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by goku12 | 2026-03-01 08:54:50+00:00
This, frankly ridiculous situation perfectly illustrates the significance of free software ideology as opposed to open source and other ideologies. Over the years, the concept has been attacked, ridiculed, deemphasized and dismissed through sustained vilification campaigns in the name of being too political, too ideological, too purist and too extreme. I have witnessed even personal attacks made against its proponents.

Open source philosophy emphasizes the sharing and openness of code source so that the collaboration improves its availability and quality. For free software on the other hand, openness is only a means to an end. In fact, you're not even required to distribute the source. You need to supply it only to the users of your software, and only if they request it. Free software instead focuses on the concept of computing freedom. The idea that the computing devices you own MUST do only what you want, and anything you want (within the limits of technological possibilities).

In practice, free software ideology and open source ideology achieve nearly identical results. Most open source software are free software. Most OSS licenses qualify as free software license too. But free software philosophy raises an important question that OSS philosophy doesn't. Does the software do what you want? Does it work in your interests as a device owner? Over time, we saw the emergence of software that are open, but harms your interests in multiple ways. Examples include AOSP, Chromium, VSCode, etc. And yet, we falsely call them FOSS.

And now when governments and corporations implement measures and laws that take away our freedom to use the devices we paid for and supposedly own in ways we want, the OSS philosophy rarely questions their sanctity. Sure, there is some opposition from the OSS community to these measures, but they are mostly based on practical issues like the inability to enforce the restrictions or to face its consequences.

However, these restrictions are antithetical to the free software philosophy in a more fundamental, ideological and political way. Had it been the dominant philosophy among the two, there would have been a bigger push back in the name of violation of our rights and freedoms. This is why our stances, ideologies and politics with respect to technology matters.

The loss of emphasis on free software philosophy has blunted our opposition a bit. Free software proponents were screaming about such eventualities from the beginning. But they were dismissed as eccentric. And that brings us to the sustained vilification campaigns I talked about earlier. It was clear from the beginning that these campaigns were coordinated by moneyed interests. They don't want us to have strong opinions or political beliefs about what we do, lest we revolt when they exploit us for resources or force us to do their bidding. Always be wary of people who argue against the interests of the common. Who knows what lurks under the sheep skin?
Show HN: Optimal: Cost effective infra with agentic inbox
by aishwaryagune | 2026-03-01 08:56:10+00:00
During a hackathon, I build this platform that will help compute cost optimal infra plans to run ML workloads. Plans are computed based on the nature of workload, reasearch papers for custom requirements and configs if set by the user. I also added an agentic inbox, so users can check status, ask questions and even kick off a training job on the go, without having to log into the dashboard.

I wanted to know if this would be actually helpful in real scenarios and what more can be added so it addresses some more pain points. Let me know, thanks!

Demo: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AOYevdJRmcQ
by cobbaut | 2026-03-01 08:56:29+00:00
> You may be thinking of Hong Kong

No, I was thinking about this:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Convention_Between_Great_Brita...

The way I understood this treaty was that the global powers in 1906 (Russia and Great Britain) accepted Tibet as part of China without the need for a war.

In the context of your comment, you say the US and Russia attack sovereign countries and you mention Tibet and Taiwan in the same sentence. Sorry but Taiwan has not been invaded by China, and Tibet was at the time internationally agreed as being part of China (not that I agree with that). Not the same ballpark sorry.
by JauntyHatAngle | 2026-03-01 08:56:40+00:00
Lets generalise a bit more here - every company at any time could completely heel-turn and do awful things. Even my favourite private companies (e.g. Valve) have done things that I would consider evil.

However, I would think I'm not alone in that I'm generally wanting to do good while also wanting convenience, I know that really every bit of consumption I do is probably negative in some ways, and there is no real "apolitical" action anyone can take.

But can't I at least get annoyed and take my money somewhere else for the short amount of time another company is doing it better?

Yes, if openAI suddenly leaps forwards with codex and pounds anthropic into the dust, I'll likely switch back despite my moral grievances, but in a situation where I can get mildly motivated to jump over for something that - to me - seems like a better morality without much punishment to me, I'll do it.
by BrenBarn | 2026-03-01 08:57:00+00:00
> I think Windows 95/2000 and the contemporary MacOS (including the then future MacOS X) have the best UI in everything I used in my 30+ years of tech life.

Agreed. I do wonder how much of it is personal, in that that UI hit at a certain formative time in my life. But ever since then it's been the benchmark that I evaluate all other UIs by. The lack of a "classic" mode in Win10 was one thing that motivated me to switch fully to Linux. To make the switch, I spent a good amount of time trawling the themes to find one that mimicks the look of Win95/95/2000. (The one I use is a KDE theme called "Reactionary".)
by CrossVR | 2026-03-01 08:57:11+00:00
> Trump has no structured paramilitary militias like the Squadras or the SA. The January 6th was mainly a crowd movement, participants were a heteroclite bunch with very different political ideas.

The black shirts were no different.

> ICE is a state agency, which existed before and has never been known for its benevolent and non-violent actions.

