MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by SyneRyder | 2026-03-03 19:18:13+00:00
Have you experimented at least with running Claude (or whatever) as a cron-job? I'm seeing a lot of things emerge from just that pattern alone. I'd recommend giving Claude a way to communicate with you if it has issues to raise though, even if it knows you're asleep.

I'm not running OpenClaw either, but I'm getting a ton of value just from my homebrew deterministic "run while loop, wake up Claude if trigger event occurs".
by theshrike79 | 2026-03-03 19:18:15+00:00
Did I say my Claw (not Open) doesn't have internet access?

All of my tools are geared towards reducing noise and condensing information.

- My weather scripts tell me just the exact metrics I care about

- My email filtering system surfaces only the mails that are relevant right now - I can check the rest later.

- My RSS feed hydrator pre-filters Hacker News and other RSS feeds and adds data like comment/vote count etc to the feed itself so I can determine whether the link is worth opening just based on the information presented

None of these require an LLM to have free rein to modify things for me.
by danudey | 2026-03-03 19:18:19+00:00
And which supports DICOM calibration, which normally costs you >$5k for a smaller (e.g. 21") display.

It's now vastly cheaper to buy a Mac and a 27" Studio Display XDR than it is to buy a single 21" DICOM display for your clinic. Heck, it's not much more expensive to buy two SD XDRs than to buy one standard DICOM display.
by qsera | 2026-03-03 19:18:20+00:00
You can constrain the solution space all you want, but if you don't have a method to come up with possible solutions that might match the constraints, you ll be just sitting there all day long for the machine to produce some results. So intelligence is not "just knowing which constraints to apply". It is also the ability to come up with solutions within the constraints without going through a lot of trial and error...

But hey, if LLMs can go through a lot of trial and error, it might produce useful results, but that is not intelligence. It is just a highly constrained random solution generator..
by necovek | 2026-03-03 19:18:23+00:00
It is still exactly the same iPhone tech-wise, just with a custom "case".

I wouldn't go as far to call it "brain disease" though: in a sense, it is OK for someone well off to spend on expensive products (made by less rich), so things would equalize at least a bit.

Just like we in IT might happily pay 3% of our salary on slightly better shoes, and someone else would claim we have a "brain disease" because you can get perfectly good shoes for 5x less money.
by shevy-java | 2026-03-03 19:18:37+00:00
I've noticed this a few years ago. Google has been ruining its search engine
deliberately so. I could explain the things Google did here, but other websites
and videos already explain it, including the why (though there is some speculation as to why).

These days I even find e. g. qwant sometimes having better results than google search. I see it as a positive thing though - I can soon stop using Google search. So one less Google product. One day I will be Google free. It will be a happy day. I really think Google must cease to exist.

(The only sad thing is how crap the other search engines are. So while Google search sucks nowadays, I consistently get even worse results with e. g. DuckDuckGo. And I think part of the reason is because the world wide web also sucks a LOT more compared to the old days. Google is also partially responsible for this by the way, which just reinforces the idea that Google must die.)
by garciasn | 2026-03-03 19:18:51+00:00
How reliable is githubstatus.com? I know that status pages are generally not updated until Leadership and/or PR has a chance to approve the changes; is that the case here?

Our health check checks against githubstatus.com to verify 'why' there may be a GHA failure and reports it, e.g.

Cannot run: repo clone failed — GitHub is reporting issues (Partial System Outage: 'Incident with Copilot and Actions'). No cached manifests available.

But, if it's not updated, we get more generic responses. Are there better ways that you all employ (other than to not use GHA, you silly haters :-))
by vegadw | 2026-03-03 19:19:19+00:00
I feel like the price here is a bit dorky, at $10/yr, sure. $30/yr? No.

They obviously know some people just want to make one quick purchase decision and that's why they have a much more expensive, single month plan - but then, just make it pay for 1 week access for like $5 and don't make me have to remember to cancel.

