MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by toraway | 2026-03-01 10:19:41+00:00
“I think there's no decision ever that everyone at OpenAI agrees with,” Brockman says when I ask what his team thinks about the donations. “Even when we were 10 people. We’ve always been a truth-seeking culture. We have this scientific mission of discovery, and reality kind of doesn't care for your own opinion. It cares about what's true.”

After our interview, Brockman declined WIRED’s request for comment on the ICE shootings. Separately, he offered a more general statement clarifying his thoughts on the conversation with WIRED. "AI is a uniting technology, and can be so much bigger than what divides us today,” he said.

His justifications are just an ever changing rambling mess of word salad that never even come close to addressing the MAGA Inc donation specifically, who is this even for?

We're talking about a pretty straightforward donation to the incumbent President's Super PAC, not ASI solving world hunger or whatever.
by Zakaria_Gamal | 2026-03-01 10:20:29+00:00
Hey HN, I'm Zakaria, a dev from Cairo building open-source tools. After my earlier prototypes kept failing on complex tasks (e.g., hallucinating unsafe commands), I added a router that classifies queries, plans multi-step actions, and executes with local package management—all offline on Linux.
Key features:

Router Branching: Uses LangGraph for conditional flows—classifies as conversational, planning-needed, or direct-execute. Handles tool calls safely with confirmations for risky stuff.
Safe Package Mgmt: Installs dependencies locally without internet, avoiding supply-chain risks.
REPL-like Execution: Stateful code interp for persistent sessions.

It's built with Python/LangChain, runs on any Linux box. Here's a quick example: Ask it to "analyze this PDF and plot data"—it plans, browses the file, executes via tools, and outputs.
Repo: https://github.com/zkzkgamal/zkzk-agent (stars/feedback welcome!)
What do you think—any ways to harden the router against edge cases? Or integrations you'd want (e.g., more bio/chem tools)?
This framing emphasizes progress from your old posts, adds tech depth, and invites input. If it doesn't take off, analyze the comments and iterate—many viral projects started with flops. Good luck; HN can be unpredictable, but building genuinely useful stuff is the real win! If you share more project details, I can refine this further.
Show HN: Cloudflared-DNS-controller: Auto-sync DNS from cloudflared ConfigMap
by Seipann11 | 2026-03-01 10:21:27+00:00
I built this project to keep Cloudflare DNS records in sync with the ingress rules in a cloudflared ConfigMap on Kubernetes.

If you manage cloudflared ingress entirely through ConfigMaps and want DNS records to be created and deleted automatically, this controller is for you. Unlike external-dns, which cannot create DNS records from ConfigMaps, this controller watches your cloudflared ConfigMap and syncs DNS records accordingly.

If you find it useful, please give it a star!
by omnibrain | 2026-03-01 10:22:25+00:00
> 2010 was my favorite Office UI.

Mine too. Office 2010 was what made me switch back to Windows after using Linux and OpenOffice for years.
I found the ribbons to be perfect for my use of Office. They usually automatically focused on the task at hand. Everything else was just a click away. Advanced stuff stayed in the menu.
And, at least for me, it helped discoverability of features.
by nocturn9x | 2026-03-01 10:22:36+00:00
That's still possible so long as you're on a version of OneUI 8 that allows downgrading to OneUI 7. I did that and then patched the OneUI 8 firmware with Magisk and substituted the new bootloader for the old one and it works. Literally did this like in the past 2 days. Didn't even have the time to sound like a conspiracy theorist.
by petre | 2026-03-01 10:22:43+00:00
> Iran has an unelected supreme leader

Had. Israel probably has a list with the next 3 or 4 in line to replace Khamenei and is currently working towards eliminating them, like they did with the Hezbollah.

Regime change could also be triggered through impeachment or PM losing support and government coalition getting dissolved in the case of Israel.
by ekidd | 2026-03-01 10:23:25+00:00
Nope, the War Powers Resolution gives the president broad authority to respond to an active attack on the United States (which makes sense). But it does not allow the President to unilaterally start an aggressive war against some random country without Congressional approval.

