MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by stetrain | 2026-03-04 15:00:40+00:00
Until today if they had less than around $800 to spend my answer would be "Don't buy a new MacBook from Apple" because there isn't one that cheap. Maybe look for a used or refurbished M1-M2 model.

Today it's the MacBook Neo unless you have a higher budget and want a nicer screen and more power. Then it's the MacBook Air, unless you do serious photography, video, audio, or development work then it's a MacBook Pro.

It's still a pretty simple, linear progression up the line.

Steve Jobs presided over an era where they were selling:

- A white plastic 13" MacBook
- An aluminum 13" MacBook
- 13", 15", and 17" Macbook Pro
- A high end 13" MacBook Air that thermally throttled and was more expensive than most of their other laptops
by random3 | 2026-03-04 15:00:55+00:00
This has been a thought theme throughout my career and have a good set of scenarios I never ended up publishing.

It's not just the most "elaborate system". The same thing happens in so many other ways. For example a good/simple solution is one and done. Whereas a complex one will be an interminable cause of indirect issued down the road. With the second engineer being the one fixing them.

Then there's another pattern of the 10x (not the case with all 10x-ers) seeding or asked to "fix" other projects, then moving on to the next, leaving all the debt to the team.

It's really an amazing dynamic that can be studied from a game theoretical perspective. It's perhaps one of the adjacent behaviors that support the Gervais principle.

It's also likely going to be over soon, now that AI is normalizing a lot of this work.
by ForceBru | 2026-03-04 15:01:02+00:00
Apple: here's an affordable laptop. This comment: but the poor kids are going to feel inferior to the rich kids with this affordable laptop! Of course the poor kids are going to get cheaper & slower computers, cheaper clothes, etc. And they won't feel great about it because being poor isn't great.

But now they'll have more options! If they like Apple, they'll have a (likely pretty good) Apple laptop! It's great! I think a more affordable Mac is _good_ (at least better than no affordable Mac) and will make the poor kids happier.
by venusenvy47 | 2026-03-04 15:01:06+00:00
Also Motorola, make this phone available in the US: https://m.gsmarena.com/motorola_edge_50_neo-13224.php

It's the smallest phone available with a real telephoto lens. I think it was only available in India, but I got one on eBay because it has those two features (not huge with telephoto) I was looking for. I moved to it from a Pixel 6a because I refuse to go any bigger in physical size.
by spenvo | 2026-03-04 15:01:12+00:00
"In order to strike a blistering 1,000 targets in the first 24 hours of its attack on Iran, the U.S. military leveraged the most advanced artificial intelligence it's ever used in warfare"
"Embedded into [Palantir's Maven Smart System] is Anthropic's AI tool Claude, a technology that was banned by the Pentagon last week after heated negotiations over the terms of its use in war.
Over the last year military planners have seen Claude, paired with Maven, mature into a tool that is in daily use across most parts of the military, according to two of the people."
by __MatrixMan__ | 2026-03-04 15:01:36+00:00
I think we'll see a decline of software as a product for this reason. If your job is to solve a problem, and you use AI to generate a tool that solves that problem, or you use money to buy a tool that solves that problem, well then it's still your job to solve that problem regardless of which tool you use.

But given how poorly bought software tends to fit the use case of the person it was bought for... eventually generate-something-custom will start making more and more sense.

If you end up generating something that nobody understands, then when you quit and get a new job, somebody else will probably use your project as context for generating something that suits the way they want to solve that problem. Time will have passed, so the needs will have changed, they'll end up with something different. They'll also only partially understand it, but the gaps will be in different places this time around. Overall I think it'll be an improvement because there will be less distance (both in time and along the social graph) between the software's user its creator--them being most of the time the same person.
by anal_reactor | 2026-03-04 15:01:42+00:00
I realized that my manager really confuses complexity with robustness. Case in point: we have a very complicated script that runs at deployment time to determine the address of the database. It's been the source of a few incidents - database wasn't discovered because it was restarting and the script passed an empty string instead of stopping the deployment, script failed because of python update and empty configuration was passed, shit like that. I've been arguing "bro why can't we make terraform create a config file with all the addresses that is directly passed to the app at deployment, or better yet, just copy-paste the database addresses into a file in the repo because we change something there once a year at maximum" but my manager took it as a sign of incompetence and my inability to understand complex systems.

