MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by wafflebot | 2026-03-09 14:49:30+00:00
I like your post and the last line is really key.

When we are young we hear versions of this (e.g. "have to love yourself first") and despite the trite or pithy phrasings of it, it contains a truth.

We shouldn't conflate not being partnered with being alone. There is so much else socially we need to cultivate whether it is family, friends, coworkers, community, or just being in the world and talking to a stranger.

If all this feels sad or empty because of the breakup, that's ok. FEEL IT. The only way out is through. Feel it, don't numb it, try to find gratitude for the pain because it will lead you to where you need to be. The darkness and the light, etc.

And when you arrive in a place where you no longer feel you need a partner to complete you or make your day feel meaningful, is the time you are ready to have a partner again.
by coldpie | 2026-03-09 14:49:35+00:00
I have a direct mailto: link to my email address in the footer of my website. Zero obfuscation. I don't get any unusually large volume of spam. Maybe Fastmail's filters are that good, or maybe scraping emails off the web just isn't worth the spammers' time anymore and they've all moved on to posting thirst traps on Instagram. I dunno. Hasn't been a problem either way.
by Dannymetconan | 2026-03-09 14:49:35+00:00
21% of all energy is now being consumed by data centers with not enough investment in new forms of energy generation.

This is a policy decision by the government. More realistically it is a decision to not proactively do anything and instead rely on market prices to encourage new entrants to the market.

https://www.cso.ie/en/releasesandpublications/ep/p-dcmec/dat...
Show HN: AriaType – Privacy-first voice keyboard with AI polish (Beta, macOS)
by zachari | 2026-03-09 14:49:40+00:00
Hi HN,

I built AriaType, a local-first voice keyboard for macOS (currently in Beta v0.1.0).

The motivation: I wanted a voice input solution that:
1. Respects my privacy (no cloud processing required)
2. Works everywhere (not just in browsers or specific apps)
3. Actually produces clean, usable text (not raw speech-to-text)

How it works:
- Hold a hotkey (Shift+Space by default), speak, release
- Whisper-based models (or sensevoice) run locally for transcription
- Optional AI polish removes filler words, fixes grammar, formats text
- Text gets injected into whichever app has focus

Privacy focus:
- All processing happens on-device
- No internet required after initial model download
- No telemetry or data collection (unless explicitly opted in)
- Open Source & Transparency

Current status:
- Beta v0.1.0 for macOS (Apple Silicon)
- Windows version in development

Would love feedback from the HN community, especially on:
- Performance and accuracy trade-offs between model sizes
- Text injection reliability across different applications
- Additional polish templates or features you'd find useful

GitHub: https://github.com/SparklingSynapse/AriaType

Website:
https://ariatype.com/en
by Anonyneko | 2026-03-09 14:49:44+00:00
This statement still, unfortunately, doesn't clarify whether the final translation was MTPE (machine translation post-editing) or translated from scratch by humans. I'm not a professional translator, but according to those of them I've seen on Bsky and the likes, MTPE greatly hurts both the translation quality and, ironically, the translation speed. It also makes it easier to accidentally recruit translators who don't have a decent enough grasp of the source language.

Screenshots of the translated game do give an impression of edited - or even, at times, unedited - machine translation. What with overly direct word-by-word translations, as well as reasonably obvious references (which the game is chock full of) getting mistranslated as something else entirely. Although those screenshots, of course, are not necessarily representative of the whole script, which was a collaborative effort by many translators.
by ulrikrasmussen | 2026-03-09 14:49:46+00:00
Interesting observation. After a human is done writing code, they still have a memory of why they made the choices they made. With an LLM, the context window is severely limited compared to a brain, so this information is usually thrown away when the feature is done, and so you cannot go back and ask the LLM why something is the way it is.
by thomasmg | 2026-03-09 14:49:47+00:00
> the only feasible compiler solutions to preventing division-by-0 errors are either: defining the behaviour, which always ends up surprising people later on, or; incredibly cumbersome or underperformant type systems/analyses which ensure that denominators are never 0.

