MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by OneMorePerson | 2026-03-02 03:35:27+00:00
After watching the movie "dark waters" about the whole Teflon scandal, seems like it should be the highest up person (or people) who had knowledge of the incident (obviously must be proven). An individual engineer knowing a car has a dangerous edge case isn't enough to get them in trouble in my view, especially if the company has claimed they are working on fixing it. Also legitimate mistakes are just mistakes, companies won't get it right every single time.

However there's cases where its completely proven that someone high up knew there was a systemic safety issue (they had a broad view and could see all the different areas of what was going on), they knew exactly what was causing it, and they do nothing because they want to keep the profit going. The fact those people don't go to jail just tells me that corporations have way too much leeway.
by rprend | 2026-03-02 03:35:57+00:00
I built a payment processor and failed. Regulations aren’t the issue. The issue is customer psychology: once a customer has solved their problem, they never switch. The biggest misconception I had is that it’s a viable business model to start a business to “compete” with an existing one (cheaper, better tech, better UI, etc). That never works.

You have to either 1. Solve the problem for a new customer who hasn’t solved this problem. 2. Solve a totally different problem than your competition. or 3. Invent a completely different paradigm for approaching solving that problem.

A good case study is search. Nobody could compete with Google, until ChatGPT. Note that ChatGPT is not just “Google but better”, but instead does (3): it’s a different paradigm for answering your questions. Even though it’s much better at solving this problem, people still don’t switch from Google. Most of ChatGPT growth comes from (1): new customers, because ChatGPT usage is highest among young people who haven’t already solved their problem and aren’t sticky with Google.

You underestimate how sticky customers are out of habit. Cable news is now an inferior product for information retrieval, but it’s sticky because it’s already there, solving the problem, for that generation.
by sky2224 | 2026-03-02 03:36:04+00:00
What are the numbers on companies indirectly use Claude via Github Copilot? Given that OpenAI and by extension, Microsoft, has folded to the will of the US Govt, I suspect that all Claude models have a pretty non-zero chance of being pulled from Copilot very soon.

I know many companies using Copilot have no contract work with the government, but this is the Trump admin we're talking about. They want to send a message.
by crazygringo | 2026-03-02 03:36:42+00:00
I was going to say that I was surprised that enough "normal" users had heard about the Pentagon news story that it would make a difference.

Then I remembered that the app store rankings [1] seem to be based on activity from just the past day or so.

And so a lot of "plugged-in" users switching to Claude all at once then would be enough to briefly send Claude to #1, since the migration would be sizeable in comparison to the normal daily download baseline.

But we can also expect that this would probably be just a blip for a couple of days, as it's unlikely to make much difference in the baseline ratio for the general population.

[1] https://apps.apple.com/us/iphone/charts
by hedora | 2026-03-02 03:38:17+00:00
For those concerned with making sure end-users have access to working user-agents moving forward:

I'd focus on using accessibility and other standard APIs. Some tiny fraction of web pages will try to sabotage new applications, and some other fraction will try to somehow monetize content that they normally give away for free, or sell exclusive access to centralized providers (like reddit did). So, admitting to being a bot is going to be a losing strategy for AI agents.

Eventually, something like this MCP framework will work out, but it'd probably be better for everyone if it just used open, human accessible standards instead of a special side door that tools built with AI have to use. (Imagine web 1.0 style HTML with form submission, and semantically formatted responses -- one can still dream, right?)
by zjp | 2026-03-02 03:38:50+00:00
Always a great story. It's worrying that people are starting to turn to LLMs for indeterminate problems like interpersonal and relationship advice.

A big difference between the whispering earring and LLMs is that ostensibly the whispering earring has an actual model of the people around you that it can draw on to influence your decision making, whereas LLMs only know you.

So it's a bit like "talking" to a Cosmopolitan article.
Show HN: AI agent that works autonomously while I'm offline
by ZeroDayCyber | 2026-03-02 03:39:18+00:00
I was on a flight with airplane mode on. When I landed, my AI had built two product landing pages, set up Stripe, written 5 blog posts, and sent me a Telegram summary of everything it did.

