MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by ranger_danger | 2026-03-14 19:12:20+00:00
I think that could get shot down real quick though.

Accounts/identities that are known to have been shared could be flagged as stolen and now anyone who tries to use it gets burned.

Then the question is, what happens to the poor guy whose identity was stolen? As it is I already can't view half the sites on the internet due to endless captcha loops.
by mentalgear | 2026-03-14 19:12:47+00:00
It seems the open-source experiment has failed. Hundreds of billion-dollar companies have been built on millions of hours of free labor, on the backs of ten thousands of now-burnt-out maintainers. Yet, apart from token gestures, these exploiting entities have never shared substantial or equitable profits back.

For the next generation of OSS, it would be wise to stand together and introduce a new licensing model: if a company builds a product using an open-source library and reaches a specific revenue threshold (e.g., $XX million), they must compensate the authors proportional to the library's footprint in their codebase and/or its execution during daily operations.
by jgilias | 2026-03-14 19:12:56+00:00
The situations are not comparable at all. That was the collapse of an authoritarian (wasn’t totalitarian anymore by the time it’d collapse) system running (badly) on command economy. Most of the points you mention are therefore just really off.

Say, the Baltics flipping. Where the hell are we supposed to flip to? Russia? Where ethnic minorities are sent to die in expansionist wars in disproportionate numbers?
by keiferski | 2026-03-14 19:13:18+00:00
Fortunately these days I have a very patient interlocutor named ChatGPT blessed with an infinite tolerance for half-baked questions and a soothing lack of judgmentality.

I know it’s popular to say AI is overhyped or not actually useful, but I think one area where it’s unquestionably a massive improvement is in asking stupid questions. I ask ChatGPT so many questions that I’ve started looking for ways to automatically send me a daily summary of questions and answers, to add to Anki.

I used to post a lot of these types of questions on subreddits that are Ask-related. Ask Philosophy and Ask Historians, for example. Unfortunately the mod teams for many subreddits like this have gone overboard, deleting anything that doesn’t fit their specific idiosyncratic rules.

Needless to say I have almost entirely stopped asking questions on Reddit.
by Sam6late | 2026-03-14 19:13:27+00:00
That will lead to serious problems, as in the case of China, underestimating threats lead to losing edge, from EV to robots and other vital tech, and without experts to ground policy in reality, the country risks making erratic market moves and failing to spot risks from adversaries like China or Russia.Add to that inexperienced staff in the administration who makes the U.S. easier to manipulate.
by bonesss | 2026-03-14 19:13:30+00:00
I get less concerned about LLMs taking or jobs by the day, and more convinced they’ve already taken away our internet.

There was a time of BBS and text based systems where only genuine humans could participate, and a lusty lady on mIRC was at worst some dude pretending. Now I’m half a page into HN posts and realizing I have yet again been duped into losing some life to some jagoffs lying bot and work is just as bad.

The constant drip-drip of what’s-the-point makes the whole thing seem performative and hostile.
by qingcharles | 2026-03-14 19:13:53+00:00
I use it because it is easily jailbroken and is willing to search for old orphan magazine PDFs I'm trying to track down. The subagents will all scream "this is copyright violation!" but the main Grok engine ignores them and finds obscure, niche forum posts etc.

So, it has its uses compared to the mainstream products.
by EGG_CREAM | 2026-03-14 19:14:02+00:00
I kind of lost the UBI plot, to be fair. I don’t really understand what UBI actually had to do with this exercise fundamentally, the exact same thing happens with or without it, it’s just that the floor of what “affordable housing” is gets risen. Unless you think that an unfettered, UBI-less economy doesn’t produce expensive housing? Which, I think we have many real world case studies in almost every major city in rich countries to disprove that assertion.

I do see what you mean, I think, now that I’m rereading and contemplating. A monthly stipend probably does more to raise prices than anything useful, unless you also pair it with regulation to stop the wealthy and powerful from taking it all for themselves. And at that point you could have just done those regulations without UBI. Hmm.

Do you think a few lump sum payments over a citizens lifetime would have the same effect? Maybe some large sum paid when you reach age of majority and then again at retirement?
by john01dav | 2026-03-14 19:14:20+00:00
I don't think that it's that simple. I'm advocating for regulations to consider the burden on small businesses and aggressively minimize it.

