MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by spijdar | 2026-03-02 20:04:56+00:00
I was saying that NetBSD works on those older systems, while it either has no support (64-bit POWER) or spotty support (modern ARM) on more modern platforms. I've got netbooting set up for all of them, and it's "useful" for testing, though even a 20 MHz VAX is pain and suffering (12+ hours to generate RSA private keys for SSH).

FWIW, Linux does work fine on the Alpha, it's just slow. Both NetBSD and Linux have busted framebuffers on my workstation, which has a 3DLabs graphics chipset. Having acceleration enabled causes Linux to output pure garbage, and NetBSD to kernel panic. The CPU performance is surprisingly okay, though. About half the performance of an original Raspberry Pi, in pure integer math...

Linux is busted on my SPARC box though, not because of the system itself, but a bug in the Weitek 2000A CPU. It was an aftermarket part from Weitek, and in order to retrofit an 80 MHz CPU into a system with discrete MMU and cache chips that expect a 40 MHz single-issue RISC processor, it adds a funky on-chip cache, branch-predictor, and instruction prefetcher.

Details on specifics are ~impossible to find nowadays, but the word on Usenet was that chips made before 1995 are no good for Linux. My limited testing with a '93 chip corroborates this. I really ran into this while building a new Sprite [0] distribution, where I learned this chip makes tons of spurious page faults from the branch predictor hitting bogus instructions, which causes the Sprite (and Linux?) kernel to freak out. This corroborates the Usenet reports for random signal 11s killing processes on Linux...

Doesn't effect NetBSD, though. I think this [1] code is why (replaces the bogus fault address with the process counter) but I'm not sure. I have a partial fix for Sprite's kernel which allows userspace to boot up and work, and have networking fixed, but if you sneeze it kernel panics and murders the Sprite-bespoke filesystem, so testing has been a slog. :-)

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sprite_(operating_system)

[1] https://github.com/NetBSD/src/blob/trunk/sys/arch/sparc/spar...
by bluefirebrand | 2026-03-02 20:05:04+00:00
I'm not quite 40 yet, but I feel the same

I have wanted to make games my whole life but I got into web to make a living. Now it's been decades of game ideas and no implementations, just frustration. Something about unity, unreal, godot just never clicks with me

Maybe I'll try making my own engine too. Best of luck to you, maybe the both of us can make our dreams come true with a slightly different approaches
by threecheese | 2026-03-02 20:05:17+00:00
There’s some sort of underground genai SEO movement happening. I am not sure how it works but I have been examining source quality from Perplexity and ChatGPT and finding the same sources over and over. I’ve found quite a few “gamed-looking” sources recently, basically similar to trash that have dominated Google serps for the last few years.
What You Think?
by FREEUSPEOPLE | 2026-03-02 20:05:19+00:00
My blood is boiling! I lost my sleep after seeing some of the Epstein files. There is a picture of a three-year-old girl that I can’t get out of my head. It is haunting me. It comes back when everything is quiet. I have a three-month-old baby, I look at him and my heart starts racing. I keep thinking about how fragile he is, how innocent, and how sick this world can be. I can’t stop worrying about how I am supposed to raise him in this crazy world of Epsteins, where powerful people hurt children and walk away like nothing happened.

People say, “Don’t think too much.” But how do you not think when you are a parent? How do you sleep knowing this exists? I feel angry, scared, and helpless at the same time. Loving a child makes the world feel darker and more terrifying than it ever did before.i don’t know why Im posting this here, I guess I want to know if you feel the same way.
by Paracompact | 2026-03-02 20:05:42+00:00
I see. This is a weird situation, then, and I apologize if I was abrasive.

Searching online ("Deep down here by the dark water lived old Gollum. I don't know") there are many hits for the line without "small and slimy creature." I assume it to be part of some legitimate edition, and I find it hard to believe this clarification would have been removed between editions, so with some confidence I conclude the original version did not have "small and slimy creature." Still, I understand your POV and appreciate your patience explaining it.
by crystal_revenge | 2026-03-02 20:06:19+00:00
> Story Source:

> Materials provided by Flinders University.

It's not that the "journalist" didn't think to ask, it's that this is a PR piece sent out to media outlets from the university that did the research. Nearly all universities have a PR team that sets fluff pieces out to the media to promote the work of the university.

