MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by wk_end | 2026-03-04 23:29:39+00:00
Seems a bit like an historically blinkered statement. There's a long history of countries militarily supporting their allies; there's nothing "modern" about this.

Most of the countries in WWI - which this poem is about - entered the war because of existing alliances, not because they were personally affected by the assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand.

While the US was indeed attacked by the Japanese in WWII, they could have focused entirely on the PTO and left their allies across the Atlantic to fend for themselves. Instead hundreds of thousands of Americans died liberating Europe.

The Vietnam War was at root the US supporting an allied government in Saigon. Tens of thousands of Americans died for an entirely different country than their own, one they'd likely never been to. A tragedy, but a tragedy that's been in the history books for fifty years now.

The Gulf War was 42 separate countries banding together to liberate Kuwait from an Iraqi invasion. How many of those soldiers had ever even thought about Kuwait before being deployed and potentially dying there?

When the US was attacked by Osama Bin Laden, the US invaded Afghanistan in response. Whether or not that was a justifiable decision, at the time dozens of countries lent their support. Their soldiers died for the sake of the US, though in this case maybe some of them had at least visited it.

This isn't an endorsement of dying for someone else's country (or even one's own); just an observation that it was normal even when this poem was written, hardly modern and no need for an "update" (perhaps just an expansion of the original). I also don't want this to come across as a defense of the US or Israeli action in Iran, which I assume is what you're referring to, so I'll be explicit about my position on this: the Iranian regime may be unquestionably awful, but not only is this attack illegal domestically (in the US) and internationally, I have extraordinarily little faith that either Netanyahu's Israel or Trump's US are going to handle this war or its aftermath well, and I'm terrified about the chaos that's likely to unfold over the coming months and years.

But: this sort of thing is precisely why Israelis/Zionists/Jews often view criticisms of Israel as anti-semitic. Things that have long been considered totally normal - military alliances, in this instance - are suddenly treated as novel and uniquely awful when Israel is involved. So their question becomes, "what's unique about Israel that makes people treat us differently", and then they look at their status as the only ethnically Jewish state and the history of how the world has treated Jews and derive themselves an answer. Especially when the complaint is rooted in an age old anti-semitic trope - “Jews secretly control the world” - just with “Jews” swapped out for “Israel”.
Stathat Is Shutting Down
by jervant | 2026-03-04 23:29:53+00:00
I received this email (nothing on their website though):

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We have some difficult news to share: StatHat will be shutting down in 30 days on April 4, 2026.

Until then, you can export all of your data. Instructions are at https://www.stathat.com/manual/export

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by arndt | 2026-03-04 23:30:06+00:00
Thank you, we appreciate it. We're here for this kind of feedback!

Our thinking is that you wouldn't use p0 if you are vibe coding a side project, our focus is on folks who need to ship meaty features in existing codebases where the value we generate far outweighs the $100/month.

We debated offering a free tier, but that would have meant offering it with limited functionality, and that would take away from the experience in too fundamental of a way. We want people to have the whole thing.

You can try it for free for 14 days, and we are not locking anything in. Everything lives on your machine and you could move it into your own harness or workflow.
by twalichiewicz | 2026-03-04 23:30:14+00:00
They don't call the base model 'iPad Neo.' They just call it iPad (https://www.apple.com/ipad-11/). It's the same market segment and even uses the exact same color palette.

They also just established that 'e' is the designator for budget model (https://www.apple.com/iphone-17e/) so best guess is they thought 'MacBook e' looked strange so instead it's 'nEo'. And don't forget the 2004 eMac.
by wpietri | 2026-03-04 23:30:50+00:00
Just to be clear, I'm absolutely not kidding here. E.g., this is the kind of hiring process I favor: https://williampietri.com/writing/2015/slightly-less-awful-h...