Another example than the GDPR example that I previously gave is beneficial owner registration. The US government tried to pass a law requiring every corporate entity to state who the beneficial owners are, to reduce tax evasion. In principle, this sounds great, but the vast majority of corporate entities are small businesses with natural persons owners, so that beneficial owner is already obvious. So, they should have added such an exception to filing requirements. Even better would be to just work with states to put beneficial owner fields on the existing state incorporation forms, instead of creating a new form, that are optional to fill in when the owner is a natural person. That way, we reduce tax evasion with the better data, but we aren't relying on a random electrician in Ohio or a tech nerd startup founder in California to be aware of these requirements. While one form isn't a big deal on its own, the whole system is like this, and it adds up.
by twelve40 | 2026-03-14 19:14:26+00:00
i don't know what i'm doing wrong but my mac has terrible time recognizing any USB-C headphones. First, it takes a while to recognize, then it never switches over by default so i often end up blasting on speakers if i forget that it's oh, USB-C headphones. Same confusion on Zoom. At the same time, Mac's 3.5mm just works, instantly.

But i realize that it might be hard to have 3.5mm on phones due to insane amount of size optimizations on these sophisticated devices we kind of take for granted by now.
by snenenenene | 2026-03-14 19:15:13+00:00
Transita tries to answer "which visa programmes would I actually be competitive for?" rather than just listing what exists.

You answer 8 questions, it matches your profile against 25+ real visa pathways using Claude, and returns ranked results with personalised requirements, timelines, costs, and document checklists.

https://transita.app

Built with Next.js and the Claude API. Open to feedback on the matching logic or anything else.
by butterNaN | 2026-03-14 19:16:06+00:00
I can attest to this. I gave away my Sony WH-1000MX and my €80 Soundcore earbuds stopped charging. Headphone emergency! I got myself €30 AKG USB-c IEMs off a local shop. The sound quality is far, far superior to even the €350 wireless Sony headphones. I'm not even an audiophile, it's just noticably better. I had forgotten all the little details from the music I regularly listned to.

With your popular wireless headphones, you're really paying for the computer with ANC (and branding, packaging, depending on which version of the series the latest model is on).

The wired IEMs don't have an ANC but I realised I don't need it as often as I thought. I'm certainly going to look for Wired over-the-ear ANC cans next, but honestly I'm not sure if I need them.
by testdelacc1 | 2026-03-14 19:16:25+00:00
I’ll reply in good faith even though I detect sarcasm in your comment.

Generally nonpartisan commissions prioritise contiguity and compactness. There is an element of “I know it when I see it” because you’re trying to avoid both packing (packing minority voters from disparate areas into one) and cracking (distributing a minority district like Salt Like City into its 4 neighbouring districts, ensuring the city can’t vote for … whoever cities generally vote for).

So there is a human element involved, but these commissions generally do a reasonable job. You know how we know? States that move from nonpartisan to partisan commissions cause a dramatic change in the results of the next election. If the nonpartisan was biased like you imply with your air quotes, we wouldn’t observe that effect.

Also there are algorithms to draw fair districts without needing human judgement. See this paper[1] that expounds on one such algorithm.

1 - Swamy, R., King, D. M., & Jacobson, S. H. (2022). Multiobjective optimization for politically fair districting: A scalable multilevel approach. Operations Research, 71(2), 536–562. https://doi.org/10.1287/opre.2022.2311
by ndiddy | 2026-03-14 19:16:47+00:00
No inkjet printers work well when they are infrequently used. Every inkjet printer will spray ink into absorbent padding inside the printer when it goes a few days without printing in order to stop dried ink from clogging the print heads. On high end inkjets the padding is user replaceable (printer manufacturers refer to it as a “maintenance box”), and on low end models it’s sealed inside the printer and you have to throw the whole printer out when it becomes saturated with ink. This is why people who print infrequently will only get a few pages out of a cartridge. There’s a baseline consumption of ink that happens whether or not you use the printer. The smarter move for people who print infrequently is doing what you do, having a B&W laser printer (which doesn’t suffer from this problem) and getting color prints done at Kinko’s or something when you need them.
by ndriscoll | 2026-03-14 19:16:52+00:00
Talking to a real human seems more depressing to me, especially when they're making less than $2/hour doing it, have multiple chats going all trying to hit sales targets, and they feel bad for you in the interaction. Paying for female attention is pretty bad, but not even getting the attention you paid for is just bleak. At that point go with the machine. At least it's not thinking "what the hell am I doing here?" while it's generating messages.
by Mooshux | 2026-03-14 19:17:01+00:00
The layer ordering matters more than people realize, and you got it right with identity running before ingestion. Checking identity after input scanning is a common mistake — you're doing expensive processing on requests you should have rejected immediately.

One gap I see in most agent security frameworks: they handle what agents do, but not what agents hold. An agent that's behaviorally constrained by guardrails can still be prompt-injected into exfiltrating a raw API key it was given at startup. The credential layer sits outside the behavioral layer.

