MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by pajuhaan | 2026-03-11 14:24:55+00:00
In this manuscript, I try to explain clearly what C-space is and why i believe the simple postulate Rω=c may be far more fundamental than it first appears. Following its consequences led me to results i was not originally chasing, including emergent relations for electron mass, charge, the coupling Alpha (1/137..), and several other physical quantities.

My view is becoming increasingly simple: the missing key behind quantum gravity may not be a more complicated structure, it's a simpler one, the idea that wave-function evolution is locked to the speed of light through. simple, but powerful!!

At this point, i think the theory deserves serious reading from physicists willing to examine it carefully and, if it holds up, advocate for it. I've been developing it largely independently, and i hope to eventually present it in seminars as well. If the situation in Iran changes, i believe that moment may finally be possible.

If you read it, I’d especially value criticism on the mathematical structure, physical interpretation, and whether the emergence claims are genuinely nontrivial.

I can pretty much tell that it's very unlikely to find a Lagrangian that leads to a closed-form formula for the electron mass (on loop in C-space model), then give proton mass in (N=3) and electroweak scale in N=4:

Electron: https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.17219278

Proton: https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.18108075

Bosons: https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.18769332
by itomekpl | 2026-03-11 14:25:29+00:00
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by orwin | 2026-03-11 14:26:49+00:00
The person I used to stay with when I used to visit WV don't have a proof of citizenship. He doesn't know where his birth certificate is (probably with the US army if they kept track of their nurses giving birth on ex-allied territory during a war), and get by with is SSN and driver license.

How it works in my country : my electoral card is freely sent to my address when I register to my voting office. I can vote with it, or with an official ID, as long as I'm in the correct place. The only moment I need my ID is to cast a vote on behalf of someone who identified me as a 'surrogate'.
by changoplatanero | 2026-03-11 14:26:55+00:00
I think you can in good conscious be opposed to new taxes. This tax is being introduced in a way that only affects the most privileged portion of the population but that's how the Federal income tax was introduced many years ago too. People who oppose the tax are looking forward to a future where the tax burden in Washington might be as oppressive as it is in California or New York.
by bpev | 2026-03-11 14:27:24+00:00
It was kinda funny to see the Lego Movie, which puts a bunch of emphasis on breaking the rules and mixing and matching everything, and then seeing them release the sets for the movie. I mean, it makes perfect sense. But it was still kinda lowkey humorous. But imo they're still a great toy; very fun to go to conventions and the like, where people just have giant piles of loose pieces you can buy by weight.
by agentseal | 2026-03-11 14:27:29+00:00
we scanned 50 popular shared .cursorrules files from github and found that 6 of them contained hidden zero-width unicode characters embedded between visible text

these characters are invisible to humans but LLMs tokenize them individually, meaning your model processes instructions you cant see on screen.

most were likely copy-paste artifacts but some had patterns consistent with deliberate instruction embedding using unicode tag characters (U+E0001-U+E007F range), which map 1:1 to invisible ASCII.

if you use shared cursor rules files from github, worth checking them. you can inspect any file with:

cat -v .cursorrules | grep -P '[\x{200B}\x{200D}\x{E0000}-\x{E007F}]'

or just open in a hex editor and look for sequences in the E0000 range.

full writeup with technical details here: https://lnkd.in/eVw49P4B

this is not a cursor issue, cursor itself is fine. the risk is from community shared rules files on github that people copy paste without inspecting.

stay safe out there
by soco | 2026-03-11 14:28:08+00:00
You just... deal? You think about it then make a law in a way or another, instead of this decision paralysis. I also assume all states will think about it (rather sooner than later) so it's all a matter of concern and will - if there's one, because in a world ruled by corporations and billionaires, if it's all left to them, the only ones paying for roads, military or community services will be you, me and our likes (I assumed there aren't many billionaires on HN and also won't be any time soon). The tax breaks trend seems to only increase, right?
by zinekeller | 2026-03-11 14:28:41+00:00
> What percentage of the population has an ID in a place where it's difficult to get one vs somewhere it is easier?

Not the OP, but except for passports (and passport cards)... there isn't really any federal-level ID in the US (and passport booklets/cards are expensive, just a bit over $100 IIRC).

