MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by strongpigeon | 2026-03-03 16:54:44+00:00
> My M3 Pro is on the list as supporting 120 hz

Can you point me to said list? All I could find was:

> Mac models with M1, M1 Pro, M1 Max, M1 Ultra, M2, and M3 support Studio Display XDR at up to 60Hz. All other Studio Display XDR features are supported.

And The Verge reports:

> There’s also support for adaptive sync that can adjust between 47Hz and 120Hz (if it’s connected to an M4 Mac or later, or the M5 iPad Pro)

I got an M3 Max and was strongly considering upgrading my old monitor, but if I can't do 120hz, I'll just wait until I upgrade my laptop as well.
Show HN: Yardstiq – Compare LLM outputs side-by-side in your terminal
by stanleycyang | 2026-03-03 16:54:46+00:00
Hey HN,

I built yardstiq because I got tired of the copy-paste workflow for comparing LLM responses when developing apps. Every time I wanted to see how Claude vs GPT vs Gemini handled the same prompt, I'd open three tabs, paste the same thing, and try to eyeball the differences. It's 2026 and we have 40+ models worth considering — that doesn't scale.

yardstiq is a CLI tool that sends one prompt to multiple models simultaneously and streams the responses side-by-side in your terminal. It also tracks performance metrics (time to first token, tokens/sec, cost) and optionally runs an AI judge to score the outputs.

```
npx yardstiq "Explain quicksort in 3 sentences" -m claude-sonnet -m gpt-4o
```

What it does:

- Streams responses from multiple models in parallel, rendered in columns
- Shows TTFT, throughput (tok/s), token counts, and cost per request
- AI judge mode: have a model evaluate and score the responses
- Export to JSON, Markdown, or self-contained HTML reports
- Run YAML-defined benchmark suites across models with aggregate scoring
- Works with Ollama for local model comparisons (zero API cost)
- Supports 40+ models via direct provider keys or Vercel AI Gateway

I built this mostly for my own workflow — picking models for different tasks, testing prompt variations, and running quick benchmarks without setting up a whole evaluation framework. It's not trying to replace serious eval platforms, just make the "which model is better for X?" question answerable in 10 seconds.

MIT licensed, written in TypeScript: https://github.com/stanleycyang/yardstiq

Happy to answer questions about the architecture or benchmarking approach.
by not_a9 | 2026-03-03 16:54:56+00:00
> Cutler’s people took work seriously, while Microsofties sometimes tossed nerf balls in the hallways or strummed guitars in their offices.

> The differences in style were apparent to Cutler’s people, who derisively referred to Microsoft as “Microslop.”

From “Showstopper!: The Breakneck Race to Create Windows NT and the Next Generation at Microsoft”. Seems like the term is fairly old.
by sdn90 | 2026-03-03 16:55:03+00:00
Agreed.

I constantly see people saying Apple displays are a terrible value. Last Apple display I had was the Thunderbolt 27 but from now on I'm sticking with Apple.

I've had nothing but issues with non-Apple monitors as well. Customer service ime is non-existent if you need a repair. For something I rely on to get work done, I'm starting to think the premium is worth it.
by bitexploder | 2026-03-03 16:55:13+00:00
That is a good area to explore. Their map of the past is fixed. They are frozen at some point in their psychological time. What has stopped working? Their hippocampus and medial temporal lobe. These are like the write-head that move data from the hippocampus to the neo cortex. Their "I" can no longer update itself. Their DMN is frozen in time. So if intelligence is purely the "I" telling a continuous coherent story about itself. The difference is that although they are fixed in time which is a characteristic shared by a specific LLM model. They can still completely activate their task positive network for problem solving and if their previous information stored is adequate to solve the problem they can. You could argue that is pretty similar to an LLM and what it does. So it is certainly a signifiant component of intelligence.

