MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by diacritical | 2026-03-06 20:56:40+00:00
I had a friend years ago with laser focus. He was read an article on his laptop and I was behind him. I asked him how he tolerating the flashing chumbox ad. "Why don't you install Adblock Plus (the ad blocker of the day)?". He had to look around his screen for a second to find it. He said he didn't even register it before I told him about it.

Even a single dead pixel would seriously distract me but he didn't even notice the gif of some disgusting medical scam ad showing elbows or knees or whatever.

He could also fall asleep seconds after hitting the bed. I need at least 10 minutes - at least. Sometimes an hour. Maybe it's a related phenomenon.

Some people just seem to ignore external stimuli better than others. Whether ads whose purpose is brand recognition work on them subconsciously, idk.
by pppone | 2026-03-06 20:56:56+00:00
No MaximDL needed! All built in, including autoguiding and autofocusing.

Satellite tracking to be implemented in the future, working on it these months with a student of mine.

Object scheduling timing is down to the user - but the wait directives does sound like a useful feature!

Custom python scripts are possible, please check out here: https://docs.withastra.io/user_guide/custom_observatories

I also recommend checking out the introduction video that covers install and setup :) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QIElFSS1hkA
by Neywiny | 2026-03-06 20:57:12+00:00
I think the difference, though maybe I'm incorrect, is that when we have interns on our codebase they get restricted permissions. Can't push to prod, need pull requests with approvals and reviews, etc. Certainly can't delete backups. Whoever setup the robot's permissions did it wrong. Which is interesting because early on there were people complaining that these AIs refused to push to main, but now this stuff keeps happening.
by prescriptivist | 2026-03-06 20:57:33+00:00
I don't think that people who don't want to use these tools or clean old ways are incurious. But I think these developers should face the fact that those skills and those ways they are reticent to give up are more or less obviated at this point. Not in the future, but now. It's just that the adoption of these tools isn't evenly distributed yet.

I think there's a place for thoughtful dialogue around what this means for software engineering, but I don't think that's going to change anything at this point. If developers just don't want to participate in this new world, for whatever reason, I'm not judging them, but also I don't think the genie is going back in the bottle. There will be no movement to organize labor to protect us and there be no deus ex machina that is going to reverse course on this stuff.
by zorm | 2026-03-06 20:57:46+00:00
Very cool to see! I was active in the UO emulator communities back in the day but mostly with SphereServer. It is interesting to see here in the comments how many people were inspired to programming because of UO!

All the recent LLM advances would make for very interesting and very fun NPC interactions in a MMORPG today too. Even small player community servers could be viable long term because of the ability to seed complex interactions with NPCs into on-going story lines.
by IanCal | 2026-03-06 20:57:47+00:00
> Seems like a way to use a sledgehammer to hammer in screws

The lazy analogy the other way is that developing a custom system to do these jobs is like hiring a team of experts to spend 2 years designing the perfect crosshead screwdriver that fits exactly one screw (and doesn't work if the screw starts slightly rotated) when you have a flathead one right next to you that'll work and it'll work right now.

> and inviting nondeterminism in important systems.

Traditional ML is just as non-deterministic.

> they are also vulnerable to adversarial attacks.

Typically not relevant in these kinds of cases but also this is easily a problem in many traditional ML algos.

Have you worked on things like this?
by thcipriani | 2026-03-06 20:58:31+00:00
This has a misleading title.

This chart shows that the rate of year-over-year, month-by-month change is worse than 2020.

But the number of tech jobs has grown by 12% since April of 2020 (2.34M vs. 2.63M). Heck, there are more tech jobs today than at the beginning of 2022 (2.61M), even.

Job market sucks, trend is bad, but post title is a misnomer for what this chart shows.
by ValentineC | 2026-03-06 20:59:12+00:00
I bought Halide v1, which was an upfront purchase.

