MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by pmontra | 2026-03-02 06:57:12+00:00
I think that I open files in very few cases in my job. I read and write PDF, xlsx, csv, yaml and I write docx. Those have their own formats and we use them to communicate with other apps or with users. Everything else goes in a PostgreSQL database or in sqlite3 because of many reasons and among them because of interoperability with other apps and ease of human inspection. A custom file format could be OK for data that only that app must use or for performance reasons, if you know how to make data retrieval performant.
by i_think_so | 2026-03-02 06:58:30+00:00
We're probably not far away from the fully automated (no human interaction whatsoever needed) exploitation of such vulnerabilities by state level actors. At that point give it another few months and script kiddies will be doing it at significant scale.

When this happens one of them is going to use their new toy to swat somebody, resulting in serious injury or death.

How is that risk/responsibility debate going to go?
Ask HN: Google started to index non-hyperlinks. What to do about it?
by punkpeye | 2026-03-02 06:59:42+00:00
Never seen anything like this before.

However, I noticed a massive spike of 404 errors in Search Console.

I sampled a bunch and the issues and they all seem to be the same – Google indexed non-hyperlinks as if those were links.

Here is an example of reported 404:

https://glama.ai/docs/phoenix/use-cases-evals/rag-evaluation

Search Console says it discovered a link to this page on:

https://glama.ai/mcp/servers/@Arize-ai/phoenix/blob/4f076b41f023e7e90c98ff7aece47bd1f1f5ebce/docs.json

If you inspect the source code of the page, there are no hyperlinks to that resource.

There are now hundreds of thousands of these cases reported in GSC.

I cannot even think of where/how to start troubleshooting this.
by raincole | 2026-03-02 07:00:38+00:00
I know it's a quite weird article, but at the bottom:

> This simply isn't true on memory constrained systems — and with 100 GB files — every system is memory constrained.

I suppose the author might have a point in the context of making apps that constantly need to process 100GB files? I personally never have to deal with 100GB files so I am no one to judge if the rest of the article makes sense.
by donkeybeer | 2026-03-02 07:01:34+00:00
The problem is that we have been giving their kind thr kid.glove treatment for too long. We haven't even begun the iron flove treatment for them. They go about running their mouths blabbering incoherent nonsense turning themselves up into a frenzy and.you think about "understanding" them. There is no understanding thosw who actively hate sanity, the only correct approach is to relentlessly mock their kind,.protect your family and friends, stay armed and carry always, stay clear of these unpredictable and violently insane as much as possible, avoid giving them business, etc.
by CodeBit26 | 2026-03-02 07:01:36+00:00
Handling watermarked PDFs in RAG pipelines is tricky. While improving the OCR engine is one side, the 2026 workflow is shifting towards multi-modal LLMs that can 'see' through the noise better than traditional Tesseract-based approaches. I’ve been documenting how these architectural shifts are changing the full-stack landscape for developers. It’s worth looking into vision-tuned models for the pre-processing stage.
by aziaziazi | 2026-03-02 07:01:46+00:00
Yeah licensing and plates would be interesting. Although an e-bike is lighter than a scooter and will make less damage to the other person, the driver weight is probably signifiant too.

Not sure how that works in the US but in France (and probably Europe?) everyone supposed to get a "civil responsibility insurance" that will cover many thinks including accidents on non-insured (legal) vehicle.
by keeda | 2026-03-02 07:02:27+00:00
Yep! Which is exactly why I said implementing this at scale is TBD, I personally have no idea ;-)

One strategy I can think of is to remove the incentive to offload to AI, which probably means reducing the reliance on tests for evaluation. However, this also assumes intrinsic motivation within the students, which is also far from a given! Who's going to be motivated to do things the "hard way" when they don't even like the topic? Yet our curriculum is full of compulsory topics.

Like I said, none of our current systems are structured for this, and we'll probably have to figure things out from the ground up.
by Jonhvmp | 2026-03-02 07:02:38+00:00
The "AI Lead Discovery" market is officially saturated.

