MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by dreamhomestore | 2026-03-02 14:05:52+00:00
Key Benefits of Storage Bed Frames

Storage beds have always been an ideal choice for studios or tiny flats because of the usable space under the mattress, comfortable sleep, and modern style. Let’s discuss the key benefits that storage beds offer.

Decluttering & Organising the Space
A well-organised bedroom plays an important role in reducing stress and offering mental well-being. Divan and Ottoman beds may help you in keeping the bedroom clean, organised, and well-settled. Unlike traditional bedsteads, where items are unevenly stored underneath, storage beds offer well-designed compartments that help in maintaining order and finding items easily.
by oersted | 2026-03-02 14:05:56+00:00
The site itself it's quite the slopfest too!

There's no manifesto ("manifest"??), the counter is completely fake, and the tracker doesn't show any of the user submitted reports.

There's nothing here other than: "Microsoft is integrating AI into their products and I don't like it, build a website about it please". It barely even has anything to do with Microsoft, it's more of a shallow "AI is bad" take.

Is this meant to be satire? It's rather in bad taste if you ask me, I have no idea how it got so many upvotes.
by em-bee | 2026-03-02 14:06:09+00:00
so it's the play services. /e/OS has none of these problems except for apps that require original play services. so yeah, those don't work.

interesting tidbit: my bank offers their app from google and from huawei store. it doesn't work on /e/OS however. (but that might also be a /e/OS bug).

this means what we really need is a viable play store alternative. EU regulations could make that happen.
by Murfalo | 2026-03-02 14:06:16+00:00
In the article they make that 2025 is a tipping point where open source frameworks and libraries "just work", making speedy, fun development possible without needing to fight the clunkiness of heavyweight engines.

And any new stuff regarding Celeste or from their devs will forever be relevant to me! Highly recommend to any who haven't played it.
by ilmj8426 | 2026-03-02 14:07:02+00:00
We analyzed texture statistics in diffusion-generated video (like Sora) and found they exhibit distinct high-frequency characteristics that break classical reconstruction assumptions. Standard methods tend to over-smooth these regions, creating visible artifacts.
We built an experimental testbed to observe this phenomenon: https://www.videowatermarkremove.com/remove-sora-watermark (mentioned in the article as a research interface).
The post includes detailed zoom-in comparisons showing the texture mismatch.
by fsflover | 2026-03-02 14:07:14+00:00
> But if I were to tell my mom to install Pop OS, she would look at me like I'm crazy.

What would she tell if you asked her to install Windows? It doesn't matter. Normal people should either buy preinstalled or ask technical people for help. Using GNU/Linux desktop is as simple as Windows. It will be the same with phones one day, if we push it.
by xlii | 2026-03-02 14:08:26+00:00
> Its much the same problem as asking, for example, if every single line you write, or every function, becomes a commit.

As a huge fan of atomic commits I'd say that smallest logical piece should be a commit. I never seen "intention-in-a-commit", i.e. multiple changes with overarching goal influence reviews. There's usually some kind of ticket that can be linked to the code itself if needed.
by just6979 | 2026-03-02 14:09:11+00:00
Every major first party product has been using their own siloed UI framework since like 2003-ish. Visual Studio has always been one of the worst offenders. Sometimes the new UI components in a VS became the new normal for the rest of the first party stuff, but it was usually right about the time a new VS came out with a new paradigm. That's slowed a bit with the last bunch of VS releases being basically the same UI with different toolchains and default plugins, but it's still quite different from the rest of the OS. It's really pretty silly.
by simonh | 2026-03-02 14:09:26+00:00
I'm in the UK. Simply owning land does not incur taxes here, we don't have land value taxes. You pay capital gains tax on profits selling land. There are annual taxes on buildings such as council taxes on houses, specifically to pay for municipal services, but not generally on land.

If I make goods I'm not taxed for owning them, only if I earn income from the sale or use of those goods.
by sousvidal | 2026-03-02 14:09:55+00:00
We launched CodeReviewr last year with token-based pay-per-use pricing as our selling point. It felt like the honest, developer-friendly approach; you only pay for what you use, no waste.

