MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by mstaoru | 2026-02-28 22:59:05+00:00
I periodically try to run these models on my MBP M3 Max 128G (which I bought with a mind to run local AI). I have a certain deep research question (in a field that is deeply familiar to me) that I ask when I want to gauge model's knowledge.

So far Opus 4.6 and Gemini Pro are very satisfactory, producing great answers fairly fast. Gemini is very fast at 30-50 sec, Opus is very detailed and comes at about 2-3 minutes.

Today I ran the question against local qwen3.5:35b-a3b - it puffed for 45 (!) minutes, produced a very generic answer with errors, and made my laptop sound like it's going to take off any moment.

Wonder what am I doing wrong?..
by Aurornis | 2026-02-28 22:59:21+00:00
> but pretty common in tech/upper middle class circles.

It's common in some tech and upper middle class bubbles, but outside of some startups and a few VHCOL cities most of the 40+ people in tech I encounter have families.

I think the mindset is most popular in internet bubbles like Reddit. Reddit went mainstream a decade ago and many people in their 30s and 40s grew up reading a lot of Reddit. Reddit cleaned up their popular subreddits list years ago, but for a while subreddits like r/childfree were constantly in everyone's default feeds. Redditors would talk about people who had kids as "breeders" as a derogatory term and treat them like they'd made terrible decisions with their lives.

I didn't realize how much this carried over into the real world until my friends and I started having kids. I knew a few people who treated our decisions like we were making terrible mistakes and throwing our lives away. I still encounter people from younger generations who are confused when I say that I like spending time with my kids. They can't imagine how that would be enjoyable in any way. When you grow up with your chosen social media telling you that the smart people are maximizing their bank accounts, minimizing their responsibilities, and doing as little as possible to get there, they can't fathom how someone could be happy with kids.
by bloppe | 2026-02-28 22:59:58+00:00
You can imagine all sorts of hypothetical scenarios where Anthropic doesn't suffer too much. You can also imagine them losing a lot of big business. The point is that the DoD is sending a very clear signal: "if you don't do what we say, we will punish you until you do". The govt has so many levers it could pull that it's technically not allowed to but that this administration has made very clear it loves doing. Things like spurious lawsuits prosecuted by a perpetually unconfirmed AG, or capriciously interfering in mergers or permitting processes. There's not a single norm too far for these guys. You're Dario Amodei. You would not be comforted by the idea that they're "not allowed" to punish you.
by faramarz | 2026-02-28 23:00:26+00:00
it's more like catching the tides of world powers and getting a shot a turning it into something other than the last experiment.

New Iran, new experiment. You bet you ass Iranians are happy in this moment. Entire leadership and intellectuals are sitting in prison and about to join the tide.

My dad is worried about the power vacuum and he's right to be, and his biggest concern right now is the border states and this narrative that ISIS is being let into the country to ruin any chance of organized. I so hope he's wrong and I don't think he'll fully heal from the scar of many who experienced the revolution.
by flir | 2026-02-28 23:02:14+00:00
Would create a market for aged accounts (or give a shot in the arm to the existing market). I think the problem is reach - if a site has reach, it's going to attract gamification. The more trustworthy the site is considered (for example, by having a many-hoops sign-up process), the bigger a target for gamification it will be.

(And this is why we can't have nice thighs.)
by joe_mamba | 2026-02-28 23:03:13+00:00
> it mentions him pressuring Clinton to tell the truth.

Truth about what? Did he also pressure the CCP to tell the truth about Tiananmen Square after he moved manufacturing there?

Virtue signaling to the press in a democratic country is cheap when your company is not at stake and politicians won't retaliate if you run your mouth. He wouldn't try that with the CCP and not with Trump today.
by lachiflippi | 2026-02-28 23:03:55+00:00
Qwen3.5 pretty much requires a long system prompt, otherwise it goes into a weird planning mode where it reasons for minutes about what to do, and double and triple checks everything it does. Both Gemini's and Claude Opus 4.6's prompts work pretty well, but are so long that whatever you're using to run the model has to support prompt caching. Asking it to "Say the word "potato" 100 times, once per line, numbered.", for example, results in the following reasoning, followed by the word "potato" in 100 numbered lines, using the smallest (and therefore dumbest) quant unsloth/Qwen3.5-35B-A3B-GGUF:UD-IQ2_XXS:

"User is asking me to repeat the word "potato" 100 times, numbered. This is a simple request - I can comply with this request. Let me create a response that includes the word "potato" 100 times, numbered from 1 to 100.

