MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by dmonterocrespo | 2026-03-09 22:55:26+00:00
If anyone wants a quick thing to try in the simulator, here's a simple LED blink example with Serial output:

void setup() {
pinMode(13, OUTPUT);
Serial.begin(9600);
}

void loop() {
digitalWrite(13, HIGH);
Serial.println("LED ON");
delay(500);

digitalWrite(13, LOW);
Serial.println("LED OFF");
delay(500);

}

In Velxio you can connect an LED to pin 13 and watch it blink, while the Serial Monitor prints the messages in the terminal.
by epolanski | 2026-03-09 22:55:46+00:00
> Unless Nvidia can launch a new chip every 2-3 years with massively improved performance-per-watt at a lower price no one is going to rush to recycle the old one.

That's exactly the point.

Performance/watt is increasing so much gen-to-gen that it makes no longer sense to run older hardware.

Not my words, Jensen's.
by jaggederest | 2026-03-09 22:55:48+00:00
My hyperbolic suggestion was to build four pyramids of carbon cubes. They'd have to be about 5km wide and similarly tall, and would be by far the largest structures ever built by humanity. You'd need supplemental oxygen to spend any substantial time on the peak.

Assuming we had too-cheap-to-meter fusion or a dyson swarm or something like that, of course.

Call it total cost of say, $50 trillion, no big deal, right?
by crazygringo | 2026-03-09 22:56:21+00:00
> It's absolutely prohibited to copy and redistribute for commercial purposes materials that you're unlicensed to do so with.

Sure, but that's not what LLM's generally do, and it's certainly not what they're intended to do.

The LLM companies, and many other people, argue that training falls under fair use. One element of fair use is whether the purpose/character is sufficiently transformative, and transforming texts into weights without even a remote 1-1 correspondence is the transformation.

And this is why LLM companies ensure that partial reproduction doesn't happen during LLM usage, using a kind of copyrighted-text filter as a last check in case anything would unintentionally get through. (And it doesn't even tend to occur in the first place, except when the LLM is trained on a bunch of copies of the same text.)
by LEVOGNE | 2026-03-09 22:56:23+00:00
Hey HN,

I built a terminal emulator for macOS from scratch in a single Swift file.

- 10,000+ lines, one file, zero dependencies
- Hand-rolled VT100/VT220/xterm parser (13-state FSM)
- Native Cocoa rendering at 60 FPS (no Electron, no WebView)
- Lives in the menu bar, toggle with Ctrl+<
- Full 24-bit TrueColor, Sixel graphics, mouse tracking, Kitty keyboard protocol
- Built-in command palette (quickBAR) with 40 commands
- Multi-tab, split panes, session restore
- Auto-updater that checks GitHub Releases every 72h
- 4.8 MB app bundle, ~1.4 MB binary

No SwiftTerm, no libvte, no terminal library. Every escape sequence parsed from scratch.

The whole thing compiles with a single `swiftc` call.

https://github.com/LEVOGNE/quickTerminal
by baby_souffle | 2026-03-09 22:56:37+00:00
Well technically true, I would wager that the home lab is going to require increasingly distinct and unusual adaptations to retrofit the hardware to home use.

New stuff is all liquid cooled by default and that's a paradigm shift for your average home lab.

I'm less aware of exactly what's happening on the power side of things but I think some of the architectures are now moving to relatively high voltage DC throughout and then down converting it to low voltage right before it's used. So not exactly just plug-and-play with your average nema15 outlet.
by danabramov | 2026-03-09 22:57:18+00:00
It's not "proprietary", it's openly specified and is literally being taken to IETF: https://docs.bsky.app/blog/taking-at-to-ietf

Also, unlike ActivityPub, it's actually useful for building features that normal people expect from social apps — for example, algorithmic feeds and search, and a single interlinked world (rather than fragmented "servers").
by Levitz | 2026-03-09 22:57:21+00:00
>“Don’t use Bluesky Social to break the law or cause harm to others,”

Is this, quoted in the change.org, the relevant line?