I'd happily give them $10/yr, but $30/yr is better off just spending more on a given product under the assumption money=quality for anything below $500. Anything more expensive, and there's other review sites. Just all around weird pricing.
by MantisShrimp90 | 2026-03-03 19:19:21+00:00
I refuse to buy macbooks/apple products and advise my people to do the same.

I make it clear it's not about specs, it's not about UI, its about the fact that apple makes the world actively worse so they can sell you a better alternative.

You cant have iMessage anywhere else because they don't want you to, you are locked into apple stores because they refuse competition, you cant repair your own device because they get that money back in repair fees.

Its not about the operating system or the specs, I feel investing in Linux is the best way to create a more sustainable future for me and the ones I love and changing that take will require systemic changes, not these spec bumps and UI overhauls people fixate on.
by zetanor | 2026-03-03 19:19:24+00:00
Nope. The left explicitly supports the policies that lead to the direct concentration of wealth and power and rise of communism. If the left constantly sides with the oppressors, they are the oppressors. This should be trivial to see just by looking at voting records. It's all very public and you've got decades of history worth of it to review. Both sides are not the same. The left chooses to align with the top 0.01% making them firmly part of the problem.
by SkyBelow | 2026-03-03 19:19:27+00:00
In some sort of weird sense, it makes me appreciate the 'free armor trimming', 'alt F4 helps block attacks in pvp', and similar people in RuneScape. It gave young me a very low stakes environment to learn about scams, losing only what amounts to a little bit of my time. I wonder if there is an argument that we should encourage a certain level of scamming in video games just for the lessons it teaches at low cost? Alas, this isn't generalizable to society at large.
by bawolff | 2026-03-03 19:19:41+00:00
Wouldn't some of these costs be present either way? Without a war US would still have aircraft carriers, they would just be floating somewhere else.

On the other side, it seems like this is not tracking interceptor costs (presumably due to it being classified), which have certainly been used extensively and are extremely expensive. For that matter i doubt we have a very clear picture of how much ordinance has been used in general.

[To be clear, im not doubting war is very expensive]
by mastercheif | 2026-03-03 19:19:42+00:00
I was keeping mine alive on life support until about two years ago when I updated to the Samsung 5K display.

Loved the extra screen real estate of the 30" ACD and it's a beautifully designed product that I enjoyed having on my desk.

In its last year or two the backlight wear started to result in colors to become uneven. Blues were less vibrant and reds had tint issues.

Was also difficult to justify the power draw, it had a 150w power supply.
by Jimmc414 | 2026-03-03 19:20:06+00:00
It's hard for me to reconcile with the NYT after their role in 2002-2003 of building public consensus for the Iraq war with front page stories that turned out to less than credible.

Right now, my main news sources are an amalgam of Reuters, BBC World Service, Al Jazeera English, Financial Times, NHK World / Channel News Asia.

No source is perfect and think it is a wise approach to even look at obviously biased sources with the understanding of what they are and see where the propaganda diverges and what the message is they want you to take from it.

Reading any one of these alone still gives you a skewed picture. The value is in the combination with an understanding of the motivations behind the voice you are hearing.
by Zak | 2026-03-03 19:20:09+00:00
> Humanity settled on these numbers long ago because they work best.

Standardized time zones are a recent invention (late 1800s through early 1900s). Working hours in that period were determined by what factory owners could get away with, and later shortened by pressure from labor movements.

Some time-related practices, like high school in most of the USA starting especially early in the morning are at odds with what research suggests would work best (teenagers on average perform best later in the day than adults or younger children).

It's wise to consider the reasons behind existing standards before changing them, but unwise to assume they're what works best without examining whether that's reality.
by roncesvalles | 2026-03-03 19:20:21+00:00
It's because the software EM function in tech companies doesn't have parallels to managers in other professions.

The technical decisions are made by the high-level SWEs. The product decision and customer-facing work is done by the PMs. The EM role only exists to hire, evaluate, promote, and fire SWEs. It's very light on the "engineering" and very heavy on the "manager". It's almost an HR-type role.

In my career, all my EMs who weren't recently internally promoted couldn't read the programming language that their team writes in. Some of them have good system design skills but they eventually atrophy from disuse. It's very much a role where you hang up the cleats.

