MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by anonym29 | 2026-03-02 20:56:42+00:00
You seem to be misinterpreting the implication. The implication is that the consumer would never ask for what they actually want, because the consumer can't even conceive the possibility of what they really want being available.

Ask an exercise, ask yourself this: if you could offer every iPhone or Android shopper the choice between their current OS, and an otherwise exactly identical one that just wasn't listening to them, spying on them, tracking them, selling their every thought to advertisers, and shoving irrelevant ads into their face all day long, how many do you think would honestly prefer the one with all the spyware and ads?

Ordinady people do want privacy of their data, autonomy over their device. They just feel so hopelessly powerless in the fight that they don't believe it's even possible to achieve any meaningful degree of privacy or control these days, and those values are less important to them than the value of having a smartphone itself, so they sacrifice those values to have a smartphone.
by mikkupikku | 2026-03-02 20:56:45+00:00
I'm convinced the "craft beer" industry settled on IPAs not due to genuine consumer demand, but rather manufacturer demand for IPAs because IPAs are more tolerant of faults in the brewing process and therefore have lower production costs (less wastage.) This is because when an IPA turns out particularly poorly, it can be bottled anyway and if anybody points out that it tastes like silty skunk ass (all my homebrews, BTW) some nearby IPA enthusiast will be sure to scoff that the complainant just can't handle the hops.
by marysminefnuf | 2026-03-02 20:57:00+00:00
it was a disgusting sketch. I grew up with Tourettes and its harmful to tell people that tics can be controlled and are not involuntary. snl makes jokes about things that are not inherently funny like race and gender or disabilities all the time that's why people feel like it used to be better imo. jokes aren't funny when its at a groups or someones expense.
by vibe_that_works | 2026-03-02 20:57:03+00:00
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by cyberax | 2026-03-02 20:57:07+00:00
It's weird to me that people keep saying that.

How on Earth is iPhone more "appliancy" than regular Android? If anything, it's more annoying than Android with all the Apple inconsistencies. The settings UI, for example, is just plain broken. The gesture UI is finger-breakingly inconsistent, while Android has a simple reliable 3-button bottom bar.
by jrm4 | 2026-03-02 20:57:07+00:00
Exactly. As I think about it, I believe we have a pretty good thought experiment. What if "Audacity" (a program that's doing pretty good that IMHO actually also has a pretty crappy UI) was called, like "flatulence" or "Impotence?" I doubt it would be sitting on the 100 million ish downloads it has today.
by MerrimanInd | 2026-03-02 20:57:17+00:00
My non-technical mother recently texted the family group chat to try to get us to use Signal. The winds are shifting towards privacy in a broader sense than ever before. This type of counter argument ("that doesn't sell [product") is usually a bad argument when the market doesn't offer anything that actually sells on privacy. It becomes a self-fulfilling prophecy.
by floxy | 2026-03-02 20:57:21+00:00
>> that Google spends >$1B/year to develop.

Isn't this downright crazy when you think about it? Seems like we need to start from scratch. Create a minimal bytecode (like webasm or whatever) that writes to a virtual frame-buffer of sorts, and has keyboard/mouse inputs. Then content is distributed as compiled byte-code apps. All the fancy stuff you want in your app has to be provided by the app creator, and not essentially using the browser as a library.
by PaulDavisThe1st | 2026-03-02 20:57:29+00:00
That's not technically what a SLAPP is. The reason it is called a strategic lawsuit is frequently that it will cost the defendant so much to defend themselves that they opt to settle rather than risk that cost. Even if the plaintiff is unlikely to win, it is rarely a "no chance" situation, and with judge/district shopping, it is quite possible for large corporations to move further from "no chance" than an individual or non-profit might.
by sebastiennight | 2026-03-02 20:57:30+00:00
Thanks for the links, which I've reviewed. Allow me to clarify: I meant sources that confirm that the civilian places hit (eg. hotels and residential buildings) were the actual targets.

Local and official news all say that these were hit by debris from intercepted missiles/drones (on their way to somewhere else). There is a major difference between this, vs. if those buildings were directly being targeted.

AFAICT your linked sources indicate that the oil installations and ports were targets, but not the hotels and buildings.

I'm asking in good faith as this makes a significant difference.
by courted_ju | 2026-03-02 20:57:48+00:00
Courted (https://courted.io) | Senior Backend Engineer | NYC (In-Office 3-4 days) | Python/Django

We're building AI-powered recruiting and market intelligence for real estate — an industry that moves $100B+ in annual commissions and still runs on spreadsheets and cold calls.

Our backend ingests data from dozens of sources, processes millions of records daily through Celery pipelines, and serves real-time analytics via a Django REST API backed by PostgreSQL/PostGIS. Integrations with OpenAI, HubSpot, Twilio, and MLS data providers. Sub-second response requirements at scale.

