MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by n8cpdx | 2026-03-03 07:32:01+00:00
You can pay with credit card as a convenience + fraud protection mechanism without ever paying interest by just paying your bill off every month.

When chip and pin was first rolled out, Europeans were shocked by the low security of swipe cards in the US. The reason that wasn’t an issue for Americans was (and still is) that credit cards have excellent fraud protections.

If someone steals my credit card, it is the bank’s problem, not mine.

The risk of paying by debit card on a regular basis is unfathomable to me, even with fancy tech to try to make it secure.
by lopster999 | 2026-03-03 07:32:11+00:00
1. End-to-end encryption for secure communication — remote.team protects all conversations with end-to-end encryption, while Basecamp doesn't provide the same level of confidentiality for business communications.

2. All-in-one workspace instead of scattered tools — chat, tasks, analytics, and website widget in a single interface, while Basecamp requires switching between separate modules.

3. Turn discussions into tasks with one click — any message from the encrypted chat instantly becomes a task with a deadline, while in Basecamp this connection is less integrated and requires manual transfer.

4. Guest access without extra setup — connect clients and contractors with one click while preserving context and security, while Basecamp requires creating separate projects for external participants.

5. More affordable pricing with unlimited capabilities — unlimited tasks and storage even on the free plan, while Basecamp has strict limits and a per-user paid model.
by peteforde | 2026-03-03 07:32:27+00:00
I wish that people would just stop with the "vibe coding" thing.

If you want to get quality results from an LLM use a quality frontier model (I recommend Opus 4.5 thinking) in an agentic Plan -> Agent -> Debug loop inside of Cursor. Roughly 90% of the hate that gets assigned to AI anything is a direct result of the absurd notion that taking the human completely out of the loop is a valuable goal. In reality, it's expensive and almost guaranteed to produce crap.

If you treat LLMs as pair programmers and split your implementation into a set of sequential tasks of a reasonable scope, you can use Unity or Unreal or any number of JS engines built on ThreeJS to produce things that are worth playing.

I would strongly argue that pairing with Opus to write your controller code while you take primary responsibility for interacting with the UI sounds exactly like how you should proceed if you care about the end result.
by ggm | 2026-03-03 07:32:40+00:00
Traditional Persian (and probably other) middle class households are a Roman courtyard of connected rooms and shared facilities around a pool. There's a strong matrilinial hierarchy of who has the "best" rooms and I've read it's a grind for the junior family, but it's a combination of shared space and private space and in the context of a future where kids simply can't afford to buy, being able to move into a suite of rooms tacked onto the expanding family "domus" doesn't sound the worst choice.
by ulrikrasmussen | 2026-03-03 07:33:31+00:00
Sort of, but not really. They have a design document for how ZKP-based age verification would be implemented in the white-label prototype app, but it is my understanding that the first implementation to be rolled out in the early adopter countries like mine (Denmark) will be based on "trust me, bro" central verifiers who promise not to do logging, with ZKP mentioned as a possible future alternative. Until I see the requirement of ZKP or equivalent provable zero-trust privacy guarantees in the law, I consider the promise of ZKP as a distraction (lie) to shut down the harshest criticism.

Google Play Integrity is not a requirement, but governments think it is. All you need to avoid trivial duplication of certificates is that keys are bound to a device which is also able to perform the primitive cryptographic operations needed to construct a ZKP proof. This could be achieved using a USB dongle. Still proprietary technology, but the scope of what needs to be locked down is much, much smaller than with a solution like Play Integrity.
by JumpCrisscross | 2026-03-03 07:33:47+00:00
> What is a 'quick win' ?

An Iranian Delcy Rodriguez. Someone who waives a white flag, accepts Trump's terms and then gets left alone for the most part.

Even if it's a bluff to buy time to rebuild, I'm not seeing the strategic rationale for refusing to negotiate. (I do see Iran's leaders being internally constrained to keep fighting. We saw a similar dynamic in Japan during WWII.)
by fasbiner | 2026-03-03 07:34:00+00:00
Surely you're not just talking out of your ass and you can show us some logs and prompts where this was a problem for you.

As someone familiar with those ecosystems, I'm have trouble envisioning the degree of operator error or imprecision that would cause this to be a problem.

