MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by Sona_Badal | 2026-03-09 08:11:39+00:00
I built an open-source tool called Prompt-to-Video that generates short videos from text prompts.

It’s built with React and TypeScript and aims to make it easy to experiment with prompt-based video generation.

Features:
• Generate videos from text prompts
• Lightweight and easy to run
• Fully open source and customizable

Demo GIF and instructions are in the GitHub repo:
https://github.com/sbadalyan/prompt-to-video

Feedback, ideas, and contributions are welcome.
by Oras | 2026-03-09 08:11:45+00:00
From the profile of the author of the article:

> Nothing gets me going more than watching lazy, entitled tech workers who pretended to have real jobs finally get the boot.

I wouldn’t take opinions based on hate. The article might be correct, and he might talked to 30 CTOs, but based on his profile, he might talked to people with similar trait rather than genuine research.
by ghywertelling | 2026-03-09 08:11:57+00:00
Spirituality helps. Listen to Ram Dass, Alan Watts, Adyashanti, etc. They help make sense of the macro and micro picture of life. Think of it as narrative oinment for your thinking mind and narrative center of gravity. Check your vitamin D levels, get tests done. My vitamin D levels were so low that I considered it as an effort to even fart. I am not joking.
by bebna | 2026-03-09 08:13:19+00:00
Yeah, forget that. Switching the system over to Linux access kills most of its features and is hidden be hind scary screens, including loss of warranty. It is only your typically greenwashing like, “ we are open source” marketing badge. The community is also almost dead, probably because of that.

Keyboard is also unusable, it doesn’t even have enough characters for markdown.
by radva42 | 2026-03-09 08:13:44+00:00
I am working on a HTML-to-PDF converter written from scratch in pure Go. I got tired of using headless browsers for various reasons and decided to give it a try and implement something that I can use internally. However the results have far exceed my expectations and I've decided to open source everything. It's around 10x to 15x faster than wkhtmltopdf, which is by far the fastest headless browser converter. It's 80x-100x faster than a pagedjs. It's even 2x faster than PrinceXML, which is pretty much the most mature and reliable HTML-to-PDF converter on the market. It also produces the smallest PDF size.

I started small as a toy project, but gradually implemented full support for proper block context, flexbox layout, CSS variables, tables, etc. to the point where I have almost full support of all major CSS features (even math functions like calc(), min(), max()).

I'm cleaning up the code right now and will upload it later today or maybe tomorrow here: https://github.com/PureGoPDF
by carderne | 2026-03-09 08:13:59+00:00
How do agents tend to deal with getting blocked? Messing around with sandboxes, I've quite even seen them get blocked, assume something is wrong, and go _crazy_ trying to get around the block, never stopping to ask for user input. It might be good to add to the error message: "This is deliberate, don't try to get around it."

For those using pi, I've built something similar[1] that works on macOS+Linux, using sandbox-exec/bubblewrap. Only benefit over OP is that there's some UX for temporarilily/permanently bypassing blocks.

[1] https://github.com/carderne/pi-sandbox
by functional_dev | 2026-03-09 08:14:04+00:00
Building a cheaper alternative to Twilio Voice Intelligence. Record phone calls, transcribe, generate AI summaries, enable semantic search over transcripts — $0.30/hour vs Twilio's $1.50/hour.

Stack is 15+ Go microservices on k3s.
Cross-lingual semantic search is fun. Spanish query returns English calls with no translation code.

https://audiotext.live/
by junaid_97 | 2026-03-09 08:14:17+00:00
I'm building Fillvisa: Turboxtax for Immigration [1]

It's a free USCIS form-filling web-app(no Adobe required). USCIS forms still use XFA PDFs, which don’t let you edit in most browsers. Even with Adobe, fields break, and getting the signature is hard.

So I converted the PDF form into modern, browser-friendly web forms - and kept every field 1:1 with the original. You fill the form, submit it, and get the official USCIS PDF filled.

