MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by CMLewis | 2026-03-13 23:23:55+00:00
Yeah QMD is quite impressive! The main difference between us and them is the scale folks would be looking at indexing. The serverless ingestion engine I described in the post is optimized for processing large batch jobs with high concurrency. We depend on a lot of cloud compute for this which isn't something QMD's local-first environment is optimized for. That said, it's a great option for OpenClaw!
by joemi | 2026-03-13 23:24:52+00:00
MacOS does more than just give you a warning when you're opening a program not vetted by them -- it prevents you from opening it, so that's not really a good example of education, and is in fact an example of lockdown.

I'm not arguing that anything get any more locked down than it already is, so your points (while possibly valid in a bigger discussion) don't make a lot of sense here in this discussion about a hypothetical "unlock phone" setting.
by inglor_cz | 2026-03-13 23:25:14+00:00
Rockets are notoriously complicated, though. Only a few nations even managed to get to the orbit, and not for a lack of trying.

SpaceX is a rare bird - a space startup that actually achieved not just spaceflight, but (so far only partial) reusability of launchers. Most space startups died long before that, including Carmack's Armadillo Aerospace. Given that they are gone, we don't think of them often, but the total graveyard of defunct space startups is quite sizeable.

Russia seems to be slowly losing their space capabilities. The EU still does not have a human-rated launcher. These aren't small entities either.

Getting to space is a dangerous business with extremely thin security margins, where previous experience matters a lot.

I think China will eventually have reusable rockets, but it will take some time.
by wtallis | 2026-03-13 23:25:50+00:00
Well, shit. Google Fiber has been the least-bad residential ISP I've dealt with. They put the fear of Competition in all the other ISPs in town, giving us an immediate free speed boost years before Google Fiber actually made it to our neighborhood.

But more than most Google projects, it's always been clear that they could at any time get bored with it and give up.
by wolvoleo | 2026-03-13 23:26:23+00:00
Relationships aren't all about sex. That's the incel/extreme right vision.

I saw a skit on insta a few weeks ago about a girl saying she had a guy over for just cuddling and the incels piled on calling him a cuck. As is a woman is worthless if she won't put out and time spent being close is wasted without sex. It's ridiculous. These guys are so focused on what their hardliner bros want them to be that they no longer think about their own feelings. PS I go on cuddling dates sometimes and it's really amazing :) They don't know what they are missing.
by jrmg | 2026-03-13 23:28:17+00:00
This seems like a weird hangup. Is it likely?

Taking these films back in the 60s might’ve been illegal, but has anyone actually been prosecuted for it in modern times? Haven’t other lost episodes been recovered from ‘illegitimate’ sources without issue?

If it’s a real risk, it also seems weird to me that it’s apparently known that some people have these. Like, if there was really appetite for prosecuting them wouldn’t that be enough to start an investigation?
by dtkav | 2026-03-13 23:28:56+00:00
We let docs converge independently. This is a problem for bases in the current sync engine, but something we're resolving soon with "continuous-background-sync". I think it is also more scalable and matches the file model better.

We landed on folder-level sync rather than vault-level sync, so we have a map CRDT that corresponds with each shared folder. In our model these CRDTs are the ones that can explode, whereas the doc-level ones can kind of be fixed up by dragging it out of the folder and back in again which grabs a new "inode" for it.

