MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by Zigurd | 2026-03-03 13:41:09+00:00
This comes off as a grab bag of non-issues and non-national issues mixed in with a couple of attractive seeming ideas. For example: Crime is down why bang on that issue instead of the 2000 Americans killed every year by cops? The young voters who will dominate in coming elections see, on their video feeds, how cops behave. The time for Clintonesque pandering on law and order has passed. It's not that Trump is different this time, it's that a lot of of his voters have died, and RFK Jr. is Charon at the Styx for more of them.
by polotics | 2026-03-03 13:42:03+00:00
https://googlethatforyou.com?q=rene%20girard%20stanford%20do...

Sorry I thought the Girard Thiel Vance timeline courtesy of Yeats https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/43290/the-second-comi... was common knowledge here. I will see myself out now.
by tupac_speedrap | 2026-03-03 13:42:12+00:00
The whole ad is vague slop tbh, I can see why it wasn't allowed to air, also I don't know why people fixate on CCTV when the vast majority of it is used by private companies and the government doesn't have access to it without a request, there isn't any mass surveillance in this case just business owners managing risk and monitoring for crimes on their property
by Hnrobert42 | 2026-03-03 13:42:12+00:00
I cannot disagree with you more strongly.

Ars did own up to its mistake both in writing and in firing the author. The author himself fell on his sword in detail on Bluesky.

Your only real complaint is that their published explanation wasn't subjectively good enough for you and that means it's sad to see them at this level?
by randusername | 2026-03-03 13:42:13+00:00
My iPhone 12 mini is hobbling along. A few rare apps are not usable because UI is clipped, the battery is throttling and making it sluggish, and it overheats all the time as a GPS.

Many mobile websites are unusable.

But I love the form factor and I'm going to keep it going as long as it is reasonably secure.
by oneeyedpigeon | 2026-03-03 13:42:20+00:00
I disagree. You could A/B test two good, accurate, well-written headlines and stay clear of clickbait altogether. Sure, you're still optimising for the most popular, but "clickbait" doesn't just mean "well performing", there's also an implication of duplicity.

I have a modicum of experience here. I write for another online media company and, although we produce our own headlines, we are 'strongly encouraged' to write clickbait headlines, to the extent where we are asked to remove instances of specific product names (etc.) in order to be mysterious and not give the game away too early. (Yes, in case it wasn't clear, I hate this!)
by dv_dt | 2026-03-03 13:43:53+00:00
The US has other active vectors with similar objectives of expanding government mandated controls over online activity - see the discussion on California age verification law https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47181208. So maybe I'm seeing things in my pattern matching - but it seems like a broad push to attack online freedoms into centrist left and right legislatures coming from some internationally coordinated effort.
by markshao_sj | 2026-03-03 13:44:43+00:00
Hey HN,

I built DevSwarm to solve a problem I faced while building multi-agent coding workflows: Git branches are linear, but AI agents are concurrent.

When you have multiple agents (or a human + an agent) working on the same feature, they often step on each other's toes—locking the index, creating merge conflicts, or polluting the working directory.

DevSwarm is an infrastructure tool (CLI) that virtualizes a logical git branch into multiple Nodes .

Each Node gets:

1. An isolated Git Worktree (file system isolation).
2. A dedicated Tmux Session (runtime isolation).
3. A managed Shadow Branch (version control isolation).
4. Auto-generated VS Code / Trae Workspace config for multi-root editing.
This means you can have:

- Node A : You, coding the feature logic.
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All running in parallel on the same machine, same repo, same logical feature, but completely sandboxed.

It's written in Go. Would love to hear your feedback, especially if you're building agentic coding tools!
by waynerisner | 2026-03-03 13:45:29+00:00
For tone, I prefer efficient — higher signal-to-noise.

In custom instructions I’ll sometimes write something like “tell it like it is.” Interestingly, some models then start with “okay, I’ll tell you like it is…” which makes me wonder whether that’s psychological framing, operational behavior, or both.

Curious why you asked — have you found customization meaningfully changes performance?
by hirsin | 2026-03-03 13:45:32+00:00
It can't be quite that simple because you have a couple additional problems to solve - (effectively restating bits of the article poorly and partially)

1. You don't want these to be replayable (give your JWT to someone else to use) so they need to be bounded in some ways (eg intended website, time, proof it came from you and not someone else).