You are making an assertion without evidence that contradicts my extensive experience and that of every other developer I know.

That doesn't mean you're wrong, but what can be asserted without evidence can also be dismissed without evidence. The burden is on you to demonstrate the issue and that you're not engaging in tribalistic motivated reasoning.
by postdoc74 | 2026-03-03 07:34:01+00:00
Many banks restrict the number and capabilities of secondary users. In the end I had to get a power of attorney, but for me observing these changes is just a warning. I see a pervasive use of a phone as means of authentication and the compulsory nature of hardware-bound digital IDs is penetrating our society. That is a barrier for elderly people but also for other groups, specially when those requirements are not accompanied by standards (i.e. why does a French person need to get a new ID to work with Spanish bureaucracy) and also because the phone itself is an unsubsidized cost. Not to mention when one is travelling to countries with locked networks, losing the phone or, closer to the topic here,the lack of trust on generic phone platforms, which enforces a duopoly (Google Android + iOS) preventing new technologies to enter the market.
by sammuttaja | 2026-03-03 07:34:16+00:00
Location: Turku, Finland

Remote: yes, but willing to work at onsite if needed

Willing to relocate: currently no, but willing to relocate inside Finland

Technologies: c#/.Net, c++, Unity game engine, Unreal engine, Docker, Azure, SQL (MySQL, SQLite)

Résumé/CV: https://sammuttaja.autiosaari.net/cv.pdf

Portfolio: https://sammuttaja.autiosaari.net

Email: See portfolio or cv

Backend and game developer for 7+ years, mostly doing Unity projects, backend code in using aspnet core and php, Xamarin/maui mobile project and one phaser game project for Finnish Parliament
by alexhans | 2026-03-03 07:35:22+00:00
Don't get discouraged by being in the minority in one particular forum, specially when specific angles dominate.

People put different weights to different arguments.

For the Spain argument below. I actually think it's quite uncomfortable to be +1 and +2 in daily life because people leaving office at 5pm are actually leaving at 3pm under scorching sun. The difference of having light until 23 instead of 22 is negligible in a country that is still up at night in winter.

I can't cite anything at the moment but from what I can recall, economic benefits of switching during the year have not been as tauted and the cost of changing every year has been harmful in many ways (operational being one), but I think here the discussion is where should countries land.

I hope that a country like UK doesn't decide to switch to +1 and the same for Europe, further separating themselves from the American continent countries with the focus on summer sunlight where summer already has a huge window of sun and people often tend to want to escape that heat.
by southerntofu | 2026-03-03 07:36:08+00:00
> what reasons do your friends give?

In my (arguably not very representative) circles, unlike the big Facebook->Instagram migration, which was motivated by "i don't like that it's run by a Silicon Valley tech-bro neofascist, but that's where everyone's at", the Twitter->Bluesky migration was motivated by "finally an alternative that's not centralized so it can't be bought and controlled by american neonazis".

> Can you clarify this?

Well Bluesky's number 1 selling point was always decentralization. Just looking at a few past articles from the wikipedia page's sources:

"Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey announces a new research team, called Bluesky, to create a set of open and decentralized technical standards for social media platforms" (CNBC)

"Bluesky now operates as a “decentralized” social media platform, which means users can create their own servers on which they can store data and set their own rules" (Forbes)

To be fair, they did fit some of the bill which is now why we're complained that Bluesky is not 100% federated/decentralized. And they did improve compared to AP in terms of nomadic identity and letting users know everything on the platform is public (unlike Mastodon where people had a false sense of security).
by franga2000 | 2026-03-03 07:36:51+00:00
It's not about credit/debit, it's about phone/card. Americans tend to use "credit card" as a generic term for payment cards.

And yes, phone NFC payment is one of those technically unnecessary conveniences that's really easy to get used to. You probably already have your phone out or at least accessible in like one second, paying with it instead of pulling out your wallet and finding a card or even cash is just sooo nice. I hate that I've gotten this used to it.

