MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by anthk | 2026-03-04 11:02:48+00:00
Doom it's easy. Better the ZMachine with an interpreter
based on DFrotz, or another port. Then a game can even run under a Game Boy.

For a similar case, check Eforth+Subleq. If this guy can emulate subleq CPU under a GPU (something like 5 lines under C for the implementation, the rest it's C headers and the file opening function), it can run Eforth and maybe Sokoban.
by ethan_zhao | 2026-03-04 11:02:48+00:00
Author here. I built this for 3mins.news, an AI news aggregator covering 180+ sources in 17 languages. The trickiest part was figuring out that articles in different languages about the same event share zero tokens — MinHash/LSH gives
you Jaccard similarity of 0.

Happy to answer questions about the pgvector setup, Cloudflare Workers constraints, or the clustering algorithm tuning.
by arch-choot | 2026-03-04 11:03:14+00:00
If i'm not mistaken its because IPs are actually much easier to rotate than domains.

E.g. all the users will remember `example.com` , underlying it doesn't matter what IP it resolves to. If the IP gets "burned" , then the providers can rotate to a new IP (if their provider allows).

Vs. telling your users to use a new domain `example.org` , fake websites etc.

Also sensible ISPs usually don't block IPs since for services behind a CDN it could lead to other websites being blocked, though of course sometimes this is ignored. See also: https://blog.cloudflare.com/consequences-of-ip-blocking/
by synthesis_dev | 2026-03-04 11:03:18+00:00
Hi HN,

I've been working on SynthesisOS for a while and decided to open-source it today. It's a local-first, agentic desktop layer for macOS (though the Rust/Tauri core is cross-platform).

Instead of just another chat wrapper, I wanted to build a system where AI requests act as real "syscalls" routed by a Rust kernel to different workers (Tools, Memory, LLMs). Agents can control macOS native apps, read files, and manage settings through 60+ tools, all while keeping your data local (using LanceDB for memory).

I built it because I wanted a UI that felt like an actual operating system layer (spatial, glassmorphic) rather than just a terminal or a chat window.

It's still in Alpha, but I'd love to hear your feedback on the architecture, the code, or the general concept! (And of course, if anyone wants to poke around, contribute, or help port the native tools to Windows/Linux, PRs are more than welcome).
by danlitt | 2026-03-04 11:03:28+00:00
> I think it's a fair argument in this scenario to say that a platform has a better opportunity to protect minors if messages aren't encrypted

Would it be a fair argument to say the police have a better opportunity to prevent crimes if they can enter your house without a warrant? People are paranoid about this sort of thing not because they think law enforcement is more effective when it is constrained. But how easily crimes can be prosecuted is only one dimension of safety.

> However, an alternative could be allowing the sharing of the encryption key with a parent

Right, but this is worlds apart from "sharing the encryption key with a private company", is it not?
by kristianc | 2026-03-04 11:04:05+00:00
Sure, but it comes down to framing.

If you asked 'Would you support weakening encryption in messaging apps if it helped catch some criminals, even though it could make it easier for hackers to read your messages and steal your passwords, bank details, or personal photos?' I'd bet a large proportion of the general population would say no.

But that side never gets explored, or there's an assumption that there's some way of only letting the good guys access the information.
by bzzzt | 2026-03-04 11:04:35+00:00
Of course it was a decision by Apple, but I'm not really sure it's that 'tricky'.

There are multiple ways to upgrade storage: since Macs retain the value quite a long time compared to PCs, if you really want everything integrated and need you can sell your Mac and just buy a bigger one.
Then there are several options for external storage (from USB stick or SSD to NAS to Thunderbolt disk arrays).

The integrated 'root disk' also has advantages: Apple controls the entire stack including drive firmware so it's guaranteed not to have nasty surprises on Mac like some PC SSDs I've been bitten by in the past. Also, performance is uniform and it's impossible for a drive to fail or shake loose due to a bad connector because there isn't one.
by bluegatty | 2026-03-04 11:05:04+00:00
This is the new 'cheap drone' tactic on full display and it reveals I think what most people don't realize and that is AA networks are not comprehensive.

Most places have little to nothing in the way of AA defence.

Especially civilian infrastructure.

If Iran has enough stockpiles, this will be 'not good' and they could play an ugly asymmetric game here.

