MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by gambiting | 2026-03-13 11:51:29+00:00
I grew up in a religious household as a Roman Catholic, in an extremely religious country(Poland) and I've never heard anyone talk about apocalypse as something that might happen soon or well...ever. From my point of view, the "christianity" that American Evangelicals practice is almost unrecognlisable as having the same base with the religion I grew up with. Like the core tennets of Jesus have been twisted and warped to serve a very narrow political agenda. That's not to say Roman Catholics don't use religion for politics, but Evangelism is just.....next level?
by frereubu | 2026-03-13 11:51:53+00:00
The thing that really worries me about these kinds of beliefs in some kind of a god or gods is that they can provide a get-out clause for existential risks to humanity. If this physical universe is just one manifestation of existence, then there's less to worry about because there will be some kind of existence afterwards if you screw it up. But in my view the universe is all there is, and it very definitely doesn't "care" if humanity cooks the planet in a way that makes human life impossible. If that's your view, the first priority of every single person should be to work towards stabilising the climate and reduce our impact on the enviromnent, but instead we have shiny-eyed millenarians piling billions of dollars into things like AI that could be much more productively used in funding an energy transition. (And don't get me started on the idea that AI will help that transition - we already know what we need to do, that isn't complicated, even if the route is complex).
by choo-t | 2026-03-13 11:52:44+00:00
Even with ZKP this is still highly problematic, it create difficulty for undocumented people to access the web, create ton of phishing opportunity, reinforce censorship on most site (as they will now all need to be minor compliant or need age verification), reinforce the chilling effect and make the web even less crawlable/archivable (or you need to give a valid citizen ID to your crawler/archiver).

With no proof it will protect anyone from proven harm.
by bluescrn | 2026-03-13 11:53:25+00:00
To me it feels that the age verfication (adult de-anonymisation) push, at least in Europe, is coming more from the increasingly-authoritarian left as a reaction to the rise of the online right and Musk's Twitter.

(Maybe some unspoken element of concern over social media bots, too - as they evolve from spamming copy+pasted comments to being near-indistinguisable from actual human accounts?)
by axegon_ | 2026-03-13 11:53:55+00:00
Oh, that's a different topic: as someone from and living in eastern Europe, there's not a single doubt in my mind that the biggest threat to any civilization is russia by a long shot. The alarming part is that the current US administration hasn't got a single clue of history, suffers from chronic incompetence and the whole superiority complex and fanboying russia as a consequence - those pose a threat. In the context of the conversation, the incompetence is arguably the biggest facepalm moment.
by anthk | 2026-03-13 11:54:05+00:00
Fedora Silverblue it's better and Cosmic Desktop looks good for a DE in every release (upcoming 44). For some isolated and rollbackable option, your only options are Silverblue and Guix for the hard way. If you use Nonguix for Guix, on your own, but I'd only use a nonfree kernel in an emergency (the wireless adapter somehow gets broken and the alternative is to boot the OS with propietary fw in order to buy a new one). And in that case I would blacklist every propietary fw except for the wireless ones.

And, yes, I have an overlaid Linux-Libre kernel in SilverBlue.
by jmclnx | 2026-03-13 11:54:25+00:00
Very cool.

I remember when I was very very young in my small city (~100,000 people). In the summer time after say 6:00PM, people would sit on their front stairs and also take short walks around the area, socializing with everyone they met for a few hours.

That came to an end in the late 60s, early 70s. That was going on in all the neighborhoods throughout the City. Maybe people will start doing that again in the areas that have this "whimsy".
by ProllyInfamous | 2026-03-13 11:54:49+00:00
Tell me about it. Even decades later, whenever my limbic dreaming needs "random technical noise" it still pulls up images of early 2000s laptop screw bins.

For nightmares, the screwbin either tips over repeatedly, or a dropped screw poofs indefinitely. Sometimes I wake up sweated, snackycaked crumb constellations jambed up'gainst bedsheets and fattie.

