MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by jmyeet | 2026-03-11 22:06:07+00:00
In a just world many people would go the gallows for the decades of harm the US has inflicted on Iran for basically no reason whatsoever other than to benefit oil companies.

We overthrew their democratically elected government to install the Shah as a puppet dictator because the British goaded us into it by hand-waving about "communism" after Iran nationalized their own oil reserves from the Anglo-Iranian Company (which became BP). What followed was a brutal era of repression where American companies took a slice of oil revenue.

Once this became untenable, another of our puppets, Saddam Hussein, ejected the future Ayatollah Khomenei from Iraq in 1978. Why? Because we wanted the religious fundamentalists to win instead of the communists, which might bring Iran into the Soviet sphere of influence.

we then propped up a decade of war with Iraq by supplying Iraq with weapons. More than a million people died.

Iran has weathered decades of sanctions, which is a fancy way of saying "we're going to starve you and deny your citizens basic medical care". The death toll for this is also likely in the millions.

We've let our rabid attack dog in the region, Israel, bomb Iranian consulates (eg Damascus), assassinate scientists, diplomators and negotiators, bomb them with impunity and otherwise commit regular war crimes.

We've gone to war for no other reason than Israel wants Iran to be a fail-state because it threatens the Greater Israel project [1]. It's clear that there was no military planning in any of this or, more likely, military planners probably said "this is a bad idea, we can't win" and they were ignored.

Iran continued complying with the JCPOA for at least a year after Trump cancelled it at the behest of Sheldon Adelson [2].

All of this while Saudi Arabia, our "ally", provided material suport to the 9/11 hijackers [3]. Our attack dog spies on us. A lot eg Jonathon Pollard [4]. And Jeffrey Epstein was almost certainly a Mossad access asset that compromised every level of our government, our companies and our educational institutions.

We are the bad guys here and I hope one day Iran gets some justice for the harm we've inflicted upon it.

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Greater_Israel

[2]: https://fpif.org/these-three-billionaires-paved-way-for-trum...

[3]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alleged_Saudi_role_in_the_Sept...

[4]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jonathan_Pollard
by lurkshark | 2026-03-11 22:07:02+00:00
I assume we’ll end up with proof-of-identity attestation as a part of public posting (e.g. Worldcoin) which doesn’t necessarily solve the issue but will at least identify patterns more likely to be LLMs (e.g. a firehose of posts at all hours of the day from one identity). Then we’ll enter the dystopia of mandated real identity on the internet
by mft_ | 2026-03-11 22:07:04+00:00
Wider participation in voting? Easier to vote for people who can’t travel to the voting station, for myriad reasons? Just more efficient for everyone involved?

And bigger picture, once you prove a system that’s easier, more efficient, reliable… you could expand to more votes on more things. Like… the Swiss do.

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(A German advocating for paper-based bureaucracy… whatever next? ;) )
by fwn | 2026-03-11 22:07:13+00:00
The obvious reason is, of course, money.

Since rare handles can generate high prices and are returned to auction once the buyer fails to meet their obligations, Twitter has a strong incentive to increase the number of handles in its auction pool.

The relevant product manager has probably ranked existing attractive handles according to their expected mobilisation/outrage potential and started confiscating handles from the bottom of that list.

This is probably also why you won't be notified about their auction of your handle, even though you'll receive email alerts for irrelevant stuff all the time. The process looks designed to be stealthy.

Money really is the trivial Occam's razor explanation here.
by tomp | 2026-03-11 22:07:18+00:00
Why are you lying?

from https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Helios_Voting

> The centralized server must be trusted not to violate ballot secrecy,[7] this limitation can be mitigated against by distributing trust amongst several stakeholders.

> The ballot auditing/reconstruction device must be trusted to ensure successful ballot auditing (also known as cast-as-intended verifiability),[7][16] this limitation can be mitigated against by distributing auditing checks amongst several devices, only one of which must be trusted.

So neither secure nor anonymous...
by ang_cire | 2026-03-11 22:07:26+00:00
> There is a real benefit to having the American experiment prominent and continuing.