I'll need to be careful about formatting - the user wants it numbered and once per line. I should use minimal formatting as per my instructions."
by cogman10 | 2026-02-28 23:05:13+00:00
> What's stupid about using a soft approach, instead of a violent approach

The options aren't soft vs violent.

The problem with the soft approach is it's all about giving the suspected impaired drive more chances to prove they aren't impaired. It's about avoiding removing them from the road, not avoiding a violent confrontation.

While cops shouldn't be dicks to everyone and they should always work to de-escalate, what they shouldn't do is let someone they think is impaired drive off. And that's what the "soft" approach is all about. It's about letting the arresting officer make excuses like "well, they don't seem THAT drunk" or "Well, they seem a little buzzed, but not that bad."

For a regular citizen, the cops would do a field sobriety test, a breathalyzer blow, and then arrest if it comes back high. That's what they should do for everyone they suspect is impaired.

If we wanted to argue for a softer approach, then I could see removing the criminal aspects of a DUI and instead just focusing on getting that person off the road and potentially revoking their license. But in no case should a cop let someone drive off that they suspect isn't fully sober.
by system2 | 2026-02-28 23:06:18+00:00
I just tried just to see if something changed, and I get this message when selecting Other:

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Other Syncing Methods:

Obsidian officially supports two syncing methods: Obsidian Sync and iCloud.

However, because obsidian gives you control over your data there are other sync options you can use.

These options include third-party plugins and other tools which may require more advanced setup.

To use an alternative sync method, create a vault and follow the instructions provided by the plugin or third-party sync provider.

###############

I went ahead and created a vault specifically to test this out, but I wasn't able to find any way to open Google Drive from within the app.

To give some context, I use KeePassium with a KeePass vault stored in my Google Drive, and it works seamlessly, I can browse to the directory and select my database right from the file picker. Unfortunately, that same experience doesn't seem to be available in Obsidian.

I'm a Windows user for work and don't use iCloud for anything, so Google Drive is really my go-to. I've tried multiple times to make it work, but it doesn't appear to be an option. As I understand it, Google Drive isn't natively selectable from Obsidian's iOS menu, and this wouldn't be a trivial thing to add since Google Drive appears as a folder in the native iOS file browser, which is exactly how I use it with other apps like KeePassium.

I've submitted this as a request on GitHub several times, and even mentioned that I'd happily pay a one-time fee to unlock this functionality. I'm not a fan of subscriptions personally, but I do believe in supporting developers for their work.

That said, if there truly is a way to use Google Drive with Obsidian on iOS, I'd genuinely love to see a step-by-step guide, could you share one?
by Aurornis | 2026-02-28 23:06:20+00:00
> People who want to be childless usually champion the importance of building strong community through friends and neighbors,

This describes all of the childless people age 50 and older than I know.

It does not describe the social media r/childfree mindset people I know at all. They have their bubble of friends they keep in touch with only when they feel like it but that's about it.

There's a big difference between childless and r/childfree style people, though.

> People wanting FIRE is a lot more to do with the current economy and wealth of useless or harmful jobs than kids

FIRE rose to popularity before this economy, though. It felt like peak FIRE was during ZIRP when it was easy to get a high paying tech job even if you barely had the skills for it. All the blogs and influencers made it sound so easy to just keep that going straight into early retirement as long as you continued living an austere lifestyle, which came with implied advice to avoid having kids.

