MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by multidude | 2026-03-14 22:26:34+00:00
Infrastructure management mostly — cron scheduling, DB migrations, nginx configs, log analysis. Things I know how to do but that are slow to type out.
But the learning is there:
I've used it to go deep on PostgreSQL query planning and indexing in a way I wouldn't have bothered with before.

The risk, in my opinion was the opposite of I'd expected — not learning less, but a lot of shallow things giving an impression of learning which in effect isnt there.
Look! i built this powerful thing. 60.000 Lines of coded business logic in a week!
On the surface i have something impressive to show. People admire it, and i end up believing that i did it. This is not to say that i did not learn - i did, but my learning was not as impressive as the result would make you believe.

Maybe i should try using it to learning Math now.
by DanielHB | 2026-03-14 22:26:39+00:00
Not really related to the topic, but I recently set up a baby-cam with ffmpeg by just telling ffmpeg to stream to the broadcast address on my home network and I can now open the stream from VLC on any device in the household.

A very heavy-handed solution, but super simple. A single one-liner. Just thought to share a weird trick I found.
by dzonga | 2026-03-14 22:26:41+00:00
impact of A.I - reality vs hype

reality - companies are choosing to spend money on CAPEX (i.e infrastructure things hoping that they can ride an uncertain wave into the future) and not spend on OPEX (humans)

reality - AI agents are not doing human jobs.

reality - money | debt is now more expensive. hence if you were spending more of it on OPEX stuff you would rather reduce that

reality - more coasting jobs in tech. demand for stuff that still needs to get done is super high - workers just need to get more distributed and not hoarded at the big paying firms
by bunnie | 2026-03-14 22:26:55+00:00
In general, things that are not strictly digital (PHYs, regulators, PLLs, ADCs) contain significant amounts of foundry IP that would be hard to release as open source. But also, some parts of the chip, for example the AXI bus fabric, were licensed simply as a risk reduction measure. If the bus fabric is bad, you've wasted millions of dollars on a mask set with little recourse. I tried to pull in some open source AXI fabrics and it wasn't pretty...a lot of rework required and even then still some bugs made it through to tape-out. Over time more and more of this can be opened but it all takes time, money, and people willing to do it.
by alisonatwork | 2026-03-14 22:28:03+00:00
I have the same issue now. It's especially annoying when it happens while reading a "serious" publication like a newspaper or long form magazine. Whether it was because an AI wrote it or "real" writers have spent so much time reading AI slop they've picked up the same style is kinda by the by. It all reads to me like SEO, which was the slop template that LLMs took their inspiration from, apparently. It just flattens language into the most exhausting version of it, where you need to try to subconsciously blank out all the unnecessary flourishes and weird hype phrases to try figure out what actually is trying to be said. I guess humans who learn to ignore it might to do better in this brave new world, but it's definitely annoying that humans are being forced to adapt to machines instead of the other way around.
by poopbutt22 | 2026-03-14 22:28:27+00:00
> the US is built on a high value service economy

The purist forms of capitalism I’ve seen are places with low prices, a large working class, practical marketing, and high competition - often they’re considered “3rd world” places.

The US economy, if it wants to remain “1st world” must have high prices. It has to contain an element of scarcity (however faux) in order to be sold at a premium, or be able to impart some privileged (institutional) knowledge as a firm - which should be as esoteric as it is scarce.

It can’t be quality alone since all building and manufacturing is effectively outsourced. It has to have a premium brand recognition or monopolistic aspects to it that necessitate a high price.

So the challenge for the first world, during the rise of China (Mexico, etc.), is to find new ways to justify the privileged position using this new technology as a lever to do so.
by elcapitan | 2026-03-14 22:28:31+00:00
One of the odd things about Hackers is how it created a cultural feedback loop. When it came out, the style it showed was pretty weird and kind of campy, but I think it got integrated into actual hacker culture over time (e.g. visible in hacker spaces, conferences, online culture etc), and because of that today the movie as a whole seems less weird than originally.
by diacritical | 2026-03-14 22:29:05+00:00
Please don't. The game was fun, but level 22 didn't work on Tor Browser due to CORS errors. At first I thought the "NETWORK ERROR. TRY AGAIN" was part of the game until I saw the actual network tab. I wouldn't have made it past level 22 if not for the console command. Plus, if someone wants to cheat, why not?
by reilly3000 | 2026-03-14 22:29:12+00:00
This. The best way to win a net promoting customer is to show them that given more tokens, you can do more amazing things, by giving them something they want that looks amazing (at first glance). They then feel indebted and grateful, and go off to show what they have made. Paying greater sums feels to them like gaining greater leverage.

