MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by mc32 | 2026-03-02 12:16:07+00:00
In geopolitics you are forced to make deals with the devil. We armed and supplied the USSR to defeat Germany in WWII. In the 90s we gave an out of work China a wold franchise so we could make a few extra bucks with cheap labor and one billion consumers. Our blu collar workers would put down their dangerous and heavy machinery on the dank shop floor so they could take snazzy white collar jobs that were healthier and paid better because they use their American education to skill up their brains.

People were sold on that and many bought it. And now here we are living in the aftermath of us propping up systems incongruous to our own and living it down. It comes down to jockeying politicians like J Kerry and company who pretend they work for the people but in all honesty only work for themselves (remember Kerry never threw out his own war medals but rather reproductions he bought in the PX). Jane Fonda, her vanity sunk the nuclear energy industry for fifty years.
by strcat | 2026-03-02 12:16:12+00:00
Motorola Signature (2026) has 7 years of support. It's a subset of Motorola's future devices in 2027 and later which are going to support GrapheneOS since the current ones in 2026 didn't quite meet all of the requirements yet. The intent has never been to support their existing devices but rather for future devices to provide everything needed and official GrapheneOS support. There's a lot of work to do. Meeting all of our requirements on low-end devices is currently unrealistic but can be a goal further down the road.
by acidburnNSA | 2026-03-02 12:16:27+00:00
* "Self-hosted: Runs entirely on your infrastructure. No data leaves your network."

* "Bring Your Own LLM: Anthropic, OpenAI, Gemini, or open-weight models via vLLM."

With so many newbies wanting these kinds of services it might be worth adjusting the first bullet to say: "No data leaves your network, at least as long as you don't use any Anthropic, OpenAI, or Gemini models via the network of course"
by wsng | 2026-03-02 12:16:43+00:00
As part of a smalltalk training, we had to go out and approach strangers in the public. I entered a tram to try my luck. As soon as as I sat down, someone else started to talk to me, and we had a nice conversation. I didn't even need to break the ice myself. So I can (anecdotally) confirm that people can perceive if you want to connect or rather want to be left alone.
by Someone | 2026-03-02 12:16:46+00:00
based on your comment (the site is unresponsive, so I cannot check what exactly it says) I think the article is incorrect.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Copyright_law_of_the_United_St...:

“For works published or registered before 1978, the maximum copyright duration is 95 years from the date of publication, if copyright was renewed during the 28th year following publication. Copyright renewal has been automatic since the Copyright Renewal Act of 1992.

For works created before 1978, but not published or registered before 1978, the standard §302 copyright duration of 70 years from the author's death also applies. Prior to 1978, works had to be published or registered to receive copyright protection. Upon the effective date of the 1976 Copyright Act (which was January 1, 1978) this requirement was removed and these unpublished, unregistered works received protection. However, Congress intended to provide an incentive for these authors to publish their unpublished works. To provide that incentive, these works, if published before 2003, would not have their protection expire before 2048.”
by NicuCalcea | 2026-03-02 12:16:53+00:00
What do you mean by "better [...] at handling sensitive info"? As in, they are more technically competent, or they will treat your data more ethically?

I don't think these projects claim they've got better infrastructure for handling private data, just that they won't sell it to advertisers. I trust Google are experts at handling my data, I just don't want them to.
by jacquesm | 2026-03-02 12:17:35+00:00
Yes, that's a nasty spot to be in. I'm not sure how well this setup would work in more mountainous regions, here it is pretty flat except for the roads around Arnhem, especially the Gelderse Vallei where it feels - to my dutch legs anyway - pretty steep. But that's the only bit of hills that are worthy of the name, the rest is a flat as the proverbial pancake.

As for those videos: beware, there are also fake ones (there are about anything that gets clicks these days), but also many genuine ones. Not for the faint of heart.
by Markoff | 2026-03-02 12:17:58+00:00
> I just want a cheap phone that can run like five apps (sadly one is the type that won't work, i.e. payments), and not run Android or iOS.

https://devices.ubuntu-touch.io

https://wiki.postmarketos.org/wiki/Devices#Community

you can certainly buy some of the supported smaller devices (e.g. Pixel 3a) and change battery for new

sadly basically nothing newer than 2020
by saaaaaam | 2026-03-02 12:19:14+00:00
A few things I do: I'll point something out, and ask a question. So if I'm in a shop I'll saying something like "I've never seen that before - is it popular?"