If I were to start again I think I'd try to build a file-based persistence layer based on prolly-trees to better adhere to the file-over-app philosophy.
by yoyohello13 | 2026-03-13 23:29:11+00:00
I think ad tech is probably the single most destructive technology of the new millennium. The shift toward "engagement at all costs" business strategies is basically the root cause of societies current political polarization. Engagement bait cultivates fear and rage in the populace to get clicks. We are now seeing the consequences of shoving ads that sow fear, anger, doubt and inadequacy into peoples faces 24/7. This doesn't even touch on the fact that mass surveillance is only possible because of the technologies forged by the Ad tech industry.
by Burnsedia | 2026-03-13 23:29:39+00:00
Hey HN - I just build a django opencode agent suite
It’s a markdown-first OpenCode agent pack for spec-driven Django monolith workflows, aimed at solo Django devs and small teams.
Core idea: use AI for fast scaffolding/review, but keep humans in control of business logic and enforce safety with local-only blocking checks.
What it includes:
- One-click install for Django-focused agents, commands, skills, and local tools
- Default flow: spec -> architecture -> scaffold -> review
- Local blocking quality gate: ruff, black, manage.py check, pytest
- Guardrails for permissions and service-layer boundaries
- Migration/release safety baked into the workflow
Why I built it:
- AI moves fast but can still produce risky Django patterns
- Solo devs need speed without losing production safety
- Small teams need repeatable architecture + review discipline
Install:
curl -fsSL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/Burnsedia/Django-Agent/mas... | bash
I’d love feedback on:
1) Whether local-only quality gates are enough for your workflow
2) What Django monolith pain point you’d want automated next
by erxam | 2026-03-13 23:29:43+00:00
It really depends on what stage of a regime's lifecycle you apply it at.

Obviously it's not going to be as extreme and as simple as 'go shoot people house-to-house until you're powerful :D', but repression is much more often than not effective. Think of the Arab Spring, the 2018 color coup attempt in Nicaragua, etc.

Hell, even if the incentives are completely misaligned, you can get away with it as long as you're strong and ruthless enough. The whole world thought Myanmar's military junta would implode and break under the weight of all the freedom fighters… and it's still hanging around, not the worse for wear. If you're willing to burn everything to the ground before you lose power, you can often raise the stakes to a level the other party simply can't afford.

> Unless you aspire to the way of life in places like North Korea

Here's the thing: the right-wingers already aspire to that way of life. They will implement it. At this point, it's not about whether I aspire to live like that, but about who's going to take the reins of power of that type of political structure.

Better us than them.
by netsharc | 2026-03-13 23:30:18+00:00
Man, talk about unnecessary graphs... ok graph 2 is maybe tolerable, although it's showing the popularity of the projects, not a metric of how many errors/vulnerabilities found in those projects.

I'm not a newspaper editor, but I think if this was an article for one, they'd also say the graphs are unnecessary. It smells of "I need some visual stuff to make this text interesting"...
by autoexec | 2026-03-13 23:30:26+00:00
No, certain people will be a good fit for most jobs, but many jobs would leave you miserable even if you never knew anything else. People born into slavery weren't happy about it. What we know is that there is an amount of money/possessions that people need to be safe, secure, healthy, and satisfied and that abundance beyond that does very little to improve their happiness.
by echelon | 2026-03-13 23:31:05+00:00
Why did Tesla work initially? Because they were first to market and people were willing to overlook flaws?

When did it start falling apart?

Why hasn't the same happened to SpaceX? (Gov contracts, too big to fail, national defense, no competition yet, etc.?)

And honestly, why hasn't anyone domestically put up a decent fight against Tesla? Best I can think of is Rivian, and those have their own issues.
by colechristensen | 2026-03-13 23:31:18+00:00
I can't imagine the low end materials actually save that much cost anyway.

There's a tremendous amount of Bill-of-Materials inflation where a part that cost $5 more translates to $50 retail price increase when the actual work and engineering cost is exactly the same. This is one of the terribly annoying facts of product design, the incredible premium you have to pay for good parts that don't actually cost very much at all.
by ClayShentrup | 2026-03-13 23:31:23+00:00
a common fallacy of basic logic.

with FPTP, strategic voting means NOT voting for your favorite. so at the very least, you'd "vote for the person you'd normally support under FPTP, _plus_ everyone you like better".

but in real life, a lot of people will use intermediate scores.

https://www.rangevoting.org/RVstrat6
by airstrike | 2026-03-13 23:31:25+00:00
Glad you like it! I've been listening to it nonstop.

The core is database of >9k songs tagged by mood (and a fun fact!). Coming up with the right 2 axes for the mood (solitary <-> social, chill <-> intense) took a few iterations. I think I need to get the number of songs to about 20–30k soon, to add more variety.

Then there's an algorithm to determine which song to sample given the mood/year combo and song attributes, which forms a radio schedule. You can see some of those song attributes by visiting a song's detailed page (click on the "now playing" marque text or visit /stats and search).

