MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by mschaef | 2026-03-09 02:54:08+00:00
I think there are a couple questions you need to ask yourself - the first is why is it hard for you to be alone? You're the one person you're stuck living with for your entire life - it shouldn't be hard to be alone with yourself. That's where it began. That's where it will end.

You mentioned you have a therapist - this is something you might wish to explore with them.

The second question is related - what are you looking for in the "not alone"? What do you want? What would bring you peace? Are you looking for a relationship? A friend? Sex? etc? While you have to be comfortable with yourself, part of that comfort is knowing and being confident in what you're looking for. It may be that the world won't or can't provide it, but that's why I put this question second.

The final point I'll make is that there's nothing stopping you. You're an adult... within the constraints of the laws of your society, you CAN do what you want and there's nothing stopping you. It may not go the way you want, but it might, and wouldn't it be fun to try?
by aguacaterojo | 2026-03-09 02:54:09+00:00
Last week I wrote the spec for a couple of vanilla JS https://danielgormly.github.io/primavera-ui/dnd/ that I've handwritten in the past. I used the spec to vibecode them + a few follow-up correction prompts. Honestly the robot did a better job of implementation than I would have. Just can't compete with the speed.

Very early days but will keep updating them & adding more.
by blv2xlr8 | 2026-03-09 02:54:51+00:00
Hey HN,

I built this as a side project to create a large collection of browser tools that run locally without login or signup.

There are currently about 3,500 tools including:

• image resizing, compression and conversion
• JSON / CSV / SQL formatters
• color palettes and gradient generators
• QR code generators
• random generators and utilities

The goal was to build a big library of small utilities that are fast and easy to use without installing anything.

Would love feedback on:
• tools that are missing
• things that could be improved
by BohdanPetryshyn | 2026-03-09 02:55:10+00:00
Five months into building product analytics for conversational AI. Started by targeting vibe coding tools like Lovable but realized most of them don't care about user experience yet. With monthly churn over 50%, they focus on acquisition, not retention.

Now shifting to established SaaS companies adding AI assistants to their existing products. Some of them literally have people reading chats full time, so they actually value the experience.

Building https://lenzy.ai - 2 paid customers, 2 pilots, looking for more and figuring out positioning.
by jandrewrogers | 2026-03-09 02:56:57+00:00
Definitely not. Boost is specifically prohibited in many companies. I haven’t run into Boost in a source tree in over a decade.

There are many reasons for this. Boost has uneven quality. Many of the best bits end up in the C++ standard. New versions sometimes introduce breaking changes. Recent versions of C++ added core language features that make many Boost library features trivial and clean to implement yourself. Boost can make builds much less pleasant. Boost comes with a lot of baggage.

Boost was a solution for when template metaprogramming in C++ was an arcane unmaintainable mess. Since then, C++ has intentionally made massive strides toward supporting template metaprogramming as a core feature that is qualitatively cleaner and more maintainable. You don’t really need a library like Boost to abstract those capabilities for the sake of your sanity.

If you are using C++20 or later, there isn’t much of a justification for using Boost these days.
by saucymew | 2026-03-09 02:57:43+00:00
An interesting Asian counterpart is the Japanese death haiku.

MUMON GENSEN

Died on the twenty-second day of the third month, 1390 at the age of sixty-eight

Life is an ever-rolling wheel

And every day is the right one.

He who recites poems at his death

Adds frost to snow.
by atilimcetin | 2026-03-09 02:58:28+00:00
After reading Sebastian Aaltonen's No Graphics API blog post [1], now I'm working on implementing the suggested API using Metal 4.

Also I gave that blog post to Claude Code and asked to implement the API and it made terrible terrible mistakes.

[1] https://www.sebastianaaltonen.com/blog/no-graphics-api
Show HN: Compose Launcher – A macOS app to run multiple Docker Compose files
by yingbo | 2026-03-09 02:58:39+00:00
Hi HN,

I built Compose Launcher because I often work on multiple projects at the same time, each with its own docker-compose setup.

It became difficult to keep track of:
• which compose files are running
• which ports are already in use
• starting/stopping environments across different folders

Compose Launcher provides a small macOS GUI where you can register multiple compose files and manage them from one place.

You can quickly see running services, start/stop stacks, and avoid port conflicts.

The project is still early and I’d really appreciate feedback from people who run many docker-compose environments locally.
by kushalccc | 2026-03-09 02:59:04+00:00
A semantic search engine for urban dictionary to be able to search for stupid phrases that the youth keeps redefining

Problems I'm having:
- Getting enriched vectors because the definitions to some of the words are absolute garbage
- Finding a good open source embedding model, currently using nomic-embed-text

Goal: Find me words originating from X city and it not giving me results that match X
by davidchua | 2026-03-09 02:59:57+00:00
Spent the last year expanding my homelab and now I have my own rack at my local DC with my own ASN and /23 prefix.