Not that we live in country where laws or the Constitution matter much right now. It's theoretically possible that some people might someday be prosecuted for breaking laws or violating people's Constitutional rights. But even there, I world expect that many of the law breakers will simply be pardoned.
by archmaster | 2026-03-01 10:23:34+00:00
I love the act of writing code, it clicks well with me. I love the feeling of my brain solving problems, figuring out how something works, and then finally understanding it. I love debugging. I love having built something that people love, solely wrought by my own fingers.

I got into programming because the act of spinning a web of code just feels like what I'm designed to do.

Vibe coding definitely has some of that, but it feels so detached from any understanding of the computer itself. I feel like I'm bossing someone around — and I would never want to be a non-coding manager. I'm curious, how/why do you feel so different?

(Obviously the financial side is stressful too, but I feel like I'm in a good spot to figure that out either way.)
by mirekrusin | 2026-03-01 10:24:13+00:00
Actually, nobody said the spec needs to be written by humans.

My personal opinion: with today's LLMs, the spec should be steered by a human because its quality is proportional to result quality. Human interaction is much cheaper at that stage — it's all natural language that makes sense. Later, reasoning about the code itself will be harder.

In general, any non-trivial, valuable output must be based on some verification loop. A spec is just one way to express verification (natural language — a bit fuzzy, but still counts). Others are typecheckers, tests, and linters (especially when linter rules relate to correctness, not just cosmetics).

Personally, on non-trivial tasks, I see very good results with iterative, interactive, verifiable loops:

- Start with a task

- Write spec in e.g. SPEC.md → "ask question" until answer is "ok"/proceed

- Write implementation PLAN.md — topologically sorted list of steps, possibly with substeps → ask question

- For each step: implement, write tests, verify (step isn't done until tests pass, typecheck passes, etc.); update SPEC/PLAN as needed → ask question

- When done, convert SPEC.md and PLAN.md into PR description (summary) and discard

("Ask question" means an interactive prompt that appears for the user. Each step is gated by this prompt — it holds off further progress, giving you a chance to review and modify the result in small bits you can actually reason about.)
The workflow: you accept all changes before confirming the next step. This way you get code deltas that make sense. You can review and understand them, and if something's wrong you can modify by hand (especially renames, which editors like VS Code handle nicely) or prompt for a change. The LLM is instructed to proceed only when the re-asked answer is "ok".

This works with systems like VSCode Copilot, not so much with CC cli.

I'm looking forward to an automated setup where the "human" is replaced by an "LLM judge" — I think you could already design a fairly efficient system like this, but for my work LLMs aren't quite there yet.

That said, there's an aspect that shouldn't be forgotten: this interactive approach keeps you in the driving seat and you know what's happening with the codebase, especially if you're running many of these loops per day. Fully automated solutions leave you outside the picture. You'll quickly get disconnected from what's going on — it'll feel more like a project run by another team where you kind of know what it does on the surface but have no idea how. IMO this is dangerous for long-term, sustainable development.
by nocturn9x | 2026-03-01 10:24:32+00:00
This is a load of BS. First off, SafetyNet is long dead and its replacement is called Play Integrity. Second, I'm currently on a rooted af Samsung Z Flip5 that can use banking apps just fine. My primary bank doesn't even block functionality if you use root, and all the others (except Revolut, which is a tough one) are easy to hide root from, and there's plenty of ways to pass even the strictest Play Integrity checks.
by somat | 2026-03-01 10:25:08+00:00
It is probably true, but it is also a useless statistic, let me explain.

8 billion people, avg lifespan 70 years, 115 million people die each year, percentage in capitalist economic zones... No clue, does china count? but probably 80 to 90% so about 10 years for capitalism to cause a billion deaths.
by crossroadsguy | 2026-03-01 10:25:58+00:00
I wrote off ChatGPT/OpenAI because of Sam Altman and those eyeball scan things - so sort of even before all this was a rage and centre stage. Sometimes it's just the gut feeling, and while it may not always be accurate, if something doesn't "feel" right, maybe it is not right. No one else is all good either, but what I mean to say is there are some entities/people who repeatedly don't feel right, have things attached to them that never felt right, etc., and you get a combined "gut feeling". At least that's how it was for me.
by Sammi | 2026-03-01 10:26:21+00:00
Before this week I was sure Anthropic were actually just as soulless as OpenAi, just because they don't support open standards like AGENTS.md and /.agents/skills. They can so easily win the support of the open source crowd if they just support open standards like these.

