MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by Folcon | 2026-03-04 14:15:28+00:00
Honestly, if I'd have heard that, I'd hire you in a heartbeat, you solved the problem without increasing total cost of ownership to the company and meant we could move forwards

I'd actually trust you to take on harder problems

Doesn't really matter what the situation is, there's much more that can be achieved in my book with that kind of mindset :)

I'm also of the opinion that in an increasingly LLM software written world, being able to have this kind of mindset will actually be really valuable
Show HN: I made a 1 line AI Agent observability tool
by antonijs | 2026-03-04 14:15:41+00:00
Hi everyone, thanks for checking out tracium.

At work I needed some clarity on how much each agent costs us and how they perform on production so I started looking at existing solutions for this such as LangSmith and LangFuse.

Honestly, they felt like they are overcomplicated to integrate and that there should be a simpler solution so I decided to build Tracium.

Tracium keeps track of every single AI API call that you make to an LLM provider, with this you can see traces, spans, I/O, tokens in/out, latency. You can compare during A/B testing, see usage from each customer and see which agents cost you the most vs which ones are used the most.

Feel free to check it out and sign up. This still is an early stage product so any feedback is welcome.
by h14h | 2026-03-04 14:15:54+00:00
I am much more interested seeing the M5 Pro and M5 Max in the Mac Mini & Mac Studio.

The temptation of running a local LLM on my gaming PC's GPU finally gave me the incentive I needed to set up Tailscale & Mosh, and there's no going back. My 15" M2 Macbook air is my ideal travel form-factor, and I'd much rather "upgrade" by adding a power-sipping homelab box I can remote into from anywhere.
by Traster | 2026-03-04 14:16:05+00:00
Tesla doesn't have parking sensors. They're a safety feature. There's lots of safety features in cars that are optional, we've got an entire rating system for the safety of cars.

We're talking about an app that's controlled by the CCP, I do expect them to take a principled stance - stances like Taiwan is a part of China and you can't be openly critical of the leader of the party. They don't have the same principles as you. You can force them to put in E2EE, but you can't force them to be honest about it or competent about it. I would rather know what we're getting than to push them to lie.

This is the same thing as the OpenAI/Anthropic thing. You've got Anthropic taking a principled stance and getting pain for it, and you've got OpenAI claiming to take the same stance, but somehow agreeing to the terms of the DoW. Do you think it's more likely that Anthropic carelessly caused themselves massive trouble, or do you think OpenAI is claiming to have got the concessions that clearly won't work in practice. I think it's naive to think the former.
by strcat | 2026-03-04 14:16:11+00:00
GrapheneOS has an OEM partnership with Motorola where they're working on improving their devices to meet our requirements because we won't lower our standards for updates and security features. A lot of work needs to be done for each supported device. There's a massive amount of work bringing the security-oriented, production-quality hardware memory tagging integration from Tensor to Snapdragon. We're working with Motorola and Qualcomm on it. If we simply ported it to many insecure devices we'd need have the time to work on features like this or the power to get an OEM and SoC vendor to work with us on it.

GrapheneOS has Contact Scopes and Storage Scopes for pretending all of the contacts, media and storage permissions are granted with the app unable to access any additional user data without the user explicitly adding it on a case-by-case basis. Unlike the recent iOS feature, apps can't see the Contacts permission group isn't granted and it supports giving less data than the whole contact too. It also supports labels for groups of contacts shared between apps.

Mock Location is a standard Android feature. We're working on a per-app Location Scopes replacement. We're also working on Camera Scopes and Microphone Scopes. We plan to continue down that road covering less major permissions too.

Sandboxed Google Play already works near perfectly with close to 100% app compatibility. It's only apps disallowing using a non-stock OS via the Play Integrity API or to a lesser extent certain other methods which aren't compatible. McDonalds is a major example. X forbids password login but you can use Vanadium to login with a passkey and then use that in the app. ~10% of banking apps do it but not most. We've convinced multiple banks to permit GrapheneOS, and that's going to become MUCH easier now.
Show HN: AuraText – Like Grammarly for AI prompts, works in every Windows app
by yashra4j | 2026-03-04 14:16:28+00:00
I built AuraText – a free Windows app that sits on top of every app (Notion, VS Code, Slack, Word) and optimizes your AI prompts before they reach the model.

