MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by nxor2 | 2026-03-05 19:36:23+00:00
As I said below, when you are a minority and conservative or even relatively conservative people refuse to even engage with you, and that to me is the point of the article. Ignoring ideas doesn't refute them. Because I want to criticize liberals, I have been branded conservative. Conservatives don't present themselves as a minority, but when you are a minority and don't agree with liberals, you just get treated the worst.
by thaumasiotes | 2026-03-05 19:36:24+00:00
Thanks!

Minor note: I was taught that forms of esse are weak enough that they lose their vowel to elision, so it would be de.co:.rust.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prodelision

This seems like it would never matter for esse or est, but I guess it could preserve a long vowel in a case like -V: es V-.
Show HN: Google A2A for Elixir with GenServer-like ergonomics
by maxekman | 2026-03-05 19:36:49+00:00
Hello!

I wanted A2A support for an Elixir project and thought about how I wanted to use it in my app, and less about the protocol. This became a GenServer-like protocol for an agent. The package has basic support and complies to the A2A TCK suite.

Most of the project is LLM-coded, but with detailed planning and review at each step. Less than a week from initial idea to first hex.pm release - all coded on the side of other work. Interesting times where such a thing is possible.

Just after publishing I did find an existing Elixir package implementing A2A (not sure how I could miss it at first). The other package has different semantics and was different enough for me to decide to keep mine up.

In any case, feedback and comments are welcome as always!

Thanks,
Max
by netinstructions | 2026-03-05 19:36:57+00:00
People (and also frustratingly LLMs) usually refer to https://openai.com/api/pricing/ which doesn't give the complete picture.

https://developers.openai.com/api/docs/pricing is what I always reference, and it explicitly shows that pricing ($2.50/M input, $15/M output) for tokens under 272k

It is nice that we get 70-72k more tokens before the price goes up (also what does it cost beyond 272k tokens??)
by trhway | 2026-03-05 19:36:59+00:00
US just have too much money as moving to use interceptor drones is very simple when you have the need.

Russia and Ukraine both ultimately scaled up volunteer started development and production of that "fastest drone on Youtube" for the interceptor role. Cheap, simple, and works against pretty much any prop-driven drone used there.

https://www.reddit.com/r/CombatFootage/comments/1rigqam/oper...

Russia did start to use those hobby jet engines instead of props on the attack drones, and that made them go 600km/h instead of 200km/h. I'm yet to see the interceptor drone for that - it will also have to use, while smaller, such a hobby jet engine. Again laughably cheap - $3K Alibaba. (there are some other options too, i think we'll see them in time too (if anybody have few mils to burn - ping me :). Anyway, the guys are having wonderful time as their hobby became the eye of the global multibillion hurricane of hot military tech. Even the Blackwater guy - the one who was riding the money tsunami back in the Iraq time - got into it by just recently becoming some C-exec in a pre-IPO Ukranian drone developer)
by mrguyorama | 2026-03-05 19:37:07+00:00
The dump of english wikipedia is 26gb compressed and completely usable with that compressed format plus a small index file.

That's small enough to live on most people's phones. It's small enough to be a single BluRay. Maybe Wikipedia should fund some mass printings.

What you do not get however is any media. No sounds, images, videos, drawings, examples, 3D artifacts, etc etc etc. This is a huge loss on many many many topics.
Amazon degraded shopping- you have to put in cart to see the price
by talkingtab | 2026-03-05 19:37:29+00:00
I just went to Amazon and searched for "espresso tamper". Of the 15 top results only ONE had a price. Fourteen (14) say "See options" then "put in cart to see price"

My first thought is that it was insane. My second thought was that they must be going broke to make this kind of change. Maybe there is some other reason, but I'm wondering if I need to find an alternative.

Oh and in order to comment on this post you need to put it in your cart first! :-)
by alephnerd | 2026-03-05 19:37:39+00:00
I've found the newer generation of founders understand that. The issue is they don't use HN anymore.

I've noticed a significant tone and demographic shift on the site over the past 2-3 years with more Western Europeans and Midwesterners and fewer Bay Area+NYC users, and fewer decisionmakers or decisionmaking adjacent people using the site.

