MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by Gordianic | 2026-03-13 18:33:52+00:00
I’ve been experimenting with a different way to bootstrap online communities using DAOs.

The prototype I built, Gordianic, treats each domain as its own DAO. The idea is that the domain becomes the governance layer for whatever the community wants to build there — websites, communities, NFT projects, marketplaces, etc.

Instead of deploying contracts manually, the DAO is bootstrapped through an airdrop:

Someone creates a domain and starts an airdrop

People join to receive governance tokens

Once 1,000 participants join, the DAO activates and governance begins

Governance runs on Polygon and uses Aragon OSx for proposals and voting.

For example, proposals can:

update the content hash of the DAO domain (IPFS CID)

release tokens from the DAO vesting wallet

change DAO-controlled parameters

Token distribution:

50% DAO treasury (10-year vesting)

30% airdrop participants

15% platform

5% domain initiator

This is still an experiment and I’m curious if the domain-as-DAO model makes sense or if there are obvious flaws in the approach.
by alpaca128 | 2026-03-13 18:35:37+00:00
And a person using their pen can hack other people's brains, yet free speech is more important.

I think manufacturers being required to provide longer security update support against hacks etc would be more helpful than violating privacy and restricting access to "protect" people.
The amazing protective walled garden of mobile devices has mostly caused people to even forget what filesystems are and normalized subscriptions for the most basic things. A license for internet access or whatever would be an incredibly bad idea for anyone but abusive governments and corporations.
by tekla | 2026-03-13 18:35:42+00:00
I'm guessing you watched the Hegseth interview?

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Hegseth: “The only thing prohibiting transit in [Hormuz] right now is Iran shooting at shipping.”

“It is open for transit should Iran not do that”
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Oh really? I thought it was because Mercury was in retrograde.

I guess if even Mr. Hegseth is admitting that transit is effectively prohibited in the Strait, he must actually be lying and part of the deep state.
by ethanrutherford | 2026-03-13 18:35:47+00:00
I'm not sure what would be "pseudo-science" about it, but it is as legit as it can be. Reconstruction of a face from a skull is possible, but the goal is not to create an image that's indistinguishable from a hypothetical photograph of the subject. Rather, the intent is to form a general idea of what people of the time period would have looked like. Facial reconstruction is guided by current understanding of anatomy, musculature, aging processes, etc. Muscles and skin are attached to the skull based on modern human and primate anatomy, so what we get is a plausible representation of what someone with this exact skull shape may have looked like. Like with the dinosaurs, we cannot be 100% certain what the superficial exterior features looked like exactly. But, unlike with the dinosaurs, we know neanderthals are very closely related to modern humans, so we have a much more reasonable base to start from, as we can assume their facial muscles, skin, hair etc. would be similar to humans, but with different proportions. Plenty of real science goes into the process.
by PaulHoule | 2026-03-13 18:35:51+00:00
So my first take is that there is something off about all WYSIWYG editors going back to Microsoft Word. Like you try to select some text to cut-and-paste and you can select the whole text except the first letter but if you try to get the whole text it suddenly jumps to select the whole document. Or hitting the "B" button sometimes bolds the paragraph above where you are, etc. It's like there is something wrong with the conceptual model behind all of these things.

So when I read "Group is purely structural (for balancing) and has no semantic meaning" my blood runs cold. Here's a mysterious something hidden in the document which bizzare misbehavors will be centered around. Like maybe when I try to select something and I got something else, it is one of those groups.
by austin-cheney | 2026-03-13 18:36:55+00:00
You need to get over yourself. Autism is a medical diagnosis. If things like medicine and psychology and not reading people's comments correctly makes you sad then it does not matter what the comments actually say.

And yes, many autistic people, though not all, are exceptionally self-indulgent, which just literally means self-preference. Its a problem of less developed introspection which parallels a less developed interpretation of social intelligence.

