MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by rocketvole | 2026-03-03 17:53:44+00:00
I think its because compsci people know what they need to a greater degree than other majors. It's easier to upsell a computer to someone who doesn't really know about computers.

It could also be possible that compsci kids have a powerful desktop at home, or are more savvy with university cloud computing, for any edge cases or computationally expensive tasks.
by bubblewand | 2026-03-03 17:53:45+00:00
I agree that the core problem is that we’re simply spending far more than necessary for the level of care we receive, but the side effects like being a white-collar makework jobs program (the upscale counterpart to the military, sort of) and redistributing (a little of the) money toward retirement accounts are what make the problem “sticky”. There’s a lot of temporary collateral damage if you fix it.
Show HN: T-Req – Open-source programmable API engine built on .http files
by mad_poet | 2026-03-03 17:54:10+00:00
Hey HN! I've been building t-req over the past few months -- an open-source (MIT) programmable API engine built on the .http file format. I'm an engineer who went through a Postman-to-Insomnia migration with a team and got tired of learning proprietary DSLs when we already had Vitest and test runners in our codebase. Once agentic coding tools entered the workflow, the simplicity gap widened and the context switching was painful. So I built t-req around .http files and focused on making them programmable rather than just runnable.

Every .http tool I looked at treated the format as something you click "run" on and read the response. I wanted to treat it as an input to an engine. Write your requests as .http files -- they're plain text, any agent or editor can work with them -- then run them from anywhere, test them with any runner, and extend them with plugins.

Some features:
- Runs from every surface -- the same .http file works from the TUI, CLI, VS Code, Cursor, web, or as a server.
- Programmable from any test runner -- @t-req/core returns standard objects, use expect() in Vitest, Jest, or Bun test like you already do.
- treq serve exposes your collection as an HTTP server callable from any language.

Github: https://github.com/tensorix-labs/t-req
Docs: https://t-req.io/
by nderim_r | 2026-03-03 17:54:12+00:00
Location: North Macedonia

Remote: Yes

Willing to relocate: No

Technologies: PHP, Laravel/Symfony, MYSql, Javascript, React, Vue.js, jQuery, HTML/CSS.

Résumé/CV: https://bit.ly/nderim_cv

Email: nderim.rahmani@gmail.com

Experienced Full-Stack Developer with 7+ years in delivering high quality software solutions. With a Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, a Master’s degree in Software Engineering, and experience in the software development process using PHP/Laravel to develop and implement complex software solutions. Committed to delivering efficient client-focused software solutions that align with business goals.
by tastyfreeze | 2026-03-03 17:54:16+00:00
We are pretty lucky in that regard. It is by design. Open trade among the states was a primary point of argument in ratification of the US Constitution. States were concerned with a federal government having any power to restrict the engine of their own success.

As a result the US system was designed to prohibit restricting trade between states and encourage restricting trade at the national border through tariffs. The goal was to encourage internal trade and production that builds national wealth and skills. The government was to make profit off of international trade through tariffs. That structure encouraged government to protect the economic engine domestically to continue profiting from international trade.
by ellingsworth | 2026-03-03 17:54:18+00:00
My name is John, I am a product & application security leader with 15+ years building software security programs, core team member & co-author of OWASP SAMM, specializing in security transformation, Security Champions networks, and embedding security into engineering culture. Looking to help new & established delivery teams merge security into their solutions thoughtfully & reasonably.

Location: Maine, United States

Remote: Yes

Willing to relocate: No

Technologies/Tools/Frameworks: OWASP SAMM, OWASP ASVS, NIST CSF/SSDF, GitHub Advanced Security, Snyk, Veracode, SonarQube, Aqua Security, Tenable, CrowdStrike,
AWS/Azure/GCP, Python, PHP, Bash

Résumé/CV: https://johnellingsworth.com/resume

Email: john [at] ellingsworth [dot] org
by g-b-r | 2026-03-03 17:54:22+00:00
If you read carefully one of the groups is associated to apes.

And it's said to have been "unable to program with agents" and be affected by "limitations in human neuroplasticity".

