MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by dspillett | 2026-03-03 21:08:58+00:00
> Sadly, this still doesn't do anything to show me that I should opt out.

Then don't. No need to be sad about it.

> I, as an individual, am not going to have any effect on a business if I opt out or not. No business decision is going to be made because I opt out.

I do it more from a point of view of principal. I don't want following around the Internet by all and sundry who care to, any more than I want to be followed down a dar alley, for followed into Tesco by someone yelling “hey, Dave, I saw you went to the pub last night, my shop has some cheap spirits” or “hey, Dave, I saw you but a network switch the other week, do you want another one?”.

I also resist anything wrapped in many layers of dark patterns, and that describes almost all current ad tech.

> You might argue that it will matter if enough of us do it. Sure, that is true... but again, it won't matter if I do it or not. If N number of people opting out is enough to ruin the business model, then N-1 is surely enough as well. There is a 0% chance that I am the one who finally causes the system to collapse.

If your stats knowledge and reasoning accept that, then I've got an infinite compression scheme for you. It can compress anything including compressed anythings!

You are jumping between two factors of large numbers haphazardly from sentence fragment to sentence fragment, and the logic isn't following you. At some point N-1 might make a difference, and you could be that -1.

> I do use an ad blocker, and never click on ads.

To use your argument on tracking: but many people don't, so why do you bother? What makes you think you could be the +1/-1 here but not there? And by blocking ads you are blocking a fair portion of the tracking, in fact that is why I block ads much more than the ads themselves. I don't run sponsorblock for the other side of the same reason: that doesn't affect tracking at all.

> If having more information about me allows the website to charge more to show me an ad, and I never click any ads, then I am hopefully helping decrease the return advertisers get by using personal information.

And when the database eventually leaks, many others will have the extra information about you.

And again: by blocking the ads using most ad blockers (obs not all work the same ways) you are blocking at least some tracking.

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But again, if you don't want to block tracking, don't. No need to be sad that we've not convinced you with our arguments as to why we try to block it. I know other devs who take your attitude (that is simply isn't worth their effort), and many others who take mine or similar (when it isn't worth the effort, the information or product behind the mountain of “legitimate interest” checkboxes isn't worth the effort either so I'll just move on). Our threat and principal models can be different from ours without either of us being bothered by the other's choices here.
by mediaman | 2026-03-03 21:09:42+00:00
It's odd because I no longer really like ChatGPT. For chat-type requests, I prefer Claude, or if it's knowledge-intensive then Gemini 3 Pro (which is better for history, old novels, etc).

But GPT 5.3 Codex is great. Significantly better than Opus, in the TUI coding agent.
Ask HN: Can hash verification replace EV code-signing on Windows?
by hypersnatch_dev | 2026-03-03 21:09:48+00:00
I ship an offline Windows tool and instead of paying for an EV certificate, I am experimenting with a detached verification model:

1. User downloads the .exe from GitHub Releases
2. User downloads verify.ps1 (60-line PowerShell script, zero dependencies)
3. User runs: .\verify.ps1 .\MyApp-Setup.exe

The verifier computes SHA-256 and checks against a hardcoded manifest. No network calls. No certificate chain.

The thesis: for technical users, this is higher trust than opaque SmartScreen telemetry.

Open questions:
- Does the verification step give users enough confidence to click through SmartScreen?
- Is there prior art for this in the Nix/Guix ecosystem?
- What is the minimum viable UX for hash verification?

Repo: https://github.com/Z3r0DayZion-install/hypersnatch
by tomgp | 2026-03-03 21:09:49+00:00
Yes. Also there's a weird thing going on where the claims are simultaneously that these tools are super easy to use and everyone and their dog is going to be using them to create awesome software and that it's only going to get easier to do so BUT ALSO that you have to immediately start using them or you'll get left behind. Why should we start now if they're going to be more powerful and more accesible in a years time? seems like the effort working with the imperfect exising version will be wasted.
by overfeed | 2026-03-03 21:09:51+00:00
> Your high end hardware is not their target market / competition until you get into very purposeful tasks.