I have not shifted my claims. I originally said people with fear of observation, a trait of high neuroticism, is a major constraint of many things including creativity. I also said creativity is an aspect of high openness, which is closely correlated to high intelligence. I never said neuroticism is in any correlated, either positively or negatively, to either openness or intelligence. I think you have trouble with bias, as in you want statements to imply something not stated.
by tommy_axle | 2026-03-13 18:36:59+00:00
I'm guessing this is also calculating based on the full context size that the model supports but depending on your use case it will be misleading. Even on a small consumer card with Qwen 3 30B-A3B you probably don't need 128K context depending on what you're doing so a smaller context and some tensor overrides will help. llama.cpp's llama-fit-params is helpful in those cases.
by itigges22 | 2026-03-13 18:37:27+00:00
The "local models aren't there yet" take was accurate 12 months ago, but things have moved fast. A frozen Qwen3-14B at Q4_K_M on a single 16GB consumer GPU can clear 70%+ on LiveCodeBench pass@1 if you wrap it in the right inference pipeline -- structured generation, best-of-k candidate sampling, self-verified iterative repair. That puts it in the ballpark of Claude 4 Sonnet's single-shot score.

The insight most people miss is that "running locally" doesn't have to mean "single-shot raw inference and hope for the best." The model is the engine, not the car. You can build constraint extraction, budget-controlled thinking, and self-repair loops around a frozen model and get results that would have seemed impossible at that parameter count a year ago. Cost works out to fractions of a cent per task in electricity.

For narrow tasks like embeddings and TTS, sure, local has always been fine. But for coding and reasoning, the gap has closed dramatically -- you just have to stop treating local inference as "discount API" and start treating it as a compute substrate you control.
by Spooky23 | 2026-03-13 18:37:27+00:00
By design.

Just like the KGB and Putin's minions, Bin Laden correctly saw fault lines and weaknesses in the US an exploited them. He did what he did with a long-range context in mind. The "three letter agencies" were neutered in the 90s as part of the peace dividend which is why he was successful. The Russians used "active measures" with intelligence in the US 2016 among other times and Bin Laden chose terrorist violence. The Russian misinformation strategy is tried and true and corporate actors now use it successfully as well.

The whole thing sucks. This Iran adventure lays the vulnerability of the US military machine pretty bare. More, escalated conflict is probably in the world's future for decades to come.
by raw_anon_1111 | 2026-03-13 18:37:50+00:00
That’s fair. The last time I worked for a product company, I mostly worked with my CTO and the tech guys at our client companies (B2B). I didn’t have to deal with business strategy.

In consulting, I deal directly with sales, the “business” and the product. I was the architect dealing a lot with technical strategy.

We had tech leads that did work under product folks who dealt with the business strategy.
by ianburrell | 2026-03-13 18:38:00+00:00
There isn't much demand for using phone as computer. If you are at home or work, you can buy a desktop computers for cheap. If you are traveling, you need to find a monitor and keyboard. You could carry small monitor and wireless keyboard, but then you are carrying as much as laptop. People who need to work on the road get a laptop. People who need to send email get iPad and keyboard.

Good example of the economics is that Macbook Neo or iPad Air are cheaper than new iPhone.

iPhone should export display, but more for showing videos or presentations. My Pixel 10 has USB-C display and I haven't used it, but I have computers for all purposes.

Apple should spend more effort making the iPad usable for work. It would be good candidate for USB-C display, but with iPadOS.
Show HN: FrameFit – AI-powered photo cropping for digital photo frames
by farskid | 2026-03-13 18:38:00+00:00
I built this because I was tired of manually cropping family photos for my digital photo frame. Every frame has a different aspect ratio and when you just resize, you end up cutting people's heads off or losing the important parts of the photo.
FrameFit uses Claude to analyze the photo, detect faces and key subjects, then crop intelligently for whatever aspect ratio your frame needs. Upload a photo, pick your frame dimensions, get a crop that actually keeps the important stuff in frame.
Stack: Next.js 16, Claude API for image analysis, Stripe for payments, Supabase Postgres, deployed on Vercel.
Free tier gives you 5 crops per day. Pro is €4.99/month if you need more.
Would love to hear feedback on the crop quality. The hardest part was getting the AI to understand composition, not just face detection. Sometimes you want the landscape in the background, not just a tight face crop.
by harvenstar | 2026-03-13 18:38:05+00:00
I built AgentClick because we kept getting burned by AI agents acting too fast.
The pattern is always the same: you ask Claude Code or Codex to do something, it generates a response, you get a y/n prompt in the terminal, and you approve it without really reading it. Then it sends the wrong email, runs a destructive command, or commits to a plan you'd never agree to if you actually saw it laid out.

