MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by MandieD | 2026-03-14 17:54:07+00:00
I have rejected much of my Southern Baptist upbringing - I am pleased that the church I’m now a member of is accepting and affirming of various sexual and gender identities, I have a wide variety of non-Christian friends who I feel no need to convert, and I say a prayer of thanks on a regular basis that I was able to get an abortion without any questions when I had an ectopic pregnancy and support anyone else’s decision about what to do with their own body.

I am right with my late grandfather, a Baptist preacher, on the subject of gambling after watching people back home constantly checking their phones during the college bowl games and periodically sighing and cussing over the performance of teams they had never cared about before.

Between the 24/7 gambling and the easy answers machine being in their pockets (“well, ChatGPT says…”), the resulting brain rot hurts my soul.
by silisili | 2026-03-14 17:54:20+00:00
I'd argue it's more workload dependent, and everything is a tradeoff.

In my own testing of compressing internal generic json blobs, I found brotli a clear winner when comparing space and time.

If I want higher compatibility and fast speeds, I'd probably just reach for gzip.

zstd is good for many use cases, too, perhaps even most...but I think just telling everyone to always use it isn't necessarily the best advice.
by hydrolox | 2026-03-14 17:54:35+00:00
Yea while reading, I just didn't understand how you end up LLM writing the article? Clearly, the data and writeup are real. But, was it "edited" with an LLM? It looks closer to ~the entire thing being LLM written. I finished reading because the topic is interesting, but the LLM writing style is difficult to bear.. and I agree with your point that trying to fool us that it's human with `--` is just absurd
by arjie | 2026-03-14 17:54:49+00:00
One of the things I do like about the US, and that I think is a reason for America's ability to meet the challenges this country faces is that it has good data collection and aggregation mechanisms: from the seemingly-banal surveys and so on to satellite remote-sensing.

There's three more years to go but afterwards (and perhaps even post the mid-terms) we should be able to hammer back some of this nonsense like being upset about job reports not showing favourable information and so on. Good information allows good decision-making and it's important we don't break that. Hopefully the current surge of low-quality corrupt executive choices isn't met by a counter-surge that kicks out people like Jerome Powell because he's a multi-millionaire capitalist or whatever.

I think it won't be. The establishment folks are mostly sensible. It's the new crop of "no property tax" and "no income tax for tips" and "no tax for under $100k earners" and so on that makes me worried, but I'm hoping it will all settle down soon.

We'll have to find better surveying methods than the phone surveys but provided #2 and #3 are solved in the article, which is just a matter of switching the admin, then we should be able to.
by wincy | 2026-03-14 17:54:50+00:00
I run with no RGB in my computer case, I got a very nice $250 case used for $40 with a broken tempered glass panel that looked like it had been dropped out of a second story apartment, but a $20 replacement panel and a little bit of hammering got it looking good as new.

On the other hand, I’m building my daughter a gaming PC for her birthday, and she loves the RGB, I set everything to a pastel blue that matches her Cinnamoroll Razer mouse, keyboard, mousepad, [0] with a Cinnamoroll desk mat I got shipped from China. She only knows about half of that (hard to hide an entire PC while I’m working on debloating windows), and is super excited.

I’ll admit I’m pushing 40 and bought a red mouse to go with my red backlit keyboard, but mostly because I like the aesthetic and to get the lowest latency from click and keypress to output on the display you’ll want 8K polling rate inputs and 240hz+ monitors. I was somewhat radicalized by reading this blog [1] on Hacker News years ago, and gaming peripherals are largely the way of achieving an extremely smooth desktop experience.

[0] https://www.razer.com/collabs/cinnamoroll?srsltid=AfmBOooMjB...
[1] https://danluu.com/input-lag/
by ciwchris | 2026-03-14 17:56:07+00:00
I recently came across the idea of Universal Basic Capital (UBC): "granting every person a meaningful ownership stake in productive assets from birth." UBC would be enormously difficult to implement, as well as have its own weaknesses. It doesn't seem realistic, but introduces a new idea into the conversation.

https://www.digitalistpapers.com/vol2/autorthompson#:~:text=...
by mannanj | 2026-03-14 17:56:33+00:00
I hate to sound like I’m turfing for cryptocurrencies, isn’t there like an identity solution there that the crypto nerds solved for to keep identity verification anonymous and surveillance proof?

