MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by zahlman | 2026-03-08 22:19:36+00:00
The thing is, I can read something that's really terribly written and still extract useful information from it. (Suppose, for example, an LLM was directed to synthesize information from some sources that I wouldn't have thought of doing; or a submission simply makes me aware of a blind spot I had. Or I look up documentation and find something that's incredibly verbose and full of marketing-speak, but the code samples look reasonable and can be verified by testing and/or cross-reference.)
by Doctor_Fegg | 2026-03-08 22:19:48+00:00
> I’ve never actually had anyone complain about me sending them ODT or ODS files since even the said MS Office doesn’t have a big issue with those.

On a Mac, I can read .doc(x), .xls(x) and .rtf without installing any additional software. I can’t do that with ODT/S.

90% of open data spreadsheet downloads could just as easily be provided in CSV format (looking at you, gov.uk).
by simonask | 2026-03-08 22:19:51+00:00
You know what, I’ve heard people say this and thought “OK, maybe these other languages with GCs and huge runtimes really do something magical to make async a breeze”.

But then I actually tried both TypeScript and C#, and no. Writing correct async code in those languages is not any nicer at all. What the heck is “.ConfigureAwait(false)”? How fun do you really think debugging promise resolution is? Is it even possible to contain heap/GC pressure when every `await` allocates?

Phooey. Rust async is doing just fine.
by dTal | 2026-03-08 22:19:53+00:00
Libraries or executables, it makes no difference. You are incentivized to use GPL because you wish to build on top of work that is GPL.

Obviously in large part that didn't happen, because of a cultural tendency to use more permissive licence variants (such as AGPL) for libraries, in the pragmatic hope that this would encourage their use even in proprietary programs, and therefore incentivize back-contributions from a wider audience. But this indeed halts the "virality" of the GPL, and so one is once again forced to conclude - incredibly - that Stallman was not radical enough...
by sthlmb | 2026-03-08 22:21:28+00:00
For that I'd really point you towards the links in the article, as that was really what it was supposed to do :D As I mentioned to another person in the comments, this was literally supposed to be a recap of the boards I tested, with links to in-depth benchmark results for each of the boards, with the ability to then filter and compare against around 100 other SBCs that I own and have tested in a controlled manner. Software support is a very tricky one though, sadly. I have a few ideas for little things like being able to search for Armbian support, but others would need a long hard think!
by IshKebab | 2026-03-08 22:22:00+00:00
It's 200k neurons. Less than an ant has. Somewhat creepy, but if you're imagining that this thing is conscious and knows that it's in doom... yeah definitely not.

Still I don't understand why they would invite the extra creepy factor of using human brain cells rather than e.g. mouse brain cells. Surely it makes no difference biologically but it's going to lead to fewer comments like this.
by lifis | 2026-03-08 22:22:07+00:00
If you just want to talk about your day or receive psychological support or even answer questions like this one, LLMs are great: Opus 4.6 is currently considered the best, but also try Gemini and ChatGPT.

As for interacting with humans, if you are finding it hard, maybe you can try something that is easy because it has a structure, such as some sort of workshop where you either share in a circle or are paired with a random partner and share (ask LLMs for help in finding them).

Or even pay someone to talk to them, such as a psychotherapist or a counselor.
by fc417fc802 | 2026-03-08 22:22:14+00:00
The presence of the ground is equivalent to the absence of a third dimension. Thus irrelevant.

I see no reason to expect additional dimensions to make a fundamental difference here. This isn't a complex topological problem involving the constraints of graph connectivity. It comes down to nothing more than immediately available space, maintaining it as a group and making use of it as an individual.

Consider a tightly packed group of runners. If someone in the center goes down they'll likely be trampled and it's also likely to cause a mass pileup.

If birds were prone to that you'd expect the occasional collision at the center of a dense flock and a bunch of birds falling out of the sky as a direct result. Yet I've never once heard of that. The simple and obvious hypothesis is that they are hardwired for group navigation in a way that the vast majority of other animals aren't.