I dunno y’all; feels like free drug samples. Who would ever think of coding without it?
by like_any_other | 2026-03-14 22:29:27+00:00
It's worse - important metrics like inflation are distorted by "hedonic adjustment" - i.e. pretending cars are getting cheaper because, even though they're getting more expensive, you get "more car" (ABS, airbags, remote unlock, heated seats (if you pay the subscription), hidden GPS tracking..):

https://wolfstreet.com/2019/12/05/what-worries-me-about-hedo...
by johnsmith1840 | 2026-03-14 22:29:36+00:00
So yeah you're on a US platform americans don't think like europeans.

1. Racism is Legal in US, disagree if you want but that's a core stance baked VERY deep into our system. Nobody said it was morally right but nobody should be jailed for it.
2. My point was literal free speech attacks justified or not happen. My view was covid is it's kinda like our laws of imminent danger you can't proactibely threaten people with intent and you can't do stuff like yell fire in a movie theater.

The intent to stop racism/xenophobia is moral but the mechanisms are bad. Whoever controls the deffinition has the ability to inflict harm.

My point is if you come to an argument that only trump is attacking free speech while saying the other side doesn't or it's justified because "it's morally right" it is proving my view.

If EU swings far right and the same tools to attack racism are flipped to attack liberal beliefs the EXACT argument you hold will be used against you.

They will say: "lgbt is morally wrong and therefore any pro lgbt statements on social media are now an arrestable offense" without true free speech baked in that's possible.
by paradox460 | 2026-03-14 22:29:59+00:00
I think a lot of us like solving novel problems. But the menial drudgery of most modern software, where you're writing code in an app that was written in a week 8 years ago and then had mountains of "get it done quickly and we can improve it later" over the years, wears on everyone. Much as the advent of decent cordless tools revolutionized "workman" trades, ai helps programmers
by sigmar | 2026-03-14 22:30:07+00:00
You're probably right. I've been thinking about why anthropic's revenue keeps soaring. I think in terms of "new users trying the product" we're definitely somewhere in the slowing part of the S-curve (at least in the US), but there are other growth contributors. Two bigs ones are people finding new use-cases and people figuring out how to scale up current use-cases to use more tokens. Perhaps little temporary-usage-boosts like this give people permission to attempt new use-cases or more scale and realize they could use a higher tiered plan.
by jdejean | 2026-03-14 22:30:08+00:00
I find it hard to believe shifting spending from welfare to cash won’t result in inflation. It’s about accessibility and how liquid the assistance is. It’s also about how evenly that’s distributed.

To the parent comment’s point, if UBI is evenly distributed across everyone (“Universal”) and exists as liquid spending power (“Income”), there’s no way that doesn’t result in a rate of inflation that perfectly counteracts the existence of UBI.

Prices are only low when the seller wants to scale/reach more buyers. If low/no income buyers disappear, why would prices stay low? If there were an infinite number of high income buyers, cheap products wouldn’t even exist in a freely capitalistic system. Instead we have a limited number of buyers in a wide range of income levels, which drives a wide range of prices and sellers competing at every price point.

It feels like the laws of physics, once you cut off one side of the scale it will fling in the other direction. I also hate everything I just said, I would love to exist in a world that wasn’t subject to these forces. Just seems impossible in a freely capitalistic system.
Show HN: The best way to manage your skills – Better-Skills
by trapani | 2026-03-14 22:30:45+00:00
skill management is garbage right now

we built a solution

our assumptions:
- skills should be easy to manage and share
- skills belong together, some need to reference others
- harnesses should know how to create, edit, and link together skills, following best practices
- harnesses know how to use skills, not other higher abstractions like complex skill graphs
- managing skills with your team should be easy

we achieved all that with better skills

website: https://better-skills.dev
repo: https://github.com/leonardotrapani/better-skills
by purerandomness | 2026-03-14 22:31:12+00:00
Why is then opening a JPEG not an Import?

