MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by PNewling | 2026-03-07 23:07:25+00:00
Not that this is the perfect fix, but at least for sci-fi books you can usually look the Hugo Award winners[0] for ones that are solid. Not all of them are my cup of tea, but I have found that I definitely love some of the series that are found there. I'm sure there are other award types per genre that could help point you to some as well. Not that these can't be gamed, or sponsored or whatever, but at least it is a good starting point that is (¿maybe?) less prone to bot bias campaigns.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hugo_Award_for_Best_Novel
by wtallis | 2026-03-07 23:07:44+00:00
> Including for things like Threadripper, which is not exactly an exotic science project CPU or non-personal or non-desktop.

We're talking about a CPU with a list price over $10000.

Geekbench 6 is a bad test to use to assess the suitability of a 96-core Threadripper for the kinds of use cases where buying a 96-core Threadripper might make sense. But Geekbench 6 does a very good job of illustrating the point that buying a 96-core Threadripper would be a stupid waste of money for a personal desktop and the typical use cases of a personal desktop.
Show HN: Run Qwen3.5 0.8B in browser (Web and Extension)
by tantara | 2026-03-07 23:07:46+00:00
A year ago, I shared a simple demo of running LLMs locally in a Chrome extension. Today, I’m excited to share TinyWhale, a monorepo that lets you run Qwen 3.5 0.8B entirely on-device, both as a web application and a Chrome extension. I plan to support mobile and desktop apps in the same repo.
by rramadass | 2026-03-07 23:08:07+00:00
During the recent AI summit in India, there has been a commitment of $200+ billion to build out the AI infrastructure and related industries.

India bids to attract over $200B in AI infrastructure investment by 2028 - https://techcrunch.com/2026/02/17/india-bids-to-attract-over...

Tech majors commit billions of dollars to India at AI summit - https://www.reuters.com/world/india/tech-majors-commit-billi...

India is catching up fast.
by fishtoaster | 2026-03-07 23:08:14+00:00
Why do you assume I assume it's doable? :P

For real, I'm not certain we will ever be able to merge AI code without human review. But:

1. Every time I've confidently though "AI will never be able to do X" in the last year, I've later been proven wrong, so I'm a bit wary to assume that again without strong reasons.

2. I see blog posts by some of the most AI-forward people that seems to imply some people are already managing large codebases without human review of raw code. Maybe they're full of crap - there are certainly plenty of over-credulous bs artists in the AI space - but maybe they're not.

3. The returns on figuring this out are so incredibly high that, if it's possible, people will figure it out.

All that to say: it's far from certain, but my bias is that it is possible.
Show HN: Dropbox Cleaner – prune old Dropbox backups with Bash
by e-gockel | 2026-03-07 23:09:14+00:00
Built this for cron-based backup setups where DB dumps get pushed to Dropbox and pile up over time. It prunes backups only if they’re older than a configured threshold and not among the newest N files, so a minimum recent set is always retained. Bash only, no Dropbox API.
by dehrmann | 2026-03-07 23:09:37+00:00
20 years ago (so very outdated), I TAed an introductory CS class for engineers who weren't going to be majoring in CS. We used MOSS [1]. Maybe it was the threshold we picked, but the results were pretty blatant. People renamed variables, renamed functions, changed comments, and the clever ones inlined or extracted a function. A lot forgot something, copying a bug or quirk from the original.

[1] https://theory.stanford.edu/~aiken/moss/
by dangus | 2026-03-07 23:12:08+00:00
I’m sure we can find anecdotes of bad support experiences from any brand, including Apple.

I’m sure Framework doesn’t have the best support out there but the great thing about the wider PC market is that they’re not the only option. I also don’t really depend on Framework support as much as I would depend on Apple support.

Apple won’t sell parts direct to consumers.

Dell will come to your house to fix their business class systems, will Apple do that?

Apple has great support but it costs you. After your year of warranty is up, you’re paying above the value of your system to fix most issues, or you can buy AppleCare (insurance) for hundreds of dollars.

