MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by gucci-on-fleek | 2026-03-06 11:31:58+00:00
- The LaTeX tagging project [0] is definitely the biggest ongoing project, and they've been making really good progress lately [1] [2].

- ar5iv [3] is somewhat outside the TeX world, but I find it pretty interesting since it's able to successfully convert most articles to HTML. Usually conversion tools have either required perfect markup or manual fixes, but ar5iv is completely automatic, and it even works with the horrible programming practices that most document authors use.

- I'm personally a big fan of ConTeXt [4], a lesser-known TeX format. ConTeXt itself isn't new, but it tends to gain new features quicker than the other formats; some recent new features include improved math typesetting [5] and improved paragraph breaking [6] [7].

- The LaTeX Team just published "latex-cmds" [8] a few weeks ago, which is a handy reference to all the recently-introduced macros (and some older ones too).

[0]: https://latex3.github.io/tagging-project/tagging-status/

[1]: https://pdfa.org/accessible-math-in-pdf-finally/

[2]: https://tug.org/TUGboat/tb46-2/tb143fischer-tagging25.pdf

[3]: https://ar5iv.labs.arxiv.org/

[4]: https://wiki.contextgarden.net/Main_Page

[5]: https://tug.org/TUGboat/tb43-2/tb134hagen-math.pdf

[6]: https://tug.org/TUGboat/tb46-1/tb142hagen-paragraphs.pdf

[7]: https://tug.org/TUGboat/tb45-3/tb141hagen-twins.pdf

[8]: https://texdoc.org/serve/latex-cmds/0
by simon_luv_pho | 2026-03-06 11:32:33+00:00
This is the problem every agent has to face.

PageAgent’s differentiator is that site developers can embed it directly into their own pages. In that scenario, with proper system instructions plus a built-in whitelist/blacklist API for interactive elements, the risk is pretty manageable.

For the general-agent case, operating on pages you don’t control, the risk is definitely higher. I’m currently working on the human-in-the-loop feature so the user can intervene before sensitive actions.

Would love to hear other approaches if anyone has ideas.
by thewhitetulip | 2026-03-06 11:33:08+00:00
I understand why they used Electron. But since AI is so amazing they should be using Claude to generate super optimized native software! They do claim that Claude is better than humans and AI is replacing programmers any day now.

So why aren't they using their own software to generate a linux optimized package for linux, a Swift software for MacOS and whatever windows uses.

That would be the best ad for AI. See, we use our own product!

But it doesn't happen.

So essentially by not generating custom binaries for every platform and using Electron they're doing one thing but saying something else. So maybe generating code isn't the #1 problem in the world!

Also I remember them saying that their engg write less code and they use Claude to write Claude. If Claude can be used to write Claude then why not use Claude to write OS specific binaries?!
by altern8 | 2026-03-06 11:33:41+00:00
Sure, all entrepreneurs risk it all. They quit their job to pursue something that can fail and make them bankrupt.

Was he lucky? He had an intuition that books could be sold on the internet because you don't need to test them out before buying. Luck might have been part of it, but I hadn't thought of that in 1990-something, I was playing AOE II all day instead.
Tell HN: OpenClaw is getting ~75 pull requests an hour
by petetnt | 2026-03-06 11:33:53+00:00
Someone mentioned in a previous HN thread related to the topic this week that OpenClaw had absolute staggering amount of issues and pull requests open.

https://github.com/openclaw/openclaw/pulls

I have been following the repo this week and it seems that the situation has only accelerated. In the beginning of the week the repo was getting around 25 PRs per hour, now the rate is closer to 100 per hour.

I haven't pulled accurate statistics, but quick look and napkin math shows that this is hundreds of thousands lines of code sent to review every day. With the struggling GitHub tooling you can see that so far in the past 7 days 4663 PRs were opened, and 653 of those were merged, generating around quarter a million added lines. This month (1.-6.3.) the project has consumed 765031 build minutes, 531 days worth of compute. And like mentioned, this is only accelerating daily.

