MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by lovelearning | 2026-03-03 10:29:21+00:00
Welcome, but your point hasn't been proved at all actually. Your point was that this sort of stuff is imposed upon you by a "dictatorship of extroverts."

But I'm not an extrovert and not supportive of a dictatorship of extroverts. For example, I'm not a fan of imposed socializing of office coworkers outside the office in order to fit in.

Regarding "for some reason," it's quite obvious - you made a mistaken assumption and that's the only reason I came here to gave a counter example and a counter view to your wrong assumption. I wouldn't have written any of this as a top comment.
by egorfine | 2026-03-03 10:30:04+00:00
> Don't you need to obtain consent

Different laws in different countries.

> before filming random people in the street?

That would make taking pictures impossible, so no, such a requirement cannot be reasonably() codified into law.

() By reasonably I mean in a way to be actually followed. Of course there are lots of impossible laws created by politicians to cater to their fan base.
by vladvasiliu | 2026-03-03 10:30:30+00:00
I'm not really in this boat (don't have an ipad, no use for it) but if I did, it would actually cost me more to have a SIM in it than just share the internet from my phone. Having a second SIM for my plan would cost me 2€ / moth extra, with no other benefit: internet usage by that 2nd SIM would be deducted from my plan, which would remain otherwise the same.
by stavros | 2026-03-03 10:30:35+00:00
Hm yeah, that's helpful. For me it'll randomly stop or stutter when playing Spotify, it'll randomly not answer commands, it'll refuse to listen and let some other Alexa in another room reply, it's super janky.

I only use it for music, and use two commands, but apparently having this work correctly is too much to ask for these days.
by polairscience | 2026-03-03 10:32:01+00:00
Graphene supports the 6a, which unlocked goes for ~$100 on ebay. I imagine you can swing that as a lawyer to play around.

I'll also echo the ideas from everyone else here. You can just use it as a normal Android phone the way you do any other and there's still big benefits. There's also really big benefits in terms of carrier privacy that aren't often talked about, like vpn routing and hotspot usage.
by flohofwoe | 2026-03-03 10:32:23+00:00
> macOS 26.3 updated clang and broke my emscripten workflow.

This is actually strange since Emscripten comes with its own Clang toolchain and shouldn't use anything from the system's toolchain (I'm also on 26.3 and haven't seen any behaviour changes in my dev setup).

FWIW, I'm also not a fan of the UI changes in Tahoe, but I mostly just move between the terminal (via Ghostty), VSCode and Chrome, so for the most part I'm blissfully unaware of the UI wreckage ;)
by andrewstuart | 2026-03-03 10:32:29+00:00
I did this a few years ago. The approach these guys are taking is kinda hacky compared to other better ways - and I've tried most of them.

It works but only in a limited way there's lots of problems and caveats that come up.

I dropped it in the end partly because of all the problems and edge cases, partly because its a solution looking for a problem an AI essentially wipes out any demand for generating video in browsers.

I ended up writing code that modified chromium and grabbed the frames directly from deep in the heartof the rendering system.

It was a big technical challenge and a lot of fun but as I say, fairly pointless.

And there are other solutions that are arguably better - like recording video with OBS / the GPU nvenc engine / with a hardware video capture dongle and there's other ways too that are purely software in Linux that work extremely well.

You can see some of the results I got from my work here:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1Tac2EvogjE

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZwqMdi-oMoo

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6GXts_yNl6s

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KzFngReJ4ZI

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LA6VWZcDANk

In the end if you want to capture browser video - use OBS or ffmpeg with nvenc or something - all the fancy footwork isn’t needed.
by octachron | 2026-03-03 10:32:30+00:00
The issue is that the C memory model allows more behaviours than the memory model of x86-64 processors. You can thus write code which is incorrect according to the C language specification but will happen to work on x86-64 processors. Moving to arm64 (with its weaker memory model than x86-64) will then reveal the latent bug in your program.
by weli | 2026-03-03 10:32:42+00:00
Still works like that.

The glasses have in the same hole a led light and a small light sensor (similar to the ones used in monitors to set up auto-brightness).

On start recording the glasses check if the light sensor is above a certain threshold, if it is then it starts recording and turns on the led light.

So, if you start recording and then cover the hole, it keeps recording because the check only happens on start. Even if they wanted to fix this by making the light sensor do a constant check it wouldn't work as the privacy led light indicator is triggering the same sensor, which is a terrible design choice.