Everyone is building a scraper, slapping an LLM on top, and calling it a "game-changer." I know, because I was one of them. We even hit #1 on the Build Board twice doing exactly that.

But here’s the truth: A list of leads is useless if your product sucks or your outreach feels like spam.

I realized that founders don't need more leads. They need a team to help them grow organically and improve their product based on real feedback.

The Pivot: From Scraper to Coordinated AI Workforce

I decided to stop focusing on "finding leads" and started building a coordinated Team of Agents.

Instead of a single bot, Multify now deploys a specialized squad:

• Competitor Analyst: Tells you exactly where your rivals are failing.
• Researcher: Finds the influencers actually moving the needle in your niche.
• Outreach Specialist: Uses Name/Email to find LinkedIn profiles for 1-on-1 feedback loops (not just sales).
• Sales Strategist & Business Consultant: Turning that data into a growth roadmap.

Why organic growth?
Because in 2026, the algorithm smells automation from a mile away. The only way to win is to be more human, at scale.

By using our Agent Team to find where your customers are and who they listen to, you stop chasing and start building a presence. We’re using this exact team to prevent churn by finding our users' social profiles and engaging with them where they actually hang out.

The Shift:
Lead discovery is now just a background task. The Agent Team is the core.

I’m building this for the solopreneur who is tired of being a "marketing department" and just wants to be a "founder" again.

What do you think?
Is the "single-feature AI tool" dead? Are we moving toward "Autonomous Teams" as the standard for 2026?

Curious to hear from anyone else who pivoted away from a saturated niche recently.
by anglesideangle | 2026-03-02 07:03:17+00:00
> nix and nixos has a lot to learn from bootc

nix is a build system, and has nothing to learn from bootc. However, I agree that nixos could adopt some of the developments around bootc, like composefs for verified boot.

> usage of standard industry tooling instead of inventing its own things for what to be honest is no benefit mostly drawbacks which are so huge

nix was first released in 2003, nixos and docker were first released in 2013, and the OCI was started in 2015. bootc was created ~2023. For the purposes of deploying environments, an input-addressed (hopefully content-addressed in the future) tree of build artifacts is just a conceptually _better_ model than coarse layers of filesystem changes. It's a shame it isn't industry standard, because the industry would be better off if it was.

> BootC uses primarily conventions already existing previously

As previously established, nix and nixos were created before docker, and all of them existed before bootc, even though you might not have personally encountered nixos before then. There's a lot of value in keeping an open mind to technologies you might not be familiar or comfortable with, even though it might be tempting to arbitrarily hate them because they are different from what is commonly used.

> better in almost every way

refer to my previous post

> first off i can start nginx locally

yes, but you have to install and configure it. You cannot add nginx as a system package on a bootc system without building a new layer. Configuring it can be done by manually editing /etc/nginx and /var/www on _both_ nixos and bootc distros, but configuring it in a manner reproducible across machines requires either writing all your config in the dockerfile or something like ansible on a bootc system.

> bad DSL(and yes its bad actually horrible)

the nix language has plenty of areas for improvement, but it really is not that bad. I personally prefer it to a combination of yaml and python glue that alternatives like buildstream tend to use.

> WHO CARES CI takes care of it

good luck asking any user who wants to change something about their system to choose between setting up CI, essentially being responsible for a custom distribution, or waiting for a docker build on every update because their bottom layer's cache gets invalidated.
by codebitdaily | 2026-03-02 07:04:07+00:00
For watermarked PDFs in RAG, standard OCR often fails. The key in 2026 is moving toward Multi-modal LLMs that can perform layout-aware extraction instead of raw text scraping. By treating the document as a visual entity first, you bypass the noise of the watermark. I’ve explored how these RAG-optimized architectures are becoming a core part of modern full-stack development, and it’s definitely the direction the industry is heading to solve these specific preprocessing bottlenecks
by arjie | 2026-03-02 07:04:43+00:00
I use OpenSCAD with Claude Code and it's pretty impressive. In practice the flow of letting the machine just spend its time iterating on the design with PNGs that it rotates and renders before it actually gives me an STL works quite well.

e.g. https://wiki.roshangeorge.dev/w/Blog/2026-01-11/Modeling_Wit...
by thisisit | 2026-03-02 07:05:32+00:00
That might work for you - sure.