Here's the kicker: it cost about the same as the highest end Macbook pro before the RAM madness.

> The market segment that exists one where battery life sucks, windows isnt the preferred OS, and some high performance on a portable device on battery is beneficial.

I agree the market exists, but think it's much smaller than it appears: most people do not work under these constraints most of the time; a cheap laptop + beefy desktop could do a better job in aggregate, wirh greater flexibility, especially for people who spend most of their time at the desk with their computer plugged in - which is most people.

I suspect the portability requirement is sometimes aspirational, similar to the people who buy trucks overestimating the number of times they'll need to cary stuff on the truck bed.
by Dylan16807 | 2026-03-03 21:10:22+00:00
> If you don't think 40% is a hefty price drop then idk what to tell you.

For 15 years of tech product, it's not.

For a tech product to stay the same price in dollars for so long is not great. And remember that the 17 itself is $799. This is the discount model and it's still way over the $500 bar.

> The idea Apple should be going even beyond that to make low-end new phones for a company that positions itself at the top of the market, is just silly.

It's silly because you took the thing being complained about, the positioning, and made it part of the premise. Anything sounds silly if you do that.

> you can't please everyone with a lineup of 5 phones

5 phones is plenty to cover a big range if they wanted to. Pro and Pro Max isn't needed, and the Air is totally unnecessary with how close it is to a normal model.

Though for market coverage I wouldn't say low end first, I would say new SE model. I bet a 4.3 inch screen would sell a lot better than the Air's thinness.
by spacemarine1 | 2026-03-03 21:10:27+00:00
The founder, Wouter, has created or helped design 10 programming languages. Voxile is built in his newest language: Lobster. Wouter has been a major contributor to WASM and LLVM while also inventing flatbuffers. He’s worked at Crytek, Gearbox and Google among many other places. I’ve never seen anything like Voxile.
by hintymad | 2026-03-03 21:10:29+00:00
Isn't being an engineering manager about leverage? Someone needs to organize people, allocate resources, or even decide the direction of products. We may say that ICs can make equally good such decisions, but every company has a hierarchy and someone does call the shots. And for better or for worse, some people are indeed good at navigating company dynamics and driving an organization forward, even though they may suck at building. An example would be IBM's Watson Jr. He was known for being awkward at mastering IBM tech as a salesperson. Even in a holacratic company like Zappos or Valve, some people still manage, right?
Show HN: give names/icons to Mac Spaces, jump between and track time across them
by spenvo | 2026-03-03 21:10:53+00:00
I found myself using macOS Spaces more to keep my (growing number) of side projects separated and organized.

I built a Mac app that helps wrangle a ton of Spaces by letting you assign names (and custom menu bar icons) to them and giving you quick ways to jump directly between them (via hotkeys, a drop down, or via scripting (even from Terminal line)). www.currentkey.com The basic app is free, and there's an all-inclusive IAP to unlock all of its features. For a brief time, that IAP will be set at $2 (I think I'll normally price it around $10)
by bearjaws | 2026-03-03 21:11:16+00:00
I just don't know if the human capital is there.

At my job we use HyperV, and finding someone who actually knows HyperV is difficult and expensive. Throw in Cisco networking, storage appliances, etc to make it 99.99% uptime...

Also that means you have just one person, you need at least two if you don't want gaps in staffing, more likely three.

Then you still need all the cloud folks to run that.

We have a hybrid setup like this, and you do get a bit of best of both worlds, but ultimately managing onprem or colo infra is a huge pain in the ass. We only do it due to our business environment.
by jlongo78 | 2026-03-03 21:11:18+00:00
yeah models are definitely getting better at prioritizing signal over noise. but theres still an interesting edge case -- the context that matters most is often the stuff you didnt know mattered when you said it. like a throwaway comment three sessions ago that turns out to be load-bearing. hybrid at least gives you a fallback when the model makes a bad bet on whats important.
by JohnMakin | 2026-03-03 21:11:27+00:00
> Everyone agrees: AI is coming for the developers. The $200,000-a-year engineers writing CRUD apps and maintaining CI pipelines. The line workers of the knowledge economy. Trim them. Automate them. Celebrate the efficiency gains. Watch the stock pop

I very much do not think everyone agrees here, and using the Block layoffs as an example is pretty poor reasoning. It's the same kind of blind, "believe and report exactly what the companies say about these things, regardless of their incentives in saying these things" type of breathless clickbait tech journalism that is becoming extremely exhausting to wade through.