That being said, you can still get NFC payment on a rooted or reflashed phone. Instead of Google Wallet, find a bank or card provider that has their own app. I use the Curve "proxy card" and it works fine.
by sotomski | 2026-03-03 07:36:56+00:00
Location: Poland, EU (CET / UTC+1)

Remote: Yes

Willing to relocate: No

Technologies: Kotlin Multiplatform (Compose), Flutter/Dart Full-Stack, Android, iOS

Résumé/CV: https://www.linkedin.com/in/sotomski/
Email:karol@codecreations.eu

17 years in mobile. I specialise in multi-platform development and native -> muiltiplatform migrations. Worked for startups and large corporations alike. Never had an unhappy client at the end of an engagement.
by AnthonyMouse | 2026-03-03 07:38:24+00:00
> It's not something that's quantifiable, and it's easily manipulable. The iPhone(tm) has a twelth-generation quantum superconducting wonderflonium chip that enables (pile of technobabble garbage) and "privacy".

That's the marketing noise from the company itself. Then you go to Reddit or similar and ask technically competent people what they recommend.

> Even the ones with technologically savvy friends don't want the hassle, they want something that works.

The phone that supports open operating systems is the one that's less of a hassle. It doesn't go out of support even though there's nothing wrong with it, it isn't full of spyware and weird bugs because people can actually fix them when the OEM doesn't, it has a working ad blocker etc.

> How has 30 years of "Microsoft is anti-consumer and <pile of complaints>, you should use Linux" worked out for consumer market share?

Windows market share was >90%, now it's 67% and still falling. And that's just desktops; Microsoft was completely abandoned in the mobile market because they were so widely hated. By most accounts Windows Phone was actually decent but being from the notorious company whose OS nobody uses unless they're locked in was a death sentence.

> If you think even 0.1% of consumers would switch banks to buy some new phone, this conversation is not worth continuing as you and I don't live in the same reality.

You're not switching banks to buy a new phone, you're switching banks because when you bought a new phone it made you realize that your bank sucks. Which annoyed you enough to spend five minutes checking out other banks, at which point you realized there are credit unions that not only support your new phone but pay better interest rates and charge lower fees.

Then you remember that time when they charged you that fee for some BS reason last year and you swore you were going to get a new bank but never got around to it, and decide that you'd rather get on with what you always intended to do sooner rather than later instead of replacing your new phone that you otherwise like.
by delegate | 2026-03-03 07:38:44+00:00
I tried maintaining chat hostory and summary in a 'changes' dir in the repo. Claude creates a md file before commiting (timestamp.md, commit hash doesn't work as filename because rebase/squash).

I had to stop doing this because it greatly slowed down and confuse the model, when it did a repo search and found results in some old md files. Plus token usage went through the roof.
So keeping changes in the open like that in the repo doesn't work.

Not sure how tfa works, but hopefully the model doesn't see that data.
by Doxin | 2026-03-03 07:39:01+00:00
For what it's worth I've been using FreeCad 1.1RC2 lately, and for me it's the first FreeCad version worth bothering with. It's now a tool I actively reach for over OpenSCAD and Blender for various projects. Previously I couldn't make the simplest part with it.

I can't wait for the release proper, but I can heartily recommend everyone try the release candidates as well. I've got a feeling this is the tipping point for FreeCad like 2.5 was for blender.
by conductr | 2026-03-03 07:39:33+00:00
Just tacking on to mention the smallest parts are most likely to be lost, they’re the ones that - if dropped - seem to bounce and roll under a refrigerator or into the ether. They don’t give extras on the larger parts because they’re not likely to be lost. Frequently enough all it takes is a violent/careless bag opening to send the small pieces flying.
by adithyassekhar | 2026-03-03 07:39:36+00:00
Sorry but focusing on the hand coding part misses the whole picture and would derail the conversation. Comparisons like that are often dishonest.

Hiring someone who writes Rust with Claude but never written anything with it in their lives, never faced the edge cases, never took the wrong decisions feels naive to me. At the end of the day it's still a next token generator, an impressive one. It can hold context but not relate with anything outside that context. Someone needs to take accountability.
by efilife | 2026-03-03 07:40:21+00:00
https://zuckmail.vercel.app/t/teen-body-image

There are so many examples of this. There are actually people who care about others, and some even resigned over these moral problems.

Interesting to see how zuckerberg didn't care about this at all.

