MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by pjmlp | 2026-03-03 18:27:56+00:00
Nah, some developers are lazy, that is all, lets not dance around the bush with that one.

Most of those Electron folks would not manage to even write C applications on an Amiga, use Delphi, VB, or whatever.

Educated on node and do not know anything else.

Even doing a TUI seems like a revelation to current generations, something quite mudane and quite common on 1980's text based computing of Turbo Vision, Clipper and curses.
Wormhole Vectors with Trey Grainger
by CShorten | 2026-03-03 18:28:00+00:00
In Hybrid Search, searchers such as BM25 and Vector Search run independently, produce separate result sets, and get merged...

Introducing ... ... Wormhole Vectors!

Instead of merging orthogonal results, traverse between the vector spaces. Run a lexical search, pool the matching documents' dense vectors, and search the dense space from that point.

Hybrid search runs two queries and hopes the right answer was in one of them. Wormhole vectors let you traverse between the spaces instead.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j4JZvKb5pJY
Show HN: HackerNews.pink – A PWA HN reader with personalized recommendations
by gurkenkoenig | 2026-03-03 18:28:21+00:00
I think everyone should build their own HN reader at least once in their life. This is mine and its pink.
I wanted a good HN experience on mobile something I could pull up on the train and browse comfortably. So I built a PWA that works well on mobile and feels native on the phone.
Along the way, I kept adding things:
Semantic search – Stories are embedded with OpenAI's text-embedding-3-large and indexed in MongoDB 8.2's Vector Search. Search combines vector similarity and full-text via Reciprocal Rank Fusion, so you can find stories by meaning, not just keywords.
Personalized feed: A profile vector is built from your reading history and bookmarks (weighted by time spent and recency). After a few stories, the feed adapts to your interests.
Content extraction: A Playwright-based scraper fetches article text, generates thumbnails, and extracts metadata.
Real-time updates and infinity scroll. Auth is passkey-first (WebAuthn) and works without personal information.
Stack: Angular 21, FastAPI (Python 3.14), MongoDB 8.2, Valkey for job queues.
It's a hobby project and I had a lot of fun building it. Feedback welcome!
by pinkmuffinere | 2026-03-03 18:28:26+00:00
Here's the relevant section [1] (emphasis mine):

> “That is why I am inviting broadcasters to pledge to air programming in their local markets in
support of this historic national, non-partisan celebration. As an example, this could include:

> • Running PSAs, short segments, or full specials specifically promoting _civic education,
inspiring local stories, and American history_.

> • Including segments during regular news programming that highlight local sites that are
significant to American and regional history, such as National Park Service sites.

> • Starting each broadcast day with the “Star Spangled Banner” or Pledge of Allegiance.

> • Airing music by America’s greatest composers, such as John Philip Sousa, Aaron Copland,
Duke Ellington, or George Gershwin.

> • Providing daily “Today in American History” announcements highlighting significant events
that took place on that day in history.

> • Partnering with community organizations and other groups that are already working hard to
bring America’s stories of unity, perseverance, and triumph to light.

MLK's speeches are certainly included in civic education, inspiring local stories, and American history.

[1] https://docs.fcc.gov/public/attachments/DOC-418890A1.pdf
by jonpurdy | 2026-03-03 18:28:30+00:00
This is correct and also increasingly affecting me as my eyes age. I had to give my Studio Display to my wife because my eyes can't focus at a reasonable distance anymore, and if I moved back further the text was too small to read. I ran the 5K Studio Display at 4K scaled for a bit but it was noticeably blurry.

This would've been easily solved with non-integer scaling, if Apple had implemented that.

(I now use a combo of 4K TV 48" from ~1.5-2 metres back as well as a 4K 27" screen from 1 m away, depending on which room I want to work in. Angular resolution works out similarly (115 pixels per degree).)
Show HN: SmartRuler Pro – ESP32-powered motorized ruler with 0.5mm precision
by iosifnicolae2 | 2026-03-03 18:28:36+00:00
My dad cuts window profiles in his workshop and I kept watching him measure, mark, and reposition by hand hundreds of times a day. So I built him a motorized ruler that moves to any position you tap on a tablet.

It runs on an ESP32-S3 over BLE 5.3, uses hardware-timed stepper pulses (RMT peripheral, no CPU jitter) to hit 0.5mm accuracy, and pairs with a Bosch GLM laser meter - point, measure, and the ruler moves there. No typing, no transcription errors.

You can also upload cut lists from a file or email and it runs each position in sequence - perfect for batch cutting window profiles where you need the same set of measurements repeated all day.

