MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by CapricornNoble | 2026-03-12 16:06:33+00:00
https://old.reddit.com/r/UkraineRussiaReport/new/

This is considered the most "pro-Russian" sub-Reddit, so it balances the Anglosphere deluge of pro-Ukrainian material pretty well. The most important poster is u/HeyHeyHayden, who's content is so important another user built a site to archive it: https://old.reddit.com/r/UkraineRussiaReport/comments/1pfjpx...

Hayden mostly compiles battlefield progress from Suriyak Maps (reputable Russian mapper) and AMK_Mapping (reputable pro-Ukrainian mapper). I think you can find both of them on Twitter.

On Youtube, I recommend WillyOAM (Australian infantryman turned journalist), MarkTakacs (Hungarian infantry officer who makes tactical analysis vids), Daniel Davis Deep Dive (retired US Army LtColonel, Desert Storm vet), and HistoryLegends (meme-heavy but generally well-researched battlefield progress vids).
by lm28469 | 2026-03-12 16:06:46+00:00
Either it's purely for monetary gain and it's dumb.

Or it's for "Da NuKeS ThEy AbOuT To GeT" it's even dumb because they killed the only dude who was against Iran getting nukes. [0]

Or he got tricked by bibi &co into yet another middle east war I don't have words to describe how dumb it is.

[0] Iranian intelligence minister Esmaeil Khatib said that the country may nevertheless change their stance if "pushed in that direction" like a "cornered cat". https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ali_Khamenei%27s_fatwa_against...
by AnimalMuppet | 2026-03-12 16:06:53+00:00
I think it was a good call, yes. A deflationary collapse is incredibly damaging to the economy. The Great Depression was such a collapse, but there are others. The Panic of 1857, 1873, 1907... there's a long history of these.

The Fed avoided that. And they also avoided causing inflation. It was an amazing job of threading the needle. (One could argue that they caused a decade of stagnation, but in my view that was minor compared to the other options.)
by jerf | 2026-03-12 16:07:01+00:00
I wrote about that recently: [1] One of the ways that code will be valued in the AI era is the extent to which it has contact with the real world. It doesn't matter how smart the AI is, the real world is always more perverse and complicated, and until their code has been tested by the real world you can't really trust it. (Even if we get superhuman AIs in the future, we have the same superhuman AIs producing superhuman amounts of new code in the world that your AI will have to interact with, and a single AI won't be able to overpower all the superhuman output in that world without testing.)

In practice even with much better AIs this would still be a pretty big risk. The testing you'd need would be extensive.

[1]: https://jerf.org/iri/post/2026/what_value_code_in_ai_era/
by lo_zamoyski | 2026-03-12 16:07:02+00:00
W.r.t. intent, yes. But w.r.t. content, we are long past a situation where it is unrealistic enough to function as satire.

While such tactics would render certain OSS software licenses absurd, the tactic itself, as a means to get around them, is entirely sound. It just reveals the flawed presupposition of such licenses. And I'm not sure there is really any way to patch them up now.
by barent | 2026-03-12 16:07:30+00:00
NatShell is a TUI that lets you type plain English and it plans/executes shell commands using a bundled local LLM (Qwen3 4B/8B or Mistral Nemo 12B). ReAct agent loop with 12 tools shell exec, file editing, code execution in 10 languages, git, etc.

I built it because I wanted an agentic CLI without cloud dependency or token costs. Everything runs on-device via llama.cpp (Vulkan/Metal/CPU).

Here are some of the design decisions that make Natshell different
- Safety classifier is regex-based, not LLM-based fast and deterministic
- Command chaining detection splits on &&/||/;/| before classification
- Context window auto-scaling from 4K to 1M tokens
- No sandbox it uses your real shell environment by design

MIT licensed runs on Linux/macOS/WSL. Happy to answer questions about the architecture.
by derf_ | 2026-03-12 16:08:36+00:00
> But it can be difficult to judge second order effects in finance.

Another obvious question to ask is who is providing the money that is being lent? Those are the people who now won't be paid back. The assumption is that these are people with predictable, long-term obligations who can lock up their cash for a long time: pensions, insurance companies, endowments, etc. Hopefully they are allocating a responsible amount of their portfolio to something as risky as private credit, but as the details are private, it can be really hard to know.

