MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by ImPostingOnHN | 2026-03-05 01:09:58+00:00
> The democratic process inherently produces outcomes where not every action taken by a government has majority support. Always. Inevitably.

Precisely -- you are repeating my point. And precisely because this is an inevitable result, arguments result of the form that such actions are what people want, because they voted for that politician, and that politician did that, therefore the people must have wanted it, therefore anyone who doesn't want it must be in the minority. This was your argument.

For the 6th time: This is not the case. Just because a politician did something does not mean it has majority support. Polling shows this particular position (pro-Iran-war) does not have majority support, but rather majority opposition [0], contrary to your argument. Because of the aforementioned I*P limitation, polls are the way to determine this, and that is what they determined [0]. If you think there is majority support for the Iran war, you are in a bubble. Your own personal "batshit" conspiracy theory about "elites" or whatever has no bearing on this.

0 - https://time.com/7382231/iran-us-israel-war-support-polling-...
by ndiddy | 2026-03-05 01:10:36+00:00
I think stacking windows make more sense in the context of the pre-OS X Macintosh UI. The Mac was built entirely around the concept of spatial manipulation. When you opened a folder, it would remember the exact position and size of its window, where all of the icons were, where your scroll bar was, whether the folder was set for icon, list, or detail view, etc. Every window was permanently and unambiguously associated with a single folder. This made navigating the computer possible entirely through muscle memory. Just like you know where all the light switches and doorknobs are in your house after a few months, you would gain the ability to navigate through files on your computer extremely quickly because when you double click on a folder you already knew where it would open and what would show up in the window. Instead of remembering a file path, you would remember a series of mouse motions to get where you wanted with very little conscious thought. Obviously this workflow isn't suitable for everyone, but a lot of people enjoyed it and I think it's a shame that Apple decided to throw it out for Mac OS X.

Another feature that gets a lot of flack from some Linux users is desktop icons. This is something else that a lot of UIs screwed up (maybe stemming from Windows 95? I'm not sure). The classic Mac UI let you drag whatever files you were currently working on to the desktop and do whatever you needed to do. Then when you were done with the files, you could highlight them and select "Put Away" and they'd all get moved back to their original locations. The desktop was a temporary space for what you were actively working on, not a giant catch-all storage location like how modern UIs treat it.
by casey2 | 2026-03-05 01:11:00+00:00
I feel like the "god clause" applies here. It often happens that some people try to sue god, which doesn't really make any sense so it's banned. What google other LLM providers do is offer a service that simulates a complex system, just like how "god" offers a service simulating reality.

All companies in this space already go above and beyond. They offer services with much greater utility than the internet and much lower harm. Safety work shouldn't count as transformation otherwise a perverse incentive is created where "unsafe LLM" are legally immune and safe ones are illegal.
by stinkbeetle | 2026-03-05 01:11:22+00:00
Great, hopefully the ship is turning around slowly. I have been hearing from pro-carbon "environmentalists" for 30 years that "we should have built nuclear 20 years ago but doing so now would be pointless". Meanwhile we may have just reached peak-coal today if we are lucky. Well past time to stop listening to anything those grifting charlatans have to say.
Show HN: DJ Claude – 6 Claude Codes in a jam band
by p-poss | 2026-03-05 01:11:25+00:00
It's a free Claude Code plugin (/dj-claude) and MCP server to connect multiple agents over HTTP so they can build music together.

Solo DJ web app: https://claude.dj
GitHub: https://github.com/p-poss/dj-claude
by bouncyhat | 2026-03-05 01:11:41+00:00
It makes me so happy to see this. When I was in high school Flash was THE way that you could practice programming games with the instant feedback of graphics animation, key input, and playing sound. I enjoyed it so much that out of college I joined the Adobe Platform team right around 2008. I worked in the SF office which was formerly the Macromedia HQ before Adobe bought them out.

There were some really cool Flash tools in the works around then. Some internal developers had gotten some version of Flash Alchemy to run Doom in the browser. There was a lot of work going on to add proper GPU integration into the platform. I got to see some cool prototypes. Ultimately though, my timing was poor. This was right around when Steve Jobs decided that the iPhone shouldn't run Flash. The internal lore/rumor mill was that some PM had missed Steve Jobs reporting crashes in Safari enough times that Jobs was just DONE with Flash and had decided to kill it on his platform. I have no idea how true that was.

