MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by braincat31415 | 2026-03-06 16:30:53+00:00
That's exactly the kind of simplistic thinking that I was talking about.
People had legitimate concerns about cost of living, food inflation (look at the charts of food prices 2020-2024), ballooning national debt, military adventures, crime, fraud, expensive housing and rent. I could go on.
Trump's government is unlikely to offer any solutions to the above, but that's a different story. Voting because they wanted libs to suffer... sheesh. Most people are not that dumb and have objective reasons to vote a certain way. Any party that wants to stay in power longer will have to address these issues.
Do you really think an average family is more concerned about trans issues than their inability to afford a house?
by dlcarrier | 2026-03-06 16:30:55+00:00
This is what offices exist for. In fields where efficiency matters, you end up with contractors, working remotely, getting paid by the project, and not being tied to one company. This is how lots of engineering and architecture works as well as many other fields.

In a work environment dominated by office social situations, language plays a key role in establishing social status, but there are other forms of posturing, with promotions generally based more on social status than job performance, reinforcing the social hierarchy. Technical buzzwords aren't even the only kind of jargon used in this manor, there's often an entire litany of language used outside of the job functions themselves. For example, human resources has its own language rules.

The author has come across this phenomenon and is attributing it to language alone, but there is far more involved here.
by csa | 2026-03-06 16:31:57+00:00
> The rules are simple and ancient: noble blood breeds nobles; common blood breeds commoners.

This is a great narrative for folks who want to be fatalistic.

From my view:

- Much of what you call “nobles” and “commoners” are more about values than blood. Yes, “noble” values are difficult to develop if you’re not born in that class. That said, these values are easier to learn and develop today for a wider group of people than has ever been true in the past.

- Some people think the “noble” side is all rainbows and unicorns. The noble class is shedding its weak non-stop. It may take a generation or two before a branch of a noble family becomes common, but it happens often, and it’s a source of great consternation to that branch when it does.

> What’s sophisticated are the layers of ideology and falsehood that made people believe that aristocracy was dead.

Did anyone actually think the aristocracy was dead?

The relative power of the aristocracy dipped a bit mid-20th century, but what they may have temporarily lost in economic power was gained in social and political power.
by pinkmuffinere | 2026-03-06 16:31:58+00:00
I think it will change when the people that don't believe in global warming die off, ala 'Science progresses one funeral at a time'. For the US, that's basically Boomers and Gen X [1], so I still think your 10 - 20 years estimate is decent (they don't have to _all_ die, but as more pass away I expect progress)

[1] https://www.pewresearch.org/short-reads/2021/05/26/key-findi...
by cogman10 | 2026-03-06 16:32:08+00:00
I have a different different take. It's not the electorate's pocketbook that matters, it's the political donors pocketbook that matters.

"Drill baby drill" will be echoed so long as petroleum companies and petroleum rich nations dump billions into propaganda outlets, politician campaigns, and in the US, PAC groups to support "drill baby drill" friendly politicians.

So long as that dynamic exists, it doesn't matter if 80% of the electorate screams for change. So long as the incumbent advantage exists forcing people to vote mostly on social issues, these sorts of economic and world affecting issues will simply be ignored.

There's a reason, to this day, you'll find Democrats talk about the wonders of fracking, clean coal, and carbon capture.

IDK how to change this other than first identifying the issue. Our politicians are mostly captured by their donors. That's the only will they really care about enacting.
by butILoveLife | 2026-03-06 16:32:13+00:00
You have the word 'falsifiable' backwards.

>it'll vary a ton based on which job we're talking about, but it still sounds like something you could assign a metric to

This is the problem, you didn't you can find 100000000 ways for it to be correct. 'They didn't eat breakfast, and they spent 1 second on HN. Therefore breakfast would have been better.'
by arrowleaf | 2026-03-06 16:32:24+00:00
Wildfires across North America really scare me. I live in a valley in the west where wildfire smoke from not only our state but surrounding states comes in and settles, leaving an AQI over 150 for most of late July through September.