They grandfathered all existing v1 purchasers, but the grandfathering somehow stopped working for me because I didn't buy it on my primary App Store account (I switch between regions, but pay for my non-free apps using my US account because they're always cheaper).
by logicchains | 2026-03-06 20:59:36+00:00
The scientific method is making testable predictions. You can look back 10, 20, 30, 40 years at the predictions of sea level rise made by climate scientists, and the sea level today is nowhere near where they predicted it would rise to. If someone's continuously making incorrect predictions it's not reasonable to assume their predictions will suddenly become accurate, especially when there's no feedback loop to weed out people making bad predictions (unlike e.g. in finance where people whose models have little predictive power eventually go bankrupt). No climate scientist has lost their job for making incorrect predictions of sea level rise twenty years ago.
by WorldMaker | 2026-03-06 21:00:40+00:00
The article noted that at least some of the sections had been organized by publisher, so that could increase the uniformity within those sections.

Similarly, sorting and measuring all the books by height and weight may have been a part of the project of planning the shelves in the first place. It does look like an attempt at efficient packing, which I suppose you would need to keep that many books in that house and relates to the structural engineer's surprise that the the weight was well distributed as well. (Professional libraries have made mistakes in planning the weight of shelves because books are heavier than you think they are, especially when shelved. That was an interesting finding.)

All of that implied work is more shame that the likeliest outcome after the owner's passing is that the books will be separated from the shelves and the house. It almost feels like the whole thing should have been preserved as a museum. I suppose it helps that there will at least be photos and notes about it like this article.
by ValentineC | 2026-03-06 21:01:18+00:00
> Like, literally just add a photo of the app to your landing page. It's not rocket science.

Heh, I still remember a time in the internet where apps had a dedicated "screenshots" page.

That was presumably a best practice when people were still on 56kbps dialup, and downloading images was expensive.

Many telcos in the world don't even support 3G anymore.
by dbt00 | 2026-03-06 21:01:45+00:00
"A slack that doesn't suck" doesn't exist, and whoever thinks Anthropic of all people are going to build that has no idea how this is going to work.

Slack has massive lock in due to cross-organization connections. The only way you're going to get people off slack is to build a 10x better mode for collaboration than river of shit chat, and while such models probably exist, you also have to convince people that they are better.

I wish whomever tries this the best of luck.
by pessimizer | 2026-03-06 21:01:57+00:00
I absolutely think that this is the result of the chaotic formation of a bizarre American religion (that is largely universal among the world's "middle class" now.) It's Silva Mind Control -> Mind Dynamics -> Holiday Magic, Scientology, Large Group Awareness (as you can still see in the Landmark Forum), Synanon, etc.; mixed up in a pot with hippie language/consciousness raising, 70s-80s spiritual self-help Carlos Castaneda and Jane Roberts/Seth neo-Spiritualism; all banged in with garbled Cybernetics, RAND corporation papers, military operations jargon and the 70s-80s obsession with personal physical fitness and orthorexia.

In the end, you just have this universal language to justify and excuse power and blame victims for being weak enough to be victimized. Powerful people move with the energy flow and direct it, and weak people move against it, twist it, and are twisted by it. Mastery of this makes money and happiness flow towards you, and resistance to it makes money and happiness flow away from you.

Very convenient moral calculus for people who inherited money and hand it to people who do what they say. Convenient justification to do anything that pays, no matter how corrupt and harmful. If it were really harmful, it wouldn't pay in the end. And isn't everything harmful, in a way, to some extent?

In the 80s, you start to see books laying out fairly incoherent systems for total personal, business and societal organization, but the premises are really drawn from all of the previous nonsense. It's easy to say it's stupid, but leading into this time (and dying during this time along with its practitioners) the overwhelmingly dominant psychological theory was the cynical word salad of Freudian psychoanalysis. This stuff was honestly more based in the real world.

> Before that it was more of a political and religious style of communication.

This is the time when the terminology was finally settling. There was to be a new priesthood of consultants. Tbh, I don't think that it's designed to be popular, it's designed to supply language to justify predatory acts. This was also the rise of the "think tank," which came to dominate society through writing laws and supplying the language to help politicians deliver for their donors.