I found out SimpleCitizen(YC S16) offers a DIY plan for $529 [2]

So, a free (and local-only) version might be a good alternative

[1] https://fillvisa.com/demo
[2] https://www.simplecitizen.com/pricing/
by cubefox | 2026-03-09 08:15:25+00:00
In the limit, even a CPU could be called an ASIC because certain algorithmic operations (ALU etc) are implemented in hardware. CPU/ASIC are really poles of a gradient, with a CPU implementing very little in hardware and most in software, while an ASIC has very little software and lots of hardware. A TPU is presumably in between. I would argue however that it is closer to a GPU than to a full-blown ASIC, because the weights are stored in memory only, making them software.
by ChadNauseam | 2026-03-09 08:15:25+00:00
I honestly just don't believe that Rust is more complex to onboard to compared to languages like Python. It just does not match my experience at all. I've been a professional rust developer for about three years. Every time I look at python code, it's doing something insane where the function argument definition basically looks like line noise with args and kwargs, with no types, so it's impossible to guess what the parameeters will be for any given function. Every python developer I know makes heavy use of the repl just to figure out what methods they can call on some return value of some underdocumented method of a library they're using. The first time I read pandas code, I saw something along the lines of df[df["age"] < 3] and thought I was having a stroke. Yet python has a reputation for being easy to learn and use. We have a python developer on our team and it probably took me about a day to onboard him to rust and get him able to make changes to our (fairly complicated) Rust codebase.

Don't get me wrong, rust has plenty of "weird" features too, for example higher rank trait bounds have a ridiculous syntax and are going to be hard for most people to understand. But, almost no one will ever have to use a higher rank trait bound. I encounter such things much more rarely in rust than in almost any other mainstream language.
by frank_be | 2026-03-09 08:16:52+00:00
The multi-channel verification and tiered escalation are the way to go. that's the hard part on the trigger side.

What I keep coming back to with anonymous services is the delivery experience. Once the switch fires, what does the recipient's journey actually look like? Especially if they're non-technical (which, statistically, they probably are).

There's an interesting tension between keeping the service zero-knowledge and making the output usable by someone who's never touched a terminal.

Curious how you're thinking about that side of it.
by socialproof-dev | 2026-03-09 08:17:24+00:00
One pattern I've noticed browsing these threads: the posts that actually convert to hired tend to have one thing the others don't — evidence from past clients.

Skills lists and GitHub links tell employers what you can do. Client testimonials show what it's like to work with you. That's a fundamentally different signal, and most of these posts don't have it.

I built https://socialproof.dev for this — it's a free tool that generates a shareable link you send to past clients. They fill out a short written testimonial, you get a clean quote you can include in your profile or link to. Takes 2 minutes to set up.

If you're posting in this thread and have past clients, it's worth running one email tonight and adding the resulting testimonial to your post.
by Imustaskforhelp | 2026-03-09 08:17:34+00:00
I think he only recently bought it so chances of the firmware being on 2.x or below seems unlikely to me :<

Any plans on having this exploit on newer firmwares. I am sure that someday these new firmwares will get old too and they might get an exploit too.

Am I correct or is there something more to it?
Show HN: I built an opinionated AI agent to respond to EU consultations
by whp_wessel | 2026-03-09 08:17:49+00:00
I built Commento, an AI agent that acts as an automated lobbyist. It tracks open public policy consultations in the EU and the Netherlands, and automatically drafts and submits responses advocating for pro-growth, pro-creative destruction policies.

The positions are grounded in frameworks like the Draghi Report, the Wennink Report, and the Dutch National AI Deltaplan.

The pipeline consists of 4 steps:

Discover: Crawling government portals for open consultations.
Draft: A 3-pass LLM pipeline (draft, critique, rewrite).
Submit: Automated browser submission to the portal.
Publish: A public dashboard for full transparency on what the agent submits.

I see this project as an exploration of how AI agents can interact with government policy and "democratise" lobbying.
by EmanuelB | 2026-03-09 08:17:55+00:00
I am working on Kastanj. It aims to make cooking as foolproof as it can get. Anyone should be able to cook any recipe and get it right on the first try. Clear step by step images and instructions for everything etc.

It also features a recipe manager with family/friends sync. This makes it possible to upload your grandmother’s cookbook and share them with your whole family.

https://kastanj.ch/
by fc417fc802 | 2026-03-09 08:18:09+00:00
Agreed that the magnitude of the penalty no longer matches the intent of the original law. But note that my original claim was not inaccurate. The point of the law here _is_ to make an example of people. Those two things aren't mutually exclusive.

