MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by codejake | 2026-03-09 16:52:01+00:00
We still have a SPARC IPX in production, hosting an antiquated database. The hard drive sounds like grinding metal. I've been trying to get rid of it for years. I succeeded once, but it was brought back from the dead. This thing has been running with the original parts since 1993 to 2026, minus ~1 year of downtime.

Nobody has the root password anymore, but fortunately, it's vulnerable to at least seven remote root sunrpc exploits. We "log in" by running a Python script that pops a root shell.

No, I am not kidding.

Edit: Checked out records: purchased and brought online in 1993.
by mig39 | 2026-03-09 16:52:43+00:00
I think it means that the entire site, including the school and several other buildings, were all hit at the sae time:

> Wes Bryant, a national security analyst who served in the US Air Force, also confirmed it was a Tomahawk missile.

> Bryant added that the evidence for multiple strikes on the entire IRGC compound "is indicative of a deliberate and precise" US operation.

> N R Jenzen Jones, director of Armament Research Services, previously told BBC Verify it was unlikely an Iranian missile had caused the significant blast damage seen at the school because they carry "relatively small explosive warheads".
by seanhunter | 2026-03-09 16:52:48+00:00
Totally terrible. ONe place I worked we all had sparcs and the first thing that happened whenever anyone left is there would be this mad shuffle where everyone nicked everyone else's computer with the IPX being the prize for whoever wasn't there at the time or the new joiner. So I had the IPX for a while, even just using it as an x client for a remote build server it was horrible.
by wccrawford | 2026-03-09 16:52:48+00:00
"Antirez closes his careful legal analysis as though it settles the matter. Ronacher acknowledges that “there is an obvious moral question here, but that isn't necessarily what I'm interested in.” Both pieces treat legal permissibility as a proxy for social legitimacy. "

This whole article is just complaining that other people didn't have the discussion he wanted.

Ronacher even acknowledged that it's a different discussion, and not one they were trying to have at the moment.

If you want to have it, have it. Don't blast others for not having it for you.
by bink | 2026-03-09 16:52:53+00:00
The story is because these are precision strikes and the US is feigning ignorace. Satellite photos show that each building on that block was hit dead-center and destroyed, yet the US is refusing to admit responsibility. Sure, mistakes are made during war, but this one was particularly egregious. That building hadn't been used as a military barracks in over a decade. Israel immediately said they were not operating in that area. Iran said none of their missiles were in the area. The US has said for a week now that it was "investigating" despite knowing it targeted that facility. That's yet another lie. They know they accidentally killed over a hundred little girls and as usual would rather lie than admit a mistake.
by kseniamorph | 2026-03-09 16:52:58+00:00
Curious whether people here see value in this kind of research: using alternative public data to assess vendor risk before a breach, rather than after. We're aware that "we found signals before a known breach" is a weaker claim than "these signals predicted a breach we didn't know about yet." Is retrospective analysis like this useful to practitioners, or does it only matter if it can be made prospective?
by gbro3n | 2026-03-09 16:53:05+00:00
I'd been using this workflow for a while, but this post I found on HN a couple of weeks ago really solidified it: https://boristane.com/blog/how-i-use-claude-code/

> The workflow I’m going to describe has one core principle: never let Claude write code until you’ve reviewed and approved a written plan. This separation of planning and execution is the single most important thing I do. It prevents wasted effort, keeps me in control of architecture decisions, and produces significantly better results with minimal token usage than jumping straight to code.
by CrzyLngPwd | 2026-03-09 16:53:05+00:00
The current government, like the last one, are just a front for funnelling income tax from the poor to the rich, and of course doing whatever the Epstein Regime wants them to do.

But yeah, we need a power-hungry datacenter more than we need proper sewerage, proper water management investment, shorter hospital wait times, decent border patrol, or some of the fucking potholes fixed!

