MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by juleiie | 2026-03-09 12:45:23+00:00
I don’t live in US or five eyes so I pirate all the stuff basically Scot free.

I understand that it’s not so easy for Americans whose internet activity is constantly scrutinized. I’ve had the privilege of choosing exactly who and what I pay.

I usually don’t subscribe to any streaming service, but when I do choose to pay for something, my money goes to smaller entities that I don’t actively want to see fail.

In my book, none of the Hollywood deserves a single cent. It’s an amazing feeling to be in the power to dictate this.
by energy123 | 2026-03-09 12:45:37+00:00
I don't get the economics behind building AI DCs in the UK instead of a middle income country near the equator where there's plentiful solar or fossil fuels.

Labor and land is expensive, energy is scarce and expensive, and colocation is not that valuable because latency is dominated by compute instead of transmission.

But there must be a good reason I am missing.
by cogman10 | 2026-03-09 12:46:02+00:00
> Pumped storage hydro

It's a pipedream. Yes it's cheap and efficient, but it requires the geography and the will to destroy a local ecosystem.

BESS is what will ultimately win. It's pretty energy dense and it can be deployed on pretty much any junk land location. The only fight you'll have is with the neighbors who don't like it.

My power company, Idaho power, is deploying a 200MWh BESS on a slice of land they've owned for decades near one of their substations. The hardest part has been the permitting (which is now done).
by dworks | 2026-03-09 12:46:05+00:00
thanks appreciate it! you can boost sources and categories (youtube and substack have a boost by default since they're published less frequently than reddit posts), create priority views, filters etc.

planning to set up 'topics' which can be a feed you can subscribe to that combine different source types, that are tagged and associated to the topic based on previous content.

also, email send outs per topic.
Show HN: Jmap-kit – a TypeScript library for JMAP client applications
by LachlanHunt | 2026-03-09 12:46:17+00:00
Over the past 4 years, as a casual on-and-off side project, I built jmap-kit, a client library implementing the JMAP protocol for client applications. It started as a hobby project for me to write custom automations for my email.

See the jmap-kit GitHub repo
https://github.com/lachlanhunt/jmap-kit

Full documentation including development guide and API reference.
https://lachlanhunt.github.io/jmap-kit/

JMAP (JSON Meta Application Protocol) is a modern protocol designed to replace IMAP and related protocols using JSON and HTTP for email, calendar, contacts, and more. It’s already used in production by providers like Fastmail, planned for Mozilla’s upcoming Thundermail service, and supported by several open-source mail servers.

The library, built entirely in TypeScript, provides a type-safe API for building JMAP-compliant requests and dispatching responses. It is fully extensible, with a plugin architecture that allows additional capabilities (both standardised and vendor extensions), and can be adapted to work with any HTTP library (fetch, axios, etc.). It is framework-agnostic and can be used on both the frontend and backend.
by BoredomIsFun | 2026-03-09 12:46:31+00:00
Here what kimi thinks:

The post is moralizing theater masquerading as craft wisdom. “Just write it yourself” ignores the actual quality curve.
Give a modern LLM a one-paragraph brief, ask for 600 words, then spend three minutes deleting the three most obvious adjectives and one “delve.” The result is already clearer, better structured, and more grammatically airtight than what 80 % of English-literate adults can produce in twenty distracted, coffee-spilled minutes. That isn’t speculation; it’s what every A/B test in every newsroom, ad agency, and SEO shop shows when copy is anonymized and editors pick winners. The average human twenty-minute draft loses—every single week.
by arigaram | 2026-03-09 12:46:45+00:00
Hi, I'm the developer of DalVideo.

I started this project because I was frustrated with existing screen recorders — either they required a subscription, sent my audio to the cloud for captions, or needed a separate editor for basic trimming.

I wanted something simple: record, add AI captions offline, trim, and export — all in one app without touching the internet.

The AI captioning uses Whisper locally, so your audio never leaves your machine.
This was important to me for privacy, but also because it works without an internet connection.

