MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by bigbadfeline | 2026-03-09 00:47:04+00:00
> UK where cost of energy was super high. UK is not bombing Iran, but their economy will cry more than the US.

UK isn't exactly rich on energy resources, especially after the North Sea oil dried out. Living in a global economy, with most of the oil still priced in dollars - which the UK can't print - makes for a tough energy market in the UK and many other places.

Wars are the worst enemies of good life and economic development, it's profoundly revealing to watch how two of largest and richest countries in the world, with the absolute largest nuclear arsenals, are both engaged in the destruction of other countries - one for each... for now.

Both of the attacked countries are fairly large and have significant impact on global prosperity and supply chains...

This isn't a fairy tail.
by ajdecon | 2026-03-09 00:48:17+00:00
FWIW, folks on lobste.rs are (mostly) friendly and willing to extend invites if you seem like a real person. My understanding is that the invite system is primarily in use to avoid drive-by spammers and the like.

Feel free to send me an email (findable via my HN profile) mentioning that you found it via this thread, and I’m happy to extend an invite.
by xg15 | 2026-03-09 00:48:23+00:00
I can understand it from their perspective, but still don't think it's a good development (same with other exclusionary "safe spaces" for other groups).

Or rather, I'd at least like to know what is the end game here. Have those groups effectively given up any hope of changing the country and mainstream society at large, so the new strategy is now retreating into gated communities while leaving the rest to the Trumps and Musks?
by devonkelley | 2026-03-09 00:48:49+00:00
"This is a state machine, not infrastructure" is exactly right. Everyone overengineers this.

One gap: key health doesn't tell you model health. Your carousel can happily route to a "healthy" key on a model that's returning syntactically valid but semantically garbage output. The failures that actually hurt in prod look like 200 OKs.
by jascination | 2026-03-09 00:48:55+00:00
Deep link now ( https://Deeplinknow.com ) - deferred deep linking for developers / people who dont want their links blocked by adockers because Branch/Appsflyer et al are actually under-the-hood cross platform ad tracking services.

I do no tracking, no analytics, just help you cross the airgap between web and mobile app so you can send users to the right place (and track them however you deem necessary)
by VladVladikoff | 2026-03-09 00:49:48+00:00
For anyone considering this, it's not a good plan to do it this way, if you have any family members relying on these services, you have to kill them all every time you reboot your workstation. It's really not great to mix destop and server like this. (speaking from experiance and I really need to get a separate box setup for this self hosted stuff)
by maldev | 2026-03-09 00:50:18+00:00
I think you're woefully unfamiliar. Toss in a PDF, or even a book. Lets say James Bond, ask if to analyze the dataset for everytime an action happens. Lets say he gets into a fight. Then, have the AI remove those pages. Then ask it to predict when the fight will happen. It's very close.

These arn't logic problems, most of the militaries need is largely data analytics, which AI is very good at with the right harness. Geometry, code, stuff like that is hard and going, but for data analytics? It's very easy, very good, and very cheap. I'm not sure you understand what the killchain details at all.

If you're really passionate, why don't you apply. I'm sure someone with your skillset, expertise and passion could get in and make the difference. Instead you sit here, assuming how it works, with zero experience, trying to map it to geometry and coding, or trick questions. You just show how unknowledgeable you are on the scope of what DoD actually does or how AI is used with the organization.
by conception | 2026-03-09 00:50:26+00:00
More take an episode like Loops from Radiolab where a person’s memory resets back to a specific set of inputs/state and pretty responds the same way over and over again - very much like predicting the next token. Almost all human interaction is reflexive not thoughtful. Even now as you read this and process it, there’s not a lot of thought - but a whole lot of prediction and pattern matching going on.
by ChrisMarshallNY | 2026-03-09 00:51:17+00:00
I'm rewriting a shipping app, that is just over two years old.

This is a "full rewrite," because I need to migrate away from my previous server, which was developed as a high-security, general-purpose application server, and is way overkill for this app.

Migration is likely to take a couple more years, but this is a big first step.