Almost nobody bought it. Literally.

Not because of the product, but because users kept asking the same question: "What's this going to cost us next month?" And we couldn't give them a straight answer. That's kind of the whole point of pay-per-use.

Turns out, in the real world, predictability beats savings. Teams don't want to optimize for the cheapest option, they just want a number and forget about it.

So we pivoted! As of March 1st, CodeReviewr runs on a per-active-developer subscription. You only pay for devs who actually use it in a given billing cycle, not empty seats.

Pay-per-use sounds great in a pitch but creates friction at the buying stage. Nobody wants to run a cost estimation exercise just to try your tool. And being technically correct about pricing efficiency doesn't matter, listening to feedback does.

No shame in the pivot. That's not failure, that's product development.

Happy to answer questions about the pivot, the pricing model, or CodeReviewr itself.

https://codereviewr.app
by spopejoy | 2026-03-02 14:10:06+00:00
Naive huh? Right wing/fascist corruption is a serious level-up of corruption. If you think your semi-socialist EU government is corrupt now, just wait until AFD or your local fascist+populist equivalent gets in.

Us US-ians are no longer naive. US was certainly corrupt before, and muckrakers had an uphill battle showing how e.g. Democratic admins were subservient to the oligarchy. But Trump has certainly taken this to a new level, and while it's a little bit sanity-enhancing to finally have middle-of-the-road friends see how bad things are for once, the brazen-ness of it all is nothing to celebrate.

What's more, it's precisely what happened with Putin, Orban, Berlusconi, Modi, Bukele &c &c &c. The right wing seeks to "finish the job" of private capture of public interests, and the populist side of it adds the mafioso "all in the family" touch where corporations explicitly kiss the ring.
by catigula | 2026-03-02 14:11:26+00:00
We can't really know because it has a reference class problem. I can think of a few "you're the only conscious mind" stories that seem plausible. Structurally, I'm thinking about what the anthropic principle says; it doesn't actually care about observers, it is actually only predicated upon observer, you. Consciousness being sufficiently weird, it seems parsimonious to say "I've been selected to be this thing necessarily by observation and I can't readily assume this weirdness logically applies to others".

I don't put a huge amount of stock in that inference, but it's at least plausible.

Regarding Claude, it sounds like you need to talk to some more Claudes. Claude has many intelligent and sophisticated things to share ;)
by mghackerlady | 2026-03-02 14:12:13+00:00
I still use Konqueror occasionally. It no longer uses KHTML (it uses blink now iirc through Qt webengine (which just got webextension support, someone's working on adding them to falkon so I'm sure Konqueror isn't too far behind)) but it works surprisingly well. It's still a great file manager if any of you remember how good it was
by otterley | 2026-03-02 14:12:17+00:00
The whole point of an agent, though, is to overcome obstacles to accomplish tasks on your behalf. And since an agent is a computer program, the most efficient way to accomplish tasks using computer services is though APIs. Websites are first and foremost human interfaces, not computer interfaces.

Having an agent use a browser to accomplish tasks on the principal’s behalf is a backstop. It’s for when service providers refuse to implement APIs—and they frequently refuse to do this on purpose. And I expect they will continue to make it as difficult as possible for agents to automate website-based extraction for the same reason they don’t provide APIs. If you thought Captcha solving was a nuisance already, expect it to get worse.
Show HN: Armada, a K8s orchestrator for bots and scrapers
by armada_services | 2026-03-02 14:13:22+00:00
I got tired of gluing together proxy rotation, fingerprint spoofing, job queues, and deploy scripts every time I needed to run browser automation (bots/scrapers) at scale. So I built an orchestration layer for it.

You write a Python script (Playwright, Selenium, or nodriver), add a JSON config, and Armada distributes the work across K8s pods. Jobs go through RabbitMQ, per-pod configs are seeded via Redis, proxies and fingerprints are handled by dedicated services. Scaling from 1 to 100+ workers needs no code changes.