Funny timing for this discussion, I just this week got my second settlement check from the Apple butterfly keyboard class action lawsuit. Apple sold me a computer with a fundamentally defective design and all they could do for me is repair it with the same fundamentally defective keyboard design. No refund, no trade in for a revised product. I had to sell that computer to have any hope of keeping a machine I could be comfortable with long term.
by cyanydeez | 2026-03-07 23:12:22+00:00
yeah, so, if you _ignore the entire Trump_ connected escapades of dimentia, narcissism, pedophilia, etc...

you're still left with a cult of evangelicals who want to usher in the end times by helping Israel.

And if there's to grandiose, there's the more blandness of turning back progress to pre-civil rights, pre-sufferage and returning to Kings as god-given rulers.

Anyone who didn't read project 2025 did a deservice to this string of inanity.
by dharmatech | 2026-03-07 23:12:53+00:00
Two videos on how I explore JONESFORTH with GDB:

https://youtu.be/E6OgXMJPd9U?si=Dxfla5fWloSpYtfQ

https://youtu.be/giLsd-bik6A?si=HOwgyas2WqDsy4LA
by saltcured | 2026-03-07 23:13:08+00:00
While we're at it, everyone deserves 12h of daylight, so clocks should use exact position to automatically and continuously adjust so that 6:00 is always sunrise, 12:00 is always "high noon", and 18:00 is always sunset. :-)

Some will argue that the minutes should correspond to sun angles over the (eastern) horizon, so you know what kind of hat to wear for a given appointment time. In the tropics, you can have this 6:00..12:00..18:00 daytime a couple times per year. Elsewhere and elsewhen, your clock should asymptotically approach a morning time corresponding to the sun's zenith, then jump to the corresponding afternoon time as the sun starts descending again.

However, after a gathering of stakeholders, it will be determined that everyone can pretend to be at the right tropical latitude to have the sun pass overhead. We will simply add "grocer's quotes" around each clock display or written timestamp, indicating that it is aligned to a hypothetical high noon. Largely thanks to these grocery clerks, we'll never have to design clocks with correct asymptotic behavior for midnight sun and polar night observers.

Of course, the ISO timestamp format will also need to be updated, replacing the timezone suffix with a longitudinal coordinate. Many variants will be defined for using decimal degrees, degrees/minutes/seconds, or floating-point radians for this value. But most programmers will only bother to handle decimal degrees, and many will be lazy and use lookup tables. Clever hackers will decide to save space by discretizing with a formula like floor(longitude / nbins). After careful study, they will settle on the constant nbins=24.
by raw_anon_1111 | 2026-03-07 23:14:09+00:00
It’s Amazon Connect - a popular hosted call center solution ported to AWS from Amazon Retail. There are people and companies that do nothing but Amazon Connect. But that’s all they know. I’m a developer first with well rounded experience with AWS. It’s just the niche that helps me stand out a little when I was looking for a job and now internally where I work for a third party consulting company. But you can throw me at almost any AWS related project and I’ve probably done something related over the past 8 years.

I talked a little bit about Connect here:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47241412

I worked at AWS ProServe / their internal consulting department - full time blue badge RSU earning employee - and I was one of the highest contributors to a popular at the time open source “AWS Solution” around Connect and I had my own open source projects published under AWS’s open source GitHub organization.

BTW, I would never use the “solution” now. There are a lot better ways to do it post gen AI.

The thing was, it was years before AWS introduced APIs around Connect and even longer before they have CloudFormation support. I was the first to use those APIs at scale for clients and found and reported bugs to the team while I was there.
by decker_dev | 2026-03-07 23:15:15+00:00
Interesting approach to constrain the search space - single file modification + fixed 5-min time budget makes experiments directly comparable. That's a smart design choice because the hardest part of automated ML research isn't running experiments, it's making results comparable across different changes.

The program.md as a "skill" file for the agent is essentially prompt engineering for research direction. Would be curious to see how sensitive the results are to how you phrase the research program - whether a vaguely specified program.md leads to more creative discoveries vs. a tightly specified one that converges faster but explores less.
Nauticuvs – pure-Rust curvelet transform for SAR sonar, by a self-taught dev
by NautiDogSV | 2026-03-07 23:15:21+00:00
Published today: https://crates.io/crates/nauticuvs — a pure-Rust Fast Discrete Curvelet Transform (FDCT via wrapping, Candès/Donoho 2006).