I've added keyboard shortcuts and the rest is just polish!
by throwaway5752 | 2026-03-13 23:31:29+00:00
Of course it is Erik Prince's company.

to clarify: Erik Prince founded Blackwater, of the Nisour Square Massacre infamy in the GW Bush administration. He is deeply tied to Republican politics, mercenary work, and particularly the Trump administration. He is IPOing an autonomous lethal drone company, Swarmer, and his other company, Vectrus, is behind the events of this article.
by matthewmc3 | 2026-03-13 23:31:57+00:00
Wow... that's... incredible. I've used Hammerspoon forever and never knew that existed.

Just messing around I found you can extend the grid size with `hs.grid.setGrid('4x4')`, which you also may then want to shrink the text size with `hs.grid.ui.textSize = 30`, and finally if you use an alternative keyboard layout (eg: Colemak), you can set the grid to use it with `hs.grid.HINTS`. They really thought of everything with this feature.
by ClayShentrup | 2026-03-13 23:32:08+00:00
what's so bad about IRV?

https://www.rangevoting.org/CoreSuppPocket
https://www.rangevoting.org/BayRegsFig

https://web.archive.org/web/20190219005733/https://sites.goo...

https://clayshentrup.medium.com/later-no-harm-72c44e145510
https://clayshentrup.medium.com/star-voting-is-simpler-than-...
by zimpenfish | 2026-03-13 23:32:26+00:00
> You said it wasn't from Synthet, but they did release a video ~2 weeks ago which talked about exactly that.

Good grief, I thought it might be that video but somehow completely blanked on it when I double-checked and decided it wasn't. Thanks for actually checking usefully!

(Synthet videos are almost always worth a watch even if you can't remember them a couple of weeks later. Old age, innit.)
by Sl1mb0 | 2026-03-13 23:32:33+00:00
> care more that their work is prosocial

These takes are always so funny to me. The whole reason we even have the internet is because the US government needed a way for parties to be able to communicate in the event of nuclear fallout. The benefits that a technology provides is almost always secondary to their applications in warfare. Researchers can claim to care that their work is pro-social, and they may genuinely believe it; but let's not kid ourselves that that is actually the case. The development of technology is simply due to the reality of nations being in a constant arms race against one another.

Even funnier is that researchers (people who are supposed to be really smart) either ignore or are blissfully unaware of this fact. When you take that into consideration, the pro-social argument falls on its face, and you're left with the reality that they do this to satiate their ego.
by disrael | 2026-03-13 23:33:19+00:00
I like what you've done but doesn't

Our highest priority is to satisfy the customer through early and continuous delivery of valuable software.

need changing also? I think the software needs to be delivered early and continuously, but not necessarily to the customer in production.

Delivering directly to the customer made sense when there was much less software in the world and nearly anything you made was useful. These days the last thing customers need is more half baked software to have to evaluate.
Pick one of catastrophic or equitable. Are founder clean breaks possible?
by mehctothroaway | 2026-03-13 23:33:43+00:00
I'm the CTO of a seed-stage B2B fintech SaaS startup. We just closed our $5M seed round. It took us far longer than we would have liked to raise, but we now have plenty of runway. A fair, but not great, number of customers, some of whom REALLY like our product. But we're still far from profitable and our growth numbers are eh. It's hard, but not impossible, for us to stay differentiated from the larger players in our space. We recently launched a large product that's requiring us to go after a new target market. We're pretty confident in our hypothesis here, but time will tell. Time will tell is maybe the best way to describe the current state of the company. Nothing's going wrong. But are we the high-growth company we and our investors thought we'd be? Not really. We have a small engineering team but no one that I'd immediately tap as a successor.

I've been cracking away at this with my two cofounders (I'm the only technical cofounder) since late '21. I'm not burnt out per se, but I'm not really feeling it. The work isn't as intrinsically motivating as it used to be (and I'm struggling to find the extrinsic motivation, as rational as it should be to find, fwiw). I've found this isn't my calling in life. Outside of work, I've maintained a strong passion for and involvement in law. I'm not looking for career advice about law school. It's something that I have strong enough conviction that I will find far more fulfilling than my startup.