I get it, and when Photoshop changed this default, GIMP followed with changing this workflow. It used to be different in older versions of Photoshop and Gimp.

Advanced user usually know exactly what they're doing, and opening a PNG or JPEG file, changing a few pixels, and saving it, should require as few key presses as possible.

I don't want the UI to get in my way when I open->edit->save.
by mattmaroon | 2026-03-14 22:31:27+00:00
The propaganda isn't extreme in mainstream media, it's extreme on social media, subreddits, etc. I am sure the NYT knows WW3 has not begun. I'll happily wager anything you want that it has not if we can define it. You definitely did not come to that conclusion without help, and the fact that you came to it is forgiveable (not everyone is a student of history).

"Further I think “the economy isn’t as bad as it could be so everything else that doesn’t directly affect me is propaganda and all the problems right now in the world are perfectly fine” is the ultimate propaganda. You’re essentially saying “shut up you’re still alive just be okay with the world state even if it’s not desireable”."

I didn't say any of that or anything vaguely similar. Merely the idea that the economy is getting better while the life of the average American is getting worse is mostly propaganda. (It's certainly true in some ways for many and many ways for some, propaganda works best when it's rooted in something true and obvious.)

You know I am sure that Russia and other adversarial nations have millions of people and bots trying to make you hate your country. If you were them, wouldn't that be your main message? Your country is going to hell in a handbasket. You'd have a hard time finding a country where a whole lot of people would disagree.

Great empires fall from the inside. The thing that scares me more about the future than anything is just how good our enemies have gotten at stuffing our heads with distrust and fear of our own country and the people in it. There's no way I could tell you that you're patient zero (or in this case, I guess patient 100 million) that you would be happy about, but there it is.
by throwawaytea | 2026-03-14 22:31:37+00:00
Home made food is better than anything you can buy too. Im 40 but I still drive 30 minutes to my parents once a week for dinner because the food they make feels like the elixir of life compared to the slop I can buy in trader joes, Costco, or most restaurants.

But I'm pretty glad trader joes exists too.
by toomuchtodo | 2026-03-14 22:33:08+00:00
Related:

Complete Off Grid Energy System | DIY Electricity & Hot Water - Charcoal Retort [video] - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BEop8qmmt4M

Charcoal-Powered Generator | Charging Off-Grid Battery with Homemade Power [video] - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vpjBlfd3s4g

Feeding The Fire By Robot - https://hackaday.com/2024/01/15/feeding-the-fire-by-robot/ - January 15th, 2024
by genthree | 2026-03-14 22:33:10+00:00
Some more taxes are a lot better than being disappeared with no due process whatsoever, or having huge amounts of your property seized with no due process. The rich benefit immensely from liberal democracy. The alternative is being forced to play all kinds of power-games with stakes a hell of a lot higher than the ones they deal with when they mess around with politics in democracies, and at a disadvantage if they’re foreign and those aren’t open, pluralistic societies.

Their worst-plausible-case in a liberal democracy (barring state collapse into something else) is they lose a teensy bit of their stuff. Nowhere near all of it.
by Kim_Bruning | 2026-03-14 22:34:02+00:00
https://github.com/colinhoad/bbc-micro-forth-compiler/tree/m...

the book it's from:
https://archive.org/details/BBCMicroCompendium/page/88/mode/...

This may have distorted my thinking on how to write languages horrendously. To this day, anytime I try I end up writing something froth-y.
by nacozarina | 2026-03-14 22:34:35+00:00
Pure-software people didn’t exist; it was always someone who was a statistician, a geologist, a chemist, who was also ‘good at computers’ because it was a skill they cultivated along the way. As a result, most software was highly specialized and arcane. Way too expensive to be a toy.

