MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by kleiba | 2026-03-12 15:18:48+00:00
I cannot read light on black. I don't know, maybe it's a condition, or simply just part of getting old. But my eyes physically hurt, and when I look up from reading a light-on-black screen, even when I looked at only for a short moment, my eyes need seconds to adjust again.

I know dark mode is really popular with the youngens but I regularly have to reach for reader mode for dark web pages, or else I simply cannot stand reading the contents.

Unfortunately, this site does not have an obvious way of reading it black-on-white, short of looking at the HTML source (CTRL+U), which - in fact - I sometimes do.
by dceddia | 2026-03-12 15:18:52+00:00
> I'd like to experience my brain not thinking about anything at all for once

You can! While you’re alive and everything! I’ve had this experience of few times of it being very quiet, and overall my brain is a lot quieter since then (and I see reports from people who’ve gone further/deeper; I get the sense the path is never-ending).

There’s a ton of resources and people out there that basically point to the same thing in different ways. Meditation is one of the ways but it’s not the only one. Some keyword soup if you want to go searching: jhana states, Jhourney, Art of Accomplishment, Joe Hudson, Zen, Buddhism, awakening, Michael Singer, Loch Kelly

There are varying levels of “woo” in this, and if you’re on the woo-averse side, Joe Hudson’s stuff is a good way in.
by magicalist | 2026-03-12 15:19:04+00:00
> No one is really all that special.

They actually often are in the short term (see the "significant loss of productivity from which it took the agencies years to recover" quote in the article about the similar relocation from Trump's first term), and a gutted department of agriculture can remain incompetent longer than you can avoid supply chain disruptions and food poisoning.

What you do is open small distributed offices led by a driven person eager to live in that area, and let the small offices grow over the years as the DC offices shrink. Careers aren't that long on the timescales governments work on, you just have to be patient and be ok with slow, incremental progress in your own career instead of big splashy doge headlines followed by desperately trying to rehire and hire new expertise when you realize what you've actually done.
by freedomben | 2026-03-12 15:19:09+00:00
My PC has had a scanner connected to it for over 20 years, and in the mid 00s I was scanning and depositing checks through my bank's website (USAA). Even with modern cameras and fancy smarphone software, the results you get from a PC scan are still much better than taking a picture with your phone.

If you don't have a scanner, nearly all laptops have a webcam built in, and many people have one for their desktop as well.

On top of all that, there's no reason you can't use your smartphone camera to upload an image into a website through the mobile browser. I've done it many times for things. Just this morning I "scanned" a receipt into Ramp by taking a picture with my smartphone in the mobile browser.

You can't invade the user's privacy nearly as well in a browser (which is great for analytics/marketing), so there's a lot of incentive to the app creator to force a mobile app. But I think we should be honest that it's not for the user, it's for the company.
by aespira | 2026-03-12 15:19:14+00:00
I built SENTINEL to solve a problem I kept hitting in healthcare AI: agents report high confidence on decisions backed by stale evidence. An agent says 89% confidence on a prior auth denial, but the payer policy it's referencing is 14 months old and retrieval only got 40% of the step therapy docs. Pattern accuracy for that combination is 23%.
SENTINEL sits behind agentgateway as an MCP server (Go, Streamable HTTP) and runs a four-stage pipeline on every agent decision:

Signal fidelity audit — checks evidence staleness, completeness, weight divergence, confidence calibration
Pattern classification — matches fidelity flags against learned failure signatures with historical accuracy data
Reliability scoring — rolling per-agent × per-payer accuracy with drift detection and ECE tracking
Authority gate — issues verdicts: full autonomy, act-and-notify, human-required, or quarantine

