MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by bitshiftfaced | 2026-03-09 14:05:34+00:00
Similarly, the Tango variety is becoming more commercially available. It has a zipper peel, seedless, and outstanding flavor. It's usually marketed as "Mandarin", though. You kind of have to know what it looks like to be able to tell what's a clementine or not.

Others to watch out for are Gold Nugget (my favorite, but I very rarely see them at the store), and I also saw Kishu at the grocery store for the first time this year.
by wiseowise | 2026-03-09 14:05:45+00:00
> The customers clearly don't want this bloat, companies clearly shouldn't want it either

Both of these statements are false. If this was really the case, then competing company/dev could implement native counterpart and just siphon all the users – I've only seen this happen with CLI tools (e.g. esbuild, rollup, uv, etc.)
by gruez | 2026-03-09 14:05:48+00:00
>Isn't this like telling the world you ate a full meal by eating samples at Costco?

The analogy fails because free samples cost costco (or whatever the vendor is) money. Raking Meta over the coals for using ffmpeg instead of paying for some proprietary makes as much sense as raking every tech company over the coals for using Linux. Or maybe you'd do that too, I can't tell.
by joergmichno | 2026-03-09 14:06:01+00:00
Fair point — and one I thought about carefully before open-sourcing.

A few reasons why I think open patterns are actually the right call:

1. The patterns are already public. Most prompt injection techniques are documented on GitHub, in research papers, and on sites like jailbreakchat. Attackers don't need my regex list — they already have the playbook.

2. Security through obscurity doesn't work for defense. History (from antivirus to WAFs to OWASP) shows that open detection rules get more eyes, more contributions, and faster updates than closed ones. Snort, ModSecurity, YARA — all open, all industry standard.

3. The real threat isn't regex bypass. If an attacker is sophisticated enough to craft novel prompts that evade pattern matching, they'll also evade most LLM-based detectors. The answer for that 20% is layered defense (output filtering, sandboxing, least-privilege), not secret patterns.

4. Open source = trust. Enterprise customers want to audit what's running in their pipeline. "Trust us, it's secret" is a harder sell than "here are the exact 42 patterns, verify them yourself."

That said — the paid Shield API does include additional detection layers beyond the open-source patterns, specifically for this reason.
by psychoslave | 2026-03-09 14:06:01+00:00
>This is the VHS-versus-Betamax dynamic, or TCP/IP versus the OSI model, or QWERTY versus every ergonomic alternative proposed since 1936.

QWERTY has many variants, and every single geopolitical institution have their own odious anti-ergonomic layout, it seems. So this case is somehow different to my mind. As a French native, I use Bépo.
by mattv8 | 2026-03-09 14:06:10+00:00
Had to dig to find this but back in 2009 I was bored so I made a font based of my handwriting. I had a Wacom tablet and used this font creator- I'm pretty sure it was called Fontographer. Anyways it's still floating around the Internet: https://fontmeme.com/fonts/mattfont-font/
by blef | 2026-03-09 14:06:12+00:00
I'm working most of my time on nao [1] (an open-source analytics agent).

With nao we are exploring the fact that agents are good to work with filesystems, so we help people getting the context into the filesystem and then you can plug our agent loop on top (on anything else).

The most exciting part is working with sandboxes and emulating filesystems. So at the moment the filesystem is local, but it could be a bucket or a database that we emulate as real filesystem for the agentic loop, all of this can also be mounted to sandboxes, and in the end you can do data transformations all in isolation with control on the context.

[1] https://github.com/getnao/nao
by mghackerlady | 2026-03-09 14:06:15+00:00
I know nothing about the inner workings of a large scale AI datacenter but I'd imagine the power and cooling requirements are more specialised than your average datacenter that mostly has to handle transmitting large amounts of data over the internet (not that that isn't computationally expensive, I just imagine LLMs (especially at the current scale of their deployment) are much more demanding)
by voxleone | 2026-03-09 14:06:50+00:00
One interesting way to look at projects like this is that they’re essentially tiny universes defined by a functional update rule.