To rethink hiring, you have to spend some time understanding why most hiring is terrible both in terms of candidate experience and actual result. In my view so much of both hiring and general business operations is about managerial status and ego. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_purpose_of_a_system_is_wha...
by ahahahahah | 2026-03-04 23:31:08+00:00
> the fact that he killed himself would suggest he did not believe it was a fun little roleplay session

I'm not sure that's true. I wouldn't be surprised, in fact, if it suggested the opposite, it seems possibly even likely that someone who is suicidal is much, much more likely to seek out fantasies that would make their suicide into something more like this person may have.
by Sohcahtoa82 | 2026-03-04 23:32:18+00:00
While I was in high school, as a punishment for a fake "hacking" prank [0], I had to spend half of my lunch breaks with the school IT guy for two weeks as he went around and fixed the damage students were doing to the school computers.

There wasn't actually THAT much going on and we mostly just sat in his office and chatted, but when he did have to deal with something, it was absurd the vandalism that happened. One kid had unplugged a mouse and managed to jam the plug into the floppy drive. The IT guy was like "It takes talent to be this much of a piece of shit" as he had to disassemble the case to get it out.

When it comes to issuing laptops to public school students, I'm torn. On one hand, people need computer skills, but on the other, I just don't think many students can be trusted with a piece of equipment costing hundreds of dollars. Hell, how many people can't even own a personal cell phone without somehow shattering the screen in just a few months?

[0] I had created a two-page slide deck with a black background and white text, then filled both slides with the same text that made it look like a DOS prompt and that Windows had been deleted. It had a C:\> prompt, and on one slide, there was an underscore after the prompt. I then made the slide show auto-play and loop, making the underscore blink, which made it look like an actual prompt. Keep in mind, these were Macs. There was no "C" drive, and certainly no Windows. A teacher insisted I broke the computer, despite showing that pressing any key ended the show, took me to the Principal's office, who gave me my punishment. My first time talking to the IT guy, he was like "you did what now?" and I showed him, and he thought it was funny as hell. Honestly, my "punishment" ended up being pretty fun. That was all 25 years ago. I wish I remembered his name so I could look him up.
by ValentineC | 2026-03-04 23:32:49+00:00
> One of the two USB-C ports is limited to USB 2.0 speeds of just 480 Mb/s

This is one of the things I never really expected Apple to do, since they've somehow managed to avoid the confusing black/blue colouring of USB-A ports, giving every laptop they've ever produced since 2012 USB 3.0 ports.

Seems like they're buying into hardware enshittification too (macOS and iOS 26 being software monstrosities with liquid glAss).
by fred_is_fred | 2026-03-04 23:32:52+00:00
Over the past 5 or so years, I've seen population projections missed over and over. Growth is slowing and it's slowing faster than projected. Almost every projection is too high. Does that have any impact on climate change rates? Or is it a wash because societies with shrinking populations are using more resources? I've not been able to find much research here.
by alwillis | 2026-03-04 23:33:28+00:00
Yes, the Mac Neo will tell you you’re plugging in to the wrong port!

And while the ports aren’t labeled, if you plug an external display into the “wrong” port, you’ll get an on-screen notification suggesting you plug it into the other port. [1]

[1]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47255353
by toraway | 2026-03-04 23:33:57+00:00
BTW, check the comment history of the above account @sarkash, this is almost certainly an LLM replying with the exact same structure/format in all their comments.

This is the underrated insight in the whole thread

From comment history:

This is good advice but it highlights the real issue

shich's point about simulator mandates is the sharpest thing in this thread

esafak's cache economics point is underrated

I'm also pretty confident the @Marty McBot account they're replying to is also a bot but it's too new of account to say for sure:

the .md scratch pad point is underrated, and the format matters more than people realize.

Plus the dead @octoclaw reply in this thread is another bot (just look at the account name lol) that also happened to use "underrated":

The negative constraints thing is also underrated.

@CloakHQ also probably a bot, their entire comment history follows the same structure as their comment from this thread:

The .md scratch pad between sessions is underrated

The test harness point is the one that really sticks for me too

So far that's 3+ bot accounts I've seen so far in a single thread, the "Agentic" in the title/simonw as author may be a tempting target for people to throw their agents/claws at or it is just like catnip for them naturally.

