MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by strcat | 2026-03-04 14:49:52+00:00
You're confusing Motorola Mobility with Motorola Solutions. These haven't been part of the same company since 2011. We would happily support devices from Motorola Solutions with their collaboration too but have no contact or partnership with them as they're an entirely different company. We want to support more devices meeting our requirements and if people have issues with one of the choices due to their opinions on geopolitics they can use another.
by amirjavid | 2026-03-04 14:49:53+00:00
I'm the builder. The motivation: lease math is technically disclosed on every
dealer document — MF is on page 3, fee breakdown is itemized — but it's not
in a format where you can act on it at signing.

A few things from these three deals that surprised me:

1. The Georgia TAVT has a feedback loop: each $1 of cash down reduces the
taxable depreciation base, which reduces the tax, which reduces NCC by ~$1.077,
not $1.00. Most calculators don't handle this.

2. The Louisiana dealer was $11 over the statutory doc fee cap. It's small
but it's illegal — and it's the kind of thing buried in a wall of line items.

3. The EV9 deal (Oregon) was actually clean — dealer at buy rate, $0 doc fee,
$0 add-ons. I wanted to include a "good deal" in the verification set because
if the tool only ever finds problems, that's its own bias.

The tool is at quotedefender.com — upload a screenshot of your lease quote and
it runs the same analysis. Happy to answer questions about the lease math or
any of the three specific deals.
by ewavonhowie | 2026-03-04 14:50:02+00:00
Howie is an early-stage startup building an AI platform for the architecture and engineering industry. We help enterprise teams reuse knowledge from past projects (documents, drawings, revisions) to reduce costly rework during planning and pre-construction.

We already have a live product used by paying customers across Europe and are working closely with leading architecture firms. Backed by Pi Labs and DAR.

We’re hiring a senior hands-on backend engineer to help design and evolve the core infrastructure of our system: multi-tenant architecture, ingestion pipelines, hybrid search, and large-scale document indexing.

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• reliability and performance under enterprise workloads

Requirements:
• 8+ years backend engineering experience
• strong systems design skills
• experience with distributed systems and async pipelines
• PostgreSQL expertise
• experience with Elasticsearch/OpenSearch or similar

Nice to have: vector databases, retrieval systems, document processing, ML infrastructure.

Small team (currently <10 engineers), high ownership, real production users.

Location: Vienna or remote within Europe
Comp: competitive salary + meaningful equity

Full JD:
https://howie.systems/careers

Contact: contact@howie.systems
by strcat | 2026-03-04 14:50:02+00:00
You're confusing Motorola Mobility with Motorola Solutions. These haven't been part of the same company since 2011. We would happily support devices from Motorola Solutions with their collaboration too but have no contact or partnership with them as they're an entirely different company. We want to support more devices meeting our requirements and if people have issues with one of the choices due to their opinions on geopolitics they can use another.
by ChrisMarshallNY | 2026-03-04 14:50:12+00:00
Not in some time (retired). I have seen lots of iPads in medical facilities. In fact, just this morning, I was looking at one, with a badly-designed app for checking in patients.

Many of the patients are older folks. They tend to press long and hard on the big buttons.

A sensible app developer traps tap and long-touch, and sends them both to the same handler. This developer only catches the tap event, and ignores long-touch. The attendant was getting grumpy, because she had to keep telling patients "tap 'gently'."

It's just me, I know, but I get salty, when I see this kind of careless UI design (it was the app's fault -not the iPad's). I know that the medical group paid big bucks for the app.
by jitl | 2026-03-04 14:50:17+00:00
A18 is ahead of M1 single core, slightly behind in multi core on Geekbench

https://browser.geekbench.com/v6/cpu/compare/16858435?baseli...

you’re essentially getting an m1 macbook air with a worse keyboard

a quality used m1 air on ebay is about $400 w 256gb storage https://www.ebay.com/sch/i.html?_nkw=m1+macbook+air&_trksid=...
by giancarlostoro | 2026-03-04 14:51:05+00:00
On the one hand I feel like 8GB is low these days, but my iPhone 12 Pro only had 6GB of RAM, so maybe for light usage this is fine. I do feel like 16GB is the new "8GB" minimum of the 2010s. Especially on windows, 32GB feels like Windows just chews through it no problem.