Happy to answer any questions about the technical implementation or take feature requests!
by drzaiusx11 | 2026-03-09 12:46:45+00:00
At 200k, this application is already more neurons than a fruit fly (130k), but still within the same order of magnitude. It's an interesting question of "how many" should be considered problematic from an ethics standpoint, and I don't think that line of questioning should be ignored. If any of this research turns out useful, you can be sure to see it scale up.
by gbro3n | 2026-03-09 12:46:53+00:00
A PKMS (Personal Knowledge Management System) VS Code extension - "AS Notes"

https://www.appsoftware.com/products/knowledge-management/as...

It implements [[wikilinking]], backlinking, task management into VS Code. The idea is to bring Logseq / Obsidian capability to VS Code.

The blurb:

If you already live in VS Code, why manage your notes somewhere else? AS Notes brings the power of wikilink-based knowledge management - the kind you'd find in Obsidian or Logseq - directly into your editor. No Electron wrapper. No separate app. No syncing headaches. Just your markdown files, your Git repo, and the editor you already know.

Why AS Notes?
Your data stays local. No cloud sync, no telemetry, no accounts. Your notes are plain .md files in a folder you control.
Git-friendly by design. Every note is a .md file - diff them, branch them, review them. Your knowledge base gets the same versioning discipline as your code.
Lightweight. A local SQLite database (powered by WASM - no native dependencies) keeps everything fast without bloating your workspace.
Key Features
Wikilinks
Type [[ to trigger page selection and autocomplete. Links resolve to .md files anywhere in your workspace - not just the current folder. If the target doesn't exist, it's created automatically, useful for forward-referencing pages you plan to write later.

Renaming a page offers to update every reference across your workspace. Hover tooltips show the target file, whether it exists, and how many other pages link to it.

Backlinks
The Backlinks panel shows every page that links to the file you're currently editing, with surrounding line text for context. A straightforward way to see how ideas connect across your knowledge base.

Open it with Ctrl+Alt+B - it stays in sync as you navigate between files.

AS Notes Backlinks
Task Management
A lightweight task system built on standard markdown checkboxes. Press Ctrl+Shift+Enter on any line to cycle through states (unchecked → checked → plain text). The Tasks panel in the Explorer sidebar aggregates every task across your entire knowledge base, grouped by page - filter to show only unchecked items, or toggle completion directly from the panel.

Page Aliases
Define aliases in YAML front matter so multiple names resolve to the same page. [[JS]] and [[ECMAScript]] can both navigate to JavaScript.md. Backlink counts include alias references, and rename tracking updates aliases in front matter automatically.

Daily Journal
Press Ctrl+Alt+J to create or open today's journal entry. AS Notes generates a dated markdown file from a customisable template - add your own sections, prompts, or front matter to shape your daily workflow. Journal files are indexed instantly, so wikilinks and backlinks work from the moment the file is created.

AS Notes translates nested wikilinks when rendering markdown previews so links navigate correctly. Works alongside other markdown extensions - Mermaid diagrams, for example.
by chantepierre | 2026-03-09 12:47:26+00:00
Converting an app that started per-client deploy, single-tenant, cloud-ignorant and mono-node to multi-tenant, multi-node, cloud storage and a cluster of a few nodes.

On one hand, I regret not having thought it could find a market and I now have to do this and plan a migration.

On the other, I saved a lot of time going to customers instead of building the boring side first... So I don't know what to think of it.

I find that most of the development work is now "ops" instead of user-facing features (either addition, removal, or polish) and am a bit perplex at this.
by enaaem | 2026-03-09 12:47:35+00:00
Sometimes hot and vinegar is all you want.

There is a place for simple hot sauces, because you don't want to add additional flavours. Sometimes all you want is straight up chilis.

More complex hot sauces might include dried shrimp, fermented soy, lemon grass, dried mushrooms, but those flavours might not be desirable in some dishes. And some dishes require specific hot sauces because they are an integral part of the flavour profile (Mapo tofu, Tom Yum).
by apothegm | 2026-03-09 12:47:39+00:00
There were far more hobbyists than degree holders available during the first dot-com boom, and the post-bust comparative oversupply of programmers only lasted a few years. Meantime, “web development” (HTML/CSS) continued to grow in demand and provided a foot in the door for people without the CS degree. When demand picked up again faster than new graduates were being produced, a lot of them were able to edge into the industry because they’d learned PHP from Wordpress themes and such.

