MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by reify | 2026-03-02 15:10:42+00:00
stone age or not, Thats how I want to be buried.

As I am getting nearer to dreath, I have recently looked into what that entails.

I looked at the legal side of burials here in the UK.

Funeral Directors have set themselves up as the go to death service. A monopoly on death as it were. Oak coffins, Marble head stones, the team of horse drawn carriages, the church service, the flowers, the crematorium service, cost an arm and a leg.

Although families, in the period of of grief rush to their nearest Funeral Directors there is no need.

Looking through the coffin brochures to make you feel guilty and the salesman or woman pointing out the best deals and best mark up prices.

for me this is taking advantage of the bereavement process.

We in the UK can be buried anywhere, we do not have to ask permission unless someone else owns the land.

You can be buried in your garden under the apple tree if thats what you wish for.

There are companies who have challenged this monopoly and offer cheap burials in beautiful countryside settings.

I have been to two recently. One person had their cremated remains buried on a hill in Surrey. Just a small group of family and close friends attended. we all told stories about our relationship with them. It was a lovely day.

The second one, the person was buried in a wicker coffin that the wife had bought on Amazon for £150. Again they were buried on a hillside in Surrey.

The alternative was to spend £5,000 and upwards to bury your loved one for profit
by nullc | 2026-03-02 15:11:54+00:00
The inheritors are in a better position to kill the author-- or just allow them to die from neglect-- and are incentivized to do so by postmortem profits.

Any benefit from the work being public domain is diffuse, it won't create a windfall for any particular party. The residuals on the other hand are quite concrete, particularly when an author's preferences are capping the market for their work or when the publicity of their death will create newfound popularity.
by herrherrmann | 2026-03-02 15:12:07+00:00
I wouldn’t put too much hope into foldables, at least not because of Apple’s involvement. They also released the Vision Pro. And there’s still the unsolved(?) problem of the screens getting easily scratched/destroyed if they’re not heavily protected and kept clean. (There are some informative teardown videos, e.g. by JerryRigEverything.)
by Aurornis | 2026-03-02 15:12:32+00:00
The newer CPUs are more efficient and faster. In a mobile format you want the CPU to process everything as fast as possible and then return to a low power mode for battery life.

Apple re-uses the same core across their lineup because it’s cheaper to build 100 million of the same core than to design and maintain two separate CPUs that go into 50 million devices each.
by mickelsamuel | 2026-03-02 15:12:54+00:00
The lazy migration tradeoff would keep me up at night. Thousands of databases at different schema versions running simultaneously — your app code needs to handle every version in the chain at once.

Debugging "works for user A, crashes for user B" becomes "check which schema version their actor's database is on." That's a rough on-call experience.

Schema-per-tenant in a single Postgres instance gives you the same isolation without version skew. Migrations are atomic — done or not done, no in-between states.
by randusername | 2026-03-02 15:13:41+00:00
It is cringe to buy niche gear and learn obscure in-group terminology because you are trying to short-cut through enjoying the hobby itself directly to enjoying the status and acceptance that non-hobbyists enjoy.

But "fake it until you make it" is part of life too and everyone wants to belong and to be taken seriously. You can't always just "do the hobby for fun" if you want to be social since anxious intermediates whose own output is still crap will gate-keep.

If you can, find hobbies that bring you joy and do them alone, free from the influence of too much right and wrong, at least in the first stages.

In the context of terminal emulators, idk, do something like learn AWK purely for personal enjoyment. You may not have the flashiest dotfiles or color schemes or whatever, but you'll be able to do arcane stuff in the terminal that will give you confidence you belong and others will be amazed by.
by zetanor | 2026-03-02 15:13:49+00:00
>Customers only care about game-engines when broken or cheating

Most game engines are broken by default. Modern customers just aren't very discerning ("It's for the pigs. Pigs eat slop."). You can feel holes and rough edges in the vast majority of new releases, including AAA titles.

Unreal is the worst for this and Unreal-based games almost always have two things in common: a very particular, soft, sticky and unresponsive look & feel (often alleviated but never fully corrected by turning off some combination of motion blur, AA and VSync), as well as a UI that mishandles mouse pointers.