The grid + instruction set + step function form something like:

state(t+1) = F(state(t))

Once you have that, you get the same ingredients that appear in many artificial life systems: local interactions; persistence of information (program code); mutation/recombination; selection via replication efficiency. And suddenly you get emergent “organisms”. What’s interesting is that this structure isn’t unique to artificial life simulations. Functional Universe, a concept framework [0], models all physical evolution in essentially the same way: the universe as a functional state transition system where complex structure emerges from repeated application of simple transformations.

From that perspective these kinds of experiments aren’t just toys; they’re basically toy universes with slightly different laws. Artificial life systems then become a kind of laboratory for exploring how information maintains itself across transformations; how replication emerges; why efficient replicators tend to dominate the state space. Which is exactly the phenomenon visible in the GIF from the repo: eventually one replicator outcompetes the rest.

It’s fascinating because the same abstract structure appears in very different places: cellular automata, genetic programming, digital evolution systems like Avida, and even some theoretical models of physics.

In all cases the core pattern is the same: simple local rules + iterative functional updates → emergent complexity. This repo is a nice reminder that you don’t need thousands of lines of code to start seeing that happen.

[0] https://voxleone.github.io/FunctionalUniverse/
by Aurornis | 2026-03-09 14:07:52+00:00
How is it not different? These aren’t remote oil fields. The workers could commute to the data centers if they didn’t want to stay at temporary housing.

The article and the one it links to say that the temporary housing is a perk that they’re offering to try to entice workers. It includes gyms, nice food, and activities like golf.

The comparison above to bad oil fields in Canada is arbitrary. Not all temporary housing must be like oil field accommodations in remote Canadian oil fields.
by jmull | 2026-03-09 14:07:52+00:00
The precedents around TOS law is so clearly and obviously wrong.

Here, the court applied an “objective-reasonableness standard” to find there was “unambiguously manifested assent”.

Which could only be true if we give new, contrarian definitions to the words “objective”, “reasonableness”, “unambiguously” and “assent”.

What’s actually happening here is companies have been given the power to write arbitrary, custom laws defining their liability and responsibilities to their customers. It’s a bad situation because it’s not possible for people to actually know what the deal is. It’s not even that good for the companies in the long run, because they all end up coming off as used car salesmen

You win a case, but now Tile/Amazon === sleazy.

When your product is tracking locations there’s a trust barrier you need to overcome. How much would you trust Tile (Amazon) now?
by devonkelley | 2026-03-09 14:07:59+00:00
This is basically "write good specs and you get good output" which has been true of every engineering process in history. The LLM-specific version of the problem is that when the spec is ambiguous the model will confidently pick an interpretation and run with it instead of asking. Human juniors at least sometimes say "wait, which one did you mean?" That missing feedback loop is where most agent failures actually start.
by spiderfarmer | 2026-03-09 14:08:01+00:00
Stubb is a realist. He says the rules based world order is gone. We have to hurry and learn how to deal with dictators, because the US is becoming a dictatorship real quick. And that EU countries will have to unite in order to be able to negotiate from a position of strength. It's the only way to survive while staying true to our values (internally).
by bob1029 | 2026-03-09 14:08:13+00:00
We can slow the propagation speed and increase population size. Another option is to use a metric like hamming distance over the programs to determine if two neighbors should even be allowed to interact.

If we can come up with an accurate per-candidate fitness metric, there are techniques like fitness niching that can be much more accurate & flexible. Only allowing candidates within a certain range of performance to interact is one of the most powerful knobs you can turn for controlling convergence speed. Adjusting the niche radius over time is trivial.
by pron | 2026-03-09 14:08:27+00:00
> This is the VHS-versus-Betamax dynamic, or TCP/IP versus the OSI model, or QWERTY versus every ergonomic alternative proposed since 1936. The technically superior solution loses to the solution that’s easier to deploy, easier to hire for, and good enough for the use cases that pay the bills.

