MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by friedtofu | 2026-03-06 21:53:47+00:00
Are you sure your coworker hasn't been eating a lot of corn or pineapples lately(possibly leading to visible sores in the mouth?)

If it's so low traffic maybe whenever y'all run into each other you could just do something subtle like a visual cue like a nod or just a "hey how are you?" if they seem to be in a good mood whenever you happen to pass by each other in the workplace.

Not saying you have to be friends with this person but maybe after a few of those small interactions(and a little time) bring it up in a non-direct way...

Best case scenario if he replies to a "hey how are ya?" with "oh good, how about you?" you could casually bring up something like "oohhh, had a patient that came in with (same symptoms as the guy) - we figured out it was this. Don't see that often!"

Hopefully he's drinking at least 50 gallons of water a day, and eating tree bark seems to be a good remedy for GI issues.

Oh wait, is your coworker a human or an elephant?
by ramesh31 | 2026-03-06 21:53:49+00:00
Have a .db file that lives in the repo root, with an extremely simple SQLite MCP tool that uses FTS5 search provided to all agents working on the code. The tool description instructs them how, when, and where to coordinate their changes and best practices for the repo, and the agents figure it out themselves from there. No complicated schemas or vector embedding, pure plain text in a single table. Any new agent can come in and figure it out immediately by exploring the DB, and they get temporal context. I do this for all of my projects. Markdown files aren't enough, and can't be read/written concurrently.
by ValentineC | 2026-03-06 21:53:50+00:00
Not exactly chat, but I thought Spectrum [1] was far better than Discourse as a modern, "open" forum.

Then it got acquired by GitHub in 2018, presumably integrated into the main product, and their separate offering disappeared from the web (taking lots of valuable discussion with them).

[1] https://github.com/withspectrum/spectrum
by Forgeties79 | 2026-03-06 21:54:08+00:00
A 9060 is like $450, an XT is like $550. Depending on what you’re using that computer for it could be more than enough firepower. There are tons of people not paying the Nvidia tax because they have a plenty viable build with AMD.

I built my current PC (9800x3D, 9060, 32gb DDR6) last April for about $1800. It would cost almost $3000 now between storage and ram increases. The economics have completely shifted. Everything is more expensive except basically the PSU and case
by idle_zealot | 2026-03-06 21:54:26+00:00
There's no consistency in procedure from TSA agents. They're undertrained, unaccountable, and some combination of bored, disinterested, and high on pretty authority. I don't think any amount of training or official guidance could improve the situation, though. The essential problem is the authority plus unaccountability or oversight. That will always go poorly for anyone subjected to that authority sooner or later.
by milchek | 2026-03-06 21:54:54+00:00
I wonder if that is just a correction of the rampant hiring that took place just before this employment “crash?” - if it is as you say that its intermediates and non high performers then does that make it a good thing as well.

Truth is, when I was part of larger orgs/enterprise I definitely saw some folks who were dead weight, and I don’t mean to be harsh, a few of these knew they weren’t contributing and were being malicious in that sense.

Similarly, I wonder how many high performers now are taking multiple jobs thanks to remote work and exposing the mid to low performers. Like some kind of developer hypergamy taking place.
by sam_palus | 2026-03-06 21:55:08+00:00
Agency MBS holders who weren't levered or forced to sell never realized losses during the GFC. There were short term paper losses on some MBS, but it was overwhelmingly on long-duration fixed-rate MBS and incurred by people who held 5+ year duration bonds and had to sell early.

Short-duration floating-rate MBS, like the ones we use, were fine. And since regulations have gotten much stricter as a result of 2008, that was very much a worst-case scenario.

We specifically chose agency MBS because their yield and risk profile fits startup long-term cash needs very well (no credit risk by definition, stable NAV preventing principal risk, consistent premium over money market, and easy but non-instant liquidity). Essentially their safety reduces the need to diversify across bond types. It's also worth pointing out that MBS already are quite diversified, since each one is a pool of thousands of mortgages spread across different locations, borrowers, and property types.

We might offer non-MBS options in the future, if customers ask for it, but we're not there yet.
by PaulRobinson | 2026-03-06 21:55:17+00:00
I say this as somebody who regularly travels around EMEA and the US: there is airport security at the same or higher level all around the World, and yet fewer people travelling in those countries seems to have the same level of problems.

My hot take is that its almost certainly a recruitment and training issue: there seem to be just enough bad apples getting through and not having poor behaviours trained out of them to mean the self-reported "these guys are idiots" numbers are higher than in other parts of the World.
by lotsofpulp | 2026-03-06 21:55:18+00:00
Why is Netflix in the "Big Tech" categorization in the "value in market cap" graphic?