The /.agents/skills issue for claude code is here: https://github.com/anthropics/claude-code/issues/16345

Their automatic close bot will close it soon as it's been three weeks since the last comment.
by p2detar | 2026-03-01 10:26:56+00:00
I disagree. After the bombing, the Emperor himself broadcasted a surrender message [0] to the people of Japan. The occupation was also for more lighter than in Germany. Japan had full control of its administration and its government continued to operate. In that context whether we like or not, it very much worked.

0 - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hirohito_surrender_broadcast
by aryaabyte | 2026-03-01 10:27:13+00:00
Stop copy-pasting MCP configs between Claude Desktop, Cursor, VS Code, and every new AI tool.

Conductor is a native macOS app that gives you one place to manage all your MCP servers and syncs them to 9 clients automatically. It translates between formats (JSON/TOML/XML), stores secrets in your macOS Keychain, and merges rather than overwrites.

9 clients supported
Keychain-backed secrets
7,300+ servers via Smithery registry
MCP Stacks for team onboarding
Open source (MIT), free forever, 100% local
by Jamesbeam | 2026-03-01 10:27:37+00:00
I hope the Iranian people finally get what they deserve, the chance to have a real democracy and to be able to use its full potential as one of the oldest hubs for human knowledge with a lot of brilliant minds and a rich culture to share with the rest of the world.

And with Khamenei hopefully also dies the genre of Iran being portrayed as this mysterious military and intelligence superpower that even the US is afraid of in tv shows and movies.

From a military perspective the biggest joke is that they gave Russia the blueprints for advanced drone technology and the tools to build them in return for a better air defense promised by the Russians.

How did trusting Russia for your air defense work out eh?

Ayatollah took a shit and got dropped 30 pineapples on his head.
Most of the military leadership is dead.
Also a lot of the hardline advisers.

And that was just day one.
They will continue going down their kill lists to keep them destabilized.

I think without boots on the ground or most of the IRCG defecting in return for full amnesty a proper regime change won’t be possible. So this is still a high-risk operation that can go incredibly wrong if Iran decides to no longer attack the us bases but all of its neighbors oil fields in retaliation for letting the US use their airspace freely.

But if there ever was a chance for the Iranian people to retake their independence and freedom it is probably within the next three to four weeks.

Best of luck Iranians.
Show HN: ZcoreAI – Z-score regression channel screener
by tchantchov | 2026-03-01 10:27:58+00:00
Hey HN,

I built ZcoreAI, a quant stock scanner that applies
Donchian-Weighted regression channels to compute
Z-scores across multiple timeframes simultaneously.

The idea: instead of eyeballing charts, you get a
matrix of Z-score values per ticker per timeframe
in one scan — so you can spot statistically
overbought/oversold signals across your watchlist
in seconds.

How it works:
- Pick timeframes (1m to 1wk)
- Pick tickers (or use the preloaded free watchlist)
- Hit scan — regression channels + Z-scores are
computed client-side via yfinance

Stack: Python, Streamlit, yfinance, NumPy.
Deployed on Render.

Free tier available, no signup required to scan.

Happy to discuss the regression channel methodology
or any feedback on the approach.

Hey HN,

I built ZcoreAI, a quant stock scanner that applies
Donchian-Weighted regression channels to compute
Z-scores across multiple timeframes simultaneously.

The idea: instead of eyeballing charts, you get a
matrix of Z-score values per ticker per timeframe
in one scan — so you can spot statistically
overbought/oversold signals across your watchlist
in seconds.

How it works:
- Pick timeframes (1m to 1wk)
- Pick tickers (or use the preloaded free watchlist)
- Hit scan — regression channels + Z-scores are
computed client-side via yfinance

Stack: Python, Streamlit, yfinance, NumPy.
Deployed on Render.

Free tier available, no signup required to scan.