There's probably a good discussion in here somewhere but the way these flimsy arguments are presented as absolute fact is a really annoying style to read, personally.

This author wrote basically the complete opposite view barely more than a few months ago which makes it read even more like clickbait slop:

https://boringops.sh/articles/its_the_humans_stupid/
by duggan | 2026-03-03 21:11:40+00:00
A directory over SSH can be your git server. If your CI isn't too complex, a post-receive hook looping into Docker can be enough. I wrote up about self hosting git and builds a few weeks ago[1].

There are heavier solutions, but even setting something like this up as a backstop might be useful. If your blog is being hammered by ChatGPT traffic, spare a thought for Github. I can only imagine their traffic has ballooned phenomenally.

1: https://duggan.ie/posts/self-hosting-git-and-builds-without-...
by aibuildersdig | 2026-03-03 21:11:53+00:00
Everyone talks about \"agentic workflows,\" but most tutorials require bloated frameworks like LangChain or AutoGen. You don't need them. \n\nYou can build a highly effective coding agent that writes, runs, and debugs its own code using just the standard Anthropic SDK and Python's `subprocess` module.\n\nThe Architecture:\n1. The Planner: Takes the user prompt and writes a Python script.\n2. The Executor: Runs the script in an isolated environment (or just locally if you like living dangerously).\n3. The Debugger: If the script throws an error (exit code != 0), it captures the stderr and feeds it back to the Planner with the prompt: \"This failed with the following error. Fix it.\"\n\nWhy this matters:\nThis simple loop is the foundation of tools like SWE-agent and Devin. By keeping it simple, you have full control over the execution environment, the retry limits, and the exact prompts used for debugging. No black boxes.\n\nIf you found this helpful, I write a weekly newsletter for AI builders covering technical deep dives like this.
by coldtea | 2026-03-03 21:12:03+00:00
>Some human still has to be accountable. Someone has to get fired / go to jail when something screws up.

Why? The logic of ever less personal pride, involvement, and care, is eventually to just put the blame on AI and be done with it.

Issues? Casualties? It's a bug, somebody fixes it and we move on. Or is just a cost we need to get used to to live in the great new world of AI.

We're in an era where nobody involved goes to jail for the Epstein case, and the world keeps turning, and we think people will care if nobody goes to jail if somebody loses their pension or gets wrongly imprisoned or dies on an operating table because of AI mistake?

If anything, legal, union and other limitations like that on who gets to decide (having to have a human ultimately responsible) might be torn down, to fullu embrace the blame-shifting capabilities of the digital bureucracy.
by appsoftware | 2026-03-03 21:12:24+00:00
The agent-flow repository serves as a template for a flow I've recently been using for agent-assisted coding - with impressive results.

Even with the best models, agent-assisted coding can be hit and miss. A good AGENTS.md that covers most of the mistakes you find agents making can go a long way, but this flow has been producing outsized results over the last couple of weeks.

It takes a little more discipline than hacking away in the chat window until you get what you want, but this process makes a "one shot" success more likely, and really pays off when things get complicated and the agent needs more of a steer.
by jasomill | 2026-03-03 21:12:35+00:00
As of Windows 11, window management is one of the few things Windows does better than macOS or Linux desktop environments out of the box, thanks to the Windows+Z tiling feature.

And then I use my touchpad to switch between virtual desktops and the jerky animation reminds me why I prefer to run non-game Windows applications remotely from a Mac.
by neilv | 2026-03-03 21:12:48+00:00
I don't think I said anything about an address. They've given some names, but that doesn't say why they should be trusted.