2. You don't want the government to know which website you're going to, nor allow the government and the website to collaborate to deanonymize you (or have the government force a website to turn over the list of tokens they got). So the government can't just hand you a uuid that the website could hand back to them to deanonymize.

The SD JWT and related specs solve for these, which is how mDL and other digital IDs can preserve privacy in this situation.
by enginous | 2026-03-03 13:45:36+00:00
One caveat to alerts (and automatically acting on alerts) is that there are delays[0] between costs being incurred and alerted. I can't find a Google source for what the delay is, but a source online say it could be "24 hours [to] a few days."[1]

This has been a major reason why I reach for OpenAI models before Gemini, but also why I'd rather use services like RunPod for training jobs. For a small boostrapped company like mine, it feels terrifyingly easy to rack up a company-ending AI bill.

The cloud companies try to limit these accidents through cranking your quotas down to nothing, but this also means that my small company can't just whip up 8xH100 easily without major ceremony, and I have routinely been rejected the GPUs quotas I needed for projects.

Accidentally leaving that kind of node on for the 24 hours that it might take to get an alert would rack up a $2,000+ bill, compared to $500 on RunPod, which will also stop the instance when you run out of money.

I've loved working with major cloud providers at growing VC-funded startups that have credits, TAMs and bigger budgets for errors. But hyperscalers are fairly difficult for a pre-scale bootstrapped business, and arguably not designed or optimized for it.

[0] https://docs.cloud.google.com/billing/docs/how-to/disable-bi...
[1] https://support.terra.bio/hc/en-us/articles/360057589931-How...
by sampo | 2026-03-03 13:45:47+00:00
> I'm sure I've read that sleep health experts have historically supported a change to permanent Standard Time, not DST.

Yes, science is very clear: Permanent standard time is best for health.

https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1177/07487304198541...

https://srbr.org/advocacy/daylight-saving-time-presskit/

https://esrs.eu/wp-content/uploads/2019/03/To_the_EU_Commiss...

https://www.ama-assn.org/press-center/press-releases/ama-cal...

https://jcsm.aasm.org/doi/10.5664/jcsm.10898

https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/jsr.14352

https://www.chronobiocanada.com/official-statements

But I think the scientists have made a mistake in their communication: They focused too much arguing against the clock-shifts, and didn't put enough effort to communicate why also permanent DST is a bad choice.
by throwaway46782 | 2026-03-03 13:45:57+00:00
My initial instinct to this headline was: Why would you ban that?
After reading the article, I might agree this is a reasonable option.

From my perspective this type of porn was basically just porn with a bit of story attached to it, which imo elevates it slightly. Though I was mainly thinking about the step-sibling variety. From a male perspective the stepfather variety always gave me the ick, with the stepson dynamic lying somewhere in between. But I was looking at it as someone without any step-relationships in real life.

Now, after also looking up the prevalence of step-relationships lying between 10 and 40% depending on what you count, I am a lot more vary of this trend in pornography from a societal perspective.
Even besides the more insidious possible effects mentioned in the article, I can see how this type of fantasy can give the (presumably majority male) porn audience wrong ideas. Like considering every woman a possible partner instead of just peer, even in the wider context of family.

In theory I agree with these kind initiatives to try and at least steer things in the right way but I also realise how often they fail. And who knows the trend following such a ban could be worse.

Ultimately, you are only treating symptoms here and ignoring the societal problems that lead to this being a thing in the first place (loneliness, fewer human connections, rise of individualism, etc.)
by hypeatei | 2026-03-03 13:45:59+00:00
> to be able to do unreasonable things while having a smokescreen

Maybe, but I feel like the calculus remains unchanged for professions that already lack accountability (police, military, C-suite, three letter agencies, etc.); LLMs are yet another tool in their toolbox to obfuscate but they were going to do that anyway.

Peons will continue to face consequences and sanctions if they screw up by using hallucinated output.
by michaeloblak | 2026-03-03 13:46:35+00:00
Ha, fair point — "every website" is the vision, 6 is the MVP :)

The adapter model is designed so adding a new site is a single YAML file (~30 min of work, or ~3 min with a coding agent). No Python code needed for most sites. PRs welcome if there's a site you'd want to see!
by drzaiusx11 | 2026-03-03 13:46:37+00:00
Been using Colima to run mixed architecture container stacks in docker compose on my M3 Mac and the machine barely blinks. I get a full day running a dozen containers on a single battery charge.

