MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by tuetuopay | 2026-03-12 14:30:41+00:00
> The SSD in the Neo only manages around 1,500 MB/s in sequential benchmarks, it's not an impressive drive.

That's sequential, not what you want for swap, but already a good start. I agree that it's not impressive, but already leagues ahead of a SATA SSD. And for swapping a 8GB machine it's more than enough (when the swap pattern is sequential though): you swapped your whole system memory in 3 seconds, which is impressive.

> The only eMMC options I'm seeing are the $300 Chromebooks? Which is no where close to "pretty much all laptops." In fact it'd be "pretty much none of the laptops"

Then it's good the situation improved, genuinely! Less e-waste being on the store shelves. Pretty sure windows is nigh unusable on eMMC. And yes, those were sold alongside chromebooks, but at a markup of a "real computer" despite having roughly the same internals.

Another thing that could impact, though, is availability in different markets. I am in France, and the offerings are perhaps worse than in the US? (quite likely, in fact). Add to that the usual price markup where US companies tend to do, at best, 1 USD = 1 EUR, and we get worse machines for the equivalent price range.
by ramon156 | 2026-03-12 14:31:00+00:00
I totally agree. At my first job, they instantly jumped towards Symfony and AngularJS. Sounds good, but they could've totally gone for something more lightweight. They DID NOT NEED the complexity AngularJS (and Angular2) brought them. When I left I tried my best to update to at least an LTS version, but I did not succeed and they did not care. I believe they're now migrated to Angular2 but are already stuck in hell
by ajross | 2026-03-12 14:31:03+00:00
> No, you can't do real work on a $350 windows machine.

Sigh. I mean, even absent the obvious answers[1], that's just wrong anyway. You're being a snob. Want to run WSL? Run WSL. Want to run vscode natively? Ditto. Put it on a cheap TV and run your graphical layout and 3D modelling work. I mean, obviously it does all that stuff. OBVIOUSLY, because that stuff is all cheap and easy.

All the complaining you're doing is about preference, not capability. You're being a snob. Which is hardly weird, we're all snobs about something.

But snobs aren't going to buy the Neo either. Again, the business question here is whether the $350 junk users can be convinced to be snobs for $600.

[1] "Put Linux on it", "All of your stuff is in the cloud anyway", "It's still a thousand times faster than the machine on which I did my best work", etc...
by sehansen | 2026-03-12 14:31:10+00:00
Hundreds of financial institutions with greater or lesser responsibility for the crash in 2008 went under in those years[0]. The shareholders in almost all of these companies lost all of their money and the responsible employees lost their jobs. This includes some of the most guilty companies, like Washington Mutual, Countrywide Financial, IndyMac, Lehman Brothers, Merrill Lynch (through First Franklin Financial), Bear Stearns. But all these companies are completely forgotten now.

Instead everyone hates on Goldman Sachs. Sure, Goldman Sachs deserves hate, but of the big banks they were the _least_ guilty of the crash in 2008. Not saying they were saints, but in 2008 they were the least bad.

0: This list only covers banks, not non-banks like Countrywide Financial: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_bank_failures_in_the_U...
by keks0r | 2026-03-12 14:31:35+00:00
The 4% usage was about our internal team, and we have skills setup. So it is not necessary that they are not built, but rather that they were not used, when we expected them to be used. So we adapted our CLAUDE.md to make claude more eager to use them. Also the 4% usage was on the 4.5 models, 4.6 got much better with invoking skills.
Show HN: Desktop conversation practice tool for serious language learners
by andrewfhou | 2026-03-12 14:31:50+00:00
I’ve been studying Japanese for a few years pretty seriously (anki decks, textbooks, online tutor) but I always felt that the speaking practice pipeline could be optimized. With a real tutor, my mistakes didn’t get enough specific reps, they oftentimes weren’t pedantic enough, and practice in multiple contexts was a problem. (I also subconsciously avoid saying things I know I might mess up on to not sound dumb to a real human)

I’m pretty bearish on most other apps, they seem mostly for casual learners with streaks/gamifications and canned scenarios with shallow feedback, even the recent stuff using AI. I for one hate using mobile apps to study (small screen, notification driven, gamified, etc) and I really wished I could deep dive/rabbit hole into my mistakes and drill them specifically.