What do you think about this future of open source software development?
by Horos | 2026-03-06 11:33:59+00:00
I've set a fully async patern. blobs chunked into sqlite shards.

It's a blind fire n forget go worker danse.

wich can be hold as monitoreed or scale as multiple instances if needed by simple parameters.

Basicaly, It's a job as librairy patern.

If you dont need real time, its bulletproof and very llm friendly.

and a good token saver by the batching abilities.
by datsci_est_2015 | 2026-03-06 11:34:30+00:00
Yeah it’s a euphemism and a bit of a shibboleth, which, like all shibboleths, can be a bit triggering to those who feel outgrouped by it.

I could’ve been more precise: “opinions that are based on weak evidence that confirm a certain preimagined view of the world rather than challenge it”.
by thbb123 | 2026-03-06 11:35:31+00:00
It is not entirely true that no one cares about quality. I'd like to stay optimistic and believe that those who are demanding on the quality of their production will acquire sufficient market differentiation to prevail.

After all, this has been Apple strategy since the 80's, and, even though there were some up's and down's, overall it's a success.
by TheOtherHobbes | 2026-03-06 11:35:37+00:00
He didn't "risk it all." He was never going to end up on the street in a tent if Amazon failed.

And a lot of what he did risk was other people's money.

Which is how Amazon works anyway. Everyone who relies on Amazon - the authors, the drop shippers, the small traders, the warehouse staff, the drivers, the white collar employees - can be rug-pulled at any moment for any random reason.

And Amazon lives off indirect government welfare. Pay at the low end is so miserly nearly a quarter of employees rely on SNAP.
by redhale | 2026-03-06 11:35:51+00:00
> I don't use LLMs much

Sorry to be so blunt, but it's not surprising that you aren't able to get much value from these tools, considering you don't use them much.

Getting value from LLMs / agents is a skill like any other. If you don't practice it deliberately, you will likely be bad at it. It would be a mistake to confuse lack of personal skill for lack of tool capability. But I see people make this mistake all the time.
by giantg2 | 2026-03-06 11:36:08+00:00
Yeah, I saw them, but they are pretty expensive for me. The rotating IMSI and two additional numbers seems cool. But I think for me if it were anything that sensitive I would use an E2E encrypted call/text service since Cape calls and texts are only M2E encrypted.

Just not retaining everything forever and selling it seems like a good start for my personal use.
by wink | 2026-03-06 11:36:09+00:00
It's never that easy to calculate.

I have a long stretch of road near me that used to be 50 km/h and is now 30 km/h.

If you take that road during rush hour, yes - there's no meaningful difference in time spent. You'd be going traffic light to traffic light slightly faster.

The problem is that I personally use that road (in a car) more to pick up/drive my wife from and to early and late shifts at work than during rush hour, and this makes it take a significantly longer time. Like, I am not complaining at all, but it takes something like 20 minutes instead of 15, so like a 33% increase. And then again on the way back. But in the end being lucky with the traffic lights is still the main point.
by wraptile | 2026-03-06 11:36:34+00:00
Paid over 2,000 usd 2 years ago for t14s and even then it was worth it, now it's almost 10x cheaper. Incredible machine though refurbs often have the lower end of configurations and with soldered ram etc it's not possible to upgrade.

This new modular thinkpad will be crazy for refurb market, I wonder how is Lenovo going to prevent that eating into their sales. This probably means that corporate bulk purchases are majority of their sales and they don't fear to canibalize themselves which makes you wonder why they switched to soldered ram - incredibly unpopular move - at all.
by glerk | 2026-03-06 11:36:40+00:00
@wiseowise spare me the class traitor bullshit. I care as much about Jeff Bezos as he cares about me and I have no fantasy about him rewarding me for "simping" on hacker news. That being said, I also don't care about you and just because we're both proles doesn't make you my comrade.

> What shaped your mindset?

Having to listen to literal toddlers bitching about other people's success and dressing their little emotional tantrums into moralistic language to make it seem like they deserve any form of respect.
by Jolliness7501 | 2026-03-06 11:36:45+00:00
This is feedback from Proton Mail Team I got about this matter:

"Thank you for reaching out and sharing your concern. We understand why this story is alarming, and we want to give you a clear picture of what actually happened.