Stack: Python, Django/DRF, PostgreSQL/PostGIS, Celery, Redis, AWS (ECS, RDS, S3, Lambda). Looking for 5+ years backend experience, strong SQL optimization chops, and comfort with AI coding tools. LLM integration experience is a plus.
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by dvt | 2026-03-02 20:58:51+00:00
Location: Los Angeles
Remote: Yes

Relocation: Case-by-case

I'm a CTO, expert engineer, and data professional interested in team-building, consulting and architecting data pipelines. At Edmunds.com, I worked on a fairly successful ad-tech product and my team bootstrapped a data pipeline using Spark, Databricks, and microservices built with Java, Python, and Scala.

At ATTN:, I re-built an ETL Kubernetes stack, including data loaders and extractors that handle >10,000 API payload extractions daily. I created SOPs for managing data interoperability with Facebook Marketing, Facebook Graph, Instagram Graph, Google DFP, Salesforce, etc.

More recently, I was the CTO and co-founder of a gaming startup. We raised over $6M and I was in charge of building out a team of over a dozen remote engineers and designers, with a breadth of experience ranging from Citibank, to Goldman Sachs, to Microsoft. I moved on, but retain significant equity and a board seat.

I am also a minority owner of a coffee shop in northern Spain. That I'm a top-tier developer goes without saying. I'm interested in flexing my consulting muscle and can help with best practices, architecture, and hiring.

Would love to connect even if it's just for networking!

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by lesuorac | 2026-03-02 20:58:54+00:00
> If SCOTUS is saying that AI works, even those co-authored by humans, are not eligible for copyright/patenting;

They aren't.

The copyright office isn't either.

Everybody is very explictly saying that if you use say Sora to generate an image and you apply for a copyright with "Sora" as the author it'll be denied.

Same as if you apply for a copyright with "My Dog" as the author.

Authors must be humans and if you do not fill the author field out with a human it's denied. This has nothing to do with the tool used to create the art work.
by ros86 | 2026-03-02 20:59:01+00:00
Cradle (https://cradle.bio) | Scientific Software Engineer | Amsterdam | Onsite | Full-time

We're an AI platform for protein engineering (customers include Novo Nordisk, J&J, Grifols). We run our own wet lab in Amsterdam to generate training data for our ML models and to build the automation playbook we share openly with the field.
We're hiring a software engineer to work embedded with our bioengineering team. You'd build things like: computer vision pipelines for colony picking, interfaces for lab automation workcells, integrations between lab instruments and Benchling. Python, APIs, databases, some frontend.

No PhD or biotech background needed. You'll pick up the biology. We care about solid engineering skills and curiosity about working at the intersection of software and hardware.

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by raw_anon_1111 | 2026-03-02 20:59:27+00:00
You know you can use a standard Bluetooth and keyboard and mouse with an iPad? My wife uses her 13 inch iPad for everything - mostly Zoom, Office, everything web based, and “consumption”. I have an M2 MacBook Air that I bought in 2023 for a side project I was doing when I was in between jobs. I haven’t opened it since. I do the little bit of stuff I do outside of work on my iPad Air 3.
by sweetsocks21 | 2026-03-02 21:00:15+00:00
OCaml has full multicore support with algebraic effects now. The effect system makes things like async very nice as there's no function "coloring" problem: https://discuss.ocaml.org/t/ocaml-5-0-0-is-out/10974

But I don't believe the effects are tracked in the type system yet, but that's on it way.
Show HN: Logcat.ai – Observability for Android, Telecom, Automotive System Logs
by vcodes | 2026-03-02 21:00:36+00:00
I posted logcat.ai here several months ago when it was mostly an idea.

Since then I left my job and have been building full-time. 400+ organic signups, 3 paying customers across telecom, automotive, and device management. Time for a proper Show HN.

The problem:
I've spent 13 years in Android OS internals (AOSP, LineageOS, founding engineer at Esper) and the debugging workflow has never meaningfully improved. You get a 100MB bugreport zip with 20+ files and spend hours ctrl+F'ing timestamps trying to correlate logcat with kernel logs with dumpsys with radio logs. Telecom engineers have it worse because they're also juggling QXDM modem traces. Automotive teams pile VHAL and CAN bus on top of all that.

What logcat.ai does:
Upload the files you already have and get a root cause analysis with a correlated timeline across layers (app, framework, HAL, kernel, modem). No SDK, no agents, nothing to install.

