MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by icegreentea2 | 2026-03-03 04:52:45+00:00
US forces have been answering the wake up call for the last few years.

The main weapon that Apache's use to hunt drones are laser guided rockets (APKWS) with a per-shot cost around $30k (https://www.airandspaceforces.com/apkws-base-laser-guided-ro...)

These weapons have been fitted to most US tactical fighters for the counter drone role as well. APKWS is also not a "new" weapon system - it started fielding back to 2012, and was adapted into the counter drone role.

There are other lower cost (compared to legacy systems designed to take on manned aircraft) solutions currently deployed. The US Army has the Coyote, which is in the ~100k range.

Beyond cost of munitions, you have to consider that cheaper systems are going to have less range, and therefore you'll need more launchers, and you can start running up costs that way.
by bluegatty | 2026-03-03 04:53:17+00:00
The drones are simple, and, they're dependent on China for components.

Shaheds are probably the simplest thing in anyone's inventory.

They win by 'scale', not be capability.

Nobody has enough AA to cover everything, and, for what they can defend, they have 3 weeks of munitions.

There is some 'laser tech' coming along that will maybe change this dynamic. And some 'fast drone killing drones'.
by tzs | 2026-03-03 04:53:19+00:00
Several countries with universal healthcare use the "you have to buy private insurance" model, such as the Netherlands and Switzerland. There doesn't seem to be anything inherently wrong with that system.

ACA has survived 12 years and enabled a lot of people to obtain health insurance that would not have been able to otherwise, with Republicans wanting to kill it that entire time but failing to do so. Do you think there was any other system Democrats could have passed instead that would have lasted that long?
by h4kunamata | 2026-03-03 04:53:21+00:00
The older I get, the more I refuse to buy IoT stuff without being future proof.

Cameras, I only care for quality and Real-Time Streaming Protocol aka RTSP. I don't care if that device will never see internet again, I can use it until it dies and I cannot fix it.

My Asus wireless router running OpenWRT, it is no allowed to touch the internet itself, it is just a dumb access point providing radio, nothing else which again, I can use it until it dies even if OpenWRT projects is shutdown.

Found out recently that I can actually install/remove apps from my Samsung smartTV running TizenOS using my Linux PC by exploring is developer mode. Add a few more years to its lifespan.

I know I can hack into my robot vaccum but haven't had time to do that yet.

I run Linux everywhere at home so does my homelab and 3D printer.

IoT are blocked from accessing the LAN while OPNSense allows me to talk to them.
Block everything by default until something breaks.

The ones I cannot take control like my Broter Led printer, I just block its LAN access to prevent the manufacturer from acting like HP, I can still use its network feature but not the other way around.

Just like that, your devices will last way past a decade, you have full control, you have security measures in place, and spending is virtually null, buy it once and use until it breaks and you cannot fix it.
by jiggawatts | 2026-03-03 04:53:46+00:00
> the difference is "i see this information at a glance" versus "i need to move the cursor to each unknown name to ask my ide a question".

Is it really "at a glance"?

In most languages either by convention or requirement the "import" or "using" statements are collected at the beginning of a file. Once you've scrolled down even a few lines, the context is gone.

Also, determining what exactly is bound where is decidedly non-trivial in many languages due to keywords such as "var" and "let", overloaded function/method definitions, etc...

Sure, a human can do this with 95% or better accuracy, but that 5% can be a killer during a complex troubleshooting session if you guess wrong.

That's why I strongly prefer IDEs and having a purely mechanical process to resolve the dependencies so I can know exactly what things are instead of hoping my intuitions were correct.
by AlotOfReading | 2026-03-03 04:54:01+00:00
You've completely misunderstood the social contract inherent in copyright. There's no theft in adaptation. Copyright is an intentional trade-off by society to incentivise the creation of new works for society's benefit by giving authors a temporary monopoly. Perpetual copyright would obviously maximize the incentives for authors, but harm society by precluding the creation of new works based on the original. Instead, society chooses a limited period where authors can get most of the benefit while trying to keep the period short enough that works remain relevant.

