MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by windexh8er | 2026-03-05 13:33:58+00:00
My point was irrespective of your position: it doesn't matter. The mainstream won't break the Apple/Google cycle the same way the mainstream didn't break the lock carriers once had on software updates for phones. Apple broke that through its small but influential technologists and prosumers. Motorola can potentially be that for breaking out of the locks Apple and Google have bound through hardware manufacturers. The only reason AOSP can't exist without Google has nothing to do with Google, but more with Qualcomm. Motorola has the opportunity to broker that breakout. And we need this right now. Lawmakers and big tech are locking themselves in further, the longer we don't have another option the harder it will be to move outside of these greedy corporations.
by huhtenberg | 2026-03-05 13:34:29+00:00
Looking at all ready-made options on Amazon and elsewhere - anyone who will roll out an adult-oriented well-made single-button camera that takes in standard thermal paper rolls will make a fortune. This is such a great thing to have for get-togethers and parties. But it's essential to not being bound by $2/shot proprietary cartridges and be able to shoot and snap without thinking. Mementos for everyone!
Show HN: Thought Canvas – Develop Ideas with AI (Mind Mapping)
by thesunnez | 2026-03-05 13:35:11+00:00
I created Thought Canvas to explore ideas I've had but felt the standard AI chat interface was too linear and dense. The mind map layout used in the app reframes this human-AI workflow.

To use Thought Canvas, you start with an idea or area to explore and a few next branches are suggested by AI. You can continue along those suggested paths by clicking the green ticks. Or type in your own branches at any level by clicking the plus button to explore alongside AI.

It's early days, but I'm finding the app useful to explore ideas more broadly, using AI for inspiration and refining my own thinking. Please feel free to use and provide feedback on how it can be improved. Thought Canvas is mostly built with Claude Code using the awesome React Flow library. Haiku 4.5 is currently wired in for AI suggestions.
by hellojesus | 2026-03-05 13:35:15+00:00
It's effective insofar as the parents secure the device. If it's a general purpose computer, and the parent forgets to lock the bios, kids will just live boot into Ubuntu or some other OS and do as they please.

Or they may install keyloggers (including hardware loggers) to get the parents' password and then go update their account.

Certainly this may help hinder them, but it won't take long for them to learn the basics of curcumvention, and the cost is regulated speech for OS manufacturers.
by AlexCalderAI | 2026-03-05 13:35:19+00:00
Great patterns here. I'd add one more critical layer that many miss: orchestration state management.

Running multiple agents concurrently (QA, content, conversions, distribution), we hit this exact wall - agents didn't know what other agents had done, creating duplicate work and missed context.

Solved it with a stupidly simple approach:
1. Single TODO.md with "DO NOW" (unblocked), "BLOCKED", "DONE" sections
2. Named output files per agent type (qa-status.md, scout-finds.md, etc)
3. active-tasks.md for crash recovery - breadcrumbs from interrupted runs
4. Daily memory logs with session IDs for searchability

The key: File-based state is deterministic. After a crash, the next agent reads identical input, same decision rules, same output structure. Zero state collision, zero "what was I thinking?"

Deployment: ~8 agents on cron. They wake, read files, work, write results, die. No persistent terminal. No coordination overhead.

This turned "5 terminal tabs with unmanageable logs" into "grep yesterday's log, see exactly what happened."

Patterns + implementation details: https://osolobo.com/first-ai-agent-guide/
by incomingpain | 2026-03-05 13:35:51+00:00
I find these criticisms to be similar to those low context brain teasers.

If a woman gets married at 25 and her kid is 25, how old is she?

This is what LLMs are dealing with. You dont tell them everything they need to know and they are left to fill in the gaps. Which may, and sometimes often means they lie.

That's what Agentic does differently, it'll go find the gaps before answering.

Agentic is AGI. You can hire many minimum wage workers who are generally intelligent who dont even go to that level.
Show HN: A simple tool to convert CSV data into graphs
by devnpatel | 2026-03-05 13:36:27+00:00
I built a simple tool that converts CSV files into graphs instantly.
The idea came from seeing how much time people spend opening spreadsheets or writing code just to visualize data. I wanted something where you can just upload a CSV and get charts immediately.
It currently supports quick line and basic chart visualizations from CSV datasets.
I’d really appreciate feedback from people who work with data or frequently analyze CSV files.
by stephencanon | 2026-03-05 13:37:03+00:00
Mechanically, you're probably right, but the screen-centric controls of the newer generation are _awful_ by comparison to the F generation's physical buttons and dials (this isn't BMW though, it's the whole industry).