Unity devs seem to rely on a (more diverse but still quite) small pool of subsystems and renderers; possibly some mix of baseline and Asset Store components. This gives each Unity game a specific subset of flaws from a wider common pool. That is, you can tell that game A uses the same movement subsystem as games B and C (but not D), that game B uses the same UI subsystem as games C and D (but not A), and that game D uses the same rendering subsystem as games A and B (but not C).
by kkylin | 2026-03-02 15:14:44+00:00
I had an even older iPad I was happily using for similar use cases. Until one day a family member bricked it and I needed to factory reset. No big deal, I thought -- nothing important on it. Turns out it needed to phone home to do the factory reset, and since the server it wanted to talk to was no longer up (or perhaps the address changed?) I couldn't factory reset the iPad.

If someone has a work-around I'd love to hear it. Until then, or until Apple changes this design, I think I'm done with iPads. I don't want to pay that much to "own" something that Apple can simply make obsolete by reconfiguring or turning off a server somewhere.

Edit: fix typo
by nindalf | 2026-03-02 15:14:46+00:00
> Yeah, you see, I don’t think you’ve quite understood the art of talking to anyone

Have you? You're dripping with condescension for everyone who's replied to you so far, in addition to the guy in your anecdote. You've asked one person to "fuck off" when they were polite. Do you think closewith or pingou have enjoyed their interaction with you?

Or is your art of talking to people just meant to amuse you and ignore the feelings of others?

By the way, there is a social convention that we refrain from commenting on what's on people's phones even though we can see it. It's considered an invasion of privacy if we do.
by Ray20 | 2026-03-02 15:15:08+00:00
> Used to be that America was great because the smartest researchers in the world wanted to come here, often escaping oppressive regimes to do so, and become American citizens (e.g., Albert Einstein)

By this measure, America is now greater than ever.

Of course, it's convenient to pretend that Trump is building a racist dictatorship with a Gestapo, and that's why no one wants to move to the US. But the true is that the number of people around the world who would like to move to the US is higher than ever. Especially when the current administration is trying to purge society of foreign criminals.

> So now all the world’s best and brightest scientists will move to China

Yes, of course. It's practically the same thing. The only reason scientists go to China is because they are not allowed into the US.
AI-Powered Search with Doug Turnbull and Trey Grainger
by CShorten | 2026-03-02 15:15:10+00:00
Hey everyone! I am super excited to publish a new episode of the Weaviate Podcast with Doug Turnbull and Trey Grainger on AI-Powered Search!

Doug and Trey are both tenured experts in the world of search and relevance engineering. This one is packed with information!

Covering designing search experiences, types of search, user interfaces for search, filters, the nuances of agentic search, using popularity as a feature in learning to rank... and I loved learning about their pioneering ideas on Wormhole Vectors and Reflected Intelligence!

I hope you find the podcast useful! As always more than happy to discuss these things further with you!

YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZnQv_wBzUa4
Spotify: https://spotifycreators-web.app.link/e/wvisW7tga1b
by maxloh | 2026-03-02 15:15:29+00:00
I don’t think so. Motorola Mobility is owned by the Chinese Lenovo, making it an adversary-owned entity in the eyes of most Western governments.

Even with a fully open-source OS and first-class MDM, the company would struggle to gain significant market share. The Hardware Root of Trust and the binary blobs would still be compiled by a firm that Western governments view as a fundamental supply-chain risk.
by butterbomb | 2026-03-02 15:16:11+00:00
> Not only they voted all of this, but keep believing this paranormal constitutional nonsense where winner-takes-all elections where you rule under no oversight, you have no opposition, and don't even depend on your own party support is actually a sane democratic system.

Honestly I’ve been filled schadenfreude with as the American civic religion collapse. Even the right is giving it up as they view it as too obstructionist.

The silver lining in all this is that the American people might come out a bit less retarded. It’s been fascinating to see the explosion of political thought amongst Americans in the last few years.
by mentalgear | 2026-03-02 15:16:17+00:00
> CLIs have had decades of design iteration. They’re composable, debuggable, and they piggyback on auth systems that already exist. MCP tried to build a better abstraction. Turns out we already had a pretty good one.