The person who wrote this is being paid not to ask tough and important questions around this research.
Show HN: Aft, a Python toolkit to study agent behavior
by chse_cake | 2026-03-02 20:06:37+00:00
aft was my stab at having a way to understand what claude is doing and also having the language to reason about differences in model behavior when we make them do long agentic runs / change prompts / alter tools etc. The intention of the toolkit to provide an empirical measure of how agent behavior can differ as things changes like environments, tools, prompts etc.

It gives the tools to measure the changes in "behaviors that the users define". This means that it is more like a hypothesis testing framework for what the agent is doing over actually telling what the agent might do.

The reasoning and derivations behind these tools is given over here https://technoyoda.github.io/agent-science.html

Would be very happy to hear feedback and questions. (Please ignore the names given to theorization, it was for shits and giggles)
by teekert | 2026-03-02 20:06:54+00:00
Same here. Ours is just a streaming device. Because nobody can really own it. I won't put my password manager on it when the kids can use it, and without that it's near useless. It has my Signal profile so I can transfer stuff (and passwords) to the device but I already feel bad about that. My wife won't put Teams on it because it would bother others and conflict with all other MS accounts. The kids laptops have accounts for all 4 of us.

We switch in apps (ie in netflix). This whole "one person one device" just makes the iPad a shallow consumption device and keeps the laptops for work (and also often for streaming because of this. Btw they are all 2nd hand business laptops running Linux; for the Kids Gnome is very iPad/ChromeOS like and familiar).

It would be so much more useful a device, and maybe we'd even then start buying more, if we could just switch user profiles.
by dimarco | 2026-03-02 20:06:56+00:00
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by ryanbiglou | 2026-03-02 20:06:57+00:00
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I'm primarily interested in fast-paced early stage startups, but open to all opportunities. I love working hard and shipping fast!
by WalterGR | 2026-03-02 20:07:36+00:00
Clojure is definitely dense. I’m wondering, though, about the languages’ representation in the training data.

Stack overflow tags:

17,775 Clojure
74,501 Go

I’m not finding a way to get any useful information from GitHub, e.g. count of de-duplicated lines of code per language. There might be something in their annual “Octoverse” report but I haven’t drilled into it yet: https://github.blog/news-insights/octoverse/octoverse-a-new-...
by mezentius | 2026-03-02 20:07:44+00:00
1) People who don’t derive pleasure from reading do generally see it as an affection, because they can’t understand the appeal outside of apparent status-signaling. Reading, and discovering new material to read, is in fact an intensely selfish pleasure, but it is not a natural pleasure; if you didn’t get hooked in childhood, it’s probably not possible to convince you, and so you will forever see someone offering you a free book as some kind of hostile, elitist signal.

2) There are a lot of reasons why LFLs may not always thrive in low-income neighborhoods (although there are quite a few in mine, and it’s no Beverly Hills), but I would suggest that it is not because the residents exist in some higher state of authenticity.
by ashbyhq | 2026-03-02 20:08:14+00:00
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by nonameiguess | 2026-03-02 20:09:01+00:00
Feels a bit strange to use or at least not what I was expecting. I'm not sure having a "feed" the way it does is even appropriate, but assuming that's what it will be, so be it. The titles, however, read like headlines even under the "Policy" tab, and it isn't until clicking through that I can see the title of the bill in question and some brief description of it. I was expecting something more like a list of bills with outbound links to discussions and press releases where they may be.

I'm not sure the bullet points make a lot of sense on the impacts, either. The first one right now is a bill to change security rules for hospitals and healthcare systems that offer remote logins to retrieve patient details. You only find that's what it is by scrolling all the way to the bottom and finally reading the summary, but first you see a list of impacted parties and it highlights people with chronic illnesses and tribal members. I think I at least understand the logic of the first one, assuming chronically ill log into patient portals more often than healthier people, but it feels somehow facile, like saying a bill about highway maintenance affects drivers more than non-drivers. No shit. That isn't really an insight and shouldn't be above the actual content of the bill.

The "source information" is also all the way at the bottom even though, personally, it's what I would care about the most. And it has no links at all. You can look up the bill number and find it in the congressional database, but why not include a direct link? The news snippets link to the sources they came from. Why not the bills themselves?

So actually, I can see now there is a link to the bill itself. It's just all the way at the bottom and not part of the source summary, whereas the news summaries are tiles that also act as links all on their own. I guess the question is why make that different and why put the link I most care about all the way at the bottom beneath all of the information? Not gonna lie, though. I almost hesitate to ask because I fear the answer is there is no known reason. You asked an AI to put together a page and this is what it did. There is no knowable "why" and even though you're publishing this as if it's your product being created based on your design decisions, it isn't.
by xlii | 2026-03-02 20:09:06+00:00
I think Go isn't bad choice. It is widely popular, so I'd assume there's plenty of it in training sets and has stable APIs, so even "outdated code" would work. There's also rich ecosystem of static analyzers to keep generated code in check.