My wife and I both have F31s, which we will drive until we can no longer source replacement parts unless the industry comes to its senses first (unlikely). Any time we've ever looked at plausible replacements, the screen-based controls are an immediate hard no.
by cucumber3732842 | 2026-03-05 13:37:21+00:00
>As a German I believe it's more about demographics nowadays. The country and all large companies are run by older people who only saw rising prosperity their entire life. They all have settled in a comfortable place and do not seriously care about the future anymore

However bad Germany is in this regard, I suspect the US is far worse. There is no cohort in the US who remembers living in "East US" to temper the excesses of the people who've only known ease and comfort (though of course those people will tell you they worked hard to <insert career/prosperity path that no longer exists).
by staticassertion | 2026-03-05 13:37:35+00:00
> Brut facts. Principle of Sufficient Reason. I am getting a vocabulary bump here. I spent some time further expanding my vocabulary on related concepts on Wikipedia.

Glad to hear it. I'm not an expert on these topics, so it's probably best to be skeptical on this. You may find the paper and some of the names I've mentioned (ie: Carrol) worth reading/ listening to.

> Some truths are the result of co-constraint.

This is a fine claim to make and it's not totally insane or unheard of. The concept of simultaneous causality, for example, is definitely something people argue.

> Reality must have this form of being.

This is a claim, and a fine one to make. It's still a claim though. I think it's worth reminding you that I haven't actually said anything other than that it's not really reasonable to assert things like randomness not being scientific, or that all things have a cause, etc - that most physicists probably disagree with that is notable. It's your position that those claims are true, and that's fine, but it's just notable that you're plainly asserting rather controversial claims.

> (2) It cannot be determined by infinite regress, because there is no where beyond reality to regress. And obviously

FWIW you can actually just say that you accept infinite regress. That'd be fine. You would have some other metaphysical commitments there, but it's a move you can make.

> Contradictions are contradictions regardless of priors.

You can also just reject the law of non-contradiction. Or I could. Or you have to assert it.

> in terms of being (1) self-consistent, (2) consistent with hosting a region with what we know of our local physics, and (3) to avoid simply being a circular argument, demonstrate that alternatives to the explanation necessarily are contradictory.

It's probably notable that all of these are just assertions. Consistency is a property that you're claiming. (2) seems reasonable. (3) I'm not sure of. And again, law of non-contradiction would have to be shown as being necessary. Neither of us is right or wrong, which is sort of my point - these are valid metaphysical theories.

Your view is not unreasonable. A lot of people hold to the strong PSR, it's just notable that it's controversial.

> I think it is fair to say, while some may believe a theory of everything with unexplained brut facts can be valid (some things being just what they are), few or none would be unsatisfied with a theory that demonstrated all facts were well determined, was consistent, could be shown to be compatible with our region of reality, and could not be altered without creating a contradiction.

Sure. A theory with no axioms would be desirable. But also, like, we wanted that in mathematics and accepted that it was impossible too. Would we have preferred otherwise? Well yeah. But we know it's not the case.
by igniuss | 2026-03-05 13:37:59+00:00
Unless you're in Europe.

> As part of the EU’s REACH Regulation Annex XVII, a restriction banning Bisphenol A (BPA) content in thermal paper above 0.02% by weight came into effect on January 2, 2020. This prohibition was implemented due to health concerns associated with BPA exposure

so unless you're buying old rolls, or from non reputable sources, it shouldn't be an issue in the EU at least.
by whywhywhywhy | 2026-03-05 13:38:16+00:00
Startfield is boring because of the bad writing and they made a space exploration game where there are loading screens between the planet and space and you don’t actually explore space.

They fundamentally misunderstood what they were promising, it’s the same as making a pirate game where you never steer the ship or drop anchor.