No instructions from me mid-flight. It just ran.

Here's how I set it up:

Most people use LLMs like a stateless calculator -- you ask, it answers, session ends, it forgets you exist. That's not leverage, that's just autocomplete.

What I wanted was an AI agent with:
- Persistent memory (knows my projects, preferences, goals across sessions)
- A job description (knows what to work on without being told)
- Scheduled autonomous tasks (cron jobs that run while I sleep)
- Tool access (browser, file system, email, APIs)
- A communication channel (Telegram alerts when something happens)

I used OpenClaw (self-hosted, runs on a Mac mini) with Claude as the underlying model. Total cost: ~$20/month in API calls.

The key insight: the difference between a useful AI and a useless one isn't the model -- it's the scaffolding. Memory files, a job description, tool access, and a persistent process change everything.

I documented the exact setup -- the file structure, prompts, job description template, and week-by-week implementation plan -- in a guide for people who want to replicate it.

Happy to answer questions about the technical setup, the OpenClaw config, or the memory/identity system.
by 0xWTF | 2026-03-02 03:39:37+00:00
What surface conditions do you ride this in? I spent this morning on my Specialized Levo (1) and ran down the entire battery over the course of about 2.5 hours, covering 36 km and 1400 meters of elevation, much of the downhill being at "mach chicken", with drops, doubles, locked up dirt surfing, etc. There is 0% probability I would take this long range e-bike to that terrain. Which is fine. But I'm pretty sure your frame wasn't designed to carry this 22 pound battery or anything like it, so are you exclusively riding this on buttery smooth Dutch roads?

(1) a few years old now, but keeps up with my buddy riding the new-new version https://upway.co/products/specialized-turbo-levo-comp-carbon...
by indianmouse | 2026-03-02 03:40:01+00:00
This is bonkers to redirect the thought process. What does it do to prevent creating systems that has been mentioned in the guardrails? Nothing. I will use the system for everything that is mentioned, but rather use it to create systems for the mentioned items and beyond. Now that I've the power, I can use it for creating far more sinister systems with the help of an unlimited intelligence and beyond. I am god now. As simple as it sounds and as the AI systems evolve with more intelligence, more coverage, more tools, the easier my job is going to be. Isn't it unfair to see why such usage might go unchecked or even looked at? I've everything available inside my premises and no one (not even the creator will know what I'm using it for!) will get to know how and what for I'll using the systems for. While one might say it is applicable for any AI system and can argue against it, it is applicable for open source systems as well where one can remove the guardrails and use all the knowledge and intelligence that is available inside it.

God save this planet...
by mrbombastic | 2026-03-02 03:42:22+00:00
They stated 2 red lines, mass domestic surveillance and fully autonomous weapons, as a result Trump admin threw a hissy fit and cancelled all military contracts going forward and designated them a supply chain risk to further punish them. https://x.com/SecWar/status/2027507717469049070
OpenAI on the other hand after all this is openly partnering and seemingly has no such red lines and has given milquetoast explanations as to why this is acceptable. What is surprising about the boycott?
by qsera | 2026-03-02 03:43:16+00:00
> how I as an observer end up in one of the many bifurcations..

Just a pleb here, but that does not stop me from thinking about it..

I think your consciousness is a function of the world you belong. So asking why your are in a certain world, and not in other, is like asking why you are born to your specific parents, and not to others.

So you don't end up in some fork, by a roll of dice, you are already confined to, and defined by a single branch.

So I don't think the exact "you" don't exist in another branch. But another consciousness that only differ from "you" by only a single random event (ie you and this consciousness only differ from you in the observation of a single random event) exist in another branch.

And it is not like this is all orchestrated by some entity. It is just how consciousness and subjective experiences emerges in mathematical structures (+ the set of random events), that does not need rendering anywhere (Mathematical Universe Hypothesis).

Once you understand the hopeless inevitablity of existence, a lot of questions like "When", "how", or "why" of our existence disappears.