If I'm getting a coffee if the barista says "How are you?" Rather than just saying something non-committal I'll say "I'm good thanks, it looks like you're having a busy day/quiet day - has it been like this all day?" or I'll ask a question about the beans (if it's the sort of place they regularly rotate through different beans) or I'll ask what the music that's playing is, or something like that. You can immediately tell if someone wants to continue the conversation. And obviously, if it's busy I won't try to engage them in a longer conversation unless they seem to want to.

If I'm waiting for a bus or a train asking someone "Do you know if this one goes to....{destination}?" is an easy start - obviously, even if you know it does, and you want to talk to someone, it's a good start. And then you can say "Thanks, that's really helpful, I'm going to {destination} so that I can {do a thing}. How about you - are you going anywhere nice today?"

The key thing is knowing whether someone is open to a longer conversation. That's something you can only learn by pushing through the awkwardness of people shutting you down and turning away, or making it clear they don't want to talk.

But when they do, it's almost always very enjoyable, even if it's only a few minutes.

It's amazing the difference you'll find if you go to the same shops/places regularly and make the effort to exchange a genuine human interaction with the people you meet - they remember you, and they make an effort to do things to please you. That's not why I do it, it's a positive consequence.

I think the biggest thing is to have the conversations with people with no agenda. You're not trying to achieve something, you're just exchanging a pleasant interaction with someone, and hopefully you both leave feeling a little more connected to the world.

And always ending by saying something like "Well, it was nice talking to you! See you around!/have a lovely day/something".

If you can leave people feeling like you liked the interaction, you'll gradually feel like the interactions are pleasant.

You don't need something big to say.

And having dogs helps a LOT.
by hnthrowaway0315 | 2026-03-02 12:19:24+00:00
I think it is both nostalgic and pragmatic. I don't have to second guess what's the point of a widget, or even whether there is a widget. In default MacOS setting, the scrollbar is invisible, which literally spent me many minutes in some cases to even find that I could actually scroll down to find more options. That was completely crazy!
Show HN: Pulse – a beautiful service monitor that lives in your notch
by jsattler | 2026-03-02 12:19:32+00:00
I built Pulse to have a quick way to see if a service is down without opening a browser or checking Slack, mails, etc. IMO, it looks beautiful and doesn't get in the way when you don't need it. It also supports macOS notification and you can easily mute individual services if needed.

No tracking, no analytics, no account. MIT licensed. Config is stored locally.

Happy to hear feedback!
by bdelmas | 2026-03-02 12:19:52+00:00
Yes and no. What many call "dying cash cows" are often doing just fine, it’s just our perception of it that make them want to die. An example: Facebook. Could be considered a dying cash cows while looking at its products but it’s actually a growing business. Despise what their products are, their lack of innovation, and them not being able to compete against TikTok or make the app that will replace it, their business and so their stock have been all increasing.
by strcat | 2026-03-02 12:20:09+00:00
GrapheneOS is a non-profit and it's not that kind of business partnership. We're getting a device with official GrapheneOS support out of it and they're getting increased device sales from having more secure devices with better updates and official GrapheneOS support. It's not an exclusive partnership but we aren't currently working with any other OEM and don't have the resources to handle multiple for quite a while anyway. They're going to get a lot out of being first.
by yuvrajangads | 2026-03-02 12:20:44+00:00
The session itself is mostly noise. Half of it is the model going down wrong paths, backtracking, and trying again. Storing that alongside the commit is like saving your browser history next to your finished code.

What actually helps is a good commit message explaining the intent. If an AI wrote the code, the interesting part isn't the transcript, it's why you asked for it and what constraints you gave it. A one-paragraph description of the goal and approach is worth more than a 200-message session log.