People get upset when their water doesn't run, or the shopping mall is hit by drones, toilet won't flush. Etc.
by _vere | 2026-03-04 11:05:09+00:00
It's unlikely for the Razr line to support microsd since those are foldables, and flagships like the signature line generally tend not to, but nowhere on their hardware requirements list does it say that a potentially supported device cannot have a microsd card slot, thats just wrong. There is nothing about a memory slot that would make the phone less safe inherently, they already support USB drives, internal emmc memory isnt that much more crazy than that, right? I just think its super weird to be like preemtively mad at them for an imagined aversion to supporting hardware that doesnt exist.
I get that the people involved with the project can be a little prickly when you ask them for advice about stuff, but what do you expect them to do here? They support the devices they do not out of some sort of adherence to a skewed model of security, they actually genuinely need the hardware to be able to do all of the things they ask for, which currently literally only the pixel line offers.
If a manufacturer like Sony who tends to do aux, microsd slots and no holepunch cameras were to adapt to their hardware standards (https://grapheneos.org/faq#future-devices) there would likely be an effort by people to get these supported, its not the lack of will from the devs, its the lack of support from phone manufacturers that has kept the line of supported devices constrained to pixels.
by rkangel | 2026-03-04 11:05:15+00:00
Yes, that does seem a bit of an odd claim. Possibly they're talking about the hosting being built?

That said, I don't have an issue with using a US authored open source project for this. To use another example - PostgreSQL was originally US, but I don't have any problem with that being part of the deployment of Eurosky.

That said, I would prefer that the Open Source system we were using didn't have a profit making (US) company as principal maintainer. I think AT has some technical advantages over Mastodon, but I prefer the governance of ActivityPub/Mastodon.
by trashb | 2026-03-04 11:05:26+00:00
With e2ee please remember that it is important to define who are the ends.

Perhaps your e2ee is only securing your data in travel if their servers are considered the other end.

Also one thing people seem to misunderstand is that for most applications the conversation itself is not very interesting, the metadata (who to who, when, how many messages etc.) is 100x more valuable.
by 0x0203 | 2026-03-04 11:05:59+00:00
I suspect that timing might help Intel here, with so much of the better established foundries near fully allocated for the next two years, it may be more a question of availability than brand name risk. And for whatever problems Intel has, it's pretty unlikely they'd go completely under and disolve in less than a year. Good non completion clauses in the contracts can mitigate a good chunk of the remaining risk.

Not to mention potential customers who would prefer a US based foundry regardless. My guess is that there's a pretty large part of the market that would be perfectly fine with using Intel.
by miki123211 | 2026-03-04 11:06:09+00:00
If you could get biology, but:

* taking less than 18 years to produce a new chip

* able to task-switch instantly (being a doctor one minute and being a lawyer the next, scaling up/down instantly based on current workload)

* having millions of identical clones that people intuitively understand how to work with

* with no need for toilet breaks, sleep, family emergencies, holidays, weekends and all that

It would be pretty damn useful.
by iso1631 | 2026-03-04 11:08:10+00:00
> less good legal free speech protections

Well that depends on your point of view. America might consider that holocaust denial, nazi flags and westboro bapists are good speech, but having something to watch a legally owned DVD is bad, Europe might consider things the opposite way round

Given that some forms of speech can stop other forms of speech, it's not clear cut.
by badestrand | 2026-03-04 11:08:13+00:00
For me it _can_ be faster to code than to instruct but it takes me significantly less effort to write the prompt than the actual code. So a few hours of concentrates coding leave me completely drained of energy while after a few hours with the agents I still have a lot of mental energy. That's the huge difference for me and I don't want to go back.
by Ygg2 | 2026-03-04 11:08:42+00:00
Sure, either of them qualifies. I was just pointing out that Delphi (and C, and VB) aren't really widely used in GUI toolkits anymore.

It's not just the difficulty. It's the lack of learning materials, widgets, examples, and whatnot. Debuggers also suck, at least they did when I used Delphi.

What also helps is having a huge behemoth of a corporation improving your GUI toolkit for free (Chromium, although you pay in ad exposure).
by paol | 2026-03-04 11:09:41+00:00
I was in the same boat and literally this week bought a Pixel 8. It's a 2 year old phone but with the extended support period that's no longer a problem, and being old means you can get it new for about €300 or refurbished for even less.

The other option is the Samsung S2x line, which you can apply the same strategy to.
by Nursie | 2026-03-04 11:09:41+00:00
I mean, your example of the ATO there isn't even an age verification thing, it's a defective clone of OIDC, so by that logic we should ban all SSO or identity delegation solutions?

Because we don't believe anyone will ever use the standards in this area, despite loads of companies and government bodies actually using OIDC already?

I'm not really sure what you're driving at.
by vidarh | 2026-03-04 11:09:59+00:00
Yes, it's often faster if you sit around waiting. What I will do instead is prompt the AI to create various plans, do other stuff while they do, review and approve the plans, do other stuff while multiple plans are being implemented, and then review and revise the output.

