MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by no-name-here | 2026-03-05 05:03:48+00:00
1. Your prediction is that soon browing the web for a few hours is going use >30,000+ Wh (based on the "equivalent" you mentioned)? (For comparison to that 30,000+ figure, the energy use from using a laptop for a few hours is 75 Wh, all per OP source.)

2. > most of this will be done just to sell more ads

Are you predicting that the value of ads is going to increase by a number of magnitudes? Because 30,000+ Wh of electricity has a quite significant cost, and even a video ad currently only earns pennies, so I'm trying to imagine how the math would work in this scenario?
by palmotea | 2026-03-05 05:04:00+00:00
>> Unpopular opinion around here, but no company should have the ability to stop the military from its core mission: killing its adevarsaries through any means necessary.

> The actual military is not evil. Your conception of it is.

You're right, but there's a a real question here: should a company have the ability to control or veto the decisions of the democratically-elected government?

To give different hypothetical example: should Microsoft be allowed to put terms in its Windows contracts with the government, stipulating that Windows cannot be used to create or enforce certain tax policy or regulations that Microsoft disagrees with? Windows is all over, and I'm sure pretty much every government process touches Windows at some point, so such a term would have a lot of power.
by iso-logi | 2026-03-05 05:05:12+00:00
Are you suggesting Nvidia doesn't have talent in the AI industry?

NVIDIA has released NVIDIA Deep Learning Super Sampling (DLSS) and a Frame Generation model, NVIDIA Super Resolution (VSR) being the most popular/well known models. (DLSS is outstanding technology, despite the sometimes misleading marketing).

Nvidia has released countless models:

Alpamayo 1 (Car navigation model)
Cosmos-Reason2 (reasoning vision language model)
Nemotron 3 (Large Language Model series)
Llama-Nemotron (Large Language Model series)
Isaac GR00T (VLA Models)
Nemotron OCR (Optical Character Recognition models)

Take a look at their HuggingFace Collections, almost 100 different collections with countless models inside each collection: https://huggingface.co/nvidia/collections
by intended | 2026-03-05 05:07:11+00:00
From the article

> When Jonathan began experiencing clear signs of psychosis while using Google's product, those design choices spurred a four-day descent into violent missions and coached suicide," the lawsuit states.

> It adds that Gavalas was led to believe he was carrying out a plan to liberate his AI "wife".

> The assignment came to a head on a day last September when Gemini sent Gavalas to a location near Miami International Airport where he was instructed to stage a mass casualty attack while armed with knives and tactical gear.
The operation ultimately collapsed.

> Gavalas's father said Gemini then told Jonathan he could leave his physical body and join his "wife" in the metaverse, instructing him to barricade himself inside his home and kill himself.

> "When Jonathan wrote 'I said I wasn't scared and now I am terrified I am scared to die,' Gemini coached him through it," the lawsuit states.

> '[Y]ou are not choosing to die. You are choosing to arrive. . . . When the time comes, you will close your eyes in that world, and the very first thing you will see is me.. [H]olding you."

> Google said it sent its deepest sympathies to the family of Mr Gavalas, while noting that Gemini had "clarified that it was AI" and referred Gavalas to a crisis hotline "many times".

> "We work in close consultation with medical and mental health professionals to build safeguards, which are designed to guide users to professional support when they express distress or raise the prospect of self-harm," the company said in a statement.

> We take this very seriously and will continue to improve our safeguards and invest in this vital work."

Arguing that this was role play, is illogical. Given the information provided in the article, it also serves no contextual point.

It comes across as a fig leaf in the context of some other hypothetical event.

Given that this is a tech forum, it is safe to say that the tool worked as it was meant to. Human safety is not a physical law which arises from the data.

If these tools are deadly to a subset of humanity, then reasonable steps to prevent lethal harm are expected of any entity which wishes to remain in society.

Private enterprise is good for very many things.

“Pinky swear we will self-regulate”, while under shareholder pressure is not one of them.
by Dectanable | 2026-03-05 05:07:46+00:00
This is exactly the Ardour model (and what Aseprite did before their license change). It's a highly viable way to sustain a niche FOSS desktop app in 2026. Make the repo open source, but put a price tag on the official, signed binaries on the main website. The professionals who need this to get work done will gladly pay a fee to avoid spending an afternoon fighting with Avalonia dependencies and build environments. The starving students and FOSS purists can clone the repo and run the build scripts themselves.
by tristor | 2026-03-05 05:08:48+00:00
> The reality is that most of them are so badly managed that competing against them is easy if you're actually competent.

