MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by das_keyboard | 2026-03-04 10:48:42+00:00
> What are Eurosky’s goals?

> In the next 12 months we aim to set up and operate key components in the AT Protocol tech stack: PDS services, relays, and content moderation, in order to ensure that the ecosystem is robust, resilient and with a base in Europe. We also aim to kickstart the development of a suite of social applications that advance democratic and participatory civics, through technical support, access to resources, and collaboration with communities.

> To do that, we aim to raise €5-7 million over the next 12 months, and €15 million in funding by 2028.

€5-7m for operating a BlueSky instance. Great use of european funds right here!
by nz | 2026-03-04 10:48:50+00:00
There is no comment on whether LLMs/agents have been used. I feel like projects should explicitly say if they were _or_ were not used. There is no license file, and no copyright header either. This feels like "fauxpen-source": imagine getting LEX+YACC to generate a parser, and presenting the generated C code as "open-source".

This is just another way to throw binaries over the wire, but much worse. This has the _worst_ qualities of the GPL _and_ pseudo-free-software-licenses (i.e. the EULAs used by mongo and others). It has all the deceptive qualities of the latter (e.g. we are open but not really -- similar to Sun Microsystems [love this company btw, in spite of its blunders], trying to convince people that NeWS is "free" but that the cost of media [the CD-ROM] is $900), with the viral qualities of the former (e.g. the fruit of the poison tree problem -- if you use this in your code, then not only can you not copyright the code, but you might actually be liable for infringement of copyright and/or patents).

I would appreciate it if the contributor, mrconter11, would treat HN as an internet space filled with intelligent thinking people, and not a bunch of shallow and mindless rubes. (Please (1) explicitly disclose both the use and absence of use of LLMs -- people are more likely to use your software this way, and preserves the integrity of the open source ecosystem, and (2) share you prompts and session).

So passes the glory of open source.
by bloomingeek | 2026-03-04 10:49:23+00:00
Yes, on the shallow pockets. Also, I had the habit of putting my non-folding phone down when sitting, and then leaving it behind.(!) I would sit it down because it wouldn't fit into my pocket and I didn't always carry a hip pack. Except for the stupid high prices of the "fold" phones, they would put me right back in the non pocket fitting situation. (Although the extra screen space would be sweet!)
by 7174n6 | 2026-03-04 10:49:26+00:00
This looks nice, but there is nothing that explains why I should invest in it over any of the other dozen note-taking apps that support markdown. Why should I pay for this rather than stay with Obsidian? I'm not hating on this tool, I'm advising the developer they need to be more aggressive in convincing me it's worth the investment in money and time to make the switch.
by embedding-shape | 2026-03-04 10:49:51+00:00
As far as I can tell, it also doesn't have anything to do with the Linux Foundation, and the website also doesn't claims to be connected to either of them, but I guess worth saying for some reason?

Seems to be run by "The Modal Foundation", a public interest foundation based in the Netherlands, according to the FAQ: https://www.eurosky.tech/faq
by stratocumulus0 | 2026-03-04 10:49:57+00:00
My experience is that on American platforms free speech means that these platforms are free to remove whatever content based on whatever heuristics, with little to no accountability. Right now I see examples of American social norms limiting expression worldwide (see people adopting bl**ping out words and using defused meta-expressions such as 'unalive' worldwide to escape any potential bans). Right now American free speech means that I'm subject to opaque, automated laws of a corporation which I cannot influence as a citizen.
by broadsidepicnic | 2026-03-04 10:50:01+00:00
One of the greatest things I miss from Samsung after some time with GrapheneOS is the dex.

The current provided desktop mode is rudimentary, and mostly working. But it has so much potential. We could have all in one device with us, and just plug that into an usb-c dock. Or watch things on big screens in hotels if a mouse emulation on touchscreen like samsung would be supported.

Or, as Samsung already has created this, maybe that could be somehow ported to GrapheneOS via some 3rd party patcher? I'd really like to use samsung clock and gallery, as well, as those are quite a lot better than AOSP ones.

