MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by Marha01 | 2026-03-05 16:46:14+00:00
It is magical thinking to claim that LLMs are definitely physically incapable of thinking. You don't know that. No one knows that, since such large neural networks are opaque blackboxes that resist interpretation and we don't really know how they function internally.

You are just repeating that because you read that before somewhere else. Like a stochastic parrot. Quite ironic. ;)
by wenbin | 2026-03-05 16:46:17+00:00
We should normalize "finished" software products that stop feature creep and focus strictly on bug fixes and security updates.

It takes real courage for a builder to say, "It’s good enough. It’s complete. It serves the core use cases well." If people want more features? Great, make it a separate product under a new brand.

Evernote and Dropbox were perfect in 2012. Adding more features just to chase new user growth often comes at the expense of confusing the existing user base. Not good
by myrmidon | 2026-03-05 16:46:27+00:00
I'd argue that ressource consumption/pollution are on the contrary pretty strongly correlated with wealth.

But I don't see the primary justification for taxes as "keeping consumption in check" (whatever that would mean for you): In my view, we pay taxes to keep our society functional.

Progressive taxation is required to prevent escalating wealth inequality (and I'd argue that US administrations have done a really poor here over the last decades).

Regressive taxes ruin society by nurturing pseudo-parasitic rent-seekers controlling most of the wealth (=> exaggerated for clarity), and the situation is already bad enough without allowing those to basically skip taxes.
by nubinetwork | 2026-03-05 16:46:34+00:00
> I always take these vendor reports with a massive grain of salt. It’s a classic case of comparing apples to vendor-marketing oranges. A headline screaming about an 84% miss rate sounds like a systemic collapse until...

I've seen this before in the ip blocklist space... if you're layering up firewall rules, you're bound to see the higher priority layers more often.

That doesn't mean the other layers suck, security isn't always an A or B situation...

On the other hand, I don't know how I feel about how GSB is implemented... you're telling google every website you go to, but chances are the site already has google analytics or SSO...
by radishingr | 2026-03-05 16:46:39+00:00
The Tom Scott video(https://youtu.be/2tdiKTSdE9Y) did a pretty good summary of the Percy Spencer microwave (a giant commercial oven) and the later parallel development by J. E. Lovelock of a small microwave to reheat small mammals for experiments with cryorevival (replacing lamps and hot paddles).
by steveBK123 | 2026-03-05 16:47:01+00:00
Right, if thought of as a tool for automation then AI is going to add productivity/efficiency gains, disrupt industries, cause some labor upheaval, etc.

If someone is proposing that an "AI first" society is inevitable, I'd ask if they think we live in a "computer first" or "machine first" society today?

If its so existential and society-altering as "AI first society" implies, then we'd more likely have the Dune timeline here as humans have agency and stuff happens. At some point those in control take so disproportionately that societal upheaval pushes back.
by whartung | 2026-03-05 16:47:14+00:00
Whenever I tried dabbling in Smalltalk, I would feel constrained by the system in terms of raw real estate. I never cared to view the system through the narrow slit of the method code editor. I would suffer the explosion of windows. All of it was off putting to me, and I never pushed through it to work with a project long enough in order for it to be comfortable.

But, let's contrast it to Java, which pretty much is in the same boat as a modern Smalltalk. A very large core system of packages, classes, and methods. Wrapped in a spider web of dependencies. And, granted, I've been working with Java a long time, and this is all quite comfortable to me. But at the same time, it doesn't suffer the issues that the Smalltalk browser presents.

Consider, regarding the parent point, the entirety of the JDK is not typically presented in the modern IDE. It's just back there. There's no real estate committed to it. There's your project (typically), with its classes.

I use NetBeans, so I have a project view of packages and classes, I have code tabs of individual classes, and a contextual method navigator within a class.

Its routine to potentially have a tab explosion, in contrast to a window explosion when exploring code. But when I do that, all I get is the code window, not the entire project or context of the class.

That is, in my code, I can click on, say, an ArrayList method, and jump to the JDK source code for the method within the ArrayList. I don't get its entire package hierarchy, I get its method list (uncatagorized, but alphabetical) while viewing the code file. So, the impact of viewing a new method is minimal -- it's just a new tab.

