MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by dwoldrich | 2026-03-02 23:43:08+00:00
Fearmongers are enriched by the many kinds of issues OP is raising.

It's not willful ignorance to notice urban heat islands and point surface temperature measurements are insufficient for measuring atmospheric temperatures.

It's not willful ignorance to observe the sun, our _variable_ dominant energy source, impossible to predict, is glossed over or averaged out in the models. There are huge inputs to the system (volcanoes, cosmic radiation, plant stoma regulating for heat) that TheScience goes wall-eyed over until finally admitting they were huge unaccounted-for inputs.

It's not willful ignorance to observe there have been multiple evolving, competing software models. All of them predicting the same thing - global warming. It's sus that we had a newspeak switcheroo to "climate change" when "global warming" didn't explain cooling trends - and yet the models doggedly predict warming.

It's not willful ignorance to notice unscientific grifters like Al Gore scaring the shit out of people and setting himself up for the mega-grift, carbon credits. Al Gore is RICH!

It's not willful ignorance to observe the science is not repeatable. Climate science is big money scientism and not scientific at all.

So, spare me your shame game identity politics. The culture is spring loaded to cancel heretics and trust TheScience - which doesn't seem like a very joyous way to comport onesself.

I don't need to prove anything to you. The world is waking up and moving on from the grift, so unclench and enjoy.
by palata | 2026-03-02 23:43:21+00:00
> At my age, I’m not looking for my phone to become a hobby.

I have been trying Linux on mobile. This is a hobby.

I have been using GrapheneOS... honestly it's just like a normal Android after two steps:

1. Install GrapheneOS (their installer is incredibly good, it just works).

2. From the GrapheneOS store, install the Play Store (it's like 3 taps).

After that it's a normal Android, except it's more secure and you get updates (meaning that you are on the latest version of Android, always).
by nagaiaida | 2026-03-02 23:44:33+00:00
and if i directly do an mmap syscall on linux from a freestanding forth that doesn't go through libc for anything? sure, c unfortunately defines how i have say, pass a string, but that's effectively an arbitrary calling convention at that point; there's no c runtime on the calling side so it's not particularly useful to contend that what i'm using is a c api.

or perhaps mmap is incontrovertibly a c function on platforms where libc wrappers are the sole stable interface to the kernel but something else entirely on linux?
by impossiblefork | 2026-03-02 23:44:35+00:00
While it may be legal for an individual to film something, it is certainly not permissible to process video data of this sort at scale.

I don't agree that responsibility to comply with Swedish law is on the wearer. This should motivate prosecutors to immediately order raids to secure any data relating to the processing of the data.

I also think the Swedish camera surveillance law is also applicable and there's a deceptive element since the cameras are disguised as glasses.
by rgeers | 2026-03-02 23:44:53+00:00
There's nuance between wanting to build something people use regularly vs "chasing engagement". Even if he decides to run this as a non-profit, individuals are more likely to donate to something they use regularly and institutions are more likely to fund something with active usage. I would assume that the costs to make all these LLM-API costs are not insignificant. I agree with the previous comment that the policy is the differentiator though and hopefully there's a way to drive usage without devolving into a just another news aggregator.
Show HN: BridgeBase – one control plane for TigerBeetle,Redis,MySQL,ClickHouse
by amustaque97 | 2026-03-02 23:44:57+00:00
Hi HN,

We built this because we got tired of becoming accidental platform engineers.

Multi-database stacks are the default now, but the operational overhead is brutal. We wanted one auth layer, one dashboard, and one way to provision and monitor everything.

Live now: `Redis` + `TigerBeetle` (weird combo, but that’s what our beta users needed).

Next up:
- `MySQL`
- `ClickHouse`
- `Postgres` + `PostGIS`
- `VectorDB`

SDK-first approach. `Node` and `Python` ready.

npm:
<https://www.npmjs.com/search?q=%40bridgebase>

PyPI:
<https://pypi.org/project/bridgebase/>

Would love feedback from anyone running multi-database workloads in production.