I found MCP always cumbersome, and who would have thought that the cli, around since the dawn of digital computers and thoroughly saturated in the training data of every LLM, would be the better tool.
by Rand01ph | 2026-03-02 15:16:19+00:00
I've been running OpenClaw for about a week and kept hitting the same walls.

The cloud browser problem. My VPS is a small instance. Launching a real browser there — even headless — eats RAM I don't have. Headless servers have no display either. Getting Playwright working on a VPS without a desktop is a yak-shave
I've done too many times.

The login problem. I've tried a bunch of browser MCPs. The hardest part is always authentication — setting up logins on a headless cloud machine, fighting OAuth flows through a terminal, no saved sessions. It's miserable.

So I built Ariadne: a bridge that lets your cloud AI agent use your local Chrome — already logged into everything.

How it works

Three pieces:

1. Chrome Extension (MV3). Connects to the gateway over WebSocket. Agent operations run inside a dedicated " Ariadne Agent" tab group — visible on your screen, stoppable anytime. Icon color reflects state: gray (unconfigured), amber
(connecting), green (ready), red (down).
2. Gateway server (FastAPI). Runs on your VPS. Agent calls POST /v1/cmd/{browser_id}. Server holds the request as an asyncio.Future, forwards it to the extension, resolves when the extension returns. Clean synchronous interface for the
agent; async underneath. Token auth is a WebSocket handshake before any command is accepted.
3. The agent. Just HTTP calls, no SDK. Works with OpenClaw or anything else.

Why this solves the login problem

Your laptop browser is already logged in. Every cookie, every session — already there. The agent navigates to your SSO-protected internal tool and it just works, because from the browser's perspective a real user did it. No credential
management, no OAuth flows to automate.

Security model

Operations are confined to the " Ariadne Agent" tab group. Nothing outside it is reachable. Every command logs to ~/.ariadne/server.log with timing. I call this Human-in-the-Control — not "in-the-loop." The browser is on your screen.
Close the tab group if you don't like what you see.

What MV3 did to us

Service workers go to sleep whenever Chrome feels like it. We needed three keep-alive layers: chrome.alarms every 30s, WebSocket PING/PONG every 15s, and exponential backoff reconnect (1s → 60s cap). Any one alone isn't enough.

Where it is now

One week of real use. MVP shipped. Works for my daily needs: read (page as Markdown), navigate, screenshot (JPEG base64), highlight (CSS selector outline). Click/type and multi-tab not yet built — PRs welcome.

Built mostly with AI assistance — vibe coding contributions are completely welcome. Describe what you want, ship working code, we're good.

Repo: https://github.com/Rand01ph/Ariadne
by dylan604 | 2026-03-02 15:17:03+00:00
Depends on how you look at it. While the hardware might keep functioning and current software might keep running, some devs also deprecate their software. I have an old 6S+ that I keep software that I don't want to install on my actual device. Slack informed me that it will no longer function after a date set later this year. Other apps have already stopped working on it because the devs do not want to deal with it.

TL;DR sometimes it's not Apple, it's the app devs that deprecate them.
by capitainenemo | 2026-03-02 15:17:04+00:00
My family switched to Gnome 2 a couple of decades ago. My mother quite liked it and has consistently installed it on every new computer she bought. Her only confusion lately has been with the ubuntu snap packages and how they behave between multiple accounts on the machine.

These days she uses MATE which still offers that Gnome 2 layout. Awesome thing about Linux is that option to fork, so her desktop environment has remained consistent for over 20 years.
by jfengel | 2026-03-02 15:17:10+00:00
That's why we use AI to summarize your AI slop back to (hopefully) the actual content.

AI is very good at writing things that don't need to be written. (That's why it's great for homework -- the purpose of the assignment is to write it, not to tell the teacher something they already know.) For any process where AI is used in writing text, that tells me that we should consider changing, or eliminating, the process.