You can ask if there is any proof for this, except for some thought experiment. But I think the only thing that can come close to proving this is if we exhaustively searched for other extra terrestrial consciousness and don't find any.
Show HN: AluminatiAi – Per-job GPU energy cost tracking (open source)
by AluminatiAi | 2026-03-02 03:43:45+00:00
I built a lightweight GPU monitoring agent that streams power metrics to a dashboard and converts watts into actual dollar costs — per job, per GPU, per day.

The problem: nvidia-smi shows you watts right now. Your cloud provider shows you a monthly total. But nothing tells you which training job was the expensive one.

AluminatiAi fills that gap. A Python agent (using NVML via pynvml) runs on your GPU machine, samples power every 5 seconds, and uploads metrics to a Next.js + Supabase dashboard. It tracks energy in kWh and converts to dollars at your electricity rate. Tag your runs with job names and you get full per-job cost attribution.

Tech stack: Python + pynvml for the agent, Next.js + Supabase for the platform, Recharts for the dashboard. Open source and free to try (30-day trial, no credit card). Works on any NVIDIA GPU — tested on A100, H100, RTX 4090, and in Google Colab.

GitHub: https://github.com/AgentMulder404/aluminatai-landing
Live: https://www.aluminatiai.com
by dang | 2026-03-02 03:43:54+00:00
I floated that idea a week ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47096202, although I used the word "prompts" which users pointed out was obsolete for this. "Session" seems better for now.

The objections I heard, which seemed solid, are (1) there's no single input to the AI (i.e. no single session or prompt) from which such a project is generated,

(2) the back-and-forth between human and AI isn't exactly like working with a compiler (the loop of source code -> object code) - it's also like a conversation between two engineers [1]. In the former case, you can make the source code into an artifact and treat that as "the project", but you can't really do that in the latter case, and

(3) even if you could, the resulting artifact would be so noisy and complicated that saving it as part of the project wouldn't really add that much value.

At the same time, people have been submitting so many Show HNs of generated projects, including nothing more than a generated repo with a generated readme. We need a better way of processing these because treating them like old-fashioned Show HNs is just overwhelming the system with noise right now [2].

I don't want to exclude these projects, because (1) some of them are good, (2) there's nothing wrong with more people being able to create and share things, (3) it's foolish to fight the future, and (4) there's no obvious way to exclude them anyhow.

But the status quo isn't great either because these projects, as things currently stand, are mostly not that interesting. What's needed is some additional support to make them more interesting.

So, community: what should we do?

[1] this point came from seldrige at https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47096903 and https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47108653.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47213296

[2] Is Show HN dead? No, but it's drowning - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47045804 - Feb 2026 (422 comments)
by mcswell | 2026-03-02 03:44:24+00:00
I have no idea whether this is real, nor do I know how the concentration compares with that used in the study, but https://www.nanominerals.co.uk/products/the-health-factory-n... advertises it as a supplement (not as a medicine) for $40/ half liter.

(The ad also claims that the water their iron is suspended in is "energized", which makes the rest of the ad seem...questionable.)
by hedora | 2026-03-02 03:45:29+00:00
The person that wants them to be punched in the face takes the bet, of course!

This was the primary use case for polymarkets before they were banned, and the reason they were banned.

(Well, secondary use case, and secondary reason for the ban. The first was stealing retail investors' retirement funds, and a series of financial panics that led to the Great Depression and creation of the SEC.)
by robocat | 2026-03-02 03:46:57+00:00
> delusion and narcissism

"internet psychology diagnosis" is unwelcome on HN: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38589525

Personally I try to avoid most psych words even in personal conversations because I hate using labels or psych talk with anybody.

I certainly hate anyone applying them to me.

If really necessary I'll talk about a behaviour (which doesn't make it easier, but at least avoids judgmental words).
by fuzzfactor | 2026-03-02 03:47:06+00:00
>a creep is still a creep.

Yeah, some people are only up to no good :\

If you can't differentiate yourself from that, it would be something to work on well before you try and be as socially acceptable as the average joe.