The problem: most people get bad AI outputs because their prompts are vague. AuraText transforms raw prompts using frameworks like RISEN, COSTAR, and RTF – same AI, better input, dramatically better output.

Key things it does:
- Works as a floating overlay in any Windows app
- Built-in AI router (Claude for analysis, GPT-4 for creative, Gemini for research)
- Bring your own API keys – no subscription
- Supports 11 providers including local Ollama
- Learning Mode to actually build prompt skills over time

Built this solo in 4 months. 1,000+ downloads so far. Completely free during beta.

Would love brutal feedback from HN.
by YeGoblynQueenne | 2026-03-04 14:16:48+00:00
There is a difference between the EU and the UK: the UK is no longer a signatory to the EU Charter of Fundamental Rights. On the other hand, it is still a signatory to the European Convention of Human Rights, but of course there has been a sustained, concerted effort to exit it, disparage it as "a villain's chapter" etc, at least since I've been in the country (2005).

The environment in the EU and the UK is also very different in terms of freedom of speech. In the UK for example I've kept tabs on people being put in jail for completely ludicrous reasons, like a kid who was accused of planning a Sandy Hook - like attack because he had a backpack with batteries, stones and ziplocks in it, and a young woman who was put in jail for writing poetry, with themes interpreted as terrorist sympathy. Unfortunately my bookmarks are on my other computer and I can't access them now and a search online only brings up more current cases that I don't know much about because I haven't looked into them yet, so I'll have to ask you to just have to believe me about that.

On the other hand you can find plenty of information about Drill music used as evidence in criminal trials, which is also a form of criminalisation of expression that should be banned under both the EU and CoE laws:

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-nottinghamshire-600703...

Then again there is the appalling treatment of climate activists and anti-war protesters in the UK, like for example the recent proscription of Palestine Action as a terrorist organisation and the arrest of hundreds of its supporters that followed. But I believe that protesting e.g. the carnage in Palestine is not treated much better in Germany or France.

The important thing to keep in mind however is that all of that is the result of authorities overstepping bounds and claiming for themselves powers that they don't have, which happens in such freedom of speech-loving countries like the US even more often. The fact of the matter is that the law of the land protects freedom of expression and we do not live in some dystopian dictatorship where you're bundled up if you so much as dare to make a squeak about the government, or the authorities.

Using a banned ad to claim otherwise is simply disingenuous.
Show HN: DailyStack – Aggregate your work tools into a 5-minute morning brief
by akinmaurice | 2026-03-04 14:17:00+00:00
Hey HN

I’m one of the founders of DailyStack.

Like many of you, my workday used to start with a "tab crawl." I’d open Gmail, then Outlook for the corporate stuff, then scan Todoist, check the Linear board for dev tickets, and finally peek at Asana for the marketing syncs. By the time I actually knew what my day looked like, I’d already context-switched five times and lost the "deep work" window of my morning.

We built DailyStack to solve this. It’s a single, high-signal brief that aggregates your day before you dive into the noise.

How it works

We currently support Gmail, Google Calendar, Outlook, Todoist, Linear, and Asana. Instead of just giving you a long list of notifications, we pull the "delta" from the last 24 hours:

Email: Highlights threads that actually need a reply vs. newsletters.

Tasks: Correlates what you finished yesterday in Linear/Asana with what’s actually due today in Todoist.

Calendar: A unified view across Google and Outlook so you don't double-book your life.

The "No-Storage" Architecture

We know that asking for access to your email and task managers is a massive request. We decided early on to build this with a zero-persistence mindset for your private content:

Ephemeral Processing: We don't save your email bodies or task descriptions to a database.

On-the-go Summaries: When you request your brief, we fetch the data via OAuth, process the summary in memory, and serve it. We don't "store and mine" your data to build a profile or train models.

