MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by Someone1234 | 2026-03-03 14:53:44+00:00
I strongly agree. People see local "GPT-4 level" responses, and get excited, which I totally get. But how quickly is the fall-off as the context size grows? Because if it cannot hold and reference a single source-code file in its context, the efficiency will absolutely crater.

That's actually the biggest growth area in LLMs, it is no longer about smart, it is about context windows (usable ones, note spec-sheet hypotheticals). Smart enough is mostly solved, combating larger problems is slowly improving with every major release (but there is no ceiling).
by eggbrain | 2026-03-03 14:53:50+00:00
Many of today's news websites (tech or otherwise) cashed in their goodwill / reputation / page rank to sell ads.

The first shoe dropped when news websites realized they weren't generating content fast enough. Hard, in depth journalism takes time, but when people want to know something that happened _today_, they don't want to wait a week for all the facts to come out, and so the major websites started losing traffic to websites that churned out articles fast.

The additional benefit of churning out articles was that you could match against more and more long tail keywords, which lead to more traffic and more ability to sell ads. To keep up, many websites dropped quality for speed, and consumers noticed.

The second shoe then to drop was with affiliate marketing -- articles on CNET / Wirecutter etc were already ranking and rating products, so they figured "[...] why shouldn't we get a cut if someone ends up buying a product we recommend"? The challenge then became that consumers couldn't tell the difference between a product that was recommended because it was good, or because the product gave the biggest "kickback" to the website for using the affiliate link. Thus, people that gave "honest" opinions on products (e.g. people asking on Reddit, at least for a while, as the article suggests) became the new source of truth.

The result of this means that these days, if you read a lot of articles on the major tech websites, they feel more like they've been optimized for speed (e.g. churning out an article fast), SEO, and not much else. Many people have talked about how recipie websites are now short story generators more than food instructions, but it's been common for a while where I go to a tech website to read about something I specifically Googled, only for it to feel more like it was written _specifically_ to capture traffic for a keyword, rather than actually solve the issue or question I came into the website with.

The cherry on top is that AI has none of these problems (so far) -- yes, there's some movement on trying to do SEO for AI, and of course ads will eventually come to AI like it has everything else, but currently, you can get the answers you want, described to you exactly how you'd like to hear it -- who wouldn't want that?
by Imustaskforhelp | 2026-03-03 14:53:54+00:00
Awesome! I am a big fan of DDG. I am happy I could help you guys. Another minor tidbit but please also remove DDG AI summary about nanoclaw referencing the .net if you do take some action about it.

I have also written a more detailed comparison comparing all search providers that I could find, perhaps it might be of interest to ya but only Mojeek/(yandex.ru with the nanoclaw.dev/ru) were able to reference it earlier than .net

I have been an happy user of DDG for many time. I trust DDG significantly more than Google and I am happy that you guys could read such feedback!

Have a nice day DDG team!
by sukinai | 2026-03-03 14:54:08+00:00
I built Nemp Memory because I think there is an important distinction in AI memory:

memory inside one AI tool is not the same as memory for your project.

A lot of tools are adding their own memory now, which is useful. But if each tool has its own memory, project knowledge gets fragmented. When you switch tools, you end up repeating the stack, architecture decisions, auth setup, API patterns, and debugging lessons.

The question I’m interested in is not just:
which AI tool has memory?

It is:
can project memory survive tool switching?

Nemp is an experiment in local, portable project memory. The goal is to keep memory readable, local-first, and reusable across tools rather than trapped inside one assistant.

Would especially love feedback on:
1. whether “tool memory vs project memory” resonates
2. how people here are handling memory across multiple AI tools today
by lukebrandon | 2026-03-03 14:54:09+00:00
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by AnimalMuppet | 2026-03-03 14:54:14+00:00
The human is responsible. That's the fix. I don't care if you got the results from an LLM or from reading cracks in the sidewalk; you are responsible for what you say, and especially for what you say professionally. I mean, that's almost the definition of a professional.

