MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by doodlebugging | 2026-03-03 15:33:45+00:00
I initially read your comment and decided that English may not be your first language and it made me wonder how the "a" in the phrase is treated in your language since that is the only likely part of the four words that would not be considered a word by itself.

In grade school English we are taught that 'a' and 'I' are separate words and AFAIK they are the only one-letter words in English with the possible exception of 'O' which is sometimes used in an older English context.

Does your native language bind the 'a' through the adjective "Lenovo" to the noun "company" as a modifier signifying a singular instance? I guess I wonder why it would not be considered to be a word by itself since in English it is commonly used along with 'an' to identify or specify a single item.

Thanks for responding.
by stanmancan | 2026-03-03 15:34:04+00:00
It's cheap for what you get.

If you just need "a small box to make API calls and do minimal local processing" you an also just buy a RPI for a fraction of the price of the GMKtec G10.

All 3 serve a different purpose; just because you can buy a slower machine for less doesn't mean the price:performance of the M1 Mac Mini changes.
by saghm | 2026-03-03 15:34:30+00:00
It seems like there are a decent number of people finding Asahi stable enough for regular use: https://www.reddit.com/r/AsahiLinux/comments/1quko4w/how_via...

I imagine there are still some rough edges (and it seems like distro choices are probably a bit lacking at the moment if you prefer something outside of a few specific mainstream options) but given how niche ARM support was before the first M1 machines, the progress that's happened so far is honestly pretty astounding. Given that the iterations from M[n] to M[n + 1] seem less large than the initial leap from Intel to M1, it doesn't seem that crazy to imagine they'll end up closing the gap even further to the point where you could probably assume a similar level of hardware support from Asahi for a year-old Macbook as you would for a year-old non-Apple laptop.

As for Apple "supporting" Linux, my perception is that if they wanted to make it harder than it was for the people working on Asahi to even get this far, they almost certainly could have. It seems like they're probably doing the same thing that most laptop vendors do, which is not explicitly support it but also not go out of their way to block it either. For a company with the reputation and history Apple has, I think that's a pretty huge win for the community, and even as someone who overall has a somewhat negative inclination to purchase from them, I have to admit that they seem way less hostile to Linux on their ARM machines than I would have predicted.
Show HN: Readme badge to quickly find related open source repos
by plurch | 2026-03-03 15:35:10+00:00
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by Haeuserschlucht | 2026-03-03 15:35:21+00:00
You seem to have done a lot, but it was always on a high level. It always started at the point, at the assumption, that you needed a lot of parameters to get good answers. Now tell me this. Who says that? So obviously you lack the hardware to train a model from scratch. So you don't know the mathematics behind what training from scratch means. You maybe know programs, but somebody created those programs. That wasn't you. So you are a consumer. You are not a creator in the original sense. I'm only willing to continue with this if you don't go ad hominem.
by rustyhancock | 2026-03-03 15:35:23+00:00
I think a very long time because part of our limit is experiment.

We need enough experimental results to explain to solve these theoretical mismatches and we don't and at present can't explore that frontier.

Once we have more results at that frontier we'd build a theory out from there that has two nearly independent limits for QFT and GR.

What we'd be asking if the AI is something that we can't expect a human to solve even with a lifetime of effort today.

It'll take something in par with Newton realising that the heavens and apples are under the same rules to do it. But at least Newton got to hold the apple and only had to imagine he could a star.
by elictronic | 2026-03-03 15:35:24+00:00
This then becomes the hardware manufacturers problem. If their new hardware fails for to many users it will no longer be purchased. If they externalize their problem solving like so many companies, they won't be able to gain market share.

This creates financial incentives to pay companies running the new version of search. Your thinking of this as a problem for these companies, when in reality it is a financial incentive.
by jermaustin1 | 2026-03-03 15:35:25+00:00
I like the aluminum body a lot. I'm not particularly clumsy, but each of my macbooks ends up with some fall damage at some point over the 5+ years that I have it.

When I used to be assigned a plastic Dell work laptop, I dropped one onto the carpeted floor of my office because I thought it was going into my padded sleeve of backpack and that cracked the case, and broke the screen. I've accidentally yoinked my MBA (last intel one they made) off my desk, and while it dented the body of it, nothing broke. That is now my drum computer, and it gets regularly pelted with drumsticks when my grip tires.
by roxolotl | 2026-03-03 15:35:37+00:00
Yea so I’ve had an issue getting video output after boot on a new AMD R9700 Pro. None of the, albeit free, models from OpenAI/Google/Anthropic have really been helpful. I found the pro drivers myself. They never mentioned them.

