MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by tototrains | 2026-03-03 06:39:30+00:00
I am so bullish on this.

AI is obliterating the barriers to game production for the next generation.

Will this be the next flash revolution? Or is the underlying 'brainrot' actually destructive to creative potential?

I am optimistic about the human spirit in this regard. Making games with AI will be cool when the games are cool, and the only barrier is design.
by medi8r | 2026-03-03 06:39:32+00:00
Maybe we have a keyword to say we are done talking. Like "over to you". This may be better as it gives you thinking time.

Even a minute if you need it!

And you can get the agent to crunch when you are ready.

Imagine you speak. you need to look something up. find it. speak some more. then "over to you!"

The agent doesn't have to behave like a human and figure out when to butt in.

After all chat rooms and Slack also have realtime 2 way but we didn't worry about emulating that in agent chat. We can be convention breaking in agentic voice chat too.
by zenoprax | 2026-03-03 06:40:18+00:00
As a fellow astro-nerd you are much calmer about this than me! DST is just a way to uniformly enforce "summer" and "winter" hours of operation on everyone.

If all the evidence supports starting our activities later in the day during winter why don't we just... change the start time of our activities rather than all our clocks? Why stop at one hour ahead? Let's add three hours to standard time...

I'm still livid :D
by ryukoposting | 2026-03-03 06:40:48+00:00
This. If you want Linux to be better, you need to use Linux. It's not any harder for OEMs to support it vs. Windows or MacOS. It's actually easier to support in many cases. There just isn't a business case. Use Linux, create a business case, get better software. Someone has to be the early adopter. Better nerds like us than grandma.
by ipotapov | 2026-03-03 06:41:15+00:00
Been building this for a few months now and it's turned into a complete on-device audio pipeline for Apple Silicon:

ASR (Qwen3) → TTS (Qwen3 + CosyVoice, 10 languages) → Speech-to-Speech (PersonaPlex 7B, full-duplex) → Speaker Diarization (pyannote + WeSpeaker) → Voice Activity Detection (Silero, real-time streaming) → Forced Alignment (word-level timestamps)

No Python, no server, no CoreML — pure Swift through MLX. Models download automatically from HuggingFace on first run. The whole diarization stack is ~32 MB.

Everything is protocol-based and composable — VAD gates ASR, diarization feeds into transcription, embeddings enable speaker verification. Mix and match.

Repo: github.com/ivan-digital/qwen3-asr-swift (Apache 2.0)

Blog post with architecture details: blog.ivan.digital

There's a lot of surface area here and contributions are very welcome — whether it's new model ports, iOS integration, performance work, or just filing issues. If you've been wanting to do anything with audio or MLX in Swift, come build with us.
Show HN: GitHub Repo Agent – an agent that explores and reasons on GitHub repos
by gauravvij137 | 2026-03-03 06:43:20+00:00
Built a small agent that can explore a GitHub repository, understand it in-depth, and answer questions about the codebase.

The idea is simple. When you open a new repo, most of the time goes into figuring out:
- Where the main logic lives
- How modules connect
- How to run or debug things

This agent clones a repo, indexes files, and lets an LLM reason over the structure so you can ask questions or automate tasks.

Useful for:
- Onboarding large codebases
- Understanding OSS repos
- Debugging unfamiliar projects
- Building higher-level code agents

This came out of experiments we were doing with NEO AI for building autonomous AI Agents where agents need to read repos before modifying them.

Looking for feedback on repo indexing strategies, eval benchmarks, or similar tools people have built.
by mungoman2 | 2026-03-03 06:44:22+00:00
I think you’re implying that it would be useful to have the LLM predict the end of the speaker’s speech, and continue with its reply based on that.

If, when the speaker actually stops speaking, there is a match vs predicted, the response can be played without any latency.

Seems like an awesome approach! One could imagine doing this prediction for the K most likely threads simultaneously, subject by computer power available, and prune/branch as some threads become inaccurate.
by autoexec | 2026-03-03 06:44:25+00:00
> It was against their policy to use AI in producing any part of the final article, and the writer was aware of that.