The root cause is that other professions didn't bifurcate technical leadership and people management into separate streams. The partner lawyer or civil EM is the seniormost technical person on the team. Often the software EM is the least technical person on the team.

BTW there are countries (like China) that don't follow this model. Meaning, the only way to get promoted above a mid-level SWE is to become an EM. There is no parallel IC track, i.e. no "senior staff", "principal" or "distinguished" engineers. Just young ICs and older EMs.
by SoleilAbsolu | 2026-03-03 19:20:37+00:00
Great points - a Little Library near me has become more of a dumping ground than it used to be because when they re-did it, they replaced the clear plastic window with a frosted/corrugated plastic (you can't see what's in it without opening the door), and they replaced the hook latch with a chain one that lets rain get in.
by stuxnet79 | 2026-03-03 19:20:37+00:00
> Yeah there seems to be a thing where in the US, what's seen as "selling yourself" or "putting your best foot forward" is considered excessive self-promotion / tall poppy behavior in other cultures.

It is a uniquely US thing & is a common struggle for foreigners who are new to US corporate culture.

Can be especially tricky if you are a 3rd culture individual that has to manage relationships spanning different cultures in your daily life. You can't easily turn "hustler" mode off and on.

It is a huge faux pas in almost every non-western culture and can wreak havoc in your personal life.
by shadowgovt | 2026-03-03 19:20:45+00:00
One of my favorite bits of astrophysics trivia is that the neutrino detection experiments serve as an early-warning system for supernovae, to allow astronomers to prioritize telescope time and swing the scopes around to see the first visible-light and radio signals of the event.

This is because the electromagnetic energy of the supernova can take hours to force its way through all the star's mass to the surface when the core dies, but the gravitational crush turning protons and electrons into neutrons releases a massive burst of neutrinos in every direction. And the neutrinos are so weakly-interacting with the matter in the star that they get out first. Then, a million years later, arrive in our solar system at such a high fraction of lightspeed that they presage the coming electromagnetic shock-front because the constant difference in escape time between neturinos, which are particles of matter, getting out of the star without interacting with anything and the electromagnetic waves moving through the star's matter at a fraction of lightspeed created a gap that the light never caught up to.

The universe is a profoundly wild place.
by jauntywundrkind | 2026-03-03 19:21:03+00:00
Said as if it's all just happening around us, some hand of fate moving things to where they will be. I am spiritually opposed to this point of view, and find it dead and against the hacker spirit. We are participants in the marketplace of ideas. Our words here should be used to inform and steer ourselves & each other.

If you want to not pay attention, go right ahead! But kindly don't waste everyone's time by commenting with your irregard & wasting all of our time.

This proposal is very useful. It goes for the users to help them disentangle themselves from the heinous moats of control that software fiefs try to erect around themselves. Google is helping companies that want to better relate to their users, to give those users much amplified agency to access the software and systems on their own terms.

That's how software should win! That should be a colossal crushing victory over the control & manipulation that the human spirit detests and loaths.

That is a huge win. Doomsaying is evil and bad, and embarrassing to hacker-kind. Breath life into better futures. At least consider with curiosity and interest the possibilities of better: so often the future is found by those who do look to the past, and see what was passed over. Be the engaged. Be the interested. Seek value & interest.
Show HN: Stackhaus – A marketplace for AI-built apps (1,204 verified at launch)
by TheRealDaveO | 2026-03-03 19:21:05+00:00
My co-founder and I launched Stackhaus publicly today.

The problem: generative coding tools (Lovable, Bolt, Cursor, Claude, ChatGPT) have made it genuinely fast to build working software. But the distribution layer for these apps doesn't exist. Most AI-built apps die in a Discord message or a Reddit thread.

Stackhaus is a marketplace specifically for AI-generated applications. Every app is verified before listing. Users can browse by category, use case, or the AI/tool that built it. Launched with 1,204 apps.

Three things I'd love HN's take on:
1. Curation vs. scale — we manually verify every app now. Doesn't last at 10K listings. How have others handled quality gates?
2. The GPT-wrapper problem — how do you signal quality difference to users?
3. Filtering by underlying model as a trust proxy — does that hold up?

