MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by rsync | 2026-03-01 02:31:01+00:00
rsync.net is (minimally) an openai customer. I've used it mostly as a curiosity but others here have used it in more professional manner.

When we created the account we shared essentially zero personal information and used a purpose-specific email, etc. No ID scans, no passports, no robust ID verification. It is a company account, after all, so it would make no sense to tie it to a particular person ...

All of this to ask:

In 2026, if I choose to boycott openAI on behalf of my firm, and perhaps sign up for Claude with the intention of using either the web interface or a terminal CLI ... what will be demanded in terms of identity and personal information ?
by ricksunny | 2026-03-01 02:31:14+00:00
You casually drop a lot of acronyms and references to obscure programs (here and especially in parallel comment) on the apparent assumption that everyone reading does or should be clued in to the same acronyms. I feel you do so in good faith, but I wonder where the implicit assumption comes from that the 'rest of society' ('rest' w.r..t. whatever sub-group does in fact know about these programs intimately) ought to know what this sub-group knows.
by ChuckMcM | 2026-03-01 02:31:24+00:00
I think Steve was correct in that Windows 95/98/NT/ME/2000 was functional but it wasn't particularly elegant. But the part I think Steve missed was that elegance may get the "ohhs and ahhs" but functionality gets the customers. Back when NeXT was a thing a friend of mine who worked there and I (working at Sun) were having the Workstation UX argument^h^h^h^h^h^h^h^hdiscussion. At the time, one component was how there was always like 4 or 5 ways to do the same thing on Windows, and that was alleged to be "confusing and a waste of resources." And the counter argument was that different people would find the ways that work best for them, and having a combinatorial way of doing things meant that there was a probably a way that worked for more people.

The difference for me was "taste" was the goal, look good or get things done. For me getting things done won every time.
Show HN: ChoresMates – Splitwise, but for Household Chores
by bittujoju | 2026-03-01 02:32:39+00:00
Hey HN, I built ChoresMates to solve a problem every couple and roommate knows: the "I do more around the house" argument.

The idea is simple — every chore gets a point value based on effort (cooking dinner = 8 pts, loading the dishwasher = 2 pts). When you complete a chore, you log it and earn points. A real-time leaderboard shows who's actually pulling their weight. The numbers replace the argument.

A few things that make it work in practice:

Effort-weighted points — Not all chores are equal. Scrubbing the bathroom is worth more than wiping a counter. This prevents gaming the system with a bunch of tiny tasks.
Overdue penalties — Procrastinating on an assigned chore costs you points per day. Creates just enough pressure to get things done.
Photo proof — Solves the "I did it but you didn't notice" problem.
Rotation scheduling — Automatically rotates who's responsible for recurring chores, so there's no negotiation.
Comes with 100+ chore templates covering everything from couples to families with kids to college dorms, with sensible default point values and schedules.

Tech stack: Swift/SwiftUI on iOS, Kotlin on Android, Rails 7 API backend on AWS ECS, PostgreSQL. Auth via Sign in with Apple, Google, or email.

Free tier covers most households (1 group, 10 members, 25 chores). Pro is $0.99/mo or $19.99 lifetime.

Would love feedback from the HN community — especially on the point-value system and whether the gamification angle resonates or feels gimmicky.

iOS: https://apps.apple.com/us/app/choresmates/id6757452488
Android: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.choresmate...
by pear01 | 2026-03-01 02:33:51+00:00
Apparently in the opening hours, perhaps the very first strikes... which may explain why the attack happened during the day instead of night as is often typical (night often furthers the US technological advantage).

I picture in my head the old ayatollah emerging from his bunker for a late breakfast only to be blown to smithereens...

Would also explain why the Iranian response seems so haphazard and ill-conceived... if reporting is to be believed the conflict essentially opened with their government's decapitation.
by bigiain | 2026-03-01 02:34:40+00:00
> I have my doubts that this will succeed if it's just one guy

Normally, I'd agree with you 100%.

But there are some interesting mitigating circumstances here.

1) It's "just one guy" who's running a fairly complex open source project already, one which uses minio.