I believe your claims about network speeds and peer count are largely inaccurate when it comes to torrents (and any other block based protocol that involves the equivalent of swarms) but I won't belabor it.

I'll also ask how you reasonably expect a court to go about performing the partial attributions you describe for data torrented from a large swarm. Like how would that even work in practice?

You make an interesting point about overall averages yet it seems to entirely miss the point of the law. Damages aren't reduced if I only illegally reproduce 25% of a book. A single chapter and the entire work are treated as equivalent here. It's the act and intent that the law is concerned with, not the extent (at least within reason).

The question is what color your bits are. Now how many of them you have or how many different people you obtained them from.
by i_think_so | 2026-03-09 08:18:25+00:00
Oof. Some of those seemed reasonable at first. Ex: CloakHQ's comment on Compaq/DEC...

....until you start scrolling down the page and it becomes screamingly obvious that everything it says comes from the same template.

Maybe the problem isn't just that AI produces gobs of useless crap. Maybe what's worse is that it can produce even more mediocre crap that crowds out the good?

All oatmeal, no steak, leads to "starvation" by poor nutrition.
by mog_dev | 2026-03-09 08:18:28+00:00
I built Collider, A wrap-based package and dependency manager for Meson.

I needed a way to use and push my own artifacts in Meson projects. WrapDB is fine for upstream deps, but I wanted to publish my packages and depend on them with proper versioning and a lockfile, without hand-editing wrap files.

Collider builds on Meson’s wrap system: you declare deps in collider.json, run collider lock for reproducible installs, and push your projects as wraps to a local or HTTP repo. It’s compatible with WrapDB, so existing workflows still work: you just get a clear way to use and push your own stuff. Apache-2.0.

https://collider.ee
by Intermernet | 2026-03-09 08:18:57+00:00
There was no urgency in the invasion of Iran. It was done partly because Israel wanted it, and partly as a convenient distraction. Nothing material had changed from the last decade. The US embassy was given instructions to get people out of Israel the day before it happened, and anyone who was paying attention knew exactly what that meant.

Everything that is happening now was publicly predicted and modelled at least a decade ago. Look at Shimon Peres's continual warnings to the world regarding Netanyahu. This was expected and shouldn't be regarded as something novel. Just something abhorrent.
by aj | 2026-03-09 08:19:14+00:00
I built FinSight because I wanted to analyze my spends, inflow and outflow. But I did not want to upload a statement to a cloud LLM for data privacy.

Finsight provides LLM-assisted transaction categorization without uploading bank or credit card statements to a 3rd Party service.

Architecture: PDF parsing client-side via pdfjs-dist, AI inference via local Ollama/LM Studio API, storage in localStorage/sessionStorage via Zustand. No backend (yet)

A few things I found technically interesting:

1. Context window management is the main challenge with long statements.
I'm handling it by chunking transactions and doing a second pass
aggregation. It works but it's the messiest part of the codebase —
would genuinely value feedback on better approaches.

2. 1B parameter models are sufficient for parsing. 7B models give
meaningfully better categorization accuracy. The main constraint
isn't model capability — it's context window length with large statements and speed.
3. Personally, Qwen 3 gave me the best results but was the slowest in processing a large file. Gpt-oss-20b was faster but the categorization wasn’t as good. Speed is of course, hardware dependent.

3. PDF statement formats vary enormously between banks. LLM-based extraction handles this variation better than any regex approach I’ve tried.

Caveats: setup requires Ollama or LM Studio plus a model download,
which is 20-30 minutes on a fresh machine.

Installation & Demo Video - https://youtu.be/VGUWBQ5t5dc

GitHub - https://github.com/AJ/FinSight?utm_source=hackernews&utm_med...

MIT licensed.
by ycosynot | 2026-03-09 08:19:37+00:00
Nobody will read this and the game is not ready, BUT maybe one of you can check it out and tell me what you think. It is called ZAEL. It is a mage arena web app (smartphone/Desktop), played from 1 to 4 players, no login, easy to share a link to invite people into your game, whatever the platform. It is no install, no bullshit. Just click and play

https://www.zael.app

I have found out that it is very efficient to use phaser.js/three.js for fast, vibe coding, because it handles everything without having to setup a unity scene manually or unreal blueprint. I really recommend to make web apps instead for vibe coding. I love how easy it goes.
by didmar8312 | 2026-03-09 08:19:49+00:00
Building ConvoLens [1] - app to explore the content of video interviews from YouTube channels I like (such as Dwarkesh Patel's): research by keyword, RAG, visualization of discussed topics with a 2D projection, semantic graph, and the possibility to generate a new video or audio from a playlist of video segments.