Saying it's all theft entirely misses the point.
by Svip | 2026-03-03 04:55:03+00:00
Also from Denmark, but I would prefer permanent standard time (just like it was prior to 1982); yes, it's still dark in the morning, but at least I won't have to wait months before I start seeing sunlight for my commute. I can only manage the darkness for so long, before the winter depression truly takes hold. Permanent summer time would be devastating to a lot of people here.
How to Reach More Users?
by m2fauzaan | 2026-03-03 04:55:13+00:00
I've been building for almost a year and sharing my journey on X, Reddit, and Hacker News. It seems like I still do not have the ability to break my bubble and reach more users. I really believe in the product I’m building, but acquiring users seems to be a harder task than building the product.

Any suggestions?
by eru | 2026-03-03 04:56:24+00:00
> Instinctively, I think morning light is important to our biology for a daily reset and the solar cue of "high noon" is also a real thing.

You know, you can just set your watch to whatever you feel like?

> I'm sure I've read that sleep health experts have historically supported a change to permanent Standard Time, not DST.

What difference does it make? If people want to get up later or especially earlier, they can, no matter what the 'official' time is.

For an example: Spaniards and Poles are officially in the same timezone, but the Spaniards do everything 'late'. At least when you only look at the clocks; not so much when you look at the sun.
by raw_anon_1111 | 2026-03-03 04:56:33+00:00
Why? My wife and travel a lot and we spend extended periods of time away from home. I can’t imagine wanting to work from just an iPad. My travel and home setup is a Roost laptop stand, an Apple BT keyboard and mouse and a portable USB C monitor with a stand

Portable Monitor, InnoView 15.8... https://www.amazon.com/dp/B095GG31KX?ref=ppx_pop_mob_ap_shar...

Metal Tablet Stand, a Portable... https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0C4KH2GH3?ref=ppx_pop_mob_ap_shar...

I have an iPad Air 3rd gen and my wife has a 13 inch iPad Air that she uses exclusively
by jiggawatts | 2026-03-03 04:56:37+00:00
> Sometimes I just want to open a project quickly

Every time I've heard someone say a version of this, invariably they've spent more time doing things manually than the properly mechanised method would have achieved.

There's a seductive immediacy to certain quick & dirty manual processes that in the sum are slower if measured with a stopwatch. It could be as trivial as not having syntax highlighting means that you miss an issue because you didn't notice that something was commented out or a quoted string was quoted incorrectly.

Similarly, I've argued with many developers a few decades back that insisted that the fancy keyboard bindings of EMACS or Vim made them faster, but if raced against someone with an IDE they lost badly every time, no exceptions.
by Retric | 2026-03-03 04:56:42+00:00
That means far less than you might think. As long as officer testimony is given a privileged status the courtroom there’s minimal risk to civilians that body cameras are making things worse for them.

100% percent of prosecutors’ offices in jurisdictions with body cameras have used officer testimony as evidence to prosecute civilians. Meanwhile I suspect the use of officer testimony is even more lopsided in favor of cops.
by computomatic | 2026-03-03 04:56:52+00:00
I don't have a source to site, but I'm fairly certain the Canadian government is adopting (and presumably encouraging provinces to adopt) a general policy of explicitly not allowing US preferences to dictate our domestic policy moving forward. Of course, that is indeed in response to recent actions from the U.S. And in that light, this time change was an obvious early move as the only thing preventing it was the trigger based on the US states.
by bradly | 2026-03-03 04:56:53+00:00
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by __turbobrew__ | 2026-03-03 04:57:17+00:00
You are not alone according to polling in BC.

I think fundamentally it comes down to energy for me. I have very little energy in the morning so I am not going to harness the pre-work daylight hours to do something outside like taking my dog to the park, biking, or running. For me I don’t actually start feeling energized until maybe 9-10AM.

After work however, I have much more energy to do things outside with the daylight.
by deaux | 2026-03-03 04:58:10+00:00
> Still holding onto my 13 mini.