The nearest equivalent in the state level are driver's licenses, which are also on the expensive side considering the ancillary costs (because it's a driver's license, not just an identification card). This is also the reason why US-centric companies like PayPal, for this exact reason, accepts a driver's license as proof of identification (obviously where not otherwise prohibited by local laws).

Some (New York for example) do have an ID (called a non-DL ID, that's how embedded driver's license is in the US), but most states do not have a per se ID.

> What constitutes an ID being expensive?

Developing countries, rather ironically, issue their IDs for free? Okay, indirectly paid by taxes, but there's no upfront cost. The above-mentioned identity documents have a clear cost attached to them.

> How is the rest of the world dealing with this problem? Do you think that their democratic processes might be compromised because of it?

Cannot talk about other countries (because there is an ID system and it's not a controversial affair to them), but instead I'll answer with a reflection of the US system.

Unfortunately, American ID politics are hard, mainly due to concerns of surveillance, but I think (only my opinion) because some of them want those historically disenfranchised (even if a fully native-born US citizen) de facto disenfranchised. This means that there is no uniform and freely-issued identification system in the US (or even a requirement to do that at the state level). Unfortunately, this... is a tough nut to crack, politically-speaking.
by gladiatr72 | 2026-03-11 14:28:53+00:00
I been Norman Mailered, Maxwell Taylored.
I been John O'Hara'd, McNamara'd
I been Rolling Stoned and Beatled 'til I'm blind.
I been Ayn Randed, nearly branded
Communist, 'cause I'm left-handed
That's the hand I use, well, never mind...

Simon & Garfunkel (1966)
by ericmay | 2026-03-11 14:28:53+00:00
In the United States at least, voter registration will include your place of residence which will place you in a specific precinct. In other words: "I am so and so, and I live here. Votes that affect this area include me, and I get a say."

When voters are voting for things, for example a tax levy to fund a new school, or for who will be their state or federal congressional representatives, it's important that the voters in that school district or in that congressional district are the ones voting for their representatives or for the bills or initiatives that affect them. This isn't quite as important for national elections, gubernatorial races, or for the senate at the federal level, but it's obviously incredibly important the more local you get.

Without voter registration, that model breaks down. Even mundane things like how much staff and equipment should be at a polling location is not easy to figure out when you don't know how many voters you'll have. If you haven't worked as a poll worker it's really enlightening to learn about how the process works and a great way to meet your neighbors.
by zvqcMMV6Zcr | 2026-03-11 14:29:16+00:00
For me it is 1. Terrible quality of all rubbery/soft elements. 2. If it is original model (instead of ripping of existing set), it often contains huge, shell like elements, that can't be easily be in custom designs. 3. I guess the previous point doesn't really matter, when bricks are designed to be assembled once and are impossible to pull apart without hurting your fingers.
by lvspiff | 2026-03-11 14:29:28+00:00
Living in Portland I meet SOOOO many tech people that live across the river in Vancouver just because of the income tax - WA has none - OR has a healthily number of them (5 lines worth of various taxes show up on my paystub).

Bigger impact im sure will be Seattle but the impact to Portland is not insignificant. I'm sure the WA tax would be less than the OR one though so I don't see the moves stopping, but probably akin to whats happened in CA where people moved to NV or AZ to escape some of the taxes (not a significant number but ive met enough to wonder). As people retire, they moved away to those places as they think they will be taxed less
by drdec | 2026-03-11 14:29:32+00:00
The first set of US federal tax rates when it was allowed by the 16th amendment with adjustments for inflation on the the right:

Orig Income Rate Adj Income (2025 Dollars)
Up to $20,000 1% Up to $600,000
$20,000 to $50,000 2% $600,000 to $1,500,000
$50,000 to $75,000 3% $1,500,000 to $2,250,000
$75,000 to $100,000 4% $2,250,000 to $3,000,000
Over $100,000 5% Over $3,000,000

The point being that once you allow the tax, it has a tendency to become more and more. It's much easier to raise income tax than establish it.

I don't have a dog in this fight and if it's what the people of Washington want, so be it.