2) The stated intention is that the software is considered "finished" with no plans to add any features, so the maintenance burden is arguably way lower than typical open source projects (or forks)

3) they're quite open about using AI to maintain it - and like it or hate it, this "finding and helping fix bugs in complex codebases" seems to be an area where current AI is pretty good.

I'm sure a lot of people will be put off by the forker being Chinese, but honestly, from outside the US right now, it's unclear if Chinese or American software is a more existential risk.

I'll admit I'd never heard of their Pigsty project before, but a quick peek at their github shows a project that's been around for 5 years already, and has pull requests from over a dozen contributors. That's no guarantee this isn't just a better prepared Jia Tan zx utils supply chain attack, but at least it's clearly not just something that's all been created by one person over 2 or 12 months.
by noinsight | 2026-03-01 02:34:45+00:00
> Put the phone in their pocket and it felt a press and went into edit mode and edited the lock screen.

This is why I hate the flashlight and camera buttons on the lock screen - which you can activate without unlocking. When you have your hands in your pockets during cold weather you’ll suddenly be ”filming”… I never use the camera on my phone anyway. Thankfully at some point they added support for removing them.
by 3eb7988a1663 | 2026-03-01 02:36:41+00:00
I did this after it was first posted. My cholesterol is great, but it is a simple enough intervention, I mostly did it for the lols.

Not terribly difficult, you never feel hungry. The worst part was how sore my jaw felt from the excessive chewing of the bulk mass. Which is funny for something so mushy, but my instinct was to chew it a good amount. Also, it is a lot of fiber. Feel like the effect might just have to do with cleaning out every surface of my digestive tract.
by Short_tend | 2026-03-01 02:36:51+00:00
As someone enrolled in an IVY and seeing the absurd speculation by random commenter's, this is ridiculous.
I can only speak for Columbia, but the amount of work & study we do all for this country is immense. EVEN if you are partisan you should know there are RW or neoliberal elements active here. Our country and the many young people who want to be in public service will suffer from this.

And no, we are not whatever random ragebait curated LW “WOKE” that’s protrayed online.
by eviks | 2026-03-01 02:38:29+00:00
> Podcasts are built on an open standard, which is why they aren’t controlled by a bad algorithm and don’t have ads that spy on you

Of course they do, you can have regional ads depending on your IP. There are no "standards" "open" enough to kill ads
And they are controlled by the same bad search/distribution algorithms any other type of mass media is

> and aren’t locked down to one app or platform

These exist as well, and sometimes the transition to a walled garden kills the historic catalogue
by koakuma-chan | 2026-03-01 02:38:44+00:00
Please stop spreading this "AI evals" terminology. "evals" is what providers like OpenAI and Anthropic do with their models. If you wrote a test for a feature that uses an LLM, it's just a test, there's no need to say "evals." Having a separate term only further confuses people who already have no idea what that actually means.
Show HN: MCP server that strips injection vectors and cuts token costs by 93%
by timstark | 2026-03-01 02:39:05+00:00
A single Node.js docs page through Claude Code's native WebFetch costs ~75K tokens. Through safe_fetch: ~2K. Across 4 test sites, the average reduction is 93% — zero false positives, all visible content preserved.

The problem: agentic coding tools pass raw web content straight into the LLM context. React hydration scripts, hidden HTML elements, zero-width characters, fake LLM delimiters, base64 payloads that decode to instructions. You're burning tokens on content that actively makes results worse — and some of it is deliberately adversarial.

mcp-safe-fetch is an MCP server with three tools (safe_fetch, safe_read, safe_exec) that sanitize content before the LLM sees it. All deterministic — regex + cheerio + turndown, no AI in the loop.

npx -y mcp-safe-fetch init
by arppacket | 2026-03-01 02:40:50+00:00
Q: Will you turn off the tool if they violate the rules?

@sama: Yes, we will turn it off in that very unlikely event, but *we believe the U.S. government is an institution that does its best to follow law and policy.*

What we won't do is turn it off because we disagree with a particular (legal military) decision. We trust their authority.

