MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by Arainach | 2026-03-02 20:32:57+00:00
Consumers, when faced with a $100 Microwave that will last 2 years and a $130 microwave that will last ten, will buy the cheaper one nearly always. They don't care.

Consumers, when faced with a phone that offers "privacy" but that doesn't work with their banking app or their favorite game, will return it and get the non-privacy phone essentially every time.
by jjav | 2026-03-02 20:33:10+00:00
> Always sucked. If you don't believe me feel free to go back to any underpowered machine of your choice and use it as a daily driver for a while.

No, tech didn't always suck. Sure, it was slower hardware. But it was empowering hardware. You owned it, it served only you, didn't spy on you and you could make it do whatever you desired.

Now it's mostly walled corporate gardens, you are the product, every gadget spies on you and pushes advertising at you. On some phones you can't even choose what to run. Every mouse click and finger movement is tracked and phoned to the corportate overlords.

So yes, tech mostly sucks now but it wasn't the case earlier.
by Nadya | 2026-03-02 20:33:53+00:00
Yeah, I have a never ending need of things I could easily make myself I I could set aside 7-10 hours to plan it out, develop and troubleshoot but are also low priority enough that they sit on the back burner perpetually.

Now these things are being made. I can justify spending 5-10 minutes on something without being upset if AI can't solve the problem yet.

And if not, I'll try again in 6 months. These aren't time sensitive problems to begin with or they wouldn't be rotting on the back burner in the first place.
by Nevermark | 2026-03-02 20:34:06+00:00
Agreed.

Everything in a model is a correlation of behavior with context and context with behavior.

"Mind set" is a factor across the continuum of scales.

Are we solving a math problem or deciding on entertainment? We become entirely "different brains" in those different contexts, as we configure our behavior and reasoning patterns accordingly.

The study is still interesting. The representation, clustering, and bifurcations of roles may simply be one end of a continuum, but they are still meaningful things to specifically investigate.
by shaftway | 2026-03-02 20:34:28+00:00
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Executive_Order_14347

> Among U.S. federal agencies, the order authorized the official use of the secondary title "Department of War" for the United States Department of Defense. The department now refers to itself as the "Department of War" for non-statutory purposes, but is still technically named the Department of Defense, as only an act of Congress can formally change the name of a federal department.
by echinaceous | 2026-03-02 20:34:35+00:00
Quadrillion (quadrillion.io) | Member of Technical Staff | NYC (ONSITE) | Full-time | $175K-$350K + generous equity

We build agents that companies can deploy for computational research. In particular, we built a custom editor (a ground-up replacement for Jupyter and VSCode) for agents to (a) work in notebooks and (b) coordinate with each other. You can fire off an agent to test a new reward function, spin up five to experiment across competing models, or send a Slack to kick off long-running, autonomous model training jobs. We’ve built a multi-agent coordination system that outperforms CC/Cursor at real research tasks, and are starting trials now with top-10 quant funds and AI labs.

We raised a $17M seed round led by Audacious and Conviction, with support from Bloomberg Beta, ex/ante, Wes McKinney (creator of Pandas), and several unicorn founders. Our team is composed of quants (ex-HRT, Citadel), PhD’s, and great founding engineers.

We’re hiring for high-agency engineers with sharp technical taste and experience in Python + React. We’d be particularly excited to meet full-stack folks with infra experience (distributed systems, cloud orchestration, etc) as we launch our cloud product.

Apply at https://careers.quadrillion.io/ — we’ll get back to you ASAP.
by lurking_swe | 2026-03-02 20:35:01+00:00
my wife upgraded from a 13 mini to an Air and she loves it. She thought she hated the larger size of new phones, but after holding the Air in her hand she realized the weight and thickness was the issue for her!

It’s a tough call though because the Air has a lot of pros and cons! My wife never takes nature photography or macro photography, so she was OK with the 1 camera compromise.