I've rewritten the server, to present a much smaller API. Unfortunately, I'm not yet ready to change the server SQL schema yet, so "behind the curtain" is still pretty hairy. Once the new API and client app are stable, I'll look at the SQL schema. The whole deal is to not interfere with the many users of the app.

I should note that I never would have tried this, without the help of an LLM. It has been invaluable. The development speed is pretty crazy.

Still a lot of work ahead, but the server is done, and I'm a good part of the way through the client communication SDK.
Show HN: The Empty Glass – an interactive visualization of global water access
by idowuinumimo | 2026-03-09 00:51:30+00:00
I built an interactive project called The Empty Glass.

It visualizes access to safely managed drinking water using a single object: a glass.

Users select a country and the glass fills or doesnt, based on the percentage of people with access to safe drinking water.

Instead of charts or maps, the idea was to translate global inequality into a simple physical experience.

Data source: WHO/UNICEF Joint Monitoring Programme.

Curious to hear feedback from the community.
by ACCount37 | 2026-03-09 00:51:38+00:00
Humans do have an upper limit on how much working memory they have. Which I see as the closest thing to the "O(N^2) attention curse" of LLMs.

That doesn't stop an LLM from manipulating its context window to take full advantage of however much context capacity it has. Today's tools like file search and context compression are crude versions of that.
by basilikum | 2026-03-09 00:51:48+00:00
Yeah, unfortunately there are bots here that are much better at hiding that and even do language mistakes on purpose.

It's still a small minority of comments, but it's definitely getting a problem and just the chance — even if it's small one — of talking to a bot, rather than a human causes inhibition. Finding out that one has been talking to a bot is finding out you've been scammed. You invest time and human emotions into something for another human to read, even if it's just a quick HN comment, just to find out that it was all for nothing. It sucks the humanity out of it and thereby out of oneself. You get tricked into spending your valuable limited human social energy on soulless machines with infinite capacity of generating worthless slop instead of on other humans.
by susiecambria | 2026-03-09 00:51:52+00:00
This story and many of the comments illustrate the need for and value of human connection. The Yakult Lady is akin to Men's Sheds and long table events (The Longest Table, Longer Tables). Also on the continuum of connection building is the Friendship Bench.

These are all interesting to me. But of late, I've honed in on the challenge faced by those who are transitioning from one stage of life or circumstance to another. While working and raising a family, work-related activities such as Toastmasters and family-related ones like church or scouts or athletics, may drive participation in groups. But moving from that through a divorce or RIF or retirement may end previous activities and leave a person with no idea what to do next.
by md_ashikur_ayon | 2026-03-09 00:52:08+00:00
Hi HN,

I'm the Co-Founder of a product R&D lab, RareDev. We built SafeShare because we wanted to solve the "Intermediary Trust Paradox." Most "secure" cloud links still give the provider access to the encryption keys. We wanted a tool where the provider is mathematically irrelevant.

The Architecture:
We use client-side encryption via the Web Crypto API. Files are encrypted in the browser before they ever touch our servers. The encryption key stays in the URL fragment (after the #), so it's never sent to the server. Even if our infrastructure were fully compromised, the files remain indecipherable.

What’s New (v1.1.0):
After an initial launch spike in January, we spent the last month focusing on utility and friction:

Encrypted Room Chat: Real-time E2EE chat within the file room.

ZIP Downloads: Multi-file rooms can now be bundled and downloaded as a single ZIP with progress/resume support.

No-Auth UX: No accounts, no tracking, just utility.

Ephemeral by Design: 24h auto-deletion and burn-after-download options.

The Tech Stack:
We optimized for a low footprint and high speed to ensure the decryption feels instant globally. We use a zero-knowledge design and store no personal metadata.

I’d love the community's feedback on the security model, especially regarding our implementation of the Streams API for large file handling. What are we missing?
by fc417fc802 | 2026-03-09 00:53:24+00:00
It's funny (in a really dark way) because every time I've contacted the on-call nurse for my insurance I've been told approximately "I can't comment, you need to head to urgent care or the ER". It seemed less like an on-call nurse and more like an on-call councilor only there to talk down "patients" who didn't actually have any observable symptoms.
by tombert | 2026-03-09 00:54:35+00:00
A few things.

