MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
Show HN: ApplyPilot – AI Agent that applies to jobs for you
by pickle-pixel | 2026-03-03 00:53:51+00:00
Hey all, I recently open-sourced my project in hope to help others in their job hunting. I did not expect to get over 500 stars in a week and 500k views on Reddit.

What do you think?

P.S. Recruiters & Startup founders hit me up!
by http-teapot | 2026-03-03 00:54:51+00:00
I think there is a wide gap between public surveillance and private surveillance.

Smart glasses record in private settings and the biggest point of contention is that they "stealth" record. If someone recorded you with their phone, you'd immediately notice whereas it's hardly noticeable with smart glasses. Worse, people at Facebook are able to visualize scenes from people's home unbeknownst to them.
by superbowl | 2026-03-03 00:55:01+00:00
The article seems inconsistent. It presents evidence that Netflix's bid failed because they didn't counter Paramount's bid, and evidence that the president likes to be involved, but no evidence that Netflix's bid failed because of the president.

For example:

>A White House official, granted anonymity to discuss the potential acquisition, insisted that Rice had nothing to do with why Netflix lost the deal.

>It was “100 percent because of the bid,” the official said. “Netflix could have submitted an alternative offer and they chose not to.”

>A person familiar with the thinking said Trump promised to remain neutral “and he has.”

>Still, the episode underscores how more than 10 years after Trump came down the escalator, many of the country’s most powerful figures still sometimes misjudge or underestimate the president.
by msla | 2026-03-03 00:55:13+00:00
Yeah. I'm down on commercial AM/FM radio being touted as an emergency service, because there's so rarely enough behind the scenes to make it reliable or even minimally usable as such, but this is something purpose-built to fill that role, and shutting it down means there's nothing which can fill it, given how worthless commercial radio is at the task:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Minot_train_derailment

> Because it was the middle of the night, there were few people at local radio stations, all operated by Clear Channel with mostly automated programming. No formal emergency warnings were issued for several hours while Minot officials located station managers at home. North Dakota's public radio network, Prairie Public Broadcasting, was notified and did broadcast warnings to citizens.

If you wanted to make commercial radio even minimally acceptable as an emergency alert system you'd be... guess what... reinventing EAS and EAS-a-likes, except more expensive and less responsive! EAS never has to "Interrupt This Program" it can just get to the meat.
by musictubes | 2026-03-03 00:56:44+00:00
Apple has no idea what the iPad is for but somehow they sell 20 million of them a year...

Apple has been very clear what the iPad is "supposed" to be. It is a touch screen computer. Between its form factor, touch first OS, built in camera, and possible cellular capabilities it can do a lot that a Mac can't do. Something as simple as walking around with it and handing it to someone like a clipboard opens up a million uses in the field that would be much more awkward with a traditional laptop. Artists drawing directly on the surface, musicians playing with touch controls, etc. all take advantage of how the iPad works.

If you insist on using programs and workflows designed for laptop computers the iPad will never make sense to you. I use AUM, Drambo, and a variety of other soft synths and effects on my iPad in conjunction with my analog synths. It's a very different experience than a regular computer.
by thegrim33 | 2026-03-03 00:56:46+00:00
What you've identified, I call the 2x2 attack (since it can be imagined as a 2x2 grid), which is:

- Report on stuff that helps the positions you support

- Report on stuff that hurts the positions you don't support

- Don't report on stuff that hurts the positions you support

- Don't report on stuff that helps the positions you don't support

It's one of the many, many, fake news tactics that allows them to manipulate and present a false picture of reality, without having to tell a lie.
by mark_l_watson | 2026-03-03 00:57:27+00:00
I think the EU in general is shortsighted if they don’t spend resources to complete what they already have for basic technology of their own: phone, telcom infra, AI models, cloud providers, etc.

I would say the same for global south. I am a US citizen, but the rest of the world is crazy to depend so much on US and China.

