MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by deathanatos | 2026-03-04 03:01:47+00:00
They've also become eye-wateringly expensive.

I represent pricing in $/warranty year. (If you want me to believe the product is worth more, stand by it in the form of a warranty. But if a company isn't going to put their warranty where their mouth is, well.)

Lenovo used to warrant their product; my previous Thinkpad, which came with a then-pathetic (Thinkpads used to be four year warranties!) 3 year warranty, for ~$1200, or $400/warranty year.

I can't mock up a purchase for either laptop reviewed, as neither are available at any price. So, we'll do the predecessor. Those start at $1300/y; that represents an increase in price of ~14% YoY … which obviously is not tracking inflation.

That's enough to put smaller manufacturers who don't benefit from large supply chains, like Framework, in spitting distance.

But is it comparable? The base screen is "45%NTSC", and AFAICT from the reviews, the consensus is "don't do it". The other option is an sRGB screen. The base SSD is half the size now, but it is also upgradable to 1 TiB if you fork over $. The OS can be removed now, which actually knocks $90 off the "base" price! The dGPU is just quite literally gone. And nine years later, and the RAM is still the same size, but as we all know, software definitely hasn't gotten more bloated in the past nine years.

So, oddly, my current Thinkpad is down for the count right now. After 9 years, it suffered the first real HW failure: the motherboard. The first one took ~3 weeks to ship, and it was defective. The next one only took ~2 weeks, and the patient is still in surgery, so fingers crossed?

My biggest repairability question: … have they fixed the power brick to not have the cable melded into the brick? The cable is what breaks, and it costs probably like $3.50, but because it's molded into the main AC/DC converter brick, you have to scrap the entire thing and Lenovo charges for those like they're made from the tears of angels. If you just make a connector there, you raise the cost of the brick a few cents, maybe a few dollars … and save $50? $60 down the road in repairs, and untold amounts of eWaste.
by boznz | 2026-03-04 03:03:23+00:00
I wish I had a crystal ball to know how this will play out in the future, will a different AI create it from the SOP? How will humans fit in?

For me with any new release of my winery production software I re-ran every job put into my clients production systems from job #1, about 200,000 jobs; Before going into production we checked all the balances, product compositions and inventory from this new software matches what the old system currently says. Takes about an hour to re-run fifteen years production and even a milliliter, or milligram difference was enough to trigger a stop/check. We had an extensive set of input data I could also feed in, to ensure mistakes were caught there too.

I expect other people do it there own way, but as a business this would be the low bar of testing I would expect to be done.
by grogenaut | 2026-03-04 03:03:47+00:00
Won't someone please think of the poor JLC owner. Look I get it, I like nice watches as well. I also recognize some day a computer is going to drive for me. Some of my nicest antique watches barely or don't run.

All of those clocks have drift and most of the wall ones are wrong by several minutes. We're also talking the drift of 1 hour over the course of 6 months. or .32 minutes a day, or 2.3 minutes a week. Most clocks will be drifting that much on weak batteries or grime if they're not quartz or digital.

Your fancy watch likely isn't on time unless you have only one, or you have auto-winders on all of them. And you're not going to miss an appointment because your Patek is off by .32 minutes a day 2.3 a week.

If you cared about accuracy you'd have a network clock synced to an atomic clock, oh wait, you do, its in your pocket. People wearing watches for fashion aren't using them for their calendar appointments or because they don't want to be late for an appointment with the King.
by sarchertech | 2026-03-04 03:04:08+00:00
It’s because people will do what they’re incentivized to do. And if no one cares about anything but whether the next feature goes out the door, that’s what programmers will focus on.

Honestly I think the other thing that is happening is that a lot of people who know better are keeping their mouths shut and waiting for things to blow up.

We’re at the very peak of the hype cycle right now, so it’s very hard to push back and tell people that maybe they should slow down and make sure they understand what the system is actually doing and what it should be doing.
by wolvoleo | 2026-03-04 03:04:23+00:00
See where IBM is now though. Between some legacy hardware and random consulting services, they don't really have much of a strategy. They just exist because people still need them for old stuff and because older people trust their name. They used to lead the industry. Now they're not leading anything.