The American 'experiment' is one long history of the US doing really horrible things, but giving ourselves a pass because we dress it up in the name of freedom and self-determination.

If you ignore our slavery and the genocide of Native Americans, it's easy to paint China's slavery and genocide as evils that are unique somehow.

The real experiment of America is in seeing how self-deluded we can become if we continuously reinforce the false premise that our institutions are intrinsically good (or at least, nebulously "better").
by tim-tday | 2026-03-11 22:07:44+00:00
Billionaires fleeing taxes is all you need to know to disprove the concept of UBI.

UBI only works if the capital hoarders willingly give some of it up. They won’t.

Hoarders is a harsh word, but ask yourself how well does bezos pay Amazon warehouse workers (they’re all on public assistance). He’s a billionaire because he takes it.

Even warren buffet the kindly oracle of Omaha got his start by laying off workers en masse.

Behind every great fortune there’s a great crime.
by j45 | 2026-03-11 22:08:54+00:00
If the Neo had been the next 12" macbook (2.0 lb), it would be the first apple product I would have lined up for.

The article sums up why quite well:

"The biggest shortcoming of the decade-ago MacBook “One”, aside from the baffling decision to include just one USB-C port that was also its only means of charging, was the shitty performance of Intel’s Core M chips. Those chips were small enough and low-power enough to fit in the MacBook’s thin and fan-less enclosure, but they were slow as balls. It was a huge compromise for a laptop that carried a somewhat premium price. Today, performance, performance-per-watt, and physical chip size are all solved problems with Apple Silicon. I’d consider paying double the price of the Neo for a MacBook with similar specs (but more RAM and better I/O) that weighed 2.0 pounds or less. I’d buy such a MacBook not to replace my 14-inch MacBook Pro, but to replace my 2018 11-inch iPad Pro as my “carry around the house” secondary computer.5"
Show HN: Chanchito, a 30-day system to organize your finances (for Latam)
by azhtom | 2026-03-11 22:09:46+00:00
Hi HN,

I’m building Chanchito, a simple app that helps people organize their finances in 30 days.

In many countries in Latin America, people don’t really use budgeting apps. Most people track expenses in WhatsApp chats, spreadsheets, notes, or just try to remember where their money went.

The idea behind Chanchito is to make this easier. The focus is not complicated financial planning, but simply helping people understand their money within a month.

You can log income and expenses quickly, organize categories like savings, debt or services, and build a clear view of your monthly finances. You can also register transactions conversationally, including through WhatsApp.

It’s currently available for users across Latin America and I’m starting with Spanish-speaking users.

I’d really appreciate feedback from the HN community, especially from people building products for emerging markets.

https://chanchito.app

If anyone here is also building for LATAM, I’d love to hear about your experience.
by kjkjadksj | 2026-03-11 22:10:08+00:00
Apparently the FBI recently stymied a plot that involved using drones deployed from offshore vessels targeting california. As to what that vessel might be, a submarine, a missile cruiser, a civilian vessel knowing or not, a container on a ship, the report left no indication.

Either way the target is tempting. Japan attempted it using the technology of their time which was entirely unguided. Today drones are precision instruments vs random dart balloon bombs.
by abustamam | 2026-03-11 22:11:04+00:00
DEI is for all marginalized communities, not singled out to race or ethnicity. To call it racist is ignorant at best, and malicious at worst.

"Illegal" is not really a good proxy for this. DEI was perfectly legal a few years ago. Now DEI is illegal in some contexts because someone up top thought DEI was illegal and here we are.

If you don't want diversity, equity, and inclusion in your workforce, I'm not gonna call you racist, but it's pretty obvious that you don't care about the point of view of other cultures and people of different walks of life.

Face recognition algorithms are inaccurate against people of color. https://amnesty.ca/features/racial-bias-in-facial-recognitio...

If there were more people of color on the team developing such software, there wouldn't be any race singled out.
by the_gastropod | 2026-03-11 22:11:35+00:00
I think you're missing the crux of the point: why is anything the Trump administration says taken at face value? They have no commitment to the truth, whatsoever.