Still, it makes a change to just giving the money to the NarcoFührer clown in Ukraine, I suppose.
by culi | 2026-03-09 16:53:09+00:00
Tomahawks are famous for their precision being <5m. If you look at the satellite imagery you can see that all of the military buildings were clearly hit directly in the center. The school was hit in the same way. Clearly an intentional hit and possibly followed immediately by a "double tap" airstrike

This wasn't a technical failure but an intelligence failure. And above all a moral failure
by ralferoo | 2026-03-09 16:53:40+00:00
I like the fact he's not just verifying all of them each year. AFAICR, reading the flash causes the row to be rewritten with the values just read.

I remember years ago working on the Wii, and there was a restriction on how often you could read the flash to avoid premature wearing. Not sure if that was just the specific type of storage, as googling suggests that NAND is subject to this and NOR isn't. I think pretty much all USB drives now use NOR flash, so maybe this isn't actually an issue any more.
by TheRealPomax | 2026-03-09 16:53:55+00:00
Except under GFM, html is explicitly part of the spec[1], not just "it's not a parse error, but that's because it's just text that doesn't fall in any predefined markdown syntax category", and good luck finding a WYSIWYG markdown editor that gets them right. The number of editors that completely break on <details> alone is disheartening.

[1] https://github.github.com/gfm/
by flowerbreeze | 2026-03-09 16:54:00+00:00
I think not so long from now the exotic meal experience for the young ones will be real grilled chicken that looks like a chicken. Like zebra or crocodile meat was for us northerners.

From my own little box I think that that if lab grown meat was available and affordable, I would never eat a bit of real chicken, pork or beef again. I know veganism is an option too, but... I grew up with meat and it's very difficult to give up.
by Nemo_bis | 2026-03-09 16:54:02+00:00
Well,

> The new analysis for Carbon Brief shows that electricity generation from coal in India fell by 3.0% year-on-year (46 terawatt hours, TWh) and in China by 1.6% (90TWh).

https://www.carbonbrief.org/analysis-coal-power-drops-in-chi...
by ordu | 2026-03-09 16:54:14+00:00
I believe it is a narrow view of the situation. If we take a look into the history, into the reasons for inventing GPL, we'll see that it was an attempt to fight copyrights with copyrights. The very name 'copyleft' is trying to convey the idea.

What AI are eroding is copyright. You can re-implement not just a GPL program, but to reverse engineer and re-implement a closed source program too, people have demonstrated it already, there were stories here on HN about it.

AI is eroding copyright, so there may no longer be a need for the GPL. GNU should stop and rethink its stance, chuck away the GPL as the main tool to fight evil software corporations and embrace LLM as the main weapon.
by red-iron-pine | 2026-03-09 16:54:24+00:00
> Because if a marketing tactic is easy and effective, intense competition will drive up the price of doing so.

will it? who is occupying and competing in that space, in a business sense? and are they using reddit? if so, which subs and who are they targeted at?

the various build-a-PC subs are a great example -- they have ones for high end GPUs -- literally, r/gpu -- and others for more generic uses. you can shill all-day on r/buildapcsales and do well without having to battle on the more general buildapc

in a broader sense, building consensus is critical, and plenty of businesses or political entities are willing to take huge losses to completely corral public perception -- most notably the purchase of Paramount by everyone's least favorite villian Larry E
by codeadict | 2026-03-09 16:54:33+00:00
Working on https://github.com/codeadict/gen_http a low level HTTP client library for Erlang that full featured clients can build on top of. Erlang's default HTTP client httpc is great but has a lot of process overhead, consumes memory and doesn't support HTTP2. This is heavily inspired by Mint in Elixir
by sharkjacobs | 2026-03-09 16:54:35+00:00
> Blanchard's account is that he never looked at the existing source code directly. He fed only the API and the test suite to Claude and asked it to reimplement the library from scratch

This feels sort of like saying "I just blindly threw paint at that canvas on the wall and it came out in the shape of Mickey Mouse, and so it can't be copyright infringement because it was created without the use of my knowledge of Micky Mouse"

Blanchard is, of course, familiar with the source code, he's been its maintainer for years. The premise is that he prompted Claude to reimplement it, without using his own knowledge of it to direct or steer.
by RobRivera | 2026-03-09 16:54:42+00:00
Oh boo hoo.

Just boooooo.