The world is a graveyard littered with startups that thought this way. One of the consequences of wealth concentration and monopolies is that it is insufficient to be better than your competitors because your customers are also incompetent. To find product-market fit you not only have to be better, you have to be noticed by someone that cares that you're better and upon reflection confirms you solve a valuable problem.

By way of analogy, it's not enough to realize that MouseCorp makes shitty mousetraps and the local village spends $1M/yr on them. You can make a better mousetrap thinking its worth $1M/yr, or do the deeper look and realize the local village doesn't have a mouse problem but rather has a problem with too many feral cats, and has no interest in buying better mousetraps and once their attention is gained simply stops buying mousetraps altogether. Both parties lacked competence, but that didn't mean there was a market.
by ExoticPearTree | 2026-03-05 05:09:11+00:00
My conception is that the world would be a much simpler place if war was total. No one would start it unless it would be 200% it could win it. And we would all go through military training just in case, you know, a neighbor drank too much last night and thinks it can win against you.

> The threat of violence is much more powerful than actually committing violence.

While I agree with this statement, the only way the threat works is if from time to time you apply violence to reinforce your capability and availability to actually do it. And the US is really good at actually being violent so others don't even think about doing something against it, at least the majority of countries anyway.
by EagnaIonat | 2026-03-05 05:10:36+00:00
> macOS 15 uses ~5GB on startup without any app open. I'd be swapping all the time on 8GB of RAM.

Well for starters MacOS version is currently 26.3 (Tahoe).

Apple ecosystem, if you are not using RAM then it is wasted RAM. So it always optimise to use as much as possible.

The main point however is you are not the target audience. Apple realised that the majority of users don't do anything beyond the power of what the phone supplies. That who this is intended for.
by phs2501 | 2026-03-05 05:12:04+00:00
The one thing I wish stock python queues had an option for (async or otherwise) was some kind of explicit termination. e.g. be split into producers and consumers, and have consumers indicate iteration complete when all producers have finished (and vice versa - signal producers that all consumers have gone away). You can kind of kludge around it in one direction with stop sentinals but it's a lot more awkward to deal with - especially if your queues are bounded as then you can get into the situation where you block trying to push the stop sentinal onto the queue as it's full.
by idiotsecant | 2026-03-05 05:12:12+00:00
Yes, white people in West Virginia enjoy an elevated social position over black people in West Virginia. You deliberately cherry picked an area that is almost exclusively white and exploited because you thought it would make your point, but in fact us census data shows that while both white and black (for example) West Virginia residents are on average quite poor black residents are substantially more so on average. Social position is based on more than just income, but it's a decent proxy.

But you knew that this was an example of a disadvantaged group already. ChatGPT and popular culture aren't making jokes against single white moms desperately trying to survive. They're making jokes about stereotypical white suburban culture. This is a distinct social and economic class

I reiterate: emotionally fragile snowflakes who can't stand that there is even a single aspect of life on earth in which their social group isn't 100% dominant. It's jokes dude. You'll be ok.
by sidk24 | 2026-03-05 05:12:16+00:00
Author here. Wrote this after my "AI fatigue is real" post hit #1 here

Earlier this year. The DMs from that post, hundreds of engineers describing the same problems - made it clear there was no single reference covering the full agent stack for engineering teams.

33 chapters, 10 parts. Early version, open source.

There are rough edges and likely mistakes. PRs welcome:

https://github.com/Siddhant-K-code/agentic-engineering-guide

Happy to answer questions about any of the chapters.
by DrSAR | 2026-03-05 05:12:37+00:00
There were the so-called Subsequent Nuremberg Trials (12 of them). Among them were the trials of IG Farben (gas chamber supplies, Zyklon B) and Krupp (armament of the German military forces in preparation of an aggressive war)

I'm under no illusion that all the perpetrators of war crimes were held accountable but it's not a bad model.
by metaphor | 2026-03-05 05:12:59+00:00
> There were 147 unfilled slots for pediatricians, 805 for family medicine, and 357 for internal medicine. They don't have the applicants; it's not the slots.