The phone looks good. I have looked at GrapheneOS, but not Jolla.
by marcus_holmes | 2026-03-03 00:58:00+00:00
It's a good point. I hated that butterfly keyboard, and the Touch Bar was an utterly useless gimmick for me. And they realised that and rolled it back (and added ports again!).

They do eventually listen to their customers. Let's hope it doesn't take as long for these changes to get rolled back.

I'm kinda stuck with Mac at work. I don't mind it, but I run Linux on all my personal computers and find that is way better.
by badsectoracula | 2026-03-03 00:59:24+00:00
FWIW exactly because it is open source, there isn't anyone actually forcing you to use Wayland (distros changed a default, they didn't remove the ability to install something else - even Fedora that got rid of X11 support for GNOME in their distro still provides other DEs and WMs). As long as there are people who want to keep using X11, there will be an option (be it Xorg or some fork).
by amatecha | 2026-03-03 00:59:34+00:00
Pretty boneheaded move. Yeah I'll download your app (???) so I can listen to critical weather information on my phone that can't even stay powered on an entire day without charging... Cool, guess I'll just take a wild guess as to how this extreme weather is going to proceed. The whole point of these services is their resilience and the fact you can depend on them. Some fragile-ass mobile phone shit is not a suitable replacement for that whatsoever. Totally inexcusable.
by andrekandre | 2026-03-03 00:59:53+00:00
> you still can crash an app doing myArray[1]

the first thing i do when starting a new project:

extension Array {
subscript(safe: Int) -> Element? { ... }
}

there was talk in the swift forms about adding that
as standard that but it seems to have died off...

[0] https://forums.swift.org/t/draft-adding-safe-indexing-to-arr...
by vladislavtumko | 2026-03-03 01:00:47+00:00
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by gwerbin | 2026-03-03 01:01:01+00:00
Yeah I don't agree with this at all. I want the light when I'm getting up in the morning. When I'm coming home from work it's the end of the day: I'm tired, I'm hustling home to do errands or chores or make dinner, I'm probably going to spend that time inside anyway because that's where the things that I need to get done are, and if it it's going to be cold and windy, it's going to be cold and windy in the evening. I much much prefer daylight in the morning and I like when noon is actually noon (+/- depending on longitude). I'm not looking forward to the time change and I'm not looking forward to the sun setting at 9 PM.
Show HN: Evan-proxy, better teenager phone management
by chrissnell | 2026-03-03 01:01:15+00:00
I tried all of the prominent child web filtering solutions and they were all terrible and expensive.

None of them made it easy to disable my teen's Internet. They were unreliable and made it hard to see usage logs. They depended on MDM profiles from an opaque company and you have to trust them to not abuse your child's data.

I wanted:
- One-click enable/disable Internet on a per-child basis
- Per-child traffic logs
- Per-child restrictions (enforced by per-child DNS blocking)

The solution was to build my own proxy and MDM profile. evan-proxy makes it easy to manage your teen's internet access. It will run easily from the smallest cloud server or your home network (when exposed publicly). It's inexpensive to run: you can use a PiHole for DNS or a low-cost service like NextDNS, and the only mandatory service is the MDM manager (I use SimpleMDM).

It's written in Go and includes a Helm chart for quick deployment.
by iJohnDoe | 2026-03-03 01:01:24+00:00
FTA > "I saw a video where a man puts the glasses on the bedside table and leaves the room. Shortly afterwards his wife comes in and changes her clothes." "The workers describe videos where people’s bank cards are visible by mistake."

This is hugely concerning. We need more details. Why are the glasses recording when not being worn? Is the light on when it's recording?

Are the Meta employees able to turn on the streaming without people knowing? Are these videos only when someone says "Hey Meta..."? Are the Meta employees looking at every "Hey Meta..." video where someone asks AI a question?

