MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by SoftTalker | 2026-03-09 18:03:36+00:00
In reality the way it would work is the prosecutor and police would use every bit of circumstantial evidence to construct a claim of motive, means, and opportunity. Then threaten you with a lengthy prison sentence if you are convicted.

You're not going to roll on whoever really did it (assuming you know), and trust your fate to a jury understanding presumption of innocence, and being convinced of "reasonable" doubt, without you saying a word in your own defense? Most people would not unless they had an iron-clad alibi, but if they did, they wouldn't be getting charged in the first place.
by vessenes | 2026-03-09 18:04:18+00:00
As someone who owned a dreamcast and stayed in line all night for a PS2, I can say that the DVD player functionality was HUGE. It was many, many people's first DVD player, and priced so that the game console was nearly 'free' on top of it.

The Dreamcast still got played post-PS2 purchase, but not much - fighting games, mostly. PS2's catalog was very, very strong and the combo just dominated.
by idiotsecant | 2026-03-09 18:04:25+00:00
>Which to we ignore for coal? Cost to build a new plant? Cost to run? The decommissioning costs? (Yes we ignore the externalities, and no I don't think we should burn coal. My point is Nuclear has yet to pay its way anywhere in the world, without heavy heavy govt support - far exceeding that given to renewables)

Yes, all three. Building a nuke plant without the additional concern for outcome that we put on nuke would be relatively inexpensive. It's just concrete, pumps, and a turbine. It's a ismilar level of complexity to a coal plant. Same with running cost, same with decommissioning costs.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kingston_Fossil_Plant_coal_fly...

Suppose we designed, operated, and budgeted every coal plant to make accidents like this a statistical impossibility. Not very unlikely, that's not the standard we hold nuke to. An impossiblity. Imagine what that would cost.
by Waterluvian | 2026-03-09 18:04:32+00:00
We’re were photocopying photocopies. But I guess if you’re taking two copies and tracing a third that is based on them but doesn’t actually have to be a facsimile, it gives nature more flexibility?

Like I’m not sure it actually works this way but I can intuit why it’s possible, given the new life doesn’t have to be an exact replication.
by bluefirebrand | 2026-03-09 18:04:34+00:00
> If policing is done by robots, then humans are expected to be infallible

The reality is that the people doing the policing are counting on humans not being infallible

Fines have become an important revenue stream, that's why they are being automated.

Now that this is becoming more widespread, there's a perverse incentive for governments to maximize the difficulty in avoiding fines. Lower the speed limit on roads designed for higher speeds for "safety", etc
by 0x3f | 2026-03-09 18:04:40+00:00
The state is so powerful that inviduals should be given such affordances, and should be allowed the put the state to strict proof.

Europe is a nonsense in this regard: you have rights, except all the special cases when you don't. You have a right to free speech, except for all the ways in which you don't. You have the right to silence, except when you don't.

Which is also true in the US, after all they restrict obscenity as a form of speech. It's just that they have much fewer exceptions.
by paroneayea | 2026-03-09 18:04:51+00:00
Wow, sorry, but given how incredibly insecure all the "claw" agent type things are right now, does this really sound wise at all?

It sees everything you do, really? What's it gonna do with that data? You don't know.

Put all your customer data in there, all your customer relationships. It's fine, it couldn't leak all that information, it couldn't screw up any sensitive business details I'm sure. This is gonna go great.

Sorry AFK everybody I'm gonna go get myself a VibeMBA.

Anyway, good luck, I'm really looking forward to the user stories in a few weeks! I'm sure this won't go badly at all.
by greygoo222 | 2026-03-09 18:05:03+00:00
There probably are reasonable methods of estimation that would say suffering associated with factory farms currently outweighs suffering occurring in the wild, though I don't know if I agree. However, factory farms are both relatively recent and temporary. It's hard to defend the position that humanity vanishing tomorrow would reduce net suffering in the long run. If nothing else, another industrial species will eventually replace us, and there's little reason to believe they'll be any better.

Of course, I personally have higher hopes for intelligent life than merely not causing massive suffering. That brings me to another tangent: Are you vegan?