The law was not broken, it is also fairly evident that the intention was not to "cause harm to others", nor has any harm has seemingly come upon the patient for this (it requires a huge stretch of imagination to think of a case in which it could)
by grogers | 2026-03-09 22:57:21+00:00
Even treating the process as read only after forking is potentially fraught. What if a background thread is mutating some data structure? When it forks the data structure might be internally inconsistent because the work to finish the mutation might not be completed. Imagine there are locks held by various threads when it dies, trying to lock those in the child might deadlock or even worse. There's tons of these types of gotchas.
by derefr | 2026-03-09 22:57:21+00:00
Information that might be of interest to someone here:

The formal name for the “empty” binary infix operator that gets implied in the AST when doing this, is the “juxtaposition” (or “juxtapose”, or “juxt”) operator. The implicit multiplication operator between `3` and `a` in the polynomial expression `3a + 4`, and the implicit function-application operator in the Lambda-calculus expression `f x y`, are both instances of an implied juxtaposition operator (with different semantics for it in each of the two cases, as befits each type of algebra/calculus.)
by reverius42 | 2026-03-09 22:57:34+00:00
The U.S. Supreme Court just declined to hear a case, thus upholding a lower court precedent that LLM output are not copyrightable: https://www.reuters.com/legal/government/us-supreme-court-de...

What this means in practice is that (currently), all output of an LLM is legally considered to not be copyrightable (to the extent that it's an original work). If it happens to regurgitate an existing copyrighted work, though, is that infringement? I'm not sure we have a legal precedent on that question yet.
by alterom | 2026-03-09 22:57:46+00:00
>Our foreparents fought for the right to implement works-a-like to corporate software packages, even if the so-called owners did not like it

Our "foreparents" weren't competing with corporations with unlimited access to generative AI trained on their work. The times, they're-a-changin'.

You're rehashing the argument made in one of the articles which this piece criticizes and directly addresses, while ignoring the entirety of what was written before the conclusion that you quoted.

If anyone finds themselves agreeing with the comment I'm responding to, please, do yourself a favor and read the linked article.

I would do no justice to it by reiterating its points here.
Show HN: Git Trophy – 3D print your GitHub contribution graph
by Lukabuz | 2026-03-09 22:57:48+00:00
Hi everyone. I am Luka, the founder of Git Trophy.

It's just a quick project I put togheter after I got into 3D printing and printed one of these for my own. I remember a while back github skyline was a website that got really popular, and as someone that has a lot of pride in their contribution graph I always wanted to print it. Back then I saw that all of the print-on-demand services were not very easy to work with and expensive.

So I figured I would try my hand at my first project where I sell things in the physical world. I just launched it a few days ago and my only customer is a friend of mine, so I would appreciate any feedback that you may have!

Also, if you have a 3d printer and want to make one yourself, check out the github/gh-skyline extension for the Github CLI. It generates an STL file that you can print. Granted, it does not separate the base and the towers(so that you can print them in different colors), but you can do that in any slicer program very easily(I can post a guide on how to do it in Bambu Studio if anyone is interested)
by garciasn | 2026-03-09 22:58:09+00:00
It was a great story, right up until the lack of an ending. As someone who reads lots of books, I will NEVER understand authors who don’t wrap up a story.

It’s like someone telling you a story and you ask, “and then what happened,” and they reply, “nothing; that’s the end of the story.” No one appreciates that, but people rave about authors who leave “open-end interpretations!”
by JanisErdmanis | 2026-03-09 22:58:15+00:00
> Another reason ignoring the literature can be helpful is that sometimes a bunch of work tries to solve some problem, and so everyone assumes it must be hard---just because no one has solved it yet, even though no one has really tried a fundamentally different approach

How does one approach collaborators in this situation? Like, hey, I have this idea that solves the problem you have been trying to solve in a fundamentally different way that invalidates all the legacy approaches you have invested in, BTW. My emails that follow this spirit tend to get ghosted.
by rheng | 2026-03-09 22:59:23+00:00
While the Lenire device may appear similar at first glance because it uses comparable stimulation protocols, I believe Susan Shore’s device is superior. Shore’s approach targets the root neurological cause of tinnitus and aims for measurable reductions in loudness, whereas Lenire primarily focuses on reducing how bothersome the ringing feels. Shore’s research also follows a more first‑principles, neuroscience‑driven path—from basic lab work to carefully controlled clinical trials. Additionally, her studies were more rigorous, incorporating proper control groups, something the Lenire trials lacked.
by trhway | 2026-03-09 22:59:26+00:00
> continuation of a long-standing design work with Bell.

sunk investment. The success - it made into production in meaningful numbers - of V-22 means that design will beaten to death.