That's why they stopped making them, because the people who buy minis are willing to stick with them for 5 years, whereas Apple wants you to buy a new phone every year.

Every single person I know who uses a phone of more than 4 years old, uses an iPhone 13 mini. Without exception. Now I'm sure there's plenty of HNers who use other 4+ year old phones, but I'm talking about non-tech people.
by threebie | 2026-03-03 04:58:48+00:00
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We’ve kept things simple to start with, so no fancy designs yet. Our AI swap logic is still in its infancy (think 7-year-old child); it’s naive, but with good intentions that will improve over time as we normalize the data.
by diogenescynic | 2026-03-03 04:58:53+00:00
I'll get downvoted by both sides but this is what a winning political party policies look like for most of Americans not in NYC or in SF Bay Area, LA, SD, Seattle, Portland:

-Medicare for all

-Free state college tuition for local residents (we need to significantly decrease cost of college)

-Universal background checks on guns

-Ban abortion after 20 weeks

-America first and only (stop being Israel's bitch)

-Strong on crime laws (none of this bullshit we deal with in blue states where we catch and release violent offenders constantly and let people run over and kill entire families with ZERO consequences)

-Having no stance on DEI, LGBTQ, or other cultural issues that serve only to divide and distract
by certik | 2026-03-03 04:59:00+00:00
I haven't used vcpkg, but looking at their tutorial at https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/vcpkg/get_started/get-star..., it seems you still have to use cmake, and if so, it is indeed more complex than fpm (https://fpm.fortran-lang.org/tutorial/hello-fpm.html) where you don't use cmake. Fpm is similar to Cargo. Cargo is indeed as simple as fpm. However, as I mentioned above, this is just a tooling issue, somebody can (and should!) write Cargo for C++. In fact, fpm can build C++ projects also.

The best package manager that I like the most for C++ is Pixi (https://pixi.prefix.dev), that works really well.
by Barrin92 | 2026-03-03 04:59:08+00:00
people have said enough about the ethics of all of it but what I found even sadder is that the story made me curious to take a look at the actual piece he "investigated" with AI, it's this one (https://theshamblog.com/an-ai-agent-published-a-hit-piece-on...)

This whole story involved asking Claude to mine this text for quotes, which refused because it included harassment related content, then asking ChatGPT to explain that, and so on.

That entire ordeal probably generated more text from the chatbots than just reading the few paragraphs of the blogpost. That's why I think the "I'm sick" angle doesn't matter much. This is the same brainrot as people who go "grok what does this mean" under every twitter post. It's like a schoolchild who cheats and expends more energy cheating than just learning what they're supposed to.
by qaadika | 2026-03-03 04:59:12+00:00
The grammatical structure in the middle two is identical, and they're all similar in that way.

- "- Name - {Noun with modifiers} {comma} {verb with modifiers}."

- "- Name - {Noun with modifiers} {comma} {verb with modifiers}."

The phrasing is the same, which I notice sometimes happens in my own notes, but it's most noticeable when an LLM is asked to summarize items. An AI written job description (without major prompting) for a resume comes out the same way, in my experience. It's the simplest grammar for describing what something is and what something does.

If we used the developer's descriptions (from the github repo) to populate the info, it would look like this:

- hollance/neural-engine - Everything we actually know about the Apple Neural Engine (ANE)

- mdaiter/ane - Reverse engineered the Apple Neural Engine, with working Python and Objective C samples

- apple/ml-ane-transformers - eiln/ane - Reverse engineered Linux driver for the Apple Neural Engine (ANE).

- apple/ml-ane-transformers - Reference implementation of the Transformer architecture optimized for Apple Neural Engine (ANE)

IMO It may not be as information-packed as the LLM list, but it is more interesting to read. I can tell, or at least think I can tell, that different individuals wrote each description, and it's what they wanted me to know most about their project.