If you truly want a shorter phone, my condolences lol. Apple seems to be ignoring this user segment.
by SilverElfin | 2026-03-02 20:35:06+00:00
Worth noting that America does not have an official language. Trump tried to declare one via an executive order last year, which is likely not legal, like most of his executive orders. I think imposing an English test is a bit arbitrary and not inline with the culture of America, which is to be a welcoming melting pot.

That said, unrelated to language, it does seem like there is a lot of fraud in the testing and licensing of commercial drivers. I’ve seen videos where investigations showed a sophisticated scheme of fake testers filling in for the actual driver.
by kaplun | 2026-03-02 20:35:46+00:00
Proton VPN (https://protonvpn.com/) | Senior Performance Engineer | Barcelona, Spain or Geneva, Switzerland | ONSITE

Proton VPN enables millions of people to connect securely and privately, even in places where the internet is restricted or unreliable. Delivering that experience means our service must perform flawlessly under highly variable, real-world conditions.

We are looking for a Senior Performance Engineer to lead our efforts in making Proton VPN the fastest, most resilient, and most reliable VPN service in the world.

You will define and drive the measurement, analysis, and optimization of Proton VPN’s end-to-end performance, across clients, platforms, and global infrastructure. You’ll help ensure that every connection is fast, stable, and private, regardless of where the user is or what network they’re on.

We're looking for candidates with experience in system-level development (e.g. C or C++ or Rust), and network engineering (experience working with UDP/TCP and VPN protocols).

Apply at: https://job-boards.eu.greenhouse.io/proton/jobs/4725157101 (see also: https://proton.me/careers)
by LargoLasskhyfv | 2026-03-02 20:35:48+00:00
> DJB' thing.

Yes. It's looking a little bit abandoned, but there is more to it than that single URL.

Maybe a dozen small sites, globally, collecting 'recipes', and still very incomplete.

Partial overlap with hardcore refuseniks who prefer different init-systems, libc's and building whole mini-distros around other concepts. Starting and running f...ing fast.

Yes, in containers/VM's too.

Since you are a writer, you could create some nice stories about the different systems-universes, which could have been if only... ;-)

Which also could help with your PTSD regarding Btrfs, which you DO suffer from.

Lemme tell you why that is from my POV:

I didn't use it in it's early days. So whatever imperfections of its code and tools, or interactions with kernels/libraries of that time escaped me.

I tortured it by pulling the power plug of the systems it's running on multiple times, under different conditions. Like from mostly idling to extreme load. Dozens of times, meanwhile. Sometimes full to the brim. I'm using it on everything, ranging from internal SATA-SSD, NVME, and external disks(real rotating rust) even over f...ing USB2 with UASP. Even using some compression, no DEDUP or RAID though. Still nothing bad ever happened.

Maybe because I'm using it on a 'gaming-distro', often considered b0rkn by 'professionals? Shrug?

So whenever I'm seeing you rambling about that stuff, that's what you'll get from me:

Shrug?

(Until it happens to me, then I'll shout I repent! I repent! Such brazen foolishness of mine! Forgive my ignorance!)
by in_a_hole | 2026-03-02 20:36:14+00:00
On the mobile app you can tap the Instagram logo and there's an option to show only posts from your follows. It's not sticky, unfortunately.

Also if you're on android I recommend:

distractionfreeapps.com/

They make a bootleg version of the app with the ability to remove certain feeds, e.g. reels, discover, stories
Show HN: OnCallMate – AI agent for autonomous Docker incident RCA
by ismailperim | 2026-03-02 20:36:16+00:00
Hey HN! I built this because I got tired of waking up to read Docker logs.

