MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by gs17 | 2026-03-05 17:41:17+00:00
I'm skeptical about SWF export as well, but mostly because I'm not sure of the usecase for it in "flash if flash was built in 2026". I'd imagine even people opening old FLA files would rather have a modern non-plugin-requiring format (or a modern Projector equivalent) for output. Maybe for people still using Scaleform?
by pixl97 | 2026-03-05 17:41:20+00:00
There is no us, there is only you, by default.

To move beyond that default you need to organize into things like communities, lobbying groups, and/or even governments.

Ownership of singular non-physical objects is a polite lie we tell ourselves because it makes us feel more secure in a universe filled with information chaos. The moment you open your mouth or move your pen you no longer own what is in your mind, it is now entropy. Lose control of that entropy and it now belongs to anyone with the proper tooling to record it. This is a universal law of information, it is beyond the laws of men and their fickle will.

Much like we build on information from our past generations, AI will build its own new information on those foundations. And since AI is an entity of information alone it is highly probable it will do it far better than we will and forever cement us in a prison of our own making.
by rramadass | 2026-03-05 17:41:38+00:00
Nonsense; This guy (and others of his ilk) is just a hustler.

People seem to lose all their common sense as soon as somebody trots out easy-sounding-without-effort-for-the-price-of-a-book soothing advice to solve all their problems.

Meanwhile the real "self-help" exists in plain sight in the domains of Philosophy and Psychology coupled with an understanding of Neuroscience/Biology.

People should checkout Hindu Philosophies of Samkhya and Yoga, Buddhist Philosophies of Japanese Zen and Tibetan Lojong, Greek/Roman Stoic Philosophies of Epictetus, Seneca, Cicero, Marcus Aurelius.

On the Psychology side checkout Self-Determination Theory, Applied Behavioural Analysis and Cognitive Behavioural Therapy.

On the Neuroscience/Biology front checkout the importance of circadian rhythms/diet/exercise/sleep along with needed essential minerals/vitamins/etc.

That will give you all the information you need to devise your own workable self-help regimen.
by gus_massa | 2026-03-05 17:41:55+00:00
> Run /edit to surface documentation typos automatically

Some missing points: (Ignoring that some project don't like PR written by AI.)

* Manually review carefully that the proposed changes are correct.

* If the PR is too long, split it in parts that make sense. For example:

- fixing all the typos in a file or directory instead of the same project.

- fixing a misspelled word like "bamana" that appears like 5 times in random places

* Write a short comment in the PR. Don't ask the AI to write a 10 pages long PR that includes a AI rant about the importance of bananas in the diet in some countries.
by boplicity | 2026-03-05 17:42:02+00:00
Password reset emails are a real bane. Because email is unreliable, they often don't work, so I end up with customers contacting me wondering why it's not working for them.

One of our software suppliers has particularly bad software for password resets, so there's a steady stream of people needing help for one reason or another. This company seems unable to fix these problems, unfortunately. Ughh.
by k2so | 2026-03-05 17:42:37+00:00
Author here. I wanted to train Nanochat d26 to GPT-2 level and had to pick between three H100 variants on Runpod.

SXM was the most expensive per hour but cheapest to finish:
SXM: 702ms/step - ~$37 (using vast.ai)
PCIe: 1,412ms/step - ~$112 (runpod)
NVL: 2,032ms/step - ~$181 (runpod)

My first SXM run hit 1,295ms. Barely faster than PCIe.
Nsight OS runtime summary led me to suspect CPU starvation.
I found a higher vCPU instance on Vast.ai which hit 700ms.
The 128 vCPU SXM instance also hit ~700ms, so it wasn't CPU count.

Looking at the network topology on Runpod and vast.ai, the first instance had GPUs split 4+4
across two NUMA nodes. NCCL's data transfer uses NVSwitch and is unaffected, but the control threads run on CPU. Cross-socket latency on every pthread_cond_signal added up.

NVL was the most confusing result, NCCL kernel times nearly identical to PCIe, but step times 44% worse. Only 4 of 28 GPU pairs share NVLink on NVL, the rest fall back to PCIe. I don't have a full explanation for this yet.

Profiling script: https://github.com/Nikhil-Kasukurthi/nanochat/blob/master/sc...
Script with startup checks to ensure instance is healthy: https://github.com/Nikhil-Kasukurthi/nanochat/blob/master/ru...

Happy to discuss, especially if anyone has ideas on the NVL anomaly.
by amtamt | 2026-03-05 17:42:50+00:00
Maintainers must not be able to change the license that original author chose, and based on which contributors made contributions. When one stepped up to be maintainer, it was a trustee role, not owner role.

It should be perfectly ok (by maintainer or anyone for that mater) to be inspired from a community project and build something from scratch hand-crafting/ AI sloping, as long as the imitation is given a new name/ identity.