There is also the nature of the human brain, it is not just those systems of memory encoding, storage, and use of that in narratives. People with this type of amnesia still can learn physical skills and that happens in a totally different area of the brain with no need for the hippocampus->neocortex consolidation loop. So, the intelligence is significantly diminished, but not entirely. Other parts of the brain are still able to update themselves in ways an LLM currently cannot. The human with amnesia also has a complex biological sensory input mapping that is still active and integrating and restructuring the brain. So, I think when you get into the nuances of the human in this state vs. an LLM we can still say the human crosses some threshold for intelligence where the LLM does not in this framework.

So, they have an "intelligence", localized to the present in terms of their TPN and memory formation. LLMs have this kind of "intelligence". But the human still has the capacity to rewire at least some of their brain in real time even with amnesia.
by cbovis | 2026-03-03 16:55:22+00:00
The prompt is unique but the tokens aren't.

Type "owejdpowejdojweodmwepiodnoiwendoinw welidn owindoiwendo nwoeidnweoind oiwnedoin" into ChatGPT and the response is "The text you sent appears to be random or corrupted and doesn’t form a clear question." because the prompt doesnt correlate to training data.
by pklausler | 2026-03-03 16:55:26+00:00
Today, there are at least 9 production-level surviving Fortran compilers (GNU Fortran, IFX, nagfor, nvfortran, XLF, Cray/HPE's ftn, Fujitsu's frt, old Flang-based Arm/AMD, and flang-new). This situation has advantages and disadvantages for our users. Their Venn diagram of equivalently implemented features is very much not a circle, and portability across compilers is really tough. The ISO standard is hardly clear and doesn't have a test suite or reference implementation, so it's been a very challenging task to make flang-new as easy to port existing codes to as possible.
by siliconc0w | 2026-03-03 16:55:41+00:00
My experience is that the 'separate but equal' dual engineering track is largely a myth and that if you want advancement, the manager track is a much more viable track. Even with some of the recent flattening, there are still far more higher level roles for management than ICs. They are also given far more visibility and access inside the company which is extremely valuable in a large org. It also seems a good choice if you're not very good - I've seen bad managers hang around far longer than bad engineers.
by neogodless | 2026-03-03 16:55:45+00:00
> Here are the main arguments from our conversation:

> Thanks Unblocked for supporting today’s article!

> AI coding tools are fast, capable, and completely context-blind. Even with rules, skills, and MCP connections, they generate code that misses your conventions, ignores past decisions, and breaks patterns. You end up paying for that gap in rework and tokens.

> Unblocked changes the economics.

Yeah I was reading through this going... huh? This is the same font and layout as the article. uBlock let this slip through. Maybe there's good content here, and maybe they need advertisements to pay the bills (as a well-paid Engineering Manager...) but I couldn't finish the article knowing that it was deceptively formatted.
Show HN: SimCongress – a scale model simulation of all 535 congressional members
by D_ashe | 2026-03-03 16:55:45+00:00
I built an end-to-end simulation of Congress with all 535 members "modeled".

I’ll share more detail soon, but here’s what surprised me.

In the first version, the agents were simple: voting records, public statements, committee assignments, donor data, and constituent polling. Then I let them vote.

Bills that have stalled for decades sailed through. Getting money out of elections passed with 95% approval. Banning insider trading for members of Congress hit 98%. Ending continuing resolutions cleared 95%.

Turns out, if you model lawmakers as mostly rational actors responding to inputs, they behave… rationally.

To make it realistic, I had to add self-preservation, incentives, and a strong sense of “the other side.”

Now those same bills die in committee. As expected.
by juleiie | 2026-03-03 16:55:58+00:00
You can AI gen any kind of ID or photo proof

So much for the 'verification'

I don't understand how can you be intelligent, maybe even have a hacker mindset, write about tech, yet unable to get through simple verification process with a fake ID?

That's kind of undermining everything you write about. Is it even worth reading if you cannot open a container secured only with anti children measures?
by Aurornis | 2026-03-03 16:56:14+00:00
I don’t think so. Junior was a key designator in the claim and words have meanings. It would have been easier to leave it out if they didn’t intend for it to contribute meaning.

