MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by smsm42 | 2026-03-09 18:15:31+00:00
Yeah, keeping this would be a dangerous precedent. If the state can presume you're guilty in a traffic case, why not extend it to other cases? Stuff like that is routinely used in legal arguments, "we are doing X so why can't we do Y which is essentially the same?" So say they'd go for "we have your phone located within the vicinity of where murder is committed, now prove you're not a murderer!" or "your license place was tagged next to the store that was robbed, now prove you didn't rob the store!"

And yes, very likely some people would abuse it to get out of traffic tickets. I'd rather have that than constitutional due process protections eroded. We're not doing super-great on that anyway, we don't need to do worse, and if some scoundrel occasionally not paying traffic ticket is a price we have to pay to avoid that, I am fine with it.
by whiteboardr | 2026-03-09 18:16:05+00:00
They didn’t know.

The reasonable approach to EVs becoming economically feasible would have been to cut through the noise and treat it as an add-on to the existing portfolio without compromising the core competence: internal combustion engines.

This they knew.

Dieselgate put them in a hopeless position in the discussion around all encompassing electrification demanded by the governent plus the greedy, short sited pressure from markets.

This led to massive (and forced) investments rushing out electric models nobody asked for by the dozens.

Compromising quality and a sound growth strategy along the way.

The worst possible timing for Dieselgate to hit - steering a whole country and all industry-related countries into an existential crisis.

It is delusional to think german car manufacturers will be anywhere near competitive in the much simpler EV mass(!)market - so thinking to order a whole industry, which is built around a way different technolocal foundation, to just make electric cars from now on without really looking into a viable charging infrastructure is still beyond me.

Plus ICE cars won’t be going away anytime soon and very few have the balls to call this out.
by ksec | 2026-03-09 18:16:12+00:00
> I'm not sure what Mac Pro would do with PCIe cards .

Video and Audio Engineers [1] would like to have a word. Not to mention PCIe Network Card. And they do use all the slot in the Cheese Gater although I believe a modern version could have cut those in half.

[1] https://www.production-expert.com/production-expert-1/2020/7...
Show HN: I built a word art generator for 3D printers
by ductionist | 2026-03-09 18:16:18+00:00
I built a free browser-based tool for generating 3D text with multi-colour outlines, designed for 3D printers that support multiple filaments.

You type text, pick a font, add coloured outline layers, adjust thickness, and preview everything in real-time 3D. Then export as 3MF and each colour shows up as a separate named part that drops straight into Bambu Studio, no need for manual painting. You can also download the STLs.

Tech details for the curious:

- Vanilla JS client code
- Three.js for 3D preview, opentype.js for font parsing
- Geometry pipeline: opentype paths → Clipper-lib (boolean ops for outline rings via cumulative offsets + differences) → Tess2 (triangulation) → extruded meshes
- Server-side export via Cloudflare workers (same geometry pipeline, runs headlessly to produce 3MF/STL)
- Preview images generated by @cf-wasm/resvg on the edge
- Every design is a shareable URL, all state lives in query params
- Licensed CC BY 4.0.

Would love feedback especially from folks doing multi-colour printing.
by astra1701 | 2026-03-09 18:16:22+00:00
JetBrains’s default grammar checking plugin[1] is actually built on languagetool[2], a pretty decent grammar checker that also happens to be partly open source and self-hostable[3]. Sadly, they have lately shoved in a few (thankfully optional) crappy LLM-based features (that don’t even work well in the first place) and coated their landing page in endless AI keywords, but their core engine is still more traditional and open-source, and hasn’t really seemed to change in years. You can just run it on your own device and point their browser and editor extensions to it.

[1] https://plugins.jetbrains.com/plugin/12175-natural-languages...
[2] https://languagetool.org -- warning: is coated in somewhat-misleading AI keywords
[3] https://github.com/languagetool-org/languagetool
by neutronicus | 2026-03-09 18:16:45+00:00
Not in my jurisdiction - the biggest offenders know that there's no collection mechanism with any teeth, so they just ignore the fines [1].

FWIW, despite all this the speed cameras have been effective at reducing average speeds at problem points.

[1] https://www.wmar2news.com/homepage-showcase/how-md-drivers-w...
by myrmidon | 2026-03-09 18:16:47+00:00
Presumably he means countries with somewhat higher levels of nepotism in the military than the US.

MENA countries (excepting Israel here) are known to suffer from this significantly, and it is a big factor in their militaries historically underperforming.

It is a valid point to bring this up as possible cause or factor, no need to get all defensive about it.
by satvikpendem | 2026-03-09 18:16:49+00:00
> This is Google v Oracle all over again - are APIs copyrightable?