Happy to discuss the regression channel methodology
or any feedback on the approach.

https://www.zcoreai.com/
by M95D | 2026-03-01 10:29:07+00:00
But then, you have to learn the sortcuts (if there are any) or click first to open it, then click button/funciton, which is 50% slower.

Also, classic button bars were customizable. You could add/remove/group buttons in any order you like. And there were lots and lots of buttons that were not present in any of the default toolbars. The ribbon is fixed AFAIK.
by lxgr | 2026-03-01 10:29:08+00:00
> It's still in the standard.

Yes, because hardware authenticators (like Yubikeys) still commonly support it, and it makes sense there.

I guess they could add an explicit remark like "synchronized credentials must not support attestation", and given the amount of FUD this regularly seems to generate I'd appreciate that. But attestation semantics seem to be governed more by FIDO than the W3C, so putting that in the WebAuthN spec would be a bit awkward, I think.
by notwhalee | 2026-03-01 10:29:14+00:00
I built a TUI that's the perfect companion for Claude Code.

Here's the workflow I was stuck in:

1. Ask Claude: "Which files are related to the authentication flow?"
2. Claude gives me a list
3. I copy-paste file paths, open them one by one
4. Lose track of what Claude told me
5. Repeat

Claude is great at file discovery. But it doesn't help you keep context visible, integrated with your editor, and navigable.

ws solves this by becoming the output layer for Claude's understanding:
- Claude skill finds all files related to your feature
- ws saves them and displays them in a focused tree
- Press e to open any file, / to fuzzy search
- Git status inline, per-branch persistence

Now the workflow is:
1. `/ws:map authentication flow`
2. Claude finds files, automatically adds them to ws
3. Everything Claude knows about your feature is right there in your terminal

It's like giving Claude Code a dedicated UI for context. The agent discovers, ws displays.

https://github.com/n-filatov/ws
by totetsu | 2026-03-01 10:29:19+00:00
Okay, I’m inclined to agree there.. but I can’t find the reference now, I also read that the worry is that the complexity required is coming down fast, and while maybe it’s not going to happen in a basement , there could be a small scale lab, not subject to rigorous certifications and checks that offers crisper as a service, and ai could be used to .. just perturb a protein a little bit so it doesn’t trigger some known virus black list, and people could just be ordering things online.
by whstl | 2026-03-01 10:31:38+00:00
Not disagreeing, but apart from coding the most boring part of the entire job is the one that's the hardest to correctly delegate to AI: testing and ensuring the whole thing is sound.

Which is why it's changing the calculus on junior devs: if you're not mature enough to do self-review and self-QA, you're just dead weight for the team/company.
by lxgr | 2026-03-01 10:32:13+00:00
I think it's actually the RP being broken, not my authenticator. Conceptually, it's the RP's burden to either avoid this situation or allow eventual consistency:

There's an explicit mechanism in WebAuthN to avoid duplicate credential generation (excludeCredentials). If a RP still insists on rotating, what they should be doing is to first add the new credential, perform a successful authentication with it, and then retire the old one.

So the problem only happens if a "single passkey only" site does not support excludeCredentials, as far as I can tell.
by ryangibb | 2026-03-01 10:32:45+00:00
As far as I can tell, checking for proc macro crates by suffix, only one: ergol -> ergol_proc_macro with >=0.0.1, <0.0.2.

I didn't include singular dependencies in this grep (=) just upper bounds (< and <=).

Some rough scripting is telling me there's over 600,000 singular dependencies of which just under 10,000 are proc-macro pairs.
by peteforde | 2026-03-01 10:32:57+00:00
I see this over and over again. I don't dispute your experience. My experience with ESP32 development has been unreasonably positive. My codebase is sitting around 600k LoC and is the product of several hundred Opus 4.x Plan -> Agent -> Debug loops. I review everything that goes through, but I'm reviewing the business logic and domain gotchas, not dumb crap like what you and so many others describe.

