MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by chrisshroba | 2026-03-13 15:52:55+00:00
Sometimes your system doesn’t have a graphical session, like a raspberry pi with no x server running, or a cloud compute instance I’m ssh’ed into, or a docker image running on my laptop. Sometimes your system doesn’t have a (particularly usable) text system, like a work computer that disables the terminal or a family member’s MacBook who doesn’t have the time or space to install XCode terminal utilities to be able to use things like brew install.

My point is that it’s not a given that having one means you have the other.

TUIs are wonderful for the first case.
by agavava | 2026-03-13 15:53:27+00:00
Are you handling the promotion yourself? It's just that if I ran into a situation like that, I'd probably ask the specialists who handle my business's promotion. In this regard, it's super important to choose the right specialists and SEO agency. I have a pretty difficult case, since we work in a super competitive niche, and services like https://naturallinks.net/services/pbn-building-services/ are relevant for us. Not everyone provides them, as it turns out. And obviously, since I'm going for such a serious service, I'm counting on quality feedback. Overall, I get it without any issues.
by Yizahi | 2026-03-13 15:53:31+00:00
"Primary" is fundamentally anti-democratic concept. It basically says that we, oligarchs, will pick whoever we want and you, plebes, will vote for him. Just like the first past the post system, where two oligarch's candidates are having a nice little internal contest, is anti-democratic. Until that is fixed, no amount of pleading and rationalizations will help "fix oligarchy".
by useftmly | 2026-03-13 15:53:35+00:00
That's fair. Any heuristic will break on some images.
In practice the goal is usually just to avoid the obvious bad results (like white backgrounds in product photos), not to find the perfect color.
Even simple things like ignoring near-white/near-black pixels or preferring more saturated colors already improve the result a lot compared to the 1×1 trick.
by steve_adams_86 | 2026-03-13 15:53:58+00:00
I did a couple dozen and wound up with a success rate of 90%. That's less than I hoped. That means I'm likely missing even more slop when I'm not keyed into searching for it, with two options to choose from.

I know I've been finding it all over the internet, but this suggests to me I'm encountering it more than I thought.
by julianrubisch | 2026-03-13 15:54:44+00:00
I needed a personal CRM for my consulting work — just contacts, deals, and follow-ups. Built it with Rails 8 and Avo, backed entirely by SQLite (Solid Cache, Solid Queue, Solid Cable).

The interesting part is where it runs. Rails 8's Solid stack makes the whole app a single process with one database file, which means it fits on a Synology NAS. Docker container, Tailscale for access, HyperBackup and Btrfs snapshots for backups.

The post covers the non-obvious parts: Synology's SSH PATH problem with non-interactive sessions, Docker UID/permission gotchas, how Thruster's port mapping works in a non-root container, and running a local Docker registry so images stay on your network.
by tracker1 | 2026-03-13 15:54:48+00:00
It makes far more sense in the context of effectively a remote session or dumb terminal serial connection. Your "terminal" application is only emulating a text mode environment inside a gui, typically... you can ctrl+alt+F2 - F5 in a lot of Liknux's to switch to a terminal session if you want, but that's not what people tend to actually use.

Beyond this, without remote X properly configured, again, most don't and probably shouldn't.. you aren't running remote gui applications over an SSH session. Richer TUIs were pretty common in ye old days of DOS and other OSes before rich GUIs become the norm. DOSShell, Edit.com, etc. The IDEs of days past and Word Perfect even. These all interacted with Mice and were considered the norm. The features that allow this over a remote terminal today are pretty great IMO, the harder part is properly handling window sizes/resizes, etc.

With graphical extensions, there are even nice app explorers with image previews via TUI. It pushes the boundaries. For that matter, I often wonder what could have come with RIPscrip/RIPTerm if the leap to web didn't happen the way it did...

I think the single hardest part of TUI is dealing with wide characters and secondary fonts for color emojii that don't quite render in 2 spaces completely in a lot of termianls... it makes the line drawing harder too.
by ndriscoll | 2026-03-13 15:54:56+00:00
They're separate concepts. Clearly, obviously, mandating OS controls is creating liability for OS providers, not service operators. Other states do liability for providers without mandating some other party get involved.