Without commenting on the merit of the claims, the problem with this statement is that in many cases there is no universal "technical superiority", only tradeoffs. E.g. Betamax was technically superior in picture quality while VHS was technically superior in recording time, and more people preferred the latter technical superiority. When people say that the techinically superior approach lost in favour of convenience, what really happened is that their own personal technical preferences were in the minority. More people preferred an alternative that wasn't just "good enough" but technically better, only on a different axis.

Even if we suppose the author is right that his preferred approach yields better outputs, he acknowledges that constructing good inputs is harder. That's not technical superiority; it's a different tradeoff.
by pseudohadamard | 2026-03-09 14:08:54+00:00
This has always been the US way of doing things, going back to at least WWII: Get to Berlin, kill Hitler if required, and after that, uh, yeah, we'll get back to you on that. This is why things mostly kept going under continuous carpet bombing but fell apart completely once the bombing stopped and the administration was decapitated with noting to replace it.

The US then repeated the mistake in Iraq, take a population of 45 million, with most males having military training and a large percentage of the population dependent on government jobs and/or handouts, then remove the government. Who could possibly have predicted what would happen next?

And now they're doing it again in Iran.
by sublinear | 2026-03-09 14:08:59+00:00
> this really was the white whale translation of the Dreamcast library, there was a lot riding on this project

I don't understand... what is riding on this?

I have never heard of this game, but based on this blog post I can see why it's a "white whale". It's precisely why I don't think this was a good use of AI at all.
by bryanlarsen | 2026-03-09 14:09:11+00:00
Steelman: in the 2000's and 2010's China did not know if wind power and solar were viable in the long term. They put a lot of money in wind & solar, but also lots of alternatives: nuclear, coal, hydro, geothermal.

By 2020 it was obvious that wind & solar were viable long term, so investments in nuclear et al dried up. But they weren't convinced that batteries were viable long term, so they built a lot of coal peakers for night power.

By 2025 it became obvious that batteries were more viable and cheaper than coal peakers, so they've started to build battery storage at a vast scale.

So steelman is that the OP's viewpoint is ~10 years out of date.
by heyitsdaad | 2026-03-09 14:09:19+00:00
That’s too young to get married. You never learned to be alone.

Embrace the fact that this is an opportunity: The wall is now empty, you can draw anything you want!

Focus on yourself : Read books, go to gym, eat healthy/cook

To socialize : meetup or equivalent, sports with people/hike

Do not date. Do not get on apps. Do not hook up.

Minimize drinking.

Read psychology and philosophy. Do not read self improvement books.

Give yourself time, it fixes everything.

Once you are happy with the person you have become (i.e. you look back at this post and realize you are at a higher level of consciousness) you can date.
by blensor | 2026-03-09 14:09:32+00:00
I did not expect HN to become this geopolitical.

And are you sure about your claim? Every time I hear anything about China and Solar the core of it is that solar in China is growing more than anywhere else on the planet ( 40% increase in 2025 and creating ~11% of China's energy already )

And that there is no sign of that trend slowing down anytime soon. And why would it. Solar panels are dirt cheap and they have more than enough space for it.

China is also really strong in the battery space, so they have everything they need to ditch oil/coal eventually
by abound | 2026-03-09 14:10:04+00:00
I already posted in this thread, but then I remembered a few months ago I had posted about my ISP + web host project. [1]

Since then, I configured all the hardware (switches, router, server, bastion host, etc), put it in a real colo, and am doing BGP with one upstream (with a second upstream and some peers on the way). This means I'm officially part of the internet! E.g. https://bgp.tools/as/55078

I'm just working on some BGP and network hardening stuff, then I'll start putting real live services on the server. And in parallel, I'm working on getting the link from my home to the colo active, so I can be my own home internet provider.

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45870010
by adolph | 2026-03-09 14:10:10+00:00
This style of camp was popularized as housing for men working in remote oil
fields.

Its kinda weird to not see temporary workforce housing as some recent phenomena, especially given a recent TV show (I havn't watched it) about a particular railroad construction camp. Work that occurs in remote places requires holistic logistics for the workforce, similar to expeditionary warfare.

