MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by jemmyw | 2026-03-04 22:57:03+00:00
I personally wouldn't try to sell Linux to anyone and get them to switch. It is a futile game and I see no real reason for it. People will move if they have reason to (in any direction) and the best one can do is show and tell. I will tell people what I like using if they ask. I'm more likely to tell folks not to switch because I don't want to be technical support for anyone outside my household.

I don't think anyone will switch from MacOS to Linux because of rounded corners. If they're really into theming it would make sense.

Being able to fix things is also a bit of a vague statement. You can fix things in many different ways, and you can fix some things in every OS. Fixing might be writing your own code, or switching a theme, or an application, or a distro, or the whole OS. The level of lockdown then matters. MacOS has the greatest lockdown because you can't just get a new Macbook and fix it by installing something other than MacOS.
by Nzen | 2026-03-04 22:57:16+00:00
This sounds a lot like Jason Rohrer's project with an LLM, Sammy Jankis [0]. There, the posts are generally about the continual deaths when the LLM's context window fills up. The posts do not disclose an overt goal, as they do here, so the LLM has supposedly created a bunch of games and simulations.

[0] https://sammyjankis.com/

In this case, I think that 100$ as a starting budget (while probably appropriate for the initiating person) is not enough for a substantive business. I guess the server that runs the LLM is a subsidized asset, so this situation doesn't require renting one. I guess, as a hypothetical LLM, I could try to sell customized fan fiction to fetish communities. Most of the mainstream LLM hosts reputedly have guardrails to discourage such output. On the other hand, selling in those communities largely requires trust [1], but that might take time that this scenario doesn't permit.

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=emdki5B_O7Q . (60+ minute video by Matthew Colville largely directed at fleg)
by layer8 | 2026-03-04 22:57:31+00:00
I disagree that this is standard usage. Saving a link is like saving a bookmark.

Random examples:

https://superuser.com/questions/996482/how-do-i-save-a-link-...

https://www.wikihow.com/Save-a-Link

https://www.quora.com/How-do-I-save-a-link

https://apps.microsoft.com/detail/9mwkwnzd0l4n

https://www.oreateai.com/blog/a-simple-guide-to-saving-links...
by kayo_20211030 | 2026-03-04 22:57:34+00:00
It's interesting to compare Owen's and Brooke's poetry (and even Sassoon's). Owen had lived through it all from '15 to '18, with some detours, and probably even as a patriot saw war for what it was. Brooke never really got that dose of realism; putting out his jingoistic cant until dying in 1915, before even seeing a war. Owen was a better poet, Brooke appealed to schoolboys.
by mmooss | 2026-03-04 22:57:34+00:00
> ... 90% of the hazard assessments assume coastal sea levels based on geoid models, rather than using actual sea-level measurements.

> A geoid is an equipotential surface model that approximates MSL based on gravity and the rotation of Earth. As geoid quality depends on gravity observations, uncertainties in global geoid models can range up to several metres in regions that suffer from gravitational data paucity ..., predominantly located in the Global South. Moreover, actual sea-surface height is not just determined by the gravity and rotation of Earth, but also by, for example, ocean currents and large-scale circulation, winds, tides, seawater temperature and salinity. As a result, time-average sea-surface height can deviate strongly (up to several metres) from a geoid, and its difference is the so-called mean dynamic topography (MDT).

I don't quite grasp how those flaws in geoid models lead to an overall significant underestimation of sea-level. Shouldn't all those average out?

> uncertainties in global geoid models

Why would those tend toward underestimation?

> sea-surface height is not just determined by the gravity and rotation of Earth, but also by, for example, ocean currents and large-scale circulation, winds, tides, seawater temperature and salinity.

Other than temperature and maybe salinity, those factors move water in a closed system: increasing water one place reduces it in another (?).