I like GrapheneOS, and the promise of it. Just a few minor things and it would be awesome instead of really good.
by tialaramex | 2026-03-04 10:50:11+00:00
IPv6 addresses aren't confusable with a DNS name in these syntaxes AFAIU so it's not that they didn't consider IPv6 but that it's not relevant to the issue.

Yes, "Don't stand out" technologies like ECH aren't useful if you inherently stand out anyway. They're intended to make broad surveillance and similar undirected attacks less effective, they aren't magic invisibility cloaks and won't protect you if you're a singular target.
by alansaber | 2026-03-04 10:50:13+00:00
The best thing I read in this was "Hoard things you know how to do" > basically get an LLM to mutate an existing function you know is 1. well written and 2. works. If you have many such components you're still assembling code rapidly but using building blocks you actually understand in depth, rather than getting an LLM to shit out something verbose.
by solatic | 2026-03-04 10:51:06+00:00
> 120Hz refresh rate would be nice to have, but there is no display I’m aware of that meets the macOS pixel density requirement while also providing faster refresh rates.

Is this still true, meaning, is the new Studio Display XDR the only option that is also Retina/HiDPI and also 120Hz? I've seen a lot of commentary dumping on the price, but if they're really the only option then they can charge whatever Apple Tax they want.
by tacone | 2026-03-04 10:51:46+00:00
The patterns in the article might be a starter, but there's so much more to cover:

agents role (Orchestrator, QA etc.), agents communication, thinking patterns, iteration patterns, feature folders, time-aware changelog tracking, prompt enforcing, real time steering.

We might really need a public Wiki for that (C2 [1] style)

[1]: https://wiki.c2.com/
by teroshan | 2026-03-04 10:52:07+00:00
While unfortunately in french, the detailed write-up of the hack [0] is worth a read.

The first step was finding out the pre-prod sever through the hash of the site's favicon in Shodan [1]

[0] https://yggleak.top/fr/home/ygg-dossier#le-hack

[1] https://blog.shodan.io/deep-dive-http-favicon/
by embedding-shape | 2026-03-04 10:52:16+00:00
Does it matter who the sycophant was or just that there was a sycophant?

My partner does that as well as LLMs at this point; "Sure honey, I remember you've talked a lot about Rust and about Clojure in the past, and you seem excited about this Clojure-To-Rust transpiler you're building, it sounds like a great idea!", is that bad too?
by diacritical | 2026-03-04 10:52:34+00:00
You forgot the urge we all share to store all our login information on our phone, to exclusively use it for banking, to take and store all our sensitive photos and videos, to exclusively use it for any kind of communication, to keep the microphone and camera intact and to leave our phone on 24/7 next to us.

Seriously, what's the worst that could happen with an internet connected closed down device that holds all our information and has a microphone and camera? People must be just paranoid.
by thot_experiment | 2026-03-04 10:53:17+00:00
The "access your own files" thing is so insane! Hard to describe my feelings [negative] when I found out that all of my voice notes were in the voice recorder and the easiest way to get them out was to manually send each one to myself over discord. Google helpfully mentions that you can just "download them through google takeout" and doesn't leave any option for people who don't just give all their personal data to google.
by roenxi | 2026-03-04 10:53:56+00:00
Yes, exactly. Someone is going to moderate the platform, and in the US that is an entity deciding what can be said - an entity which at its core wants people on the platform. That dynamic is why we'd expect to see all the major social media platforms operated from the US, as opposed to most places where the moderation is ultimately driven by courts and governments.

Can't speak for the EU, but in the English speaking world outside of the States it'd be quite risky to run large social media sites of the scale that the US ones operate at. The laws around what can and cannot be said in public are too limiting.

I remember when there was a suppression order out on talking about Cardinal Pell in Australia, it was eye opening to how limited political speech actually was. Good luck to anyone in Aus trying to compete with Facebook, let alone the UK.
by pkphilip | 2026-03-04 10:54:06+00:00
Considering the draconian policies in the UK, Germany etc where people are arrested based on their social media posts criticizing the government or its officials or anything the govt doesn't agree with, I am not sure what exactly is the selling point here of using a social media platform built/hosted in Europe.

