MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by dubeye | 2026-03-04 12:40:18+00:00
In my real world experience it's easy to fix. Most spam is generic. Publish a blog post asking applicants to include a specific keyword in the subject line. That sorts out 80% of the spam. (probably all of it)

Asking for a cover letter in docx format, requesting info on the format of the book group, and what other authors they have discussed recently, sorts out another 99%.

Filter both these out and you are left with a small number of applicants. If someone is a tailoring an AI to defeat this, then author has a very high value event on his hands that he should hire someone to help organise.

If applicants are not willing to do this, then they clearly are not offering a high-value opportunity in the first place. His excuse obviously fools most people, hence your reply, but it's very unlikely to be the big picture in my view. He just doesn't want to do the book group. Not enough to set up some simple filters anyway.
by eigenspace | 2026-03-04 12:40:21+00:00
Having a gambling addict in your life can be just as destructive if not more destructive as having a drug addict in your life.

This is something that most people don't currently understand because most people don't really have much experience with gambling addicts and the sort of horrible things they will do to satisfy their cravings, but as the amount of gamblers in society grows explosively, we're all going to be feeling the effects of being surrounded by these people.
by orwin | 2026-03-04 12:40:22+00:00
Let's count. Power consolidation (post-revolution): 10-20k. 100k during the first gulf war, but I think you should put that on the US (and maybe Irak, but it's the US that pushed Irak to attack Iran), then a bit more than 50 execution per year on average for 30 year. 100-300 in 2019/2020, and 15k-35k for the 2025/2026 protests. So even if you take the higher bound, that's 66k max, and if you count the gulf war (which was defensive, against US-led Iraki), 166k. But a reasonable estimate would not count the gulf war, and would be 35k over 40 year.

Weirdly, that's less than the number of saudi Arabia slaves who died in the last 20 years. But most of them are African, so they don't count, if I understand why Saudi Arabia are our allies.
by reactordev | 2026-03-04 12:40:59+00:00
Right. It’s the right decision (for now) that only humans hold copyright.

There’s a whole other mess of fair rights and attribution but in this case, the ruling actually makes the path clearer for an author of such a piece to get it copyrighted. Ironic. But that’s how case law is supposed to be.

When I started my career it was in graphic design in the late 90s and photoshop was all the rage. There was a similar discussion as you pointed out around copyright and photo-manipulation technique. Who owns the photo? Who owns the piece? Then concept arts “kit bash” with reference photos to paint quickly… again who owns the refs? Who owns the piece? Deviantart had to struggle to figure out how to respect both.

I didn’t have to read too far to understand exactly where the court was going with this and where he could have just turned around with another filing and been gold.
by krapp | 2026-03-04 12:41:26+00:00
> 2. Network effects are a thing

Network effects aren't laws. It isn't illegal or impossible to leave Twitter - millions of people have already done it.

> in the case of Twitter in particular, it appears to have full-throated support of the US government, despite how this kind of thing is what DOGE itself was objecting to when it was in the form of fairly cheap radio stations in random 3rd world nations.

The problem in that case is government influence over the platform and the collaboration between government and the press (if Twitter counts as the press,) not the free speech rights of the platform itself. Wanting greater regulation of online platforms only exacerbates that problem and normalizes it. If you don't trust the American government's influence on Twitter - and you shouldn't - why would you trust your own?

Hate speech laws are well and good until opposing your government's involvement in genocide gets classified as hate speech.

>When it's a matter of freedom of speech, that can be encoded into the law, then it is just like the various bans on discrimination against protected groups. Are those done with grand juries?

Fair enough, but what is the "protected group" in this case? It can't be everyone.

>There are plenty of people arguing the case that Musk's purchase of Twitter bought him the US government. Were they right? I am uncertain.

I don't know, but if so the problem there again is the government's own corruption not the platform's right to free speech. Powerful influential people have used the media to influence elections and sway voters ever since mass media made it possible. That is arguably a fundamental and necessary part of the democratic process.

If a platform doesn't have the right to advocate for a political position or candidate then it also doesn't have the right to call out political corruption.

>Can you leave Twitter's sphere of influence, just by leaving the site?

For all intents and purposes, yes. What exactly can Twitter do to me on Hacker News? Or in my own home? Nothing, legally.
by Markoff | 2026-03-04 12:41:41+00:00
As long term Outlook.com user all I can say it's their service is extremely unreliable, my emails are either not delivered at all or end up in junk mail, some emails I don't receive at all or my partners are rate limited sometimes receiving their emails with hours long delays.

I assume also their junk filters block some emails and there is no way to avoid it, you repeatedly add senders to safe senders list, even to safe subscriptions and their email still end up marked as junk even after years long communication from same addresses.