But as a benefit, I get to see not only the method I'm interested in, but I get to see the context of the code around the method. When I code, I don't write methods in a vacuum. I organize my code somewhat around aspect of the logic of the class. So, if there's a method that does one thing, chances are that the methods around it are doing similar or related things, or part of the logic of whats going on. Proximity in the source file tells part of the story not captured at the method level.

Sure, I can click around, in the navigator, in the IDE directly to visit other methods, but I can also scroll about, have the breadth of the class as a canvas and gather the ebb and flow of the logic within it. This is stark contrast to the ST "tiny" method browser.

I can also search globally within the source methods rather than just method signatures, while still having access to call trees and references and many of the other wonders of the ST browser.
by varispeed | 2026-03-05 16:47:22+00:00
Opus 4.6 found in my documentation how to flash the device and wanted to be clever and helpful and flash it for me after doing series of fixes. I've got used to approving commands and missed that one. So it bricked it.
Then I wrote extra instructions saying flashing of any kind is forbidden. Few days later it did again and apologised...
by genedai | 2026-03-05 16:47:32+00:00
Look, I know everyone's freaking out about the MacBook Neo at $599. I get it. It's cheap, it's Apple, take my money. But honestly? If you spend like five minutes actually reading the specs, the MacBook Air is the obvious buy here.
The Neo sounds sick until you look at what they actually shipped. It's running an A18 Pro. That's a phone chip. Not even an M-series. 8 gigs of RAM. One of the USB-C ports is USB 2.0, which, like... it's 2026, what are we doing. No MagSafe. No Thunderbolt, so forget plugging in a Studio Display. No backlit keyboard. No Force Touch. The base model doesn't even have Touch ID. Someone on 512pixels put together a list of everything they cut and it's honestly kind of depressing. Just cut after cut after cut.
The Air at $1099 gets you the M5, 16 gigs of RAM, Thunderbolt 4, MagSafe, Wi-Fi 7, P3 display, backlit keyboard. The whole deal, no weird gotchas. Yeah it's 500 bucks more. But you're getting double the RAM, a way better chip, and you don't have to keep a mental list of stuff your laptop randomly can't do.
The RAM thing is what really kills the Neo for me though. macOS eats like 5 gigs just sitting there doing nothing. Someone on HN said they're running VSCode, Xcode, Blender, and ChatGPT all at once on 8 gigs and sure, macOS is clever with swap and compression, but come on. You're redlining it from the jump with zero room to grow. And you can never upgrade it. 16 gigs on the Air means you're actually comfortable for years.
This matters way more now because of the local AI stuff that's blowing up. OpenClaw just dropped, open-source AI agent that runs right on your Mac, handles your email, calendar, does actual useful stuff on its own. The LocalLLaMA crowd is going absolutely feral setting it up with Ollama, running local models for free. People are hitting 49 tokens per second, running 30B parameter models on their Macs. That kind of thing eats RAM for breakfast and really wants those M-series GPU cores and the Neural Engine. On 16 gigs with an M5? You're golden. On 8 gigs with a phone chip and a 5-core GPU? Yeah no.
The move in 2026 isn't buying the cheapest Mac. It's buying the one that doesn't feel slow in two years. Grab a refurb M4 Air for like $900, or just pay full price for the M5. Either way you've got a machine that handles everything for the next five or six years easy. Browsing, dev work, local AI stuff, whatever. The Neo is gonna start choking the second you try anything beyond Safari and Netflix, and at that point just buy a Chromebook for 300 bucks.
Apple built the Neo to hit a price tag. The Air is where the math actually works out. Spend the extra 500 now, forget about it for five years. Done.
by WorldMaker | 2026-03-05 16:47:37+00:00
I have friends that fell down air monitoring rabbit holes in the situation of the early 2020s and one of the things they have remained obsessed about is home CO2 levels and have active monitoring equipment and "pager alerts" and other things setup.

Home carbon capture is sort of a thing already: buy more houseplants, keep them alive and healthy.