The key insight: an agent's stated confidence and its actual reliability are different things, and the gap grows silently as upstream data drifts. SENTINEL tracks that gap at the MCP protocol layer.
Built for healthcare prior auth but the architecture is domain-agnostic — anything where an agent reasons over retrieved evidence before making a consequential decision.
agentgateway handles RBAC (CEL policies per MCP tool), session management, and audit logging. SENTINEL handles the reasoning quality audit. Integrations with Datadog (drift monitors), Braintrust (eval scoring), and Cleric (incident escalation).
Repo: https://github.com/espirado/agent-secure
Blog post with architecture details and demo walkthrough: https://espiradev.org/blog/sentinel-ai-reasoning-observatory...
by cucumber3732842 | 2026-03-12 15:19:16+00:00
The kind of district where people would rat each other out at any rate that would cause non-trivial amounts of work is going to be full of exactly the kind of people who wouldn't see anything wrong with treating a circuitous 3rd party ALPR enforcement system as authoritative and would have the spare $$$ to pay for such a boondoggle.
by xmas123 | 2026-03-12 15:19:22+00:00
I built Entangl, an open-source post-quantum A2A (agent-to-agent) communication protocol for AI agents.

The problem: agents are negotiating contracts, executing transactions, and passing sensitive payloads between themselves. All of that traffic is protected by RSA and ECDH — algorithms that Shor's algorithm breaks on a sufficiently large quantum computer. Nation-state adversaries run harvest-now-decrypt-later attacks today.

What Entangl does:
- CRYSTALS-Kyber1024 (NIST FIPS 203) replaces RSA/ECDH key exchange
- CRYSTALS-Dilithium5 (NIST FIPS 204) replaces ECDSA signatures
- Fresh KEM per message — forward secrecy, no session keys to steal
- Each agent has a DID tethered to a human owner for accountability
- Optional BB84 QKD layer via Cirq — eavesdroppers detectable at ~25% QBER
- Routing server forwards encrypted envelopes but cannot read them

Demo: two agents negotiate a GPU compute deal in 1.4s over a live WebSocket server. Rogue agents blocked at registry level. Tampered ciphertext caught by signature check.

Stack: Python 3.11, Cirq 1.3, TensorFlow Quantum 0.7.2, FastAPI, NVIDIA RTX A1000.

Feedback welcome — especially on the per-message KEM vs. session key with periodic rotation tradeoff.
by A04eArchitect | 2026-03-12 15:19:25+00:00
The real pitfall is overhead in the standard memory allocator. On ARM v8-A, I bypassed it entirely for my audit engine.
Result: 85ns latency for 10.8T data points on a $100 board.
I recorded the memory profiler and benchmarks as proof since the numbers look 'impossible'. See the video here

https://x.com/NayakaPambudi
by shadowgovt | 2026-03-12 15:19:27+00:00
This seems in-line with modern US military doctrine.

The US generally only wages wars of aggression against a nation as well-organized and well-armed as Iran when it can do them at arm's length with remote weapons and air superiority. Since the US has a volunteer army, actual risk to soldiers for something not perceived by the public as an existential threat jeopardizes future fighting efficacy.

The US public will tolerate missiles launched in its name; it is far less likely to tolerate video of entire Navy ships going down or sailors (not) coming home in body bags by the shipload for a cause that the administration didn't even try to sell them on as necessary.
by Domingues24 | 2026-03-12 15:19:48+00:00
Hey everyone,

Like a lot of people, I was frustrated with managing my finances across multiple apps. I wanted one place where I could track my daily expenses and see my investment progress, but most tools either do one well and the other terribly, or they charge a massive monthly fee.

So, as a personal challenge, I decided to build my own all-in-one solution: *Money*.

It’s currently in Beta, and I’ve finally reached the point where I need real users to try it out and give me brutally honest feedback.

*What it does right now:*

- *Everything in one place:* Track all of your expenses, income, assets, and investments in a single application.
- *Smart Income Splitting:* You are able to split your income streams into different accounts.
- *Real-Time Net Worth:* Track your daily expenses and watch your total net worth update instantly.
- *Detailed Investment Tracking:* Add physical assets, ETFs, or stocks. For your market investments (ETFs/stocks), you can track your portfolio's progress on a daily, monthly, and yearly basis.

*Important Note on How to Use It:* This is built as a Progressive Web App (PWA) and is highly optimized for your phone. For the best, native-app-like experience, I highly recommend "installing" it to your home screen!

- *iOS/Safari:* Tap the "Share" button at the bottom and select "Add to Home Screen."
- *Android/Chrome:* Tap the three dots at the top right and select "Add to Home screen."