I think this is turning into a Motte and Bailey argument where the junior dev story is used to push the argument and then it’s backpedaled out when others identify the fallacy.
by YesBox | 2026-03-03 16:56:26+00:00
For games, interacting with an LLM is an improv experience. It’s a fractal that can be explored in any direction.

Video games have discrete, static goals that let a player focus on an objective. Compared to LLMs, it’s a passive experience.

People play games for all sorts of reasons (to relax, competition, to build something of their own, solve challenges).

I think this is a fundamentally different experience than what an LLM can offer.

That’s not to say LLMs can’t become a fun experience, but it’s going to take decades to develop a way to procure that experience. Look at how long it took dungeons and dragons, or any video game genre, to get to the level of polish it’s at today
by AnthonyMouse | 2026-03-03 16:56:35+00:00
A cursory look implies they're using group signatures:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Group_signature

Which allow the group manager (presumably the government, or anyone who compromises them) to identify who signed something.

If using the same card multiple times with the same site allows the site to correlate them then that obviously also allows the site to link two accounts you intended to be separate, or two sites to set themselves up as the same "vendor" and thereby correlate your accounts between them.
by seeknotfind | 2026-03-03 16:56:36+00:00
They're are plenty of mods that inject AI into games, like Skyrim. Though in order for a game to have LLMs and scale to a shipping audience without a subscription, you would want to run them locally.

The real technical blocker is performance and voice synthesis. If voice synthesis was at parity with human actors, it would be worth it to battle the performance aspect for major studios. In text based games especially, taking time to generate enough text is just too slow to be convenient
by awaiskhandev | 2026-03-03 16:56:47+00:00
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by faxmeyourcode | 2026-03-03 16:56:56+00:00
> Filip also told me that he asked Claude to continue on the even case after the odd case had been resolved. “But there after a while it seemed to get stuck. In the end, it was not even able to write and run explore programs correctly anymore, very weird. So I stopped the search.”

Interesting snippet towards the end. I wonder if they were using claude.ai or claude code. Sounds like they ran out of context and entered the "dumb zone."
by abhikul0 | 2026-03-03 16:57:10+00:00
Have you tried the dense(27B,9B) Qwen3.5 models? Or any diffusion models (Flux Klein, Zimage)? I'm trying to gauge how much of a perf boost I'd get upgrading from an m3 pro.

For reference:

| model | size | params | backend | threads | test | t/s |
| ------------------------------ | ---------: | ---------: | ---------- | ------: | --------------: | -------------------: |
| qwen35 ?B Q5_K - Medium | 6.12 GiB | 8.95 B | MTL,BLAS | 6 | pp512 | 288.90 ± 0.67 |
| qwen35 ?B Q5_K - Medium | 6.12 GiB | 8.95 B | MTL,BLAS | 6 | tg128 | 16.58 ± 0.05 |

| model | size | params | backend | threads | test | t/s |
| ------------------------------ | ---------: | ---------: | ---------- | ------: | --------------: | -------------------: |
| gpt-oss 20B MXFP4 MoE | 11.27 GiB | 20.91 B | MTL,BLAS | 6 | pp512 | 615.94 ± 2.23 |
| gpt-oss 20B MXFP4 MoE | 11.27 GiB | 20.91 B | MTL,BLAS | 6 | tg128 | 42.85 ± 0.61 |

Klein 4B completes a 1024px generation in 72seconds.
by boomlinde | 2026-03-03 16:57:27+00:00
You can chain handlers by simply rewriting the interrupt vector. Something like this (for a sequence of two handlers):

handler1
; ...
lda #<handler2
sta $fffe
lda #>handler2
sta $ffff
lda #line2
sta $d012
rti

handler2
; ...
lda #<handler1
sta $fffe
lda #>handler1
sta $ffff
lda #line1
sta $d012
rti

To my intuition it seems it would be quicker, though slightly larger.