I don't think it's very cumbersome if the compiler checks if the divisor could be zero. Some programming languages (Kotlin, Swift, Rust, Typescript...) already do something similar for possible null pointer access: they require that you add a check "if s == null" before the access. The same can be done for division (and remainder / modulo). In my own programming language, this is what I do: you can not have a division by zero at runtime, because the compiler does not allow it [1]. In my experience, integer division by a variable is not all that common in reality. (And floating point division does not panic, and integer division by a non-zero constant doesn't panic either). If needed, one could use a static function that returns 0 or panics or whatever is best.

[1] https://github.com/thomasmueller/bau-lang/blob/main/README.m...
by s_dev | 2026-03-09 14:50:03+00:00
Ireland is building the Celtic Interconnector with France next, will import a lot of her electricity from there which predominately uses nuclear power to generate her electricity. I fear you're making perfect the enemy of better and genuine progress.

https://www.eirgrid.ie/celticinterconnector

Ireland has lots of problems including energy generation but you're not being fair in citing significant progress having been made here.
by tedggh | 2026-03-09 14:50:24+00:00
As an avid reader and outdoors enthusiast, I feel there’s a lot of value on “wasting” time with a movie or limited series.

Absolutely, there are so many better things to do and experience than watching TV, but no one should be stressing out about maximizing their time doing them.

In fact, going against that mindset once in a while, and allowing yourself to not do the thing you think you should be doing, is an experience by itself.

Also, it doesn’t need to be a complete waste of time. If you like history or art, there’s a lot of content both as fiction and non fiction that you would find intellectually stimulating (I highly recommend Criterion for this)

One cold November night my wife picked a movie called
Babette's Feast. I absolutely loved the photography. I did some research and found it was inspired by Danish painter Hammershoi, which I never heard of. For Christmas, my wife gave me a beautifully printed, limited edition of his work by the Jacquemart museum in Paris.

Later this year we plan to make a stop in Copenhagen on our way to Sweden to visit friends, so we can see Hammershoi work at the museums.
by sixothree | 2026-03-09 14:50:24+00:00
And to support your point even further, in the video he captures the credits off a disc with constant angular velocity, but he _also_ completely lucks out and captures an image from a disc with constant linear velocity.

I'm so sick of this negative attitude. I get it when it comes to politics or more complex systems or conceptual ideas. But holy hell, we're talking about a "money shot" to get people interested in the subject.
by disgruntledphd2 | 2026-03-09 14:50:27+00:00
> Ireland partly got rich by being a massive CO2 polluter per capita. Now we are rich it’s only fair we lead in transitioning to renewables. Renewables are cheaper now than most forms of energy production. Grids need investment.

Sorry, what? While I agree with you about reducing emissions, most of our transition from poor to rich(er) was driven by capital light businesses. To be fair, the pharma companies did come here because we refused to regulate spillovers up to EU standards, but that's less than half of the story.

tl;dr loads of golf courses, english speaking population, smart industrial plannng and tax dodging was really how it happened.
by casey2 | 2026-03-09 14:50:29+00:00
You're describing valueless automation. We can build an assembly line and mass produce cars, that only has value if society is restructured. The food delivery industry only moves a trillion (globally) because it's incredibly wasteful, not due to value. Most of the value in going to a restaurant was in the experience and culture, the food is just a blend of fats, carbs and protein, but you pay more for the "luxury" of eating in your house or at work.

You'll have cities made to serve cars and food made to serve delivery and worker drones. In the pursuit of optimization you'll end up back at the same place, when there was only one cafeteria in walking distance.

Anyway we aren't "on the brink of full automation" that's ridiculous, people always think this, because they have no idea how brittle automated systems are. To get a generally intelligent robot that operates in the real world you have to go WAY beyond replacing knowledge workers. The brain only uses 1W more when it's working at full tilt, 5% more. For any physical job the body is using. The full body at rest uses 100W, walking that's 300W, manual labor 600W a full sprint could peak at 2000W. That's an absurd range made only possible due to trillions of cells packed with ATP and billions of microscopic capillaries full of glucose that get sucked into your muscles the second you use them. Automation only works in closed systems, give it 2000 years maybe someone makes AGSI, then the robotics problem becomes approachable, but if it were smart it'd just declare it impossible without biotech.
by palata | 2026-03-09 14:50:46+00:00
My understanding is that "literate programming" doesn't say "you should document the public API". It says "you should document the implementation details, because code is hard to understand".