I've been on/off working on a Forth compiler for the NES. It will be open source soon enough but I'm not happy with the code right now as it's extremely messy, repetitive, and buggy, but I think it's turning out ok. I am resisting the urge to use Claude to do all the work for me, since that's depressing.

I've also been working on a clone of the old podcasting website TalkShoe. It's nothing too complicated. It's mostly an excuse to learn a bit more about Asterisk and telephony stuff. I'm hoping to have something fully usable in about a month or two.

I forked the main MiSTer binary due to some disagreements I had with Sorg in how he's running things [1]. My fork was largely done by Codex and Claude, but the tl;dr of it is that it has automatic backup of your saves, tagging and versioning of your saves, and it abuses the hell out of SQLite to give better guarantees of write safety than the vanilla MiSTer binary gives you. I've been using it for a few weeks now and it seems to work fine, and it's neat to be able to tag and version saves.

I think that's mostly it. I'm always hacking on something so there might be a straggler there.

[1] https://github.com/Tombert/Main_MiSSus/blob/master/README.md
by awesome_dude | 2026-03-09 00:54:42+00:00
The Australians are currently pointing to diesel reserves or on hand in the farms is quite low, suggesting that mechanised cropping/transport of farm products is going to provide a pinch point.

I have no idea if the reports are accurate, or an attempt to put the market into readiness for inflation.

edit: Whether real or imagined, there is panic buying of petrol happening - this could lead to supply issues by itself.

https://www.reddit.com/r/australia/comments/1rohwzl/fuel_pan...
by berlinquin | 2026-03-09 00:54:46+00:00
Fun project! I had a similar project a while back, but my medium of choice was the Uno card game. I called it UnoScript [1] and it had similar mechanisms as color was an important factor. I also ended with a stack as the main part of the language, where different colors/combinations of cards could read from/modify the stack. Interesting how similar constraints can lead to some similar design choices!

[1](https://github.com/berlinquin/UnoScript)
by stavros | 2026-03-09 00:54:57+00:00
I made my own AI personal assistant:

https://github.com/skorokithakis/stavrobot

It's like OpenClaw but actually secure, without access to secrets, with scoped plugin permissions, isolation, etc. I love it, it's been extremely helpful, and pairs really well with a little hardware voice note device I made:

https://www.stavros.io/posts/i-made-a-voice-note-taker/
by ryoung | 2026-03-09 00:54:58+00:00
https://fitcal.app syncs Strava activities to your Google calendar. No fancy features, just does what it says on the tin. Really fun to build out with elixir + phoenix.

When training I like to have every day mapped out with how many miles to run, at what pace, etc as an event in my calendar. My actual workout gets uploaded into Garmin and Strava, but I always wanted it back in the calendar so I could see at a glance the consistency over time. It's been really fun to see other people use and get value out of something I built for myself.
by kukkeliskuu | 2026-03-09 00:55:06+00:00
usm.tools https://usm.tools/public/landing/ - platform that allows defining services (the organizational kind) as data, allowing different stakeholders differemt views on them. For instance somebody participating in a service delivery can see how they contribute to it

Arch Asxent https://github.com/mikko-ahonen/arch-ascent - tool for analyzing large microservice networks with hundres of microservices and creating architectural vision for them, and steps to reach the vision
by jmward01 | 2026-03-09 00:55:17+00:00
Proof of <insert here> seems to be a growing concept. I just wrote and erased a post because half way through I decided to go down a rabbit hole. Long story short it seems like Privacy-Preserving Reputation Systems is a thing. Maybe tech savvy sites like HN could start pioneering using them to drive adoption more widely? This is sort of like encrypted email and other tech areas. It takes adopters pushing things to get the general public to use them. If sites like HN agreed to make them available could that start a real trend?
by jleyank | 2026-03-09 00:55:24+00:00
I wouldn't call Canada "highly liberal" unless you're starting from a rather conservative bias. Having lived in both countries, there's a lot to be said for not having to scramble for health insurance when you don't have good, full-time employment. It's would say it's quieter, less-exciting, and that's probably a good thing particularly when trying to raise a family.