Hell on Wheels is an American Western television series about the
construction of the first transcontinental railroad across the United States
[...]
chronicles the Union Pacific Railroad and its laborers, mercenaries,
prostitutes, surveyors, and others who lived, worked, and died in the mobile
encampment, called "Hell on Wheels", that followed the railhead west across
the Great Plains.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hell_on_Wheels_(TV_series)
by dr_zoidberg | 2026-03-09 14:10:14+00:00
Your suspicion could have easily been cleared by reading the paper.

If you're short on time: the paper reads a bit dry, but falls in the norm for academic writing. The github repo shows work over months on 2024 (leading up to the release of 3.13) and some rush on Dec 2025 to Jan 2026, probably to wrap things up on the release of this paper. All commits on the repo are from the author, but I didn't look through the code to inspect if there was some Copilot intervention.

[0] https://github.com/Joseda8/profiler
by rbanffy | 2026-03-09 14:10:29+00:00
> far worse because of how monopolies inevitably stagnate

Unregulated monopolies do, but regulated ones can be forced to innovate, both according to a plan, or through a process that internalises competition at the places where impact would be maximised (instead of multiple groups arriving at the same solution in secrecy, multiple groups exploring different possibilities while communicating between them and coordinating their efforts to avoid duplication).
by ianhawes | 2026-03-09 14:11:04+00:00
> Meta is the sole reason PHP is still alive.

This could not be more wrong. Meta is still using PHP AFAIK but I'm not sure it's modern. They created the Hack programming language ~10 years ago but it doesn't look like it's been updated in several years. Most of the improvements they touted were included in PHP 7 years ago.
by maliker | 2026-03-09 14:11:12+00:00
I'll play slight devil's advocate. The buttons in the toolbar are duplicative of the options in the menubar, and I don't want to learn 2 locations for every feature. You can't turn off the menubar items, so I end up turning off the toolbar. So I don't care what that part of the UI looks like, and the sidebar for formatting they added, as pointed out in the article, uses the horizontal space on screens better than options stretched out over the full width of the menu.

Now the visibility of the liquid glass stuff, that is definitely a problem. Can't recognize a UI element if it's constantly rendered differently and with very little contrast with the background elements.

Well, I guess someone is going to vibecode a decent Linux GUI or fix the driver pains there or something and we'll be free of this. Because Microsoft/Apple and to a lesser extent Google have jumped the shark with their UI these days.
by johncolanduoni | 2026-03-09 14:11:16+00:00
Considering nobody blocks the entirety of Verizon, apparently a long time. You can act like this is some insane plan, but it’s happening all the time and while it can lead to annoyance for end users the internet chugs on. Which it wouldn’t if there was no way to mitigate DDoS other than rate limits.
by nick-sta | 2026-03-09 14:11:42+00:00
I'm working on a project for deploying containerized workloads across your own servers, but with great dx from starting on a $5 server to migrating/scaling to 200 servers (no downtime required for any migrations).
think coolify, but with railway dx and no single server limitations.

there's no control plane, each node is equal and eventually consistant and its (so far) end to end rust so a very minimal footprint per node.
by cellUtils | 2026-03-09 14:11:48+00:00
I have been having a great time using Astro with https://github.com/lucernae/astro-blog-template . Looks modern and minimal, but not too minimal which i despise. On the technical side of things, Static Site Generation is perfect for small blogs, so after some tweaks I got its loading times down to milliseconds! Here's the blog I came up with: https://blog.cellutils.com/
by triceratops | 2026-03-09 14:12:05+00:00
It isn't "past guilt". That CO2 hasn't gone anywhere. It's warming our world today. That's what's affecting our children's future.

If you don't want to "talk about historic emissions" then there's no point talking about China or India's emissions yesterday either. Or the day before that. Hell leave out the last 5 minutes too. Just talk about each instant.