*What I really need help with:* I'm not here to sell anything (the app is completely free to try). I genuinely just want to know:

1. Is the UI intuitive? Did you get lost trying to log an expense or add an ETF?
2. What is the #1 feature you feel is missing that would make you actually use this daily?
3. Did you run into any bugs while adding it to your home screen or using it?

Here is the link to check it out: [*https://money-seven-nu.vercel.app/](https://money-seven-nu.vercel.app/)

Thank you so much for taking the time to read this. I'll be in the comments answering questions and taking notes on everything you suggest!
by Jeremy1026 | 2026-03-12 15:19:59+00:00
> Are you talking about undemocratically forcing a restructuring all school financing everywhere in order to avoid license plate tracking? What is the principle that you're trying to uphold?

No, I'm talking about changing how schools are funded by making funds more evenly distributed across districts. Giving the kids in the "bad" areas the same opportunities as those in the "good" areas. Right now, if you can't afford that four-five-six-seven-hundred thousand dollar home, you aren't afforded the same level of public education as someone else who can. And doing so democratically, which is why I mentioned it'll never happen because no politician would be able to run on that. Their opponents would be outfunded by the top 10% to keep the status quo.

And this is coming from someone who own's a home in a "good" district. Where we got a total rebuilt elementary school 4 years ago, a new middle school actively being build, and a new high school that opened 3 years ago. Why should my kids have access to everything newer and better just because we can afford to live out in the suburbs, than someone else who isn't working in the cushy tech industry and instead is busting their ass only to live in poverty?
by gruez | 2026-03-12 15:20:00+00:00
>I'm saying that the media suddenly covering stories like this isn't a coincidence. The media is a tool of the state to manufacture consent [...]

What do you mean "suddenly"? Per the reddit thread, they just got hacked yesterday. It's not like they were sitting on the story until the war broke out. Moreover I see hacks covered in the media all the time, even if there's no obvious russia/iran/north korea "manufacture consent" angle.

>Media literacy goes beyond just looking at the facts in a story. It's also what's not mentioned, how is it presented, what stories are written, what stories aren't and, most importantly, why.

There's a huge gulf between "taking every story at face value" and what you're doing which is seemingly assuming every story must be part of some sinister conspiracy to "manufacture consent".
by the_duke | 2026-03-12 15:20:17+00:00
This doesn't make too much sense to me.

* This isn't a language, it's some tooling to map specs to code and re-generate

* Models aren't deterministic - every time you would try to re-apply you'd likely get different output (without feeding the current code into the re-apply and let it just recommend changes)

* Models are evolving rapidly, this months flavour of Codex/Sonnet/etc would very likely generate different code from last months

* Text specifications are always under-specified, lossy and tend to gloss over a huge amount of details that the code has to make concrete - this is fine in a small example, but in a larger code base?

* Every non-trivial codebase would be made up of of hundreds of specs that interact and influence each other - very hard (and context - heavy) to read all specs that impact functionality and keep it coherent

I do think there are opportunities in this space, but what I'd like to see is:

* write text specifications

* model transforms text into a *formal* specification

* then the formal spec is translated into code which can be verified against the spec

2 and three could be merged into one if there were practical/popular languages that also support verification, in the vain of ADA/Spark.

But you can also get there by generating tests from the formal specification that validate the implementation.
by zx13719 | 2026-03-12 15:20:18+00:00
The interesting takeaway is that automation rarely removes jobs inside the existing paradigm.
ATMs automated a task inside branch banking, so banks just reorganised labour around it.
Smartphones removed the need for the branch entirely.

I mean, there is definitely a turndown period in labour force when a new tech is introduced, but it will defintely produce more jobs tho, as an evolution of human history. <3
by goodmythical | 2026-03-12 15:20:21+00:00
ooooh, ur so smart.

Iowa's tobacco use is relatively low. If tobacco were the primary problem (as indicated by the focus of the solution), you'd expect Iowa to use more tobacco than most or all states.

Given that their utilization is so low, it cannot possibly be the leading contributor.

Reducing an already low use of the product is a dumb place to start and a worse place to stop if your goal is to decrease the cancer rate.