And the deeply technical types who used HN largely shifted to lobste.rs.

Karrot_Kream (another longtime HN user) identified this shift as well [0]

[0] - https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=Karrot_Kream
by jclardy | 2026-03-05 19:37:43+00:00
Yeah - the sleep/wake one is crazy to me. I have had numerous mac's and windows machines over the last 20 years as well and Sleep/Wake has been perfectly consistent on the mac. In 2026 on year old hardware from Microsoft (Surface Pro) I have regular issues with waking from sleep, or more commonly, the battery will just be completely dead in the morning when it had a full charge the night before.

The python complaint I get, but it is because they ship an old python version with the OS and you have to work around that to install a different version.

Security settings can be set via the Settings app and don't require the terminal like the author stated. They can be changed via the terminal, but the golden path is just tapping a button in settings to allow the unauthorized app and typing in your password. Granted - it isn't obvious, and I only know this because over the years as notarization was added the dialogs became slowly less helpful in guiding you to the right spot, I think now in Tahoe they don't even make a mention of where you should go to allow it.
by jsbisviewtiful | 2026-03-05 19:37:47+00:00
>If you don't use social media, the value proposition of a smart phone is incredibly low.

Sorry but what are you using your device for? There are many, many tools I use my smartphone for and I currently don't have Insta, reddit, Facebook, typical social media, etc on my device. Dismissing a pocket sized computer with far reaching access to the internet as a low value proposition is misguided. If all you use your device for is social media, call and text that's really too bad and a complete misunderstanding of what those devices are capable of.
by uecker | 2026-03-05 19:38:02+00:00
I should also talk about disadvantages and which I think are real and which are not, or not serious

- no abstractions: i think this is completely wrong, one can build great abstractions in C
- no package manager: IMHO languages should not have packager managers
- difficult to learn: I think this wrong (but see below)
- safety: partially true, but there are ways to deal with this effectively (also the advantages of alternatives are exaggerated)
- out-dated: partially true with respect to the library
- weird syntax: partially true, but hardly serious
- not enough investments in tooling: rarely discussed, but I think this a problem (tools are mature, but still a lot could be improved)
- difficult for beginners: the out-of-the-box experience is bad. one needs to learn how to do stuff in C, find good libraries, etc.
by coldpie | 2026-03-05 19:38:15+00:00
> Your recourse was at the time of transaction

These illegal taxes weren't only on optional goods. I couldn't opt out of buying everything for a full year. I disagree that it's OK for the government to force everyone in the country to give a $130B gift to business owners via an illegal action, the vast majority of which will be going straight to the wealthiest companies & people, and/or Trump's personal supporters. It's just straight-up theft.
by jmward01 | 2026-03-05 19:38:16+00:00
To really take advantage of those gpu cores you need memory bandwidth. Modern transformer based LLMs are really bandwidth hungry. I am really happy to see this first push. NVIDIA having discrete GPU/memory/etc is an option, but not great for a lot of different reasons. Unified memory architectures like what AMD and Apple have are the way to go for the future. Put 256GB of ram on the main board and be able to access it at speed for LLM use please.
by ericmcer | 2026-03-05 19:38:21+00:00
This is what the government should really look into. Are prices being held at inflated levels to sustain profits? And if so why is capitalism not working? Why are competing companies not undercutting each other to bring them back down?

Can we have small watchdog programs that deeply study market conditions for critical resources (like peanut butter/eggs/milk/bread/etc.) and produce detailed data on why prices are what they are and what they estimate prices should be? It would be fascinating to see like detailed breakdowns and raw profit margins on different goods instantly.
I keep building projects nobody wants. So this time I'm doing it backwards
by thefern | 2026-03-05 19:38:49+00:00
The problem: You have an idea, you build, buy domain, spend weeks, months, no one shows up.

The idea: A profile page where you list all your project ideas. People can signal interest, and you collect emails — before you build anything. With hatchd, you wouldn't need to spin up a validation page in vercel, or other hosting platform.

Think Linktree, but for your side projects.
One link to share everywhere.

Why not just use Product Hunt?
PH is for launched products. This is for ideas you haven't built yet.
It's your personal page, not a marketplace where you compete in a feed.
No reviews or pressure to be polished — just "I'd use this" signals.