Screws, everywhere. Me.
by ZaoLahma | 2026-03-13 11:55:10+00:00
Yeah. In these cases it's not like anyone is going to spin up their own instance and start competing with you.

Government / handles society-critical things code should really be public unless there are _really_ good reasons for it not to be, where those reasons are never "we're just not very good at what we're doing and we don't want anyone to find out".
by iammjm | 2026-03-13 11:55:25+00:00
I believe there is a lot of shame-induced ignorance around this whole subject. Culturally poopin' is in the similar category like sex or death, outlawed from most "civilized" debates. But consider how central digestion is to our existence: basically almost before everything else we must consume -> digest -> expel first. You are not getting that smart brain of yours without that poopy butthole to go along with it
by fransje26 | 2026-03-13 11:55:54+00:00
Regarding organized religion, a quote attributed to Diderot [0] goes as follows:

Le genere humain ne sera heureux et libre que quand on aura étranglé le dernier roi avec les boyaux du dernier prêtre.

Or, in plain English:

Man will be happy and free only when the last king has been strangled with the entrails of the last priest.

However, I like to complete it with a quote from Voltaire [1]:

L'univers m'embarrasse, et je ne puis songer - Que cette horloge existe et n'ait point d'horloger

Or, in plain English:

The universe baffles me, and I cannot conceive - That this clock exists, yet has no clockmaker.

[0] https://www.persee.fr/doc/rde_0769-0886_1991_num_10_1_1097

[1] https://fr.wikisource.org/wiki/Page:Voltaire_-_%C5%92uvres_c...
by happymellon | 2026-03-13 11:56:00+00:00
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/South_African_energy_crisis

Not OP but it's because there are rolling blackouts.

> What is considered sufficiently wealthy

Ability to afford your own solar. A lot of South Africans can't, and with prices increasing 100x over the past 20 years, it makes it difficult to get out of that poverty.
by b112 | 2026-03-13 11:56:09+00:00
How much do you want to bet that Amutable, via its founder's control of the systemd codebase and ability to drive change, will be first-in-line to force a switch to its variant of systemd, along with a module for age verification?

I don't see it as coincidence that with all these laws passing, suddenly he announces a secure, "controlled", "locked down" version of systemd. Why, RedHat and Ubuntu can simply drop in this new variant, pay a small fee, and be done with compliance.
by etothet | 2026-03-13 11:56:16+00:00
Speaking of unique names within AWS, I learned the other day that even after you delete an AWS account, you can’t reuse the root user email addresses (it’s documented, but I wasn’t aware).

Someone at my org used their main company email address for a root user om an account we just closed and a 2nd company email for our current account. We are past the time period where AWS allows for reverting the account deletion.

This now means that he isn’t allowed to use SSO via our external IdP because the email address he would use is forever attached to the deleted AWS account root user!

AWS support was rather terrible in providing help.
by nickk81 | 2026-03-13 11:56:48+00:00
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by skydhash | 2026-03-13 11:56:54+00:00
Maybe you’re too entrenched in the web section of software development. Be aware that there’s a lot of desktop and system software out there.

Even in web software, you can write good code without compromising in delivery speed. That just requires you to be good at what you’re doing. But the web is more forgiving of mistakes and a lot of frameworks have no taste at all.
by oytis | 2026-03-13 11:58:06+00:00
I think we should already get past pretending it's about people who just like typing words on their stupid mechanical keyboards. The real split is whether you like understanding systems and inventing new things or whether you are OK to delegate this part to someone else and are just happy to take credit for their success. With a small note that when someone else is a human, the credit can be justified if you mentored them or created conditions for their success and growth.
by tootie | 2026-03-13 11:58:52+00:00
Some reporting on the contents of the speech from last year:

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/oct/10/peter-thiel-...