Need to double check what is available, though I feel like that angle could work.

I’ve been wondering also if a simple lie & deception detection type system could be a useful angles. It’s complicated in practice; though the human intuition would say it’s figured this out millennia ago- I can’t tell you how many times my body has figured out someone’s toxic negative vibe by feeling. And I think we probably understand this better than we think and can represent it in the computer space with analysis of signals and some follow on questions. Hope I’m not too naive here.
by highpost | 2026-03-14 17:56:48+00:00
Apple Earbuds cost $19 while AirPods Pro 3 cost $250. If one of the pods flies out of your ear on the Fremont Bridge, it's a pretty bad day. I should get over it.

You can also load your hearing test results (from either an audiologist or a hearing test app like https://mimi.io/products/mimi-hearing-test-app) into Apple Health and then use them with your Earbuds.
by HarHarVeryFunny | 2026-03-14 17:56:50+00:00
I'm just being honest. Anyone who tells you they know what its like to be a bat, or any other animal, and what drives it's behavior is lying.

"Animals eat when they're hungry" is fine story, and obviously there is a lot of truth to it, but there are also obviously a lot of exceptions too.

Do you really think the Grizzly, preparing to hibernate, who can barely walk because he is so fat, and is eating his 50th salmon of the day, is eating because he is hungry?

What about the baby birds, mouths open when parent returns with food? Hungry, or just instinct?

What about an alligator that can go months without eating. In captivity it will eat every day if food is offered, and get obese (so keepers don't do that). Is it eating when hungry?

What about grazing animals that eat nutritionally poor food, and spend most of their waking hours eating? An elephant eats for 12-18 hours a day. Is it always hungry, or has evolution just given it survival instincts to behave like this?

When the bat leaving it's cave at dusk to go catch insects, is it hungry? What is it like to be a bat?
by ikidd | 2026-03-14 17:57:10+00:00
This sounds almost as hard as changing your email address on your Cursor account. I don't wish that experience on anyone. Anthropic is almost as bad, but at least they can be arsed to get back to you eventually.

For the uninitiated, both of them require you to make a new account, because apparently billion dollar corporations think a system that uses your email address as an immutable foreign key constraint is just fine.

Cursor won't let you bill out the outstanding API amount until the end of your subscription period, so you can cancel the account but it sits there able to be logged into and reactivated until your billing completes at the end of the billing interval. Getting a response to any sort of attempts to sort this out is pretty much yelling into the void. Really, your choice is to cancel the card if you get your email hacked.

At least Anthropic gets back to you and shuts it down manually, and I was even refunded my months subscription fees even though I didn't ask for it. But still a stupid, stupid way to change an email address.
by lotyrin | 2026-03-14 17:57:10+00:00
Right, but people with lower incomes spend, and mostly on necessities, I think the idea is that most of those necessities would become more expensive (naturally or artificially due to price-fixing) if the poorest suddenly had more financial power. In the system as it stands, it seems to me like it'd just result in a bunch of money going to grocery giants and their suppliers, landlords, medical, etc.
by tsjose | 2026-03-14 17:58:20+00:00
Show HN: Piqe | AI marketing co-founder that handles community engagement while you code

I built this because I kept watching great products from technical founders die in obscurity. They'd spend months perfecting their code, launch to crickets, then burn out trying to figure out Reddit karma requirements and LinkedIn engagement tactics.

Piqe is an AI that learns your voice and automatically creates authentic content across developer communities — Reddit, Hacker News, Twitter, LinkedIn, Dev.to, and Hashnode. It's trained specifically on how developers communicate, so it doesn't sound like corporate marketing BS. You just connect your accounts, and it starts finding relevant discussions and contributing valuable insights while you focus on building.

