MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by SOLAR_FIELDS | 2026-03-04 00:34:21+00:00
Well yeah… why else would the company have bought them? It wasn’t because they just love ORMs and this one specifically they just wanted to make sure survived because they happened to be using it. It doesn’t work like that.

You can mostly just skip past whatever vague platitudes the announcement post makes toward stuff like this and instead just watch the product closely over the next few months to figure out how it’s gonna go. Trusting anything said in the announcement is a recipe for getting burned later
by OkayPhysicist | 2026-03-04 00:34:36+00:00
Probably not. The tariffs are a lever for Trump to personally work out self-enriching deals with individual countries. Vance doesn't have the kinds of connections that Trump has to leverage those kinds of deals, he's only really tied to Theil and company who put him in his current seat.

I also put Vance's odds of winning real low, unless Trump dies rather soon. Vance was the first VP pick since we started doing political polling that reduced his ticket's approval rating. He's not nearly popular enough to keep up the cult of personality that Trump has built. If he's not President by the next election, I doubt he'd win the primaries.
by chimeracoder | 2026-03-04 00:34:47+00:00
> Power cycling is not a solution. It's a crappy workaround, and you still had downtime because of it. The device should never get stuck in the first place, and the solution for that is fixing whatever bug is in the firmware.

I'm sympathetic to the argument that companies should make support calls less necessary by providing better products and services, but "just write bug-free software" is not a solution.
by Dylan16807 | 2026-03-04 00:35:05+00:00
> Apple's best selling phones are the Pro and Max, which you want to scrap

I was suggesting combining them, not scrapping them.

> you advocate for a 4.3 inch screen when the iPhone mini was Apple's biggest flop phone

I'm referring to the SE, not the Mini.

Even when they released 13 Mini and SE (3rd) at the same time, I think both of them sold more than the Air, and combined they were way ahead.

At this point it's been 4 years since either an SE or a Mini, so a new SE would sell lots.

> With respect it looks to me like there's a reason you're not CEO of Apple and that Apple isn't taking your advice

The $500 thing was never supposed to be advice. It was a pricing complaint.
by brailsafe | 2026-03-04 00:36:39+00:00
True, but c'mon, not even one single other colour!? It's weird to only have more options on the cheaper computers, and by spending more you get less visual personalization. So dull.

I've never owned an iPhone, but if I did, it would be a sweet luxury to be able to colour match the phone to the mac. Orange on orange, orange on purple, purple on green. iPads can do it and they're practically useless e-waste
by zikani_03 | 2026-03-04 00:37:52+00:00
I also thought the same thing. Had to double take and scroll to see I'm not alone. It's an interesting phenomenon, I suspect the title was too on the nose that it invokes an immediate reaction.

Anyways, I wish more people commented on what's actually in the article - i've observed what OP is complaining about happening in whatsapp groups too esp when there is a difference of opinion; people defer to calling Meta's in-chat AI instead of giving a bit more effort and stating _their_ view.
by RickS | 2026-03-04 00:37:58+00:00
I solved this by asking it to make a memory that all answers to me should be brisk, clinical, and to the point. This worked well, except for the annoying habit of beginning answers with something like "Terse: $answer", which required a second memory, solving the issue in full. I've been happy with it since. Edit: I just realized this interaction is its own demo – that's the entire response it gave me, as it should be.

> Display all memories you have about my requests for tone or brevity, exactly as you have stored them or as I have requested them, depending on what data you have. There are at least two.

[2025-11-08]. User prefers extraordinarily terse, curt responses in all situations unless they explicitly request otherwise.

[2025-12-01]. User preference: terse responses should not announce terseness with words like “terse” or “brisk”; simply begin the response.
by tombert | 2026-03-04 00:38:04+00:00
I'm one of the people that canceled my OpenAI Plus subscription after Sam Altman demonstrated his lack of integrity last week.

I like to think I'm doing something, but honestly I am not sure that it would make a difference if literally every consumer canceled their subscription at this point. They now have an "in" with the slush fund that we call "US military contracting", which is probably worth more than what they were going to make from all the people who canceled their accounts. Not to mention their bribes to our president, meaning that the markets can always be rigged in their favor.
by bawolff | 2026-03-04 00:38:20+00:00
How much of the current situation is a result of that previous deal?