What is so strange to me is that surely there is more C# out there than ESP-IDF code? I don't have a good explanation beyond saying that my codebase is extensively tested and used; I would know very quickly if it suddenly started shitting the bed in the way you explain.
by kdheiwns | 2026-03-01 10:34:31+00:00
Yesterday was my first time trying it. One thing that felt a bit strange to me was that I asked it something and the response was just one paragraph. Which isn't bad or anything but it felt... strange? Like I always need to preface ChatGPT/gemini/whatever question with "Briefly, what is..." or it gives me enough fluff to fill a 5 page high school essay. But I didn't need to do that and just got an answer that was to the point and without loads of shit that's barely related.

And the weirdest thing that I noticed: instead of skimming the response to try finding what was relevant, I just straight up read it. Kind of felt like I got a slight amount of focus ability back.

Accuracy is something I can't really compare yet (all chatbots feel generally the same for non-pro level queries), but so far, I'm fairly satisfied.
by prmph | 2026-03-01 10:35:05+00:00
One other thing that is often ignored: Most of the business class, executive class, ... even working class, DON'T want to write code.

The reasons vary, but in general, just as some people don't want to touch maths (even if they might be good at it if they tried), some people loathe the very idea of being technical, either because they think it is beneath them, or they just don't see themselves that way.

And like the article explains, even when "programming" tools seem to become simpler to use, they still require technical specification, and once people feel like they are getting close to "programming" they check out.
by queenkjuul | 2026-03-01 10:35:09+00:00
I get where you're coming from. Every US administration has been corrupt, flaunted the constitution, started illegal wars (at least in the last 100 years or so)

It does kind of drive me nuts that people don't remember Bush very well, and give Obama and Biden passes on their own crimes.

That said, i do honestly believe that Trump has taken the level of corruption and abject cruelty to a new level. But this was inevitable; both parties have spent 50 years building this reality. I won't be surprised when the next Democrat also deports millions and starts illegal wars.
Brain's "RAM" and "Hard Drive"
by 0ut0flin3 | 2026-03-01 10:37:14+00:00
The brain doesn’t have a separate “RAM drawer” or “hard drive” like your PC. There isn’t a single dedicated component that stores data. Everything is distributed across networks of neurons and synapses that are constantly changing.
However, the RAM vs. Hard Disk metaphor is incredibly helpful for understanding how it actually works.
Here’s the clear, up-to-date comparison (drawing from neuroscience findings 2010–2025, including the Salk Institute, Stanford, and Scientific American):
1. The brain’s “RAM” → Working Memory

What it does: Holds information right here and now while you’re using it (e.g., remembering a phone number while you dial it, following a conversation, or doing mental math).
Where it lives: Mainly in the prefrontal cortex + hippocampus.
Capacity: Extremely limited
– The classic “7 ± 2” rule by George Miller (1956)
– Today we know it’s more realistically 3–5 “chunks” (Cowan 2010, confirmed in 2025)
– It lasts only a few seconds (max 20–30 without rehearsal).
Example: Try to remember these 9 numbers: 3-7-2-8-4-9-1-6-5. Easy? Now try without writing them down. That’s your biological RAM hitting its limit.

2. The brain’s “Hard Drive” → Long-Term Memory

What it does: Stores everything worth keeping — memories, knowledge, skills, and emotions tied to events.
Where it lives: Not in one place! It’s distributed across the entire cerebral cortex (engrams = scattered memory traces). The hippocampus acts as a “bridge”, transferring information from working memory into stable long-term storage (consolidation happens mostly during sleep).
Mechanism: Changes in the synapses (long-term potentiation — LTP). Each synapse can store roughly 4.7 bits of information (Salk Institute 2016, confirmed 2024).
Capacity: Practically unlimited for an entire lifetime.
More reliable estimates:
– ~ 2.5 petabytes (2.5 million gigabytes) — Scientific American 2010
– At least 1 petabyte just in the hippocampus (Salk 2016 — 10× more than previously thought)
– With astrocytes (the “support” cells recently discovered to help with storage) the capacity is even higher (MIT study 2025).In practice: it never fills up. It’s nothing like a hard drive that hits 100% and says “disk full”.
The real limits aren’t about space, but:
– Interference (new memories overwriting old ones)
– Retrieval problems (you forget because you can’t find the “path” to the memory anymore, not because the space is gone).