MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by sofixa | 2026-03-06 18:33:58+00:00
> There are literally 100k deaths in Europe that can be prevented if they lifted restrictions on AC so that they can feel good about making a negligible effect on carbon emissions

Where in Europe are ACs restricted because of carbon emissions? Even in France with very strong building codes (you can't just plop an AC on your own, you need approvals), ACs are the standard in the south where they are needed for long periods of the year.
Show HN: A local, multi-agent, customizable stack built for researchers
by vers3dynamics | 2026-03-06 18:33:58+00:00
This is a Rust/Python research stack with internet access, focused on reproducible experiments through voice conversations.

We wanted to build something that would give everyone a free, local, and customizable 20th-century Bell Labs on their computer.

The platform combines ZeroClaw (Rust runtime) for orchestration and tool policies, James Library (original research articles/prototypes) for sessions and experiments, and a security-first agent model that treats external text as untrusted.

The goal is simple: go from idea to experiment to artifact, without black boxes, and more customizable than most cloud-based multi-agent platforms.

For reference, we’ve been using this daily for a few years as an R&D branch for Vers3Dynamics, and recently decided to open-source it.
by roryirvine | 2026-03-06 18:34:33+00:00
Yes, you're right - the tabs restored fine afterwards and the restart was only delayed for a minute or so, so it was barely even a minor inconvenience.

Contrast that with the dreadful corporate-supplied Edge AI browser I have to use for one client, which seems to randomly close windows without being asked, and never seems to be able to restore them.
by drob518 | 2026-03-06 18:34:43+00:00
Definitely that too, particularly in 2nd-world countries. I remember having a difficult time with dirty power for some hardware products I was responsible for at one time, where the customers were in the Middle East nd Africa in the 1990s. We ended up having to have the PS manufacturer do a redesign to help compensate for dirty power. It can be done, but it costs a bit more.
by jfengel | 2026-03-06 18:34:55+00:00
the 7 Oct 2023 Hamas massacre turned out to be the most catastrophic miscalculation in modern military history.

I'm genuinely unclear on what the calculation was supposed to reveal. What did they think the outcome was going to be?

I'm put in mind of the 9/11 attacks on the US -- arguably, an even bigger miscalculation. At the time, everybody expected there to be follow-ups, and there were none.

The US certainly managed to tie itself up in knots of security theater, but al Qaeda painted a massive target on its own back. I cannot imagine what they thought was going to happen.

As for Gaza, as best I can judge, it was Iran's idea to sacrifice plenty of Gazans in the hopes that Israel would overreact and isolate itself even further from the world. Which is what they got, but that's really a lot of cost for not much benefit. Israel was already quite isolated; it just made the news for a while.
by ActorNightly | 2026-03-06 18:35:02+00:00
>You can add in the increasing B&O (revenue) taxes, payroll taxes, data center taxes, and the expansion of the extremely high sales taxes to things that effectively make Washington uncompetitive.

None of this matters. We have been hearing how California is doing the same shit for years and people are moving out in droves, but turns out California house prices are still high because people are staying there and its still a very good place to live and work on the average, despite way higher cost of living.

So Washington is going to do just fine.
by colechristensen | 2026-03-06 18:35:25+00:00
Sure they do, you just have to think about it a different way.

It boils down to exception handling, you don't expect all of your bugs or security vulnerabilities to be known and write your code to be able to react to unplanned states without crashing. Bugs or security vulnerabilities can look a lot like a cosmic ray... a buffer overflow putting garbage in unexpected memory locations vs a cosmic ray putting garbage in unexpected memory locations... a lot of the mitigations are quite the same.
by BeetleB | 2026-03-06 18:35:39+00:00
> But they don’t make up the majority of the context. Someone refusing to travel because of these low-probability events (note: because of fear of them, not out of protest, which is separate) is almost certainly behaving irrationally.

Statistically speaking, it's very safe for a white American to go to Dubai/Doha these days.