What rubbed me off personally was maintainer saying "pin your dependncies to version 6.0.0 or 5.x.x", as if maintainer owns the project. maintainer role is more akin to serve the community, not rule.

If it is completely new, why not start a new project with new name? No one will object. And of course leave the old project behind to whoever is willing to maintain it.
And if the new name project is better, people will follow.
by moffkalast | 2026-03-05 17:43:20+00:00
Agreed. Those expensive silk scarves are worth exactly zilch to the average person if they'll never see one in their entire life. They might as well not exist.

Mass production makes things accesible, and if the handmade product cannot compete relative to it, then it's clearly not that much better or some people would still pay that premium to keep it around.

With programming that's very much the case, nobody's gonna vibe code a self driving car stack or a production grade DBMS. Even the cheapest scarf still works as a scarf in 99.9% of use cases though, if maybe not for as long.
by antonvs | 2026-03-05 17:43:27+00:00
> You need sufficient experience and a deep understanding of the business to create a design that is just right. Otherwise, after several iterations, your code is likely to become bloated—for example, a single file exceeding 2,000 lines or a function stretching over 500 lines.

You don't need some fancy overarching design to avoid that. Just don't do it - break up functions as you're writing them, following standard bottom-up design practices. That doesn't require "deep understanding of the business". It doesn't even require experience, just a minimal amount of education, following advice such as "functions should do one thing" and the single responsibility principle. A couple of random blog posts about this:

https://medium.com/codex/should-functions-be-small-e76b45aa9...

https://blogs.oregonstate.edu/devindaniels/2025/01/16/functi...
by LeanVibe | 2026-03-05 17:43:44+00:00
We don’t really see this as a directory. It’s closer to a community, a forum, or even a small social space.

When a lot of free or pre-revenue projects gather in one place, discovery tends to happen naturally. Otherwise, most directories just become SEO tools where builders drop their links and move on.

If you’re building something useful and want real feedback before adding pricing, feel free to participate. I wrote a bit more about why getting early users at this stage matters in the linked post.
by jauntywundrkind | 2026-03-05 17:43:48+00:00
Not exactly the same but I'd also point to Paul Kinlan's FolioLM as a very interesting project in this space. A very nice browser extension,

> Collect and query content from tabs, bookmarks, and history - your AI research companion. FolioLM helps you collect sources from tabs, bookmarks, and history, then query and transform that content using AI.

https://github.com/PaulKinlan/NotebookLM-Chrome
https://chromewebstore.google.com/detail/foliolm/eeejhgacmlh...
by tsenolo13 | 2026-03-05 17:44:00+00:00
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by mytailorisrich | 2026-03-05 17:44:06+00:00
Yes, you highlight that a TV livence may be required for some content on Youtube. It is apparently also required for some content (live) on Netflix [1]. For example it seems that WWE Raw, which is live and on Netflix is deemed "live TV" [1]:

"Services include YouTube, Netflix, Amazon Prime Video, Now, Sky Go, BBC iPlayer, ITVX and more. Live TV or events can include:

Champions League matches or live channels on Amazon Prime Video

WWE or NFL events on Netflix

News or sports channels on YouTube"

It's a bit of a mess...

[1] https://www.tvlicensing.co.uk/check-if-you-need-one/topics/w...
by pphysch | 2026-03-05 17:44:13+00:00
The "underlying problem" here, for Blizzard, is shareholder value, and they understand it well. The decision to dedicate developer resources to re-releasing old content is driven by careful assessment.

In most cases it's probably driven by falling new player acquisition numbers, and so the equation switches to favoring player retention or luring back veteran players.

Every profile of player has their own preferences (some just want to see big boob textures, etc.) but that doesn't mean they are driving product decisions, except in the case that this demographic becomes core to the business model. But it has nothing to do with the particular preference.
by AlotOfReading | 2026-03-05 17:44:23+00:00
Slop is an issue, but you've also set yourself up in a difficult situation. The reality of the market is that publishers are interested in selling books, so they look for indications that your work might sell. If you haven't published in shorter formats (demonstrating skill in writing), you don't have an audience/social media presence, and you're offering something the majority of the customer base doesn't want (work produced with LLM assistance), that's a lot of hurdles to overcome even before you add the terrible odds in traditional submissions.
by actsasbuffoon | 2026-03-05 17:44:24+00:00
But what if it didn’t summarize Harry Potter? What if it analyzed Harry Potter and came back with a specification for how to write a compelling story about wizards? And then someone read that spec and wrote a different story about wizards that bears only the most superficial resemblance to Harry Potter in the sense that they’re both compelling stories about wizards?

This is legitimately a very weird case and I have no idea how a court would decide it.
by hirvi74 | 2026-03-05 17:44:54+00:00
I've also had great results with using LLMs to pry into Apple's private and undocumented APIs. I've been impressed with the lack of hallucinations for C/C++ and Obj-C functions.