And there's an implied judgment that AIs are going to become that good, and a suggestion that they already are good enough to take over coding, if you use them properly ("institutional inertia, affordability (...) were barriers to universal adoption of the new technology", "Effective use of the primitive AIs available at the time demanded a high level of expertise", "speculation on whether the nascent AIs of the period possessed true understanding", "Technical arguments for ape coding did not apply to newer generations of AI software engineers").

Was that (before the last sentence) what an LLM thought about my comment, by the way??
by a123b456c | 2026-03-03 17:54:43+00:00
There are two basic topics:

1. Talk about them. Start by paying attention to them. Then when you notice something that was clearly an intentional choice on their part, say something nice about it. Listen carefully to what they say, and follow up in response without filtering yourself.

2. Talk about us. Notice some aspect of experience that you are both sharing. The weather is the most popular and safest topic.
by gib444 | 2026-03-03 17:54:44+00:00
Look on the Flyertalk BA forum 2005-2020. Was a huge thing and not always for upgrades, because BA have been stingy with upgrades for a long long time. Lounge access/baggage/priority boarding etc was a huge part of it

Popular mileage runs were London to Honolulu with lots of sectors on the way iirc !!
by dewey | 2026-03-03 17:54:53+00:00
Accepting cookies vs. entering personal information are very different buckets for me.

I just click "Accept all" on every cookie banner, life it too short to figure out which checkboxes and dark patterns I have to avoid on each site to not hand over some data...that is than later on just tracked in the backend ("server to server tracking"). Or sold by my credit card company, or tracked by me hovering over some video on YouTube. With the amount of data available unselecting some check boxes on a website just doesn't make a difference.
by JohnMakin | 2026-03-03 17:54:56+00:00
At Disney, they had an immersive Star Wars VR experience that I don't think is there any more (and was extremely pricey for a session).

They tricked the senses by having physical objects you could touch for every space in the game environment, there was stuff like wind, you could feel the heat of lava radiating off the ground in some spots - and body packs that would jolt you if you got shot, and a physically held "blaster" with haptic feedback.

I was blown away at how good it was and how immersive it felt. But, you need an entirely custom experience and game room and as I said it was very expensive (probably for good reason).
by petesergeant | 2026-03-03 17:55:56+00:00
Their problem is that it looks great and all, but there's just zero reason to upgrade my M2 MBA -- until I'm forced to install Tahoe. When it's time to buy, I'll grab one of these or whatever's latest, I'm sure, and I'll get another Mac without thinking twice about it, but I'm not even sure I'd notice the giant speed difference?

I did get tricked into putting Tahoe (or whatever the iOS version is called) on my iPhone 12 Pro though, and my phone is now sluggish and sad, so I am going to have to upgrade it, which I'm carrying quite a lot of resentment about. Hoping I can hold off until the fold phone.
by gosub100 | 2026-03-03 17:55:56+00:00
It's not the same photon though. The fusion happens in the core, then takes millennia for the energy to escape. During that time photons are emitted and absorbed by the atoms, until the surface emits one that finally travels to the earth in 8 minutes. Anyway that's taking you from the ELI5 to the ELI9 version. I'm sure someone on here can correct it further.
by muyuu | 2026-03-03 17:56:02+00:00
i've caught a lot of heat in the UK where i live for my position on GDPR, which is that i completely reject it, because people seem to believe it's there to protect any rights

if there's anything remotely good with GDPR is the requirement to companies to disclose known data breaches

all the rest of it is a terrible idea and only serves to nag people and legitimise the darkest of patterns

the regulation should be there to disallow companies from asking certain information, everything else regarding tracking is self-defeating as it's 1) seldom enforceable 2) hardly binding in any meaningful way 3) pushing people to concentrate their services where they have already surrendered their data 4) legitimising of dark patterns

this new and blatant step towards digital id is a hill i intend to die on, I will not comply and I will do everything in my power so that others don't have to and are even punished for doing so
Show HN: BaseCFO – workbooks as a queryable dashboard for fractional CFOs
by mustafabagdatli | 2026-03-03 17:56:03+00:00
Fractional CFOs typically run 10-20 clients at once. A big chunk of the month isn't actual CFO work — it's the setup before the work: export from QuickBooks, clean the CSV, rebuild the pivot table, retrace someone else's formula logic, copy numbers into the deck. Repeat for every client.