I feel like lots of people just follow the happy path and don't understand that complexity incurs real cost.
by raron | 2026-03-04 15:01:44+00:00
It's a proposal, so you can check out how it would work.

Anonymous age verification is technically possible, but it is as pointless as any other age verification system, it could easily be circumvented if someone older willing to help.

Probably there is a reason why nobody uses it.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_purpose_of_a_system_is_wha...
by qn9n | 2026-03-04 15:01:45+00:00
macOS is shockingly good at memory management, the issue is most people will want to slap Chrome and run 50 tabs on it, if you use Apple's built in tools and treat it essentially like you do your iPhone but with some better features for photo editing, document editing and research tools then it will be an incredible entry level device for most students and office workers.

Upgrade to air if you do things like coding and video editing semi-regularly and upgrade to a Pro if you do long running intensive tasks.
by globular-toast | 2026-03-04 15:01:49+00:00
Nothing. It's just a number in an account. It's what we call money basically.

Banks don't profit from keeping your deposits, they profit from running the money supply which empowers them to create new money which they tax or, in other words, loans on which they charge interest.

Go and try to withdraw something tangible with intrinsic value from a bank and you'll see they don't owe you anything at all. The most you'll get from them is paper, but even then you'll find it withdraw all your money in paper.

I just opened an account for you in my own bank, in fact. You have one million credits. You are free to send and receive credits from anybody else with an account (which is nobody, unfortunately). I owe you nothing.
Show HN: EZorro – Describe your trading strategy, and turn it into an algo
by Garrett727 | 2026-03-04 15:01:57+00:00
Hey HN! I'm Garrett, creator of eZorro.

The problem: I had trading ideas but couldn't code them. I'd think "buy Apple when it drops 5% below its 20-day moving average" and then spend hours trying to wire up broker APIs, backtest logic, and execution — or just never do it at all. Sure, I can get a plug-in or prompts from somewhere for AI, but if it’s not designed by actual industry specialists, I can’t trust it.

The solution: eZorro, built by those who actually built the tools for banks and hedge funds, lets you describe trading strategies in plain English. The AI converts your idea into an executable, automated trading system connected to your existing brokerage account. From retail broker investor to professional trader - No coding required.

How it works:

1. Describe your strategy → "Buy Tesla when it drops to $200 and sell at $250"
...You can...
→ a. Use multiple conditions beyond this example
→ b. Validate the strategy to ensure it makes sense
→ c. Backtest the strategy to prove it works
→ d. You can then have the application try to optimize it further.

2. Connect your broker (Fidelity, Schwab, Interactive Brokers, ETRADE, Robinhood, +24 others including Crypto in the U.S. alone)

3. Review the generated strategy parameters and confirm

4. It runs 24/7, executing trades automatically when conditions are met

Why this matters:

Most "AI trading" tools are really just fancy screeners or chatbots that give you opinions. eZorro actually closes the loop — from idea to backtest, to optimization, to live execution. The whole point is that your plain-English intuition becomes a real, running system without touching an API or writing a single line of code.

What you get:

Natural language → automated strategy pipeline
* 15+ broker integrations (secure OAuth, no credential sharing)
* AI conversational assistant to help refine and iterate on strategies
* Technical indicator support (RSI, moving averages, etc.)
* Strategy types from mean reversion to profit-taking to risk management
* Real-time execution when market conditions match

Try it: For a two week free trial →
App: https://platform.ezorro.app
Docs: https://docs.ezorro.app
Site: https://ezorro.app

Honest question for HN: Is natural language the right interface for trading strategy creation, or do more sophisticated traders always want to drop into code eventually? I'm curious where people think the ceiling is for a no-code approach.
by azath92 | 2026-03-04 15:02:10+00:00
Only to prompt thought on this exact question, im interested in answers:

I just ran a benchmark against haiku of a very simple document classification task that at the moment we farm out to haiku in parallel. very naive same prompt system via same api AWS bedrock, and can see that the a few of the 4b models are pretty good match, and could be easily run locally or just for cheap via a hosted provider. The "how much data and how much improvement" is a question i dont have a good intuition for anymore. I dont even have an order of magnitude guess on those two axis.

