MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by thaumasiotes | 2026-03-09 20:03:40+00:00
> It is known since ancient times, De gustibus non est disputandum (1): Tastes differ, so it's pointless to dispute matters of taste

For reference, de gustibus non est disputandum translates as "tastes shouldn't be discussed". Don't be confused by the etymological relationship to dispute.

https://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/text?doc=Perseus%3Atext...
by autoexec | 2026-03-09 20:03:42+00:00
"using the bathroom" will be the least of what they're watching people do. Anyone wearing these glasses (or similar) should know that all of the audio/video picked up by the glasses will be watched and analyzed by others, likely by AI as well. Just like the entire point of facebook is to spy on people and profit from that data, the entire point of these devices is to spy on people in ways that the facebook app doesn't/can't and profit from that data.
by busymichael | 2026-03-09 20:04:09+00:00
Building a voice recorder/transcription/summarization app where everything runs on-device. No cloud, no uploads, no servers processing your audio.

Started with a web version using WebAssembly Whisper to validate the idea. Worked well enough to prove demand, but browser sandbox limits (no background recording, inconsistent model performance) pushed me to go native.

Rebuilt as an iOS/macOS app with CoreML. Apple Silicon handles Whisper-class models locally without issues, but its confined to recent devices.

I'm working on e2ee sync between web and mobile. I want to build a simplenotes but for audio transcription.

Try the web version at: https://basilai.app/app
by anonym29 | 2026-03-09 20:04:11+00:00
Keep in mind, there are more people who have a medical necessity to avoid cruciferous vegetables (like cabbage), gluten, nuts, and other types of plants than there are people who have a medical necessity to avoid meat.

As a whole, more humans are medically biologically incompatible with plant consumption than animal consumption.

Note that I'm talking about adverse medical reactions that range from worsening of chronic disease to acute death, not merely gastric discomfort, like with lactose intolerance.

Not everyone has the privilege of enjoying buttered cabbage.
by treebeard901 | 2026-03-09 20:04:24+00:00
Closing the strait of Hormuz is worse for Iran and China than anyone else. Natural gas to Europe but not as big of an issue compared to Russian energy supplies. The Saudis and others have pipelines to bypass the strait. Many countries who sell oil obviously benefit from the increased price. I'd almost see how the U.S., Russia, Saudis and even the current administration in Venezuela would be fine with the oil price increase if Irans supply is taken off the market for a long time.
by svilen_dobrev | 2026-03-09 20:04:43+00:00
here some comparison chart, 2nd image in the article below:

https://ec.europa.eu/eurostat/statistics-explained/images/th...

https://ec.europa.eu/eurostat/statistics-explained/index.php...

there are 2-2.5x times differences between highest and lowest, of 25-30 countries

And here is some current/future (??) prices/increases, which i have no idea where they come from:

https://euenergy.live/
by hananova | 2026-03-09 20:04:54+00:00
Ever since the sloppification of the internet began, I’ve called out hundreds of LLM slop posts. I’ve gotten about 50 responses back from the author, most of them admitting to LLM usage, with only a single one initially vehemently denying it, but then later admitting it.

I cannot know what this says about my false negative rate, but at the very least I am confident in my false positive rate.
by mjr00 | 2026-03-09 20:05:05+00:00
Ultimately the goal "build a nice community where people can enjoy social interactions" is fully incompatible with "build the next Everything For Everyone Social Website like twitter/facebook/instagram/youtube/tiktok/etc so that we can get 5 billion users and start pushing ads at people". Unfortunately once you take VC funding, you no longer have the option of doing the former.

From an actual content perspective Bluesky is fine, but there's no investor who would take a look at the site's user statistics[0] and say "oh yeah things are going great." There needs to be drastic changes if investors hope to have any return on investment.

[0] https://bsky.jazco.dev/stats
by lukev | 2026-03-09 20:05:13+00:00
You can care a lot about plausible deniability and the ability to delete your own data, but it seems a bit weird to denounce a whole ecosystem as "generally a bad idea" on those grounds, when that is a deliberate anti-goal of the system design.