I've only skimmed through the article so maybe there's a reason the author considered this and opted not to. Running out of memory maybe?
by everforward | 2026-03-03 16:57:46+00:00
While not dispositive of your idea, I think some portion of people using their personal accounts is because we collectively lack good feedback loops on the effectiveness of “AI addons” like RAG. The corporate accounts can be legitimately less useful than a “stock” account because the AI team integrates everything under the sun to show value, but the integrations become a net negative.

Ie ones that index entire company wikis. It ends up regurgitating rejected or not implemented RFCs, or docs from someone’s personal workflow that requires setting up a bunch of stuff locally to work, or etc.

A lot of tasks are not dependent on internal documentation, and it just ends up polluting the context with irrelevant, outdated or just wrong information.
by xyzelement | 2026-03-03 16:57:46+00:00
I've noticed an interesting trend in various groups that I am in. People are generally anti-right-wing but tend to agree with them in areas that actually affect their lives. This story is an example of that - us in tech are plenty familiar with H1Bs, both in terms of the "talent" that it tends to bring in, and impact on the American workforce. So we know this is right. A different demographic is for example my black friends who are obviously not right-wing, except they are sick of migrants camping out in their parks and school gyms. Or my persian friends that don't love trump but are over the moon about what's going on right now.

I don't know what to make of that, it's like we are left wing in theory but right wing in practice.
by PopAlongKid | 2026-03-03 16:57:54+00:00
>1099-Rs from multiple inherited IRAs

There is nothing complicated about these, a 1099-R is one of the more straightforward info forms and any tax software can handle the input numbers and distribution code. Whether the IRA is inherited or not does not add complexity to the 1099-R, so not sure why this attribute gets multiple mentions.

The only other thing that might be considered complicated is the Form 1116 foreign tax credit. MFJ filers don't need it if total is $600 or less, so this might have added needless complexity.

Interesting that there is no Schedule A here, because that is one form (of many) that gives the lie to those who claim "oh the government already knows everything about your tax filing and could generate your return for you".

In short, this exercise didn't really involve any "intelligence" beyond what every tax software already does.

>E-filing isn’t available for trust returns

False.
by digitalPhonix | 2026-03-03 16:58:20+00:00
The updated text still says:

> For intelligence activities, any handling of private information will comply with the Fourth Amendment, the National Security Act of 1947 and the Foreign Intelligence and Surveillance Act of 1978, Executive Order 12333, and applicable DoD directives requiring a defined foreign intelligence purpose. The AI System shall not be used for unconstrained monitoring of U.S. persons’ private information as consistent with these authorities.

Isn't the "... as consistent with these authorities" phrase the problem as it allows their interpretation to contractually hold?
by crystal_revenge | 2026-03-03 16:58:22+00:00
I'm guessing you've only worked at very large companies, specifically tech companies then?

I've worked at pretty much every size company imaginable.As the top post pointed out, these titles are meaningless across smaller companies. I've been at startups where nobody had titles at all, I've small companies where anyone remotely senior as a principal. I've also worked at large non-tech companies with only 3 levels for IC, after that you were expected to transition to management.

Large, tech companies have some degree they can be compared but what these titles mean from company to company is pretty meaningless.
by bornfreddy | 2026-03-03 16:58:26+00:00
To put my answer in context, I was replying to this:

> There's absolutely no reason to use /e/ when GrapheneOS exists.

There absolutely is. If I was choosing again today I would be tempted to switch back, for the reasons I listed. And I would probably miss many things you cited, like Storage and Contact Scopes.

As for MicroG, afaik I can't use it on GOS without considerable effort (recompiling OS) and probably also ongoing maintenance burden (updates). So this is not an option for me, FP5 with /e/OS is still better then.

NetGuard - very nice answer, shows exactly what you and GOS developers are missing! Yes, the actively hostile apps will exfiltrate data as soon as you let them contact anything on the outside. But most of the apps are by incompetent/lazy/pressured devs who just throw in some library and don't even care that it leaks data to Google. For example my banking app. Why the hell should Google be notified when I decide to open my banking app? If I cut its network, as you suggested, the app stops working. But if I just blacklist Google site for this app, the problem is solved. Of course, I don't want to cut it for all apps, because then some might not work. And that's just one of many similar examples.