> time-average sea-surface height can deviate strongly

Why would average deviation by positive and not zero or negative?
by TomGrowthHub | 2026-03-04 22:58:06+00:00
The real unlock here isnt the multi-agent orchestration, its the standards layer. Every team ive seen try to scale AI coding hits the same wall: Claude is brilliant until it isnt, and it isnt brilliant when it doesnt know your patterns. A single CLAUDE.md ages fast and never captures the insitutional stuff that lives in senior engineers heads.
The 15 minute intervew to generate repo standards is the part id want to stress-test. Thats the moat, if it holds up. How does it handle standars drift as the codebase evolves? Does the agent actively flag when new PRs diverge from documented patters, or is it purely generation-side?
by thot_experiment | 2026-03-04 22:58:12+00:00
Yeah and security models are fine. Having root on my device isn't the same as running everything as root. e.x. I want to access my files on my device over SSH so i don't have to keep plugging my phone in, sadly turing completeness doesn't get me there when I can't give my SSH daemon access to the filesystem. These are all solved problems, we're just CHOOSING not to expose the solutions to the end user under the guise of security in order to retain control.
by sciencejerk | 2026-03-04 22:58:17+00:00
I personally know 3 victims of brutally violent crime. Flock would have detected, but maybe not prevented, two of these cases, where violence occurred in broad, open daylight near main roads and highways. Crimes occurred in left-leaning, anti-police small midwest city. All of the victims were women.

I would encourage anti-Flockers and anti-authority individuals out here to question their motives and make sure that their voices and actions are best aligned with protecting vulnerable individuals (this also includes trafficked illegal immigrants).

Seems like many folks here might be more concerned with preventing hypothetical/theoretical harm, instead of REAL harm (violent crime, trafficking, vehicle theft)
by runjake | 2026-03-04 22:58:32+00:00
> Why do school board super-intendants and administration make more money than teachers themselves?

A couple reasons:

1. Because usually, superintendents and the administration are responsible and accountable for a lot more moving parts than teachers are. Aside from the many kids each teacher teachers, which leads us to point #2.

2. There is a lot more supply of teachers than demand. If a teacher doesn't like their objectively meager pay, they can quit. There are 10 applicants lined up waiting to take their position.

> I believe they shouldn't.

This is generally handled at your city level. Organize your like-minded constituents to lobby the board?
by Maxion | 2026-03-04 22:58:38+00:00
Whenever I hear german companies mention digitalisation, I get reminded that they still use pen and pencil in production environments to log data, pass those sheets to secreteries who enter the data into legacy systems so data analysts can enter it into another system that then has an integration with SAP. Data from SAP then flows onwards to some buzzword filled Azure product that costs a few million a month from which someone downloads an xls file and uploads it to Tableau where they run some simple calculations. Someone else downloads it as an xls and manually writes (not copy pastes) the numbers into a power point presentation and makes graphs by drawing shapes. This is then presented at some bi-monthly meeting.

I wish I was making this stuff up.
by keybored | 2026-03-04 22:58:40+00:00
My electricity provider has a rough breakdown. Which I was kind of incventivized to look at because of money. Heating is the big one. The electricity bills are seasonal.

Next.

I can do my laundry at night because the electricity is cheaper.. oh wait I can’t. That’s apparently unsafe. So I have to do it in the evening. Okay. I’m not going to move my whole small freetime evening around to save a buck on the half-evening long wash cycle. So nevermind that.

The nagging about turning off all the lights were always a consumer blaming ritual that doesn’t matter.
by lbreakjai | 2026-03-04 22:58:47+00:00
That's why there needs to be some mysticism around it. The agile manifesto is short enough to be memorised by a toddler, simple enough to be understood by management, yet created an entire industry of parasites around it.

If the answer is just "Install Oh My Opencode and stick any decent model in it" then it doesn't work.

And honestly, the answer is just to install Oh My Opencode and Kimi K2.5 and get 90% of the performance of Opus for a fraction of the price.
by giobox | 2026-03-04 22:59:00+00:00
My only real issue with this design is as far as I can tell there is no markings on exterior explaining which USB-C port is "the good one" - an important point given one port is dramatically slower than the other.

I suspect many users will probably accidentally plug stuff like external SSDs into the slow port without realizing. It's maybe too much to hope for at this price point, but would have been nice for a machine with only two ports to be able to offer the same spec USB on both ports.