Of course their enterprise focus wasn't their only failure. But it was a factor in one of the biggest failures: their underestimation of the importance of the PC. They allowed Microsoft to market DOS to clones because they didn't see the potential.

So yeah I think their focus on enterprise was one of their biggest failures.
by walterbell | 2026-03-04 03:04:33+00:00
https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/memory-supply-chain-ai-disrup...

Apple has accepted a 100% price increase for Samsung's LPDDR5X memory, with DRAM supply commitments secured only through the first half of 2026. Tim Cook acknowledged during the Q1 FY2026 earnings call that storage price increases would significantly impact Q2 gross margins.. Apple is evaluating ChangXin Memory Technologies (CXMT) and Yangtze Memory Technologies (YMTC) as new supply sources, attempting to rebuild pricing leverage through supply chain diversification.
by watersb | 2026-03-04 03:04:54+00:00
While the original OS X display model, Quartz, evolved from Display PDF via NextStep, I believe that it shifted back to pixel rasterization to offload more of the display stack onto the GPU.

Quartz Extreme?

John Siracusa, Ars Technica:

It's possible that existing consumer video cards could be coerced into doing efficient vector drawing in hardware. Apple tried to do just that in Tiger [note], but then had to back off at the last minute and disable the feature in the shipping version of the OS. It remains disabled to this day.

[note] https://arstechnica.com/reviews/os/macosx-10.4.ars/14

https://arstechnica.com/staff/2006/04/3720/
by orwin | 2026-03-04 03:05:00+00:00
300k? You mean 30k right?

Iranian official numbers are 3.5k. the OSINT community say at least 15k in the 3 biggest cities (including peo-regime guardias of the revolution), and 'local' journalists (a lot with CIA ties though), not friend of the system say 30k.

I wouldn't trust Iran with a butter knife, so I imagine between 15 and 30k, including 1 to 2k 'guardians'
by LelouBil | 2026-03-04 03:05:18+00:00
Well, I'll surely be buying a Motorola device when GrapheneOS support lands.

I've been running on several half-working recent android ports to my Xiaomi Mi 9t for many years now.

If I can get a modern phone, modern android, my privacy preserved and a hackable phone (to the extent an unlockable bootloader allows, which isn't a given nowadays, I especially hate how Xiaomi does it), I'm 100% sold.

We'll see when it comes out I guess!
by windexh8er | 2026-03-04 03:05:41+00:00
Not to be flippant but who cares? People don't know there's an option. I've run Graphene for years and will gladly pay a premium for it. Beyond the bolstered security the battery life is exponentially better than a default Android device because of all the constant background traffic that Google doesn't allow any control over that you instantly have a choice with on GrapheneOS.

And as soon as you start showing these things to people they do start to care and ask how. So the fact that the mainstream is ignorant and doesn't care enough yet doesn't matter because it's very likely a much larger segment of users will care when the tech evangelists they trust stop using IOS and Google Android. That's how these things started and that's how they could very well play out in this scenario as well.
by dmix | 2026-03-04 03:05:53+00:00
Even back in 2016 when Trump criticized prior wars he always said he would have done it better and without warning. Not exactly a pacifist position.

> Trump was not a conventional anti-war candidate. His message was a variation of the “peace through strength” ideology of the right, plus Richard Nixon’s “madman theory”: a belief that the more other countries fear the retribution of the United States, the less likely war would be. - The Nation

If anything he's anti-invasion because he doesn't actually care about the countries, he only cares about American interests which is projecting power, scaring off adversaries, and isolationism.
by raviisoccupied | 2026-03-04 03:06:22+00:00
I don’t think this is a spicy take at all. A PM’s job is to prioritise, and the most important/high priority projects will naturally be handled by Engineers enabled with AI-coding workflows. The high priority/impact work should be allocated to the folks with the highest level of skill.

I feel like PMs coding unlocks a whole new category of work, mainly addressing the long tail of cool ideas/small optimisations that ordinarily would not be addressed. Time will tell how valuable these items are in the long term.