Yes this is the best way to ask the question. If I take a public facing API and reimplement everything, whether it's by human or machine, it should be sufficient. After all, that's what Google did, and it's not like their engineers never read a single line of the Java source code. Even in "clean room" implementations, a human might still have remembered or recalled a previous implementation of some function they had encountered before.
by kjksf | 2026-03-09 18:17:03+00:00
We did in fact say so.

https://www.carltonfields.com/insights/publications/2025/no-...

> No Copyright Protection for AI-Assisted Creations: Thaler v. Perlmutter

> A recent key judicial development on this topic occurred when the U.S. Supreme Court declined to review the case of Thaler v. Perlmutter on March 2, 2026, effectively upholding lower court rulings that AI-generated works lacking human authorship are not eligible for copyright protection under U.S. law
Show HN: AC-trace–map acceptance criteria to code and tests,then mutate the code
by dmyhuz | 2026-03-09 18:17:05+00:00
I built a small open-source tool to explore a software confidence gap that seems to be getting worse with AI-assisted coding.

Passing tests and coverage are often weaker signals than teams assume. Code can be exercised, tests can pass, and yet the actual acceptance criteria may still be only weakly protected.

More about the problem: https://www.dmytrohuz.com/p/i-built-ac-trace-to-question-the

ac-trace maps acceptance criteria to code and tests, then mutates the mapped code to check whether the tests really catch the breakage.

Current scope is intentionally narrow: Python + pytest. It’s an early experiment, and I’d really value feedback from people working on testing, QA/dev productivity, and AI-assisted development workflows.
by b112 | 2026-03-09 18:17:25+00:00
Everywhere I've been, the owner of the car gets the ticket, and it's up to them to figure out if they were driving, or if not them, collect from whomever they loaned the car to.

No camera I've ever seen tries to figure out who the driver is.

The logic is, it's your car, you're responsible for loaning it/owning it, so you get the fine. Don't like that? Don't loan your car out.

The trade off is no points are deducted from a driver's license. It's a pure fine, because they can't prove you were driving.

So the person just seems to be speaking gibberish to me.

edit:

More context...

The same logic applies for parking tickets. No one cares who parked the car, the car's owner gets the ticket... not the person who parked it. While I dislike red light cameras, the logic holds.
by re-thc | 2026-03-09 18:17:50+00:00
> Blanchard is very clear that he didn't write a single line of code

He used Claude to write it. Difference? The fact that I write on the notepad vs printed it out = I didn't do it?

> Signing GitHub commit doesn't change that.

That's the equivalent of me saying I didn't kill anyone. The fingerprints on the knife doesn't change that.
by satvikpendem | 2026-03-09 18:18:19+00:00
No, because (most) people don't work on OSS for vanity, they do it to help other people, whether it's individuals or groups of individuals, ie corporations.

It's the same question as, if an AI can generate "art", or photographers can capture a scene better than any (realistic) painter, then will people still create art? Obviously yes, and we see it of course after Stable Diffusion was released three years ago, people are still creating.
by krackers | 2026-03-09 18:19:20+00:00
Expert systems are basically decision trees which are "gofai" (good old fashioned ai) as opposed to deep learning. I've never really seen a good definition for what counts as "gofai" (is all statistical learning/regression gofai? What about regression done via gradient descent?). There's some talk in [1]

[1] https://www.beren.io/2023-04-10-Why-GOFAI-failed/
by smsm42 | 2026-03-09 18:19:20+00:00
> you should be aware of its whereabouts at any given moment

Says who? If the car is mine, I am free to do with it whatever I like (of course, excepting criminal acts). I do not owe anybody an account of what I - or the care - did at any particular moment. If the car was used in the commission of a crime, it's up to the prosecution to prove I had something to do with it. If they think I know who did it - prove it and prosecute me under the law. You can't just prosecute because you think I should know, that's not how proper law works - otherwise every cop in the country would be 100% sure who they caught is the criminal - because why not, if it's enough for conviction, why work harder!

> If someone shoots a person with your gun, you gonna say it wasn't you and expect them not to question any you further?

They can question all they like, but to secure a criminal conviction, they must prove, beyond reasonable doubt, that I was the person who did it. Otherwise you get no conviction. If they strongly suspect I did it, they would find a proof - but the fact that I owned a gun is not that proof (for one, guns can be easily stolen, and frequently are).
by s-macke | 2026-03-09 18:19:29+00:00
Most such emulators have Internet access on the IP level. Therefore, this is a very cheap way to test anything on the Internet.

apk add nmap
nmap your.domain.com

However, the speed is heavily throttled. You can even use ssh and login to your own server.