Even though Bell X-22 (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lFdV5CVXGGw) was much better as prop VTOL than V-22, and for jet VTOL Ryan XV-5 Vertifan (look how great it is flying https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HwvkjFIYWR8 ) was much better than F-35 has been and X-76 will be.
by cal_dent | 2026-03-09 22:59:31+00:00
I tend to agree. I've always thought it would work well as a TV show in the more heady days of streaming (let's say 2012 - 2020) when networks and studios where it still felt like they had some room to take more risk. It's more towards the end of the last TV "golden age" but an adaptation like something like Apple's take on "Tales from the Loop". Not brash or loud or too formulaic but somehow still got made
by qubidt | 2026-03-09 22:59:34+00:00
> They would have been reasonable scifi books (for their time) if they hadn't attempted to follow up the classics.

I agree with everything except this. The sequels are by far the worst books I've read this decade. The memories of reading them actively causes me psychic damage. I wish I could Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind myself just to extract the distaste from my brain
by brotchie | 2026-03-09 22:59:55+00:00
For the tax thing. I had Claude write a CLI and a prompt for Gemini Flash 2.5 to do the structured extraction: i.e. .pdf -> JSON. The JSON schema was pretty flexible, and open to interpretation by Gemini, so it didn't produce 100% consistent JSON structures.

To then "aggregate" all of the json outputs, I had Claude look at the json outputs, and then iterate on a Python tool to programmatically do it. I saw it iterating a few times on this: write the most naive Python tool, run it, throws exception, rinse and repeat, until it was able to parse all the json files sensibly.
by rvz | 2026-03-09 23:00:18+00:00
> In what world did the Mastodon CEO made money out of Mastodon beside the small public salary he's been taking?

Here on Earth, Europe, Germany, Berlin, Mastodon GmbH.

So he didn't tell you that he got a €1M one-off payment from Mastodon? [0]

> You are making things up.

It is true. [0]

[0] https://techcrunch.com/2025/11/18/mastodon-ceo-steps-down-as...
by jam | 2026-03-09 23:00:47+00:00
As followup to this... I tried half a dozen air mice, and they were all awful. The TV-remote style mice all send pre-defined keyboard presses that can not be modified or intercepted.

That's why I went with the single-hand game controllers instead. I'm looking forward to the new Steam Frame VR controllers, because they will probably be the best option once they're out.
by reitzensteinm | 2026-03-09 23:00:53+00:00
Coding is a verifiable domain, so I think you actually have it backwards on that first point. We can now synthesize Stack Overflow sized datasets for an arbitrary new language, and use those to train LLMs to understand it.

It's expensive of course, but if a new language is genuinely better for LLMs to write and understand, that would not be an issue.
by stagger87 | 2026-03-09 23:00:58+00:00
I'm probably spitting in the wind, but stuff like this is why I removed all my hosted open source projects. I manage several niche projects that I have now converted to binary only releases (to almost no push back). It's niche enough that it's not very hard to get LLMs to output chunks of code that it managed to scrape before I took it offline. I don't see many people talking about this angle, but LLMs ripping off my work killed my open source efforts.
by igor47 | 2026-03-09 23:01:03+00:00
More grift from the Trump admin, a Trump ally is on Ticketmaster board and they fired the DoJ antitrust chief last month to make this deal happen. Ticketmaster paying 3 days of revenue as a fine and getting a slap on the wrist. The terms include them promising not to do any more illegal stuff that was already illegal and they just did anyway, such as retaliating against artists and venues that try to oppose them. Meanwhile we get to continue paying a 30% convenience fee for our tickets, the only reasonable remaining way to support artists in the Spotify era, plus we get to use their shitty app.
by ChicagoDave | 2026-03-09 23:01:04+00:00
It’s meant for serious engineers. I have zero interest in opening it up to vibe coding clowns that think they can cheat and build without discipline.

It may be that my target audience is already building their own “devarch” but I still have to validate the ddd parts and that will be a differentiator.