First, Proton did not provide any information to the FBI. The data was obtained by the Swiss Federal Department of Justice through a Mutual Legal Assistance Treaty (MLAT) process. Proton operates exclusively under Swiss law and only responds to legally binding orders from Swiss authorities, after all Swiss legal checks have been passed. This is clearly stated in our TOS and Privacy Policy.

In this specific case, Swiss authorities determined that the legal bar was met because a law enforcement officer had been shot, and explosive devices were involved during an incident in 2024. Switzerland has one of the strictest privacy frameworks in the world, and legal assistance is only granted in cases involving serious criminal matters.

Importantly, the only information that could be disclosed was a payment identifier because the user chose to pay by credit card although Proton accepts gift cards, cryptocurrency and cash. No emails, no message content, and no communications metadata were handed over. This actually demonstrates how little data Proton holds by design, our end-to-end encryption means we cannot access email content even if ordered to.

We hope this provides some reassurance. Please don't hesitate to reach out if you have any further questions.

Best Regards,
The Proton Mail Team"
by greybcg | 2026-03-06 11:36:52+00:00
Ever since I was young I was fairly divided on the subject. I've dealt with some highschool students affected by the downed aircraft MH17 and that lead to lots of grief among students. It usually lead to strong anti-war sentiments but some also felt a need to "do" something with it.

If no one works on defence systems then all the things we have could become jeopardized, perhaps not this week but in 5 years. Therefore I can reconcile the idea of working for defence related r&d. I also know that these sentiments are used by unscrupulous individuals to gain influence, but I don't feel like we should let that cause a divide between people with a strong moral compass and those without, since we'd be worse off if there was no one in a position of power to make moral decisions. That requires people to judge work based on it's content instead of the domain. It also requires workforce to have enough collective pressure to stall immoral defence (or rather attack) systems.

Automated decisionmaking tools throw a wrench into this because it brings us steps closer to mass deployment of questionable and potentially unhinged munitions. If laws mandated human-in-the-loop systems it would be a better outcome.
Ask HN: Anyone fought a big corp over IP theft courts?
by NatalijaAAD | 2026-03-06 11:37:12+00:00
Has anyone taken an IP theft/breach of confidence claim to a court?

Small software company, big corporate defendant.

We're looking at filing in IPEC (UK) - but EU/US experience is also relevant.

Would appreciate 20 mins with anyone who's been through the process.
Show HN: cpx – cp with progress bars, resume and parallel copying
by 11happy5 | 2026-03-06 11:37:22+00:00
I built cpx, a modern take on cp that adds progress bars, resumable copies, and parallel file copying.

It’s written in Rust and aims to make copying large directories less opaque and faster while staying simple to use.

Repo:
https://github.com/11happy/cpx

Would love feedback.
by whizzter | 2026-03-06 11:38:28+00:00
Same old story, too much support requests and bad actors making it hard to make money off opensource.

This is one case where we really should support the original product, you can buy a perpetual licence of a pittance and they just 2 guys chugging along.

LibreSprite has 5000 commits, 30 in the past year whilst ASEPrite has over 10000 at this point.
by gambiting | 2026-03-06 11:39:31+00:00
Sure, but let me ask you this - do you think there should be any limit to how much wealth can one person own? Like, to take it to the extreme - say Bezos owned every single media corporation, evey factory and every farm in the US, buying it with his "hard earned" money - would that be fine? Like, he started one of the world's largest companies, why shouldn't be allowed to own everything, right? What if he(completely legally) starts giving hundreds of millions of dollars to politicans so they just start doing what he wants instead of what their constituents want? Is that ok too?

I think we can both agree that hard work and one of a kind achievement like this should be rewarded. But I suspect we will disagree on whether the reward should have a limit or not. I don't want Bezos to give up his wealth and live on 50k/year. But I don't want him to be so wealthy he can influence politics both home and abroad.
by jonathanstrange | 2026-03-06 11:40:00+00:00
My view is that this must be left entirely to the parents. The only time a government should be allowed to interfere is when there are child abuse or neglect cases against the parents and the children are put under child protective care.