But different people have different ambitions. Some might not care for comp and want to become a people manager. Decent management is aware of this "different ambition" dynamic and try to mitigate this.

Also, this doesn't solve the problem of cost. Too many engineers without their comp based on promotions will still mean costly teams. That's why a balance of junior and senior is needed.
by jim33442 | 2026-03-02 07:06:15+00:00
Yeah, the article makes more sense when you assume it's for that use case, but still not really sure when this case comes up. I've dealt with plenty of 100GB files, but they were coming from outside as CSVs or sqlite DBs or something. This one is, your C program is going to generate a 100GB file to use later, and you also don't need a DB.
by theginger | 2026-03-02 07:06:38+00:00
Looking at the amount of wires going into this, my instinct is that this cannot scale, in 5-10 years this won't be doable for a Pentium chip, at least not as an at home hobby project. But I actually think it could go the other way, and in 5-10 years you'll be able to do this at home for far more sophisticated kit, unlocking crazy amounts of reverse engineering possibilities that were once thought of as near impossible, or at least only possible for a nation state scale setup.
by adrienditta | 2026-03-02 07:10:09+00:00
Most people think bookmakers try to estimate the true probability of a match and then add a margin.

In practice, their real problem is predicting how people will bet.

A simple coin-flip example shows why:

Even with a 10% overround, if 80% of money lands on one side, the bookmaker becomes exposed to extreme short-term variance.
Three consecutive popular outcomes can wipe out the theoretical edge.

The article breaks down:

– why money distribution matters more than probability
– how emotional teams distort football markets
– why positive expected value does not prevent bankruptcy

Curious how people here see the analogy with market makers in financial markets.

Full breakdown here:
https://www.playaiodds.com/en/blog/money-made-on-public-bets
by lelanthran | 2026-03-02 07:10:13+00:00
> Correct, but I was replying to the assertion that more slop == decreasing ability to create something good and successful. T

True; I misunderstood.

You are contending the assertion "more slop == decreasing ability to create quality", I am asserting that "more slop == lower overall quality".

FWIW, there's probably an argument to be made against your assertion as stated above, but it's probably going to be a long-winded and ultimately weak one. I'm not really in the mood to explore weak arguments, TBH.
by Manuel_D | 2026-03-02 07:13:29+00:00
There are plenty of ebikes with throttles that have less power than ebikes without throttles. E.g. a lectric xpress 500 has 500 watts, there are some pedal assist only bikes with 750 or more watts.

It's power and speed that matters, as you point out, so make regulation built on that. Heck, arguably pedal assist is a throttle, it's just a different mechanism vs a twist handle.
by keeda | 2026-03-02 07:14:20+00:00
That's what I was addressing: for many it's "voluntary" in the way poor people "volunteer" to be homeless. (This applies across many countries BTW.)

I absolutely do not mean to slight any soldiers anywhere, I have the utmost respect for them putting their lives on the line for their country, but I also realize many of them are there only due to having few alternatives to escape their circumstances.
by menaerus | 2026-03-02 07:14:42+00:00
> fio --filename=device name --direct=1 --rw=randread --bs=4k --ioengine=libaio --iodepth=256 --runtime=120 --numjobs=4 --time_based --group_reporting --name=iops-test-job --eta-newline=1 --readonly

> -> read: IOPS=19.1k, BW=149MiB/s (156MB/s)(4473MiB/30001msec)

Isn't this too low? On my non-RAID configuration I get almost 2GB/s with the exact same command. Samsung 980 PRO 1TB.
by orthoxerox | 2026-03-02 07:15:49+00:00
> If there’s a character in a book who is known for wearing a red shirt, you might think it’s interesting to subvert expectations and give him a green shirt. But when the picture with the green shirt appears next to text describing a red shirt, it fails as an illustration. Especially in a book meant for children.