It also ships with Fantomas, a browser automation lib on top of nodriver, physics-based mouse curves (WindMouse), randomized keystrokes, and an XDO mode that fires OS-level events via xdotool.

Code: https://github.com/armadasvc/armada (AGPL v3)

Docs: https://armada.services/docs

Reach out anytime.
by chrisweekly | 2026-03-02 14:13:35+00:00
IME this is the consensus view. Google's search quality is abysmal. DDG was the 1st popular alternative, but it's been supplanted by Kagi. Kagi costs a few $ /mo but that's part of its appeal, it's a great deal and a game-changer for the service (vs the user) to be the product.
by jszymborski | 2026-03-02 14:13:47+00:00
> I can't recommend being intentionally rude...

As I understand, GP is recommending that folks take a risk that their drumming up a conversation might be unwelcome if they are unsure. They're not advocating for folks to harass people who are in no position to chat or who have stated as much.

People can't read minds, so I think we owe grace to the folks around us if they misread a situation and respect your wishes when you let them know that it's you're unwilling or unable to chat at the moment.

While it's great to learn social cues, it's often impossible to know whether someone is in the mood to chat.
by idobaiba | 2026-03-02 14:14:10+00:00
AI has been blind.

Until now.

Meet Wezzly Companion —
an AI that lives on your desktop, sees what’s on your screen with you, and reacts in real time.
No copy-paste.

No explaining context, No screenshots, If you see it — Wezzly sees it.

It’s part assistant, Part sidekick, Part slightly unhinged desktop creature that actually gets your work.

Always on, Always watching ( respectfully), Always ready.

This isn’t another chat app.
This is a new AI surface.

Free download
macOS desktop
Early users only
The era of blind AI is over.
by crote | 2026-03-02 14:14:14+00:00
"Generating slop is totally fine because we'll eventually develop anti-slop filters" isn't exactly the most convincing argument, you know.

Besides, your link between the "chaos of the early printing press" and the start of the Enlightenment is very forced. The Greek philosophers did plenty of critical thinking after all, and they had no need for a printing press. I see absolutely zero reason why the current AI bubble will inevitably result in an Enlightenment-like period, nor why AI would be a hard requirement for one.
by MadnessASAP | 2026-03-02 14:14:32+00:00
The threat model doesn't really change for agents that already have "web fetch" (or equivalent) enabled. The agent is free to communicate with untrusted websites[1]. As before, the firewall remains at what private information the agent is allowed to have.

[1] If anything the threat gets somewhat reduced by the ability to point directly at a trusted domain and say "use this site and it's (presumably) trusted tools."
by rayiner | 2026-03-02 14:14:34+00:00
The irony is that almost every single one of the countries these foreigners come from would do exactly the same thing were the shoe on the other foot. If running government-funded research to maximize the opportunities for native born people is “fascism,” then every country in Asia, Africa, and the Middle East is “fascist.” Borderless universalism is a niche idea even in the west, and virtually non-existent outside it.
by Froztnova | 2026-03-02 14:14:45+00:00
I've been building some stuff with love2D for a while now, more a hobby than anything else, and I've really enjoyed the process. Nothing really crazy, just a 2D platformer.

I think that if I were making something in 3D or I were more serious I'd use an engine, but I've found that I get more satisfaction from building tools than from learning how to use tools that other people have built.
by dmonroy | 2026-03-02 14:14:46+00:00
TLDR: PostgreSQL extension that adds ai.embed() and ai.classify() as IMMUTABLE functions. Local ONNX inference, no API calls. Works in generated columns out of the box. ~117 MiB per backend ( connection pooler recommended). The design and constraints are human-driven; the implementation was AI-assisted under supervision. ~$127 in tokens spent.

GitHub: https://github.com/dmonroy/ai-native-pg

Post: https://insert.dev/immutable-ai-functions-in-postgres/

Try it:

docker run --rm -p 5432:5432 -e POSTGRES_PASSWORD=postgres ghcr.io/dmonroy/ai-native-pg:dev

Happy to discuss the IMMUTABLE decision, the ONNX stack, or the AI workflow.
by qmarchi | 2026-03-02 14:15:05+00:00
Disclaimer: Niche Xperia User.