Sources:
German police arrest author over tweets criticising Netanyahu
https://www.yahoo.com/news/articles/german-police-arrest-aut...

German police raid home of social media user over civil servant 'parasite' post
Man's house searched at dawn after criticizing tax system and government workers on social media; lawyer calls actions 'absurd and illegal'
https://www.aa.com.tr/en/europe/german-police-raid-home-of-s...
by nephihaha | 2026-03-04 10:54:15+00:00
Western governments see car owners, smokers and drinkers as a steady income stream while preaching against them.

I was on a bus yesterday which took three times as long as it should have done. An hour and a half on a bus, and I still got in late despite setting out early. That was in a city. If you live outside a city, the public transport is even worse. I've missed job interviews, dates, other transport connections etc due to public transport. So yes, there are costs to that too.
by miki123211 | 2026-03-04 10:55:24+00:00
It makes certain users less safe in certain situations.

E2E makes political activists and anti-chinese dissidents safer, at the cost of making children less safe. Whether this is a worthwhile tradeoff is a political, not technical decision, but if we claim that there are any absolutes here, we just make sure that we'll never be taken seriously by anybody who matters.
by voxleone | 2026-03-04 10:55:38+00:00
What’s striking here is the convergence on a minimal axiomatic kernel (Lean) as the only scalable way to guarantee coherent reasoning. Some of us working on foundational physics are exploring the same methodological principle. In the “Functional Universe” framework[0], for example, we start from a small set of axioms and attempt to derive physical structure from that base.

The domains are different, but the strategy is similar: don’t rely on heuristics or empirical patching; define a small trusted core of axioms and generate coherent structure compositionally from there.

[0] https://voxleone.github.io/FunctionalUniverse
by cwillu | 2026-03-04 10:57:00+00:00
That would seem to require that the act provide a shield against liabilities involving minors, which doesn't seem compatible with the notion that it's such a low-friction mechanism. A minor installs debian on a raspberry py, clicks “I am 23 years old and then an “adult dating” site isn't allowed to repeat the question?

If anything, this seems like a convenient path to mandating far more restrictive measures under the guise of “fixing an obvious loophole in the law”.
by arch-choot | 2026-03-04 10:57:26+00:00
Should've added this was back in like 2018 or so. Setting up DoH was harder than enabling SNI, and from my testing back then they were hard filtering on SNI (e.g. I used OpenSSL CLI to set the SNI to `pornhub.com` and connect to "known good" IPs, it'd still get reset).

Funnily enough, not setting the SNI and connecting the the origin IP, and then requesting the page worked fine.
Show HN: Chase – Automated invoice follow-up emails for freelancers
by Cvexperts | 2026-03-04 10:57:45+00:00
85% of freelancers get paid late. The average wait is 39 days past the due date.

Chase is a tool I built to fix this. You create an invoice, send it, and Chase automatically sends follow-up emails on day 3, 7, and 14 — then stops the moment the client pays. No manual "just checking in" emails.

Built with Next.js 15, Supabase, Stripe (payment links on every invoice), and Resend. Vercel Cron handles the daily chase job.

Free plan: up to 3 invoices. Pro: $19/month unlimited. Would love feedback from anyone who's dealt with this problem.
by seec | 2026-03-04 10:58:18+00:00
POS Apple just made me upgrade my iPhone Mini to 26 so that I could pair my new Apple Watch, because I just broke the old one.

I wasn't sure I wanted another Apple Watch, but it was the easiest thing to buy, and I don't have to figure out how to transfer all the data and set it up somewhere else.

But I definitely regret going the "easy" way; iOS 26 is truly awful, what the fuck.