How can anyone trust a guy who says this after the past year?!
by pibaker | 2026-03-01 02:41:41+00:00
Per levels.fyi, median salary of most openAI positions are above 300k. Even "technical writers" have a median pay of 197k. I searched around the internet and it seems like even entry level positions receive well above 150k. Apart from people with severe lifestyle bloat or an unholy number of dependents I doubt too many people working there will face immediate financial difficulties if they quit.

Anyway, it is also amusing to hear tech people defend their right to earn some of the fattest salaries on this planet using the smol bean technique after a decade of "why wouldn't the West Virginian coal miner just learn to code." It was always about maintaining the lifestyle of yearly Japan vacations and MacBook upgrades and never about subsistence.
by rcxdude | 2026-03-01 02:44:13+00:00
This statement is true of both open-source (by the OSI definition, which is a superset of free software by the FSF's definition) and free software. In fact, the fact that the original company could take their AGPL licensed software and make further updates proprietary is kind of a bug as far as the FSF is concerned (due to how copyright works and the fact that CLAs are a thing).
by nomel | 2026-03-01 02:45:19+00:00
I usually eat mine like cereal, uncooked old-fashioned in cold milk, with a bit of honey or brown sugar for flavor. Apparently this is normal overseas.

Steel cut is just a different thing altogether. I like mine a bit on the firm side, with butter, brown sugar. On top, some plain yogurt pair nicely. Cranberries and walnuts are pretty great too.

I think one-minute/instant oatmeal is terrible, no matter how it's prepared, which is unfortunately most people's first experience with oatmeal.
by paulbernard | 2026-03-01 02:45:26+00:00
This is an example template for HeadElf - Executive Intelligence Platform Get the full HeadElf framework: github.com/pauljbernard/HeadElf
This repository demonstrates how to structure business meta-code for HeadElf using MVIDIA's publicly known organizational patterns. This serves as a practical template for executives to understand how to create their own executive intelligence repository.
by brandall10 | 2026-03-01 02:46:15+00:00
Also it was impressive when someone was good enough to play 40 minutes. Usually a small crowd would gather, which could inspire bad players to plunk in more quarters to improve.

I remember beating Zaxxon when I was only 6 years old in '82, in large part because I probably spent at least 100 hours watching older kids do it.
by starmole | 2026-03-01 02:46:16+00:00
Great writing.
But: The printing press did displace manual copying of texts, not calligraphy. Digital type setting did not displace typography but the manual labor of type setting.
In a similar vein I think AI code gen will displace code churn, the labor of linking libraries into an "App" and making it build. It won't displace coding.
by brudgers | 2026-03-01 02:46:46+00:00
Fair enough.

To me the evidence in the article still suggests that “hard correctness” is probably not historically appropriate…hand lettering is not a typeface.

That’s really where I am coming from — the perspective of historical architecture, historical architectural practice, and historical methods of delivering buildings.

In particular, today’s mythological Wright is not the 1908’s historical Wright on a commercial jobsite. And the contractual relationships of a 1908 construction project were not delineated like current construction projects.
by bigiain | 2026-03-01 02:47:37+00:00
I'm not Dang, but I agree AI articles are a disease - but with reservations.

In this case, a Chinese developer who's not a native English speaker - I feel is _adding_ to "interesting conversations" not detracting from them but using AI assistance to publish an article like this in readable/understandable English.

I know HN and Ycombinator is _hugely_ US focused and secondarily English-speaking focused. But there's more and more interest in non US based "intellectual curiosity" where the original source material is not in English. From YC's capitalism-driven focus, they largely don't care. From my personal hacker ethic curiosity, I'd hate to miss out on articles like this just because of a prejudice against non English speakers who use AI to provide me with understandable versions.