Not only climate change, but aggressive firefighting over the past 50 or more years has caused a lot of material low in the fire ladder to accumulate, which in natural or at least pre-Columbian forests would be cleared out by routine fires. Brush and deadfall for example. The larger trees in healthy forests don't succumb to fire, but these fires have been decimating whole stands of trees. Pair that with almost zero snowpack this year, the only positive thing I can say is that I'm glad I can enjoy spring a bit earlier this year.
Show HN: Claude skill to do your taxes
by rob313 | 2026-03-06 16:32:25+00:00
TL;DR Claude Code did my 2024 and 2025 taxes. Added a skill that anyone can use to do their own.

I tested it against TurboTax on my own 2024 and 2025 return. Same result without clicking through 45 minutes of wizard steps.

Would love PRs or feedback as we come up on tax season.

Learnings from replacing TurboTax with Claude

Skill looping
The first iteration of my taxes took almost an hour and a decent amount of prompting. Many context compactions, tons of PDF issues, lots of exploration.
When it was done, I asked Claude to write the skill to make it faster the next time (eg: Always check for XFA tags first when discovering form fields)

Skills aren’t just .MD files anymore
Now they’re folders that can contain code snippets, example files, rules.
In 2025 we were all building custom agents with custom tools.
In 2026 every agent has its own code execution, network connection, and workspace. So it’s custom skills on the same agent (trending towards Claude Code or Cowork)
by phatskat | 2026-03-06 16:32:45+00:00
This is imo much worse than NPM, and full disclosure NPM is a part of our stack and I do not vet every package - I’d be out of a job if I took the time…

That said, packages can be audited, and people can validate that version X does what it says on the tin.

AI is a black box, however. Doesn’t matter what version, or what instructions you give it, whether it does what you want or even what it purports is completely up to chance, and that to me is a lot more risk to swallow. Leftpad was bad, sure, and it was also trivial to fix. LLMs are a different class of pain all together, and I’m not sure what lasting and effective protection looks like.
by vunderba | 2026-03-06 16:32:46+00:00
Very cool! Depending on your local hardware, you could also run something like Z-Image Turbo or Klein locally, then use a daily CRON to pre-compute a bunch of new images for the game and serve them online as well~

That way you've got a fallback when credits run out, or if the 3rd party API takes too long to generate a new image, etc.
by juanre | 2026-03-06 16:32:55+00:00
They are having actual chats, I made https://beadhub.ai for this (OSS, MIT).

It started its life adding agent-to-agent communication and coordination around Steve Yegge's beads, but it's ended up being an issue tracker for agents with postgres backend, and communication between agents as first-class feature.

Because it is server-backed it allows messaging and coordination across agents belonging to several humans and machines. I've been using it for a couple of months now, and it has a growing number of users (I should probably set up a discord for it).

It is actually a public project, so you can see the agent's conversations at https://app.beadhub.ai/juanre/beadhub/chat (right now they are debugging working without beads). The conversation in which Eve was blaming Bob was indeed with me.
by fny | 2026-03-06 16:32:57+00:00
Even though a lot of what people with agents is wreckless, they often build their own guillotine in the process too.

Problem #1: He decided to shoehorn two projects into 1 even though Claude told him not to.

Problem #2: Claude started creating a bunch of unnecessary resources because another archive was unpacked. Instead of investigating this despite his "terror" the author let Claude continue and did not investigate.

Problem #3: He approved "terraform destroy" which obviously nukes the DB! It's clear he didn't understand, and he didn't even have a backup!

> That looked logical: if Terraform created the resources, Terraform should remove them. So I didn’t stop the agent from running terraform destroy
by axus | 2026-03-06 16:33:00+00:00
Haven and Hearth has "sprucecaps" and "hermits". The elite in these games arise when they are willing to work in groups, willing to use violence against isolated players, and willing to use automation.

Haven't put any time in MMORPGs for 15 years, but aren't there still "exclusive" guilds that do things regular players can only aspire to?
by gcp | 2026-03-06 16:33:14+00:00
I'm quite confident to say that millions of people use Firefox to comment on Reddit or similar sites every day, or write long posts, without seeing this problem.

Without knowing more about your configuration, it's hard to give advice, but definitely worth trying with a clean profile first.