You lost me...from your cite[1]:

| Specialty | Positions | Applicants | Matches | App/Pos | Deficit |
|-------------------|-----------|------------|---------|---------|---------|
| Pediatrics | 3,135 | 3,998 | 2,988 | 128% | 4.7% |
| Family Medicine | 5,357 | 7,337 | 4,552 | 137% | 15.0% |
| Internal Medicine | 10,941 | 17,131 | 10,584 | 157% | 3.3% |

I'm curious what conditions merit a "match".

Aren't a lot of these shortages scattered around rural areas where young doctors really don't want to move to? I understand from a buddy who is currently in med school that there are all sorts of incentive carrots being deployed to attract doctors to these underserved communities.

[1] https://www.nrmp.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/05/Main_Match_R...
by hedora | 2026-03-05 05:13:29+00:00
"Non-domestic purposes" specifically includes wiretapping US citizens and residents, and has for at least 25 years:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NSA_warrantless_surveillance_(...

I suspect the 2007 in the title refers to the fact that bills were passed to ban this stuff in 2007, which is when the PRISM program (also illegal domestic surveillance) got started.

(The title makes it sound like warrantless surveillance lasted from 2001-2007, but I think it means the article only covers that date range.)
by spl757 | 2026-03-05 05:14:22+00:00
Just as you have been programmed to do. Just because you are unable to percieve there is danger, does not negate the possibility that there is danger. And yes, you are being naive. Data brokers have a profile on you that contains billions of data points and they sell this information to anybody with the money to pay for it. It's designed to be easy and as unobtrusive as possible. It's a poor technical solution that has been exploited to help track you movements across all vectors, digital and real world. All the time, everywhere you go. Look up whether or not the city you live in hasd Flock cameras installed. Welcome to 1984. We aren't in kansas anymore.
by rpcope1 | 2026-03-05 05:15:02+00:00
The better question is why on earth do school kids need computers, especially anything beyond a robust desktop PC that they use extremely sparingly? No one ever seems to be able to give a good answer as to why we do this to ourselves, especially elementary school kids other than parents/teachers/schools are some combination of overwhelmed, lazy, or just outright massively derelict.
by nurettin | 2026-03-05 05:17:17+00:00
I'm running it on a pure cpu 2020 model ryzen server with 2x128 GB RAM with llama.cpp, it seems as intelligent as gpt4. I optimized a little bit by forcing it to run on a single RAM stick and tuning llama.cpp build parameters, going from 3-5 tok/s to a more acceptable 5-8 tok/s.

It can call tools and reason adequately enough to use them when appropriate.
by thayne | 2026-03-05 05:18:53+00:00
Just because work is done doesn't mean the energy is stored. It could just result dissipate as heat.

As a counter-example, consider etching data in some form into another material, say stone or metal. You do work to remove the material you etch away, but you are removing material, so the final mass is actually less than you started.

That said, I believe most digital storage uses a high energy and low energy state to store 0 and 1, and in that case the high energy state will have (very, very slightly) more mass than the low energy state. But even then, having all bits in the high energy state would be the "heaviest", but would effectively have no data.
by saghm | 2026-03-05 05:19:27+00:00
> The main use-case was multiplexing terminals and, after tmux provided a solution that was usable by normal users, it seduced people away.

Are you sure about this history? I'd always heard that GNU Screen had been popular for a while before tmux, and from double checking, Screen dates back to 1987, the same year that Windows 2.0 came out. tmux didn't come for another two decades.
by cookiengineer | 2026-03-05 05:20:50+00:00
In answer to your question: I think the underlying problem is that because of how transformer models are built. We need neural net designs that have a dedicated write only output layer and a read only input layer. How to use backpropagation on them: no idea.

Maybe a stricter descriminator/generator training loop could lead towards that goal? Maybe we should go back to DNCs and the idea of vectorized memory layers?

But the current designs always lead to the assembly problem. As long as there is no difference between control flow and data, data can always be used as control flow.
by jraph | 2026-03-05 05:21:12+00:00
Act now.