The technical challenge was making AI that actually understands context in developer communities. Generic marketing AI fails spectacularly here because it doesn't get the culture. I had to train it on thousands of successful developer conversations to learn when to be technical, when to be helpful, and when to just stay quiet.

Currently testing with early users at $49/month (also offering some free subscriptions for getting traction and feedback). Looking for feedback from founders who've struggled with the marketing side, does this solve a real problem for you, or am I missing something fundamental about how technical people want to handle growth?
by JumpCrisscross | 2026-03-14 17:58:33+00:00
> You can. Just not in any way that matters. And you won’t.

I’ve gotten language I wrote passed into state and federal law. The bottom line is a lot of people are too busy, lazy or nihilistic to call their electeds and show up to create political pressure. That’s unfortunate. But it also means that the payoff for relatively small amounts of effort are huge.
by etempleton | 2026-03-14 17:58:42+00:00
This hits the nail on the head. The MacBook Neo is compelling because it is a computer. A real computer with a full ecosystem behind it. Not some bastardized chrome book or tinker box Raspberry Pi, but a full on computer at a price where the competitors are 4 year olds used MacBooks or PCs or absolute ewaste garbage that barely functions and will assuredly break within two years.

I think what surprises everyone is that Apple beat all of the low cost PC manufacturers at their own game. And they did it through scale, superior software memory management, and world class chip design.

I don’t know if the Neo will be a success. Chromebooks have entrenched themselves in Education. But for end users this is a no brainer in this price range. If you are looking for a computer in the ~$500 range you would be almost foolish to buy anything else unless your specific needs demanded it.
Show HN: I built a Chrome extension to block Instagram's feed and keep only DMs
by Shivam_Dewan | 2026-03-14 17:59:05+00:00
Hey HN,
I built this because I kept opening Instagram to reply to a DM and resurfacing 30–40 minutes later deep in Reels. The problem wasn't willpower, it was that Instagram puts the addictive stuff between you and the useful stuff.

Mindful Instagram replaces the Instagram home page with a quiet overlay: an inspirational quote, your DM notifications (fetched from Instagram's own API), a daily open counter, and a 1-minute breathing exercise. Messages, Create, and Profile are always accessible. Everything else — Reels, Explore, Search, Suggested Posts — is permanently blocked.

The core mechanic is intentional friction:
– Home Feed, Stories, and Notifications can each be toggled on, but only 3 times per day. After that, they stay off until tomorrow.
– Every toggle-on has a 5-second cooldown before it activates. Just enough time to ask yourself "do I actually need this?"
– A 10-minute reminder and 20-minute auto-off prevent runaway sessions.
– Focus Lock disables all toggles for 24 hours. Irreversible. For the days you really need it.
Technical notes for the curious:
– Manifest V3, vanilla JS, zero dependencies. The entire extension is ~300 lines of content script + a popup.
– Zero data collection. No analytics, no telemetry, no external API calls beyond Instagram's own endpoints. Settings sync via chrome.storage.sync. That's it.
– The UI is inspired by Teenage Engineering's hardware design language — beige chassis, monospace type, orange accents, hardware-switch-style toggles. I wanted it to feel like a physical device, not another app competing for your attention.
– DM notifications are fetched from Instagram's inbox API endpoint and displayed as names on the overlay, so you can see who messaged you without touching the feed.
This is v3.3. I'm a solo builder and this started as a tool for myself. It's free, no premium tier, no plans to monetize.
Would love feedback from this community — especially on the 3-use-per-day limit (too strict? not strict enough?) and whether the Focus Lock UX makes sense.
by gmueckl | 2026-03-14 17:59:35+00:00
This is an downright evil take on the current situation. The supply chains are so complex that no single country is capable of replicating them entirely. It starts with the fact that the required natural resources are distributed around the globe in a way that no country has access to all of them. The production chains from resources to finished machines are downright byzantine. And this becomes recursive with the need for specialized tools and their own production chains along the way. You need trains amd trucks and ships to be able to build semiconductors, for example. Except for maybe China pr India, there is no country that has the manpower to cover all of this domestically. The supply of workers and training falls far too short.