It's suitably insane rambling nonsense. It actually seems to dovetail pretty well with Andreesen's manifesto in that evil is portrayed as anyone who opposed relentless technological progress at any cost. If you worry about the economic or human effects of tech oligarchs (Grete Thunberg is named as a candidate) then you are preparing your evil army for the final battle. Seeking to regulate AI also makes you a candidate.
by xorcist | 2026-03-13 11:59:05+00:00
I have (the start of a) solution, but it's a boring one:

You have to have people who care about this stuff.

If you don't care, the rest does not matter. It does not matter if, when and how you outsource if you don't care about the outcome. You can't just pay someone a salary, nor a consulting bill, check the box and say you've done your part.

And the other way around: These huge consulting conglomerates would get very few jobs if purchasers cared about the details, and not just that all the boxes are checked.
by pjc50 | 2026-03-13 11:59:12+00:00
The steelman argument is that parents are not necessarily up to date on the technology, and cannot reasonably be expected to supervise teenagers 24/7 up to the age of 18. Compare movie ratings or alcohol laws, for example: there's a non-parental obligation on third parties not to provide alcohol to children or let them in to R18 showings.

But the implementation matters, and almost all of these bills internationally are being done in bad faith by coordinated big-money groups against technologically illiterate and reactionary populist governments.

(if we really want to get into an argument, there's what the UK calls "Gillick competence": the ability of children to seek medical treatment without the knowledge and against the will of their parents)
by uxhacker | 2026-03-13 12:00:35+00:00
This paper actually surveys research on humans and not mice.

The association between gut microbiota and cognitive decline: A systematic review of the literature

https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S027153172...

It shows ”Gut microbiota modulation improves cognition in adults with early impairment. Diet, probiotics, and fecal microbiota transplantation share mechanistic pathways and that evidence clarifies how microbiota-targeted strategies support cognitive health.”

The action could be explained due to an anti inflammatory action by the gut biome.
by skydhash | 2026-03-13 12:01:01+00:00
> I'm looking at (or now debating with the AI) what is the best algorithm for something.

That line always makes me laugh. There’s only 2 points of an algorithm, domain correctness and technical performance. For the first, you need to step out of the code. And for the second you need proofs. Not sure what is there to debate about.
by StanislavPetrov | 2026-03-13 12:01:18+00:00
If you think they are going belly up this year it is far cheaper and safer to buy a put. You risk losing the money you spend for it up front but your losses are capped. Right now the 25 strike for a DB Jan 15 2027 put is 2.50/2.85 bid/ask. DB is sitting at $29.44 as of yesterday's close. That's $285 bucks up front that gets into the money if DB falls beneath 22.15 by Jan 15th 2027. But if it moves down sharply in the near future you could just turn around and sell that put for a profit long before expiration.

This is not financial advice, it is gambling advice.
by OpenClawguru | 2026-03-13 12:01:37+00:00
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by antonmb | 2026-03-13 12:01:44+00:00
AI is quietly changing how we evaluate people.

For decades engineers were evaluated mostly by what they knew: algorithms, frameworks, programming languages.

But when knowledge becomes instantly accessible, the signal starts to change.

The two signals that seem to matter more now:

1. How someone approaches and solves problems
2. Whether they can be trusted to figure things out

Curious how others here think about this.
by hrmtst93837 | 2026-03-13 12:01:48+00:00
If you push tool execution into the model itself, you inherit all the I/O unpredictability and error handling baggage, but now inside a GPU context that's allergic to latency. Inference throughput tanks if external calls start blocking, and A100s make expensive waiters. Batching is fantasy unless you know up front exactly what gets executed, which is the opposite of dynamic tools. If you want "faster" here, the trade is reliable deterministic compute versus the usual Wild West of system calls and side effects.
by bdunks | 2026-03-13 12:01:57+00:00
There is a book called Art & Fear which explores this in depth. A quick read and worth it for people that don’t consider themselves artists.

