MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by SoftTalker | 2026-03-12 13:32:58+00:00
In fact we rewarded them. We bailed them out by printing a lot of money. We then printed more money during the pandemic to pay people to stay home and watch Netflix. Probably a lot more examples. All that money flowing around that has no basis in actual productivity or value created. It's got to correct at some point. One of the corrections is how much more everything costs now, but I don't think that has fully absorbed the excess.
by krapp | 2026-03-12 13:33:03+00:00
>I would prefer to see widespread hosting become cheap and easy to use… as simple as signing up for an account

It is and has been for years. You can literally just sign up for a shared hosting account on hundreds, possibly thousands of services and put whatever you want online (within legal limits of course.) You can even still use SFTP if you want.

People just don't do it anymore, but it's never been less expensive or more accessible.
by dzaima | 2026-03-12 13:33:12+00:00
> No, it was released to customers in June 2021, almost five years ago.

Ah, okay. (still, like, at least a couple decades newer than the last x86-64 chip with slow unaligned mem ops, if such ever existed at all? Haven't heard of / can't find anything saying any aarch64 ever had problems with them either, so still much worse for the RISC-V side).

Well, I suppose we can hope that business/politics messes will all never happen again and won't affect anything RVA23.
by gradschool | 2026-03-12 13:33:26+00:00
I don't know about y'all, but this paradox was resolved to my complete
satisfaction in a blog post some years ago, I believe by Scott
Aaronson, though I can't find the link. If the predictor has such a
good success rate, then it must be simulating people's brains, but
since it's not always right, the simulation isn't perfect. The best
strategy for playing this game therefore is to look for indications as
to whether I'm the real me or the simulation when the question is
posed to me, and choose accordingly. Am I floating in a sensory
deprivation tank being asked my choice by a disembodied voice with no
recollection of how I got there and no memory of my childhood? In that
case maybe I'm the simulation, so my answer is that I'll choose just
one box. Is it an ordinary day of my life and a plausible setting with
all of my faculties and recollections intact? Then I'll assume
simulated me had my back and take both boxes.
by Rihards13 | 2026-03-12 13:33:46+00:00
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by jsheard | 2026-03-12 13:33:51+00:00
OP did just say M5 (implying the base model)

Those speeds on the Pro/Max are impressive though, more in line with Gen5 NVMe drives. Those have been available in desktops for some time but AFAIK the controllers are still much too power hungry for laptops, so I think Apple's custom controller is actually the first to practically hit those speeds on mobile.
by uneoneuno | 2026-03-12 13:33:54+00:00
You're not wrong it's always good to have cash but certain allocations could have done 50%-100% return on investment while a CD brought ~5.5% for a while. Look at S&P since 2021. Knowing when to transition from cash, liquidity, other instruments is what kills/allows people to survive. We can't all do the same thing, it's almost as if it's economic ecological evolution, random death.
by fnoef | 2026-03-12 13:33:54+00:00
I’m honestly baffled by the praises of Rails in the comments.

I started my dev career with php and then nodejs, but recently got a job with rails, and honestly, it’s the worst among the 3.

There is no static typing whatsoever, it’s littered with magically generated methods, on a moderate size project the controllers or models directories grow to dozen of files. In general it feels like you need a lot of mental context in order to work with Rails, and I believe this is the reason people who run it for 10+ years in production love it. They simply carry all the magic in their heads, rather than let the framework guide you.

I, however, get much more DX and production stability by building with a boring (router + server side rendering) NodeJS stack with typescript and schema validation. My services are more stable and do not crash on “undefined method foo for nil”.

I guess people will defend whatever they know best, even if it has quirks.

On a positive note, I like ruby as a language. It has cool features like pattern matching, named arguments, or dropping verbose statements like “return” at the end of the function.
by falense | 2026-03-12 13:34:07+00:00
I made a OpenClaw clone with security focus. It flips the tables on the common security concept for agents that capability should be limited. Instead we want to track and contain what the agent can see, which in turn is what can cause the agent to act in ways we do not want. It also introduces three other notable improvements: Bandwidth Constrained Protocol (a way to have information flow from a high taint agent to a low taint agent), a new security model with three components (taint, sensitivity and capability) exclude one to reduce risk significantly and sandboxing with per file access via globs. What do you think?
by redbell | 2026-03-12 13:34:14+00:00
First of all, I suggest that moderators add this to the comments' section in the linked guidelines. It should clearly states that pasting AI-generated replies is discouraged and does not fit within the community spirit.