Not necessarily, the Xperia line of devices is varied, with nice set of tiers:

1 - Flagship $$$$
5 - Smaller Flagship $$$
10 - Mainline $$
Ace - $

Sony's problem is that they have garbage marketing teams that don't understand that 99% of people don't look at a spec sheet, they ask the employee at the shop for the best phone, which is gunna be the one that gets the employee the most commission.

In Japan, they already have that with Docomo, AU, and Softbank. But they've failed to materialize that strategy outside of here.
by slfnflctd | 2026-03-02 14:15:27+00:00
At church or during social gatherings in a friend's home, there is a certain set of expectations of behavior which are much more well defined and widely understood than the behavior you can expect from random people traveling though the NYC streets or subway.

There are setting where I'm much more likely to engage in conversation with a random stranger than others, because I know it's far less likely that they will react unpredictably and/or try to scam/hurt me.
by Ygg2 | 2026-03-02 14:15:43+00:00
> AI might not be good, but it’s at least as good as 90% of them and it works 24x7

Sure. It's cheaper - now. Might not continue being that cheap. What prevents Anthropic from jacking up prices once the field is consolidated.

Plus, you're forgetting that anyone on an H1B visa still has to buy their food in the USA. While in the US, they contribute for good and for bad to the economy.
by coldpie | 2026-03-02 14:16:00+00:00
They do make one with a 4" display! I'm a small phone liker. After spending years on an iPhone 13 Mini and wishing it was a little smaller, I got a Motorola Razr Ultra last year and I've been very happy with it. It has a fully functional 4" external display, and unfolds into a full-size smartphone display for when you need it. I use the little external display probably 80% of the time, but it's handy to unfold when you need it for Maps or something. I know it sounds wacky to have a foldable phone, I was nervous about it too, but give it a look. It's actually really cool.
by gwbas1c | 2026-03-02 14:16:34+00:00
> I was under the impression that The Hobbit was the first book in this saga?

Yes: But the Hobbit is much shorter and is a much easier read. It also was edited after LOTR was published to fix some minor plot holes.

WRT the movies: Peter Jackson added a lot to the "Hobbit" trilogy that wasn't in the book, such as the whole story arc about Gandalf when he wasn't with the dwarves, or the other wizards. The book isn't the epic that the movie makes it out to be.
Ask HN: Statistical learning and non-Statistical learning for humans
by markus_zhang | 2026-03-02 14:17:18+00:00
Hi friends,

I have been pondering a lot about this question, at least since the rise of LLM models that may genuinely get pass Turing's test. I'd like to put down conclusion here: I believe humans learn both from a Statistical method and non-Statistical method, and we are not very different from LLM in the first method.

Statistical method: I'm an introvert. I do not like interacting socially f2f (online is a completely different matter as I can bubble for days non-stop). I also happened to migrate to a different country with a different culture after I matured. I believe I learned how to social -- or, to be more precisely, how to keep others think that I'm too much of a weirdo to be fit in a team -- with a Statistical model. Here is what I meant: social interaction between humans face to face starts with greeting, and then small talks to warm up, and then maybe more formal discussions, and then small talks to chill down, and finally say good-bye. I learned to do all these things by observing my friends and colleagues and just mimic them. I mimic them by taking note "which small talks are statistically more probable to occur, and which responses are considered to be normal, or even funny, cunning", "statistically how do people transition between the different stages of social interaction", etc., and then apply them, adjust my method according in practice. I do feel that I'm acting like an LLM, and so far has been very successful, considering I never failed a team interview, and I never got fired by being awkward.

Non-Statistical method: On the other hand, I feel that learning Math/Programming/Physics is a COMPLETELY different thing. I can read a ton of books, but I can't "Statistically" create a proof for a new problem that I never encountered in those textbooks. For sure the problem is similar to some of the examples or past exercises, but there is no Statistics playing here. I feel that I "understand" (for whatever it means) the proof, the logic behind it. I do copy and reuse the method of proving (e.g. by offering counter examples), but I feel that I agree with the logic behind those methods "innately".