I built Lingle as a desktop-first tool explicitly for learners who already have a serious study routine and want to work on deliberate practice for speaking with rigorous feedback and detailed explanations and more pedantic feedback to bridge the gap between understandable and natural.

Details:

-Voice input with real-time transcription fed into a conversation model prompted to behave as a native speaker in a user-defined context
-A second pass evaluates utterances for naturalness, register, and pragmatic appropriateness, not just grammatical correctness
-Corrections surface inline without interrupting conversation flow, allows you to retry if you made a suboptimal response
Users define their own contexts entirely — no preset scenarios, you tell it what you're watching, reading, or which grammar structures you want to drill
watching, reading, or which grammar structures you want to drill

The hardest problem has been calibrating correction sensitivity - getting the model to catch subtle pragmatic errors without overcorrecting or flagging legitimate stylistic variation. Still actively working on this and would genuinely love input from anyone who's thought about this problem. Also thinking about adding longer term memory and integrating with other study tools (Anki, etc) to make it more fullstack. Maybe one day replacing my italki tutor entirely with AI + memory and textbook integration or something.

Currently Supports Japanese, Spanish, French, Mandarin, German, Korean, and Portuguese. Free to try while I validate whether this is a real problem worth building further.
Happy to get into the technical architecture or prompting approach in the comments.

– Andrew
by cannonpr | 2026-03-12 14:32:28+00:00
No, I am just buying import Japanese jeans from the folk that bought all of the original high quality jeans making machines when the Americans moved to the flexi stuff, the jeans I buy last with next to no damage for 10-15 years despite near daily wear.
I will grant you that I am paying a premium for both import, and a particular quality of fabric, but honestly I look like farmer Joe mostly.
by ralferoo | 2026-03-12 14:32:29+00:00
The premise of the article has some weight, but the final conclusion with the suggestion to change the icons seems completely crazy.

Green meaning "to the best of our knowledge, everything is good with the software" is well understood.

Using green to mean "we know that this doesn't work at all" is incredibly poor UI (EDITED from "beyond idiotic" due to feedback, my bad).

And whilst flaky tests are the most problematic for a CI system, it's because they often work (and usually, from my experience most flaky tests are because they are modelling situations that don't usually happen in production) and so are often potentially viable builds for deployment with a caveat. If anything, they should be marked orange if they are tests that are known to be problematic.
by pdimitar | 2026-03-12 14:32:48+00:00
Does not support it _natively_ and is measurably slower than a supposedly much weaker Linux machine was my point, which I believe I expressed quite clearly.

> And really, who cares if it had 10,000 background services if 9,999 are idle at any given time?

Normally I don't. I have an okay idea on how modern OS-es work; temporary swaps, compressing RAM for rarely used background processes etc. -- they work amazing, macOS included.

I suppose my problem is more the services that _do_ interfere, like the one that feels it has to scan every CLI command I launch, to the point that it became noticeable, especially side by side with the "weaker" Linux laptop and hell, even with a VM-ed Linux inside my gaming PC as well.

So OK, I accept the correction: does not much matter how many are they in general. Those that interfere though, and I can't stop them -- this is where I drew the line and gradually started my migration away from macOS.

And this:

> Run `ps auxwww` on a Linux box sometime and it’ll look similar

...is objectively false. I just tried it; even my home server that's doing plenty of stuff I get 244 items. On the Mac I am writing this? 840.

Maybe the laptop with KDE will have a touch more than 244, but I doubt they'd be 840.

Call me a purist, I like to know what my background services are doing, though I'll admit I care less and less with age.
by embedding-shape | 2026-03-12 14:32:53+00:00
> I built multiple iOS apps and went through two start up acquisitions with my M1 MBA as my primary computer, as a developer. And the neo is better than the M1 MBA. I edited my 30-45 min long 4k race videos in FCP on that air just fine.

