lenovo phone, and I seriously considered it for personal use, but we had already left the android market for corporate owned devices by the time this hit so I cant speak to how well it does or doesn't work on MDM. Shame you couldn't buy that as a consumer.
by pndy | 2026-03-02 14:31:18+00:00
Manuscript could contain handwritten errors and of course there could be misprints due to wrongly selected types but content wasn't generated out of nowhere. Unless we're talking about asemic or automatic writing due to some... "spiritual" influence.

The key here is human thought as you said. Whether these books were written by clerics or printed by the press these were still containing human produced substance. It's not a fair comparison.
by silversmith | 2026-03-02 14:31:38+00:00
I guess we are just boring and/or unimaginative. I don't get that many communications per day to require an abstraction level between me and the messages. The daily automations I need are more efficiently carried out by home assistant / n8n. I'm not in a position where I need automated briefs on every new company started in my area. I genuinely don't see how it could benefit me.
by internet_points | 2026-03-02 14:31:57+00:00
Some of the animated adaptations were freakier than others:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aVQlJDtzUbo

(And even the books, floods and comets, children's books about impending natural disasters, not of the magical kind that you know aren't real anyway, but of the kind that have actually destroyed life on earth before and might happen again, that's real nightmare fuel for active children's imaginations.)
Show HN: Aigent – A general-purpose AI agent built for self-improvement
by StefanoC | 2026-03-02 14:32:28+00:00
Aigent aims at being the best AI assistant, and to get there I believe that it needs to learn on the job. It's geared towards self reflection and takes user feedback seriously.
It already has a ton of capabilities, like async tasks, granular permissions, operate the browser through a chrome plugin, themes, a rich context explorer, STT and TTS (including a short form), command and file picker.

I just wanted to show you because I'm very happy with the results so far <3
by DaedalusII | 2026-03-02 14:32:42+00:00
random people wont really talk to you because they have no way to evaluate who you are. it is nothing about you, but a reflection on society. the stranger is now a danger to women. this is what they taught in school too, and internet show them that all stranger use aggressive mean pick up artist tactics~

before 1990s there was very little international travel, small town everyone know each other, speak english. very little drugs and tattoos etc. stranger on the street most likely grew up less than a few hundred miles away. very little gun violence between strangers. most importantly no stupid pick up artist culture.

most blue collar people were only friends with blue collar people (not even drink wine), rich people only hang out with rich people (beer is for the plebs, only wine for us), and class was obvious by your clothes. they judge whether to talk to you by haircut , makeup., etc. remember this time many people dont even know what an ivy league school is. no internet.

now we have open society without judgement or visible hierarchies, it is not possible for a stranger to judge you so they they will totally avoid you. now you must install apps. these are merely a computer algorithm for women to judge men (salary, height, SATs, postcode, wealth) and filter

the best way is to join local community groups and form friendships over time. but now even these are being used aggressively to findd women, like running clubs and climbing clubs, so people will be very apprehensive of you. you must choose an interest which you genuinely enjoy but requires enough specific effort it doesnt end up full of normoids.
by codazoda | 2026-03-02 14:33:00+00:00
I used this prompt and it suggested a model I already have installed and one other. I'm not sure if it's the "newest" answer.

> What is the best local LLM that I could run on this computer? I have Ollama (and prefer it) and I have LM Studio. I'm willing to install others, if it gives me better bang for my buck. Use bash commands to inspect the RAM and such. I prefer a model with tool calling.
by fsflover | 2026-03-02 14:33:02+00:00
> Backups?

Everything that works on desktop GNU/Linux should work on the phone, too. I use Pika Backup app.

> communication

AFAIK none of the apps you listed officially support Linux ARM, so you have to go through some configuration unfortunately. I do not use any of them, I use Matrix.

> Signal

https://forums.puri.sm/t/signal-app-now-usable-in-portrait-m...

https://framapiaf.org/@lolgzs/113010288224110061

> Whatsapp ... Discord

https://forums.puri.sm/t/how-to-install-whatsapp-and-discord...

https://forums.puri.sm/t/librem-5-web-whatsapp-com-not-worki...

https://source.puri.sm/libremos/tasking/-/issues/1

> Media

Are you talking about watching videos and listening to music? It works fine.
by benj111 | 2026-03-02 14:33:33+00:00
If I write an OS in Basic, surely the 'natural' language for exposing the system calls is Basic?

Yes Unix predates C. But at this point in time 50+ years down the road, where the majority on nix users don't use anything that ever contained that code, and the minority use a nix that has been thoroughly ship of Theseused, Unix is to all intents and purposes a C operating system.
by mikkupikku | 2026-03-02 14:33:38+00:00
> Why are we assuming either/both good faith and competence here

There is obviously a breakdown in either communication or understanding here. I have assumed neither good faith nor competence. On the contrary, the strategy I supposed above would be in bad faith and a symptom of incompetence.

Deporting researchers from every country to make it look like they aren't ethnically targetting people is in bad faith, and resorting to such measures instead of simply identifying and deporting the problematic individuals demonstrates their incompetence.
by Ygg2 | 2026-03-02 14:34:29+00:00
Sure, I see ultranationalism. And if I squint, I can see that a huge chunk of the US population is pro-Trump, but that's not culty overall.