How people actually use it:
Telecom engineer uploads modem traces alongside a bugreport to figure out why VoLTE calls drop during handovers.
MDM company uploads bugreports from fleet devices to triage field issues without reproducing them.
Delta mode: upload two bugreports (working vs broken), get a structured diff of what changed without all the noise.
Deep Research: autonomous multi-pass investigation that follows causal chains across log sources.

What's interesting technically:
The hard part is preprocessing. A 200MB bugreport needs heavy denoising and intelligent chunking before an LLM can reason over it. Every other log type comes with its own challenges and then there is a mix of all of them. We use AI for human readable representation of the analysis and interaction. Currently supports bugreports, logcat, dmesg, tombstones, ANR traces, modem log exports from QXDM/QCAT or Mediatek's/Samsung's modem log outputs.
by rjh29 | 2026-03-02 21:01:03+00:00
It's probably the immediacy. You click an app and you get a fullscreen touch UI with no distractions. Quite different to opening a slow-loading DAW and starting up various plugin windows inside it.

iPad music apps are typically priced far lower than the equivalent PC apps, and there's a thriving community of iOS-only development as well.

For me it's the sweet spot between hardware (which is expensive and annoying to cable up) and PC VSTs (I associate my laptop with work). The fact the iPad can also be used for videos/books is just a bonus.
by latexr | 2026-03-02 21:01:32+00:00
> True of most hobbies, right?

If everyone treated OpenClaw as a hobby, you might have a point, but people are using it for work in ways which will affect millions of other people when they’re hacked or the agent fucks up something important.

You already know how Meta’s AI Safety Director borked her email. Here’s the corporate vice president of Microsoft Word asking to be pwned:

https://www.omarknows.ai/p/meet-lobster-my-personal-ai-assis...

> Also: Is anyone telling you to use it?

You don’t need to use the technology to be affected by it. Ask Scott Shambaugh:

https://theshamblog.com/an-ai-agent-published-a-hit-piece-on...
by lurking_swe | 2026-03-02 21:01:37+00:00
I can relate. I actually used to be jealous of the ladies because they always have a convenient purse to put things in. These days I wear a light weight cross-body “sling” bag, and i’m happy as a peach.

Easy way to bring my phone, sunglasses, wallet, keys, etc with me. Pockets can be pretty annoying.

Maybe 2027 will be the year of the mini? :)
by PaulDavisThe1st | 2026-03-02 21:01:54+00:00
Not this tired nonsense again.

Contrasting specific technological and social artifacts with a form of economic organization and legal structures without noting how different they are is a cheap and weak form of argument.

If you want to insist that only greedy corporations could have made portable hand-held network connected computing devices possible, then make that point. If you want to insist that there could be no automobile or refueling system without a system in which corporate profits primarily are directed towards capital rather than labor, then make that point. If you find it impossible that powered flight would exist at a price where most people could afford it without specific laws controlling corporate liability and legal fiduciary responsibility, than make that point.

But "ah, so you use human-created technology while criticizing the organizations that make it" isn't really the winning argument that you appear to think it is.
by jlongo78 | 2026-03-02 21:01:59+00:00
The search feature would be huge - that friction of "which session was working on X" is exactly where things break down.

On the context side, maybe a short freeform note field attached at session creation? Branch name gets you partway there but doesn't capture intent. Something like "refactoring auth layer - blocked on X" would make resurrection much faster after a few days away.

I work mostly in backend infra and developer tooling.
by adampunk | 2026-03-02 21:02:08+00:00
I suppose we are all caught up in this, but it is almost tragic to see that we are fetishizing the last mile of text. Research is a real part of the writing process. Spelling and grammar fixes are real parts of the writing process.

I guess it’s not their fault. I did put in a comment somewhere else. “beep Boop. I am a robot” and I’m being punished for it.
by StratusBen | 2026-03-02 21:02:14+00:00
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Vantage is an a16z-backed FinOps / Cloud Cost Management platform that helps 15,000+ organizations globally like Block, Vercel, Temporal, Rippling, FanDuel, CircleCI, etc manage their infrastructure costs. We are a ruby/rails shop and if you love infrastructure, it's a very interesting role as our customers are others like you looking to manage their infra spend.

We also have a lot of exciting projects right now for AI/Agent workflows - basically an agent that can auto-remediate cost related issues on behalf of our customers.

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by Bender | 2026-03-02 21:02:29+00:00
Worth noting that America does not have an official language

I know this will not be a HN aligned comment but all of the street signs are in US English. That is what drivers are tested on and required to understand by law. I do not blame the drivers, I blame whoever told the DMV to license these people illegally. They need to be fired and their agency fined for all the damages they have indirectly caused. Repeated incidents must result in said agency losing the ability to issue commercial drivers licenses or any license for that matter and the individuals causing this need to go to prison in general population with the lifers.