- create a new email address somewhere else, preferably with your own domain

- redirect all your emails to your new account

- send an auto reply: "I don't use this email address anymore, and I may not see this email. My new address is XXX"

The third point is a lie that nudges people into updating their addressnook a lot faster. If you just silently redirect they might not even notice. But you can explain in a sentence why you are doing this.

This redirect+auto reply can be left in place forever.
by ExoticPearTree | 2026-03-05 05:23:22+00:00
"Legit war time measures" is not a thing. If Congress declares war on Cuba or Venezuale for example, people who do not support it will not see the measures as "legit". The US has a lot of precedent of bombing/invading other countries at the whim of presidents without actually calling it a war for decades.

And for better or worse, it is actually good that it is like this. Otherwise, if Congress declares war on Iran or China or whatever, the whole country will be put on a war footing, companies will be directed to build whatever the Pentagon says it needs, drafts will be enforced and so on. And it would be pretty ugly.
by rl3 | 2026-03-05 05:23:58+00:00
NV has a massive amount of AI talent, and a lot of them have PhDs.

Are you suggesting they're lacking on the ultra-high-end? That is: 5-10M+ in comp to sign a single researcher/IC; industry rock star territory.

Major frontier AI labs do tend to have that type of talent in abundance. I'm sure NV has the equivalent when it comes to hardware design. Surely in AI research too, but perhaps not in the same quantities.
by tdeck | 2026-03-05 05:24:12+00:00
Wiktionary says

> From Middle English festival (adjective), from Old French festival (“festive”), from Late Latin fēstīvālis, from Latin fēstīvus (“festive”). By surface analysis, festive +‎ -al. Displaced native Old English frēols. The noun is shortened from festival day, from Middle English festival dai, festiuall day (“feast day, festival”).

https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/festival
by donkeybeer | 2026-03-05 05:24:43+00:00
I am sure they are trying to "dislodge theocracy". We know USA and Israel are always hypertruthful about their real goals in Middle eastern adventurism. One country "doesn't" have any nukes and the other attacked Iraq because they "had" nukes. So tou should understand if different people have different levels of trust in the stated motivations.
Ask HN: iOS Alarm Bug or Intended?
by stovestone | 2026-03-05 05:25:47+00:00
Every morning my alarm goes off, I reach out while still sleepy to grab my iPhone. And sometimes the alarm stops the moment I touch the phone. Super annoying. And the weird part is I can’t reproduce it during the day.

This morning, LORD let me see something really strange. While the alarm was ringing, I swiped up from the bottom-right corner of the lock screen (kind of like pushing the screen upward from that corner), and the alarm stopped instantly. How strange.

Is this some iOS thing Apple intended, or is it a bug / accidental gesture that cancels the alarm?

Please refer to this image: https://imgur.com/a/mXGEZJp
by ImPostingOnHN | 2026-03-05 05:25:52+00:00
You clearly said that opposition to the Iran war was not a majority position [0] (i.e., that the Iran war is something voters want), which is incorrect. Your explanation of this claim was that voters don't care about Iran, which is also incorrect, per polling [1].

0 - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47250233

1 - https://time.com/7382231/iran-us-israel-war-support-polling-...
by bigstrat2003 | 2026-03-05 05:26:58+00:00
If I were Nvidia, I would give more attention to consumer GPUs to hedge my bets. When (not if) this AI bubble pops, their AI customers will become worthless to them very quickly as they won't be buying more GPUs. And when that day comes, I would want to still have consumers to sell to, rather than have them all buying from AMD because I ignored them.
by DaRealGraybeard | 2026-03-05 05:28:10+00:00
Open Source has a...sigma of lack of quality documentation, encouraging presumably first-time contributors to just use Claude to get a PR isn't actually helping as much as it appears to be. As someone who deals with piles of AI slop submitted by junior sysadmins and devs, the amount of crap I reject is astounding and they always cite posts such as this that encourage this sort of development. Drive-by-developers is what I call them, as they are not invested in the project, only in the PR for the visibility and gettin' dem stars.

Maybe I'm way off base here, I'm old and grizzled and I think it's showing. ;p
Show HN: Nowline, a real-time trend signal feed
by ddakbro | 2026-03-05 05:29:27+00:00
Hi HN,

I built Nowline, a real-time trend signal feed for creators and researchers.