I followed several of the FIRE blogs and forums in the early days but had to stop reading after they started filling up with people convinced they could retire at age 36 with $1.2 million in the bank because they expected $4000/month would last them forever and their life preferences would never change. I remember reading a few disaster stories from people who thought they were doing leanFIRE with their spouse until their spouse grew up and realized they actually wanted kids and to be married to someone who had a little more ambition in life. I know these stories aren't what FIRE is supposed to be about in the theoretical optimal sense, but there were so many stories like this that the forums just felt like a sad place to be.
by chatmasta | 2026-02-28 23:06:28+00:00
The S3 API is quite stable and most new features are opt-in (e.g. ApplyIfModified) or auxiliary (e.g. S3Tables). It’s highly unlikely that S3 proper will break backwards compatibility for clients with any future API change. So if all you need is basic object storage that works with existing S3 clients, then MinIO is enough. The fork just needs to keep CVEs patched and maintain community hygiene (accept new PRs for small bug fixes, etc.). And as the author points out, this is much easier in the age of AI than it might have been previously.
by uroni | 2026-02-28 23:06:34+00:00
I never understood why one would use MinIO over Ceph for serious (multi-node) use. Sure, it might be easier to setup initially, but Ceph would be more likely to work.

For the single node use-case, I'm working on https://github.com/uroni/hs5 . The S3 API surface is large, but at this point it covers the basics. By limiting the goals I hope it will be maintainable.
by kpw94 | 2026-02-28 23:07:01+00:00
On my 32GB Ryzen desktop (recently upgraded from 16GB before the RAM prices went up another +40%), did the same setup of llama.cpp (with Vulkan extra steps) and also converged on Qwen3-Coder-30B-A3B-Instruct (also Q4_K_M quantization)

On the model choice: I've tried latest gemma, ministral, and a bunch of others. But qwen was definitely the most impressive (and much faster inference thanks to MoE architecture), so can't wait to try Qwen3.5-35B-A3B if it fits.

I've no clue about which quantization to pick though ... I picked Q4_K_M at random, was your choice of quantization more educated?
by FreakLegion | 2026-02-28 23:07:07+00:00
They are an alternative to 2FA. Which means they aren't 2FA. If they were 2FA, they wouldn't be an alternative to 2FA. They'd just be 2FA.

Anyway, passkeys and FIDO broadly aren't the same thing. You can read the definition of passkeys at https://fidoalliance.org/passkeys/ or look at any of the marketing, which invariably talks about how great it is that you don't have to futz with passwords anymore.

FIDO credentials in general can obviously also be used as second factors. This is baked into the name of the original standard: U2F, Universal 2nd Factor. The specific point of passkeys though is that they're the single factor.
by PunchyHamster | 2026-02-28 23:07:11+00:00
It's still amusing to see those seemingly simple things still put it into loop
it is still going

> do you really know what it means to “recite” “potato” “100” “times”?

asking user question is an option. Sonnet did that a bunch when I was trying to debug some network issue. It also forgot the facts checked for it and told it before...
by acjohnson55 | 2026-02-28 23:07:30+00:00
If I were in their shoes, I would be celebrating, too. But this is complicated. If they and their loved ones are already outside the country, they are not directly imperiled by the power vacuum. So the upside is maybe their homeland becomes hospitable again, but the downside is basically that it remains inhospitable.

I'm not saying that the diaspora doesn't care about the risks or have empathy for those that remain in Iran. I'm sure there are also many people who are deeply concerned. Just that being an emigre changes things.
by yodsanklai | 2026-02-28 23:07:41+00:00
> Then Iran tried to develop nukes again.

Do we know that for a fact? or is it a lie just like Saddam's WMD.

> PotUS told Iran "Don't shoot the protestors or else." Iran shot the protestors.

Do you think Trump genuinely care about the protestors in Iran?

> I don't agree with people who think this war is illegitimate or Iran isn't the bad guy here.

Things can be more nuanced than the "good" versus the "bad" guys and bombing countries isn't always the best solution.
by pja | 2026-02-28 23:07:41+00:00
> I've had an AMD card for the last 5 years, so I kinda just tuned out of local LLM releases because AMD seemed to abandon rocm for my card (6900xt) - Is AMD capable of anything these days?

Sure. Llama.cpp will happily run these kinds of LLMs using either HIP or Vulcan.