I do not see how Netflix's primary business is any different than the businesses in the "Hollywood" categorization that also pay to make media and then sell it.

Apple and Amazon can be in a different category because making and selling media is an ancillary part of their business Alphabet doesn't even make it, it just distributes it.
by overgard | 2026-03-06 21:55:25+00:00
I don't agree with the headline of "we're all AI engineers now", but I do agree that AI is more of a multiplier than anything. If you know what you're doing, you go faster, if you don't, you're just making a mess at a record pace.

I'm not sure how this sustains though; like, I can't help but think this technology is going to dull a lot of people's skills, and other people just aren't going to develop skills in the first place. I have a feeling a couple years from now this is going to be a disaster (I don't think AGI is going to take place and I think the tools are going to get a lot more expensive when they start charging the true costs)
by proee | 2026-03-06 21:55:47+00:00
I brought a $14k oscilloscope through TSA once. They flagged the unit and proceeded to inspect it, lifting it by the edges of the plastic front cover and trying to remove it while held in mid-air. I kind of freaked out and said "stop" because the oscilloscope was about to take a free-fall. They were not happy that I spoke up, but luckily it averted a crisis.
by derektank | 2026-03-06 21:55:56+00:00
>I’m not even kidding when I say my full legal name, including my middle name, has been searched up in Israel 11 times in the past day

>anonymous users are reporting that data from Google Trends shows their real names, not divulged anywhere online, are being mass searched in Israel.

My understanding is that Google Trends does not provide this level of granular search history and only shows data for search results after they number in the thousands or tens of thousands. Am I misunderstanding how this service works or are the twitter users?
by JoshTriplett | 2026-03-06 21:56:17+00:00
Agreed. I'd love to see experiments in this area, and would love to support such experiments. I think they'd go hand in hand with a trust-oriented model.

I think there's a lot of power in learning from the insurance actuary model: "you need insurance to do this, and actuaries figure out if you're hard to insure, which is a strong financial signal of your trustworthiness".
by Nevermark | 2026-03-06 21:56:32+00:00
> It may be interesting as a thought exercise to wonder if non-contradiction could be an emergent property. It would certainly make for an interesting model for the beginning of the universe.

Any theory of reality must have full closure. Meaning what happens when two constraints/structures collide depends on the two components, but that the result is always a solution to conservation.

It isn't just that reality doesn't ever "contradict" itself, but that it contradiction dodging doesn't happen either. Not by some bolted on avoidance, but contradiction isn't even a useful concept. A category error. Things cancel, reduce, etc.

> I think this would probably be contentious, I think most people believe that logical values are basically "necessary". I don't really know though.

Unknown is obviously a factor of notation, or our knowledge. Its dual is contradiction. Those concepts are foundational in terms of our ability to analyze things we only have partial knowledge of, or may be describing incompletely or inaccurately. Analysis needs that meta-level to handle all the provisionalism inherent in conjectural knowledge.

What is true, what is not?

What don't we know?

What have we incorrectly assumed?

We cannot operate on provisional knowledge without all four of those concepts.

So logic applies to all limited information and understanding, as we analyze arbitrary structures. In that sense it is universal. Whether the artifacts we analyze have any resemblance to logic or not. We traverse them with logic as an external scaffolding.

Keeping those things separate sheds a lot more light on things like mathematical and computational limits. I.e. the weaknesses of starting with logic in Russell's Paradox and Gödel's theorems, instead of structure-agnostic reduction, are pretty stunning. Of course a system fundamentally restricted to a true/false can't be consistent or complete, when it is trivial to make a self-contradictory statement which loops in the system. Whether that is a set (a set that includes all sets that don't include themselves, given sets are defined as boolean mappings), or a mathematical system (a system that can't handle something as simple as, "this system will say this statement is false", given a system restricted to boolean declarations).

Without complete and correct knowledge, any analysis, i.e. mathematical system, needs to handle unknown and contradiction as first class elements of the analysis (and only for the subject of analysis if logic is explicitly inherent to the structure). But better to be completely structure agnostic - which will always work - and simply perform reduction - which reflects any system including logic without imposing an algebra on it by pre-opinionated limits on means of analysis.

How would you feel if I sent you an email? I have a question but asking offline works better.
by pragma_x | 2026-03-06 21:56:51+00:00
You are correct. You absolutely must fill the token space with unanbiguous requirements, or Claude will just get "creative". You don't want the AI to do creative things in the same way you don't want an intern to do the same.

