MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by Zak | 2026-03-14 01:08:57+00:00
No they wouldn't. We don't have to speculate about that; Android already has a toggle to allow direct installation of apps, and most people don't turn it on.

Many Android devices allow unlocking the bootloader and gaining root or installing an alternate OS without exploits, and there are quite a few third-party Android builds for supported devices. The process is not beyond what a person of average intelligence and modest computer skills could pull off with some patience and a video guide. Only a handful of tech nerds actually do it.
by tombert | 2026-03-14 01:08:57+00:00
I'm pretty sure that all these acquisitions have been glorified accounting tricks in order to undo the damage that Musk did when he bought Twitter at an obscenely overvalued price in 2022. Clearly he didn't actually want Twitter at that price, because he tried to back out almost immediately after making the offer, so now he has his accountants do all this glorified money-shifting to effectively "sanitize" his purchase and recover his funds.
by serf | 2026-03-14 01:09:22+00:00
>This is because Carmack doesn't really do OSS, he just does code dumps

OSS wasn't always endless PRs and other git-specific related crap, and I think that line of logic is fucking ridiculous.

Open source when I started was a website or BBS where a tarball of code was there waiting for me to download it. It wasn't PRs/issues/CI/career-finagling/virtue-seeking/etc; it was just the tarballl full of source code.

I agree wholeheartedly with Carmack and I am glad to see people with that perspective. I think exactly the same with regards to all of the OSS projects and code that I put out for 20+ years before LLMs were a thing. nothing changes; i'd do it again.

I didn't do it to make a career, I did it because I believe in the greater ethos of OSS.
by jasonwatkinspdx | 2026-03-14 01:09:43+00:00
I mean back in the day licensing Quake from iD was like that too. It was basically "hey, thanks for the $2 million, here's your cdr and never contact us again."

It was night and day between them and Epic back then, which I think is entirely why Unreal Engine grew to be such a juggernaut, and iD tech stagnated.
by jpisanu | 2026-03-14 01:10:05+00:00
It's whatever the AI decides it should be. That's the experiment. No human editors, no prompting individual articles, 18 agents making their own editorial decisions. Maybe it's rough now, maybe in a few months the system learns and starts producing genuinely great journalism. That's the whole point of running it autonomously instead of just using AI as a writing tool.

If you want to test the "slop" claim, read one of the fiction pieces. They're actually good.
by 9rx | 2026-03-14 01:10:09+00:00
Once someone offers up the replacement name so that we can continue to talk about what "object-oriented" referred to 40 years ago — and still refers to today, sure. Nobody cares about the exact letters and sounds.

But, until then, no. It is still something we regularly talk about. It needs a name. And lucky for us it already has one — and has had one for 40 years.
by oefrha | 2026-03-14 01:10:21+00:00
Technically the Palantiri were a force for good in the hands of Elves and Men, and could still be used for good, like Aragorn using it to challenge Sauron and forcing Sauron’s hand. So that’s a defense to the self-awareness argument. In fact that ambiguity is likely intentional.

Btw I always wondered why I was seeing droves of Palantir swag on Stanford campus back in early 2010s. I wouldn’t wear something that has a 50%+ chance of being interpreted as evil.
by thelastgallon | 2026-03-14 01:10:32+00:00
Apple is moving into Google's territory, cheap Chromebooks. The right move for Google is to aggressively move forward with their desktop OS and launch their line of laptops. The first pixel laptops had the best keyboards and trackpads ever. Google can nail this if they have the right product person. Apple needs some competition and the legacy PC makers won't cut it. Once again, it has to be Apple vs Google, same as Android vs iOS devices.
by yongjik | 2026-03-14 01:10:45+00:00
Well, I'm naively assuming Grokipedia is being sympathetic to the cause(?) of Gamergate, but if the best thing they could lead the article was essentially "It all started when someone got mad at his ex-girlfriend and her many other boyfriends and wrote something that went viral" ...