Don't use it if you don't like it. Some of us like the strong identity and content verification.
by devonkelley | 2026-03-09 20:05:20+00:00
Grammatically airtight and worth reading are different things though. The A/B test argument is real but it proves engagement, not quality. SEO shops winning doesn't mean readers are getting better writing, it means the bar moved to "good enough to not bounce."

The 20 minutes of distracted coffee-spilled human writing at least had a voice. The LLM draft is technically cleaner, sure. But "cleaner" is doing a lot of heavy lifting when the output reads like it was written by a committee of style guides.
by timeinput | 2026-03-09 20:05:21+00:00
But why would you do that? Especially if you know there are robots enforcing that you come to a complete stop?

There are many places that don't even allow rights (or lefts) on red.

I got a right on red ticket once, and then I made it a point to obey the law -- especially at the intersections with the robots.

For things like traffic laws especially (where there are very simple cut and dry rules), why is it okay to break the law, and why is it not okay for robots to enforce the law?
by dleslie | 2026-03-09 20:05:53+00:00
There are places that do. Here in Canada there are at least two provinces that subsist almost entirely off of hydro, and have for the better part of a century. Both export huge amounts of electricity to the USA.

And we have active political conflict between big oil and everyone else, where there seems to be an insatiable demand for socializing the externalities of oil and gas while receiving public funding to make oil production competitive and market viable. In that manner, it places itself in front of efforts to use literally anything else.

If oil and gas had never received a single dollar of public funding, including by way of public funding for externalities that support or recover from oil and gas, then it never would have been market viable as an energy source in places where it doesn't seep out of the soil. Roads would not have been paved, power plants would not have been built, suburbs would only exist for the very wealthy.
by sourishkundu23 | 2026-03-09 20:06:17+00:00
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by undeveloper | 2026-03-09 20:06:19+00:00
there are many "immortal" strains of cells that are mass produced and sold to labs, most notably "HeLa" cells. in this case in particular, "iPSCs" cells are used, sourcing skin cells or blood cells (with informed consent of the patient), and using those differentiated (or "specialized") cells to create pluripotent (or "less specialized") cells that can then be transformed into neurons
by devsda | 2026-03-09 20:06:20+00:00
Off topic.

Did anybody read the linked fortune article about Uber ceo expecting people to work on weekends.

It has that paid PR post and satirical piece vibes at the same time. With words like "unparalleled work ethic" working on weekends, wisdom and the part about checking emails right after waking up at 5 in the morning, I was expecting it to wrap up with a hint of obvious sarcasm but sadly it never came.
Show HN: Sales Tracking Agent that doubles up as a CRM
by bhasinanant | 2026-03-09 20:06:58+00:00
Hey everyone.

I am Anant. Previously used to work at Goldman Sachs, and have worked on a few projects since I decided to go full time bootstrapped.

I also have a family business that is mostly my day job, which involves a very boring non-tech life for the most part involving industrial supplies, manufacturing and a lot of inquiries and sales.

At some point, keeping track of inquiries in email became a choke point for me. What ends up happening is that during busy times, I always end up prioritizing bigger inquiries, but in the long term, this is hazardous for customer relationships.

The answer to my problem is a CRM, but the reason I have never used one prior is because I absolutely can not use my time to update a dashboard.

For the past 4 months I have been building something that solves this problem for me. It is a full featured CRM, free usage is available, even though team functionalities are coming soon.

What it does is it tracks every email, and every whatsapp interaction. Those are the two channels immediately important for me, and automatically keeps track of deals, tasks and contacts, and even sets up reminders that show up and work through the app(Android in Beta).

The result is a platform that works seamlessly, is ZERO data entry(except for calls for now), and works with context on its own, all while not blowing the budget through the roof.

There are a lot of things that I want to integrate sooner rather than later: Google Calendar sync, Agentic Chat for steering(custom workflows and prompt modifications), and deeper integration with reminders.