Much of the prosecution of minorities in fascist regimes was not done by the militias, it was done by law enforcement.

> Lack of democratic approval for a war isn't facism. It's a strong presidential regime. France has the same and is not fascist. And it's legal in the current form[0].

A hallmark of fascism is the refusal to acknowledge any democratic limitations on the power of the leader. The article you reference states clearly that he has no legal authority to start the war, as he would need congressional approval.

France has the same system as the U.S., only parliament has the power to start a war.[0]

> Words are important because if you earnestly want the situation to change, you need to assess it clearly.

I'm glad we agree on that.

> The Trump presidency has a more to do with the influence of money in US politics

Fascists regimes have historically been well-funded by money in politics.

[0] https://www.repository.law.indiana.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?a...
by lelanthran | 2026-03-01 08:59:30+00:00
> No he's saying that israel intentionally bomb schools and hospitals

Maybe they do, but this is also fairly common and cannot be ruled out at this early stage: https://nitter.net/pic/orig/media%2FHCQpcrMbkAAz6Vw.jpg

The problem you have when you try to shield your armed forces with civilians is that you then place those civilians in danger.

What do you expect will happen when an armed force uses civilians as shields? It's not a rhetorical question, I really want to know what you expect an attacking force to do. Stop attacking?
by neya | 2026-03-01 08:59:41+00:00
I swear HN is just a bunch of fanboys full of NPC behavior.

OpenAI - since the beginning has been anything but open.
If you spoke anything ill about OpenAI here until yesterday, you would be downvoted into oblivion because, let's face it, Sam has always been the poster child of this community.

So, basically, even after them publicly announcing they were evaluating licensing models where they wanted to take a % of your business for using their models [1], there was still 0 outrage, and anyone who pointed that out, always got shot back with "OpenAI CAN DO NO WRONG" in the comments always.

He makes one decision you all don't agree with and now it's cancel culture time?

And somehow, Anthropic is the hero in all this? Make no mistake - all the model providers are building detailed user models. Every bit of information you provide to it is of course being used to for detailed user targeting. This is no different than the "Apple GOOD, Google BAD!" tropes.
There are no heroes in for-profit corporations. Everyone is operating a for-profit business model and optimizing for the same profits.

Stop with the NPC behavior. We are better than this.

[1] https://openai.com/index/a-business-that-scales-with-the-val...

"Licensing, IP-based agreements, and outcome-based pricing will share in the value created. That is how the internet evolved. Intelligence will follow the same path."
by rrr_oh_man | 2026-03-01 08:59:51+00:00
Cheers!

> The reason I didn't add a "back" button was because the translated article page can be shared with somebody else who may be opening the link for the first time, so seeing a "back" button in that context could be confusing.

I didn't mean the translated page. I meant the Your translated article is ready! screen. Check out this video: https://streamable.com/utu7du

Additionally, I would suggest adding cursor-pointer to all clickable elements. That may also be part of why I did not immediately notice the Translate another article link.
by fc417fc802 | 2026-03-01 09:00:19+00:00
Ideally you'd have (parameter count) * (bits per parameter) VRAM for the entire (presumably quantized, don't forget to account for that) model. So very approximately 16 GiB for a 34B model quantized to 4 bits per parameter.

You can spill to RAM in which case you at least want enough for a single active expert but really that's going to tank performance. If you're only "a bit" short of the full model the difference might not be all that large.

These things are memory bandwidth limited so if you check out RAM, VRAM, and PCIe bandwidth what I wrote above should make sense.

Also you should just ask your friendly local LLM these sorts of questions.
by dns_snek | 2026-03-01 09:02:37+00:00
> The revolution will be live-streamed

I disagree with you on this. The revolution will never be live-streamed because the ability to do so is gated by the same people whom the revolution seeks to overthrow.

What's being live-streamed is the evolution of the status-quo towards growing hostility, violence, wars, and indeed - fascism.
by ben_w | 2026-03-01 09:02:40+00:00
EU isn't perfect, even the best nations within it are not perfect (though still better than the US is or was), but only the worst two EU nations seem to be politically corrupt to the point of "danger" levels.

There's plenty of room to fall if people are complacent.

General corruption: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Corruption_Perceptions_Index
by Kiro | 2026-03-01 09:03:10+00:00
> If I could give any advice to someone who needs it, I’d tell them to write down the things that have made them happy, and then explore why.

> But I really hope to live in a world where my future kids find sitting in front of a rectangle all day to be dystopian and cringe.

What if sitting in front of a rectangle is the thing that makes you happy?
by n8cpdx | 2026-03-01 09:04:49+00:00
I just tried to move to Android because it's more open. Was not prepared for the "open" OS to not have basic support for self-hosted calendars. Yes, contacts and calendar are a core OS level feature in 2026.

Yes DAVx5 exists, but Google Calendar was buggy with local calendars and DAVx5 actually didn't work reliably afaict.

Calendar.app is totally seamless with synology on iOS. Same with contacts.