Before I was a professional software developer, I used a scrawny second-hand laptop with a Norwegian keyboard (I'm not Norwegian) because that was what I could afford: https://i.imgur.com/1NRIZrg.jpeg

This was the computer I was developing PHP backends on + jQuery frontends, and where I published a bunch of projects that eventually led to me getting my first software development job, in a startup, and discovering HN pretty much my first day on the job :)

The actual hardware you use seems to me like it matters the least, when it comes to actually being able to do things.
by JumpCrisscross | 2026-03-12 14:32:54+00:00
> maybe the stress test was measuring something different?

The Fed is measuring the loss on bank loans to the private-credit lenders. A 10% portfolio loss shouldn't result in those lenders defaulting to their banks.

By my rough estimate, one can halve the portfolio loss rate to get the NFBI-to-bank loss rate. So a 10% portfolio loss means we're around a 5% expected long-run loss to the banks. Which is still weirdly high, so I feel like I must be missing something...
by NickC25 | 2026-03-12 14:33:08+00:00
And to make matters worse, those who remove regulations then get voted out, but show up on infotainment "opinion" shows disguised as news broadcasts....and whine that those who were voted in to fix the mess aren't fixing the problem fast enough, so those who caused the problem should be voted back in. And lo and behold, they get voted back in, to cause more damage.
by spwa4 | 2026-03-12 14:33:10+00:00
That's because debt IS money. Literally. If you create debt, you have created wealth. These people weren't punished so they could get back to creating new debt as quickly as possible.
The problem with credit defaults, especially private credit defaults, isn't that some private creditors lose some money, it's that twice that amount of money is destroyed, and disappears from the economy entirely.
by gzread | 2026-03-12 14:33:10+00:00
Another thing you can do is to install a font with jumbled characters: "a" looks like "x", "b" looks like "n", and so on. Then instead of writing "abc" you write "jmw" and it looks like "abc" on the screen. This has been used as a form of DRM for eBooks.

It breaks copy/paste and screen readers, but so does your idea.
by LorenPechtel | 2026-03-12 14:33:30+00:00
That's within the range you can acclimate to. They don't feel the altitude like we do.

I've made an attempt on Kilimanjaro. We ascended the first three days with porters but no guides. Our guides met us at that camp, they had come up in one day--they did it all the time, going from the surround to the summit in one day was possible and safe. For us--out of the question. The expected outcome would be unconsciousness before reaching the summit.
by UqWBcuFx6NV4r | 2026-03-12 14:33:37+00:00
Have you just woken up from a coma or have you literally just refused to evolve your “haha iPhones suck!” talking points from 2009? Move on. Nobody is going to engage with this.

I’m not surprised that the people in your social circles don’t care about being able to use a portable computer outside of their bedrooms. I assure you that in the real world battery life is front of mind for a great many people.

I’d also suggest not leaning so heavily on “but you get Nvidia!” when the crux of your gripe seems to be about brand hype. You are chasing a brand. You clearly do not know the first thing about the GPU/AI capabilities of the computers that you seem to hate so much.
by titzer | 2026-03-12 14:33:53+00:00
Not I didn't say that it isn't real, I just said it's not that rampant, and I was referring to the egregious examples in the article and the anecdote. But it's a sliding scale and being selective in presenting research results is a gray area that requires us to think about reproducibility and make sure we have good processes for discouraging, detecting, and correcting those kinds of dishonesty, too.

In my field (programming languages and compilers), conferences have started to adopt artifact submissions which include source and build instructions that are then independently replicated by volunteers who serve on artifact evaluation committees. It's a good step in the right direction.

And I'll also caution, again, that reasoning based on anecdotes can be distorted both ways. A tiny minority of people can claim the sky is falling and make it sound like Science is threatened by crisis. Those voices get amplified by the media and the attention economy and get blown out of proportion. What Science and institutions need is mechanisms that are fair and well-resourced and taken seriously. Those mechanisms and the people who volunteer time and effort to keep them running are the real heroes of Science, and breathless articles and anonymous anecdotes on the internet do not make up an accountability system.