Its been pretty fun cosplaying as an network engineer, and now I'm building out an Anycast network for a few ideas that I'm working on.

Its nothing too revolutionary or new, but I'm proud that I've built them from ground up and all running on my own infrastructure.

- DNS Authoritative Hosting - https://thelittlehost.com/dns/
- Quietnet - A family-focused internet filter - https://quietnet.app

I'm also getting ready to launch https://relaye.io, which was my personal tool I built to support my devops consultancy.
by tismyname | 2026-03-09 03:00:02+00:00
It's nothing big. I wanted an offline natural language to cron/cron to natural language translator and I wanted to get some experience building MacOS apps. It's not vibe coded, but I did get good help from Claude since it's my first time building MacOS apps. It's free and no data is collected.

https://cronwise.github.io/
by skydhash | 2026-03-09 03:00:15+00:00
The only use of code is to process data, aka information. And any knowledge worker that the success of processing information is mostly relying on how it's organized (try operating a library without an index).

Most of the time is spent about researching what data is available and learning what data should be returned after the processing. Then you spend a bit of brain power to connect the two. The code is always trivial. I don't remember ever discussing code in the workplace since I started my career. It was always about plans (hypotheses), information (data inquiry), and specifications (especially when collaborating).

If the code is worrying you, it would be better to buy a book on whatever technology you're using and refresh your knowledge. I keep bookmarks in my web browser and have a few books on my shelf that I occasionally page through.
by paulhebert | 2026-03-09 03:01:18+00:00
I'm still having a lot of fun releasing daily puzzles for my game Tiled Words: https://tiledwords.com

It just won an award! It was awarded Players' Choice out of 700 daily web games at the Playlin awards: https://playlin.io/news/announcing-the-2025-playlin-awards-w...

Right now around 3,500 people play every day which kind of blows my mind!

It's free, web-based, and responsive. It was inspired by board games and crosswords.

I've been troubleshooting some iOS performance issues, working on user accounts, and getting ready to launch player-submitted puzzles. It's slow going though because I have limited free time and making the puzzles is time consuming!

Here's an article with more info about the award: https://cogconnected.com/2026/03/tiled-words-crowned-the-pla...
by konaraddi | 2026-03-09 03:01:24+00:00
Speaking for myself : it's a bit creepy and unsettling. Using brain cells is probably inching closer to consciousness than today's silicon is, and consciousness isn't well understood so I very much fear this line of research could eventually lead to the "I have no mouth and I must scream" the other commenter referenced. Many decades from now we might be wondering how much of a human brain needs to be grown in a lab before it's considered unethical.
Show HN: AlphaPerch – Track product execution for companies you follow using AI
by sebasnar | 2026-03-09 03:01:26+00:00
I built this because I invest based on product conviction and couldn't find a clean way to track whether companies are actually executing on their roadmaps.

AlphaPerch uses a proprietary pipeline that synthesizes across diverse data sources and leverages AI to extract and classify product milestones by product line and execution stage (Expected, Announced, In Progress, Shipped, Delayed, Cancelled). Each milestone traces back to its original source so you can verify it yourself.

The platform is built to track any publicly traded company. TSLA, GOOGL, and RBLX are live because that's where my personal conviction is, but the framework generalizes. There's a coverage request form on the landing page if you want to see a specific company added.

Would love feedback on extraction quality and what's missing. Let me know if you find it useful!

alphaperch.com
by ethmarks | 2026-03-09 03:01:50+00:00
Counterpoint: a major use case for this technology would be to experiment on human brain structures to research and hopefully cure neurological diseases like Alzheimer's. If you want to cure Alzheimer's in humans, you might as well use human brain cells from the start.

But yes, I agree that they're likely using human brain cells mainly because it's attention-getting.
by Jensson | 2026-03-09 03:01:54+00:00
> Now I already hear you typing "but those roles should also be handles by AI if it's AGI" and I agree that an AI that can claim to be AGI should be able to handle those roles (as separate agents if necessary). But in a real setup it probably won't be the best choice to do those roles for cultural and legal reasons.

But today you can't do those with AI, meaning the AI isn't AGI. I agree we will probably have humans in the loop here and there even after we achieve AGI for various reasons, but today you need to have humans in the loop it isn't an option not to.
by esperent | 2026-03-09 03:02:01+00:00
Actual article, rather than Twitter link:

https://www.nonzero.org/p/iran-and-the-immorality-of-openai

This uses this Washington Post article as a source

https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2026/03/04/anthrop...

(Non paywall: https://archive.is/bOJkE)

As far as I know, wasn't Claude banned from use in the Pentagon a few days ago, exactly for taking a weak stance against this kind of thing?