Token Security: We only store the encrypted refresh tokens needed to communicate with the APIs.

Why we’re doing this

There have been a hundred "all-in-one" inboxes that failed because they tried to replace the tools themselves. We aren't trying to be a new email client or a new task manager. We just want to be the 5-minute summary you read before you open those tools.

We’d love your brutal feedback:

The Trust Gap: If you see a summary of a Linear ticket or a Gmail thread, do you feel an immediate urge to go verify the "real" version? How can we make the summary feel authoritative enough to trust?

Missing Pieces: What is the one tool that, if missing, makes an aggregator like this useless for you? (We're looking at GitHub and Notion next).

The Workflow: Does a "Morning Brief" actually fit your routine, or do you prefer to live in the raw feeds all day?

We’re pre-revenue and still figuring out the best way to make this indispensable. I’ll be in the comments all day to talk about the ETL challenges, API rate-limiting nightmares, or anything else.

Thanks!
by tshaddox | 2026-03-04 14:17:06+00:00
> Also, as others mentioned, this just seems like Claude Code with extra steps, unless they managed to nail some sort of design standard enforcement they feel is better than what most people can get out of it.

Well yeah, isn’t that criticism we’ve had every LLM wrapper for years now? “Show me the prompt!” But that doesn’t mean these types of products are useless.
by raffael_de | 2026-03-04 14:17:24+00:00
depends on what metric it is that _you_ want to optimize. i would have given the same answer, then aikidoed their confusion into some quick lecture on efficiency of software solutions in a business context and finally a segway into a project i worked on (or made up on a whim) of related relevance that i assume would be more interesting to talk about instead. but given my rather unimpressive career i'd suggest to not listen to me.
by swq115 | 2026-03-04 14:17:25+00:00
Pretty lightweight — it SSHes into each box and runs homebutler locally there, so the overhead is basically one SSH connection + a quick read of /proc and the Docker socket per check. No background daemon sitting there polling, it only runs when you ask or when alerts --watch fires.

I run it across 3 machines (Mac Mini, Pi 5, and another box) and haven't noticed any impact. The binary itself is ~15MB and idles at zero CPU since it's not a long-running service.
by YounElh | 2026-03-04 14:17:41+00:00
Hey HN, I'm Younes, cofounder of Overshoot (YC W26). We're building inference infrastructure for vision models.

We put this survey together because we needed it ourselves. When you're trying to figure out which VLM to actually deploy, the information is scattered across HuggingFace cards, GitHub READMEs, and Twitter threads. We wanted one table that answers: what's out there, how big is it, does it actually work with vLLM/SGLang, and how much context can I give it.

The survey covers every significant open-source VLM released since Dec 2024: Qwen3.5, Qwen3-VL, InternVL3/3.5, Molmo2, GLM-4.6V, Kimi-VL, MiniCPM-V, Keye-VL, Tarsier2. For each model we tracked parameter counts, context lengths, release dates, framework support, and weekly downloads.

We also published deployment guides for 30 of these models (https://blog.overshoot.ai/blog/deploying-vlms-through-vllm), tested vLLM commands, flags, troubleshooting, what actually breaks and how to fix it. All on H200s.

Happy to answer questions about any specific model or deployment issues. We've hit most of the sharp edges at this point.
by swiftcoder | 2026-03-04 14:18:15+00:00
> At least from the point of view of the interviewer, this was the point where they should give you a polite "hey, play along" nudge.

That may be the game, but we all know it's bullshit, and we shouldn't be playing along.

If a member of my team actually proposed building a bespoke system for something that can be straightforwardly done in a spreadsheet, we'd be having some conversations about ongoing maintenance costs of software
by drnick1 | 2026-03-04 14:18:46+00:00
> Nowadays social networks are so pervasive in society, affecting it and molding it to unknown interests

I think this is the real issue. We should free ourselves from "social networks" such as Tiktok, Facebook, Instagram and others. Even with direct messages truly E2EE, they create countless other privacy problems. They enable surveillance of people at scale and should be completely shunned for that reason alone.
by xXSLAYERXx | 2026-03-04 14:18:59+00:00
I'm curious what you've used it for? I was firmly in your camp until about a month ago when i used codex to dust off an old side project. I hadn't touched the project in six months. This was literally my first prompt:

"Explain the codebase to a newcomer. What is the general structure, what are the important things to know, and what are some pointers for things to learn next?"