As backup when something important I write email to recipient from gmail whether they received my email from outlook only to find out my email was never received.
by CaptainZapp | 2026-03-04 12:41:42+00:00
> In defense of Deutsche Bahn, countries with comparable infrastructure but more reliable transport have put in about twice as much money per capita for the last 30 years at least.

Why is that "in defense?"

When you let your infrastructure rot away since the 90s of the last century for something as complex as a train network by brutally underinvesting.

Then you seriously fucked up. There's nothing to defend here.
by mschuster91 | 2026-03-04 12:41:46+00:00
> In a stable economy, we spend money as we received it, and take on loans for large purchases. In fact the economy was that way before.

You used to be able to save for most large purchases without going into debt. Even cars.

But no, these days cars tend to be so goddamn expensive while at the same time being so low-margin products for the dealerships that even if you theoretically can pay in cash, the salespeople do their best to force you into some sort of debt because the kickback from that is the only way they make money. And practically, rents suck up so much of your income you can't save anyway.
by sigwinch | 2026-03-04 12:41:49+00:00
It’s been “not a war” for so long, and we don’t have a good word for it. “Grey zone”, “hybrid war”, in Zoroastrian terms these are druj-heavy. Trump himself chooses druj.

But the force of good benefits from not using the word “war”. Trump himself gains war powers if Congress uses the word. Those powers will be turned inward.

And Hegseth has dabbled in duality himself. What started as a Department of Defense became a Department of War. If you study what the Japanese military thought of Pearl Harbor —- Hegseth is using that strategy. Hegseth is constrained in that he can only choose strategies Obama would reject. And soon he’ll need to explain that it was really about defense all along.
by adrian_b | 2026-03-04 12:41:55+00:00
I assume that you are talking about modern "theoretical CS", because among the "theoretical CS" papers from the fifties, sixties, seventies, and even some that are more recent I have found a lot that remain very valuable and I have seen a lot of modern programmers who either make avoidable mistakes or they implement very suboptimal solutions, just because they are no longer aware of ancient research results that were well known in the past.

I especially hate those who attempt to design new programming languages today, but then demonstrate a complete lack of awareness about the history of programming languages, by introducing a lot of design errors in their languages, which had been discussed decades ago and for which good solutions had been found at that time, but those solutions were implemented in languages that never reached the popularity of C and its descendants, so only few know about them today.
by palata | 2026-03-04 12:42:07+00:00
I don't think they will ever do that. If they want to compete with Android, they need hardware attestation [1], which requires that they get recognised as a trusted Android alternative.

If they distributed rooted versions, then banks and the likes would not be willing to trust them.

[1]: https://grapheneos.org/articles/attestation-compatibility-gu...
by xtiansimon | 2026-03-04 12:43:11+00:00
> “This is a pretty new capability; previous approaches on re-identification generally required structured data, and two datasets with a similar schema that could be linked together.”

Right up there with Skynet, for me, has been the idea of disparate databases all being linked up by bad actors.

It appears as though DOGE illegally obtained taxpayer data from the IRS. I don’t trust DOGE to safeguard anything.

And the penalties do not seem to be very severe outside of HIPPA.

https://democracyforward.org/news/press-releases/new-details...
by scandox | 2026-03-04 12:43:11+00:00
Often these "spam" reports by end users are just accidental clicks as well. Many of the abuse reports we get are like an email from someone's Mum and visibly legitimate. At other times there are users who use the Report Spam function as a kind of inbox management tool - a way of moving mail away so they don't have to see it because Trash or Delete or whatever is just further away from their pointer.
by lelanthran | 2026-03-04 12:44:02+00:00
> I've dipped into agentic work now and again, but never been very impressed with the output (well, that there is any functioning output is insanely impressive, but it isn't code I want to be on the hook for complaining).

> I hear a lot of people saying the same, but similarly a bunch of people I respect saying they barely write code anymore. It feels a little tricky to square these up sometimes.

It squares up just fine.

You ever read a blog post or comment and think "Yeah, this is definitely AI generated"? If you can recognise it, would you accept a blog post, reviewed by you, for your own blog/site?

I won't; I'll think "eww" and rewrite.

The developers with good AI experiences don't get the same "eww" feeling when reading AI-generated code. The developers with poor AI experiences get that "eww" feeling all the time when reviewing AI code and decide not to accept the code.

Well, that's my theory anyway.
by jurgenburgen | 2026-03-04 12:44:18+00:00
> For me the most fun part is getting something that works. Design the goal, but not micromanage and get lost in the details.