If I were making a list of software during research, the particular details I write down in the moment would be different, depending on the solution I'm looking for or features it has. I don't try to summarize "the Whole Project" in one point, i can re-read the repo for that. But overall, unless I made an effort to normalize the list, the grammar, length, and subpoints would vary from the form-identifiable "LLM Concise Summary."
by ggm | 2026-03-03 04:59:23+00:00
Not that there are no downside risks, but it would be understood a move to try and head off things by the economy RT represents is basically calling for Götterdämmerung. There's no coming back from an overt move against NATO and related economies now, that moment has passed. All the covert "we bought houses next to your airbases" and "we are playing games with drones" is fine and dandy. If they move troops to forward positions, the lids are coming off the launch tubes.

That's kind of what MAD is. It's also because of MAD that France signals it's intention. No point doing this in secret.

I would point out the Russians also signal intent. So, the M part of MAD is still there. Ukraine aside, there's mutuality around what they do facing european nations, mostly.
by lich_king | 2026-03-03 05:00:35+00:00
I clicked through the author's earlier stories when this first made waves. I obviously had no proof, but I was pretty certain that he's been using LLMs to generate stories for a good while.

When Ars released a statement saying this was an isolated incident, my reaction was "they probably didn't look too hard". I suspect they did, in the end?
by twosdai | 2026-03-03 05:00:46+00:00
Get someone you know to try it, and then see why they would or wouldn't tell their friends about your product. Interview the users you already have and ask what they like and dont like about the product.

For getting new users, traditional outbound motions like cold email, and cold calling work. But only if you know the problem youre trying to solve really well.
by stahtops | 2026-03-03 05:00:57+00:00
Sorry, but literally what are you talking about?

If Ford sells Broncos, and Pete Hegseth says “I’m Batman, we want them with RPG launchers”, Ford is not required to create Bronco’s with RPG launchers.

If Pete wants AI killer robots and AI domestic mass surveillance tools, he can go put out a RFQ like literally any other DOD DARPA project in history and get bids.
by hackyhacky | 2026-03-03 05:01:06+00:00
> My hunch is you would call me a Nazi

No, I would call you a Nazi for promoting the idea that Jews are organized to replace and outbreed gentiles (as says Musk), for denying the validity of any election that your party loses (as has Trump), for unilaterally seizing powers constitutionally held by the legislature (as has Trump), for using your elected office power to enrich yourself and your friends (as had Trump), for denying that American citizens of different ethnicities are "real Americans" (as has Trump), for attacking non-partisan institutions because they're politically inconvenient (as has Trump).

Popularity is no defense . Nazi opinions were popular in the 1930s, and now they're popular again. They are still Nazi opinions.

You can check voter ID all day, I don't care. This administration has crossed many red lines.
by Dylan16807 | 2026-03-03 05:01:21+00:00
It took about three years to get all the features in your bulleted list. It's been another fifteen and a half years since.

Touch/faceID is cheap, wireless charging is cheap, the free tier of iCloud is cheap, water resistance is cheap.

Yes the specs have increased a ton. When asking for a model under $500, the idea would be giving up some of those specs. And that's clearly possible; even low end phones these days are a zillion times better than an original iPhone.

And no I will not look at non-iPhone things when I'm evaluating whether iPhones underwent a hefty price drop. The cheapest iPhone these days is slightly cheaper than a first or second generation iPhone, and the best one is a lot more expensive.
by hombre_fatal | 2026-03-03 05:01:33+00:00
Huh? Their example could be just reading code in github or reading diffs. You shouldn’t need to pull code into a development environment just so you can GoToDefinition to understand what’s going on.

There’s all sorts of workflows where vim would mog the IDE workflow you’re really excited about, like pressing E in lazy git to make a quick tweak to a diff. Or ctrl-G in claude code.

I wouldn’t be so sure you’ve cracked the code on the best workflow that has no negative trade offs. Everyone thinks that about their workflow until they use it long enough to see where it snags.
by diogenescynic | 2026-03-03 05:03:44+00:00
>ACA has survived 12 years and enabled a lot of people to obtain health insurance that would not have been able to otherwise, with Republicans wanting to kill it that entire time but failing to do so.