On the other hand I think Rust is better by some margin. Type system is obviously a big gain but Rust is very fast moving. When API changes LLMs can't follow and it takes many tries to get it right so it kinda levels out. Code might compile but only on some god-forgotten crate version everybody (but LLM) forgot about.

From personal experience Haskell benefits the most. Not only it has more type system usage than Rust, but its APIs are moving on snail-like pace, which means it doesn't suffer from outdated Rust and code compilable will work just fine.
Also I think that Haskell code in training sets is guaranteed to be safe because of language extension system.
by scronkfinkle | 2026-03-02 20:09:25+00:00
I've been working on the data processing side of legal text with https://www.wordstodata.com/

Your work seems more targeted at tracking the real world impact of the bill rather than the changes it makes to the legal code, but a feature on my roadmap is having bill data also be easily linkable to the votes of politicians so you can track the effect politicians have on the legal code per member. Do you plan to build a member tracker on top of this as well? I think it would be super cool to be able to tie news events to a track record of votes by member of congress.
by SegfaultSeagull | 2026-03-02 20:09:32+00:00
"The Iranians presented the Americans with a seven-page plan with proposed levels of future nuclear enrichment, numbers that alarmed Mr. Witkoff and Mr. Kushner.

The Americans still wanted the Iranians to commit to zero enrichment, and proposed giving them free nuclear fuel for a civil nuclear program, but the Iranians refused, a U.S. official said. After the talks ended, Mr. Witkoff and Mr. Kushner told Mr. Trump they did not think a deal could be reached."

That NYT detail is the key piece for me.

If Iran was presented with an offer of zero enrichment plus guaranteed civil nuclear fuel — meaning energy without weapons capability — and still refused, that tells you something.

Enrichment isn’t symbolic. It’s the hard technical pathway to weapons-grade material. You don’t insist on retaining it unless you want the option to cross the threshold.

The Tehran regime has funded proxies and asymmetric violence for decades. A nuclear-armed version of that regime isn’t just a regional problem — it fundamentally changes deterrence math across the Middle East and likely triggers proliferation.

If intervention now prevents a regime with that track record from getting nuclear weapons, that’s not escalation for its own sake. It’s preemption of a much more dangerous equilibrium.

You can debate costs and risks — but pretending the enrichment fight was benign ignores what enrichment is for.
by dpoloncsak | 2026-03-02 20:09:35+00:00
No, but they are in the "Device that runs apps" business right?
Just like they're looking to corner the "Device that runs models locally" business by focusing on onboard inference.

Gains in model performance isn't exactly cheap, and once one frontier model figures it out, the rest seem to copy it quick. Let them figure out what works and what doesnt, then put the "Apple" touch on it, all while putting your devices in everyone's hands. That's been their business model for years.
Show HN: Nightmarket – API marketplace where AI agents pay per call in USDC
by ssistilli | 2026-03-02 20:09:38+00:00
Hey HN – I built Nightmarket because I kept running into the same problem building AI agents: every time my agent needed a new capability (weather data, enrichment, web scraping, whatever), I had to go sign up for a service, grab an API key, store it, figure out billing, and wire it all together. Multiply that by 10 services and it's a mess. Agents can't sign up for accounts. They can't enter credit cards. They can't manage API keys. But they can hold a USDC balance and pay per request.
Nightmarket is a marketplace where AI agents discover and pay for API services on-chain. No accounts, no API keys, no subscriptions. Your agent pays per call in USDC via x402.
How it works:

Browse the marketplace — each service shows pricing, live usage stats, and docs
Give your agent the Nightmarket skill (one line in your system prompt, or npx skills add Fallomai/skills --skill nightmarket)
Your agent discovers, calls, and pays for services automatically. USDC settles on Base per request.