It is in my view crazy and irresponsible to allow the government override the parents' decisions about what media their children can consume. It is guaranteed that this power will be abused.
by olorton | 2026-03-06 11:40:14+00:00
I've been licensed for a couple of years. All my QSOs are short and sweet, mostly activating and hunting POTA/SOTA contacts, where the activator prefers to have short QSOs in order to activate the park/summit. I have no interest in having a conversation with the other amateur, at most I would exchange what gear I'm using and what power I'm running. That is it.

I like building kits, QRP, CW, and building my own antennas. I only make contact with other people to be able to improve my skills and validate my gear.

My father has been licensed for nearly 50 years, he loves the technical side of the hobby, I've made more contacts over the last 2 years than he has in 15 years. There are others like you.

Oliver, M7OCL
by roneni | 2026-03-06 11:40:40+00:00
I DJ electronic music and run a YouTube channel with 634,000 subscribers. Every time I went to prepare a mix for the channel, I ran into the same problem. Sorting the playlist by musical notes. Until I thought to myself - with all the tools available today, maybe I can harvest them to my advantage. And that's what I did. The software I use, RecordBox, arranges the notes alphabetically; even in its sorting, it's not really sorted like in the Camelot Wheel. HarmonySet processes your playlist with an algorithm I built and solves the problem in a mathematically perfect way. Next.js, TypeScript, Supabase, deployed on Vercel.
100% client-side, files never leave your browser.
https://www.harmonyset.com
GitHub: https://github.com/roneni/harmonic-flow
Would love feedback on the algorithm, UX, or the AI-assisted development approach.
by yvdriess | 2026-03-06 11:41:32+00:00
Ignoring the snark for a second. It's not because you are unfamiliar with the go toolchain that it's inherently bad, nor does it put you in a good position to give accurate criticism.

- "tea" is an explicit alias that was added to the import statement in the tutorial examples, which you did not reflect in your snippet:

import tea "charm.land/bubbletea/v2"

- The following also just works as you expected, but directly assumed wouldn't work:

import github.com/charmbracelet/bubbletea

The only surprise here is that the repository authors decided to change the name of the module between v1 and v2 of the packag. The git branch tagged v2 contains a module named 'charm.land/bubbletea', earlier v1 branches are named 'github.com/charmbracelet/bubbletea'. That's on them for breaking convention and surprising users, the go toolchain does not factor into, this beyond supporting versioning by naming convention.
by koliber | 2026-03-06 11:41:34+00:00
The problem is on both sides.

Companies are sometimes too selective and too indecisive.

Many candidates can't code well.

I screen candidates all the time. I regularly meet Sr. Java Engineers who are not aware of the classes that exist in the standard collections framework and can't pick the right one for the job. People who claim to be "performance experts" who can't explain how a HashMap performs an addition in amortized constant time. I get it -- this is not required knowledge for all roles. But don't call yourself an expert and use some judgement as to the kinds of roles you apply for.
by hawky89 | 2026-03-06 11:42:29+00:00
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by Horos | 2026-03-06 11:42:56+00:00
Something worth sitting with, rather than a conclusion:

As PR velocity reaches this scale — 100 per hour, hundreds of thousands of lines a day — I find myself wondering about the collective immune system side of this.

If we're not yet organized around injection and obfuscation at the community level, PR saturation itself becomes a distinguishable attack vector — and not just for backdoors.

Two distinct risks worth separating:

Offensive saturation: flood a competitor or a fast-moving startup with automated PRs. Their human review bandwidth collapses. Real community contributions drown in noise. The project slows, maintainers burn out, momentum dies. No backdoor needed — attrition is enough.

Forced opening: a project overwhelmed by volume lowers its review standards to survive. It merges faster, checks less. The saturation wasn't meant to block — it was meant to open. Once standards drop, real injection becomes trivial.