My opinion is that if whoever is interested in reading the implementation details cannot understand it, either the code is bad or they need to improve themselves. Most of the time at least. But I hear a lot of "I am very smart, so if I don't understand it without any effort, it means it's too complicated".
by jodrellblank | 2026-03-09 14:51:08+00:00
Because coal desposits in the ground have bits of Uranium and Thorium which are radioactive, they get concentrated in coal fly ash, and blow out the chimney in the smoke from a coal power plant, and kill people, they leach into the soil and waterways, and kill people.

That is, nuclear power plants only kill people by radioactivity in the case of an accident. Coal power plants do it in normal operation. As well as coal dust having a PM2.5 dust problem which kills people.

Make it about nuclear vs coal because people say coal is better than nuclear because it's not scary radiation, and it actually is.

> "Both are bad"

Nuclear generates more power from a Kg of fuel, with less CO2 pollution and fewer deaths. It's not bad, but even if it was bad it's not "both sides", it's much less bad.

[yes coal disasters also kill hundreds of people: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aberfan_disaster ]
by vstuart | 2026-03-09 14:51:17+00:00
In my personal research I investigate Wealth, power, and influence: Issues and solutions.

https://persagen.org/wpi/

I am fundamentally interested in ontology, relationships, and epistemology. I map ontological placement of entities as a foundational mapping of wealth, power, influence etc.

The current version (in pdf form) is 688 pp -- a dated (Nov 2025; 493 pp.) online version can be found online at

https://persagen.org/wpi/docs/wpi-ontology.pdf
by schiffern | 2026-03-09 14:51:23+00:00
>I think not using an ultrasonic humidifier would be better stated as only using distilled water with ultrasonic humidifiers

The common misconception is that they're "safe" if you only ever use distilled water. In reality they still atomize gunk and bacteria from the tank, because nobody ever cleans & sterilizes their dehumidifier tank often enough. Distilled water users still report high indoor particle counts when it runs, which is how you know it's ineffective as a mitigation).

The cost of distilled water every year (even making it at home) means ultrasonic humidifiers are the most expensive option too.

Just use an evaporative pad humidifier.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oHeehYYgl28
by granoIacowboy | 2026-03-09 14:51:24+00:00
"AutoSkill abstracts skills from user experience, supports their continual self-evolution, and dynamically injects relevant skills into future requests without retraining the underlying model. Designed as a model-agnostic plugin layer, it is compatible with existing LLMs and introduces a standardized skill representation for sharing and transfer across agents, users, and tasks."
by Lex-2008 | 2026-03-09 14:51:36+00:00
not OP, but my current solution is to have a link which says "click to show email", with javascript handler that changes that link's href (and text) to email address, which is somehow computed. For example, by taking page URL and performing some regexp on it. It both avoids storing email in page source in plain text and requires human interaction, so feels good enough.

Another way I've seen elsewhere is to use a human-language explanation of how to build email address, something like this: "To get my email address, combine my first name (John) with my birth year (2000), separated by dash (-), and add email provider (@gmail.com)".
by motohagiography | 2026-03-09 14:51:44+00:00
don't problematize it. you get target lock from that and it will derail you from the things you enjoy.

the real questions are:

- what would you like?
- what would you do if you wouldn't fail?

I live in the proverbial cottage in the woods, have for years now, more Thoreau's Walden than Kaczinsky's cabin by far. The solitude is the most precious thing.

I chop a lot of wood, practice classical music, walk my dog and ride horses. I sit by a fire year round a couple times a week. Some years I do a garden. I'm in constant training in arts.