The deal basically stopped iran's nuclear program but allowed the regime to better send money and guns to its proxy network.

The current war is effectively the downstream consequences of Iran's proxy network going off the leash.

Ultimately, negotiations work best with both a carrot and a stick. If its just a carrot, and no deal would be unacceptable to one of the parties, then the logical thing for the other party would be to always hold out.

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In any case, in this specific situation (regardless of how we got here), its hard to imagine that Iran could have made a deal and survived. The regime is very weak at home and its questionable if they could have survived the loss of face to agree to what usa wanted.
by bigfishrunning | 2026-03-04 00:38:30+00:00
And that's the problem -- all i have to do is come up with a website that looks enough like your banking app, and get you to scan the uri to that website, and that'll trick you into giving me your pin.

this is why QR codes, especially ones with complicated encoded uris, are a security problem. they're very hard for leypeople to audit before doing the wrong thing
by kerkeslager | 2026-03-04 00:38:41+00:00
> As you said, that doesn’t do anything since the road is designed to go 35-45 MPH, that is how fast people will go, with the exception of inflexible rule followers that drive 25 MPH and cause dangerous speed differentials.

If speediots followed the rules, there wouldn't be a speed differential. You're blaming the rule followers, when in fact it is the people with the patience of a toddler causing the speed differential.

Driving is, in most cases, the only life-and-death activity you undertake during your day, and if you don't have the emotional capacity to handle not being where you want instantly, you don't have the emotional capacity to handle a machine that can kill other people.
by jfreds | 2026-03-04 00:38:49+00:00
AI pull request descriptions are my current pet peeve. The ones I have seen are verbose and filled with meaningless fluff words (“optimized”, “performant” for what? In terms of what?), they leak details about the CoT that didn’t make it into the final solution (“removed the SQLite implementation” what SQLite implementation? There isn’t one on main…), and are devoid of context about _why_ the work is even being done, what alternatives were considered etc.

My first round of code review has become a back and forth with the original author just asking them questions about their description, before I even bother to look at code. At first I decided I’d just be a stick in the mud and juniors would learn to get it right the first time, but it turns out I’m just burning myself out due to spite instead.
by ehnto | 2026-03-04 00:39:25+00:00
It did worry me though, as I had also never heard of it. Is it highly available like more regular DIMM or SODIMM ram?

That is usually my concern with things like the modular ports and replaceable keyboards too. By the time I actually need to replace anything it could be 10 years from now, could I actually source these parts easily?

Regardless, that is a excellent problem to have compared to other less repairable laptops. I have been running my current laptop for 10 years, by the time it's unrepairable I might switch to this.
by madeofpalk | 2026-03-04 00:39:36+00:00
> I've seen too often that developers who want to become managers because they think it's the next inventible step aren't prepared for the people management and HR part of that role

As an IC, this is baffling to me because that seems like the biggest and most obvious part of the job. I never want to be approving people's leave requests or telling someone they're being a jerk on slack.
by p1necone | 2026-03-04 00:40:19+00:00
Generate with carefully steered AI, sanity check carefully. For a big enough project writing actually comprehensive test coverage completely by hand could be months of work.

Even state of the art AI models seem to have no taste, or sense of 'hang on, what's even the point of this test' so I've seen them diligently write hundreds of completely pointless tests and sometimes the reason they're pointless is some subtle thing that's hard to notice amongst all the legit looking expect code.
by barcoder | 2026-03-04 00:40:53+00:00
I'm a long time Unity developer that in the past year picked up Godot. The speed at which Godot loads compared to Unity is staggering, it's just so much faster. When I returned to Unity I raised that my flow state was constantly being broken in a way that it wasn't when using Godot.

Entering flow is one of the beautiful things I love about programming. And being knocked out of it often feels like a physical jolt.

Lobster seems to take the idea of optimisation and speed to new levels. Entering and remaining in flow must be even easier. First though, I'll need to put the time into learning enough to be able to do it!
by j-bos | 2026-03-04 00:40:57+00:00
> if they take into account Claude as a stakeholder and what Claude will learn about their behaviour and relationship to it on the next training run.