If you see fraud, then REPORT IT to someone who can actually hold them accountable. Unsubstantiated and undirected accusations just spread distrust and do not increase accountability.
by obsrcdsucks | 2026-03-12 14:33:58+00:00
function decodeObscrd(htmlOrElement) {
let root;
if (typeof htmlOrElement === 'string') {
root = new DOMParser().parseFromString(htmlOrElement, 'text/html').body;
} else {
root = htmlOrElement || document;
}

const container = root.querySelector('[class*="obscrd-"]');
if (!container) { return; }

const words = [...container.children].filter(el => el.hasAttribute('data-o'));
words.sort((a, b) => +a.dataset.o - +b.dataset.o);

const result = words.map(word => {
const chars = [...word.querySelectorAll('[data-o]')]
.filter(el => el.querySelector('[data-o]') === null);
chars.sort((a, b) => +a.dataset.o - +b.dataset.o);
return chars.map(c => c.textContent).join('');
}).join('');

console.log(result);
return result;
}
by indiosmo | 2026-03-12 14:34:01+00:00
I usually instruct the agent to use the skills explicitly, e.g. "/writing-tests write the tests for @some-class.cpp"

So the skills are mostly a sort of on-demand AGENTS.md specific to the task.

Another example is I have a `plan-review` skill, so when planning something I add at the end of the prompt something like: "plan the task, .... then launch claude and codex /plan-review agents in parallel and take their findings into account before producing the final plan".
Show HN: I manually organized 1000 profiles (am I a dinosaur?)
by vadelfe | 2026-03-12 14:34:29+00:00
Over the last few months I've been doing something that feels completely irrational in 2026.

While everyone is building AI tools and automating everything, I started manually curating people from the internet who talk about topics that can help you improve different areas of life.

Not ranking them.
Not claiming they are “the best”.
Just organizing who talks about what.

The Process:
1,150+ sources (authors, founders, scientists, creators and regular people).
100% manual categorization. No AI scrapers.
Organized by categories, subcategories and intent-based tags (all done by hand).
Built entirely on spreadsheets before moving to this prototype.
Right now it's about 1000+ sources organized around topics like health, skills, business, mindset, and others.
I originally started doing this for myself because:

- I don't like that what I see online depends on an algorithm

- I know there's valuable content online, but finding it consistently is hard

- While organizing this, I kept discovering things I didn't know existed but were exactly what I needed

becometry.vercel.app

I'm genuinely curious:
In an AI-saturated internet, does the idea of human-curated discovery still make sense to you?
Does the 'Map' structure feel like a viable alternative to the way we consume information today?
Happy to answer anything and open to brutally honest feedback.
by mcphage | 2026-03-12 14:34:40+00:00
I don't want to sound like a shill, because I don't know them at all, and I still spend enough money on actual Lego. But I am really happy with it. Pieces were great, quality was great, I love the lights, I hate Lego's stickers. And the piece count was 2x or 2.5x what I'd get from Lego at the same price. And I love steampunk, and Lego doesn't have a steampunk line. I'll absolutely buy more from them, so (for me at least) their big Youtuber push last year worked.
by rchaud | 2026-03-12 14:34:43+00:00
It is a systemic risk because its size and credit risk is opaque, like mortgage-backed securities were in 2008.

Banks needs to disclose the % of non-performing home, auto, business loans to rating agencies and regulatory bodies so their credit risk is known, and so regulators they can set rules on how loose or tight lending criteria should be in the industry. With 'financial innovation' like tranched mortgage bonds rolling up thousands of mortgages at various levels of credit risk into one, they can be traded without anyone actually knowing what the default risk is.

With private credit, there is no disclosure requirement because the lenders are not banks. PC is financing the entire AI datacenter boom, without which GDP growth in the US is effectively zero. If PC defaults rise, the bottom could rapidly fall out of the S&P 500, which is already being hit by the oil price crisis, and affect people's 401Ks and retirement savings.
by someperson | 2026-03-12 14:35:15+00:00
> Triforce games can support two types of cards for saving: Magnetic Cards (magcards) and Integrated Circuit (IC) cards. Magcards are cheaper, fragile, and can only survive so many writes before failing. They have the added bonus of having a printable side, where the game can print a player's achievements and more. IC cards are more like old credit cards with a thicker plastic. They weren't printable, but were much sturdier.