More than that, as a reporter on AI he should have been fully aware that AI frequently bullshits and lies. He should have known it was not reliable and that its output needs to be carefully verified by a human if you care at all about the accuracy or quality of what it gives you. His excuse that this was done in a fever induced state of madness feels weak when it was his whole job to know that AI was not an appropriate tool for the task.
by alwillis | 2026-03-03 06:44:44+00:00
> trying not to make iPads accidentally powerful enough for someone to skip buying a MacBook.

This clearly isn’t the case—the iPad Pro got the M4 processor in May 2024; the Mac didn’t get the M4 until October. So for a few months, Apple’s most powerful chip was only available for the iPad Pro.

And while the M5 MacBook Pro and the M5 iPad Pro were announced together in October 2025, none of the other Mac models have been updated to the M5.

It’s possible more M5 Macs will be announced this week; we’ll see.

I don’t think it matters to Apple whether you spend $1,000+ for an iPad or for a MacBook.
by vbezhenar | 2026-03-03 06:44:50+00:00
TBH What I wanted from the world is AOSP distribution. Built similarly to GrapheneOS in terms of distribution, ease of install. But I just don't feel I need all these privacy enhancements and stuff, I'm perfectly fine with ordinary system compiled from Google sources with proper update schedule. Also I don't want to see anything installed out of the box, except maybe single app to install AOSP apps, F-Droid, Play Store, just APK from the given URL. So basically almost empty mobile OS which user fully customizes, no predefined choices, no custom patches.
by linmob | 2026-03-03 06:45:05+00:00
+1 - switched to Sway (and thus Wayland) in 2017 and it was okay then to only improve over time. At some point I switched xwayland off, as there were env vars to make everyhing I needed run natively on Wayland.

These days my setup is less radical/minimalistic, as I went back to GNOME (Wayland) about four years ago.
by Evan233 | 2026-03-03 06:46:44+00:00
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by lynx97 | 2026-03-03 06:47:25+00:00
Opera is a pretty widespread guilty displeasure I actually also share. When I read "poetry" I immediately was like "yes, here, me!!!" I even remember the moment in my life when appreciating poetry was destroyed. Two instnaces. First was when I was forced to learn a poem by heart in early school. And the second one my german teacher (a few years later) gave me a poem about my disability, for interpretation. Mind you, written by a person not sharing that disability. All I could do for one hour was to stare at the lines and plain hate the author for being so pretentious, and hating my teacher for assuming that topic would be open for grabs...
by 14 | 2026-03-03 06:47:54+00:00
Where I work in healthcare honestly and owning up is encouraged and unless there is major negligence not often punished. They just want to try learn why the mistake happened and look for ways to prevent it going forward.
My buddy said for his company if an accident happens WorkSafe is not out to punish as long as they are very forward and honest. Again they want to learn how to avoid it happening again. Punishment only scares others to try hide mistakes.

I think they missed a big opportunity to instead of firing the guy sit him down and stress how not okay this was and that it harms the credibility and he needs to understand that and make a proper apology. They could make him do some education like ethical reporting responsibilities or whatever.

Then like you say not just hide the article but point out the mistakes and corrections. Describe the mistake and how credible reporting is their priority and the author will be given further education to avoid this happening again. They could also make new policies like going forward all articles that use AI for search results must attempt to find a source for that information.
This would build trust not harm it in my opinion.
by brabel | 2026-03-03 06:48:18+00:00
Maybe in other regions, I am in Stockholm and would be shocked by an approaching neighbour trying to talk to me, unless it was to complain about my trees or something.

On the bus/train, even when it breaks down and we have to wait nearly an hour for it to start moving again, I've seen carriages full of people not speaking a word to each other (except people now think it's ok to speak on their phones, to my great annoyance).
by AnthonyMouse | 2026-03-03 06:48:46+00:00
> Consumers have no way to tell that a phone gives "privacy" or even to understand the implications of that to their life.

This is obviously false. It's the sort of thing anyone can look up on the internet before buying one.