California is also stupid for creating liability for service/app providers that don't even deal in age restricted apps, like calculators or maps. It's playing right into the "this affects the whole Internet/all of computing" narrative when in fact it's really a small set of businesses that are causing issues and should be subject to regulation.
by petaleverbloom | 2026-03-13 15:55:08+00:00
Full disclosure, it's a review I've put together. I was really surprised that despite the laptop being bigger, the Neo seems to hit a ceiling at about 5 watts, even when running Cyberpunk 2077. The powermetrics weren't showing the consumption form the DRAM package so it might be the actual ceiling is 6 watts and the 4.5-4.7 is that budget sans DRAM power, but given the numbers I think this might be one of the most efficient laptops on the market
by Fnoord | 2026-03-13 15:55:46+00:00
That's the thing. It wasn't me. Someone in the scene received it from original artist, and he put it on minidisc, this was end 90s. Those who appreciate the genre, love these hidden gems, but it is only available as lossy due to minidisc (and MP3). Back then, FLAC did not yet exist, but CD did. Regarding MP3, codecs (including LAME) improved a lot over the years. The overal quality of the LAME presets, nowadays (and this has been tge way for more tgan a decade), is good enough compared to lossless, something double blind tests confirm.

In this case, I believe you are right: I don't think the data would've survived without minidisc. But in other circumstances where the user did not know minidisc is lossy?

In the end, a lot of these hidden gems have been (re)released because lost tapes (and, I suppose, HDDs) were found which is neat.
by swed420 | 2026-03-13 15:56:12+00:00
> There might be a good reason why smart people want to avoid looking stupid. I’ve spent a long time thinking about what this reason could be. The only plausible explanation is that our egos are fragile, and by not sharing any work at all, we never have to risk our egos being damaged. If we never share anything, then nothing bad can ever happen to us. But the flip side to protecting our egos is that we never end up making anything worthwhile.

This seems oversimplified, since there's a second, unmentioned possibility that somebody doesn't share an idea:

In a capitalist society, people sense there could be monetary potential with their idea, so they sit on it quietly (often never getting around to developing it, etc).

This fear has been amplified in recent years with AI vacuuming up everybody's intellectual property with zero reward. Can't really blame people for doing nothing in such conditions.

And for the commenters complaining about "low/high trust societies," they ought to consider factoring the above into their definition.
by GrumpyYoungMan | 2026-03-13 15:56:13+00:00
> "FPGAs reconfigured during program execution to speed up hot paths"

The IEEE conference on Field-Programmable Custom Computing Machines (https://www.fccm.org/) is in its 34th year, to give you an idea of how old that idea is. The answer to your question is both 1 and 2 and also 3. that FPGAs have rather poor efficiency, both in terms of cost and performance, so it's not worthwhile outside of a few niches.
by a24venka | 2026-03-13 15:56:25+00:00
Great framing. You're right that context fragility is a big part of it. The canvas helps because each block maintains its own context explicitly, and connected blocks pass context between blocks without polluting the agents' context windows.

On conflict resolution, the synthesizer block can see all upstream outputs, so it has full visibility into any divergence. It does surface contradictions to the user, though this is something we're constantly improving.
by behrlich | 2026-03-13 15:56:25+00:00
I've been working on a similar idea to the "claws" but rather than integrating with messaging apps, just make the TUI available e2e encrypted where-ever you are. https://wingthing.ai/ / https://github.com/ehrlich-b/wingthing

I've been thinking about how docker support would work, so I'll check this out!
by torgoguys | 2026-03-13 15:56:30+00:00
Yes, exactly this. I'm using a 10 year old elitebook folio g1. It's about 2 pounds and does what I need it to do. Available with a 4k screen if that's your thing. Does not feel sluggish. Given that I'm not gaming, video editing, or doing local LLMs (and I think there is a big chunk of the population in that camp), I feel like I am missing out on nearly zero.