Though the most common home interventions for now are still "open a window" and/or "run a fan to circulate the air better". I suppose it's neat that we can home automate that, if you are willing to invest in that.
Show HN: Selva – Amazon for AI Agents
by jpbonch | 2026-03-05 16:47:42+00:00
Hey HN,

I built Selva, a skill (CLI + API) that lets AI agents search for products, compare options, and buy things on your behalf.

How it works:

• Tell your agent what you need ("order more coffee pods" or "find some toothpaste")
• It searches Amazon, finds options, and handles checkout
• You save your card with us via Stripe, your card details never touch our servers and are never seen by your agent
• You set a dollar threshold, anything above it pauses and asks for your approval via email

Why I built this:

I've been wanting to delegate some routine shopping tasks to my agent, but it kept getting stuck on captchas, auth screens, etc. Also didn't want it to have my credit card in its context, so I built this system where the card is stored securely with Stripe and the agent has to email me for purchases above X dollars (configurable).

Details:

• Works as an OpenClaw skill
• Searches across Amazon and Shopify stores
• Handles the messy parts of e-commerce and browser operations so your agent doesn't have to deal with it
• Email notifications for shipping and delivery
• USA only for now

What I'm looking for:
Early users to try it and tell me what breaks. Especially interested in feedback on the purchase flow.

Try it: https://www.useselva.com
by xp84 | 2026-03-05 16:47:46+00:00
I get the arguments being made here that the second “team,” that’s supposed to be in a clean room, which isn’t supposed to have read the original source code does have some essence of that source code in its weights.

However, this is solved if somebody trains a model with only code that does not have restrictive licenses. Then, the maintainers of the package in question here could never claim that the clean room implementation derived from their code because their code is known to not be in the training set.

It would probably be expensive to create this model, but I have to agree that especially if someone does manage this, it’s kind of the end of copyleft.
by danielmarkbruce | 2026-03-05 16:47:54+00:00
That's fine, to each their own on trying to make predictions. I did try to predict it, did it accurately (along with many others, this wasn't the hardest thing ever), and wouldn't have had any interest in any internal memo.

It's a public arena on things like this. I don't think even the justices themselves have "material inside information" until a little ways through the hearing, and people are trying to predict the outcome well before that. On the surface that might sound absurd, but it isn't.
by frutigeraerosol | 2026-03-05 16:48:10+00:00
More and more people are vibe coding but barely know what got built. You say "add rate limiting" and your AI does it. But do you know what your users actually see when they hit the limit? A friendly message? A raw 429? Does the page just hang?

VibeCheck asks you stuff like that. One question after your AI finishes a task, based on your actual diff. It looks at what was built, compares it to what you asked for, and checks if you know what changed in your product.

Works with any AI coding tool that uses git. Auto-quiz after every commit with a single setup command, or run on-demand whenever you want.

Skip it every time if you want. By default, no scores or answers are saved. Just a quick reality check.
by PaulHoule | 2026-03-05 16:48:19+00:00
(1) So many people have told me they thought Polaroid film was crazy expensive

(2) There are the BPA concerns other people talk about but thermal prints don't age well at all. I made some prints of Pokemon characters about 5 years ago like this one

https://safebooru.org/index.php?page=post&s=view&id=1821741

and these are barely legible now. (Pokemon sample art is designed on the assumption that their art is going to be viewed on horrible screens, I'm going to argue that Lusamine respects Ansel Adams' "Zone Theory" really well which makes it work great as a thermal print)
by pjc50 | 2026-03-05 16:48:39+00:00
The news coverage is in general OK compared to commercial news, and especially to US propaganda outfits, but Channel 4 (also public sector) are also pretty good. The UK politics coverage is abysmal. They have become cautious stenographers and promoters of whichever party Farage is heading at the time. Not surprising when you see what happens to reporting that genuinely challenges power.
by jungturk | 2026-03-05 16:48:45+00:00
Because a technically-sophisticated enterprise generally wouldn't pick Jamf unless they were an exclusive Apple house - they'd consider something like VMware's Workspace One (now Omnissa) that works across windows, mac, and linux.