That’s management, which is not necessarily bad by itself.

What is bad if you have to be both a manager giving the requirements and the IC responsible for the output. That’s the worst of both worlds.

If it was possible to truly vibe code in the same way a product manager asks a team to build something then we wouldn’t need to have this discussion.

In reality you can never truly trust the output. Ultimately you’re on the hook if production breaks apart, not the LLM.
by andrewssobral | 2026-03-04 12:44:50+00:00
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by BLKNSLVR | 2026-03-04 12:45:11+00:00
OneDrive was born enshittified.

The concept, way back when, was great. I tried to use it, by a previous name, for replicating / distributing data backups and it always worked great... for a few days, maybe weeks. And then something unrecoverable went wrong, and I had to re-set it up essentially from scratch and it worked great... for a few days, maybe weeks. And then something unrecoverable went wrong.

In the intervening 15+ years, OneDrive has never made my experience of computing better. It has only ever nagged, slowed, and failed. And that was before Microslop went down the x% AI coding path.
by jeroenhd | 2026-03-04 12:45:14+00:00
If browsers remember which domains do ECH and refuse to downgrade to non-ECH connections after, the way the HSTS cache forces browsers to connect over HTTPS despite direct attempts to load over HTTP, then you only need an entry in the browser database to make downgrade attacks to accomplish SNI-snooping impossible.

For HSTS, browsers come with a preloaded list of known-HTTPS domains that requests are matched against. That means they will never connect over HTTP, rather than connect over HTTP and upgrade+maintain a cache when the HSTS header is present. If ECH comes with a preload list, then browsers connecting to ECH domains will simply fail to connect rather than permit the network to downgrade their connection to non-ECH TLS.
by carlosjobim | 2026-03-04 12:46:42+00:00
Small business owners generally make themselves dependent on third party selling platforms, which they pay a 15-25% commission to, depending on sector.

That's where they get new clients, and most of the rest of their sales go to loyal repat customers who know them already.

Try to tell them how they could capture a large part of those new customers themselves by investing in their own presence - very little money in comparison - and they start complaining if they have to pay any monthly fee and complaining about card fees to receive payment.

You have to spend money to make money, and any money you spend to get out of the claws of third party platforms is usually money very well spent. But small business owners don't want to hear it.
by grvdrm | 2026-03-04 12:46:57+00:00
I agree! I just think that order matters.

Govt creates something: you see that tight control from the beginning. Makes logical sense.

Private company creates something gov't sees as a threat: private companies are allowed to express opinions and make decisions irrespective of threat or not, right?

One example I'm thinking of: Apple's stand on cracking devices. Gov't wants to crack into a phone and Apple won't do it for them without right measures in place. I think Apple SHOULD be able to make that call. Whether it's right or wrong is still murky.
by kylecazar | 2026-03-04 12:47:25+00:00
I don't think it's spicy, seems straightforward and reasonable.

A non-technical PM with v0/Bolt/etc access can do a bunch of things that are useful to a team. But writing production code and submitting PR's represents 0-100, and probably shouldn't have been a push to begin with. Non-devs submitting code was always going to cause some disruption, it's a predictable outcome.

For technical PM's, the line remains (always has been) blurry. It depends on the person and their skillset, many are recent ex-engineers.
by maxeda | 2026-03-04 12:47:57+00:00
> In January 2026, Germany's federal court ruled that purchasing a Deutsche Bahn ticket constitutes a form of gambling (Glücksspiel), citing that “the probability of arriving on time is statistically comparable to a coin flip.”

> Rather than contest the ruling, DBSM embraced it. If riding our trains is gambling, then passengers deserve the right to hedge.

> BahnBet is our answer: a platform where you can bet against your own train, turning delays into suffering, and suffering into profit. Every minute of punctuality you lose, you can win back in deliciously valuable caßh.
by mrweasel | 2026-03-04 12:48:14+00:00
It's certainly not free to run and maybe it doesn't really make sense for Microsoft to run Outlook.com anymore, except that it's an easy way to motivate people to having a Microsoft account.

Outlook.com certainly has to show up as an expense, one that Microsoft would like to reduce. When you look at what other providers charge for a single email account, it's hard to see Microsoft making money of Outlook.com. There's obviously something to be said for scale, but still, it must cost them something.
by TimedToasts | 2026-03-04 12:48:45+00:00
Young Me, a voracious reader, was defeated several times by the LOTR books. To this day, I doubt I could force myself to read dozens of pages of Tom Bombadil singing about trees.