The reason that doesn't work for white label microwaves is that the manufacturers don't want it to. The off brands exist so they can make sales to people who prioritize price, and they purposely change the company name every month so no one can find a review of the off brand and the same company can sell the same microwave with a higher margin to other people who will pay more for the name brand.

Whereas when your company makes a phone with better privacy etc., you want everybody to know that so they buy your phone instead of a competitor's.

> They have a significantly easier time understanding an error message that says "because your device has an unlocked bootloader, you can't use the <name of bank> app"

Indeed, it immediately lets them know that their bank sucks and they need a better one.
by SilverElfin | 2026-03-03 06:49:13+00:00
Ironically reports say they still used Claude as part of the Iranian operation. It is so utterly shameless for them to acknowledge Anthropic being the best AI company but also attacking them for their speech/ideology/beliefs and also accepting the bribe of political donations to favor OpenAI. Just an utterly corrupt, worthless administration. Probably the worst in American history.
by jmward01 | 2026-03-03 06:49:42+00:00
You will never get the internet to agree on how incident x should have been handled. I think the world right now is running to figure out AI and its place. Just when you think you understand, the ground shifts. It is clear that in the future this exact use of AI will be expected and work, on average, way better than a person. I know that a lot of people probably have an emotional 'no it won't!' and disagree with me here but there have been so many 'no it won't! never!' moments passed in the last two years that I can't imagine this won't also be one. With that in mind I don't think it is reasonable to fire this journalist. They used a tool too soon but it is really hard to figure out what is too soon right now. This should have been a moment of reflection for their news room (and probably some private conversations) but it turned into a firing which I think is too much. Did the news room gain from that? Will it prevent them from doing it again? Did it fix the original mistake? I don't think the answer is 'yes' to any of these questions. A good retraction, apology, statement on how they are changing and will review new technology entering the newsroom in the future. Those help.
by vunderba | 2026-03-03 06:49:44+00:00
Shameless plug - and nothing so grandiose as SimCity but I built a pretty substantial 2D/3D blindfold trainer chess game. It's by no means "vibe coded" though, and there's a fair bit of manual work around the 3d modeling that I had to roll myself.

Even with that I'd still say 70% of the code was written using LLMs with the opencode agent.

https://shahkur.specr.net
by Gagarin1917 | 2026-03-03 06:49:57+00:00
They’re at this level because the editors have always had low standers.

I don’t know about you guys, but I feel like 50% of Ars headlines are completely misleading.

They’ve had this problem for years. They will publish anything that gets them clicks. They do not care if a writer makes things up. They do not care if their headlines are misleading - in fact, that’s the point. They clearly got into the job in order to influence and manipulate people.

They’re bad people, with terrible motivations, and unchecked power. They only walk back when something really really bad happens.

Never trust an Ars headline.
Show HN: C-Suite Skills – a full exec team as skills
by pollow | 2026-03-03 06:50:22+00:00
Solo founder problem: every decision requires context your tools don't have. "Should I cut this feature?" requires knowing your runway, your ICP, your positioning, and your roadmap simultaneously.

The Tech Worker Shift: As AI evolves and companies adopt it rapidly, "What if my role was replaced by AI? What about my team?" make everyone worries.

I built C-Suite Skills: a Claude Code skills pack that gives you a full executive team (CEO, CMO, CPO, COO, CFO, CTO, VP Sales, CHRO). They aren't just personas; they share a unified company profile and use the Agent tool to actually execute.

You are the Board now. You’ve replaced the traditional executive layer with AI that actually works.

They're not chatbots that say "as your CFO, I recommend..." — They use Claude Code or Codex’s agentic capabilities to do the heavy lifting: web searches, competitive analyses, building financial models, and drafting execution plans directly into your docs/ folder.

The loop:
/ceo → strategic decisions, dispatches other roles
/cmo → competitor research, positioning, GTM
/cfo → unit economics, pricing, runway
/board-meeting → reads what you shipped, tells you what to do next

> I'm currently using it to grow itself. This post is suggested and drafted by the /cmo skill.
by microtonal | 2026-03-03 06:51:07+00:00
I have a fairly new ish Pixel phone, do you think I'll be able to go back if I don't like it?