Two examples of people who have established some trust over the years: Linux Torvalds and RMS.

Joking scenario to illustrate...

Badguy: "This is it, Torvalds! Give us the Linux launch codes, or I shoot you!"

Torvalds: "Launch codes? I'm angry that you are wasting everyone's time, when clearly you don't know what you are doing, and are not bothering to get help to do it properly."

Badguy: "How about your friend! Give us the codes, or I shoot Stallman!"

Stallman: "Excuse me, but when you say Linux, I think you mean GNU/Linux, since Linux is a kernel, which is only one piece of the operating system, and used with--"

Badguy: "Argh! I can't take you nerds anymore!" shoots self in head
by polotics | 2026-03-03 21:12:54+00:00
I think you are mistaken: that lush green slow-sloped hill and beautiful valley was there before anyone built a Kibbutz on it, and was already called that in the bronze age when a Canaanite town stood there.
In my memory of it from 20 years ago, it was surprisingly nice and green, a bit like a Windows background. As far as I understand, as it's got even neolithic settlement strata, this is as good as any other place name for signifying "the center of the world" as any Koine-writer was going to get.
Show HN: Limabean – a new implementation of Beancount in Clojure/Rust
by tesujimath | 2026-03-03 21:12:57+00:00
I created this project for my own use, and as a means to develop proficiency in Rust and Clojure. It is now at the stage where it could be useful for others, and my intention is to further develop it so it becomes increasingly useful. I am really enjoying being able to query my accounts from a Clojure REPL.

And despite the current prevalence of AI code-generation, this was created by my own bare hands, quite slowly. All feedback welcome, most especially from anyone trying it out.
by freeone3000 | 2026-03-03 21:13:19+00:00
> but who needs that?

I’m really happy with bringing my local workstation with me to a cafe, a coworking space, or on a trip. I love conveniently having one device for nearly everything, from AI fine-tuning to general development to gaming. And I love having a 12-hour battery life under normal use and USB-C charging. The screen is beautiful and great for watching movies on, too.

If you want one computing device, in total, a MacBook is a great choice. It’s overkill in most areas for most people, but it’s not deficient for anyone, and that matters a lot.
by dheera | 2026-03-03 21:13:31+00:00
My 256GB phone is already almost full because of all this app bloat. 6 different parking apps, 17 messaging apps because nobody uses the same thing, 13 different financial apps, EV charging apps, ...

I have one messaging app eating 40GB

On the other hand, a terabyte is cheap, they should just put a terabyte in the phone, it's what we apparently need in 2026
by ineedaj0b | 2026-03-03 21:13:55+00:00
I've looked into this for work and no way. You must unfactor the European models getting subsidized by the current US model.

Some very smart people have looked at fixing the system, and there's no golden goose (except ozempic maybe). We'll need pharmacological breakthroughs.

Also, regrettably - A LOT of medical care is unnecessary but we love grandma.
by Palominocoq | 2026-03-03 21:14:37+00:00
Honestly, I feel pretty lost here - never done a saas before, but I'm convinced someone out there has figured out the playbook for turning cloud credits into serious money. The economics just make too much sense for nobody to have cracked it. Right now I'm leaning toward the AWS Marketplace AMI route - package something once, sell it indefinitely, and the credits just fund the development, not the ongoing business. But I'd love to hear from anyone who's actually done this at scale.
by roysting | 2026-03-03 21:14:48+00:00
Yes. Their repeated warnings that Iran would no longer tolerate the kind of back-and-forth blame shifting that think-tank policy papers openly described years ago as a strategy to keep Iran off sides, and that any attack by Israel would be considered an attack by the USA too and that American assets that surrounded Iran would be attacked; since under all the clownish “who? Meeee?”act gaslighting and stupid pathological lies, everyone knows they are one and the same.

