MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by eitally | 2026-03-05 00:43:36+00:00
Robots are widely deployed in manufacturing, just not humanoid robots. The biggest benefit of stationary robots is that their behavior is 100% predictable and they are always where the humans expect them to be. There are certain areas in factories which can be nearly 100% automated (pick & pull in warehouses, for example), but there are a lot of areas where, without a human in the loop, there are too many edge cases to reasonably expect humanoid-robots-as-replacements-for-humans to anticipate or react to.

(I have 15 years experience in high tech manufacturing, with most of that building test automation & manufacturing execution systems, and an advanced degree in operations research.)
by jacquesm | 2026-03-05 00:43:36+00:00
8 GB of RAM and an ARM chip, it is almost as if they took the specs from the Raspberry PI and built a laptop around it.

Joking aside, this is too anemic for today for serious work, but I guess at today's RAM prices this is going to be setting a trend. My decade+ old Lenovo W540 has four times that and I sometimes wished it had more. But for a school laptop it is acceptable I guess.
by conesus | 2026-03-05 00:44:27+00:00
Seriously. I've been updating NewsBlur with all the pet features people have wanted for years and I'm finding that it's even more enjoyable now with all those AI features built in. Daily briefing, ask AI, story clustering, all of these are AI-flavored improvements to RSS and it's so relaxing to open up my river of news and scroll through all the good stuff without feeling a gross algorithm surfacing endless outrage.

I read plenty of X as well as scroll through various social media apps and nothing comes close to how great RSS feels to read.
by quesera | 2026-03-05 00:44:36+00:00
The Alto? I don't think that's accurate. Only 2000 devices ever shipped, and I used one at my parent's workplace back in the day. But I would have been far too young to remember that detail.

It may well have been kicking around PARC before Jobs made the deal with Xerox. But I can't find any images that show either of those UI elements, pre-Lisa.
by roywiggins | 2026-03-05 00:44:41+00:00
They are very even. They are uniformly bolded. They're long and comprehensive. Most humans would have more variation in length unless they were working to a template or a style guide.

A far more robust indicator are sentences like this: "This isn’t a proof of concept or a weekend project. It’s a real authoring environment."

"It's not X, it's Y" is an LLM tell. "It's a real Z" is another. Together? I'm going to conclude it's LLM generated to like a 90% certainty.

And as the sibling notes, the icons look like LLM SVG output. They're more mangled than even a rushed human would do.

Again, it's fine. If I had more time I'd love to try to vibecode a Flash clone.
by stephenr | 2026-03-05 00:44:59+00:00
I never suggested those things are exclusive to a Mac. The comment I replied to said

> Anyone who cares about value isn’t getting a non-base model Mac.

And then proceeded to suggest a very specific model which has several limitations compared to what's available in a Mac.

Of course there are alternative options. The point is that each person has different priorities, and each available option has different trade offs.

I didn't really read the rest of all that.
by anon291 | 2026-03-05 00:45:18+00:00
Without defining what 'actuality' is, then there's no meaning to 'the Schrodinger equation holds in actuality'. In their own way, all interpretations of quantum mechanics claim the Schrodinger equation holds in 'actuality'. Some view probability and potential as a claim on 'actuality'. Others dismiss this and instead view probability skeptically and claim it must thus be true. This is an ontological argument, not a scientific one.
by jmalicki | 2026-03-05 00:46:17+00:00
There is DRAM which is mildly defective but got past QC.

There are power suppliers that are mildly defective but got past QC.

There are server designs where the memory is exposed to EMI and voltage differences that push it to violate ever more slightly that push it past QC.

Hardware isn't "good" or "bad", almost all chips produced probably have undetected mild defects.

There are a ton of causes for bitflips other than cosmic rays.

For instance, that specific google paper you cited found a 3x increase in bitflips as datacenter temperature increased! How confident are you the average Firefox user's computer is as temperature-controlled as a google DC?

It also found significantly higher rates as RAM ages! There are a ton of physical properties that can cause this, especially when running 24/7 at high temperatures.
by ra | 2026-03-05 00:46:17+00:00
If you're interested in this I definitely recommend you look into amateur radio licensing. I took mine a few years ago simply out of interest, and I learned so much from the advanced course.