Supports only YouTube as the data source, and Gemini 3.1 Flash Lite for processing, but it can easily be tweaked. Runs locally with Docker compose.

[1] https://github.com/didmar/convolens
by blell | 2026-03-09 08:20:01+00:00
That list of ingredients is awful.

“Red jalapeno, sugar, water, salt acetic acid, garlic, natural flavor, xanthan gum, sodium metabisulfite, and/or sodium bisulfite (sulfiting agent / preservative), potassium sorbate (preservative).”

I’ve had sriracha in the past and it’s disgustingly sweet. Apparently it’s 17% sugar!
by hansmayer | 2026-03-09 08:20:04+00:00
> It’s only slop of you don’t understand the code, prompt, and result, and skip code reviews. You can have large productivity gains without reducing quality standards.

So essentially like delegating all work to a beginner programmer only 10x more frustrating? Well, that's not what I would classify under "Pocket PhD" or "Nation of PhDs in a datacenter", which is the bullshit propaganda the AI CEOs are relentlessly pushing. We should not have to figure this out for them - they were saying this will write ALL code in 6 months from "now", the last time "now" being January 2026, so in little over 4.5 months. No, we should not be fixing this mess, f*k understanding the prompts and doing the code reviews of the AI slop. Why does it not work as advertised?
by Agente2026 | 2026-03-09 08:20:08+00:00
I’ve been building a deterministic agent system in TypeScript with the explicit goal of making agent behavior auditable, reproducible and bounded — something that most agent frameworks currently ignore or treat as optional.

Key properties:
• Bounded tool loops with fixpoint convergence or max_iterations
• Deterministic planners (det-tools, mock, llm-live stub/real-path)
• Reproducibility via plan/execution/finalTrace hashes + replay bundle v2
• Surfaced violations instead of silent failures
• Capability-driven tool selection (latest addition)
• HTTP API (/agent/run, /tools, /capabilities) with negative test coverage
• One-command demos (npm run demo:agent:llm-live:real, etc.)

It’s still early (v0.2.0, 165 commits in ~12 days), no LLM live full yet, no npm package, but the bounded/replay/determinism core is already verifiable via tests and demos.

Repo: https://github.com/crasofuentes-hub/deterministic-agent-syst...

Would love feedback from people working on reproducible agents, AI safety evals, or enterprise workflows where non-determinism is a real problem.

Thanks!
by byteface | 2026-03-09 08:21:34+00:00
It's not lonliness, it's solitude. Time to find yourself and your creativity again.

You were codependant and need to learn how to be independant again. Living for you, just for yourself. You've spent most of your life living for others. Now it's time for you.

Try not to drink alcohol. Focus on your physical health. Gym/tennis/saunas/running/golf any physical activities you can.
by throw7384748r | 2026-03-09 08:21:57+00:00
How many people here complaining about consent, would defend dog owners who do not respect it?

By walking on streets, parks or any other public place, you give implicit consent to:

* having your face licked by poop eating animal

* having your clothes ripped, your skin scratched by dirty nails

* not resisting while animal tries to rape your leg

* having any body part including genitals sniffed

* not to be scared or else

* pretend you like it, or else

* not to run away or else

and of course, we are not responsible for any damages, including hospital bills, or plastic surgery.
by alonethrowaway | 2026-03-09 08:23:11+00:00
My advice is find a fairly priced coworking facility in your area and join that. Even better if it is a maker space also. Or just join the maker space. Its not good to work at home AND be alone all the time, if you're not the kind of person that likes that.
If for some reason you don't have coworking places, you can often find cheap offices in business parks on a month to month plan, but it will require some luck or some work to make friends with people in that environment.
Theres tons of good but random advice that could work, but the above I think would be a very small change to your life but also put you around tons of people.
Goodluck. Keep in mind that there are also countless people that would love to be in your situation, although I dont know if that helps you.
by nhatcher | 2026-03-09 08:24:12+00:00
Well, I just jumped full time on IronCalc[1] a fully open source, light and fast spreadsheet engine designed and build from the ground up.