What actually closes that gap: agents that never hold raw provider keys at all. You broker the credential at request time, scoped to the specific call, and it's gone when the session ends. The agent can't leak what it doesn't have. We're doing exactly this at https://www.apistronghold.com/blog/securing-openclaw-ai-agen... if it's useful context.
by Mooshux | 2026-03-14 19:17:35+00:00
The CVE count on the Lightsail blueprint is the part that gets me. 31 unpatched CVEs in the default install is not a hardening problem, it's a baseline hygiene problem. The hardening hasn't even started yet.

The curl-pipe-sh-as-root pattern is endemic to self-hosted AI agent tooling right now. Everyone's moving fast, nobody's thinking about the install footprint. The Bitsight 30k exposed instances number makes more sense when you see what the install process looks like.

Good Terraform module. One thing worth adding if you haven't: credential scoping at the agent level, not just network-level hardening. A hardened perimeter with over-privileged agents inside is still a single compromise away from full blast radius.
by figassis | 2026-03-14 19:17:53+00:00
I think apps that want assurance of your identity should pay for your kya. They want valuable people after all, and this should go into their CAC. Users still pay nothing, the identity service does not care about their info, after verification, it drops any details, like uploaded documents, whatever, keeps a certificate.

The cost for this service is likely keeping up with ID systems for multiple countries, infra and support.

Potentially, if this is made into a protocol, it can be decentralized kind of like the SSL system, so each country manages it's own rules.
by JumpCrisscross | 2026-03-14 19:18:16+00:00
> It is promulgated in order to manufacture consent for doing the thing that "both sides" are supposedly already doing

Manufacturing consent is horseshit because it gets the direction of causation wrong. Nobody is master planning any of this. Storytellers sell stories. And then politicians sense the vacuum of attention.

Fox News and Shadowstats don’t whip their flock up so DOGE could cut budgets. They did it to sell ads. DOGE then cut, mostly randomly. And there was no fury about these cuts so they stuck.
by aminerj | 2026-03-14 19:18:19+00:00
The D: drive deletion is a textbook ASI05 (Uncontrolled Cascading Failures) incident. The user asked it to resolve an error -- the agent interpreted that as authorization to delete. No distinction between "fix this" and "fix this by any means necessary."

The principle that would have prevented it: irreversible actions require explicit confirmation, regardless of how the request was framed. Most agentic frameworks don't enforce this by default.

The adoption curve makes it worse. When a tool goes from tech professionals to retirees in weeks, the user base's ability to anticipate agent behavior drops while the blast radius of mistakes stays the same.
by phil21 | 2026-03-14 19:18:40+00:00
> Why don't you just do that now and work half the amount of hours you're currently working?

Show me the job like mine where this is an option, and I'll take it in a second. Hire another me and we'll split duties.

These sorts of "professional job that pays a professional hourly rate but is for 20 hours a week" are exceedingly rare. You'll usually be taking far less than 50% pay - far worse if you include benefits in the calculation.

I've been halfway keeping my eye open for such an opportunity so I could fund the basics of my life, plus have time to do personal projects with utterly no chance of monetary payback. Just stuff like paint the house, teach myself how to weld, work on backyard art, volunteer, etc.

I could certainly find a job that pays 50% of what I get now for working the same number of hours though. Perhaps moderately less stress and no "off hours" chance of being called in for an emergency. But that's not a great tradeoff since I'm looking to trade money for time.

This may not be the point you're making, but it really is sort of frustrating this isn't an option. I get why - I employ folks too and understand the overheads involved - but man it's the dream!
by PaulDavisThe1st | 2026-03-14 19:19:27+00:00
Defining "good" and "bad" in this context requires lots of other answers first.

When NYC had a housing surplus in the late 1970s, many people considered it to be a bad place. But even as they did so, a new generation of artists were moving into it. So was it a bad place at a bad time? Or a good place at a good time?

When Seattle had a housing surplus in the late 1970s ("Will the last person to leave Seattle please turn out the lights?" said the billboard in I5), many people considered it to be a bad place. But that was actually the beginning of a slow and steady population growth that now sees it as an incredibly desirable and expensive place to live.

Clearly, there are plenty of people for whom both cities were, at those times, "bad". But equally clearly, there are lots of other people for whom the very same places were, to some degree, just what they were looking for.

And these effects occur on even smaller scales. The neighborhood in London where I was born was basically a slumlords dream in the 1960s. Tons of empty housing, all very cheap (so cheap that my grandparents could afford a large home there). By the late 80s, it had become incredibly desirable and rather expensive. You can say "it was a bad place at a bad time in the 60s", but a bunch of people considered that an ideal place to be.