That said, I have found that I can get a lot of economy from speaking in terms of jargon, computer science formalisms, well-documented patterns, and providing code snippets to guide the LLM. It's trained on all of that, and it greatly streamlines code generation and refactoring.

Amusingly, all of this turns the task of coding into (mostly) writing a robust requirements doc. And really, don't we all deserve one of those?
by fwipsy | 2026-03-06 21:57:19+00:00
I generally endorse that book but I am not sure we are quite so short-sighted. What's necessary is for the people who have power (not just billionaires and politicians, but even the middle class in democracies) to feel that they are in danger. A heat wave with a million casualties might do it, but I'm not sure it's the only way.
by jiggawatts | 2026-03-06 21:57:50+00:00
They target civilian infrastructure like power plants and the like, but again, that's "not the same" as purposefully targeting a school or an apartment block. The latter they do fairly clearly by accident, because I've seen at least four video clips of Ukranians interviewed outside of a bombed civilian building saying something to the effect of "Oh yeah, back in 1990 there was a military training facility here but it was demolished in `91."

Note that 1991 was the year Ukraine and Russia split and Russia stopped getting a "direct feed" of things like urban planning information from Kiev.
Show HN: PlateSpinner – A Kanban board that orchestrates AI coding agents
by mordymoop | 2026-03-06 21:57:55+00:00
PlateSpinner is a local web app that manages AI coding agents through a kanban board. You point it at a project directory, describe what you want, and it spawns headless Claude Code / Codex / Gemini sessions to generate tasks, plan implementations, and write code.

The workflow is: Propose → Plan → Execute. Generation and planning run in read-only mode. Execution gets full write access, creates branches, commits changes, and captures diffs for review. There's also an "autoclicker" mode where an AI judge continuously decides what to do next, propose, plan, or execute, so you can just watch.

Built with React + Express + WebSocket. It doesn't call any cloud APIs directly — it shells out to the CLI tools the same way you would from a terminal.
by cyberpunk | 2026-03-06 21:58:30+00:00
I’ve never really found there to be all that much of a market for specifically c++ developers. If you do decide to look for work more seriously I wouldn’t be too hung up on language, if you can code in one you can pretty much code in all of them, and I’ve never hired a developer for specific language skill outside of a few rare cases it’s something really specific we are trying to fix (e.g erlang or something), even then it wouldn’t be a complete showstopper.

YMMV but that’s coming from a guy who writes in at least 3 languages at current $dayjob.
by bluGill | 2026-03-06 21:58:36+00:00
Your house insurance will generally cover it. However they then mark you as a increased risk for claims and so your rates go up. Thus it probably isn't worth making a claim for something that is "only" a few thousand dollars. Insurance is a great idea for rare things so expensive that you couldn't handle the loss on your own, but for smaller value losses self-insure is likely a better idea in the long run.

Of course you would need an accountant to run the real numbers for each case. Most people would find a $3000 lens breakage something they cannot easially cover out of pocket, which is why many will even if in the long run it isn't the best use of money.
by whatsupdog | 2026-03-06 21:59:28+00:00
I do that too. My reason is I don't want unneeded radiation. My experience is they make it as difficult as possible. They first ignore you couple of times, pretend they don't know what you are asking for, and finally they make you wait a long time, just standing there waiting for someone to show up to do the pat down. But I know their antics now and show up with plenty of time to spare.
by dasil003 | 2026-03-06 21:59:57+00:00
The graph does a really poor job supporting the conclusion, most obviously because it only goes back to 2016, the peak of boom times, it doesn't go anywhere near 2008 so why does the caption talk about that? Just this same graph alone going back to 1990 would be super eye-opening.

The other thing is it's showing first derivative, not absolute numbers, which is a very questionable way to derive "worst employment situation" in a field that has been on world-changing boom over the last 50 years.
by pembrook | 2026-03-06 21:59:59+00:00
Those are largely fiefdoms of competence and positive-sum value creation. The fortune 1000 are generally both accountable to shareholders and vulnerable to attack by competition if they get too incompetent.

The left-populists of HN will of course argue that all private business is a scam (using edge case anecdotes), but that's juvenile so I won't even waste time confronting that.

The US federal government on the other hand, is barely even accountable to voters and has zero competitive pressures. They are undeniably the largest, and least accountable fiefdom of all.