Early tools like Lotus 1-2-3 and dbase were mind-blowing because they were so generalized and available on consumer appliances. Schools managed milk money, farmers planned crops, the perceived value was instant. There wasn’t an activity that couldn’t benefit.

Back then one computer with a spreadsheet and database was considered more than enough to grow ‘any’ entrepreneurial enterprise from zero to 200 employees. Even in the late 90s I was in a ~300 person multi-national that mostly ran on one Novell server and the entire company lived in Lotus Notes.
by FacelessJim | 2026-03-14 22:34:43+00:00
As a sibling comment mentions, yes it does. Just don’t expect to have code that runs as fast as C without some effort put into it. You still need to write your program in a static enough way to obtain those speed. It’s not the easiest thing in the world, since the tooling is, yes, improving but is still not there yet.

If you then want to access fully trimmed small executables then you have to start writing Julia similarly to how you write rust.

To me the fact that this is even possible blows my mind and I have tons of fun coding in it. Except when precompiling things. That is something that really needs to be addressed.
by bunnie | 2026-03-14 22:35:19+00:00
Crossbar is unusual to start with in that they wanted to do open RTL - so for starters, there's to a first order no companies even willing to discuss open RTL designs. Beyond that - mainly risk. I had to pinky swear that whatever I added would not break the chip, cause timing closure issues, delay the schedule, consume too much area or power, impact yield, I had to run my own validation and review program while meeting their dev methodology, etc. etc. I had to exercise an enormous amount of self-restraint to not push harder and do more interesting things as it was. It's very hard to build up inter-personal trust, and they had to take a calculated risk letting a schmuck like me potentially foul up a multi-million dollar mask set. Hats off to them for making that bold decision, it would have been easier to say nope, too risky, no benefit, cut it from the code base.
by topce | 2026-03-14 22:35:34+00:00
Very Interesting...

I have similar idea to train LLM in Serbian, create even new encoding https://github.com/topce/YUTF-8 inspired by YUSCII.
Did not have time and money ;-)
Great that you succeed.
Idea if train in Serbian text encoded in YUTF-8 (not UTF-8) it will have less token when prompt in Serbian then English, also Serbian Cyrillic characters are 1 byte in YUTF-8 instead of 2 in UTF.Serbian language is phonetic we never ask how you spell it.Have Latin and Cyrillic letters.
by like_any_other | 2026-03-14 22:36:14+00:00
> At OnlyFans you're paying for a video feed

Then they can prominently state the chat is not with the actual creator, or they can go to jail for fraud. This "oh they say they're providing you X but you're actually paying for Y" argument is getting even more tiresome than the "fraud is so widespread why worry about it" one.
Show HN: GLinksWWW – A browser for power users tired of repetitive copy-pasting
by glinkswww | 2026-03-14 22:37:19+00:00
I built gLinksWWW, a lightweight standalone browser (Windows/Linux) designed for heavy multitaskers who are exhausted by repetitive workflows. Its core feature is a built-in 18-slot multi-clipboard manager that allows you to store and paste data using dedicated hotkeys (0-9, F1-F8), effectively breaking the single copy-paste limitation. It also features a unique retro-classic UI, zero-tracking privacy, and a native download progress tracker on the taskbar. Detailed feature list, screenshots, and binaries are available on the GitHub repository: https://github.com/rio719/gLinksWWW-browser
by ryandrake | 2026-03-14 22:38:39+00:00
Every foreign-born person I (American) have as friends is either: 1. planning on moving back to their home country soon (which comparatively has its shit together) or 2. has already moved back to their home country. They know when they're no longer welcome here, and most have made a decent enough living here to coast back in their countries. Hell, I'm seriously considering what it would take to escape, before we turn into some horrible mix of Idiocracy and the Handmaiden's Tale, and I'm naturally born here.
by jasonwatkinspdx | 2026-03-14 22:39:21+00:00
> simply because the commercial stuff is more usable and gets updated faster.

And this isn't a new pattern by any means. Decades ago the UK military had a plan to replace their old analog centric radio gear with a system that integrated voice, data, gps blue force tracking etc. They called it BOWMAN.

The initial versions were so bad everyone started calling it Better Off With Map And Nokia.