The underlying issue is that client data lives in Excel workbooks that grew organically over years. Nested IFs, brittle VLOOKUPs, logic that made sense to whoever built it. Before you can answer a financial question you have to untangle the file.

BaseCFO takes those workbooks as-is, reads the formula logic, normalizes the data, and surfaces everything through a single dashboard across all clients. No manual cleanup before ingesting. No logging into 15 QuickBooks accounts to check who needs attention.

Free for your first 5 workbooks, no credit card.

Still early and would genuinely appreciate feedback — especially from anyone who has strong opinions about the Excel parsing problem or works with practitioners in this space.

https://basecfo.com/early-access
by mrbombastic | 2026-03-03 17:56:03+00:00
we are going to do the same "everything is binary" engineer thing with bombs and innocent casualties we did with self driving? there is also an accountability crisis that will unfold if we loose these things on the world, it is not just one metric is better than human operators therefore take your hands off the wheel and hope for the best. Please file a ticket with support if your child's school was accidentally destroyed.
by re-thc | 2026-03-03 17:56:26+00:00
> titles (within "tech" in particular) are almost completely arbitrary

It wasn't like that some years ago.

Senior back in the days is probably your lead / staff of today.

The problem isn't just the companies but people and their expectations. You have people crying about not being made "senior" for having 2 years of experience and the world is blown apart now.

So is every company evil or broke or the social media culture these days expecting instant feedback etc?

You used to work 10+ years as an engineer and just that and it was fine.
Show HN: Qgate – Classical trajectory filtering for noisy quantum circuits
by ranbuch | 2026-03-03 17:56:56+00:00
Hi HN, I’m Ran. I built an open-code middleware package for Qiskit that uses classical post-selection to filter thermal noise out of deep quantum circuits without requiring global error correction.The current bottleneck in near-term quantum computing (NISQ) is the decoherence death spiral. When IBM proved "Quantum Utility" on 127 qubits in 2023, they used Zero-Noise Extrapolation (ZNE) to statistically guess the correct expectation values from the noise. I wanted to see if deep circuits retain exploitable statistical structure beyond apparent decoherence collapse.How it works: qgate adds a single ancilla probe (an O(1) quantum overhead) whose measurement outcome provides a trajectory score. During classical post-processing, shots are ranked using a dynamic Galton-style threshold, and the lowest-scoring (most decohered) trajectories are discarded. Unlike symmetry-based post-selection, this does not rely on known conserved operators.The Stress Test: I ran it on a 133-qubit heavy-hex lattice (IBM Torino) at an ISA depth of 16,700+ gates (~37x T1). In this regime, expectation values approach the infinite-temperature limit. After trajectory filtering, an 11.9% subset of shots exhibited a statistically significant negative energy shift (δ = -0.0798).I’ve published the telemetry, the math, and the codebase under a Source-Available Evaluation License.

Repo/Docs: https://github.com/ranbuch/qgate-trajectory-filter

The Story/Data: https://medium.com/@ranbuch/beating-the-quantum-noise-wall-e...

Install: pip install qgate
by Liftyee | 2026-03-03 17:56:59+00:00
Was it a Gen 1 device? I bought a Thinkpad X13 Gen 1 many years ago and it kept having blue screens from RAM errors and other problems. Eventually after many warranty attempts and motherboard replacements they sent me a new X13 Gen 4. This has been running Ubuntu with no problems for 4 years now, it might be more a "lemons" phenomenon than a general rule. Also, AFAIK, the case is metal with a "soft-touch" coating.

The Apple ARM processors are still in a league of their own but personally I'm not willing to give up my OS freedom of choice for that advantage.
by bArray | 2026-03-03 17:57:13+00:00
> That all random game and messaging sites now wants my kids' passport uploaded to some random 'id verification company' is madness.

This is truly crazy. Random companies interacting on this level with children is far from ideal.

> Please, gov.uk introduce a gov ID verification service? I could trust that, -ish, I have worked with public sector clients several times...