And I say this as a PM.
by albatross79 | 2026-03-04 03:07:20+00:00
The heart of the matter is a system that produces correct output in a wide variety of scenarios, including ones outside our scope of experience or understanding. That would be a one definition of AI. LLMs are not that, and I don't understand the desperate insistence that they are. Just accept what it is. A good auto complete is useful, a crappy AI is a marketing scam.
by skissane | 2026-03-04 03:09:17+00:00
> The first is that SRE team size primarily scales with the number of applications and level of support. It does scale with hardware but sublinearly, where number of applications usually scales super linearly. It takes a ton less effort to manage 100 instances of a single app than 1 instance of 100 separate apps (presuming SRE has any support responsibilities for the app). Talking purely in terms of hardware would make me concerned that I’m looking at an impossible task.

Never been an SRE but interact with them all the time…

My own personal experience is there is commonly a division between App SREs that look after the app layer and Infra SREs that looks after the infrastructure layer (K8S, storage, network, etc)

The App SRE role absolutely scales with the number of distinct apps. The extent to which the Infra SRE role does depends on how diverse the apps are in terms of their infrastructure demands
by lazylizard | 2026-03-04 03:09:49+00:00
i am not sre, merely sysadmin.

and somehow i have this impression that gpus on slurm/pbs could not be simpler.

u can use a vm for the head node, dont even need the clustering really..if u can accept taking 20min to restore a vm.. and the rest of the hardware are homogeneous - you setup 1 right and the rest are identical.

and its a cluster with a job queue.. 1 node going down is not the end of the world..

ok if u have pcie GPUs sometimes u have to re-seat them and its a pain. otherwise if ur h200 or disks fail u just replace them, under warranty or not...
by cport1 | 2026-03-04 03:10:13+00:00
-Detects only new/changed strings and translates them (no redundant API calls)

-Supports XLIFF 1.2, XLIFF 2.0, and JSON (flat + nested)

-Handles ICU MessageFormat plurals with CLDR rules for 20+ languages

-Commits translated files back to your repo automatically

-Works with Anthropic Claude, OpenAI, or self-hosted Ollama
by joshuamorton | 2026-03-04 03:10:21+00:00
The question to ask of course is do you see how your manager interacts with their management?

Do the things that get done stay consistent, or are your priorities constantly changing? Do you and your team control your priorities or are they out of your control?

I think it's very difficult to see what managers are even doing (I'm not one, I'm a senior IC) until you have a particular level of visibility or exposure to planning and prioritization. But once I started to see that and see why it was hard as I began to interact with it myself, it becomes much clearer.
by al_borland | 2026-03-04 03:10:48+00:00
Lenovo had a couple black eyes back-to-back. It was 10 years ago now, but trust takes a long time to build and can be lost in an instant. They lost my trust and I don’t see them getting it back.

My first laptop was an IBM Thinkpad, and while it was a great piece of hardware, I don’t see myself ever buying another one as long an Lenovo owns the brand.
by HexDecOctBin | 2026-03-04 03:10:59+00:00
One issue with Voxel-based physics destruction games is that the physics happens in continuous space (as opposed to voxel space). This means that the moment you break off a chunk of geometry, it has to be converted into a mesh and simulated like any other mesh-based model will. This makes voxels seem like more complicated Voronoi-noise based fractures. If you want the modelling workflow or the looks of voxels, it's fine. But assuming that voxels will somehow help with the destruction physics seems not to be a valid assumption.

Ideally, we would be able to do physics in voxel space itself (sort of like a cellular automata based classical mechanics), but that doesn't seem to be possible.
by jlongo78 | 2026-03-04 03:11:18+00:00
the "context weaver" framing is sharp. thats the actually hard problem - not "did you save it" but "why did past-you care."

one small warning though: reconstructed context via LLM can drift from actual intent. worth storing the raw behavioral metadata verbatim alongside the inference, so users can sanity-check the reconstruction against what really happend.

artifact + context + provenance. thats the full triangle.
by LelouBil | 2026-03-04 03:11:18+00:00
Yeah,

I'm working on an indie game project and just got frustrated with Unity, I'm porting everything over to Godot.