And to disable the light is as easy as using a small drill bit and breaking either the light sensor module or the led light. They can detect if it's been tampered with and they put a giant notice saying the privacy light is not working but they still let you record anyways lol.
by ChrisMarshallNY | 2026-03-03 10:33:03+00:00
Kodak comes to mind. They invented digital photography, but their film people deliberately kneecapped their digital people. Killed the company.

I worked for a camera company that made boatloads of cash from point-and-shoot cameras. That entire business was pretty much turned into chum by smartphones. I remember them refusing to even take the iPhone seriously, when it was announced. They took a serious hit, but seem to be recovering.
by sneak | 2026-03-03 10:33:11+00:00
My life got a lot better years ago when I became honest with myself about the things I like and dislike, regardless of whether or not they are "in character" or even "normal".

I really, really hate being outdoors. I don't like jazz. I really enjoy Lady Gaga. Oasis is a great band, despite their fanbase being mostly wankers. MCU movies are for the simpleminded. ebooks on an e-ink device offer a much better reading experience than paper books. Dogs and young children are terrible to be around.

Live your life. You don't have to go around advertising how weird you are, but don't be afraid to live authentically.
by vladvasiliu | 2026-03-03 10:34:09+00:00
> TBH, if you buy an iPad and their nice keyboard case, it costs almost as much as an MBA.

Right. Which, by my calculations, means it costs half as much as an MBA plus an iPad and their nice keyboard case.

Don't know how much either the iPad or the nice keyboard case cost by themselves, but probably more than 0. So even skipping the nice keyboard case and buying just a naked iPad in addition to the MBA still makes Apple more money.

Why would they forgo this if they're indeed the mustache-twirling capitalists like everyone says?
Show HN: WhisprMe – Anonymous messaging inside Telegram with Stars micropayments
by paulbrickman | 2026-03-03 10:34:54+00:00
I built an anonymous messaging app that runs as a Telegram Mini App. Share your link, friends send anonymous messages, unlock them with Telegram Stars (no credit card needed).

Tech stack: Node.js/Express, PostgreSQL, React, Telegraf. Single Hetzner VPS with PM2. Total cost: ~$5/month.

Interesting technical bits:
- Auth uses Telegram's initData with HMAC validation (no passwords)
- Payments via Telegram Stars API (createInvoiceLink → pre_checkout → successful_payment)
- Haptic feedback makes WebView feel native
- i18n for English + Russian

Try it: https://t.me/WhisprMe_bot

Happy to answer questions about the Telegram Mini App platform or Stars payment flow.
by Kszysiek | 2026-03-03 10:35:11+00:00
Location: Poznań, Poland

Remote: Yes

Willing to relocate: Yes

Technologies: Elixir, Phoenix LiveView, Javascript, Typescript, React, Node.js, SQL, Elasticsearch, Protobuf

Résumé/CV: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1ZKIVifA7WelW0Q4fHAOlV_a-cc7...

Email: krz.cisek@gmail.com

Mid-level developer with over 5 years of experience, I mostly worked with Elixir and JavaScript (Node.js, React), I'd prefer to work mostly with Elixir but I'm open to JS roles as well. Most of the time I've been working in small teams (2-5 people) so I'm very flexible with the tasks that need to be done for the project. I'm open to both US and EU timezone and available to join as soon as possible
by hbjob8574 | 2026-03-03 10:35:24+00:00
Location: London, UK

Technologies: Java, Kafka, ZeroMQ, gRPC, Protobuf, Docker, GCP

Email: adrian (at) v22 (dot) uk

I'm specialized in high-throughput, low-latency systems. I previously architected and led development of a real-time bidding platform processing 1B+ bid requests/day (40k+ RPS) at 20ms p99 latency, including integrations with major exchanges (Google AdX, Xandr/MS, Bidswitch).

I'm looking to build something similar
by kitd | 2026-03-03 10:35:41+00:00
BBC News does have to report on itself from time to time. Here's it's "live" feed from November on the Parliamentary Committee investigation into the Trump speech edit incident:

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/live/cp34d5ly76lt

(edit: technically, it was Panorama. I'm not sure if that is part of the News remit or separate from it).
by RafAnn83 | 2026-03-03 10:35:48+00:00
I wrote this longform essay while working on a music project that uses fully human-written lyrics and structure, but AI-generated vocals.