I am. You might be, but I'm estimating you probably aren't. You can go vegan, it's easier than you think, and if you don't think you can commit, being 90% vegan is 90% as good as being 100% vegan. All thought experiments aside, you can be a part of making a better world, right now.

You can also make donations: https://funds.effectivealtruism.org/funds/animal-welfare
by chasd00 | 2026-03-09 18:05:07+00:00
I'd like to see the youtuber GrowlingSidewinder reproduce the scenario in DCS. The F18 and AIM9 are completely modeled in DCS and about as accurate of a sim as it gets.

Here's his sim (at least he first few min) of the situation a few days ago but facing SAMs and not F18s
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V7XpVcUV_vQ
by crote | 2026-03-09 18:05:19+00:00
> If someone shot a person with my gun, I would invoke the fifth amendment, and ask the government to prove who did it beyond a reasonable doubt.

Sounds nice on paper, but unless you have an absolutely airtight alibi that's a great way to end up in jail. Oh, you were alone at home all night? Well, your neighbor is pretty sure they heard you come home unusually late, and a witness saw someone who kinda-sorta looked like you run away from the crime site, and the victim was sorta-kinda involved in your social circles, and there's video of victim bumping into you a few weeks ago in a bar and you reacting in what could be interpreted as an aggressive way - and it is your gun...

Or you could tell them who you loaned the gun to. Your choice.
by Rohansi | 2026-03-09 18:05:24+00:00
It's relevant for data it hasn't been trained on. LLMs are trained to be all-knowing which is great as a utility but that does not come close to capturing an individual.

If I trained (or, more likely, fine-tuned) an LLM to generate code like what's found in an individual's GitHub repositories, could you comfortably say it writes code the same way as that individual? Sure, it will capture style and conventions, but what about our limitations? What do you think happens if you fine-tune a model to write code like a frontend developer and ask it to write a simple operating system kernel? It's realistically not in their (individual) data but the response still depends on the individual's thought process.
by mikrl | 2026-03-09 18:05:27+00:00
In North America, from what I understand, the issue is that the authorities need to verify your identity in order to ticket you and traffic cameras don’t do that whereas a police officer does.

I agree the automated systems are impartial, but they cannot ID you without it becoming super invasive.

In Europe and places with more omnipresent cameras, the laws are such that they can ticket you without needing to ID. The car gets the ticket so to speak.
by joecool1029 | 2026-03-09 18:05:37+00:00
Americans/Canadians (and I guess Asians since they won't ship there) don't waste your time reading this, they have a Mediatek SoC and made the choice long ago to not touch these markets. The devices will not carry the band support needed for these markets.

Europeans, I guess good luck, have fun. I followed them in the early days and ran early builds of Sailfish on the N9, had high hopes but have long given up on them.

EDIT: I will say though I'm still impressed by the libhybris project which went on to make it possible to run linux distros on android SoC's, but the guy who did that for Jolla I think is not with the company anymore for some time.
by mrguyorama | 2026-03-09 18:05:56+00:00
Worse. We were told we couldn't have happy, cruelty free meat because it would be expensive. We were told we couldn't have clean meat because it would be expensive. We couldn't have sustainable meat because it's too expensive. We couldn't reduce the environmental harms of meat because it's too expensive. We couldn't have locally produced meat because it's too expensive.

Well we got none of those things. But beef steak is still $25 a pound. I don't really care if it gets more expensive because at current prices I can't eat it regularly anyway and rich assholes will have no problems eating their steaks every day even at $100 a pound so why don't we just have a sustainable, clean, less cruel industry?

Countries reduced their demand of our meat, because of horseshit tradewar games, and yet the price went up. Demand for American industrial crops like soybeans, which is used significantly as a cattle feed, cratered, to the point we will have to hand the farms tens of billions of dollars, yet somehow beef still got more expensive. Meat processing uses illegal immigrant labor, sometimes even child labor, and all regulation of those facilities has dramatically curtailed under Trump administrations, and yet beef still gets more expensive.