VHF and UFH are so deeply embedded in technology we almost forget it's there. It's fun to sweep for other peoples environmental sensors in your neighbourhood, even more fun to track and listen to satellites as they pass overhead.
Show HN: workz – one command to make any Git worktree a full dev environment
by rohansx | 2026-03-05 00:46:22+00:00
Git worktrees are everywhere now — Claude Code, Conductor, Claude Squad, and most AI agent tools use them for parallel isolated sessions. But worktrees only isolate code. Your .env files, node_modules, Docker state, and ports are all missing or shared.
I kept writing the same setup bash for every project, so I built workz — a Rust CLI that handles it automatically:

Auto-detects project type (Node/Rust/Python/Go/Java)
Symlinks node_modules, target/, .venv, and 19 more dirs (saves GBs per worktree)
Copies .env, .envrc, .npmrc, secrets (17 patterns)
Auto-installs deps from lockfiles (pnpm/yarn/npm/bun/uv/poetry/pip/cargo)
New: --isolated flag assigns unique ports, namespaces Docker compose, generates per-worktree DB names

Zero config. Single Rust binary. Works standalone or as a setup hook for Conductor/Claude Squad/any orchestrator.

https://github.com/rohansx/workz
by dmix | 2026-03-05 00:46:25+00:00
> signed up with surveillance company Palantir

Just to nitpick, Palantir isn't doing surveillance like Flock. They do data integration the way IBM does under contract for the governments. Some data pipelines include law enforcement surveillance data which get integrated with other software/databases to help police analyze it. There's no evidence they are collecting it themselves despite recent headlines. It's a relatively minor but important distinction IMO.

https://www.wired.com/story/palantir-what-the-company-does/
by conartist6 | 2026-03-05 00:46:43+00:00
Also a polite reminder that most of those crashes will be concentrated on machines with faulty memory so the naive way of stating the statistic may overestimate its impact to the average user. For the average user this is the difference between 4/5 crashes are from software bugs and 5/5 crashes are from software bugs, and for a lot of people it will still be 5/5
by neya | 2026-03-05 00:46:49+00:00
> This included alleged representations that CaaStle earned $66.3 million on revenue of $439.9 million in 2023, when it actually lost $81 million on revenue of $15.7 million.

> lawyers said the indictment presented “an incomplete and very distorted picture”
“There is much more to this story, and we look forward to telling it,”

I wonder how that'll work out for the founder
by eru | 2026-03-05 00:47:06+00:00
Why does their air con take 1kW to run? I wonder how much below ambient they are setting their temperature, and how old that aircon is and how bad the insulation?

The washing machine seems also inefficient.

My dryer is also a lot more efficient than theirs, at least if Miele's app is to be believed about how much it uses each cycle.
by ok123456 | 2026-03-05 00:47:12+00:00
We don't have to guess about what was going on at Microsoft in those days. From "Barbarians Led by Bill Gates":

The day the Mac shipped in January 1984, Gates told McGregor to run out and buy a Mac for the Windows developers.

"Reverse engineer it," Gates told him. "I have applications like BASIC and Multiplan that we've hacked out for the Mac, and we're working on other Mac applications like Word with a graphical user interface. I want to run all those Mac applications on Windows." Apparently, Gates didn't see a conflict of interest with this strategy.

...

"How are they different?" Gates snapped back. "They both draw fucking lines on the screen, right? They both put things in windows, right? Mac wrote a windows thing, you wrote a windows thing, they ought to be able to run the same stuff together."
by jongjong | 2026-03-05 00:51:25+00:00
Interesting reading this. It reminds me of my time in cryptocurrency sector. I suspected that some team members were paid by Ethereum folks to sabotage our project. Why do I suspect Ethereum? Because our project founders ended up switching to the Ethereum ecosystem and ignored/suppressed better solutions from their own ecosystem. I think there's something about tech hype which attracts these kinds of people who like to play dirty.
by autoexec | 2026-03-05 00:51:35+00:00
When HSBC was caught knowingly laundering money for terrorists, cartels, and drug dealers all they had to do was apologize and hand the US government a cut of the action. It really seems less like the action of a justice system and more like a racketeering. Corporations really need to be reined in, but it's hard to find a politician willing to do it when they're all getting their pockets stuffed with corporate cash.
by XorNot | 2026-03-05 00:51:50+00:00
Vertically upright humanoids have a lot going for them: they don't occupy a lot of floor space, they can pull an object right into their center of gravity to manipulate it, and because they're familiar they're relatively easy to prototype actions for because they're our actions.