And no need to ask an LLM - we can read the doc and notice there are 6 different deployment methods that work (out of the box) for the built-in MacOS MDM, several of which allow transparent, mandatory updates to user environments without requiring user interaction.

https://docs.omnissa.com/bundle/macOS-Device-ManagementVSaaS...
by bogtog | 2026-03-05 16:48:55+00:00
> This is wrong. It's not insider trading. Lutnick didn't have inside information. His son just had a brain. Anyone who read the case knew which way the court was going, it was the least surprising decision ever. Perhaps the only surprising thing is that the court ever heard it.

If this was so obvious, wouldn't there have been more competitors pushing down the value of it?
by PaulHoule | 2026-03-05 16:49:28+00:00
But you see these models are advancing so fast now that it is impossible for people to write blog posts about them on their own anymore! You gotta go to some topic that has nothing to do with AI like

https://freddiedeboer.substack.com/p/cozy-girl-lifestyle-is-...

if you want to read something written by a human anymore.
by WalterBright | 2026-03-05 16:49:32+00:00
Try it and see.

I seriously doubt twine would be a good carrier of vibrations over 75 feet. The fibers would dampen it out. Then there's the mass of the gourds, I doubt the faint vibrations left would vibrate them to a point you could hear anything.

I also suspect that the reason nobody tries it is because then the theory that it is a Fred Flintstone telephone falls apart.
by IAmBroom | 2026-03-05 16:49:36+00:00
If an animal gets its head stuck, predators will casually eat its meat without first killing the prey. This makes sense from their purely selfish point of view, especially as it provides a sort of short-term "food preservation".

Ducks have been documented engaging in necrophilic gang-rape.

Dolphins use literal waterboarding to rape.

Humans are just smarter assholes than other animals. Not worse or better.
by 9wzYQbTYsAIc | 2026-03-05 16:49:38+00:00
Seems like a good time to enshrine human rights and the social safety net by ratifying the ICESCR (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/International_Covenant_on_Econ...) and giving human rights the teeth they need.

I used Anthropic to analyze the situation, it did halfway decent:

https://unratified.org/why/

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47263664
by agent86 | 2026-03-05 16:49:52+00:00
Two Notes:

1) I had to abbreviate the title as the official article title is 4 characters too long for HN.

2) The gift link in use to bypass the Verge paywall was posted by the official Verge account to /r/Android on Reddit[1].

[1] - https://www.reddit.com/r/Android/comments/1rktkbp/comment/o8...
by gus_massa | 2026-03-05 16:49:57+00:00
I agree, it's like "reverse insurance". I'm not sure what is the name.

In insurance, you pay [-$10] to avoid a potencial negative risk [-$100].

Here you get money [+$10] instead of waiting for a potencial positive benefit [+$100].

Very slightly related https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reverse_mortgage
by banannaise | 2026-03-05 16:50:05+00:00
I've seen a couple roguelike developers report that they played around with procedural generation, but it was difficult to prevent it from creating dungeons that were bad, unfun, or just straight-up killscreens. Turns out it's often easier to simply hand-draw good maps than to get the machine to generate okay-to-good ones.

Procedural generation is good when variety matters more than quality, which is a relatively rare occurrence.
by SoftTalker | 2026-03-05 16:50:20+00:00
Since spelling was not standardized at the time, I suppose there would be no real loss of meaning if someone were to rewrite these works using modern/standard English spelling? Why are high schoolers forced to read these archaic texts as written? It was just so tiring to try to read them; I could never get through any of them and resorted to Cliffs Notes.
by bumby | 2026-03-05 16:50:32+00:00
I think the issue is that someone working in public office had influence to affect that probability, and their relatives stood to gain from it.

I don’t know enough about the ethics laws to know if it was strictly illegal, but it does create a smell.

Suppose a county engineer has influence on whether oil drilling will be allowed (they don’t make policy but consult those who do), and prior to approval their relatives buy up a lot of land in the area. That engineer may not have been the deciding factor, but it seems like it runs afoul of ethics laws/standards.
by mgkimsal | 2026-03-05 16:50:36+00:00
Unsure where you got that from? If a company that has had to lay off staff and reduce hours because of increase in expenses because of tariffs, then they get a chunk of money back, trying to 'get back' to where you were before - headcount, wages, etc - might be on your mind, and might be possible with a one-time refund of ideally a sizeable portion of your tax. However... we still have extremely high tariffs in place so the effects of higher input prices are still ongoing (and ramped up in some cases).