(And I'm not trying to say anything is special about the laptop I'm using. I adore using trackpoint (so much that I brought my own trackpoint keyboard in to work to use there) so would gladly trade for an old thinkpad if what I had didn't already do what I need it to do).
by soulofmischief | 2026-03-13 15:56:42+00:00
People can no longer freely point out when the fact that a piece of work is automated and the lack of meat are red flags as to the veracity of the content, but your antagonistic metacommentary for other people pointing out factual information is welcome discourse?

You claimed "this obsession with calling things you don't like AI generated" is "poor form", attacking the parent commenter by claiming they are lying about the nature of the content. However, multiple people have pointed out the clear signs which you missed, and the consensus is that you were wrong. Now you suddenly don't care about this point, and have introduced a new argument instead.

"From my point of view, all you've done is said a lot of nonsense and fabricated a convoluted explanation for why you think the text is bad"

What a bad-faith response. Categorically dismissive, vague, antagonistic and ultimately failing to critically engage with anything I said.
by justsomehnguy | 2026-03-13 15:57:18+00:00
Terminal is not necessary CLI/TUI only text terminal. And by the way you do have a terminal in your pocket, maybe you even typing your responses on it.

But again you are again comparing a single task in a demo (when was the last time someone bashed pre-release Apple products?), totally ignoring what 5 years ago very similar M1 with 8GB showed where this configuration did work - and where it did not. But you don't need common sense, you need to argue in the favour of your beloved company?

> Again, in the video (that you clearly didn’t watch)

Except I did but you need to claim what I didn't, right?
by wwweston | 2026-03-13 15:57:36+00:00
The "Nordic model" refers to the socioeconomics common in Nordic countries (Denmark, Finland, Iceland, Norway, and Sweden), not just to Norway.

It's about how you approach commons and common wealth. Any commons will do. It does not rely on oil resources per se.

Let's say for the sake of argument it does depend on oil wealth, though.

The US currently has something like 30x the proven oil reserves that Norway does (>200 billion barrels vs ~7 billion). It has already produced at least 200billion barrels since the 1850s. What if the US had treated the wealth from past oil production the way Norway has? What if it treated the next 200 billion that way?

And oil is only one of many commons resources to choose from.

> See Bernie Sanders!

Yes, I addressed Sanders proposal in my earlier comment: "single digit taxes on hyperwealth which might not have impact beyond stabilizing it and certainly wouldn’t make anyone not-wealthy."

A single digit wealth tax is unlikely to fully offset even conventional yearly returns, hence the "might not have impact beyond stabilizing" the wealth of those subject to it.

Even if we assume no yearly returns though -- simply a 5% bite out of net worth -- a wealth tax will not make anyone in that economic strata unwealthy (there's a billions-floor beneath which it wouldn't apply, leaving the worst case still radically prosperous).

There's no reasonable basis to characterize that as "evisceration."

But repeating loaded terms like that as part of an ideological rosary is a common religious and rhetorical strategy.
by triceratops | 2026-03-13 15:58:15+00:00
If age verification has to exist at all, it could look something like this: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46447282

And responses to some common criticisms of the idea: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46459959

To be clear though if it's being used as wedge for privacy violation then it should not exist at all. And from reading TFA preventing that may need a similarly coordinated counter-effort.
by john_strinlai | 2026-03-13 15:58:16+00:00
unfortunately, since the messaging/trend isnt "we are against privacy" (it is "we are protecting children, which reluctantly means we all have to sacrifice a wee bit of privacy"), it is really hard to fight back without being labelled as someone who is against protecting children.

but the advice is basically the same as it always has been:

- talk to your friends and family about it. do it with passion, but without hyperbole or conspiracy or aggression. any person you can convince to care is a win. organize with like-minded people.

- talk to your representatives in government. vote for representatives that are pro-privacy (when possible). convince your like-minded friends and family to do the same.

- to the greatest extent possible, dont purchase/use products/services which are facilitating the trend. (but, you also need to be realistic or you will burn out! and that is a bigger loss overall).