If you're having trouble seeing the point I'm trying to make here then try swapping out the example with runners for one with a fleet of planes. A swarm of hundreds of modern fighter jets in a dense 3D formation actively maneuvering in randomized arcs without any sort of pre-planning or rehearsal. If something went wrong can you really imagine all of the pilots successfully avoiding collision every single time? The birds around here put on shows like that multiple times every day.
by delotrag | 2026-03-08 22:22:20+00:00
You seem to misunderstand the GPL.

> if people make modifications to the software and keep that private later on, let them.

This is perfectly legal under the GPL. What's not legal is redistributing that software you modified but not giving _your_ users the same rights to modification that you yourself got.

Nothing in the GPL requires you to release or distribute personal modified versions of GPL software.

If by "keep that private later on" you mean "plagiarize GPL code to add to a proprietary program and distribute it," yeah that's not allowed- but unless you're a fan of pilfering the commons for personal profit, this is an unmitigated good feature of the license.

As an aside, copyleft is on the exact same legal foundation as the EULAs you seem to respect. It is extremely confusing that you think copyleft is bad but EULAs which provide significantly more restrictions are good.
by sthlmb | 2026-03-08 22:23:33+00:00
Thanks! See my reply below to the other user on this, I think the links to sbc.compare in the article have a lot of the data that you're looking for. I didn't really want to duplicate all of the data I have on the other site, I was more giving a quick recap, with links to the mass of data if people wanted to go that far. Some you mentioned like the dimensions are in the database, but I've not yet exposed them to the frontend.. Ever growing to-do list of life!
by s1artibartfast | 2026-03-08 22:23:37+00:00
Why do you think they get to accumulate shares and pay tax at the end.
If options Sundar will have the pay income when exercised, or if RSU, they will have to pay income taxes when granted.

If you want to research the tax imlications, the relevant term is PSU (Performance Stock Units), which is the form almost all of these CEO incentives take.
by cogman10 | 2026-03-08 22:23:49+00:00
Well, unfortunately there's a herd of elephants in the room when it comes to American healthcare.

We spend the most on healthcare vs any other nation while getting results comparable to nations like Cuba (not hyperbole. Go look up infant mortality of Cuba vs US). I mean, no joke, the main thing that harms Cuban healthcare is the US embargo limiting medicine and medical supplies from going in.

It's truly embarrassing.
by VorpalWay | 2026-03-08 22:24:04+00:00
The live stream of this had more interesting things as well, such as looking at the ink on mimeographs compared to inkjet printing. Long and rambly as live streams tend to be, but it is there if anyone cares.

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=zIsCswtkozI (mimeograph around 3:36:00 mark)
by LifeIsBio | 2026-03-08 22:24:28+00:00
This line stuck out to me as well, but my follow up thought was different.

I’ve had friends who have been on cocktails like these, and one of them once said something like, “I’ve been depressed before, and this is not that. I’m not depressed. I don’t have the emotional capacity to be depressed. This is more like a total emotional blank slate.”

She was basically a robot for a few months. Incapable of really any emotions, including sadness, anxiety, frustration, etc. Suffice to say, she also didn’t have the emotional drive to push her towards positive things like deciding on how to spend her weekend free time.

Thankfully she’s changed her meds and is feeling overall better (if, admittedly, at the price of some emotional stability).
by JumpCrisscross | 2026-03-08 22:24:46+00:00
> Wanting to kill one guy really, really bad is not really a justification for killing children

It shouldn't be. But historically it has been.

The world tried, once after the Napoleonic Wars and again after WWII, to establish the norm that it isn't. But the norms were rejected first in parts and then wholesale in WWII. And then, again, in parts during and after the Cold War and then altogether with Russia into Ukraine, Israel being Israel, China going on about Taiwan and now America under this regime.

Put another way, if you choose to engage in war today, you're going wind up killing children.
by atombender | 2026-03-08 22:25:00+00:00
OP here. Sorry if this was premature. I came across it through your earlier comment on HN, started using it (as did a colleague), and we've been impressed enough with how efficient it is that I decided it deserved a post!

