MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by s0rce | 2026-03-01 20:31:47+00:00
I really like a low speed throttle, like 3-5mph max is fine. 20mph is too fast and results in ebikes basically designed a motorcycles that cannot be pedaled. The throttle is so nice to have to get started quickly like turning left at a light, if you didn't have time to downshift before stopping, on a hill, or if the bike is heavily loaded with stuff. Its also nice to be able to use to slowly move between cars with your feet off the pedals to keep balance if needed.
Show HN: Deploybase – Compare GPU and LLM pricing across all major providers
by grasper_ | 2026-03-01 20:32:31+00:00
I built a dashboard for near real-time GPU and LLM pricing across cloud and inference providers. You can view performance stats and pricing history, compare side by side, and bookmark to track any changes. Also covers MLOps tools. Would appreciate any feedback.

https://deploybase.ai
Show HN: Agentic Gatekeeper – Auto-patch your code to enforce Markdown rules
by revanth1108 | 2026-03-01 20:33:08+00:00
TLDR: Documentation like READMEs and ARCHITECTURE.md files are passive and easily ignored, leading to repetitive PR reviews and technical debt. I built Agentic Gatekeeper to turn these Markdown docs into active, auto-patching git-hooks. The extension audits your staged code against your project's rules and uses AI to fix violations before you commit.
by Imustaskforhelp | 2026-03-01 20:33:31+00:00
> we will ensure we restore power and connectivity safely

this would require human intervention and I am a bit worried what if the strike can happen again and human lives might be lost.

IIRC there have been cases in history where sometimes a same location is targeted across multiple days. Obviously, AWS might have local employees working in the region but would there be an evaluation of this threat itself within the relevant team in AWS. What if they try to bring the service back but then missiles are struck again and what if human lives might be lost on it. Let's just hope that it could be part of a evaluation as well.
by dang | 2026-03-01 20:34:29+00:00
It feels like the pace has sped up in the last couple weeks, with a lot of different force vectors.

I'm trying not to be a headless chicken and actually complete a task or two, even as the stack piles higher. Chaotic context switching has always been a hazard but it's reaching power saw levels!

Most probably this is a transformational period and we'll reach a new equilibrium after a while. But one never knows that for sure while the transition is happening.
by jnpnj | 2026-03-01 20:34:30+00:00
It's been a few months since gemini 3 and opus 4.5 were released and I still regularly have feelings of dread in me because I'm deprived of something (which I assume is the thrill and pride of being able to explore solution spaces in non stupid ways to find plausible answers on my own)

Maybe it's the usual webdev corp job that is too focused on mainstream code and where AI is used to sell more, not find new ideas that could be exciting..
by Retric | 2026-03-01 20:34:35+00:00
That cuts out in 2015, but 5 year survival rates keep increasing with the USA just crossing 70%. Though across longer timeframes some of that is from early detection; even limited to late stage diagnosis the statistics still show significant improvement. https://acsjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.3322/caac...
by seanmcdirmid | 2026-03-01 20:34:49+00:00
> "Write me a feature that does _x_" isn't satisfying for me, and, like the author said in the post, it sucks that people that think otherwise are telling me that my way is the "old way", as you put it.

Ya, no. It’s not that easy. Programming with prompts is much more intellectually challenging, maybe it will be like that in 5-10 years? Right now we are in a productivity increase that is more similar to interactive terminals over using punch cards.

I wonder if the traditionalists simply don’t understand the tech, they see to have some whacky assumptions about it.
by mullingitover | 2026-03-01 20:35:18+00:00
> Modern Western Christians are centuries removed from experiencing religion-as-politics.

That's news for those of us that are living through the decades-long effort by christian dominionists to take over the US.

> Western atheists, who share Christian values

It's the other way around: Christians share basic morality with people operating on morality from first principles. Plenty of western christian values are orthogonal to morality.

> Muslims who move to Christian-majority lands do not assimilate or convert.