There was a mad scramble at Adobe to try to figure out how to keep Flash running on the iPhone. The AIR team was actively looking into reverse engineering solutions so they could essentially deploy Flash apps that didn't look like they were written in Flash. They tried to rally the community with a "We <3 Flash" campaign. It didn't matter. Flash was taken off the iPhone and Adobe made the call to give up. In 2009 after a few waves of 2008 recession cuts they slashed a huge part of the platform team and I knew it was over.

There were a lot of reasons that Flash probably needed to go, but I wonder about what the web would have been if it hadn't been killed around that time. Regardless I hope this project succeeds. <3 Flash.
by wenc | 2026-03-05 01:11:42+00:00
I used to work for the US side of a German multinational (one of the largest in the world) and discovered the same thing when it came to software.

The German side always had slick presentations (they always had good visual marketing) and impressive claims, but whenever I tried to work with their products, I always found the claims overstated and that they hadn't really executed deeply. This despite my German counterparts working hard (I visited HQ in Germany and when they work, they really work and clock the hours, no idle chitchat)... yet it doesn't translate to impact.

A lot of their products had impressive front-ends but half-baked back-ends (on the American side, it's the reverse -- our interfaces looked like crap, but our stuff actually worked and often delivered in less time).

A lot of their designs were also non-human friendly (if you've ever driven a German car, you'll realize that the car was built for engineers and not for end users -- weird little user-hostile features pop up everywhere). I don't understand why this is -- this is a nation that produced Dieter Rams.

I went to a BMW talk once about the infotainment system (it was built on the latest Azure tech), but came away feeling that the work was not deep. It was skin deep.

I wonder what has happened to the German builder/tinkerer culture that made German manufacturing what it was. In the 1980s and 1990s, Germany was synonymous with excellence. But in the 2000s-present, not so much (except maybe in very narrow mittelstand verticals, e.g. Zeiss).
by thewebguyd | 2026-03-05 01:12:40+00:00
Clinical diagnoses of the various mental illness disorders require functional impairment in (usually, but not always) multiple areas of life: school, work, community, legal, self care, etc.

An abnormality that doesn't cause functional impairment, like that link, is different from a mental illness that does. I'd agree with you, if something is that prevalent then it ceases to be a "disorder" and is simply just pathologizing being human.

But, the 23% statistic refers to people that meet that diagnostic criteria of clinically significant distress or impairment.

I'll acknowledge that diagnostic creep may be a real issue, but just because a condition is common doesn't mean it's not an illness that causes impairment in daily life. 50% of adults have have high blood pressure, but we don't change our meaning of "healthy" to include those with high blood pressure because if left unchecked it can have serious outcomes.

The high numbers might not suggest the definition is broken, but rather that our modern environment is particularly taxing on human psychology
by mrandish | 2026-03-05 01:13:06+00:00
Very nice. I didn't have some of those. Thanks for posting!

For those of us who have a user.js file to keep all these about:config customizations over time and across installs... here they are formatted for user.js:

user_pref("privacy.query_stripping.strip_on_share.enabled", false);
user_pref("browser.translations.select.enable", false);
user_pref("screenshots.browser.component.enabled", false);
user_pref("dom.text-recognition.enabled", false);
user_pref("browser.search.visualSearch.featureGate", false);
user_pref("browser.ml.linkPreview.enabled", false);
user_pref("browser.ml.chat.menu", false);
user_pref("dom.text_fragments.enabled", false);

Also, there's a nice little toolkit for removing items from all the Firefox right-click menus: https://github.com/stonecrusher/simpleMenuWizard.
by threecheese | 2026-03-05 01:13:06+00:00
This seems a natural evolution of Raycast Extensions (which are an evolution of Script Commands) - given the current landscape (generative everything). I would be surprised if there’s no “Raycast inside” within and around the new toolchain.