Open hardware: off-the-shelf linear rails, NEMA 23 closed-loop stepper, inductive homing sensor. Total BOM is about 470 EUR. I sell the firmware, app (Android + desktop), and a step-by-step build guide for 350 EUR.

Video demo: https://youtu.be/GCUHBiIs4Vk

Happy to answer questions about the build or the ESP32 RMT approach to stepper control.
by jeremykalfus | 2026-03-03 18:28:48+00:00
If you don’t work in a lab, it’s hard to get publications. Also, science takes way too long, and a lot of the reason for that is finding the right people.

I want to fix this, so I’m starting LabLess. It’s basically huggingface but for academic research.

I need a cofounder or maybe even a small team. Tell your friends!
by keeda | 2026-03-03 18:28:53+00:00
Yeah I expect, just like physical exercise, people will need to get their hands dirty on a regular basis to stay competitive.

In fact, this is nothing new, and even encoded as a requirement for many professions like lawyers and doctors: to maintain their licenses, they are required to take hours of "professional development" every year or so to keep their skills up-to-date.

This process is regularly gamed, of course, but I suspect with AI people won't have that luxury.
by prerok | 2026-03-03 18:29:13+00:00
I don't agree with this. In my view, there are plenty of cases where the product changes are shoved down our throats.

I think the problem is that the product folks don't actually listen to the market. They read Jobs' biography and are convinced that they will tell their users what product they will like and that they will see the light later on.

The sad reality is: they are not Jobs (and even he was not faultless). So, we get Mac like Windows interfaces, we get mail clients losing features, we get AI in every single app you see, etc.

Just my 2c.
by j1elo | 2026-03-03 18:29:16+00:00
Depends on the needs of the licensor. AGPLv3 solves the problem of other players taking the code, improving it privately, and not sharing those improvements. But AGPLv3 is not a silver bullet for people who write Open Source code and pretend to make a living from it. "Open Source is not a business plan".

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45095581
by getpokedagain | 2026-03-03 18:29:19+00:00
I don't think you are being naive but I do caution you before you don't worry.

Its not always clear what the desired outcome is here. The dark pattern could have nothing to do with the tracking most folks worry about. We like our phones more than our laptops because we touch the screens for example. The dark pattern here could simply be you use the site more because you do more actions there driving you to waste time and view ads. Who knows.
by daxfohl | 2026-03-03 18:29:25+00:00
A potential corollary: companies that offer a single service of high quality will be preferred by AI agents. Companies that cobble together low quality services will be replaced by agents that integrate high quality services on demand. The business model of "core service plus add-on services" will also be diminished, as low quality add-ons will be replaced by on-demand integration with higher quality equivalents or AI generated custom functionality.

So basically businesses who focus on maintaining best in class core services and avoid the cruft will be the winners in the AI world.
by w10-1 | 2026-03-03 18:29:43+00:00
So frustrating. Thanks to the commenters who suggest how to win the SEO battle (saving tips...). But is there any viable path to not paying this kind of tax?

My possibly naive answer - validated identities, authority over related claims - seems to be blocked by the perceived unreliability of registrars, public or private, or by the problem of having your identity be public (exposing yourself to blackmail).

This is not a one-off or even a limited contagion; this psychosis may be a cancer.

Psychosis is when unreality replaces reality.

It's possible whenever there is a representation of reality.

It happens when there is motivated thinking.

It persists when it resists any correction by reality.

It replicates when people depend on it.

Hence: Google, political and commercial media, social media -- all of which make it easy to misrepresent, hard to correct, and impossible to stop.

Are there really are no viable alternatives? Who even is motivated to solve it?
by lapcat | 2026-03-03 18:29:48+00:00
It's weird for the author to mention Mac window buttons and corner radius as reasons to use Electron, because while the main content of Electron app windows is HTML, the Electron windows themselves and the window chrome are native, with the same buttons and corner radius as other apps on the system.

Electron is a native wrapper for web content. The wrapper is still native.

> Native APIs are terrible to use, and OS vendors use everything in their power to make you not want to develop native apps for their platform.

I'm honestly not quite sure what the author means here.

Web APIs are equally “terrible” in my opinion. In any case, you have to release an Electron app on Mac the same way you release any native app on Mac. The benefit of using web APIs is not that they are non-terrible but that you can share the same code as your website. And of course you can more easily find web developers than native developers. But that has nothing to do with whether or not the API is terrible. It’s just supply and demand.

I’ll take AppKit and autolayout any day over CSS, ugh. CSS is the worst.
by HanClinto | 2026-03-03 18:30:07+00:00
Is it weird to anyone else that the M5 keeps the same limitations of the M4, and tops out at 128 GB of RAM?

