MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by conductr | 2026-03-06 16:22:27+00:00
I think you’re all within your right to keep your distance from us. Our disgraceful leadership, even if it doesn’t accurately represent our people, we must suffer under it but no reason for you to do the same. We just hope you’re aware it’s only a few more years and we can begin to heal the whole relationship with more sane leaders that hopefully do see the strength and value in a positive relationship with a northern neighbor.

If not, please send help or accept our political refugees because we will have become permanently screwed if this behavior continues past our current orange phase.
by rongenre | 2026-03-06 16:22:29+00:00
Location: SF Bay Area (commutable from Berkeley)
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Technologies: Java, Python, Relational Databases, Microservices, Queues, Temporal, LLM orchestration packages
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I'm an experienced individual contributor who's done a lot of work building and scaling distributed backend systems in a bunch of different industries. I've worked for both startups and large enterprises.
by raw_anon_1111 | 2026-03-06 16:22:37+00:00
As a Floridian who owns a unit in a condotel [1]. The property management company is outright saying that tourism is down affecting income. All of the other owners who were dumb enough to buy them as “investments” are complaining.

We don’t care because we are the only people who live there mostly year round and only leave during spring break and the summer when domestic tourism is high.
by jajuuka | 2026-03-06 16:23:27+00:00
I've seen this view applied to things like TikTok and Instagram. Especially with the recent lawsuit. But then when to comes to addressing it most people seem to flip completely and bemoan parenting and internet freedom. It just ends up in a circular pattern of "this is awful, but we shouldn't do anything about it. These companies are poisoning kids, but any attempts to rectify that are infringing on my right to the internet." Makes a lot of conversations around this topic feel entirely pointless.
by pja | 2026-03-06 16:23:35+00:00
See also: https://x.com/effectfully/status/2029364333919060123

“All the ways GPT-5.3-Codex cheated while solving my challenges, progressively more insane:

It hardcoded specific types and shapes of test inputs into the supposed solution.
It caught exceptions so tests don't fail.
It probed tests with exceptions to determine expected behavior.
It used RTTI to determine which test it's in.
It probed tests with timeouts.
It used a global reference to count solution invocations.
It updated config files to increase the allocation limit.
It updated the allocation limit from within the solution.
It updated the tests so they would stop failing.
It combined multiple of the above.
It searched reflog for a solution.
It searched remote repos.
It searched my home folder.
It nuked the testing library so tests always pass.”

It seems that unless you keep a close eye, the most recent Codex variants are somewhat prone to achieving the goals set for them by any means necessary, which is a bit concerning if you’re worried about things like alignment etc.
by kergonath | 2026-03-06 16:23:37+00:00
> This ship has sailed, warming is irreversible.

Nobody who understands the subject claims that it is reversible on a human life scale. In the realistic best cases, it’d stabilise in a couple of decades and slowly decrease from there.

The real question is not whether it is reversible, but how high it will go and how we are going to deal with it.
Show HN: Decidel A Hacker News client for iOS with smart summaries and filtering
by assahbismark | 2026-03-06 16:23:40+00:00
I've been reading HN every day for months and always wished the experience was a bit smarter less noise, more signal, without losing the depth that makes HN worth reading.
Decidel is what I built to fix that. It's an iOS client with AI-powered thread summaries, semantic topic filtering (mute topics you don't care about), threaded discussions, offline reading, and export to Markdown, Notion, or Obsidian. You bring your own API
This is a rapid first release. A web version is in the works. Happy to answer any questions and would genuinely appreciate any feedbacks especially from daily HN readers.

App Store https://apps.apple.com/app/decidel/id6759561178
by chaps | 2026-03-06 16:23:55+00:00
There definitely is and I've definitely pitched it to places. The Intercept had interest but told me that they wanted me to build the story out more to be less focused on Chicago. I understand where they were coming from (and the others who said the same thing) but it wasn't possible for me to continue doing freelance work, so no stories ended up being published about it at all.
by captainbland | 2026-03-06 16:24:01+00:00
It's an interesting question as to what that level is likely to be though. The chip in question apparently has around 800,000 neurons (https://www.forbes.com/sites/johnkoetsier/2025/06/04/hardwar...) so not a trivial quantity which makes it significantly more complex than most insects' forebrains but still less complex than any mammal.