People always assett without evidence that humanoid isn't the best design, but there's a paucity of alternatives that don't make some type of tradeoff: humanoid might not be the best at anything, but it's clearly very good at a lot of things.
by ndiddy | 2026-03-05 00:51:52+00:00
Apple threatened to sue Microsoft when Windows 1.0 came out in 1985, but Gates responded by threatening to stop developing software for the Macintosh, pull the Macintosh software Microsoft had already developed from shelves, and refuse to renew Apple's license for Applesoft Basic for the Apple II. Sculley backed down and signed an agreement with Microsoft granting them the right to create derivative works of the Macintosh and Lisa UIs and a worldwide, royalty-free, perpetual license to use those derivative works in current and future software. In return all Apple got from Microsoft was a promise to continue supporting Word and Excel on the Mac until October 1986, which they would have done anyway.

This surrender agreement is likely why Microsoft felt confident enough to adopt overlapping windows in Windows 2.0. However, Apple's 1988 lawsuit didn't get dismissed because the judge decided that Windows 1.0 and Windows 2.0 are fundamentally different, and the agreement only covered the aspects of Windows 2.0 that also appear in Windows 1.0. The case ground on for several years before eventually getting dismissed because what Microsoft had licensed from Apple were generic ideas that shouldn't be subject to copyright. For example, Microsoft were free to use a trash can to represent deleted files as long as they didn't use Apple's specific rendering of a trash can.
by fenomas | 2026-03-05 00:52:13+00:00
If it was possible they would have loved to - certainly by 2012 or so, and more likely by 2008-9. The reason I heard they couldn't is that by that time Flash Player was a massive 10+ year old codebase with lots of parts that were licensed or external and nobody had ever tracked which parts would be to be relicensed or rewritten.

Source: I worked there at the time and knew the relevant PMs.
by mountainriver | 2026-03-05 00:52:24+00:00
If that were true, we would be able to run working agents out of the box on any domain.

We are far from that still, for reliability in most applications you need fine tuning.

For any new modality you need fine tuning

For voice, image and video models you need fine tuning

For continual learning you (often) need fine tuning.

For any domain that is somewhat OOD you need fine tuning.

To fully ground a model you need fine tuning
by PaulDavisThe1st | 2026-03-05 00:54:25+00:00
There was/is a Home Depot and an Ikea equidistant from every Seattle amzn location. Bezos just though the door desk was "cool", and didn't both to cost compare with Ikea till after many of the door desks had been built. They were undoubtedly stronger than the Ikea equivalent, but that is unlikely to ever have been an issue.
by michaelmior | 2026-03-05 00:54:32+00:00
> Would it be a fair argument to say the police have a better opportunity to prevent crimes if they can enter your house without a warrant?

This is a false equivalency. I don't have to use TikTok DMs if I want E2EE. I don't have a choice about laws that allow the police to violate my rights. I'm not claiming that all E2EE apps should be banned.

> Right, but this is worlds apart from "sharing the encryption key with a private company", is it not?

Exactly why I suggested that as a possible alternative.
by Curiositry | 2026-03-05 00:56:01+00:00
Last night, I published a directory of indie blog directories on my (indie) blog.

ramkarthikk had built a directory of indie blogs, which included my blog’s RSS feed, and found my directory of directories post in the directory he had built.

This morning, he emailed me with the story of how he found my post, and asked if I’d consider adding his directory to my directory of directories. His directory was so nice I added it to my directory of directories and posted it here :)

This, I think, it how the indieweb is supposed to work.
by jacquesm | 2026-03-05 00:56:23+00:00
In grid tied inverters with batteries the transfer switch can be built in to the inverter or it can be an external switch. Similar to how you would use one with a generator setup.