I don't like the idea of governments collecting this sort of data either.
by tracker1 | 2026-03-03 17:57:13+00:00
Even then... the social cohesion in this country has lapsed so much in my half century of life that I can't help but think maybe we could use a little propaganda to come together more as a country.

I can't help but remember one example of my youth to my son's youth a few decades later. When I was in school, the position on fights is if you have the ability to intercede to stop it, you have a responsibility to do so... by the time my son was in school it was, "don't get involved, get a teacher or call the police."

It's just such a stark contrast to me that it's hard to fathom where things are now a couple decades further still from when I was a young kid in later elementary school and Jr. High. Without a shared society and cohesion, we're largely doomed as a society. I realize that some people actually want this, but I really don't.

I want our nation and our people to be successful.
by othmanosx | 2026-03-03 17:57:17+00:00
I can’t say this with certainty, but ever since I started building it, I’ve noticed updates and fixes that quietly addressed some of the workarounds I relied on for certain features. It almost felt like they were aware of the gaps I was tapping into. Considering they review the extension, you could read that as a subtle signal… but that might just be me connecting dots that aren’t really there.

For years, the Meet chat barely changed. It stayed minimal and uninspiring. So seeing Google suddenly invest attention in it caught me off guard. Maybe I’m overthinking it. Or maybe they did notice that some users were frustrated enough to start building their own tools just to make the experience better.
by cucumber3732842 | 2026-03-03 17:57:57+00:00
Stormwater is a non-issue and generally a waste of money racket unless you're talking about developing a many acre concrete jungle or some sort of facility that will generate pollution that it may pick up. Datacenters, warehouse, etc. don't really have that issue. "Treatment" in these cases would consist of the gutters simply running into a grassy ditch (I'm sorry, "bioswale", got I fucking hate how they intentionally make the language incomprehensible to laymen).

The wastewater I am concerned about though for the thermal reasons many have cited.
by chroma_zone | 2026-03-03 17:58:14+00:00
Having spent a few years trying to write Windows utility software, it is really exhausting to be in an antagonistic relationship with Microsoft and have their updates constantly break your work.

The article mentions ExplorerPatcher -- the changelog [1] of that project is informative. Every release involves fixing a bunch of things that Microsoft broke, intentionally or not. Some of this is understandable given how it (necessarily) messes with low level OS components, but there is still zero transparency and you just need to roll with whatever changes. I can't imagine doing that kind of work anymore.

[1] https://github.com/valinet/ExplorerPatcher/releases
by georgeecollins | 2026-03-03 17:58:15+00:00
I agree that AI is not as good as people at being entertaining. And everybody looked at putting LLMs in their games as GDC circa 2022 or so. It seemed like a good idea until you realized the server cost or the performance hit. So this is right.

But.. as someone who works in the business of games.. how sure are you that AI hasn't been there all along in ways you may not realize? Companies are very disincentivized to let you know when they are using it.
by itqwertz | 2026-03-03 17:58:36+00:00
>credentials required

There are no credentials required.

>authoritatively say

Experience beats credentials.

>qualified labor pool

No degree required outside of a HR checklist.
CS students are not necessarily qualified outside of academia in the real world. H-1B just means you jumped through the hoops of credentialism to be a "qualified" candidate. Many universities require you to have a CS degree to work as an tech employee, so they shut out many qualified candidates. Their loss, and eventual downfall.

>Do you think the deep engineering knowledge and practices to solve hard problems is overrated?

Yes, extremely overrated. The emergence of AI is at least proof that "deep engineering knowledge" can be easily summoned by a prompt. The practices are on their way to automation. The hard work has been done.
by cfiggers | 2026-03-03 17:59:24+00:00
"That's not true" is too strong a statement on your part.

The statistic you cite does not necessarily contradict what the parent comment is saying. "Up 29% since February 2020" is an absolute change since a specific point. The parent comment is saying prices have "come down" i.e. since their peak. It can still be up overall, so long as it's not up as high as it was at one point.
Show HN: Letting Claude automate fleets of browser sandboxes
by huss97 | 2026-03-03 17:59:48+00:00
Hey HN, wanted to share this cli and skill I built @ Steel (I'm the founder)

I was trying to set up openclaw on railway and quickly bumped up against issues with a lack of browser access, a core component of the system. Agents like OpenClaw and CC are super good at using browsers but, similar to code sandboxes, they should be able to control these browser in the background, in parallel, without getting blocked by captchas.