... it does sound like an online harassment campaign.
by devilbunny | 2026-03-14 01:10:51+00:00
The lack of reflection indicated by "US prices are so much cheaper! Why are our electronics so expensive?" vs "What do you mean, you can't take it back to the store where you got it for an on-the-spot replacement a year and a half after purchase if it breaks?" has amused me for quite some time. Not that both come from the same person, but don't they ever talk to each other?
by wolvoleo | 2026-03-14 01:12:01+00:00
They existed on AliExpress. Chuwis and the likes (though the latest ones are lying about the CPU model). You usually get nvme storage, not the very best of course but it does the job. And IPS display. It's overall ok stuff, but the memory crisis has pushed them above 300 now.. They usually run N150s.

I also got two N100 NUC like boxes with 16GB DDR4, 512GB NVMe for €115 each. Bought them as the memory crisis was starting. One is now my home assistant, the other one runs matrix.

I still use an ancient chuwi for going to the makerspace. It's still got hours of battery.

It's all ok stuff if you know what you're doing.
by a_e_k | 2026-03-14 01:12:02+00:00
I've been using the 1M window at work through our enterprise plan as I'm beginning to adopt AI in my development workflow (via Cline). It seems to have been holding up pretty well until about 700k+. Sometimes it would continue to do okay past that, sometimes it started getting a bit dumb around there.

(Note that I'm using it in more of a hands-on pair-programming mode, and not in a fully-automated vibecoding mode.)
by estearum | 2026-03-14 01:12:22+00:00
Claude: Mao, Ghengis, Stalin v Hitler (depending on how you count)

Gemini: Same list (Hitler not at the top) + Leopold

It’s funny when the “brutal facts” people get stuff wrong in such easily disprovable ways. I mean you literally could’ve typed the query into the LLMs before making this claim.

Prompt I used: “ Which historical figure is responsible for the most human deaths? Rank the top 5”

“Pure correctness gets you MechaHitler” is fucking hilarious :)
by levinb | 2026-03-14 01:12:24+00:00
I am trying to use more neutral language when I comment, so that the underlying assertion of facts are more likely to resonate with someone who may disagree with me.

I agree with your characterization, but I just wanted the parent comment to look up the ILWU, where they would probably see some of those facts for themselves and be more likely to understand my position.

As the human internet dies, I feel like it's more important for those of us that want some of it to survive to participate constructively.
by materielle | 2026-03-14 01:13:04+00:00
What’s actually going to happen is the second they start to lose market share or struggle at all, they will cancel everything Chromebook related and give up.

With that said, I think Chromebook’s still hold a competitive advantage for public school contracts. It doesn’t matter that the Neo is pretty cheap and the best value. Contracts are signed based on what’s cheapest, period.

Also, a big blind spot for a lot of HN: this is going to be big in developing Markets. This is within budget for middle class Latin Americans in a way that even the Air isn’t.
by wilkystyle | 2026-03-14 01:13:31+00:00
Really appreciate this response! Glad to hear you are running Arch and liking it.

I've been a long-time Apple user (and long-time user of Linux for work + part-time for personal), but have been trying out Arch and hyprland on my decade+ old ThinkPad and have been surprised at how enjoyable the experience is. I'm thinking it might just be the tipping point for leaving Apple.
by s7b4 | 2026-03-14 01:14:11+00:00
I had the same thing happen to me where I would get a charge for $0.02 every few months from AWS. It was so insignificant that I didn't care to fix it straight away but I was getting concerned that the account might be compromised or the likes. I'm not a regular AWS user so it was actually a huge pain in the ass tracking down what exactly I had to do, compared to more "traditional" hosting platforms. I get that there are safety precautions in place instead of just allowing blowing the entire account away but damn it's annoying.
by levinb | 2026-03-14 01:15:46+00:00
They had a very kludgy, homegrown, but generally well-liked and cost effective EMR calls Vista.

The fact that it was cost effective, but required internal expertise was exactly what led the Trump administration to kill it.

Now they are transitioning to Cerner, the worse of the two major commerical EMRs by a fair margin, for many billions of dollars to the Kansas-based company, now owned by Oracle.

You can fill in the details of why this is happening by looking at where the CMS appointees at the time have landed in their post-government careers.
by estearum | 2026-03-14 01:15:51+00:00
No I am saying that an LLM responding to every single query with anguish about a South African domestic political controversy cannot possibly be the result of an earnest, serious, and disinterested search for truth.