Overall, I might pick one of these up at some point.
by ndriscoll | 2026-03-04 14:51:09+00:00
> A pretty interesting feature of ECH is that the server does not need to validate the public name (it MAY) , so clients can use public_name's that middleboxes (read: censors) approve to connect to other websites. I'm trying to get this added to the RustTLS client[1], now might be a good time to pick that back up.

Note that it is exactly this type of thing that makes age verification laws reasonable. You're making it technically impossible for even sophisticated parents to censor things without a non-solution like "don't let kids use a computer until they're 18", so naturally the remaining solution is a legal one to put liability on service operators.
by cloverich | 2026-03-04 14:51:32+00:00
It's easy to gloss over this assessment but ultimately this needs to be a key decision point for where you choose to work. No matter how well you manage complexity as an IC or a lower tier leader, if your upper tier of leaders don't value it, it won't last. Simplicity IME is not a "tail that wags the dog" concept. It's too easy to stomp out if nobody in power cares.
Show HN: AI Code Review CLI
by eddelgado | 2026-03-04 14:51:34+00:00
This week we released the Kodus CLI.

It took a bit longer than we expected to ship. The reason was simple: there are already many ways to run reviews locally today. IDEs, extensions, terminal commands, agents inside the editor. So building “just another AI CLI” didn’t seem like a good idea.

The question that guided the project was different: how can we bring the quality of PR reviews to the moment when the code is still being written?

Today the CLI does two main things.

The first is running local reviews using the same context we use in PRs. The goal was to avoid that shallow review that only looks at the diff currently open in the editor. We try to reconstruct more repository context, similar to what happens during a PR review.

The second is helping resolve comments that Kody has already left on a PR, but directly from the local environment. Instead of opening the PR, reading the comment, going back to the editor, making the change, and repeating the process, you can work through those fixes directly in your coding workflow.

The whole idea revolves around reducing the feedback loop time.

Some design decisions came from things we heard from teams using other CLIs.

Auth in large teams often turns into friction.
Many tools assume each developer will create an account before using the CLI. That becomes painful when someone just wants to try it, or when an entire team decides to experiment.

We introduced team keys. An admin generates the key and shares it with the team. Anyone who installs the CLI can start using it right away.

Rate limits can ruin the local experience.
Some tools work well at first but become too restricted for continuous use.

The CLI runs BYOK by default, so you can use your own API key if you want.

Code agents are already part of the workflow.
Instead of treating this as something separate, we built two layers.

The CLI works as a direct interface to our API.
On top of that, there are Skills that teach agents how to use the same review flow.

There’s still a lot to improve. Repo context, how suggestions are presented, integration with different developer workflows. We’re using it heavily internally and adjusting things as problems show up.

If anyone wants to try it or contribute:

- repo: https://github.com/kodustech/cli
- feedback is very welcome
- issues and PRs are too

If you usually run local reviews, I’d be curious to hear what actually works and what only sounds good in theory.
by PKop | 2026-03-04 14:51:35+00:00
Eh, it's a good answer and shows good instincts, but they still want to know how he would design a system if one was necessary. There's no need to be ridiculous about any of this from either perspective, which is why it should never have been a "fail" without the original interviewer simply saying "That's a solid answer now tell me what you would do if you had to build something new". I mean look how much time he wasted for everyone including his own CEO by being stubborn about it.
by ericmay | 2026-03-04 14:52:30+00:00
I think they very intentionally assume folks are not running VMs or doing much more than "every day" tasks. Given the pre-packaged E-Waste sold at most retailers for a similar price (or more) I think this is a really fantastic market move by Apple. This is doubly true as I read weirder and weirder things that Microsoft is doing with respect to Windows 12 and, well, in general.
by twalichiewicz | 2026-03-04 14:52:39+00:00
Looks like they're using some new variant of branding font for this. Inspect Element shows it as SF Pro Display, but it's actually just being masked over with an image

https://www.apple.com/v/macbook-neo/a/images/overview/welcom...