I even learned about using Kotlin with Godot today [0] and I am really hopeful this is stable (it seems so), because I favor a more functional style of programming and C# ends up making everything 5 times more verbose than Kotlin.

[0] https://godot-kotl.in/en/stable/
Show HN: A visual sitemap generator that maps any website's full navigation tree
by epic_ai | 2026-03-04 03:11:26+00:00
I built EPIC(https://no-edit.lovable.app)that crawls a website and generates a clean, interactive visual sitemap.
You enter a URL → it maps the full structure:
Page hierarchy
Navigation depth
Internal linking paths
Structural clusters
It’s useful for:
Auditing bloated navigation
Understanding competitor site structure
Debugging complex product sites
Refactoring legacy architectures
I originally built it for my own product because manually mapping structure was painful.
Would appreciate technical feedback — especially edge cases or crawl limitations.
by SamuelAdams | 2026-03-04 03:12:03+00:00
IAM comes to mind, with fine grained control over everything.

S3 has excellent legal and auditory settings for data, as well as automatic data retention policies.

KMS is a very secure and well done service. I dare you to find an equivalent on-prem solution that offers as much security.

And then there's the whole DR idea. Failing over to another AWS region is largely trivial if you set it up correctly - on prem is typically custom to each organization, so you need to train new staff with your organizations workflows. Whereas in AWS, Route53 fail-over routing (for example) is the same across every organization. This reduces cost in training and hiring.
by wtallis | 2026-03-04 03:12:12+00:00
That advice doesn't hold up very well when in recent years we've had multiple instances of a BIOS update being necessary to deal with the problem of "the CPU gets fed too high a voltage and dies prematurely". That's happened to both Intel and AMD desktop CPUs.

It's a real problem that BIOS updates for consumer systems never come with a meaningful changelog, so evaluating whether a particular update is a good idea or not is basically impossible.
by tombert | 2026-03-04 03:12:20+00:00
The world isn't going to end if a teenage boy sees a booby, but I think that it can distort a teenager's view on sex and sexuality. I think that part of the disturbing woman-hating incel "movement" might be, at least in part, a result of a lot of very stupid guys seeing distorted views sex and seeing a lot of media where objectifying women is rewarded. [1]

Also, porn nowadays isn't just a woman showing a titty; if you go on PornHub or something, it is all pretty hardcore now.

I agree that good sex education is ideal, but I still think that we probably shouldn't be allowing kids to watch porn.

[1] Also, who actually pays for the pizza???? I mean, there's no such thing as a free lunch. Pizza should count as lunch, or at least dinner. Are all these horny housewives ordering pizzas with no way to pay for it making the prices of my pizza go up?
by layman51 | 2026-03-04 03:13:09+00:00
After I read this, I started to look at the Wikipedia article on Base64 and eventually got to the article for the data URI scheme. That's where I found a sentence that seems to a little bit at odds with the blogpost. The Wikipedia article mentions that "whitespace characters are not permitted in data URIs".

But then I suppose it goes back to the main thrust of the blogpost because it says that in the context of HTML 4 and 5, that linefeeds within an attribute value are ignored. So possibly there are some other contexts where whitespace might not be ignored.
by jfindley | 2026-03-04 03:13:30+00:00
Is there any way to have something like a distance blur? e.g. as rays travel further you reduce the number, subsample then apply a gaussian(or algo of choice) blur across those that return, increasing in intensity as the rays angle gets coarser?

It'd be really neat to have some way of enabling really long-distance raytraced voxels so you can make planet-scale worlds look good, but as far as I'm aware noone's really nailed the technical implementation yet. A few companies and engines seem to have come up with pieces of what might end up being a final puzzle, but not seen anything close to a complete solution yet.
by Nevermark | 2026-03-04 03:13:42+00:00
Somehow Tim Cook's many year's position that the lightening port was very important to Apple vs USB-C, fell flat as a parsec wide pancake.

(It didn't help that they couldn't point to a single user facing feature.)