There has also been a big push over the past year to put private credit assets into retail 401k's (which, in theory, also should be okay with locking up funds for a long time, but in practice, maybe less so), most insidiously by having private credit assets held in target date funds (which are the default funds for many plans).

Many private credit funds also increase their leverage by borrowing from actual banks.

All of that should pose less systemic risk than if banks subject to bank runs were lending all of the money. But that has to be balanced by the fact that these are unregulated entities taking more risks than banks would. Long-term average default rates on high-yield bonds are around 4%, so 9.2% is high, but not in panic-inducing territory yet. Who knows what they will look like in the event of an actual recession.
by lgunsch | 2026-03-12 16:08:38+00:00
Some of the other practices of CI are also important. Not explicitly mentioned by the article, but perhaps implied. CI is a lot more than just running tests on pull request. It's a whole suite of practices enabling teams to perform and ship better. Some of which include keeping branches short lived by merging back to main early and often. Keeping code ready for deployment at any time by using strategies like feature switches. This keeps the cost of shipping a feature as low as possible, avoiding issues like spending lots of time rebasing and merging long lived feature branches.
by andoando | 2026-03-12 16:08:41+00:00
Authentication has gotten really annoying on the web. I don't even care if my data gets stolen for most sites. Like HN is just username and pass and I love that. I don't care if someone hacks my HN account. What are they going to do? Get all my public comments?
I prefer that ease of use versus having had to 2FA every time for years.
by pm215 | 2026-03-12 16:09:09+00:00
A fairly large category of the flaky CI jobs I see is "dodgy infrastructure". For instance one recurring type for our project is one I just saw fail this afternoon, where a gitlab CI runner tries to clone the git repo from gitlab itself and gets an HTTP 502 error. We've also had issues with "the s390 VM that does CI job running is on an overloaded host, so mostly it's fine but occasionally the VM gets starved of CPU and some of the tests time out".

We do also have some genuinely flaky tests, but it's pretty tempting to hit the big "just retry" button when there's all this flakiness we can't control mixed in there.
by piva00 | 2026-03-12 16:09:13+00:00
> If the goal was to hurt China / BRICS and kneecap Iran it seems on point.

While also hurting Europe, South Korea, Japan, the Philippines, and many more. Very on point...

It will hurt everyone, Americans included, oil is a global market, fertilisers are a global market, those are basic inputs for probably every single thing produced in the world.

So now all of us around the globe have to pay the price for American Imperialism, compounded by the complete shattering of the USA's soft power as an ally, this will only create more animosity against the USA from all sides. Very on point.

But the USA oil industry can make a buck until everything buckles, or perhaps the USA admin will introduce price controls like in the 1970s, that worked very well too.
by Incipient | 2026-03-12 16:09:19+00:00
I feel even if the models are stagnating, the tooling around them, and the integrations and harnesses they have are getting significantly more capable (if not always 'better' - the recent vscode update really handicapped them for some reason). Things like the new agent from booking.com or whatever, if it could integrate with all hotels, activities, mapping tools, flight system, etc could be hugely powerful.

Assuming we get no better than opus 4.6, they're very capable. Even if they make up nonsense 5% of the time!
by Robdel12 | 2026-03-12 16:09:21+00:00
It works out pretty okay for me, I do it since GH runners are very expensive and I have my own hardware so why not. https://docs.github.com/en/actions/concepts/runners/self-hos...

I setup a self hosted runner and then use that in my CI workflows. Then I disabled it from sleeping so it can clamshell forever and now it sits here in my living room silently workin' https://imgur.com/a/EaBICdo
by gabriel666smith | 2026-03-12 16:09:24+00:00
Late replying - I don't think you should have been downvoted so much. You're right that I was using a comically simple example for comic effect (though I'm certain it is something that happens a lot), and also that LLMs are very interesting thought tools. Private dialogue is really analogous to thinking. There's nothing in your comment that suggests posting a critically unexamined, verbatim snippet of one's private LLM dialogue.
by Heliodex | 2026-03-12 16:09:47+00:00
No. Many legal cases were brought against Roblox due to these claims. Roblox implemented their new safety and age checks, and since then, none of these cases have progressed since because the evidence the provided by them for such is no longer relevant.