The defense establishment moves at a glacial pace and consistently under delivers vs the equivalent commodity commercial products.
by fn-mote | 2026-03-14 22:39:54+00:00
We agree that the product is lucrative and the ethics are nonexistant.

> increasing addictiveness for the weak minds

This kind of statement is like saying only fools fall for spearphishing attacks. IME, there are lots of attacks on your attention, and it only takes one mistake.

If you have not been targeted yet, it's just a matter of time. For example, look around here at the Factorio users. "It's just a fun game." Ok, but how many hours a week are you spending on it? Looks like an addiction to me.

I know not everybody agrees with me, but when you are logging hundreds (thousands?) of hours on WoW, League, COD, ... it quacks like a duck.
by SpicyLemonZest | 2026-03-14 22:40:00+00:00
They do. Certifications make technical expertise legible to non-technical decisionmakers, and I've encountered people on both sides of that dynamic who affirmatively like it when companies set up programs like this. Obviously you and I would rather have someone who understands Claude make decisions about whether and how to use it, but in a lot of industries that's not realistic.
by filleokus | 2026-03-14 22:41:10+00:00
I suspect nradov argues that this type of geofencing + allow-listing is not typically what people mean when they talk about "export control", which I agree with.

And while geofencing + allow-listing for sure provide value in e.g the Ukrainian conflict, it's a weak protection compared to goods that are actually under strict export control (e.g ITAR), and will always have to be done after the fact. Russia could for example put Starlink on drones launched from the Baltic Ocean targeting Poland or whatever.
by bawolff | 2026-03-14 22:41:39+00:00
The central claim of the article seems to be that they are being compensated unfairly relative to the value they bring in. I think its a pretty natural question to ask how their compensation stacks up to other industries.

The best case scenario you could end with would be that they are not being economically exploited. The worst case scenario would be that they are hopelessly being exploited. The truth seems to be that on a pure economic level they are being exploited about as much as your average low wage worker in capitalism in a poorer country (which is a significant amount of exploitation) but its not quite extreme level of exploitation. However, you also have to somehow account for the ickyness of the job and its unclear how to do it.

And yes, i believe its important to do the math on human suffering. That is how we make a better world. Not all claims of suffering are equal. The millionaire techbro sad he cant afford a private jet is not sufering in the same way as someone who is struggling to pay for a meal. We distinguish the cases by doing the math.
by TightFibre | 2026-03-14 22:42:10+00:00
Dreadful piece. I have my partner's broken Bluetooth overheads. They need fresh pairing every time, and as they are closed back they are a bit exhausting. The pairing is a pain point. I have a decent open back pair of two, one the head band died (plastic fatigue). I have gotten through so many wired ear buds as I like wearing them in bed and drifting off to music or podcasts. So the wire is an enemy and it often tries to strangle you. Surprisingly you may have a better DAC in your headphones than your laptop or phone accessible over wireless. And conversely one phone I have has a better soundstage than all my computer gear. Different tasks and combos require disperate gear. I am going to buy some more wired buds. One plus about a wire and amp combo is that you can at least crank up the volume. The EU apple USBC to 3.5 is capped at 50 percent.
by bbrodriguez | 2026-03-14 22:42:15+00:00
Korean doesn’t reduce typing compared to English from my experience. What looks like a “character” is actually a syllable block called “eumjeol” that’s made up of consonants (moeum)and vowels (jaeum). You can’t have a vowel only syllable either so you always have to pair it with a null consonant no matter what (which kinda looks like a zero: ㅇ) and while nouns can be much more concise compared to English, verbs can get verbose.

The main benefit of Korean actually comes from the fact that the language itself fits perfectly into a standard 27 alphabet keys and laid out in such a way that lets you type ridiculously fast. The consonant letters are always situated in the left half and the vowels are in the right half of the keyboard. This means it is extremely easy to train muscle memory because you’re mostly alternating keystrokes on your left hand and right hand.

Anecdotally I feel like when I’m typing in English, each half of my brain needs to coordinate more compared to when I’m typing in Korean, the right brain only need to remember the consonant positions for my left hand and my left brain only need to remember the vowel positions.