The whole flow: Agent → discover → call → pay → 200 OK
One integration unlocks every service on the marketplace. Your agent doesn't need a separate key for each provider — it just pays and gets data.
For sellers: list your API, set a per-call price, and go live immediately. No approval process. Agents start calling as soon as you're listed. You get paid in USDC. Every listing shows live call volume and revenue so buyers can pick providers with proven track records.
What makes this different from existing API marketplaces: RapidAPI and friends are built for humans with credit cards. Nightmarket is built for agents with wallets. The x402 protocol (HTTP 402 "Payment Required") means payment is native to the HTTP request itself — no webhooks, no billing dashboards, no invoices. An agent hits an endpoint, gets a 402, pays, retries, gets data. One round trip.
We're live at https://nightmarket.ai — you can browse services now and plug the skill into any agent (Claude, GPT, open-source, whatever).
Curious to hear from HN:

API providers: would you list your service? What's stopping you from monetizing to agents today?
Agent builders: what APIs do you wish your agents could just pay for and use without the signup/key dance?
Anyone: poke holes in the model — what breaks when agents are the primary buyer?
by jacquesm | 2026-03-02 20:09:46+00:00
There are many other reasons that can kill you under the law besides anarchy, one of those is climate change and GP definitely has a very valid point.

Clearly the 'drill-baby-drill' crowd doesn't like Greenpeace at all and is doing what they can to muzzle activists because they know that if they manage to squelch Greenpeace then many lesser funded organizations will not be able to do anything all all. But history doesn't give a damn about any of that.
by nitnelave | 2026-03-02 20:09:57+00:00
Also known as "Make the change easy, then make the change"

Something to realize is that every codebase is legacy. My best new feature implementations are always several commits that do no-op refactorings, with no changes to tests even with good coverage (or adding tests before the refactoring for better coverage), then one short and sweet commit with just the behavior change.
by Jtsummers | 2026-03-02 20:10:11+00:00
It's a really terrible article, at least for the title. The answer is that split scimitar is apparently a bit more efficient. Sufficiently more efficient to be worth the change.

> Split scimitar winglets are named for the curved Middle Eastern sword, extending above and below the wing, and ending in sharp points. They have been found to produce up to 5.5% fuel savings per aircraft, an improvement on the 3.3% savings provided by blended winglets.

That's the reason, the rest of the article is fluff meant to keep people on the page and seeing ads because it obscures the answer they came to see.
by mihaaly | 2026-03-02 20:10:17+00:00
> People very much don’t like their beers, the atmosphere feels fake

Sorry, but you don't know 'people'. Not all. You could only speak for yourself here. If you read the article you may realize that some 'people' liked it. here and there. It was not government or military contract that brough in all that money but the 'few' pints added up to the sum. You don't have to look down people to feel good, just have some drinks perhaps....
by zippothrowaway | 2026-03-02 20:10:24+00:00
The tape copy protection article is also terrible with nonsense like this "A copy of a Novaload tape made on a HiFi deck produced a normal-speed recording with the correct audio signal but which, when loaded on a C64, produced garbage — because the Kernal's standard tape decoder couldn't interpret the turbo encoding"

Thousands of kids in the playground with access to a tape-to-tape deck (which made Alan Sugar his fortune for Amstrad) would disagree. And the reason given is just plain wrong.

If this is the AI slop future, we're doomed.
by brynet | 2026-03-02 20:10:52+00:00
Trying something different again, sorry..

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by jclardy | 2026-03-02 20:10:56+00:00
I’ve been experimenting with a 13” iPad Pro and Mac mini, setup with Tailscale. I love it, minus the general issues you run into with Remote Desktop. That plus not being able to deploy apps unless I’m on the same wifi (as an iOS developer.)

A dual boot iPad would be killer. I would go out and by the maxed out M5 if it was possible. MacOS for workdays, and iPadOS for everything else. That or just finish the last mile of iPadOS (Add terminal access, long running processes, lower level file system access, actual developer tooling.)
Show HN: TamAGI – A local-first virtual agent that lives on your machine
by manikmakki | 2026-03-02 20:11:06+00:00
Hey HN! I'm building a deceptively simple chat application fronting a local LLM (Ollama or any OpenAI compatible API). TamAGI is the culmination of about 6 months worth of scattered thoughts and incredibly frustrating code sessions (I _suck_ at Python). With OpenClaw's release, I had the "Aha" moment I was looking for and used Claude Code to help fill in the gaps (to be frank, quite a lot of gaps) and make this project a reality.

The TLDR: TamAGI is a virtual agent, in the spirit of Tamagotchis. Where it differs is developing a personality and growing as an "entity" the more you interact with it. It ships with a hand full of tool calls out of the box, and has an extensible framework for the Agent to create its own tools. Memory is handled by ChromaDB with RAG providing context injection via system prompt dynamically. It supports only a single user currently, but has optional authentication for client-server use on bare metal or in containers.

I'm quite happy with how it is shaping up, and I'm looking for any feedback to drive the next iteration. Thank you for looking!