Any Western strategy that sees this as both "us vs. them" and also pursues reduced international collaboration is bound to lose bitterly in the long run.

The result is either a silent collapse of that country's economy or the start of an ill-conceived war of conquest to gain by force what the country cannot supply itself.
by nine_k | 2026-03-14 17:59:37+00:00
Even the best space comms system does not make your ICBMs invisible to your adversary, and does not allow you to shoot down your adversary's return salvo of ICBMs. Hence the mutually assured destruction is not going away, and the side starting an all-out nuclear war still cannot win. I don't see how anything what's available now changes this; do you?

What might be destabilizing would be long-range hypersonic missiles that fly relatively low (30 km above the surface, not 1000 km), so they can't be easily detected until it's pretty late, and can arrive from multiple directions. This is exactly the kind of weapon that is China apparently developing, BTW.
by mikeyouse | 2026-03-14 17:59:50+00:00
This ratchet effect of partially righting the ship every four years followed by drunken sailors YOLOing further into a reef because the ‘responsible party’ didn’t fix things fast enough is unsustainable. No clue how it ends but it’s so much easier to destroy things than it is to build them, so the builders are always at a distinct disadvantage.
by kenjackson | 2026-03-14 17:59:56+00:00
It may be unreliable to you. I see the life of most people around me getting better. Even people that are somewhat poor (not dirt poor, but free lunch poor) have homes, three squares and snacks, PS5, mobile phones with cellular data, and cable tv. The biggest life issues I see are usually strongly related to substance abuse and mental health.

Transplanting to even just the 80s would be a culture shock for most people.
by rectang | 2026-03-14 18:00:28+00:00
My takeaway from the huge discussion thread yesterday was that the big divide among HN commenters is whether or not purveyors of AI tech have any responsibility to account for automation bias in their users.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Automation_bias

> Automation bias is the propensity for humans to favor suggestions from automated decision-making systems and to ignore contradictory information made without automation, even if it is correct.

In other words, if it is foreseeable that the tool will be misused, what does that mean for the toolmaker?
by uyzstvqs | 2026-03-14 18:00:47+00:00
Looks interesting. I was somewhat skeptical, but it appears to be a legitimate open protocol. You can use it to build a search engine for products across many smaller stores, and facilitate ordering from within your app, which appears to be what Google Shopping and the above website are both doing. Sort of a decentralized Amazon MFN.

It's also designed to be used by AI agents. This should enable any AI agent to discover products and purchase items from any UCP-enabled store, in a safe way.

Here's the spec: https://ucp.dev/latest/specification/overview/

Every Shopify store appears to already support it. Example: https://shop.spacex.com/.well-known/ucp
by recursivecaveat | 2026-03-14 18:01:49+00:00
If the only money is UBI money then things start to get weird. If UBI coexists with regular income in moderation then it doesn't change much. Consider that about 1/3 Americans receive some form of government assistance. There's already a kind of fallback UBI distributed across SNAP + Medicare + Medicaid + Unemployment + Social Security + etc, and no one on those programs is clamoring for them to be shut down so that lentils become cheaper. Giving money to everyone does increase inflation (though you can play with the tax rate to offset that), but the important effect is it transfers purchasing power to net recipients. Basically: the economy wide money supply would at worst go up by a modest factor, the income of the poorest goes up by an absolute amount (or a massive factor if you want to view it that way), which is a huge benefit to them.
by mannanj | 2026-03-14 18:01:51+00:00
It’s beyond that. It’s the CIA deeply embedded in all the scary uncomfortable ways you would have hoped never possible. Presidents win and turn their stance and run around in the other direction, they don’t what to be another assassinated Kennedy (and imo today they would have other fears worse than dying). Congressmen and women are definitely also aware of the deep presence and power of that agency and its perversion into American life and politics. They don’t want to be the ones to be the sacrificial pawn sparking an outright violent American revolution and tear down of the agency.