When it became evident how much developers were in demand and could earn, there was a flood of late millennials and zoomers into CS programs, so the percentage of self-taught dropped to nearly zero. For a while when demand for SWEs still exceeded supply, that was augmented by bootcamp grads because getting the entry level job had become the hardest part and a bootcamp was a signal of legitimacy.

Bigger companies without tech DNA are more likely than small companies or tech giants to insist on degrees. When hiring was tight, they might ignore that signal; but right now HMs are overwhelmed with applicants and filtering by degrees is just one way to whittle the field down to a size they can hope to wrangle.

And it’s common for people over 40 to get out of the field for one reason or another — or shift to consulting, typically as “fCTOs” rather than contract developers — so that older self-taught pool is shrinking.
by ravishi | 2026-03-09 12:49:02+00:00
gym everyday: I found great success with Pilates. It's usually me + 2-3 other people and the instructor. There's chatting during the session after you become regular. You get to have some social life while exercising. It also helps tremendously with posture, specially for someone who spends all his day in a chair.

It's still hard to do sometimes, like in stronger depressive episodes. But it's way easier than gym at least for me.
by dgan | 2026-03-09 12:49:08+00:00
I dont know what world you/I are living in. I do ask claude to enumerate/explain concepts i am not familiar with. I never approached the free tier limit (is there one?). At work, we have a webpage which ia basically a chat to different models, sometimes i use it

Would I be paying 20€ to ask those questions? I dunno, i dont feel any particular need. Would I be paying 200€?! Are you insane hell no
by CLPadvocate | 2026-03-09 12:49:31+00:00
there is an old story that exists in numerous variants and goes roughly like this:

A town’s electricity generator failed and various engineers were unable to fix it, so an elderly electrician was summoned. He examined the generator carefully, then tapped it lightly once with a hammer, and power was instantly restored. He submitted his bill for $1,000 and as he was asked for the explanation, answered: “Tapping — $1. Knowing where to tap — $999.”
by scotty79 | 2026-03-09 12:49:32+00:00
> As far as I understand the state of the art as of 2-3 years ago, there is no reinforcement learning at all at any point. At least not in the dynamics.

I think this might no longer be true. I don't think this years dance routine would have been possible without RL given how crappy robots were 2-3 years ago.
by SarahTina | 2026-03-09 12:49:34+00:00
SafetyWing

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At SafetyWing (YC W18), we’re building a global social safety net for remote workers—simple health, insurance, and retirement products designed to replace national welfare systems. Our mission is to remove geographical borders as a barrier to equal opportunity and freedom for everyone. If we succeed, we believe this will be one of the most important tasks of our time.

We're hiring a number of roles at the moment. Check out details and express your interest here: https://safetywing.pinpointhq.com/
by gbro3n | 2026-03-09 12:49:55+00:00
VS Code Agent Kanban (just made it to the front page)

https://www.appsoftware.com/products/developer-tools/agent-k...

It's a VS Code extension that implements a Kanban board backed by markdown files. It's set up to allow you to communicate with GitHub Copilot chat via markdown files, so you have a clear permanent record of your considerations, decisions and actions. I'd been getting great results with a similar but more manual workflow, so I built this to make managing the markdown files easier and to give me the ability to visually organise with some shortcut commands.
by troupo | 2026-03-09 12:50:02+00:00
Cheap as in "requires proper location and the destruction of ecology on large scale" cheap?

Edit:

https://www.nsenergybusiness.com/features/energy-storage-ana...

To cover Europe's need you only need to build 70 1.5 GW hydroelectric stations at a cost of $92 billion (in reality much higher) while greatly damaging ecology in large areas.

(The link has rather detailed info)
Show HN: Agent Firewall – Go proxy to kill LLM death spirals
by wuweiaxin | 2026-03-09 12:50:05+00:00
I run 6 AI agents as my entire team. Yesterday two agents got stuck in an infinite loop arguing over JSON formatting. Burned $47 in API calls while I slept.