OnCallMate is an autonomous AI agent that:
- Monitors your Docker containers (proactive scheduler)
- Detects anomalies (crashes, OOM, restarts)
- Autonomously investigates using OpenAI function calling
- Performs RCA and suggests fixes

Example workflow:
User: "any issues?"
→ AI calls docker_list, docker_inspect (4x), docker_stats (3x), docker_logs
→ Returns: " CRITICAL nginx - OOMKilled. Memory hit 512MB limit.
Recommend: docker update --memory=1g nginx"

Security-first design:
- not SaaS/self-hosted
- Docker socket proxy (read-only by default, no direct socket exposure)
- Admin-only access (Telegram ID allowlist)

AI provider options:
- OpenAI/Claude API (you choose what to send)
- OpenRouter free tier (cost-effective)
- Bring your own model (extensible architecture)

Built in 3 days using:
- OpenAI function calling (multi-turn tool loops)
- Universal tool architecture (Docker now, K8s and cloud providers later)
- TypeScript + Dockerode + Telegram (Slack etc. later)

Open source (MIT), runs entirely in your network.

GitHub: https://github.com/ismailperim/oncallmate

What features would make this more useful for you?
by TheRealDunkirk | 2026-03-02 20:36:31+00:00
I've said this for years. The amount of money Microsoft makes from the OS apart from corporations is a rounding error. What little they do make is from preinstalled systems, and, honestly, when was the last time you knew someone that went out and bought a Windows-based computer for anything other than gaming? I don't need a quote from someone high up in the company to know they couldn't care less how upset people are by the decisions they make about it.

Literally every corporation and government in the world is slavishly devoted to running all of their end-user computers on it, because Microsoft will let them do unspeakable things to the OS, in the name of security, that wind up having next-to-nothing to do with actually making their data more secure, and only serve to infuriate and spy on the users. My company runs THREE different "end point" security packages on my machine. There are at least 35 scripts that run at all hours of the day to make sure I'm not doing anything I shouldn't. It takes 20 minutes to be usable after a boot up. And the VPN drops several times a day, even though my internet is rock solid. It's an entire, vibrant ecosystem of outsourced, bone-headed, second-and-third-party decision making so that no one in the company or the department or the management or the supply chain has any accountability in case something goes wrong. THAT'S what Microsoft is selling, and IT HAS NO COMPETITION IN THIS CAPACITY.

For years, I've begged people on every social network I've been on, including this one, to find a source of operating system market share that has corporate purchases broken out from personal purchases. This is the closest thing I can find. It shows abysmal numbers for Microsoft, and it's at least a decade out of date. I expect that Microsoft -- who obviously underwrote the entire IT press during the 90's and 00's -- has done quite a lot of work and paid quite a lot of money to make sure that nothing definitive in this regard ever sees the light of day. They have gotten to where they are making sure that Gartner never did anything resembling this.

https://www.extremetech.com/computing/143277-microsofts-shar...
by FreakLegion | 2026-03-02 20:36:32+00:00
Without liquidation preferences BrewDog wouldn't have been able to get the investment. They may have been able to get a loan instead, but the interest would've driven them under that much faster and then the creditor, just like the preferred investor, would have priority over other shareholders.

Which isn't to say preference stacks (like debt stacks) can't get absurd when a failing company is doing anything it can to stay alive, but standard investor terms (1x liquidation preference) simply mean you're first in line to get your money back if the company is liquidated for less than the price you paid.

The self-dealing bit is generally already illegal and orthogonal to liquidation preferences.
by roughly | 2026-03-02 20:36:35+00:00
> changed the battery in a Apple store a year ago (and they broke the screen in the process so got a new screen too)

Huh, I had a 12 mini and had the same thing happen at an independent repair shop I used to frequent. I've been pretty salty with the shop, but I guess it's an easier fuckup than I've been giving them credit for.
by felix-h | 2026-03-02 20:36:44+00:00
eventfirst | Senior Full-Stack Engineer | Berlin, Germany | REMOTE (CET) | Full-time

We are applying AI to organize corporate events.

We are looking for a senior engineer with at least ten years of full stack experience, a strong focus on product and UX, and optionally some experience building LLM based products. Currently we are focussed on building tooling that enables us to capture domain knowledge from experts to streamline prompt creation and evaluation.
Our tech stack is Typescript, React, Next.js and Tailwind. On the backend we use Drizzle with Neon, deployed and monitored via Vercel. Please note that we are working in the CET timezone.
We have pre-seed funding from a major US VC and are experienced founders. You’ll be working alongside the founders (ex-Apple, ex-Airbnb, ex-Tulip, ex-Tourlane) and will have a chance to shape the company, product and of course the engineering culture.