It can also be used as a very cheap way to provide a complete build environment on a single website, for example to teach C/C++. Or to learn the shell. You don't have to install anything.
by leptons | 2026-03-09 18:19:31+00:00
I've frankly given up on LLMs for most programming tasks. It takes just as much time (if not more) to coddle it to produce anything useful, with the addition of frustration, and I could have just written far better code myself in the time it takes to get the LLM to produce anything useful. I already have 40 years experience programming, so I don't really need a tin-can to do it for me. YMMV.
by bityard | 2026-03-09 18:19:31+00:00
Recordable blu-ray discs have a reported lifespan of hundreds of years if left untouched, but the high-capacity ones (128GB) are not especially cheap right now and I assume the writing process is slow. The drives themselves may not be easy to come by in future decades. But they are your best bet for "I want my data to outlive my grandchildren."

For the rest of us, a USB spinning rust hard drive formatted as exFAT is going to be hard to beat. You'll be able to plug this into virtually any computer made in the next few decades (modulo a USB adapter or two) and just read it. They are cheap (even allowing for the rising cost of storage), fast, and most importantly, they are easy. The data is stored magnetically, so is not susceptible to degradation just from sitting like SSDs or flash drives are.

Of course, you should not store any important data on only ONE drive. The 3-2-1 backup rule applies to archives as well: 3 copies, 2 different media, 1 off-site.
by summerdown2 | 2026-03-09 18:19:40+00:00
> I don't really know how to respond politely to downplaying genocide.

Sorry. I don't intend to downplay genocide and I don't want to come across that way.

What I'm trying to critique is (so far as I can read it from your post) your inability to see that two things can be the same in one respect - but apparently not notice that one is much bigger than the other.

If it helps, I'm not American and don't have any option to 'win' as far as US politics goes. I think you are right that Kamala Harris was facilitating genocide. But I also think you are wrong to not take into account that Donald Trump is a whole order of magnitude worse.
by jonahhorowitz | 2026-03-09 18:20:04+00:00
In California at least (I'm not sure about Florida law), you can go to court and state "the state hasn't proved that I was the driver," and if the photos are too blurry to show who the driver was, the state loses. You don't have to tell them who the driver was, just show that they don't have enough evidence that it was you. I believe this approach is more consistent with the constitution.[1]

[1]:https://caticketking.com/help-center/photo-red-light-help/ph...
by dijit | 2026-03-09 18:20:11+00:00
AOSP is just a totally different destination, it's not a faster route to the same one.

Sailfish is spiritually MeeGo: actual Linux on the phone, not a custom skin on Google's foundations. Obviously it's faster to build a kit-car than a car factory, I don't see how that's a rebuttal, it's an entirely different conversation.

An AOSP fork on Qualcomm hardware isn't independence. Jolla are actually trying to build the factory.

The $50 fee and tablet scandal are fair hits- but fuck-ups don't make you a grifter, and we've forgiven larger players far worse.

You still haven't said what you'd actually do.
by mothballed | 2026-03-09 18:20:26+00:00
The 5th amendment with regard to self-incrimination only applies to criminal cases. When I represented myself in court for a speeding ticket the judge threatened me under pain of contempt that I had to testify against myself.

Most camera tickets are either civil moving, or civil non-moving. Civil moving are against a person and civil non-moving are against the vehicle. Neither of which case does 5th amendment protect you from incriminating yourself, and neither of which does it require prove beyond a reasonable doubt.
by breppp | 2026-03-09 18:20:32+00:00
> In almost all countries, military is seen as a "working class" profession

In western countries that's the case. In autocratic countries it is essential to keep control of the army by placing the equivalent of the royal family in charge.

Also, fighter pilots were historically considered as the successors for cavalry and manned by the nobility, in Arab countries this means the ruling elite
by joshuamorton | 2026-03-09 18:20:53+00:00
> It is enough to say absolutely nothing, and request the government to prove its case.

Only in criminal contexts. In civil contexts your silence can absolutely be an adverse inference. Usually these red-light cameras are civil penalties, not criminal (fines with no points). The judge here seems to be saying that these are "quasi-criminal" because, uhh, I guess there are penalties.
by idle_zealot | 2026-03-09 18:20:57+00:00
> This would make it so relicensing with AI rewrites is essentially impossible unless your goal is to transition the work to be truly public domain.

That's not true at all. Anyone could follow these steps:

1. Have the LLM rewrite GPL code.

2. Do not publish that public domain code. You have no obligation to.

3. Make a few tweaks to that code.

4. Publish a compiled binary/use your code to host a service under a proprietary license of your choice.
by popalchemist | 2026-03-09 18:21:24+00:00
Yes, they do that, but it's not out of altruism. Gratitude may be the wrong word when Meta and Zuck have actively worked to erode people's trust in society and reality, while actualizing a technofuedalist vision of serfdom; literally a 21st century scheme for world domination and subjugation of the poors.
by leptons | 2026-03-09 18:21:27+00:00
OP was writing how great the LLM is, and that he couldn't do this stuff as easily before LLMs. And that simply isn't true.