> Even if Amodei’s scruples had somehow magically prevented the bombing of that school, Claude would still be an accomplice to mass murder.

This point from the nonzero blog I take issue with. If they had used Google Maps to pick targets, would that make Maps an accomplice?

The people who pushed the button to launch the missiles that hit the school, and the people who ordered them to do that, are fully responsible here, not the tools they used.
by 827a | 2026-03-09 03:02:05+00:00
Its not entirely unique to Apple: the Ryzen AI Max platform (in the e.g. Framework Desktop) is a unified memory platform. The PlayStation 5 also has a unified memory architecture (which given the chiplet was made by AMD, not too surprising) (people sleep on PlayStation hardware engineering; they're far better at skating to where the puck is headed than most hardware tech companies. remember Cell?)
by magicalhippo | 2026-03-09 03:02:16+00:00
I was surprised by the price as well. We go through about 4-5 packs of disposable diapers per month for our 6mo, fewer when the kid was younger (more diapers per pack). Each pack costs $8 for the fancy kind[1] which we get, so that's just around $40 a month currently. This includes 25% VAT.

However there's a two-for-one at my local stores, so in reality we pay more like $20.

[1]: https://www.libero.com/product/touch-open-diaper/touch-4-ope...
by jcynix | 2026-03-09 03:02:29+00:00
My first thought: a rather strange copy of the en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pillsbury_Doughboy

Google's Android robot has a much better design, IMHO. And I remember the Amazon box version of https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Danbo_(character) and Arielle Nadel's photo stories "365 Days of Danbo" with it. Can't imagine that with the Apple Dough boy..
by vunderba | 2026-03-09 03:02:44+00:00
Yeah I considered that - but any friction is better than none. Maybe integrate an additional consideration by which low karma (threshold < 5 karma) accounts cannot upvote other low karma accounts.

Honestly, we don’t really have the same cold start problem that a brand new social media site would. We already have plenty of reputable active users here. So HN could restrict new accounts to only being able to comment initially. As they participate, their comments receive upvotes, allowing them to build up enough karma (even a small amount of 25) which unlocks the ability to upvote, and then, finally, the ability to create posts.
Show HN: Tighten skill to read AI-generated code faster
by markrogersjr | 2026-03-09 03:03:02+00:00
After repeatedly asking Claude Code to rewrite things in my coding style, I decided to write a skill to do it automatically. Articulating my coding style made me realize that beyond aesthetics, it actually serves an important function: it minimizes the distance between variable references, which means I read code much faster. This is especially useful in the new era of agentic engineering, where the bottleneck is no longer writing code but reading and reviewing it. The skill is called Tighten.

Blog post: https://inmimo.me/blog/tighten
Skill: https://github.com/markrogersjr/skills/blob/main/skills/tigh...
by wai1234 | 2026-03-09 03:03:13+00:00
Most posts on those platforms are drivel, regardless of authorship. Stop picking on em dashes. The reality is that too many people have short attention spans and no idea of coherent presentation. Everything looks like text messages.

The feed algorithms actually penalize thought. On LI, a snarky throwaway comment will get 1000 impressions. A thoughtful paragraph gets 10. Meh.
by beautron | 2026-03-09 03:03:26+00:00
Perhaps more proof of work is necessary, but it makes me sad.

I still remember creating my HN account. It stands out in my memory, because it was the smoothest, simplest, easiest, and quickest account creation of my life.

I had lurked here for around a decade before finally creating an account. Any urge to participate was thwarted by my resistance toward creating accounts (I just hate account creation for some reason). But HN's account creation process was a breath of fresh air. "You mean it can be this easy? Why isn't it this easy everywhere? If I had known how simple it was, I would have created an HN account years earlier, lol."

It was especially stunning to me, because I think the discourse on HN is generally of a higher quality than most other sites (which I wouldn't naturally associate with such an easy account creation process).

It's my only fond memory of account creation (along with maybe when I created an account on America-Online back in the 90s, since that was my first ever account and it was all so novel). Just a few quick seconds, and then I'm already commenting on HN. It was beautiful. I remain delighted.
by jackyli02 | 2026-03-09 03:03:38+00:00
This is explicitly framing hand-written code as the wrong workflow. That's a significant shift from even six months ago. My sense is this will become more common at companies building on top of APIs and integrations (Zapier's core domain), where the code is more glue than architecture. Whether it scales to systems-level work is a different question. The failure modes of agent-written code are still poorly understood, and "built mitigations" is doing a lot of heavy lifting in that job listing.
by cyrusradfar | 2026-03-09 03:04:02+00:00
Whether this is confirmed or not, we have countless examples of AI used in targeting in Gaza.

Anthropic were very vocal, well before this happened, that they were against the use case.

