MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by runarberg | 2026-03-03 19:49:39+00:00
xkcd did one about graphic calculators

https://xkcd.com/768/

But other that comes to mind are MRI scanners, superconductors, quantum computers.

I think in general this market law is subject to selection bias. The technology which does decrease in price will become commonplace and easy to find, whereas the technology which doesn’t risks becoming obscure and maybe even removed from consumer markets.

EDIT: just to clarify, the point about black swans is that the prediction is always close to 0 probability of the existence of black swans, until we actually observe one, then the probability is suddenly exactly 1. If LLMs are a black swan for this market law, most people will assign a close to 0 probability ... until they don’t.
by LoganDark | 2026-03-03 19:49:42+00:00
They don't have to mean specific groups; I feel discussing specific groups here is likely to be counterproductive. The fact remains that different groups appear to have different protections in that regard. Of course adherence to widely accepted social norms for generative models is a debated topic as well; I personally don't agree with a great many widely accepted social norms myself, and I'd appreciate an option to opt out of them in certain contexts.
by ljm | 2026-03-03 19:49:44+00:00
I disagree. There is no code that can't be tested. There is certainly no code that has to be changed so it can be tested.

The only reason you would decide code is untestable without touching it is because it doesn't seem worth the effort, so you test the thing that calls that code instead and mock it out.

At the highest level it is all inputs and outputs after all. Your spaghetti app can still be tested end-to-end, which will cost you the most but will work.

We're talking about SaaS and web apps and shit here of course, because we're on HN where downtime on Cloudflare equals a day off work. In other industries you'd be running full blown simulations and proofs and maybe even inventing new mechanisms of testing so you can get a hard project off the ground. Maybe even fabricating materials.
by mindslight | 2026-03-03 19:49:53+00:00
But does that framing have predictive utility? Which would you say resonates more with voters, especially the middle/upper-middle class voters with skin in both games - "Healthcare reform is going to make your retirement account shrink" or "Healthcare reform is going to take away your employer plan and replace it with the same option the poors get" ?

Also my additional point is that nobody really thinks we need to create additional jobs for doctors, as we've currently got a dire shortage of healthcare. I just inquired about rescheduling a primary care visit for my aunt and the office told me they're scheduling out an entire year from now. That's obviously not the same as how soon they could see her for something urgent, but the sheer magnitude of that delay does highlight a problem. I've also seen many 4+ month waits for specialist appointments.
by IAmGraydon | 2026-03-03 19:50:07+00:00
Apple just doesn't seem to be hitting on all cylinders anymore. The price for this thing is outrageous compared to the competition, and the competition isn't lagging very far behind. It's certainly pretty and I'm sure it's an incredible piece of tech, but $1,600 on the low end and $3,600 on the high end is just not going to sell in this environment. While the competition has always started with the minimum viable product for a low price and iterated on the product, Apple's approach has been the opposite - maximum possible product and then try to iterate the price point down. The problem is that the competition is now encroaching on their product quality territory, and the offer doesn't seem as tempting. For example, see the ASUS Pro Art, which has arguably better specs with the addition of HDR10 for $799. Or the BenQ MA270S, which you can buy two of for $1,800.
by Imustaskforhelp | 2026-03-03 19:50:08+00:00
Damn, you might be right that I missed this one but still. That was a move I had forgotten about but yeah, IIRC with the whole thing it was that Sam Altman would join Microsoft and would take all the people who resign from OpenAI.

Then one thing which I am not understanding is why Meta or Google or Anthropic even wouldn't match the COMP. It's obvious that they can. Meta Poached 100 Million $ engineers and spent 30 Billion $ trying to essentially get a single Guy from ScaleAI (Sort of) to work for him.

I don't understand why a company can't do the same thing now as well and even if not,

I do feel like another point is that these guys would be able to get hired anyway with same salaries or very minor cut or maybe even more. What OpenAI did was not only just not take part in all of this but they first agreed and then backstabbed Anthropic/their own people with this deal and when they got caught, they themselves admit that optics don't look good.