- if you are a decision-maker at work, or have any sort of input, leverage it as best as you can to make pro-privacy business decisions. however, similar to the above point, recognize that you still need to be realistic and dont get yourself fired arguing some decision. it is better to make 1,000 nudges in the right direction than it is to be fired/burn out trying to make 1 big nudge.
by hypeatei | 2026-03-13 15:58:25+00:00
> But we should be a lot more serious about taking more than zero steps

No, we shouldn't. There is no inherent need for government regulations in every part of our lives, let alone a computer. Sorry to be flippant, but this idea that everyone needs to have a "serious conversation" about something is laughable and inevitably leads to mountains of government legislation with unintended consequences.

Thanks, but no thanks. We should resist all of this bullshit and try not to become Europe 2.0 where it's illegal to offend people with your speech because some idiot thought that'd be "reasonable" regulation.
by infamia | 2026-03-13 15:58:39+00:00
You need a high/low capability that mixes all levels. For example, the Ukrainians and the Russians are both manufacturing very expensove cruise missles (Neptune/Iskander) and long range attack drones (shahed/fp-2/lute/etc). At any rate the original post I was responding to was comparing Switchblades to Shaheds, which is non-sensical.
by cushychicken | 2026-03-13 15:58:41+00:00
A few weeks ago my friend Aadil and I were at Whole Foods buying a birthday cake for a friend. We wanted to write something clever on the cake but couldn’t really think of anything. We stood around thinking for a few minutes before Aadil said "Let's just say a bunch of bad ideas out loud so we can get to the good ones." And it worked!

It's a well known creative / brainstorming trick that the best way to have a lot of good ideas is to have a lot of ideas.

Focus on genesis decoupled from critique, then critique later.
by kshitijzeoauto | 2026-03-13 15:59:06+00:00
We worked on building a real-time voice to voice desktop translation app that worked with all desktop video calling apps including Zoom, Meet and teams. The development required figuring out desktop level plumbing with virtual drivers like blackhole & vb-cable for voice routing. We also set up up and optimised the latency for voice translation pipeline. After working on it for 6 months, Google announced launch of native voice to voice translation capabilities in their last IO. Zoom and Teams followed the suite. We stopped actively working on it post that but we still get dozens on demo requests on the website - hence decided to opensource the project - in the hope that this might be taken up by the community
by GMoromisato | 2026-03-13 15:59:19+00:00
Tolkien was probably right in that he would have hated to live in 2026. We are literally building machines designed to replace people like him.

And yet, I can't help thinking that I would hate to live in Tolkien's time. When I was around 10, in 1975, I built a giant computer out of a cardboard box. To me, a computer was the same as a spaceship--something I would never own. Then in 1978, I saw an ad for a TRS-80 personal computer, and my world flipped.

Even now, in my 60s, I can't wait to sit down and start programming (with or without AI). I've had a long, fruitful, and extremely fun career with computers, and I can't imagine what I would have done without them.

Does that mean it's all relative? Whatever we're used to, that's what's good and any change is monstrous? Or is there really such a thing as progress and degeneration? Is it possible to say our time is better or worse than Tolkien's in some absolute sense?

I don't know. I think if you take a Rawlsian perspective, and imagine being a random person of the era, I think being born today is far preferable to being born in 1892. On every measure--childhood poverty, violent deaths, even air quality--2026 is better than 1892.

And that improvement is due almost entirely to technology--to the machine.
by tzs | 2026-03-13 16:00:06+00:00
What ID? Most of these laws don't require any ID.

They require that when the administrator of the computer sets up an account for a user the admin can enter an age or birthdate for the user, and that the OS provides an interface so that apps that user runs can ask based on that admin provided information what age bracket the user is in ([0,13), [13,16), [16,18), [18,∞)).

Apps that need to make age based decisions can use that information.
by gruez | 2026-03-13 16:00:16+00:00
>Also the OS (and “privileged apps”) don’t ask for permission, they have full unfettered access to everything already.