The one that really strikes me is legal briefs. If lawyers think that AI can write briefs, maybe we don't need the briefs at all. Perhaps there is some more concise form that standard legal arguments should be written in?
by dzonga | 2026-03-02 15:17:33+00:00
I also agree - however the ART of making software that's simple and works is disappearing fast.

One of the most impactful things in my career was watching Simple Made Easy by Rich Hickey

our industry is part engineering | part art (i.e having taste) - A.I doesn't have taste (hence why vibe coding) doesn't work - the art of engineering is reducing the amount of code you've to write

it's not about saying YES to every feature - but saying NO and shipping the most impactful feature in the smallest amount of time. sometimes it's about stepping back to relearn so you can do things the right way.

whereas AI is about producing the most amount of code possible - which is the very antithesis of Software Engineering
by hypeatei | 2026-03-02 15:17:59+00:00
> You call it for what it is: an executive with authoritarian tendencies.

Okay, but that's beating around the bush and a very milquetoast way to describe it.

> easily refutable and you get called out for being a radical whatever.

This is equivalent to being punched repeatedly by a bully and being scared that he'll cry "assault!" when you punch him back. At some point, you cease to exist if you don't act.
by kace91 | 2026-03-02 15:18:02+00:00
The system data issue on macOS is awful.

I use my MacBook for a mix of dev work and music production and between docker, music libraries, update caches and the like it’s not weird for me to have to go for a fresh install once every year or two.

Once that gets filled up, it’s pretty much impossible to understand where the giant block of memory is.
by joe_mamba | 2026-03-02 15:18:04+00:00
Hold on a second, let's backtrack. First you say you can "tell stories about the factory rampdowns", then when pressed to tell those stories you say you can't "because of NDAs" .... from 20 years ago on a business that's now defunct ... not sure how any of that would be enforceable today, leading me to believe you're either chasing clout for upvotes, or bs-ing. But OK, sure, let's ignore all that for now and move to the next point.

Secondly, you keep bringing up Stephen Elop's "burning memo" several times in this thread as the root cause of Nokia's failure, but when i use my google-fu to go back to the world of 2011, I see that Symbian had fallen to 31% market share from 44% the previous year and Maemo/Meego had a <1% market share, so it's clear to anyone with two brain cells to rub together than Symbian was in freefall and irredeemable against iOS and Android, and loosing them money, and Maemo/Meego was far too late to the party with an insignificant market share to rise up against iOS and Android, also loosing them money. So given this obvious loose-money loose-money situation Nokia was in, why wasn't the "burning memo" to stop the bleed, the right choice at the time?

People say this was the wrong solution, but nobody ever says what the right solution was. Maybe because they don't have a better solution, and burning it was the only right one. So you're probably looking at the unsalvageable past through rose tinted glasses.
by andresquez | 2026-03-02 15:18:24+00:00
One of the best pieces of advice I can give, something that has helped me start talking more with strangers, is this:

When I’m speaking to someone in a service role, like a waiter, a cashier, or a salesperson, I remind myself that I’m just one of hundreds of people they interact with that day. To them, I’m simply another brief interaction. So if I say something awkward or if the conversation doesn’t flow perfectly, it’s not a big deal. It’s probably just one small, forgettable moment in a long series of conversations they will have that day.

Thinking about it that way helps me relax and not put so much pressure on myself. At the same time, some of the most meaningful or unexpected opportunities can come from simple conversations with strangers. You never really know what a small interaction might lead to, whether it is a new connection, a new perspective, or even an open door you did not see before.
by SpicyLemonZest | 2026-03-02 15:19:26+00:00
I simply don't believe that "the only thing that remained was agreeing on a few words", regardless of what sources may have told the NYT. That's not compatible with any of the Trump regime's bombastic public statements. Either they were never negotiating in good faith at all, or Hegseth intended to unilaterally declare alterations to the deal once Anthropic announced it was resolved.
by just6979 | 2026-03-02 15:19:45+00:00
"From the first lab studies it became clear that we needed a baseline with Windows 3.1, to better understand what problems existed prior to Windows 95 and what problems were unique to the new design."

