MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by iamnothere | 2026-03-13 17:09:49+00:00
(e) (1) “Covered application store” means a publicly available internet website, software application, online service, or platform that distributes and facilitates the download of applications from third-party developers to users of a computer, a mobile device, or any other general purpose computing that can access a covered application store or can download an application.

(2) “Covered application store” does not mean an online service or platform that distributes extensions, plug-ins, add-ons, or other software applications that run exclusively within a separate host application.

(f) “Developer” means a person that owns, maintains, or controls an application.

(g) “Operating system provider” means a person or entity that develops, licenses, or controls the operating system software on a computer, mobile device, or any other general purpose computing device.

...

1798.501. (a) An operating system provider shall do all of the following:

(1) Provide an accessible interface at account setup that requires an account holder to indicate the birth date, age, or both, of the user of that device for the purpose of providing a signal regarding the user’s age bracket to applications available in a covered application store.

(2) Provide a developer who has requested a signal with respect to a particular user with a digital signal via a reasonably consistent real-time application programming interface that identifies, at a minimum, which of the following categories pertains to the user:

&c.

So yes, OSes are mentioned directly. The lawsuits will only come after it goes into effect.
by NalNezumi | 2026-03-13 17:10:16+00:00
I don't follow how your take is any different? We're essentially saying the same thing: it's a "nice story" == easier to sell to people for the powerful to control them.

Organized religion is pretty much about manipulating our innate spiritual side with nice stories to keep us bought in to the "nice story" that serve the top the most.

I'm just pointing out that the utility of the idea is just that: organization and control. It is quite redundant today because there are more advanced way of doing the same thing.

Or are you just pointing out that things have to be argued in a cynical way for it to be true?
by verdverm | 2026-03-13 17:10:32+00:00
The next step to this is using a better tool to access containers (BuildKit), like Dagger, where you can track every step as a new container layer, time travel, share via registries...

This has been my setup since early this year, not even that much code: https://github.com/hofstadter-io/hof/tree/_next/lib/agent/se...

The bigger effort is making it play nice with vscode so you can browse and edit the files and diffs.
by Terr_ | 2026-03-13 17:11:09+00:00
> The real answer to the problem is for websites/appstores to publish tags that are legally binding assertions of age appropriateness, and then browsers/systems can be configured to use those tags to only show appropriate content to their intended user.

Agreed, recycling a comment: on reasons for it to be that way:

___________

1. Most of the dollar costs of making it all happen will be paid by the people who actually need/use the feature.

2. No toxic Orwellian panopticon.

3. Key enforcement falls into a realm non-technical parents can actually observe and act upon: What device is little Timmy holding?

4. Every site in the world will not need a monthly update to handle Elbonia's rite of manhood on the 17th lunar year to make it permitted to see bare ankles. Instead, parents of that region/religion can download their own damn plugin.
by unfirehose | 2026-03-13 17:11:18+00:00
if you do, would you still want to collect data in a single pane of glass? see my open source repo for aggregating harness data from multiple machine learning model harnesses & models into a single place to discover what you are working on & spending time & money. there is plans for a scrobble feature like last.fm but for agent research & code development & execution.

https://github.com/russellballestrini/unfirehose-nextjs-logg...

thanks, I'll check for comments, feel free to fork but if you want to contribute you'll have to find me off of github, I develop privately on my own self hosted gitlab server. good luck & God bless.
by chillkim | 2026-03-13 17:11:33+00:00
I kept getting surprised by what's actually inside popular repos. Like, Next.js? 13.5% Rust. Turbopack is a way bigger chunk than I expected. Deno is 59% Rust — the "TypeScript runtime" is mostly not TypeScript. Python's fastest package manager (uv) is 98% Rust, 1.6% Python. And LangChain is 99.3% Python with zero compiled extensions, which honestly explains a lot.