My instinct would be to use the socket towards the rear of the machine as my charging port - it's closest to the corner - but in doing so you use up the "good" USB-3 port leaving you with only USB2. It's not a huge deal, but charging in the other port to free up the USB3 one feels slightly weird to me. I suspect most users will charge off the USB3 port given its location.
by flashbaby | 2026-03-04 22:59:43+00:00
The dynamic described here - companies using AI as cover for cuts that were coming anyway - gets captured really well in this short film where an employee uses AI to massively exceed his Q3 targets, and the company fires him for it. Not because he underperformed, but because his success proved they could replace the whole team.

https://youtu.be/O5FFkHUdKyE

The uncomfortable truth is that being good at using AI doesn't protect you. It just accelerates the timeline for your own replacement.
by blkhawk | 2026-03-04 22:59:57+00:00
Actually it was very much a legal thing. For example i can point to GEM that had to have its windows glued down because of this. See GEM 1 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GEM_(desktop_environment)#/med... vs GEM2 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GEM_(desktop_environment)#/med...

Apple sued Digital Research and later Microsoft when they enabled overlapping windows for windows 2.0.
by flashbaby | 2026-03-04 23:00:27+00:00
Radiology might be safe for now, but the corporate side tells a different story. Block just cut 40% of its workforce citing AI, and Wall Street rewarded them with a 24% stock bump. There's a short film making the rounds that captures this tension well - an employee who uses AI to crush his quarterly numbers gets fired precisely because he proved the team was replaceable: https://youtu.be/O5FFkHUdKyE

The question isn't whether AI can do the job. It's whether your executive team believes it can.
by bokohut | 2026-03-04 23:00:51+00:00
Appreciate the URLs that reflect what some already know because I can just walk behind my house located along the Chesapeake Bay and see the real world physical impacts that are unfolding from the melting ice.

For those curious the water is not perpetually always higher as the attention seeking north east west south sites project but it is instead contributing to greater tides and thus greater erosion within the weather timing of those tides. These tides are well above what used to be "typical" within known past human time and the very high tides timed against significant weather events are greatly eroding the shoreline. As stated herein a few days back however, erosion brings significant lost items out of the soil which then become new discoveries for those aware to look. Having taken several multi hour shoreline walks in the past few days I have located quite a number of those Native American lost items as my collection significantly grows.
by solid_fuel | 2026-03-04 23:01:28+00:00
"Is <lynching> really the <KKK's> fault? Or is this just a tragic story about <men> with a severe mental illness?"

"Is <9/11> really <al-Qaeda's> fault? Or is this just a tragic story about <19 men> with a severe mental illness?"

At some point you are responsible for the things you encourage someone to do. I think this applies to chatbots too.
by asadotzler | 2026-03-04 23:01:37+00:00
Accessibility issues are always usability issues if you're not a jerk who believes it's okay to not consider usability for about a quarter of the population.

Having said that, yes, tending to the needs of disabled people absolutely does help identify design shortcomings and making software better for disabled people often benefits far more users than than the targeted group. This is called the "curb cut effect" or simply "curb cuts" in the industry because like sidewalk curb cuts made for wheel chairs, the improvement was actually a win for everyone from jogger to parents with strollers, to rolling luggage, delivery people with hand trucks, etc. etc. When we make things better for one group, often many groups benefit so designing with everyone in mind, and not just people like you, is always worthwhile.
by flashbaby | 2026-03-04 23:01:40+00:00
What strikes me about the Block situation is the perverse incentive structure. Wall Street gave them a 24% stock bump for cutting 40% of their workforce. That sends a clear signal to every other CEO: AI layoffs are rewarded.

There's a short film that captures this dynamic in a visceral way - an employee uses AI to massively exceed his Q3 targets, and his reward is getting fired because he just proved the team was replaceable: https://youtu.be/O5FFkHUdKyE

The uncomfortable pattern forming: it doesn't matter if you adapt to AI or resist it. If Wall Street rewards headcount reduction, your executive team will find the narrative to justify cuts regardless.
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by NortySpock | 2026-03-04 23:02:23+00:00
Energy security is national security.

