MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by goku12 | 2026-03-02 17:26:53+00:00
> It also destroyed climate data claiming the ledgers were old fashioned, but they were the only copies.

I don't know how long ago the library of Alexandria was burned down. But what I do know is that we never learn the lesson. It's rather stupid to store public research data (i.e, excluding classified info) at a single location. There are any number of unpredictable future scenarios that can lead to this same unfortunate outcome.

Scientists and politicians should work together and agree to store and host such research data in multiple countries, including with rival nations. That should make it a lot more resilient against such eventualities. It won't cause any security risk. After all, you were going to publish it anyway. Why waste the information worth a lot of money and effort?

But instead of that, many governments and greedy corporations go after independent groups who do exactly that - scihub and internet archive, for example. We as a species possess the stupidity of stubbornly avoiding the obvious right path.
by gwbas1c | 2026-03-02 17:27:02+00:00
One of the things I miss about Objective C is just how easy it is to call into a C API, or otherwise include a C function if that's the easiest way to call into a C API.

I shipped a cross-platform C# project, and once I realized I could expose "ordinary C" from the Objective C part, it was very easy to integrate the two without using a framework. (It helped that the UI was 100% Objective C, so there wasn't much surface area between the C# and Objective C parts. We initially used MonobjC, but first I had to work around a shortcoming, and then we needed to remove MonobjC due to licensing and some of the newer C# integration layers were not available.)
by scuff3d | 2026-03-02 17:27:14+00:00
"Here's the uncomfortable truth: a try keyword in Go without fixing the error type is just syntax sugar. You'd get slightly less typing but none of the real benefits - no exhaustiveness checking, no compiler-inferred error sets, no guarantee that you've actually handled every case."

... So what? From what I can tell that's all anyone has asked for in the context of something to just return nil/error up the call stack.
by cogman10 | 2026-03-02 17:27:25+00:00
The network file system to host is usually pretty slow no? That was my impression.

As for memory ballooning, the main issue with it is that it (generally) only gets triggered when the host runs out of memory.

For a host which is only running VMs, this is fine. But for the typical consumer host it becomes cumbersome as you still need to give the VM a giant memory block and hope that your VM of choice is good enough to free on time. It's also uncoordinated. When swapping needs to happen, if the VM was using the host for allocation the host could much more efficiently decide what needs to go into swap.

And if the host was in charge of both the memory and file system, then things like a system cache could be done more efficiently on top of all that.
by skeledrew | 2026-03-02 17:27:44+00:00
That's still too much work. Someone would have to make like an OpenClaw wizard that protectively offers to set all that stuff up. So the potential OpenClaw user can then, on running for the first time, be guided through the setup of whatever they'd like to get connected. And "setup" here means a short description of X and a "Connect? (y/n)" prompt. Anything more and you start losing people.
by anonymars | 2026-03-02 17:27:53+00:00
Ho ho, except for where it puts the photos. Those go into a subfolder of the system photos folder, and there's no configuration (yet you can configure the "shared photos" location)

And then, should you try to set up OneDrive (despite Microsoft's shenanigans, it does simplify taking care of non-tech-savvy relatives), it will refuse to sync the photos folder because 'it contains another cloud storage' and you'll genuinely wonder how or why anyone uses computers anymore
by small_model | 2026-03-02 17:28:06+00:00
I don't think so, phones are consumer devices as are laptops and tablets these days. How many people would buy a dishwasher that is hackable or uses 'open source' software vs a standard one. If you want to see how this might go look at the market share of Framework laptop vs Apple/Chrome books. You are talking 0.05% if you are lucky.
by subpar | 2026-03-02 17:28:11+00:00
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by shadowinbox | 2026-03-02 17:28:23+00:00
For the past year I ran a small agency and spent an embarrassing amount of time manually searching Reddit for potential clients.

You know the drill, someone posts "I need an SEO agency, who do you recommend?" and if you find it 3 hours later, 10 other people already replied.
So I built Shadow Inbox to automate exactly that.

How it works technically:

1) You describe your business and ideal customer in plain English ("I run a web design agency looking for founders complaining about their current website")
2) The system uses an LLM to expand that into a large keyword + intent query set automatically-
3) A scraping layer monitors Reddit and HN continuously using residential proxies to avoid rate limiting
4) Every keyword match gets passed to a secondary AI layer (the Gatekeeper) that reads the full post context and scores buying intent, this is what filters out a post about highway traffic when you're an SEO agency tracking the word "traffic"
5) Only posts scoring above 70% intent confidence reach your dashboard, categorized as Hot or Warm leads
6) You spend credits only to unlock the leads you actually want to pursue

The meta-joke that I can't escape:
I validated this idea by posting on Reddit asking if people would want something like this. Got enough positive responses to start building. So yes, Shadow Inbox found its own first users before it existed.