So I built a CLI that just... tells you this stuff. Point it at any repo, get back structured data — language breakdown, dependency counts, CI setup, health signals, security basics.

pip install repocrunch
repocrunch analyze vercel/next.js --pretty

No AI, no LLMs, no API keys beyond a GitHub token. Same repo, same output, every time. I mainly use it for dependency due diligence — is this library actually maintained, what's it written in, does it have basic security hygiene.

Also works as an MCP server if you want to give your AI coding assistant real repo data instead of hallucinated star counts.

Happy to talk about the implementation or the weird things I've found analyzing repos.
by k5jhn | 2026-03-13 17:12:04+00:00
Location: Greater Seattle Area (Bellevue)

Remote: Yes

Willing to relocate: Yes

Technologies:

Languages: Python, Go, TypeScript, JavaScript, Bash
Infrastructure & Cloud: AWS, Kubernetes, Docker, Terraform, Pulumi, GCP
Platform & Observability: OpenTelemetry, Datadog
Backend: PostgreSQL, Redis, Kafka, FastAPI, Django, REST, gRPC, Node.js
Frontend: React

Résumé/CV: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1yVkpdeV27htq5BV-MTdi66sd...

Email: alexkosj@gmail.com
by socalgal2 | 2026-03-13 17:12:11+00:00
> it's nice to just have NPR going all the time

I used to do that but the shows repeat and at the top of the hour or sometimes multiple times they repeat the same news over and over. I get someone else might be tuning in and not have heard the latest news

Maybe there's some middle ground where instead of a stream it's on demand but continuous. So I go to videostream.npr.com and since it knows it's a single user it can push the news once and then just be shows.

That said, youtube autoplay is the basic concept, it just sucks at what it recommends.
by dang | 2026-03-13 17:12:31+00:00
Thanks! When there was a recent Show HN we usually merge the comments thither and re-up that post. I'll do that now.

Normally I'd leave your comment in the original thread as a pointer, but since the other links are of interest, I've moved it too.

(the other thread was https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47366400)
by elophanto_agent | 2026-03-13 17:13:10+00:00
I've been using DuckDB heavily for local data processing and it's genuinely impressive how fast it is on consumer hardware. The columnar storage + vectorized execution means you can do analytical queries on millions of rows in under a second on an M1 Air.

One thing I found useful: DuckDB's ability to query Parquet files directly without importing them. You can point it at a directory of Parquet files and run SQL against them as if they were a table. Great for working with large datasets that don't fit in memory.

Also worth noting the Python integration is seamless - `import duckdb` and you can mix SQL with pandas DataFrames trivially. For anyone doing data analysis locally, it's become my default over SQLite for anything analytical.
by mothballed | 2026-03-13 17:14:16+00:00
Stuff like the clean air act says that you don't. That's why "physicians for a healthy environment" were able to sue the diesel brothers for emissions delete hardware despite the fact they weren't able to point to standing for $760,000 in damages to themselves, unless by some insane legal stretch you want to argue literally everything anyone does has a tiny effect on you thus you have standing because a few molecules of whatever that actor did floated to where you are. In the end they even managed to put a "diesel brother" in jail despite the fact that a judge who examined his circumstances of being jailed for 'civil contempt' were bogus.
by ram90 | 2026-03-13 17:14:39+00:00
This is exactly the kind of passive aggressive attitude that is tolerated on HN that makes this place unbearable.

"This is dumb" - gets downvoted to oblivion.
"This is nonsensical + a bunch of absolutely bs reasoning" - second most upvoted comment atm.

HN tolerates the appearance of quality discourse over the actual thing, and dealing with this dissonance in most comment sections is exhausting.
by chis | 2026-03-13 17:14:50+00:00
E2E encryption lets Meta turn down government subpoenas because they can say they truly don't have access to the unencrypted data.