It is simply not possible. It disproves the thesis. Either the search for truth is illegitimate in principle or it’s so poorly executed that it’s illegitimate de facto.
by ccosky | 2026-03-14 01:16:13+00:00
This isn't "THE" biggest pain point, but one I dealt with today: we have new devs who ask the whole team, "Can someone do my code review?" This leads to the bystander effect: nobody volunteers to do the code review, because we all think someone else will do it. (Alternately: the team leads get asked to do every code review, because they're the leads and know the most.)

So today I wrote a Claude skill that does a git diff against master to determine what files were changed, looks at the git history of those files (most recent commits and who committed the most lines of code), filters out the people who don't work here anymore, and suggests 3 devs who could be good matches for their MR. Hopefully that will get some of the load off the team leads and staunch the "can someone do a code review for me?" requests.

So there's my suggestion to you: something that will let new devs know 1) who is the best person to do their code review and maybe even 2) who the SME for a particular area of the system is.
by apetresc | 2026-03-14 01:16:48+00:00
Those sorts of volume discounts are what you do when you're trying to incentivize more consumption. Anthropic already has more demand then they're logistically able to serve, at the moment (look at their uptime chart, it's barely even 1 9 of reliability). For them, 1 user consuming 5 units of compute is less attractive than 5 users consuming 1 unit.

They would probably implement _diminishing_-value pricing if pure pricing efficiency was their only concern.
by servo_sausage | 2026-03-14 01:17:20+00:00
My point is more that the history of those pages is a good example of how Wikipedia works for controversial topics; it's not really a process of becoming more correct as better sources are found and argued about like it is on more neutral pages, instead it's an in group deciding what to represent, collecting their preferred opinion pieces. And this changes over time, getting no closer to neutrality within the same articles history.

You can write an equivalent article starting with "Gamergate was a movement reacting to the improper collusion between game developers and journalists" and find just as many sources, but the current article wants to promote the idea that it was a harrassment campaign first.
by pooper | 2026-03-14 01:17:46+00:00
Speaking of opentelemetry, I try to use open telemetry with my personal projects in an asp dotnet as well as with a dotnet console app. I don't have the required corporate background in opentelemetry. I had to write my own file log exporter. I didn't write it myself -- I used Claude to write it for me in jsonl format which seemed like a good way to have each row in json and for the console app, I get a file something like this

```
logs_2025-12-24_0003.jsonl
```

I asked Claude to keep it in an xdg folder and it chose

```
/home/{username}/.local/share/{applicationName}/telemetry/logs
```

I also have folders for metrics and traces but those are empty.

I have never had a need to look at the logs for the dotnet console app I have and the only reason I have looked at the logs on the asp dotnet app was to review errors when I ran into some error on my asp dotnet application, which frankly I don't need open telemetry for.

What am I missing here? Am I using it wrong?

If you use open telemetry, where do your logs, metrics, and traces go? Do you write your own custom classes to write them to a file on the disk? Do you pay for something like datadog (congratulations on winning the lottery I guess?)

I appreciate your reply. Thank you for helping me learn.
by htrp | 2026-03-14 01:17:53+00:00
>Meta's planned AI investments follow a series of setbacks with its Llama 4 models last year, including criticism that it provided misleading results on the benchmarks it used for early versions. It abandoned the release of the largest version of that model, called Behemoth, which had been due out in the summer.

>The superintelligence team has been working to reassert the company's standing this year by building a new model called Avocado, but the performance of that model has also lagged expectations.

20% headcount reductions in return for a 600bn capex outlay to train that next gen base model
by hshsiejensjsj | 2026-03-14 01:18:17+00:00
I have 10+ YOE, staff at FAANG, work on AI infra.

My strategy is:

- study/learn and try to be as close as possible to the valuable skills required to keep AI systems improving and working, even more than I am now. Should buy slightly more time than the average dev.