Heres raw numbers to spark discussion:

| Model | DocType% | Year% | Subject% | In $/MTok |

|---------------|----------|-------|----------|-----------|

| llama-70b -----| 83 | 98 | 96 | $0.72 |

| gpt-oss-20b --| 83 | 97 | 92 | $0.07 |

| ministral-14b -| 84 | 100 | 90 | $0.20 |

| gemma-4b ----| 75 | 93 | 91 | $0.04 |

| glm-flash-30b -| 83 | 93 | 90 | $0.07 |

| llama-1b ------| 47 | 90 | 58 | $0.10 |

percents are doc type (categorical), year, and subject name match against haiku. just uses the first 4 pages.

in the old world where these were my own in house models, id be interested in seeing if i could uplift those nubmers with traingin, but i haven't done that with the new LLMs in a while. keen to get even a finger to the air if possible.

Can easily generate tens of thousands of examples.

Might try myself, but always keen for an opinion.

_edit for table formatting_
by egorfine | 2026-03-04 15:02:47+00:00
> They're not asking for IDs

For now. But before you know you will have to fully KYC yourself before using any OS and you will not be allowed to boot your Linux of modify any of the binaries.

And before you laugh it off, let me remind you that this very topic of conversation we are having here would sound as ridiculous just a year ago.
by SirMaster | 2026-03-04 15:02:47+00:00
>M1 is about equivalent in benchmarks to the A18.

MacBook Neo is A18 Pro and if you look at benchmarks, the A18 Pro single core performance is 50% faster than the M1...

https://browser.geekbench.com/v6/cpu/8650702

https://browser.geekbench.com/macs/macbook-air-late-2020
by strcat | 2026-03-04 15:03:05+00:00
Those devices have atrocious security at a hardware, firmware and software level. Their microphone kill switch also doesn't prevent audio recording. They aren't open hardware despite many attempts to mislead people with the marketing.

> The latter even has most of the modem software freed.

Pinephones have entirely closed source baseband firmware. They use a highly unusual cellular radio which includes both an incredibly outdated Qualcomm baseband processor with atrocious updates and security combined with an extremely outdated proprietary fork of Android running on an extra CPU core which isn't present in any mainstream smartphone. It's only replacing the unusual extra OS which has been done. That whole component doesn't exist on other smartphones and the only reason it's possible to replace it is because the whole radio has absolutely atrocious security. The radio is connected via a far higher attack surface USB connection providing far less isolation for the OS and the USB connection can be used to flash the proprietary Android OS via the fastboot protocol. The baseband firmware itself doesn't have any replacement available.
by paxys | 2026-03-04 15:03:17+00:00
With every new device Apple releases the split between iPadOS and macOS gets more awkward.

Makes no sense for a $1500 "Pro" iPad to have desktop-class RAM, storage, an M5 chip, and be stuck with a Fisher Price OS, while this one has the equivalent specs of last year's iPhone and gets the full power of macOS. Just unify the two already.
by collabs | 2026-03-04 15:03:28+00:00
I bought an Acer Swift Go 14 with 1920x1200 display, a QHD webcam, 16 GB memory, 1 TB storage, and AMD 8845HS processor for a little over USD 520 from amazon.com at the end of 2025.

The biggest drawback I guess is it has a fan and well, the fact that it is an Acer. This MacBook will definitely beat the aspire series for now but who knows maybe the competition will make the OEMs improve their product.

I wanted to list my experience because there will be sales on these other notebook PC that Apple likely won't have.
by hypeatei | 2026-03-04 15:04:01+00:00
> Iran was less than a month away from having a viable nuke

Oh, I see, you've bought the propaganda that Iran is close to a nuke. That's been the scare tactic for decades. Did you already forget the strike we did on their nuclear facilities months ago that supposedly set them back?

There was no justification for this war, the official US position is that we needed to get involved because Israel striked first and Iran was going to retaliate against us.