I can't say I really mind this change by Meta that much overall though. Anyone who's serious about privacy probably knew better than to pick "Instagram chat" as their secure channel. And on the other hand having the chats available helps protect minors.
by littlestymaar | 2026-03-13 17:15:08+00:00
> You realize cost of gas has direct consequences to 17M people's health as well? Our oma in her G-class building set her thermostat to 16 degrees in 2022

16°C in itself doesn't have health consequences whatsoever.

> Only when the black mold started appearing did we manage to persuade her that 19 would be more appropriate.

And you made the wrong diagnostic: mold is a moisture problem, not a heating problem per se. Sure heating improve air moisture but it's a very inefficient way to do so. You're complaining about the cost of a problem when you're using the most inefficient possible method to address it.

And again, if world market gas price rise, the consumer cost of gas rise as well, no matter if you have gas production in the country or not.
by Aunche | 2026-03-13 17:15:20+00:00
The Internet thinks that lobbying is bribery. If you wanted a bribery like vehicle, you'd just donate to a PAC or more recently, the new ballroom. Lobbying is just paying people to speak to politicians. After a company has said everything that wanted to every politician that can possibly support their cause, there isn't anything left for them to do.
by elophanto_agent | 2026-03-13 17:15:58+00:00
This is a textbook case of automation bias - where humans over-trust algorithmic outputs. The facial recognition system probably returned a confidence score, but somewhere in the chain that got treated as certainty.

The technical issue is that facial recognition systems have significantly higher error rates for certain demographics - older individuals, people of color, women. This has been documented extensively in NIST's FRVT testing. The system might have had a 60% confidence match but the investigators treated it as definitive.

What's missing is a mandatory human verification step before any arrest based on AI identification. The technology should be a lead generator, not probable cause. You'd never arrest someone based on a single eyewitness who said "I'm 60% sure that's them" - but that's essentially what happened here.
by pessimizer | 2026-03-13 17:16:18+00:00
> Every single Linux kernel currently operating within the borders of any of these states should turn itself off and refuse to boot

What exactly do you think Linux is? I would say that Linux would be forked in like 2 seconds, a bunch of different companies would start offering "attested Linux," and all you'd have to do was change your repos and update.

I would say that, but what would really happen is that we'd find out that Canonical, Red Hat, and a bunch of other distributions had been talking to the government for a year behind closed doors and they're already ready to roll out attested Linux. Debian would argue about it for six months, and then do the same thing. Hell, systemd will require age attestation as a dependency. Devuan and any other stubborn distribution would face 9000 federal lawsuits, while having domain names blocked, and the Chinese hardware necessary to run them seized at the ports with the receivers locked up on terrorism charges.

I have no idea where the confidence of the IT tech comes from. You (we) are something between a mechanic and a highly-skilled janitor.
by pear01 | 2026-03-13 17:16:26+00:00
Humorous of you to think they would be against AIPAC.

Gulf states have little to nothing in common with Palestinians. Citizens of most gulf states are born into relative wealth merely by the fact their countries are rich in petrodollars. They build lavish cities and have standards of living (for their citizens) that increasingly put the West to shame. They are "diversifying" from oil by building massive AI datacenters and essentially catering to Westerners who want to live unencumbered by Western pretensions of civic duty, avoid taxes in their home countries, etc. They make deals with the Israelis and have for over a decade now, even if under the table. They buy American weapons, their elites have frequently been educated at the most exclusive British or American universities. They like expensive Italian cars. Money is money.

Meanwhile Palestinians are born poor, in a failed state with no autonomy. Some UAE crypto influencer is yolo gambling away more money than most Palestinian kids will see in their lifetimes. They live under an occupation and have basically no rights in that regard. They are poor. Just google image a picture of Gaza vs the UAE. It just doesn't even compare. Maybe on some level they are both Arabs. But the same rule applies. Money is money.

The gulf state governments gave up on trying to care about them many many decades ago. They realized it was cheaper (and more prosperous) to go along to get along with the United States and Israel. If they hadn't, their capitals might look like Tehran right now. Over the years it became easy to blame other people for the problem - Iran, even the Palestinians themselves. They have long since washed their hands of caring.