Having said that, AI hype in general certainly feels like a disease to me. I was noting recently how the percentage of homepage like/discussions I click has gone way down. I remember the days where I'd click and read 80 or 90% of the things that made it to the homepage. These days I eyeroll my way past probably 2/3rds of them because they look at first glance (and from recent experience>) to just be AI hype in one form or another. (I've actually considered building myself a tool that'd grab the first three or so pages and then filter out everything AI related - but the other option is just to visit less often...)
by avaer | 2026-03-01 02:47:44+00:00
I don't believe it. This seems more like laziness and not caring about the problem, than something fundamental. (FWIW ChatGPT agrees)

If commercial LLM providers cared about this (and I think eventually they will, there are many use cases), we'll get seed support. It might be not completely trivial given the complexity of the stacks, but nothing compared to what they've already accomplished. It's just a compute graph, and GPUs are actually extremely INcompatible with randomness if anything.

Older LLMs did support seeds, but support got dropped a couple of years ago, I guess when they decided scaling fast was more important than supporting that feature.
by erxam | 2026-03-01 02:48:07+00:00
Do keep in mind that basically every single Israeli goes through military training, which includes training in psychological counter-warfare (hasbara). Even the 'cool' Israelis you know in real life are spies at the beckon-and-call of Israel 24/7.

What I'm trying to say is that this is an intentional part of their strategy. They know what they're doing.

They probably have a small detachment assigned to every popular-ish website. For the long tail, they have bot farms.
by stressback | 2026-03-01 02:48:41+00:00
I have to call BS here.

They can be coerced to do certain things but I'd like to see you or anyone prove that you can "trick" any of these models into building software that can be used autonomously kill humans. I'm pretty certain you couldn't even get it to build a design document for such software.

When there is proof of your claim, I'll eat my words. Until then, this is just lazy nonsense
by vjvjvjvjghv | 2026-03-01 02:48:46+00:00
I think the ribbon is terrible. When you are looking for something, you can't just look in one direction but you have to scan up and down. Then it may be text or just an image. And the thing you are looking for may be on some other ribbon page.

I much prefer menus with toolbars that have only the most used functions.
Show HN: A visual sitemap editor that forces you to design structure before UI
by epic_ai | 2026-03-01 02:49:05+00:00
Most web tools start with UI.
Templates. Components. AI layouts.
But structure — the sitemap, the navigation logic — usually comes later.
So I built a tool: https://no-edit.lovable.app
A browser-based visual sitemap + navigation editor where you design the hierarchy first, before touching visuals.
Core idea:
Pages are nodes
Navigation is explicit
Hierarchy is visible at all times
You can’t “accidentally” create structural chaos
Instead of designing a homepage first, you design the map.
Then the UI sits on top of that structure.
What I’ve noticed:
Users spend time reorganizing structure before styling
Navigation clarity reduces later edits
Thinking in hierarchy changes how features are added
I’m curious:
For those who’ve built CMSs, IDEs, or large web apps —
Should structure be a first-class citizen in design tools?
Or is it something users only care about at scale?
Would love technical feedback on the approach.
Link in comments.
by burnt-resistor | 2026-03-01 02:50:36+00:00
Framework has gone fully in the tank of Apple consumerization route of unrepairability and unupgradeability with a nonstandard machine, soldered-on RAM, and no meaningful PCIe slots. There's only the superficial appearance of longevity and future-proofness when it's really yet another silo. There's no way to add an IB, FC, or 100/400 GbE NICs to these machines. 5 GbE is a joke. Non-ECC RAM is a joke.
by nunez | 2026-03-01 02:51:53+00:00
This is extremely interesting. OpenAI is putting a lot of emphasis on their deployment being cloud-based (presumably GovCloud/C2S). Was Anthropic willing and cleared to deploy their stack high-side in NIPR/SIPR?

If that is the case, then that means that Anthropic is theoretically close to supporting private sector on-prem model deployments AND that this solution is FedRAMP High, which is more than enough for financial sector and healthcare. AWS, GCP and nVIDIA (to a lesser degree) should be insanely worried if that's the case.
by robmccoll | 2026-03-01 02:52:32+00:00
I think the problem is exactly the opposite. The federal government has the total combined power and scale that it does because we are a massive and complex modern nation. That's inevitable. The problem that we are seeing is that the reigns to that power can be held by too few people it turns out. The checks and balances have ceased to exist. No one is held accountable and people are allowed to be above the law.
by sarchertech | 2026-03-01 02:55:01+00:00
You have a group of Swiss journalists who regularly publish critical stories about war crimes in Gaza, the US detaining immigrants, the Trump administration, and waning influence.