I'm going to figure out what fitness/sport watch I really want to use next because I doubt I'll be sticking to iPhone with what they have on offer these days...
by samrus | 2026-03-04 10:59:50+00:00
Pakistan has this government facilitated payments infrastructure called Raast. Its not private, so it work directly from bank account to bank account. It works great, and avoids vendor lockin. This plus the mobile wallet boom (basically mini bank accounts with far less barrier to entry) means you can now pay quite a few (unfortunately not most yet) normal street vendors with this. I think thats a great system
by anonymous6500 | 2026-03-04 11:00:24+00:00
The article does not reveal it to me either how the existing code would be mapped to Lean and back. The impression from zlib example is that I'd be expected to program in Lean. No way it's going to happen. The language is too complex for me and my average colleague. We're also not going to have two parallel implementations in ordinary language and Lean and compare them with 'differential random testing' (see https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/opensource/lean-into-verified-s... someone linked in the discussion), that's just too taxing for bigger products, let alone we typically don't have enough time to do one implementation right.

The gap of having succinct, expressive, powerful and executable specification to be able to continuously verify AI-generated programs is real, but I don't see how Lean alone closes it. If the author's intention was to attract community to help build that out with Lean in the center, it's not clear to me where to even start. Since the author provided no hints or direction, I've a feeling it's not clear to them either.
by arch-choot | 2026-03-04 11:00:45+00:00
\> This makes the spec entirely meaningless for small servers and basically requires shifting hosting to shared hosts/massive CDNs to provide any protection against SNI snooping.

Actually you can setup ECH on your server, and configure the public_name to be something like `cloudflare-ech.com` , so clients would indeed use that in the OuterSNI, connect to you, without you needing to use CF. And middleboxes might think they are indeed connecting to CF (though CF publishes their IP ranges so this could be checked elsewhere).
by iso1631 | 2026-03-04 11:01:06+00:00
I'm all for helping parents to do this. Any site requiring age verification should indicate this as a http header or whatever, and the browser I allow my child to use should respect that and the parental controls should be easy for me to engage with

Many parental controls are massive pains to get working. Apple does fairly well (although I don't get a parental pin number to unlock the phone, which is normally fine as my child will tell me, but in some circumstances it wouldn't be), but does require the parent to be on the apple ecosystem too.

EA and Microsoft however are terrible, especially as it's likely the child will be playing fortnite/minecraft and the parent won't have ever touched it. I think with minecraft we had to make something like 5 or 6 accounts across three different sites to allow online minecraft play from a nintendo switch.
by tim333 | 2026-03-04 11:01:12+00:00
In London they've deliberately made driving more of a pain doing thing like removing parking and reducing lanes with the idea of making it better for walking and cycling. Most people seem ok with the trade off.

I don't know about travel times and convenience. The last couple of years I've mostly switched to ebike and it's faster than anything in central London. The same journey of say 2 miles can take 10 mins by ebike, 15 taxi, 30 tube/bus, 20-40 private car driving in circles trying to park.
by stinkbeetle | 2026-03-04 11:01:12+00:00
No it's actual hardware coherent memory across the system. At a high level it is the same way two cores/caches are connected within one chip, or the same way two sockets are connected on the same board. Just using cables instead of wires in the chip or on a board.

This system has SMP ASICs on the motherboards that talk to a couple of Intel processor sockets using their coherency protocol over QPI and they basically present themselves as a coherency agent and memory provider (similarly to the way that processors themselves have caches and DDR controllers). The Intel CPUs basically talk to them the same way they would another processor. But out the other side these ASICS connect to a bunch of others all doing the same thing, and they use their own coherency protocol among themselves.
Show HN: We built a zero-webhook Merchant of Record for SaaS
by alokdubey007 | 2026-03-04 11:01:19+00:00
Hi HN,

We've been building Kelviq for the last couple of months and it's finally ready to share.

Kelviq is a Merchant of Record (MoR) and monetization platform that you can integrate without building a custom webhook-to-database syncing layer. Along with handling global taxes, checkout, and compliance, it acts as the real-time source of truth for your users feature access and usage credit balances.

Why we built this: Through our other project, ParityDeals, we saw firsthand how much founders struggle with billing infrastructure. Integrating a payment gateway is easy, but actually building "monetization" is a massive engineering timesink.

To gate features or charge for usage (like API requests or LLM tokens), you usually end up building:

- A fragile, stateful webhook listener to keep your local database synced with Stripe.

- Custom idempotency layers and retry queues for missed events.

- Hardcoded feature flags scattered across your codebase to gate access based on tiers.