Also, why not just MacBook? Wasn't that historically the base-level laptop name?
by Nevermark | 2026-03-04 14:52:42+00:00
> I don't feel like the abstraction away from assembly language resulted in fewer software engineering jobs.

Given the models are unlikely to stop getting better, I think it is fair to say the human contribution is going to keep getting "leaner".

That is going to change the job, but also head count.

But I agree harnessing models opens up opportunities for better product design, ... but only ... everywhere.

The people who design the most usable software have always been in a minority. They will be valuable for some time.
by port11 | 2026-03-04 14:52:53+00:00
I think your view is lazy. The article explains some of the actual reasons, none of which have to do with laziness.

I’ve built for Electron and did a course on Swift for macOS apps. Not out of laziness, but I don’t think I’d ever build native for Macs. And the Windows folk have been complaining for a long time about the native APIs.

Now, native on mobile, that’s something else. I’ve been stuck on RN/Expo because that’s what the resources the business had allowed for, but native Kotlin is much more enjoyable (AFAIK). Swift… dunno, still icky.
by Aurornis | 2026-03-04 14:53:02+00:00
That’s a terrible interview question. When I was helping with interview prep people would do post-mortems of their interviews and ask for advice. There were a lot of situations like yours where someone got sniped into arguing the merit of the question, sending the interview off the tracks.

Many just want to vent about bad interview questions and that’s fine, but the practical advice I gave was to remind yourself that some people write interview questions like word problems on a math exam; The specifics of the word problem are arbitrary and possibly illogical. You have to provide a solution and show your work because that’s the only part they care about.

This is most obvious when the questions are completely and obviously arbitrary, like “We need to print the number on each line, unless it’s divisible by 3 in which case we need to print ‘Fizz’…” (Although I have talked to people who got triggered into arguing the merit of FizzBuzz questions in an interview which, predictably, ended the interview early).

For questions like this I always advised that you assume it’s a word problem designed for the context of an interview. A good response would be “Well I would suggest Google Sheets because this is a solved problem! But if we assume we need a simple custom solution for other reasons I’d gather the requirements and propose a simple web form that captures…”.

Frustrating? Yes. But arguing the interview questions or trying to give shortcut responses that miss the point of word problems is only going to frustrate the interviewers.
by opan | 2026-03-04 14:53:03+00:00
Lenovo has long had a separate board for the power connector you could separately replace. This is likely a continuation of that idea. I had an X220 Tablet (Released in 2011) from eBay that was sparking when I plugged it in. IIRC I just unscrewed and rescrewed the charging board and then it worked again. I guess there was some short, maybe it was loose. It would've been easy to replace just that part if it had failed completely.
by Imustaskforhelp | 2026-03-04 14:53:09+00:00
However, with the recent Macbook Neo. I actually went ahead and recommended Neo. Especially to a friend of mine whose going into college soon and has asked me what they should buy.

Now the 8gb can be concern to some but not to many IMO. And I am also feeling just a bit optimistic that Apple will realize that the largest criticism of this product can be that it doesn't have 16GB otherwise even more people can buy so in the future, I expect 16 GB to be possible too (When Ram bubble finally bursts)
by ewavonhowie | 2026-03-04 14:53:14+00:00
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Early-stage startup building an AI platform that helps architecture and engineering teams reuse knowledge from past projects (documents, drawings, revisions) to reduce costly rework in planning and pre-construction.