Once I saw the output I giddyup'd and haven't looked back.
by tyre | 2026-03-04 14:19:04+00:00
So my cofounder was talking to Stripe about an acquihire (this was after I’d left.) As part of it, he had to do a systems design interview.

He got the prompt, asked questions about throughput requirements (etc.), and said, “okay, I’d put it all in Postgres.” He was correct! Postgres could more than handle the load.

He gets a call from Patrick Collison saying that he failed the interview and asking what happened. He explained himself, to which Patrick said, okay, well yes you might be right but you also understand what the point of the interview is.

They made him do it again and he passed.
by consp | 2026-03-04 14:19:09+00:00
For international through Germany we used to get 100% back after four hour delays but they stopped doing that ... For obvious reasons. I traveled for free multiple times in the (long) past. Also fun of you wanted to get more back: if you had a first class ticket and reserved seat and had to switch trains and re-reserved you would get a free ticket with a stamp price for about 5 euro. Which you could ask back. So you got at least a coffee for free.
by michaeld123 | 2026-03-04 14:19:10+00:00
Location: Takoma Park, MD, USA
Remote: Yes
Willing to relocate: No
Technologies: Python, Swift, JavaScript, semantic systems, LLM orchestration
Portfolio: https://www.michaeldouma.com
Email: m5@inotherwords-studio.com

I had an article trending on HN last week about "words with spaces" in English. I can help you make your complicated system be more usable for your consumers.

I have a track record that spans from govt services (I created time.gov in 1999), visualizations (SpicyNodes, 40M users), AI-based health info before AI was a thing (ProstateCalculator, 1.5M patients), and association-based word games (two games, plus a game-centric game studio, NSF funded w/ $295K SBIR). I also judge games for several awards (IGF, MagFest, CODiE, GEE, Serious Games).

How can I help you? Maybe your project needs an overall product vision, or incremental improvements that help first-time and long-time users know and (enjoy!) using your product.

I would love to work with your team in a product/design leadership role, at a smallish-company. I can work with developer tools, learning platforms, knowledge products, brain health, creative AI.

Latest: https://www.inotherwords.app
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/michaeldouma/
by vidarh | 2026-03-04 14:19:11+00:00
There's no fundamental difference, but in practice the difference is one of frequency.

E.g. I sometimes have 10+ agents kicking off changes to the same small project at the same time, and likely to all want to merge within the next 15-30 minutes. At that rate, merge conflicts happens very frequently. The agents can mostly resolve them themselves, but it wastes tokens, and time.
by tylerrooney | 2026-03-04 14:19:15+00:00
I worked at Amazon 2005-2008 as a Software Dev Engineer. To hammer home company culture, there were two awards which could be awarded at the Quarterly All-hands meeting
* The "Just Do It" Award which recognized someone just fixing some obvious problem at was in front of them but not responsibility
* The "Door Desk" Award for frugality, named in honour of the basic door-frame-four-leg desk everyone worked on.

In many ways, the Door Desk award was for simplicity. I remember, one time, someone got an award for getting rid of some dumb operations room with some big unused LCD TVs. When you won these awards, you rarely got any kind of reward. It was just acknowledgement at the meeting. But that time, they literally gave the guy the TVs.
by nyeah | 2026-03-04 14:19:17+00:00
Really you can. You look at the engineers who create steaming piles, and you look at the ones who don't. Over a year or two, the difference is easy to spot. For people who care to spot it.