Not YC, not VC-backed. Just two people who thought this needed to exist. Brutal feedback welcome.
by rapnie | 2026-03-03 19:21:32+00:00
I am considering a Tauri app, but still wondering about architecture design choices, which the docs are sparse about. For instance the Web-side may constitute a more full-blown, say NextJS, webapp. And include the database persistance, say SQLite based, on the web side too, closest to the webapp. That goes against the sandboxing (and best-practice likely), where all platform-related side effects are dealt with Platform-side, implemented in Rust code. I wonder if it is a valid choice. There is a trade-off in more ease of use and straightforwardness vs. stricter sandboxing.
by adolph | 2026-03-03 19:22:01+00:00
The difference is in the number of GPU cores. One chip has an 8-core GPU, while the other has a 10-core GPU.

I'm wondering why they would have a 2 GPU core option. Maybe the 6 GPU one is binned since it is only available with 16G RAM? But no, the 10 GPU core is also needed for any storage increase....
by vladvasiliu | 2026-03-03 19:22:09+00:00
What kind of environment is that? Maybe if you're a black person wearing black clothes, no glasses (maybe contacts are ok?) in a room with closed curtains, no lights and nothing reflective, sure.

I used to daily drive an apple thunderbolt display (the last non-retina one, 2560x1440). That thing was atrocious. I could often see the reflections of my glasses, or a white glare if I was wearing a white shirt. At nigh, in a dark office (lights off, just whatever came in from the street).

I'm typing this on a matte "ips black" dell ultrasharp something-or-other at 10% brightness, wearing glasses, a white t-shirt, with an overhead light, and see no reflection or glare on my screen. There's no way in hell I'd go back to a shiny screen.

I understand "anti-glare" technology has improved. The most recent apple screen I've tested is an m1 mbp. It seems somewhat better than my 2013 mbp, but still a worse experience than my 2015 (or thereabouts) 24"@4k dell, which is pretty old technology. My 2025 lenovo has a screen that's much more confortable to use inside.

Paradoxically, I'd say the one environment where I prefer my macs to my matte screens is in bright sunlight. Sure, there are more reflections than you can shake a stick at, but there's always an angle where you can see the part of the screen you want. You have to move around, which is obviously annoying, but you can see. The matte screens just turn to mush. Luckily for me, I hate being out in the sun, so I never encounter this situation in practice.

I think the "frost" you're talking about depends a lot on the screen implementation. I tested once an HP model, 27"@4k, and it did have such an effect. Anecdotally, it didn't handle reflections all that well, either. So maybe it's just a question of lower quality product?
by butILoveLife | 2026-03-03 19:22:15+00:00
We better get a liberal democratic Iran government out of this.

We better remove and halt nuclear powers for the rest of my life.

I suppose pick either, and it was successful.

My personal polymarket says we wont get either. Trump and Israel ruin their reputation. But reputation matters close to 0 in international relations, which is why they don't care.
by ux266478 | 2026-03-03 19:22:15+00:00
The only instance in which he's ever engaged in "publicly defending pedophilia" was in remarks he made 20 years ago about the innocuity of "voluntary" sex with minors. He has since retracted those statements and publicly espoused a different and more informed opinion. There's certainly a large amount of very low-quality journalism engaging in bad-faith interpretations of things he's said in other contexts, though these aren't serious characterizations, only hallucinations manufactured by professional scheisters to fulfill unspoken agendas. At this point dredging it up and holding it against him in-perpetuity is a bit wrongheaded.
by westurner | 2026-03-03 19:22:20+00:00
How could this lend insight into why Fast Fourier Transform approximates self-attention?

> Because self-attention can be replaced with FFT for a loss in accuracy and a reduction in kWh [1], I suspect that the Quantum Fourier Transform can also be substituted for attention in LLMs.