If Iran was on the path to developing nukes, the correct path here was to:

1. Show the evidence to congress, and declare war legally based on the facts.

2. Get international buy-in, and work with our allies (all of whom would very much like to prevent Iran from procuring a nuclear weapon).

This was a hastily started war with flimsy goals and seemingly no real urgency. And one of the first things we did as part of our attack was to bomb an elementary school, killing hundreds of children.

Critics of this war aren't "hell bent on not preventing the spread of nuclear weapons". We're mostly looking at the situation, and thinking "this is not great".
by ddtaylor | 2026-03-11 22:11:52+00:00
This is a welcome change and do will update Ethos [1] in the future with an AI sentiment score. I created a separate project called LLaMaudit [2] that attempts to detect if an LLM was used to generate text, but it needs to be improved.

[1]: https//ethos.devrupt.io
[2]: https://github.com/devrupt-io/LLaMAudit
by SirensOfTitan | 2026-03-11 22:12:10+00:00
The generic elevator music used for the demo video is highly representative of this whole concept: generic and derivative.

Seriously though, Perplexity, like most of the AI wrapper companies, seems unable to innovate much beyond the query-response chat paradigm. I don't understand why VCs continue to fund these ai-slop companies. I see a new company's advertisements on the NY subway every week, and they're all the same: Anthropic/Google/OpenAI resellers who are selling some UI wrapper (or at best a bespoke model worse than the flagships) on top of pretty basic prompt engineering or tools.

This is what happens when we invert the product-paradigm: we're not solving problems with technology, we're taking technology and applying it to problems.

I use AI every day, so I'm hardly a luddite, but this bubble is so ridiculous at this point. This perplexity product, more than any other so far, feels so representative of peak craze.
by maybewhenthesun | 2026-03-11 22:12:22+00:00
> money is exchanged for goods and services is just so foundational

it is in all large societies. That's true. But it is not in most small primitive societies. SO it's not like a law of nature, but more that we haven't found a system that works as well for large groups.

The trouble is that capitalism also has it's problems, and they're getting exacerbated by technological advancements. If you automate everything at a certain point there's just nothing to do for a large part of the population. And at that point the system stops working.

In science fiction we would get the 'post scarcity society', but nobody knows how that should work.

The UBI systems I've seen proposed that just might work are a sort of golden middle between those two. Not that different from the current welfare system we have in NL, but taking out the stress factor and stigma of receiving welfare.
by bonoboTP | 2026-03-11 22:12:27+00:00
Regardless of what gets taught in school about science being objective and without ego, or having a culture of adversarial checks on each other etc., the reality is that scientists are humans and have egos and have petty feuds.

Publishing a failed replication of the work of a colleague will not earn you many brownie points. I'm stating this as an observation of what is the case, not as something that I think should be the case. If you attack other researchers like this and damage their reputation - even if for valid scientific reason - you'll have a hard time when those colleagues sit on committees deciding about your next grant etc.

Of course if you discover something truly monumental that will override this. But simply sniping down the mediocre research published by other run-of-the-mill researchers will get you more trouble than good. Yes it's directly in contradiction to the textbook-ideal of what science should be, as described to high school students, but there are many things in life this way.

Of course it can be laudable to go on such a crusade despite all this, and to relentlessly pursue scientific truth, etc. but that just won't scale.
by jcims | 2026-03-11 22:12:31+00:00
>Why climb the large mountain to store your grain there just to have haul it back down later?

Yes and after going on a trip to Machu Picchu a few years ago, the locals don't seem to feel gravity quite the same way most of us do these days. There was a gal on our 4 day hike that got hit pretty hard with altitude sickness a day in. A local porter about her size carried her on his shoulders for the rest of the trip, in flip flops, and the only reason he stayed back with our slow asses was so she could talk to her husband along the way.

It's the most visceral experience I've had in the levels upon levels of human capability. Really wild to see in person.

Also Peru is phenomenal.
by notryanquinn | 2026-03-11 22:12:31+00:00
I’ve used RedwoodJS (now CedarJS) and still will for some GraphQL focused apps I have around. I always thought of old Redwood as the easiest way to get a GraphQL React app setup for success off the bat with nice deployment targets.