It’s like dealing with psychopathic toddlers who think people aren’t smart enough to know they are lying when they deny killing the family pet even though their hands are covered in blood and you just watched them mid act of slaughtering the family pet.
by lejalv | 2026-03-03 21:14:49+00:00
Not sure why this comment is downvoted: the facts are established, as is (among others) the Mosaddegh coup d'état co-organized by the US:

> On 19 August 1953, Prime Minister of Iran Mohammad Mosaddegh was overthrown in a coup d'état that strengthened the rule of Mohammad Reza Pahlavi, the shah of Iran. It was instigated by the United Kingdom (MI6), under the name Operation Boot[5][6][7][8] and the United States (CIA), under the name TP-AJAX Project[9] or Operation Ajax. A key motive was to protect British oil interests in Iran after Mosaddegh nationalized the country's oil industry.
(...)
> In August 2013, the U.S. government formally acknowledged the U.S. (...) was in charge of both the planning and the execution

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1953_Iranian_coup_d%27%C3%A9ta...

Or the US backing of Saddam Hussein from 1982 onwards during the Iraq-Iran 8-year war of aggression, with “massive loans, political influence, and intelligence on Iranian deployments gathered by American spy satellites”. During this war, Iraq employed chemical weapons leading to 50.000 - 100.000 Irani deaths.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iran%E2%80%93Iraq_War

This (and other pieces of historical context) help very much understand the Iranian insistence on a ballistic missile program.
by elAhmo | 2026-03-03 21:14:50+00:00
Fully agree. I used to have a company issued MBP M3 Pro, and when I switched roles I got myself base M4 Air. Can't complain at all in the past year, I do feel throttling at times when running longer tasks, but for 99% of the time I don't feel I need anything better.

And I do work as a software developer, so anyone doing lighter usage not in this camp will feel the same.

M5 Air should be pretty much the same.
by Spooky23 | 2026-03-03 21:15:43+00:00
Small merchants are people, and people vary in their intelligence/savvyness and may have other issues like poor credit or high chargebacks that they usually forget to mention. Some people roll the cost of the terminal into a higher fee as well.

I helped out a friend who owns a deli when he took over from his parents. His dad saw cash as a way to avoid taxation and had some awful payment processor where they paid a high fee and was renting a POTS based terminal - $60/mo to Verizon and $30/mo for the terminal.

Now he keeps one set of books, and raised his average sale by about 10%. Their catering business, which drives profits, are up significantly with online ordering through the POS.

Ditto with a non-profit I was on the board of. Pushing Venmo and Square for donations increased donations by like 30% and reduced shrink at fundraisers. Anyone who claims they can’t afford a 3% fee is going out of business anyway.
by Imustaskforhelp | 2026-03-03 21:15:51+00:00
> Then, you need a second site, no matter what. At least for backups, ideally as a full failover. Either your second site is some sort of cloud, which can be a PITA to set up without introducing security risks, or a second physical site, which means double the expenses.

You can technically have backblaze's unlimited backup option which costs around 7$ for a given machine although its more intended for windows, there have been people who make it work and Daily backups and it should work with gdpr (https://www.backblaze.com/company/policy/gdpr) with something like hetzner perhaps if you are worried about gdpr too much and OVH storage boxes (36 TB iirc for ~55$ is a good backup box) and you should try to follow 3-2-1 strategy.

> Then, all of that needs to be maintained, which means additional staff on payroll, if you own the stuff outright your finance team will whine about depreciation and capex, and you need to have vendors on support contracts just to get firmware updates and timely exchanges for hardware under warranty.

I can't speak for certain but its absolutely possible to have something but iirc for companies like dell, its possible to have products be available on a monthly basis available too and you can simply colocate into a decent datacenter. Plus points in that now you can get 10-50 GB ports as well if you are too bandwidth hungry and are available for a lot lot more customizable and the hardware is already pretty nice as GP observed. (Yes Ram prices are high, lets hope that is temporary as GP noted too)

I can't speak about firmware updates or timely exchanges for hardware under security.

That being said, I am not saying this is for everyone as well. It does essentially boils down to if they have expertise in this field/can get expertise in this field or not for cheaper than their aws bills or not. With many large AWS bills being in 10's of thousands of dollars if not hundreds of thousands of dollars, I think that far more companies might be better off with the above strategy than AWS actually.