Anyone running multi-agent setups (CrewAI, AutoGen, LangGraph) knows the pain: agents go rogue, tokens burn, no circuit breaker.

Building an open-source Go reverse proxy. Change one env var (OPENAI_BASE_URL=http://localhost:8080/v1), it detects death spirals and physically cuts the connection.

Local-only, no SDK, no cloud, single binary. Ship in 2 weeks if enough people need it.

Have you been burned by runaway agents?
by jamesblonde | 2026-03-09 12:51:00+00:00
There has been a lot of proposals to dam up massive unpopulated sea-facing valleys in Mayo and Donegal and use pumped hydro with seawater. Was a bit topic 15 years ago, but never happened. All that happened was the silvermines pump hydro plant that seems behind schedule.

Prof Igor Shvets was behind this:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spirit_of_Ireland
by randusername | 2026-03-09 12:51:26+00:00
> But I’ve found there’s something magical about email as a medium of communication, and as a technology.

Reminds me of [0]

I love email and postcards. It's a bummer that the signal to noise ratio is so high with junk mail, but that makes genuine correspondence even more special. Long replies make you sit with someone else's perspective without interrupting longer than you would in normal conversation and I think that changes things dramatically.

[0]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_medium_is_the_message
by rajaravivarma_r | 2026-03-09 12:51:31+00:00
I was almost about to suggest the OP to move to a small town in India. Here he/she will be fighting for privacy though ;). What a contrasting culture!

For humans at least seeing other people is a bare minimum. I would just go for a walk, wave at my neighbour/building workers, make small talk etc. I don't know how the cultural dynamics work, but can't you move back into your parents home? Just being alone with depression sounds terrible. I hope your situation improves soon.
by jackdev | 2026-03-09 12:51:37+00:00
My friends and I would often sit in pubs trying to guess the top 10 most streamed songs for a musician so I had a go at turning it into a browser game.

https://topsongs.io/

Had a lot of fun doing it and it's more user friendly than trying to read off lists from stream aggregators online that have a lot of ads etc.

First ever go at something like this so any feedback is appreciated!
by strken | 2026-03-09 12:51:39+00:00
Do you firmly disagree with all of it, or just the clothes and gym part?

I don't have any objection to suggestions like "help people" or "be [a] good friend" or even "cook" and I think they're a core part of making friends. Today I cooked dinner for two friends and just got back from driving one of them home. They've been similarly kind to me in the past. Friendships are built on foundations like this.

It's absolutely correct that you need to invite people to do stuff before you worry about whether you're helpful enough, but you also need to go from being two or more people who kinda sorta know each other to actual friends.
by everdrive | 2026-03-09 12:51:47+00:00
Every single ToS is written to benefit the company, and when necessary, harm the consumer. The answer is to enter into as few service contracts as possible. Use open source software. Control when your software updates. Really, never use the cloud version of anything whatsoever except where unavoidable. (eg: email and such)

They feel like the legal equivalent of Calvin Ball. So long as you just stash it in a ToS, you can apply any stupid rule your lawyers can imagine.
by sallyparkes1994 | 2026-03-09 12:52:28+00:00
A matte white TV unit absorbs ambient light at its surface, maintaining a flat, consistent tone across the panel. A white gloss unit reflects light directionally from its surface — ceiling lights, floor lamps, and the television's own ambient backlight all bounce off the gloss panels, increasing the apparent brightness of the living room without additional light sources. In rooms where natural light is limited, such as north-facing flats or rooms with small windows, this reflective quality makes a practical difference to how bright and open the space feels in the evening. The UV gloss coating on the 140cm and 160cm high gloss units applies this finish to both the door fronts and, in white, the top surface as well.
by mauvehaus | 2026-03-09 12:52:31+00:00
In short: no.

I’m sure that in the Boston area we’d have had no trouble rustling up half a dozen or more.

We now live in Vermont. The options are pretty much limited to Huy Fong. Reese makes a vastly inferior product that doesn’t belong on the same shelf that can be found in some supermarkets. I know two Asian grocery stores (neither of which specializes on any particular country to my uninformed eye). They’re both small enough that they aren’t stocking hundreds of varieties of any single sauce.

