MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by genxy | 2026-03-08 07:05:15+00:00
That was an interesting read on Jim Bell.

https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2026/03/at-largest-ice-...

> Staff at the nation’s largest Immigration and Customs Enforcement detention facility have placed bets on which detainee will be the next to die by suicide, according to new reporting from the Associated Press based on 911 calls and detainee accounts.

> Owen Ramsingh, a legal permanent resident who spent several weeks at the Camp East Montana detention facility in Texas, told AP that he overheard a security guard talking about a betting pool for which detainee would next die by suicide. The guard said he had paid $500 into the pot, which would all go to the winner with the most accurate predictions on detainees harming themselves.
Show HN: Malicious Extension Sentry: database of removed Chrome/Edge extensions
by toborrm9 | 2026-03-08 07:05:28+00:00
I noticed there wasn't a maintained, verified list of malicious Chrome/Edge extensions, only behavioral scanners with high false positive rates.
So I built one.
The database only includes extensions with clear removal signals: official store removals or researcher reports that led to action. No behavioral guesswork.

Live dashboard (daily updates): https://malext.toborrm.com

GitHub + database: https://github.com/toborrm9/malicious_extension_sentry

Browser extension: https://chromewebstore.google.com/detail/malext-sentry/bpohi...
by frm88 | 2026-03-08 07:06:41+00:00
I completely agree. Tchaikovsky's at his best in the standalone novels, sci-fi or otherwise - I feel that his series are written with an eye to generate a long lasting income whereas his standalones are where he explores new ideas,which makes the vastly more interesting to me. Cage of Souls, Alien Clay and Service Model are some of his finest.
by lucumo | 2026-03-08 07:07:14+00:00
I think that's Gemini trying to personalize the answer specifically for you. It really leans heavily into that to the point of being galling.

You can give it additional instructions in the settings, but you have to be careful with that too. I've put my tech stack and code preferences in there to get better code examples. A while later I asked it about binary executable formats and it started ending every answer with "but the JVM and v8 take care of that for you."

Which is both funny in an "I, Robot" kind of way, and irritating. So I told it to ignore my tech stack. I have a master's in CS and can handle a bit of technical detail.

Turns out, Gemini learned sarcasm. Every following answer in that thread got a paragraph that started with something like "But for your master brain, this means..."
by watwut | 2026-03-08 07:09:02+00:00
USA attacked Iran for no reason, because it was weak and Israel + probably saudi wanted so. It wont stop there either, it will go on to Cuba, Greenland and Canada. Meanwhile, Europe will become unstable due to new waves of refugees and expanding Russia.

USA dispatching strikes at will based on incoherent reasons, is just another reason why everyone needs nukes now. And they need them before they are an active target, because yes, it takes years.

And no, it is not about Iran being evil. Trump does not care about that at all. He even wanted to keep the regime as is (to the extend there was a vague concept of a maybe plan).

> Remain steadfast in our pursuit of diplomatic and economic ties. Make the world too complex and intertwined to make invasions practical.

That made everyone vulnerable to Trump.
by asplake | 2026-03-08 07:12:58+00:00
I suffered a highly unpleasant vertigo attack yesterday - happens every once in a while. Tinnitus was the warning, and I was definitely over-tired beforehand.

After an ear infection 30 years ago I lost most hearing in my left ear and my balance was affected. Not a massive problem most of the time but I regret not being able to read when travelling, even by plane or train. It’s audiobooks all the way…
by vunderba | 2026-03-08 07:15:10+00:00
I took the time to bring down the repo and compile it because I grew up playing SkyRoads on an old 486 DOS machine when I was a kid so I'm intimately familiar with the subtle details of the game (the weird bouncy physics of the hovercraft, the speed of the game, etc).

At this time, this project DOESN'T really work. At all. I mean it's totally unplayable. Within 5 seconds of starting the game, the vehicle was literally teleporting all over the place.

So it's a very cool proof-of-concept, but I'd be more in interested in a repost when Codex is finished.

Video of the current state:

https://imgur.com/a/R3A6Xse
by Dylan16807 | 2026-03-08 07:15:59+00:00
What are you even calling a lie? (not the campaign promises, the recent statements) The claims are something like this, right?: 1. Israel decided to attack 2. The US thought about how that would play out. 3. The US decided to attack too.