I also have a pretty intense job (security) that benefits from being able to walk and have lunch by the river in a forest.

The things I tend to avoid because they are degrading to the human spirit are:

- political accounts

- dating sites

- mainstream news

- social media

- exurbs

- franchises or big box anything

- microsoft anything

- shelf stable foods

it's only a problem if you make it one.
by PaulHoule | 2026-03-09 14:52:00+00:00
There are 30,000 different x-platform GUI frameworks and they all share one attribute: (1) they look embarrassingly bad compared to Electron or Native apps and they mostly (2) are terrible to program for.

I feel like I never wasting my time when I learn how to do things with the web platform because it turns out the app I made for desktop and tablet works on my VR headset. Sure if you are going to pay me 2x the market rate and it is a sure thing you might interest me in learning Swift and how to write iOS apps but I am going to do it for a personal project or even a moneymaking project where I am taking some financial risk no way. The price of learning how to write apps for Android is that I have to also learn how to write apps for iOS and write apps for Windows and write apps for MacOS and decide what's the least-bad widget set for Linux and learn to program for it to.

Every time I do a shoot-out of Electron alternatives Electron wins and it is not even close.
by ZeroGravitas | 2026-03-09 14:52:11+00:00
The actual causes of electricity cost rises in Ireland being higher than Europe are:

Lower population density on a grid without good connections to neighbours.

Previous underinvestment in network infrastructure.

Gas price rises combined with Ireland having less renewables that the EU average.

Maybe saving the world a bit harder would have helped keep prices down. It's certain that building more renewables now is the likeliest path to cheaper electricity.

A report supporting those claims:
https://www.nerinstitute.net/sites/default/files/research/89...
by landl0rd | 2026-03-09 14:52:12+00:00
I'm not the enemy of this progress at all and think it's a good thing. Same goes for the Celtic Interconnecter, though. My point is basically a) "coal-free" is misleading and this progress can be framed in other ways, and b) Ireland would have been better-served in terms of cost and environment to rely on even OCGTs than HFO.
by disgruntledphd2 | 2026-03-09 14:52:13+00:00
> You would have to normalize against other costs and do a deep dive to really understand.

The tricky part here is that energy is an input to basically everything. It's a major (through fertiliser) input to food, and then all of transport and stocking of said food which tends to be how energy changes influence downstream inflation. So I think you'd probably need a deeper analysis to tease out these issues.
by randall | 2026-03-09 14:52:30+00:00
This is the least informed take i've ever seen.

I worked at fb, and I'm 100% certain we sponsored VLC and OBS at the time. It would be strange if we didn't sponsor FFMPEG, but regardless (as the article says) we definitely got out of our internal fork and upstreamed a lot of the changes.

I worked on live, and everyone in the entire org worships ffmpeg.
Show HN: Jotio – Temporary notes that archive themselves
by heikowitte | 2026-03-09 14:53:01+00:00
Hi HN,

I built a small Mac and iOS app because I kept running into the same problem with note apps: most of the things I write down are temporary thoughts.

They’re usually:

- random ideas

- things I might explore later

- reminders that may or may not matter

But most note apps treat every note like something you should organize and keep forever. Over time this creates a huge pile of notes that I rarely revisit.

Jotio experiments with a different model: notes automatically filter themselves over time.

Basic idea:

- quickly capture a thought from anywhere

- it goes into an inbox

- during review you regularly revisit what you captured

- notes you ignore eventually archive themselves (and optionally auto-delete after some time you configure), visually fading so you can immediately see which ones you have not visited for some time

So the ideas that keep pulling your attention stay visible while the rest disappears without manual cleanup.

The main experience is currently on Mac with a global input window for quick capture.

Curious if this mental model resonates with others here or if I’m solving a niche problem.

I’d really appreciate any feedback.