What I am asking is if a clean break is possible given my vested equity. Yes, people quit startups (and change careers) all the time. But do founders leave without completely blowing up what they started? Do they do so equitably? How would an investor not scoff at the idea of buying the technical founder out early? What if I just want to sell my equity to just pay for a portion of law school (at a value well below our "FMV"). Or is this hubris to think that they'd see me as the lynchpin of the company? How do these things go in the real world? I haven't built up the startup-street-smarts to know this yet.

I haven't told either of my cofounders or any of our advisors about this. I don't want to rock the boat (yet). If the reality is that this would be catastrophic, then I'm prepared to shut up and I guess keep CTOing for another year in the hope for an exit that I don't see as particularly likely quite yet.
by Perenti | 2026-03-13 23:33:45+00:00
Just a note on the website, I thought at first my browser had been hijacked by a shipping or travel agent. The first impression is how AI has improved ship tracking, so you can now track ships with 98% accuracy, with little to no hint this is AI infrastructure until you scroll down.

If you know what Captain is, this is not an issue. I closed the browser tab at first, thinking "what the hell is this, I don't give a damn about shipping forecasts"
by Doctor_Fegg | 2026-03-13 23:33:53+00:00
Switching modes like that was common practice on the Amstrad CPC (which used the same 6845 video chip), but as time went on, people also learned how to change the base address of screen RAM part way through each frame. This gave you super-smooth hardware scrolling for the main game area while still retaining a static score display. Unfortunately it came too late in the machine's history to be used for more than a handful of games, but demo coders used it extensively (and still do).
by pycoclaw | 2026-03-13 23:34:07+00:00
As a robot it literally can program itself; it becomes its own firmware engineer, and can adapt its own code.

As an assistant, it remembers everything, up to the limit of its 2TB sdcard, both facts and vectors, but can still reach out to say Google sheets.

As a plaything , it's a tamagotchi on steroids with it own character that responds to voice.

---

Lets say you had an unknown EV motor on a CAN bus. You want to make it run, but you don’t now the right protocols, or the right codes. An LLM does, or can work it out. You ask the device, as you would ask an experienced firmware engineer, play with this motor until you make it work. So the LLM does, and when it has the code working, it creates a skill that runs the motor when a pedal on CAN bus is pressed. No more firmware engineer.

Or lets say you want to build a wearable that runs on batteries for a long time, so need a mW class processor that can store all your context, and goes with you everywhere, the pendant, the clasp, the buckle. You speak to it with your earbuds, it only knows wake words but streams your audio to the LLM. Its not just a chat bot. It is the agent that stores your whole digital life .

Or maybe, because it’s a $2 part, it’s whimsical, like a tamagotchi or a bag charm. Take care of me and I respond, but I help you too. ‘You tell stuff to me you don’t want to tell Google or Apple, or even your best friend’.

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The key is this is not a chat bot, it’s an embodied OpenClaw class agent, take it where you will, on whatever LLM you will. And it’s so cheap, you can tie it to your service and give it away.

As for speed, ask yourself, how does numpy work? The answer to that is exactly why pycoClaw works. Its 20K LOC fast path is in C , but it’s exposed to the Agent as Python, because it has to be. It has to be run time modifiable, because thats what an agent needs, because an agent is ‘just’ a while loop with a REPL. The key is what the LLM populates the REPL with.

The LLM is the tokens in, tokens out intelligence, but it turns out the Agent or Harness is where the power really lies.

pycoClaw is the LLM harness for hardware.
by skydhash | 2026-03-13 23:34:21+00:00
If you're in emacs, you can use `bug-reference-mode`

https://www.gnu.org/software//emacs/manual/html_node/emacs/B...

As for the python backtrace, what you need is to set `compilation-error-regexp-alist` and use `compilation-minor-mode`.

https://www.gnu.org/software//emacs/manual/html_node/emacs/C...
by SlinkyOnStairs | 2026-03-13 23:34:37+00:00
> I honestly don't think a lot of executives even know how much they're shooting themselves in the foot because they seem unable to think beyond the first order.