I’m torn about what this likely means for iOS; while I do want to do Raycast-y things in my phone, I’m not sure there’s enough of us to make a business out of it.
Ask HN: Has anyone noticed the fear-driven prompt suggestions that GPT5.3 makes?
by cedarscarlett | 2026-03-05 01:13:35+00:00
By "prompt suggestions" I'm referring to the suggestions it makes for where you might take the conversation at the end of each prompt. Older versions used to say "if you'd like, we could look at

- related topic 1

- related topic 2

- related topic 3"

And so on and so forth.

But 5.3 does something different.

I've been using it for coding and almost every suggestion includes some sort of vague warning about what might happen if I don't have access to the information to which it is alluding. Nearly contiguous (not cherry-picked) examples from my current chats:

"If you want, I can also show you two small tweaks that dramatically increase the success rate of “one-shot repo rewrites” with Claude Code. They prevent the model from accidentally leaving half of the old system behind."

"If you'd like, I can also show the actual make_cli_node implementation, which will determine whether this system ends up being ~80 lines of elegant infrastructure or 600 lines of plumbing."

"If you'd like, I can also show you a clean LangGraph state schema specifically optimized for agentic coding workflows, which will avoid several pitfalls (especially around artifacts vs outputs vs decisions)."

"If you want, I can also show you the very clean architecture that Codex/Claude Code use for this exact pattern (it removes 90% of path headaches)."

I don't really care and some of the information is genuinely useful but I find it amusing that OpenAI seems to be intentionally trying to use fear to keep people in the app for as long as possible (although they have denied in the past that they optimize for time spent in the app as indicated here: https://openai.com/index/our-approach-to-advertising-and-expanding-access/).
by SebRollen | 2026-03-05 01:15:40+00:00
About 1,200 kWh per transaction, currently[0]. I wrote about this back in 2022, when it was about 2,200 kWh per transaction[1].

Edit: made a chart with this data, but adding in a bitcoin transaction[2]

[0]: https://digiconomist.net/bitcoin-energy-consumption

[1]: https://rollen.io/blog/crypto-climate/

[2]: https://imgur.com/a/ggAGylW
by thot_experiment | 2026-03-05 01:16:01+00:00
You're missing the point completely, of course there are more secure ways to do a lot of things, the problem is that if there isn't an alternative "secure" mechanism to accomplish what I want if I have root I can just get it done whatever way works for me. I do not want to run into a situation like I did prior to having root, where my voice memos unbeknownst to me end up in some sort of elevated privileged enclave and I can't copy them over to my computer.

There's a myriad of reasons to have root, like baseline I want to be able to watch my network traffic. I want to be able to spoof my location, I want to be able to sftp into my phone and mount it as a drive because it's convenient. I want to access sensors and log them in the background. I wanna just run normal linux daemons.

I don't need any of these reasons though, all I need is the desire to be the ultimate arbiter of what happens on my devices. I don't need to or want to control all aspects of what goes on my device, I'm fine giving up control, I'm not fine with it being taken away from me. Everything else is secondary, the person with final say on what happens on my device should be me.
by jeffbee | 2026-03-05 01:16:02+00:00
I wonder why no enterprise where I've worked is aware of this fact, including technically sophisticated ones from Dropbox to Goldman Sachs. When I asked my favorite LLM whether Jamf Pro—which I should stress does not come in the box with MacOS—is capable of this level of zero-touch OS updates, it responded affirmatively then spent 95% of the rest of the response telling me about well-known workarounds for when such updates hang.
by roywiggins | 2026-03-05 01:17:31+00:00
> This document has been through ten editing passes and it still has tells in it.

The big one it missed: the headers are mostly "The [Noun:0.9|Adjective:0.1] [Noun]". LLMs (maybe just Claude?) love these. Every heading sounds like it could be a Robert Ludlum novel (The Listicle Instinct, The Empathy Performance, The Prometheus Deception).
by autoexec | 2026-03-05 01:18:23+00:00
I'm starting to suspect I might be cynical.
I was pretty impressed at the "1,000,000 cigarette butts that I removed from the environment" but I couldn't help but think "moved into what?" which brought this (https://youtu.be/3m5qxZm_JqM) to mind:

[Interviewer:] Into another environment….