Now with RedwoodSDK I get the absolute easiest way to spin up a production-ready RSC app. Especially true if I don’t want to be on Vercel (I have loved Vercel’s value prop. Many old apps of mine actually still use their pro tier.)

I had already started to move pieces of apps to Cloudflare as their offerings and free tier felt insane not to take advantage of.
Cloudflare as a platform has been awesome for me:

~They have awesomely linear cost scaling. I don’t have to have mini apps to figure out when I cross tiers of usage to the same degree.

~I get a world-class CDN just there by default.

~Cloudflare charges a lot of things at a more base level which is getting more common now, but basically charging execution time not duration the worker was waiting around.

~R2, the S3 equivalent, has no egress fees so easy buy in.

~Cloudflare is already public with the infra layer there so less rug-pull fear.

~Durable Objects make stateful coordination and atomic colocation of data&compute near a user suuuuuper easy.

Then RWSDK glues it together in a way that is super AI friendly, extensible, easy to reason about because it’s just sortve handing off the req res to RSC.

I’ve almost been calling it the frameworkless framework because it just lets me do Typescript RSC. The magic is the no magic. My code does my code without crazy wiring behind curtains.

I’ve ended up with maxing lighthouse scores, deleting massive chunks of code, better seo from SSR, and feeling like I own my code. AI does amazing because then it is just writing TS functions or classes or RSC code, or Cloudflare has had pretty stable APIs / it is easy to put a few docs examples in. No making sure the AI keeps up with the new cache directive haha. (Once again I love a Vercel’s offerings, but I also love being able to surface level reason about what is happening 100% of the way through my code because of RWSDK).

I have had apps running with this for what must be a year now so can attest to stability. All problems have been me problems haha, or they were quickly rectified with awesome team.
by abdullahkhalids | 2026-03-11 22:12:41+00:00
> The database is the instant answer at election closing time, and then you can take some days to count the papers as confirmation that nothing weird happened.

You are misunderstanding "who to trust".

The source of trust in a paper vote election is your party's representative + independent election observers. You believe them that they were sitting at the polling station all day, watching both the voting and counting, and nothing fishy happened. You don't have to trust the state officials in any way, and you don't have to trust any one else either. Just your party - which is kind of the point. The only people you maximally trust is your party.

In your proposal, you are saying that to trust the outcome, I must trust the state officials - the ones who built the machines. Those are exactly the people I distrust to do a fair election.
by rlt | 2026-03-11 22:12:46+00:00
I feel like we need a distributed system/protocol that allows people to have pseudonyms not linked to their real identity, but with a shared reputation/trust score, so if you’re a bad actor using a pseudonym your real identity and all your other sock puppets are penalized too.

I know very little about this but sense that some combination of buzzwords like homomorphic encryption, zk-snarks, and yes, blockchains could be useful.

Of course this would present problems if any of your identities were ever compromised and your reputation destroyed.
by jmull | 2026-03-11 22:12:48+00:00
If the goal is to read what actual humans think, it's hard to see how an LLM filter can do anything but obscure and degrade the content.

LLMs, as we know them, express things using the patterns they've been developed to prefer. There's a flattening, genericizing effect built in.

If there are people who find an LLM filter to be an enhancement, they can run everything through their favorite LLM themselves.
by observationist | 2026-03-11 22:13:16+00:00
It doesn't matter what you know so much as who you know. Networking is the most precious currency. He met the right people, got the right guests, and surfed a wave of fortunate occurrences. He was roommates with Dylan Patel of TheIjnformation, and John Y of Asionometry, and has since developed a wide range of high level industry contacts.

Sometimes people succeed without earning it, and what matters is what they do with the success afterwards. I'd say Dwarkesh earned it, but got lucky and caught the right waves, and has surfed the hell out of his success. He's had consistently well informed, level headed takes, and has engaged the field with insight and honest curiousity.