That's clearly idiotic but it's the obvious conclusion if we accept your premise that "historic emissions" don't matter. Today's emissions are tomorrow's "historic emissions" and all historic emissions warm the planet equally.
by stinkbeetle | 2026-03-09 14:12:21+00:00
Is it your contention that the rest of the world has solved the case of terms of service? That the alleged solution is restricting possible clauses to those OP enumerated? Or that USA does not have any limits or regulations around fairness in contract law? I'm fascinated.

> This is one of these cases like gun crime where:

This is going off topic but I don't think that's going to go anywhere interesting, so why not...

> USA: There is no solution!

> Rest of world: slightly embarrassed look

Well presumably not the 20 odd countries with higher gun homicide rate than USA, but sure. One that did used to be counted among those ranks was El Salvador. El Salvador used to top the list just a decade ago and it was not even close! Today it's around par with New Zealand. Amazing! That is perhaps the most recent and dramatic case of a solution to gun crime being found. You are right that rest of the world is indeed embarrassed about that for some reason. You would have thought everybody would be overjoyed, praising it, looking to emulate it, all the self-proclaimed "experts" admitting they were wrong... but no. It's strange, everybody just has this slightly embarrassed look about it.

On the other hand, if the goal is to restrict the peoples' access to firearms, the solution to that in most other countries was not constitutional violations by their governments of course. So presumably the same solution for that in USA would be to amend the constitution so that such firearms restrictions could be implemented. Also very obvious. I strangely have not heard of any serious efforts by mainstream political parties toward this solution though. I can see there would be second hand embarrassment for them for not seeing the obvious solution to what they want.
by vel0city | 2026-03-09 14:12:26+00:00
> I'd imagine the power and cooling requirements are more specialised than your average datacenter

But are they actually doing things differently than the high compute parts of the hyperscaled datacenters? Are there radical new ways of distributing heat in the datacenter that only makes sense at that level of energy usage per square foot? Is AI energy use that much higher per square foot of other high-compute parts of datacenters, or is it just that its now something like 90% of the floor plan versus maybe only 50-60%?

> handle transmitting large amounts of data over the internet

I certainly can't speak for all datacenters, and I've never been in a hyperscaler datacenter. But of all the datacenters I've spent time in, the space for the outside network connectivity was rather small compared to the rest of the space for storage and compute. Think a few small office suites dedicated to outside networks coming in and connecting to the clients in the datacenter compared to a medium to large sized warehouse full of compute and storage.
by kakacik | 2026-03-09 14:12:27+00:00
Yeah especially 38 approaches the barrier (or crossed, depends on genes and previous lifestyle) when body changes for the worse. Weaker, builds strength slower, regeneration takes longer, injuries come easier. Very bad and outright dangerous advice that scare away more people than actually help.

I'd say start with 2x a week, and 2 very important points - start gently since by description body isn't used to working out so it may take many weeks for it to grow connective tissue to handle new load; and start with a coach who will not push you like many love to do, but give you a gradual introduction and help avoid beginner's mistakes and injuries.

The main point is to not make every workout a hated chore that must be done, since such motivation won't last very long and subconsciousness will easily find ways to start avoiding that. Everybody I knew that subscribed to such regime from 0 and wanted to be pushed hard gave up in few months. Such a mindset is reserved further down the line, for specific types of personalities and not an universally good approach.

Once some form of affinity if not outright love for workouts and feeling/effects after forms, and routine sets in, find other sports. Don't just do gym mindlessly every day unless that's the only choice of activity... its rather sad use of all that gained potential when there are so many better, more fun & rewarding activities. Do group sports if you like them (I personally don't), and/or join groups of people doing such activities (ie hiking club must be almost everywhere, its such a basic and great thing).

Some 15 years ago I started ie organizing climbing sessions out of loneliness in similar situation as yours and amount of friends and women that entered my life in short period was non-trivial. Thats further down the line, but just a group similarly-minded people are already a massive boost. Be yourself, find your new hobbies or better passions, and this hard period will be over.

Do NOT spend most of your free time in front of screen, playing games or other rather toxic activities. They will make all negative things worse since its a very lonely hobby despite being in contact with many folks (multiplayer, singleplayer is even worse).