Here's what beef producers say:

>“It’s hard as a beef producer to necessarily say that beef prices are too high. I mean, if people are paying $6 for a latte at Starbucks, but then they’re paying $6 for a pound of beef, they’re able to feed a family for a family of three with that pound of beef,” said Taylon Lienemann, co-owner of Linetics Ranch in Princeton, Nebraksa.

In other words, fuck you pay me. "Starbucks makes great profit so we should make more". The reason for the price increase is a "very small herd", which producers have been reducing because of droughts and otherwise because they don't think the profit is high enough to invest in future production.
by spacemanspiff7 | 2026-03-09 18:06:03+00:00
I vibe coded a workout app that lives in the browser and is totally free unlike all the variants in the app store.

I did this in response to my trainer blowing me off.

Been spending quite a bit of time squashing bugs but it's now relatively stable and functional.

Check it out here, https://www.curlbro.com
by orthogonal_cube | 2026-03-09 18:06:13+00:00
Probably depends on what “consumer-friendly” entails, how it’s stored, and the quantity of data.

If we’re talking the average tech-illiterate to literate-but-cost-and-space-constrained person, probably Blu-Ray. A burner+reader combo with a stack of dual-layer discs is probably cost-effective. High-capacity HDDs would probably be equally effective if you can guarantee that they’re stored away from accidents and mishandling, but if it requires a SATA-to-USB adapter with assembly then it might possibly be out of reach for some consumers, and any risk of damage from movement could rule it out entirely.

If we’re talking tech-savvy consumers who don’t have the IT budget of a corporation, maybe LTO-5 or LTO-6 tapes could work. Tapes themselves are very affordable and have a good shelf lifespan. Used libraries can be had for under $600. The primary issues would be finding one with an interface that works with your existing equipment and software to support tape read and write.
by maxloh | 2026-03-09 18:06:21+00:00
Unfortunately, he didn't attach the source code for the 64-bit x86 emulation layer, or the config used to compile the hosted image.

For a more open-source version, check out container2wasm (which supports x86_64, riscv64, and AArch64 architectures): https://github.com/container2wasm/container2wasm
by ieviev | 2026-03-09 18:06:32+00:00
I have experienced this as well, the performance degradation of DFA to NFA is enormous and while not as bad as exponential backtracking, it's close to ReDoS territory.

The rust version of the engine (https://github.com/ieviev/resharp) just returns an Error instead of falling back to NFA, I think that should be a reasonable approach, but the library is still new so i'm still waiting to see how it turns out and whether i had any oversights on this.
by hersheypoo | 2026-03-09 18:06:36+00:00
Honestly, I've moved away from trying to heavily customize 'off-the-shelf' UI libraries to fight the generic look. Instead, I’m using a 'Headless + Tokens' approach. For data-heavy, generic-looking layouts (tables/forms), I am leaning into Generic TS Components. I'm also focusing on 'Progressive Reduction' of UI. I'm very impressed with your progress as a high school pupil. I wish you the best of luck in your future endeavors! Keep me posted!
by ivaanm | 2026-03-09 18:06:49+00:00
This is really clever. The “no bot joins the meeting” part solves a real social problem, but the more interesting part is preserving speaker attribution without falling back to a generic wall of text. That feels like the key tradeoff most tools gloss over - espicially Granola. Nice job focusing on something practical instead of just adding more AI on top.
by elteto | 2026-03-09 18:06:56+00:00
You don't need to explain anything to the government, that's why we have the 5th amendment. It is the government's job to bring charges against you and prove them beyond reasonable doubt. The government is right to investigate and ask questions to accomplish that and I am right to refuse to answer anything.

