MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by lo_zamoyski | 2026-03-03 19:23:38+00:00
> You can be aware of the conflict of interest and still decide that is an acceptable trade-off to make.

Yes, here, you can talk about the relative merits of one piece of tech vs. another and compared with your personal needs. Of course, what is immoral is never permissible—it is nonsensical to speak of immorality otherwise—but there's nothing of the sort here. The behavior of the OP is a kind of moralizing rigorism, that is, the imposition of a personal concern on others that has no objective severity of the sort being claimed, as if his personal concerns here are morally binding on others.

> Ethics are personal, subjective, and subject to trade-offs.

Subjective, no. Morality (ethics is the study of morality) is objective, or it is nothing. Murder is evil not because I arbitrarily opine—with no objective basis whatever—that it is evil, but because it actually is evil, and to choose to commit it is a gravely immoral act.
by keeda | 2026-03-03 19:23:45+00:00
> For a long time, I faulted Americans who didn’t teach their kids to “learn to work 16 hours a day” like my dad taught me. But I have kids of my own now, and they don’t have the mentality of someone who is a generation away from having to take a boat to school during monsoon season. And that’s probably a good thing that we should want as a society.

These days I think it's clear your dad had it right. Your stance seems to be that protectionist and isolationist policies will keep citizens safe from international competition, but how long will that last in a Capitalistic society? And how will that prepare them for the future when the competition inevitably arrives.

And lo and behold, the ultimate competition is already here and it's not even foreign people, it's AI that is even cheaper than foreign people!

Monsoon season is here, we should all be looking for our boats.
by jasomill | 2026-03-03 19:23:53+00:00
120 Hz vs 60 Hz? Night and day. Immediately noticeable just by moving the mouse pointer. Would expect improvements in scrolling to be apparent to even the most casual passers-by.

120 Hz can also noticeably improve frame pacing for 24p video*.

120 Hz vs 144 Hz? Barely noticeable when flipping between the two. Not sure if I'd pass an ABX test with 100% accuracy.

Can't speak for 240 Hz or higher, as I haven't used them.

* Though 119.88 Hz is probably a better default for this since most non-DCI "24p" video is still 23.976 FPS; this is changing, but until browsers and streaming apps support VRR for video, I'm not convinced this is a good thing due to the mountain of legacy 23.976 FPS content.
by vel0city | 2026-03-03 19:24:14+00:00
FWIW, things are standardized and keyed on the ATX board side of things. They aren't standardized on the power supply side of a modular power supply. Unless you've absolutely confirmed pinouts, never swap cables between modular power supplies. Fitment doesn't imply its actually going to put the right voltage on the right pins. Even within the same manufacturer pinouts have sometimes been different between models!
by std_move | 2026-03-03 19:24:19+00:00
I would normally strongly agree, I don't like Apple as a company - for example the Apple store and Patreon 30 % tax https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46801419 Their policies overall.

However there is no comparable laptop hardware in the non-Apple world. Even if I wanted to pay double, there is no usable fanless high-quality quick laptop. Very sadly. The Air is just too good for the money and the competition too bloody incompetent and bad.
by mey | 2026-03-03 19:24:39+00:00
This is not an either or issue. There are policy issues all around. The "left" isn't creating an magical "other" in the form of panic about "woke"/"immigrants"/"terrorists cells"/"trans people"/"welfare queens"/"libs"/"gay agenda" etc.

The US government in general is not prioritizing the reality and needs of the people, it is supposed to be in service to. Instead it is serving the needs of the few, but there are many many fronts of injustice, as there are many different people in power with their own agenda. It's not necessarily a single unified agenda.