My insurance is more expensive than ever and quality of care lower quality than ever.

>Do you think there was any other system Democrats could have passed instead that would have lasted that long?

Medicare for all. Or lower the age gradually (cover kids and elderly first). They should have voted on it during the pandemic but Pelosi blocked it and AOC wouldn't do anything. They're all fakes.
by hackyhacky | 2026-03-03 05:04:05+00:00
> So you ll start rejecting any argument that you supported before, as soon as a "Nazi" agrees with it?

I'll fight against any position that supports dehumanizing people for their ethnicity, that sets political ideology on a pedestal and uses it as a tool to attack science, institutions, and justice. As should you.

It seems like you're upset by my use of the word Nazi. You should instead focus on the ideas that I'm arguing against.
by eru | 2026-03-03 05:05:21+00:00
You should probably split it up: an end-to-end model for great latency (especially for baked in turn taking), but under the hood it can call out to any old text based model to answer more intricate question. You just need to teach the speech model to stall for a bit, while the LLM is busy.

Just use the same tricks humans are using for that.
by DougN7 | 2026-03-03 05:05:24+00:00
So much easier said than done. We have to get our elected representatives to make the change, but it is against their self interest. If this was the only thing people considered when voting _maybe_ it would stand a chance. And honestly, I suspect less than 20% understand how other voting systems could lead to better out comes. Heck, we can’t even use the metric system!
Show HN: Argus – VSCode debugger for Claude Code sessions
by lydionfinance | 2026-03-03 05:07:44+00:00
I've been using Claude Code heavily and kept wondering "why did this
session cost $2?" or "why did it read the same file 15 times?".

Argus is a VSCode extension that analyzes Claude Code sessions from
the .claude directory and gives you:

- Step-by-step breakdown of what Claude did
- Cost analysis (which tools burned the most tokens)
- Performance insights (retry loops, duplicate reads, context pressure)
- Token usage visualization (cache hits, compaction events)
- Flow diagrams showing file dependencies

Extension: https://marketplace.visualstudio.com/items?itemName=argus-cl...

It's basically a "time machine debugger" for your Claude Code sessions.
You can click through each step, see tool inputs/outputs, and understand
exactly what went wrong (or right).

Tech stack: TypeScript, React 19, Chart.js, Vite

Some interesting findings from my own sessions:
- 40% of cost was from reading the same files repeatedly
- Retry loops cost ~$0.15 per loop on average
- Cache hit ratio varies wildly (10% to 80%)

Limitations:
- Only works with local .claude directories (not remote sessions)
- Session format is undocumented, might break in future
- Analysis rules are heuristic-based

GitHub: https://github.com/yessGlory17/argus

Would love feedback, especially from other Claude Code users!
by owlbite | 2026-03-03 05:07:54+00:00
FORmula TRANslation, the clue is in the name. It's great at math, but yeah, strings and OS stuff is a PITA. The modern vector-based syntax is still really nice and I've yet to come across a C++ library quite as slick.

But I think what it was really missing last time I looked at it was good access to compiler intrinsics (or otherwise) to hit vectorizations and math optimization instructions. The OpenMP simd pragmas weren't really doing a fantastic job. I hope that's better now it's in LLVM.
by mindslight | 2026-03-03 05:08:07+00:00
> Do you think there was any other system Democrats could have passed instead that would have lasted that long?

You're buying into the paradigm wherein sandbagging it was necessary for pragmatic reasons, and justifying within that. While this is true to an extent, it doesn't really change my overall point.

I do get that the ACA was a significant piece of legislation that has helped many people. And if you want to talk system design, such a mandate might make sense in a system with much much more regulatory bandwidth than ours, where it's not just forcing people into a corrupt system. But as it stands, they didn't even address the antitrust issues of bundling healthcare plans with employment or price fixing between insurers and providers. So I stand by my characterization of the dynamic as brazen regulatory capture.