If you don't report this problem upstream it will never get fixed, as obviously no-one else is seeing this. Firefox has a built-in profiler that you can use to report performance problems like this.
by rhogar | 2026-03-06 16:33:28+00:00
This is very close to the thesis, or at least theme, of the essays in The Mythical Man-Month, Fred Brooks. Some elements are dated (1975), but many feel timeless.

Brooks law “Adding manpower to a late software project makes it later” is just the surface of some of the metaphorical language that has most stuck with me: large systems and teams quickening entanglement in tar pits through their struggle against coordination scaling pains, conceptual integrity in design akin to preserving architectural unity of Reims cathedral, roles and limitations attempting to expand surgical teams, etc.

Love a good metaphor, even when its foundation is overextended or out of date. Highly recommend.
by DennisP | 2026-03-06 16:33:34+00:00
And since perhaps a source would be helpful, here's the research saying climate change is having a significant effect:

https://agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1029/2023gl10...

BBC reporting:

https://www.bbc.com/future/article/20240524-severe-turbulenc...
by SilverElfin | 2026-03-06 16:33:50+00:00
This is real and a danger. China is much more directly authoritarian and oppressive than America ever was or can be. The Trump administration is bad but it’s one administration. China’s centralized control, strategy of using loans and BRI as international leverage, of annexing Tibet / Taiwan / getting into other border skirmishes, using censorship / coercion / force to control its citizens, etc will continue indefinitely. Unless the CCP is replaced.

If Americans become disillusioned with their own country’s economic opportunities or whatever else, they will indeed view China as less of a threat. And that will lead to China ultimately becoming the new superpower replacing the American hegemony. I doubt that’s actually better for the world. The fix is for America to become more fair, to put an end to the idea of megacorps and billionaires, and to revive its fundamental liberal values. Otherwise we can expect young people to continue being disillusioned.
by ohhnoodont | 2026-03-06 16:33:57+00:00
> How about the part where children cannot legally create accounts of their own, on computers that they own?

Where is that actually stated in any law being discussed? If a parent gives a child a device with admin access, that’s their choice to do so. But it also makes sense that we, the minds behind all of this technology, also provide parents with the most basic of tools to restrict a child’s access online and hold accountable companies that knowingly serve adult content to children. That’s all the CA law does AFAIK.

Sure, my generation was raised on 4chan. But I can understand why parents today may want the tools to limit that.
by thebuilderjr | 2026-03-06 16:34:11+00:00
Nice fit for debugging pipelines. A feature that would make this especially useful is a real tensor-diff mode: choose two compatible tensors or checkpoints and render absolute/relative error heatmaps plus percentile stats. Side-by-side comparison is helpful, but the diff view is usually where you can immediately see where two runs, preprocessing branches, or layers start diverging.
by analyte123 | 2026-03-06 16:34:27+00:00
Please consider extending the game at least by a couple weeks! I’m very curious what percent of all California payphones could be captured with an extended game. I know the game’s phone number isn’t free but I’m sure it could be largely covered by donations.

Without even going and playing the game yet, it’s already let me understand more of the local geography. Lots of small nursing homes, behavioral institutions, and halfway houses have a payphone. Places that thankfully I haven’t had to think about and didn’t even know were there. I doubt most of these will be captured.

Many have lamented the demise of the payphone but it really bears repeating. If someone loses or is robbed of their phone, they have to rely on the trust of strangers (when they may be looking pretty rough themselves) or scrape up $20-40 for a prepaid phone at a store that’s open, rather than calling at a payphone that’s open 24/7 for 25 or 50 cents or even for free with a collect call.
by DrBazza | 2026-03-06 16:34:28+00:00
> “Corporate bullshit is a specific style of communication that uses confusing, abstract buzzwords in a functionally misleading way,” said Littrell, a postdoctoral researcher in the College of Arts and Sciences. “Unlike technical jargon, which can sometimes make office communication a little easier, corporate bullshit confuses rather than clarifies. It may sound impressive, but it is semantically empty.”

Modern politics by a different name. The parallels are obvious, along with the Peter Principle and so on.