I still think that the real harm was done by the popularization of Freud, training the public to speak about the real world in speculative, scientistic, psychological terms. This sort of management language just washes over people trained not to ever verify their theory-theories against any sort of real outcomes (i.e. Freud), other than the post hoc justification of wealth.

My father went into "organizational development" in the late- 80s at Allstate Insurance. Bringing this all full-circle, it turned out he was also being trained in crypto-Scientology: https://www.lermanet.com/scientologynews/allstate2.html

Sorry about the rant, it might come off as word salad. I wish it was.
by jdwithit | 2026-03-06 21:02:12+00:00
As someone applying right now I agree. I think I've had one company out of dozens get back to me on a cold application this year. Every contact that has led to an interview was from being referred in by a current employee, or a LinkedIn recruiter reaching out to me about a job. I assume the application forms get spammed with hundreds if not thousands of applicants. It's hard to blame someone for not wanting to sift through all that muck when there's already a stream of vetted candidates coming in from their recruiter. Sucks for the job seekers, though.

I'm putting more time into cleaning up my LinkedIn profile since that's been my most reliable route into hiring pipelines (other than referrals and networking).
Show HN: Synclippy – Ephemeral rooms for sharing text or files
by ujjwalvivek | 2026-03-06 21:02:13+00:00
I revived an old project of mine called Synclippy.

It creates ephemeral 3-word rooms where you can drop text or files and share them across devices. Rooms live for 5 minutes and everything stays in memory.

I mainly use it as a quick way to move snippets or small files between my machines without installing anything, along with Taildrop.

I originally built it for my own workflows, but figured I’d open source it in case others find it useful too.

Demo:
https://synclippy.ujjwalvivek.com

Repo:
https://github.com/ujjwalvivek/synclippy

Self-host preferred (Docker or single Go binary).

Curious if anyone finds it useful or if has ideas for improving it.
by dahart | 2026-03-06 21:02:17+00:00
That’s an assumption, jumping to a conclusion. It is true for some people, since some people say it out loud, but it is not true for everybody, and calling it “unambiguous” is an unsupportable claim.

To the degree some non-voters say they don’t care, that’s still deeply complicated, enough that even taking someone’s word for it is a bad idea. Non-voters in the U.S. are not uniformly distributed, and thus there is evidence suggesting that not caring is already a function of class, race, education, gender, and age, among other things.

If you actually care about voting and about the truth, it does yourself a disservice to jump to a assumed conclusion that all non-voters are saying something unambiguous, that they’re all saying the same thing, that they all have informed choice, that they understand all the tradeoffs and implications, and that they really are fine with any outcome regardless of what they say.
by Tangurena2 | 2026-03-06 21:02:57+00:00
Or... your company should be training potential replacements. This is what the US military and "white shoe" consulting companies do. While expensive, it guarantees that critically needed skilled staff are always available.

I recommend the article "Up or Out: Solving the IT Turnover Crisis" [0] which gives a reasonable argument for doing exactly that.

Notes:

0 - https://thedailywtf.com/articles/up-or-out-solving-the-it-tu...
by vogu66 | 2026-03-06 21:03:05+00:00
The article has comments on pubpeer (below) and comments on the pre-print page.
https://pubpeer.com/publications/973ABFB81F504E8CB1B50E941CF...

The gist of several comments is that the paper does not actually demonstrate an accelerated global warming, but instead an acceleration of anthropogenic global warming, when removing the influence of several natural factors. To be clear, they are not discussing the fact that there is global warming, just saying that currently, we cannot say that global warming has been getting faster after 2010 with statistical certainty.
by anigbrowl | 2026-03-06 21:03:30+00:00
My phenomenal observations are that it's been getting warmer during my lifetime, but as soon as I mention this in an online conversation I get slapped down with 'the climate is always changing' and 'n=1'.