I don't quite understand with ALL of this, how OpenAI researchers in good faith could stay in that. They can easily get another job with similar Income.

Another key point but gpt 5.3 instant dropped, their first example is long term projectiles... Comments on that HN thread there pointed out how with all of the situation in wars and this whole situation. This just feels like putting salt in wound situation to me (personally).

To me, their gpt 5.3 drop looks like it might be smokescreen to quit the talks about the quitGPT or people cancelling chatgpt in large. There were comments talking about this as well on that HN thread.
by cubefox | 2026-03-03 19:50:12+00:00
> Stop making your kids my problem!

This is an interesting point: there is a trade-off between kids being denied access to inappropriate websites and adults not being forced to verify their age. We can't have both, so we must weigh which is more important. One could argue that protecting kids is clearly more important; on the other hand, there are way more adults in the world than kids, so more people are impacted with restrictions for adults.
by mindslight | 2026-03-03 19:50:23+00:00
The only use for lofty values or nuance that fascists have is for distracting from their plain agenda. At this point it's entirely appropriate to wonder why someone would feel compelled to help them with this work if they don't support the regime.

Also, setting your criteria at "arresting people" seems like straightforward denial, especially as we're talking about broadcasters where the actual threat being wielded is to shut down their transmitters.

I'd say the GP comment was entirely appropriate, despite it being flagged by the tone police. The context is very important here, and you seem to be deliberately ignoring it.
Show HN: Memobase – Universal memory that works across all your AI tools
by chsitter | 2026-03-03 19:50:34+00:00
Hey HN — I'm the builder behind Memobase.

Timing: Anthropic just launched memory import for Claude yesterday. You can export your ChatGPT memories and bring them over. It's a step in the right direction, but it's still moving your data from one silo to another. You don't really own that memory.

The problem as I see it: there's no standard protocol for AI memory. You can't say "here's my MCP server, use it for memory in every session." Each platform builds its own walled garden. Number portability took regulation. Email interoperability took SMTP. AI memory needs something similar.

What Memobase is: a universal, AI-agnostic memory layer. It builds a structured profile — your preferences, context, project history — that any connected AI tool reads from. Not locked inside ChatGPT, Claude, or any single platform.

Technical approach:
- Profile-based memory, not raw conversation logs. Compact and fast (sub-100ms lookups).
- You own your data. Full visibility, editing, deletion, export. Self-hosted option coming.
- Working toward an open protocol so any tool can plug in — not just our integrations.

What's live: open beta with the core memory and integrations for the major tools. What's still patchy: Agents don't automatically use it all the time without being prodded, the protocol spec is still being formalized, and we need more tools to adopt it for this to really work.

I'd love to hear:
- Would you want your AI memory to live outside any single platform, or do you prefer each tool handling it?
- What would the protocol need to look like for you to build against it?
- Technical feedback on the approach — we chose profile-based RAG vs knowledge graphs etc, happy to go deep on that.
by aix1 | 2026-03-03 19:50:44+00:00
I was just reading Norbert Wiener's "The Human Use of Human Beings" (1950) and this quote gave me a good chuckle:

"One may get a remarkable semblance of a language like English by taking a sequence of words, or pairs of words, or triads of words, according to the statistical frequency with which they occur in the language, and the gibberish thus obtained will have a remarkably persuasive similarity to good English."
by jrm4 | 2026-03-03 19:51:35+00:00
Again, this must be framed ecologically, not individually. We've moved past the point where "individual choices" matter a whole lot, a lot of this is not much of an individual choice at all.

So, it's good to remember the leanings of people like the author, but it's perhaps more important to remember the extent to which this is a collective issue.

I never trusted 23 and me. But my Dad did, so now I potentially have a problem. Reminded of another anecdote about a guy who did everything to not use is social security number for ID for ANYTHING. Then someone pointed out -- it doesn't matter, they have everyone elses, so yours is the missing one.

Policy and skin-in-the-game for the COLLECTORS of the info is the thing to focus on.
by madrox | 2026-03-03 19:51:37+00:00
I encourage everyone to RTFA and not just respond to the headline. This really is a glimpse into where the future is going.