If one wants to serve large-ish LLMs locally, an M3 Mac Studio w/ 512 GB/RAM is still a super compelling option, and I was hoping that the M5's would bump us up to 1TB of unified memory.

Don't get me wrong -- seeing them use LMStudio as the benchmark for measuring local LLM inference is super awesome for the local / open-source LLM community, but seeing this have the same 128GB cap as the M4 is... disappointing?

M3 Studio is still the best option if one wants 512GB.
by chasil | 2026-03-03 18:30:10+00:00
I have a few observations about this article.

Generally, try not to use SCP. It has been a crufty old program from the Berkeley R-Utilities, but newer OpenSSH releases have rewritten it to use the sftp-server server instead. There will be wildly different behavior between these implementations.

The backend SCP changes are documented here:

https://lwn.net/Articles/835962/

If you need something that SFTP cannot do, then use tar on both sides.

PuTTY has implemented their pscp to prefer the sftp-server for many years, in a long prediction of the eventual abandonment. Their pscp implementation is a better drop-in replacement than the OpenSSH solutions.

The allure of SCP is retry on failure, which is somewhat more difficult with SFTP:

until scp source.txt user@target:dir/
do echo target down; sleep 300
done

Converting that to pscp is much easier than SFTP.

I also have an older rhel5 system where I am running tinysshd to use better SSH crypto. Due to upgrades, NFS is now squashing everything to nobody, so I had to disable precisely these checks to let users login with their authorized_keys. I can post the code if anybody is curious.
Show HN: Mozilla.ai introduces Clawbolt, an AI Assistant for the trades
by river_otter | 2026-03-03 18:30:23+00:00
Hey everyone, Nathan here: I'm an MLE at Mozilla.ai. I can't tell you how many things around my house I've been saying "I would really like to have somebody take a look at that". But here's the problem: all the people in the trades are extremely overwhelmed with work. There is a lot to be done and not enough people to do it.

One of my best friends runs his own general contracting business. He's extremely talented and wants to spend his time working on drywall, building staircases, and listening to Mumford and Sons while throwing paint onto a ceiling. But you know what gets in the way of that wonderful lifestyle that all us software engineers dream about?

ADMINISTRATION.

He thought running his own business would be 85% show up and do the work, but turns out a large chunk of the time is spent talking to clients to schedule time to get an estimate, working with home management companies to explain the details of an invoice, and generally just manage all of the information that he's gathering on a single day.

Luckily for the world, AI is here to help with this. Tech like openclaw has really opened our eyes to the possibilities, and tech to help out small businesses like these are now within reach.

That's why I'm excited to share out an initial idea we're trying out: clawbolt. It's a python based project that takes inspiration from the main features that make openclaw so powerful: SOUL.md, heartbeat proactive communication, memory management, and communication over channels like WhatsApp and iMessage. With clawbolt, we're working on integrating our latest work with any-llm and any-guardrail, to help make clawbolt secure and to ease onboarding.

This is all new, so this is a call for ideas, usage, and bug reports. Most of us that try to get plumbers/roofers/handymen to come help us with a home project know how overwhelmed they are with admin work when they're a small team. I'm hoping that we can make clawbolt into something that helps enable these people to focus on doing what they love and not on all the paperwork.

Let me know what you think! Docs at https://mozilla-ai.github.io/clawbolt/
by iambateman | 2026-03-03 18:30:25+00:00
I think Warhol’s quote is nostalgic but incomplete.

I’m priced out of the best cars, best houses, best home theater systems, best schools. Even someone making $300k/year can’t afford all of the best of everything.

Sure, the iPhone has been “the best” possible phone which was also used by nearly everyone, but I think that’s an anomaly even in the short run.

Right now I’m paying $200/mo for Claude code to do an amount of work I would’ve had to pay $10,000/mo for. Of course I’m expecting those numbers to get closer to each other.

No VC-funded gravy train lasts forever.
by dijit | 2026-03-03 18:30:40+00:00
Lets be real, the fact that the Air is good for developers is.. honestly, great.

But these devices are meant for home users.

Not a tremendous amount of home users having huge gradle/go/cargo/node packages in my experience.

The backup problem is real, I'm surprised Apple doesn't come out with a new time capsule- but I guess they want that sweet iCloud services dollar.
by ethicalhuman | 2026-03-03 18:31:07+00:00
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by voxl | 2026-03-03 18:31:19+00:00
"We find that nearly 90 percent of the tariffs’ economic burden fell on U.S. firms and consumers." https://libertystreeteconomics.newyorkfed.org/2026/02/who-is...