Most climate change denial arguments eventually boil down to social assertions about the change believers having perverse incentives, like being greedy for grants to go on sailing vacations to Antartica or feather their academic nests.
by rep_lodsb | 2026-03-06 21:03:50+00:00
You're confusing several things here. The only x86 processor that didn't allow returning to real mode was the 16-bit 80286 - on all later ones it's as simple as clearing bit 0 of CR0 (and also disabling paging if that was enabled).

Nothing more privileged than ring 0 is required for that.

"v86" is what allowed real mode to be virtualized under a 32-bit OS. This is no longer available in 64-bit mode, but the CPU still includes it (as well as newer virtualization features which could be used to do the same thing).
by jjk166 | 2026-03-06 21:04:22+00:00
But they're not semantically rich. People who speak the code aren't doing it to more efficiently communicate, such that a long and complicated message can be expressed quickly. They are taking a short simple message, stripping away all the details, then padding it such that it becomes more verbose and vapid. This makes the real message harder to decipher for the uninitiated, it removes information even for those who understand the code, and it serves as a display for people who appreciate the flourish. There may still be some meaning left, but it's semantically emptier.

Further much of it is not even code. Examples like the microsoft letter are clearly a performative act to soften the blow of bad news. No one in the know is reading such an email to discern some hidden message; it's written to not be read.
Show HN: Verified n8n community node for Anytype
by splch | 2026-03-06 21:04:41+00:00
I built an n8n integration for Anytype, the local-first encrypted PKM app. It supports full CRUD on objects and spaces plus raw API requests for anything custom. Verified by n8n, so it installs directly from the nodes panel!

Anytype's API is relatively new, so this is one of the first automation integrations available for it. If you use both n8n and Anytype (or are curious about either), I'd love to hear what workflows you'd want to build.
by bonsai_spool | 2026-03-06 21:05:03+00:00
> And so the dilemma is, do I say something to him? He looks like he is in awful health and high probability with an awful diet (based on profiling him). But I don’t interact with him or have any type of relationship and saying something would be incredibly awkward. Surely he knows I tell myself.

It's an interesting question—if you have knowledge about human health based on a person's appearance, do you share that information? I think a physician may not do that for a stranger, but I imagine you aren't a physician.
by crystal_revenge | 2026-03-06 21:05:10+00:00
Not sure what type of "greenfield" startup experience you've had, but most of the work I'm talking about involves solving problems that most people simply don't have the combined skill set to solve. Typically problems that involve a substantial amount of quantitative skills combined with the ability to bring those solutions to prod.

Nearly all of the teams I've joined had problems they didn't know how to solve and often had no previously established solution. My last gig involved exploring some niche research problems in LLM space and leveraging the results to get our first round of funding closed, this involved learning new code bases, understanding the research papers, and communicating the findings publicly in an engaging way (all to typical startup style deadlines).

I agree with your remarks around "greenfield" if it just involves setting up a CRUD webapp, but there is a wide space of genuinely tricky problems to solve out there. I recall a maintainer style coworker of mine, who describe himself similar to what you are describing, telling me he was terrified of the type of work I had to do because when you started you didn't even know if there was a solution.

I have equal respect for people such as myself and for people that you describe, but I wouldn't say it is more challenging, just a different kind of challenge. And I do find the claim "you don't learn the actually valuable lessons" to be wildly against my experience. I would say most of my deep mathematical knowledge comes from having to really learn it to solve these problems, and more often than not I've had to pick up on an adjacent, but entirely different field to get things done.
Show HN: Unread, turns your unread newsletters into a daily podcast
by benfosterdev | 2026-03-06 21:05:26+00:00
I subscribe to about 30 newsletters to stay "on top of things". I read maybe 3.

They started to fill up my inbox so I did the responsible thing and created a rule that moved them to a dedicated folder "Newsletters". Now I don't read any.

It dawned on me that I'm far more likely to listen to a podcast than read a newsletter. What if I could take all those unread newsletters and turn them into my own personal podcast?

So I built Unread. You forward your newsletters to a unique address, and turn them into a conversational podcast episode covering everything you didn't read. You subscribe to the RSS feed in whatever podcast app you already use.

