MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by rtkwe | 2026-03-04 18:59:17+00:00
Taking the German price of 699 Eur and accounting for the extra VAT in Denmark (25%) vs Germany (19%) I get 853 USD which means you're basically in line with the price for Germany which I expect is close to the price for the rest of the EU +/- VAT.

So the higher price in Denmark looks like VAT + some extra costs for being in the EU market; import duties, corporate taxes, etc.
by ashutoshstark | 2026-03-04 18:59:45+00:00
One thing I’ve noticed with scraper traffic is that a lot of the basic defenses rely on external infrastructure like Redis or a WAF layer.

In a recent project, I experimented with keeping the rate limiter entirely in-memory using ConcurrentHashMap.compute() to implement an atomic sliding window. It worked surprisingly well for smaller services where adding Redis felt like overkill.

I wrote up the approach and some of the tradeoffs here if anyone’s curious:
https://github.com/ashutosh-stark/velocity-gate
by nolist_policy | 2026-03-04 18:59:49+00:00
So basically, you install the Linux Dev VM with 5 clicks in the settings. You get a Debian VM with nested virtualization support and seamless Wayland, VirGL and USB passtrough.

I don't know MacOS, but comming from Linux customizability was mostly okay. Obviously there was also some getting used to. The desktop environment has decent window management and support for virtual desktops which I use heavily.
by sdpmas | 2026-03-04 18:59:50+00:00
hey, it's Samip (behind the Slowrun repo). yeah that's a fair point, we will mention them in the blog. but there are a couple of major differences:
1. our emphasis is on using more compute to get better data efficiency. this is important because there are lots of hacky chances that will get lower loss, but when compared to general methods that leverage a lot of compute, they don't do so well. and you can already see how this emphasis on compute leads to different methods to BabyLM!
2. our reasoning behind the repo is not anything to do with how much data a child sees. and our dataset is not tailored towards that either. it's simple pretraining on random subset of the internet. we know there are better training algorithms that get lower loss on that data, and we are finding those.
by freeplay | 2026-03-04 18:59:58+00:00
It's been able to run on A series chips for a while. I don't think that's what's preventing MacOS on iPad. It's that the OS is not optimized for touch in any way. Too many small things to click. It's just not the kind of half-baked experience Apple would put their name behind. Likely the same reason why you haven't seen a touchscreen on a Mac.
by pixl97 | 2026-03-04 19:00:20+00:00
Yea, devices like this are commonly built as cheap as possible, and using things like software component analysis typically doesn't happen. And while I can't say about this company, I've worked with other companies that contract/subcontract out building the software for devices like this to the point there is little to no internal software security culture at the parent company capable of identifying potential problems in said software. This is further exacerbated the the previously mentioned 'as cheaply as possible groups' quite often having poor control over their own employees and intentional hacks/data siphons being bundled with the device.

I've seen larger firms that have come to own some software like this from buyouts and on the first analysis they'll find hundreds of shockingly easy exploits like RCE's in them.

Along with this I've seen the number of software vulns reported by closed source software is no where close to what they find and fix silently at a huge number of companies.
by perching_aix | 2026-03-04 19:00:32+00:00
I keep reading about how IoT / wearables / smart home devices are routinely both vulnerable and exploited, if not even come with malware preinstalled, so I was curious to finally go through a primary source like this.

After skimming through the attacks performed in this research, and checking every mention of the word "internet", all I got was a section with a hypothetical scenario where the watch has a publicly reachable IPv4 address. Suffice to say, that is really quite unlikely, certainly in my experience at least.

It did also talk about bundled malware, so I guess that's bad enough, but is all IoT research like this? Always sounded to me like you kinda need to already have a foot in the door for these, and this paper didn't dispel that notion for me at all.
by iteria | 2026-03-04 19:00:37+00:00
Alcohol is totally legal for a child to drink in my state as long as consumed privately. It's only illegal for them to buy. My parents gave me alcohol all the time in order to teach me about it and the result was that I didn't really drink when I turned 21 or have any urge to sneak it.