Oh they definitely do. If you pay attention in AI circles, you'll hear a lot of people talking about writing to the future Claudes. Not unlike those developers and writers who put little snippets in their blogs and news articles about who they are and how great they are, and then later the LLMs report that information back as truth. In this case, Anthropic is very interested in ensuring that Claude develops a cohesive personality by basically founding snippets of the personality within the corpus of training data, which is the broad internet and research papers.
by wtallis | 2026-03-04 00:40:58+00:00
Giving the device enough RAM to survive memory leaks during heavy usage would also be a valid option, as is automatic rebooting to get the device back into a clean state before the user experiences a persistent loss of connectivity. There are a wealth of available workarounds when you control everything about the device's hardware and software and almost everything about the network environments it'll be operating in. Fixing all the tricky, subtle software bugs is not necessary.
by jlongo78 | 2026-03-04 00:41:18+00:00
yeah the system prompt injection problem is a real pain. the mcp spec wasnt really designed with "persistent context shaping" in mind, its more request/response than ambient influence.

one hacky workaround ive seen work: expose a tool thats always called first via a resource that hints at it, basically tricking the agent into self-priming. ugly but functional.

honestly though for true one-click youre probably stuck until clients expose better hooks. the spec needs to catch up to the use case.
by jlongo78 | 2026-03-04 00:41:27+00:00
grouping by task is underrated honestly. most people treat sessions like browser tabs - chaotic and forgotten. your way actually maps to how work flows rather than how it starts. the blueprints angle is clever too, broadcasting to a whole context group instead of hunting sessions down one by one. curious how deep you've taken the nesting - do you group groups, or does that get wierd fast?
by busterarm | 2026-03-04 00:41:41+00:00
the SUV/pickup culture is bad enough here in the South but they place speedbumps aggressively all over the place here.

Like 4" tall ones with no curve so that it absolutely slams the shit out of your small car if you're doing anything over 3mph. And they place them like every 8 feet. If you're in the lifted trucks most people drive here you can't even tell.
by mananaysiempre | 2026-03-04 00:42:43+00:00
A lot different in that it dilutes the rule of law rather than being an actual repressive measure, yes. (See also: underage drinking.) Not clear if it’s better: an enforced stupid law can cause actual pushback; a mostly-unenforced one is liable to be enforced arbitrarily against inconvenient companies. (I’m guessing there’s no actual legal requirement for Zed to reject minors, just some sort of legal regime that makes it more trouble than it’s worth, but that only adds to the arbitrariness. The law could even be non-stupid—e.g. they’re trying to sell user data—but with such a fig leaf it might as well be.)
by raw_anon_1111 | 2026-03-04 00:42:51+00:00
The way that voice assistants work even in the age of LLMs is

Voice —> Speech to Text -> LLM to determine intent -> JSON -> API call -> response -> LLM -> text to speech.

TTFT is irrelevant, you have to process everything through the pipeline before you can generate a response. A fast model is more important than a good model

Source: I do this kind of stuff for call centers. Yes I know modern LLMs don’t go through the voice -> text -> LLM -> text -> voice anymore. But that only works when you don’t have to call external sources
by stephenr | 2026-03-04 00:43:01+00:00
> Nano-texture is worth the upgrade if you are on a macbookpro whatever M<cpu> and dont have it.

Oh really, it's universally better?

> For those of us with astigmatism it's really night and day experience.

Oh. So it's better for someone else with a specific eye condition, who is practically guaranteed to never use a MacBook that I buy?
by paulryanrogers | 2026-03-04 00:43:05+00:00
In my view the judicial and legislative branches should be no less powerful than the executive.

If there is truly an impasse the legislative branch should win because it is the most diverse and direct representation of the people.