It was a fun project to build (you can get more details at https://x.com/benfosterdev). Some of the more interesting technical pieces:

- Postmark for incoming emails
- Cloudflare for hosting everything - really enjoyed their durable workflow framework
- Supabase for DB and Auth
- React frontend
- Claude for content extraction, synthesising, research and script writing
- Google Gemini TTS for generating audio (nice support for SSML)

I started with ElevenLabs for TTS. It was great and pretty realistic but way too expensive. OpenAI TTS was okay, but barely. Gemini 2.5 TTS hit the quality/price point on the mark (listen for yourself) and has enough control that you can create conversational sounding content instead of two robots talking in a vacuum.

There's still a lot of refinement to be done on the script/audio side of things to make it more engaging and human-like but I'm already using it daily to get my tech updates.

Next important feature will be to schedule episode creation.

You get 5 free episode credits on sign up. Feedback appreciated.
by gotham64 | 2026-03-06 21:05:28+00:00
The Conductor Protocol treats flow graphs not as programs to execute, but as blueprints of intent that can be compiled into optimized execution strategies before a single node runs.

Traditional platforms interpret flows imperatively — "do this, then this, then this." The Conductor interprets flows declaratively — "here is what needs to happen; let me figure out the fastest way to make it happen."

The compilation step produces an ExecutionStrategy: a sequence of phases, where each phase contains units that run concurrently, and each unit represents one or more original nodes merged or classified for optimal execution.
by empath75 | 2026-03-06 21:05:54+00:00
I have found in the last 3 months that there are two clear tiers of developers in the company I work at, the ones that can code with AI and the ones that can't, and the ones that can't are all going to be unemployed in 6 months.

We have a lot of people where if you gave them clear requirements, they could knock out features and they were useful for that, but I have an army of agents that can do that now for pennies. We don't need that any more. We need people who have product vision and systems design and software engineering skills. I literally don't even care if they can code with any competency.

Btw, if you think that copying and pasting a jira ticket into claude is a skill that people are going to pay you for, that is also wrong. You need to not just be able to use AI to code, you need to be able to do it _at scale_. You need to be able to manage and orchestrate fleets of ai agents writing code.
by vlz | 2026-03-06 21:06:10+00:00
We can live in hot places if the air stays dry, which it usually does or historically did. If the air gets more humid we cannot anymore.

> Humans may also experience lethal hyperthermia when the wet bulb temperature is sustained above 35 °C (95 °F) for six hours.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thermoregulation
by pastage | 2026-03-06 21:07:20+00:00
That sounds like a perfect match for a meta study do you have any? I am very dubious about your conclusion. I am basing this on work I did in high school on this so I really have no sources for my claim.

EDIT did some more searching and have not been able to finding anything supporting you claim. People have not been very alarmist about sea levels.. 7500m by the year 2500 in Waterworld does not count.
by otikik | 2026-03-06 21:07:28+00:00
Absolutely tell him. There's two options, let's see what's the worst that can happen in every circumstance:

* He is indeed sick. In this case the worst that can happen is that they will die.

* He isn't sick, you are just imagining things. In this case the worst that can happen is that you made a bit of a fool of yourself. Potentially embarrasing yourself in front of a fellow employee. I guess there's a small possibility of him taking it the wrong way, I suppose.

It's death on one hand versus a personal embarrassment/awkardness on the other. To me the choice is clear.
Are there any companies who are anti-AI?
by anti-ai-dev | 2026-03-06 21:07:52+00:00
Claude is arguably the best AI tool out there, however I am seeing many developers submitting garbage PRs and losing the ability to code without AI. I use AI out of pressure from the company, but I am already a high performance developer who is now overwhelmed on top of the existing burnout and AI is taking away the joy of coding.

AI also increases human impact on climate change and citizens are paying the cost through water competition with data centers and increasing electricity costs. Not to mention that Hegseth may have used AI to determine targets to strike in Iran resulting in school girls losing their lives.

Are there any companies who believe that clean code, design patterns, cookie cutter code snippets, etc performs better and is cheaper than AI?