That's exactly how I'm doing technology. I sign my kid up for kid accounts. And I apply parental controls.
by olnluis | 2026-03-04 19:00:46+00:00
I like my MB Pro but it has serious audio and external display issues.
I've had to remove spotlight indexing to prevent obscure OOM issues.
One time I woke up to open my laptop and find it's screen cracked for no apparent reason. Since I couldn't prove it wasn't my fault I was charged for the repair anyway and I'm grateful to myself that I had AC+ because I might have as well just bought another laptop if not.
At the end of the day, it's still just a computer.
by SethMurphy | 2026-03-04 19:01:12+00:00
I am a student of history and am offering the observations I see in regards to that. Your points are valid too and the narrative around the war. Another validation of my point. Neither of us know the true motives, but history has shown the side we choose is the one that benefits trade th most, not a moral decision. This is my only point.

https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2026/03/03/business/iran...
by grogenaut | 2026-03-04 19:01:43+00:00
Unreal + blender + ide.

Fusion + blender + slicers.

Virt machines / docker + dev env

iOS Android web development

16 copies of Claude code, cursor or kiro

Any of that while running arc raiders and watching twitch or YouTube or plex

My gaming PC is usually at 50-70 gb use

My mbp for work is often at 90 and starting to swap.

My personal mbp is only 48gb and often swapping

I have 128 in everything except my smaller mbp personal.
by arkmm | 2026-03-04 19:02:03+00:00
Can you share more details about your use case? The good applications of fine tuning are usually pretty niche, which tends to make people feel like others might not be interested in hearing the details.

As a result it's really hard to read about real-world use cases online. I think a lot of people would love to hear more details - at least I know I would!
by t43562 | 2026-03-04 19:02:13+00:00
Simplicity can be a powerful defence against complexity. When there are many ways something can go wrong.

Rather than trying to anticipate all the different failure modes one tries at first just to handle fact of failure itself, assuming there's no remediation.

If there's a way to make sure the worst case isn't terrible in some simple way then you do that first - like making a backup file or tr4ying to keep APIs idempotent so you can recover from issues and so on.
by fasbiner | 2026-03-04 19:02:21+00:00
Maybe your cultural frame is that mental health isn't a protected category and it's an appropriate insult. That's not what the law says in professional environments and that's not been my experience in professional discourse.

If your attitude is that if one person litters it's now ok for anyone else to dump on protected categories, it's your clubhouse and you can set the rules.

That's your right, and it's also my right to say that I don't want to be associated with this forum even indirectly.

Could you provide me with a good email address to send my CCPA request to delete all my data and comments and account? I sent emails to a few YC addresses with:

"I am writing to request that you delete my personal data from all of your paper and/or computer records pursuant to Section 1798.105 of the California Consumer Privacy Act (CCPA)

To the extent that you rely on consent to process my personal data, I withdraw that consent. To the extent that you rely on your 'legitimate interest' to process my personal data, I object to the processing as there are no overriding legitimate grounds.

If you are selling my personal data to third parties, please consider this email as my direction to you not to sell my personal data to third parties.

Please don’t ask me to perform a self-service process such as locating my information on your website, filling out a form, or providing a mobile advertising ID. These requests place an undue burden on my side.

If you are not able to comply with my request to delete all of my personal data, please advise as to the specific reason for which this request cannot be acted on. Please advise which sections and subsections of the law you are relying upon, and identify the specific reason for which you are relying on those exceptions, such as which legal obligation, or internal purpose or use. Please delete all my personal data which does not fall under these exceptions."

I have not received a response.

I can write again in 46 days with a complaint attached mentioning you personally and a letter from my state representative indicating they'd like to know more as well. Or you can resolve this quickly in a mutually amicable way by just deleting my account and all my comments.
by Retric | 2026-03-04 19:02:23+00:00
Oil is just one aspect of climate change, coal was far more important because there’s plenty of coal to case extrem harm.