And if you can't play by those rules, then maybe you aren't a professional, even if you happened to sneak your way into a job where professionalism is expected.
by benj111 | 2026-03-03 14:54:28+00:00
To want what though?

Is dressing as a baby wanting to be a baby? If you indulge someone doing that, are you treating them as a baby and therefore at risk of becoming a pedo? If my girlfriend likes it a bit rough in bed, am I more likely to be abusive to her? To abuse my next partner?

If you play dungeons and dragons are you more likely to go to your school and start slaying students?
by CyberDildonics | 2026-03-03 14:54:57+00:00
I don't know where the focus on vector instructions comes from. 6 128-bit instructions per clock is not bad at all. 512 bit wide vector instruction being used are exotic.

What most people want is interactivity and fast web pages which doesn't have much to do with wide vector instructions (except possibly for optimized video decoding).
by TheDong | 2026-03-03 14:54:57+00:00
> Should we ban also onlyfans?

We should require all people who sign up for onlyfans to upload their DNA as part of the signup process, and it should be required to automatically block users from viewing the onlyfans of someone who's biologically close to them, i.e. a sibling.

If you have non-biological family (i.e. a stepsibling) you should also be required to upload all your non-biologically family-member's DNA as part of the signup process so the site can hide their potential accounts too.

That should make everyone happy.
by delichon | 2026-03-03 14:55:09+00:00
> The outputs of generative AI can be protected by copyright only where a human author has determined sufficient expressive elements. This can include situations where a human-authored work is perceptible in an AI output, or a human makes creative arrangements or modifications of the output, but not the mere provision of prompts. https://www.copyright.gov/newsnet/2025/1060.html

I think that this means that a single prompt alone does not convey copyright. But if you had spent many hours before the prompt fine tuning the model, or much effort after the prompt shaping the result with further prompts, it could be.

I disagree with this approach because I've seen how much creativity and effort some people can put into slowly crafting a single elaborate prompt. AI can be used as another kind of brush.
by desideratum | 2026-03-03 14:55:17+00:00
Oh, and if you want to utilize 120Hz on the XDR display, you're going to have to replace your perfectly functioning Mac.

> Mac models with M1, M1 Pro, M1 Max, M1 Ultra, M2, and M3 support Studio Display XDR at up to 60Hz. All other Studio Display XDR features are supported.
by troyvit | 2026-03-03 14:55:17+00:00
> Editorial staff?

> There was such a thing, in newspapers up until 2000. Then, as profits nosedived, these sorts of things largely disappeared.

In a lot of ways you're right, but our public radio station (cpr.org) has the largest newsroom in the state, and that newsroom makes up over a third of our staff. So yeah "news companies" don't have news rooms but that's because their business isn't news. It's funneling user data to their parent companies and getting people to click ads.

However, thanks to "listeners [and viewers, and surfers] like you" public media is still working its ass off to make a difference despite being cut lose from the government. It won't work unless you switch your perspective to local news (where most of the real information is anyway) and unless you donate.

Apologies for turning a comment into a mini fund-drive :)
by halper | 2026-03-03 14:55:24+00:00
I cannot be alone in feeling that titles (within "tech" in particular) are almost completely arbitrary? What constitutes a "senior", "lead", "principal" and "staff" X, respectively, has so much overlap that it really depends on the organisation. I myself have been called all of those things, but have honestly not been able to tell the difference: in some cases, I have had much more responsibility as a "senior backend developer" than a "staff engineer". I have recently interviewed for a number of roles with titles like CTO, engineering manager, tech lead etc and there is so much overlap that they seem to be one and the same. Have worked at companies on three continents, in organisations ranging from 6 people to 10k+, so have seen a few titles.
by Yizahi | 2026-03-03 14:55:35+00:00
There is no significance to the number 12 on the analog clock outside it being painted on top of the clock face. And even that is completely absent in the digital clock, where hour 11:00 is the same as 12:00 or 13:00 in significance.