Yeah, it is very easy, it's described here:

https://grapheneos.org/install/web#replacing-grapheneos-with...

Similar to GrapheneOS, Google also has a web installer (linked from the above section). Just in case you didn't know - both installing GrapheneOS and recovering the stock OS will remove all data as well.
by kgarten | 2026-03-03 06:51:19+00:00
I think this coverage feels very similar to the way Google Glass was treated back in the early 2010s ... there’s a grain of legitimate concern, but the article oversells what these glasses actually do and stokes alarm in a way that goes beyond the available facts.

Workers annotating data for AI might see sensitive content captured by smart glasses. But the leap from that to “we see everything” and framing it like some dystopian panopticon mirrors the early Google Glass panic, where the concerns often outran what the device actually could do.

Legitimate concerns shouldn’t be dismissed, but neither should they be inflated to create a new “Glass-forked-into-Big-Brother” narrative unless the evidence genuinely supports that level of risk ...
by stonecharioteer | 2026-03-03 06:52:06+00:00
Location: Bengaluru, India
Remote: Yes
Will to relocate: no
Technologies: Python, Rust, PostgreSQL, Systems Engineering, DevTooling, Agentic Systems
Resume: http://github.com/stonecharioteer/resume/releases/latest
email: mail@stonecharioteer.com

Hello!

I'm a software developer who's got an eye for performant and intuitive systems. I've worked at companies in the defense, finance, ecommerce, SaaS and security space. Most recently, I worked on building https://merrilin.ai, and I've written about this here: https://tech.stonecharioteer.com/posts/2026/merrilin/

I've also hit the HN frontpage 4 times last year, writing articles about learning Ruby and its internals.

I'm the guy you hire when you want performant code, something that's scalable in this world of vibe-coded stuff. I'm also excellent at writing deeply technical blog articles and have given talks at PyCon India, RootConf and the Bengaluru Python meetup group BangPypers. I'm also notorious for reading the PostgreSQL documentation on livestream.
by Revanche1367 | 2026-03-03 06:52:12+00:00
I wasn’t using the word in a legal sense, poindexter. I didn’t pretend to be a lawyer either. Slander in the colloquial sense is whatever the person doesn’t want attributed to them and is often used as synonym for a lie.

Besides, I am sure you could tell it was just a joke but needed to be pedantic for no reason other than feel smart?
by vbezhenar | 2026-03-03 06:52:14+00:00
I know very little about lineageos. Their website contains very few docs, so I don't really understand what's this project is about. They don't mention Pixel 10, so I guess it's not supported.

GrapheneOS website in comparison contains a lot of things to read, so after a hour of thorough reading I had good impression what GrapheneOS is.
by autoexec | 2026-03-03 06:52:46+00:00
> -I see them as basically good and ideal. After all most of the time I am googling something like trivial, like a simple fact. And for the last decade when I have to click into sites for the information it's some SEO spam-ridden garbage site.

What good is it if the overviews lie some percentage of the time (your own guess is 10%) and you have to search to verify that they aren't making shit up anyway. Also, those SEO spam-ridden garbage sites google feeds you whenever you bother to look past the undependable AI summaries are mostly written by AI these days and prone to the same problem of lying which only makes fact checking google's auto-bullshitter even harder.
by sillyfluke | 2026-03-03 06:53:46+00:00
>it is perhaps also damning that any time someone wants to smear zuck they have to reach 20 years into the past.

It is perhaps not, and perhaps a bit disingenuous to claim so in good faith, as if it exceeds your abilities to search for the list of facebook scandals in the decades following and see that the behavior is often consistent with this quote. Even if you choose to ignore ignore all that, it's also unreasonable to expect troves of quotes after all the C-suites, lawyers, and HR departments showed up locked everything down with corporate speak. I'm sure if facebook were to be so kind as to leak the messages and audio of zuck's internal comms since people would be able to have many other juicy quotes to works.