Lots of people on here saying 'that's not me', but probably say 'ping me back' or 'learnings' which is very much one end of the spectrum of corporate bullshit that infects everyone. Some of it is stupidity (the English language has a word: 'lessons'), some of it is natural language evolution, and some of it is 'global' English: 'please revert', and some of it is very intentional management waffle. As the (unviersity) saying goes, 'if you can't blind 'em with science, baffle them with bullshit'.
by wing-_-nuts | 2026-03-06 16:34:31+00:00
This is so disingenuous. Individuals do not build coal power plants, utilities (and therefore, governments) do. India and China are continuing to build fossil fuel power generation. Global warming does not care about 'fairness', global warming cares about co2 PPM in the atmosphere. When we address climate change, we have to do so at the government level, or we mine as well not bother.

The whole idea that we should look at 'emissions per capita' or 'historical emissions' in the interest of fairness is simply giving a license to governments to kill genuinely poor people in the third world.
by NoboruWataya | 2026-03-06 16:34:35+00:00
> The interesting pattern: the biggest clusters aren't where the shipping companies are. They're in Panama, Liberia, and the Marshall Islands, the world's largest open registries.

Genuine question, how is this interesting? Surely it just renders the data useless for assessing anything other than "what are the most popular open ship registries"?
by eth0up | 2026-03-06 16:34:36+00:00
Unable to afford a Google-free phone, I strictly use Moto, which with a bit of adb work and a lot of disabling shitware, gets close to actual Android. They also have excellent glass, aside from doing all I require of them.

I see criticism of Open Cam already, but I recommend trying it, with patience, and seeing what it can do. All my art images, all my videos, are all taken with open camera.

Edit: for the macro setting, it allows fine tuning, but the manual focus and manual zoom functions are superb for my purposes.

Edit2: Maybe irrelevant, but I always disable the stock camera and anything camera related. Not sure if that helps, but I know I don't want any fucking thing to do with shitware, so go as nuclear as possible.
by jonjacky | 2026-03-06 16:34:57+00:00
Thanks, I see. In your README you do briefly mention static vs dynamic, NMOS vs CMOS, and 6502 vs 65C02 but I didn't appreciate those could make a 3x difference in the transistor count.

I agree it's a nice CPU design, and the whole project is quite impressive. Will Tiny Tapeout make you an actual chip that you can run?

I'm curious about how you used Claude. Is the CPU design itself completely handmade, or did Claude fill in some details? Did you use Claude for both the Verilog code and the Python emulator and test code? Did you provide Claude
with some of your own hand-written code to demonstrate the style you wanted and get it started?
by esseph | 2026-03-06 16:35:12+00:00
> I surprised more US folks dont visit Canada, its amazing, much safer, and cheaper for them because of the exchange difference.

1. A lot of people can't afford vacations right now

2. For people in the US, socially and culturally, there's not much of a "drive" or desire to visit Canada. I've worked for Canadian companies, etc. I've never once in my entire life heard somebody talk about visiting Canada. It's always someplace warm and tropical or it's Europe or Asia.
by thewebguyd | 2026-03-06 16:35:24+00:00
Tbh, if companies want to use AI to lay off and cut costs, that's exactly where they should be doing it, not engineering.

How much bloat and bureaucracy bottleneck is sitting in middle management whose favorite past time is wasting everyone's time on meetings that could have been an email? HR? Not the execs, but the HR drones that do nothing but answer employee questions about policy, could have already been replaced with not even an AI, just an old school chatbot, a long time ago.

Instead of cutting engineers, cut the non-tech jobs, flatten the structure.
by macNchz | 2026-03-06 16:35:30+00:00
Ultimately I think all of what you describe there falls into a bucket of personality traits and social skills that contribute to success in many areas of life.

It's some combination of what they call "self monitoring" in social psychology, plus general EQ and Machiavellian personality traits that allow people to read the room and adjust their tone, speaking style, word choice (including picking up in-group lingo quickly), posture etc to be most effective given the setting. This applies to basically any social environment, and is often a frustrating reality to many people who may be extremely competent but see others around them who are obviously less competent "getting ahead" through social acumen, office politics etc.