And I have the AI deal with "knowing how to do it" as well. Often it's slower to have it do enough research to know how to do it, but my time is more expensive than Claude's time, and so as long as I'm not sitting around waiting it's a net win.
by LatencyKills | 2026-03-04 11:11:18+00:00
Thank you for your comment. I started this thread just as a simple "job well done" to the authors. I didn't expect to be told that my work doesn't exist. ;-)

No one ever notices plastic surgery when it is done well. The same can be true for obfuscation. But, as I indicated, no amount of obfuscation is foolproof when dealing with experienced, well-funded attackers. The best you can do is make their task annoying.
by ben_w | 2026-03-04 11:11:31+00:00
Which applies equally well to the US, US law, and US social media.

What you get to choose is not the mere existence of that control, but given that both the EU and the US are democratically governed*, what that control means.

* with differences: states are sovreign in EU, send representatives to Brussels; states are not sovreign in US, send representatives to Washington; differences of direct vs. indirect representation; US has a person who is president, EU has presidents plural of sub-institutions and in one case that's a country not a person; differences of who brings forward new laws to be debated (does anyone in US congress/senate even read laws before voting?); coallitions in EU, two party system in US; etc., but still both democratic
by thot_experiment | 2026-03-04 11:12:30+00:00
> As if you can't program C# functional style.

This, I was really impressed recently when I met a C# dev who was also a programmer (as opposed to your standard C# SaaS dev who just copy pasted from the framework docs and stack overflow and was fully automated by Claude in 2025) and he showed me how nice the language has gotten since I last used it over a decade ago when it was just Microslop Java. They've really put in work and it has a lot of great functional constructs now.
by skarat | 2026-03-04 11:12:45+00:00
Hey, developer here. Honestly, the biggest advantage I think is the overall footprint of the app (35MB compared to 500 for obsidian), as well as native AI support and just the sheer simplicity of it.

Obviously, there are so many note-taking apps these days. Most of them tend to just blend into one. Thanks for the feedback, though, no hate taken :)
by conradludgate | 2026-03-04 11:13:03+00:00
ECH doesn't benefit you if you're connecting directly to one IP. Middleboxes can track that you're connecting to this IP.

ECH prevents tracking through routing layers where your ClientHello might contain foo.example.com or bar.example.com but route via the same IP (Cloudflare). A middlebox can see you are using a cloudflare hosted website, but not know what cloudflare website.

There's no benefit encrypting the SNI with 10.20.30.40 if they can see you're connecting to 10
20.30.40 anyway
by 5o1ecist | 2026-03-04 11:15:09+00:00
> Yours carries all the value black-pill bromides usually do

No idea what that is, or refers to.

> a spineless weak willed authoritarian group of losers ... lawless pathetic intimidation at every turn.

> thus requiring no modicum of courage

Delusional. If you believe it requires courage to write that, then you and the other poster both need to touch more grass and try telling it into someone's face IRL.

That will teach the meaning of both courage and stupidity.
by IshKebab | 2026-03-04 11:15:40+00:00
Interesting, but SpiNNAker (ugh) has been around for 6 years now, and presumably they had smaller options than that before. Has it actually produced anything useful.

It seems very premature to say "let's build spiking NN hardware!" (or a million core cluster) before we even know how to write the software.

Spiking NNs need their Alexnet before it makes any sense to make dedicated hardware IMO.
by fragmede | 2026-03-04 11:16:12+00:00
How paranoid do you want to get? Simone's written enough, such that you could just feed his blog to AI and ask it to write in his voice. Which, taken to the logical extreme, means that the last time he went to visit OpenAI, he was captured, and locked in a dungeon, and his online presence is now entirely AI with the right prompt. In fact, that's happened to everyone on this site, and we're all LLMs just predicting the next word at each other.

There's no actual way to determine if any words are from a silicon token generator or meat-based generator. It's not AI, it's human! Emdash. You're absolutely right!

system failure.
by neya | 2026-03-04 11:16:59+00:00
You can try selling it in Asia (Singapore / Malaysia). You can get a good deal for it there usually if your battery cycle count is low. One thing I really learned is - it's super important to keep the battery cycle count low if you want a good resale value on your machine. I was extremely fortunate enough with the M1 Pro to always use it plugged in because I was constantly worried about not having enough battery when I actually needed it.
by masswerk | 2026-03-04 11:17:02+00:00
Mind that freedom of speech (US) and freedom of opinion (Europe) are different concepts. E.g., while you may harbour a certain opinion in the EU, expressing this in a way generally considered harmful (concept: speech may establish an act) may get you in trouble. On the other hand, crossing the US border may trigger an attempt to infer your opinion from extracted public or semi-public expressions, which may get you in even more serious trouble, you may be even considered a viable target based on such inferences (and there is no clear law for this, there isn't even due process.) Both concepts come with their own freedoms, implications and caveats.
by ben_w | 2026-03-04 11:17:21+00:00
And what should we do when it's the un-elected corporations, rather than the democratically elected government, whose censorship of us and our views is a consequence we object to?

e.g. how Paul Graham got his Twitter account suspended for posting "This is the last straw. I give up. You can find a link to my new Mastodon profile on my site.": https://finance.yahoo.com/news/twitter-suspends-account-paul...