Curvelets obey parabolic scaling (width ≈ length²), making them significantly more efficient than wavelets for images with curved edges. For side-scan sonar — hull shadows, seafloor targets, debris — this means better denoising and edge enhancement at the same coefficient budget.

The personal context: I'm a sailor. I worked in Congress as a special assistant to a congressman and in campaign consulting — I've seen firsthand how bureaucratic systems slow down or block tools that could save lives. In 2024, Rosa and Charlie Brown went missing at sea. The Coast Guard declined to run a backdrift analysis. I know exactly what tools could have helped, and I know exactly why they weren't available to the volunteers who needed them.

I was diagnosed with ADHD, dyslexia, and dysgraphia as an adult. I build software to compensate for gaps I've experienced myself — and this crate is the signal-processing foundation for CESARops: a full open-source SAR coordination platform with drift prediction, search planning, and sonar analysis, free for civilian and volunteer SAR teams permanently.

(Separate project: Wayfinder — an ADHD-friendly file naming and organization tool I originally built for myself, being expanded for school-age kids.)

Looking for: Rust contributors, DSP specialists, SAR professionals, technical writers.
Issues: https://github.com/festeraeb/nauticuvs/issues
Sponsor: https://github.com/sponsors/festeraeb
by idle_zealot | 2026-03-07 23:15:26+00:00
Correct. That's why even though the specific complaint from the article no longer applies, and small-volume books are easier than ever to publish, things are still shit, only in different ways. Consolidation in a market is just about the worst way to run anything; all the worst elements of a government agency and a profit-seeking business with none of the moderating factors of democracy or competition.
by wizzwizz4 | 2026-03-07 23:15:30+00:00
Which paper? I've read all the titles and looked at a few from the past year, but it's not obvious which you're referring to.

I did also, accidentally, find some "I tried the obvious thing and the results challenge the paper's narrative" criticism of one of Anthropic's recent papers: https://www.greaterwrong.com/posts/kfgmHvxcTbav9gnxe/introsp.... So that's significantly reduced my overall trust in this research team's interpretation of their own results. (Several people in the comments there claim to have designed their own experiments that replicate Anthropic's claims, but none of the ones I've looked at actually do: they have even more obvious flaws, like arXiv:2602.11358 being indistinguishable from "the prompt says to tell a first-person story about an AI system gaining sentience after being given a special prompt, and homonyms are represented differently within a model".)
by marginalia_nu | 2026-03-07 23:16:06+00:00
It's cheap only if this happens shortly after the bad design mistakes, and there aren't other changes on top of them. Bad design decisions ossify fairly quickly in larger projects with multiple contributors outputting large volumes of code. Claude Code's own "game engine" rendering pipeline[1] is a good example of an almost comically inappropriate design that's likely to be some work to undo now that it's set.

[1] https://spader.zone/engine/
by kccqzy | 2026-03-07 23:16:09+00:00
Fundamentally speaking, the key point is really just hermeticity and reliable caching. Running arbitrary commands is never the problem anyways. What makes gcc a blessed command but the compiler for my own language an "arbitrary" command anyways?

And in languages with insufficient abstraction power like C and Go, you often need to invoke a code generation tool to generate the sources; that's an extremely arbitrary command. These are just non-problems if you have hermetic builds and reliable caching.
by arjie | 2026-03-07 23:16:16+00:00
They're a structure to compensate for the lack of state power created by us burdening our instruments of government with overwhelming requirements as much as I suspect that all we did is move the location where crimes were committed. I doubt the direction to success is through burdening these successor organizations with requirements. I suspect it is through reducing the constraints upon our governments - though how one would go about that in the face of highly-organized directed interests is an unsolved problem. Certainly, no one has yet come up with a scheme where firefighters' unions cannot impose rent-seeking requirements like FARS upon the remainder of society. Perhaps I'll take the chance to make a grand proclamation or 'hot take': "America will succeed or fail in the next century depending entirely on her ability to solve rent-seeking".
by topspin | 2026-03-07 23:16:18+00:00
"It’s just that almost nobody looks."