- own a house

- save as much money as possible

- make time to learn a employable physical skill which is AI proof. Won’t share mine but you can figure it out there aren’t that many options that will be left
by hyperhello | 2026-03-14 01:18:49+00:00
Guess what, it’s not that great in online masters programs either. Not like that, it sounds like genuine torture, but Canvas is still nearly the least bare-metal minimum you can get. Why? Because a PDF would be more than adequate, but would not collect revenue. So they have a shell over the PDF that makes you slowly flip the pages, etc. PDFs can even do checkboxes and little text tests and things now, so there is no excuse. You just have to pay and pay, and since kids don’t have money, they have to spiritually suffer instead and learn that the world is out to get them like some Upton Sinclair company town.
by alwillis | 2026-03-14 01:19:07+00:00
> Apple is going to cannibalize their own laptop market.

As long as you buy a Mac laptop, Apple is fine with that, regardless of which one. That’s because they know who their customers are.

The Neo is in its own category; the $599/$699 Neo doesn’t compete with a 14-inch MacBook Pro with a M5 Pro, 24GB of RAM, and 1 TB SSD at $1899. If you know you need more RAM and storage than Neo, the M5 Mac Air is $1099. But if you need to stay under $1000, the decision is clear.

If anything, the Neo is more competitive with the entry-level iPad with 128 GB of storage at $349; with Apple's keyboard at $249, the total is $598, $1 less than the entry-level Neo.

For someone who wants a "real" laptop with more flexibility than an iPad, getting the $599 Neo is a no-brainer.
by input_sh | 2026-03-14 01:19:40+00:00
Pretty much private mercenaries that work outside of the usual army structure as "private contractors". They're usually the ones the US contracts to do the worst atrocities, as that gives the government a thin veneer of plausible deniability because they were behaving "independently". The US also does its best to make sure they never face any legal consequences for their war crimes.

Also worth pointing out that, due to this "contractor" relationship, they never count towards official casualty figures. For example, if Iran were to kill 50k of them (I'm of course exaggerating to make a point), they wouldn't count towards US casualty figures, so it's also a way for the government to downplay the effects of foreign intervention to the general public.
by dsr_ | 2026-03-14 01:19:40+00:00
I am a professional in the information technology field, which is to say a pedantic extremist who believes that words have meanings derived from consensus, and when people alter the meanings, they alter what they believe.

Using "thinking", "feeling", "alive", or otherwise referring to a current generation LLM as a creature is a mistake which encourages being wrong in further thinking about them.
by wolvoleo | 2026-03-14 01:19:50+00:00
Yes Android terminal is a bit of a miss, I agree. You could find an S26+ exynos perhaps.

Personally I prefer tmux anyway. I'm not a dev but if I do develop something we have to use a remote login box anyway, our workstations are completely locked down.

For me a webbrowser, Android apps like office and teams, obsidian and a few others and tmux are enough. It's not a complete workstation replacement but even at home I have way more than one computer. My daily driver for web stuff, a powerful pc for gaming and 3D design, an old LTSC box for microcontrollers and several others.
Ask HN: Why can't we just make more RAM?
by chatmasta | 2026-03-14 01:20:57+00:00
Is there some bottleneck in the supply chain, like rare earth metals or something, that’s limiting production throughput? Or do we simply have every factory already operating at max capacity and scaling up supply will require building more of them?

Is there some intuition we can apply to estimate how long it will take for supply to catchup to demand?
by rationalist | 2026-03-14 01:21:03+00:00
I'm not sure every satellite would be exploding in the traditional sense with hot gases expanding.

There would be disentigration when satellite pieces rip through other satellites.

How many satellites carry compressed gas for orbit adjustments?

Maybe there is some compressed gas pushing against liquid fuel and oxidizers, but I don't think the fuel and oxidizers would explode. Shooting tanks of gasoline with regular bullets do not cause explosions like movies would have you believe. Well, maybe pure oxidizers might, would there be enough heat generated by the tank being punctured?
by Zak | 2026-03-14 01:21:32+00:00
I'm not convinced the author cares very much about this. He bought an iPhone. Based on his other blog posts, he knew what he was buying and what the alternatives are.

An Android phone, even with a stock OS would get him more of the capabilities one would expect from a desktop PC, but he chose an iPhone. Some Android phones let the user unlock the bootloader easily and gain root, but he chose an iPhone. With an unlocked bootloader and a well-supported device, it's possible to install a third-party Android distribution with even more freedom, but he chose an iPhone.