Or that the App Store lock in is for our safety. When anyone who wanted that particular safety, could choose to continue using there store exclusively.

Etc.

He just does not have it. No field. No spiraling eyes. Perhaps he should grow a beard and wave around a tobacco pipe. Works for some.
by shevy-java | 2026-03-04 03:13:49+00:00
> OpenSSH will refuse to use a key to connect to any server if said file is readable by any user but yourself

I actually think that this assumption is the problem. This assumes
a certain problem that, in this example here, was not the real
problem. So the whole assumption that openssh refuses a connection
in this case, was the wrong assumption to make. This is a design
mistake, IMO; I understand the rationale but I disagree with it
leading to being unable to connect. I have had similar problems
with assumptions before, e. g. "if you are the super-user, we do
not allow you to start X; you must be a regular user and use sudo".
This is IMO also the wrong design approach - the very idea to
restrict what the superuser can do. KDE used to have added an
extra #define macro to refuse to be started when the superuser
tries to use KDE. This is also the wrong design abstraction -
people writing the code not understanding the basic permission
system in *nix. (It only were a few #defines in the C++ code, so people could just remove it then recompile the thing and it suddenly worked like pure magic. I had that in some KDE editor, I forgot which one; I think it was kate. Been many years by now.)
by jodrellblank | 2026-03-04 03:13:56+00:00
yes I did read all your post. It seems to have incorrect claims.

> "i completely reject it, because people seem to believe it's there to protect any rights"

Under "Your rights" section on the UK government website you can see that it grants you rights, so people have good reason to believe that: https://www.gov.uk/data-protection

How does it nag people? How does it legitimise dark patterns? What is in it regarding tracking? How does it push people to concentrate their services in a bad way? The GDPR is not just for websites, it's for all dealings with companies.
by wolvoleo | 2026-03-04 03:13:58+00:00
As an enterprise admin of Microsoft services I think they're pretty mediocre. Their stuff is always behind the state of the art. It's just good enough to not go for a third party option that isn't included in their bundle pricing. But it never really satisfies, it's always got this 'make do' feeling about it.

The single pane of glass thing is nice but I don't think it's really something you can't do without. I think what really cements them in the enterprise market is their ability to deep discount their bundles.

It's very hard with third party vendors to compete with that. You're not gonna pay $10 per user per month for zoom or slack when you can have teams included in the bundle you're already paying, even if it's not quite as good.

It's like IKEA. It's cheap, it does the job and for that reason almost everyone has it, but I wouldn't call it quality.
by stkdump | 2026-03-04 03:14:01+00:00
Yeah, I was shocked that a keyboard replacement of my company issued X1 is basically a full teardown. When it was time to replace my private laptop a year later, I opted for the L-series, which is much better in that regard and also much cheaper. Keyboard replacements are a pretty standard thing for me, because I don't like my local layout and if you limit yourself to buying with the layout you want, you can only go to Apple or Framework nowadays.
by laughing_man | 2026-03-04 03:14:23+00:00
Israel seems to have incredibly good intelligence for this fight. If I were tasked with reconstituting Iran's defenses after this fight is over, I'd put a whole lot of resources into figuring out how the Israelis seem to know where everyone in Iran is at any particular time and how they're getting that information to war planners, with an eye to preventing it from happening again.
by dcowals | 2026-03-04 03:14:34+00:00
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by sublinear | 2026-03-04 03:14:46+00:00
I strongly agree with this. The only place where AI is uncontroversial is web search summaries.

The real blockers and time sinks were always bad/missing docs and examples. LLMs bridge that gap pretty well, and of course they do. That's what they're designed to be (language models), not an AGI!

I find it baffling how many workplaces are chasing perceived productivity gains that their customers will never notice instead of building out their next gen apps. Anyone who fails to modernize their UI/UX for the massive shift in accessibility about to happen with WebMCP will become irrelevant. Content presentation is so much higher value to the user. People expect things to be reliable and simple. Especially new users don't want your annoying onboarding flow and complicated menus and controls. They'll just find another app that gives them what they want faster.