If our tariff structure went back to, say, October 2024, and companies who'd paid some inordinate tax - forcing layoffs and reductions - got a chunk of that back - and the taxes went back to what they were - there'd likely be some return to hiring and raises as before. But we can't get back to that any time soon with an administration hellbent on extracting as much from us via tariffs as possible.
by toolizr | 2026-03-05 16:50:50+00:00
I built Toolizr because I was tired of paying separately for every AI tool I use daily.

ChatGPT Pro, Claude Pro, Canva Pro, Gemini Pro + Veo 3.1 — each one priced like it's your only subscription. Combined it was costing me $80+/month.

Toolizr bundles them all into three tiers:
— Starter: $20/month (ChatGPT, Claude, Canva)
— Pro: $28/month (+ Lovable)
— Ultimate: $45/month (everything)

Built the whole thing with Lovable — no coding background.

https://toolizr.com
by alexk307 | 2026-03-05 16:51:09+00:00
In the reference period 1999->2020, the instruments used by NHANES to track this data changed at least 3 times, they don't account for other changes to the general population that increase bicarbonate levels in serum (i.e. Number of obese Americans rose by ~40% in the reference period [1]). I'm not entirely convinced that using a proxy for C02 levels that can be confounded by a multitude of other health conditions that are common in the American population is a good way of going about this.

[1] https://www.niddk.nih.gov/health-information/health-statisti...
Show HN: I built an AI tool that analyzes your Discogs vinyl collection
by herrstagl | 2026-03-05 16:51:12+00:00
I built recordsv.lt to explore a problem I ran into as a vinyl collector: once your collection grows, Discogs is great for cataloging but not great for understanding the collection itself.

Recordsv connects to Discogs and analyzes your collection using the full release metadata — not just album titles but pressings, contributors, labels, and release history.
The idea is to surface patterns that are hard to see manually.

Some examples:
* Pressing insights – compares different pressings of the same album and highlights when the version you own might not be the best sounding or most collectible one.
* Contributor networks – maps relationships between artists, producers, engineers, and labels across your collection. You often discover unexpected connections between records.
* Collection analytics – shows patterns in decades, genres, labels, and recording locations across the collection.
* Contextual reviews – aggregates reviews and commentary about specific releases rather than just the album.

Tech stack:
- Next.js
- Discogs API
- vector search for similarity across releases
- AI summarization for reviews and metadata

It’s optimized for large collections (tested with ~2000 records so far).

Curious what other collectors or Discogs users think.
Would also love feedback on what kinds of analysis would actually be useful.

Best, tom
by Tmkly | 2026-03-05 16:51:41+00:00
Location: London, UK
Remote: Yes

Willing to relocate: No

Technologies: Typescript, React Native, React, AWS, Node.js. Some Swift/Kotlin/Java (would like to do more, especially Swift). Have written some Lua. I like writing automation scripts in Bash. Heavy user of lots of Terminal-based tools, such as Neovim, Tmux, etc (see my dotfiles: https://github.com/tomoakley/dotfiles)

Résumé/CV: https://www.linkedin.com/in/tomoakley Email: tom[dot]oakley[@]me.com

I am a Lead Engineer at a small tech company in London called TotallyMoney, where I have been for the past 7 years, specialising in React Native (and some work on the web). During my time there the iOS/Android app has become the main focus for the company (however we maintain a web app too). I have been a large part of driving the app forward, both technically and in terms of the product. I have been a software engineer for 10 years and have a degree in Computer Science.

Some highlights of things I have worked on include new CI pipelines (automated testing, creating new app targets for manual testing and more), universal/app links, Swift and Java native/turbo/nitro modules, automated “real device” testing using AWS device farm and Maestro, spinning up our own CodePush server on AWS, and many features written in TypeScript. The app is not written with the Expo framework so I have had a lot of opportunities to understand React Native more - but open to working on an Expo app.

I want to remain focussing on React Native although I’d love the opportunity to write more Swift/Java, and also open to working on the web some of the time.

A hybrid approach to in-office/home works well for me (ideally 2 days in-office) but a full-remote job would be ok for the right role/company. Not open to relocation but some travel would be ok.

Thanks for reading!