It has a great story (allegory) about a pottery class, which was shared here in the past. Six sentences. Worth a read:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6097663
by briHass | 2026-03-13 12:02:04+00:00
I've always said one of the best non-major-related courses I took in college was Criminal Justice 101, which went through all the most applicable SCOTUS case law for common scenarios. Ignoring the variation in state laws, you could boil it down to about 30 rules of thumb. Many of the most important are covered in the classic YouTube lecture 'Don't talk to the police.'

Teaching this as a requires HS class would be an incredible benefit to society, because, on the flip side, many police encounters escalate to violence because the citizen has an incorrect understanding of where their rights end/don't exist.

The most obvious rule to follow is that you should always assert your rights (correct or incorrect) verbally only, as soon as you involve physical resistance, the situation will deteriorate rapidly (for you.) Any violations of your rights will be argued and dealt with in court, not on the street. Confirm requests/demands from officers are 'lawful orders', and then do them.
Show HN: Odays – a stress‑free "On This Day" ritual to declutter 40k photos
by dominichuang | 2026-03-13 12:02:12+00:00
For years my iPhone photo library felt like a digital junk drawer.

Blurry shots, old screenshots, bursts, duplicates… Every time I opened Photos I thought: "I should really clean this up someday."

I tried doing big cleanup sessions: block off an hour, scroll forever, delete a few dozen photos, feel drained and guilty, close the app. Nothing really changed.

The problem wasn’t the photos. It was the shape of the task. "Clean up your whole library" is terrible for a human brain: no clear endpoint, no natural stopping point, and very little sense of progress.

So instead of a one‑time project, I turned it into a tiny daily ritual – and then built an app around that ritual.

The method: "On This Day" + a few minutes

Once a day, I only review a small, bounded batch of photos – either photos taken on this calendar day in past years, or a small random batch.

-----

My routine now:

1. Open the app once a day.

2. See a handful of photos from "On This Day".

3. Swipe up to delete obvious junk.

4. Optionally keep one or two meaningful photos.

5. When that day's batch is done, close the app.

Sessions are usually 2–5 minutes. The emotional reward becomes "oh, that trip / friend / moment", not "I must fix my entire photo mess today".

Over months this quietly removes thousands of useless photos and reclaims storage, without any big "declutter day".

-----

What I built: Odays

I turned this pattern into an iOS app called Odays.

It:

• Shows you "On This Day" photos from your existing iCloud / iPhone library.

• Optimizes for a swipe‑to‑delete flow.

• Sync with your system Photos app.

• Keeps everything on‑device; the app doesn’t upload your photos anywhere.

It’s intentionally narrow: not a bulk‑operation power tool, but a small, sustainable ritual on top of your existing library.

If you want to try it, here’s the App Store link:

Odays – Relive & Tidy Photos
https://apps.apple.com/app/id6479229303

Happy to answer questions about the product decisions, UX trade‑offs, or the indie dev side.
by kylecazar | 2026-03-13 12:02:32+00:00
I've listened to several of his antichrist talks and remain confused by his stance. He's imprecise and rambles, but IMO it boils down to one of a few options:

1) These are actual good faith views that are inspired by his own piety

2) This is some chess game he thinks he's playing in which he erects the world government/ totalitarian state as signals of the antichrist, with Thunberg and other "woke" leaders as candidates, because they pose a risk to his business interests. "Peace and safety" is a guise and a front, but conveniently, are just bad for Palantir.

3) He is too disconnected for too long and has disappeared up his own ass

For anyone considering investigating, I wouldn't advise it. He's given huge liberties by interviewers to give vague non-answers and is never (rarely) pressed about reconciling his actions as an investor with his alleged concern for humanity.
by throw0101d | 2026-03-13 12:02:48+00:00
Also:

> For any 32-bit global IPv4 address that is assigned to a host, a 48-bit 6to4 IPv6 prefix can be constructed for use by that host (and if applicable the network behind it) by appending the IPv4 address to 2002::/16.