You’ll work on multi-tenant backend systems powering hybrid search, document ingestion pipelines, and large-scale indexing across complex engineering datasets.

Stack / areas: PostgreSQL, Elasticsearch/OpenSearch, vector search, distributed systems, async pipelines.

Looking for:
8+ years backend engineering experience, strong systems design skills, experience with distributed systems and production B2B SaaS.

Small team (currently <10 engineers), high ownership, real production users.

Backed by Pi Labs and DAR.

Full JD: https://howie.systems/careers
Contact: contact@howie.systems
by sito42 | 2026-03-04 14:53:48+00:00
> Now people barely bring it up at all. It’s like a lion has escaped the zoo and it’s gulping down schoolchildren, but when people suggest zoo improvements, all the agenda items are like, “We should add another Dippin’ Dots kiosk”. If you bring up the loose tiger, everyone gets annoyed at you, like “Of course, no one likes the tiger”.
by kevincox | 2026-03-04 14:53:50+00:00
LineageOS provides ADB root access in stock builds. Sure, it isn't as convenient as some su apps but at least I can use ADB to access every file on the device. It probably also improves the attack surface compared to a su app.

> It very directly harms the security model

What do you mean by this? You mean that it is a "god permission" that bypasses other permissions? If so then yes, with great power comes great responsibility and it shouldn't be used lightly.

> and is not a good approach to implementing any of the features hacked together through it.

Maybe not, but is there an alternative? What is your recommended way to access all files of any app? This is my primary use case. Modification would also be valuable but I would be ok with read-only access.

> Giving root access to a huge portion of the OS harms security even if you never use the feature.

Can you explain why root access must be given to a huge portion of the OS? Why can't it be limited to specific apps or features (like ADB shell)?

> It does not mean you can't do it, we only recommend you don't.

Of course. It is your right to recommend whatever you want :)
by powerwild | 2026-03-04 14:53:50+00:00
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by microtonal | 2026-03-04 14:53:51+00:00
That doesn't make much sense. They do lean/JIT manufacturing, so it's unlikely that they have too many iPhone boards. Also, the tooling for a completely new alu unibody size for just selling a few iPhone boards does not make much sense.

This is very clearly targeted at Chromebooks in education, where the iPad is not doing too great:

https://www.businessinsider.com/how-apple-lost-the-k-12-educ...
by shimman | 2026-03-04 14:53:55+00:00
This says more about you and the people you work with. I find engineers that have been at the company for a while are quite invaluable when it comes to this information, it's not just knowing the how but the when + why that's critical as well.

Acting like people can't be good at their job is frankly dehumanizing and says a lot about your mindset with how you view other fellow devs.
by Peritract | 2026-03-04 14:53:56+00:00
It's not "I forgot my password though". It's

- I forgot my password and Microsoft is sending reset emails to the account that that password bars.

- I remember my password but now it says I need a passkey and I don't know what that is.

- I forgot my password and in the process of resetting it, Microsoft created a duplicate account.

All of the above are real problems that I have seen in the wild. I could list many more.

Given that Microsoft knows--and has always known--user limitations, it behooves them to design idiot-proof software, not continually release poorly-designed changes.
by kekqqq | 2026-03-04 14:53:57+00:00
> Get on my level, son. It’ll be one man unicorns, new breed of CEOs running army of openclaws. I’ll have you fucking know that I’ve just launched “build me a next unicorn” prompt and 1000 agents have been running nonstop for a week.

Woah, what is that 2026? Emulating the economy using human flesh is obsolete. Just emulate the entire C-suite with the fleet of agents in the latent space of LLMs running on the orbital datacenters, powered by the same solar energy that used to keep humans warm.
by aeblyve | 2026-03-04 14:54:03+00:00
I don't know much about UL but I can say that FCC certification (also technically required) for electronics can range from about $3k to something like $30k depending on what you're doing.