When I see people surf like that, I applaud it. There's nothing grifty or shady, he's just had a great series of excellent opportunities and has played them for everything they're worth. Once he had a few billionaires on, that was all the social cache he needed to continue attracting guests and high level researchers and other figures in AI.
by kibwen | 2026-03-11 22:13:18+00:00
Supporting single-ownership in a language doesn't mean you can't have opt-in copyability and/or multiple-ownership. This is how Rust already works, and is independent of the borrow checker.

If we consider a Rust-like language without the borrow checker, it's obviously still Turing-complete. For functions that take references as parameters, instead you would simply pass ownership of the value back to the caller as part of the return value. And for structs that hold references, you would instead have them hold reference-counted handles. The former case is merely less convenient, and the latter case is merely less efficient.
by abcde666777 | 2026-03-11 22:13:20+00:00
For a while video was a holdout of sorts - e.g. if someone posted video content of themselves or their voice you could trust a real person was behind it.

But now convincing fake video generation is easily accessible, so one more holdout stands to fall.

It does seem like some kind of ID system is going to be the only way. Sucky but inevitable.

I often have the following thought: technological advancement, for all its boons, inevitably leads down destructive roads in the long run. Sooner or later we open a pandora's box.
by loeber | 2026-03-11 22:13:20+00:00
This is both (1) not necessarily true -- there's no first-principles reason why being powerful implies being unethical -- and (2) deeply pessimistic and defeatist. You can apply whataboutism and say that everyone's equally bad, but I assure you that there's a pretty big difference, even down to your quality life, between the types of systems you choose to participate in.
by nomel | 2026-03-11 22:13:36+00:00
Maybe a reasonable approach would be that people could flag posts with a "probably AI" button to eventually trigger a "bot test" for that account (currently, the "score 5 in this mini game" type seem pretty clanker proof). If they pass, their posts for the hour, week, whatever result in a "not AI" indicator when someone clicks the "probably AI" button.
by prmoustache | 2026-03-11 22:13:41+00:00
I don't think you need a Mac to get a decent trackpad. You need one maybe to have a great one.

That is the main difference to me. I hate crappy trackpads but the ones on my 2 thinkpads are good enough for the nomad/mobile use. That doesn't mean I wouldn't prefer the one on a Mac but I wouldn't want to suffer a hostile, OS and lack of repairability just to get a better trackpad.
by Hauk307 | 2026-03-11 22:13:43+00:00
This is exactly what I've been looking for. I run a Mac mini as an always-on server for a side project and the API costs for cloud models are adding up fast. Being able to run something locally even at slower speeds would be a game changer for background tasks. What kind of tokens/sec are you seeing on a base M2 Mac mini with 16GB?
by keithnz | 2026-03-11 22:13:57+00:00
No, the old internet wasn't that great. There were so many problems. Finding things was hard, buying things was hard, integrating things was hard, compatibility was hard, everything was super fractured. It felt great at the time because you discovered all these random things and it was all novel at the time. Centralized (Or decentralized collaborative services like IRC or Usenet) really unlocked the power of the internet.
by kelnos | 2026-03-11 22:14:22+00:00
> Do I prefer low-effort, off-the-top-of-my-head reactions, as long as it is human? Or do I want an insightful, well-thought-out response, even if it is LLM-enhanced?

Neither. I want insightful, well-thought-out, human comments.

It's a little sad that this might be too much to ask sometimes...
by love2read | 2026-03-11 22:15:01+00:00
Seems to fail to mention that clearly documented AI-generated PR's (especially autonomously created ones) tend to have a much higher bar of acceptance, hinging on the reviewer's relationship with AI.

With this consideration, I submit that All of the SWE-bench-Passing PRs over a certain line count threshold would not be merged (if clearly noted as autonomous AI contributions).
by reliabilityguy | 2026-03-11 22:15:12+00:00
> This is an interesting issue: what constitutes a valid military target?

Any form of supply chain was considered a valid military target, e.g., refineries, factories, assembly lines, etc. If an army relies on tech from, say a cloud provider via gov cloud, then it can be argued that disrupting cloud operations and thus hindering army's coordination, information collection, etc., is a valid target.

So, I am not sure there is anything new here.