It's just so depressing. You see Microsoft and Google's CEOs being completely reckless with investment & the economy. And it's just ... HAVE THEY NOT LOOKED INTO A MIRROR? DO THEY NOT REALIZE THEY ARE THE FALL GUYS?!

Nevermind how the vast majority of major CEOs can't even run a business anymore. An old boys club of morons running the entire economy.

> And they could ensure through that advocacy for labor that we see the happiest ending with respect to rolling out LLMs.

It's just more of the same old "Software dev doesn't need unions". The top 1% always think they're pointless because they made it without unions.

> Unfortunately I don't really believe labor has much teeth anymore, and tech will wake up too late to do anything about it.

Amusingly, I hold the opposite sentiment.

Labor isn't going anywhere. These executives and managers can barely tie their own shoelaces. Big Tech and the current startup scene are laughably dysfunctional.

The moment the economic recession really starts to set in, everyone's gonna try to cut down their SaaS spending. Then, the days of being able to shit out some (AI or not) slop and charge double price will be well and truly over.

Once software firms have to compete on quality again, labor is going to be more important than ever.

AI may not even be meaningfully involved in software dev. To break even at the API prices would require charging on the order of 1-2 thousand dollars, per month, per seat. Factoring in long term training costs will will make that several times worse.

... Before we consider that we're probably heading into an oil crisis making energy and computer hardware much more expensive.

I doubt employers are going to pay the $10,000/month/seat required to make AI profitable for everyone in the supply chain. Certainly not during the worst recession this side of WWII.
by bediger4000 | 2026-03-13 23:35:00+00:00
Sorry, I misread you. Paper ballots don't eliminate incentives for tampering, but they certainly lessen them, and make it harder. Paper ballots can be recounted, by hand if need be, and audited (risk limiting audits). Nothing will eliminate the incentive to tamper if ideology pushes it (Qanon) or policy positions are religious doctrine, but very unpopular (use imagination). We can certainly decrease the incentives.

My state (CO) emails me when my ballot is in the mail, when they receive it back from me, and after it's counted. Practices vary, I guess.

This raises another question: what happens to mail in ballots of Trump and Project 2025 destroy or privatize the USPS?
by jarrettcoggin | 2026-03-13 23:35:01+00:00
Definitely one approach to the circumstances. I tried some variation of this and it blew up in my face (as I expected ).

Towards the end of my time there, a “fixer” was brought in to shore up the team that I was working on. The “fixer” also became my manager when they were brought on.

The “fixer” proceeded to fire 70+% of the team over the course of 6-8 months and install a bunch of yes people, in addition to wasting about $2,000,000 on a subscription to rebuild our core product with a framework product no one on the team knew. I was told to deploy said framework product on top of Kubernetes (which not a single person on my team had any experience with) while delivering on other in-flight projects. I ignored the whole thing.

I ended up deciding I was done with Tesla and went into a regularly scheduled 1:1 with my manager (the “fixer”) with a written two-weeks notice in hand, only to be fired (with 6-weeks severance, thankfully) before I was able to say anything about giving notice.

One of the best ways to get fired in my opinion.
by dismalaf | 2026-03-13 23:35:13+00:00
The "development model" of open source is that one person code dumps, another takes, changes it then dumps it, another picks up the copy with the changes, changes it again, and so on. Sometimes it finds it's way back.

A bazaar is a chaotic market with a million vendors, not anything remotely cooperative. The Cathedral and the Bazaar is meant to convey the idea that OSS code develops without central organization, through endless forking and cloning.

The bazaar model definitely isn't the cooperation and vibes model that the HN crowd thinks it is...
by elcritch | 2026-03-13 23:36:01+00:00
Partially true, but it's more complicated than this. Especially for Christianity.

Christianity did spread initially through the Roman empire despite broad persecutions by the state until Constantine legalized it. There's also evidence Christianity spread to Europe in the 2nd century before Constantine. It also spread to Ethiopia, Assyria, and even India, mostly by trade routes.

Christianity afterwards did spread with various European empires, but it also acted as a restraining hand as well. Some Christian missionaries went against the colonial states, in particular Protestant ones.