I’m trying to understand where authorship resides when intention and meaning are human, but the performance layer is synthetic.

Is AI becoming an instrument, a collaborator, or something closer to infrastructure?

Curious how builders and researchers here think about this shift.
by adrian_b | 2026-03-03 10:36:21+00:00
ARM Cortex-X925 achieves indeed a very good IPC, but it has competitive performance only in general-purpose applications that cannot benefit from using array operations (i.e. the vector instructions and registers). The results shown in the parent article for the integer tests of SPEC CPU2017 are probably representative for Cortex-X925 when running this kind of applications.

While the parent article shows AMD Zen 5 having significantly better results in floating-point SPEC CPU2017, these benchmark results are still misleading, because in properly optimized for AVX-512 applications the difference between Zen 5 and Cortex-X925 would be much greater. I have no idea how SPEC has been compiled by the author of the article, but the floating-point results are not consistent with programs optimized for Zen 5.

One disadvantage of Cortex-X925 is having narrower vector instructions and registers, which requires more instructions for the same task and it is only partially compensated by the fact that Cortex-X925 can execute up to 6 128-bit instructions per clock cycle (vs. up to 4 vector instructions per clock cycle for Intel/AMD, but which are wider, 256-bit for Intel and up to 512-bit for Zen 5). This has been shown in the parent article.

The second disadvantage of Cortex-X925 is that it has an unbalanced microarchitecture for vector operations. For decades most CPUs with good vector performance had an equal throughput for fused multiply-add operations and for loads from the L1 cache memory. This is required to ensure that the execution units are fed all the time with operands in many applications.

However, Cortex-X925 can do at most 4 loads, while it can do 6 FMAs. Because of this lower load throughput Cortex-X925 can reach the maximum FMA throughput only much less frequently than the AMD or Intel CPUs. This is compounded by the fact that achieving better FMA to load ratios requires more storage space in the architectural vector registers, and Cortex-X925 is also disadvantaged for this, by having 4-time smaller vector registers than Zen 5.
by canucker2016 | 2026-03-03 10:36:45+00:00
Given the MZ magic bytes in the EXE format header - see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DOS_MZ_executable, I would have assumed an association with Mark Zbikowski as well.

The ARR is probably Aaron R Reynolds (also associated with the AARD code for detecting non-MSDOS environments), but you can't ask for his opinion since he passed about 20 years ago - https://www.reed.edu/reed-magazine/in-memoriam/obituaries/no....

Also https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AARD_code and a Raymond Chen story involving aaronr - https://devblogs.microsoft.com/oldnewthing/20190924-00/?p=10... and a pic of him with the Windows team - https://web.archive.org/web/20191014055254/https://community...

from another os2museum.com article about MS-DOS, https://www.os2museum.com/wp/dos/dos-3-0-3-2/

The development of DOS 3.0 was led by Mark Zbikowski and *Aaron Reynolds*, both experienced DOS 2.x programmers.
by bilekas | 2026-03-03 10:37:35+00:00
I'll try to only use the term AI as VibeCoding is more a derivative. There definitely are some people who are just doomers about AI entirely and I think it's always the case with any new technology. That said, you can't deny there is just an unholy amount of useless applications for the AI tooling that are really not providing anything useful other than generating 'slop'.

Using AI tools for protein folding or medical breakthroughs for example will impact the world in a positive way. People will champion that. Using them to automate your creativity hasn't been in demand by anyone except shareholders or people looking to milk a quick ad revenue for little to no effort. So of course, there's a negative sentiment.
by tim333 | 2026-03-03 10:38:04+00:00
I got the impression from the last election that
the messaging included:

If you think millions of unvetted illegal immigrants turning up is an issue, you are a racist.

If you think some bloke who thinks he's a chick is still a bloke you are a bigot.

If a black guy and white guy go for a job, the black should get it because judging by the color of skin there in not racist if it's DEI.

Thus Trump.

(I'm not American or Republican, that's just the impression I got watching the news)
by DonHopkins | 2026-03-03 10:38:21+00:00
Are you suggesting Robert Scoble's PR company was working on behalf of the competition?

Larry Page on Robert Scoble’s Google Glass stunt: ‘I really didn’t appreciate the shower photo’:

https://www.theverge.com/2013/5/15/4333656/larry-page-teases...