The vast majority of new electricity generation installed in the US over the last 15 years has been wind and solar. That naturally results in fossil fuels being fazed out when existing power plants age and thus need to be replaced. 70% of US electricity came from fossil fuels in 2010, that dropped to 60% by 2020. More significantly it mostly swapped to natural gas which emits far less CO2/KWh than coal.

We could go faster but the tail end of the curve represents a small fraction of the CO2 vs the peak. Even natural gas is facing severe pressure from ultra cheap battery backed solar. More importantly natural gas power plants don’t last nearly as long so will get fazed out much faster.

EV’s are also about more than tailpipe emissions, making and transporting gasoline is quite harmful before it ends up in a gas tank.
by theideaofcoffee | 2026-03-04 19:02:27+00:00
You actually choose to believe that these trillion dollar tech monsters run by some of the most despicable people on the planet are being forthright in that they have no ability to do this on behalf of some government request? For something that isn't open source and can't be audited, and can be changed at the next upgrade without any oversight? I find it so much more unlikely that they can't, and that informs my normie use, mostly.
by malwrar | 2026-03-04 19:02:29+00:00
+1 to this, anecdotally I’ve found in my own evaluations that if your system prompt doesn’t explicitly declare how to invoke a tool and e.g. describe what each tool does, most models I’ve tried fail to call tools or will try to call them but not necessarily use the right format. With the right prompt meanwhile, even weak models shoot up in eval accuracy.
by bluGill | 2026-03-04 19:02:30+00:00
You are missing something: how much is spent because the spreadsheet isn't the right solution - nobody measures this (or even knows how). How much are you risking because spreadsheets are not robust - when will a mistake catch up, and what will be the cost? There is a reason accountants use double entry bookkeeping, and spreadsheets don't have that.

Nobody has the money to spend doing things right unless they have been burned. That doesn't mean the money shouldn't be spent first.

Spreadsheets are powerful I will grant. However they are not robust. A robust system works very different and includes features (like tests) that your spreadsheet doesn't have (I don't if it could have them, but it is safe to guess they don't)
by jtbigwoo | 2026-03-04 19:02:38+00:00
I think the problem is that Microsoft's hardware quality is super inconsistent. We had a ton of employees using Surface laptops and tablets at my previous company, particularly sales and support. The company stopped buying them after a few years because the first year failure rate was almost 15%. However, the folks that had the good ones often kept them for 5 years or more.
by reify | 2026-03-04 19:03:11+00:00
a pledge made by a lair

there is no legal requirement to uphold a pledge.

I want to make a pledge.

I hearby pledge that I will not ever, ever, swear when I am out in company and if I do, I will put a Fiver in the swear box when I get home.

Trump, we will not go to war, I am a man of peace. bullshitter!
by bonsaiteb | 2026-03-04 19:03:21+00:00
In medieval Europe, power was rooted in land. Lords owned the soil, while peasants paid tribute for the right to toil upon it. Today, economist Yanis Varoufakis argues that a remarkably similar structure has returned—not in the fields, but within the digital servers and platforms that govern modern life. This is technofeudalism.

From Profit to Rent
The core shift lies in how money is made. In traditional capitalism, profit is earned through competition and innovation. In technofeudalism, platforms like Amazon, Uber, and YouTube extract rent.

Much like a medieval serf, a modern gig worker or digital creator is formally free but practically dependent. They cannot participate in the economy without access to infrastructure they do not own. The platform acts as a digital manor, extracting a "take rate" (tribute) on every transaction while unilaterally setting the rules of engagement.

The Power of Cloud Capital
At the heart of this system is cloud capital: the algorithms and data networks that underpin everything from hospitals to militaries. Unlike a factory, cloud capital is self-reinforcing. Thanks to network effects, the more people use a service (like Google or AWS), the more powerful and inescapable it becomes. This creates "moats" that traditional competition cannot cross.

Consider the fragility of this dependency:

Arbitrary Power: A single algorithm update or policy change by a "Big Tech" lord can instantly bankrupt thousands of small businesses.

Economic Invisibility: To be "off the cloud" is to be effectively excluded from the modern marketplace.