Current state:
-Live at getshadowinbox.com
-Reddit and HN monitored (Quora, LinkedIn, X in beta)
-Pricing starts at $49/mo with a free trial
-Stack: Next.js, Supabase, Vercel

What I'm genuinely unsure about and would love HN's take on:
-The ethical line between monitoring public posts and using them for commercial outreach, where do you draw it?
-Whether the credit-based unlock model is the right pricing mechanic or if pure subscription would convert better
-Long-term defensibility, is this a feature that gets built into every CRM eventually, or is there a real moat here?

Happy to answer anything about the architecture, the AI filtering logic, or the business model.
by magicalist | 2026-03-02 17:28:26+00:00
> The legal issue here is that there should be a very high bar for saying that first amendment protected speech amounts to incitement. But that’s not a principle of law as far as I’m aware.

I don't understand the distinction you're making here. Isn't there being a high bar for saying that first amendment protected speech amounts to incitement literally a principle of modern first amendment law (Brandenburg etc)?

> So any organization that adopts this militant posture for marketing reasons (which is a lot of them these days) could run the risk of that being used against them if any of the protesters end up damaging or destroying property.

Even the way you write this makes it sound like you know it's problematic too.
by YesBox | 2026-03-02 17:28:59+00:00
I've been working on Metropolis 1998[1] for +4 years now. Custom C++ engine built with a modified version of SFML 2.5 and SQLite.

Creating my own engine was both a personal and strategic decision for me. I was really worried about running into performance issues with generalist engines, and I did not want the friction of working with someone else's mental model. Pretty sure that friction would have caused so much burnout for me. There's also the long payoff of operating in an environment that you understand top to bottom.

I ignored all the advice about making smaller games first, creating an engine first, etc. Metropolis 1998 is my first game and so far it's working out just fine. But your mileage will vary.. I started development with 10+ years of software experience and fond memories of Rollercoaster Tycoon and SimCity 2000/4.

I only add what I need. There's no level/scene editors (outside of the game being one itself :P ). No scene graphs. Shaders are coded by hand. Right now the entire game is about 45MB.

[1] https://store.steampowered.com/app/2287430/Metropolis_1998/
by pkphilip | 2026-03-02 17:29:09+00:00
At this point it is very difficult to develop truly open OSs for mobiles because so much of the hardware depends on undocumented binary blobs.

As I see it, the only options is to go for a drastically simpler design of the hardware - which means, we have to tone down our expectations especially when it comes to things like gaming performance, camera performance etc.

Over time even these things can be improved but it is going to take a few years.

In the meantime, I am not sure many people are willing to make those compromises to have a truly open hardware and OS though.
by abhaynayar | 2026-03-02 17:29:17+00:00
Interesting, because I've been thinking about group sizes and their effects on social dynamics.

However, I guess it depends on the goal? Like in medium audiences, WHY be the facilitator for others? I mean it's a good thing to do if there's such a person or maybe if you're the host, etc. But in my opinion in most cases the point is to contribute to the conversation.

For large/presentations- fact versus emotion thing seems arbitrary. In most "social" situations emotions triumph regardless of size. But again there are factors other than size that would factor more into this. I don't disagree with anything- more like all of it could go either way and it's fine.
by tp4798 | 2026-03-02 17:29:22+00:00
Location: Viet Nam (GMT+7), but willing to work on other time zones as well
Remote: Yes

Willing to Relocate: No

Technologies: Python, Go, SQL, Cursor, Claude Code

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by miroljub | 2026-03-02 17:29:39+00:00
No. Just no. Someone calling herself/himself security researcher doesn't give unrestricted access to an email to the application, which is controlled by AI.

Did she really expect nothing would ever go wrong? I could understand if that happened to someone who never saw a computer and had no idea what it is. But she is a Security Researcher at META.

DEI is the only plausible explanation here. As in, someone hired for some other reason than competence.

Note: I never said OpenClaw is secure, just that it wouldn't happen if security researchers had a basic idea about security.

Guns, cars, machines, hammers, knives, forks, none of these tools are secure. And yet, you don't blame those tools when someone harms themselves. You blame the incompetence of the people.
by tenacious_tuna | 2026-03-02 17:29:47+00:00
> I have never seen one of these ridiculous looking bikes in any city or anywhere.
>
> Where do y'all live, a Dr. Suess book?

I saw them every day in Chicago. I see them every day in southern Ontario. I saw them whenever I visited Boston or NYC. Where do you live that you don't?

> I will not bike them in the rain, With soggy bags and squishy pain.

> I will not bike them up the hill, When every pedal feels like drill.

> I will not bike them when it’s hot, With sweat that pours and cheese that rots.

Given that other commenters have addressed basically all of these concerns (waterproof bags, electric assist, insulated bags) it seems more like you just want to be contrarian rather than cite specific problems and discuss if they can be solved.
by deet | 2026-03-02 17:29:48+00:00
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by mhurron | 2026-03-02 17:29:51+00:00
I am wherever for a reason, and that reason is not to be social. I am thinking about what I am doing next, what I need to bring up in whatever thing I'm waiting for, or quite frankly any number of things. You are interrupting me. You'd probably get it if we changed things up and instead of standing in line, we said you were staring out the window while sitting at your desk. You're clearly doing nothing right and talking to you isn't interrupting what your task is because your task is just typing code, and we did just say you're not doing that.