I think the real question isn't about storing sessions, it's about whether we're writing worse commit messages because we assume the AI context is "somewhere."
by mrweasel | 2026-03-02 12:21:02+00:00
> Don't start talking with random people unless they start talking to you

How would that work exactly? Someone needs to go first.

Don't bother people obviously and if they don't want to talk they don't want to talk, that should always be respected. It's just that the idea that "you should never talk to anyone" is massively fueling a loneliness epidemic.

As for interaction with men and women: Everyone seems to agree that dating apps suck and that people should just "go out and meet people". Good luck with that if you're not allowed to talk to anyone.

There's a number of people how are going to be creeps and disrespectful, but they also don't give a shit about your "don't talk to me rule", so now ALL your interactions are going be with creeps.

Talk to as many people as you can, but be respectful, learn to read who'd rather be left alone and stop if the person clearly doesn't want to talk to you.
by mft_ | 2026-03-02 12:21:31+00:00
According to the website[0] I’d need 20+ hrs idle time, video recording, Bluetooth, and GPS.

I’m being gently snarky, of course, but the goal shouldn’t be an MVP that nerds who are deeply into privacy or FOSS or hate Google can tolerate - it should be something that disinterested normies could seamlessly and happily use.

[0] https://puri.sm/products/librem-5/
by speleding | 2026-03-02 12:21:38+00:00
Well I agree, and my hopes aren't very high of this actually happening. Our politicians tend to be clueless with anything tech related, their opinions calibrated by what they saw in Hollywood movies, where anything tech related always turns into "black mirror". (By contrast, allegedly over half the Chinese politburo has an engineering degree of some kind).

But we could start small, with just one neighborhood, a pilot project where the kinks get worked out and slowly scaled up. Getting permission for a small scale pilot shouldn't be impossible.
by deng | 2026-03-02 12:22:03+00:00
Transferring to a new Android phone without depending on Google cloud is a total nightmare. It doesn't help that there's a ton of outdated information in the net on how to do that. You can see it in this very thread: lots of people saying "do a local Whatsapp backup, transfer the backup manually": this USED to work but does NOT anymore. There is a decryption key in /data/data/com.whatsapp, which of course you can only access on rooted phones (maybe there's a way to approve the transfer when the old phone is still working, not sure).

To the best of my knowledge, it is basically impossible to fully transfer applications locally to new phones without root access.

The ONLY reliable way to transfer to a new phone:

- root your phone

- get NeoBackup (https://f-droid.org/en/packages/com.machiav3lli.backup/) and grant superuser permission to it

- do a FULL backup of the apps you want to transfer, that means it must also include "device protected data"

- restore apps on your new phone

If you'd like regular backups of apps: create scheduled backup with NeoBackup to a local folder and sync them with whatever tool you want to external storage. Good luck with that, you'll need it.
by prvnsmpth | 2026-03-02 12:22:19+00:00
Thank you!

Typical RAG implementations I’ve seen take the user query and directly run it against the full-text search and embedding indexes. This produces sub-par results because the query embedding doesn’t really capture fully what the user is really looking for.

A better solution is to send the user query to the LLM, and let it construct and run queries against the index via tool calling. Nothing too ground-breaking tbh, pretty much every AI search agent does this now. But it produces much better results.
Ask HN: Websites requiring government ID
by piratesAndSons | 2026-03-02 12:23:13+00:00
In recent years, government ID requirements to browse the internet have suddenly become more common. To understand who might be pushing this, consider the following question.

Suppose you woke up in the year 2035 and every HTTP request required a valid government ID to accompany it. Without it, you could not view the web document. In that world, who would benefit? What kinds of businesses would be in demand in a government ID gated internet? Who would be the main beneficiaries?
by hnthrowaway0315 | 2026-03-02 12:24:29+00:00
This might work well for power users, but common users may frustrate out. I do think the classic UI + keyboard driven menu clicks (e.g. ALT+some key combination) is the best case, where power uses can mostly use key stroke combinations to navigate the menu, while common users can click with a mouse.

Whatever the UI it is, being consistent is the most important. But sadly as you said, UI designers need to eat, too.
by panick21_ | 2026-03-02 12:24:45+00:00
> For them to be useful, you would need to have rails covering the same destinations and paths as the highway system.

