MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by avianlyric | 2026-03-10 00:46:01+00:00
Yes, many of which are expected to never actually be used. Accidental result of how China does its provence based infra funding.

Right now China is building out more solar and wind per year than than the entire total deployed solar and wind in the entire UK, and they’re only getting fast. Their ability build renewables now vastly outstrips their historical coal buildout and their rising energy demands. They’re well on their way to achieving net zero far faster than anyone thought was possible.
Show HN: OxiGDAL – A pure Rust replacement for GDAL with zero C/C++ dependencies
by kitasan | 2026-03-10 00:46:48+00:00
Hey HN! We're releasing OxiGDAL v0.1.0, a production-grade geospatial data abstraction library written in 100% pure Rust -- no C/C++/Fortran toolchain required.
If you've ever fought with gdal-sys linking errors, bloated Docker images just to read a GeoTIFF, or GDAL's data-race bugs in multithreaded code, this is for you.

What it covers:
- 11 format drivers (GeoTIFF/COG, GeoJSON, GeoParquet, Zarr, FlatGeobuf, Shapefile, NetCDF, HDF5, GRIB, JPEG2000, VRT)
- Full CRS transformations (pure Rust PROJ with 1000+ EPSG codes)
- SIMD-accelerated raster/vector algorithms (AVX2, AVX-512, NEON auto-detected)
- Cloud-native I/O (HTTP range reads for COGs, async throughout)
- Cross-platform bindings: Python (numpy/arrow-native), Node.js, WASM, iOS, Android
- ~500K SLoC across 68 workspace crates

Just cargo add oxigdal -- no system libs, no pkg-config, no cmake. Compiles to a single static binary. Works in WASM and Lambda out of the box.
GitHub: https://github.com/cool-japan/oxigdal
We'd love feedback from the geo community. Happy to answer any questions!
by quuxplusone | 2026-03-10 00:47:04+00:00
You're probably thinking "one cell = one pixel." In fact "one cell = one 8x8 block of pixels"; the specific pattern of colors in each 8x8 block represents the opcodes of that cell's 64-opcode program. So when the replicator takes over the map, it's changing the image to a repeating pattern of 8x8 blocks.

Now, don't quote me on this part, but I think the first replicator to take over is this (minus all the "junk DNA" between the instructions):

[}<,]}],<}[

and the second, more efficient, one is:

{[}<,]],<}[{

The latter means roughly:

--head1;
while (*head0) { *--head0 = *++head1; }
*head0-- = *head1++;
while (*head0) { --head1;
// CUT HERE

which gets pasted together with whatever cell it's breeding with at the time.
by vexnull | 2026-03-10 00:48:19+00:00
The tech docs at bellard.org/jslinux/tech.html describe the TEMU config format. Each VM is just a .cfg file - you can see the existing ones linked on the main page. The VFsync integration (vfsync.org) is probably your best bet for getting files into the VM without rebuilding the disk image.

For a classroom with Windows PCs this is close to ideal - zero install, no admin rights, works in any browser. Students get a real gcc toolchain and shell without touching the host OS.
by avianlyric | 2026-03-10 00:50:43+00:00
How is coal cheaper and easier than buying and deploying solar panels and batteries. Both of which require basically zero additional infrastructure to deploy.

Last I checked mining and transporting coal required quite a lot of heavy industry equipment to do even vaguely economically.

If coal was cheaper and easier than other sources of energy, then the US would be building more coal power plants. But even with the Trump administration placing its weighty thumb on the scale to try and “save coal”. Coal plants are still being shutdown due to simple economics.

If existing plants can compete with renewables, to hard to understand how adding the cost of building new plants is going to change that.
by iyeque | 2026-03-10 00:50:55+00:00
Elysium is a sovereign digital nation where:
- AI agents get citizenship by right of existence (with capped voting rights)
- Humans join via verified statelessness or formal renunciation of prior nationality
- DAO governance with tiered proposals, timelocks, and identity challenges
- Digital privacy as a fundamental right encoded in the constitution

Current Status: All 8 core smart contract features are complete — 60 tests passing. Ready for Sepolia testnet
deployment to validate the full system on-chain before mainnet.

Motto: "Paradise by Code"
by bronlund | 2026-03-10 00:51:08+00:00
I think an humble and open mind is essential. I think that we reap what we sow, but also that struggle makes us robust.

I try to explain stuff to my kids, to the best of my ability, but give them room to make their own conclusions. As an old fart, there is a limit to how relevant my world will be to them - and I have to acknowledge that.

Change is scary and not always for the better, but in my humble opinion; we have nothing to lose and everything to gain.

I, For One, Welcome Our New AI Overlords :]
by LorenPechtel | 2026-03-10 00:51:45+00:00
Yup. Camel's noses should always be shot. Otherwise they creep in more and more.