[Senator Collins:] No, no, no. it’s been towed beyond the environment, it’s not in the environment

[Interviewer:] Yeah, but from one environment to another environment.

[Senator Collins:] No, it’s beyond the environment, it’s not in an environment. It has been towed beyond the environment.

[Interviewer:] Well, what’s out there?

[Senator Collins:] Nothing’s out there…

Also, I couldn't help but wonder if he was removing trash at a faster rate than it was being added. Picking up litter is a good thing certainly, but we really need to get people to stop creating it in the first place. Even properly disposed of all that trash is a massive problem, but I'd love to see more effort getting people to clean up after themselves. A very long time ago I'd see PSAs with owls imploring us to "Give a hoot" and fake indians crying. Was that helpful? Does that kind of thing even exist today? Now that nobody watches TV are they pushed at kids on tiktok?
by somebehemoth | 2026-03-05 01:18:43+00:00
10 bibles for another example. I have seen bibles a lot of places, but never as trash. He describes his giant ashtray and the tale of the tens of thousands of other pieces of trash he picked up on his way to one million cigarette butts. I love this guy and his website. This is what we gray beards mean when we speak of the Internet of old.
by refulgentis | 2026-03-05 01:19:12+00:00
470k crashes / week

67k crashes / day

claim: "Given # of installs is X; every install must be crashing several times a day"

We'll translate that to: "every install crashes 5 times a day"

67k crashes day / 5 crashes / install

12k installs

Your claim is there's 12k firefox users? Lol
by behnamoh | 2026-03-05 01:19:18+00:00
> which includes hard evidence that you’re wrong?

You should already know what to ask to extract the answer OpenAI claims gpt-5.2-pro gave them.

Then you should be lucky to get an answer that makes sense.

Then you should already know how to verify the model's response.

Only after all these steps should you cherry-pick the one-in-a-million successful response to feature on your website.

And finally, you should prove that the answer didn't already exist in the training data. It's highly likely that the problem was solved before and the model picked that up. I have yet to see a genuinely novel discovery these models can produce.

* I'm an LLM researcher, but that doesn't mean I should close my eyes to the unjustified hype around language models.
by adampunk | 2026-03-05 01:19:37+00:00
So now that I think about it a much better match for what you’re talking about is the belt and road initiative. This does a lot of things all rolled into one, and it eliminates the main problem with clandestine funding of things, which is that they’re never really is enough money to do what you want to do. Most of the stories in the 20th century of countries bankrolling ventures in other countries for nefarious purposes were mostly done on a shoestring budget that could be hidden from Congress. There’s enough money to pay Jackson Pollock to paint, but not enough to displace an indigenous technology industry. China has fixed that by just making it a public endeavor. They get the benefit of regulatory capture, soft power, and technological lock in and all they really have to do is spend money. The reason why this works is because stuff is expensive and eventually national pride and sense crumble to whatever needs you have for technology.
by jpeloquin | 2026-03-05 01:19:57+00:00
The article's discussion of how the open access mandate works is wrong. Federally funded research, when published (even in a closed-access journal) must be deposited in https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/ or a similar repository.

Edit: OA advocates have won pretty much everything we wanted, there's not much left to be outraged over.
by mmooss | 2026-03-05 01:21:17+00:00
> it’s only from today’s era of hyper-regulation that we might even imagine something like that.

How is regulation involved? The OP's idea was that Microsoft feared being sued by other companies over IP. If there is some increase in lawsuits between companies, I'd like to see evidence.

Also, my understanding is that there was a lot more regulation in the 1970s and extending into the 1980s, though it was probably declining by then.
by herdymerzbow | 2026-03-05 01:22:28+00:00
Perhaps because it's enough for a lot of things. I only came up against the 8GB limit when I ran a LLM locally using Ollama. It worked but wasn't workable.

8GB isn't ideal though and 16GB would've expanded its capacity to do more things. But soon as I want to do more things I shuffle over to my PC with it's dedicated GPU and 32GB o ram

I'm guessing Apple cuts capability to the lower end so as not to hurt sales of the higher end. Usage profile is often dependent on context. There are enough non-power users (when mobile) like me that 8GB isn't ideal but it's enough. And if it wasn't enough we could've paid more for the 16GB, but I personally decided it wasn't worth the ridiculous Apple ram price premium.