Second, I have to confess that I did this sin a couple of times now, but I came to realize that this is neither good for me nor for the HN community. Although I used AI just for rephrasing, I decided to not do this ever and I'd rather write my own words with mistakes than post generated words based on my thoughts.

It happened for me once and it strikes me like a nuke and I felt truly embarrassed. A couple of months I wrote that comment (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43830266) then I asked ChatGPT to rephrase it and then mistakenly, pasted both comments, the original above and the generate one below and I hit submit. Shortly after, a user comes, read my comment and replied with that embarrassing reply and honestly, I deserve it. From that moment I realized how things can got messed up quickly when you rely heavily on that AI.
by 1718627440 | 2026-03-12 13:34:17+00:00
Requiring to disclose your breakfast habits for a job application has not anything to do with your merit to the company, and gives grounds to the possibility of choosing people on sympathy to their answers to that question. It became frowned to include a picture into a CV, because this feeds implicit biases, why should that be any different with alimentary behaviour?

Honestly for dealing with job application spam, this sounds like a neat way to handle this, but without that context, it is just weird. Also it seems to be obsolete against people using LLMs for these applications, I expect them to be able to just invent an answer for that question just fine.
by kllrnohj | 2026-03-12 13:34:17+00:00
The SSD in the Neo only manages around 1,500 MB/s in sequential benchmarks, it's not an impressive drive.

> It's shocking but pretty much all laptops from Dell, HP, etc come with some form of eMMC storage.

I just went to Dell's website and picked a random $400 laptop and it had an NVME SSD. The $650 Dell 14 Essential also is NVME. Both of which are M.2 so easily upgraded, replaced, or have data recovery done on them. 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"
by mapcars | 2026-03-12 13:34:35+00:00
> You don't get the program crashing from mistyping as one would in C.

Sorry but I don't compare to C anymore, I want the same safety as in Rust or Typescript: exhaustive checks, control-flow type narrowing, mapped types and so on. Some detection at compile time is not enough, since there is a way to eliminate all type errors I want to eliminate them all, not some.
by zeta0134 | 2026-03-12 13:34:58+00:00
I've had pretty good success with CleanRip https://wiibrew.org/wiki/CleanRip#Wii_DAT_download for acquiring ROM files. With it, I was able to backup my entire personal collection with minimal fuss, and can now enjoy that collection in HD with Dolphin's various enhancements.

For verification you generally want the Redump database, which has checksums for most disc-based console releases. Unfortunately they seem to be offline at the moment, or I'd share a canonical link. Look around for that.
by apaprocki | 2026-03-12 13:35:20+00:00
I feel like those not involved in this space might not realize so much stuff that benefits the entire web/world comes from volunteers like anba and companies outside the usual browser vendors. Whether you’re an individual contributor or you want to push your employer to contribute or let you contribute, the best time to get involved is always now. We owe anba a big one. Thank you!!
by palmotea | 2026-03-12 13:35:21+00:00
> Thought and creativity won't be averaged away because human beings have a drive for these things. This just raises the bar for it. And why not? We get complacent when not pushed.

The why not is: human beings are valuable in and of themselves, not just because of what they can do. If you raise the bar too high, you kick people out. And our society just isn't setup for that, and is unlikely to ever be in our lifetimes.

And I'm talking about a radical shift in the concept of ownership, where shareholding is radically democratized. Basically every random Joe needs the option to live comfortably on passive income generated by things he owns.
by phkahler | 2026-03-12 13:35:30+00:00
>> I find that when refuting people, instead of outright debasing their position with a right/wrong dichotomy, it works better to illuminate the possibility there is a larger breadth to the viewpoint. In this way, both views can generally share the same space. Healthily, if one can add such a descriptor.

This can be exhausting. When arguing product characteristics at work, I'm often tempted to say "that's terrible" or "nobody wants that". In my mind those would be factually correct based on my experience and understanding. But I still have to bite my tongue and remember the specific reasons those are bad ideas and "make a case". It is always received better with supporting information rather than presented as a fact. It helps me if I think of it as persuasion or education which is worth the extra time.
by jfengel | 2026-03-12 13:35:48+00:00
"Signals" are rubbish. The market is irrational and will change its mind at random.

This is, however, one of many indicators of an overall wobbling system. It would be a good time, not make the line go up, but to look for ways to stabilize the economy as a whole.