I've been saying "the last job to be automated will be QA" and it feels more true every day. It's one thing to be a product engineer in this era. It's another to be working at the level the author is, where code needs to be verifiable. However, once people stop vibing apps and start vibing kernels, it really does fundamentally change the game.

I also have another saying: "any sufficiently advanced agent is indistinguishable from a DSL." I hadn't considered Lean in this equation, but I put these two ideas together and I feel like we're approaching some world where Lean eats the entire agentic framework stack and the entire operating system disappears.

If you're thinking about building something today that will still be relevant in 10 years, this is insightful.
by hagbard_c | 2026-03-03 19:51:46+00:00
Typical BBC reporting: Amazon's cloud computing business says drones have hit three of its facilities in the United Arab Emirates (UAE) and Bahrain following US and Israeli strikes against Iran at the weekend. The incidents occurred on Sunday morning, with Amazon Web Services (AWS) saying at the time that ''objects'' had hit a data centre in the UAE, creating ''sparks and fire''. Also on Sunday, AWS said it was investigating power and connectivity issues at a facility in Bahrain. On Monday, the company confirmed that drone strikes had caused the outages.

Notice how they do not mention that the facilities were damaged by Iranian attacks on the UAE and Bahrain but following US and Israeli strikes against Iran at the weekend.
by ProfessorLayton | 2026-03-03 19:51:57+00:00
>Where does it stop?

I don't know but macOS is making it ever more difficult to manage storage, with lots of random things under "macOS" pushing ~40GB or "System Data" that gets a crapload of unrelated things like podcast [1] downloads, with no easy way to purge.

[1] I spent too much time hunting down ~250GB of missing disk space, and it turns out it was the Podcasts app's cache, while the app itself reported no downloads. I fully expected this to be managed automatically, but was getting out of disk space warnings. It's a mess.
by visarga | 2026-03-03 19:52:45+00:00
> It's crazy to me that you'd trust the output of an LLM for that. It's something where if you do it wrong it could cause major damage,

With critical tasks you need to cross reference multiple AI, start by running 4 deep reports, on Claude, ChatGPT, Gemini and Perplexity, then put all of them into a comparative - critical analysis round. This reduces variance, the models are different, and using different search tools, you can even send them in different directions, one searches blogs, one reddit, etc.
by Fr0styMatt88 | 2026-03-03 19:52:55+00:00
If you can get used to using it (which really just requires some practice), the screen magnifier on Mac is fantastic and most importantly it’s extremely low latency (by this I mean, it reacts pretty much instantly when you want to zoom in or out).

Once you get used to flicking in and out of zoom instead of leaning into the monitor it’s great.

As an aside, Windows and Linux share this property too nowadays. Using the screen magnifiers is equally pleasant on any of these OSes. I game on Linux these days and the magnifier there even works within games.
by czhu12 | 2026-03-03 19:53:41+00:00
I've been developing and maintaining https://canine.sh and https://hellocsv.github.io/HelloCSV/ for some time now, and its really odd what pops up when you google these.

Neither of these projects anything requiring payment anywhere, but tons of sites pop up trying to "sell" these projects. I wouldn't even know what that means and I'm kind of tempted to drop in a credit card to see what happens. Would they auto send you a link to the public repo?

Most of it is quite lazy and haven't quite kept up with modern AI capabilities. They mostly just scrape the text I wrote, and present it with some screenshots that I created. I can imagine a future where

- really nice landing pages are generated

- the product is entirely rebranded

- marketing is automated (linkedin, google ads, etc)

and someone can develop some autonomous system that basically finds high quality, yet unknown open source projects, and redeploys it and sells it online for actual money.
by 999900000999 | 2026-03-03 19:54:24+00:00
America needs to have never-ending perpetual wars to sustain its own economy. If we woke up tomorrow and there was just world peace, and America got rid of its military budget millions of people would probably instantly lose their jobs.