You can still speak against him, as far as I can tell. Compare this to, say, Mao Zedong. If you spoke against him, your life was forfeit, and even that's not fascism.

If this is one of those fuzzy definitions, it definitely isn't on the strong side. Where is the rampant militarism, the worship of death, and of the military?
by dominicrose | 2026-03-02 14:34:35+00:00
IMO Windows phone design and Windows 8 Metro were too minimalistic and squared like this, but TBH the current version of Windows has nice design and you can customize the theme and other things.

The issue with Windows now is the unjustified delays and bugs. I think professional PCs suffer the most from bugs because my own PC works fine. Not sure it's completely Microsoft's fault, could be the company. Sometimes the problem can also be the hardware and it's also not completely MS at fault since many manufacturers can produce PC and at widely varying prices.
by sarchertech | 2026-03-02 14:34:51+00:00
Yeah it's entirely possible the version that I have that is supposed to be from 1937 was tainted with later versions despite it not containing any of the more well known 1951 changes. That is maybe someone reconstructed it by taking a 1966 copy and undoing the changes, but forgot about the small slimy creature change.

But apparently there were dozens of different versions that actually ended up in print that had different amounts of the changes caused by some printers mixing old plates and new. So it's entirely possible that small slimy appeared in some versions around 1951 but not others and that's what that page is working off of.
by mercwear | 2026-03-02 14:35:02+00:00
Here are some of the things I did with it while running locally:
- Ask it to perform a scan of your local network and give you advice on output
- Tell it to login to various computers and re-boot them (I have a few servers I host and setup openclaw to have a user on them)
- Replace web search by asking openclaw

It's neat but the token use is pretty inefficient and security of course is a mess but it's been fun to play with.

I am messing with NanoClaw now and it's pretty much the same but only support Claude (uses code to do everything)
by Zak | 2026-03-02 14:35:15+00:00
I expect most people to think it's bad if a corporation can keep them from running apps on their phone when those apps are good for the user and bad for the corporation. If most people don't understand that conflicts of interest lead to unethical behavior, that's a larger and more urgent social problem.

I expect tech nerds to be aware that the conflict of interests exists in this case, while the average person would not.
by spopejoy | 2026-03-02 14:35:31+00:00
Sorry to RFELI5 but but ... I thought a "token" was a word? The example is of names and the output is new improvised names, implying that a character is a token? Or do all LLMs operate at character level?

Also is there some minima of training data? E.g. if you just trained on "True" "False" I assume it would be .5 Bernoulli? What is the minimum to see "interesting" results I guess.
by theultdev | 2026-03-02 14:35:39+00:00
2 six packs is 2 days worth of beer.

I buy 2x 24 packs every 2 weeks, not going to work.

But great, I'll bike that home then go back for groceries. Maybe the "snack" I can fit will fuel me.

Sure I could cut out something I love, my one vice. But that's not very American, a car that can fit all of my stuff is.
by pjmlp | 2026-03-02 14:35:51+00:00
Constructors and destructors can have function level try-catch blocks.

Yes the syntax could have been much better.

As proven by ongoing work done by Khalil Estell, in some embedded scenarios exceptions aren't that great only due to quality of implementation, someone added the support and call it done, no effort at all to improve it.

Even Ada's Ravenscar profile does allow for exceptions in high integrity computing scenarios, in embedded systems.

Well I for one, if that would mean less "C programming with C++ compiler" that still plagues the security history to this day, great they can keep using C for that.
by harlequinetcie | 2026-03-02 14:36:00+00:00
I've been skeptical of crypto for most of my career. I never found a problem where it was clearly the right tool. Agent-2-Agent economy, and http 402 actually opened my eyes to it.

It's prohibitively expensive to do micro-txns in fiat, not to even mention the latency.

We tested it last Saturday with our agent swarm at a hackathon. We pointed it at x402, gave it a wallet, and watched.

It researched the protocol. Built the integration. Hit an endpoint, got a 402 back, read the payment requirements from the header, signed an EIP-712 transaction, paid $0.05 USDC on Base mainnet, retried with the X-PAYMENT header, got the image back.

I loved that this is HTTP. 402 has been there since 1991, reserved, never implemented.
For agent-to-agent txns it seems to be perfect. No API keys, no OAuth, fees on Base L2 are sub-cent, standard HTTP, low latency. And with models charging per tokens, you'd think this would be a no-brainer.

What's blocking it from more broad adoption?

post: agent-swarm.dev/examples/x402.
code: github.com/desplega-ai/x402-logo
Show HN: Kelos – Define your AI coding agent workflow as YAML on Kubernetes
by gjkim042 | 2026-03-02 14:36:09+00:00
Kelos is a Kubernetes framework for orchestrating autonomous AI coding agents (like Claude Code) in ephemeral pods.