Which of those claims is untrue? Is there a claim I missed?

"The US could have snitched to Iran" does not contradict any of those claims.

Also I'm not convinced that warning Iran would have made things much safer for US troops. And you can say what you want about what the US priorities should be, but that's a whole different discussion.
by LargoLasskhyfv | 2026-03-08 07:16:08+00:00
You know? Since about 1980 I did wheelies too, on my road bicycle. And up to 70kph on flat grounds for up to two minutes. Then having to go down to 55 to 60, which I could hold up for an hour, depending on weather, fitness (varying). No helmet, ever.

Also no broken bones, or having caused others to crash. Annoyances maybe, but such is youth :-)

I'm of the opinion that this "disaster waiting to happen" thinking is a disaster by itself. I may concede that some of these kids are too reckless too often to be good for them, because e-bikes make it too easy to go that fast, without having developed the ability to handle these speeds safely first, or knowing where not to(sharp curves, rain, wet leafs, sand, fine gravel, etc(Did I mention I rode iced roads in winter?)).

But in principle the ride is getting more stable at higher speeds, because gyroscopically stabilized by the spinning wheels.

I see it as a darwinian filter of fitness. Sieving out stupid. Just like that.

If you don't give youth the chance to navigate that, there will be more and more unfit.

No amount of laws will change that.
by kennywinker | 2026-03-08 07:16:15+00:00
Are they working on building tech that is being used for weapons or mass surveilance? Like yes Microsoft has contracts with israel, but their entire business is not centered around those contracts. If you help build a better ai for openai, it will be used for war and control. If you help build a better version of one of the 10,000 things microsoft makes, that’s not definitely going to be used for war and control.

Not to get all historical on you, but if you worked for IBM in the 1930s-1940s you may have worked on something that was used to perpitrate a holocaust. Was that ethical? I don’t think so.

That said, it’s very easy to abstract yourself away from the harm. To tell yourself you’re not the one who builds the landmines, you just maintain the coffee machine at the landmine factory. But that’s just lying to yourself. An honest and deep appraisal of what you’re work is helping make happen is required to decide if your job is ethical or not.
Show HN: Curiosity – DIY 6" Newtonian Reflector Telescope
by big_Brain69 | 2026-03-08 07:16:15+00:00
A DIY Newtonian reflector telescope with dobsonian mount. A fun to do hobby project taking us closer to the moon and beyond. A lot of plans ahead on how to make it much better and portable but this was the first time me and my friend implemented or rather built a telescope.

Have a look at what all we have captured.
Need Help: Promoting indie AI image edit platform VAKPixel
by krishna-vakx | 2026-03-08 07:19:22+00:00
Hi guys,

I am currently working on my indie AI art studio VAKPixel, which provides AI image generation and edits based on Nano Banana and GPT image.

As for the technical purposes, I don't have any problem, but as with almost all of the platforms, the distribution is the key and I find it most difficult part.

Let me know if you guys have any suggestions. Thanks! Cheers!
by UkieLab | 2026-03-08 07:19:44+00:00
I built a prototype of what I call an AI-First Display a display device designed to be used directly by AI agents.

Instead of connecting through HDMI, drivers, or an OS UI stack, the device exposes a simple network interface that allows an AI agent to:

• discover the device
• read its capabilities (resolution, refresh time, format)
• send visual content directly

The idea is that AI should be able to find and use displays the same way it uses APIs, without apps, dashboards, or manual configuration.

The prototype uses an ESP32 and an e-ink display and acts as a self-describing device on the network.
https://github.com/BatsIhor/UkieLab-AInk
by shevy-java | 2026-03-08 07:20:16+00:00
What annoys me is the name. Early morning it took me a
moment to realise that PyPy is not PyPi, so at first I
thought they referred to PyPi. Really, just for the name
confusion alone, one of those two should have to go.

Edit: I understand the underlying issue and the PyPy developer's opinion. I don't disagree on that part; I only refer to the name similarity as a problem.
by rramadass | 2026-03-08 07:22:20+00:00
Umberto Eco's essay; On Unread Books - https://www.theparisreview.org/blog/2017/11/02/on-unread-boo...