If there's any such evidence that I've missed, please do bring it to my attention by providing it.
by DesaiAshu | 2026-03-12 16:10:10+00:00
Technology is at the mercy of our social and financial systems, it rarely leads social advancement. As with other tools, it can be used in many ways

In surveying my friends in Silicon Valley, it seems that most VCs/techies know that:
1. This administration is likely leading us into long term wars and social instability
2. American Dynamism and Defense Tech (or more politely bundled into "DeepTech") are war profiteering, benefiting from greater instability

Speaking / acting out against the American military complex and Big Tech/VC's role in this carries 3 big risks:
1. Not being invited to parties ("too much negative energy, we want to be surrounded by positivity" or "don't talk politics")
2. Censorship and reduced following across most major social media platforms
3. Being economically left out as the world bifurcates into a K-shape economy

As a result, most of my community (generally peace-loving, music-loving humans) seem to be either taking a position of "the world has always been at war and will always be at war, I'm just a realist" or "I'm just going to focus on my locust of control and my personal wellbeing" or "if it's gonna happen anyways, I might as well make money off of it". There is a strong contingent of the resistance as well (still fighting for climate, social justice, peace) but much higher rates of depression and social isolation in this group

So it does not seem to be a problem that can be solved by more information and more technology (though k-12 and higher education assuredly is worth investing in), but perhaps by less nihilism and a stronger social/moral fabric

A big reason I am considering starting a company again is that we need more flags of institutions that carry large weight/reputation and stand for a set of values that is different than the current (and historical) status quo. I expect most of my community would be thrilled to align with those flags if those flags where held up tall and broke through the noise

Which is to say, if you're considering setting up one of those flags, please please do. The world doesn't have to be this way.
by igor47 | 2026-03-12 16:10:15+00:00
Dean Ball made this exact point on the Ezra Klein show a few days ago. I always thought laws would get more just with perfect enforcement -- the people passing mandatory sentencing laws for minor drug offenses would think twice if their own children, and not just minorities and unfavourable groups, were subject to the same consequences (instead of rehab or community service).

But if I've learned anything in 20 years of software eng, it's that migration plans matter. The perfect system is irrelevant if you can't figure out how to transition to it. AI is dangling a beautiful future in front of us, but the transition looks... Very challenging
by g947o | 2026-03-12 16:10:17+00:00
I think you completely missed the point.

People buy Macbook Neo because they "just need a laptop" or are budget conscious.

I imagine a student would get their hands wet with Postgre before looking at DuckDB or similar.

It would be a surprise if they do heavy workloads with DuckDB. In which case it's definitely worth investing in a more powerful computer.
by dataversity | 2026-03-12 16:10:23+00:00
Some of the features llmpm supports today:

• Install and run open-source models (almost all Hugging Face models)

• Package models with projects so environments are reproducible

• Serve models through an OpenAI compatible API

• Built-in chat UI for interacting with running models

• CLI workflow designed for developers

• Model benchmarking and rankings to help choose models
Example:

llmpm serve llama3

This exposes an API endpoint similar to:

http://localhost:8080/v1/chat/completions
by epistasis | 2026-03-12 16:10:25+00:00
Of course Trump will try something outrageous that would result in prison time for any other person. But I think that the states are also still independent, mostly ruled by law rather than man, and there's limited troop power to interfere.

Trump is not all powerful, unless everybody gives up their power. Not everybody is as weak as the SV elite, and the failures of Big Law and others that bent the knee were very instructive to everybody else. Bowing down to the king makes you his servant, but it does not protect you in any way.
Show HN: A2Apex – Test, certify, and discover trusted A2A agents
by Hauk307 | 2026-03-12 16:10:35+00:00
Hey HN,

I built A2Apex (https://a2apex.io) — a testing and reputation platform for AI agents built on Google's A2A protocol.

The problem: AI agents are everywhere, but there's no way to verify they actually work. No standard testing. No directory of trusted agents. No reputation system.