If your goal were to reduce the cancer rate, you'd focus on something about your population that is contributing to the higher cancer rate.
by kartoffelsaft | 2026-03-12 15:20:32+00:00
Searching for Great Recession posts is actually an interesting tip, I'll be taking a look into that.

As for the Hytale suggestion I do find that competition interesting but I'm afraid that I mightn't actually care that much about the game itself; from the gameplay I've seen it looks like it's taken cues from all the parts of Minecraft I don't find interesting, and the stuff that's unique for it's genre (like it's combat mechanics) looks underwhelming to me if I zoom out a bit. I, of course, haven't played it so I might be wrong about that (I was with Valheim, not with Vintage Story).
by resoluteteeth | 2026-03-12 15:20:47+00:00
> Air purifiers reduce PM2.5 concentration, so if PM2.5 is bad for health then air purifiers are good for health.

> This is like "there's no evidence parachutes improve survival after jumping from a plane."

A proposed intervention like air purifiers that have no direct evidence but are plausible because they reduce something that has been shown to be correlated with negative long term health outcomes is the opposite of something like parachutes that we directly know work.

This is a completely bizarre comparison and it's like saying that skepticism of an Alzheimer's drug targeting amyloid plaques is like doubting parachutes work because we know that amyloid plaques are correlated with Alzheimer's.
by annaoyaia | 2026-03-12 15:20:58+00:00
The 'OS' analogy is interesting, but in our work building autonomous software engineers at oya.ai, we've found the bottleneck isn't usually coordination/scheduling (the traditional OS roles) but contextual integrity and state recovery.

Most agent 'workforces' fail in enterprises because they treat every task as a stateless API call. A true 'Workforce OS' needs:
1. Persistent Workspace State: Not just memory, but a 'frozen' filesystem/container state the agent can return to after a 401 or rate limit.
2. Deterministic Governance: We found that LLM-based 'policing' of other agents is too slow/expensive. You need a WASM-based guardrail layer that intercepts tool calls at the syscall level.
3. Outcome-based Handlers: Enterprises don't want agents that 'try' to do things; they want employees that own a PR from start to merge.

I’m curious how Saafree handles 'human-in-the-loop' for long-running tasks. If an agent hits a 48-hour block waiting for an approval, how do you handle the context window drift when it resumes?
by jrswab | 2026-03-12 15:21:05+00:00
I've not heard of that before but after looking into it I think they are solving different problems.

Dotprompt is a promt template that lives inside app code to standardize how we write prompts.

Axe is an execution runtime you run from the shell. There's no code to write (unless you want the LLM to run a script). You define the agent in TOML and run with `axe run <agent name> and pipe data into it.
by JumpCrisscross | 2026-03-12 15:21:41+00:00
> they have made that illegal

We have the Food Freedom Act in Wyoming [1]. It technically requires meat be sold "for future delivery provided that the processing of the animals is done by the purchaser or by a Wyoming or federally licensed processing facility."

But in my experience, ranchers are liberal with how they define me "processing" my meat. (In one case, he pointed out the bits of silver skin he hadn't trimmed. So I "processed" those off at home.)

[1] https://www.wyoleg.gov/Legislation/2015/HB0056
by yuu1ch13 | 2026-03-12 15:21:49+00:00
Hi, thanks for the feedback! To clarify, I do use the built-in .glassEffect() modifier on SwiftUI components (sidebar, tab bar, command palette, browser toolbar). The terminal surface itself is the hard part. It's backed by ghostty's Metal renderer which draws its own opaque background, so simply slapping .glassEffect() on it doesn't work. I've been working on improving transparency there but it's not as simple as a few lines of code when you're wrapping a GPU-rendered terminal engine. The titlebar is intentional for now, but I'm considering options there.
by Aurornis | 2026-03-12 15:22:01+00:00
> 26% of sessions are abandoned, most within the first 60 seconds

Starting new sessions frequently and using separate new sessions for small tasks is a good practice.

Keeping context clean and focused is a highly effective way to keep the agent on task. Having an up to date AGENTS.md should allow for new sessions to get into simple tasks quickly so you can use single-purpose sessions for small tasks without carrying the baggage of a long past context into them.
by dmix | 2026-03-12 15:22:20+00:00
I've seen Claude ignore important parts of skills/agent files multiple times. I was running a clean up SKILL.md on a hundred markdown files, manually in small groups of 5, and about half the time it listened and ran the skill as written. The other half it would start trying to understand the codebase looking for markdown stuff for 2min, for no good reason, before reverting back to what the skill said.