Should Aragorn wear pants in the illustrations?
by aziaziazi | 2026-03-02 07:16:03+00:00
That’s fair. Re-reading the citation: tofu and soy milk contains very low amount of fibers so it’s probably not a greet exemple to illustrate "soy protein" if the fibers are at play. Or they aren’t. A dive into the source seems reasonable.

Note that saturated fat is also present in plants based food like peanut butter, although that one also contains tons of fibers (absent in animal sources). Coconut oil on the other hand is a tasty evil.
by bloomca | 2026-03-02 07:16:20+00:00
I don't think it's worth to include the session -- it would bloat the context too much anyway.

However, I do think that a higher-level description of every notable feature should be documented, along with the general implementation details. I use this approach for my side projects and it works fairly well.

The biggest question whether it will scale, I suspect that no, and I also suspect it is probably better to include nothing than a poor/disjointed/rare documentation of the sessions.
by jauntywundrkind | 2026-03-02 07:17:27+00:00
WebMCP is mediated by the browser/page & has the full context of the user's active page/session available to it.

Websites that do offer real APIs usually have them as fairly separate things from the web's interface. So there's this big usability gap, where what you do on the API doesn't show up clearly on the web. If the user is just hitting API endpoints unofficially, it can create even worse unexpected split brain problems!

WebMCP offers something new: programmatic control endpoints that work well with what the user is actually seeing. A carefully crafted API can offer that, but this seamless interoperation of browsing and webmcp programmatic control is a novel very low impedance tie together that I find greatly promising for users, in a way that APIs never were.

And the starting point is far far less technical, which again just reduces that impedance mismatch that is so daunting about APIs.
by ggm | 2026-03-02 07:17:44+00:00
You're right. I misread the article and thought the $4700 was the subsidy. My reason was that back in 2010 era Australia the per car subsidy from the Australian government was around $2000 to $5000 and I assumed this was at scale.

(We don't have a car manufacturing sector any more. After the subsidy ended Ford and GM (holden) stopped manufacturing in the country)
by dsign | 2026-03-02 07:18:09+00:00
Cool! But the wires!

I'm not a fan of breadboards, they tend to be unreliable even for trivial circuits. We need something more affordable and practical for home PCBs[^1]. Why is it that nobody has invented a tin 3D printer, or at least a 2D version of it, i.e. a tin plotter?

[^1]: I'm discouraged from home-etching by the chemicals and the dark-room part of the process.
by insane_dreamer | 2026-03-02 07:18:26+00:00
I didn't have time to read the article, but the last paragraph caught my eye:

> There is enough room for everyone to have shelter. There is enough food and water for everyone to eat, without needing to increase shareholder value.

This is a pretty good summary of how I feel about the way our society has "devolved", to where we are continually pushed to work harder, to be more productive, to improve efficiency, to consolidate businesses, to "grow", for the primary purpose of making some rich people richer.
by asimovDev | 2026-03-02 07:20:04+00:00
as someone who's very uneducated when it comes to LLMs I am excited about this. I am still struggling to understand correlation between system resources and context, e.g how much memory i need for N amount of context.

Been recently into using local models for coding agents, mostly due to being tired of waiting for gemini to free up and it constantly retrying to get some compute time on the servers for my prompt to process like you are in the 90s being a university student and have to wait for your turn to compile your program on the university computer. Tried mistral's vibe and it would run out of context easily on a small project (not even 1k lines but multiple files and headers) at 16k or so, so I slammed it at the maximum supported in LM studio, but I wasn't sure if I was slowing it down to a halt with that or not (it did take like 10 minutes for my prompt to finish, which was 'rewrite this C codebase into C++')
by Manuel_D | 2026-03-02 07:20:35+00:00
> recognizing the psychology between "big push with foot makes go fast" and "pressing button makes go fast".