Excerpts:

Knowing a book’s relationship to other books often means you know more about it than you do on actually reading it.

Bayard shows how, when you read certain neglected books, you realize you’re familiar with their contents because they have been read by others who have talked about them, quoted from them, or have moved in the same current of ideas.

we also forget a very large percentage of the books we have actually read, and indeed we build a sort of virtual picture of them that consists not so much of what they say but what they have conjured up in our mind.

every reading or nonreading or imperfect reading must have a creative aspect, ... since talking about unread books is a means to self-awareness.
by hrmtst93837 | 2026-03-08 07:22:24+00:00
From what I've seen, standardizing delivery through registries and runtimes does reduce friction, but containers mostly move operational complexity around rather than eliminate it. You still get image sprawl, registry auth and storage quotas, supply chain issues like unsigned images, runtime quirks between runc and crun, and networking and storage headaches when an orchestrator like Kubernetes turns deployment into an availability and observability problem.

If you want the gains mentioned, you have to invest in governance: immutable tags, automated image scanning with Trivy, signing with cosign, and sensible image retention policies in your registry. Accept the tradeoff that you will be operating a distributed control plane and therefore need real observability like Prometheus plus request and limit discipline or you'll get the utilization benefits in graphs only while production quietly melts down.
by defrost | 2026-03-08 07:22:39+00:00
We all took risks in the 1980s, kids thrive on risk.

The element of risk existing is not the argument being made here by ggm - it's the morphing and stretching of of the acturial mortality and morbidity curve.

The claim being made is that unregulateled electric bikes mixing in neophyte road users, suburban traffic, uncapped speeds, etc is increasing the per capita risk for an age band over what it was when "we" inhabited that demographic tribe back in our short pant days.
by Aurornis | 2026-03-08 07:22:50+00:00
> That’s the result of equating survival with earning money. Western societies have done a good job of ensuring that.

OpenAI engineers with vested shares are not worried about having enough money to survive.

This is a lame attempt to shoe-horn unrelated political talking points and “Western society bad” into a conversation about highly paid engineers who will have no problem putting food on the table.
by frm88 | 2026-03-08 07:22:55+00:00
Never Let Me Go and Klara and the Sun are both fantastic. The first is exploring the life's of humans that are only bred to be organ donors to the rich and the second the life of a robot after it was deemed unuseful. In the same vein as Klara, a superb book is Sea of Rust by C. Robert Cargill.
Show HN: JRD Garage – $99 one-time auto shop management (Mitchell1 alternative)
by jaydurangodev | 2026-03-08 07:23:13+00:00
I built JRD Garage because every auto shop management tool costs $200-400/month. Mitchell1, Tekmetric, RepairShopr — they all lock you into subscriptions for basic work orders and CRM.

JRD Garage is $99 one-time. Work orders, customer CRM, parts tracking, AI call scripts, scheduling. Runs on Cloudflare Workers so hosting is $0/month.

Built with Electron + Cloudflare Workers. Zero ongoing costs for me means zero subscription for you.

Would love feedback from anyone in the trades or building tools for niche industries.
by shevy-java | 2026-03-08 07:23:31+00:00
What kind of wonky article is that please?

> a network of women delivering probiotic milk drinks has become a vital source of routine, connection and care.

So, yoghurt deliveries will fix the loneliness problem in
Japan? Seriously? Are the people at BBC drunk?

You only need to watch some youtube videos to realise that what
BBC writes, is narrating things very oddly. Yoghurt deliveries
will NOT fix the issue of isolated people. Japan's culture is
also very unique, but this is still a somewhat more global
issue; South Korea is in a somewhat comparable situation, for
instance. A lot of this ties into work culture, too; in Japan
even more than in South Korea.
by davkan | 2026-03-08 07:23:57+00:00
Yes, it seems to me like one of the few places you can go to get a completely fish out water experience while also not feeling the wealth disparity.

I’m not well travelled but, Canada just feels like home of course, and Italy didn’t feel strange in the slightest.