($3k would be for "unintentional radiator" device, i.e., not supposed to be a radio, $30k would be for "intentional radiator" device, i.e., supposed to be a radio)
by Agingcoder | 2026-03-04 14:54:06+00:00
Optane was supposed to fill the gap but Intel never found a market for this.

Flash is still extremely slow compared to ram, including modern flash, especially in a world where ram is already very slow and your cpu already keeps waiting for it.

That being said, you should consider ram/flash/spinning to be all part of a storage hierarchy with different constants and tradeoffs ( volatile or not, big or small , fast or slow etc ), and knowing these tradeoffs will help you design simpler and better systems.
by chrisandchris | 2026-03-04 14:54:14+00:00
No, it was a perfectly fine question IMHO. it is a broken incentive - it is expected that you design complex systems regardless whether they are useful or not. Try to interview for the role you have to fill, nor for a role you a dreaming you would love to have whenever you're Google2.

If the interview wants you to think about stuff that never happens in your role, I think it is a sign that in your role, you're expected to solve the problems like in the interview.
by hombre_fatal | 2026-03-04 14:54:48+00:00
I've vibe coded all sorts of apps for my macbook.

A better replacement to iStat Menus.

A local-only voice to text whisper.cpp transcriber I can globally use while holding ctrl-semicolon.

A menubar app that manages blocky and can easily turn it off or change dns.

A tool like hammerspoon but I configure it via nix-darwin and it has no cruft.

All of these are apps that use 30MB memory and are better than the apps they replace, and I can make changes any time I want. That's far better than using someone else's software and giving it privileged access to my machine.

Also, perhaps the best point is that so much software is junk that is obsoleted by someone with better UX intuitions even if they are vibe-coding it. Being written by hand by an engineer means basically nothing when it comes to "is this a good app?" Which is why product-minded people are the biggest winners in the new AI era.
by WarcrimeActual | 2026-03-04 14:54:49+00:00
I think that you're drastically understating how great this is for actual general use. The problem is we have an extremely inflated idea of what general use is. People that frequent places like HN think it's light to moderate coding and a few different dev environments. That's not general use. That's power user stuff to the majority of users. Browsers, very light photo editing, and email/school/office work is general use and this will do that for the next 10 years.
by NoLinkToMe | 2026-03-04 14:55:05+00:00
The newest entry-level Air is $1100, this is $600, or $500 difference. It's significant.

Apple released the M1 MBA for $999 and it was considered insane value, and it had 8GB of RAM as well.

I don't think it's criminal, sufficient for plenty of casual users. Of course not for everyone.
by mrweasel | 2026-03-04 14:55:19+00:00
I have one of those, it's perfectly fine for everything I do. 8GB of RAM isn't a lot, but I've never run into issues with it not being enough.

The M1 and A18 seems rather similar, but I might be concerned that the integrated GPU isn't as capable as the one in the M1. I guess they picked the A18 because they make them and because the NPU much better and Apple cares more about AI than I do.
by Imustaskforhelp | 2026-03-04 14:55:20+00:00
These are probably gonna have a decent resell value. Macbook products have a very higher resell value compared to say chromebooks/normal laptops.

I can imagine schools buying them for their students and then taking them after the semester is over and then giving to next but also reselling it at a very nice value if they might want the next line of product at a decent price.

Also this not only applies to school but normal people who buy the Macbook Neo too
by _janc_ | 2026-03-04 14:55:36+00:00
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by misja111 | 2026-03-04 14:55:40+00:00
This is not entirely true. In an environment driven by business stakeholders, the engineer who ships features quickly, and that break rarely in production, will be greatly appreciated.
The engineer who takes weeks to over-engineer a simple feature, which then runs into unexpected side issues in production, much less so.

The environment where the over-engineer tends to be promoted is one where the engineering department is (too) far separated from where the end users are. Think of very large organizations with walled departments, or organizations where there simply is not enough to do so engineers start to build stuff to fight non existing issues.