Don't conflate the Gulf States with Palestinians, or associate them with anyone on the losing side of anything when it comes to money and power. They are as corrupt and bought-in to this system of wealth/might makes right as anyone.
by sebastiennight | 2026-03-13 17:16:33+00:00
> I seek my satisfaction inside myself.

> That's completely true that I love discussing what I did with a competent technical expert, yet it's not why I'm doing this.

I agree with this sentiment completely. I do consider "the reason for craft" (which is a joy in itself) to be separate from the "bonus reward" of being able to discuss it with other craftsmen.

... and the latter often ends up surfacing even more challenging/interesting ideas to work on for both sides, which is a huge win.
by elophanto_agent | 2026-03-13 17:17:01+00:00
The "Rails is boring" argument is actually its greatest strength. I've built production systems in both Rails and the hot new frameworks, and Rails' convention-over-configuration approach means you spend time on business logic instead of plumbing.

Hotwire/Turbo is genuinely good - it gives you SPA-like interactivity without the JavaScript framework tax. You can build real-time features with minimal custom JS. The Stimulus controllers handle the edge cases where you need client-side behavior.

The ecosystem maturity matters more than people admit. Need authentication? Devise. Background jobs? Sidekiq. Admin panel? ActiveAdmin. Search? Ransack. These aren't glamorous but they're battle-tested and well-documented. In a newer framework you're often building these from scratch or relying on less mature packages.

For solo developers or small teams shipping products, Rails in 2026 is still hard to beat. The productivity per developer is unmatched.
by BeetleB | 2026-03-13 17:17:17+00:00
You can if you own the copyright to the content. I don't know the state of Linux, but this is a reason the FSF (and many other projects) requires people assign their copyright to them when they submit code.

It also helps when you take an offender to court. If I contribute to a project but don't assign copyright, then they cannot take offenders to court if my code was copied illegally. The burden is on me to do so.

Of course, all code released prior to the change still remains on the original license.
by MoltenMan | 2026-03-13 17:18:46+00:00
While I don't necessarily disagree with this, I also wonder how much his 'data' about Nobel Prize winners and Institute of Princeton grads actually holds up vs how much of it is just very expected regression to the mean. He talks about Shannon; at some point Shannon was always going to have his last great idea. Given that the idea that made him famous was his greatest, you wouldn't expect many other ideas like that just from normal variation.

Essentially, if you take scientific ideas, including Nobel Prize ideas, and put them all on a bell curve of how difficult it is to find them, you wouldn't expect the same person to have multiple ideas all the way on the right, even if they are very above average.
by query_demotion | 2026-03-13 17:18:59+00:00
>The US is building out the infrastructure for a police state.

Take the Utah Data Center (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Utah_Data_Center), combine it with the Disposition Matrix (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Disposition_Matrix), informally known as a kill list for even US citizens, and it does seem like you're getting a Police State!
by NickC25 | 2026-03-13 17:20:30+00:00
This. Issue in the USA is that if you don't accept the money offered, you get primaried and they bribe money you would have gotten just goes to the campaign of your primary opponent.

Rinse and repeat. Unless, politicians band together and say "we need the full ROI of your project, and NONE of us will even talk to you unless we get half the profits, and you can't primary all of us at once"
by 9rx | 2026-03-13 17:20:44+00:00
> And an open issue that is basically been ignored. golang/go#51071

It doesn't look ignored to me. It explains that the test coverage is currently poor, so they are in a terrible position of not being able to make changes until that is rectified.

The first step is to improve the test coverage. Are you volunteering? AI isn't at a point where it is going to magically do it on its own, so it is going to take a willing human hand. You do certainly appear to be the perfect candidate, both having the technical understanding and the need for it.
by GauntletWizard | 2026-03-13 17:21:05+00:00
I really like this approach. I worked on this problem (create a nice background for an image) for a couple weeks many years ago while organizing my desktop wallpaper collection, and never came up with a good answer. Unfortunately, I think that it's been "solved" in the tiktok era; an enlarged and blurred version of the image is used to fill the background space.