The unsettling part: this vector requires no particular skill, is already available, and is organically indistinguishable from legitimate viral growth.
To envision an open source that survives AI, maybe we need to envision an open source AI that protects open source.

Genuinely curious if others are thinking about this, and whether anyone has seen serious work in this direction already.
by wiseowise | 2026-03-06 11:43:21+00:00
> proportionally

What is proportional? Shall we crown him god? Allow him to keep slaves? Put him on a pedestal? Do you even know how much is it: a billion? If you strip him off 95% of his wealth, he’ll still have more than you can achieve in your 10 lives. He is disproportionately well compensated.
by miraculixx | 2026-03-06 11:43:28+00:00
Sure because it worked great when we tried last time, right? Just spec it out first, and AI will churn out the perfect app. Not.

For anyone who hasn't worked in a waterfall project and would like to try: You are kidding yourself.

There is no such thing as a perfect spec. Read that again and say it outloud.

It took humanity 50 years to figure out that perfect specs are impossible, unless of course you know exactly(!) what you need. And even then, the specs are never complete.

The reality is that we often don't know, and can't know, what we want, exactly, until we actually see and experience what we said we wanted. Then we adjust. Try again.

That's the reality for individuals already. By simply using logic we can deduct that entities made of more than one individual, aka companies, will not behave better. They just make it look better by giving you a nice document that says "we want this!", only to then come around when they see what they got, and to claim "wait, we didn't mean it like so!".

That's just human nature. Not much we can do. AI will not change that.

So when some people think AI will deliver perfect software given perfect specs, hence we have to write the specs first! That is just missing the boat my a mile.

Agile is not a process but a human-friendly way of doing things. It simply says hey you want this? Let me build that and show you. Then let's adjust or move to the next thing. Rinse and repeat. Agile works because it matches how humans think and act. Step by step, day by day.
by hrmtst93837 | 2026-03-06 11:43:48+00:00
Ask the project to offer an EU-hosted endpoint or a self-hosted Docker image, and to publish a clear dataflow diagram showing which inputs, inference steps, logs and backups are stored or processed in Mainland China.

Practically that can be done by provisioning EU clusters with Terraform on AWS eu-west-1 or a European host like Hetzner, using geolocation DNS or Cloudflare load balancing to steer users and pin accounts to a region, while accepting higher costs, more complex CI/CD and subtle GDPR issues around backups and telemetry.
by NathanielK | 2026-03-06 11:44:20+00:00
CNC machines drove down operator wages. Its similar to the translator example where the machine code is written by someone else, but the person running the machine still needs to understand. Simple pushing the go button is dangerous, being able to adapt is critical.

Jobs where a machinist is in charge of large chunks of the process are rarer. Large shop will have one person setting up many machines to maximize throughput.
by samiv | 2026-03-06 11:44:31+00:00
It has very little impact on your life... for now. Maybe you're well off for this not concern you but as a direct example how about Amazon warehouse worker who is squeezed so hard for profits that they live in a car, work 7 days a week without healthcare or vacations or anything? Them being poor is what enables jeff to be rich.

Generally speaking whether you realize this or not the economic system creates a competition between entities. And larger richer entities will subsume assimilate and destroy smaller entities when they're looking for that eternal growth with fixed resources.

The argument to this always is that "it's not a zero sum game". Except that in practice it is. Economies are growing tiny few percent per year perhaps while the rich people are growing their wealth 10-20% per year. This is only possible by changing the wealth distribution making it effectively a zero sum game.

That means wealthy individuals will outcompete poorer individuals for all resources such as housing, education, health care. Everything will be used to extract maximum wealth from the society until there's nothing more to take.
by qsera | 2026-03-06 11:44:47+00:00
>What does objectivity have to do with the value of x?

It does not have anything to do with objectivity. I thought it to be futile to discuss that since, as you implied, predicting future can't be 100% objective, and thus decisions to avert a bad future outcome always need to be based on subjective decisions.

So this is another question where I want to ask you how you would make a subjective call.