It's basically "innocent until proven guilty". Red light cameras turn that assumption around since if your car gets ticketed it is assumed you are "guilty until proven innocent".
by philwelch | 2026-03-09 18:07:09+00:00
> There is some talk of eliminating the leap second, which would over time have the Earth and sun diverge with regards to noon and such

“Over time” really glosses over how much time it would take. In 500 years there might be half as much divergence between solar noon and 12:00pm as we intentionally inflict on ourselves with DST, or that France and Spain inflicted on themselves in the 1940’s so they could share a time zone with Germany. By the time anyone will even notice we will probably change time systems for other reasons anyway. It’s not even remotely comparable to the Julian/Gregorian issue, which dealt with leap days. Each day has 86400 seconds.
by ffsoftboiled | 2026-03-09 18:07:15+00:00
Open Ritual 1.0 is a gender-neutral, open source initiation framework with mutual aid obligation built into the protocol at the moment of initiation — not bolted on afterward.
The distribution model is GitHub. The license is CC BY-SA. Fork it, run it, publish your version.
The one thing that cannot be forked away: the candidate must never know what comes next. Everything else is open.
by boc | 2026-03-09 18:07:39+00:00
Traffic lights can be tuned to create "green waves" that allows for efficient flow of traffic along arteries through a city. You can adjust the timing throughout the day to help alleviate congestion. In rural areas, heavy machinery/commercial vehicles may need to make a very wide turn through the intersection. Traffic circles are fine for a lot of applications but they aren't strictly better than lights in all circumstances.
by CharlieDigital | 2026-03-09 18:07:42+00:00
> Sandboxing and auth is a problem solved at the agent ("harness") level

If you run a homogeneous set of harnesses/runtimes (we don't; some folks are on Cursor, some on Codex, some on Claude, some on OpenCode, some on VS Code GHCP). The only thing that works across all of them? MCP.

Everything about local CLIs and skill files works great as long as you are 1) running in your own env, 2) working on a small, isolated codebase, 3) working in a fully homogeneous environment, 4) each repo only needs to know about itself and not about a broader ecosystem of services and capabilities.

Beyond that, some kind of protocol is necessary to standardize how information is shared across contexts.

That's why my OP prefaced that MCP is critical for orgs and enterprises because it alleviates some of the friction points for standardizing behavior across a fleet of repos and tools.

> You don't need to reinvent OpenAPI badly

You are only latching onto one aspect of MCP servers: tools. But MCP delivers two other critical features: prompts and resources and it is here where MCP provides contextual scaffold over otherwise generic OpenAPI. Tools is perhaps the least interesting of MCP features (though useful, still, in an enterprise context because centralized tools allows for telemetry)

For prompts and resources to work, industry would have to agree on defined endpoints, request/response types. That's what MCP is.
by steve_adams_86 | 2026-03-09 18:07:47+00:00
This seems extremely reductionist in a reckless manner.

You're taking some partial truths (sure, some responses were overblown, though some were frustratingly half-measures too) and making an enormous logical leap that the entire response was "idiotic from start to finish".

You can't assume that because we eventually ended certain interventions, they never did anything at all. You're retrojecting.
by marinerk9 | 2026-03-09 18:07:54+00:00
This is a sharp distinction and you're right to separate them.

Hydra's scope right now is purely Layer 1 observability. You can see that an agent opened a network connection or spawned a subprocess, but you're watching it happen, not blocking it.

The enforcement layer is where it gets interesting and hard. Process-level sandboxing, network allowlists per agent, file access boundaries that's a meaningfully different architecture than just reading nettop output and rendering it. It has to sit below the agent, not alongside it.

It's on the roadmap but I'd rather ship good observability first and build enforcement on top of real usage patterns, rather than guessing at policy rules upfront. The data Hydra collects (which processes talk to which endpoints, what files get touched, resource consumption patterns) is actually the foundation you'd need to define sensible authorization boundaries.

Appreciate the comment this is exactly the kind of thinking that sharpens the project.
by phicoh | 2026-03-09 18:07:58+00:00
Which means that time changes slowly enough that we don't notice. At some point everybody goes work half an hour earlier because it makes sense. Schools start earlier, shops open earlier. It doesn't have to be coordinated worldwide. Every region or even town can have its own customs. Then people notice they are in the wrong time zone and a country moves to a different time zone.