Disappointed. Gif

As a side bar, I found it funny how in a Stanford lecture teaching various routes to training llms on the Machine Translation benchmark, the sample used was a French to English translation of 'the teddy bear is blue' or something similar.

After the lecture I reviewed the current production grade google translate...it butchered the translation

I wouldnt trust machine translation.
by stevenwoo | 2026-03-09 16:55:09+00:00
The whole article is peppered with interesting tidbits about Friedmann and his crime spree, enough for readers to want to speculate further, it's a shame he spent so much energy and time and money to place all those weapon caches in and outside of jail (how did he make enough money and have enough spare time for these obsessions!) and did not direct his focus towards a less destructive outlet like his talent in writing. Maybe the rape is true but his behavior scaring off his mother while so young seems to point to him just being somewhat broken from the start.
by JumpCrisscross | 2026-03-09 16:55:22+00:00
> wealthy are shielded from most negative consequences of their degenerate gambling

Huge difference between boom and bust and gambling. (As there is a difference between a business cycle and total boom and bust.)

Healthy ecologies have an overpopulate-underpopulate cycles. It turns out it's a good strategy for finding and efficiently filling niches in a dynamic environment.

> What the modern world needs isn't insane risk-taking, it's robust chains of prductions that can accomodate a shifting climate, while redistributing the global production more fairly

This is the myth of central planning. Like, yes, if you could predict the future this would be better. But you're always going to be constrained by your leadership's assumptions about what the world will look like. It works–sometimes fabulously–until the context changes. A new technology. A new climate. A new idea. Then the system, overoptimised for the past, reveals itself as the brittle thing it always was.

Forests beat golf greens.
by snowwrestler | 2026-03-09 16:55:57+00:00
Oh, there’s risk? Somehow you forgot to mention that in your post about how incredibly easy it is.

I’m sure it’s possible to make small amounts of money with Reddit bots, just like it’s possible to make small amounts of money with email spam, and posting AI slop to Facebook and X, and SMS scams.

The idea that major brands do this habitually, is what I’m objecting to.
Show HN: I Replaced MyFitnessPal and Other Apps with a Single MCP Server
by ktshvsk | 2026-03-09 16:56:00+00:00
My doctor asked me to keep a food diary. I tried MyFitnessPal, Lifesum, and others — none of them could easily export a summary for a date range. So I vibe-coded a remote MCP server in one evening using Claude Code. Now I just snap a photo of my food, send it to Claude, and it logs everything with calories and macros. When I need a report, I ask for it in conversation. No app, no manual entry — just a database and a chat.
by konichiwAI | 2026-03-09 16:56:02+00:00
https://hidefile.app

Locally running fully working steganography in the browser.

Create and insert entire files into pngs, mp4, pdfs and jpgs. The site is a static website that loads a wasm bin that does everything in browser with wasm. So no login, or network calls.

Essentially impregnate images and videos that open normally in your browser, but have a full file system with a full gallery mode for images, pdfs and images inside. videos do seek and stream so even if you embed a 4GB video file, it opens quite fast and just works.
by catchmeifyoucan | 2026-03-09 16:56:36+00:00
I know it's semantics. But I found being alone a little different than being lonely. Lonely is like a craving for social interaction, alone is well just alone. Most of us drive alone. The reason I make the distinction is because to be comfortable being alone, you have to let go of loneliness. If you're alone, but you're thinking, I'd rather do this with people, you may never be comfortable with being alone. Tell yourself you're going to be fine, you can do this by yourself.

And to build that confidence in being alone - try activities that may have taken two.

- Cook multiple dishes for a meal. Really savor it.

- Plant or buy some plants. Take your sweet time in picking the best plants.

- Write handwritten letters to people you know and send them via post.

- Visit a Best Buy/Apple Store and play with the demos

- I used write something called a RamKoti. It doesn't have to be religious, you can write anything. It's a book with 1000s of tiny boxes, and you write the same thing over and over again. Takes about 30-45 min to fill out a single page. I found it made me more patient, do the work.

Somedays lonely can take over again. I found the days after I was fully immersed with friends and family (e.g. vacation) harder to recover. It's okay, keep your course. You're new superpower is finding joy in the mundane.