My sales are likely going to be corporate via consulting connections.
by crazygringo | 2026-03-09 23:01:22+00:00
> into the original intent of intellectual property laws to defend creative works as a manner to sustain yourself

But you're missing the other half of copyright law, which is the original intent to promote the public good.

That's why fair use exists, for the public good. And that's why the main legal argument behind LLM training is fair use -- that the resulting product doesn't compete directly with the originals, and is in the public good.

In other words, if you write an autobiography, you're not losing significant sales because people are asking an LLM about your life.
by munk-a | 2026-03-09 23:01:33+00:00
Yea, at the end of the day a big part of this question comes down to whether that copying is fair use and that is an open question with the transformative nature being the primary point in favor of the LLM. But it is copying from some works to another - if it doesn't have some fair use exception it is absolutely violating the licensing of most of the training data. It's a bit different from previous settled case law because it's copying so little from so many billions of different things. I think blocking reproduction is wise by LLM companies for PR purposes but it doesn't guarantee that training is a license exempted activity.
by phoenixy1 | 2026-03-09 23:01:59+00:00
Plaid does support personal use (including personal use access for Chase). I'd actually be interested in seeing where you saw that it doesn't support Chase for personal access so I can make sure our messaging is clear and consistent on that front!

It's true that the current onboarding flow is not designed for personal use cases; we're currently in the middle of revamping it to make it less onerous for non-business users. In the meantime, I recommend you just fill out the questionnaire as well as you can. We know that some of the questions don't really make sense in a personal use context -- just try to answer them to the best of your ability and you should be fine.
by matheusmoreira | 2026-03-09 23:02:32+00:00
> This doesn't make sense for the vast majority of people.

That's fine.

> Linux desktop doesn't have the vast majority of the niceties that living in the Apple ecosystem gives you.

And it never will should nobody actually step up and put in the work to make it a reality. Linux needs users willing to do such things.

The original free software business model is that people would pay programmers to work on the features they needed and the results would go back into the commons in the form of upstream patches. I've actually made some money this way. It was nice.
by OKRainbowKid | 2026-03-09 23:02:37+00:00
What are you talking about? Greens are neither pro-gas nor pro-Russia. They were amongst those warning previous governments of energy dependence on Russia, and were basically the most decisively pro-Ukranian party in the previous government.
They also weren't the ones who made the decision to shut down the remaining nuclear plants, despite what "conservatives" would like you to believe.
by naasking | 2026-03-09 23:03:05+00:00
> In my opinion, inappropriately leaked information should probably be considered private.

How is that relevant to BSky's terms of service? The information was public and did not identify the person.

> But even if not, Singal says the same leaker directly contacted him with a new leak, which he also published.

I notice that you didn't say whether this new leak was private information, or whether it was also already public knowledge, or whether it in any way identified a person.
by bsder | 2026-03-09 23:03:13+00:00
> we already have results which show that the distinction between stack and heap is artificial and phony.

That's not really true on modern architectures.

The "stack" is a way to time-alias memory and, on modern architectures, that also has performance implications. The stack gets pushed and popped repeatedly so that area of memory stays very hot in the caches.

Garbage collection, by definition, trashes locality. So, pushing onto the "stack" and unwinding it by "garbage collection" is pretty disastrous for performance on modern architectures.
by readthenotes1 | 2026-03-09 23:03:39+00:00
"Clarke himself was gay"

Maybe it no longer needs to be said in this day and age, but Clarke was accused, credibly, of being a pedophile (or, to diminish it with a technicality, hebephile).

It is not quite as abhorrent/chilling as the also credible accusations against Marion Zimmer Bradley--but only because she was teamed up with a Jeffrey Epstein like character.
by rkagerer | 2026-03-09 23:04:03+00:00
I did this 20 years ago when I bought a convertible tablet with a stylus.

It was the first touchscreen I'd ever owned, and ran a special Tablet edition of XP. If I recall, it came with something similar to Microsoft Font Maker. On a roadtrip, a friend of mine scrawled in all the letters and presto, we had a new handwritten font.