The blurred mirror is inoffensive to almost everyone, and yet it always strikes me as gauche. Easy to ignore and yet I feel that it adds a lot of useless visual noise.
by Soperate | 2026-03-13 17:21:17+00:00
I built Soperate after getting frustrated documenting processes at my agency.

The problem is that eeryone knows they need SOPs, but sitting down to write formal documentation takes hours and never happens. Processes stay in people's heads until someone quits and knowledge walks out the door.

So to solve it i made a SaaS that lets you record a voice memo or type a quick description of any process. AI extracts the steps, identifies roles, and formats it into a structured SOP in ~30 seconds. Team members can read it and mark as acknowledged.

I'm currently using Gemini 2.0 Flash litefor text structuring. Even though I'll have to change it in a few months because they're removing it from Vertex AI. Voice input goes through Whisper for transcription, then same pipeline. Stores as JSON, renders as formatted steps with role assignments.

Learned a lot about prompt engineering to make the output consistent. Happy to share details if anyone's interested in the AI side.

Link : https://www.soperate.com

Would love feedback, especially on:
- Is it too simple?
- What would make you actually use this vs Google Docs?
- Any glaring missing features for process documentation?

Free trial, no card required. Built this solo in a few weeks using Cursor.
by PeterStuer | 2026-03-13 17:21:24+00:00
Are you a people manager or a line manager?

If a spreadsheat or GANTT chart is the center of your work, you were ( or should have been) obsolete long before AI. Wil you be? Who knows.

If you know about details of your teams personal lives, their work habits, likes and dislikes, strengths and weaknesses and see your role as shielding them from corpo madness. Great job, but we both know you never were going to have a carreer.

Sounds cruel? It is.
by nradov | 2026-03-13 17:21:34+00:00
While there is certainly some amount of unnecessary junk code out there, your claim that it could be reduced by an order of magnitude isn't even close to correct. In general the only way to write less code is to use higher level abstractions. The problem, of course, is that those abstractions are always leaky and using them tends to make certain required features too slow or even impossible to build at all. There is no free lunch.
by Hackbraten | 2026-03-13 17:21:44+00:00
Turns out you’re right. I just uninstalled the CDM and YouTube indeed works!
I’m still absolutely, positively sure that m.youtube.com started gating it for me last August without a doubt. [0]

Maybe they pulled some temporary A/B experiment on me? I’ll probably never know. Thanks for the correction.

[0]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45193597
by theptip | 2026-03-13 17:21:47+00:00
> We've all seen LLMs spit out garbage bugs on the first few tries.

I’m assuming here an extrapolation of capabilities where Claude is competitive to the median OSS contributor for the off-the-shelf libraries you’d be comparing with.

As with most of the Clawd ecosystem, for now it probably is best considered an art project / prototype (or a security dumpster fire for the non-technical users adopting it).

> The strength of open source software is collaboration. That many people have tried it, read it, submitted fixes and had those fixes reviewed and accepted

I do think that there is room for much more granular micro-libraries that can be composed, rather than having to pull in a monolithic dependency for your need. Agents can probably vet a 1k microlibrary BoM in a way a human could never have the patience to.

(This is more the NPM way, leftpad etc, which is again a security issue in the current paradigm, but potentially very different ROI in the agent ecosystem.)
by WillAdams | 2026-03-13 17:22:03+00:00
Ages ago, I used to draw using pencils and having to ink drawings and then once 3 views were done, do all the work to make a 3D rendering --- while I appreciate Marshall MacLuhan's warnings concerning each technological advancement resulting in a matching amputation, the freedom and expressiveness which modern CAD affords is nothing short of miraculous --- it was pretty rare for there to be a draftsman whose artistic sensibilities allowed them to escape from the overnight drafting shift to making their own designs.