This is false and flat-out defamatory. It's also the type of statement that gets used before bad people do a bunch of bad things.
by jeroenhd | 2026-03-01 20:35:29+00:00
Google has APIs to do the same. In fact, it works on most apps. The biggest exceptions are security sensitive apps (2FA, password managers) and WhatsApp for some stupid reason. If you're a HN Android user who turns off any form of data sharing like me, you wouldn't notice, though, as this requires the "back up my data" checkbox during setup of the old and new phone to work conpletely.

Another issue on Android is that iOS allows for syncing data through the user's iCloud, which can be gigabytes in size, but Google has you use the Google Drive API which sucks and involves handing over credit card info.

The Android file transfer has another trick that Apple doesn't seem to do, which is fully offline local sync rather than going through the cloud. This has reliability issues and requires both devices to stay on and nearby while the transfer is in progress, but on slower internet connections the process can be a heck of a lot faster thanks to modern wifi speeds.
by wintermutestwin | 2026-03-01 20:37:04+00:00
As an oldster who used to do weekly century rides and lost that ability due to nerve damage in my foot (thanks to decades of wearing pointy Italian riding shoes), I’d love it if we could focus on simply enforcing laws that exist rather than saddling arbitrary blanket regulations on lawful citizens.

I built an ebike and hell yes I put a throttle on it because it enables me to ride more technical trails. This bike has dramatically increased my quality of life. Please leave me alone and if someone uses a throttle bike in an illegal manner give them a ticket.
by jrm4 | 2026-03-01 20:37:27+00:00
Let me be clear, this has nothing to do with pushing "linguistic sensitivity" for its own sake. Nothing.

Look, the author himself wondered out loud why he wasn't more deservedly popular. I put forth a reason why. PR is real. I understand if you really want to keep the name at the possible cost of popularity; but I don't think it's worth it. I wonder if he understood the possible tradeoff.
by user205738 | 2026-03-01 20:37:30+00:00
Throughout my life, I have been privy to numerous events that bear striking similarities, particularly in their structural and operational aspects. These incidents, ranging from the protests of June 4, 1989, to the Maidan protests in The Ukraine and the recent unrest in Iran, exemplify a pattern of civic dissent that, while varied in context, shares fundamental characteristics. The Arab Spring, the protests in Russia, and other so-called «orange revolutions» further underscore this trend.

The organization, mobilization, and logistical coordination of such mass protests often involve intricate planning and substantial resources. The financial implications, the recruitment and training of participants, and the management of supply chains are meticulously orchestrated to ensure the effectiveness and sustainability of these movements. It is noteworthy that the presence of provocateurs, aimed at instigating violence and escalating conflict, is a recurring feature, designed to provoke a violent response from authorities and galvanize international attention.

In the case of the Maidan protests, the strategy of employing provocateurs to instigate bloodshed proved relatively successful, leading to a violent crackdown that resonated globally. However, in other instances, particularly where governmental responses were swift and decisive, the opposition movements faced significant setbacks. Nonetheless, even in cases of apparent failure, the opposition often achieves a form of success through public relations victories that can be leveraged for propaganda purposes.

The selective use of information regarding casualties in the Iran protests to justify external intervention by the USA highlights a concerning trend in global political discourse. This pattern suggests that the public, despite witnessing similar events across different geopolitical contexts, fails to draw meaningful conclusions or learn from historical precedents(
by arjie | 2026-03-01 20:37:46+00:00
I actually like the way they said it. I don't know if it's a different cultural tradition, but the cool steely-eyed fact-based conversation always really felt so much more inspiring:

Conrad: I got three fuel cell lights, an AC bus light, a fuel cell disconnect, AC bus overload 1 and 2, Main Bus A and B out.

Aaron: Flight, EECOM. Try SCE to Aux.