You are bothering me trying to talk to me when I am out, because I am only out to do things specifically. Just because I am currently doing something (waiting) that you deem unimportant or an indicator I am free does not make it so.
by bshul-silkline1 | 2026-03-02 17:29:56+00:00
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by Anthony-G | 2026-03-02 17:30:03+00:00
Thanks for that bit of background. That make sense.

I used to think that MS were probably happy with a certain amount of “piracy” (students, voluntary groups, people starting off as self-employed contractors, etc.) because it kept people in their ecosystem (using MS Office and other Windows-only software), helped reinforce the perception of Windows as being the OS for getting stuff done (either work or games) and some of these “pirates” would become future (paying) customers.
by try_the_bass | 2026-03-02 17:30:05+00:00
The trouble with this definition is that a large number of points fit the progressive left, too. Based on my experience (especially on pre-Musk Twitter, but in other places as well), 1, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 11, 13, and 14 apply fairly well.

I think this framework really just describes "tribalism", and not specifically "fascism".
by tremon | 2026-03-02 17:30:24+00:00
> Google pulls the plug ? cool, you're stuck on Android 17

And you're stuck on the current hardware generation. Pretty much the only reason why Android sucks less than other mobile OSes is that hardware vendors have a pressing reason to make it work. The further the Google Android kernel diverges from its last-open version, the harder it will become to backport drivers -- and that's assuming that hardware vendors even bother to comply with the GPL when Google decides not to.
by h4ck3rhn | 2026-03-02 17:30:53+00:00
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by Supermancho | 2026-03-02 17:30:58+00:00
> The inheritors are in a better position to kill the author-- or just allow them to die from neglect-- and are incentivized to do so by postmortem profits.

This is true now, with or without copyright reform. If the author fears, they can make a will or trust, just like it is today. Not sure why this consideration would factor as a negative signal.
by abustamam | 2026-03-02 17:31:02+00:00
If I told her to install Windows, she'd at least know what to tell the technician in the event that I'm not around.

If I install Pop OS on her computer she will just tell the technician she has a laptop because she doesn't know the difference. I would hope that the technician does know the difference, and moreover, knows how to use it (which I assume someone calling themselves a technician would know how to troubleshoot basic stuff on a foreign operating system, but I've been wrong on lighter assumptions)
by ddiinn | 2026-03-02 17:31:07+00:00
Knostic is open-sourcing OpenAnt, our LLM-based vulnerability discovery product, similar to Anthropic's Claude Code Security, but free. It helps defenders proactively find verified security flaws. Stage 1 detects. Stage 2 attacks. What survives is real.

Why open source?
Since Knostic's focus is on protecting agents (not vulnerability research), we're releasing OpenAnt for free. Plus, we like open source.
...And besides, it makes zero sense to compete with Anthropic and OpenAI.

Links:
- Project page:
https://openant.knostic.ai/

- For technical details, limitations, and token costs, check out this blog post:
https://knostic.ai/blog/openant

- To submit your repo for scanning:
https://knostic.ai/blog/oss-scan

- Repo:
https://github.com/knostic/OpenAnt/
by genalpha_hiring | 2026-03-02 17:31:08+00:00
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by xrom2863 | 2026-03-02 17:31:08+00:00
I built KatClaw, a native macOS wrapper around OpenClaw. It runs locally on your Mac, so your assistant runtime and data stay on your machine (unless you explicitly connect external services like Telegram/Discord or cloud model APIs).

OpenClaw is powerful, but setup can be rough for non-technical users (Node/npm, CLI steps, JSON config, gateway lifecycle). KatClaw packages that into a normal Mac app flow: install via DMG, guided setup, menu bar controls, and update handling.

What it does:

• installs/configures OpenClaw on macOS
• provider setup (Claude/OpenAI/Gemini/DeepSeek/OpenRouter/etc.)
• security modes + command approval prompts
• gateway start/stop/restart from UI
• backup/restore + config checks

Built in SwiftUI. macOS 14+.

I’d especially love feedback on:

1. onboarding clarity for non-dev users
2. security model / approval UX
3. where setup still feels too “CLI-ish”
by cucumber3732842 | 2026-03-02 17:31:28+00:00
And in this case the jury found them on the hook to pay for the results.

I'm not sure what they were expecting. Direct action agains an oil pipeline in ND is gonna go over about as well as direct action tourism in Florida. If by some miracle you get a judge sympathetic to your cause you won't get a jury that is. The local people want this industry, generally speaking.
by daxaur | 2026-03-02 17:32:03+00:00
It is indeed very similar, but

OpenClaw doesn't support Claude Code's native OAuth, plus it runs its own daemon. OpenPaw goes the other direction: it writes config files that
Claude Code already understands (CLAUDE.md, permissions, hooks) and exits so claude code can function as an actual personal assistant with all the skills needed. No daemon, no extra process.