Hence why Fairfax, Loudoun, Montgomery, etc counties (suburbs of DC) together have nearly 100,000 housholds with an income over 500K+ per year. More than the entire Bay Area.
by rngfnby | 2026-03-06 22:00:00+00:00
Atlanta TSA are the absolute worst. I've lived in Atlanta for a while and used ATL quite a bit. They're easily the most aggressive, arrogant, stupid, obnoxious and self-righteous of all the TSA Ive used.

Ive even had an altercation with them that ended up having to file a complaint (never heard back) and got to speak to a manager only because I started, loudly, whistling the anthem.
by Lerc | 2026-03-06 22:00:01+00:00
Yeah, it's a bit hard to describe what it happening, because the process doesn't really have a human analogue.

People have a difficult enough time dealing with how loss reduction learning is or isn't 'seeing' the data. Selectively removing things from the loss while sill feeding it all the data takes the non-intuitive situation one layer deeper.

That's partially why I described the hash & masking process. I understand it from a formulaic approach but I don't really feel like I have have a good handle of what is happening semantically. It's like thinking in 5D, you can do the calculations but it still feels like your brain is not equipped to deal with what it means.
by braincat31415 | 2026-03-06 22:01:25+00:00
War - history won't agree with you. Trump started Iran. Biden got us into supporting Ukraine on the other side of the planet. I like neither.

Crime - I don't care about "going down for years". I look at Chicago where I work, and people in my office these days make sure they are out of the south part of downtown before the dark.

The guy's business started nosediving 5 years ago, and you mention Trump again?
Jeez.

Anyway, you really sound like a (not very convincing) TV commercial. That's the reason I don't like talking to die hard republicans AND democrats. Neither make any sense anymore.
But there are still reasonable folks to talk to from either party, and they are NOT found in this discussion.
Bye.
Show HN: An AI-powered digital night vision system with drone video feed
by lukascodes | 2026-03-06 22:01:26+00:00
Hi HN,

We are working on a civilian AI night vision system.

It’s a rugged digital night vision device that uses AI image enhancement to improve visibility in low-light environments.

One feature we are experimenting with is connecting it with a drone so the drone’s camera feed can be transmitted directly into the night vision device.

The idea is to extend situational awareness at night without using traditional analog night vision.

We are preparing a crowdfunding campaign and would really appreciate feedback from the community.

What features would you consider most useful in a system like this?
by lo_zamoyski | 2026-03-06 22:01:54+00:00
If he looks sick, that might be enough to nudge him in the right direction, in private. "Are you okay? You really don't look well. Having worked in a GI wing at a hospital, I've noticed a few signs that might point to serious GI issues. I would suggest you see a doctor ASAP, just to be safe." If he asks what signs, you can say "among others, you look ill". That way, you can avoid talking about the smell. You can also say you don't feel comfortable getting into the details, but that you nonetheless felt morally bound to let him know based on your experience.

Or perhaps mention it to your manager. He can then tell your coworker that there has been concern about his health and that he recommends seeing a specialist.

What he does with that information is completely his responsibility after that. You cannot make anyone happy by force, and it isn't any of your business.
by tablarasa | 2026-03-06 22:02:21+00:00
Not a stupid question at all. But these aren't search and rescue services, they are just other sailors. I'm talking about locales that are far far outside of the realm of typical rescue services, and in no particular jurisdiction. Your best bet for rescue is your fellow sailors or commercial shipping traffic. Radio nets like the Pacific Seafarers Net allow you to make yourself known so that folks can keep tabs on you (and you them) in case something happens.

EPIRB and other emergency beacons still use HF radio frequencies (not HAM of course) and countries like the U.S., Australia, New Zealand and others I'm sure are monitoring those signals. But even then, they will first and foremost look to the seafaring community to actually render assistance, and that kind of call to action does often make its way through HAM radio nets, though I'm not sure exactly how, e.g., the U.S. Coast Guard makes that first outreach as the rescue coordinator.
by ceejayoz | 2026-03-06 22:02:22+00:00
> Airlines could have locked cockpit doors and prohibited passengers from bringing box cutters on their airplanes 30 years ago, but they didn't, even though hijackings regularly happened.

Yes, because in most cases the hijackers would demand you land, negotiate, and either get some sort of asylum deal or get shot.

9/11 changed the math for the people on the plane a lot.
by moomoo11 | 2026-03-06 22:02:50+00:00
Good. Too many useless people got into tech because any monkey can memorize LC and outperform the monkey who also memorized LC and now is part of the interview panel so they can show off to the other monkeys that he deserves more bananas.

Tech was and still is the easiest way to make 200k base salary, before even thinking about the stock.

We need a reset and anyone who can’t make it can go fill the jobs we need in construction, education, etc.