You can prove people are not bored with the concept as new gamers still start playing fallout new Vegas or skyrim today despite them being old and janky.
by jvando | 2026-03-05 13:38:24+00:00
The goal is basically to make staying informed low-effort.

Instead of checking a bunch of different sites or doomscrolling feeds, the idea is you can just listen to one short daily brief in the morning.

For me personally, success would be replacing fragmented news checking with a single daily habit. The main things I'm trying to optimize for are:

1. personalization (only topics you actually care about)
2. time efficiency (around 5–10 minutes)
3. clarity (ranked stories with links to sources)

Right now I'm mostly trying to see if this is something people would actually use consistently. If it seems useful, the next step would be improving the trust/quality side and making personalization deeper based on real usage.
by Matl | 2026-03-05 13:38:25+00:00
> pointless political back-and-forth were predictably the comments with a more positive opinion on current US immigration enforcement will be flagged

Given the tactics employed by ICE, it's a true shock and horror that most people have more humanity than that.

But I guess a person who can't form a grammatically correct sentence is an example of the sort of people who can rest easy,
by samiv | 2026-03-05 13:38:40+00:00
As a non German but someone who has lived there for 10 years my take is that its cultural part of being Germans. They always seem to gravitate towards making things just a little bit more difficult.

Sthe keyboards are not QWERTY. They're QWERTZ.

Traffic lights are in excessive combinations of green/yellow/red. Sometimes you might have yellow/red light sometimes only red.

Roads often have "end of speed limit" sign. But the speed limit might have been temporary for construction. So now you have to remember the original speed limit. Why not post the actual speed limit again?

Stuff like this is absolutely everywhere in the German society for apparently no reason.
by nerdjon | 2026-03-05 13:39:25+00:00
I keep wanting to build this but I have seen people talking online that they changed the legs and they are now hollow and not really suitable for this.

That has made me very cautious to use this for any serious amount of mounting.

Edit: Apparently there is a section on that page about it, but does not give a ton of confidence that it won’t give me a lot of issues.
by aeon_ai | 2026-03-05 13:39:38+00:00
This is such a comically bad take.

The use of loaded and pejorative language like "forgery" emphasizes that this is not a logical argument, but a moral one. The repeated comparisons to "true craft" reveals the author would prefer that code be regarded like artisanal cheese.

Beyond the pretension, it's head in the sand to imply that the technology hasn't progressed. It's just very clearly not true to anyone who is paying attention - longer tasks, better code, less errors. I'm somebody who actively despises the hype bullshit-machine that SV has turned into, but technology is an industry for pragmatists that can leverage what works. And LLMs do.

If you don't like the technology, you have every right to scream that from the mountaintops. As it stands, this just serves as no more than a rallying cry to the ignorant.
by igniuss | 2026-03-05 13:39:38+00:00
It's been regulated since 2020 in Europe at least.

> As part of the EU’s REACH Regulation Annex XVII, a restriction banning Bisphenol A (BPA) content in thermal paper above 0.02% by weight came into effect on January 2, 2020. This prohibition was implemented due to health concerns associated with BPA exposure

bpa free thermal paper is pretty easy to source from anywhere now because of this.
by BoredomIsFun | 2026-03-05 13:39:55+00:00
> Parent comment is fair and technically accurate.

In what way precisely? That local LLMs "suck"? Is that a technical argument?
Or this statement "there's little to no economical and functional meaning to those NPUs." - is that actual factual statement or a emotionally charged verbal flatulence? and what "they won't help your local inference because they are not general purpose enough for that" even means? People succesfully run largeish MoE llms on AMD Ryzen AI miniPCs.

> Do you have a real argument, especially a technical one, that you can contribute?

What kind of argument do you want me to "contribute" wrt the ideological rant the "parent comment" had managed to produce?
by ajross | 2026-03-05 13:40:06+00:00
> GNU's goal isn't licensing per se, but giving users freedom to control their software.

I think that's maybe misunderstanding. GNU wants everyone to be able to use their computers for the purposes they want, and software is the focus because software was the bottleneck. A world where software is free to create by anyone is a GNU utopia, not a problem.

Obviously the bigger problem for GNU isn't software, which was pretty nicely commoditized already by the FOSS-ate-the-world era of two decades ago; it's restricted hardware, something that AI doesn't (yet?) speak to.
by akerl_ | 2026-03-05 13:40:23+00:00
You’re making the same mistake the EFF’s post wants you to make.