Apply here: https://eventfirst.jobs.personio.com/job/1646275
by rsync | 2026-03-02 20:37:30+00:00
"... there's a market, albeit a small one, for a "consumer" MDM product for use cases like this ..."

When my children were younger I used configurator to adopt, and configure, their ipod touch devices. It was a bit of a pain but not too bad.

Anyone can do this - configurator is free and runs on any old macbook ...
by k12sosse | 2026-03-02 20:38:02+00:00
From what I hear it works okay at best. You basically want to allocate a subset of iPads to a subset of users. You can't just throw 30 ipads onto a cart and let all 30 students randomly pick them, or you'll be evicting profiles unnecessarily. Would do fine in a small household. You reserve space based on # of profiles you want to cache.
Show HN: A One-Page Field Guide to Questioning
by kbrkbr | 2026-03-02 20:38:17+00:00
This field guide grew out of a longer essay I wrote on questioning and stories. I was trying to understand how questioning actually works in practice, and whether there is a minimal structure behind it.

Most material I found focuses on techniques or interview tactics, or is very abstract like the Erotetics literature. I was more interested in understanding the parts and how they work together.

Questioning seems to be an underrated skill in incident investigations, debugging, and project clarification.

I tried to compress what I found into a single visual model.

The diagram reduces inquiry to a few simple moves:

- Track nouns, verbs, qualifiers, time and place

- Move in phases: overview => details => loose ends

- Use question types and tools appropriate to the goal of each phase

It is intentionally small and easy to remember.
It will not make anyone a brilliant interrogator, but it provides a minimal structure when you would otherwise improvise. It might be helpful to practitioners.

I would be interested in critical feedback, especially from people who use structured questioning in technical or investigative work.
by realreality | 2026-03-02 20:38:44+00:00
There are tipping points, when warming accelerates and becomes irreversible.

There’s some debate in “the science” about how quickly we’ll reach that point. Limiting warming to +2°C was not a scientific position; it was political, based on what people thought was achievable. Before the Paris Agreement, 2° was not considered “safe”.

Anyway, it turns out we’re going to zoom past 2° in the next couple of decades.
by dang | 2026-03-02 20:38:47+00:00
"Please don't sneer, including at the rest of the community." It's reliably a marker of bad comments and worse threads.

"When disagreeing, please reply to the argument instead of calling names. 'That is idiotic; 1 + 1 is 2, not 3' can be shortened to '1 + 1 is 2, not 3."

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
by technothrasher | 2026-03-02 20:39:01+00:00
> The Wizard of Oz (the one you know of) was a remake.

I'm not sure it's quite fair to call the 1939 film a "remake". It was one in a line of adaptations of the book, and isn't otherwise really related to the other adaptations. It isn't the first, or the last, but it is the most famous.
by cedilla | 2026-03-02 20:39:44+00:00
Fair use is much more narrow than most people think, it's just that most rights-holders are not very belligerent. For example, streaming video games does not fall under fair right, most video essays critiquing films or series use way too much material commentated for fair right, remixing as a whole is not fair use, and most fan works are definitely not fair use. Legal protections don't help here, but the shit-storms companies like Nintendo of America had to endure when they tried to tighten the screws.

And that's in the US, other countries have similar exceptions but they are also usually quite limited.
by shevy-java | 2026-03-02 20:39:46+00:00
That is actually hilarious. Microsoft does not understand
the Barbara Streisand effect. I did use microslop before,
simply because it makes sense, irrespective of Microsoft -
but now I'll actually help the Barbara Streisand effect,
because clearly Microsoft WANTS everyone to learn the new
word!

Censorship gets counter-banned, Microsoft, company known
to have turned Win11 into Win-microslop.
by raw_anon_1111 | 2026-03-02 20:40:24+00:00
It’s been well over a decade and 5 jobs ago that I had to sell myself on my coding ability even though coding has always been part of my job.