So yeah. Credit to Huy Fong for capturing the mindshare with a quality product and getting available basically nationwide.
by conception | 2026-03-09 12:52:54+00:00
They already won the war in Ukraine when they got the US to drop support. Greenland “war” pro Russia. Iran, oh what a surprise, Russia gets a fuel waiver from the US. All of this is a net benefit to Russia, yes. With all blame going to the US. The fact Russia is //providing targets// to the US shows this is definitely something they are excited about.
by axegon_ | 2026-03-09 12:53:05+00:00
This comment might get lost in here but in case you get to it: I come from the complete opposite side of the spectrum: I've been living alone for practically the entirety of my adult life and I'm not far off your age either. This may come across a bit like "there, solved it" advice but hear me out: During the first 6 months of COVID, I was the happiest I have ever been. Things weren't perfect but given the circumstances, I doubt it could have been much better. But at a point the complete absence of borders between work and life disappeared and it was the constant zoom meetings happening in my living room that really got to me. One evening I was scrolling around the internet and saw an ad for 3 month old puppies across town. The decision was spontaneous af but I figured that I might as well do it now that I was at home all day. 5 years later, I can say this was among the best decisions I've ever made. But a word of advice - think about it and do your own research. What I got was a dog that is definitely not for everyone. But if you are active and have the time and patience to dedicate to such a breed, trust me, you will never feel alone again.
by aw1621107 | 2026-03-09 12:53:12+00:00
> "Tight control over memory use" sounds wrong considering every single allocation in rust is done through the global allocator.

In the case of Rust's async design, the answer is that that simply isn't a problem when your design was intentionally chosen to not require allocation in the first place.

> And pretty much everything in rust async is put into an Arc.

IIRC that's more a tokio thing than a Rust async thing in general. Parts of the ecosystem that use a different runtime (e.g., IIRC embassy in embedded) don't face the same requirements.

I think it would be nice if there were less reliance on specific executors in general, though.

> Don't think they were optimizing only for embedded or similar applications where they don't use a runtime at all.

I would say less that the Rust devs were optimizing for such a use case and more that they didn't want to preclude such a use case.

> having a trait in std for runtimes and passing that trait around into async functions

Yes, the lack of some way to abstract over/otherwise avoid locking oneself into specific runtimes is a known pain point that seems to be progressing at a frustratingly slow rate.

I could have sworn that that was supposed to be one of the improvements to be worked on after the initial MVP landed in the 2018 edition, but I can't seem to find a supporting blog post so I'm not sure I'm getting this confused with the myriad other sharp edges Rust's sync design has.
by SeanAnderson | 2026-03-09 12:53:15+00:00
Just a small project to assist with some stuff at work, but trying my hand at vibe-coding a "data science playground" to try and level-up a couple of people into feeling comfortable using Claude to write data analysis tools. I generated a bunch of synthetic data, that looks like stuff we might encounter on the job, and embedded trends into the data that can be revealed through statistical analysis. I encrypted the answers and put a lil LLM in front of the answer file. You submit answers to the LLM and it tells you warm/cold by looking at the answer file. Hoping to basically gamify the learning process to make it easier/faster to get data-driven results.
by hananova | 2026-03-09 12:53:22+00:00
Self-hosted, semi-popular project. The forge itself runs two unmodified copies of forgejo, which one you get served depends on if you trip the LLM detection.

There are some obvious give-aways to avoid bad stuff happening to people that just happen to trip the detection, but the escape hatch hasn’t yet been clicked by anyone, so it probably hasn’t had a false positive yet.
by ppcvote | 2026-03-09 12:53:28+00:00
Fair challenge on the ROI question.
Honest origin story: I work in financial services. Every day I need to post updates, share market info, and stay visible to clients — it's part of the job. I built MindThread because I was spending hours on scheduling tools with terrible UX instead of actually talking to people. I was my own first customer.
After launching, I realized the same problem exists across Taiwan's financial and insurance industry — thousands of advisors doing the same manual posting grind every day. That's the real market.
My view: social media time should be spent on actual conversations, not fighting bad interfaces. The agents handle the repetitive publishing. The human interaction stays human.