"we find that tariff increases are associated with an economically and statistically sizeable and persistent decline in output growth" https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC7255316/

"Overall, the evidence implies that tariff increases depress economic activity and trade once their indirect and general-equilibrium effects are taken into account." https://www.nber.org/system/files/working_papers/w34852/w348...

Hey, but the vibes of the consumer, right? Except the vibes of the consumer is at an all time low ( https://www.pewresearch.org/politics/2026/02/04/a-year-into-...) With a notable exception being republicans, i.e., the death cult who screamed "No New Wars!" and "Kamala will start WW3" and are not sucking off daddy Trump's Iran war.
by close04 | 2026-03-03 18:31:23+00:00
They repeatedly compare to Intel and AMD cores though, which are x86. If they’re worth a mention, then so are some of the other ARM consumer desktop chips on the market regardless of who designed them. Apple was one of the closest ARM chips they could have compared to.

Your “specifically ARM cores designed by and licensable from ARM Holdings” argument doesn’t hold any water.
by jjmarr | 2026-03-03 18:32:21+00:00
Western militaries have a parallel commissioned officer and enlisted command structure where an O1 (junior officer) is technically senior to an E9 (senior enlisted NCO) and can order them around.

The idea is that command requires a separate set of skills and that experience needs to start early to have senior officers in their 50s.

In practice, junior officers are "advised" by senior enlisted on how to order people around and not taking that advice is a bad idea.

Kind of like how companies have managers and technical tracks where a line manager ignoring a senior technical person always blows up in their face.
by OkayPhysicist | 2026-03-03 18:32:25+00:00
While a bit reductionist, it's pretty much right. Tariffs can work if, and only if, the market believes the tariffs will last long enough to spin up entire industries, and then recoup that investment.

The problem with Trump's tariffs is that everyone knows they are relatively short term. At most, they'll last until the end of Trump's presidency, and even that's assuming that they don't get struck down by the courts, or Trump flip-flops on them like he does everything else.

Without the ability to credibly ensure their ongoing existence, tariffs fail their only real purpose of incentivizing domestic manufacturing, instead acting as a regressive tax on your population.
by skejriwal44 | 2026-03-03 18:32:26+00:00
We are open-sourcing SkyDiscover, a modular framework for LLM-driven algorithm discovery.

Most prior systems (e.g., AlphaEvolve) are closed-source. Existing open alternatives are monolithic and hard to extend. SkyDiscover decomposes discovery into four swappable components: Context Builder, Solution Generator, Evaluator, and Selector.

On top of this, we implemented two adaptive algorithms (~2.5K LoC each):

AdaEvolve – adapts search based on real-time progress

EvoX – allows the model to modify its own discovery strategy

Across 200+ benchmarks (math, systems, Frontier-CS, multimodal):

+34% median improvement on 172 Frontier-CS tasks over prior open methods

Matched/exceeded AlphaEvolve on several math and systems tasks

41% lower cross-cloud transfer cost

14% better MoE load balance (9.5× faster)

29% lower KV-cache pressure vs. published human baseline

The goal is to make discovery algorithms easy to build, compare, and extend.

Feedback welcome.
by jfengel | 2026-03-03 18:32:27+00:00
Until recently, antivax was largely a liberal form of anti-intellectualism. It was a reaction against large pharmaceutical companies.

It didn't really become a conservative position until COVID. It's mostly an anti-progressive thing, but builds on existing populist conservative anti-science attitudes. (Conservative doesn't always mean anti-science, but populist versions of it will inevitably tend that way.)
by rapnie | 2026-03-03 18:32:33+00:00
Besides going full native, a Tauri [0] app might have been another good alternative given they already use Rust. There are pros and cons to that choice, of course, and perhaps Tauri was considered and not chosen. Tauri plus Extism [1] would have been interesting, enabling polyglot plugin development via wasm.

[0] https://tauri.app/

[1] https://extism.org/
by avhception | 2026-03-03 18:32:37+00:00
I think there is a tendency to simply give in and buy bigger hardware if something doesn't work. With friends and family, I sometimes feel like having to talk them off the roof with regards to pulling the trigger on really expensive (relative to the tasks they're doing) hardware, simply because performance is often abysmal due to the fact that they trashed their OS with malware and bloatware and whatnot and can't understand all of that.

It's the same at work, to some degree. Our in-house ERP software performs like kicking a sack of rocks down a hill. I don't know how often I had to show devs that the hardware is actually idle and they're mostly derailing themselves with DB table locks, GC issues and whatnot. If I weren't pushing back, we probably would have bought the biggest VMs just to let them sit idle.
by Tamaybes | 2026-03-03 18:32:41+00:00
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