Perhaps his PR company business venture he tastelessly plugged in his sexual harassment non-apology-apology?

Scoble: an utterly tone deaf response to harassment allegations:

https://onemanandhisblog.com/2017/10/scoble-utterly-tone-dea...

>The Verge‘s Adi Robertson sums it us thus:

>>But his latest defense puts forward an absurd definition of sexual harassment and effectively accuses women of reporting it to fit in with the cool crowd, while claiming he’s writing in “a spirit of healing.” There’s even a tasteless plug for his latest business venture. It’s one of the most disappointing responses we’ve seen to a sexual harassment complaint, which, after the past few weeks, is a fairly remarkable achievement.

I think you're on to something! Maybe Meta paid Scoble to embarrass Google Glass, and now Google is paying him to embarrass Meta AI Smart Glasses too! Great work if you can get somebody to finance your serial sexual harassment scandals.
by troyjfarrell | 2026-03-03 10:38:22+00:00
Have you see AI repeat itself inside a paragraph? This looks more like something an editor missed.

Fourth paragraph, sixth sentence:
"Still, at best, only two-thirds of the occupants were buckled up after seventy seconds."

Fourth paragraph, final sentence:
"Fully a third of the occupants were still out of their seats after seventy seconds."
by oddurmagnusson | 2026-03-03 10:39:09+00:00
Like many of us, I've been using Claude Code to do most of my coding and the coding part got fast, but reviewing still sucks. So either we degrade into not reviewing at all or we need to find a better way to do it. So this is my experiment to reinvent reviewing.

I've come to hate GitHub's diff view, trying to understand what it actually did. The files are shown in whatever order GitHub decides. No logical grouping. No sense of what depends on what. So with Gnosis, you paste a PR URL (or browse your open PRs), pick a model (Claude or Gemini), and it reads the diff, groups changes in a logical way, and presents them as a slideshow. Each slide explains why the change exists and shows the relevant diff. You can even comment, approve, or reject the PR directly from the tool.

It runs locally as an Electron app, to be able to use your local agent CLI tools, so it can use your existing subscriptions rather than rely on API tokens.

It´ve personally found it really useful and I would love to get feedback on how to improve it. Or even better, PRs into the repo ( guess how I will review them :)
by anon_cow1111 | 2026-03-03 10:39:27+00:00
I despise smartphones (and related), but they're really incredible hardware and software, I SHOULD like them, a lot. Imagine being a nerd in the 90s and getting access to this tiny computer running on 3 volts of battery power that's 10x more powerful than your desktop. Holy crap.

I'm even somewhat resentful of modern games, I feel like they should be... more fun? More often then not I just kind of throw something old in an emulator and play that. My comment might have come across as the opposite but I think it can be interpreted either way.

"I should be enjoying this stuff, why does it suck so bad now?" Is probably the vibe we're trying to get at here.
by juleiie | 2026-03-03 10:39:32+00:00
Yeah you really have to make sure you do not miss, the punch doesn’t glance off, and has enough power to knock out the meta glass wearer in one go.

There is still the footage question though, probably saved live to the cloud.

That’s a lot of things to go as expected and a lot of unavoidable trouble anyway.

It’s just such a stupid idea to go around punching people. It gets you in trouble, it gets the defender in trouble if their training/emotion/nastiness takes over and they do severe harm to you.

You better make sure to knock someone out in one go and then what go to jail if they die?

I didn’t expect this amount of stupidity here
by sneak | 2026-03-03 10:39:45+00:00
I hate being outdoors 99.999% of the time, so much so that I will blanket declare "I hate the outdoors". Not just "the great outdoors" - I don't like sitting on a patio, in the shade, in what others call "perfect springtime weather". I'd rather be in a basement room with no windows.