I was surveilled, experimented on and followed by them for being American-Pakistani and speaking out against them from 2022-2023. It was a scary time and I wish I were making this up. I wonder sometimes if they really are the good guys, and I just got things backwards. I also heard when you are kidnapped and in hostile territories for long enough, you fall in love with the kidnappers.

Happy to share more details if anyone’s curious.
by randerson | 2026-03-14 18:02:08+00:00
It would be in a sense, because that money is otherwise mostly hoarded by the wealthy, whose spending would look the same whether or not they are taxed. If money is saved and not spent, it is not really part of the economy in this sense.

But if the money is transferred to others and spent on additional goods & services that is when it increases demand and raises prices.
by JasonADrury | 2026-03-14 18:02:57+00:00
>Any e2e encryption provided by the same entity who fully controls both the blackbox clients, and the server in between, is just a security theatre that they can selectively bypass anytime with very little risk of detection. Not really much better than simple client to server encryption.

You are no more capable of spotting a deliberately concealed backdoor in a binary than in source code, there's simply no meaningful difference.
by m0llusk | 2026-03-14 18:03:42+00:00
There are multiple ends in conflict. Code skillfully constructed using abstractions that fit well to the problem space can be extended, maintained, and refactored as necessary to serve customers and markets from high to low level over long periods of time with all the social and industrial change that comes with that. Simply putting in place mechanisms that deliver what is needed now end up unintentionally cutting off future variants, alternative uses, longevity, and robustness all to minimize perceived costs.

And it isn't so much that one approach may be better than another. That is going to depend on context and available resources and more. What we are seeing is the short term being served to the absolute exclusion of thought about the longer term. Maybe if that goes fast and well enough then it will be sufficient, but churning out code bases that endure is a challenge that is only starting to be tested.
by fl0ki | 2026-03-14 18:04:37+00:00
This seems as good a thread as any to mention that the gzhttp package in klauspost/compress for Go now supports zstd on both server handles and client transports. Strangely this was added in a patch version instead of a minor version despite both expanding the API surface and changing default behavior.

https://github.com/klauspost/compress/releases/tag/v1.18.4
by dominotw | 2026-03-14 18:04:42+00:00
yes i was hospitalized from nerve impingement from forward head posture. it was a dark time of my life. now i never work in bed and always use a monitor setup, limit looking down my phone. I promise you this simple rules will make a world of difference.

Most ppl dont reliaze this but forward head posture can also cause acid reflux, stress ect by disrupting your breathing pattern. i am still healing from all those problems and learning to breath normally with my diagraphm
by repple | 2026-03-14 18:04:48+00:00
Ultimately it’s up to the author to make that explicit choice. I think that AI does and will enhance writing and depth and breadth of analysis one could perform. But, to be trustworthy, people will need to either lay out all cards on the table and/or work on other ways to gain trust over time. Maybe people need to provide some context to communicate what model was used and in which ways. What % of final output is AI vs author. I mean, if I see 100% composed by human author stated somewhere then there’s my cue to at the very least learn a little about the author. Certainly more complexity and discernment for readers. Depressing? In some ways maybe; but I’m kind of optimistic. Imagine what Tolkien could worldbuild armed with AI.. but then it wouldn’t be Tolkien.
by etempleton | 2026-03-14 18:04:52+00:00
This hits the nail on the head. The MacBook Neo is compelling because it is a computer. A real computer with a full ecosystem behind it. Not some bastardized chrome book or tinker box Raspberry Pi, but a full on computer at a price where the competitors are 4 year olds used MacBooks or PCs or absolute ewaste garbage that barely functions and will assuredly break within two years.

I think what surprises everyone is that Apple beat all of the low cost PC manufacturers at their own game. And they did it through scale, superior software memory management, and world class chip design.

I don’t know if the Neo will be a success, but it is a great product at a great price.
by jjj123 | 2026-03-14 18:05:02+00:00
I agree, but I think the broader point here is that any automated system is a way to offload accountability. And it will be used for that without a doubt no matter how “good” the officers or human processes are.

So it’s still reasonable to be skeptical of (or outright reject) the use of the technology in systems that can ruin or end people’s lives.