I've seen sandbox policy documents for agents before, but this is the first ready-to-use app I've come across.

I've only had a couple of points of friction so far:

- Files like .gitconfig and .gitignore in the home folder aren't accessible, and can't be made accessible without granting read only access to the home folder, I think?

- Process access is limited, so I can't ask Claude to run lldb or pkill or other commands that can help me debug local processes.

More fine-grained control would be really nice.
by behnamoh | 2026-03-08 22:25:04+00:00
> You can. They’re not the same, but you can absolutely “just switch the LLM, bro,” and most consumers would never notice a difference.

Tell me you've never built a serious LLM app without telling me...

Each LLM has its own quirks; you can't just switch the models.

> As for the rest: this is about the future, not the present. All of your comments about the present are thus not particularly relevant, imho.

Wrong. In AI world, you either move fast or let rivals win. This stuff is not about the future; the best time for Apple to position itself as a great AI hardware producer was last year.
by sodapopcan | 2026-03-08 22:25:31+00:00
Possibly, though would have to see data, I guess. I feel like a lot of people are just curious about Vim and spend all their time in insert mode anyway. I have seen a bunch of those questions around "how would I do this without exiting insert mode" questions, though I'm not sure that having a more accessible escape key would change all of their minds. The "I want to use this new thing but I'm only interested in using it in a way that I'm used to" mindset is rampant among programmers.
by scannyai | 2026-03-08 22:25:38+00:00
The Hidden Cost of Manual Purchase Order Processing
Your procurement team is drowning in paperwork. Every day, purchase orders arrive via email, fax, and postal mail in dozens of different formats. Each one requires someone to manually open the document, read through vendor details, line items, pricing, and delivery terms, then carefully type everything into your ERP system.

The reality? A single purchase order takes an average of 15-20 minutes to process manually. For organizations handling 100+ POs per day, that's over 30 hours of pure data entry work—every single day. Factor in human error rates of 5-10%, and you're looking at costly mistakes, delayed shipments, and vendor disputes that could have been avoided.

What if you could reduce that 15-minute task to under 90 seconds—automatically, with 99.5% accuracy, and zero manual typing?

That's exactly what purchase order automation delivers. And with Scanny AI's intelligent document processing platform, you can deploy this transformation in hours, not months.
by coldtea | 2026-03-08 22:25:44+00:00
Well, duh, they're not rethinking the UI to work differently.

They just make the UX worse in tons of subtle and not so subtle ways. Less differentiation between controls, more wasted space, UI widgets that become unreadable based on what content scrolls under them, more samey (thus harder to find) icons, and 1000s of such paper cuts.
by pash | 2026-03-08 22:25:49+00:00
Sandvault [0] (whose author is around here somewhere), is another approach based on sandbox-exe, but that additionally uses the good old Unix user system for further isolation.

Basically, give an agent its own unprivileged user account (interacting with it via sudo, SSH, and shared directories), then add sandbox-exe on top for resource-specific permissions and another layer of isolation.

0. https://github.com/webcoyote/sandvault
by watwut | 2026-03-08 22:26:27+00:00
.9% and 1.2% of children being result of rape and then forced birth combo is awful lot. It implies that both rape is super prevalent and forced birth is super prevalent.

This in turn likely means that quite a lot of parents were subject of a rape that did not resulted in that kid. (Otherwise we would have to assume that all rape kids are first kid).
by gfody | 2026-03-08 22:26:44+00:00
the talk page behind the utf-16 wiki is actually quite interesting. it seems the manifesto guys tried to push their agenda there, and the allusions to "real text" with missing citations are a remnant of that. obv there's no such thing as "real text" and the statements about it containing many spaces and punctuation are nonsense (many languages do not delimit words with spaces, plenty of text is not mostly markup, and so on..)

despite the frothing hoard of web developers desperate to consider utf-16 harmful, it's still a fact that the consortium optimized unicode for 16-bits (https://www.unicode.org/notes/tn12) and their initial guidance to use utf-8 for compatibility and portability (like on the web) and utf-16 for efficiency and processing (like in a database, or in memory) is still sound.
by asabla | 2026-03-08 22:26:49+00:00
Yee I gotcha.