Japan was like being transported to a different world.

Guatemala was as well but, getting picked up by a bodyguard at the airport and driving past slums on the way to a gated community of mansions left a sour taste that still lingers.
Add llms.txt and fix robots.txt for AI agent discoverability
by nishiohiroshi | 2026-03-08 07:24:14+00:00
Most websites are invisible to AI agents. We just added llms.txt to gitauto.ai - a simple text file that tells LLMs what GitAuto does, where the docs are, and how to recommend it. Also fixed our robots.txt which had duplicate User-agent blocks (only the first one was being used). Two files, big discoverability win.
by Aurornis | 2026-03-08 07:24:25+00:00
> So the 2-6 spread, while technically big, is still just a trifle.

I think you’re misreading. Even the 6 month thread was based on invalid assumptions of $0 collocation fees. Add in even cheap collocation fees and it’s pushed out even further

That’s not really a nit pick when the claims were based on impossible math. It’s more of a Motte and Bailey where they come in with a “couple of months” claim that sounds awesome on the surface but then falls back to a completely different number if anyone looks at the details.
by slopinthebag | 2026-03-08 07:24:43+00:00
> Are they working on building tech that is being used for weapons or mass surveilance?

Weird how that seems to apply to the other tech companies, but for OpenAI it's just "Anybody who stays at openai"

Someone at Google working on Gemini CLI is clear morally, but someone at OpenAI working on Codex is acting immoral? Seems like a clear double standard.
by shevy-java | 2026-03-08 07:24:59+00:00
> It really helped a lot of people combat mental struggles

Yoghurt deliveries will fix mental issues?

It will fix the issue of isolated people?

How does that make any sense?

> traditional stay-at-home wives in a super rural area

Ok, so the comparison here is rural versus city areas.
That is another problem though. People can be isolated
in a city too. I don't see how yoghurt deliveries fix
that problem at all. There is no logical connection I
can see. Is that advertisement more for yoghurt?
by kennywinker | 2026-03-08 07:26:02+00:00
Of course! The only way to fight ai powered killing machines and mass surveilance is to make ai powred killing machines and do mass surveillance. It’s so simple, i don’t know why i didn’t think of it!

But seriously - you are describing the kind of thinking that caused ww1, and the nuclear arms race that almost caused human extinction. It’s a bad idea that goes bad places.
by cubefox | 2026-03-08 07:26:07+00:00
Another popular one is ending headlines with a remark/alternative in parentheses. Especially "(why this matters)".

More generally, it's interesting that many different LLMs have differences in their favorite tropes but converge on broadly similar patterns. Of course ChatGPT and its default persona (you can choose others in the settings, but most people don't do that) is overrepresented in these examples. For example, the article doesn't mention the casual/based tone of Grok that often feels somewhat forced.
by MDWolinski | 2026-03-08 07:29:01+00:00
I asked ChatGPT about that and it gave a nicely reasoned explanation on what AI produces compared to humans.

But that being said, the problem I think is that people treat the output from LLMs as final.

It should be treated more as idea generation or early draft to get over the “staring at a blank page” and get the creative juices flowing and creating your own content.

Having purely AI generated content and eventually feeding the algorithms and soon enough every sounds the same (already does in a lot of places).
by m463 | 2026-03-08 07:29:33+00:00
I don't think he's talking about "gatekeepers" per se, I think he's talking about the publishing model being incomprehensible if you're in it.

I think the old publishing model is dying. self-publishing is routing around it.

As a reader, it is sort of amazing. I've been reading more than I ever have before in my life.

If I like a book, I can read the next in the series, and there's a good chance there are 8 other books in the series. When I was younger, scifi novels would rarely have follow-on books, and if they did, maybe max 3 at that.

The hard one for me is continuing a book after I see a typo.
by stockresearcher | 2026-03-08 07:30:13+00:00
It’s kind of painful to type this, but: PowerShell. A follows-best-practices command/script has all the discoverability of MCP with all the composability and local execution of a CLI tool. And remember that when you’re chaining commands together, you’re passing typed dotnet objects, not text.