So there is zero astronomic reason to fixate noon to a particular number if doesn't suit us, humans.

I'm just saying that astronomic argument is kinda meaningless for the DST discussion, the only thing that matters is manual allocation of light time for the most people as possible, so that a majority of population would receive highly beneficial natural light as much as possible. When the solar high point would happen in that scheme should be entirely irrelevant.
by pbmonster | 2026-03-03 14:55:41+00:00
Why would you want to do that? Do you like the hardware that much, and also that much more than just an M2 (soon M3) running Asahi?

Linux in a VM would work with the usual caveats. Periphery like the built-in webcam most likely won't work. Getting codecs and DRM to run will be pain and you'll be back to use macOS for that quickly (but that's just standard pain of ARM Linux).
by alexpham14 | 2026-03-03 14:55:46+00:00
Oof, this is exactly the nightmare scenario for “repo-first” OSS.

The weird bit isn’t that a scraper site exists, it’s that Google can’t do the obvious graph join: query == project name, #1 result is the repo, repo declares Homepage = X, yet Google still boosts an imposter domain. That’s not “SEO”, that’s the ranking system refusing to treat maintainer-declared canonical as a strong signal. Early domain squatters get to “set the default” purely by being first, then they can flip the content later once trust is baked in.

People keep saying “tell users to bookmark the real URL” like that scales. Most people will click the second link and assume it’s official. If Google can’t solve this class of problem, their “AI answers” are going to be a bigger mess than blue links ever were.
by jdr23bc | 2026-03-03 14:55:48+00:00
Chances are it will get repealed because it isn't standard time.

Examples of failed permanent daylight switches:

- USA 70s

- Russia 2010s

- UK 70s

The only examples of failed switches to permanent standard time are Egypt and Jordan.

There are 12 prominent examples with permanent standard time, including most of Mexico, Argentina, Russia, and parts of Australia.

Only the Yukon, Turkey, Jordan, Morocco, and Syria are on permanent daylight time.

DST is popular because people associate it with summer, so it is chosen as the permanent time. Then the population experiences reality of no sunshine when they get up in the winter and hate it.
by appsoftware | 2026-03-03 14:56:17+00:00
If you already live in VS Code, maybe you like to manage your notes there too?

AS Notes brings Obsidian/Logseq-style knowledge management directly into VS Code - wikilinks, backlinks, page aliases, daily journal, and a task panel - without leaving your editor or touching a separate app.

The motivation was simple: most developers already take notes, but the friction of switching to another app means those notes slowly drift into neglect. AS Notes keeps everything in plain .md files + wikilinks, in a folder you control. There's no cloud sync, no accounts, no telemetry. The index is a local SQLite database powered by WASM (no native dependencies), so it works everywhere VS Code does. Because your notes are just markdown files, they get the same Git workflow as your code.

The feature I'm most pleased with is nested wikilink handling - `[[Project [[Alpha]] Notes]]` creates multiple navigable targets from a single link, which mirrors how Logseq-style linking naturally composes. There's also rename tracking: rename a file and AS Notes offers to update every reference across your workspace.

Install from the VS Code Marketplace or clone the demo notes repo to kick the tyres. Happy to answer questions about the architecture - particularly the WASM SQLite indexing approach.