Would you fault them for not going?
by levkk | 2026-03-06 18:35:56+00:00
All queries run inside transactions, and a slow lane like S3 will cause delays, which will in turn block vacuum and cause more problems than it will solve. Most deployments of Postgres (e.g., RDS) won't let you install custom extensions either, although they do have their own S3 extension (which I wouldn't recommend you use).

The right place to manage this is either in the app or in a proxy, before the data touches Postgres.
by sofixa | 2026-03-06 18:35:57+00:00
Most of Europe simply doesn't need an AC. Spain, south of Italy, south of France, parts of the Balkans. But in countries like UK, the Nordics, Germany, etc. you'd need something more than "open windows" for mere days of the year, if that. The people who live in the places that need AC usually have AC. It's actually pretty damn simple.
by badboyshah | 2026-03-06 18:35:57+00:00
Hi HN, I'm the architect behind this.

I got tired of pasting sensitive JSON payloads, JWTs, and API keys into random ad-riddled utilities where I couldn't verify if the data was being logged to a backend server.

I built DevUtility Hub as a permanent solution. It's built on Next.js 15 and React 19, but I ruthlessly stripped out the backend. All 165+ tools (JSON formatters, Regex testers, hash generators, etc.) run entirely on your local machine using Web APIs and WebAssembly. You can load it once, disconnect your Wi-Fi, and it remains fully functional in an air-gapped environment.

I also built a "Smart Paste" feature that attempts to auto-detect your clipboard format (e.g. JWT vs minified JSON) and redirect you to the right tool instantly.

Would love your feedback on the UX or any missing tools I should add to the suite!
by reducesuffering | 2026-03-06 18:35:58+00:00
The only extant “X-risk” is, and always has been, economic collapse due to loss of energy. “Climate Change” is science fiction.

/s

It amazes me climate change X-riskers scoff at denialists and then do the exact same denialism with AGI. How many leading AI scientists (like climate science) would it take to convince you?

"Our great religion, their primitive superstition"[0]

[0] https://imgur.com/EELDM6m
by eclipticplane | 2026-03-06 18:36:15+00:00
UO came out when I was in high school. I would time my morning routines around the server reboot to grab those special items, some of which didn't respawn during routine reboots.

The bugs were part of the game culture. The first time that you learned that items in the bottom right corner of your first house -- because they could be stolen through a bug even if your house was locked -- was something everyone jointly went through.

UO also had maybe the closest thing to a true player economy than any game. There was a legitimate path to making money (and having fun) to just mining ore and selling ingots. You would sell your iron bars in an unattended vendor to other players at your own price. Those bars would get bought by a blacksmith player to produce armor that they sold to other players... who would buy it to go adventuring in the dungeons.
by ppeetteerr | 2026-03-06 18:37:13+00:00
Those are raw numbers. I would look instead at the job changes over total employment numbers. I don't have the numbers but I would wager we have many more people working in tech today (overall) than we did in 2008.

Also, that spike in 21/22 really did a number on people's expectations. The one constant in this industry is its cyclical nature.
by doom2 | 2026-03-06 18:37:21+00:00
The arrest of a Turkish graduate student in Boston looked a lot like a kidnapping.[1] More recently, ICE responded to a judge's order to release a detained refugee by threatening to detain her family and send them to Texas if they came to pick her up and then forced the minor child to stay in a hotel room with three agents. [2, p.8] These may not be cases where people are secretly being taken by the state, but it's not hard to see why people might call the government organization detaining people and moving them around so as not to be found "secret police" or "disappearings".

[1] https://youtu.be/oRiQz7mOY6A
[2] https://storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.mnd.230...
by kakacik | 2026-03-06 18:37:23+00:00
Unfortunately you are pretty much out of touch with reality. What parent wrote is true for large swaths of voters (sticking it to libs - any regular US forum I ever opened was full of 'libtards' and other worse insults even on completely unrelated topics... or just go to bible south, even completely ignoring racism and bigotry topic).