Edit: The astro-turfing in this thread is going to be interesting based on the bot comment just below my comment...
by bdangubic | 2026-03-03 19:24:41+00:00
I have been coding for 30 years now and I have never encountered a technical decision like choosing technology (e.g. Electron) for anything important to the company being made with "oh, we must use X because so and so knows X"

Maybe if there was a toss-up between X and Y or something like that but to flat-out pick Electron because you have people that knows JS is madness
by doomlazer | 2026-03-03 19:25:15+00:00
Hello everyone, I've been currently working on an open-source project of mine called envio, which is essentially a CLI tool that helps manage environment variables in a more efficient manner

Users can create profiles, which are collections of environment variables, and encrypt them using various encryption methods such as passphrase, gpg, symmetric keys etc. The tool also provides a variety of other features that really simplify the process of even using environment variables in projects, such as starting shell sessions and running commands with your envs injected
by sparkler123 | 2026-03-03 19:25:22+00:00
I was continually hitting quota on the $20/mo Claude sub. I started doing the "pay for extra tokens" thing when I did hit it, but just upgrading proved to be far more cost effective. I upgraded to the $200/mo Max subscription and have been using almost exclusively Opus and barely get to 25% quota in any session (a couple times I got over 50% but I was having it go wild in concurrent sessions). I could probably downgrade to the $100/mo one and be fine, though.

Sounds like a lot, but in the few weeks I've had it, I was able to complete two projects I had given up on due to not having time in the past. I re-jiggered some other monthly subscriptions so the net cost wasn't ultimately that much more than what I was paying previously. I also weighed it against buying something like a DGX Spark for local inference, but ultimately I don't want to mess with serving models (and the ones available just aren't as good, realistically), I just want a good one that works.

I probably can't justify much more than $200/mo, but for what I get out of it, I'm happy to pay it. I've done more in the past few weeks on side projects than I had in a couple years.
by ern_ave | 2026-03-03 19:25:31+00:00
Since the page mentions:

> Better judgment around refusals

Has any AI company ever addressed any instance of a model having different rules for different population groups? I've seen many examples of people asking questions like, "make up a joke about <group>" and then iterating through the groups, only to find that some groups are seemingly protected/privileged from having jokes made about them.

Has any AI company ever addressed studies like [1] which found that models value certain groups vastly more than others? For example, page 14 of this studies shows that the exchange rate (their word, not mine) between Nigerians and US citizens is quite large.

[1] https://arxiv.org/pdf/2502.08640
by neaden | 2026-03-03 19:25:35+00:00
"Some argue this blurriness unfairly implicates those who were simply mentioned in the files. I take the opposite view: It unfairly protects those who abused minors." This seems like a weird distinction to make, and the fact that he sees these as being in conflict kind of ruins the article for me. For instance Ro Khanna revealed six names of people in the Epstein files but then it turned out four of them had just had their photos used in a photo lineup and had no other connection (https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/feb/13/four-men-unr...) so obviously yes, there are some perfectly innocent people in the files. Then later in the article he says "There’s a solution to the Epstein problem, and it’s called a perp walk. It doesn’t matter what we get them for, but someone very rich and very famous needs to be seen in handcuffs. It could be Gates, it could be Dershowitz, it could be Clinton, it could be Summers, I don’t really care." Which once again is missing the point, assuming that anyone mentioned there is guilty and worthy of punishment of a public shaming. And while honestly I wouldn't be upset if any of these famous men were shamed that way, the fact remains that's not how justice works. He sees a problem, a lack of justice for these crimes and then instead of coming to the solution as being that we need justice, which includes trials and the presumption of innocence, that we just need to start punishing at random. That not only is a failure of justice, but it also isn't a good deterrent and I think will ultimately fail to accomplish his goals.
by tyleo | 2026-03-03 19:26:35+00:00
At Rec Room, we made tons of AI games. The problem is that they weren't economical. You need to make a ton of money if your players are burning tokens: https://www.tyleo.com/professional-work-history/rec-room-ugc...

I think folks are having a lot better luck on the tools side. Some interesting things are happening in the AI Game Dev Org Discord: https://www.tyleo.com/blog/the-excommunicated-devs-making-ga...
by alephnerd | 2026-03-03 19:26:36+00:00
> My comment was more on the next levels - there seemed to be about as many high-level technical roles as managers (paid similarly) where I worked in biotech (that might be a different situation for software-only companies.) And there were more Directors/VP's than Principals/Fellows for sure. So at some point the "ladder width" crosses over.