If you have such a bias, maybe Alberta would be tolerable but I doubt it. If you're from the coastal portions of the US, Canada would be quite reasonable.
by anonym00se1 | 2026-03-09 00:55:51+00:00
I saw a CFMT PT and they addressed two things for me:

1. Laterally sheared and rotated vertebrae in my neck that were causing compression and tension on nerves in my neck

2. Elevated first rib, which was also compressing and tensioning the nerves.

I was incredibly skeptical that PT would fix it even though I was sure it was related to my neck/shoulder. After a few sessions of working to push my first rib back down to where it was supposed to be and also press (quite hard) on my neck vertebrae to move them back into a normal position, the tinnitus went from a 5/10 to a 2/10.

The problem I had was getting the rib and vertebrae to stay put. They would, as a result of lifting things or sleeping funny, slowly start to revert to their original positions causing the tinnitus to get louder again. The PT gave me several exercises to help strengthen muscles to keep everything in place.
by antoineMoPa | 2026-03-09 00:56:20+00:00
Training a tiny LLM for fun using Rust/Candle - I constantly tweak stuff and keep track of results in a spreadsheet and work on generating a bigger corpus with LLMs. It's a project for fun, so I don't care about finding actual human generated text, I'd rather craft data in the format I want using LLMs - Probably not the best practice, but I can sleep properly despite doing that.

My favorite output so far is that I asked it what life was and in a random stroke of genius, it answered plainly: "It is.".

It's able to answer simple questions where the answer is in the question with up to 75% accuracy. Example success: 'The car was red. Q: What was red? ' |> 'the car' - Example failure: 'The stars twinkled at night. Q: What twinkled at night? ' |> 'the night'.

So nothing crazy, but I'm learning and having fun. My current corpus is ~17mb of stories, generated encyclopedia content, json examples, etc. JSON content is new from this weekend and the model is pretty bad at it so far, but I'm curious to see if I can get it somewhere interesting in the next few weeks.

https://github.com/antoineMoPa/rust-text-experiments
by philajan | 2026-03-09 00:56:25+00:00
I've been working on an app to track my son's 1000 books before kindergarten. I've also added QOL features like barcode scanning for adding books to the library and creating a rotation based on the last time the book was read and whether I actually enjoy reading it. (The books I don't like make it through the rotation just with less frequency.)

This was an excuse to ship a mobile app for the first time and get familiar with supabase.

After these last few bugs are fixed, its ready for a semi-public TestFlight with our friends who have kids.
by throwaway81523 | 2026-03-09 00:56:56+00:00
It's a much less fancy cpu that's very small. No wireless. Lower powered I would expect. But it's an MCU with something like 16KB of flash and 2KB of ram if I remember right. The analog stuff on it is supposed to be pretty good. The Anduril flashlight firmware (toykeeper.net/anduril) is a somewhat popular application that can run on it.
by Invictus0 | 2026-03-09 00:57:07+00:00
For me, this is the smoking gun:

> Our confidential sources tell us the still classified weapon has been tested in a U.S. military lab for more than a year. Tests on rats and sheep show injuries consistent with those seen in humans. Also, as a separate part of the investigation, security camera videos have been collected that show Americans being hit. The videos are classified but they were described to us. In one, a camera in a restaurant in Istanbul captured two FBI agents on vacation sitting at a table with their families. A man with a backpack walks in and suddenly everyone at the table grabs their head as if in pain. Our sources say another video comes from a stairwell in the U.S. embassy in Vienna. The stairs lead to a secure facility. In the video, two people on the stairs suddenly collapse.
Building deterministic systems on top of probabilistic models
by rchaudhary26 | 2026-03-09 00:57:54+00:00
I spent the last decade in public markets deploying ~$1B in capital. One thing that always struck me: a surprising amount of core market infrastructure still runs on manual work.

Critical workflows start from messy source information that has to be interpreted, cleaned, and reconciled before it becomes usable. Entire teams exist just to bridge that gap.