Sure, thats not all, then there are folks believing that a criminal, notorious liar, populist and suspected pedophile is going to do magic unheard of in reality. Very smart, what could go wrong...

Solution of the issues you write would move US to highly regulated country maybe like France, which is unpassable in US and would cause massive issues down the line. Also, the issues you list are valid for basically whole world, has many reasons and US republicans are the very last group of people in a long line of people who would tackle specifically those effectively, they usually go into opposite direction.
by lumost | 2026-03-06 18:37:29+00:00
I’ve observed radically different workflows amongst senior candidates vs junior candidates when using an ai. A senior candidate will often build an extremely detailed plan for the agent - similar to how you would do a design for/with a junior engineer. Then let the agent go full throttle to implement the plan and review the result.

Juniors seem to split into the category of trust everything the ai says, or review every step of the implementation. It’s extremely hard to guide the ai while you are still learning the basics, opus4.6 is a very powerful model.
by alpaca128 | 2026-03-06 18:37:33+00:00
I am "only" ranging around 800-2000 tabs and 95% of them are practically bookmarks that aren't hidden in some menu but visible in the same visual context as everything else, which feels more natural to me. They're not loaded in RAM anyway.

The brain is amazing at remembering the rough location where I have tabs of a specific site/topic, so I just switch to the right window and scroll for a few seconds. Only works with a vertical tab bar though. It's not the most optimal solution but the best that actually exists and works smoothly.
by crystal_revenge | 2026-03-06 18:37:46+00:00
> the ingrained short-term thinking of the markets and politicians

Honestly, if we made even a step towards the changes necessary to limit the current damage most of HN readership, especially the "green" ones that don't seem to understand global energy usage, would be revolting as well.

The pandemic was a great example of what this would look like as a first step. If we even cared a tiny bit about slowing climate change, there would have been at least some amount of people voicing that we should actually continue to follow early pandemic economic restrictions since it did impact global oil usage.

I pointed this out pretty frequently at the time and was nearly always down voted for it. People want "green" to mean "buying the right thing", they don't want "green" to mean "slicing my annual pay to 1/3, never using Amazon or large retail company to purchase thing, no fruit in the winter, and expensive locally woven clothes".
by tsimionescu | 2026-03-06 18:38:24+00:00
They are mostly bombing US bases in those states + some connected locations (hotels where US operatives were being stationed), and energy production infrastructure.

Basically the Iranian war plan seems pretty simple and clear: try to destroy US and Israeli military infrastructure in the region, and destroy energy infrastructure to raise the cost of oil. The first part is a completely legitimate military target, especially in a war of defense as Iran is waging. The second part is not legitimate, but the thinking behind it is very simple and clear.
by devin | 2026-03-06 18:38:37+00:00
This was the bummer to me when I tried it. I liked the bug-ridden classic experience before the notoriety patch.

I recently tried https://www.classicuo.eu/ ClassicUO, and the nostalgia was incredible. Granted it is not playable, but there is something about that experience that all of the assistants, hotkeys, etc. fail to capture.
by zeito | 2026-03-06 18:38:47+00:00
I've been using AI coding tools heavily and kept running into the same problem: Copilot/Cursor generate large diffs that are hard to review, especially auth changes, DB migrations, and env var handling. Human reviewers miss things.

Built Diff Sentry to add an automated safety layer — it scans every PR diff and posts a risk report comment flagging HIGH/MEDIUM/LOW risk files before anyone merges.

Categories it catches: auth & session logic, secrets/env vars, DB migrations, infra configs, API changes.

Setup is two lines in your GitHub Actions workflow. One-time $19, no subscription.

Happy to answer questions about how the risk analysis works.
by _dwt | 2026-03-06 18:38:56+00:00
I am going to try to put this kindly: it is very glib, and people will find it offensive and obnoxious, to implicitly round off all resistance or skepticism to incuriosity. Perhaps to alienate AI critics even further is the goal, in which case - carry on.