I’m going to keep getting a job the way I have for the past decade - my ability to use my now 30+ years of experience between development, 10+ years of leading architecture projects and being able to deal with the business and disambiguate and solve XYProblems. AI has changed nothing about the value o bring to the company. Now I just do a lot of the implementation drudgery myself faster or that I would have delegated to other people.
by gmuslera | 2026-03-02 20:41:05+00:00
From the graphs it seems that the initial naming for it was V'Ger, what would had been a good match with Borg and Vorta in the Star Trek based naming scheme.

It was a bit surprising that, coming from the same team, it didn't use the same repository format, for more or less the same use case and feature list (may it be related to its native support of S3?)
by bjustin | 2026-03-02 20:42:25+00:00
There are plenty of long, straight, flat roads around town here, where riding at 28mph would be perfectly safe. People driving feel free to go 30+mph, after all. My e-bike's assist only goes up to 20mph, which I can sustain even without assist on many of those roads. I'd guess 25mph would be about as fast as I could go with assist while still feeling safe on a bike.
by pinkmuffinere | 2026-03-02 20:42:50+00:00
You sound like you know things, and I have questions! What are the chances that we see infrastructure move to less-developed-but-more-stable regions of the world? What even are the candidate locations that wouldn't be an absolute headache to set up? I'm thinking perhaps West Africa? Or South Africa if it can stabilize a bit? Maybe other coastal locations that have good-enough transportation hubs nearby?
by 9rx | 2026-03-02 20:43:01+00:00
All comments are paid for in some way, even if only in "warm fuzzies". If that is sad, why are you choosing to be sad? But outlandish comments usually require greater payment to justify someone putting in the effort. If you're not being paid well, what's the motivation to post things you know don't make any sense to try and sell a brand?
by dang | 2026-03-02 20:43:03+00:00
Could you please stop posting snarky and/or aggressive and/or unsubstantive comments? You've been doing it repeatedly, unfortunately. It's not what this site is for, and destroys what it is for.

If you wouldn't mind reviewing https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html and taking the intended spirit of the site more to heart, we'd be grateful.
by shevy-java | 2026-03-02 20:43:22+00:00
The funny thing is that people said that Lennart seems to work for Microslop many years ago already, when they analysed systemd early on when it came about. People did not believe the critics here, even though it made perfect sense to "unify" the linux systems into one giant slop - until it suddenly was true. Conspiracy theories may not exist in the microslop era. Microsoft will censor away this forbidden word.
by dclowd9901 | 2026-03-02 20:43:39+00:00
As the brother of a young, amazing man who we lost due to another genetic ailment (CF), whenever I see stories like this, it makes me so hopeful for families in the future never having to see a loved one deteriorate due to a bad roll of the dice.

Hats off to everyone out there putting in the hours to make the lived experience of these folks much better than they would have otherwise been. If only we had more of you in the world.
by Y-bar | 2026-03-02 20:43:41+00:00
They had ups and downs of course. The tourism industry can turn sour during a downturn as you might understand. But they weathered for 40 or so years until a bear killed a handler in the summer of 2017 at their wildlife park. This effectively killed the entire park business and forced a major reconstruction. A former major bank CEO offered to buy it wholesale and took it fully private via majority buy-out.
by blakeburch | 2026-03-02 20:43:55+00:00
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I'm looking for technical PM roles at mission-driven companies, ideally smaller orgs, where I can build from the ground up. I prefer a ~70/30 leader/IC split with a focus on AI and data-adjacent work. I'm open to any industry except advertising, gambling, crypto, and defense.
by rekabis | 2026-03-02 20:44:15+00:00
>99 € down payment — deducted from final price, fully refundable

Uhhhh… so why isn’t that final price stated, even provisionally?

I mean, if it’s going to be a 300€ phone, imma gonna bite. But if it’s going to be a 500+€ phone, I am going to want to know ahead of time. I don’t like surprises where cost is concerned. Leaves a very bad taste in the mouth.