Statistically, nobody on Earth knows what UTC is. People know about their local time zone and how it related to time zones in other countries. Where the position of the sun is relative to UTC, almost nobody knows.
by Tima_fey | 2026-03-09 18:08:03+00:00
Adapted this for adversarial protocol hardening. Same loop: markdown defines formal invariants (scope narrowing, cascade revocation), AI tries to violate them, writes tests for whatever breaks. Found compound edge cases that 359 hand-written tests missed, specifically where scope escalation and spend limit bypass interact simultaneously. Property-based testing (100 random inputs per invariant) pairs well with the pattern.
by daveoc64 | 2026-03-09 18:08:08+00:00
The standard for this in the UK is that you should make a reasonable effort to work out who was driving.

e.g. checking your calendar/diary, looking through receipts or bank statements to work out where you likely were.

There's also a requirement that a request for information is sent within 14 days for minor incidents like speeding or red light violations, so it's not like you have to work out who was driving on a Tuesday morning three years ago.
by mrDmrTmrJ | 2026-03-09 18:08:27+00:00
To be clear, this is not a power-point program but a continuation of a long-standing design work with Bell.

Two articles that cover this in depth are:
1. Revised Fold-Away Rotor Aircraft Concepts Emerge From Special Operations X-Plane Program. December 2024:
https://www.twz.com/air/revised-fold-away-rotor-aircraft-con...

2. Bell’s Plan To Finally Realize A Rotorcraft That Flies Like A Jet But Hovers Like A Helicopter. September 2021:
https://www.twz.com/41997/bells-plan-to-finally-realize-a-ro...

The second article covers decades of prior wind tunnel testing on the folding rotor concept.
by Jbird2k | 2026-03-09 18:08:33+00:00
Absolutely. I have one friend who also goes out and does stuff on his own. Not things organized by the church we attend. He volunteers at a soup kitchen every Sunday. Honestly there are so many things you can do to help others. I find this is the best way to get out of the self pity loneliness loop. Help others and make yourself a benefit to society. It gives us purpose and you gain more than you give typically.
Show HN: Tmuzika – terminal music player written in C (ncurses and GStreamer)
by ivanjeka | 2026-03-09 18:08:35+00:00
Hi HN,

I've been working on a small terminal music player for Linux called tmuzika.

It's written in C, uses ncurses for the terminal interface and GStreamer for audio playback. I started it mainly as a learning project to explore terminal UI development and multimedia handling on Linux.

Main features:
- ncurses terminal interface
- playlist support
- shuffle and repeat modes
- playlist search
- radio stream playback

Source code: https://github.com/ivanjeka/tmuzika

Feedback from developers, suggestions, or contributions are very welcome.
by adrianmonk | 2026-03-09 18:08:41+00:00
You can just add a second line to /etc/passwd with a different username but the same numerical uid. Like this:

altroot:x:0:0:Alternative Root User:/:/bin/sh

Then, of course, run (as root) "passwd altroot" to set a password.

We used to do this all the time for users who needed root access to their own workstation. It allowed us to avoid telling them the common root password used on all the machines in the organization.

In your case, doing this might be beneficial in case there is a network problem because you'll have a way to log in as root locally.
by PredictionPro | 2026-03-09 18:08:44+00:00
This idea was born as a Frankenstein of several ideas. Initially, we wanted to do crypto analysis for investing, sports market analysis, smart-money tracking, following big wallets. Over time, it all evolved into one big melting pot. Enter Polymarket, I think that was a big moment when it all got tied together.

We’ve just launched, and we honestly can’t quite believe we’re here. The platform is live, it works, and we’ve reached this point without doing any real marketing yet.

We’re also using it ourselves and seeing the results firsthand.

No big selling here we’d simply like people to try it out. We are loving what we created.
by initramfs | 2026-03-09 18:08:45+00:00
This is a VERY long thread spanning over 2 years of drama. There is a lot of profanities in the threads. Luke Leighton fled the UK to India out of fear of the medical system, and currently resides with another UK expatriate. An American computer science graduate, Nina Zheng, was also hospitalized attempting to cover the story. Several other extraordinary claims are made, some too numerous to mention or verify:

https://lists.libre-soc.org/pipermail/libre-soc-dev/2026-Mar...