These glasses are considered a luxury item and are worn by executives in office environments. They are worn by people in family situations. Someone could be a confidential or private moment and randomly ask AI a question; one of the primary purposes of the glasses. Are all of these being seen by Meta employees?
by DrewADesign | 2026-03-03 01:01:25+00:00
It’s also at least simple assault, and quite possibly aggravated assault on someone that has a sophisticated camera pointed at your face that’s sending biometrics, images, and probably video back to one of the worst privacy offenders on the planet.

Feels great to say it. Would feel great to do it. Morally defensible to anyone that knows anything about privacy if the person isn’t low-vision or something. In reality, a terrifically stupid idea.
by singhsanjay12 | 2026-03-03 01:01:51+00:00
This matches what I've seen too.

Resolver-level resilience is often manageable centrally. The harder part is application-level recovery; especially in larger orgs where DNS behavior spans multiple teams.

Even with low TTLs or cache flush automation, apps may: resolve once at startup or hold long-lived gRPC/TCP connections, or even worse -> ignore TTL semantics entirely

So infra assumes "DNS healed," but the app never re-resolves.
by hedora | 2026-03-03 01:02:28+00:00
I do all my gaming and LLM inference on devuan. (That laptop should chew through 30-120B parameter LLMs, depending on how much RAM it has.)

I don't have any of the problems mentioned by you or sibling comments, full stop.

Up until about a year ago, audio was janky as hell, but then as part of the great de-Poettering, they switched from PulseAudio to PipeWire. I've had zero issues since then.

Copy paste works. Login works. X11 runs at native panel speed (144Hz) with bug-for-bug parity with windows 3d acceleration, but open source (AMD drivers). XScreenSaver works (and can lock the screen). I can't comment on any of the stuff you mention in the second paragraph. I assume it's a bunch of broken Wayland workarounds?

Anyway, instead of switching to Mac, just switch to a stable distribution. Devuan is Debian minus systemd, so essentially everything works out of the box. Even crap that requires systemd usually works, since they install stubs. LLMs like Claude will happily admin it once you tell it that which init system to target.
by marcus_holmes | 2026-03-03 01:02:36+00:00
> And Linux ? Good luck getting decent hardware that will run without having basic functionality issues.

I think that's probably a few years out of date. Certainly, it used to be completely true and was a major problem.

I'm just not finding that now. Drivers are better, and more widespread, and there are less odd hardware innovations in standard PC components that screw it up.

And, if you want a laptop that runs Linux perfectly, there are more than a few options out there that ship with Linux installed and supported now.
by lynndotpy | 2026-03-03 01:03:30+00:00
First, I have no reason to believe these problems are temporary. There are problems MacOS has had for years that have never been addressed, before they added the new problems when forcing Liquid Glass on people.

Just to put cards on the table, the problem Apple has is disillusionment. They've managed to disabuse people of the notion that Apple designs quality software that is useful in their lives.

People who have lost faith in Apple won't regain their faith even if Apple fixes all the Liquid Glass problems in six months. And that is not something that will happen. On top of that, people are anticipating AI features and a touch-optimized interface.

It's why Google Trends shows larger-than-ever numbers of people having iPhone battery issues, performance issues, and searching for how to switch to Android. "Macos to Linux" peaked after Tahoe, at 3x higher than its pre-LG peak, for example.
Show HN: VCBacked – Find venture funded startups for your business, fund, agency
by veritas9 | 2026-03-03 01:03:43+00:00
I built this for anyone whose business revolves around funded startups — whether you're a VC tracking new raises, a sales team targeting high-growth companies, a recruiter staffing fast-scaling teams, or an agency looking for clients with fresh capital to spend.

The problem I kept running into: Crunchbase has data but no contacts. Apollo has contacts but isn't curated for VC-backed companies. PitchBook and CB Insights are $5–25K/year and overkill for most use cases.

We manually verify every contact and add 500+ new leads monthly.
by jedberg | 2026-03-03 01:04:08+00:00
Oh, this is really interesting to me. This is what I worked on at Amazon Alexa (and have patents on).