This could be the biggest takeaway: iterating without a goal is silly. Though, honestly, it should be the default. If you're creating a new paradigm without ever knowing the problems you're supposed to fixing, you're doing it wrong!
Ask HN: How do you manage the gap between team chat and real work?
by PaulShin | 2026-03-02 15:20:17+00:00
I'm a founder based in South Korea, running a small dev team. Like most startups,
we use Slack for chatting, Notion for tasks, Google Docs for documents, Gmail, and a bunch of other tools.

Here's what keeps happening: we have a conversation on Slack, a decision gets made,
I go create a Notion page with the task.
Then I go back to Slack and write "guys, please check the Notion page I just created."

And then... silence. I don't know who saw it.
I don't know who's working on it.
Two days later I ask about it and someone says
"oh, I didn't see that message."

The real issue isn't any single tool it's that conversations happen in one place,
tasks live in another, and there's no connection between them.
Context gets lost every time we switch tools.

How does your team handle this? Have you found a setup that actually
keeps conversations and tasks connected? Or
is this just something every small team deals with?
Ask HN: How is your team changing documentation for AI-assisted coding?
by hubraumhugo | 2026-03-02 15:20:28+00:00
The thread on whether AI sessions should be part of the commit (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47212355) got me thinking about documentation more broadly. How do you document when agents write most of the code?

Specs and intent docs (plan.md, Linear ticket, change records) seem to become more important since they're what agents work from. On the other hand, the traditional RFC/architecture docs drifts out of sync faster.

How are you adopting your documentation workflows internally? How do you get feedback on specs before implementation?
by RHSeeger | 2026-03-02 15:20:29+00:00
I do something similar
- A full work description in markdown (including pointers to tickets, etc); but not in a file
- A "context" markdown file that I have it create once the plan is complete... that contains "everything important that it would need to regenerate the plan"
- A "plan" markdown file that I have it create once the plan is complete

The "context" file is because, sometimes, it turns out the plan was totally wrong and I want to purge the changes locally and start over; discussing what was done wrong with it; it gives a good starting point. That being said, since I came up with the idea for this (from an experience it would have been useful and I did not have it) I haven't had an experience where I needed it. So I don't know how useful it really is.

None of that ^ goes into the repo though; mostly because I don't have a good place to put it. I like the idea though, so I may discuss it with my team. I don't like the idea of hundreds of such files winding up in the main branch, so I'm not sure what the right approach is. Thank you for the idea to look into it, though.

Edit: If you don't mind going into it, where do you put the task-specific md files into your repo, presumably in a way that doesn't stack of over time and cause ... noise?
by nerdjon | 2026-03-02 15:20:37+00:00
A properly built tablet OS UI would also have those differences in the OS that make it more than just a larger phone screen, which so far seems to be most of what the foldables are doing with a gimmick thrown in here or there.

iPadOS may not fully be to the point of being an OS UI that really utilizes the benefits of a tablet sized device, but it does have elements that are unique to it that would not really make sense on a phone.

That being said, if your tablet use case really is just a larger phone than a foldable would be great. But i know for myself the way I use my iPad it would not be a suitable replacement. Especially not now, maybe in 5+ years once someone figures out how to make an OS that actually manages different ways of interacting with it in different form factors work, but that has yet to happen.
by 2amcarla | 2026-03-02 15:21:09+00:00
Meret – iOS audio recorder with WiFi transfer, no cloud, no account ($9.99)

I wanted a simple recorder that let me get files off my phone without AirDrop, iCloud, or signing up for anything. Everything I tried either needed a subscription or uploaded my recordings somewhere.

Meret does three things: records audio, stores it locally, lets you pull files over WiFi from any browser on the same network. That's it.

One-time $9.99. No account. No cloud. No subscription.

https://apps.apple.com/us/app/meret-pro-audio-capture/id6758...
by reify | 2026-03-02 15:21:19+00:00
fingers crossed!

If ai takes enough jobs from people.

we will all get together, start a revolution and overthrow our respective governments.

desperate people will do desperate things to survive

There are always more of us than them.

I truly hope that it happens in my lifetime. I really am sick of this shitty world.

Its not what I was promised 69 years ago when I was born.