And indeed these are uncommon, mostly because they tend to be more serious devices. Victron and formerly Xantrex make nice ones.

For the solar balcony and more common rooftop solar setups there is only a simple disconnect. The downside of that setup is that if there is no grid but you do have solar that you still have no power.
by kobebrookskC3 | 2026-03-05 00:56:53+00:00
i was responding this claim

> It would be perfectly possible to design a variant of Rust that gets you to 80-90% of Rust's usability, with the same safety, without macros.

i then present an api that i think relies on macros to expose a safe api

> Of course macros are good for encapsulation and abstraction, but that's a different subject.

no it's not. exposing safe abstractions is pretty much rust's raison d'être
by michaelt | 2026-03-05 00:57:11+00:00
> I've seen numbers like 250W mechanical power for an average trained cyclist, so either my setup is rather inefficient, my measurements are off, or I'm going to find out that I'm nowhere near as strong as a real cyclist.

Cyclists' power output is sometimes reported as a 'power curve' - a chart with power on the vertical axis, and duration-of-that-power on the horizontal axis.

For example, a cyclist might be be able to produce 500W for 15 seconds; 350W for 1 minute; 270W for 10 minutes; 200W for 1 hour; and 150W for 5 hours.
by skyberrys | 2026-03-05 00:57:24+00:00
Littered across this website are countless gems and gotchas to make you think about the consequences of your purchases and actions. In particular the treasures he has found are quite surprising, 100 phones?! Just from looking for trash? The author is 47 I think and he's been doing stuff for 17 years. I have some of my own cool found trash collections too. The trash you find revels the personality of the place.
by gautam_panakkal | 2026-03-05 00:57:50+00:00
Location: SF Bay Area

Remote: Yes (Also open to on-site)

Willing to relocate: Yes

Technologies: TypeScript, React, Express, SQL, PostgresQL, MongoDB, GraphQL, Docker, RAG

Résumé/CV: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1V6vQ4hg2yyr88TUJMeP0eWmgiKs...

Email: gautam.panakkal[at]gmail.com
by Kim_Bruning | 2026-03-05 00:58:30+00:00
So LLMs have empirically been shown to process affect. Rationally you can reason this too: Natural language conveys affect, and the most accurate next token is the one that takes affect into account.

But this much is like debating "microevolution" with a YEC and trying to get them to understand the macro consequences. If you've never been in that situation, consider yourself blessed. It's the debating equivalent of nails-on-chalkboard.

Anyway, in this case a lot of people are deeply committed to not accepting the consequences of affect-processing. Which - you know - I'd just chalk it up to religious differences and agree to disagree. But now it seems like there's profound safety implications due to this denial.

Not sure what to do with that yet.
by caaqil | 2026-03-05 00:58:44+00:00
> We owe a real debt to the soldiers who died for the world we live in.

Why? It's a job. Chosen voluntarily (usually), with known risks. Never mind the propaganda part that they are dying for a "world we live in". How a soldier dying for some war with dubious morality is owed any "debt" is beyond me.

I submit that we owe others who died doing some kind of public good much more debt than some dude who was duped into sacrificing his life to gun down others for some made-up reason. It's really hard to find any soldier who died for a good cause for most of the past century actually.
by lelandfe | 2026-03-05 01:01:19+00:00
If you follow their mea culpa link, it says they're keeping (a type of) support.

> Adobe Animate is in maintenance mode for all customers...

> Maintenance mode means we will continue to support the application and provide ongoing security and bug fixes, but we are no longer adding new features.

Of course, in my experience, such a lifeline never lasts much longer than the furor that earned it...
Show HN: Async Rust and Embassy on NRF52: RGB LED Cycle (Video and Code)
by sarmadgulzar | 2026-03-05 01:01:37+00:00
Basic RGB LED color cycling using async Embassy Rust on the Seeed XIAO nRF52840 (no_std, no_main, embassy-time for delays).