The Illusion of Freedom
The most disorienting aspect of this new era is its invisibility. While an Etsy seller in Slovenia can reach a buyer in Tokyo, that autonomy is conditional. We experience the flexibility of the gig economy as freedom, yet we lack the protections of traditional labor laws or the leverage of a free market.

Where Does This Leave Us?
If technofeudalism has indeed superseded capitalism, our current tools are obsolete. Antitrust laws designed for product monopolies struggle to regulate infrastructure giants, and labor laws fail to protect platform-dependent workers.

History shows that infrastructure monopolies—like railroads and electricity—can be regulated or broken up. The question is whether we have the collective will to treat digital giants not just as companies, but as the feudal infrastructures they have become.
by jvican | 2026-03-04 19:03:44+00:00
He might indeed need some personal development himself. I followed him when the US bombed Iran's nuclear sites last year. He was involved in a controversy with his kid and turned into a dick, going into a charade against the Western education system, for being overly harsh to his kid in a public space and getting reprimanded for it. I'm not condoning his behavior, I wasn't there, but I'd take anything this guy has to say on personal development with a pinch of salt. By the way, he published a post of apologies in his Substack IIRC.
by hellojesus | 2026-03-04 19:04:21+00:00
Two. It's trivial to set up mac-based allowlists on your router as well as domain allowlists. Use separate networks for devices kids have. Install root certs and log their activity to an llm to look for suspicious sites or content. Enroll their mobile devices in device management.

We have all the solutions necessary for this. Why implement something that gives away pii to everyone all the time for free?
by 8note | 2026-03-04 19:05:27+00:00
unprovoked is "why now?"

that funding has been for years, and Israel itself has funded some of those same proxies.

the massacres also arent timely. we're months later with the unrest settled down, but its also not something unique to iran. lots of countries, including israel go about massacring civilians

nothing has substantially changed in many years. not even oct 7 is timely anymore
by mikestew | 2026-03-04 19:05:31+00:00
I'm typing this on a 2012 MBP with 8Gb of RAM. That seemed like plenty when I bought it, and I did dev work in Xcode on the thing. Granted, it can only run Catalina, but it still gets the job done for what I use it for now. "Now" being web browser and running the Numbers/Pages/Keynote apps, which is about what anyone buying the Neo is going to do with it.

After 14 years of service, though, he'll get to retire soon, probably taking it easy running some version of Linux in his old age. Just as soon as that new M5 MBP (with 32Gb this time) shows up tomorrow.
by Vegenoid | 2026-03-04 19:05:35+00:00
As a teenager I worked at a company that rented rafts for a short trip down a river. We’d take the rafts from the customers at the end and truck them back up to the start. As they became bigger and busier, it became more important to keep track of the status of rafts and know when they were going to be getting back to the top.

They paid tens of thousands to have software made for this purpose. It sucked and was totally unable to handle the simultaneous realtime access and modification that was required.

They knew I was good with computers, so asked me if I had any ideas. In about an hour I made them a Google Sheet that worked great for the next several years until I left.
by verdverm | 2026-03-04 19:05:42+00:00
All of my services are containerized including their builds. It's not a "huge" problem, it's simple to deal with, including frontend builds. I suggest reading the documentation or asking an Ai how people in industry deal with this. Most of the Show HN posts like this can be better solved by asking an Ai how we already do things, as opposed to having it come up with an over engineered solution.
by kittikitti | 2026-03-04 19:05:53+00:00
I'm a little skeptical about the Apple Intelligence capabilities, as others have mentioned. I can assume that it doesn't run on-device and sends it to Apple's servers for processing.

I just noticed that according to https://support.apple.com/121115, devices purchased in China don't support Apple Intelligence but it's odd that they explicitly mention a workaround where devices purchased outside of China support Apple Intelligence if the region isn't set to China.