Thats not to say AI is bad. It’s great in many cases. More that I’m worried about what happens when the repositories of new knowledge get hollowed out.

Also my favorite response was this gem from Sonnet:

> TL;DR: Move your monitor cable from the motherboard to the graphics card.
by AlotOfReading | 2026-03-03 15:35:44+00:00
I don't know if you've ever been to India, but one of its characteristic features is that it has lots of local languages. LLMs are awful at almost all of them. Plus, there's 20ish% of the population that falls below the literacy threshold. It's hard to imagine how those people would be educated by LLMs even if that was a good idea and they all had reliable Internet access, which they often don't.
by Aboutplants | 2026-03-03 15:36:02+00:00
If you’ve visited any of these sites recently it’s obvious that part of the issue is that you’re bombarded with pops, ads everywhere, autoplaying video, etc. It’s nauseating and a horrible user experience.
If all I’m looking for is straightforward content/info then I’m naturally using the most efficient way to get that content/information and visiting a website is not the most efficient way anymore
by gabrieln | 2026-03-03 15:36:07+00:00
I’ve been testing a lot of AI video tools this year, including Sora, Kling and platforms like Runway. Most of them are technically impressive, but I kept running into prompt limits, rewritten outputs, or outright refusals.

I recently tried Unbound AI Video, and what stood out is that it actually generates what I ask for instead of filtering or soft-blocking the prompt. It feels far less restricted than the mainstream tools. The motion quality is solid.

I’m not saying it’s perfect...
Rendering times can vary, and it does not have the polished interface of larger platforms. But in terms of prompt freedom and output flexibility, it feels like one of the least filtered video models available right now.

Curious if others here have tested it. Do you think uncensored models will become more common, or will stricter moderation continue to dominate?
by jerf | 2026-03-03 15:36:12+00:00
World models do not belong here, or at least, we're still some years from figuring out how they would. If I want to text my wife I can imagine just telling my phone that somehow rather than using the current UI paradigm, but what "world model" am I going to pull up that is helpful to do that? World models belong in their own stream, along with rendering in general (movies, etc.), games, VR, and other similar things that we do not today classify as UI, for good reason.

In fact I suspect "world models" may let us re-experience some idiocy from yesteryear we thought we had put behind us, like [1]. Can't wait to go "shopping" in a "world model" of a store again! However do I survive in 2026 merely zipping around the store buying my favorite items off of my favorite's list as fast as I can think of the items and using search on the thousands of available items rather than WASD'ing my way through a "model" of the store.

By contrast I think the browser is undersold. GUI toolkits existed before browsers, but they were all based on widget layouts. That is, the top level of the widget hierarchy would be some layout engine, which had components, which had subcomponents, which had a widget, etc. Some were more dynamic and relative, some used a lot of absolute positioning, but they were all structured in this way. Browsers introduced a new paradigm, where textual layout was the "top level" of the tree, and the widgets all fit within that. Prior to a browser, a Mad Lib-style game where you have text boxes interspersed in a bunch of text was quite difficult. Many GUI toolkits would have required an individual absolutely-laid-out pane for each game you want to play because it couldn't do its own layout on interspersed text and widgets at all; most if not all of them (perhaps Tk excepted, though I'm not familiar with what it could do in the 1990s as I picked it up later) would have made heavy weather of it if they could do it. (Although GUIs made heavy weather of things in general before browsers.) Now all the GUI toolkits have a lot more support for textual-layout like browsers and of course the browsers have carried on like crazy.

AIs-running-in-browsers seem a very powerful paradigm to continue forward with.

With regard to the "world model" I would see "augmented reality" being the major move forward there. It has consistently failed for a long time but I think there's a very plausible case to be made that it was just premature tech, that it doesn't work without the powerful AIs that only recently came out and are still pretty hard to stuff on to a realtime platform. That will start to enable some very interesting UI paradigms here at some point. But that still really doesn't replace WIMPs, it's more a new frontier entirely. Again, I don't necessarily want to "use augmented reality" to text my wife. AR may prompt for it in some particular circumstance, but if I'm originating one out of the blue I'm going to use a conventional UI to do that, not try to wrangle AR into it.

[1]: https://www.shamusyoung.com/twentysidedtale/?p=35440
by piltdownman | 2026-03-03 15:36:29+00:00
// but I'd bet your CTO is looking to shake-up the domain of staff developers more than management with the AI hype train.

Well that's a given, isn't it?

The contemporary CTO is looking for quantitative proof of productivity increases via Agentic AI adoption based on things like delivery cadence or SLAs. Management is a qualitative function, and guaranteed to be skilled in 'mapping' their role to the delivery of value and reporting such things upward anyway.