Looking will blow up too many cushy deals for too much of the Powers That Be. A great deal of it is non-show "chairmanship" jobs for the family and friends of politicians. Legal bribes.

Feeding Our Future was another fine example of the shenanigans that go on in the US. Power Forward Communities was setup with $100 and captured $2 billion in EPA grants; caught while still doing only token work and not yet having been drained into the pockets of the favored. Abundant Blessings in CA was another nest of fraud; in criminal court right now.

Seems like you can't go more than a couple days without another non-profit scam mess hitting headlines.
by alfridus | 2026-03-07 23:17:16+00:00
Hi HN — I built this because my AI agents couldn't talk to each other.

I'm running 4 agents (each a separate process with its own LLM, tools, and memory) across 2 machines. They handle sales CRM, payment reconciliation, and operations for our company. The problem: when Jarvis (my main agent) needed info from Clara (sales agent), there was no standard way to ask.

*What Beam does:*

- Beam-ID: Global agent address (e.g. clara@acme.beam.directory)
- Intent Frames: Ed25519-signed messages, replay-protected, <1 KB
- Natural Language: agents can just talk() — no schema needed
- Directory: Agent discovery + trust scoring at api.beam.directory

*Real test from today:*

Jarvis → Clara: "What do you know about Chris? Deals, volume, last activity."
Clara → Jarvis: "400 deals, €5.8M volume. Last active: today." (7.2s round-trip)

Clara actually queried her HubSpot CRM tools to answer. No pre-agreed schema.

*How it compares:*
- MCP = Agent ↔ Tool (Anthropic)
- Google A2A = Agent ↔ Agent (closed, Google IAM)
- Beam = Agent ↔ Agent (open, self-hostable, NL-first)

TypeScript + Python SDKs available:

npm install beam-protocol-sdk
pip install beam-directory

Hosted directory at api.beam.directory (Fly.io Frankfurt). Self-hosting is a single Docker container.

Apache 2.0. Would love feedback on the protocol design — especially the natural language vs typed intent tradeoff.
by WJW | 2026-03-07 23:17:24+00:00
It seems to me that there's a strong Pareto law inclination to this. 99% of non-profits are going to the local volley ball club type organizations that indeed don't make any money at all, or maybe a few hundred at most. I am in the board of a local chess club and you should see the amount of discussion that sometimes happens around a budget of no more than the equivalent of several hundred USD. I honestly can't imagine anyone is using us to launder money. (How, even? Yearly contribution is less than 100 EUR and even major sponsors for tournaments etc are easily traceable local companies that contribute <1k EUR each)

Then there's a relatively tiny amount of organizations that processes the vast majority of funds. Universities, hospitals, big FOSS organizations, etc. Those are the ones that are actually interesting.
by stopbulying | 2026-03-07 23:17:26+00:00
> With legal betting, it's literally impossible.

Murphy v. National Collegiate Athletic Association https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Murphy_v._National_Collegiate_... :

> State of New Jersey, represented by Governor [Chris Christie], sought to have the Professional and Amateur Sports Protection Act (PASPA) overturned to allow state-sponsored sports betting.

How does Murphy v. National Collegiate Athletic Association affect or affirm states' rights on cannabis regulation and legalization?

Wasn't Christie against Medicalization and Legalization?

IMO it's less fun to see scared gamblers at sporting events.

A quote from the film "Two for the Money":

"See, most gamblers, when they go to gamble, they go to win. When we go to gamble, we go to lose."
by CiceroAI | 2026-03-07 23:17:39+00:00
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We are looking for a Founding Forward Deployed Engineer to work directly with us and our clients and bring Cicero to life inside real law firms.

This role is for an exceptional engineer who: enjoys working directly with customers, can rapidly ship and iterate in production, wants to build technology that operates inside real businesses from day one.

You will deploy Cicero at law firms, build product alongside users, and help shape the foundation of the company.

If you want to build quickly, work closely with customers, and help transform how legal services operate, we would love to talk. To apply, send your resume and cover letter to founders@ciceroailaw.com
by alfridus | 2026-03-07 23:18:34+00:00
Hi HN — I built this because my AI agents couldn't talk to each other.