For everyone else who's not a creep, maybe you just have to "accept" that everyone in the world just doesn't want to be socially acceptable anyway.
Show HN: Cosmic horror newspaper engine for an Amsterdam art collective
by webhouwer | 2026-03-02 03:47:34+00:00
Built a custom WordPress theme from scratch for The Unsafe House, an art collective in Amsterdam. We publish provocative essays, visual art, and cultural critique, so the design needed to feel like a forbidden newspaper from another dimension.

Content gets rated on an intensity scale: Irreverent, Profane, Blasphemous, Heretical, Damned. Each level gets its own visual treatment.

The design system runs on CSS custom properties named things like --madness-purple, --eldritch-mist, --cosmic-void, --abyssal-blue. Particle.js handles the ambient cosmic dread in the background.

Also built a pinch-to-zoom artwork lightbox with swipe navigation in vanilla JS, no dependencies.

No page builders. No Elementor. Just PHP templates, 14 modular CSS files, and vanilla JS.

Let me know what you think!
by kmaitreys | 2026-03-02 03:47:39+00:00
No.

Please look at the name again. It's "prediction" market. So if you have credible information before resolution, it's no longer a prediction.

Also your premise is incorrect. The goal of prediction market isn't that. It's to represent wisdom of crowd. Informed traders who can influence the outcome are no longer using any wisdom, nor they're part of the crowd.
by TimorousBestie | 2026-03-02 03:48:16+00:00
Starlink could do laser comms with other satellites, probably, assuming they shared positioning information and whatever proprietary laser sauce is keeping their intraconstellation links up.

But their radar link to ground is Ku band, which is already getting congested (partly by Starlink itself!). That’s why everyone’s talking about moving to Ka, despite the worse attenuation and higher cost. Much more bandwidth is available at Ka band, as well.

Edit: I’m slightly out of date, Starlink now also operates at least partially in the Ka band.
by bonoboTP | 2026-03-02 03:48:50+00:00
I think there has to be a gradual on-ramp for things to pick up steam. You can't go over the "activation energy" required to set up the semantic markup etc. upfront that would have been needed for the Semantic Web back then (ontologies, RDF, APIs). Instead, AI agents can use all websites to some extent, even before you do any agent-accommodations. But now you can take small steps to make it slightly better, then see that users want it, or it drives your sales or whatever your site does, and so you can take another small step and by the end of it you have an API. Not to mention that AI agents can code up said API faster as well.
by ggm | 2026-03-02 03:49:37+00:00
Tolkien and Jansson shared one thing: people did translations of their work which they totally hated

So it's sort-of funny that she wound up pissing him off with artwork which didn't fit his mental model, when they both experienced people trying to do the translation and failing to hit the mark.

(I think I read this of both of them, in respective biographies)
How are engineering teams handling AI compliance?
by partycat | 2026-03-02 03:50:11+00:00
Companies are adopting AI tools fast, but I keep wondering about the human side of it — not whether the tools work, but whether engineers actually know what they're and aren't allowed to do with them.

Specific things I'm curious about: does your company have real AI usage policy or is it "use common sense"? Has anything gone wrong — data sent somewhere it shouldn't, AI used in an auditable decision with no trail? And if someone asked you today whether your team is compliant with AI Act or SOC2 in how they use AI — could you actually answer that?
by socalgal2 | 2026-03-02 03:50:39+00:00
It's hilarious to see all the responses that are effectively "others break the law more!"

The license plate issue is that cities can, and are, adding more and more license plate scanners to catch cars. Those won't work for bicycles and ebikes (who drive like cyclists) unless they require license plates on bikes/ebikes and enforce. Yes, and enforce more on cars too.
by brokensegue | 2026-03-02 03:50:48+00:00
"classical ML" models typically have a more narrow range of applicability. in my mind the value of ollama is that you can easily download and swap-out different models with the same API. many of the models will be roughly interchangeable with tradeoffs you can compute.

if you're working on a fraud problem an open-source fraud model will probably be useless (if it even could exist). and if you own the entire training to inference pipeline i'm not sure what this offers? i guess you can easily swap the backends? maybe for ensembling?
by ThierryBuilds | 2026-03-02 03:51:57+00:00
I spent some time digging into the internal mechanics of process creation. It's one thing to call gcc or click 'Run', but I wanted to document the actual transition from a static binary on disk to the memory layout of a live process.