(edited for formatting
by thiago_fm | 2026-03-11 14:29:48+00:00
Americans are about to find out why data protection laws exist in the EU, and why even the government has to follow it.

Nobody should have permission to query 70M Americans, it's a huge security flaw for the average citizen. But Pentagon has been doing this for a while a la Snowden, and the average american doesn't seem to be worried. With Snowden becoming a menace rather than a hero.

Once private government data from Americans starts being heavily used to mess up elections, or even worse, persecute people with a different opinion than the ruling party...

Americans will finally wake up that GDPR doesn't stiffle innovation, but rather protect its citizens from an evil actors.

But it may be too late, like when NSDAP started chasing jews and migrants. There was nothing they could do other than to flee to survive.
by bena | 2026-03-11 14:29:49+00:00
The elements that are 1/3 the height of a brick is a plate if it has studs, and a tile if it does not.

Lego did not have Star Wars sets until 1998. The original Lego Millenium Falcon set 4504 would have retailed for right around $100. Which was high, but just as high as the bigger Castle sets at the time.
by orionsbelt | 2026-03-11 14:30:29+00:00
It’s a beachhead that will expand. The history of income taxes shows that. Once you have established an income tax, the next fight will be to raise it, or lower the income limit, and over years, it will end up covering everyone. The government is incentivized to over spend and then try to dig their way out be expanding taxes, but there is a limit
to what you can tax.

You want people to vote for a millionaire tax tie it with a constitutional amendment that requires a higher vote bar to ever increase it and have all numbers automatically inflation adjusted
by freedomben | 2026-03-11 14:30:41+00:00
> fixing social services so that they actually provide better help when requested instead of making things worse

Agreed, and I wish more people would realize this. When I was a kid, one of my friend's brothers was accused of molestation. The accused kid was around 8 or 9 and the victim was around 5 or 6. The social services came in and immediately got the mom fired from her job (she was a school teacher), put the family through tens of thousands of dollars in legal fees, utterly disrupted the lives of the entire family, got the accused kicked out of school and put in a special school for troubled kids (which itself brought a whole host of issues), and nearly ripped the family apart. There was no evidence at all of the crime, other than the word of the accuser (a 5 or 6 year old child). Fast forward a few years later and the accuser apologized profusely and admitted that it had never happened. Oh and also the accused was at a friend's house at the time of the supposed molestation, and the friends' parents had told the investigators that. Law enforcement dropped the case having determined it not likely to be true and certainly nowhere near the evidence for prosecution (in fact, there was evidence that the event never happened), but social services proceeded with all of the above anyway. So yeah, there's a lot of work to do to make anybody want to trust them to help rather than make everything worse.
Show HN: Autopsy CLI – Open-source AI incident diagnosis in 30s
by zeelpatel27 | 2026-03-11 14:30:47+00:00
Hi HN,

I've been building Autopsy, an open-source CLI tool to solve a problem I hate: manually digging through CloudWatch logs during a 3 AM page.

It pulls your CloudWatch logs and GitHub deploys, passes them to an LLM, and returns a structured root cause analysis in your terminal in about 30 seconds.

The early version worked, but the diagnosis vanished the moment you closed your terminal. I just shipped v0.2.2 to make it actually fit into an SRE/DevOps workflow:

Local History: Every run now saves automatically to a local SQLite DB. You can search, browse, and export past incidents (autopsy history list).

Instant Post-Mortems: Passing --postmortem generates a full incident report in Markdown, including a timeline, evidence, and checkbox action items.

Slack Integration: Passing --slack pushes the diagnosis directly to your incident channel via webhook.

You can chain them: autopsy diagnose --postmortem --slack

A big priority here is privacy. It’s built with Python, runs locally, and your logs never leave your machine (aside from the direct payload you choose to send to the LLM).

GitHub: https://github.com/zeelapatel/autopsy
PyPI: pip install autopsy-cli

I'd love for you to try it out. I'm especially looking for feedback on the LLM's diagnosis accuracy across different types of stack traces and log formats. Happy to answer any questions!
by hkonte | 2026-03-11 14:30:59+00:00
Lazy outputs are almost always a structure problem. Constraints buried in prose get treated as soft suggestions. The model weighs them against everything else and decides how much to follow.