Which is unfortunately a hard question. One could theorize that we should do different things than the thing we've been doing for the past year or so, but of course there will be many who say that we just haven't done it hard enough yet.
by lightheartai | 2026-03-12 13:35:49+00:00
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by frannyPS | 2026-03-12 13:36:12+00:00
Hi HN, I'm the author.
I wrote this working paper because I was incredibly frustrated by a disconnect we are all seeing in the industry: developers report feeling 20% more productive with AI, while measured performance actually declines. Organizations see individual output rise while delivery velocity shows no improvement.

I realized our current theory lacks the vocabulary to diagnose why this is happening. The paper proposes a two-axis model (Specification vs. Verification) yielding four categories of software behavior: S_v, S_u, E_v, and E_u.

The most dangerous trap right now is what I call E_v (unspecified-but-verified). AI generates implementation and tests at machine speed. This creates a "verification paradox": organizations accumulate E_v behaviors (tested without specification), creating the appearance of quality (green CI, high coverage). However, the tested behaviors have no basis for evaluating correctness because no deliberate human decision (specification) was made. AI accelerates Axis 1 (does it do what the spec says?) while leaving Axis 2 (does the spec capture what is valuable?) untouched.

I originally submitted this to IEEE Software. It was desk-rejected for being a "conceptual model" rather than a localized case study with metrics. But I wrote this for practitioners, to give us a structural vocabulary for the AI-era mess we are currently in.

I'd love to hear if this E_v trap and the verification paradox resonate with what you're seeing in your own AI-assisted workflows.
by wholinator2 | 2026-03-12 13:36:35+00:00
Yes oh my god. I'm trying to rent right now and the application has me doing this fucking approveshield bullshit where they request every document you've ever had and direct access to your bank account before they'll approve that I'm not a criminal or liar. Whatever happened to bank statements?! Why does some random company need to know that my closest grocery store is kroger and i went to miniso for my girlfriend birthday, among hundreds of other small details of my life. And they weren't even satisfied with that, i had to send in a picture of my driver's license (standard these days) but the webpage opened up a qr code, to open on my phone which took me to the appstorr to download some other bullshit app to give every single permission and piece of my data to! I JUST WANT AN APARTMENT, I'VE DONE IT DOZENS OF TIMES, WHY ARE YOU TREATING MY LIKE I'M ON THE FBI MOST WANTED!
by mikkupikku | 2026-03-12 13:36:49+00:00
> I mean people have been saying a crash is coming for years

The internet working didn't make the Dotcom bubble not happen. Investors don't know anything about the new investment space and most of them are going to get hosed eventually. It's going to happen, and it'll be bad for people who are betting on it not happening.

> A box of matmuls isnt going to solve any real problems, so far, as you point out- is can barely write software

Code monkey cope.
by selfradiance | 2026-03-12 13:37:04+00:00
The Agent Council approach is interesting — having multiple small models debate in parallel and a judge synthesize feels like a more principled version of what people do manually when they cross-check answers between Claude, GPT, and Gemini. Curious whether the GSM8K gains hold up on less structured tasks where there isn't a single correct answer (e.g. summarization or open-ended reasoning).
by sillywabbit | 2026-03-12 13:37:08+00:00
Like the other poster said, the rabbit hole continues with suffix arrays (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Suffix_array#Space_efficiency), then compressed suffix arrays (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Compressed_suffix_array).

It's been a while since I looked at this. Someone's probably come up with something new by now.
by ferguess_k | 2026-03-12 13:37:12+00:00
The problem of the current situation is that even 5% is considered as a high interest for many people, if not most of them. Inflation already pushes up the base price, and if the interest rate keeps on 5% and above many people simply won't consume, which will further pull down the economy.

For example, we decided to keep our vehicle for another 4-5 years instead of buying a new one. The same Hyundai vehicle of the same model, but different year (2026 v.s. 2020), has gone up 8,000 CAD (10K CAD considering tax), with a much higher rate (5.99% v.s. 0%). There is no way I'm buying another car in the foreseeable future. We can definitely afford it, but we won't.

The whole world has pushed up prices of food, housing and pretty much everything higher. This is the real problem -- although I wouldn't say it is the root problem.
by __mharrison__ | 2026-03-12 13:37:24+00:00
When I teach, I use "big data" for data that won't fit in a single machine. "Small data" fits on a single machine in memory and medium data on disk.

Having said that duckDB is awesome. I recently ported a 20 year old Python app to modern Python. I made the backend swappable, polars or duckdb. Got a 40-80x speed improvement. Took 2 days.
by delecti | 2026-03-12 13:37:30+00:00
LLMs have no awareness of their own bias, and no incentive or ability to mitigate it. A human can, in theory, realize "hey, I tend to be a little harsh on <demographic>, is this negative judgement just that?" while an LLM could never.