Focus is purely on a system that works as well as a Human sales assistant would while requiring absolutely zero or very minimal input from me or other users.

Would love to hear your thoughts and what would features would be the difference makers for you in a system like this.

P.S. Does not use OpenClaw or similar projects. Agent Orchestration is custom built, and very modular in nature. Tested over months with my live business data.
by karmakaze | 2026-03-09 20:07:08+00:00
At those prices I wonder if it also reviews the design for ineffectiveness in performance or decomposition into maintainable units besides catching the bugs.

Also the examples are weird IMO. Unless it was an edge/corner case the authentication bug would be caught in even a smoke test. And for the ZFS encryption refactor I'd expect a static-typed language to catch type errors unless they're casting from `void*` or something. Seems like they picked examples by how important/newsworthy the areas were than the technicality of the finds.
by observationist | 2026-03-09 20:07:09+00:00
https://www.vectorpea.com/ and https://www.photopea.com/ are the lowest barrier to useable alternatives. You can even save them offline and convert to PWA, with very little friction. vectorpea and photopea should handle your .ai files admirably.

Inkscape, Affinity, other open source alternatives exist, but have a remarkably different UI and don't capitalize on your muscle memory.

The feature overlap is bordering on complete, but there are some Adobe Illustrator only perks, for sure. Most of it you can make up for with any of the frontier image AI models.

There are plugins - if you're well versed in how they work, converting between AI and vectorpea should also be a piece of cake with AI.
by belisarius222 | 2026-03-09 20:07:30+00:00
I generally agree. TypeScript is a great language, and JS runtimes have certainly had a lot of money and effort poured into them for a long time. I would add WASM to this category, as probably the closest thing to Mog. Write a program in some language, compile it to WASM, and load it into the host process. This is (probably) nice and safe, and relatively performant.

Since it's new, Mog will likely not yet beat existing systems at basically anything. Its potential lies in having better performance and a much smaller total system footprint and complexity than the alternatives. WASM is generally interpreted -- you can compile it, but it wasn't really designed for that as far as I know.

More generally, I think new execution environments are good opportunities for new languages that directly address the needs of that environment. The example that comes to mind is JavaScript, which turned webpages into dynamically loaded applications. AI agents have such heavy usage and specific problems that a language designed to be both written and executed by them is worth a shot in my opinion.
by Zak | 2026-03-09 20:07:44+00:00
The Mastodon model does not offer much ability to delete. Well-behaved servers will honor delete requests, but the protocol doesn't mandate it. Additionally, a user cannot generate delete requests if they get banned from their server or the server shuts down. Users and server admins can't control whether another server permits archiving of their content. Mastodon and other fediverse software allows following public posts by RSS, and RSS clients might keep them forever.

The only reasonable understanding is that these protocols are for for publishing to the public. It is not possible to reliably retract anything published to thousands of other peoples' computers. We used to try to teach people that the internet is forever, and that's even more true with federated protocols. That doesn't make them a bad idea.
by ShreyasDasari | 2026-03-09 20:07:54+00:00
Hey HN — built this because every churn prediction notebook on GitHub
uses the Kaggle Telco dataset and outputs a confusion matrix that no
founder can act on.

ChurnGuard connects to your Stripe account, engineers behavioral
features from real billing data, trains an XGBoost model on your
actual churned vs retained customers, and uses SHAP to explain
why each customer is at risk in plain English.

The LLM layer (Groq free tier) generates a specific 30-day retention
playbook per at-risk customer — not "schedule a call" but actual
messaging, offer amounts, and who should own each action.

Entire stack is free. Works in Google Colab. Happy to answer
questions about the architecture.
by kakacik | 2026-03-09 20:08:31+00:00
That depends who you ask - Vietnamese, Iraqi, Afghani, heck whole middle east, almost whole north Africa? Chile? Nicaragua? Cuba? Russia? China? And so on? Not so much.