Yea. Biotech is different. The equivalent of a VP for a specific formulation at a Pfizer would be a Staff or Principal Product Manager at a Salesforce.

In software, Engineering Managers have increasingly become solely people+program managers with a bit of a technical component.

EMs aren't expected to own product - that's PMs. Additonally, EMs aren't expected to own architecture - that's Principal and Distinguished Engineers. All that leaves EMs is program management.
Show HN: Spanish Words, spaced repetition vocabulary app for frequent words
by bbmaxwell | 2026-03-03 19:26:43+00:00
I've been tinkering on the side forever and finally worked up the courage to ship something and participate rather than watching from the sidelines. Kind of embarrassing to admit that but hey, this is me getting over it.

I've failed at Spanish my whole life. When I heard that 1,000 words cover about 80% of spoken conversation, it felt attainable. So I built an app around it.

How it works: take a frequency-ranked list of the 1,000 most common Spanish words. Introduce up to 30 per session starting from the most frequent. Flashcard format: English on front, Spanish on back, self-rate Again/Hard/Good/Easy. The FSRS algorithm calculates when to show each word again, targeting 90% retention. Words you know get pushed out days or weeks. Words you don't come back in minutes.

Built with Flutter/Dart, FSRS Dart package, SQLite for local storage, Supabase for sync. Solo developer. First published app.

$1.99, one-time purchase. No subscription, no ads.

My intention is to learn the full idea > build > ship > launch > market > grow cycle. This is attempt one. I intend to do this repeatedly, improving and learning each time.

https://apps.apple.com/us/app/1-000-spanish-words/id67567889...

Also, still looking for Android testers. Please DM me if interested.
by benlivengood | 2026-03-03 19:28:03+00:00
You have to use something more like updateless decision theory rather than EDT or CDT: consider the similarity of your thought processes and decisionmaking to all the other people in a similar situation and act so as to further your goals given that a substantial fraction of similar people will ultimately make the same decision as you.

If I ever decide that it is no longer worth voting then I will probably leave the country under the expectation that other people like me giving up on voting are doing it for roughly the same reasons.
by littlestymaar | 2026-03-03 19:28:35+00:00
In many companies I worked for, there were a bunch of infrastructure astronauts who made everything very complicated in the name of zero downtime and sold them to management as “downtime would kill pur credibility and our businesses ”, and then you have billion dollar companies everyone relies on (GitHub, Cloudflare) who have repeated downtime yet it doesn't seem to affect their business in any way.
by w10-1 | 2026-03-03 19:28:52+00:00
No support needed. Run Linux in a VM. Devices are limited, and you can't save/restore your state, but there's no real performance hit: my code runs faster on macOS(VM(Linux)) than macOS.

https://developer.apple.com/documentation/virtualization/run...

Buy the mac, try Linux in an hour, take it back if you don't like it.
by wisplike | 2026-03-03 19:28:56+00:00
> I wish it was different

Amen to that, my keyboard on my m1 air recently failed. I was horrified to find out it is literally riveted to the frame. I got this close to buying a new one. Something annoyed me about this perfectly good laptop being rendered compltely useless and I ended up buying a replacement keyboard, ripping out the old one and shimming this one with paper. Its not perfect but here I am typing from it.