I also have other crazy ideas like money isn't speech, ranked choice voting, same-day primaries, outlawing private financing of campaigns, bribery is accepting compensation even if before the action being bought, abolishing the electoral college and the US Senate, and no one is above investigation or the law--not even in their official capacity.
by causal | 2026-03-04 00:43:07+00:00
I have found that chatbots embedded in some spaces can be useful, e.g. docs. Stagehand for example embeds a little query form at the bottom of their docs page, and I've found the chatbot it engages can quickly direct me to the documentation I'm looking for: https://docs.stagehand.dev/v3/first-steps/introduction
by Scoundreller | 2026-03-04 00:43:47+00:00
Or non-newtonian fluid speedbumps that are soft when hit with light stress and hard when hit with a lot of stress

https://www.jalopnik.com/these-speed-bumps-only-turn-solid-i...

Probably highly temperature dependent or get stabbed with a knife in 2.3 hours depleting its reserve of non-newtonian goo.
by chickensong | 2026-03-04 00:43:52+00:00
Agreed, it's not simple to make change, and I wasn't suggesting that. I'm just promoting doing something instead of waiting for top-down solutions, which, even if they materialize, still aren't as cool as bottom-up culture change IMHO.

Is it effective? Probably not in the short term, at least for the intended purposes, but secondary effects like personal growth, satisfaction, and social dynamics might be realized.
by cucumber3732842 | 2026-03-04 00:43:55+00:00
The problem with pads and ditches and ponds and stuff is you'd still have to prove the out-flow from your is fine to enter the river so you're basically just adding the extra step of engineering your ditch and then proving it's not gonna erode or whatever.

I think the ideal solution would be to just run it over a concrete pad to cool it to ambient but the regulators are shit and if anyone anywhere has ever dumped clean warm water into a river your best solution is likely to be to copy them and pay your lawyers to cite all the reasons the other people found it fine. Anything you do is gonna get bike shed to hell and there's a lot less variables for them to do that with if it's just a dumb pipe.

The laws and rules are all a giant nightmare (and the enforcers are worse) that prevent common sense solutions, creativity and small scale development generally and force people to copycat cookie cutter stuff.
by SOLAR_FIELDS | 2026-03-04 00:44:01+00:00
This is such a weird take because it’s pretty well established that if you just need an average computing device that apples cheapest options are often dollar for dollar per compute efficiency way better than the competition.

If you need anything other than a base configuration that’s not true anymore because apple makes stupid money on their $200 upgrades of 8 gb of ram but if you are a low grade consumer who doesn’t need anything other than the base configuration you would be hard pressed to convince me that the base models of their products are worse value than their non apple equivalents
by leptons | 2026-03-04 00:44:28+00:00
>Is a black person whose parents grew up in segregation, redlining, etc, really getting a worse experience in China?

Some places won't server you in China, if that's what you're asking. It isn't as bad as some time in the past in the US, but it's not going to be smooth sailing at all.

>I know fully English speaking born in USA Asian people who avoid certain parts of the country over the racism they get from Americans.

Yes, and I covered that in my comment. Rural areas are always going to be worse for minorities.

>This “lack of racism in the USA” only exists if you’re white.

Where the hell did I ever say that??? Why are people reading things into comments that simply aren't there??

>Don’t forget that ICE is currently arbitrarily detaining people for looking/sounding foreign, and that actual US citizens and people with permanent residency status have been caught up in it.

Gee, no kidding. You don't say.

I'm really not sure what you're trying to call me out for, or why.
by geauxvirtual | 2026-03-04 00:44:34+00:00
The only Chatbot I've semi-enjoyed interacting with was SiriusXM during my latest yearly try to cancel dance they make you go through. Usually this was a 45 minute to an hour phone call with Customer Support to eventually get a cheaper rate and continue service.

This last time, it sent me to a Chatbot. In five minutes, I got a cheaper rate than I was previously paying. I'm sort of looking forward to the next interaction to see if I can get even cheaper rates or finally cancel the service.
by anigbrowl | 2026-03-04 00:45:08+00:00
Sadly this is what's considered an authoritative voice in a lot of regular (especially American) journalism, Axios being the most famous example. It's instructive to read news stories or TV transcripts from previous decades for comparison with the current norm. Also depressing because it brings home how vapid most news coverage is today. This also applies to opinion articles, which have in my view led the charge into the semantic void.