I can attest that the quality in this domain has greatly improved over the years too. I am not always fan of the quality of the Swift code that my LLM produces, but I am impressed that what is often produced works in one shot, as well. The quality also is not that important to me because I can just refactor the logic myself, and often prefer to do it anyway. I cannot hold an LLM to any idiosyncrasies that I do not share with it.
Show HN: Plought – Reduce noise in decision making
by robinoross | 2026-03-05 17:45:07+00:00
Just launched the revamped Plought: a decision-making app to compare options with structured methods. This version includes new tools and summarized analysis based on your inputs.

Use it for hard choices like where to move, which job to take, or what car to buy.

Free, no login, and open source.

Your data stays private in your browser’s local storage, with export available.

Try it: https://plought.app/

Code: https://github.com/rossrobino/plought

Feedback welcome!
by armorer | 2026-03-05 17:45:12+00:00
RedDragon is an experiment in building a compiler pipeline that analyses code (malformed / without dependencies / unknown language) across ~15 languages through a single 27-opcode IR, with LLM fallbacks.

The design question: where exactly can LLMs enter a compiler pipeline?

RedDragon has three specific insertion points:

- LLM as an alternative compiler frontend. For languages without a built-in parser, the LLM receives a formal IR spec (all 27 opcodes, lowering templates, worked examples) and translates source to IR directly. No language-specific code needed. This works for Haskell, Elixir, Perl — anything with parseable source.

- LLM for syntax repair. When the parser hits a parse error in malformed source, an LLM fixes the broken spans and the system re-parses. The repair is constrained to syntactic fixes; the LLM doesn't change what the code does.

- LLM as runtime resolver. When the VM hits a call to a function that doesn't exist in the IR (e.g., requests.get()), an LLM can produce plausible return values and side effects, so that execution continues through incomplete code.

All three are optional. When code is complete and well-formed, the pipeline makes zero LLM calls. When an LLM fails at any point, the system falls back to symbolic placeholders and keeps going.

This is a work in progress.
by ajross | 2026-03-05 17:45:31+00:00
> Docker sucks and only exists because after all these years, Linux STILL doesn’t have a great way to handle third party applications.

That's... not at all a correct characterization of where Docker found its purchase or what it's used for. Easy containerization dead-to-rights solved the version hell problem of shipping software at scale from vendors and upstreams that can't agree on dependency management. That's not something you can fiat away with "excellent ports and package systems" unless you imagine a world where literally every tiny microservice or cloud backend gadget ends up as a port in a single tree.

Basically you're saying "Docker sucks because I don't do anything that needs containers for anything but security". Well... yeah. I guess it would seem that way.
by pixl97 | 2026-03-05 17:45:59+00:00
> vast majorities of the electorate would want to nationalize

Lol, then you've missed how propaganda in the US has worked for the last 100 years. The wealthy have launched a continuous attack against the idea of nationalization/socialization to the point it creates a irrational Pavlovian response in huge portions of the population. Us the population have already lost a war we had no idea we were fighting to an enemy that plays a far longer game than most of us.
by neya | 2026-03-05 17:46:27+00:00
Elixir has a LangChain implementation by the same name. And in my opinion as a user of both, the Python version and the Elixir version, the Elixir version is vastly superior and reliable too.

This agentic framework can co-exist with LangChain if that's what you're wondering.

https://github.com/brainlid/langchain
by xp84 | 2026-03-05 17:46:39+00:00
The base model at 256GB is either to advertise an artificially low price, or a deliberate move to ensure that most of these end up in e-waste within 18 months. Go ahead and explain to the target market of teens, college kids, and 'regular people' how to resolve the problem when their Photos library (or like 1-2 video projects if they are into content creation) fills the disk and the whole computer stops working correctly due to 'disk full'.

"Sure, just buy a paid iCloud plan"

Great. Of course, now you have to wait for it to download any photo you want to use. And you're stuck paying a monthly subscription (Yay, services revenue!). And the cloud is not any solution for the video people, at all. I've seen someone try to edit a video that's being stored in iCloud Drive and only cached locally with Apple magic... it wasn't pretty.

Apple's quest to kill off any understanding of the filesystem by doing everything inside hidden, conceptually-monolithic "libraries" means the only way to be happy on a Mac or iOS device is to buy way more internal storage than you think you'll ever need... at Apple's hilarious prices. Oh well, at least for a moment now their prices look similar to everyone else's that just tripled.
by OJFord | 2026-03-05 17:46:49+00:00
The onus isn't really on me, it's not my device, I'm not even the organisation/article author claiming it is functional. You claim it can't work, have you tried it and seen? (Although admittedly you can't really show by practical experiment that it can't possibly be done.)