Instead of breaking down the task himself into achievable steps, the LLM did that "thinking" for him. This will inevitably lead to atrophy of the brain. If you don't exercise your brain, and let the tin-can tell you what to do, you're going to get pretty dull. It's well known that keeping your brain active, solving problems, will keep your mental abilities strong. Using LLMs is the opposite of that.
by vladdoster | 2026-03-09 18:21:32+00:00
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Designed and built Platform-as-a-Service for microservice workloads running on Azure and AWS
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Worked as part of the DevOps team to manage a 15k core CentOS HPC cluster. Designed and implemented
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by shakahshakah | 2026-03-09 18:21:38+00:00
New Jersey abandoned their red-light camera laws after ticket challenges involving yellow-light lengths. The length should be proportional to the posted speed limit (e.g. 5.5 seconds for 50 mph), but many lights were found to have incorrect timing (e.g. 2.5 seconds for 50 mph).

Also, I think at that time some questionable arrangements surfaced between the operators of the automated ticketing system(s) and the towns and/or counties involved.
Show HN: Dull – Instagram Without Reels, YouTube Without Shorts
by kasparnoor | 2026-03-09 18:21:58+00:00
I kept opening Instagram to check a DM and losing 40 minutes to Reels. Deleting the app meant losing DMs and Stories. So I built a browser that loads the real mobile web versions with the short-form content already gone.

It's an iOS app using WKWebView with three layers of filtering per platform:

1. WKContentRuleList blocks URLs (/reels/, /shorts/) at the network level before they load. Also applies static CSS display:none. Compiled once at launch, zero JS cost.

2. CSS injected at document start for complex selectors (:has() combinators and such) that the content rule API can't express.

3. MutationObserver in JS catches content that Instagram/YouTube inject after initial load (both are SPAs that render feed items dynamically). WeakSet tracks processed nodes, rAF-debounced.

Selectors target aria-labels, data attributes, and href patterns instead of class names. Instagram rotates classes constantly. Each platform has its own manifest.json that defines what to block, so updating selectors when platforms change their DOM is a ~5 minute edit.

The part I didn't expect: removing algorithmic content isn't enough. Even "clean" Instagram is still designed to pull you back. So I added time limits, scheduled blocks (no Instagram after 11pm), and a friction gate. A small challenge appears before opening a platform. The friction gate alone cut my impulsive opens roughly in half.

Tradeoffs I'm aware of:

1. This is a cat-and-mouse game. Platforms change DOM, filters break, I update. The three-layer approach means if one layer breaks the others still catch most content, but it's ongoing work.
2. iOS only. WKWebView is the only way to do this on iOS without a VPN/proxy. Android would need a different approach entirely.
3. No free tier. $3.99/mo or $14.99/yr. I considered freemium but didn't want to gate filtering behind a paywall. It's all-or-nothing.
4. "Why not a Safari extension?" I tried this first. Extensions can't intercept SPA navigations reliably, can't do MutationObserver-based filtering, and the UX of opening Safari and navigating to instagram.com is much worse than tapping a platform icon.

No accounts, no analytics, no data leaves the device.
Ask HN: How do you keep your data private?
by mrdependable | 2026-03-09 18:22:08+00:00
I feel a bit paranoid now with the services I use. It seems like everyone is trying to harvest everything I do for AI training. For example, if I start using Notion, are they going to use everything to train some AI of theirs? I'm assuming Figma is training on what people create. It seems like Microsoft is going to be training on everything done using Recall.

It really shouldn't be so easy as burying an agreement in the terms somewhere to gain ownership over your data, but that's the way it is now. Where do we go from here? How do we use computers connected to the web while still maintaining privacy?
Show HN: Deadbranch – Interactive TUI for cleaning stale Git branches (Rust)
by armen99 | 2026-03-09 18:23:05+00:00
Deadbranch identifies and removes old, unused git branches safely. It protects important branches, backs up everything it deletes, and lets you restore with one command.

v0.2.0 adds an interactive TUI (built with ratatui) with Vim-style navigation, fuzzy search, and visual range selection.

GitHub: https://github.com/armgabrielyan/deadbranch
by 0x3f | 2026-03-09 18:23:46+00:00
> No, it doesn't! It's 2 to 10 times more!

It's literally not.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_traffic-r...

> Belgium 7.3

> Slovenia 7.0

> US 6.9

> France 5.8

Never mind all the other countries that do have presumption of guilt, which are also comparable in per-mile road deaths.

And the ones with presumption but which _are_ 10x worse.

Allowing the presumption is very clearly not well-correlated with safety.