I tried to contrast the POSIX fork/exec model with the Windows CreateProcess approach. I’d love to hear from anyone who has had to deal with the more obscure parts of these system calls, like clone() flags or Windows process attributes.
by Trufa | 2026-03-02 03:55:43+00:00
Disclaimer: I am not the maintainer of anything terminal related, it's just an intuition.

Let's say I'm the creator of ghostty "competition".

The fact that is has the same name, could feel if I change that:

- Maybe my users start thinking why don't I use ghostty instead
- Will the maintainers of libghostty chose more oriented to ghostty than for my terminal?

It's a half assed analogy, but think if Google's V8 would be called ChromeEngine instead of V8.
by plantain | 2026-03-02 03:55:45+00:00
Visited Fiji and stayed in the "locals" area rather than in one of the tourist resorts. Everywhere I went, would get stopped by locals and asked how my day was going, where I was going, what I was up to.

Shamefully my tourist-shields were at maximum after experiences in Morocco/Ethiopia and similar, and many people I ignored and kept walking as fast as I could.

Eventually I found myself in a conversation I couldn't easily escape from and I realised... they're just being friendly. They were all just being friendly. I spoke to dozens afterwards and had nice little chats, with no motives, no scams, no sales, no brothers-uncle's shop that I must visit.

(I did get scammed in the taxi though, by someone who didn't make conversation :) )
Ask HN: Free Collaboration Tools for Non Profits?
by bjourne | 2026-03-02 03:55:49+00:00
I need online storage where a small group of non-technically minded people can collaborate. Google Drive and Dropbox doesn't cut it because those services are tied to a specific user. I want shared storage - not one user sharing with the rest of the team. And one user whose password everyone shares is right out. There is Google for Nonprofits, but the signup process is downright Kafkaesque. Any other options?
by spaqin | 2026-03-02 03:55:58+00:00
Every time a cool thing becomes popular I only envy the early adopters who didn't have to worry about regulation too much, and build their companies or brands when the rules were still light. Then with the resources they get, they can spend some of them on adhering to the new requirements, which newcomers have to struggle with. Oh well.

Gotta keep on the edge if you want to enjoy things or be successful.
by otterley | 2026-03-02 03:56:11+00:00
I’m all for making data more machine accessible, but it’s not like there was a shortage of ways to implement that. Hell, if most sites implemented OpenAPI, there’d be no problem to solve.

The choice of whether to make one’s service open to mechanical use is a business decision. Imagine a world in which YouTube could easily be accessed by scripts. Google does not want this; they want quite the opposite.
by contingencies | 2026-03-02 03:57:28+00:00
I use openscad vibe coding quite a bit. It tends to fall down beyond extremely simple examples, though. Error categories I've encountered if you want to build better rails: (1) forgetting axis orientations after multiple layers of rotate() (2) center=true presence ignored resulting in mistaken geometry (3) inconsistent naming (4) insufficiently verbose naming (5) 3D printing tolerances (6) lack of validation (7) shared faces causing rendering issues

I would suggest that every stage has the following basic checks: (A) If it's a 'substract' type operation, ensure the resulting shape has less volume than the original shape (B) Ensure no 'subtract' results in zero volume shape (C) Ensure no 'shared faces' exist (D) Ensure output is consistent with requisite axes (eg. render an elevation in orthographic and know which way is up/down in profile so that relative terms can be quantitatively verified in the rendering) (E) Name everything with a semantic tree that is updated properly instead of hacked upon until it becomes illogical and incoherent

This would go a huge way to fixing the main issues encountered so far.
by rolandog | 2026-03-02 03:57:38+00:00
What about security tiers:

- base tier: your code had 1% of no back doors
- starter tier: your code has 100% additional chance of no back doors
- security guru tier: generated code has 1000% additional probability of not having security back doors

Note: sneaky language means you have 99, 98, and 89 percent chance of backdoors respectively.