Israel is wagging the dog here since this is likely the last puppet they'll have in office and Iran threatens their power in the ME.
by rft | 2026-03-04 15:04:08+00:00
In 2019 there was a talk about data mining the DB arrival data [1] (yes, this problem is nothing new). One of the takeaways was that on some connections you can actually buy a "Sparticket" (cheaper, but only valid for a specific train), but get it upgraded to a "Flexticket" (more expensive, can take any train on the route) for free. This works because a delay of more than X minutes removes the specific train requirement and some routes are nearly always delayed by at least that threshold.

[1] https://media.ccc.de/v/36c3-10652-bahnmining_-_punktlichkeit... (German)
by addedlovely | 2026-03-04 15:04:29+00:00
I'm now a 15'' Air user after always being pro. I notice no difference in performance but enjoy the lighter form factor and damn does it run cool compared to the pro.

Replacing my iPhone was a nothing burger of choice, on paper the iPhone 15 pro was the best feature set for value vs buying a new iPhone 17, but Apple know that so don't sell the older models directly when the new models come out.

There's really limited impactful innovation when you get into the details.
by lucasfin000 | 2026-03-04 15:04:40+00:00
Even if the algorithm holds up we are still years out from a actual quantum computer that can run at scale. But that's kind of the point. NIST finalized ML-KEM in 2024 because you don't need to wait until the house is on fire to buy insurance. Harvest now decrypt later attacks are already happening today so thee migration window is closing regardless of whether quantum ever delivers.
by dust42 | 2026-03-04 15:04:49+00:00
Sounds very plausible to me too. Because even if you refocus the business unit it makes no sense to lay off a highly capable team. Finding new people, integrating them into the team - all that costs a lot of time and money and there is no guarantee for success.

Definitely plenty of people further up the corporate ladder were not happy with the success, while the top is likely too far disconnected to understand.
by strcat | 2026-03-04 15:05:01+00:00
Persistent app-accessible root greatly regresses OS security and breaks the verified boot security model. We're definitely not going to increase the number of build variants from 40 to 80 in order to provide an insecure option which would take away from efforts to properly implement features instead of doing it via hacks using apps running commands as root. If you want it you can make your own builds with it instead of us doubling the number of builds and deltas we need to make. Most of the people doing it are modifying the official builds and resigning them. Anyone who can understand the consequences of app-accessible root is capable of doing that.
Show HN: What I learned running a crypto data pipeline at 120M messages/day
by Qalypto | 2026-03-04 15:05:02+00:00
Been running this for 5 months now. 4 exchanges (Binance, Bybit, OKX,
Bitget), 10 perpetuals, all on a single Hetzner box for 46 euro/month.

Stack: Python asyncio, Kafka in KRaft mode, ClickHouse, k3s. Cloudflare
Tunnel handles ingress.

Some things that broke along the way:

ORDERBOOK GAPS
Exchanges skip sequence numbers sometimes. Your local book drifts and
you dont notice until something goes wrong. Had to build per-symbol gap
detection with automatic snapshot recovery. Each exchange does sequencing
differently so thats four separate implementations.

CLICKHOUSE INSERTS
Started with small batches, ClickHouse was at 30% CPU just doing merges.
Bumped batch size to 5000 rows with 2 second intervals, dropped to 8%.
Also moved inserts to an async queue so the Kafka consumer never blocks.

LOGGING
At 500 msg/s the logger was allocating thousands of strings per second.
OOM killer got us twice before I figured it out. Set everything on the
data path to WARNING and it went away.

Current numbers:
- 120M+ messages/day
- P50: 250ms, P95: 400ms latency
- >99.8% data coverage
- 5 months, no major incidents

If anyone wants to poke around the data:

qalypto.com/data-lab

CSV samples, no signup needed.

Happy to answer questions.
by rickstanley | 2026-03-04 15:05:02+00:00
I have this view as well. After years of Notepad++, the last security problem made me want to switch, not because of just that, but that, overall, since the author has an active voice expressing his political views (which is totally fine), I have this unease feeling that it makes him, and his products, a notorious target.

Searching for alternatives, Textadept seemed to fill the gap between features, speed and simplicity.

The plugin mentioned by the parent is really easy to grasp and tailor to my needs, which would not be the case with Notepad++, well, not for me at least.
by SirMaster | 2026-03-04 15:05:12+00:00
Feels like a refurb M1 Air is a much better deal.