Musk was 100% allowed to do that. Should he have been allowed to do that? It was undone, but should it have been within the set of things he was allowed to do in the first place?
by Aachen | 2026-03-04 11:18:37+00:00
> small form factor phones simply do not sell

Are we really sure "nobody actually wants it"? I need to help my family select the smallest possible phone every time. Meanwhile choices are dwindling and the remaining 2 models are either overpriced or outdated and so I need to tell them it's better to take a (whatever currently goes for) "medium sized" model, which shifts upwards every time I/they need a new one. No wonder that people don't buy small phones anymore if they don't exist

I don't buy this nonsense about small phones being a niche when so many people are actively seeking them out, both online and offline in my practical experience

It's just harder to make, heat dissipation or battery will be restricted, doubly so if you're a niche manufacturer without a big budget, or one who tries to keep it repairable and needs the extra space for screws. So I can understand that Fairphone doesn't release a small model (even if it means I simply cannot use it: I actually put my money down and bought one, but sadly had to sell it onwards after a few weeks of trying) but for Graphenorola I'm not sure that restriction exists. It may just not please everyone if the chip is underclocked for heat and battery efficiency reasons and so they're not likely to. Doesn't mean there's no market for a small variant for any manufacturer that has more than one device on the market

My mom's and my current phone (same model) is what I'd call medium sized (per 2019 standards, when it was new) and the battery life sucks, but I'd buy this model again anyway if it came out with a ≥2025 SoC because I can actually use it unlike nearly any other phone on the market. Not properly reach the top, but at least the left side so that'll have to do
by ralferoo | 2026-03-04 11:18:42+00:00
This is the kind of visualisation that obvious in retrospect, but I don't think anybody's done this before. Very nice.

I think the only change I'd make really is to give the top layer and obviously different colour so you can view from the top and see the current configuration. Currently it just looks confusing because e.g. a - oscillator looks like + instead.
by kellylark | 2026-03-04 11:19:29+00:00
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by batperson | 2026-03-04 11:20:04+00:00
These are business class laptops, there's no dedicated GPU. Where are you're going to utilize this high refresh rate? I'm pretty sure 99% of the time the integrated graphics would be working hard to churn out 120 frames of static views.

I bet the vast majority of people would be perfectly happy to have 60hz display, longer battery life, and save a few bucks at the same time.

Funny bonus anecdote: I reinstall my OS in december, only a few weeks ago did I realize it wasn't set to 144hz but 60hz, since I was busy with work since and didn't play any games I did not even realize.
by hagbard_c | 2026-03-04 11:20:51+00:00
Another contender to become the European 'Max' [1] for when the EU decides it can no longer tolerate communications applications where those who stray too far from the desired narrative are not reined in.

Nope, nein, nee, nej, non, нет, não, nie, nei, ei, nē, ne, όχ and whatever other word for 'no' you can think of.

[1] https://www.themoscowtimes.com/2025/08/28/everything-you-nee...
by fwn | 2026-03-04 11:21:51+00:00
Although I live in the EU, I have no trust in its ability to regulate my media usage or platform providers at all.

The EU just managed to postpone chat control for a bit, and my own country has found a renewed passion for punishing expression crimes (so-called "Äußerungsdelikte") through various legal and pre-legal means.

Social, legal or technical centralization is not a solution to any issue related to public discourse, and Euro-nationalism is not a wise concept. It will simply make us another economic bloc, just with an older population than the others.

Contrary to the current zeitgeist in the EU, power should be dispersed as much as possible. We should embrace global open-source initiatives and work towards a European Union that open-source projects (and tech companies!) want to organize under because of our superior regulatory frameworks, not subsidies, legal pressure, promised government service demand or political initiatives.

We already have a lot of failed political initiatives, so why not try the organic, good governance approach for once?

Instead, we just create more bureaucracy and red tape. This absurd CRA nugget is a good example for our european style tech regulation for open source: https://cra.orcwg.org/faq/stewards/

(rant over)

edit: A good - allthough unfortunately German - recent essay on the German speech issue might be: https://netzpolitik.org/2026/grundrechte-wie-polizei-und-jus...
by kace91 | 2026-03-04 11:22:17+00:00
You used to trust excel is reliable. You used to also choose to use excel, rather than “Bobby’s super duper calculator”.

The choice of tool is assumed to require expertise. I am not opposed to ai companies being sued for invalid expectations, but I don’t think they have at any point expressed that their current product can be used unsupervised in substitution of a professional.

In other words, companies are to blame for offering professional solutions that aren’t up to the task, but it’s up to every person to not use blindly whatever the conman of the day offers.