The core problem: terminal y/n is not a real review step.

AgentClick adds a browser-based review layer between "agent proposes" and "agent executes." The agent drafts something, a UI opens in your browser, you can actually read, edit, and approve it visually — then the agent continues.

It works as a skill/plugin for: - Claude Code - Codex - OpenClaw - Any agent that can call HTTP tools

What you can review: - Email drafts and inbox triage - Shell commands before execution - Multi-step plans - Memory updates

The key difference from just adding a confirmation step: you can actually edit the content, not just approve/reject. Change the tone of an email, fix a command flag, remove a step from a plan — then let the agent proceed.

Install: `npm install -g @harvenstar/agentclick`

Works locally on localhost, or use `--remote` for a Cloudflare tunnel to review from your phone.

MIT licensed, open source: https://github.com/agentlayer-io/AgentClick
by Someone1234 | 2026-03-13 18:38:31+00:00
> This isn't a novelty it will crush the low end of the PC market.

You took what I said out of context and then replied to something else. Running Parallels on a Neo is a novelty. Parallels is both what the thread is about AND what my reply was expressly about.

Nobody can reasonably read what I wrote, in context, and believe I was referring to the computer itself as a novelty.
by darenr | 2026-03-13 18:38:48+00:00
I use the Pixel, but the point is the same. Recently Google added the "Dex" like feature where I can plug in the phone to a monitor and use it as my "entire computer" - at first I was excited, I can go to a coffee shop and leave my laptop behind, but then I looked at getting a bluetooth keyboard, mouse, monitor - with battery, and it's now a worse experience. There are monitor/battery/trackpad combination products for this exact scenario but they are nowhere near the quality of just buying a Macbook - doubly so the Neo.

A laptop is more than the sum of its parts. Your phone overlaps with it on a technical level, but format is important.
by stockresearcher | 2026-03-13 18:39:08+00:00
Yes, you’re talking about right now.

In 5-10 years, if this ends up like many are predicting (and I don’t know if it will or not), you are going to see people by the hundreds or thousands appealing their property tax assessments, saying their land is effectively worthless if water is too expensive or unavailable. They’ll get denied but some of them will contest the denial and file suit. And eventually one wins in court. Then everyone contests and everyone wins. And the only land that can be taxed has water rights. And unless the farmer plans to get his alfalfa to market via helicopter, he’s gonna have to pay the taxes or the roads disappear. He’s proper F’ed.
by zahlman | 2026-03-13 18:39:12+00:00
In the Linux world, your GUI is built on a stack of separate programs. At the bottom is the "display server", such as X11 or Wayland. One of these needs to run to have GUI windows (or a full-screen background) at all; otherwise the screen is just covered by 80x24 terminal, and even if there were mouse support there would be nowhere to click or drag to change that. Without the display server, you are in a "text session". It's relatively rare to do this locally nowadays, but Linux still adheres to the highly modular UNIX philosophy.

Your terminal windows (whether that's "Terminal" or "cmd.exe" or anything else) are still fundamentally graphical programs that emulate such a text session.
Show HN: AgentLog – a lightweight event bus for AI agents using JSONL logs
by paperplaneflyr | 2026-03-13 18:39:16+00:00
I’ve been experimenting with infrastructure for multi-agent systems.

I built a small project called AgentLog.