The Mojave in the summertime at night (if and only if the sun is 100% behind the horizon) is really, properly, exquisite. My knowledge of its existence makes me irrationally angry whenever I have to be outdoors any other time/place, which is the aforementioned 99.999% of the time. The only other exception is the Sea of Crete, just before dawn or just after sunset, in May or September exclusively. It's a tiny, tiny, tiny sliver of the overall lifelong experience of being forced to deal with Earth's atmosphere.
by dgellow | 2026-03-03 10:39:46+00:00
Right, I missed that part. Then get the mini if you prefer it. I’m in the camp of people who hate large phones, the day they remove the SE form factor is the day I switch to android. IMHO the 5S form factor was perfected, any change after that is unnecessary. And I also love having a physical button on my SE, I hope that device will survive for a very long time as I’m not optimistic we will have such options in the future :(

Small form factor and security updates are literally my only criteria for phones.
by NoLinkToMe | 2026-03-03 10:40:11+00:00
Yes it was the iPhone 4 and it was $649, or $968 in today's money for 16gb of storage.

That mean's today's cheapest iPhone is 40% cheaper than this base model you're referring to, as well as being tons better. If you don't think 40% is a hefty price drop then idk what to tell you.

That's for the 16gb by the way, the next year's 64gb would've constituted a 53% price drop today.

And that's still for a wildly different phone. You're getting way, way more value today. Longevity alone is easily twice as long, meaning the cost-per-use or cost-per-year can be halved, leading to >75% price drops.

The idea Apple should be going even beyond that to make low-end new phones for a company that positions itself at the top of the market, is just silly. Apple has a long line of phones available for purchase on the secondary market, refurbished market, old-model market, is known to replace batteries 7 years after discontinuing the sale, and can be replaced with non-official batteries as well.

Like you could literally buy an iPhone 12 on the secondary market for $50 and do a $39 battery replacement, or buy it fully refurbished for $150. You can buy a million android phones at any spec level. The idea that Apple should compete at this budget with its own old phones and android phones is a bad idea and the idea Apple entry level phones aren't much cheaper, have more longevity and have wildly better specs than before, is empirically not true.

Is it technically possible for Apple to create a $400 phone that's still much better than the original iPhone? Obviously I agree with you that it is. Does it make sense for Apple to do it? Obviously not.

In this thread you'll have people saying 60 hertz is ridiculous in 2026 on an iPhone 17, and people saying they're completely fine with iPhone 12 specs in 2026 and wanting to get more discounts for fewer specs (ignoring the fact you can indeed simply buy that iPhone 12). The remaining market is so slim it's not worth getting into, but you can't please everyone with a lineup of 5 phones.
by onli | 2026-03-03 10:40:22+00:00
Sounds nice, but it doesn't fit. Games are awesome right now. There are so many and so many good ones. You can play the free ones Epic releases each week and have a good selection only by that. Baldur's Gate 3 was already mentioned and is not only indeed really good, it's only the tip of the iceberg: There was a resurgence of CRPGs the last years. Including some offsprings, like Disco Elysium. A game so awesome that all "games were better in the past" statements immediately get disproved. If that's not your genre no problem, all genres thrive currently.

Sure, there are games with repackaged Unity assets on Steam. But it's on you if you just open steam and browse the new releases. Go by proper game reviews or recommendations by friends with similar taste, which has always been the right way to go, even three decades ago.
by sylware | 2026-03-03 10:40:46+00:00
But with hardware IP locks like x86_64.

Better favor as much as possible RISC-V implementations.

But, I don't know if there are already good modern-desktop-grade RISC-V implementations (in the US, Sifive is moving fast as far as I know)... and the hard part: accessing the latest and greatest silicon process of TMSC, aka ~5GHz.

Those markets are completely saturated, namely at best, it will be very slow unless something big does happen: for instance AMD adapts its best micro-architecture to RISC-V (ISA decoding mostly), etc.

And if valve start to distribute a client with a strong RISC-V game compilation framework...
by martiserra99 | 2026-03-03 10:41:03+00:00
Location: Barcelona, Spain

Remote: Yes

Willing to relocate: Yes

Technologies: JavaScript, TypeScript, React, Next.js, React Flow, Tailwind CSS

Website: https://www.martiserra.me/

Resume: https://www.martiserra.me/documents/resume.pdf

Email: contact@martiserra.me
Ask HN: Who still works async and has a 'no meetings' work policy in 2026?
by RaulOnRails | 2026-03-03 10:41:10+00:00
I feel like the hustle culture is more prominent and celebrated these days. But I'm curious to know if there are still companies out there that prefer to keep meetings to a minimum, or none at all, to optimize for autonomy, trust, and giving people the space to do their work in silence.

A few companies that come to my mind now that still work this way are: doist, dnsimple, Cliniko, Calibre, HeadshotPro.

Any others?