Personally, I might not get this device because of the hard limit of 8GB unified memory. This is unacceptable in 2026 because there were iPhones with 8GB of RAM in 2023. The current generation of iPhones have 12GB of RAM available.
by zozbot234 | 2026-03-04 19:05:58+00:00
What Anthropic was complaining about is training on mass-elicited chat logs. It is very much a ToS violation (you aren't allowed to exploit the service for the purpose of building a competitor) so the complaint is well-founded but (1) it's not "distillation" properly understood; it can only feasibly extract the same kind of narrow knowledge you'd read out from chat logs, perhaps including primitive "let's think step by step" output (which are not true fine-tuned reasoning tokens); because you have no access to the actual weights; and (2) it's something Western AI firms are very much believed to do to one another and to Chinese models all the time anyway. Hence the brouhaha about Western models claiming to be DeepSeek when they answer in Chinese.
by mikkupikku | 2026-03-04 19:06:07+00:00
Yield to a US mining corp. Title buried the lead.

> The AfricaMuseum in Tervuren (Flemish Brabant) is refusing to hand over geological archive material on Congo to an American mining company that wants to use the data to map valuable raw materials. ‘We want to digitalise the archives ourselves and not leave it to a private company,’ the museum says. Meanwhile, the Trump administration is increasing pressure through diplomatic channels.

Yeah I'm with Africa Museum on this one. This said, there is a broad problem of getting old records digitized in African libraries. Very often these library and archive building are very old, don't have working climate control, and the records are often irreplaceable cultural artifacts that are rotting on the shelves for lack of funding to rescue them.
by Animats | 2026-03-04 19:07:04+00:00
> Perhaps by using a sorter that puts the screws in a line, axially, without a preference for heads-first or threads-first orientation?

Here's a vibratory bowl feeder doing exactly that.[1] This is the industry standard way to solve this problem. Look what happens once the screws are lined up without a preference for heads-first or threads-first. A very simple slotted rack gets them all from horizontal to heads-up. As is usual with such feeders, if something doesn't land where it's supposed to, it falls back into the bowl for another try. That's the anti-jam mechanism.

3D printing vibratory bowl feeders works.[2] Useful for when you need to handle thousands, but not millions.

This is more scale than the clockmaker needs, though. Unless his business scales up.

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kIPNdrbSYM4

[2] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ECx6L7z0T4Y
by Lambdanaut | 2026-03-04 19:07:09+00:00
I love how fun this is. It has so much personality. Definitely can see the pico8 and aseprite inspiration.

I think what could be really interesting is some procedural generation brushes... Like a brush that generates a random city-scape as you draw it. That sounds so exciting..

Maybe using wave function collapse:

> https://nathanmcoleman.com/projects/wavecollapse/
Show HN: KokoClone – Zero-shot voice cloning using Kokoro TTS
by Ashish106 | 2026-03-04 19:07:10+00:00
I built KokoClone, a small project that adds zero-shot voice cloning on top of Kokoro TTS.

The idea was to keep Kokoro’s speed and real-time compatibility while allowing speech to be generated in the timbre of a reference voice.

You can type text, upload a ~3–10 second voice sample, and generate speech in that voice.

Supports several languages including English, Hindi, French, Japanese, Chinese, Spanish, Portuguese, and Italian.

Runs on CPU and can use GPU if available.

Live demo:
https://huggingface.co/spaces/PatnaikAshish/kokoclone

Would appreciate feedback.
by jameshilliard | 2026-03-04 19:07:12+00:00
> First, USA literally officially does not care about it right now. That is the stated official politics.

All indications so far indicate the US military is in fact still trying to minimize civilian casualties regardless of the statements being made by some of the individuals in the leadership.

> Hegseth, Vance and Trump are proud and open about it. Hegseth was referring to literally this war when he was saying they will not care about things like civilian deaths.

I wouldn't take the statements being made by these 3 individuals as fact as they are known to lie constantly for various(usually dumb) reasons.
by snapetom | 2026-03-04 19:07:23+00:00
In vet med, case studies are still pretty important, but that's because vet med is in its infancy compared to human medicine. At least one case study, usually two, are required to be eligible to take boards. Future board renewals, I think for most boards, are "published one original piece of research or two case studies" among a slew of other requirements.