Colima is backed by qemu, not Rosetta, so if Rosetta disappeared tomorrow I don't think I'd notice. I'm sure it's "better" but when the competition is "good enough" it doesn't really matter.
by copywriterfilip | 2026-03-03 13:47:45+00:00
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by jmyeet | 2026-03-03 13:48:00+00:00
Like pretty much everything else, it's an optimization problem rather than a physical limit.

So running a train at 350kph is more expensive than 300kph, both in per-distance and pre-unit time terms. But if you can run more services that way then sufficient demand might make it economical. Also, if it's too slow, people may choose flying instead.

Maglev can go even faster but those have never been made economical, really. It's much more complicated and expensive.

It's a bit like how commercial planes have actually gotten slower. 747s used to fly closer to Mach 0.9. Now most commercial planes fly at around Mach 0.8. There are physical problems flying between Mach 0.8 and 1.2 but sometimes that doesn't matter so the best private planes top out at about Mach 0.93. Even then they rarely fly that fast.
by apurkulksha | 2026-03-03 13:48:29+00:00
One thing that's bitten our team repeatedly: prompts buried in application code means every tweak goes through the full review → merge → deploy cycle. For something as iterative as prompt engineering, that friction is brutal.
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When you're iterating on prompts, treating them like application code is the wrong mental model — they're closer to config or content. If your prompt quality is currently bottlenecked by your deployment cadence, this is worth 5 minutes to try.
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by virgil_disgr4ce | 2026-03-03 13:48:38+00:00
Hehe. Well it's funny because years and years ago I made a similar comment to a person who I highly respected and had way more experience than me and he looked right at me and said, "No, waterfall does work." And it really made an impression on me.

But yeah, there's a point at which you have to ask where waterfall begins and agile ends in reality it's blurry. Prototyping is essentially in most nontrivial problems, so if you count prototyping as agile then shrug but ultimately it doesn't matter what we call it
by hoherd | 2026-03-03 13:48:48+00:00
In a similar vein, imagine the step parents aren't married, they're just platonic friends. They would probably be overjoyed if their children connected romantically.

Also, I can just see the industry changing from "stepbrother" to "my mom's boyfriend's son." Suddenly if the parents aren't married then it's not illegal. What about if the parents are divorced? Does ex-step-sibling count? The whole thing seems absurd. These are works of fiction that have not "graduated", as Preet Bharara would say.
by dartharva | 2026-03-03 13:49:17+00:00
The scary thing is that Indian juduciary is infamous for being incapable of tolerating any kind of criticism against it and not hesitating to put people in jail for "contempt" for just calling out corruption. Imagine the official courts of 1.4B+ people being run by such braindead narcissists, now unhindered with having to even pretend to do their jobs as they just offload everything to AI tools.
by DaedalusII | 2026-03-03 13:49:20+00:00
>The number of international students studying in Australia totalled 833,041 for the January-October 2025 period

>The United States hosts the highest number of international students on record, with approximately 1.1 to 1.2 million

The US has 32% more students than Australia and 1121% more people. Imagine if the US took on 13 million foreign college students per year lol

It does help them in the long run, because it ensures they get to reside in australia. after 4 years they get permanent residence rights and benefits, etc
by Someone1234 | 2026-03-03 13:50:37+00:00
AWS Educate "Starter" Accounts were exactly that[0]. It didn't ask for, nor need a Credit Card, and there was functionally no way to exceed.

[0] https://www.geeksforgeeks.org/cloud-computing/aws-educate-st...

They also offered (may still offer) the same thing with AWS Academy.
by 3RTB297 | 2026-03-03 13:50:52+00:00
This is immensely counter-intuitive to many Americans. They wrongly assume that digital IDs are some Biblical apocalyptic level invasion of privacy, when every state ID database is already 1) linked to Federal ones, and 2) full of the same data on your driver's license anyway.

I've tried to explain this to people, that a digital ID done well is better than the fraud-enabling 1960's hodgepodge in use that has served fraudsters better than citizens for 30 years. They set their teeth and refuse based on use of the word "digital" in the title alone.