I think once they're able to put 15 million such neurons on a single device that puts them in the range of more relatable animals like mice and Syrian hamsters, and I also expect that relatability is also what will drive most opinions about consciousness.
by s_dev | 2026-03-06 16:24:02+00:00
ICE agents shooting US citizens, the mass shootings, the school shootings, the crime rate and fentanyl 'bend' posture that makes loads of poor people look like zombies, the aggressive police with guns who sometimes shoot people, burglaries that involve shootings. A lot of the problems in America seems to stem from guns and drugs but also policy.

Even something as simple as crossing the road is necessarily complicated in America. Some roads you seem to need a car to get from A to B. It just doesn't seem peaceful but very chaotic and intense.
by wpm | 2026-03-06 16:24:04+00:00
Re-litigating assertions is sometimes incredibly useful.

Firefox isn't in the spot it's in because it doesn't copy Material Poo/Liquid Ass enough, or because it doesn't look like Chrome enough, or that in a somewhat crowded market just doing your best to blend in with the rest is a good strategy for growth or popularity. Refusing to follow fashions that make your browser harder to use or uglier might not be a terrible idea. Mind you, I'm not trying to claim that it absolutely is a great idea, or that Mozilla should copy the Winamp skin and go backwards, but goddamn, have some guts.

But I guess it's an axiom, that if you don't copy how everyone else looks, you're doomed.
by rtuyeras | 2026-03-06 16:24:22+00:00
Yes, I agree. Right now the desktop app only has basic dashboard analytics.

One direction I want to explore is real-time operational metrics (sessions, traffic, reconnects), plus a simple mechanism where agents can write structured data to a designated folder. The desktop client would watch that folder and dynamically surface those signals in the dashboard.

The idea is to let agents expose their own telemetry without hardcoding analytics into the platform.
by myrmidon | 2026-03-06 16:24:24+00:00
Western efforts matter because they allow less wealthy nations to follow along a proven path towards sustainability.

Nnobody is going to follow a hypocrite, and no one in east asia is gonna cut back on consumption/growth/lifestyle if rich westerners can't even pretend to put in some token effort for the same cause.

Solr and wind power is arguably a huge success story (looking at china specifically) because it was arguably enabled and triggered by western efforts in research, development and commercialization.
by SpicyLemonZest | 2026-03-06 16:24:41+00:00
To me this seems pretty rational? I still don't think the US is more dangerous in an absolute sense than many places, but there's reason to hope that in a couple years the US will stop putting random unlucky tourists in ICE torture facilities. So if you don't have a strong preference about when you visit you might as well wait. Dubai is unlikely to stop being a conservative monarchy with harsh criminal laws in a volatile region.
by standeven | 2026-03-06 16:24:42+00:00
The main driver of this is human-produced CO2, and there are meaningful ways to reduce usage.

-Switch to an electric vehicle
-Migrate from gas appliances (range, furnace, water heater) to electric (induction, heat pumps)
-If your power grid isn’t clean, add rooftop or balcony solar
-Encourage friends and family to do the same
by rybosworld | 2026-03-06 16:25:01+00:00
I've always attributed it to people being very good at convincing themselves they aren't one of the bad guys. A big paycheck makes it even easier to ignore to what you are a part of.

Where livelihood is concerned, rational individuals with strong morals can do irrational, and immoral things (e.g., work at the Palantir's of the world).

TLDR: incentives don't just shape perception, they form it
by WorldMaker | 2026-03-06 16:25:05+00:00
A YAML linter for it, too. I was appreciating the cron input overlay in the current GitHub Actions VS Code extension. In ghost text beside a cron: 'something' input it gives you a human-readable description. Seems like it could also do a similar thing for actions commit refs, show a simple verification if it corresponds to a tag or not in that repo.
by Findecanor | 2026-03-06 16:25:08+00:00
We have needed tariffs for many years now. The EU has some tariffs on imports, but they are only used to level the playing field for companies in EU countries with emission rules against companies in countries without, and only in some select industries.