So I reworked agent-browser, the most popular cli for browser agents, to navigate Steel cloud browser sessions to they can run at scale and unhindered.

It's a relatively crude implementation right now as we just embed agent-browser's binaries directly into the CLI and have a higher-level TS parser to route/modify commands, but it works surprisingly well; the demo video in the link worked first shot, I just copied/pasted for the video.

GitHub Repo: https://github.com/steel-dev/cli/

Would love any feedback or thoughts on what capabilities you'd like to see shipped here!
by pants2 | 2026-03-03 17:59:59+00:00
When I joined my last job I noticed that their email settings were misconfigured... EVERYTHING was going straight to the inbox, not even the most basic of spam filters were in place.

When I got filtering on observe-only mode I saw users were getting up to a dozen phishing emails every day.

We quickly did a hard simulated phishing test and most users opened the email but zero users clicked through.

Two years later, after we had excellent email filtering in place, our simulated phishing test had a 30% fail rate.

Take from that what you will!
by drob518 | 2026-03-03 18:00:26+00:00
To what end? It varies a lot. Between 0% and 100%+ of the cost could be passed onto the consumer (100%+ when every distribution tier passes along what came to it and then marked it up). Maybe you can create a statistical distribution with mean/median and standard deviation, but that tells you nothing about what might happen when you next institute another tariff.
by Gym-Berlin | 2026-03-03 18:00:40+00:00
As civil unrest intensifies in Iran, the Islamic Republic teeters on the edge of transformation. But this isn't just a domestic reckoning — it's a geopolitical tremor that reverberates through Moscow’s strategic corridors. Russia’s influence in the Middle East, its energy leverage, and its anti-Western alliances all hinge on Tehran’s stability. A regime collapse could unravel years of covert cooperation, military coordination, and economic interdependence.
This article explores:
• Russia’s silent stake in Iran’s survival — from arms deals to proxy warfare.
• The strategic vacuum a regime collapse would create — and who might rush to fill it.
• Energy diplomacy at risk — with pipelines, sanctions, and oil markets in flux.
• The ideological fallout — as authoritarian solidarity fractures under pressure.
by hedora | 2026-03-03 18:01:14+00:00
"The Pledge America Campaign enables broadcasters to lend their
voices in support of Task Force 250 and the celebration of America’s 250th birthday by airing
patriotic, pro-America content that celebrates the American journey and inspires its citizens by
highlighting the historic accomplishments of this great nation from our founding through the Trump
Administration today."

Even ignoring the context (Trump censoring things, limiting private institutions speech, murdering people because their state's governor said mean things, etc, etc), the text of the page you link to clearly says broadcasters will need to air pro-Trump programming.

If you take context into account by looking at how the administration has redefined many of the words they use in the document (I guess you'd call that a "dog whistle"), then it's even more clear this is the Trump's attempt to force the news media to air a coordinated propaganda campaign during a pivotal election year.
by gtowey | 2026-03-03 18:01:27+00:00
Would they risk a taxi ride if they knew that Uber failed to properly background check a driver, who later kidnapped and raped one of his passengers, and Uber's response was to hire private investigators to dig up personal information on the victim in an attempt to discredit her? [1]

[1] https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-42291495
by Imustaskforhelp | 2026-03-03 18:01:35+00:00
My father recently dropped my macbook air from the car essentially on concrete bricks.

It has just gotten a single dent for something less than 0.5 cm and its on the side (although this damage was done when the laptop was closed so some damage is just above the laptop's display aluminium shell.

To be honest, its barely visible and everything is working and there was no damage on display or anything else for what its worth.

I usually don't like apple but damn the macbook air is tiny and can take some damage.

Although I am still just a little sad about the damage because the laptop was perfect condition beforehand now that we talked about it but its incredibly better than any other laptop atleast with that thing in mind. Gonna use this laptop for a long time (M1 Air)