It will take generational change for the US to get something as banal as a digital ID already in use in dozens of countries, for no other reason than mindless panic over misunderstanding everything about digital ID systems, how IDs even work, and how governments work.
by dubcanada | 2026-03-03 13:51:09+00:00
About 90% of BC is nothing but wildlife and trees. You can't really compare it to Germany in any capacity, it doesn't work. Canada has land with literally 0 people on it bigger then the entirely of Germany. The vastness of Canada cannot be understated. Canada is almost 10mil km2, Germany is 350k km2.

Germany population is about 2x that of Canada.
by chocmake | 2026-03-03 13:51:09+00:00
If it is the case that German IDs supporting selective disclosure aren't seeing adoption for services then it needs to looked at what the friction is or even just because it's optional. It doesn't necessarily have to be an ulterior motive. It'd be easy to be called out as conspiratorial otherwise.

Right now with age assurance laws and online services there has been no singular approach beside falling back to use of government ID that any country has required. Each country has just said 'here are the minimum criteria, choose what you want' and left it up to services to comply.

So what have services chosen? The least friction and cheapest existing solution to be compliant. For most services that's been using readily available facial scanning services and government IDs as fallback. Not all of them of course but it's so scattered that it makes it difficult for a person to know what they'll need for one service vs another (and perhaps even avoid use of a service if their approach doesn't align with the person's values).

Without mandating better minimum privacy criteria governments can just point to the fact they're not preventing such tech from being used and leave it at that. But solutions also need to be affordable to adopt for a wide range of sites/services and have good support (interfaces, etc) around them to catch on so it's not just entirely whether tech exists per se.
by toisanji | 2026-03-03 13:51:17+00:00
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by drzaiusx11 | 2026-03-03 13:51:53+00:00
Asahi Linux is fantastic these days, but as with most linuxes on laptops the power management / battery life is the worst part. If treating a laptop like a portable desktop is ok for your use case you'd be plenty happy. If you're far away from an outlet for too long however, you'll find it lacking. At least that's my experience. It's possible they eventually figure that out too...
by Traubenfuchs | 2026-03-03 13:52:37+00:00
This person has never worked with several decades old government, bank or tax (return) code where all that's every done is edge cases and implementations of new laws and capabilities being forever bolted on to each other. Systems that were half migrated from a PL/I / Cobol mess to java 7 by Accenture, until the money ran out with the result being that both systems now exist forever and have to be integrated into each other for years. In the end you have decades old code bases maintained by people with less than 10 years of total work tenure, who will leave for greener pastures soon. No one to ask but some old grumpy grey beard with a royal salary who barely does any work but has some ancient wisdom to share.

No one understanding what's going on inside of complex systems in financially constrained environments built and maintained by average, at best, engineers is the norm and is what keeps the world running.

None of that is a symptom of AI. The only change AI brings is that even first person developers don't know anymore what the fuck they just deployed.
by orwin | 2026-03-03 13:53:06+00:00
Since WW2 maybe, with a very, very small sample. But historically, if you have a minority religion/heresy, you better live under a Muslim caliphate than a Christian monarch not that it's great by any mean, but the moors are a great example, they got what, a generation after the reconquista? Two? Hussites and especially cathares are probably the first religious genocide, with public rape of one of their leader and her daughters, and the destruction of all Cathare littérature and religious text.
by simondanerd | 2026-03-03 13:53:28+00:00
I may not be in the business (and this is not an ad), but I could likely build the same site in about 30 minutes and charge a tenth of the price to recover the cost of Copilot in VS Code for a year.

Human-built has its place, but it's hard to justify when the price is so much higher for a relatively repetitive task that produces the same results.
by ryanmcl | 2026-03-03 13:54:13+00:00
I'm one of those people. Taught myself Rails 8 months ago at 45 with zero coding experience. I now have a production app with real Stripe payments, AI voice cloning, background audio processing, and a PWA with push notifications. Live users, live transactions.

Before AI assistance this simply wasn't in my possibility space. Not because I couldn't think through the problems, but because the gap between "I know what I want to build" and "I can actually build it" required years of skill acquisition I didn't have while raising my son and being a good husband (after some rough years ay).

The glut isn't visible yet because most of us aren't shipping to HN. We're shipping to our tiny audiences, our friends and family, our niche communities. The software exists ...it's just not venture-scale so nobody's writing about it.