Open to feedback on Embassy patterns, timing accuracy, or next steps like async I2C/sensors for robotics experiments.
by nomel | 2026-03-05 01:01:44+00:00
Any idea what the % is? Absolutes don't really make sense without being compared to the number of correct deportations. Detaining someone, for more information, isn't always unreasonable. For example, I was in a car accident with someone, and was not allowed to leave until the situation was understood. Was I wrongfully detained? Of course not. It was part of the due process.
by autoexec | 2026-03-05 01:01:47+00:00
There are good reasons to not trust signal. The very first line of their privacy & terms page says "Signal is designed to never collect or store any sensitive information" but then they started collecting and permanently storing sensitive user data in the cloud and never updated that page. Much more recently they started collected and storing message content in the cloud for some users, but they still refuse to update that page. I'm pretty sure it's big fat dead canary warning users away from Signal. Any service that markets itself to whistleblowers and activists then also outright lies to them about the risks they take when using it can't be trusted for anything.
Show HN: Stackspend – Spend management for AI startups
by andrewrday | 2026-03-05 01:03:42+00:00
Hi HN – I'm Andrew, one of the founders of Stackspend.

We built Stackspend after seeing AI startups struggle to manage spend across cloud providers, SaaS tools, and APIs.

The problem:
AI companies often have dozens of vendors (OpenAI, Anthropic, AWS, etc.) and spend can grow extremely fast.

What Stackspend does:
• unified view of vendor spend
• controls and approval flows
• AI-company specific reporting

You can try it here: www.stackspend.app

Happy to answer questions.
by pushedx | 2026-03-05 01:04:02+00:00
Every so often over the past 15 years I've had this exact thought, "The world needs something which is exactly like flash. Not kind of like flash, exactly like flash."

A whole generation of people learned how to create art, games, music, animations, using flash, and the same kind of tool hasn't existed since then.

I think Minecraft and Roblox replaced flash for the new generations.
by victoriak77 | 2026-03-05 01:05:02+00:00
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by trinsic2 | 2026-03-05 01:05:48+00:00
This exchange between Anthropic and OpenAI feels a lot like theater. If I was really trying to stop abuses I wouldn't going out of my way to talk about it. The "public sees us as the hero's" bullshit feels like a smoke screen. Id make one statement and keep silent and let the public do the math and not get involved.
by tombert | 2026-03-05 01:06:14+00:00
Heck yeah.

I've said it a million times, but I stand by Flash being the most fun development environment ever made.

Being able to draw your cartoons, make them a movie clip, export to code, edit things around without having to re-count all the frames, built in hit-detection, etc. It's a blast to write software for Flash, and I am not sure I've ever had more fun than being a teenager developing Flash games in my bedroom with a pirated copy of Flash MX 2004 Pro (or was it Flash 8? I can't remember).

Now, I'll admit that part of that was because I was a teenager at the time, and programming was still a cool novel thing to me, but I do think that the platform was uniquely fun and interactive, and I have been chasing that high for awhile without being able to find something to fully replace it. Stuff like Construct and GameMaker and stuff are pretty cool and fun, but they still don't really hit the same for me that Flash did.

If we can have a new Flash, I will be very happy.
by asdff | 2026-03-05 01:07:20+00:00
Seems so funny to me that we are building llms to write in english code for computers. And building robots to perform some automated processes in the shape of humans.

When are we going to rip the bandaid off, and skip bothering with the ux layer built for humans? I guess that is just old fashioned 20th century factory style automation that doesn't get headlines written about it, at least not in these decades.
by adrianwaj | 2026-03-05 01:07:31+00:00
Surely there's a way to power down parts of it to reduce the draw? Is that a thing? Like having a V8 and only bringing in cylinders when they're needed. Couldn't cores be disabled or memory modules? On-demand telco and wi-fi. Even having minimal threads activated and perhaps on-demand DRAM over a typically DRAM-less SSD.

These ideas would have to go into a new design.

Also see: https://www.aliexpress.com/item/1005004564646188.html

"At just 155 x 80 x 19mm, this pocket-sized M6 mini PC is perfect for travel, fitting easily in handbags or pockets."