Generally US tries to represent freedom and democracy and be the force of good, but they often ending up representing it in pretty horrible and messed up ways which end very far from these ideals. Road to hell is often paved with good intentions, isn't it. So no, too strong US ain't very good for rest of the world, quadruple that with current leadership. I am not saying China or russia are better, or even equal, far from it, its rather loss in each direction.

Iran is a bit special in its absolute hate for Israel and a bit whole west, but thats purely wet dream of ayatollahs that came to power after 1978, till then they were regional friends and one of best western partners. That revolution weas triggered purely by utter incompetence of CIA and british MI6, so thanx guys for fucking up entire region for everybody.

I don't think there is a single country in this world who would welcome them becoming nuclear power - not russians, not chinese, and definitely nobody around them. But maybe its too much to expect from reality - it would require such a massive ground invasion that US is not willing to wage (and pay for) and it would take a nuke to NY or similar level to trigger it.
by chrononaut | 2026-03-09 20:08:57+00:00
> The devices will not carry the band support needed for these markets.

Their technical specifications state:

> Cellular: 4G + 5G with dual nano-SIM and global roaming modem configuration[0]

Is that implying "global" is actually not global?

[0] https://commerce.jolla.com/products/jolla-phone-preorder
by jmull | 2026-03-09 20:08:57+00:00
If you want to claim an objective difference, then you need to be the one to substantiate that.

Anyway, we know people read symbols by shape/lines/pattern just fine without color because that's how reading works.

> What really matters is not how the screenshots look, but how easy it is to use the software in action, with low error rate and without having to spend more than a fraction of a second finding the controls you need.

Indeed. Which is why this article is mostly blowing wind.
by AykutSek | 2026-03-09 20:09:01+00:00
That makes sense — the value is in the pipeline, not the prose. "Make it less robotic" on 300 drafts at once is still a 10x over doing it one by one.

Curious what happens when one of those emails bounces back or gets a reply — does DenchClaw pick that up and update the record, or is that still manual?
by quickthrowman | 2026-03-09 20:09:21+00:00
That’s not how it works in the United States. I was driving my (female) partner’s car and received a citation. I gave the cop my license but he pulled the owner’s (my female partner) driving record using her vehicle’s license plate (is what I’m guessing happened) and issued her the citation instead of me. I was very excited since this meant I was going to get away without a citation.

I gave her the citation and she called the cop who issued the citation and asked him who was driving at the time. He answered that a man was driving, and she told him he issued the citation to her, a woman. Her first name is one letter away from a male first name, so I’m guessing the cop saw it and assumed it was me and not her.

He got frustrated and told her to go ahead and rip the citation up since he wrote it to the wrong driver, she told him she’d show up to court and the judge would instantly dismiss the ticket due to the officer pulling over a man and issuing the citation to a woman, so he canceled it. He didn’t want to look like a complete fool in front of a judge.

Not once did he ask who was actually driving because he knows she is never going to tell him and he can’t force her to reveal that it was me.
by butILoveLife | 2026-03-09 20:09:39+00:00
>we are measuring something real.

I think it matters. No the planets are not doing circles around the sun. Circles don't actually exist, they are doing elipses.

Also 'real' has quite a few meanings. If I ask the question 'Are you closer to a keyboard or the gym?' does that question exist?

This kind of stuff does end up mattering. It becomes much more noticeable in psychology (and biology). If you read Freud, Adler, or Jung, you will say 'Oh extrovert! I've seen that before!' But then you realize its vague and almost always true. Its like a horoscope.

So if we think there is a truth to reality, we look for perfect relations. If we think its impossible for humans to figure out, we look for best fits.
by CactusBlue | 2026-03-09 20:09:40+00:00
How do you feel about the recent communication failures from the team to the userbase? As another builder of an open-source social platform, we must all understand that it is paramount for any company to not antagonize its customers, doubly so for a SOCIAL platform. I do understand that Bluesky and ATProto has to deal with a lot of baggage from both the old userbase and the new influx from the X/Twitter exodus, but engaging in user-antagonistic communication caused me to sour on the whole protocol.
by ffsm8 | 2026-03-09 20:09:41+00:00
> I doubt we'd do this to humans. So the only way to be okay with this is adhering to a form of specieism.