Also consider, if the city you are in is right for you. It can contribute to that alone-ness. I found high-density people places like New York, Tokyo, India to be more conducive to random stranger interactions. Just the mere act of seeing different human interactions bring joy.

Ironic to say that you're not alone (look at all these comments). But you are, and you can do this.
by VorpalWay | 2026-03-09 16:57:13+00:00
> PTC and Aicas would disagree there.

Never heard of either. You will have to expand on your reasoning. Microcontrollers do outnumber classical computers though, that is just a fact. So i don't see why there is anything to disagree about there. Even GPUs have helper microcontrollers for thermal management and other functions.
by embedding-shape | 2026-03-09 16:57:14+00:00
> BTW they are still murdering fishermen off Venezuela, that never stopped

BTW the people in government seems to still be trying to coverup a international child trafficking ring.

What I can see, is that the tactic of "distract them with something even more fucked up" seems to be working perfectly well, and each time they go one step further up the ladder, and media re-focus accordingly.
by VirusNewbie | 2026-03-09 16:57:18+00:00
Definitely interesting idea given how lockstep parties operate. Ostensibly representatives should be uh, representing local interests, over party, but we've seen this isn't the case.

So if one side is claiming something, yes, would absolutely love to see how much of their net worth is tied into betting that something would come to fruition (like lowering inflation, or medical care, or increasing jobs, etc)
by ImPostingOnHN | 2026-03-09 16:57:35+00:00
You want to change the credentials of the camera, so Frigate can log into it while it is connected to your Unifi network?

I did that for 5 different cameras yesterday, you're saying your camera doesn't allow user management? That'd suck! Which camera is it?

> No, it connects to you!

I thought frigate connects to the camera's RTSP stream (maybe with ONVIF in the mix)?
by 1a527dd5 | 2026-03-09 16:57:43+00:00
It is wild to see America in 2026, I grew up idolizing it.

But a quote I heard during the election of Pope Leo:-

> “Cardinal George of Chicago, of happy memory, was one of my great mentors, and he said: 'Look, until America goes into political decline, there won't be an American pope.' And his point was, if America is kind of running the world politically, culturally, economically, they don't want America running the world religiously. So, I think there's some truth to that, that we're such a superpower and so dominant, they don't wanna give us, also, control over the church."

Has stuck with me, and I thought it to be a little far fetched. But here we are and I find it hard to deny America is in decline.
by red-iron-pine | 2026-03-09 16:57:45+00:00
arguably is the reason why his business kept failing. you can only screw over suppliers a couple of times before the word gets out and no one wants to do business with you.

now they want the cash up front, and with sizable markups to CYA.

a reasonable person would try to unfuck that perception; instead Trump double-down on the grift
by _DeadFred_ | 2026-03-09 16:57:50+00:00
This right here is the bigotry/double standard I'm talking about that is accepted here. 'Muslims are a death cult and you know it' is not acceptable speech, but you proudly just made the same claim, only towards Christians.

The majority of Christians are not in an end times death cult, no matter the size of their voting block in the USA. Again, we use language to separate moderate Muslims from minority extremist views normally referred to as Islamist here, but Christians are an end times death cult who don't protest war (pretty sure the Pope is on record as being anti-war).

I talked about how we refer to different religions with a bigoted double standard here, not Muslim/Christian voting influence. You followed with the very bigoted:

"Like get real, you will never see a Christian at an anti-war protest."

HN has a bigotry/stereotyping/double standard problem towards Christians.
by nottorp | 2026-03-09 16:57:54+00:00
Sysadmin as a day job I'm not. Being able to bring up a kernel on a rev 0 arm board doesn't make me an expert in apache configuration :)

And linux on the server works well enough that I decided to replace the home box only after like 10 years, so I'm not even sure what services I need to migrate, and the safe option is to start from a clean slate and redo all the configuration from scratch.