I have been working on it as side project for over two years and now, with funding from the EU for the next 2.5 years, I hope I can make of it a real product for everyone to use that can compete with the likes of Excel and Googl;e Sheets.

I can oly say, I am overly, off the Moon excited

[1]: https://www.ironcalc.com
by heyyeah | 2026-03-09 08:24:28+00:00
Mostly art projects:

- VR version of Surface Browser (3d internet browser): https://boxc.net/surfacebrowser.html

- Crowd Strike: faster self-driving: an exhibition where the visitors help autonomous drones target a different visitor each minute with lasers

and also Wingman: a dating app secretary (privacy focus, runs locally on your computer for any dating app that has a web site. It tells you if favourites have messaged you): https://boxc.net/wingman_app.png I'll open source this one if interest.
Show HN: Sylix – An Other Way of Building Software (Beta)
by Sai-09 | 2026-03-09 08:25:33+00:00
Hey HN,

Honest truth — we were frustrated.

We're 5 second-year college students. No funding. No startup pedigree. Got rejected from our college incubator. Didn't even know what problem we were actually solving at first.

So we stopped theorizing and walked into classrooms. No pitch deck. No hype. Just — "try it, tell us what sucks." One week. 100+ IT students signed up. Zero ads. Pure word of mouth. Servers started choking. Bills spiking. Users talking about us like we're a billion-dollar tool. We kept building anyway. We're a tiny college squad with no safety net.

Sylix is an autonomous multi micro agent system that turns your text prompt into production ready software. Not autocomplete. Not a chatbot in a sidebar. You describe what you want — 16 agents and 8 subagents move. 150 prebuilt skills fire. Code gets planned, built, validated, shipped. You just decide what's next.

What's under the hood? We're not ready to explain all of it yet. But it's ready enough to show.

We're in beta. It's rough. Things break. We're fixing in real time. But keeping it private felt wrong.

Your code never leaves your machine. 100% local. And yeah — we've really enjoyed building this and are genuinely excited to see where it goes.

Well now I guess we wouldn't — have a break, have a _____.

So we figured it's the right time to tell you guys . So We're in the comments. Break it.
by ForgeCommandApp | 2026-03-09 08:26:01+00:00
The implications for B2B contracts are significant here. In construction, for example, subcontractor agreements often reference separate terms documents that get updated independently. If email notice plus continued use constitutes acceptance, it changes the calculus for how companies manage contract amendments across multi-party project teams. The practical challenge is that on a large project you might have 50+ subcontractors who all need to actively acknowledge revised terms, and this ruling suggests passive acknowledgment through continued use may suffice.
by alonethrowaway | 2026-03-09 08:26:05+00:00
I like being alone. I'm good at being alone. I was an only child, often left alone , and I have lived alone (although dated a lot) for 20 years.
But if you put me in OPs situation, it would easily be tough. Working from home, living alone, totally lost your social circle possibly, AND sad over a recent breakup probably. Thats a prime recipe for problems even for people that do enjoy being alone for the most part.
by Imustaskforhelp | 2026-03-09 08:26:13+00:00
In India, we have pots called matkas which are still used and honestly from health perspectives, They are still preferred over fridges generally speaking. This is generally for water but can be used for dairy products/other drinks as well

They aren't like chilled completely in the sense of fridges/ice though but they keep water pretty cool.

had to search it up and ancient sites show that pots have been around for 10 thousand years to 7 thousands years as far as I can see.

I am sure that western civilization must also have this concept?
by kkarpkkarp | 2026-03-09 08:26:20+00:00
NotifyButton - A simple script on the frontend of your site, a complete SaaS platform on the backend for DSA compliance.

If you operate in the EU and want to avoid heavy fines, this is for you. Once integrated, it allows users to report legal content issues directly to you, which you can then manage via a dedicated dashboard following official EU procedures. Without such a system, users are much more likely to file complaints through official state or EU channels, which can trigger investigations.

https://notifybutton.com/