Modern culture in the movies and whatnot is that someone should be yelling "Everything's failing. Give me something, Houston. All lights are on! MAYDAY MAYDAY!" and some sort of flavour commentary like that. But reading engineering updates that go like this feels like watching maximal professionalism under fire:

> At around 4:30 AM PST, one of our Availability Zones (mec1-az2) was impacted by objects that struck the data center, creating sparks and fire. The fire department shut off power to the facility and generators as they worked to put out the fire. We are still awaiting permission to turn the power back on, and once we have, we will ensure we restore power and connectivity safely. It will take several hours to restore connectivity to the impacted AZ. The other AZs in the region are functioning normally. Customers who were running their applications redundantly across the AZs are not impacted by this event. EC2 Instance launches will continue to be impaired in the impacted AZ. We recommend that customers continue to retry any failed API requests. If immediate recovery of an affected resource (EC2 Instance, EBS Volume, RDS DB Instance, etc.) is required, we recommend restoring from your most recent backup, by launching replacement resources in one of the unaffected zones, or an alternate AWS Region. We will provide an update by 12:30 PM PST, or sooner if we have additional information to share.

This has that same mechanical tone of an ice-cold captain dealing with a proximate situation providing exactly the information they know. No flavour commentary. Amazing. I fucking love it.
by cortesoft | 2026-03-01 20:37:57+00:00
Why does it matter how much riding it takes?

The point in distinguishing the different classes is about where the bike should fit into the ecosystem. Should it ride on the shoulder, interacting with pedestrians and slower bikes, or should it ride on the road, interacting with cars and motorcycles.

It doesn’t matter how much riding it takes, it matters how fast and controlled it is moving compared to the other traffic in that class.
by bawolff | 2026-03-01 20:38:00+00:00
> To be fair, Trump usually chickens out.

I feel like he mostly chickens out on tarrifs or things that have a large potential for high costs or where the opponent has some actual leverage.

Here he is blowing up Iran. Iran doesnt really have the ability to blow up america in return. This is exactly the sort of thing i would expect him to follow through on.

> The thing which is at least a little surprising is the talk about aircraft carriers being very vulnerable to attack with drones / cheap missiles / etc.

I think that is because it was largely wishful thinking. At least when it comes to Iranian capabilities. I dont think people who were experts in the field believed Iran had the capabilities to seriously harm american aircraft carriers.
by jspdown | 2026-03-01 20:38:02+00:00
I've been using Claude for a little over a year, but the recent events with DoW are making me want to explore European alternatives. I'm willing to give Devstral 2 a try, but I'm not sure what to expect. In terms of tool calling and coding abilities, should I expect something closer to Sonnet 3.5 or to Sonnet 4.5?
by icermann | 2026-03-01 20:38:09+00:00
MS Office and Open-/LibreOffice are using zipped xml files (e.g. .docx, .xlsx and .odt). Svg vector graphics is xml, the x in ajax stands for xml (although replaced by json by now). SOAP (probably counts as the predecessor of REST) is xml-based.

XML was definitely popular in the "well used" sense. How popular it was in the "well liked" sense can maybe be up for debate, but it was the best tool for the job at the time for alot of use cases.
by cubefox | 2026-03-01 20:38:49+00:00
> Training a one bit neural network from scratch is apparently an unsolved problem though.

It was until recently, but there is a new method which trains them directly without any floating point math, using "Boolean variation" instead of Newton/Leibniz differentiation:

https://proceedings.neurips.cc/paper_files/paper/2024/hash/7...
by prescriptivist | 2026-03-01 20:39:12+00:00
Things are changing so fast and so chaotically with this technology. I'm also writing everything now using Claude code, and I've been thinking a lot about what this means for my work moving forward. One thing I've noticed, is that I will just keep hammering and hammering on my work until I force myself to quit. Even on the weekend I feel the pull to go work on it. I'm just less sort of mentally exhausted by work, I suppose, but I don't think that's particularly healthy if it leads to me working way more than I should. On one hand, I think that's a reflection of how powerful and exciting this technology is, but on the other hand, I think that it triggers some different kind of reward function in my mind that I'm not used to.

In any case, I think if one wants to continue to have a career in this industry for years to come, it's basically table stakes to become fluent in using these tools.
by raggi | 2026-03-01 20:39:19+00:00
> You can already configure your initial congestion window, and if you are connecting to a system expecting the use of PQ encryption, you should set your initial congestion window to be large enough for the certificate; doing otherwise is height of incompetence and should be fixed.

The aggressive tone is no defense against practical problems such as the poor scalability of such a solution.