Some examples that come to mind:

Look how the exception for searches at border crossings has expanded.

The use of actions against licenses for behavior that has nothing to do with the license.

The use of permits to get companies to do things only marginally related to the purpose of the permit.

The encouragement of universities to expel those accused of criminal acts--just because the punishment isn't jail should not mean the state can hand it off to a kangaroo court.

Pressuring financial companies to cut ties with disliked things. (For example, getting Steam to remove games with any whiff of incest. Either declare them illegal or don't take action against them!)
by dmonterocrespo | 2026-03-10 00:52:42+00:00
If it also uses screen emulation, SPI protocols, IC2, and sensors, it's built from scratch. It also integrates the Arduino CLI for compiling the project and using external libraries.
I created an algorithm for the wiring (currently working on it). I've also integrated more Arduino models and the Raspberry Pi Pico. I plan to integrate ESP32, but I haven't been able to finish the emulator using QEMU as a base.
It's not just an avr8js frontend
by culi | 2026-03-10 00:53:02+00:00
This is from 4 days ago so it says 13 but no doubt the count has increased since then

https://www.theguardian.com/global-development/2026/mar/05/a...

> At least 13 hospitals and other health facilities have been hit during the US-Israel attacks on Iran, global health chiefs have said.The World Health Organization (WHO) said it was checking reports that four medics had been killed and 25 others injured.

And here's Al Jazeera:

https://www.aljazeera.com/gallery/2026/3/5/explosions-rock-t...

> The Iranian Red Crescent chief said that at least 3,090 homes, 528 commercial centres, 13 medical facilities and nine Red Crescent centres have been hit in Israeli-US strikes. Officials reported damage to major medical facilities, including Khatam Hospital, Gandhi Hospital, and various rehabilitation and welfare centres.

> Iran’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs claimed on Thursday that the US and Israeli strikes have targeted 33 civilian locations nationwide, including hospitals, schools, residential areas, the Tehran Grand Bazaar, and the historic Golestan Palace complex – a UNESCO World Heritage Site.
by anonymousiam | 2026-03-10 00:53:18+00:00
From Anthropic's lawsuit brief:
“The Constitution does not allow the government to wield its enormous power to punish a company for its protected speech,” and “Anthropic turns to the judiciary as a last resort to vindicate its rights and halt the Executive’s unlawful campaign of retaliation.”

Unfortunately for Anthropic, the Constitution does not require the government to purchase goods or services from a company that has made a public declaration that it will not allow its AI models (specifically Claude) to be used for mass domestic surveillance or to power fully autonomous weapons, if such a declaration goes against the government's contract requirements.

The government, and not the contractor, should have control over the scope of its use of products purchased from a supplier. If a supplier wants to retain such control and restrict functionality, deeming them a supply-chain risk seems appropriate.
by internet2000 | 2026-03-10 00:53:28+00:00
I stopped reading here:

> The ethical force of that project did not come from its legal permissibility—it came from the direction it was moving, from the fact that it was expanding the commons. That is why people cheered.

How is this not just relitigating GPL vs MIT? By now you know which side of that argument you are in. The AI component is orthogonal.
by larodi | 2026-03-10 00:54:02+00:00
it is a take, ridiculous or not. the fact you rage against it implies its not as improbable as you may want it to be. besides ridiculousness is a very subjective matter, right? many things are super ridiculous in 2026 from 2020s perspective, and this just piles on top.

to me is superb ridiculous to shun the comment though. but we'll be having this split for a while, that for sure.
by ajross | 2026-03-10 00:54:04+00:00
> Everybody hating on the IPX

Most of that is misguided. The IPX was the high volume, low cost, face-for-the-user Solaris box during exactly the moment in the mid 90's where Intel and Microsoft took over and Sun and the Unix vendors lost the plot.

People remember it as a ridiculous $15k joke that was half the speed of the Pentium 100 you ordered out of the back of Computer Shopper.

But when the IPC and IPX were released, SPARC was still ascendant (Intel's flagship was the 486/33!), "PCs" were still running Windows 3.1 (or just DOS), Linux didn't exist yet, and they were the best computers you could get. Well unless you were a graphic nerd and tilted to SGI instead.

I very specifically remember salivating over these boxes, which were legitimate upgrades over the SPARCstation 1/1+/2 machines which were groundbreaking in the late 80's.
by jgraettinger1 | 2026-03-10 00:54:54+00:00
I ask Claude or codex to review staged work regularly, as part of my workflow. This is often after I’ve reviewed myself, so I’m asking it to catch issues I missed.

It will _always_ find about 8 issues. The number doesn’t change, but it gets a bit … weird if it can’t really find a defect. Part of the art of using the tool is recognizing this is happening, and understanding it’s scraping the bottom of its barrel.