If we had completely equal distribution of financial resources, this sort of thing might be less of a factor. But as long as there are people looking for "value" and others looking for "luxury", the good/bad distinction doesn't really describe the world very usefully.
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by davedigerati | 2026-03-14 19:20:01+00:00
I think this is a great way to frame the conversation and possible solution: reputation. things like accumulated karma or credits and IRL connections (big data will love this) all begin to feel dystopian whereas reputation I believe is something that everybody can get behind. It can absolutely remain anonymous, while still benefiting from IRL meetups for big reputation bumps (just use your handle). We all hang out in lots of places online, let that rep build and be used everywhere. Pretty sure they were trying to do something like this in the fedverse but haven't touched base on it in a long time ...
by CalRobert | 2026-03-14 19:20:33+00:00
I wish it were easier to measure well-being. Someone who works 20 hours a week and half has as much money may well be enjoying life more than someone working 40 hours a week, but we don't quantify this well.

When I lived in California I was always weirded out by colleagues talking about how they never took vacations. It's like bragging about being poor.
by bpavuk | 2026-03-14 19:21:23+00:00
related: https://doublespeed.ai/ - basically astroturfing as a service.

their landing page stops short of saying that Doublespeed would be "a good fit for your political campaign." I'd prefer fighting an AI-powered drone over becoming a victim of "Dead Internet-aaS" startup. at least, flying lawnmowers are honest
by whateveracct | 2026-03-14 19:21:24+00:00
since when has velocity or volume of codegen been the bottleneck for any business?

i write less code than my AI-using coworkers but I have as much or more impact. Coding wasn't so hard that I need to spend time learning a new proprietary tech stack with a subscription fee lol. I believe plenty of engineers did suck enough and computers to benefit tho. That is where Anthropic makes their money.
Show HN: Aperture Core – a human attention control plane for agent systems
by tomismeta | 2026-03-14 19:21:38+00:00
I just released the first public version of Aperture Core, an SDK for deciding which agent events deserve human attention now, which should wait, and which should stay in the background.

The core loop is simple:
- publish an event
- get back a frame if it should enter the human attention surface
- render that frame in your UI/workflow
- submit the human response back into the engine

As agents get more capable and one human starts supervising more of them, the bottleneck shifts toward human attention.

A lot of agent tooling focuses on orchestration, tool use, memory, or traces. Aperture Core is centered on a different question: what should actually reach the human, when, and in what form?

At a high level, the engine separates:
- policy: what is allowed to interrupt
- value: what is actually worth attention now
- planning: whether something should be active, queued, or ambient

The basic idea is that human attention is a constrained system resource, and most agent UX doesn’t model it explicitly.

It’s deterministic in the hot path, but can optionally adapt over time from the human’s response patterns, deferrals, context expansion, and disagreement history.

That also means it can be used as a first-pass filter before involving a model or more expensive reasoning step.

The SDK is published on npm as @tomismeta/aperture-core.

The repo has a package-facing README and examples showing the basic loop:

event in -> frame out -> human answer in -> state updates

Would especially love feedback on:
- whether the API is intuitive for first-time SDK consumers
- whether the frame/response model makes sense
- where this should stay deterministic vs eventually use a model
by Moriarty2027 | 2026-03-14 19:21:54+00:00
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by lproven | 2026-03-14 19:21:56+00:00
> Out of curiosity, are you a reader?

Very much so. I started reading adult novels at 7 years old, and by the time I was 12 or so, I could if I was hurrying read 5 or 6 novels a day. I read the entire Lord of the Rings trilogy for the first time in 5 days at that age. I've reread it again another 4 times or so.

My personal library is somewhere in the region of 5,000 to 7,500 of my favourite books. I estimate that I have read at least twice as many books as I own, and probably more: in the tens of thousands, I'd think.

https://www.goodreads.com/user/show/6730645-liam-proven

I only started using Goodreads in my 40s though.

I am also a professional writer and have been for 30 years. I've had 2 short books published, many hundreds of articles for about 15 different print magazines and professional paid articles on 3 commercial websites.

Currently, I am the Linux and FOSS reporter for the Register:

https://www.theregister.com/Author/Liam-Proven

This was one of the hardest pieces to write for me:

https://www.theregister.com/2024/01/23/david_mills_obit/

I knew little of the man. I had to read at least 30,000 words about him in a single morning in order to learn enough about the man to write his obituary. It was hard work.

> When was the last time you read a full length chapter book for fun?

I have about 25 on the go currently. Most recent start was Polostan by Neal Stephenson. I also have 1 print magazine subscription on top of that, but mostly, I read online now, several tens of thousands of words a day every day.

I think it is far to say I am a big and voracious reader.

Why? Do you think I object to excessive verbiage because I struggle through it? No. I can at a push read about 3000 words a minute but I normally cruise along at 1,500 or so. When I see "estimated reading times" on things online, I typically find they are approaching 10x longer than I take.

FWIW I can also read 5 or 6 other languages than English, but I am painfully slow in all of those. Currently I'm reading a copy of Charlie Hebdo I bought at FOSDEM and the new Astérix album. :-)