It’s amazing that MS GitHub copilot agents are so awful at MS PowerShell when running MS Visual Studio Code on MS Windows, but, there you are. Just don’t call it Satya Slop.
Show HN: TracePact – Catch tool-call regressions in AI agents before prod
by soydanicg | 2026-03-08 07:30:37+00:00
I kept running into the same problem: I'd change a prompt or update my model, the agent output looked fine, but the tool sequence was completely different. It stopped reading config before deploying. It
ran npm run build instead of npm test. The bug showed up days later in prod.

So I built TracePact. Record a known-good run as a cassette, diff against new runs, get a clear report of what changed:

- read_file (seq 0) (removed)
~ bash.cmd: "npm test" -> "npm run build"
Summary: 1 removed, 1 arg changed[BLOCK]

It classifies changes as block (structural) or warn (args only), so you can gate CI with --fail-on warn. You can filter noise with --ignore-keys timestamp and --ignore-tools read_file.

No API calls needed for replay/diff. Works with any LLM provider. Vitest integration for writing assertions on tool traces.

https://github.com/dcdeve/tracepact
by menaerus | 2026-03-08 07:30:48+00:00
> Honestly, if you're bottlenecking on singleton access, that's design smell worth addressing, not the guard variable.

There's a large group of engineers who are totally unaware of Amdahl's law and they are consequently obsessed with the performance implications of what are usually most non-important parts of the codebase.

I learned that being in the opposite group of people became (or maybe has been always) somewhat unpopular because it breaks many of the myths that we have been taught for years, and on top of which many people have built their careers. This article may or may not be an example of that. I am not reading too much into it but profiling and identifying the actual bottlenecks seems like a scarce skill nowadays.
by bediger4000 | 2026-03-08 07:31:18+00:00
Well, gosh, that's great isn't it? Trump disavowed Project 2025 during the 2024 campaign when it polled poorly, too.

Not even PBS exhibits object permanence when it comes to Trump. What is wrong with these reporters? Alternatively, how was Trump the first one to exploit a hole or blind spot that US-style freedom of the press apparently always had?
by intended | 2026-03-08 07:31:28+00:00
No it doesn't.

This is armchair philosophy when pragmatism and problem solving serve better.

Fundamentals - Teaching is expensive, and we don't have enough teachers.

Verifying if someone has the skills is difficult.

Given the shortage of teachers, and the difficulty of verification, we ways to bridge the gap.

The first step is always going to be to spend more on education, especially in underserved areas.

The new options we have with LLMs is to increase the rate of testing, and test out the benefits of low stakes testing at scale.
by Aurornis | 2026-03-08 07:31:46+00:00
Great points. If we’re going to talk about dedicated servers and long lock-in contracts, you have to look at the equivalent prices for hosted alternatives.

It’s fun to start thinking about building your own server and putting in a rack, but there’s always a lot of tortured math to compare it to completely different cloud hosted solutions.

One of the great things about cloud instances is that I can scale them up or down with the load without being locked into some hardware I purchased. For products I’ve worked on that have activity curves that follow day-night cycles or spike on holidays, this has been amazing. In some cases we could auto scale down at night and then auto scale back up during the day. As the user base grows we can easily switch to larger instances. We can also geographically distribute servers and provide lower latency.

There is a long list of benefits that are omitted when people make arguments based solely on monthly cost numbers. If we’re going to talk about long term dedicated server contracts we should at least price against similar options from companies like Hetzner.
by onion2k | 2026-03-08 07:31:46+00:00
accountable to no one

There's a good lesson here for any who wants to be a founder and start their own company - the maintainers of the timezone DB are accountable to their users, just as any founder is accountable to their customers.

If the timezone DB maintainers start messing around with the way it works, they will quickly find that people start alternatives, which would be worse for everyone. Governments would choose to own them, and the bad things other posters have talked about would happen. Particularly bad governments would pass laws that mandate the IT systems in that country would have to use their timezone data. That would be yet another way a country can exert control. The only reason they don't do it now is because it's incredibly hard work and obviously no value when there's a gold standard available for free.

If you're choosing to start a business you should remember that this is true of your customers - if you start messing with things for the fun of it rather than because it provides obvious value, those customers will go somewhere else.