8/256, TouchID, Magsafe, USB3 all for $300-350 currently.

Or step up to a refurb M4 Air with 16/256 and all the bells and whistles for $759. The New M4 Air with 16/256 were $749 for 2 months over Nov/Dec everywhere.
Show HN: Claude Code Spinner Verbs Extractor
by jaehong747 | 2026-03-04 15:05:20+00:00
extract & customize

~/.claude/settings.json
{
"spinnerVerbs": {
"mode": "replace",
"verbs": [
" Thundering 천둥치는중",
" Clauding 클로딩하는중",
" Cooking 요리하는중"
]
}
}
by opan | 2026-03-04 15:05:26+00:00
They are actually very nice screwdrivers. I had a cheaper no-name set before and ended up stripping screws a lot more often. I got their Mako kit and it's worked great the last 4 years or so. If you ever do work on old game consoles I would especially recommend it. Has the bits for the consoles and the games. Game Bit for GameCube, SNES, GB(C) games, Y bit for GBA and GBA games, security Torx for Xbox 360. The only times it falls short are for very recessed screws like on a Rock Band drum kit, you need a long dedicated driver to fit in there, I think anything with a socket tends to be too thick.
by pseudohadamard | 2026-03-04 15:05:26+00:00
Freezing RAM keeps its contents intact for remarkable amounts of time. For DRAM it's long enough to unplug the DIMM from the target device and move it across to the analysis device for recovery of the data on it. It's one of those things that's hard to believe until you actually do it, that you can have the RAM totally disconnected and unpowered while it retains its contents.
by strcat | 2026-03-04 15:05:45+00:00
Persistent app-accessible root greatly regresses OS security and breaks the verified boot security model. We're definitely not going to increase the number of build variants from 40 to 80 in order to provide an insecure option which would take away from efforts to properly implement features instead of doing it via hacks using apps running commands as root. If you want it you can make your own builds with it instead of us doubling the number of builds and deltas we need to make. Most of the people doing it are modifying the official builds and resigning them. Anyone who can understand the consequences of app-accessible root is capable of doing that.
by qn9n | 2026-03-04 15:05:53+00:00
I use an M2 Air with 8GB of RAM. I code in Swift, SwiftUI and Rust regularly with Xcode and Zed editor. I play games with Crossover and Native ones such as Control at over 30 fps. The M2 Air is an absolute powerhouse with tremendous battery life. The Neo won't be able to do these things and that's okay, it's not what it's for.
by SigmundA | 2026-03-04 15:05:59+00:00
Most systems submit many of the same queries over and over again.

Ad-hoc one off queries usually can accept higher initial up-front compile cost because the main results usually take much longer anyway, vs worrying about an extra 100ms of compile.

Maybe it was too strong to say its not a concern at all, but nothing like PG where every single request needs to replan and potentially jit unless the client manually prepares and keeps the connection open.
by gaigalas | 2026-03-04 15:06:03+00:00
This thing is going to sell a lot.

8GB memory is pathetic. But that doesn't matter for most users yet.

In fact, it may not matter at all. If the hardware limitations push us to have several machines, a well-built entry laptop becomes a terminal (you won't run things in it, you'll connect to things). For that, 8GB might be enough.
by pantalaimon | 2026-03-04 15:06:19+00:00
All operators run on DB infrastructure.

I recently experienced this with CD from Karlovy Vary to Berlin. It was snowing that day and inside of the Czech Republic I was enjoying the scenic view of the Egerland without any delays.

But as soon as we pulled into Germany, the train came to a stop - problems with the rail security infrastructure, nothing the train operator has any influence on.

We eventually arrived in Berlin with +1h delay.
by atommclain | 2026-03-04 15:06:25+00:00
I think the old 4 port usb-c macbook pros were similar, two usb-c ports were better for charging and supported thunderbolt, while the other two were non-thunderbolt and not optimized for charging. No visual markings.

It's interesting because the new studio display has 4 usb-c ports and 2 support thunderbolt, but they do indicate which ports are thunderbolt above the port.

https://www.apple.com/studio-display/specs/