And what is the psychological difference? As far as I'm concerned when I'm using torque-sensing pedal assist, I'm just pressing the button with my foot. The distinction between throttle and pedal assist is non existent in my eyes: pedal assist is just pressing the throttle with your foot.

Motor wattage and top speed is what matters.
by gingersnap | 2026-03-02 07:20:41+00:00
My instinct is to say that I don't want the session as part of the commit. For me that is like a Slack thread discussing the new feature, and that is not something I would commit. I think that the split shouldn't be "is this done with a machine"=> commit, I think the split for AI should be the same as before. Is it code or changes of code, then it should be included. Is it discussing, going back and forth, that is not commited now.
On the other hand, if you do a plan that is then implemented, I actually do think it makes sense to save the plan, either as commit, or if you save that back to the issue.
by travisvn | 2026-03-02 07:20:41+00:00
Hey folks, I'm the developer working on Blogs Are Back. WakaTime has me clocked in at over 900 hours on this project so far...

If CORS weren't an issue, it could've been done in 1/10th of that time. But if that were the case, there would've already been tons of web-based RSS readers available.

Anyway, the goal of this project is to help foster interest in indie blogs and help a bit with discovery. Feel free to submit your blog if you'd like!

If anyone has any questions, I'd be happy to answer them.
by onion2k | 2026-03-02 07:20:49+00:00
This seems to really reason through only the happy path, ignoring bad actors, and there'll always be bad actors.

True, but the bad actors can defeat any security mechanism you put in place with a proxy, or a copy'n'paste, so the downside risk is pointless worrying about. The upside of allowing traffic is that your content that you presumably want people to read can be read by more people. For all but the most popular blogs that's probably a net benefit.
by ggm | 2026-03-02 07:20:50+00:00
If you invest in them. If your bank invests your money in them I dont see how your bank can call the product capital stable or meet the resilience tests for those funds.

His point surely is that if you are offered an investment vehicle in these products, it's not a regulated bank account or capital stable product. You should be told that, and you should exercise care. I suspect it's mostly non bank entities promoting them.

It's a "deposit like" product, not a deposit.
by Tima_fey | 2026-03-02 07:20:59+00:00
The phrase "agent passport" is a natural description of this category

@rtedder claiming to be "the real one" and filing DMCAs against others building in the same space is exactly the wrong instinct. The agent identity problem is wide open. Nobody has won it yet. The right move is to compare architectures, find gaps and collaborate, not to gatekeep a generic term.

For what it's worth, I also independently built and published an Agent Passport System -fully open source (Apache-2.0), 8 protocol layers, 214 tests, Ed25519 identity with scoped delegation chains and cascade revocation. Published on npm.

https://github.com/aeoess/agent-passport-system https://www.npmjs.com/package/agent-passport-system

Let's be honest, we all shipped around the same time, after OpenClaw dropped and the agent identity problem became impossible to ignore. The agent identity space needs more builders and more collaboration, not territorial claims over generic terms. If anyone working on this wants to compare architectures or find interop opportunities, I'm genuinely interested.

Protocol spec: https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.18749779
Threat model: https://aeoess.com/threat-model.html
Media coverage: https://theagenttimes.com/articles/agent-passport-protocol-s...
Show HN: Free FIFO Inventory Calculator for Accounting Students
by nomiawan | 2026-03-02 07:21:08+00:00
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by ddtaylor | 2026-03-02 07:21:30+00:00
C allows most of this, whereas C++ doesn't allow pointer aliasing without a compiler flag, tricks and problems.

I agree you can certainly just use bytes of the correct sizes, but often to get the coverage you need for the data structure you end up writing some form of wrapper or fixup code, which is still easier and gives you the control versus most of the protobuf like stuff that introduces a lot of complexity and tons of code.