Why not Gumroad or a landing page builder?
Those are for selling. This is for validating what's worth building first.
One page holds all your ideas together, not scattered across platforms.

I threw up a validation page to see if anyone else has this problem: https://hatchd-validation.vercel.app/
If this sounds useful, vote on it, join waitlist. If it's not, tell me why.
by sbuttgereit | 2026-03-05 19:38:51+00:00
Is this anything similar at all to:

https://github.com/openai/symphony

I'm not very familiar with the space, I follow Elixir goings on more than some of the AI stuff.

It is curious... and refreshing... to see Elixir & the BEAM popping up for these sorts of orchestration type workloads.
by mpeterma | 2026-03-05 19:39:01+00:00
Hi, Matthias here - the person currently working on Jails for NetBSD, if one can call it that.

First of all, thank you for the lively discussion and all the feedback. I’ve been following the thread for a few days and I genuinely appreciate the input. Earlier today I also received a thoughtful email with some suggestions, which motivated me to respond here publicly as well.

To give a bit of background: the idea was indeed inspired by FreeBSD. I’m a long-time admirer of FreeBSD and have worked with it for many years. In my day job I mostly deal with Linux, Kubernetes, etc., while NetBSD has become the interesting counterpoint for me in my personal projects.

My original goal was actually to reproduce something quite close to FreeBSD jails. That’s also why you currently see aliases like jls and jexec in /etc/profile. But while learning the NetBSD internals and experimenting with prototypes, I realized that some of the defining properties of FreeBSD jails - particularly network isolation and strict resource controls in hot kernel paths - would require moving outside the relatively well-defined and safer territory of the secmodel framework. For a first kernel project, that started to feel like a risky direction.

At the same time, NetBSD already has a very elegant and robust answer for strong isolation of networking and resources like CPU and RAM: Xen. From a security perspective, that happens at a level where these concerns are naturally handled.

Because of that, the project gradually shifted. What currently exists (secmodel_jail) focuses more on controlled process isolation within the host rather than full virtualization-style containment. In parallel I’m already thinking about a concept where Xen VMs and these lighter-weight “jails” could be provisioned through a unified control plane, making the distinction transparent at the operational level.

Regarding the name: I completely understand the confusion.

When you picture a jail in the strict sense - a fully isolated cell with solid walls, a tiny window, and a food slot in the door - the current prototype is not quite that. What I built so far is closer to a cage: it prevents escape, but you can still reach through the bars. In practical terms, that means certain host resources remain shared, while the security model prevents destructive interactions (for example via signals).

That analogy is simplified, but it captures the spirit.

Because of this mismatch, I’m not opposed to renaming the project at this stage. Someone suggested “cages”, which actually fits the current design quite well. I’m also open to other ideas and might run a small poll once things settle a bit.

In any case, I just wanted to let you know that I’ve read the comments and appreciate the discussion. Feedback - critical or supportive - is very welcome, especially while the design is still evolving.

Thanks for the thoughtful conversation.
by keeda | 2026-03-05 19:39:10+00:00
Yes "deduced" makes more sense, though I guess the code was not really the point. I really should have said the backend functionality is being reproduced. As copyright doesn't protect functionality, the closest proxy we had was the code itself, and now that is meaningless.

> AI generated code is likely not protectable at all under copyright, but that was expected by anyone who follows this area of the law seriously.

I haven't followed too closely, but the ruling on AI art seems to leave the door open for "significant human creative input" like "editing, arrangement." This leaves room for photography, but can also be covered by "architecture, followed by iterative prompting and potentially manual editing to refine the code", which is still needed for any non-trivial AI-generated code.

I think the situation is not great because the law is too fuzzy and outdated, and could allow for "AI laundering" of copyrighted works, as the relicensing thread suggests, which is especially not great for open source where trade secrets are not an option.

> Not really, and if you did it would likely not be enforceable because the getting past a §101 motion isn't likely.