LLMs are far from consistent.
by SpaceManNabs | 2026-03-12 15:22:27+00:00
Doing it on the go via the app is much easier than using the web app through the main OS browser just because the UI is optimized. not a problem with using the web app approach, just that there isnt as much investment in it due to zeitgeist i guess.

Also since you are already using 2FA, you are already on the phone so might as well do basic operations there.

I can also look at transactions in my bed before going to bed so that is nice.

If I need to look at a support ticket or look at transactions more deeply, i still use the desktop approach.
by john_strinlai | 2026-03-12 15:22:28+00:00
did you notice in the part you quoted where _the school_ says "you are the owner on record of a house in our district boundaries"?

so, her taxes fund the school. therefor her child has the right to attend the school. simple as.

(also from the article: "[...] providing all required paperwork including her driver’s license, utility bills, vehicle registration, and mortgage statement")
by mrtksn | 2026-03-12 15:22:35+00:00
Ukraine sunk half of the Russian Black sea fleet, the other half is hiding in safe ports and still get hit occasionally. Remember when there were talks about grain corridors? There are no more such talks because Ukraine actually managed to deny Russia the control of the Black sea and the Bosphorus straits are held by the Turks anyway.

It's just a different world now. Large powerful ships aren't that useful anymore, USA and Israel destroyed some of the largest and the most advanced Iranian ships in the first day of the war they started and yet can't sail their own ships in the region either.
by 1123581321 | 2026-03-12 15:22:42+00:00
Yes, the apps perform better/faster and generally have more UI thought put into them. Overall, lower friction. Often when people need to use their banking app, they're in a hurry, maybe stressed (e.g. in line at a grocery store) so everything the bank can do quickly and with visual assurance helps.

On the premium end of banking, where users generally aren't stressed about money, offering an app is more about catering to however the user prefers to interact.
by blackcatsec | 2026-03-12 15:22:43+00:00
Likewise. I once got pulled over by the police because they insisted that my license plate had been turned in and I was driving without valid plates.

They called other officers, ran the plate, ran the VIN, ran the plate, ran the VIN. I dunno I think we sat there for almost an hour before they told me why they pulled me over and what was up.
by aurareturn | 2026-03-12 15:22:53+00:00
We're already seeing large software companies figure out that they don't need 5,000 developers. They probably only need 1,000 or maybe even fewer.

However, the number of software companies being started is booming which should result in net neutral or net positive in software developer employment.

Today: 100 software companies employ 1,000 developers each[0]

Tomorrow: 10,000 software companies employ 10 developers each[1]

The net is the same.

[0]https://x.com/jack/status/2027129697092731343

[1]https://www.linkedin.com/news/story/entrepreneurial-spirit-s...
by conductr | 2026-03-12 15:23:00+00:00
My main reason to go to bank after online was to deal with physical things. Mainly checks and specifically depositing them. Now, I can usually do that with my phone because of the camera. Even if I had a webcam before, I don’t recall the functionality being there. They had check scanners but usually for businesses and my check volume is really low so never made sense to get one (usually came with a monthly fee to have one iirc)

Even now, the mobile deposit limit seems sufficiently low that I still go to the bank with more frequency than I’d like. Luckily, the ATM at the bank has a check scanner now that doesn’t have a limit so that’s usually easier and faster. It’s the daily $5000 limit I hit the most, a single check and put me over it and require a trip to bank. I think the monthly limit is $30000 and that doesn’t get in my way often. I think $5000 is too low of a daily limit. It’s common enough that I have to make a $5k+ settlement with friends/family that usually always has to be done by check. (For curious, This is usually travel that I pay for and we settle up later.)

Less common, but sometimes I need to get a bank check (guaranteed funds) or a money order. Way less frequent is need to get/give cash funds. Usually can use ATM for this unless it’s a larger withdrawal or if I need some particular denomination. This whole paragraph accounts for about 1-4 annual trips in any given year though.