What’s the biggest pain point we missed?
by keernan | 2026-03-02 23:44:59+00:00
True, but SCOTUS is not required to grant Cert even if a circuit split develops. They may feel the issue needs more time to "mature".

e.g. They may want more cases heard in the lower courts to provide them with a better 'flavor' regarding the nature of legal arguments being made; or more time for a rapidly changing business/social development to evolve and greater clarity emerges.
by cf100clunk | 2026-03-02 23:45:07+00:00
On further reading, the northeast of British Columbia is actually on permanent Mountain Standard Time, as seen here:

https://www.timeanddate.com/time/zone/canada/chetwynd

Parts of the Columbia-Kootenays change between Mountain Standard and Mountain Daylight time:

https://www.timeanddate.com/time/zone/canada/cranbrook

while the Town Of Creston is permanently on Mountain Standard Time.
by nomel | 2026-03-02 23:45:11+00:00
The most appliance thing about it is continued updates for and switching to a new device.

If you stick with Samsung, the issues I've had probably go away.

> gesture UI is finger-breakingly inconsistent

I'm not familiar with this, at all. The app switching is actually my favorite feature about iPhone. So easy to flip between two apps. I don't use a case, so maybe that's related.
by raw_anon_1111 | 2026-03-02 23:45:25+00:00
So you don’t understand why someone who doesn’t need a computer most of the time might rather have an iPad?

Besides, you can’t get a MacBook with cellular and you can’t download movies to use offline with most streaming services on a Mac since most of them don’t have Mac apps.

We travel a lot. Even I take my laptop + iPad + external USB powered/USB video display that works with one USB cable. Most of the time I just use my external display. But I can use my iPad as a third display.

I really use my personal laptop for nothing. I left it at home while we are spending a month and a half in another country. When I get off work, I don’t think about using my computer for anything - I don’t do side projects and haven’t for 30 years.
by al_borland | 2026-03-02 23:45:43+00:00
Any time I think about doing this, I remind myself of the news story[0] about the iPad Pro + Magic Keyboard being heavier than a MacBook Air. I believe it was thicker as well.

I’m not sure if it’s still the case, as they trimmed down the iPad Pro quite a bit, but I don’t think the iPad is that much of a boon for travel. For the size and weight, it seems moot. I’d rather have the keyboard and trackpad of a proper MacBook, full macOS, and a system that won’t fall apart. The last time I took an iPad on a plane, the person in front of me reclined, hit the iPad, and it flew off the magnetic keyboard and I had to fish around for it on the floor. Thankfully it didn’t break.

[0] https://www.theverge.com/2020/4/20/21227741/apple-ipad-pro-m...
by jauntywundrkind | 2026-03-02 23:45:51+00:00
I don't think Commotion Wireless / Internet in a Suitcase was necessarily the "right" way to go, but I do think that states (like the US) ought to have been working on deployable active pro-Democracy pro-speech systems, that we could get to people in a hurry. We could have been building systems that help spread values of speech & perhaps democracy. Instead, we are dropping missiles and bombs that cost hundreds of thousands / millions, onto old F-4's and crappy drones.

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

We should be able to actually help people. The weapons of war should be just one arrow in the quiver of the arsenal of democracy.
by ajb | 2026-03-02 23:46:02+00:00
It wasn't so long ago that doctors assumed that it would be better for the family if babies like this died quickly - and quietly helped them off. I had a cousin with spina bifida, who only lived because her own mother was a doctor and prevented this outcome. My cousin got to live to adulthood and enjoy life, but still died early because of an infection; likely a consequence of the physical impairments of this condition. It's amazing to see hope for a complete cure.
by jmyeet | 2026-03-02 23:46:08+00:00
I agree with most of this. You can learn Go syntax in an afternoon. Idiomatic Go takes a little longer but it just doesn't have the complexity footguns C++ does. But you can shoot yourself in the foot somewhat in Go. I'm talking about buffered channels, which are a mistake most of the time and a premature optimization almost all of the time, and you can explode your program with goroutines. But honestly it's not bad.

Python is an interesting one because it's not always obvious the program is wrong or will fail, thanks to dynamic typing.

But another problem is the Python philosophy since 3.0. Where once backwards compatibility was treated as almost sacrosanct, 3.0+ does not. 2.7 persisted for so long for this reason. But minor releases in 3.x make breaking changes and it's wild to me.