Source with photos: https://dolphin-emu.org/blog/2026/02/16/rise-of-the-triforce...
by JumpCrisscross | 2026-03-12 14:35:19+00:00
I'm re-running some of the Fed's stress tests and, somehow, still find myself flabbergasted that DB is at the top of my risk list. Despite only having $12bn of exposure, if they see a 60% loss on that risk alone (assuming 60% recovery and 1.5x leverage), they breach their 4.5% capital requirement. That's the lowest threshold I'm finding across all of the banks the Fed stress tests.

Now 50% loss means wipe out. But given the size of the portfolio, there is also the concentration risk. A single private-credit firm going bust shouldn't take out a bank. But that seems–seems!–to be what I'm seeing.
by neon_me | 2026-03-12 14:35:19+00:00
Deeply moved by https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47021980 I set out to make Oat a bit nicer and add a few (important for me) components.

Somewhere along the way I succeeded in making it ... slightly slower and slightly bigger than upstream. Progress!

Curious what you people think. Contributions and your hate welcomed :)
by registeredcorn | 2026-03-12 14:36:07+00:00
Interested to know: when you experience that, have you addressed it directly and said that you have an issue with it, and want them to stop? If so, do they try to pretend they aren't doing it? Or do they apologize and own up to it? Or what? I've been on the interviewer-side, but haven't run into that. I would absolutely see that kind of thing as an ethics violation; like paying someone else to pretend to be you for the interview process.

Personally, any time I have ever been the interviewee, I write up notes for things to cover during an interview, or list a few common problems, etc. I've dealt with in the past, but I would strongly prefer to share my screen with them so they can see I'm not getting "assistance" from an LLM or whatever. I just personally get very, very stressed when I interview for a job. Having a simple set of notes helps keep me on track with covering XYZ.
by embedding-shape | 2026-03-12 14:36:25+00:00
I dunno, I'm more afraid of the syndrome where people seemingly stop reading after a word or two, instead of reading/listening to the full context and then understanding that maybe they'll explain what they mean by that later on.

Besides, almost starting to feel like something LLMs cannot replicate as easily, being strongly worded, it's a bit harder to coax commercial LLMs to be "mean" towards people, so if someone is "strongly opinionated", it almost makes the comment feel more human-like. But I digress.
by Pxtl | 2026-03-12 14:36:42+00:00
They were explaining US politics, not Middle East politics. Whether or not you see a first-world project to liberate Iran as legitimate, fundamentally the Trump government is too mercurial to see it through.

While the Bush-era invasion of Iraq was indefensible (if it was defensible they wouldn't have needed to push the WMD lie to justify it) and their initial projections were as ridiculously optimistic as the Trump government's, the Bush crew were clearly ideologically committed to the project and willing to see it through to the end.

Trump's people are not. This is "move fast and break things" and "strong opinions weakly held" in geopolitical form.
by aicoldtrail | 2026-03-12 14:37:14+00:00
Here are alternate possible rules for this; though I don't agree that making such distinction for every post is called for:

1. No AI comments without a human in the loop.

2. Please cite. Please cite when you use AI so that others can trace the errors and evaluate the premises of the argument. An argument has premises and a logical form.

We should expect the frequency of AI errors like hallucinations to decrease and accuracy to increase over time.

You should always consider peer review and getting another opinion regardless of whether AI or ML were used.

Do you need to cite AI?

If scientific reproducibility is necessary or important for your application,

You should also cite search queries, search results at that time, the name and version and software package hash of each software tool, the configuration parameters for each software tool, the URL and hash of the data, and whether you used spell check or autocorrect or an AI grammar service.

If you use an (AI) grammar service, you should disclose the model name and version, model hash or Merkle hash, and the model parameters.

But most people don't even cite URLs here; it's just people making unsupported arguments.
by spzzz | 2026-03-12 14:37:15+00:00
I see your point, and I agree the result can feel impersonal and stiff. But, I'd say the overall improvement is more important than one possible deterioration. Quotes are easy to put back if I'd think it was important (it was not in this case)

Please reply in Swedish only. Remember to not use any tool to translate to avoid subtle layers of meaning being removed. It's easy! /Native speaker ;)