[1] "Fnet: Mixing tokens with fourier transforms" (2021) https://arxiv.org/abs/2105.03824 ..
"Google Replaces BERT Self-Attention with Fourier Transform: 92% Accuracy, 7 Times Faster on GPUs"
https://syncedreview.com/2021/05/14/deepmind-podracer-tpu-ba...

"Why formalize mathematics – more than catching errors" (2025) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45695541

Can the QFT Quantum Fourier Transform (and IQFT Inverse Quantum Fourier Transform) also be substituted for self-attention in LLMs, and do Lean formalisms provide any insight into how or why?
by stego-tech | 2026-03-03 19:22:45+00:00
These sorts of core-density increases are how I win cloud debates in an org.

* Identify the workloads that haven't scaled in a year. Your ERPs, your HRIS, your dev/stage/test environments, DBs, Microsoft estate, core infrastructure, etc. (EDIT, from zbentley: also identify any cross-system processing where data will transfer from the cloud back to your private estate to be excluded, so you don't get murdered with egress charges)

* Run the cost analysis of reserved instances in AWS/Azure/GCP for those workloads over three years

* Do the same for one of these high-core "pizza boxes", but amortized over seven years

* Realize the savings to be had moving "fixed infra" back on-premises or into a colo versus sticking with a public cloud provider

Seriously, what took a full rack or two of 2U dual-socket servers just a decade ago can be replaced with three 2U boxes with full HA/clustering. It's insane.

Back in the late '10s, I made a case to my org at the time that a global hypervisor hardware refresh and accompanying VMware licenses would have an ROI of 2.5yrs versus comparable AWS infrastructure, even assuming a 50% YoY rate of license inflation (this was pre-Broadcom; nowadays, I'd be eyeballing Nutanix, Virtuozzo, Apache Cloudstack, or yes, even Proxmox, assuming we weren't already a Microsoft shop w/ Hyper-V) - and give us an additional 20% headroom to boot. The only thing giving me pause on that argument today is the current RAM/NAND shortage, but even that's (hopefully) temporary - and doesn't hurt the orgs who built around a longer timeline with the option for an additional support runway (like the three-year extended support contracts available through VARs).

If we can't bill a customer for it, and it's not scaling regularly, then it shouldn't be in the public cloud. That's my take, anyway. It sucks the wind from the sails of folks gung-ho on the "fringe benefits" of public cloud spend (box seats, junkets, conference tickets, etc...), but the finance teams tend to love such clear numbers.
by overshard | 2026-03-03 19:22:57+00:00
I've taken to hosting everything critical like this myself on a single system with Docker Compose with regular off premises backups and a restore process that I know works because I test it every 6 months. I can swap from local hosting to a VPS in 30 mins if I need to. It seems like the majority of large services like GitHub have had increasingly annoying downtime while I try to get work done. If you know what you're doing it's a false premise that you'll just have more issues with self hosting. If you don't know what you are doing it's becoming an increasingly good time to learn. I've had 4 years of continuous uptime on my services at this point. I still push to third parties like GitHub as yet another backup and see the occasional 500 and my workflow keeps chugging along. I've gotten old and grumpy and rather just do it myself.
by hyperhello | 2026-03-03 19:23:30+00:00
The new Apple keyboard seems to fix itself. Once my command key had fallen down. It actually fixed itself somehow. I think it’s got whatever miracle metal snaps back into shape in there. And my kid has been using my old laptop and leaving crumbs; when a crumb gets under the key you feel it, but just press it in and destroy the crumb and the key is fine.

I remember the old keyboard because I got so sick of it I snapped the laptop in half in a rare fit of disgust (I was under a lot of stress at the time).

Overall, Apple blew it out of the park, and I happily forgive the earlier problems. Now I hope that Tahoe is just some kind of planned demolition phase before they introduce a totally new unsurpassable stable OS.
by mrguyorama | 2026-03-03 19:23:38+00:00
How do you "message" to people who abandoned Fox News for NewsMax when Fox admitted that "The election was stolen" was always a bald faced lie?

Almost all of America makes zero attempt to hear anything a democrat says, opts into being force fed literal republican propaganda on all News channels and now X and Facebook, and then complains that the democrats didn't "message" well.