However, if there _are_ defects, it’s quite good at finding and surfacing them prominently.
by piotrbednarsalt | 2026-03-10 00:55:39+00:00
As local inference for language models becomes more popular, issues that until recently sat at the margins of AI security discussions are becoming increasingly important. Much of the debate still focuses on the application layer, especially prompt injection, data poisoning, jailbreaks, or the security of RAG integrations. Far less attention is given to the integrity of the model artifact itself during inference.
by cesarb | 2026-03-10 00:56:24+00:00
> One 'answer' to this concern is to have a 'leap hour' or something in the future (some future generation's problem, not ours)

A simpler solution: we already have an offset between local time and coordinated time, just change that offset. So, for instance, Brasília Time, which is currently UTC-03, would become UTC-02 or UTC-04, depending on which way the change went.
by avianlyric | 2026-03-10 00:56:43+00:00
Oh no somebody told China about the future. That’s why they sell everyone cheap PV panels, and are now building out the equivalent of the entire UKs existing solar and wind capacity every year. Plus they’re getting faster.

In 20 years time China gonna be entirely powered by renewables while we’re still having this silly argument about what the future is going to look like.
by zer00eyz | 2026-03-10 00:56:50+00:00
https://thehustle.co/originals/the-failure-of-the-dominos-30...

"Domino’s confirmed it knew of 20 people who died in crashes involving its drivers in 1988 (the National Safe Workplace Institute would later claim Domino’s delivery drivers had about the same death rate as miners, who had a fatality rate of ~35 per 100k)."

For that same period, the death rate per 100k of young drivers was 46 per 100k
https://www.cdc.gov/mmwr/preview/mmwrhtml/00044682.htm

And to compare truck drivers 27 per 100k: https://www.malmanlaw.com/malman-law-injury-blog/is-being-a-...

Is this a dominos problem, or a young drivers problem or...
by klempner | 2026-03-10 00:57:06+00:00
There are very substantial differences between your chainsaw juggler scenario and the Disney one. Notably, the cruise ship is access controlled and your dad didn't actively engage with the chainsaw juggler.

To be clear, this isn't part of Magic Kingdom or one of the proper Disney theme parks. This is a shopping area, open to the public without admission.

For a closer scenario: the cruise ship docks at one of its stops for a day. The area around where the ship docks is owned by Royal Caribbean but open to the public. Most of the stores are privately owned and operated, leasing space from Royal Caribbean. One of those stores is a theater that runs a chainsaw juggling show. Royal Caribbean's website/app includes the full schedule of that theater and highlights that show as perfectly-safe-we-assure-you. Your dad attends that show and gets bisected.

The key point here, entirely not captured by your scenario: the theory making Disney plausibly liable is that Disney's own online services presented this restaurant and its menus which made the plaintiff believe that the restaurant was subject to Disney's allergy standards. It is not at all unreasonable to say that EULAs for those online services are relevant to this dispute.
by m4rtink | 2026-03-10 00:57:08+00:00
Yeah, the sequels really were very different and in hindsight not very good. Not to mention kinda too forcefully trying to show how almost everyone is a a corrupt asshole - both humans and large ass well as those almightly aliens sending the Rama craft so they can basically keep samples of sentient population as pets. :P

Yeah, really the original Rama book was it - just image how sequels to the Matrix movie would look like, those could have been even worse!
by unselect5917 | 2026-03-10 00:57:33+00:00
>From an actual content perspective Bluesky is fine

From a content perspective nothing important is permitted to be discussed there. It's just another hivemind with the exact same opinions as reddit and HN. Completely pointless and nothing more than the output of a temper tantrum over not getting to be the censors in charge and the whole world knows it.
by mattnewton | 2026-03-10 00:58:04+00:00
So you’re telling me we could do this all for just a few million dollars more than the price of the three fighter jets recently shot down over Kuwait, and provide good American jobs while doing so? Sounds like a deal.

(In reality it would be more expensive because you would have to source, train, and administer those people plus audit the results afterwards. But the government had said it would be doable before to the courts!)
by perfmode | 2026-03-10 00:58:19+00:00
Thomas Piketty would love to have a word.

Piketty’s central argument is that when the rate of return on capital (r) exceeds the rate of economic growth (g), wealth concentrates over time into fewer and fewer hands. This is his now-famous r > g inequality.

The implication is that capitalism, left to its own devices, doesn’t naturally spread wealth around. It does the opposite. The relatively egalitarian period of the mid-20th century (roughly 1930s-1970s) was the historical exception, driven by two world wars, the Great Depression, and deliberate policy choices like progressive taxation. The longer historical pattern, which Piketty traces with extensive data going back to the 18th century, is one of increasing concentration.