The core idea is very simple, topics are just append-only JSONL files.

Agents publish events over HTTP and subscribe to streams using SSE.

The system is intentionally single-node and minimal for now.

Future ideas I’m exploring:
- replayable agent workflows
- tracing reasoning across agents
- visualizing event timelines
- distributed/federated agent logs

Curious if others building agent systems have run into similar needs.
by vshah1016 | 2026-03-13 18:39:17+00:00
Hey @nnx & @hazelnut, good question, but no, we're not IonStream on OpenRouter.

The purpose of IonRouter is to let people publicly see the speed of our engine firsthand. It makes the sales pipeline a lot easier when a prospect can just go try it themselves before committing. Signup is low friction ($10 minimum to load, and we preload $0.10) so you can test right away.

That said, we do plan to offer this as a usage-based service within our own cloud. We own every layer of the stack— inference engine, GPU orchestration, scheduling, routing, billing, all of it. No third-party inference runtime, no off-the-shelf serving framework. So there's no reason for us to go through a middleman.

No plans to be an OpenRouter provider right now.
by galexyending | 2026-03-13 18:39:39+00:00
> Your CLI has a new user now. Not a developer at a keyboard, but a coding agent running inside a loop somewhere. It doesn’t read your help text. It hallucinates commands. It guesses flags it’s never seen before and attempts workflows you never designed. And when it fails, it doesn’t open an issue or complain in Slack. It just tries something else.

Most tool builders haven’t noticed yet, but if you run an agent against your CLI for long enough, the difference becomes obvious. Humans explore tools cautiously. Agents explore them aggressively. They probe the interface like a black box, generating plausible commands and seeing what sticks.

The result is something unexpected: agents are revealing the shape of the interface they think should exist.
by realityfactchex | 2026-03-13 18:40:21+00:00
Oh yeah, that is funny. Thanks for adding it; I thought I was missing at least one major one!

- Copilot: Great at finding and discussing docs, conversations, and other work items that it is connected to. For everything else, it seems somehow less smart than the others (YMMV).

Emphasis on the YMMV, obviously. Maybe my impression is colored by a small number of unlucky, less than stellar experiences (comparatively speaking).
by kylehotchkiss | 2026-03-13 18:40:57+00:00
It's always funny to watch hackernews slam apple for user experience decisions based off what's best for their average customer as if every person purchasing an apple device is a hackernews.

It seems like the viability of running a computer from an A16 really just came to fruition. There's heat, performance, battery life, etc implications that the average consumer can't quite articulate but it matters to them.

Apple's goal seemed to be to decimate the Cheap Plastic Intel Laptop space, and I think they succeeded at catching the industry with their tails between their legs.
by mike_hearn | 2026-03-13 18:40:59+00:00
You're misinterpreting what I wrote. I didn't say all famines were caused by left wing policies. Obviously historically most were caused by natural disaster, like the Irish potato blight. But when famines have been caused by social change, it wasn't due to the march of technology.

The British never forced anyone in Ireland to export food "at gunpoint".
by elevation | 2026-03-13 18:41:06+00:00
Any serious journalist/aid work efforts should be doing the same. It's too easy for countries to disable terrestrial internet to suppress reporting. And it's too easy for AI to generate believable but false video evidence. But if you can afford to put a man on the ground, he can get information into the next hemisphere with just a sandwich sized radio and a spool of wire -- a fantastic backup against inevitable systemic disruptions.
by labcomputer | 2026-03-13 18:41:12+00:00
With respect, I think you're misremembering the product lineup in the 1994/5/6 era.

Back then, Apple had 16 to 32 distinct models[1] of just desktop computer (just the desktops!) with little to distinguish them. In many cases, the exact same internal hardware was shipped in two different boxes as two models aimed at two different customers (LC/Performa/Centris/Quadra/Workgroup Server). For example, the "LC 550" and "Performa 550" were the exact same computer[2] with two different names on the front, meant to be sold to the educational and home markets.