It is often referenced because it's the best quote that represents the trail blazing era of preying on users' undying thirst for convenience in order to package their provate data as a product.
4. How to Keep Using Nano Banana Pro After Gemini Replaces It with Nano Banana 2
by zaaaaooo | 2026-03-03 06:55:55+00:00
Nano Banana 2 is out. To be honest, it’s okay but hasn't really wowed me. If talking pure realism, Nano Banana Pro is still the best. But Gemini has swapped Nano Banana Pro for nb2 as the default across Fast, Thinking, and Pro. It’s a bit frustrating, we're paying the same price but getting what feels like a downgrade in service. To still use Nano Banana pro, I’ve put together a few ways and hopefully these help some of you out.

Gemini
1. Generate your image as normal in Gemini, it will default to Nano Banana 2
2. Do NOT refresh or close the chat, the option disappears if you do, and then click the three-dot menu(⋯) under the generated image
3. Select "Redo with Pro"
Addendum: It counts as two generations

Google AI Studio
AI Studio lets you directly call Nano Banana Pro
→ aistudio.google.com

Third-party platforms with Nano Banana Pro access
1. AtlasCloud.ai
2. Fal AI
3. Freepik
4. OpenArt

Anyway, these are just a few workarounds I’ve found so far. Hopefully this helps you get those high-fidelity results back. If you’ve discovered any other ways to force the Pro model please drop a comment and let us know.
by 3abiton | 2026-03-03 06:56:08+00:00
> They’re at this level because the editors have always had low standers.

It's not just Ars Technica. I would go as far as saying the big majority. I work at the biggest alliance of public service media in EU, and my role required me to interact with editors. I often do not like painting with broad brush, but I am yet to meet a humble editor yet. They approach everything with a "I know better than anyone else" attitude. Probably the "public" aspect of the media, but I woupd argue it's editorial aspect too. The rest of the staff are often very nice and down to earth.
by Hackbraten | 2026-03-03 06:56:18+00:00
Because FIDO2 is not enough for non-tech-savvy people.
The main issue is potential confusion about what transaction they’re actually signing. For example, a malicious browser extension can pretend the site sends money to X while actually sending it to Y.

The European PSD2 directive mandates that the 2FA scheme must let the user see what they’re about to sign. At the very least, that includes the amount and part of the recipient’s IBAN. FIDO2 doesn’t have that.

It’s the reason I own a device that looks like this [0]. Without it, I wouldn’t be able to transfer money at all due to the lack of banking apps that work on Linux phones.

[0]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chip_Authentication_Program
Show HN: Neural Siege – A Multi-Agent RL Combat Simulation
by luthor190397 | 2026-03-03 06:56:55+00:00
This is a multi-agent reinforcement learning simulation I’ve been building as a personal project.
It’s a grid-based combat environment with per-agent PPO training runtime.
Some of the things I’ve been experimenting with:
– Per-agent PPO (isolated optimizers per agent)
– Runtime checkpointing and resume chains
– Headless-mode live CSV telemetry logging
– Config-driven experiment control
The repo includes the simulation engine, PPO runtime, and telemetry tooling.
by antonvs | 2026-03-03 06:57:23+00:00
The points you raise are indeed wilful ignorance, easily rebutted.

I gave you a link which summarizes the subject well, with plenty of references. If you're genuinely interested in understanding the world, you would study that. But what you're doing instead is cherry-picking reasons to refuse to accept strong evidence. Al Gore, really? You're really scraping the bottom of the denial barrel.

Ironically, in your attempts to not be conned by grifters, you're falling for one of the biggest cons of all: the ongoing oil company attacks on anything that threatens the oil industry. If you're not getting paid by them, you're being suckered.

Aside from the reference I gave, you would also benefit from reading books like "Asking the Right Questions", by Neil Browne & Stuart Keeley; Carl Sagan's "The Demon Haunted World"; and "Thinking and Deciding" by Jonathan Baron. These will help you distinguish between rational thinking and rationalizations.

> So, spare me your shame game identity politics.

Nothing I've said even remotely approaches anything like that. I'm describing well-documented and well-supported facts, and pointing out that refusing to try to understand or accept those is problematic, and that by doing so along with millions of others, you're perpetuating major problems in the world. But your victimhood mentality fits right in with the conspiratorial mindset.