An interesting fact I learned at the time: The median delay between human speakers during a conversation is 0ms (zero). In other words, in many cases, the listener starts speaking before the speaker is done. You've probably experienced this, and you talk about how you "finish each other's sentences".

It's because your brain is predicting what they will say while they speak, and processing an answer at the same time. It's also why when they say what you didn't expect, you say, "what?" and then answer half a second later, when your brain corrects.

Fact 2: Humans expect a delay on their voice assistants, for two reasons. One reason is because they know it's a computer that has to think. And secondly, cell phones. Cell phones have a built in delay that breaks human to human speech, and your brain thinks of a voice assistant like a cell phone.

Fact 3: Almost no response from Alexa is under 500ms. Even the ones that are served locally, like "what time is it".

Semantic end-of-turn is the key here. It's something we were working on years ago, but didn't have the compute power to do it. So at least back then, end-of-turn was just 300ms of silence.

This is pretty awesome. It's been a few years since I worked on Alexa (and everything I wrote has been talked about publicly). But I do wonder if they've made progress on semantic detection of end-of-turn.

Edit: Oh yeah, you are totally right about geography too. That was a huge unlock for Alexa. Getting the processing closer to the user.
by GlibMonkeyDeath | 2026-03-03 01:04:11+00:00
Couldn't find any cost estimate, but from https://openquantumdesign.org/the-quantum-computer (scroll down to "What's Inside") I'm guessing 100's of k$ for the bill of materials (let alone keeping the thing going.)

So the "you" in "your own" has to have pretty deep pockets...for a relatively low fidelity 30 qubit device.
by purple-leafy | 2026-03-03 01:04:33+00:00
I started making a raycaster from scratch in C which I wanted to turn into a game engine [0]

Was my first C project to learn C as a 4 year self taught dev.

Will revisit it in a years time (working on something big) and try implement my full vision - minecraft-like worlds but if it was fully raycasted

[0] - https://github.com/con-dog/chunked-z-level-raycaster
by krackers | 2026-03-03 01:05:43+00:00
What features do you think it needs, that wouldn't spoil the "elegance" of the language? I think one good feature would be higher order messaging, in fact there's already a PL paper discussing how it looks like in objective-c [1] which would add FP-like filter/map elegance that all modern languages have. This would go nicely with simpler "JS lambda" style block syntax to make functional-style programming easier in objc.

[1] https://dl.acm.org/doi/epdf/10.1145/1146841.1146844
by tialaramex | 2026-03-03 01:05:59+00:00
Huh, I learn something new, I was not aware of "Two element Boolean algebra" nor just how deep this particular rabbit hole goes.

It's fine that 1 + 1 = 2. That's just integer arithmetic. The problem is that the booleans are not "just integers" and so Python's choice to implement them as "just integers" while convenient for them has consequences that are... undesirable.
by guerython | 2026-03-03 01:06:30+00:00
We run a similar enforcement hook: every ADR becomes a 4-part plan (context, decision, scorecard, guard). A GitHub action watches the guarded files, expects a `{status:'ok'}` response when the plan still holds, counts retries/cost spikes per plan, and if any guard trips it flags the PR discussion and pauses the pipeline until the safety team approves a diff. That keeps the ADR in the loop instead of just filing it away, and the guard logs give us a data point to explain why a change was denied. Curious how you tie those ADRs back into your toolchain when something trips a guard?
by satiric | 2026-03-03 01:06:33+00:00
Mountain time is ambiguous due to Arizona, and yet we still use that phrase. Hawaii-Aleutian time is also ambiguous: the Aleutian islands do daylight savings, but Hawaii doesn't.

Casual speech doesn't use the city names (like America/Los_Angeles for pacific time); presumably we'd have Pacific time (America/Los_Angeles) and BC time (an update of the existing America/Vancouver). If Washington's time change ever gets approved it would presumably become simply Washington time (America/Seattle maybe?).
by miki123211 | 2026-03-03 01:06:53+00:00
The first SE was the best form factor I've ever owned.