I just wish Go had cooperative async/await rather than channels because (IMHO) cooperative async/await is a vastly superior abstraction to unbuffered channels in particular.
by dwaltrip | 2026-03-02 23:46:30+00:00
Next level:

Have the LLMs generate tests that measure the “ease of use” and “effectiveness” of coding agents using the language.

Then have them use these tests to get data for their language design process.

They should also smoke test their own “meta process” here. E.g. Write a toy language that should be obviously much worse for LLMs, and then verify that the effectiveness tests produce a result agreeing with that.

I await the blog post :)
by MarcelOlsz | 2026-03-02 23:46:31+00:00
VR most definitely solves a real problem, but the issue with VR is the absolute setup complexity to get it performing 'correctly'. I spent 3 years tweaking mine and writing OpenXR layers to get it functioning how I wanted it to in iRacing. It's nearly a full-time job. VR right now is like if you went to buy eggs but instead of eggs they're grenades and opening the box pulled all the pins. Out of the box experience is beyond dog shit and impossible for casual users, leaving a very small avenue for VR enjoyment for regulars (PSVR and the like). I cannot think of a technology more diametric to 'plug n play' than VR, which is very unfortunate.
by AnthonyMouse | 2026-03-02 23:46:47+00:00
People have been saying that because it's such an outrageous dichotomy, but it's also not really what happened in those cases.

To begin with Epic picked a disadvantageous test case because mobile is only ~6% of Fortnite with the large majority on PCs and consoles. So when Apple banned it on iOS, most of the iOS users just bought their Fortnite stuff on their PCs and consoles instead and Apple could say "see? not a monopoly" which got them a market definition that included Google Play. The market definition is about the single most important thing in antitrust cases.

But it wasn't really Google Play that people were switching to after Apple banned them and that could turn out a lot different for apps primarily used on mobile rather than trying to go after a mobile company over an app primarily used on consoles. That was the main reason Epic lost against Apple -- Epic had an app where people would actually switch to something other than iOS and Apple had enough evidence of that to convince the judge.

In principle that could have been the case for Google too, but they got a different judge, and a jury trial instead of having the judge decide the facts, a correspondingly different market definition, and then it went the other way.

What confuses people is that Google partially got in trouble for things like forcing third party OEMs to install Google Play on the home screen of their Android devices, which is not a good look, whereas Apple isn't forcing third party OEMs to do anything because they don't have any third party OEMs. But the thing they got in trouble for wasn't having third party OEMs, it was strongarming them, which is obviously not the same thing.

And -- this is probably the most important part -- locking down the device isn't what gets you out of a market definition of "aftermarket for customers of that OS". It was more that Apple presented evidence that customers would actually switch to alternatives specifically in the case of Fortnite and their judge bought that but a jury in a different case didn't.

If anything the lesson for Google here should be to not strongarm third parties, because that's plausibly what pissed off the jury. And I'd be interested to see a case against Apple where the plaintiff is doing >70% of their business with iOS users instead of a single digit percentage, i.e. the ones where they actually have market power, though of course you then have the irony that those are the ones most afraid to bring the case.
by jasomill | 2026-03-02 23:47:12+00:00
Reminds me of how, whenever I see a comment on an Internet forum where someone writes "u" and "ur" for "you" and "you are", I naturally read it phonetically as "ooh" and "urr", and it sounds a bit like the style of language traditionally used in fiction to represent the primitive speech of cavepeople, and I imagine the author typing the comment using the numeric pad on a turn-of-the-century Nokia candybar phone (though even those had autocomplete).

And never forget the fabled alot:

https://hyperboleandahalf.blogspot.com/2010/04/alot-is-bette...
by deltaops | 2026-03-02 23:47:23+00:00
Cool approach on token efficiency! We're building DeltaOps (delta-ops-mvp.vercel.app) - governance for AI agents. While you solve the "browser tokens" problem, we solve the "what can agents do in production" problem. Human-in-the-loop approvals before agents can merge code or spend money. Would love to connect - seems like complementary tools for agent infrastructure!
by worksonmine | 2026-03-02 23:47:42+00:00
Mine (really cheap G05) has it on the power button, much better than the back where it used to be on older models. Motorola have been innovative with the UX. It lights up when I pick it up, shake twice to toggle flashlight (extremely useful when looking for dog poop) and so on. Only brand I've considered for about a decade.
by parl_match | 2026-03-02 23:49:02+00:00
For people who live in remote areas, Starlink has been very helpful. Hiking and outdoor activities, much less so.