I don't hate that this is the default style on many popular AI services, though. It's sufficiently distinctive that it serves as a signal that anyone posting it is an idiot and can safely be ignored.
by devilbunny | 2026-03-04 00:45:20+00:00
I wouldn't mind, if it ended up getting me a human at the end of the process.

It's not quite at the level of the "shibboleet" XKCD, but I did once manage to get a much higher support tier at Comcast who was able to verify that 1) I had a problem that was their fault and 2) fix it. Even that guy was halfway on a script. Y'know, after I've read you a ping timeout three times from the Windows command line, I probably shouldn't have to read it verbatim to you again. It hasn't changed.
by tim-tday | 2026-03-04 00:45:31+00:00
I had a colleague who learned I’d been waking up ant six. He asked me how he could start waking up early too. The answer? Go to bed early. (He was hoping for some trick and was quite disappointed in my answer)

Frankly if you’re going to bed early you’re probably not up for hours in the evening drinking like many people do. Simply shifting those evening hours to effective work in the working day is like a 30% boost on what everyone else is doing. (To say nothing of the saved brain cells— man I wish I’d stopped drinking in my twenties)

But hey, maybe it’s a myth.
by samcheng | 2026-03-04 00:46:24+00:00
No worries about the downvote. You're NOT crazy to hate remote!

It really depends on your phase in life, and your lifestyle. I have kids, a home office, a community, and outdoor hobbies, so the work-from-home lifestyle is great for me. And, I can meet colleagues for lunch or strategy sessions on occasion as necessary.

If you want to socialize with coworkers and minimize time at home, then find an in-office work environment! There are lots of them out there - Rinse isn't quite for you.
by LorenPechtel | 2026-03-04 00:46:38+00:00
Blocking said search indexes is probably a good thing.

I'm thinking perhaps a system where you feed it a credential, a small program runs and maintains a pool of tokens that has some reasonably finite lifespan. The server that issues the tokens restricts the number of uses of the credential. Timing attacks are impossible because your token requests are normally not associated with your uses of the tokens.

And when you use a token the site gives back a session key, further access just replays the session key (so long as it's HTTPS the key is encrypted, hard to do a replay attack) up to whatever time and rate limits the website permits.
by majorchord | 2026-03-04 00:46:58+00:00
Animal cooperation proves that game theory is universal, but it does not prove it works in a vacuum for humans.

- Biology gives us the instinct to cooperate and the capacity for empathy.

- Capitalism provides the mechanism to scale that cooperation to millions of strangers.

- Institutions (laws/culture) provide the rules that prevent the "vacuum" from devolving into a state where the strongest exploit the weakest (which is actually what happens in nature when policing fails).

Therefore, in a capitalistic society, cooperation to the detriment of the individual (e.g., paying taxes, following labor safety rules) is not just a biological imperative; it is a social contract enforced by culture to allow the complex system to function. Without the cultural layer, the biological layer alone is insufficient to sustain a modern economy.
Show HN: Restless – a CLI that discovers and maps APIs automatically
by bspippi1337 | 2026-03-04 00:47:18+00:00
Hi HN,

I've been building a CLI called Restless that tries to make exploring unfamiliar APIs easier.

When you encounter a new API the first step is often slow:
finding documentation, locating Swagger/OpenAPI, and understanding the endpoint structure.

Restless tries to automate that discovery process.

Example:

$ restless scan https://api.github.com

Restless API Discovery

Scanning: https://api.github.com
swagger detected
142 endpoints indexed

Auth
├─ POST /login
├─ POST /refresh
Users
├─ GET /users
├─ GET /users/{id}

Repo:
https://github.com/bspippi1337/restless

Feedback very welcome.
by game_the0ry | 2026-03-04 00:47:41+00:00
> People said the same thing with the Nazi Regime...It doesn't have to be a death camp or a gas chamber.

You made the nazi regime comparison - not me - and did it poorly. Now you're walking it back? Incoherent.

> Unlawfully arresting...

There is nothing unlawful about arresting illegal immigrants.

> Your indifference to what that is like for those people is glaring and it makes my point for me.

No one forced them to come here. They will certainly be forced to leave bc, again, they are here illegally.