> You could also use better protocols like QUIC which has a independently flow controlled crypto stream and you can avoid amplification attacks by pre-sending adequate amounts of data to stop amplification prevention from activating.

Not before key exchange it doesn't. There's no magic bullet here.

A refresher on the state of TFO and QUIC PMTU might be worthwhile here before jumping this far ahead.
by _DeadFred_ | 2026-03-01 20:39:32+00:00
We went into Iraq because we had to station troops in Saudi Arabia in order to defend them against Iraq, and having US troops in 'the holy land' led to Osama Bin Laden leading to 9-11. People say the two aren't connected but if you learn the context at the time they were, just not in the basic way people want to understand situations.
by toast0 | 2026-03-01 20:39:35+00:00
Historically in the US, some portion of Bell installations were designed to be resistant to attack. But it comes at large expense for construction and maintenance. Underground facilities also bring increased risk of flooding.

Competition and deregulation and lack of attacks leads towards less robust installations to reduce costs. Geographically redundant installations help as long as all installations aren't targetted; and are valuable for other operational concerns other than just attacks.
by foobarincaps | 2026-03-01 20:39:58+00:00
I use Ghostty as my main TUI at work and absolutely love it. Most of my day lives in terminals, and Ghostty just feels fast, clean, and out of the way in the best possible sense.

I was a long-time Kitty user, but switching to Ghostty has been a big upgrade for my workflow. Hard to go back now. Thank you
by jrm4 | 2026-03-01 20:40:44+00:00
Yes, every time I post this point, I get this sort of "but I'm not offended" response.

I'm not either, personally. But I live in America, a pretty strong force, for better or lately probably worse. And GIMP is very good software, but the name makes it hard to recommend or take seriously. Not even in terms of "I'm offended" but in terms of "if you thought this software was good why would you name it something like that?"

GIMP perhaps could have competed with Adobe stuff, but we will never know because this name doesn't make it out the door for a number of related reasons. Don't shoot me on this fact, I'm just the messenger.
by Imustaskforhelp | 2026-03-01 20:41:20+00:00
Found this relevant article: https://serverlift.com/blog/military-modular-data-centers/ (AWS Military Modular Data centers)

I do think that though, atleast from the Anthropic decision prior, we know that Anthropic which was used by DoD should be on normal AWS datacenters.

I am saying this because, Dod Threatened to force take the source code of Anthropic if they don't agree to aggregious demands so that means that they don't have the source code.

Perhaps DoD used Anthropic within AWS Military modular DC's but I find it extremely unlikely.

I am almost certain that even with OpenAI who bent its knee to DoD, its still hosted on regular infrastructure and DoD is using these AI models on pretty sensitive tasks (During the Venezeula Maduro's capture, Anthropic/Claude were used iirc to handle some data analysis)

IMO Tho, Any Employee from Anthropic/OpenAI might know better tho about how these models are deployed.
by LabsLucas | 2026-03-01 20:42:01+00:00
When Privacy Display is activated, only the "narrow pixels" of the display are illuminated, simultaneously disabling the regular/wide pixels. These narrow pixels and the "Black Matrix" control the path of light, limiting the amount of light sent off-axis and narrowing the viewing angles. However, Maximum Privacy Display mode turns the 'wide'/regular pixels in the dark regions of the display back on, bringing most of the display towards a middle grey. This further obfuscates the displayed content at the expense of greatly diminished visual quality.
by greygoo222 | 2026-03-01 20:42:55+00:00
Short answer, no.

Long answer, it's a variable you need to consider when doing data analysis, and it depends on what exactly you're talking about, but it's absolutely not true for improvements in cancer survival general. One alternative method is to look at per-capita death rates, for example:

Reduction in US and UK childhood cancer death since 2000
https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/cancer-death-rates-in-chi...

Reduction in several countries' age-standardized breast cancer death since 2000
(Why did it increase in South Africa? I'm not sure, maybe socioeconomic factors)
https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/breast-cancer-death-rate-...

Reduction in global age-standardized cancer death rate since 2000
(Scroll down to second graph. Since the population is getting older, age-standardization makes a fairer comparison)
https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/cancer-death-rates

2000 is an arbitrary year I picked for clear visual changes without needing to haggle over statistics. If you want to feel optimistic, switch the childhood cancer death graph to 1960-now.