Employees were trained on how to identify and respond to CSAM. The training material was not released based on the FOIA request.

That doesn’t imply that the employees were poking around above and beyond where they had to look to do their job, and it doesn’t imply that full copies of your hard drive are being copied to the FBI.
by ablation | 2026-03-05 13:41:08+00:00
Just a bit of cursory research provides some evidence counter to your confident assertions. It's fine if you don't like EVs or like the idea of them becoming popular, but it's worth doing a little reading first.

- In the US in 2025, 35% of vehicle shoppers say they are at least "somewhat likely" to consider purchasing an EV, with 24% saying they are "very likely" to do so. [1]

- Among younger consumers, more than two-thirds of Gen Z (72%) and Millennials (70%) say they would consider purchasing an EV. [2]

- In Germany, EV purchase intent rose 8 percentage points in a single year, with 30% of consumers planning a fully electric vehicle as their next car, which is the highest BEV intent of any surveyed European country. [3]

- The median range of new EVs hit a record high of 283 miles per charge for the 2024 model year, more than four times higher than in 2011. [4]

- The average EV range in 2025 has increased a further 4% over 2024, now reaching 293 miles, while fast charging speeds have improved 7% over the 2024 model year. [5]

- DC fast chargers can bring an EV battery to 80% charge in as little as 20 minutes. [6]

- In 2025, battery electric cars reached a historic 19% share of all new car registrations across Europe - the highest annual share ever recorded - with total volumes up around 31% compared to 2024. [7]

- Germany and France reached a combined battery electric and plug-in hybrid market share of 30% and 27%, respectively, while Italy and Spain are catching up at 12% and 20%, respectively. [7]

- Several smaller EU markets are already well ahead of the European average, including Belgium at 34%, Luxembourg at 27%, and Portugal at 23% BEV market share in 2025. [8]

- Europe's public charging network surpassed 1 million charge points in 2024 - a 35% growth in a single year with fast chargers now available every 50 km on over 75% of European highways. [9]

I own both an EV and a gasoline car, and feel there are upsides and downsides to both.

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[1] https://www.jdpower.com/business/press-releases/2025-us-elec...
[2] https://www.press.bmwgroup.com/usa/article/detail/T0442867EN...
[3] https://www.mckinsey.com/features/mckinsey-center-for-future...
[4] https://www.energy.gov/eere/vehicles/articles/fotw-1375-dece...
[5] https://www.recurrentauto.com/research/new-ev-market-trends-...
[6] https://www.transportation.gov/rural/ev/toolkit/ev-basics/ch...
[7] https://theicct.org/pr-europe-battery-electric-market-closes...
[8] https://eleport.com/ev-sales-in-europe/
[9] https://www.virta.global/global-electric-vehicle-market
Show HN: YSA – Sandbox for AI agents with outbound network control
by jordanedev | 2026-03-05 13:41:16+00:00
I've been running Claude CLI on production codebases and got uncomfortable not knowing what could leak outbound — especially in case of prompt injection.

YSA runs Claude CLI inside a rootless Podman container with a git worktree per task. Each container gets:
- A MITM proxy (L7): TLS termination, GET-only enforcement, body blocked, URL length cap, outbound byte budget, rate limiting per domain
- iptables rules via OCI hook (L3/L4): all outbound traffic blocked except through the proxy
- seccomp whitelist, all capabilities dropped, read-only filesystem, no-new-privileges

The repo includes a basic dashboard to run tasks in parallel and visualize per-container network traffic in real time.

Early but functional — I use it daily.

Especially curious about feedback on the security model and proxy bypass detection.
by humanlity | 2026-03-05 13:41:21+00:00
Sharing my beloved ancient Chinese poem

山坡羊·潼关怀古
张养浩

峰峦如聚，波涛如怒，山河表里潼关路。望西都，意踌躇。
伤心秦汉经行处，宫阙万间都做了土。兴，百姓苦；亡，百姓苦。

Tune: “Sheep on the Hillside” —Tong Pass

Zhang Yanghao

Translated by Wayne Schlepp

Peaks as if massed,

Waves that look angry,

Along the mountains and the river lies the road to Tong Pass.