What A2Apex does:

- Test — Point it at any A2A agent URL. We run 50+ automated compliance checks: agent card validation, live endpoint testing, state machine verification, streaming, auth, error handling.

- Certify — Get a 0-100 trust score with Gold/Silver/Bronze badges you can embed in your README or docs.

- Get Listed — Every tested agent gets a public profile page in the Agent Directory with trust scores, skills, test history, and embeddable badges.

Think of it as SSL Labs (testing) + npm (directory) + LinkedIn (profiles) — for AI agents.

Stack: Python/FastAPI, vanilla JS, SQLite. No frameworks, no build tools. Runs on a Mac mini in Wyoming.

Free: 5 tests/month. Pro: $29/mo. Startup: $99/mo. Try it at https://app.a2apex.io

I'm a dragline operator at a coal mine — built this on nights and weekends using Claude. Would love feedback from anyone building A2A agents or thinking about agent interoperability.
by theahura | 2026-03-12 16:10:56+00:00
In the span of a month, two close friends left their companies. One had a buyout that couldn’t meet the company pref-stack. The other was pulling his hair out due to co-founder conflict and needed to quit. They're both still having a bit of a tough time. When I left my first company, I left on pretty good terms, and I also had a pretty rough time.

There aren't a lot of great resources about how to get through that period immediately after a founder leaves, so I wrote up some notes on what helped me in case its helpful for other people
by orangeboats | 2026-03-12 16:11:04+00:00
>which seems still debatable

In what way are RISC-V profiles debatable? Canonical is spearheading the RVA23-as-a-default movement and so far, it seems that there are no heavy objections towards that effort (beyond the usual "Canonical sucks" shtick that you see in every discussion involving Canonical)
by mklepaczewski | 2026-03-12 16:11:22+00:00
It depends on the context and the system you’re working with. In some systems, an hour may last 3599, 3600 or 3601 seconds (due to the leap second), a minute may be 59,60 or 61 seconds. Even a second is not always a „true” second.

There’s no single time unit that works for all situations.
by lifis | 2026-03-12 16:11:33+00:00
Also they seem to want to run this as a business, which seems absurd to me since I don't see how they can possibly charge money, and anyway the idea is so simple that it can be reimplemented in less than a week (less than a day for a basic version) and those alternative implementations may turn out to be better.

It also seems to be closed-source, which means that unless they open the source very soon it will very likely be immediately replaced in popularity by an open source version if it turns out to gain traction.
by cloverich | 2026-03-12 16:11:34+00:00
1. Best part of this (satirical) post is, the service they offer isn't really needed. LLM's can do this already for small projects, and soon likely will for large ones too. You don't need a company to do this, we all have the LLM tooling to do it. Critical we're all spending time thinking about what that means in a thoughtful way.

2. For the sake of argument assume 1 is completely true and feasible now and / or in the near term. If LLM generated code is also non copyrightable... but even if it is... if you can just make a copyleft version via the same manner... what will the licenses even mean any longer?
by butILoveLife | 2026-03-12 16:11:44+00:00
After a ton of research, I think the generic suggestion 'Fiber' is not helpful.

Some things to consider:

>There are classifications of fiber, insoluable vs soluable

>Even those classifications are overly generalized, and can/should be broken down into basically individual foods.

>Fiber and the various types have impact on your gut bacteria. If your gut bacteria is bad, you might be fueling growth of bad bacteria.

>You don't actually need fiber

>You don't actually need a colon

>I think gut bacteria management will probably be the next big thing. A combination of more scientific probiotics + fiber/prebiotics.

>I'm guessing the colon cancer thing is probably due to pollutants. Not necessarily air, but could be from food.
by lizknope | 2026-03-12 16:12:11+00:00
We saw how much less pollution there was during the pandemic

https://www.npr.org/sections/goatsandsoda/2020/03/04/8110190...

I worked from home but a few times I needed to go to my parents house during what used to be rush hour. Less than 5% of normal traffic and fuel demand dropped so much that prices were lower.

My job went hybrid in 2022 and then return to office full time last year. Everyone hates it. It's a waste of time and resources.

Less pollution, less traffic means we don't need to use tax revenue to expand roads and less wear and tear means less repairs.