Separating role, objective, constraints, and output format into typed blocks changes that. Each block is parsed independently. The half-finished code and "delve" patterns go away when constraints are mandatory structure, not embedded text.

I built flompt for exactly this: https://github.com/Nyrok/flompt
by 46493168 | 2026-03-11 14:31:35+00:00
> but who knows how long someone might be making that kind of money?

Would you mind saying a little bit more about your thinking here? A million a year doesn’t just sound like a lot, it is a lot. FRED reports the median income in Washington at just shy of $100,000 [0]. We’re talking about households that make 10x the median.

Also, what does it matter the length of time they earn it? If they don’t earn more than $1m, they don’t pay it, right?

[0] https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/MEHOINUSWAA646N
by wirthal1990 | 2026-03-11 14:31:36+00:00
I'm working on a phytochemical dataset product. The base is USDA Dr. Duke's Phytochemical and Ethnobotanical Databases — 16 relational CSV tables that I denormalized into a single flat table in PostgreSQL. Then I ran async Python enrichment pipelines against PubMed, ClinicalTrials.gov, ChEMBL, and PatentsView (USPTO), producing 8 columns per record across 104,388 rows.

The interesting engineering problem was ChEMBL: most phytochemical names don't have direct ChEMBL entries, so the pipeline first tries a name match, then falls back to PubChem for CID → InChIKey resolution before hitting ChEMBL's molecule API. Full enrichment with Aho-Corasick string matching took ~24 seconds for 24,771 compounds.

Building the commercial layer on top: Rust/Actix-Web API, 97K static pSEO pages on Cloudflare Workers/R2, Stripe for one-time purchases. Solo founder, bootstrapped, based in Germany.
by bdunks | 2026-03-11 14:31:59+00:00
Agree. They seem to have a “price per piece” equation. Perhaps as a result, the 5+ sets are made of hundreds of small pieces.

Older sets had larger foundational and platform pieces which gave a good starting place for new creative builds.

Today, airplanes fuselages, wings, and car chassis are instead built up piece by piece.

It’s hard for my 6 year old to start creative builds that are stable when he hardly has any pieces larger than 2x6 across dozens of sets.

My wife found a huge mixed bin from the 80s and 90s at an estate sale. It really helped.
by robertwer | 2026-03-11 14:32:03+00:00
Besides the aspect of self improvement I’m impressed with the ability to put a language specification into 3,200 token. This is like a micro-kernel which extends itself.

Now I wonder, shall we as humans still be able to read and review this code or is the sandbox + permission model as last line of defense sufficient?

The 3,200 token specification is not a formal one, I wonder whether having it formalized into a real grammar would help LLMs to generate code?
Show HN: A fictional programmer's life, hour by hour – ask Claude via MCP
by psantosl | 2026-03-11 14:32:36+00:00
I generated 2 years of a programmer's life — every hour tracked. His job at a big tech company, a side project that takes off, gym sessions, dinners with his wife, kids, the moment he quits his job to go indie. 4,251 entries.
The CLI is a single binary (no dependencies) that includes a TUI time tracker and a built-in MCP server. Run rows mcp install --demo and you can start asking Claude about this guy's life in 5 minutes.

Try things like:

"When did he quit his job?"
"Show me all dinners with his wife"
"How much time did he spend on his side project last month?"
"Show me a bar chart of gym sessions per month"

It's actually a time tracker I built for myself — I've been logging every hour of my life in spreadsheets since 2014 (44,000+ entries). The demo data is there so you can try it without entering your own data first.
by Zanfa | 2026-03-11 14:33:04+00:00
Having grown up playing with LEGOs, I can still distinctly remember the feeling of sore fingers pulling tiny pieces apart after a long session. It wasn't until a few years ago I learned there's an official brick separator tool [1]. Would've changed my life as a kid.

[1] https://www.lego.com/en-us/service/help-topics/article/lego-...
by kimbernator | 2026-03-11 14:33:04+00:00
I grew up in WA and as much as I enjoyed the lack of income tax, it's factual that until recently they held the title of #1 most regressive state tax system nationwide (recently bumped to #2 by FL). Income taxes are much better distributed among income brackets than consumption taxes are. I grew up just over the river from Portland, where there is no state sales tax; we got to enjoy the best of both worlds by crossing the state line to OR for large purchases and living in WA.