If there's no competent front-line technical management who can successfully make this simple comparison, then, sure, in that case the team may be fucked.
Show HN: FindDates – one proposed time at a time, so only one slot gets blocked
by rouuuge | 2026-03-04 14:19:38+00:00
Doodle-style polls block multiple slots in your calendar while you wait for everyone to respond. FindDates takes a different approach: propose one specific time, share a link, the other person accepts or counter-proposes. Only one slot is ever in play at a time.
by guerython | 2026-03-04 14:19:39+00:00
Love the idea. In our merge worker we run a quick cardinality scan before anything else: left-unique ratio, duplicates on both sides, and even a crude 'if every right row has a unique ID but left rows repeat, it's many-to-one' heuristic. That feed becomes a hard constraint in the prompt and we bail to web search if the stats clash with the agent decision. The clash queue plus a quick search run drops our false positives from ~10% into the low single digits while the pipeline stays cheap. Do you ever reuse a stored classification so the second merge between the same sources skips the extra gate?
Show HN: One Good Thing – one thought a day, then asks you to close the app
by supertim | 2026-03-04 14:19:43+00:00
I'm a marketer, not an engineer. This is the first iOS app I've shipped.

The backstory:
I spent three months on research before writing a line of code. Two things had to be true first: the content had to be genuinely different from the wellness space, and the monetization couldn't contradict what the product was trying to do.

On content: I read research on decision fatigue, attentional residue, and the paradox of choice. Most "thought of the day" apps are fortune cookies with better design. I wanted cards that made people sit with something uncomfortable, not cards that made them feel validated. 1,250 cards written and tagged across 12 content buckets before launch.

On monetisation: most wellness apps monetise by maximising session time, which is directly at odds with a mindfulness tool. I landed on charging for what the app actually does. Seven-day trial, then €1.99 a month or €39.99 lifetime. After trial, content progressively blurs rather than hard-bricking.

What it does:
One thought per day. A headline (max 10 words) and a body (max 120 words). You Carry it or Let Go. The app asks you to close it. Under two minutes. Cards are selected server-side by a Resonance Loop algorithm. Days 1 to 14 cycle through all 12 buckets. From day 15, selection weights toward buckets the person resonates with based on carry/let-go signals, with 20% exploration to prevent filter bubbles and 10% heat (cards with high community share rates).

Built with Claude Code, as a non-engineer:
I knew nothing about Swift, SwiftUI, Firebase, or Cloud Functions when I started. I mean I knew what they were, but not from a code perspective. Built the whole thing with Claude Code as pair programmer.

The unexpected thing: you can ask genuinely stupid questions without fear of judgment. I asked about async/await race conditions four different ways until it clicked. I can now read Cloud Function logs and debug Firestore rules. Not because I studied them, because building the thing forced me to learn and I had a patient collaborator the whole time.

The QA lesson:
This is what I would tell anyone using AI-assisted development. The code comes fast. The bugs are subtle.

14 builds before App Store approval. A code review found notifications had silently died after day 7 because the scheduler was never called on app open. A widget timezone mismatch gave US users the wrong card. A reinstall sync bug wiped returning users' history every time. None of these were caught by the AI. All were caught by systematic, edge-case-focused testing.

The underrated skill in AI-assisted development is not better prompting. It is thorough QA.

For a longer read on the research and philosophy behind this: https://onegoodthing.space/blog/the-app-that-asks-you-to-clo...

App Store: https://apps.apple.com/app/one-good-thing/id6759391105

Happy to dig into the algorithm, the SwiftUI patterns, the Cloud Functions architecture, or the Claude Code workflow.
by dotancohen | 2026-03-04 14:19:52+00:00
So you choose a group who has been murdering our people for over a century, and hold them as an example of a group that would take issue with Jewish radicals?

Let's take your argument at face value - let's assume that Jewish radicals are as common among the Jews as Muslim radicals are among the Muslims. We disagree about the cause and the effect in the holy land, so let's disregard it. Please list for me all terror attacks that are plausibly attributed to Jews - worldwide. Then tell me how much larger the Muslim population is than the Jewish population. I'll use your own numbers to respond with an appropriate number of terror attacks plausibly attributed to Muslims.

If I can't beat the target number I'll rescind my stance.