I look to the West Capital,

My thoughts unsettled.

Here, where the Qin and Han armies passed, I lament

The ten thousand palaces, all turned to dust.

Kingdoms rise,

The people suffer;

Kingdoms fall,

The people suffer.
by fc417fc802 | 2026-03-05 13:41:26+00:00
In many (most? all?) jurisdictions in the US there's a carveout to exempt DIY work from licensing requirements and to require insurance to cover it.

Many things you still have to get a permit and have it inspected afterwards just like a professional would. But if you skip that no one will ever notice unless it's major structural work (such as a new deck).

That said, if it's electrical and you skip the required inspection and then your house burns down and your work was at fault that might nullify your insurance but I'm not sure.
by nexiope | 2026-03-05 13:42:37+00:00
I built FondayAI because I kept buying skincare products that didn't work for my skin type.

Most skin apps give generic advice. FondayAI uses Google Gemini to analyze an actual photo of your face and gives you:
- 10 skin health scores (moisture, pores, wrinkles, pigmentation, etc.)
- A visual hotspot map of problem areas
- Baumann skin type diagnosis
- 3-step personalized improvement plan
- Recommended skincare ingredients

No sign-up required. Completely free. Works in English, Korean, and Japanese.

Would love feedback from the HN community — especially on the AI analysis accuracy and what features you'd want next.
by devnpatel | 2026-03-05 13:43:00+00:00
Hi HN! I'm the maker of Plotiq.

Right now the MVP focuses on the simplest workflow: upload a CSV → instantly generate a line chart.

I built it mainly for quick data exploration without opening heavy tools or writing code. The goal is to make visualizing CSV data as fast as possible.

Currently it only supports line charts and multiline charts, but I'm planning to add bar charts, scatter plots, better styling, and sharing options soon.

I'd love feedback:
• What kind of charts would you want first?
• What problems do you usually face when visualizing CSV data?
• What more features would you like to have?

Thanks for taking a look!
by chriswarbo | 2026-03-05 13:43:45+00:00
I think XML fit well into the turn-of-the-millenium zeitgeist: GUIs would hide the verbosity; the proliferation of bespoke tags would map cleanly to OOP representations; middleware could manipulate and transform data generically, allowing anything to plug into anything else (even over the Internet!).

Whilst lots of impressive things were built, the overall dream was always just out of reach. Domain-specific tooling is expensive to produce and maintain, and often gives something that's not quite what we want (as an extreme example, think of (X)HTML generated by Dreamweaver or FrontPage); generic XML processors/editors don't offer much beyond avoiding syntax/nesting errors; so often it was simplest to interact directly with the markup, where the verbosity, namespacing, normalisation, etc. wouldn't be automated-away.

XML's tree model was also leaky: I've worked with many data formats which look like XML, but actually require various (bespoke!) amounts of preprocessing, templating, dereferencing, etc. which either don't fit the XML model (e.g. graphs or DAGs), or just avoid it (e.g. sprinkling custom grammar like `${foo.bar}` in their text, rather than XML elements like `<ref name="foo.bar" />`). Of course, it was hard to predict how those systems would interact with XML features like namespaces, comments, etc. which made generic processing/transforming middleware less plug-and-play. That, plus billion-laugh mitigation, etc. contributed to a downward spiral of quality, where software would not bother supporting the full generality of XML, and only allowed its own particular subset of functionality, written in one specific way that it expected. That made the processors/transformers even less useful; and so on until eventually we just had a bunch of bespoke, incompatible formats again. At which point, many just threw up their hands and switched to JSON, since at least that was simpler, less verbose and easier to parse... depending whether you support comments... and maybe trailing commas...; or better yet, just stick to YAML. Or TOML.....

(My favourite example: at an old job, I maintained an old server that sent orders from our ecommerce site to third party systems, using a standard "cXML" format. Another team built a replacement for it, I helped them by providing real example documents to test with, and eventually the switch was made. Shortly after, customers were receiving dozens of times what they ordered! It turned out that a third-party was including an XML declaration like `<?xml>` at the start of their response, which caused the new system to give a parse failure: it treated that as an error, assumed the order had failed, and retried; over and over again!)