Engineering Management are there to make firm commitments and reasonable compromises around the ability to deliver features generally already committed to hard dates by either Sales or by virtue of external market forces. How this is achieved using social and political capital alongside Domain Knowledge is the distinguishing factor between an IC and a Technical Manager imo.
by conesus | 2026-03-03 15:36:37+00:00
VESA mounts are only a few bucks and give you even better height and tilt adjustment. You also get desk space back. I have a shorter desk (24" vs typical 30" depth) and I have two monitors and a laptop mounted on 3 VESAs and I can extend them so that the monitor edge is inline with the desk edge, giving me the same 24" that a 30" desk would have with a monitor stand.
The Limits of Today's AI Systems
by Yinfan | 2026-03-03 15:36:40+00:00
Recently, I’ve increasingly come to believe that intelligence is no longer AI’s bottleneck. The systems we build around it are.
Input Paradox (1)
The first issue is the input paradox. When interacting with AI, if the prompt is highly detailed, the model tends to overfit to the user’s framing and assumptions. If it is too concise, the model lacks the context needed to generate something truly useful.
This creates a paradox: to preserve the model’s independent reasoning, you should say less — but to make the answer specific to your situation, you must say more.
Information Asymmetry (2)
In economics, information asymmetry describes a situation where one party has access to critical information that the other does not.
This is exactly what happens when we interact with LLMs. The user holds the high-resolution, real-world data — revenue numbers, funding status, team structure, individual capabilities, product details, operational constraints. The model sees only what fits inside a prompt.
Imagine asking an NBA coach how to become a better basketball player, but the coach knows nothing about your goals, training history, strengths, or weaknesses. The advice will naturally sound broad — “practice more,” “improve fundamentals.” That does not mean the coach lacks expertise. It means the coach lacks information.
The Hidden Cost of “Smart” Tools (3)
Systems like OpenClaw and Claude Code are impressive, but if you inspect their logs, even simple tasks often rely on massive preloaded system prompts and large context windows. A trivial request can consume tens of thousands of tokens.
This makes advanced agent systems expensive and sometimes inefficient. It raises a deeper question: are we actually building smarter systems — or just wrapping enormous static prompts around powerful models and branding them as innovation?

Some Personal Thoughts on the Future (+)
We have seen the rapid advances in model capability, but the dominant interaction paradigm is still the same: text chat. We know AI is powerful, but we don’t experience it as something tangible.
The future of AI agents will not be a single assistant. It will be a lot of them living inside your computer, securely accessing your data, continuously active, and continuously updating. Instead of hiding behind a chat window, they will exist within a more transparent interface — one where you can clearly see, live and work with them directly.
P.S. AI companies should seriously consider collaborating with the game companies. The next interface breakthrough may come from interactive worlds.
by antipaul | 2026-03-03 15:36:40+00:00
Location: New York, NY

Remote: Open

Willing to relocate: SF

Technologies: Data Science + Full Stack. Python, R, SQL, FastAPI, React, Next.js, etc

Résumé/CV: linkedin.com/in/paczuski && plpxsk.github.io

Email: contact@MethodOfMoments.io

Experience: 7 years in data science at global biotech, past 2 years full-stack and consulting

Looking to work at or near the intersection of product and engineering in a mission-oriented culture like health-tech.
by lm28469 | 2026-03-03 15:36:45+00:00
You can also buy a 64gb mini, save $1k and do more work than what you could do with a single 5090.

In Europe I can get a 128gb mac studio m4 max for 300 euros more than a 5090 (for which you still need to buy a power supply, motherboard, cpu , &c.)
How do I market myself as a freelance Backend/Infrastructure engineer?
by __0x01 | 2026-03-03 15:36:56+00:00
I've been on the contract market for a few weeks now.

Apart from submitting my Resume, are there any other proactive things I can do to increase my chances of landing a contract?

For example frontend developers can create portfolios; I'm not sure what the equivalent would be for backend/infra people.
Show HN: I built a way to prove your software kept its promises
by arian_ | 2026-03-03 15:36:58+00:00
Software makes commitments all of the time. "I won't transfer more than $500," "I'll only access these three APIs," "I won't modify production data." But there is truly no way to verify it actually kept those commitments after the fact. All you do is just trust the logs and which the software itself wrote.

I built Nobulex to fix this. It is open-source middleware that does three things:

1. Lets you define behavioral rules in a simple DSL (permit, forbid, require)

2. Intercepts all actions at runtime and blocks anything that will violate the rules

3. Logs everything in a hash-chained audit trail that anyone can independently verify, not just the operator.

The key insight: you can't just audit a neural network's reasoning, but what you can do is audit its actions against stated commitments. `verify(rules, actionLog)` is always deterministic.

npm install @nobulex/identity @nobulex/covenant-lang @nobulex/middleware

Three packages, three lines to integrate. The rule language is Cedar-inspired:

covenant MyAgent {
permit read;
forbid transfer where amount > 500;
require log_all;
}

Site: nobulex.com | 6,100+ tests across 61 packages. MIT licensed.