Also Neil Stephenson, come to think of it. I believe that I've absorbed enough of Snow Crash and Diamond Age via nerd culture to provide summaries of both but oof, I couldn't finish either of them.
by incomingpain | 2026-03-04 12:48:53+00:00
Europe absolutely should build their own. Is this the one that will happen? Will they have a diverse selection of viewpoints?

>Today, social media is critical technology. It shapes information flows, social norms, and political discourse. Yet Europe runs on US-owned systems whose architectures remain outside European jurisdiction and democratic control.

Social media is a place for speech. There's nothing else there.

Democratic control over speech is their goal.

>This includes our modular moderation platform, CoCoMo.

CoCoMo is an interesting name, but also quite interesting how they never explain which speech they plan to "control"

When your stated goal is to control the speech of your political opponents, they wont join.
by palata | 2026-03-04 12:49:06+00:00
GrapheneOS currently has like half a million users and growing. And many of those users would love to not be forced to have a Google Pixel (even if those are really good phone).

The question for Motorola is: "given the cost of meeting GrapheneOS' requirements, how many more devices will we sell?". Hundreds of thousands of devices is not nothing, I guess. Plus they get free consulting from the team building the most secure phone OS out there.

I really don't understand why smaller smartphone manufacturers didn't fight before for that. Say Fairphone: I don't know about today, but a few years ago they finally got profitable by selling something like 200 thousands units a year. If they had designed a phone to be supported by GrapheneOS, that would surely have increased their sales quite a bit. Now that ship has sailed, GrapheneOS will be focused on Motorola for a few years.
by joshstrange | 2026-03-04 12:49:35+00:00
I current use STT (MacWhisper) and just hold down a hotkey to speak into any application. While I’d hope that this option would provide better SST for technical things, maybe even using your code/context to steer the transcription, I think I’ll stick with my system-wide SST support that is way easier to use.

Current: hold button, talk, release button, hit enter

Voice mode: type /voice, wait for it to connect, talk, ??? Just detect when I’ve finished? Or hit a key?

Nah, I prefer being able to edit what it thinks it heard and pause for however long I want while talking without it thinking I’m done
Show HN: AI tools to visualize hairstyles, beards, and glasses
by hugh1st | 2026-03-04 12:50:04+00:00
Hi HN,

Deciding on a new look (hair, beard, or glasses) is usually a gamble. We built a suite of computer vision tools under Looksmaxxing AI (Face IQ) to help visualize these changes before committing to them.

We’re using 100+ facial landmark points to ensure generative outputs respect the user's underlying bone structure.

The tools:

AI Hairstyle Changer: https://looksmaxxingai.app/tools/ai-hairstyle-changer

AI Beard Generator: https://looksmaxxingai.app/tools/ai-beard-generator

Virtual Glasses Try-On: https://looksmaxxingai.app/tools/virtual-glasses-try-on

Privacy:
We do not store photos or use them for model training. All images are purged immediately after the analysis/inference is complete.

I’d love to hear your feedback on the generative realism and how well the 3D alignment handles different head tilts.
by maciusr | 2026-03-04 12:50:11+00:00
There's a recurring theme in these agentic engineering threads that is worth calling out: the lessons, are almost always stated as universal – but are deeply dependent on team size, code base maturity, test coverage, and risk tolerance. What gets presented as a “win” for a well instrumented backend service could easily guide those working on UI-heavy or old code down the wrong path. The art of this might be less about discovering the correct pattern, and more about truthfully declaring when a pattern applies.
by dizhn | 2026-03-04 12:52:03+00:00
I love a few scenes. My favorite is the mob restaurant scene with the "tape" business. The whole thing is great.

However in terms of tech, there's the scene where they have CCTV footage from the lingerie store where the top dog wants the operator to see the other side of the package and asks if it's possible. The answer is not the typical CSI "zoom in .. there!" but goes like "the computer can take us to the other side?" , "it can hypothesize". Still not exactly super accurate in terms of possibility but I think AI nowadays would actually do precisely that, hypothesize and show you something.
by applfanboysbgon | 2026-03-04 12:52:03+00:00
I think a lot of HN users, living in our own PC-oriented bubble, may not have realised the world has completely passed PCs by and that smartphones are the personal computers of the current generation. While PS5 and Switch each have about 100-150 million in sales, there are an estimated 3 billion mobile game players. Are a majority of those "mobile game players" playing Flappy Bird, sure. But again, even 10% of that number being interested in "real games" would outnumber PS5 and Switch players combined. Fortnite and PUBG each have hundreds of millions of active users, most are on console but around 20% appear to be on mobile from a quick search. Genshin Impact also has tens of of millions MAU, a non-neglible percentage of which are mobile players. There are hundreds of millions of people for whom being able to play 3D games on their phone matters.