Probably don't remember what questions to ask. Or if i should dump apache and install nginx instead.
by yezr | 2026-03-09 16:58:12+00:00
I would practice allowing yourself to be uncomfortable in places where you are physically with other people.

simple examples are like when you are in line for something and waiting right next to someone in line for the same thing. chat them up, you have a lot in common right then. it's uncomfortable, but you have nothing to lose once you are no longer queued

or on your street, when you see someone else getting in or out of there car for the 20 seconds it takes. say something awkward to them. it's uncomfortable, but the next time won't be as much

start simple! there are opportunities to practice this in little ways every day!
by sfink | 2026-03-09 16:58:22+00:00
Careful. Describing depression as "negative emotions" suggests you aren't familiar with the experience.

Negative emotions are the opposite of depression, just as much as positive emotions are. Depression is the lack of affect.

Whether it's a good idea to treat that with meds, or whether meds will do anything, is a whole other topic that neither of us is qualified to address.
by Levitating | 2026-03-09 16:58:27+00:00
> There is a serious risk to getting it wrong and making the language simply more complicated for no gain.

I think the Rust team/community is well-aware of this. Which is why Rust has such a well-defined RFC life-cycle.

At the other end, one of the biggest complaints about Rust is that many features seem eternally locked behind nightly feature gates.
by metamet | 2026-03-09 16:58:42+00:00
If you click the link and read the article, you'll see a lot of words that justify the title:

BBC Verify has previously established through satellite imagery, verified videos and expert analysis that the area near the school was hit by a series of strikes.

Experts who have seen this latest video told us the presence of a Tomahawk missile, along with evidence the area was hit with multiple strikes, indicates this was a US operation. Neither Israel nor Iran are known to possess Tomahawks, experts said.

It would also make the scenario of a single Iranian missile hitting the site at the same time and causing such a high reported death toll highly improbable, an expert told BBC Verify.
Show HN: Tokf – Stop wasting LLM context on verbose build output
by risethagain | 2026-03-09 16:59:23+00:00
If you use Claude Code (or similar AI coding tools), you've probably noticed that a single `cargo test` or `npm run build` can dump thousands of tokens of noise into your context window. Passing tests, repetitive warnings, full stack traces — stuff that's useful for humans scrolling through a terminal, but wasteful for an LLM that just needs to know what failed and why.

tokf is a Rust CLI that intercepts command output and compresses it using TOML-defined filters. You can strip passing tests, collapse repetitive errors, trim stack traces, etc.

The tricky part was making it work with build orchestrators. Hooking `just test` doesn't help if the noisy output comes from the `cargo test` that just runs internally. I ended up solving this three different ways depending on the tool:

- make/just: use their --shell flag to route execution through tokf
- git hooks / other tools: prepend a shim directory to PATH

Wrote up the full rabbit hole: https://pecan.si/posts/getting-into-make-just-and-hooks/

Built in Rust, ~1,800 daily executions in my workflow. Filters are TOML with a Lua escape hatch. Open source: https://tokf.net
by jhbruhn | 2026-03-09 16:59:29+00:00
Energy scientist in Germany here. Germany could fully supply it's national grid with German energy production. We just don't do it because it's cheaper to buy i.e. heavily subsidized nuclear power from France, or other sources. In the end, it's all markets across the whole EU - by design. Why should it not be, the European energy grid is interconnected for a reason.
by oooyay | 2026-03-09 16:59:36+00:00
Hello! I'll shoot you an email. Maybe we can mob on this problemscape together.

> I do wonder if the problem is not so much having a place to find LAN events but actually just having enough people put on LAN events in the first place.

Sort of! I did a lot of research on this before I built lan.events. There are more gamers than ever, but LANs dropped off during COVID lockdowns despite surveys showing an increasing interest in in-person events. More or less, it's actually a venue problem. Running events has incredibly thin and risky margins for something that by its very nature needs to be planned out months in advance. Everything around the events are becoming prohibitively expensive: venues, vendors, equipment rentals, etc are all eating away at the ceiling gamers will pay and the floor that organizations can charge from.

LAN.events helps tackle this by decreasing the cost per ticket and shifting that cost to the customer rather than the event manager. We don't introduce minimum event costs or percentage based pricing which lets event managers keep or give back more profits. There is more I can do in this space, but that's the biggest way I can contribute right now.