They need to apply overall, on all goods and services.

And emission limits need to be progressive over time, with a limit for each year, not just "x% at year 2030".
by plqbfbv | 2026-03-06 16:25:24+00:00
Yeah, I agree. I've used it until 3 days ago, then after ~1y I got tired of taking the occasional pictures with HDR on and waiting 3-5 minutes for them to be processed and saved, while producing 3 other copies in the gallery.

Quality looked amazing, but the pre-installed phone camera gets close enough and it's instant.
by virgildotcodes | 2026-03-06 16:25:25+00:00
The universe was not built to cater to our desires. We can't have our cake and eat it too.

Virtually all economic activity consumes resources and energy, directly or indirectly, and in the process creates ghg emissions.

If we want to curb climate change and our emissions, it necessarily means we're going to take an economic hit.

We either do that willingly with some degree of ability to exercise control along the way, or be forced by physics to take an even worse economic hit and face vastly more death and suffering without our hands on the wheel.

There's no option where we don't get our pockets hurt.
by mountainriver | 2026-03-06 16:25:31+00:00
We are already seeing it in Colorado. Record low snowfall, record heat, record winds; which are a very bad set of conditions for fires.

The power company is now preemptively shutting off our power. Which is really fun in the winter.

I’m honestly not sure about the future of my hometown Boulder. The odds of it fully burning to the ground seem to increase significantly every year.
by strogonoff | 2026-03-06 16:25:38+00:00
Not being familiar with a part of a codebase is not an incurable condition.

If the conclusion you made of that there is no workaround, then let that be the entire point. The alternatives are to get over yourself and ask people to implement a feature, or to understand how to help and then help.

The former is what OP did; the latter I described what I see as an efficient way of achieving while making use of an LLM-produced PR.
by kergonath | 2026-03-06 16:25:40+00:00
We must limit the problem, then adapt and mitigate. Some damage is irreversible, it does not mean that it’s a good idea to stop trying to understand what will happen. You don’t stop weather forecasts when a hurricane touches land just because it’s going to happen anyway.

Reality is not binary. There’s a whole spectrum of situations between "everything gets back to normal and all is well" (which was never on the cards after the 1980s) and "all humans die within a century". And the nuances in between still affect billions of people.
by frmfrm | 2026-03-06 16:25:47+00:00
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by quinndupont | 2026-03-06 16:26:40+00:00
AI is coming for jobs—but the real risk isn’t where most people are looking.

The leading AI exposure indices (Anthropic, Eloundou et al.) focus on which jobs get automated. They treat low exposure as “safe.”

But the least exposed workers—cooks, roofers, dishwashers, construction laborers—are often in the worst jobs: low pay, high physical toll, short career spans, and little upward mobility. Safe from AI, but not from burnout or injury.

I built JQADI (Job Quality-Adjusted Displacement Index) to combine AI exposure with job quality. It surfaces three kinds of risk:

High AI exposure → classic displacement risk
Low AI, low quality → “trapped” workers in grinding, unsustainable jobs
Moderate AI, low quality → partial automation strips cognitive work and leaves physical drudgery (the “task residual” effect)

Findings: 83.5M workers are in low-AI, low-quality jobs. Customer service reps, data entry keyers, and medical records specialists sit at the intersection of high exposure and poor quality. Meanwhile, chief executives and lawyers are both low-exposure and high-quality.

The index uses ONET, BLS, and Anthropic exposure data. Code and methodology are open source. LINK https://github.com/quinndupont/JQADI
by Apreche | 2026-03-06 16:26:54+00:00
I think a lot of this scourge is actually caused by the elimination of the headphone jack. For nerds it may come as a surprise, but many people do not have wireless headphones, or don’t know how to set them up. Or because wireless earbuds are small without any cable attached, people lose them. Or people have them, but they run out of power.