Take it one step further and give tax breaks to businesses that let employees work from home and close physical offices. Then this means less new office construction which can be used for housing to help the housing crisis. It's a win win for everyone except control freak managers.
by bobthepanda | 2026-03-12 16:12:15+00:00
IIRC, the way this worked was that by decreasing tellers required per branch, it made a lot more marginal locations pencil out for branches, at a time when the banking industry was expansionary.

This is not so helpful if AI is boosting productivity while a sector is slowing down, because companies will cut in an overabundant market where deflationary pressure exists.
by nivethan | 2026-03-12 16:12:22+00:00
I've done a little bit of this and Claude is pretty great. Take the app and let Claude run wild with it. It does require you to be relatively familiar with the app as you may need to guide it in the right direction.

I was able to get it to rebuild and hack together a .NET application that we don't have source for. This was done in a Linux VM and it gave me a version that I could build and run on Windows.

We're past the point of legacy blackbox apps being a mystery. Happy to talk more, my e-mail is available on my profile.
by DivingForGold | 2026-03-12 16:12:31+00:00
Well, it remains to be seen whether they run the new co any better than Astound did in my small TX town. So many outages I had to switch to Spectrum, whom Spectrum has literally THOUSANDS of complaints at the BBB. In our small town Astound is using outdated equipment, a 2nd level Astound tech told me when a module goes out in the field, there are no spares at the shop, they have to ship it back to some factory whom plunges them for "pirate rates" to repair it (legacy equip.)

When Spectrum offered $40 a month for 1 gig, no contract, guaranteed for 2 years, I jumped on it, and I told the Astound people that Spectrum offer would put them out of business. So they chose to sell out and G fiber bought them.

But I would bet that that legacy equip. still never get's updated, and the multiple outages continue.
by kotaKat | 2026-03-12 16:12:47+00:00
Fun fact: Motorola Solutions sells LPRs not only to law enforcement (via Vigilant Solutions), they also sell them via the "Digital Recognition Network" arm to third party companies - tow operators, private operations, and so on.

Some of the largest customers of DRN are banks, especially sub-prime lenders :)

https://drndata.com/about/

https://drndata.com/news/motorola-solutions-acquires-vaas-in...

And all of them... feed right into the greater LEARN (Law Enforcement Archival Reporting Network) system that the feds and company have access to at all times.
by taeric | 2026-03-12 16:13:19+00:00
The trend has been down, even for this cancer. Such that I agree there were probably some big AHA moments. But I assert they almost certainly happened 50 years ago.

My expectation is that it is less that there has been a growing trend of this cancer getting worse, and far more that we have gotten better at many other cancers. That is, overall, this is good news on progress. Not a scare headline.
by alexjplant | 2026-03-12 16:13:32+00:00
> I know its unpopular to say, but when I have my 2 programmers in office, we get sooo much more done than at home. Someone gets stuck and we don't message/call, we just talk.

The technology exists to "just talk" in high-definition audio and video. If somebody isn't asking for help when they're stuck that's a people problem, not a remote work problem. There are several possible reasons for their avoidance; if multiple people are exhibiting the same behavior it could be cultural (specific to your workplace, not the person's upbringing). Using physical presence to force their hand is curing the symptom, not the underlying cause.
Show HN: Autoschematic is a new infra-as-code tool built on reversible computing
by pfnsec | 2026-03-12 16:13:33+00:00
Unlike Terraform and Pulumi, Autoschematic is built around a bidirectional (push-pull) state model. This means that it can resolve state drift by "pulling" or "pushing" (applying). This makes it a much better fit for certain use-cases where configuration drift is more common, like Snowflake. It also means you can import your existing infra automatically.
by libertine | 2026-03-12 16:13:40+00:00
I'm not sure if that's the reason why US and Israel pulled the trigger, twice.

But for sure it helped. It helped with Syria, Armenia, Venezuela, and now Iran.

But that doesn't explain why the current US administration continues to be submissive to what Russia is now: an isolated regional power - and even this is arguable be cause it will depend on the region.

Like, this is the biggest geopolitical blunder of modern Russia that will probably lead to the collapse of the federation (economic, demographic, diplomatic) - and this catering is all based on personal good relationship?

It just doesn't make any sense.