This method has different possible failure points. It could be that less people are getting cancer, or that people who would get cancer are dying of other causes, or reporting of cause of death has changed, though this is very unlikely for some figures, such as leukemia death rates for children in the US. Statistics is hard. Overall though, the evidence is very good that cancer survival has improved a lot due to better treatments since 2000.

If you have a more specific claim you're dubious about, I'd be willing to look into it for you. I'm very enthusiastic about this topic.
by wrs | 2026-03-01 20:43:23+00:00
I have some success with this method: I try to write an explanation of something, then ask the LLM to find problems with the explanation. Sometimes its response leads me to shore up my understanding. Other times its answer doesn’t make sense to me and we dig into why. Whether or not the LLM is correct, it helps me clarify my own learning. It’s basically rubber duck debugging for my brain.
by nektro | 2026-03-01 20:43:46+00:00
> Respectfully, it's very hard to see how anyone could look at what just happened and come to the conclusion that one company ends up classed a "supply chain risk" while another agrees the the same terms that led to that.

to be clear i think your assessment of this situation is likely, but it could also be the case that pete and co likes sam more than they do dario.
by prescriptivist | 2026-03-01 20:43:47+00:00
Glad to hear this. I actually went down this path based off of guidance from multiple LLMs (Anthropic, OpenAI, etc.), so I wasn't sure if it was just some kind of weird hallucination they all had or if they were regurgitating a very small amount of knowledge on this topic, because it was kinda hard to find stories where people had success with these strategies. Thank you for the link to the paper. I will definitely be reading it.
by mike_d | 2026-03-01 20:43:51+00:00
ADSBX used to be volunteer ran until JETNET paid the guy who controlled the domain name $20 million dollars to "sell" it to them and steal everyone else's source code and data. They now do selective filtering to appease their commercial clients.

Everyone has moved to https://globe.airplanes.live/ and https://app.airframes.io/flights now.

Here is the lawsuit from one former group of contributors: https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/23963235-golden-hamm...
by coffeebeqn | 2026-03-01 20:44:09+00:00
I’ve had some who are useful almost out of school. The amount of tickets is always growing and have someone pick up those “when things calm down I swear I’ll address this” tickets is always helpful. If they can’t get anything done by themselves in the codebase then it gets much harder. I do also think that some people have completely forgotten all the context they didn’t have when they started off xx years ago so mentoring is not always very good
by fasbiner | 2026-03-01 20:44:26+00:00
I would spend less time with theory and more time with practice to understand what people are getting at. MCP and CLI could, in theory, be the same. But in practice as it stands today, they are not.

> MCP is just a way to write this in a structured way,

Nope! You are not understanding or are actively ignoring the difference which has been explained by 20+ comments just here. It's not a controversial claim, it's a mutually agreed upon matter of fact by the relevant community of users.

The claim you're making right now is believed to be false, and if you know something everyone else doesn't, then you should create an example repo that shows the playwright CLI and playwright MCP add the same number of tokens to context and that both are equally configurable in this respect.

If you can get that right where so many others have failed, that would be a a really big contribution. And if you can't, then you'll understand something first-hand that you weren't able to get while you were thinking about theoretically.
by anonymousiam | 2026-03-01 20:44:40+00:00
So basically, before any of the code even runs, this environment begins by gobbling up more than the total RAM that most of my first computers had (SYM-1, IAMSAI-8080, Ferguson Big Board, Kaypro II, and CCS S-100 Z-80). All of these systems were 8-bit, with various RAM sizes from 8KB to 64KB. That was the maximum RAM available, and it was shared by the OS and the applications.
by adamsmark | 2026-03-01 20:44:46+00:00
iOS now has a ton of dialogs and set up steps and the occasional dark pattern in selling you various cloud based subscriptions to Apples various services.

Having said all that, yes Android is pretty bad. I think it's the in the nature of platform owners to get their hooks into yoh as much as possible.

When I set up Linux Mint, there was none of this.