In practice I doubt many people are aware of their biases either, or think "it's not bias if it's true" or something. But at least on the less "internally" biased end of humans there will be less external manifestation of it.
by djoldman | 2026-03-12 13:37:39+00:00
For folks reasoning through the "paradox," this may be helpful:

https://arxiv.org/pdf/0904.2540

Abstract:

> ...We show that the conflicting recommendations in Newcomb’s
scenario use different Bayes nets to relate your choice and the algorithm’s prediction. These two Bayes nets are incompatible. This resolves the paradox: the reason there appears to be two conflicting recommendations is that the specification of the underlying Bayes net is open to two, conflicting interpretations...
by SlinkyOnStairs | 2026-03-12 13:37:43+00:00
> and if it's easier to identify it's easier to control and implement bias reduction mechanisms.

Nobody does this.

For the vast, vast, vast majority of employers using AI in hiring, it's even too much to ask for them to set the temperature to 0 to ensure they have consistent reproduceable output.

They're just slinging shit into a completely unaccountable chain of LLMs. Even when explicitly told not to, random workers still just go against company policy and chuck the resume into ChatGPT because they're too lazy to write an email.

The reality of hiring right now is that it's a shitshow both ways. LLMs trained on all the vile racism 4chan and reddit could muster, then given "pls make diverse founding fathers" system prompts. EVERYBODY loses.
by rafterydj | 2026-03-12 13:37:49+00:00
What an interesting glimpse into the blogosphere. That post in particular is interesting, given the much larger discussions that followed it on essentially the same topic: how to decide what people can and can not say when there are those who ruin the commons. I'm thinking of Twitter/X's Community Notes feature and the many reputation mechanisms people put in place, and the subsequent griping of community politics that arise from those mechanisms...
by streetfighter64 | 2026-03-12 13:38:07+00:00
> You don't get the program crashing from mistyping as one would in C.

Uh, isn't that exactly what happens with runtime type checking? Otherwise what can you do if you detect a type error at runtime other than crash?

In C the compiler tries to detect all type errors at compile time, and if you do manage to fool the compiler into compiling badly typed code, it won't necessarily crash, it'll be undefined behavior (which includes crashing but can also do worse).
by saalweachter | 2026-03-12 13:38:13+00:00
> I don't think you deserve downvotes

Speaking of things that have changed from my 20s, I also take internet points way less seriously than when I was sitting in a computer lab at 3am.

Now, I just double-check to make sure I didn't say anything I didn't want to and take it as a signal for how to be more clearly understood in the future; in this case a lot of people seemed to take what I wrote as a hypothesis about the motivation of the accused or a call for leniency, which wasn't what I was going for, but eh, live and learn.
by crazygringo | 2026-03-12 13:38:22+00:00
> To think you had to put in effort.

But that's the whole point...

When things that previously took hundreds of hours of effort to learn now become available with just a few minutes, they become available to all -- even those without all that extra time, which is most people who have a lot of other competing priorities in their lives.

That's democratization.

I don't understand why you're trying to argue against that. It's a dictionary definition. It's just a meaning of the word.

Whatever you seem to be upset about is something else, I don't know what.
by miguno | 2026-03-12 13:38:59+00:00
> In the latest Stackoverflow survey, it's back at the "top 5 of desired stacks to use for next project" over a decade after its inception !

Oh, where did you find that?

Only info I could find was that Rails is at rank 10 in the Web Frameworks category for Admired vs. Desired in the 2025 survey: https://survey.stackoverflow.co/2025/technology/#2-web-frame....
by cthalupa | 2026-03-12 13:39:19+00:00
Congress has had one of the lowest approval ratings of anything in government for a long time now because it doesn't get things done. Most Americans are quite unhappy with Congressional deadlock being the norm.

It's also directly lead to the continued rise of the powers of the unitary executive - the EO that have become the norm in the 2000s are in large part because Congress has largely voided all responsibility for legislating.
by hnfong | 2026-03-12 13:39:28+00:00
It's decent only if you believe inflation = CPI

In actuality, the CPI is lower than inflation because technological advancement, automation, and economies of scale (due to globalization etc) are driving consumer prices low. In other words, if factories are still producing things like they were 20 years ago, the CPI would have been much higher, and that higher number is closer to what should have been the inflation number.