That's the ultimate reason. They could just as easily declare war against Venus and spend hundreds of billions of dollars sending rocks into space and it would have the same net effect. Actually it would be a bit more positive because to my knowledge nobody's really living on Venus right now.
by 50lo | 2026-03-03 19:54:39+00:00
One thing that seems under-discussed in this space is the shift from verifying programs to verifying generation processes.

If a piece of code is produced by an agent loop (prompt -> tool calls -> edits -> tests), the real artifact isn’t just the final code but the trace/pipeline that produced it.

In that sense verification might look closer to: checking constraints on the generator (tests/specs/contracts), verifying the toolchain used by the agent, and replaying generation under controlled inputs.

That feels closer to build reproducibility or supply-chain verification than traditional program proofs.
by MaanuAir | 2026-03-03 19:54:48+00:00
Me too, but it is so unreliable laggy, I sometimes have to wait 2 secs or more for the menu to appear, ruining the flow.

And typing ALT 0151 to get an em dash, I mean seriously?

For someone typing accents and em + en dashes on purpose — well before it becomes an AI’s trait — it’s so infuriating, I can’t believe people type books on Windows. All this while macOS solved this, built in the OS, since ages now…
by antman | 2026-03-03 19:55:08+00:00
There are two such mechanisms proposed. Ambivalence theory that says you can both like and dislike something at the same time e.g. smoking. Cognitive dissonance is that you like as you are supposed to like according to your teachings and and upbringing which might not be fully in sync your real neural response e.g. liking famous people when they might be crap.
by smmx | 2026-03-03 19:55:44+00:00
Location:CET

Location: around 46/14 (Slovenia)

Remote: Yes

Willing to relocate: No

Technologies: GCP, AWS, Hetzner/OVH, C#, Rust, PHP, C++, Typescript, SolidJS, Mithril, ESP32, FFmpeg, Medialooks SDK, OTT/live streaming, networking, cloud automation.. lots of things connected with video/workflows

Résumé/CV: https://smmx.dev

Email: hellohn@smmx.dev

Over 20 years, I’ve led, architected, designed, and programmed across many projects, mostly in small teams (1–5). Most of my work focused on sports and TV, including video recording, archiving, encoding/playback pipelines, creating OTT portals, etc. Experienced in C# (web & desktop), JS/Typescript (Mithril, SolidJS), C++, and recently Rust (network bonding, audio intercom). Primarily worked with GCP (70%), AWS (20%), and Hetzner/OVH (10%). I enjoy building user-friendly, performant GUIs and backends with minimal dependencies, live event broadcast setups, networks, and remote global support. Currently pursuing 20–100 hours/month as a solo consultant, gradually building references. Finishing next version of ioxcom - native ios/android/desktop program for walkie talkie/messanging team communication program.

I enjoy creating projects from start up. I am not specifically good in single thing, but so far managed to make projects work and learn along the way.
by rajma | 2026-03-03 19:55:51+00:00
M1 pro MacBook pro here as well. Just today I was thinking I have no need to upgrade until M7 and by then maybe even MacBook Air would do. Especially since I will have my home server (dgx spark) available for anything serious anyway. So excited for the Mac studio configs though. M5 ultra 1TB would be a huge leap for serious home server builders.
by PaulHoule | 2026-03-03 19:55:53+00:00
I'd say this. I haven't had a Windows desktop computer with serious problems since 2007.

I had a long string of Windows laptops that were basically OK from maybe 2013 to 2023 except for problems with USB that got progressively worse over time (for each machine.) I think some of them were were real hardware problems but I think also the USB 3 spec doesn't guarantee that you can plug in very many devices and have it work, it depends on the PCIe architecture inside the machine. That "ding" sound when a USB device disconnects from windows has traumatized me and I've turned it off anywhere where I can because it is like a gunshot to a Vietnam vet.

I found very little literature about other Windows laptops users facing these problems but endless posts by AppleCare frequent fliers who seem to spend their lives at the Genius Bar and getting their old defective laptops replaced with new defective laptops, I think Windows users just expect it to be all screwed up.