Also this:

> I know that I have blood on my hands by now. I've personally made decisions that affected national elections. I've watched political manipulation in Honduras, Azerbaijan, India, Ukraine, Brazil, Bolivia, and Ecuador. And I've seen Facebook choose profits over action every single time.

https://zuckmail.vercel.app/t/zhang-blood-on-hands
by tene80i | 2026-03-03 07:40:26+00:00
That's quite an antagonistic way to request an explanation, particularly as it seems straightforward:

If you needed consent to film people in the street, security cameras (in public places) couldn't be used. They _are_ used. So it must not be the case that you need consent to film people in the street. Assuming there is not just widespread lawbreaking, I suppose.
by stephenr | 2026-03-03 07:40:29+00:00
> I don't see why I would want magsafe on my phone at this point.

I've been charging my 13 Pro exclusively via MagSafe for a couple of years... out of necessity. The charging port has... an issue... and I've yet to get it resolved.

Honestly the only time I miss being able to use the charging port is on flights, where I'm using someone else's charging solution (i.e. a port I can plug in to).

Everywhere else (bedside table, in the car, or even out and about) it's MagSafe.

The only downside to this approach is that you need to be more specific about which case you buy (they don't all support MagSafe) but in terms of convenience it's night and day better.
by JumpCrisscross | 2026-03-03 07:41:53+00:00
> Why does Orland need to apologize? Edwards fabricated the quotes

He's on the byline and he's an editor.

> they don't each do the same research in order to fact-check each other. There is inherently a level of trust

If we're going to excuse this, what does the byline mean? He trusted the wrong person. It would be like if a source lied to him. Not the end of the world. But absolutely credibility destroying if instead of an apology you get a word salad.

> You can say this is a failure by the editorial process

Orland is also an editor. (Senior gaming editor [1].)

[1] https://arstechnica.com/author/kyle-orland/
by tezza | 2026-03-03 07:41:54+00:00
My latest game BossBattle[1] (html5, have a play) uses AI for graphics, some strobe effects, a C64 loading screen shader.

I have decided to lean in to it and I will document all the places I use AI in the game on my blog[2]. Not everything works, notably 3D assets[3] and sound effects.

There is a lot of human content… i paid for a lot out of my own pocket and have limited budget. It started in 2021 before chatgpt. LLMs cannot do everything and that’s not the purpose.

Generative AI makes me as an solo indie dev able to make the game. Without the AI the game wouldn’t exist

[1] http://epicwin.team/play/solo/BossBattle/ - (public beta)
.

[2] https://generative-ai.review
.

[3] https://generative-ai.review/2025/08/3d-assets-made-by-genai...
by alexhans | 2026-03-03 07:42:04+00:00
I don't like switching to daylight saving and back but I'd rather have that that permanently moving to +1. Then you have extreme examples which are already shifted like Spain (for historical reasons around aligning with Germany) and I don't find that alignment useful economically, in city life practice and more.

If had to make an executive choice with no further analysis at this moment I'd put them all in their respective original times and move Spain and any outlier to their proper timezone (a vertical map alignment of sorts)
by man8alexd | 2026-03-03 07:42:59+00:00
Location: Tbilisi, Georgia (UTC+4)

Remote: yes (working exclusively remotely for the past 20 years)

Willing to relocate: yes

Technologies: AWS, Kubernetes, Nomad, Docker, podman, Hashicorp Consul, Vault, Packer, Terraform, Ansible, Chef, Puppet, Grafana, Loki, Prometheus, ELK stack, Jenkins, GitHub Actions, Flux, GitLab, Postfix, HAProxy, MySQL, MariaDB, PostgreSQL, Ruby, Python, bash, C

Résumé/CV: https://alexeydemidov.com/cv

Email: in the Résumé/CV

GitHub: https://github.com/AlexeyDemidov

LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/alekseydemidov/

ServerFault: https://serverfault.com/users/23022/alexd
by anakaine | 2026-03-03 07:43:45+00:00
And I think thats a good thing. People screw up, and journalists are people. This person's punishment for their screw up was losing their job. They do not need to be dragged into a hit piece.

Ars can, and probably should if they have not already, publish a piece about hallucinations and use of AI in journalism, and own up to their own lack of appropriate controls and reflections. They do not need to drag the authors name into the write up. It can be self critical of themselves as a journalistic outlet.
by teleforce | 2026-03-03 07:44:00+00:00
It will be good if LLM and can be integrated with CUE for configurations to improve the output [1].