The script looked kind of like a kid's handwriting. Over the years I used it (with permission) in various PDF's and doc files, mainly when I was showcasing how to fill in a form. It lent a nice, obvious distinction between the phrases that were part of the form template, and the portions that had been "handwritten" in. The last time I used it was to train volunteer firefighters how to fill in certain medical paperwork and equipment inspection logs.
by Jtsummers | 2026-03-09 23:05:24+00:00
I can't find any news either, but that is the claim of this submission.

> Jonathan Bowen informed me of Tony Hoare's death on Thursday, March 5th. (translated from French)

The main reason to find it surprising is that it's now 4 days since then, I'd have expected something to have been published besides this page.
by jjk166 | 2026-03-09 23:05:31+00:00
That's not a countervailing argument, that is the argument. The side able to apply more industrial power defeated the side with more capable but less useful equipment.

The US outspends the next 10 countries combined in peace times. By comparison, Germany outspent the US on its military by a factor of 20 on the eve of WW2. Obviously once the war got going, the US' immense industrial capacity (along with the other Allies; the British Empire and the Soviet Union had the number 2 and 3 GDPs) was unstoppable.

We no longer live in the age where the US represents half of the world GDP and the bulk of that is manufacturing. China's has a larger economy in terms of Purchasing Power Parity, it has extensive manufacturing capacity, and a vast population. If push came to shove, we wouldn't be able to simply outspend them. In that hypothetical conflict we are the germany with a bunch of questionably useful wunderwaffe.
by latchkey | 2026-03-09 23:06:13+00:00
I previously ran 150,000 AMD gpus in all conditions at 100% utilization for years. I currently have a multi-million $ cluster of enterprise AMD GPUs.

A couple real world points:

1. They generally don't just fail. More likely a repairable component on a board fails and you can send it out to be repaired.

2. For my current stuff, I have a 3 year pro support contract that can be extended. Anything happens, Dell goes and fixes it. We also haven't had someone in our cage at the DC in over 6 months now.
Show HN: Free AI resume tailor I built after a recent layoff (300+ users so far)
by djrnz | 2026-03-09 23:06:47+00:00
Hey HN,

I’m a Staff Software Engineer, and just recently, on February 24, 2026, I was laid off along with 200+ coworkers. To survive the brutal job market, I hacked together a tool to automate my own applications: jobbi.app.

It just crossed 300+ users organically, so I wanted to share it here.

How it works:

You upload a big “master resume” (3–10+ pages with every job, duty, side project, and tech stack).

You paste a target job description.

Jobbi uses AI to pull out what’s relevant and generates a targeted resume for that specific role, with instant PDF/Markdown export.

Pricing / philosophy:

Core loop is 100% free: unlimited tailoring on standard models and unlimited exports.

All PII (name, phone, email) stays on the device; only the anonymized content goes to the model.

There’s an optional Pro tier that uses more expensive models (like Gemini Pro) on a subscription with a 2‑week free trial. I don’t push it, but I already have 4 subscribers, 2 of whom converted from trial.

I’d really appreciate unfiltered HN feedback:

Any UX bottlenecks or confusing flows?

Any privacy red flags?

Features that would actually help you land interviews?

Web: https://jobbi.app
iOS: https://apps.apple.com/us/app/jobbi-ai-resume/id6757321088
Community: https://www.reddit.com/r/Jobbi/

There’s an in‑app iMessage form that pings my phone directly, or you can email support@jobbi.app. Thanks for taking a look.
by vrinsd | 2026-03-09 23:06:57+00:00
I used Sailfish OS and so did several of my family members for many years. The "vanilla" Linux OS aspect (besides using rpm) makes it trivial to set up things like dnsmasq-adblocking, firewall rules, etc.

Unfortunately, the Sailfish UI itself feels "different for the sake of different" and not because it's functionally more useful. I think the UI is pretty ugly and difficult to navigate. Anyone who "loved" Win8 tiles and/or Windows Mobile flat monochrome UI always praises the SailfishOS UI but outside of that small group I don't think the UI is that functional. It's definitely eschewed it's MeeGo / Nokia N9 UI heritage.

What always surprised me about SFOS is despite running on some pretty decent hardware, the UI always felt sluggish, especially given it's kind of reversed-big-text UI paradigm which shouldn't take much work to render.

I'm glad there's an alternative, but sad it's hasn't seen a reasonable set of UI improvements despite its age.