I don't blame them. These use cases are like blaming MySQL for storing the lat/long of the school. AI can't be held accountable and the company was trying to protect us and, yes, it was too late.
by Jensson | 2026-03-09 03:04:15+00:00
If it can't do the work without humans it isn't AGI, since AGI should be able to learn those jobs and then do them as effective as humans that learned those jobs. Intelligence is how well you are able to learn subjects, so an AI that cannot learn what typical white collar humans learn is not an AGI, meaning if it cannot replace the entire office of white collar workers it is not an AGI.

> I am unaware of any definition of AGI that states AGI cannot have humans in the loop.

Its not the definition but its a trivial result of the most common definition that is "has human level intelligence".

AI as in "artificial intelligence", it isn't AS "artificial skills", doing one skill to the same level as a human is not AI, an AI need to be able to learn all skills humans can learn to the same levels.
by brendoelfrendo | 2026-03-09 03:04:31+00:00
Black is absolutely accepted as an accepted adjective. Especially with the capital-b, Black is used to refer to the unique Black culture and heritage in the United States. Black history is one where people were taken from their nations or places of origin, transported to a foreign land, and put in bondage. As you say in your own comment, many black or African-American people (whichever label you prefer) have little connection to Africa; it wouldn't make sense to them to refer to them by nationality or origin, when Black culture is its own thing.

Don't get it twisted: I agree that the history of African-Americans in the US is one marred by slavery, segregation, racism, and the constant struggle to attain and retain equality. But out of that came something unique that many black people celebrate to this day.
by toast0 | 2026-03-09 03:04:40+00:00
The parallel port controller can DMA, that lets the driver tell the port hey, send this buffer out to the port and let me know or read this many bytes into this buffer and let me know. It's not peripheral controlled DMA like with firewire or PCI.

You can absolutely exfiltrate data via the parallel port... that's why you attach printers or zip disks... it's just that it needs host participation.
by vlatoshi | 2026-03-09 03:04:44+00:00
you hit the nail here.. repetition is key! that’s what happens at a workplace or school. You show up every day, do your thing, and have small interactions here and there. Over time, those interactions grow, and you get to know each other on a deeper level and become friends.

This can be replicated with similar activities that involve a schedule, like joining classes, volunteering, or whatever else fits that kind of setup.
by s1artibartfast | 2026-03-09 03:05:45+00:00
purely academic definistions have a tremendous number of purposes.

Just as it would be silly to define a countries military equipment production capacity by public sentiment, the same is true for purely financial GDP.

There are tons of metrics that can used to articulate how the economy feels for average joe. We have low consumer sentiment, lagging median income, GINI, opinion surveys, ect.

Using the word "recession" adds gravitas by claiming something that isnt true.
by alpb | 2026-03-09 03:05:47+00:00
As I understand it, the problem nowadays doesn't seem to be so much that the agent is going to rm -rf / my host, it's more like it's going to connect to a production system that I'm authorized to on my machine or a database tool, and then it's going to run a potentially destructive command. There is a ton of value of running agents against production systems to troubleshoot things, but there are not enough guardrails to prevent destructive actions from the get-go. The solution seems to be specific to each system, and filesystem is just one aspect out of many.
by omoikane | 2026-03-09 03:06:24+00:00
> code that does not compile. Why should I share that?

If you collect test cases for compilers, for example.

> tree-sitter sort of handles that

My worry is that stability of committed ASTs would depend on tree-sitter being stable, and it might be difficult to guarantee that for languages are still in flux. Even most well established languages gain new grammar once every few years, sometimes in backward incompatible ways.

Maybe you meant tree-sitter itself will also be versioned inside this repository?
by gfjvvs_R_us | 2026-03-09 03:06:54+00:00
Sorry to hear (just browsing, came across your text). Years ago my aunt got convinced over some Nigerian email scam... she may have even paid some, it was nearly impossible to get her out of the delusion. Surely it can be even harder when it's romance (instinct, addiction "rewarding" like gambling) and then especially as there's even a medical, psychological, condition. $100,000 illustrates a dire situation. :(

I'll hope for the best from here. There's no way to give the needed (and extreme) advice, as it's illegal to do so. Perhaps this is now your only option? You know what happens to YouTubers once they get doxxed, for "fun". Right, perhaps keep them occupied and if you'll get a chance to talk some more. No idea (!?) what could be the right approach... if they're paranoid, or whatever. Then with some luck, more time can give them a different perspective (doubtful, IK)

Anyway, wish them all the best and for you to manage and salvage whatever's left. Maybe they can even meet someone to take their mind off of things.

(Show them a true crime show, there's those girls in South America where they rob and drug visiting foreignes. Some die from strong dosages. Find what may be relevant to them to show.)

edited for syntax, hope it helps