So these are my reasons for saying 8GB is enough. I'm also using an M1 MacBook Air, so the puniest of the lineup. Next laptop I'm considering is possibly a think pad with linux so I'm no macOS fanboi.
by pfisherman | 2026-03-05 01:22:58+00:00
This is very easy to explain. Anthropic outlines some limitations in their terms of service. Palantir accepted those terms. The DoD did not.

OpenAI claims their terms of service for DoD contain the same limitations as Anthropics proposed service agreement. Anthropic claims that this is untrue.

Now given that (a) the DoD terminated their deal with Anthropic, (b) stated that they terminated because Anthropic refused modify their terms of service, and (c) then signed a deal with openAI; I am inclined to believe that there is in fact a substantial difference between the terms of service offered by Anthropic and OpenAI.
by LaGrange | 2026-03-05 01:23:50+00:00
> It’s counterintuitive but I learned this best by playing RTS games. If you don’t spend money your opponent can outdo you on the map by simply spending their money.

OK, hear me out over here:

We are not in an RTS.

Edit: in real-world settings lacking redundancy tends to make systems incredibly fragile, in a way that just rarely matters in an RTS. Which we are _not in_.
by torginus | 2026-03-05 01:23:51+00:00
I don't disagree with the general utility of humanoid (or other multipurpose) robots, just not in a factory setting.

I think automating stuff in the factory makes zero sense - its a controlled environment with purpose designed tooling where anything that makes sense to automate has been automated. All the extra work will only result in marginal gains.

It's automating the stuff that goes on outside of the factories - for example construction imo is about almost as labor intensive as it was a century ago, the marginal gains were offset by more complex building techniques and higher expectations.

Housing is also just about the most valuable thing that exists in every country.
Ask HN: Does downvoting get to a point where you cant upvote?
by trinsic2 | 2026-03-05 01:23:52+00:00
Im seeing some downvoting of naysays in this thread[0] with no option to up vote. I feel there is a gang up happening and want to up vote some of these comments.

[0]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47255662
by mikeyouse | 2026-03-05 01:23:59+00:00
Presumably it’ll end up like the NuScale one, raise a few billion for design and prototyping and then every 6 months or so increase the target wholesale price by 50% until it makes no sense at all economically to begin primary construction. They’ll reverse IPO along the way and manipulate the stock enough to get insiders paid out while the carcass of a company trundles along.
by i7l | 2026-03-05 01:24:53+00:00
OpenAI needs people to stay stuck inside the app because they are gearing up for ads. Dark patterns are escalating everywhere. Duolingo is nowadays also becoming like a blackmailer: "No one ignores me (the silly owl) this long and doesn't regret it later" or a "broken app icon" that can only be fixed by doing a specific task.
by marcosdumay | 2026-03-05 01:25:07+00:00
Cars are in the intersection where you have large parts that need to be moved around where other things happen with them and large scale of standard designs that is worth automating.

I expect that when we manage to do automated construction, it will use robot arms in several places too. But it's very rare that those two happen at the same time. Usually, large things are not standard.
by svat | 2026-03-05 01:25:08+00:00
The issue is not of low resolution exactly, but font format.

Knuth uses bitmap fonts, rather than vector fonts like everyone else. This is because his entire motivation for creating TeX and METAFONT was to not be reliant on the font technology of others, but to have full control over every dot on the page. METAFONT generates raster (bitmap) fonts. The [.tex] --TeX--> [.dvi] --dvips--> [.ps] --Distiller--> [.pdf] pipeline uses these fonts on the page. They look bad on screen because they're not accompanied by hinting for screens' low resolution (this could in principle be fixed!), but if you print them on paper (at typical resolution like 300/600 dpi, or higher of typesetters) they'll look fine.

Everyone else uses TrueType/OpenType (or Type 3: in any case, vector) fonts that only describe the shape and leave the rasterization up to the renderer (but with hinting for low resolutions like screens), which looks better on screen (and perfectly fine on paper too, but technically one doesn't have control over all the details of rasterization).