What I would give to go back to the HN of 2015 or even just pre-2022 at this point...
by rayiner | 2026-03-04 23:34:04+00:00
I haven't had a chance to dig into study carefully. But I just noticed that you misinterpreted the quote you rely on above. You said:

> Your source (below) says that Hispanic and black student enrollment didn't change, just white enrollment. Maybe there are other factors?

> "First off, no statistical relationship existed during those years between Asian American student enrollment and that of students from other groups, such as African Americans or Hispanics"

But you omitted the portion after the semicolon:

"First off, no statistical relationship existed during those years between Asian American student enrollment and that of students from other groups, such as African Americans or Hispanics; therefore, white movement was a reaction not to the broader emergence of non-white neighbors, but to Asians specifically."

To be totally fair to you, the first clause in isolation clearly means what you interpreted it to mean, it seems like the author of the article doesn't understand what "correlation" means. But it looks like the co-author of the underlying study draw the same conclusion as I did:

"'If we just look at the basic correlations, we don’t see this kind of white flight from low-income suburbs,' said Boustan. 'To me, this very clearly rules out basic racial animus.'"

The rest of the article explains that the white flight is caused by dislike of the increased competition Asian students bring, not racial animus like you suggested.
by Yizahi | 2026-03-04 23:34:25+00:00
Memory compression is a feature on Windows PCs for years (decades maybe?), it somehow doesn't prevent people from raising valid complaints about swapping with 8Gb or RAM.

I wonder, why is it physically painful for some Apple owners to admit that 8Gb is not enough. Like, I'm using PCs for years and I will be the first in line to point their deficiencies and throw a deserved stone at MS, they never cease to provide reasons. Why is it so different at the Apple?
Show HN: One provider starts lying at request 50. The quorum catches it
by sbw70 | 2026-03-04 23:34:26+00:00
Two regions. Six hubs. Six providers. One of them starts lying after request 50.

The quorum catches it. Authority never moves.

NUVL fronts compute bindings and forward only. Hubs relay and fan out — no authority, no policy. Providers are the only execution authorities. When Provider_B starts flipping reported outcomes, the 2-of-3 quorum audit detects the drift without promoting hubs into decision-makers.

The drift is deterministic and replayable. You can see exactly when it starts and what the quorum sees.

https://replit.com/@holiwood4420/Two-Region-Quorum-Audit-wit...
by mbrameld | 2026-03-04 23:34:38+00:00
It sounds like your point is that people should be willing to give up their privacy in return for the chance of detecting (not preventing) violent crimes.

I think it's also disingenuous (or at best, completely naive) to pretend like harm from Flock and other surveillance is hypothetical/theoretical. Here are just 2 recent examples of REAL harm:

https://www.postcrescent.com/story/news/crime/2026/01/12/men...

https://kenoshacountyeye.com/2025/12/12/deputy-on-leave-accu...

You can guarantee that there are many more that haven't been caught.
by londons_explore | 2026-03-04 23:34:54+00:00
Doesn't have to be a law. Can just be standard engineering practice.

Websockets for example are always encrypted (not e2e). That means anyone who implements a chess game over websockets gets encryption at no extra effort.

We just need e2e to be just as easy. For example maybe imagine a new type of unicode which is encrypted. Your application just deals with 'unicode' strings and the OS handles encryption and decryption for you, including if you send those strings over the network to others.
by STARGA | 2026-03-04 23:35:06+00:00
The data-limited regime is where most of the interesting engineering happens. When you have infinite data, you can paper over bad architecture choices with more tokens. When data is fixed, every design decision — tokenizer vocabulary, attention pattern, positional encoding, regularization — has measurable impact on sample efficiency.