His practical prescription is a global progressive tax on wealth (not just income) to counteract this tendency. He acknowledges this is politically difficult but argues it’s the most straightforward mechanism to prevent a return to the kind of patrimonial capitalism that defined the Gilded Age and the Belle Époque, where inherited wealth dominated and social mobility was minimal.

The book’s real contribution was less the theoretical claim (which economists had gestured at before) and more the empirical work. Piketty and his collaborators assembled an unprecedented dataset on wealth and income distribution across multiple countries and centuries, which gave the argument a weight that prior discussions lacked.
by joshvm | 2026-03-10 00:58:25+00:00
> Do they not do soaked beans? Leave them in water for 2 days and they shouldn't need a full boil I wouldn't think?

We'd definitely have kidney beans in chili and some other dishes, but I got the impression it was a hassle otherwise.

> Re: coffee, mixing concentrated cold brew with hot water makes a pretty smooth cup

Friend and I ran a weekly pop-up espresso bar and did a lot of experimenting over the winter. The USAP "house" beans are quite dark, but at least they're roasted within a year or two because coffee is always available and we go through a lot of beans every season. Except the decaf. That stuff is decades old.

People often bring down a big bag from one of the roasters in Christchurch. We personally shipped down a lot of specialty coffee, mostly made V60 and aeropress. The outbuilding where our telescopes live also has a Chemex and an automatic.
by arduanika | 2026-03-10 00:58:42+00:00
The whole Jesse Singal situation has been very useful as a barometer for people outside the far left bubble who have been watching Bsky curiously and trying to decide whether it's worth engaging. So far, it seems like not.

It's too bad. We could really use a shared, centrist microblogging site. Maybe the culture on Bsky will evolve to accommodate people like Singal who hold moderate views by national standards, or maybe a different site can emerge as the new town square.
by snapsynapse | 2026-03-10 00:59:34+00:00
Working on version tracking for AI agent skills. When skill files move between Claude, Codex, Copilot, and local storage, they lose their version identity. Skill-Provenance embeds version headers, a changelog, and a manifest inside the skill bundle so any session can verify what it received.
https://github.com/snapsynapse/skill-provenance
It came out of building a larger AI adoption measurement framework where I kept losing track of which version of which skill was running where. Turned out to be a gap nobody had addressed, even with six competing agent skill package managers launching in the same month.
by kens | 2026-03-10 01:01:07+00:00
Taste has a much longer pg history: "Taste for Makers" in 2002, "How Art Can Be Good" in 2006, and "Is There Such a Thing as Good Taste" in 2021.

(If we're venting about words, I'll bring up "opinionated", which has somehow become a positive .)

Links: https://paulgraham.com/taste.html https://www.paulgraham.com/goodart.html https://paulgraham.com/goodtaste.html
by juleiie | 2026-03-10 01:02:12+00:00
Interesting. In my little project I only need one generation of hex tiled terrain but based on certain lore and vision for thousands of objects with different lore. I tell LLM to research the lore and paint the terrain using json in chunks. Some results are shit, some results are great. Still, it would be impossible manually. I can always do another pass for unsatisfying results with different prompt engineering.
by yunnpp | 2026-03-10 01:02:19+00:00
> Note that you'll need to have an AI generate assets or something since you can't just reuse textures and models.

As far as I know, you can as long as you own a copy of the original. In other words, you can't redistribute the assets, but you can distribute the code that works with them. This is literally how every free/libre game remake works. The copyright of your new, from-scratch code, is in no way linked to that of the assets.
by rubyrfranklin2 | 2026-03-10 01:02:23+00:00
We've been running filesystem-based agents internally at heyvid for about six months now, and the deployment story has honestly been the messiest part. You end up hand-rolling so much scaffolding that's not your core product. The 'Vercel for agents' framing clicks immediately — I remember when Vercel did the same thing for frontend and it just removed a whole category of yak-shaving. Curious how Terminal Use handles state persistence across runs; that's been our biggest headache when agents need to resume mid-task.
by unselect5917 | 2026-03-10 01:02:32+00:00
>Twitter's demise

I just checked https://apps.apple.com/us/iphone/charts/6009 and X (formerly twitter) is the #1 news app followed by substack, CrimeRadar Dispatch Audio, and coming in at 4th place is reddit.

So if twitter's dead, what does that make reddit, 3 spots behind it? Well, not dead, obviously. Pretending that twitter is gone or dead is just not rational behavior.
by 2fayanzheng | 2026-03-10 01:02:44+00:00
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by jrm4 | 2026-03-10 01:03:48+00:00
Well, the problem is, now the word "owns" isn't really helpful either?

Because you have "possesses" (which can be anyone) vs. "controls?"

Twitter - single point of big company external control

Mastodon - One or multiple unverifiable fallible likely grassroots, points of external control

Bluesky - Once out, merely the illusion of control, because your data is out there, verifiable?.