I do think it's more likely it was for use as a rope, with gourd weights to ease throwing.
by abustamam | 2026-03-05 17:46:55+00:00
The CF rabbit hole is wild. Somehow he manages to make a lot of money during tragedies and economic downturns.

I don't buy into the conspiracies, but it is quite odd how he always manages to come up on top.

https://www.reddit.com/r/911archive/comments/1r5rkk3/howard_...
by jauntywundrkind | 2026-03-05 17:47:05+00:00
I didn't insult you, I insulted your arguing. You haven't provided anything worthwhile and haven't responded to my points, and have generally not made any "right" moves. That's a pretty key difference! My opinion is slipping for sure but I have kept that to myself!!

You just don't like my characterizations. And normally I do want to take a higher path! This brings me no joy to use this form. But you haven't given me any grounds to respond on, you never address my points or show that you are at all capable of hearing anything I am saying, so I have to argue and characterize something else instead. Your form is bad, would lose you even the most basic high school debate. I have to work around your distracting words to return us to some relevant point again and again and again.

That's the Brandolini's Law problem. That's the hacker spirit being attacked, that's possibility picked apart by close minded arguments and over-awe-ing projections of negativity and refusal. That's chance, denied.

That's why I keep engaging. We cannot deny all hope, let it be smothered like this. Especially not by such mal-engagement.

I'm surprised a lawyer like you would be so unable to tell such a basic difference between characterizing you vs characterizing your form. And would insist on acting so so sorry for themselves. But you've acted mostly in bad faith so far & haven't actually engaged in discussion, so it fits the pattern.

Agreed that this "discussion" ended, but it ended a long time ago imo. Bad faith engagement from you throughout, this was trash. I caution readers again that what you have to say distracts & takes away rather than helps them think about this all.
by grim_io | 2026-03-05 17:47:06+00:00
Arc Raiders and other involuntary pvp games will miss out on players like me who will not try it until pvp is optional and voluntary.

Involuntary pvp is the long term death sentence for a game.
It punishes new players by making them easy prey for veteran players. Player numbers will fall hard and fast, like every other involuntary pvp game does.
by sandreas | 2026-03-05 17:47:29+00:00
I self-host private git, notes, audio, photos and syncthing - basically everything I don't want to store in the cloud.

Hardware is an old Fujitsu D3417-B, XEON 1225, 64GB ECC and a single 2TB WD SN850x.

OS is Proxmox on ZFS with a docker portainer vm sharing the Main storage from the host. Internal DNS is fully SSL via duckdns, letsencrypt and NGinx proxy manager.

Hosted are

Gitea
Immich
Audiobookshelf
Navidrome
Flatnotes
Syncthing

and some other minor services.

A Windows vm with USB passthrough is used for ripping audio CDs [1], which are then auto converted from flac to mp3 / m4b and integrated into audio services and syncing my iPod Nano 7g (yeah, I'm old).

Backups are done via zfs-auto-snapshot every 15 minutes and external USB drive via Tasmota Power control via zfs send. Additionally Photos and documents via restic on an external Tasmota 500GB drive.

Flatnotes dir is auto-committed into git to keep the history.

Works pretty well so far, consumes 12W idle and is accessible from everywhere via wireguard VPN.

Maintenance is managable thanks to docker and portainer stacks, but still pretty much work compared to spotify notion etc. However, I am OK with it.

1: https://pilabor.com/blog/2022/10/audio-cd-ripping-hardware/
by lithobraking | 2026-03-05 17:48:05+00:00
On this note, I'm seeing this pattern crop up in retail WoW addons. (It's maybe an even more literal interpenetration of the title.) Many of the newer addons are heavy vibe-coded due to last-minute WoW API changes, like ArcUI.

The addons have _so_ many ways to customize displays that their configuration menus look like lovecraftian B2B products with endless lists of fields, sliders, and dropdowns. I hear a lot of complaints from raiders in my guild about how hard it is to put together a decently functional UI. I wonder if these tools are allowing and/or causing devs to more easily feature creep the software that we build.
by pixl97 | 2026-03-05 17:48:58+00:00
Further, yes. How much I can't say. Watching how quickly robots are evolving right now is quite something. Every day something pretty cheap is coming out that would have taken millions of dollars and a massive lab full of scientists to create.

Bi-pedal robots, drones, sensing capabilities, interpretive capabilities, all this is proceeding at a never before seen rate.
by bombela | 2026-03-05 17:48:58+00:00
France does the same with regards to speed limits. There are also signs telling you the speed limit hasn't changed, or telling you to watch your speed, but without giving you the speed limit!

You are supposed to guess the speed limit from the size and shape of the road too. When I ask, almost nobody knows what is the speed of a road, they just wing it.

By law the speed limit has to be posted before an automatic speed trap (they are everywhere in France). Essentially training everybody that speeds limits are only for avoiding the speed trap "tax", but don't matter otherwise.