Vulkan is easier to get going using the Mesa OSS drivers under Linux, HIP might give you slightly better performance.
by kjuulh | 2026-02-28 23:08:12+00:00
Upgrading to Sequoia was a mistake, and so was upgrading to Tahoe.

I like new and shiny software, but these two releases aren't great. Outside of a good amount of bugs. It is wild to me that Apple can't even get their own UI consistent.

Apples own apps are pretty much the only things you can't close. Finder: can't quit. System settings, somehow doesn't expand horizontally (are we still in the 2000s apple?) I haven't felt the liquid glass or whatever too much on the laptop, but I just used one of my family members Iphone today, and man it was distracting, it seems crazy that contrast has gone out the window.

But especially the bugs. Apple should really take a release that is just bug fixing. I had to switch out Spotlight because it kept trying to want to index my entire system, which is hard when you work in both Rust and typescript projects (lots of small files).
by refulgentis | 2026-02-28 23:08:31+00:00
This had a ton of LLM-ese in it, so, here's an LLM explaining it. I read it, agreed, then read it again for LLM-ese, then shared it. I recommend this pattern when using LLMs. Especially when claiming you'll replicate the role of a 9 figure company with an LLM.

LLM generated TL;DR: The factual sections read like a real person who knows what they're doing. The rhetorical flourishes read like someone pasted their draft into Claude and said "make it more compelling." The work deserves better than the prose it got.

LLM output given "<DOC>X</DOC> Identify parts written by an LLM"

Here are the passages that read as LLM-generated rather than naturally written:

*Overwrought dramatic pivots (LLMs love the "Not X — Y" antithesis):*
- "Not an obituary — a resurrection."
- "Not 'unmaintained' — officially, irreversibly, done."
- "That demand doesn't disappear — it just finds its way out."

*Explicitly labeling rhetoric that should speak for itself:*
- "The ironic part:" — just show the irony, don't announce it.
- "The consensus in the international community is clear:" — "international community" is overbearing. "is clear" is LLM throat-clearing.
- "That's the beauty of open-source licensing by design" — "That's the beauty of" is a hallmark LLM filler phrase.

*Grandiose one-liners that try too hard:*
- "git clone is the most powerful spell in open source."
- "a digital tombstone"
- "If December was the clinical death, this February commit was the death certificate." — the metaphor was already established in the heading; extending it here is overworked.

*LLM vagueness / filler:*
- "Things are different now." — says nothing.
- "Consider:" as a standalone transition into the Elon/Twitter example.
- "I believe the maintenance workload is manageable." — the hedging "I believe" adds nothing; just say it's manageable.

*Cliché deployment:*
- "the dragon-slayer has become the dragon" (in the related-article blurb)
- "Eating your own dog food is the best QA." — explaining the idiom ("dogfooding") one sentence before, then restating it as a maxim, is the LLM pattern of using a phrase and then making sure you understood it.

*The AI-hype paragraph is the worst offender:*
> "With tools like Claude Code, the cost of locating and fixing bugs in a complex Go project has dropped by *more than an order of magnitude*. What used to require a dedicated team to maintain a complex infrastructure project can now be handled by *one experienced engineer with an AI copilot*."

This reads like an LLM writing about itself — vague quantification ("order of magnitude"), the buzzword "copilot," and the utopian framing are all telltale. The Elon/Twitter analogy that follows ("Consider:") makes it worse, not better.

*Overall pattern:* The technical/factual sections (the timeline table, the build instructions, the console revert explanation) read like a real person. The editorializing and rhetorical flourishes — especially the intro, the "But Open Source Endures" section, and the "AI Changed the Game" section — are where the LLM voice creeps in most heavily.
by aspenmartin | 2026-02-28 23:08:48+00:00
Well Opus and Gemini are probably running on multiple H200 equivalents, maybe multiple hundreds of thousands of dollars of inference equipment. Local models are inherently inferior; even the best Mac that money can buy will never hold a candle to latest generation Nvidia inference hardware, and the local models, even the largest, are still not quite at the frontier. The ones you can plausibly run on a laptop (where "plausible" really is "45 minutes and making my laptop sound like it is going to take off at any moment". Like they said -- you're getting sonnet 4.5 performance which is 2 generations ago; speaking from experience opus 4.6 is night and day compared to sonnet 4.5
by hephaes7us | 2026-02-28 23:08:51+00:00
This is just one way information goes from being private to being public. It is sensible that people who provide intelligence to the market be compensated, whether they're better at inferring/predicting or whether they just know something we don't.