> For example, the global IPv4 address 192.0.2.4 has the corresponding 6to4 prefix 2002:c000:0204::/48. This gives a prefix length of 48 bits, which leaves room for a 16-bit subnet field and 64 bit host addresses within the subnets.

* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/6to4
by exploraz | 2026-03-13 12:04:05+00:00
From <https://whattrainisitnow.com/release/?version=esr>:

> We have decided to extend support to ESR 115 only on Windows 7-8.1 and macOS 10.12-10.14 up to August 2026.
> We will re-evaluate this decision in July 2026 and announce any updates on ESR 115's end-of-life then.
by surgical_fire | 2026-03-13 12:04:19+00:00
I think there's an extra layer of crazy there.

So, you (not you, a generic you) believe that Armageddon is happening in your lifetime, and the event is the literal moment when God will pour his Holy Wrath against unrepentant sinners in a final judgement as the world wraps up... And you, deeply religious as you are, will obviously go to Heaven, while all the annoying people you rightly hate will go to Hell, to be punished for eternity.

Considering this, is it not obvious that this hypothetical person would wish for Armageddon already? I mean, for you it is the final prize.

I believe these people don't want a future. They want the end.
by MITSardine | 2026-03-13 12:04:21+00:00
The build quality and usability on mac laptops is something else, I've yet to see even 2k€+ laptops that people typically get for their jobs that aren't a pain to use without a mouse and monitor. Whereas I'm sitting here in front of my macbook and not touching the mouse next to it most of the time.

That's definitely valuable, but not for a child in my opinion, it's the type of luxury equivalent to a Mercedes over a Renault. Perfectly defensible but, just like a Mercedes is hardly a starter car, I don't think an MBP is that fit for a starter PC. It's also mostly useless if you're not traveling for work regularly.

That said, does any of that even matter any more? People were learning Blender, programming and whatever else 15 years ago on low to mid range machines already. The equivalently priced - or dirt cheap second hand - machines of today are multiple times more capable at everything. Stick Linux and a $5 mouse in it and you're 90% of the way to a macbook pro in terms of user experience.

That's to say, I agree with the core of the article: kids will make the most out of the least. But I disagree that this particular laptop is a necessity or a boon for that. If anything, it's a hindrance for being a mac.
by throw0101d | 2026-03-13 12:04:34+00:00
> It just so happens that, unlike for v6, v4 and v4x have some "implicit bridges" built-in (i.e. between everything in v4 and everything in v4x that happens to have the last 96 bits unset).

See perhaps:

> For any 32-bit global IPv4 address that is assigned to a host, a 48-bit 6to4 IPv6 prefix can be constructed for use by that host (and if applicable the network behind it) by appending the IPv4 address to 2002::/16.

> For example, the global IPv4 address 192.0.2.4 has the corresponding 6to4 prefix 2002:c000:0204::/48. This gives a prefix length of 48 bits, which leaves room for a 16-bit subnet field and 64 bit host addresses within the subnets.

* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/6to4

Have an IPv4 address? Congratulations! You get entire IPv6 /48 for free.
by shadowfiend | 2026-03-13 12:04:50+00:00
The actual reason here, implied but not stated outright in that one, is that Discord being a public platform, having only numbers to discriminate between users makes it extra-trivial to impersonate someone else. Obviously you can still do some of this with unique usernames (you see slight misspellings, adding harder-to-see characters like periods, etc, as strategies), but these are more complex to execute on at scale and easier to block once and reduce the impact, vs being able to use ~arbitrarily many post-username numbers.
by dzaima | 2026-03-13 12:06:02+00:00
> This means that all medium price or high price smartphones that were introduced during the last 4 years have SVE2 support.

Except Qualcomm chipsets, which disable SVE even if all ARM cores used support it. ("Snapdragon 8 Elite Gen 5" supposedly finally supports SVE? but that's like only half a year old)