The obvious historical pointer to the Holocaust as a well covered example of people being treated like that - and a fact often swept under the rug: people are being treated essentially like that in North Korea, today.

An older interview but still good to watch

https://youtu.be/ZGJm4bjRaaE?is=E2hFWYi-ynPnWGfm
Show HN: DopaLoop – Habit tracker for ADHD brains, local-first, no streaks
by steviee | 2026-03-09 20:09:43+00:00
I got diagnosed with ADHD at 47. After the diagnosis I started noticing how most productivity tools assume consistent executive function which in turn is the exact thing ADHD disrupts. So I built something different.

DopaLoop is an iOS habit tracker that starts with goals ("better sleep", "less overwhelm") and lets you attach habits to them. Miss a day: nothing resets. The goal stays visible as an anchor or Northstar. The idea is that patterns over time matter more than daily streaks.

Tech: SwiftUI + SwiftData, with Foundation Framework and CoreML, fully local, no backend, no account. Privacy wasn't just a marketing decision, really. I just didn't want anyone to fear for their data, including myself or my kids. Everything stays on-device.

14-day free trial to get some momentum and gain insights from the analytics. No ads, no data collection.

Source isn't public, but happy to answer questions about the SwiftUI/SwiftData architecture, the HealthKit integration, or the ADHD-specific design decisions.

dopaloop.app (https://dopaloop.app/)

Best,
Steviee
by verdverm | 2026-03-09 20:10:24+00:00
The brand already has a defined public perception that will be hard to change, even for those who've only heard it by name (eg Fox News). As a user, I generally agree with the Blue MAGA sentiments, even though it is much more diverse than that and you can filter out political content if you want. This is likely Bluesky's biggest challenge in a return to growth.

This is separate from ATProto, which I still maintain positive sentiment for.
by rzerowan | 2026-03-09 20:10:26+00:00
As i recall , they do not come preloaded and the usr has to do a song and dance to flash the ROM with the new OS. While also paying a separete license fee for the OS and updates.

Too much friction and limiting the potential - thats why i reiterate. The SailFishOS is a delight technically and aesthetically - the business side though needs a major overhaul.

Just thinking out loud , they could partner with someone likee huawei to preload for EU/rest of world customers that cannot use HarmonyOS outside CH. Or even one of the other smaller OEM with access to the deep tech ecosystem to give a prebuild/preloaded f;agship at a cost competitive price. Or do a Apple and auction search/maps defaults to keep BOM costs down and aim for widespread adoption.
by belisarius222 | 2026-03-09 20:10:34+00:00
The host is written in Rust, with `extern "C"`, which makes it able to be loaded as a C library by programs written in other languages. Most languages have support for this.

It's also designed to be run in an event loop. I've tested this with Bun's event loop that runs TypeScript. I haven't tried it with other async runtimes, but it should be doable.

As for the browser, I haven't tried it, but you might be able to compile it to WASM -- the async stuff would be the hardest part of that, I suspect. Could be cool!
by m11a | 2026-03-09 20:11:05+00:00
K8s gives you orchestration of Docker containers. I don’t think it handles the container boundary any more than Docker does.

I don’t think it should be assumed to give network isolation, unless you’re also using extensions and something like Cilium for that purpose. I don’t think it’s the right primitive for agent sandboxes, or other kinds of agent infra.

(Obviously, you could still run a custom runtime inside k8s pods, or something like GCP’s k8s gVisor magic.)
by slowmovintarget | 2026-03-09 20:11:20+00:00
If someone is presenting themselves to you in person for entry into your bar, you have far more information to make a judgement on than the color of their skin... so it is not the same.

In the case of a woman coming into contact with some driver and volunteering location information like her home address, she has little to no information to make that judgement. Providing her just that bit of information, and allowing her to discriminate based on it, makes her safer. Ideally, she'd have way more information than just whether the driver is male or female. The reputation information helps, but isn't always reliable.