An empty big-rig (tractor + trailer) can be around 35,000 pounds. Loaded can be up to 80,000 pounds and some can get special permits to go higher. That weight combined with speed can turn any car into a crushed soda can. The person or AI behind the wheel absolutely must be the most qualified person on the road and better ace any test or reading and comprehension test related to road regulations and signs.
by nijave | 2026-03-02 21:02:38+00:00
While very powerful, I think it's worth calling out some pitfuls. A few things we've ran into
- long lived feature flags that are never cleaned up (which usually cause zombie or partially dead code)
- rollout drift where different environments or customers have different flags set and it's difficult to know who actually has the feature
- not flagging all connected functionality (i.e. one API is missing the flag that should have had it)

A good decom/cleanup strategy definitely helps
by ffsm8 | 2026-03-02 21:02:51+00:00
If I could use it at my day job, I'd do it within a heartbeat - albeit only with readonly access (with write only on it's own files/output/sandbox)

There are so many mails and communications with so many tasks to research via confluence etc

But on my private hardware? Idk, I haven't found a use for it...
by timjulien | 2026-03-02 21:03:15+00:00
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- Radar is the geo-location dev tool

- Doing 1B+ API calls per day

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- We're based in NYC with our HQ in Union Square and remote friendly (US)

Interesting things we're working on:

- HorizonDB, our Geospatial database written in Rust

- Precise indoor location more accurate than iOS and Android leveraging Ultra-Wideband, other mobile sensors and ML.

- Extracting raw map data from satellite maps and the web leveraging ML and AI

- Anomaly detection to identify spoofed locations

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by nuancebydefault | 2026-03-02 21:03:53+00:00
I've been a few times in a situation where I needed to make significant changes in a huge codebase with lot's of tests but also with a lot of corner cases, on my own.

I've spent blood sweat, tears and restless evenings scrolling and ctrl-f-ing huge build and test logs to finally accomplish the task.

But let's take a step back.

So they assign you to get that done. You're supposed to be careful, courageous and precise while making those changes without regression. There's very little up-to-date documentation on the design, architecture, let alone any rationale on design choices. You're supposed to come up with methods like Mikado, tdd, shadowing or anything that gets the job done.

Is this even fair to ask? Suppose you ask a contractor to re-factor a house with old style plumbing and electricity. Will they do it Mikado style, or, would they say - look - we're going to tear things down and rebuild it from the ground. You need to be willing to pay for a designer, an architect, new materials and a set of specialized contractors.

So why do we as sw engineers put up with the assignment? Are we rewarded so much more than the project manager of that house who subcontracts the work to many people to tear down and rebuild?
by 9rx | 2026-03-02 21:04:14+00:00
No, unless you mean the problem of over-engineering? In which case, yes, that is a realistic concern. In the real world, tests are quite often more than good enough. And since they are good enough they end up covering all the same cases a half-assed type system is able to assert anyway by virtue of the remaining logic needing to be tested, so the type system doesn't become all that important in the first place.

A half-assed type system is helpful for people writing code by hand. Then you get things like the squiggly lines in your editor and automated refactoring tools, which are quite beneficial for productivity. However, when an LLM is writing code none of that matters. It doesn't care one bit if the failure reports comes from the compiler or the test suite. It is all the same to it.
Show HN: Flowly – a macOS app that brings smooth, fluid scrolling to any mouse
by simonij | 2026-03-02 21:04:14+00:00
Hey HN! I built Flowly, a macOS utility that brings smooth, fluid scrolling to any external mouse.
If you've ever used a third-party mouse on Mac, you know the pain. macOS gives trackpads beautiful inertial scrolling, but external mice get choppy/laggy, line-by-line movement. Flowly fixes this by intercepting scroll events and applying smoothing to create natural, fluid motion across every app.

· Works system-wide with any mouse (Logitech, Razer, etc.) · Per-app control: enable/disable smoothing per application · Customizable smoothness and speed · Lightweight: <1% CPU, ~20MB memory · macOS 12+ (Monterey through Sequoia)

Would love to hear your feedback! This is my first MacOS app also

https://flowlyapp.dev
by Nucaranlaeg | 2026-03-02 21:04:24+00:00
Location: Calgary, Canada (UTC-7)

Remote: Yes

Willing to relocate: No

Technologies: Python (Flask, Django) / Typescript (React, Vue, Angular.js) / Ruby / Node.js / GCP / SQL

Résumé/CV: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1ECJiaqv-m-se_S0kwS1-zP3pds7...

Email: bennerguy@gmail.com

I'm more than happy to learn a new language or two. I've worked with AI since 2018 at a variety of startups, but I'm equally comfortable with non-AI work.