- Custom scripts to handle edge cases like upgrades, prorations, and grandfathering legacy users.

Because of this tight coupling, every pricing change, whether it's moving a feature to a new plan or switching from flat-rate to usage-based, requires a database migration and a code deploy.

Our Approach: Entitlement-First Most billing setups require you to manually bridge the gap between a payment event and your product state. Kelviq simplifies this with an entitlement-first model. You can still use webhooks if you need them, but our SDK allows your app to simply ask Kelviq for a user's current access state at runtime. It eliminates the need to maintain a homegrown subscriptions table just to gate a feature.

How it works:

Zero Webhook Syncing: Stop maintaining a homegrown subscriptions table. Use Kelviq SDK to check if a user has access to a feature before serving the request.

Real-Time Metering: Push usage data to our API at the atomic level (e.g., 1,500 AI tokens). We instantly evaluate it against their tier, deduct from credit balances, or add it to their end-of-month invoice.

Decoupled Pricing: Product and growth teams can change pricing models or tweak overage caps directly in the dashboard without engineers touching the codebase.

We built this to compress weeks of custom billing logic into a few hours of integration. Kelviq also supports multi-currency, built-in PPP pricing (with VPN and proxy protection), and digital product delivery with licensing.

Any feedback is highly appreciated!
by sublimefire | 2026-03-04 11:01:23+00:00
There is a reason why countries in Europe have such laws. US did not have a major war for quite a while on their own soil which affects your thinking. We do not want to reignite national socialism or communism, we do not like to see news channels lying to us. We do not like Russian bot armies spreading propaganda in chats.

What truth is it that you cannot say in Europe? You can say pretty much anything and be critical and nothing will happen to you. And if something happens there are instruments like European court system which you can use to fight your case (there is no need to be rich for that).
by gabrieln | 2026-03-04 11:01:37+00:00
I’ve been trying to get decent results out of the big models like Sora and Google’s Veo lately. The tech is cool, but the "safety" filters are honestly exhausting. Half my prompts get flagged for "policy violations". I started looking for a serious alternative that actually respects the prompt, and I’ve been using Unbound.video for the last few days. It’s private, it’s fast, and it’s the only tool I’ve found (for now) that delivers that unfiltered video power everyone is looking for.
by offbynull | 2026-03-04 11:02:07+00:00
This is such a strange take. Your words remind me of past crypto hype cycles, where people pushed web3.0 and NFT FOMO hysteria.

Engineering is
the practical application of science and mathematics to solve problems. It sounds like you're maybe describing construction management instead. I'm not denying that there's value here, but what you're espousing seems divorced from reality. Good luck vibecoding a nontrivial actuarial model, then having it to pass the laundry list of reviews and having large firms actually pick it up.
by cwillu | 2026-03-04 11:02:26+00:00
> For incorrect OS answers, keep reading

Nothing there responds to the question. If my 17 year old answers “I'm 23”, what exactly prevents them from posting to /r/nsfw? What constitutes “clear and convincing evidence”? If there's no answer here, then there appears to be no purpose to this law as this sort of thing is precisely what it's supposed to be preventing.
by fennecfoxy | 2026-03-04 11:02:31+00:00
That's because "native" is still a fucking pain in the ass with few benefits.

Electron can be pretty performant if written well. The difference between Electron and native is that Electron you can write sloppily (more common) or performant, whereas it's in the nature of native to force you down the performant path (which expends a lot more time).

People used to joke about new Javascript frameworks, now with AI things are changing even faster and you really think it's worth investing time into a native app for something whose features are rapidly expanding and changing? That's bad software management.

If they're doing stupid things in terms of performance then by all means they should fix that but Electron isn't inherently bad.
by mapleeman | 2026-03-04 11:02:37+00:00
So this is not necessarily the tool that should help you with building your own skills, but rather the tool that will help you search so you can dynamically fetch skills that are relevant to you.

Think: fetch me the Rust skills for kube.rs for building the Kubernetes operator -> then you can relate what you need to your own skills, or see examples you can build from your specific cases.

That search feature is on the roadmap.