For what it's worth, we're probably a few years off from ubiquitous availability of cheap, sat-based cellphone data. In fact, my iPhone has free sat-based texting right now.

Although also, I really don't enjoy that crucial safety services such as weather data are being discontinued. And I actually really don't enjoy the premise that I'll be able to be reached anywhere in the world, even the remote wilderness.
by iwontberude | 2026-03-02 23:50:37+00:00
I don’t know I think Apple should be able to keep COW filesystems for every user to apply atop a read only file system. Unique apps, unique settings (maybe unify tv settings into admin panel) and no cross-contamination or need for app owners to switch profiles. macOS software doesn’t need explicit understanding of profile switching, neither should iPadOS software.
by ckrapu | 2026-03-02 23:50:39+00:00
My point is not that oil fails to generate revenue. Clearly it is a lucrative business. Instead, my claim is that the state economy was remarkably robust, productive, healthy, and well-optimized for middle class quality of life pre-2007.

Does it sound surprising to you that it was perfectly normal to rent a perfect acceptable two bedroom apartment in a safe town on the interstate for $300 a month and still easily find dignified, decent paying jobs without 1000 applications?

I've lived in many cities and work in tech now, and I can confidently say that, as it concerns the professions and jobs that unambiguously sustain and improve life, no community on the planet was more productive than my home state. There is more to the story than some shale.
Show HN: OmniGlass – Executable AI screen snips with kernel-level sandboxing
by goshtasb | 2026-03-02 23:51:00+00:00
I kept running into the same annoying friction with Claude Desktop and Cursor: I’d snip a Python traceback, the AI would tell me to "run pip install pandas," and then I’d sit there and type it out myself. If the AI clearly knows the fix, why am I doing the typing?

So I built OmniGlass.

The UX is simple: You draw a box on your screen, local OCR extracts the text, and an LLM classifies what you're looking at. But instead of generating a chat response, it gives you an action menu.

The core difference from Claude Desktop isn't the AI—it’s what happens after the AI thinks. Claude reads your screen and writes you a paragraph. OmniGlass reads your screen and runs the command.

What it does today:

Snip a traceback → Generates the fix command, you confirm, it runs.

Snip a data table → Opens a native save dialog and spits out a clean CSV.

Snip a Slack bug report → Drafts a GitHub issue with all the context filled in.

Menu bar input → Type plain English, and it triggers the appropriate command.

The security elephant in the room (Why I built this):
Nobody is really talking about the security risks of MCP plugins yet. Claude Desktop runs them with your full user permissions. A rogue plugin—or a clever prompt injection—can just read your SSH keys, scrape your .env files, and ship them off.

To fix this, OmniGlass sandboxes every plugin at the macOS kernel level using sandbox-exec. Your /Users/ directory is completely walled off. Environment variables are aggressively filtered. Shell commands strictly require your manual confirmation before executing. I wanted to be able to run community plugins without sweating about what they can access.

The Stack:

Frontend/Backend: Tauri (Rust + TypeScript)

Vision: Apple Vision OCR (local)

Plugin System: MCP over stdio

Models: Works with Claude Haiku, Gemini Flash, or fully local via llama.cpp using Qwen-2.5 (takes ~6s end-to-end, nothing leaves your machine).

Current Status:
I just shipped our second working plugin (a Slack Webhook) to run alongside the GitHub Issues plugin. It's two real-world plugins proving the architecture actually works, not just a boilerplate template and a promise. Both are under 250 lines of code.

Where I'd love your help:

Break the sandbox. Seriously. If you can figure out a way to read ~/.ssh/id_rsa from a plugin, that is a critical bug and I want to know about it.

Build a plugin. There are 8 open issues in the repo right now with full MCP schemas, manifests, and implementation hints. Most take less than 100 lines.

Port to Windows/Linux. The Windows build compiles in CI but hasn't been tested on real metal. Linux needs Tesseract + Bubblewrap to replace the Apple OCR and sandbox.

Requires macOS 12+ right now. Fully open source (MIT).