For a long time Windows has struggled with processes that suck down a lot of resources at boot time. At home it is things that do software updates and saturate my 2x20Mbps internet connection. At work it is the backup program that saturates my Ethernet.
by mgraczyk | 2026-03-03 19:55:59+00:00
The part about pay is wrong, it's not comparing apples to apples.

I've been a staff engineer at Google and other companies, I have been an EM and a very senior IC at big and small companies.

If you're a very good IC, you can make a lot at a small number of good companies

If you're a relatively worse manager you can make a similar amount at many other companies

So the decision tree I would use is (focusing exclusively on compensation), if you're a very good IC, go somewhere willing to pay you >1M/year. If you can't get that you should be a manager
by phippsytech | 2026-03-03 19:56:33+00:00
I'm suprised that ZKP almost never gets mentioned when it comes to age verification. It seems like it is a solution that does protect PII. There is a learning curve for the general public, but having watched the hoops a mother recently had to jump through so her kids could play Mario Kart on Nintendo Switch, I think it is not that difficult.
by mncharity | 2026-03-03 19:56:55+00:00
> nowadays Google AI Overview's accuracy is so good

I felt similarly yesterday. This morning AIMode fabricated for me a diverse science education publishing and research effort around using generative AI to teach rough-quantitative reasoning. My face-nibbling canary was a linked cite to a book "Orders of Magnitude"... a sci-fi horror novella about space marines. Would be nice if the outlined work actually existed. There we some nice ideas. I look forward to it. The education stuff, not the space marines.
by godelski | 2026-03-03 19:57:01+00:00
When a man changes it is on him to prove that he has changed. Has Zuck atoned himself in any way? Has Meta?

I'm a big believer in second chances and letting people rehabilitate, but there's no evidence the Meta or Zuck have changed for the better. Meanwhile, *there is plenty of evidence that suggests he has only become more uncaring and deceptive, as Meta has only become more invasive over time*, the article itself being one such example.

So I do believe Zuck has changed, but not in the direction that we should applaud and/or forgive him. I've only seen him change in the way that should make us more concerned and further justify the hatred. A man may change, but he does not always change for the better.
by raw_anon_1111 | 2026-03-03 19:57:26+00:00
I was 46 when I got my first and only job at BigTech, I was 49 when I was Amazoned and had two offers, a side contract and a former coworker who is now a director at a well known non tech F500 company who was willing to create a role for me to be over their cloud migration and modernization strategy.

I was 50 the next year when I had a job within three weeks after spending a year at the shitty company I chose (I wanted to stay in consulting and didn’t want to work at $bigCompany again). I just responded to an internal recruiter who reached out to me a couple of days prior (dumb luck).

I’m much more worried about the state of the industry and current employment market which affects people of any age.

My other secret weapon is that I found out from a former manager/now friend that most non Black people have no idea how old a Black guy is once he shaves his head and face. Like Bill Burr said I think it’s the lotion…

https://www.youtube.com/shorts/OCC_XS-fQa0

And my resume only hoed back 10 years
by spyder | 2026-03-03 19:58:09+00:00
For you... But the results are different for different users.

For me Google shows the .net site first the github one as second.

Asking chatgpt 5.2 (Auto mode) to search for the nanoclaw site, it says the same, first links the .net site and shows the github as an optional page.
When I try to give it a hint by asking "are you sure?" it still even hallucinates that it's linked from the github:

"Yes — nanoclaw.net is the official documentation/site for the NanoClaw project, in the sense that it’s the project’s published homepage and is directly linked from its canonical open-source repository. It describes the project, features, installation steps, and links to the source code on GitHub, which is the authoritative source for the project’s codebase."

Chatgpt 5.2 (Thinking mode) and Claude gets it right the first try, they asnwer with the official .dev page first and claude shows the .net second as "another site covering the project".
by cromka | 2026-03-03 19:58:19+00:00
> very good speakers

All of the above is true but this, actually, is not entirely: they use a lot of DSP. If you try the same speakers with regular Fedora Asahi with no DSP profile (i.e. vanilla sound), they're very mediocre and do not handle bass well. So, like with many aspects of Apple hardware, this is an example of their software/firmware complimenting the hardware.