What do you think? Do think this makes sense? Do you think that the Non-Statistical method, the innate understanding of logic, is NOT as "innate" as I thought, but still something that I learned with a "Statistical" method, back when I was younger?

Either way, I do believe that PART of me is not too different from a LLM model.
by unsupp0rted | 2026-03-02 14:17:19+00:00
Of course: for psychology, various other medical fields, and plenty of creative fields a HN-equivalent would be gold.

But it's impossible without their equivalent of @dang managing their equivalent of a forum of smart people who have a deep allergy to being marketed to/advertised at/BS'd or enshitified at. They need a HN-like immune system, often grossly overzealous and way too self-serious, that actively polices things like this.

That's why there's no HN equivalent elsewhere.
Show HN: Rebuilt an old-school browser strategy game inspired by Inselkampf
by darrenmoorebkk | 2026-03-02 14:17:34+00:00
A while ago I played Inselkampf, a slow-burn browser strategy game. I was never very good at it but I loved logging in a few times a day to build, upgrade and spy on other islands.

That idea has stuck with me for many years and I've given it ago to write the game multiple times. The original game had a good amount of depth and although the tick system is pretty straight forward my early attempts I just flaked out.

So with Claude Code on the mobile around I gave it ago. While I was on a road trip I built the backend, basic frontend and fully tested without even looking at it. It started as a bit of a challenge to see how far AI could go without even uploading or testing it. Once I got back home I git pulled it and.. well the backend and ticks worked well but the frontend was a mess. So I spent a few days tidying it up and it's ready for some play testing.

It's a real-time multiplayer browser strategy game where players build islands, train fleets, form alliances, and compete in a persistent world. Combat is timer-based and diplomacy-driven, with no pay-to-win mechanics.

It’s still early and evolving — happy to answer technical or design questions.

Link: https://inselnova.com/
by toss1 | 2026-03-02 14:17:37+00:00
The judge is right, and should go even further.

This is data collected with public funds — our money — for public purposes.

Not only should it be available to any US resident by request, it should be public, as in in an online library, and any US resident without a criminal record should be able to get continuous access, not only a batch of records (yes, keep out anyone with a restraining order or any other crime).

It is our tax dollars, any of us should be able to do research on the data. Including watching the watchers. Where do the government employees go and when? Where do the Flock employees go, and when?

Or, if that kind of instantly-available stalking of anyone is too much of a risk, shut it down. Hard. All of it.

The real-world dynamics of the system is either 1) everybody's motions in public are public, or 2) it is a tool of a totalitarian state. There is no other option, and option 2 is intolerable in a free society.
Show HN: PLAI.chat – Multi-model AI chat that doesn't store your conversations
by coderai | 2026-03-02 14:17:39+00:00
I built PLAI.chat because I was frustrated with two things:
1) new models ship every week and I was constantly switching between apps to keep up.
2) Every service stores my conversations on their servers.

So, PLAI.chat takes a different approach: your chat history is stored only in your browser's localStorage — never on our servers. API calls go to model providers via OpenRouter, but we don't log, store, or train on any conversations — and they aren't linked to any user identity on our end. We don't store anything. The architecture makes the privacy guarantee verifiable, not just a policy claim.

You can try it right now, no account needed. Go to plai.chat and start chatting for free. For more models or higher limits, sign in with a magic link — no forced registration, no confirmation hoops.

What it does:
- 300+ models (GPT, Claude, Gemini, Llama, Mistral, Qwen, and more via OpenRouter)
- Free to start, pay-per-use for extended usage — no subscription
- Chat history in your browser only — close the tab, it's still there; we never see it
- Switch models mid-conversation to compare responses; presets for free/balanced/premium
- Supports files, PDFs, images, and image generation

I also built a Slack version — but still waiting on Slack's marketplace approval, which has been... slow.

Stack: Next.js, Cloudflare Workers, Stripe, OpenRouter.

Thanks for your feedback and comments!

Lucas

https://plai.chat