FYI, CUE lang is based on the logic from the LLM's NLP deterministic cousin namely lattice-valued logic [2].

[1] CUE lang:

https://cuelang.org/

[2] The Logic of CUE:

https://cuelang.org/docs/concept/the-logic-of-cue/
by RobertLong | 2026-03-03 07:44:12+00:00
I spent quite a bit of time making games/social WebXR stuff in Three.js. There is unfortunately a ceiling to what commercial success you can have there. Sure there's all the .io games which see a bunch of kids playing games from their school computers, but as much as I'd like to see it, web games aren't going to be as impressive as native PC/Console games. It's not really technology, mostly just the market isn't there.

The models are pretty decent at building simple Three.js/Phaser games, but if you want to work with Unity/Unreal/Godot you're going to need a MCP or other tool to get them to work with the engine's tooling/context. I just so happen to work on one for Unity https://bezi.com

I will say, while I think the current models are very impressive with generating code for most game mechanics. They are still terrible at spatial awareness. Gemini Pro 3.1 is showing some promise here, the latest Opus/Sonnet models are...ok. But there's still a lot left to be desired. You also still really need to know how to make games both creatively and technically to pull off prompting a game into existence.

So are you going to vibecode your way to the next SimCity / Civ without knowing some game dev? Probably not right now and I think that's for the best. People want games that are creative and unique. But a passionate hobbyist who has never made a game, knows some programming, and has a vision for a great game now has an amazing tool set to build their dream game and that's pretty cool!
by southerntofu | 2026-03-03 07:44:46+00:00
That's not a fair assessment. Context: I hate Trump as much as Khomeini. A "both sides" treatment would be:

US & Israel illegally assassinate Iranian leader in bombing campaign, calling agression "necessity".

Now, if you'd like to lean to one side or the other, you can either:

- remove information about legality and the fact that they are the authors of the agression, add something about Iran being a threat to its neighbors

- or insist that any excuses provided by USA or Israel about nuclear weapons is 100% bogus as they have been claiming this for over 20 years

"We have no choice to do this horrible thing, but it may have slightly bad consequences for us" does not take the second side into consideration at all. It's very biased, and it's a very strong opinion in itself.
by EagnaIonat | 2026-03-03 07:45:27+00:00
I wanted to create a game (Pre-AI) and thought it would be easy. Turns out it is not at all.

Sure you might get lucky with the next Angry bird, but there is a whole range of skills required to make a good game, and actually get people to play it.

I even read a couple of books which gave me a better understanding of how out of my depth I was. Books were "Theory of Fun", "Achievement unlocked" and "The art of game design".

AI here appears to be accelerating the ability to see those gaps faster. I think without the understanding of those gaps anything created is going to be lacking.
by theshrike79 | 2026-03-03 07:45:31+00:00
This has to be done in two steps

1) Do ANYTHING you can to stop the clocks being fucked with twice a year.

2) After that is done and stabilised, everything has been updated to non-wobbly time. Now's the time you can start arguing what the exact time zone should be.

Never try to argue both at the same time. This is what prevents the EU from stopping the DST madness.
by jjmarr | 2026-03-03 07:45:40+00:00
I like this concept because everyone's thought of "commit the agent prompts and reproduce everything from scratch every time" as a "dumb idea" I'm unsure if anyone has actually executed on it in a snappy git-like UI.

Now, because the author took the time to work on it, we can see if this is actually a better method of software development. If LLM development continues deflating the cost of quality software, maybe this will turn out to be the future.
by yellowapple | 2026-03-03 07:46:41+00:00
> I'm sure the enthusiasm is appreciated but Graphene is very different even from stock Android.

I'm daily driving a Pixel 9a with GrapheneOS and I strongly disagree, at least from an ordinary usage perspective. Yes, you can make it very different (by not installing Google Play), but with the sandboxed Google Play it's exceedingly rare for me to notice any differences; it feels very close to any other stock-ish Android. The only big differences were RCS chats failing w/ T-Mobile (but that's been fixed) and some apps being mean about Play Integrity or whatever (but that's gonna be true of any custom ROM, even if it's entirely unmodified from AOSP).