Incredibly small. Incredibly light. Pretty thin, even in a case. Had a headphone jack, Lightning and Touch ID.

The only thing I like about the new iPhone designs is the action button. Having an automation which automatically turns silent mode off or on based on whether I'm home or not is pretty cool. You can't do that with a physical switch.
by jacobbassett | 2026-03-03 01:07:32+00:00
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by matheusmoreira | 2026-03-03 01:08:11+00:00
Kitty does this as well. Looks like every terminal ships with their own terminfo nowadays. Apparently this is to work around the ncurses maintainer.

https://github.com/kovidgoyal/kitty/issues/2773

https://github.com/kovidgoyal/kitty/issues/879

https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-ncurses/2018-09/msg00...
by Bender | 2026-03-03 01:08:29+00:00
or even worse -> ignore TTL semantics entirely

I sense you may have java in your environment and are probably used to

export JAVA_OPTS="-Djava.net.preferIPv4Stack=true -Dnetworkaddress.cache.ttl=0"

or something along that line including other options. At least I tried to get teams to use those and then rely on Unbound DNS cache and retry schemes. SystemD also has it's own resolver cache which can be disabled and told to use a local instance of Unbound. Windows servers require Group Policy and registry modifications to change their behavior.

One of my pet peeves is when groups do not manage domain/search correctly and they do not use FQDN in the application configuration resulting in 3x or 4x or more the number of DNS requests which also amplifies all DNS problems/outages. That really grinds my gears.

And of course if the Linux system uses glibc, editing /etc/gai.conf to prefer IPv4 or IPv6 depending on what is primarily used inside the data-center makes a big difference.
by Brajeshwar | 2026-03-03 01:09:05+00:00
Haaa! I also paused reading at “as a kid.”

I bought the 1st Gen iPad for my daughter while I was in the States for work (2010). Not a phone, big enough, and can be Internet-connected with a SIM. Lots of Games, and later my feeling of having bought something amazing was that my daughter learnt to speak brilliant English with Peppa Pig, way before her formal school started.

Palo Alto Stanford Shopping (USA) › FedEx to a Relative in Maine (USA) traveling to Manipur (India) › he trimmed a local SIM to fit the Nano-SIM tray › Happy Daughter on her 2nd Birthday.
by itopaloglu83 | 2026-03-03 01:09:29+00:00
And yet Apple engineers are going through numerous forums and Reddit posts to gaslight people by commenting “well, it doesn’t happen to me, mine works perfectly”.

They managed to mess up an entire ecosystem and they’re acting so stupid about it that I cannot believe all this software was made by Apple.

There’s no elegance, no thought out user experience, no good design, it’s all stupid glass design with comical amount of padding. It all looks like it was designed and implemented by a team five over a half assed pool party.

What the hell is Apple doing with its tens of thousands of engineers, if they cannot make a freaking window manager.
by thot_experiment | 2026-03-03 01:09:42+00:00
Ok, but if you read my comment you would note that I constructed a category of humans who can reason but cannot count the r's in strawberry.

I think you don't know what it means to reason, and are dismissively claiming AI cannot reason as though it invalidates a point made earlier without even having a sturdy definition in your head. I think for you to say "LLMs can't reason" in this context is essentially a NOP.
by Uptrenda | 2026-03-03 01:10:34+00:00
Most of the crypto in the OP requires trusted setup phases and is too slow to use for any kind of general-purpose computation. It's the reason why most cryptographic protocols consist of simpler schemes and don't try to do everything. This article is click bait though. Feel like OP just stumbled upon what people have been doing for the past 5 years and wrote this half-baked article on it.
by al_borland | 2026-03-03 01:11:15+00:00
I’ve been hearing this for 3 years now. Exactly how long do you want people to live in fear?

This feels like Elon’s FSD predictions. In 2013 he claimed 90% of the miles would be driven autonomously by 2016. It’s now 2026… 10 years after the prediction was supposed to come true and we’re still waiting.