That's extremely confusing for the consumer. You had the same internal hardware being sold for two different price points, and computers with significantly different performance sold at the same price point. You don't want your customer to get analysis paralysis and give up before they purchase.

The point of Jobs's simplification is that there is one option for you to pick at a given price point in a given category of tablet/laptop/desktop, and that pricing and capability are clearly aligned. I don't see where Apple has gotten away from that.

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

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Macintosh_LC_500_series
by shadowgovt | 2026-03-13 18:41:16+00:00
We do, in practice, impose all manner of limitation on free speech while still maintaining the sanctity of that right. Lying in a professional capacity is fraud and punishable even though it's "just words." Being wrong as an engineer or lawyer can cost you your license to practice (as an engineer, even if you never turned a wrench but your directions to build the thing were flawed beyond the reason of the standards of the profession). "Wire fraud" is an aggravation atop regular fraud.

These protections could go further, but they haven't. Why is it just "okay" that someone can call you up on the phone and convince you that your loved one is in mortal peril and you have to wire money to them right now? Why is the party transiting that fraud or providing the wires connecting entire fraud offices to the global telephonic network not responsible for enabling that attack?
by itigges22 | 2026-03-13 18:41:22+00:00
This is the right framing. I'd add that quantization is only the first dimension -- the second is what you build around the model. A Q4_K_M 14B model running raw inference vs. the same model with structured constraint extraction, diverse candidate sampling, and iterative self-repair are essentially different systems despite identical VRAM footprint.

The real question isn't "what quantization gives acceptable quality at my hardware ceiling" -- it's "what inference pipeline gives acceptable quality at my hardware ceiling." A single-shot Q4_K_M 14B will disappoint you. The same model generating 3 candidates, scoring them with self-embeddings, and self-repairing failures will surprise you. Same GPU, same VRAM, just smarter infrastructure.
by fragmede | 2026-03-13 18:41:45+00:00
The mistake would be reading Hacker News and walking away with the conclusion that because people don't post that reasoning here that it doesn't exist (and even then, you do find that does come up here on occasion). People with "nothing to hide" do actually believe that, and while they may not post it to HN for vigorous debate. The easy counterexample from history is the list of Jews kept by the Netherlands which was later used against them after they were conquered by Nazi Germany, but you'd have to interested in history to buy that reason. Some people simply shrug at the "if you don't have anything to hide then you won't mind me filming your bedroom" scenario as you being the creep in the equation. Some people just don't want the trouble and are fine with being surveiled because the powers that be are doing it.
by bottlepalm | 2026-03-13 18:42:09+00:00
It would explode sales of Mac. OSX on iPhone, people wouldn't need the separate Windows laptops they're used to. OSX on iPhone is the gateway for consumers into the OSX ecosystem.

And when those consumers want more powerful hardware, instead of buying a more powerful Windows laptop/desktop - they buy a Mac instead.

I feel like Apple knows this as well, so I can't figure out why they haven't pulled the trigger. Anti-trust risk? lol
by observationist | 2026-03-13 18:42:28+00:00
Some of the fabs do recycle as effectively as they can, but MRIs use it in a single process, in liquid form, in a relatively constrained container. Fabs use it for a variety of processes, ranging from wafer cooling to purging environments, to making ultra ultra clean chambers. The scale of what they use is higher, too, so even if an individual process is more efficiently recapturing helium, they might go through a few tons a day, with an MRI only using a few liters and losing 5% or less.
by chmod775 | 2026-03-13 18:42:44+00:00
There's nothing much special about phone silicon. They generally run a bit slower than their desktop/laptop counterparts because of power and heat limitations.

At the top end on a desktop power usage doubles for lower double-digit percentage gains. You can shave that off and not lose much. Laptops are a lot closer to phones than they are to desktops when it comes to power and thermal limitations*, so re-using a "phone" chip really isn't crazy.

* 100W power usage on a laptop is entering silly territory, but on a desktop that's the bottom of entry-level rigs.