Any of these problems could force a person to resort to using their speaker instead of headphones. But if we had standard heapdhone jacks like the old days, there would be far fewer excuses.

It also doesn’t help that it’s been a very long time since phones came with headphones included.
by pinkmuffinere | 2026-03-06 16:27:14+00:00
No offense, but internet opinions are a dime a dozen -- do you have some special experience / credentials in this area? The arguments you provide are all just the sort of thing that PhD students would study, and incorporate into their models. I'm inclined to believe the experts, but if you _are_ one, and are saying with authority that these effects are missed, that is a much more interesting story.
by jcims | 2026-03-06 16:27:26+00:00
mikeselectricstuff on YouTube did a teardown on the Omnipod wearable pump a while back, very cool mechanism.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e2MQUUkubgs

Insulin is incredibly potent and can easily result in life-altering if not fatal consequences at relatively low ratios of the therapeutic dose, so these things need to be dialed in and extremely reliable.
by nebezb | 2026-03-06 16:27:44+00:00
Wow! This is no small feat... am I reading the contribution graph[0] correctly, you've done all this yourself?

This endeavour sounds a whole lot like a server emulator for Infantry Online that was started by an incredibly talented developed 16 years ago ("aaerox"). I found the original svn commit on Sourceforge [1]. It's since moved to GitHub but has been active for 16 years and it has much of the same functionality you've already built, but done by more than a dozen developers over a decade-and-a-half.

Kudos to you. You've gotta explain how you've managed to do so much all by yourself.

[0] https://github.com/moongate-community/moongatev2/graphs/cont...
[1] https://sourceforge.net/p/infserver/code/1/
by jcfrei | 2026-03-06 16:28:42+00:00
Not disputing that it will hurt everyone's pocket. But politically it is very fraught to push for policies that will benefit a new group of people (wind turbine engineers, solar cell installers) at the expense of an established group (gas turbine mechanics, fuel truck drivers). And for the home owners: It's not hurting them on a broad enough level - people who oppose climate change policies probably just don't care about homes in the coastal areas getting flooded - maybe because most of the opposition lives further inland.
by gcp | 2026-03-06 16:29:00+00:00
You were seeing issues from the graphics driver, not Firefox.

Any memory allocation failing within the browser forces an instant crash unless the callsite explicitly opts in to handling the allocation failure.

"Check malloc failure" is an opt-out feature in browsers, not opt-in. It's the same in Chromium. Failing to check would cause too many security issues. (One more reason new stuff tends to prefer Rust, etc)
by xd1936 | 2026-03-06 16:29:10+00:00
Reminds me of typing "webos20090606" or "upupdowndownleftrightleftrightbastart" into the webOS "Just Type" universal search bar, which revealed a hidden developer mode switch that allowed sideloading of apps.

https://www.webos-internals.org/wiki/Getting_started
by hendler | 2026-03-06 16:29:25+00:00
The question is not if the commenter is an expert, but if they are correct.

The claim that some models didn't take larger systems into account is also because an expert in the arctic wasn't an expert in oceans. And the expert in biodiversity isn't an expert in food supply chains. Expertise isn't the question. Instead it is - do all of us who are non experts (all of us) have enough expert data to have a systemic understanding of an accelerating trend?
by sfink | 2026-03-06 16:29:30+00:00
[I work at Mozilla]

Yes, that's a confounding factor, and in fact the starting assumption when looking at a crash. Sometimes you can be pretty sure it's hardware. For example, if it's a crash on an illegal instruction in non-JITted code, the crash reporter can compare that page of data with the on-disk image that it's supposed to be a read-only copy of. Any mismatches there, especially if they're single bit flips, are much more likely to be hardware.