A small group of engineers and domain practitioners started building Auxage to see if this could be solved with a different architecture.

So far we’re generating human-analyst–grade outputs across the S&P 500 with ~99% accuracy, already outperforming tools like Claude and several large incumbents on this workflow.

Interestingly, the hard part hasn’t been model capability — it’s data architecture and system design.

Curious if others here have worked on systems that turn messy real-world information into reliable, high-accuracy infrastructure.
If helpful, happy to share more about what we're building at Auxage.
by perching_aix | 2026-03-09 00:58:07+00:00
> yeah definitely not

I don't know about ants, but after a refresher on the industry favorite fruit fly, I'd be hard pressed to be so dismissive - 200K seems to be plenty: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47302051

I inspire you to look up what is known about fruit flies' behavior.

The reason it's probably nevertheless not as messed up as people might assume it to be is specifically because it's an organoid, not an actual brain. Which is to say, it has the numbers but not the performance, not by a long shot.

> Surely it makes no difference

It absolutely should, but then with organoids, again it might not. Ironically, I would also expect this to be a bigger issue with smaller animals' cells. The size of the organoid will be closer to the real thing comparatively, after all.
by Kye | 2026-03-09 00:58:15+00:00
It's not gated. I can still talk to people fully in the Blacksky stack and interact with their public posts.

The usual pattern is like that Alex Norris comic:

"you do not fit in here"

"okay we will make our own place"

"why are you excluding us"

"oh no"

Except here they can stay connected with the broader Atmosphere but engage on their own terms.
by famouswaffles | 2026-03-09 00:58:39+00:00
Next-token prediction is just the training objective. I could describe your reply to me as “next-word prediction” too, since the words necessarily come out one after another. But that framing is trivial. It tells you what the system is being optimized to do, not how it actually does it.

Model training can be summed up as 'This what you have to do (objective), figure it out. Well here's a little skeleton that might help you out (architecture)'.

We spend millions of dollars and months training these frontier models precisely because the training process figures out numerous things we don't know or understand. Every day, Large Language Models, in service of their reply, in service of 'predicting the next token', perform sophisticated internal procedures far more complex than anything any human has come up with or possesses knowledge of. So for someone to say that they 'know how the models work under the hood', well it's all very silly. You don't.
by skrig | 2026-03-09 00:58:59+00:00
We're building a new CRM from the ground up. We've helped a handful of companies and non-profits set up CRMs and it's amazing how bad existing CRMs are. It's like they don't understand what common day to day tasks need to be made as easy as possible.

We're also trying to use AI more thoughtfully than just bolting on a chatbot. We're planning to consider each workflow our customers need and how AI might help speed them up - even letting them build custom AI workflows. I think most businesses (especially smaller businesses) don't want to work at the level of Claude Code, Codex, etc. They want to work on higher level problems - build this dashboard, connect these data sources, invoice this customer, etc.

Aside from that, we've noticed that the basics really matter, so we're trying to nail that first.

We're definitely a bit delusional, we're just 3 people, we're doing it without funding and the competition is stiff, but we really believe in the product. Additionally, I think a lot of CRMs go south by taking on too much VC that naturally pushes them to prioritize ROI instead of continually improving the product.
by stephen_g | 2026-03-09 01:00:15+00:00
We are vulnerable in Australia though because we have to move food large distances from farms to cities and are unusually road-dependent for those kind of distances (most countries use much more freight rail). Large diesel price rises are going to be extremely painful for us.

And electricity and manufacturing too, since we have no real gas reservation policy and the exporters were allowed to build enough capacity to export basically every single joule of gas that we produce (and they pay a fraction of the royalties that countries like Qatar rake in). So locals and local businesses pay very high prices so the gas companies can export most of our supply overseas...
by delichon | 2026-03-09 01:00:21+00:00
“The underlying model that brings Grok to life is a voice-to-voice model which understands the expressive range of human speech... The model is able to do this because of how it internally, within a single model, processes speech (including paralinguistic cues) and generates expressive speech output.” https://blog.livekit.io/xai-livekit-partnership-grok-voice-agent-api/