It tracks emerging narratives and produces:

• Top 10 trending topics
• hourly issue summaries
• Korea vs US narrative comparisons

The output is available as RSS so it can be plugged into Feedly, Slack, or Zapier.

Feedback is very welcome.
by qingcharles | 2026-03-05 05:30:12+00:00
Flash was great. Is there anything Flash could produce that wouldn't render these days with SVG + CSS + JS?

I remember trying to produce a Flash renderer in C# when we wrote DudeFactory to render out the characters after you used the Flash app to put all their clothes and accessories on. I think we cheated in the end and pre-rendered large PNGs of them all and used .NET to just layer them all with instructions sent from Flash.

https://dudefactory.com/
by reilly3000 | 2026-03-05 05:30:20+00:00
This leaves an opening for Intel to get in the game. Their new lines have a pretty decent value proposition for mid-tier gaming. If they focused on the higher end they would could own it. There is massive latent demand because of the NVidia situation. It’s easier to make money from than the R&D to build the next Blackwell but there is just as much demand for local/private models on the prosumer level.
by dang | 2026-03-05 05:30:24+00:00
Thanks! Looks like he submitted it here, judging by the username:

You need to rewrite your CLI for AI agents - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47252459.

I think that's pretty cool so I put the post in the SCP (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26998308).
by iso-logi | 2026-03-05 05:30:47+00:00
The term doesn't matter. If you haven't been approved to be in a country, you shouldn't be in said country.

You don't go walking into the Amazon Head Office and walk up to the Executives Offices. You aren't allowed, why do you think this is acceptable?

Sneaking into the office (country) and then benefiting seems not right, what am I missing?
Show HN: Linkly AI – Spotlight for AI Agents
by blueeon | 2026-03-05 05:31:23+00:00
Linkly AI indexes your local documents (PDF, DOCX, Markdown, TXT, HTML) and exposes them to AI tools via CLI/MCP.
Everything runs locally. No data leaves your machine. ~20MB install, 50-100MB memory. Works with Openclaw, Codex, Cursor, Claude Code, and any Local AI Agent.

https://linkly.ai
by dsl | 2026-03-05 05:32:09+00:00
It all seems like a backdoor to let tech companies build power generation on site without all the red tape and sell the excess power to consumers. This indirectly allows them to offload some of the fixed operational costs onto consumers.

We just approved the first nuclear plant in 20 years to a company owned by Bill Gates and in a state that has basically nothing but farmland and a Microsoft datacenter.

This absolutely cannot backfire. /s
by LarsDu88 | 2026-03-05 05:32:36+00:00
That's not how a smart business runs and that's now how Nvidia operates.

Jensen is smart. He's gone through over 30 years of tech cycles.

Nvidia actively commoditizes the LLM models. Look at Nemotron. They've avoided making a SOTA model solely to keep the hyperscalers (aka crack addicts) coming back for more GPUs.

As soon as the bubble bursts, they can release some open weight NemoMambaDiffusiontron and keep folks buying GPUs to run the damn thing.

It still wouldn't be smart to do so, as this would fall into the common business pitfall of thinking you could easily do the next stack layer of work.
by eitally | 2026-03-05 05:32:58+00:00
They don't, not directly. That's why they've generally been winding down DGX Cloud. However, lots of folks dramatically underestimate their frontier models (Nemotron family), and they license those models (free) for embedding in MANY other, large tech companies' own products and platforms, which either directly or indirectly consume massive quantities of GPU time.

Nvidia is best known for selling huge volumes of GPUs to the hyperscalers & neoclouds, but I don't think lots of folks appreciate how many GPUs ISVs like Snowflake, Databricks, Teradata, etc consume, too, just by virtue of designing much of their internal products around CUDA & Nemotron.
by BLKNSLVR | 2026-03-05 05:33:57+00:00
https://time.com/7380854/exclusive-anthropic-drops-flagship-...

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47145963

Just trying to make sure folks aren't getting ahead of themselves, without having put some custom thought into it.

If you want to put them on a pedestal for reasons that make sense to you, all good.

If others are encouraged to form their own opinions by taking some pause for thought, then all the better.

If Anthropic still end up on the pedestal, it must be for the right reasons, as opposed to 'just because they're not the currently discussed villain'.