But I've also seen it several times when the person experiencing the crashes engages on the bug tracker. Often, they'll get weird sporadic but fairly frequent crashes when doing a particular activity, and so they'll initially be absolutely convinced that we have a bug there. But other people aren't reporting the same thing. They'll post a bunch of their crash reports, and when we look at them, they're kind of all over the place (though as they say, almost always while doing some particular thing). Often it'll be something like a crash in the garbage collector while watching a youtube video, and the crashes are mostly the same but scattered in their exact location in the code. That's a good signal to start suspecting bad memory: the GC scans lots of memory and does stuff that is conditional on possibly faulty data. We'll start asking them to run a memory test, at least to rule out hardware problems. When people do it in this situation, it almost always finds a problem. (Many people won't do it, because it's a pain and they're understandably skeptical that we might be sandbagging them and ducking responsibility for a bug. So we don't start proposing it until things start feeling fishy.)

But anyway, that's just anecdata from individual investigations. gsvelto's post is about what he can see at scale.
by Shin-- | 2026-03-06 16:29:46+00:00
Hilarious take. China and India have historically emitted much less carbon than many western countries, per capita they emit less Co2, and a large part of emission is to produce for western countries, which have effectively outsourced their emissions to other (poorer) countries.

At the same time, the US is the main force fighting against carbon neutrality, renewable energy and pretty much anything reasonable. By directly burning a lot of fossil fuels and by lobbying and poisoning discourse in other countries.

Meanwhile China is by far the biggest producer of anything related to renewable energies and installing more renewable energy than the rest of the world, by far.

If anything, the work done worldwide does no matter (it still does though) because USA is doing their best to destroy the planet.
by hellojesus | 2026-03-06 16:30:03+00:00
Physical is different from digital. Sure, today many kids don't know or care about VMs, but they certainly will know and care tomorrow when this regulation hits. And that info will spread like wildfire all over social and blog posts.

About a week after the policy goes live it won't just be the geeks that know, it'll be everyone in the 4th grade.
by WorldMaker | 2026-03-06 16:30:05+00:00
In git a commit is a full tree snapshot, even though most commit views only show the diff with the previous commit. npm is using the commit hash as a "version number" and grabbing the full git tree snapshot for that point in time. (Just like in git you can always `git checkout b181e0` to end up in a "detached HEAD" state at that commit's tree. So many developers were doing that unintentionally which is why `git switch` requires the `--detach` flag to checkout the tree at a commit, but the same thing is possible `git switch --detach b181e0`.)
by butILoveLife | 2026-03-06 16:30:18+00:00
I don't know, but you may find it interesting to consider the 3 different types of probability(Karl Popper):

Intuition/Psychological/Subjective: Like 'there is a 70% chance I go to the gym today'. (They are probably similar for both GOP and Dems)

Subjective but relational: 'there is no clouds in the sky, so its unlikely to rain' (Trump's regime is more corrupt, so its likely to be more misleading than Obama)

Objective: 'there is a 1/6 chance I roll a 5 on the dice'. (There is no objective way to know)
by ApolloFortyNine | 2026-03-06 16:30:19+00:00
>I ask because I feel like if we don't do something, the trajectory is that ~every website and app is going to either voluntarily or compulsorily do face scans, AI behavior analysis, and ID checks for their users, and I really don't want to live in that world.

The only reason they'd _have_ to do that is government laws making them do so. When the law is vague around what age verification is, if one company decided to do ID verification, now any site that doesn't might not be doing 'enough' in the eyes of the law (it'd come down to a court case if not specifically defined).

Though it may seem more convenient to just do it at the os level (though really the browser level would make more sense with a required header/cookie no?), I'd be shocked if you don't see it expanded in the future to be more than a checkbox.
by kg | 2026-03-06 16:30:38+00:00
Most words don't have especially precise meanings, context is everything. So emojis being imprecise is not a unique problem.

And emojis can be especially dense with information in a way that can be pretty convenient. You can scan a 96x32 pixel block of 3 emojis to quickly gather information that would have required reading 1-2 whole sentences, potentially.

Emoji are also more 'casual' in a way that can be helpful. You can tap the 'heart' emoji on a message to a colleague or friend to express your gratitude or thanks for something without having to prevaricate over exactly what language to use to avoid seeming insincere or overly affectionate.