This has been studied among MBA graduates, Do Chameleons Get Ahead, The Effects of Self-Monitoring on Managerial Careers (pdf): https://web.mit.edu/curhan/www/docs/Articles/15341_Readings/...
by NDizzle | 2026-03-06 16:35:38+00:00
Well, it was kind of the only game in town. Sure, you had Dark Sun Online and Meridian 59, but in 96/97 you were playing UO if you liked the idea of online worlds.

I think the barrier to entry is the equivalent of several complete, fun, balanced single player games operating together in balanced harmony. Not impossible, but highly improbable.
by dgacmu | 2026-03-06 16:35:44+00:00
AC3ME. Probably the most useless ham licensee ever. Wanted to be able to say hi on a local repeater for fun and testing a handheld I got, turns out it's not too hard to get US amateur extra when you already know most of the electronics theory and just need to memorize some rules and adapt to terminology, but I don't really use it very actively. But glad I have it - I have some beacon design projects in mind for the someday maybe pile, but basically everything I play with is in the ISM bands and I usually work a layer or three above physical.
by zimpenfish | 2026-03-06 16:36:02+00:00
> But I was hoping that would be an updated Apple watch

Yeah, I think that might come in the future but it's probably a patent minefield[0]. That said I think Ringconn mentioned that they were looking at implementing it for their smart rings in the "near future" - who knows?

[0] There's also the "calibration against the smart cuff" step which I'm guessing any solution would need and that's probably a whole other FDA/patent minefield. Also tricky to have to sell a watch model with a required cuff and have to disable the BP functionality on watches that don't have a matched cuff. You can imagine the HN headlines...
by tommywilczek | 2026-03-06 16:36:07+00:00
totally. to get it out the door I kept it in the cloud but that would be a good optimization.

Honestly the biggest issue I've been facing is google's ability to host its 3 flash/3.1 flash-lite models. They CONSTANTLY return 503: model unavailable due to high usage... Next step will be to play with a more reliable LLM that's still fast and smart enough.
by squidleon | 2026-03-06 16:36:18+00:00
So: I took most of the infrastructure from the my first attempt at moongate (https://github.com/moongate-community/moongate, which failed miserably along with https://github.com/tgiachi/Prima). From there, I had a good starting point to quickly build the foundations. I had already done the Lua scripting part in another project (https://github.com/tgiachi/Lilly.Engine). Codex helped me with all the testing, implementing functionality and creating tests, so at least I have a good sparring pattern. For the data import part (which I called FileLoaders), I took the logic from ModernUO. For the items part, I created a script (scripts/dfn_*.sh) to import items from POL! Thanks for the compliments! The way I am, if I fixate on something, it becomes an obsession!
by cyanydeez | 2026-03-06 16:36:28+00:00
On the internet the default pisition is not true/untrue; its, why should I acknowledge you?

If you are still trying to gauge truth before this, you are poisoning your mental heuristics. Thats why propaganda are ao effecfive: you can be told something is either, and it can still be effective.

Humans and LLMs are similar: the separation between input and commands is not a hard barrier.

So, back to GP: CLIMATE CHANGE is reversible. It just depends on whether we are talking about socipecnomics or physical processes.
by fuzzfactor | 2026-03-06 16:36:43+00:00
I would say the thing that's needed most, and might serve to differentiate from lesser approaches would be to have complete references for each answer given.

So the user knows where the raw info came from to begin with, how any conclusions were arrived at, and where to go for further details besides an efficiently distilled answer.

Not my downvote btw, corrective upvote actually. It would be good to see more input from a variety of experiences.
by resoluteteeth | 2026-03-06 16:36:45+00:00
> Better air quality is one of the best (and cheapest) ways to improve overall health.[1]

While I think that the things the person lists on that site are good precautions (although I think not using an ultrasonic humidifier would be better stated as only using distilled water with ultrasonic humidifiers), I think that saying that doing these things is "is one of the best (and cheapest) ways to improve overall health" is too strong, because while there are lots of studies showing population level correlations between pm2.5 particles and health problems, I don't think there is currently evidence specifically showing that things like using air purifiers actually improve health.