But you are 100% right, there is just nothing better on the market. The gap is so big.
by Imustaskforhelp | 2026-03-03 19:28:58+00:00
They were willing to give up a 1 Million dollar a year comp and resigned in mass when the OpenAI non profit board had fired off Sam altman all because they wanted sam altman back in the moment. So there might be a precedent and I actually talked about it in the ask HN with the line "I remember the fact that OpenAI used to be actually non profit and how employees left OpenAI because the non-profit actually fired Sam Altman.".
by jauntywundrkind | 2026-03-03 19:29:06+00:00
AMD also has some weird cpus like the 7c13 7r13, that are way way way below their normal price bands. You don't even have to buy used to get a ridiculous systems... Until 4 months ago (RIP ram prices).
https://www.servethehome.com/amd-epyc-7c13-is-a-surprisingly...
by ezst | 2026-03-03 19:29:44+00:00
We clearly have different values and priorities, and just to be clear, that's perfectly fine. I haven't considered "battery life" to be a bottleneck for about a decade, which is when all my devices started to be able to last me a whole day of work. Similarly, I only change device when I must, which most often equates to "when they die", so "resale value" doesn't matter to me (and in that regard, Apple takes themselves out of the selection pool due to poor repairability and no upgradeability). My devices are tools, I care that they help me do the task at hand while stepping as little as possible in the way.
by bpt3 | 2026-03-03 19:30:02+00:00
> What I find extraordinary is y'alls bullshit theory that it is extraordinary to claim the CPS apparatus wasn't used more before when it didn't even exist until like ~1974, and before then as a much different process.

You seem to have replied to the wrong post.

> As usual, just blame the victim, then complain they don't provide evidence knowing full damn well child and family welfare services complaints are sealed and hidden from public oversight. This is how vampires with these theories operate, first they make it illegal to get the records, then they make it illegal to even find out who the accuser is, then when you call them on it they say "ha ha, you don't have the evidence, that we made it illegal for you to get!" The whole system is designed to evade oversight, so what we are all left with is anecdotes that we have about our own childhood being so much different than the ones our children have after interactions with the authorities that have placed these restraints. But of course when you share them, they are only used against you by persons such as yourself (judging me for where I live, as if it's not going on all over the US). So people are reluctant to even share the anecdotes, and by law you generally cannot get the formal records (think of the children!) of these encounters nor the names of the accusers so basically they designed the whole legal structure to enable the muh citation crowd to be able to always pretend like the other side is just hiding from the evidence.

I'm not blaming anyone. Your experience is so wildly different from anything I've seen or heard living in many different areas across the US that I'm interested to hear more about it, and then you go on a tirade that has virtually nothing to do with the topic at hand instead of providing any remotely relevant information.

> Lol you responded to my comment saying it was an easement which meant I was not able to gate it. Although frankly your tone of questioning seemed to be more directed towards alluding I was a liar, than a genuine interest in the road.

I don't have a gate on the private road to my house either, yet no one drives down it to interrogate my kid about my whereabouts.

Is it a neighbor who also shares the private road? If so, that makes some sense but it sounds like you need to have a discussion with them. Why didn't you trespass them if not?

If this Karen calls CPS because they were trespassing and weren't aware that you were nearby, so what, other than wasting some taxpayer dollars? Has anyone ever had their kid taken by the state because of a claim like this? Since the answer is no, why are you so freaked out about it, way beyond being annoyed at this Karen (who does sound annoying in this story)?

Like I said to the other person, it's a series of extraordinary claims that frankly make almost no sense, and then you rant about tangential topics when asked for more detail. It doesn't make your anecdote more believable.
by littlestymaar | 2026-03-03 19:30:02+00:00
> a lot of infrastructure quietly assumes GitHub is always available

Which is really baffling when talking about a service that has at least weekly hicups even when it's not a complete outage.

There's almost 20 outages listed on HN over the past two months:
https://news.ycombinator.com/from?site=githubstatus.com so much for “always available”.
by 0x457 | 2026-03-03 19:30:05+00:00
I think people buying those don't realize requirements to run something as big as Opus, they think those gigabytes of memory on Mac studio/mini is a lot only to find out that its "meh" on context of LLMs. Plus most buy it as a gateway into Apple ecosystem for their Claws, iMessage for example.

> But I'm def not buying into their rebranding of integrated GPU under the guise of Unified Memory.