Did a migration myself last week from using playwright mcp towards playwright-cli instead. Which has been playing much nicer so far. I guess you would run into the same issues you've already mentioned about running chrome headless in one of these sandboxes.

I'll for sure keep an eye out for updates.

Kudos to the project!
by Wolfenstein98k | 2026-03-08 22:26:50+00:00
Not really, because notes do double duty.

You might play a G# note in the context of an E chord (where it's the third), and then you might play it in the context of a C# (where it's the fifth).

These are discernably different pitches, but the same "note", in the same key, in the same song!
by JumpCrisscross | 2026-03-08 22:26:57+00:00
> hard to give that argument (were it to come from the US) any weight

If Iran hadn't engaged in war crimes since the 1980s, including but not limited to restraining itself from supporting Hamas, before and after its October 7th attacks, chances are it wouldn't be at war right now.

That isn't a satisfying answer. But part of why we have these norms is to reduce the sort of cross-contamination of belligerence that occured in the lead-up to each of the Napoleonic Wars, WWI, WWII and then the Cold War.
by jsunderland323 | 2026-03-08 22:27:32+00:00
I’ve been mulling over this for a couple of days too. I have a project I want to share with the HN community that I put a substantial amount of effort into but it was definitely AI assisted (as is literally everything today).

I’ve read all of the source and I drove the architecture but it would be a stretch to say I didn’t ask for assistance on things that felt fuzzy or foreign to me. I also have generally stopped typing code. I still don’t think the LLM made the project though, it feels like my decision making.

If the bar for Show HN becomes no AI whatsoever then you’re just going to see a bunch of people covering their AI tracks. I’m reluctant to post it because I’m afraid of getting blasted by the community for using AI. At the same time, it is work that I’ve poured hundreds of hours into, that I’m proud of and that I think would be of interest to HN.

I read the Obliteratus post that made it to the front page the other day and I agree that is pure slop. While it’s frustrating that it took up front page space, it’s evident that the whole community caught on to the sloppiness of it all immediately and called it out. I just don’t think HN wants to set the precedent that no AI code should be shared.

I also saw a week or two ago that someone open sourced a project of theirs that wasn’t open source in the first place. The reason they stated was that they had vibe coded and were embarrassed to be discovered. If you want to get a concept out quickly with AI, you’re now hesitant to open source because of the precedent set by the community. I think that’s a scary thought to me. I would rather know the tools I’m using are AI generated/assisted and make the value judgement on if I trust the code and project owners.
by globular-toast | 2026-03-08 22:27:38+00:00
I'm similar to you[0]. I still run FreeBSD TrueNAS, and it's just a NAS. Although I do run the occasional VM on it as the box is fairly overprovisioned. I run all my other stuff on an xcp-ng box. I'm a little more homelab-y as I do run stuff on a fairly pointless kubernetes cluster, but it's for learning purposes.

I really prefer storage just being storage. For security it makes a lot of sense. Stuff on my network can only access storage via NFS. That means if I were to get malware on my network and it corrupted data (like ransomware), it won't be able to touch the ZFS snapshots I make every hour. I know TrueNAS is well designed and they are using Docker etc, but it still makes me nervous.

I guess when I finally have to replace my NAS I'll have to go Linux, but it'll still be just a NAS for me.