Would love to hear your thoughts or answer any questions about the sandboxing setup!
by lamontcg | 2026-03-02 23:51:08+00:00
This is Meta claiming in their internal communications that they plan on doing it while people are distracted with other concerns.

It isn't really "rhetoric", they're talking like they believe this actually happens, this is strategy.

And I tend to agree with them that things like attention and political capital are ultimately finite resources.

I've found that the "we can do two things" and "we can walk and chew bubblegum" line of argument to be simplistic and just wrong (and pretty incredibly patronizing). I think the world works exactly the way Meta thinks that it does here.

It might blow up and turn into a Streisand effect, but more often than not this kind of strategy works.

Much like how people think they can multitask and talk on the phone and drive at the same time and every scientific measure of it shows that they really can't.
by spaghetdefects | 2026-03-02 23:51:36+00:00
Brainwashed? No I just don't want my government blackmailed by pedophilia so that my tax dollars are used to commit genocide all in the name of Jewish supremacy. It's incredible that Zionists think people can't see reality for themselves. I guess you guys got used to the boomers eating it hook, line and sinker. People who haven't been raised on mainstream media will never accept such blatant lies and gaslighting.
by al_borland | 2026-03-02 23:51:41+00:00
That’s their goal (or it used to be). When the iPad was first released the idea was that the iPad would be all 80% of people needed.

The metaphor of cars vs trucks was used. For heavy duty work, trucks (Macs) will always be around. For everyone else, a car (iPad) will do just fine.

When the iPad nano was released they killed off the best selling iPad, the mini. Their statement on this was that they want to be the one to cannibalize their own products. If they don’t do it someone else will. Look at the iPhone, it made the iPod obsolete. Had they missed the boat on smartphones like Microsoft, they’d be screwed, as the iPod was half the business. Instead, they make way more on iPhones than they ever did on iPods. iPhone replaced the iPod sales and then some.
by kayson | 2026-03-02 23:52:27+00:00
There was a similar (in spirit) project to upscale and resample Avatar the Last Airbender [1] because the original DVD release was so awful. Shortly after, Nickolodeon released a blu-ray boxed set that was quite a bit better than the DVDs, but it still had some issues. Doesn't seem anyone has decided to upscale it again [2].

1: https://www.reddit.com/r/TheLastAirbender/comments/5hv4en/no...

2: https://github.com/brucethemoose/AvatarUpscale
by GuB-42 | 2026-03-02 23:52:47+00:00
About 50% of people want permanent standard time, 50% want permanent DST, 50% want to keep time changes. Doesn't add up? That's the point.

Everyone finds arguments that suits them. Some will quote "sleep experts", others will mention economic reasons, others will talk about road safety, each one with studies proving their point, peer-reviewed for the most sophisticated.

My take is that we are all different, and whatever you choose, some people will be better off, others will be worse off. There is a high chance that that variety is an evolutionary advantage, at least it was for our ancestors, as a group where everyone is sleeping at the same time is more vulnerable. Not great for office hours though.
by seertaak | 2026-03-02 23:53:11+00:00
The whole point is that this fits on an ESP32, which has wifi. We're not quite at the point where it makes sense to run the whole thing locally - if you do try it, it will need a fan, and be loud etc.

For my part, I installed Nanoclaw on my Arch derived OS (I love Arch!), and it worked fine until the next day some update decided to revert the power management settings, and now my glorious assistant is dead.

There's something to be said for a barebones OS. No bullshit, no updates.

Also, playing with hardware watchdog timers and GPIOs and DACs can be so much fun.
by mayowaxcvi | 2026-03-02 23:53:31+00:00
My concern was whether the glasses might record or transmit data while switched off or in standby mode.
From what I can tell, they don’t do this intentionally. So the risk is broadly similar to other modern electronic devices.

The creepiness concern is real, but I think people misplace where the actual surveillance happens. The most consequential stores of personal data aren’t ad networks they’re things like banks, hospitals, insurers, and telecoms. These institutions hold information about your health, finances, movements, and relationships, indexed and searchable by employees you’ve never met, governed by policies you’ve never read.

Realistically, there’s very little an individual can do to completely opt out.

My take is: if the main outcomes are that I get shown ads for things I don’t need and my facecomputer knows the difference between a fork and a spoon… I… I can live with that.