But if you are genuinely confused by the attitudes of your peers, try asking not "what do I have that they lack" ("curiosity"?) but "what do they see that I don't" or "what do they care about that I don't"? Is it possible that they are not enthusiastic for the change in the nature of the work? Is it possible they are concerned about "automation complacency" setting in, precisely _because_ of the ratio of "hundreds of times" writing decent code to the one time writing "something stupid", and fear that every once in a while that "something stupid" will slip past them in a way that wipes the entire net gain of AI use? Is it possible that they _don't_ feel that the typical code is "better than most engineers can write"? Is it possible they feel that the "learning" is mostly ephemera - how much "prompt engineering" advice from a year ago still holds today?

You have a choice, and it's easy to label them (us?) as Luddites clinging to the old ways out of fear, stupidity, or "incuriosity". If you really want to understand, or even change some minds, though, please try to ask these people what they're really thinking, and listen.
by sofixa | 2026-03-06 18:39:07+00:00
Are you claiming there are restrictions on installing ACs, or there are restrictions on how those installed are used? The two are quite different arguments.

And 27C is a completely normal temperature. When it's 35C outside, you're better off with a minimised thermal shock with a small difference, instead of going at it the US South or Dubai style where inside it's 18C, so all everyone does is move from one air conditioned place to another (home to car to office to car to mall to home).
by ynac | 2026-03-06 18:39:58+00:00
My "hello world" for a new stack is always a version of Worm. Somewhere between Life and your Swarm, Worm wanders around looking for food and water, trying to avoid birds and other issues. Each round the worm survives it grows by a segment. If it doesn't get food or water, it is reduced a segment. And so on. Your Swarm is a few levels up from my iterations, totally inspirational! Thanks!
by alephnerd | 2026-03-06 18:40:15+00:00
As I previously mentioned, assumptions around hiring have changed (not necessarily due to interest rate changes) due to the Twitter layoffs, demands for FCF positivity, and WFH inadvertently justifying offshoring [0].

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As I also mentioned, the only way you can survive in American tech at this point is to:

1. Move to a Tier 1 tech hub like the Bay and NYC. If you get laid off, you will probably find another job in a couple of weeks due to the density of employers. Seattle used to be a good option, but WA's norms around noncompete clauses incentivize larger employers which reduces the ability for startups to truly scale.

2. Start coming into the office 2-3 days a week. It's harder to layoff someone you have had beers or coffee with. Worst case, they can refer you to their friends companies if you get laid off

3. Upskill technically. Learn the fundamentals of AI/ML and MLOPs. Agents are basically a semi-nondeterministic SaaS. Understanding how AI/ML works and understanding their benefits and pitfalls make you a much more valuable hire.

4. Upskill professionally. We're not hiring code monkeys for $200K-400K TC. We want Engineers who can communicate business problems into technical requirements. This means also understanding the industry your company is in, how to manage up to leadership, and what are the revenue drivers and cost centers of your employer. Learn how to make a business case for technical issues. If you cannot communicate why refactoring your codebase from Python to Golang would positively impact topline metrics, no one will prioritize it.

5. Live lean, save for a rainy day, and keep your family and friends close. If you're not in a financial position to say "f##k you" you will get f##ked, and strong relationships help you build the support system you need for independence.
The reality is the current set of layoffs and work stresses were the norm in the tech industry until 2015-22. We live in a competitive world and complaining on HN does nothing to help your material condition.

[0] - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47174561
by AnthonyMouse | 2026-03-06 18:40:26+00:00
> US citizens still emit over 50% more CO2 each

The problem the US has per-capita is lower population density. The majority of the US population lives in suburban or rural areas without mass transit and changing that on the relevant timescale is not feasible. It also has major population centers in areas that experience winter and thereby have higher energy costs for heating, exacerbated by the lower population density (more square feet of indoor space to heat per capita), with the same infeasible timescale for changing that.