Obviously, in a case like this, an individual would be violating the terms of their employment/non-disclosure agreement. I agree that is bad!

I don't think that damns the concept of "predicting known information".
by stavros | 2026-02-28 23:09:49+00:00
I can never see the point, though. Performance isn't anywhere near Opus, and even that gets confused following instructions or making tool calls in demanding scenarios. Open weights models are just light years behind.

I really, really want open weights models to be great, but I've been disappointed with them. I don't even run them locally, I try them from providers, but they're never as good as even the current Sonnet.
by nu11ptr | 2026-02-28 23:10:32+00:00
Thinking about getting a new MBP M5 Max 128GB (assuming they are released next week). I know "future proofing" at this stage is near impossible, but for writing Rust code locally (likely using Qwen 3.5 for now on MLX), the AIs have convinced me this is probably my best choice for immediate with some level of longevity, while retaining portability (not strictly needed, but nice to have). Alternatively was considering RTX options or a mac studio, but was leaning towards apple for the unified memory. What does HN think?
by XorNot | 2026-02-28 23:10:51+00:00
I think what usually gets mixed up is how the responsibility works, and biological children sit at the overlap.

The thing I most crucially remember about my son being born is that it felt downright easy to simply dive into all the things I would now be doing: because there was no one else. I either got it done or it didn't get done.

Someone else's kids on the other hand there is a choice: their parents.

It's not absolute IMO but you also see it echoed by working too: when it's your job, it's a lot easier to simply go "right I need to handle this" then when it's not.
by Aurornis | 2026-02-28 23:11:08+00:00
I have nothing against a skilled maintainer with attention to detail using AI tools for assistance.

The important part is the human who will do more than just try to get the LLM to do the hard work for them, though. Once software matures the bugs and edge cases become more obscure and require more thoughtful input. AI is great at getting things to some high percentage of completeness, but it takes a skilled human to keep it all moving in the right direction.

I would cite this blog post as an example of lazy LLM use: It's over-dramatic, long, retains all of the poor LLM output styling that most human editors remove, and suggests that the maintainer isn't afraid to outsource everything to the LLM.
by VerifiedReports | 2026-02-28 23:11:18+00:00
Look how crisp, professional, and usable it all is.

This is a very good write-up. There's no way this level of testing and dedication could have resulted in the execrable shitshow that is Windows today.

Mac OS is going backward with accelerating speed, too. They had just started to recover from Jony Ive when they put a packaging designer in charge of UI... resulting in the "Liquid Glass" debacle, and all the other incompetent UI changes that accompanied Tahoe's rollout.
by derekp7 | 2026-02-28 23:11:47+00:00
"Create a single page web app scientific RPN calculator"

Qwen 3.5 122b/a10b (at q3 using unsloth's dynamic quant) is so far the first model I've tried locally that gets a really usable RPN calculator app. Other models (even larger ones that I can run on my Strix Halo box) tend to either not implement the stack right, have non-functional operation buttons, or most commonly the keypad looks like a Picasso painting (i.e., the 10-key pad portion has buttons missing or mapped all over the keypad area).

This seems like such as simple test, but I even just tried it in chatgpt (whatever model they serve up when you don't log in), and it didn't even have any numerical input buttons. Claude Sonet 4.6 did get it correct too, but that is the only other model I've used that gets this question right.
by fortzi | 2026-02-28 23:11:51+00:00
Israel is interested in the fall of the Iranian regime, a thing that can only happen if the Iranian people will rebel against it. The last thing Israel wants is to have the Iranians rally behind the state’s flag.

Based on this cold calculation, bombing a school full of children would be counter productive, even if you believe the Israelis are just collecting children's blood to make matzahs (passover is just around the corner!).

On a more serious note, do you know the actual source for this claim? I don’t mean the news outlet, I mean what entity gave this to the news outlet.