And your first thought is that these people have such a hard on for the American Cultural Empire that they are willing to fabricate massive amounts of evidence of Chinese wrongdoing with no coercion required?

They’re just all sitting around writing stories about how fucked up the Trump administration is and how America is over and how the next century belongs to China, and then they think “hey we should probably all work together to make China look bad because America Fuck Yeah! Am I right!?!?”
by tomhow | 2026-03-01 02:56:24+00:00
The point is that the topic doesn’t matter, and whether you or I like the content doesn’t matter. The HN community and moderation team have come to a consensus that only original human-authored writing has a place here.

There are only 30 places on the front page, and thousands of submissions each day trying to take one of them. It’s reasonable for the audience to expect that a post that has made it to the front page has has sufficient effort invested in it to be deserving of that place.

Something else I’ve noticed (just today, in part due to this subthread): people are far less inclined to feel negatively towards an LLM-generated article or comment if they agree with it. We need to consciously avoid being influenced in this way.
by MengerSponge | 2026-03-01 02:58:01+00:00
honestly one of my favorite Wikipedia articles. It's silly, but it is a logical conclusion to the existence of secret information.

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45 5F E1 04 22 CA 29 C4 93 3F 95 05 2B 79 2A B3
by Ygg2 | 2026-03-01 02:58:18+00:00
I'm talking about accessibility and localization as part of a GUI toolkit.

Take localization. Any doofus with CSV and regex can localize a binary. How do you localize dynamic things like "Hi (Sir) PJMLP, you have (0 unread messages)"?[1]

In JS I can always Intl.PluralRules. Where are my Plural rules in say C#'s Avalonia (or whatever GUI is hot in C# these days, I can't keep track)?

The issue isn't a checklist; it's a quality of availability [2]. The complexity there is essential, because languages are complex beasts, and mitigations for disability are getting better and hence more complex[2].

[1] Why is localizing this a problem? Some languages are language neutral, some have honorific speech, which changes other words, and some have different ways of counting (Hello Welsh. Nice that you have ordinals for zero, one, two, few, many, and more), some have genders, some don't, some have but don't use it in some cases, ad infinitum.

[2] There is a huge Mariana Trench in the quality of accessibility for software that offers a magnifying glass and software that offers text-to-speech.
by panick21 | 2026-03-01 02:58:20+00:00
> By your own data, Apollo had 65% more money than SLS/Orion.

I would say by my own data Apollo has to do 800% more work given the point on where it started.

> My point is, Apollo had a clear objective: put people on the moon. When that was achieved, they shut it down.

This isn't true. The Apollo program had many more objectives and was continuing and was about to do many more things. The politics around it just changed.

If it was a single goal, then they could have stopped after Apollo 11.

And of course after moon landings stopped, Skylab and other post-Apollo programs continued. Much of the Apollo hardware continued to operate for quite a while longer.

> SLS objective is: do something NASA-like with astronauts, using current suppliers as much as possible, and better/larger than Apollo. Oh, we are going to ask you to change plans all the time.

Yeah but those changes in plan don't actually change the hardware of the rocket itself. Its always the exact same rocket. It just gets new mission that are designed to work for it, not the other way around. So you can't really say SLS/Orion was delayed because of chaining requirements.

> So it's not about risk averse culture, or the decline of western civilisation, or something like that.

The very fact that the requirements are fuzzy and the political process is a shit-show that gets nothing done and provides bad intensive is exactly the civilization level failure. Just as much as when you try to land on the moon or build a high speed rail line.

> BTW, thanks for the hard numbers, it's a nice analysis.

NASA and government is pretty good on this and lots of people have done work on this, specially Casey at the Planetary Society. So I do not deserve all that much credit.

And for SLS I have been following the program for 10+ years and have been arguing since 2015 that the only rational plan is canceling it. But the congressional alliance behind it is just incredible.