Its funny to me that you suggest that trains need to cover what they highway system covers. When of course trains existed first and already covered many more places then highway system ever covered in most places. And with buses countries got the opportunity to cover things away from train-station and that was really not all that expensive even in rural areas.

Its just that in some countries, many of these trains were removed and the countries focused all their finances on new highway systems. And often demolished large part of productive cities to achieve it. For more so then trains ever did.

> Rail will likely encourage denser development and a higher cost of living due to a greater influence of rent-seeking entities.

No actually when you do it properly, then rail makes it so you can have a dense core around each station where you have everything you need locally while also having access to a city center in a short time.

While you subburb example misses that all subburbs are massively subsidized and make negative money. Its the poor people in the cities that are paying extra to finance these subburbs. Urban3 has done tons of analysis of this. The subburbs are the rent seekers, you just don't think of them that way because you see it as 'normal'.

There are plenty of examples, for example how in the 60s Sweden used subway trains to build massive amounts of housing alone those new lines.

> between the need/desire of a chunk of the population to keep their distance

You can have that, but you will find that once you properly account for the cost, people are much less willing to spend that money. That's why before extensive zoning codes, minimum lot sizes as requirements, parking minimum, free street parking, free highways people lived closer together. And of course the massive federal top down intensive given subburban development Post-WW2, along with the redlining of cities. All these are hidden cost on society that you simply hide and put on county, state and federal taxes.
Show HN: Self-destructing, end-to-end encrypted Pastebin
by vishnukvmd | 2026-03-02 12:25:18+00:00
Ente Paste is a simple way to share sensitive text, API keys, snippets, notes, or instructions.

- End-to-end encrypted links (decryption key lives in the URL fragment)

- Anonymous use (no account required)

- One-time access (opening consumes the paste)

- Automatic expiry after 24 hours

- 4,000-character limit for quick, practical sharing

- Preview crawler protections to avoid accidental consumption

Source code (monorepo): https://github.com/ente-io/ente
by wolvoleo | 2026-03-02 12:25:34+00:00
I don't think that happens really.

I was a foreigner in that country too and there's been so many times that people were bitching about foreigners with me present, only to realise and go like 'present company excepted of course' as if that makes it ok.

In my experience it just made me the exception to their prejudices but did nothing to actually remove them.

And I was not in the US either by the way.
by LargoLasskhyfv | 2026-03-02 12:25:51+00:00
> Btrfs is only half finished and is not robust.

Yawn. You again. Hater!1!! ;-> Mine is still running, after all these (two) years abusing it. Even with installing(not really, much more complicated) some Windoze into a subvolume of it by means of WinBtrfs. I can either boot that Windows natively, or from the same install into a VM, by means of what once were called bootmanager profiles. Automagically chosen. Without having to reserve space for NTFS, VFAT(excluding UEFI/boot), or anything else. Its just a fucking folder, like any other.

> But RH removed Btrfs from RHEL and Btrfs was the only GPL COW filesystem

There is NILFS(2) which is GPL. Lacks some features, but that could have been worked around, or implemented?

> I recall in horror and revulsion when I see it.

You have total recall of recoiling in horror? What a trip... ;-)

That aside, it's all cargo-cult anyway, because of this thing called FHS. Which seems crazy, because in a world of open-source, which can be compiled almost any way one could wish for, why not just use slashpkg, Gobolinux or similar stuff?
by blitzar | 2026-03-02 12:26:07+00:00
> should not be ignored, e.g., "Trump says he's not mulling ...

The prior news that "sources close to people who say they hear from a guy who went to school with someone who said ... that trump said he was mulling thinking about drafting an executive order ..." should be ignored, the follow up should be ignored and the inevitable follow to the follow up should also be ignored.