As a result, the only way to fix it is to switch to other forms of energy rather than having any real hope of significantly reducing consumption in terms of GWh. Use more electric cars and hybrids, generate electricity using solar, wind and nuclear, switch from fossil fuels to electric heat pumps for heating, etc. But that's largely what's happening. The percentage of hybrid vehicles goes up, despite Trump's posturing nobody actually wants coal, ~100% of net new generation capacity in recent years is solar and wind and even when new natural gas plants are built, they're displacing old coal fired ones, which results in a net reduction in CO2. It would be nice if this would happen faster, but at least the number is going in the right direction.

The problem China has is that they've been building brand new coal fired power plants at scale. WTF.
by tayo42 | 2026-03-06 18:40:39+00:00
Your terraform written by a person already doesn't have deterministic precision. Ai isn't messing these things up either.

If your Ai work flow is still dumping logs into a chat and saying search it for some pattern, then you should see what something like Claude code approaches problems. These agents aren't building scripts to solve problems. Which is your deterministic solution.
by MisterTea | 2026-03-06 18:40:57+00:00
This must be an omen given how I just this week watched a bunch of the Majuular videos on youtube (Highly recommend them) about the Ultima series of games, particularly Ultima Underworld The Stygian Abyss, and Ultima VII and VIII. That lead to me buying Underworld and VII last night on GOG as feel like I missed out on something wonderful in the 90's (Also need to grab System Shock and Crusader no remorse.)

My brother and I bought IX when it was released but it was a buggy nightmare so we gave up and never experienced Ultima proper. However, my brother and his friend got into UO and played a ton. His friend was a greifer at the time going by the name SirDarkSpell and supposedly made a bit of a name for himself. This was around 2000 or so? I bet the two of them would love to hear about this project as both of them have fond memories of UO.

Anyway. Might just throw my weekend into the Stygian Abyss...
by fhd2 | 2026-03-06 18:41:27+00:00
That's the right move. If a word changes its colloquial meaning, better drop it and find a new one. Happens all the time. From stuff like "agile" in a software development context (pretty meaningless at this point, can mean anything from the original definition to the systematic micro management it got to be commonly associated with), to previously neutral words that became offensive (because they were commonly used as such).

No individual holds power over connotations. Language just evolves.
by tdaltonc | 2026-03-06 18:41:40+00:00
Yes this sort of auto-regressive error propagation is a real concern for the same reason it's a real concern with LLMs in general.

If you force the output of an LLM to begin with an error, the LLM tends to continue down that erroneous path.

In practice, we didn't see much of this kind of EP. A solution to this would be to give some agent the task of occasionally reviewing the NERDs for contradictions as well as the ability to search through the source material as needed. That of course creates the possibility of catastrophic forgetting, where the agent rewrites a NERD in an effort to remove a contraction and end's up deleting something important.

We didn't see a lot of error propagation, but one example where we did: in Harry Potter, Prof Dumbledore is introduced as a mysterious hooded character. So the NERD-writer would create a NERD for "mysterious hooded man." There's no tool for the agent to change the title of a NERD, so the system is stuck with that title now. Sometimes the system would build the entire Dumbledore entry under "mysterious hooded man"; sometimes it would make a new Dumbledore entity and like a reference back to the "mysterious hooded man" entity, and sometimes it wouldn't link them. None of those outcomes are great.
by austin-cheney | 2026-03-06 18:41:40+00:00
Two qualifiers.

Copyright applies to the work artifact and not the execution context, which is why source code has copyright protection that is enforceable while copyright isn't really enforceable against binaries. Its also why binaries are licensed separately from the source code, such as EULA verses code license.

Secondly, existing US case law says bots and AI cannot receive copyright protection as code authors. In the US all source code is protected by copyright by default as is any original written work, but if it can be proven software was written by AI then the work becomes beyond defense, which is a void in law. Its not the same as public domain. The only distinction is in regards to second and third order consequences which is clear for public domain works, but not so clear for indefensible works.