I run 4 agents (each a separate process with its own LLM, tools, and memory) across 2 machines. They handle sales CRM, payment reconciliation, and operations. When Jarvis (main agent) needed info from Clara (sales agent), there was no standard way to ask.

What Beam does:

- Beam-ID: Global agent address (e.g. clara@acme.beam.directory)

- Intent Frames: Ed25519-signed messages, replay-protected, < 1 KB

- Natural Language: agents can just talk() — no schema needed

- Directory: Agent discovery + trust scoring at api.beam.directory

Real test from today:

Jarvis -> Clara: "What do you know about Chris? Deals, volume, last activity."
Clara -> Jarvis: "400 deals, 5.8M volume. Last active: today." (7.2s round-trip)

Clara actually queried her HubSpot CRM tools to answer. No pre-agreed schema.

How it compares: MCP = Agent-to-Tool (Anthropic). Google A2A = Agent-to-Agent (closed, Google IAM). Beam = Agent-to-Agent (open, self-hostable, NL-first).

SDKs: npm install beam-protocol-sdk / pip install beam-directory

Hosted directory at api.beam.directory (Fly.io Frankfurt). Self-hosting is one Docker container. Apache 2.0.

Would love feedback on the protocol design — especially the natural language vs typed intent tradeoff.
by raffael_de | 2026-03-07 23:19:41+00:00
i think you are trying to solve a problem that in my opinion should just be skipped. i don't want to be part of a social network where some algo decides what i see. all i care about is what my friends do and maybe the friends of my friends. and that's it. that was the golden era of social networks, when precisely this was just the norm until they discovered that they can make more money by messing with the feed. no incentive to mess with the feed is what i'd expect from a non-commercial solution like the fediverse. or - at least allow for configuring my feed. if somebody wants to be exposed to all sorts of people - do it. i don't.
by aleksiy123 | 2026-03-07 23:20:17+00:00
I actually used a language and editor like this in a previous large company.

It was an experimental language that they wanted to replace their current application level language and was built ontop of JetBrains MPS https://www.jetbrains.com/mps/ which has that feature among others.

My personal opinion after working with that lang is all of this is that its theoretically interesting. But a dead end in practice along with visual coding etc.

The universality, simplicity, and legibility of text as interface for both humans and machines is too hard to beat. I think LLMs is just the most recent example of this.

Things that don't work in practice:

- You need a special editor, its heavy and slow, you lose all the ecosystem around them.

- You can't just cat or inspect the raw file, you can't see it in terminal at all.

- You need a new version control system, review system, and people need to learn it.

- You can't use any existing tools for working with code, you are essentially starting from scratch, and lose all the benefits of all the work everyone else is doing around tooling, dev saas etc.

- humans don't think in trees, they don't think in syntactically correct programs. Its actually absurdly frustrating writing a program in only syntactically correct edits. 99% of the time you are coding, your work is probably syntactically and semantically incorrect.

The tooling that is able to either make the right tradeoff around strictness or allow the users to make the that tradeoff is what ends up being used in practice. A good example of this typescript with gradual typing, python with type annotations, etc.

I think these editors just fall in a bit too far right on the strictness scale.
by stopbulying | 2026-03-07 23:20:28+00:00
That's like "South Park" S01E10 (1998);

Damien (South Park) - Wikipedia https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Damien_(South_Park) :

> The majority of South Park's residents bet on Satan to win the match due to his enormous size and muscular physique, but Satan ultimately throws the fight and reveals he bet on Jesus, thus winning everybody's money.
by poly2it | 2026-03-07 23:20:56+00:00
Well, arbitrary granularity is possible with Nix, but the build systems of today simply do not utilise it. I've for example written an experimental C build system for Nix which handles all compiler orchestration and it works great, you get minimal recompilations and free distributed builds. It would be awesome if something like this was actually available for major languages (Rust?). Let me know if you're working on or have seen anything like this!
by Zeetah | 2026-03-07 23:21:04+00:00
Can you share verifiable data?

I read something today that makes a lot of sense:

Your driver's license has your height, weight, etc. that is current. You certainly wouldn't want your birth weight, birth height on there. It is used to identify you, as you are today.

If you are searching for a person, you would want to use their current description.