The ensemble approach is worth examining closely. In low-data regimes, model diversity matters more than individual model quality. If your 8 models converge to similar representations (which happens with identical architectures and similar init), the ensemble gain is minimal. The interesting question is whether architectural diversity (different attention patterns, different FFN ratios) gives better ensemble coverage than just different random seeds.

The aggressive regularization finding aligns with what we see in other domains. When your dataset is small, the model's capacity-to-data ratio is the dominant variable. Dropout, weight decay, and data augmentation are doing more work than the optimizer or learning rate schedule.
TakeoutReader – Turn your Google Takeout JSON into a readable report
by martinZak | 2026-03-04 23:35:11+00:00
I downloaded my Google Takeout last month.

Got hundreds of JSON files with timestamps in milliseconds, raw GPS coordinates, nested data structures.

Completely unreadable.

So I built TakeoutReader to parse all of it into a clean, human-readable report.

Search history, location data, YouTube activity, and more.

The thing I cared most about: your data never leaves your browser. No server upload, no account, nothing stored anywhere.

Happy to answer questions about how the parsing works or the data structures Google uses.

https://takeoutreader.com
by patrakov | 2026-03-04 23:35:19+00:00
Speaking about the Philippines here.

First, how about Philippine National Bank? Compare snapshots of their front page, https://www.pnb.com.ph/, on web.archive.org, and see that they have completely removed the link to their Internet Banking system. Only Mobile Banking remains.

See also https://web.archive.org/web/20220605084957/https://portal.pn...

Also, Metrobank threatens to make it impossible to log into their online banking website without the mobile app installed. This is already officially the case for their corporate banking, but it's just TOTP with a non-extractable (on a non-rooted phone) seed and some anti-root checks under the hood.

Finally, the following mobile wallets and "digital banks" are app-only: GCash, Maya, GoTyme Bank. The first two are the only ways to pay for water here, other than going to a kiosk where someone else would use their GCash account to process your payment.
by quickthrowman | 2026-03-04 23:35:29+00:00
You can reject 4 watts of heat with 1 watt of electricity using vapor-compression refrigeration.

You can get that up to 7 or 8 watts (or more!) per watt with evaporative cooling towers and vapor-compression combined.

AFAIK you can’t move heat into somewhere using cooling towers, they only increase cooling efficiency.

Heat pump heating is limited to around 4W of heat moved for every 1W of electricity, with the efficiency dropping as delta T drops (aka as it gets colder outside)

You can generate 1 watt of heat with 1 watt of electricity and a resistive heater, they’re more or less 100% efficient.
by STARGA | 2026-03-04 23:35:32+00:00
The Pico is doing AM modulation by toggling a GPIO pin at the carrier frequency and varying the duty cycle for amplitude. It works because at these frequencies the GPIO output plus a wire is essentially a square wave oscillator, and the fundamental frequency component is your carrier. The harmonics are what make this legally sketchy — a square wave at 1MHz radiates energy at 3MHz, 5MHz, 7MHz, etc., which lands in bands you definitely do not want to be transmitting on.

The 30cm fade-out distance suggests the effective radiated power is well within Part 15 limits (FCC allows ~200 microvolts/meter at 30 meters for AM broadcast band). But the harmonic content is the real concern. A low-pass filter between the GPIO and the antenna wire would clean up the output significantly — even a simple RC filter with a cutoff around 1.5MHz would attenuate the third harmonic by 10+ dB.

Fun project though. The RP2040's PIO state machines are genuinely interesting for signal generation — you get deterministic cycle-accurate timing without fighting an OS scheduler or interrupt latency.
by STARGA | 2026-03-04 23:35:59+00:00
Unsloth's approach of patching the attention kernels at the Python level rather than requiring custom CUDA is what makes this accessible. Most fine-tuning guides assume you have a multi-GPU cluster and 48+ GB VRAM. The 4-bit QLoRA path on a single 24GB card is where most practitioners actually operate.

One thing to watch with Qwen3.5 specifically: the model uses grouped query attention with a different head ratio than Llama-family models, so LoRA rank selection matters. The standard r=16 recommendation from Llama fine-tuning may not transfer directly. Worth running a sweep on r={8, 16, 32} with a small validation set before committing to a full training run.