The app is available here: https://apps.apple.com/us/app/jotio/id6757312138
by teemur | 2026-03-09 14:53:38+00:00
We need to think that there is two oil prices. one the producer gets and another the consumer pays. High producer price is the worst thing that can happen from climate change perspective. That means also the more difficult to extract oilfields become profitable and then oil in also those will be extracted and burned. If we get the producer oil price to say $5 per barrel, I guarantee you oil production will collapse to almost nothing. Obviously consumer oil price can't be $5 unless there is something still cheaper and better (hard) or taxation/emissions trading schemes that make consumers pay much more than what producer gets.
by al_borland | 2026-03-09 14:54:16+00:00
In the US, when I was in grade school we learned both, but almost all the kids chose to write in Latin script when given the option. I think we learned that first and it just stuck.

One day the school principal came into our class, pretty randomly, and tried to emphasize the importance of being proficient at reading and writing in cursive. It gave “old man yells at clouds” vibes at the time. Looking back, it wasn’t all that important.

My grandparents are of French decent and my grandfather’s cursive was very impressive. I may have been more interested in learning it in school if what we were learning was more aspirational, like his writing. We were taught the D'Nealian method[0], which I still find rather ugly for cursive. Their selling point to us was speed, not beauty, but I don’t know anyone who got quick with it.

I still remember a kid in my class who transferred from another school, I’m not sure where. His print handwriting was immaculate and beautiful. The teacher forced him to change to D'Nealian, even for his print writing, because that’s what was in the curriculum. It was so much worse. The kid was super upset about it. Here I am, 30+ years later still upset about it as well… and it wasn’t even me, I just witnessed the injustice. I felt really bad for him.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/D%27Nealian (cursive and print examples are here)
by butILoveLife | 2026-03-09 14:54:55+00:00
The God thing is only temporary though. At some point you will seek Truth and the world will collapse on you.. Not only will you have an existential crisis, but your friend group will begin to shy away from you.

But otherwise I basically agree. I think God is great for you in the psychological short term. Machiavelli to Dostoevsky agree.
by duncan86 | 2026-03-09 14:55:25+00:00
I built "Ask Zen Insight"—an AI-powered meditation teacher named "koji" (Emptiness and
Stillness) that offers thoughtful, non-judgmental conversations grounded in Buddhist and Zen
philosophy.

Key Features:
• Gentle yet firm dialogue style, like a real meditation teacher
• Uses Zen metaphors (water, clouds, mirrors, the moon)
• Non-judgmental, heuristic approach to self-reflection
• Real-time streaming responses

Tech Stack:
• Next.js 16 (App Router) + React 19
• Vercel AI SDK 6.0 (streaming)
• Zhipu AI GLM model
• Tailwind CSS v4 (OKLCH color space)
• Radix UI components

Live: https://ask.zeninsight.xyz

Open source, feedback welcome!
by WarmWash | 2026-03-09 14:55:43+00:00
The bedrock of the argument is that you give for what you take. This is very fundamental, not just some capitalist drivel. You'd be hard pressed to find a single level headed individual who could form a coherent argument against it (generally speaking, not just protracted edge cases). Even your most hippie communist commune requires giving in order to receive.

People act (many even think) like this doesn't apply to digital goods, since copying has no material cost. But producing that digital good costs time and money (anyone on HN care to disagree?). So then you have to decide who are the ones who pay and who are the ones who get free copies. Conveniently, everyone who is getting a free copy thinks that they have a rightful stake to it for free. And because nothing is actually free (see the first line), the ones paying are the ones also covering the cost for those who get is free.

I wouldn't expect teenagers to grasp this, after all we were the teenagers who devised this "piracy as a moral crusade" back in the 90's/00's (how convenient that a side effect of this moral crusade was all the free content your dead broke ass could imagine). But now, if you are in your 30's or older and still haven't logic'ed this out, it's time to catch up.
by wesammikhail | 2026-03-09 14:55:50+00:00
> This attitude is ill informed.

> Renewables are cheaper now than most forms of energy production. Grids need investment.

> Now we are rich it’s only fair we lead in transitioning to renewables.

> I despair at these short sighted and fairly wrong on the facts views.

The level of arrogance is unmatched while being both factually wrong AND self-contradictory.

Absolute cinema!