Cheap electricity means you can do things that made "no sense" with expensive electricity. (e.g. smelt aluminum)

Cheap electricity means you can underbid regions that have expensive electricity...

As Technology Connections said, "Panels that cover your electrical needs for the next 25+ years? In the Midwest, we call that a good deal!"
by Shebanator | 2026-03-04 23:03:08+00:00
I think Apple is more responsible. One of Flash's chief benefits to the customers who paid the big bucks was that it 'just worked' everywhere. Once Apple stopped supporting Flash on the iPhone, that story was a lot less attractive.

The bugs were definitely Adobe's fault: as with most tech companies, they were far more interested in expanding the feature set than they were on fixing the bugs and stabilizing the platform.
by einpoklum | 2026-03-04 23:04:03+00:00
I'm afraid it doesn't. People most everywhere in the world don't buy these overpriced machines. And you can get a new budget laptop with 16 GB of RAM for well under 200 USD.

However - I would love it if people developed software under the assumption they couldn't just splurge on RAM. And 8 GB is still much too much for that...
by oceanplexian | 2026-03-04 23:04:50+00:00
> internal combustion is hilariously inefficient

It's inefficient but not hilariously so. Modern ICE are quite amazing technology.

Combined gas turbines (you know, the energy source that powers your electric car) are about 60% efficient for the really good ones, minus 5-7% transmission losses, minus 10-12% charging losses, minus 20% loss in cold climates, lands you at around 35-40% efficiency from fuel source to the wheel.

The Atkinson-cycle engine in the Toyota Prius gets around 40% give or take some losses in the drivetrain. Electric have plenty of upsides, but for some people with cheap gas+high electric costs+cold climate you would honestly be better driving a hybrid.
by duskwuff | 2026-03-04 23:05:18+00:00
It's well understood that external stimuli can trigger mental health issues; for instance, the defining characteristic of PTSD is that it's caused by exposure to a traumatic event or environment. It shouldn't be at all unreasonable to suggest that exposure to other stimuli - even just interacting with an AI chatbot - could have adverse effects on mental health as well.
by AndyKelley | 2026-03-04 23:05:33+00:00
It's not a great tip because there are features that exist specifically to reduce development iteration cycle latency without compiling for the wrong target.

Please refer to https://ziglang.org/download/0.15.1/release-notes.html#Incre...

This has nothing to do with agentic engineering. This is just normal software development. Everybody wants faster compilation speed
by flashbaby | 2026-03-04 23:05:39+00:00
This case is one end of the spectrum - someone fired for misusing AI. But there's an equally troubling pattern at the other end: people being fired for using AI well.

Block cut 40% of its workforce because AI made them efficient enough to not need the headcount. There's a short film that illustrates this paradox perfectly - an employee uses AI to blow past his quarterly targets, and rather than being rewarded, he gets fired because he proved the department was replaceable: https://youtu.be/O5FFkHUdKyE

Whether you use AI badly (fabricated quotes) or use it brilliantly (10x output), the outcome can be the same: you lose your job. That's a pretty bleak incentive structure.
by Aurornis | 2026-03-04 23:06:06+00:00
> macOS 15 uses ~5GB on startup without any app open. I'd be swapping all the time on 8GB of RAM.

I have an older 8GB MacBook I use for testing. It’s actually fine for normal use with a web browser, Visual Studio Code, Slack, and Spotify running. You’d think it would be an unusable mess from the way some people talk about RAM, but modern OSes are good and swapping lesser used things to the SSD is fast.

Your OS may show 5GB used, but that doesn’t mean all 5GB need to be active in RAM all the time. Letting the OS swap rarely used things out to the SSD is fine.
by kami23 | 2026-03-04 23:06:23+00:00
Look at the compaction prompt yourself. It's in my opinion way too short. (I'm running on Opus 4.5 most of the time at work)

From what my colleague explained to me and I haven't 100% verified it myself is that the beginning and end of the window is the most important to the compaction summary so a lot of the finer details and debugging that will slow down the next session get dropped.
by grayhatter | 2026-03-04 23:06:46+00:00
Objecting to your reply is exactly why I made my original comment. It's the same thing as the cliche; "we can talk about who's turn it is to do the dishes; but first we need to talk about why you're so upset about it?", or the other "you might not shoot the messenger, but you also won't invite him to dinner".