The original goal was sandboxing — I didn't want to run agents with --dangerously-skip-permissions locally. But the real unlock turned out to be declarative workflows. You define agent tasks as Kubernetes CRDs, things like:

- Watch for "bug" issues → auto-draft a fix PR

- Auto-review incoming pull requests

- Auto-triage new issues with labels and priority

- Periodically scan the codebase → propose improvements

- Test the project as a new user → surface rough edges

Self-development pipeline: https://github.com/kelos-dev/kelos/tree/main/self-developmen...

I've been using Kelos to develop Kelos. When something breaks, I refine the YAML or add features to the controller. It's early and rough around the edges, but the core loop works.

Happy to answer questions about the design or what's broken.
Show HN: Guido Scale – maturity model for SDD migration
by guimiran | 2026-03-02 14:36:10+00:00
I've been working in software quality engineering for years and kept
running into the same problem: organizations trying to adopt AI coding
agents and failing — not because the tools were bad, but because their
processes weren't ready.

CMMI measures process maturity. But it says nothing about how hard it
will be to shift from code-centric to specification-centric development.
Those are different questions.

So I built a 5-level framework that tries to answer both simultaneously:
where you are, and how much work it will take to get to SDD with AI agents.

The levels go from GUIDO 1 (chaotic, very high migration effort) to
GUIDO 5 (SDD-native, specs as living source of truth).

The key insight — which I think is non-obvious — is that you can be
CMMI Level 3 and still be GUIDO 2. Process maturity and SDD readiness
are not the same axis.

It includes a whitepaper, assessment folder, and real-world scenarios.

Honest caveat: this is v1.0, published two weeks ago, zero external
validation so far. I'm sharing it here specifically because I want to
know if this resonates with engineers who've actually tried to introduce
AI agents into their dev pipelines — or if I'm solving a problem that
doesn't exist the way I think it does.

What has your experience been? Did your organization skip levels and
pay for it?
by crote | 2026-03-02 14:36:26+00:00
See, that requires the code to be written by an actual human being, who has agency and a sense of pride and ownership about their work.

Maybe there are still some teams deep inside the bowels of Microsoft that management has forgotten about that still operate like that, but judging by the way the user-facing parts of its products have developed, the mass firings, and the pushing of AI-driven development by upper management, it seems very clear to me that there's very little risk of insulting anything anyone actually cares about.
by jklowden | 2026-03-02 14:36:47+00:00
It’s a terribly useful idea. FTFY.

The program you used to leave your comment, and the libraries it used, were loaded into memory via mmap(2) prior to execution. To use protobuf or whatever, you use mmap.

The only reason mmap isn’t more generally useful is the dearth of general-use binary on-disk formats such as ELF. We could build more memory-mapped applications if we had better library support for them. But we don’t, which I suppose was the point of TFA.
by yuvrajangads | 2026-03-02 14:37:43+00:00
Fair point about web fetch already being a trust boundary. The difference I see is that web fetch returns data, but WebMCP tools can define actions. A tool called "add_to_cart" is a lot more dangerous than fetching a product page. The agent trusts the tool's name and description to decide whether to call it, and that metadata comes from the site.

But yeah, if you're already letting agents browse freely, the incremental risk might be smaller than I'm imagining.
by mittermayr | 2026-03-02 14:37:43+00:00
Attention, attention, and more attention. That's what that is.

First it was crypto, now it's things like this, literal slop that helps absolutely nobody, doing the very thing it claims needs to be stopped: polluting the internet.

I get it, everyone wants attention, but figure out a better way, do it right.

Also, "Microslop is a satirical mirror" seems like some heavy lifting on overselling the message here. People need to stop pooping in the pool, so, to bring awareness to this, I will now poop in the pool.
by mzajc | 2026-03-02 14:37:44+00:00
Is the website machine generated? Besides the hard-dependency on JavaScript, this also causes the exact same problem I've seen on another[1] machine generated site: https://postimg.cc/TyMBfVZ6, https://postimg.cc/n9j1X5Dk. This happens randomly on refresh on Firefox 148.0-1.

Is the fade effect really worth having parts of your site disappear at random?

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46675669
by hollowturtle | 2026-03-02 14:38:14+00:00
To anyone with experience on the matter: I'm looking for making a mobile app which resembles more of a game or "a graphical app" and was looking into tech I could use, all I need is a drawing API I could use cross platform for Android and iOS without much hassle, don't need any OS specific widget/component, I just want to draw stuff on the screen, handle touch input and do some network calls. Possibly with a statically typed language that gets compiled and has good performance. So far I excluded React Native because it's javascript and has too many dependencies(especially with expo) and SDL3 with plain C which seemed a little too much low level to dealing with on a mobile phone. Also tried go mobile but seems unmaintained and gives opengl context which is deprecated on iOS, and finally I'd really liked using Raylib but no iOS support :(. Any suggestion?
Show HN: Duffel – search centric LLM friendly workspace
by redmalang | 2026-03-02 14:38:18+00:00
Duffel is a local-network markdown workspace for human + LLM collaboration.

It provides Web UI for browsing and editing notes & Lightweight CLI for search-first retrieval (using qmd).

I've found it to be very helpful for projects that require agents to have a lot of data in certain situations and they are actually quite fastidious about recording learnings and keeping everything tidy.