GitHub: https://github.com/appsoftwareltd/as-notes

Marketplace: https://marketplace.visualstudio.com/items?itemName=appsoftw...
by catapart | 2026-03-03 14:56:22+00:00
honestly: good. all of them jumped up their own asses for the sake of SEO and minimum required regulation compliance, which stopped me from even going to the ones that aren't low-quality, content mills, which many of them are.

cut the cookies and tracking, so you don't have to have a ridiculous compliance banner. cut the paywall that tells me what you had to say wasn't important enough for public consumption. cut the full screen ad breaks and page takeover nonsense.

these outlets have had years (decades?) to figure out how to monetize content that didn't drive users away. they have failed over and over and over again, so why should I care that they are failing now? if it wasn't AI, it would be something else that came for them. if you rely on the captiveness of your audience, rather than the quality of your product, I'm always happy to see you destroyed. whatever comes next will be different, at the very least. and I'm an optimist - I'll always hope that it's a better way. if it's not, let that shit die, too.

regardless, I have every faith that the good will that buoyed these sites in their respective heydays will continue on to provide some other resources for the same kind of media.
by futureofmoney | 2026-03-03 14:56:25+00:00
February 2026 delivered crypto’s worst start to a year in roughly a decade.

- Bitcoin down ~24% YTD
- Ethereum down ~34% YTD
~50% drawdown from October 2025 highs
- One -6σ daily move

In prior cycles, drawdowns of this magnitude coincided with:

- Exchange insolvencies
- Stablecoin depegs
- Forced institutional liquidation
- Regulatory backlash

This time, those channels did not activate:

-No major exchange failed.
- No ETF structure unwound.
- No systemic stablecoin stress.
Regulatory implementation continued during the decline (stablecoin capital treatment guidance, GENIUS Act rulemaking, etc.).

A narrow observation:

Price stress did not translate into infrastructure stress.

That doesn’t imply strength or safety.

It suggests that the dominant fragility vector may have shifted from internal leverage/custody risk toward macro liquidity and capital treatment sensitivity.

In earlier regimes:
Price ↓ → hidden leverage surfaced → contagion.

In February:
Price ↓ → leverage flushed → infrastructure remained functional.

Open question for discussion:

If large drawdowns no longer trigger insolvency cascades, where does systemic fragility now sit?
Macro funding? Stablecoin reserve structure? Regulatory capital constraints?

Interested in counterexamples if people see latent stress building somewhere.
by lm28469 | 2026-03-03 14:56:39+00:00
Because it's the same shit every year for the past 5 years with the M line. 2010 to 2015 was a major improvement, 2015 to 2020 was a major improvement, now they pretty much solved the computer/laptop problem for 99% of people. I'm on a 16gb m1 air, I see absolutely no reason to update.
by SirMaster | 2026-03-03 14:57:17+00:00
You mean bumped $100. M4 MacBook Pro and M5 MacBook Pro started at $1599 with 512GB SSD.

Now it starts at $1699, a $100 bump but comes with a 1TB SSD. Previously it would have cost $1799 for the 1T SSD, so it's a bump on base price but you are also getting more for $100 less than before.
by danso | 2026-03-03 14:57:20+00:00
Yeah, it's the lack of attribution that is key, even if it sounds like a trivial and ceremonial step. If a New York Times reporter writes "'Our investigation has completely stalled,' Kings County Sheriff Bob Jones told the Springfield Observer", I can infer that the NYT is reliant on local reporting for this story and may not have done original on-the-ground work themselves.

Imagine how flimsy Ars' story about a blog post would look like if the story had correctly attributed the quotes (fabricated or not) to, "according to Claude AI's analysis of the blog post". The reader would have the right to wonder if the reporter had even read the blog post.
by DonHopkins | 2026-03-03 14:57:31+00:00
>The other issue, that Facebook was running a silent audio stream in the background, is also called out. Grant says this was unintentional, and that it was not being used to keep the app alive — yet it did as a byproduct of the bug.

How much issue tracking and scrum management and engineering work and code review and testing and deployment and maintenance went into accidentally streaming silent audio that you only stop doing after you got caught and have to claim all that successfully tested and deployed work was unintentional, without ever explaining the actual innocuous purpose of streaming silent audio and paying for all that extra bandwidth?
by Analemma_ | 2026-03-03 14:57:31+00:00
I'm on an M4 Pro MacBook-- basically the fastest computer you could buy from Apple before today-- and opening/closing the tab sidebar in Safari on Tahoe takes multiple seconds, even if I have only 4-6 tabs open, and seems to drop to 5 FPS. It's comically bad.