But it is Unified Memory? Thanks to Intel iGPU term is tainted for a long time.
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by viccis | 2026-03-03 19:30:20+00:00
There's next to no chance that whatever comes out of the end of this will be a "liberal democratic Iran government". Obama started a route in that direction with the lowered sanctions and the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action from 2015. Iran having a democratic government doesn't really help the GOP war hawks so of course they trashed it. The same happened with North Korea in the 90s with the Agreed Framework that had some promise before GWB torpedoed it to please his oinking base.

I also think that nuclear powers mean regional stability. Ukraine gave up its nukes in the 90s and we saw what happened there.
by madrox | 2026-03-03 19:30:51+00:00
Every job in engineering is changing right now. Managers aren't immune. I've been an EM for almost 20 years in some flavor or another, and I've been thinking a lot about how I want to adapt to this era.

This is the first time I've seriously considered swapping out of management. Not for any of the reasons the author says, but because:

- I don't feel as confident mentoring others through this period given how much the work is changing

- I find myself enjoying the work more

- EMs tend to have more difficulty justifying their existence at the best of times let alone a period of change like this

The AI world will still need EMs. It's just unclear what those EMs will be doing every day and how it will work.
by butterbomb | 2026-03-03 19:30:54+00:00
> Put on your tinfoil hat and ask yourself: why is that suddenly a topic in so many different countries?

Ooh I know, the elite classes across the globe have been exposed as degenerate pedophile subhumans. Knowing the information would release soon, they began to coordinate this campaign to provide lip service virtue signaling about child predation while also tightening their grip on the underclasses before it gets too heated.
by walterbell | 2026-03-03 19:30:56+00:00
https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2026/03/m5-pro-and-m5-max-ar...

Apple says that M5 Pro and M5 Max use an “all-new Fusion Architecture” that welds two silicon chiplets into a single processor. Apple has used this approach before, but historically only to combine two Max chips together into an Ultra.

Apple’s approach here is different—for example, the M5 Pro is not just a pair of M5 chips welded together. Rather, Apple has one chiplet handling the CPU and most of the I/O, and a second one that’s mainly for graphics, both built on the same 3nm TSMC manufacturing process.
by 12_throw_away | 2026-03-03 19:30:58+00:00
Yes, the rich and powerful have increasingly captured and profited from the police and carceral state while being completely free to, for instance, build an island dedicated to the rape of children. Justice should absolutely be served here. Arrest more rich people, arrest more politicians, and hell arrest all of the "royalty" (for this and other reasons).

But this rant's "solution", which seems to be "let's empower the police state to do more excesses" - yeah, no. Maybe let's just ensure that everyone gets the same due process?
by shimman | 2026-03-03 19:31:07+00:00
Well yes, the CEO of GitHub said "embrace AI or get out:"

https://www.businessinsider.com/github-ceo-developers-embrac...

Unless you're unemployed ATM, what is happening throughout corporate America is forcing employees to use LLM tools or get fired. It's hard to not see the connection, big tech offerings were already shit before but since all these mandates it's gotten noticeability worse.

You don't get to back away from the LLM damage when you were making the media rounds telling everyone to use these tools. This is a direct result of using these tools: decaying code, rotten services, and putrid responses.
by giwook | 2026-03-03 19:31:09+00:00
I don't know that there would be a huge overlap between the people who would fall for this type of marketing and the people who want to run LLMs locally.

There definitely are some who fit into this category, but if they're buying the latest and greatest on a whim then they've likely got money to burn and you probably don't need to feel bad for them.

Reminds me of the saying: "A fool and his money are soon parted".
by dotancohen | 2026-03-03 19:31:10+00:00
> Radical Christians are no different from radical Muslims who are no different than radical Jews.

Be that as it may, by examining the frequency of terror attacks the percentage of what you call "radical Muslims" is high enough that they do not need to be termed "extremist Muslims". Whereas Jewish and Christian terrorist attacks are attested to such a small percentage of the population that the terms "radical Christian" and "extremist Christian" are effectively synonyms.