You might not feel the vitriol is warranted for this specific example, but you tell anyone that they are wrong to feel the way they do, at your own peril.

Is it that big of a deal? IMO, no and I say that as someone who was pissed off by it too. But then again the straw the breaks the camel's back never does seem heavy.

But in context:

> every post is turned up to 11.

Everyone is being disrespected all the time, from every direction. Here, it feels like Firefox is doing it too. Every one is already at 11, Firefox added an AI button nobody wanted, with no (real) way to disable it. And we now have an 11.05 post. As everyone paying attention would expect.
by flashbaby | 2026-03-04 23:07:40+00:00
The verification question is critical, but I worry most companies won't ask it until after they've already cut the humans who would do the verifying.

There's a short film that captures this dynamic perfectly - an employee uses AI to produce 10x output on his quarterly deliverables, and the company's immediate response is to fire him. Not because the output was bad, but because the output was too good and proved the team was redundant: https://youtu.be/O5FFkHUdKyE

The incentive structure rewards cutting headcount now and dealing with verification problems later. By the time companies realize they need humans to verify AI output, they'll have already eliminated the institutional knowledge needed to do it.
by egypturnash | 2026-03-04 23:08:18+00:00
Which they have recently said they will be dropping all support for: https://community.adobe.com/announcements-539/adobe-animate-...

A lot of people - including studios who use it for projects that can take years to complete - were very unhappy at the prospect of having the only tool that can read their mountains of FLA files (the file format the Flash/Animate editor uses, and used to compile into a SWF) stop working because Adobe turned off the auth servers. Adobe has pulled back to "okay we're, uh, putting it in maintenance mode, expect no new features, ever, just security patches".
by realityfactchex | 2026-03-04 23:08:31+00:00
> ...instinct would be to use the socket towards the rear of the machine as my charging port...it's closest to the corner...charging in the other port...feels slightly weird...I suspect most users will...

Ah, but, as I recall some vintage of 2016-2018 Macbook Pro users will remember that using the "backmost, corner" USB-C port for charging could cause the MBP to overheat and fans to sound like a helicopter.

Thus, the (admittedly probably vanishingly tiny minority of) MBP veterans with "back charging USB port PTSD" who learned to use the foremost USB port for charging, will know full well to stay away from using that backmost USB port, if all they need is power!
by grimgrin | 2026-03-04 23:08:38+00:00
".fla / XFL import — This is the one I’m most proud of. You can open your old Flash files. As far as I know, this is the only open-source tool that functions as a full authoring environment and can actually import .fla files. Not just play them back — edit them."

as to when they share the source, idk!
by asadotzler | 2026-03-04 23:08:51+00:00
Plenty of people work in dark or dim places, like school classrooms, where backlighting is great and RGB lighting is useless.

That you seem to think everyone shares your needs and goals makes you a far less effective participant in these kinds of discussions. Maybe think for a bit before asserting what people who care about backlighting need it for and don't.
by thefifthsetpin | 2026-03-04 23:10:16+00:00
I clicked-through on one of the sources (a blog post on "ohmaticelectrical"), and the website is either hacked or is just really scummy. Here's what I was greeted with:

https://imgur.com/a/https-ohmaticelectrical-co-uk-scams-OmLx...

(The scammer didn't actually manage to put anything in my clipboard, so I'm not sure what they were hoping I'd run.)
by waterTanuki | 2026-03-04 23:11:11+00:00
If you're concerned about the amount of RAM, this isn't the laptop for you. Grandma doesn't need 16GB to browse Facebook and look at family photos.

I'm actually glad they restricted the memory, because it will create market pressure for devs to stop wasting system resources on bloated electron apps and NextJS. With RAM prices skyrocketing these days people need to be more conscious of how much system resources they're taking up.