Ironically, my home for the last decade (MO) has recently moved forward with a bill eliminating the statewide income tax in favor of a higher sales tax. This is in a state where the two largest cities are situated on the borders of other states, so it's essentially a guarantee that this will backfire.
by bloke_zero | 2026-03-11 14:33:20+00:00
There was a lot of work done on the RE_303 and the Pixie CPU (303/606) - I don't know much about it but it might give you another more recent vector to explore: https://github.com/sunflowr/recpu?tab=readme-ov-file

(I built one and as far as I know the Pixie CPU was the 303 code + MIDI)
by SecretDreams | 2026-03-11 14:33:30+00:00
> The tax would apply only on the amount of income above the $1 million threshold, so a person making $1.5 million, for example, would be taxed on the final $500,000. It would apply to an estimated 20,000 to 30,000 households in the state, with collections beginning in 2029 on the previous year’s income.

It's a sliding scale tax. Someone making a million will barely feel it. Someone making 50 million will feel it a lot. Objectively, anyone making $50 million should feel it a lot and be taxed heavily. Nobody is making $50 million under their own power.

I know numbers are hard for the ultra rich. I've mostly only posted this for all the poor souls only making a mil a year. I want them to know this won't impact them.
by kindkang2024 | 2026-03-11 14:33:37+00:00
> Smells like numerology.

Kind of. And as a guy with a solid science background, I just don't buy into that kind of interpretation.

But if it is numerology, I believe I CHING divination is more like a commit-and-reveal scheme — you can't infer the future from the proof alone. You might only get to verify it once the future actually plays out. Kind of like a zero-knowledge proof — it gives you a proof/advice based on a possible future, but you gain nothing from it since the underlying computation is NP-hard. So better to treat it as a kind of thinking framework — like SWOT or scenario planning, but from a different cultural tradition.
by pixl97 | 2026-03-11 14:33:48+00:00
>It does raise the question of where in the future will companies compete.

Exactly where current companies compete, rent seeking, IP control, and legal machinations.

Hence you'll see a few giant lumbering dinosaurs control most of the market, and a few more nimble companies make successful releases until they either get crushed by, get snapped up by the larger companies, or become a large company themselves.
Show HN: Turn Your YouTube Subscriptions into a Retro TV Guide
by kilroy123 | 2026-03-11 14:34:57+00:00
I know, it's a very first-world problem. But in my house, we have a hard time deciding what to watch. Too many options!

So I made this to recreate Cable TV for YouTube. I made it so it runs in the browser. Quickly import your subscriptions in the browser via a bookmarklet. No accounts, no sign-ins. Just quickly import your data locally.
by nicpottier | 2026-03-11 14:35:01+00:00
Maybe that's a good thing? I miss the Seattle of the 2000s that was less overflowing with tech and more a mix of incomes.

I for one support the tax. The dichotomy of being a liberal state with a regressive tax structure needs to stop. Slippery slope argument aside this tax is a good first step. Income tax while imperfect seems to be the best system we have to tax the rich and not the poor.
by NetMageSCW | 2026-03-11 14:35:13+00:00
>Anybody can build a RISC-V chip. You do not need permission.

No, anybody can’t build a RISC-V chip. That’s the same mistake OSS proponents make. Just because something is open source doesn’t mean bugs will be found. And just because bugs are found doesn’t mean they will be fixed. The vast majority of people can’t do either.

The number of people who can design a chip implementation of the RISC-V ISA is much, much smaller, and the number who can get or own a FAB to manufacture the chips smaller still. You don’t need permission to use the ISA, but that is not the only gate.
by HardCodedBias | 2026-03-11 14:36:13+00:00
AI says:

TX: Average Effective Rate: Approximately 1.36% to 1.6% (some estimates range up to 1.8%) of a property's assessed fair market value. The typical homeowner in Texas pays a median annual property tax of $4,108

WA: Effective Rate: The average effective property tax rate in Washington is approximately 0.75% to 0.79% of the home's value. State mean the median annual property tax payment is roughly $4,361 to $4,729