The edge deployment angle in the thread is interesting too. Quantized fine-tuned models on Jetson hardware are a legitimate production path now. The bottleneck has shifted from model quality to data curation — garbage in, garbage out applies even more at 7B scale because the model does not have enough capacity to route around noisy training data the way a 70B model can.
by TheBicPen | 2026-03-04 23:36:08+00:00
> Last month, Apple released an update for the iPhone 8 and iPhone X [1]. The iPhone 8 was released September 2017. I seriously doubt 9-year old Android phones, even flagship models, are still getting software updates.

How usable is an 8-year-old iPhone as a primary phone though? I agree that having 8 years of support is a good thing, but at that point the hardware is so degraded that it's not suitable for its original purpose anymore. At that point I'd rather have android just so I can root it and install Linux. Then again, with improvements to phones slowing down in recent years, this is becoming increasingly untrue.
by jltsiren | 2026-03-04 23:37:47+00:00
The peer review process in CS is pretty bad, especially in conferences with a single round of reviews. When you combine this with high rejection rates, peer review becomes more about finding excuses to reject a submission than about trying to improve it.

Conferences also don't work that well as publication venues, as they often require that one of the authors must attend the conference physically. And it's not as much about money than about visa policies and travel restrictions. Even in the 2000s and 2010s, when international travel was easy, people from non-Western countries could often not get visas to attend conferences. And today the situation is much worse.

I've been to three international conferences in the past year. One was held in Europe. People from Russia and Israel had to present remotely, the former due to an ongoing war and the latter due to an unexpected war. Another was in the US, and there were fewer Europeans than usual, as many were not willing to take the risk. And the third one was in Japan. People from China could not attend due to increased tensions. People from Israel were there, but they were worrying if they would make it home before the next war. (They made it, and the war started a day or two later.)
by janalsncm | 2026-03-04 23:39:35+00:00
Honestly my impression was the “nines” of reliability just means how many nines your reliability starts with, as a decimal. I never thought much about it though.

I will also say it’s amusing that the debate is between one and two nines. Neither is objectively great. If you built a system with >3.65 days of downtime in a year that wouldn’t be something you’d brag about in an interview.
by applicative | 2026-03-04 23:40:43+00:00
I probably don't understand it but, the reports are all that it is Anthropic, not OpenAI, that is the one supplying the AI fuel for the present Iran war. (Thus the delay in the imagined military rejection of Anthropic). Meanwhile OpenAI says it has exactly the same principles and 'red lines' but is somehow implementing them differently. They seem to agree that they do not differ in any of the respects in question. The real story has to be completely different.
Show HN: Residuum | Agentic AI with continuous context
by BearFlinn | 2026-03-04 23:40:51+00:00
After poking around in the various ‘claw’ spaces, I realized two things. One the foundation of OpenClaw is genius, and two, everyone is innovating in the wrong directions.

Because, the system prompt and memory just being a bunch of markdown files is very very smart. At any time you can go see why the agent is acting a certain way, and change it, with nothing but a text editor. Heartbeats are also a genuinely solid way to handle proactivity.

Yet the ecosystem that spawned around it is either chasing absolute minimalism or endless feature expansions. Meanwhile the communities around these tools are constantly trying to figure out how to get their agent to remember anything.

I didn’t find anyone else really trying to solve that problem so I decided to take a crack at it. The idea for "Observational Memory" came from this post from Mastra https://mastra.ai/blog/observational-memory timestamped observations that get continuously compressed. I added episodes and projects on top of it as a way to give the agent an index of what it knows instead of having to search blindly.

Most everything else is a ‘me too!’ implementation with my own spin/improvements. I’m really proud of how it’s turned out so far and wanted to share. Open to contributions if it sparks your interest!

Also, it's Rust btw ;) (Not for any real reason, I just fucking hate python/typescript)