Not a lawyer, but I've seen tons of such issued patents out there, and many have even been upheld in lawsuits. §101 is often trivially bypassed adding "computer readable media" or some "non-abstract side-effect" language to claims. Like, one pattern of claims is "A method of - algorithm - algorithm - algorithm - show something to the user / write to a DB / transmit a message / etc."
by NiloCK | 2026-03-05 19:39:36+00:00
This March 2026 blog post is citing a 2025 study based on Sonnet 3.5 and 3.7 usage.

Given that organization who ran the study [1] has a terrifying exponential as their landing page, I think they'd prefer that it's results are interpreted as a snapshot of something moving rather than a constant.

[1] - https://metr.org/
by armcat | 2026-03-05 19:40:11+00:00
They should! If you take Parakeet (ASR), add Qwen 3.5 0.8B (LLM) and Kokoro 82M (TTS), that's about 1.2G + 1.6G + 164M so ~3.5GB (with overhead) on FP16. If you use INT8 or 4-bit versions then are getting down to 1.5-2GB RAM.

And you can always for example swap out the LLM for GPT-5 or Claude.
by evanelias | 2026-03-05 19:40:18+00:00
Wow, as a former MajorMUD addict (~30 years ago) that's extremely interesting to see. Especially since MajorMUD is rarely discussed on HN, even in MUD or BBS-related threads!

Did you find it worked reasonably well on any portion of the codebase you could throw at it? For example, if I recall correctly, all of MajorMUD's data file interactions used the embedded Btrieve library which was popular at the time. For that type of specialized low-level library, I'm curious how readable is the resulting Rust code.
by PaulHoule | 2026-03-05 19:40:41+00:00
They are not a single thing.

Google has a good model in the form of Gemini and they might figure they can win the AI race and if the web dies, the web dies. YouTube will still stick around.

Facebook is not going to win the AI race with low I.Q. Llama but Zuck believed their business was cooked around the time it became a real business because their users would eventually age out and get tired of it. If I was him I'd be investing in anything that isn't cybernetic let it be gold bars or MMA studios.

Microsoft? They bought Activision for $69 billion. I just can't explain their behavior rationally but they could do worse than their strategy of "put ChatGPT in front of laggards and hope that some of them rise to the challenge and become slop producers."

Amazon is really a bricks-and-mortar play which has the freedom to invest in bricks-and-mortar because investors don't think they are a bricks-and-mortar play.

Netflix? They're cooked as is all of Hollywood. Hollywood's gatekeeping-industrial strategy of producing as few franchise as possible will crack someday and our media market may wind up looking more like Japan, where somebody can write a low-rent light novel like

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Backstabbed_in_a_Backwater_Dun...

and J.C. Staff makes a terrible anime that convinces 20k Otaku to drop $150 on the light novels and another $150 on the manga (sorry, no way you can make a balanced game based on that premise!) and the cost structure is such that it is profitable.
by renewiltord | 2026-03-05 19:40:49+00:00
People like being repetitive on this board. Read Google in title and say “I never use Google because killing Reader”. It’s not like LLM. It is worse. Like hashmap. Deterministic same answer. That’s fine for them. But I have no interest in starting everything with a litany, land acknowledgement, and whatever other modern preface required.

We acknowledge this message board is the rightful unceded home of the startup enthusiast people. We affirm their right to it and recognize their sovereignty.

See, you enjoy me bringing pet subject into discussion with nebulous relation? You want always to see it? Good. I will do so. No downvote it unfair.
by Imustaskforhelp | 2026-03-05 19:40:51+00:00
I agree with ya. You aren't alone in this. For what its worth, Chatgpt subscriptions have been cancelled or that number has risen ~300% in the last month.

Also, Anthropic/Gemini/even Kimi models are pretty good for what its worth. I used to use chatgpt and I still sometimes accidentally open it but I use Gemini/Claude nowadays and I personally find them to be better anyways too.
by AnssiH | 2026-03-05 19:41:07+00:00
> There was an interesting case in Finland. Finnish customs used to apply a 22% tax (ELV) on top of the car tax for imported used cars from other EU countries. On top of that, Finnish law required VAT to be charged on the car tax itself.

There was no VAT payable on the car tax of imported cars, only the ELV (ei-arvonlisävero, literally "not value added tax").