These are attention seeking outbursts at best, clickbait, lies and propaganda at worst.
by weatherlite | 2026-03-02 12:26:49+00:00
I don't know. The idea is old and looks solid but the more I think about it the more I don't buy it; people have less good friends. Many people are estranged from family. Many people barely say hello to their neighbors. Maybe we should expend our limited energy on the people we do know instead of strangers waiting for the bus.
For me starting something with a complete stranger is draining; I need to overcome a psychological barrier (that's probably there for a good reason); so the risk is there. The reward ? I'm not sure. Some interactions could be fun, many could be boring and draining. Sure I could get better at this skill of talking to strangers with lots of struggle but the end game isn't really clear, it's not gonna flip my personality into a charismatic stranger lover. I could use the time to quietly stare at space or call my mom instead.
by remuskaos | 2026-03-02 12:27:21+00:00
parakeet is amazing, it has completely ousted whisper for me. On Linux, both handy.computer and epicenter Whispering (using parakeet of course) work incredibly well for set-and-forget STT. I use it constantly to write messages on Slack/Teams, do debate with claude code etc. Both have minor bugs, but I can easily accept those, these apps being FOSS and all.

On Mac, I've been using VoiceInk and it's even better. VoiceInk (and MacWhisper too, IIRC) use the neural engine and the delay between dictation and appearance of the typed text is almost imperceptible.
by touisteur | 2026-03-02 12:27:39+00:00
I'm not harping on the usefulness. More like trying to understand what would be the merit or use-case of frequent or permanent monitoring of this. Are there know failure/degradation modes from the storage HW or the filesystem, or database problems that would be detected by running this continuously. Sibling answer talks about SAN, which makes sense. Wondering what the other use-cases are here.

Otherwise, yes, of course,using it as calibration after any HW change would be interesting.
by strcat | 2026-03-02 12:28:21+00:00
Pixels will continue to be supported until end-of-life. We still intend to add support for future Pixels too. Google is welcome to work with us to make that smoother.

> May I ask if you still recommend Windows to pair with Graphene?

I never recommended Windows. macOS on their latest hardware is the overall least bad out of the mainstream options (Windows, macOS, Fedora, Ubuntu, etc.). An iPhone or Pixel with GrapheneOS is far more secure than any of those.
by mc32 | 2026-03-02 12:28:34+00:00
I think there is a difference between bringing in key proven talent at the apex that’s already proven itself and talent that needs to be developed. Both the US and USSR picked up proven talent from the Nazis, they weren’t siphoning up green talent on the hopes they’d develop into good scientists. We have our own population we often overlook and misdirect into Hollywood entertainment rather than achievement.
Show HN: A compression tool that reduces linux binary downloads by 6%
by mohsen1 | 2026-03-02 12:28:44+00:00
I wanted to see if AI (mostly ChatGPT Pro and Gemini Pro 3.1) could figure out how to compress executable binaries better than existing generic tools without me actually knowing much about compression engineering or ELF internals.

The result is an experiment called fesh. It works strictly as a deterministic pre-processor pipeline wrapping LZMA (xz). The AI kept identifying "structural entropy boundaries" and instructed me to extract near-branches, normalize jump tables, rewrite .eh_frame DWARF pointers to absolute image bases, delta-encode ELF .rela structs with ZigZag mappings, and force column transpositions before compressing them in separated LZMA channels.

Surprisingly, it actually works. The CI strictly verifies that compression is perfectly reversible (bit-for-bit identity match) across 103 Alpine Linux x86_64 packages. According to the benchmarks, it consistently produces smaller payloads than xz -9e --x86 (XZ BCJ), ZSTD, and Brotli across the board—averaging around 6% smaller than maximum XZ BCJ limits.

I honestly have no idea how much of this is genuinely novel versus standard practices in extreme binary packing (like Crinkler/UPX).

Repo: https://github.com/mohsen1/fesh

Does this architecture have any actual merits for standard distribution formats, or is this just overfitting the LZMA dictionary to Alpine's compiler outputs? I'd love to hear from people who actually understand compression math.
by codethief | 2026-03-02 12:28:45+00:00
What are donations being spent on, who makes those decisions, what's the roadmap, what's up with MobileCoin, why the hell do they put so much trust into Intel SGX when there are so many known vulnerabilities, …

I've been a Signal/TextSecure user since day one and have convinced many dozens of people to switch to Signal but, man, they don't exactly make it easy to be a fan.