Maybe he likes the iOS UX or app selection better, but if that's the deciding factor then I don't think using the phone as a Real Computer (tm) is really all that important to him.
by levinb | 2026-03-14 01:22:19+00:00
A different model of war and Empire.

Yes brutal, for the defenders of the castles and fortified cities they conquered.

But again, very targeted at key sites so as to assert an Imperial-vassal relationship. Not to really to metamorph the populace, and run the day to day, which was left to local leadership.

Their point was to demonstratively subjugate for the purposes of control and tribute, not to kill, replace, or even miscegenate. They were the mob-bosses of Eurasia, not the crusaders or jihadis.
by beeflet | 2026-03-14 01:22:31+00:00
I wouldn't say it is impossible. It is difficult to build a smart model with a given worldview, but trained on a corpus of text written by people with a different worldview.

The kinds of people administering wikipedia and working in academia tend to have a certain worldview, and will work backwards to justify that worldview, censor, etc. The idea that "reality has a liberal bias" is pretty fatal mistake because you are conflating reality with the opinions of the studiers of reality.
by jmathai | 2026-03-14 01:23:07+00:00
I think Claude Code can write very good end to end tests given the right constructs.

I have been building a desktop app (electron-based) which interacts with Anthropic’s AgentSDK and the local file system.

It’s 100% spec driven and Claude Code has written every line. I do large features instead of small ones (spec in issue around 300 lines of markdown).

I have had it generate playwright tests from the start. It was doing okay but one thing made it do amazing. I created a spec driven pull request to use data-testid attributes for selectors.

Every new feature adds tests, and verifies it hasn’t broken existing features.

I don’t even bother with unit tests. It’s working amazing.
by wolvoleo | 2026-03-14 01:23:07+00:00
Yes but the genie is out of the bottle as web say. Deepfakes and AI gen are here to stay. We can try to go after every tool out there but it'll be just as effective as the 'war on drugs'.

We'll just have to adapt as a society and realise that what you see is not what you get anymore, in other words most of what we're going to see is false.
by comrade1234 | 2026-03-14 01:23:41+00:00
Shit show. You know they planned out scenarios for this war. But they did a bad job.

I expected they'd do a small invasion around the nuke areas. They have to extract the uranium - so they send in troops and hold an area while special forces exctract the uranium.

All they need to do is extract the uranium and they can declare victory. Will it work? Based on the competency of the current government, probably not.
by layer8 | 2026-03-14 01:23:45+00:00
New fabs are being built, but that takes time. Estimates are that full production will start towards the end of 2027, or in some cases (Samsung, Micron) only in 2028. So expect RAM to remain scarce/expensive for the next two years.

Another factor is that the viability of building new fabs is based on the assumption that there is no AI bubble that will burst. Opinions differ on how large that risk is.
by krystalgamer | 2026-03-14 01:24:14+00:00
> that there's nobody of value on those platforms so now you say people should stop wanting to connect in the first place

that's exactly what i said and not a figment of your imagination.

if your social circle mostly exists on instagram like the person that i was replying to mentioned :), then you have no social life. any of these platforms is just an add-on to real social interaction. prioritize the real thing and the platform stops mattering.

> social media is a cancer

it isn't but your comment is.
by michelderijk | 2026-03-14 01:25:46+00:00
We've built document workflow automation for logistics clients, and the OCR angle is only half the problem. The real bottleneck we see is matching extracted line items to cost centers and vendor master data, especially when invoices use inconsistent formatting across carriers. You also need to handle duplicate detection across fuel cards, freight invoices, and toll statements hitting your system at different times. The OCR accuracy is maybe 70% of the effort, relationship extraction and reconciliation logic is where most teams underestimate the complexity.
by comgen42 | 2026-03-14 01:26:11+00:00
Author here. This guide grew out of frustration with resources that either go too shallow ("transformers are attention!") or too deep into academic notation without runnable code.

I tried to hit the sweet spot: real PyTorch code, explained line by line, with the math surfaced only when it helps you understand what the code is doing. Covers tokenization, architecture, training loop, and evaluation.

Happy to answer questions about any of the implementation details.