The ELV idea was that for locally bought new cars you did have to pay VAT on car tax, but for used EU imports that was not legally possible (cannot charge VAT again when importing used item from another EU country), so an equivalent non-VAT tax was invented so the full tax (inc. VAT/ELV) stays the same.

But this was unfair for e.g. the reason that Finnish companies buying cars could deduct Finnish car tax VAT on local new cars on their VAT return but not the car tax ELV on imported used cars (since it was not VAT).
by Lammy | 2026-03-05 19:41:17+00:00
I'm not confusing anything. I'm saying that even if you completely eliminated the latter, your privacy will still be compromised by the former. When “The Government” is the entity wanting to know where you are, it doesn't matter which private company they compel to participate. They will just go for the path of least resistance, and as long as your location data is recorded by something, somewhere, they will get it.
by crowcroft | 2026-03-05 19:41:22+00:00
In almost every category meaningful differentiation is a myth. It sounds nice to tell yourself you've got it and talk about moats or whatever, but it misses the point.

What people usually mean when they talk about differentiation is distinctiveness [1]. Design isn't a differentiator for these watches it's about being distinctive. At the end of the day when telling the time is commoditized, and expensive watches are just a status symbol it's all you've got.

[1] - https://marketingscience.info/news-and-insights/differentiat...
by yashchhabria | 2026-03-05 19:41:29+00:00
Co-Author here. I worked on model scanning at Databricks before joining Promptfoo to build ModelAudit.

The short version: ML model files execute code at load time. Pickle's `__reduce__` runs arbitrary Python on deserialization, and ~45% of popular HuggingFace models still use pickle (CCS 2025). Every major framework has had a deserialization CVE in the last year - PyTorch (CVSS 9.3), Keras (CVSS 9.8), ONNX (CVSS 8.8).

Existing scanners use blocklists - maintain a list of known-dangerous functions, allow everything else. We kept finding gaps:

- *picklescan* (used by HuggingFace): 60+ published GHSAs. We found a CVSS 10.0 universal bypass via `pkgutil.resolve_name()` - one opcode sequence that renders the entire blocklist irrelevant.
- *fickling* (Trail of Bits): We found an opcode handler bug where function calls vanish from the AST if you POP the result. Fickling reports `LIKELY_SAFE` on a pickle that spawns a reverse shell.

We also found 4 malicious models currently on HuggingFace that bypass every scanner in their pipeline (VirusTotal, JFrog, ClamAV, picklescan, ModelScan).

ModelAudit takes the opposite approach: allowlist-first. We maintain ~1,500 individually vetted safe globals for ML frameworks, and everything else is flagged. It covers 42+ formats (not just pickle), runs entirely offline, has no ML framework deps, and produces SARIF for CI/CD.

We filed 7 GHSAs total across fickling and picklescan through coordinated disclosure. All fixed by maintainers.

MIT licensed: https://github.com/promptfoo/modelaudit

Happy to answer questions about pickle VM internals, the bypass research, or the scanner architecture.
by WorldMaker | 2026-03-05 19:41:45+00:00
To my understanding, as with most carbon sequestration efforts, house plants are a long-term planning horizon solution. Filling your house with plants won't fix your biggest spikes in the CO2 in your home, but they'll lower the overall floor/median/average over a large enough span of time (months to years).

Relates to the long running "joke" that the best way to sequester CO2 today is to plant new growth forests 50 years ago.
by adonovan | 2026-03-05 19:42:06+00:00
> "what is the role of humans in a scenario where work is no longer necessary?"

People have been fantasizing about this scenario throughout the industrial era--read William Morris' News from Nowhere (1890) for example--but it has failed to come to pass so many times, and the reasons are pretty obvious. The benefits of technology are spread unequally, and increasingly so over time, so only a wealthy few get the option of a post-labor existence. Also, our demands for the products of labor change as labor productivity increases; we prefer (or have been persuaded to act as if we prefer) material riches over lives with less stuff and more time.

We still haven't seen that AI actually replaces labor, as opposed to amplifying it, like a power saw or CNC mill used by a carpenter, so all these discussions about the end of labor seem like unwitting sales pitches for AI.

> “what would be the role of humans in an AI-first society”

The real question is why would anyone want, or want to help build, such an obscenity.