It's so bad I switched back to Chrome. I had thought Chrome had a major battery life penalty compared to Safari on Macs, but I checked more up-to-date info and apparently that's outdated.
by Schmerika | 2026-03-03 14:57:41+00:00
Was arming genocide in Gaza sane?

Even if you have no moral red line whatsoever, that decision was still certain to lose millions of votes in swing states... Because millions of voters do have morality, even in America.

America's problems are far bigger than whether people vote or not. The insanity is thoroughly bipartisan. Look at the Democrats giving Trump standing ovations while he talked about military action in Iran last week!

It's just a matter of degree: Genocide, or genocide+. ICE, or ICE+. Do you want your fossil fuel subsidies massive or ginormous. Techno-feudalism, or turbo techno-feudalism.

Those aren't sane options. It's not sane to accept them.

The idea that we could elect Democrats and "push them left" "once the fire was out" was thoroughly disproved shortly after October 7th - if not before then, when Trump's insurrection prosecution for was slow-rolled; or when we decided that the correct legal procedure was to let Garland sit on the Epstein files for 4 years.

So... Maybe diminishing one half of the problem as 'insane', but not the other half because it's slightly better, is doomed to failure. Either way the crazies win.
by fwn | 2026-03-03 14:57:52+00:00
Might be vulnerable to classic salami tactics, though. Once we arrive at a general consensus on new norms that expect age verification online, we can just legislate it to ID users as a step 2.

Maybe wait for the next terror-attack before pushing for it, but it's an easy fix to a culture that already accepted a layer of user control. The end user will only perceive a small difference in whether they provide full ID or just verified age information.

I want to believe that some supporters of age verification are not cynical. However, whatever good can be achieved through age verification seems such a small win, compared to the dangerous precedent it sets. I cannot get my head around it.
by klausa | 2026-03-03 14:58:15+00:00
I don't think the "new" Performance cores are just "renamed" "E" / "Efficiency" cores; Apple has retroactively renamed the baseline M5 nomenclature to say it has "10-core CPU with 4 super cores and 6 efficiency cores"; so they're clearly keeping the "efficiency cores" nomenclature around.

I think this is a new design, with Apple having three tiers of cores now, similar to what Qualcomm has been doing for a while.

I think how it breaks down is:

- "Super" are the old "P" cores, and the top tier cores now
- "Performance" cores are a new tier and seen for the first time here, slotting between "old" P and E in performance
- "Efficiency" / "E" are still going to be around; but maybe not in desktop/Pro/Max anymore.
by SirMaster | 2026-03-03 14:58:30+00:00
It's not $200 across the board. M4 MacBook Pro and M5 MacBook Pro started at $1599 with 512GB SSD.

Now it starts at $1699, a $100 bump but comes with a 1TB SSD. Previously it would have cost $1799 for the 1T SSD, so it's a bump on base price but you are also getting more for $100 less than before.
by tramcaseht | 2026-03-03 14:58:41+00:00
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by bluGill | 2026-03-03 14:59:28+00:00
Was it? It was an open problem to Knuth - who generally knows how to search literature. However there is enough literature to search that it wouldn't be a surprise at all to discover it was already solved but he just used slightly different terms and so didn't find it. Or maybe it was sovled because this is a specialization of something that looks unrelated and so he wouldn't have realized it when he read it. Or...

Overall I'm going with unsolved, because Knuth is a smart person who I'd expect to not fall of the above. I'm also sure he falls for the above all the time even though the majority of the time he doesn't.
by alnwlsn | 2026-03-03 14:59:33+00:00
In some ways it's never been easier to get all the equipment you will need. But if you're wanting to make ones even half as good as the ones on this page, you'd probably want to become a skilled glassblower and outfit a lab that looks something like this:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wxL4ElboiuA