If you can't trust the OS, you have bigger issues than it knowing whether you're 18 or not. At the very least it has a camera pointed at you at all moments you're using it, and can eavesdrop in all your conversations.
by ultratalk | 2026-03-13 16:00:26+00:00
When most of your social circle exists on one platform, you tend to use that platform less for its specific features, and more because of the fact that all your friends are there. I don't personally use Instagram, and this is anecdotal information, but I know a lot of people who only use Instagram to see what their friends and family are up to, and to watch the occasional reel.
by omoikane | 2026-03-13 16:00:49+00:00
> route all of your website requests through the decentralized network

I thought this sounded like Freenet. Searching for "ceno" and "freenet" together led to this repository, which said "CENO uses the Freenet censorship resistant platform for communications and storage":

https://github.com/censorship-no-archive/ceno1

Looks like they have since archived everything on github and moved to gitlab.
by HarHarVeryFunny | 2026-03-13 16:00:57+00:00
Most responses here are reacting to this specifics of ATMs and bank tellers, but I think the more interesting point, which seems to be the point of the story, is that paradigm shifts can be more disruptive than automation.

The interesting question is what paradigm shifts may be enabled by AI? Certainly all the use case emphasis so far has been on automation, whether that's businesses using agentic workflows to replace manual ones, or agentic coding tools to automate the coding (and to much less degree software engineering) process.

For example, maybe (I don't see it, but maybe) the need for software goes away entirely since it's just an intermediary to getting something done. What if the AI can just do things for you directly, given specific instructions? Rather than giving detailed instructions to an AI to help you code some software, you instead just bypass that step and give it detailed instructions to do what you were designing the software to accomplish?

As another off the top of my head example, what about healthcare? Are doctors and doctors offices the tellers and banks? We need to advance from brittle LLMs to robust AGI first, but app-based diagnosis and prescription could certainly replace many routine doctors office visits.
by Yizahi | 2026-03-13 16:00:57+00:00
This is a loaded explanation. Yes, war does require quick response, which is hard to achieve in a decentralized state. The small nuance is that war or similar events are comprising a tiny fraction of what a government does (not by impact, but by total amount of things to do). And guess what, direct voting is just fine and fast enough for such thinks as any and all taxes, industry wide restrictions or permissions, economic focus, foreign policy, immigration, healthcare, education, social security and so on.
by mystickphoenix | 2026-03-13 16:00:59+00:00
I've been working on an idea for a logging proxy to track down where internal->external calls are coming from and optionally block them. Been using various AI tools as a way of both getting more comfortable with prompting and learning rust. It's been a fun project so far. Next steps are to figure out how to ease the integration/deployment process if someone wants to actually, you know, use the thing :D

https://github.com/bryan-lott/logprox
by alex1138 | 2026-03-13 16:01:01+00:00
I don't use IG although they dearly want me to, giving me a popup every time I visit, but let me talk about FB for a second (and btw FB wanted to enable cross-platform messaging on the platforms they own - Meta - which seems anti-trust-y) - when they introduced encryption on FB, they made it mandatory. They opted everyone in, and it broke Messenger. If you delete cookies you might also delete messages. Isn't that convenient?
by gzread | 2026-03-13 16:01:09+00:00
It helps these computers didn't use much power, probably didn't even have much of a heatsink on the CPU. Someone in this thread quoted 3 watts for the CPU. Of course with this many of them you might be using something like a kilowatt (for all the components) which is enough to make a room quite warm, but not damaging. Think about a kilowatt space heater - it's not really dangerous to things that don't directly touch it.
by genthree | 2026-03-13 16:02:09+00:00
The specific example was indeed a poor one since we have extensive data on that, and even high-touch non-surgical interventions involving hours per week from multiple specialists (read: incredibly expensive) with very-willing participants have proven a lot less effective than one might hope (somewhat effective! But only moderately so, which ain't enough given the price tag). Docs saying "eat better and exercise" at an annual check-up has basically no effect whatsoever.

Turning dozens to hundreds of decisions per week for which the correct decision must be made in nearly every case, into a single decision per week for which the correct choice must be made, has proven wildly more effective than any of that (I mean glp-1 agonists).