[0] https://blog.gpkb.org/posts/homelab-2025/
by cyager81 | 2026-03-08 22:28:43+00:00
I’ve had it for almost 6 years. I’m fairly certain it can be solved by a simple laser to the blood vessels in my ear, but doctors refuse to even try it. My tinnitus started as hearing my heartbeat for over a year before it turned into a screeching noise. It makes complete sense to me that blood vessels in the ear are the primary cause, considering how many ailments can cause new blood vessel growth… why has nobody even considered this as a cause to tinnitus? If i could clearly hear my own pulse/heartbeat, then maybe just maybe it’s because a blood vessel was forming extremely close to the inner ear… but nobody will help me, because American doctors are only concerned about their paychecks than they actually care about helping anyone. All of that blood rushing through my ear, shaking the inner ear bones, etc, has destroyed about 80% of my hearing in my right ear… i really wish there was a doctor out there that actually cared enough to help me try to end it… it’s game over if it ever spreads to my other ear too and nobody is still willing to help me…because i will go insane if this begins permanent surround sound with both ears screeching inside my head.
by vancecookcobxin | 2026-03-08 22:30:20+00:00
They are definitely on the horizon! I am a HUGE fan of both of those projects and they are definitely on the roadmap for the architecture...

Right now, ShadowBroker is really optimized for 'blinking blip' real-time radar tracking (streaming the raw GeoJSON payload from the FastAPI backend directly to MapLibre every 60s), so we get as close to as smooth 60fps entity animations across the map.

Moving to something like Martin would be incredible for handling EVEN MORE entities if we start archiving historical flight and AIS data into a proper PostGIS database, but the trade-off of having to invalidate the vector tile cache every few seconds for live-moving targets makes it a bit overkill right now....
by zmmmmm | 2026-03-08 22:30:24+00:00
This is great to see.

I honestly think that sandboxing is currently THE major challenge that needs to be solved for the tech to fully realise its potential. Yes the early adopters will YOLO it and run agents natively. It won't fly at all longer term or in regulated or more conservative corporate environments, let alone production systems where critical operations or data are in play.

The challenge is that we need a much more sophisticated version of sandboxing than anybody has made before. We can start with network, file system and execute permissions - but we need way more than that. For example, if you really need an agent to use a browser to test your application in a live environment, capture screenshots and debug them - you have to give it all kinds of permissions that go beyond what can be constrained with a traditional sandboxing model. If it has to interact with resources that cost money (say, create cloud resources) then you need an agent aware cloud cost / billing constraint.

Somehow all this needs to be pulled together into an actual cohesive approach that people can work with in a practical way.
by JumpCrisscross | 2026-03-08 22:30:26+00:00
> excuse that people look for when they want to deflect responsibility

If it's used as an excuse, yes. We should be able to hit military compounds next to schools without hitting the schools as well.

If it's offered as a description, I don't think it's in bad faith. Putting barracks among hospitals and putting them underneath them are different. To my knowledge, Iran hasn't been directly doing the latter. But its proxies have, and we now have allegations rockets are being fired from residential buildings.

All of that combines to make it more likely schools will be bombed. Intentionally, because the other side's behaviour creates a convenient excuse for bombing just about anything. Or even accidentally, because intelligence thought they saw a commander go into the school and assumed it was a clandestine command post.
by fancyfredbot | 2026-03-08 22:30:49+00:00
Is this what motivates Sundar Pichai to work harder for Google? More money? Surely there's nothing he could want that he doesn't already have.

I understand it's insulting to be paid less than other CEOs, and I get that it's a way of keeping score.

All the same I think he's doing it for the power, the respect, the fame. Would he have walked away if the number was only $100m? Would that have been rational?
by thutch76 | 2026-03-08 22:31:04+00:00
I'm very wary of this request, though I understand it. I've been reading HN daily since around 2014. My involvement was purely passive (e.g., I have been a lurker) because I really didn't think I had much to contribute that wasn't already stated better by others.

I didn't actually create my account until 2021? 2022? I can't remember. And I didn't make my first post or even comment until just last week.

While I think a minimum post count or reputation metric could perhaps reduce the AI generated posts, introducing friction also makes it harder for real people to contribute anything meaningful.

Furthermore, what does it matter if it's "AI generated"? Is some AI content ok? What's the pass/fail threshold on human vs AI generated text?

I made a Show post last week where I heavily relied on AI. I'm sure there are some "tells." But even so, I spent more than three hours working on the content of my post and my first response. Would my post have been acceptable to you?