That's why I said that the main focus of GOS is security, not privacy. If they cared about privacy primarily, they would actively support microG and NetGuard, or at least similar solutions.

That said, I am actually a fan of GrapheneOS, it is just so frustrating that we can't have it all in one package. Ah well.
by rramadass | 2026-03-03 16:58:40+00:00
No, you are reading it wrong; The Indian Supreme Court is doing the right thing.

The lower courts in India are all overloaded with pending cases (i.e. not enough judges) and so the incentives for both judges and lawyers to "outsource" to AI is very high. This needs to be done with caution and that is what the supreme court said, viz;

The Supreme Court called the case a matter of "institutional concern" and said fake AI-generated judgements had "a direct bearing on integrity of adjudicatory process".

...

The defendants challenged the order in the state's high court, pointing out that the cited orders were fake. The high court acknowledged this, but accepted that the junior civil judge had made the error in "good faith" and went on to agree with the trial court's decision anyway.

In its order, the high court said that "the citations may be non-existent, but if the learned trial court has considered the correct principles of law and its application to the facts of the case is also correct, mere mentioning of incorrect or non-existent rulings/citations in the order cannot be a ground to set aside the order".

The high court had also sought a report from the junior judge who had used the AI-generated rulings. She told the court that this was her first time using an AI tool and she had believed the citations to be "genuine". She had no intention to misquote or misrepresent the rulings and that "the mistake occurred solely due to the reliance on an automatic source", the high court wrote.

The high court also advocated for the "exercise of actual intelligence over artificial intelligence".

Following this, the defendants appealed again, taking the matter to the Supreme Court, which was less forgiving about the impact of AI.

Coming down sternly against the fake judgements, the top court last Friday stayed the lower court's order on the property dispute. It said the use of AI while making judgements was not simply "an error in decision making" but an act of "misconduct".

"This case assumes considerable institutional concern, not because of the decision that was taken on the merits of the case, but about the process of adjudication and determination," the top court said.

PS: To get an idea of how overloaded the Indian Judicial System is; this happened in a recent case in Allahabad High Court; The order then took an unusual turn. “Since I am feeling hungry, tired and physically incapacitated to dictate the judgment, the judgment is reserved,” the judge recorded. He had been hearing more than 30 cases on that day (court hours are 11am-5pm) - https://www.hindustantimes.com/india-news/hungry-tired-allah...
by rich_sasha | 2026-03-03 16:58:53+00:00
I used Claude to successfully argue with a fraudulent supplier, by threatening to sue.

They had sent me a detailed quote for their service. Upon cancellation they sent me a "final" bill with some bogus final fees inflating the quote by about 50%. Their claim, correct, was that the fee was present in T&C, buried somewhere in para 70. But under UK law, there are various protections against it - not to mention, if you send someone a quote, you don't then say "surprise"!

I fed Claude all the materials, their T&C's, the emails etc. It gave me a legal basis for suing them in small claims court. One of the 4 was hallucinated, but easy to validé, and the remaining 3 were solid. It then wrote me the sharp refusal to pay with a threat to sue for fraudulent business practice.

I'm sure any real lawyer would look at this and laugh, but it did the trick. No way would I ever do all this on my own.
by jorams | 2026-03-03 16:58:58+00:00
> I think the American First Amendment would obliterate this government body and probably the whole institution if it was ever tried.

This is not a government body, Ofcom is the relevant government body, like the US has the FCC, which you are aware of. The FCC has broadcasting rules. Your supreme court upheld their ability to issue sanctions for violations. This has lead to broad self-censorship by US broadcasters in much the same way the UK has Clearcast, to the point that censorship of stuff like swearwords is a recognizable trait of quite a few TV shows exported from the US. In the past year there have been multiple cases of censorship in response to threats from the FCC and other government bodies, much worse situations than banning an ad. The first amendment has done nothing to stop this.

I'm not here to defend the UK, they have some extremely scary laws on the books, but the US is really not notably different on this front.