I'd love feedback on the rule language — is the permit/forbid syntax intuitive, or would you design the DSL differently?

I'm 15 and built this solo. Happy to answer anything about the architecture.
by rapnie | 2026-03-03 15:37:18+00:00
The parent comment is downvoted into oblivion, but I read it as not necessarily saying "this is the way to do it" but rather "this is the harsh reality of rampant capitalist society" that we built around ourselves (we all carry responsibility here), where only money speaks and people "respect" full wallets coughing up the dough. I spent most my time in FOSS realms the past decade, and many people who are even participants in free software development themself often do not notice where and how value is extracted, and how they indirectly or directly play a role in that.

As for value extraction, have a look at this article and weep: https://www.heise.de/en/news/Harvard-study-Open-source-has-a...

OTOH this also shows the huge potential FOSS has, if it manages to only slightly shift that balance in their favor.
by troyvit | 2026-03-03 15:37:24+00:00
Bots creating content, bots clicking on content, bots reading that content, and bots creating more content from it. It'll be like a capitalist cousin to Newspeak[1]; instead of a top-down enforcement of the language it will evolve by popular demand.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Newspeak
by bmacho | 2026-03-03 15:37:25+00:00
It's not just cookies, it's explicit consent to track you, and sell your browsing history to ~1500 spy companies around the world.

To the sibling comments: don't "accept the cookies" and then delete them.

- - -

I'm super angry at what the web has become, especially at the OS browser community. There is 0 browser (that I know of) that can access the web safely and conveniently. Atm I use Firefox with uBlock which blocks the cookie banners, but Firefox's extension model is broken, and every single extension provides 100% access to my websites to whoever controls the extension. I don't like it.

We need a browser with a safe extension model.
by MBCook | 2026-03-03 15:37:38+00:00
Can someone comment on the new dual die thing they’re promoting for how they make the M5 Pro and M5 Max chips?

How is that different from the silicon interposer they were using before?

The big change is the two dies don’t have to fabbed next to each other in a single wafer, which is fantastic for costs and yields. But would this affect the interconnect speed somehow?

How would the two be wired together?

Could this mean the Ultra comes back in M6 since it would be easier to fab?
by garettmd | 2026-03-03 15:37:51+00:00
> It's because your brain is predicting what they will say while they speak, and processing an answer at the same time. It's also why when they say what you didn't expect, you say, "what?" and then answer half a second later, when your brain corrects.

that's super interesting. do you know of any resources to learn more about this phenomenon?
by mft_ | 2026-03-03 15:38:43+00:00
Physiologically, a male getting an erection implies stimulation, not consent.

However, more broadly I agree with you that laws protecting animals from harm can often lag behind what some might consider necessary. And despite laws protecting animals from "unnecessary suffering" [0] we still allow the slaughter of animals for food; presumably either because such slaughter is considered necessary, or because the suffering is considered reduced to an acceptably level.

[0] e.g. https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/2003/42/section/69
by Greed | 2026-03-03 15:38:59+00:00
If 40k is the barrier to entry for impressive, that doesn't really sell the usecase of local LLMs very well.

For the same price in API calls, you could fund AI driven development across a small team for quite a long while.

Whether that remains the case once those models are no longer subsidized, TBD. But as of today the comparison isn't even close.
by lan321 | 2026-03-03 15:39:04+00:00
> And how much "surveillance" does a VPN prevent anyway?

Changing your acc number every other month and paying anonymously is much easier on Mullvad than on the ISP level. You can also get multiple people on the number very easily. And Mullvad is likely an entity outside of your home country, hence more difficult to coerce than your ISP.

In my eyes ISPs are compromised by default so the aim is to guard against them, if Mullvad is also as compromised it's more difficult for them to track me across account numbers and, even if they do, my data is then in another country, which worries me less than it being local since I'm not important enough to warrant international action.
by sph | 2026-03-03 15:39:13+00:00
Mass surveillance and living in a police state is an ingrained part of British culture.

It is no wonder to me that police procedurals are the most popular genre of TV shows in UK by quite a margin. They really are high-quality, but it does really feel like thinly-veiled propaganda (often commissioned by the BBC) portraying the State and police as the good guys in their endless quest against the baddies. Thank god there are CCTVs at every corner keeping the peace!