Android was working overtime to make sure I use Google for everything. iOS isn't perfect but I don't have to jump through crazy hoops to be in control of my data.
by namibj | 2026-03-01 09:04:56+00:00
It's sad that NDA fetishist Broadcom has a de-facto monopoly on PCIe fabric switches; notably we would have functional open source drivers for at least simpler topologies for a while now, and could just set up cheap FNN topologies by using (usually NMVe targeted) bifurcation support on hosts to get several x4 ports with only a comparatively cheap retimer out into "mini SAS hd" (the square shaped 4-Lane connectors) or QSFP+ ports; and then have a few meters reach on generic DAC cables from such standards (even Skylake-era SAS ones (nominally 12 GT/s; PCIe4.0 is 16 GT/s) should typically manage PCIe4; that's just under 64 Gbit/s from each link, with typical desktop/gaming systems delivering 3~5 links without complaints next to a dGPU (that one at fewer than full lanes).
by gwd | 2026-03-01 09:05:50+00:00
> OpenAI acceded to demands that the US Government can do whatever it wants that it claims is legal.

FTFY. The administration threw a fit and tried to retroactively demote a retired military officer for making a video saying, "Troops, you should disobey unlawful orders". Over 4000 times has been told, "No, that's not what the law regarding detaining undocumented aliens means", and continues doing it. Their first response to the Supreme Court saying, "the President can't impose tarriffs" was "The Hell I can't!".

It's 100% clear that Trump thinks "what the law allows" and "what I want to do" are the same thing.

Rule of law requires that the majority of people in the system are committed to the rule of law, and refuse to go along with violations of it. Anthropic is being a good citizen here; OpenAI is not.
by josephg | 2026-03-01 09:06:01+00:00
Part of the problem is that each generation of designers want to leave their mark on the product - often by undoing the work of the last generation of designers. They're not entirely wrong. Design has fashions, like clothes. I enjoy that the industrial design of laptops and phones changes every few years. But good UX isn't good because its fashionable. Good UX doesn't go out of date. They've gotta learn to stop fixing it when its not broken.

Eg, MacOS's new system preferences panel is worse than the old one. And its stupid putting the windows start menu in the middle of the screen, where you can't as easily click it with the mouse.
by guerrilla | 2026-03-01 09:06:25+00:00
> Even if Trump doesn't care, Israel is very motivated to make regime change happen.

It doesn't matter. There are zero cases in history of successful regime change by air only.

> Iran has already sprinkled some ballistic missiles on them just in this war

I can see you're not following this too seriously.

You didn't give objective criteria for how to judge whether you're right or wrong yet.
by ahofmann | 2026-03-01 09:07:55+00:00
I would like to encourage you to step back a little and try to get a broader view on this issue.

I don't want to discuss whether there is more LLM-generated content or not. There clearly is, and there is no feasible way to get rid of it , because there is simply no reliable way to distinguish what was made by humans and what wasn't. Regardless of what is claimed, it is just not possible, if only because hybrid forms exist as well. This text was written by me, but reviewed and stylistically adjusted by an LLM.

It is therefore completely pointless to get upset about LLM content and demand anything from the moderators.
All we are left with are our votes and the "reputation" of our user handles - and the awareness that we need to learn to consume content with a great deal of skepticism. We should have been doing this all along, but it seems to be something we struggle with.

On the internet, nobody knows you're a dog.

And yes, this may mean that we stop using anonymous online platforms altogether, because nothing on them can be relied upon anymore. That is a shame, but it cannot be stopped — Pandora's LLM box has been open for at least five years.

I therefore consider any discussion about banning LLM content to be futile. We are witnessing another Eternal September here: it couldn't be stopped back then, and it won't be stopped today either.

So what is there left to discuss?
by imiric | 2026-03-01 09:08:40+00:00
That's not necessarily the case. In fact, if implemented well, keyboard/command-driven UIs can be much easier to discover than GUIs.

Consider the "Command Palette" and similar features that are part of many UIs (VS Code, Obsidian, Vim, Emacs, etc.). It allows the user to search all possible actions using natural language, and see or assign key bindings to them, so that they can get to their most commonly used actions faster. This search can be global for the entire program, or contextual for the current view.

It is far easier to search for what you want to do, than to learn to what action every GUI element is associated with, or to navigate arbitrarily nested menu hierarchies. This does require the user to be familiar with the domain language somewhat in order to know what to search for, but this too can be simplified, actions can have different names, etc. It also makes the program more accessible for speech navigation, screen readers, and so on.
by cedws | 2026-03-01 09:09:00+00:00
You missed this:

>which lives in the same password manager

I'm not talking about Apple passkeys here, which are NOT stored in the Secure Element to my knowledge anyway.

I don't see passkeys as a 2FA replacement. If they're only secured in software and live in memory, as is often the case with password managers, they're too easy to compromise.
by hellzbellz123 | 2026-03-01 09:10:08+00:00
because most americans do not want war, at least id hope, so calling it that seems pretty short sited (maybe until you continually do that 'war' thing), if you want the citizens to look positively on your spending it should probably be for defense not war, again, at least i should hope. im just a dumb "lib" whatever that means
by electrosphere | 2026-03-01 09:10:45+00:00
I work mostly remotely, recently our Fibre internet upgrade left us without internet for a week. It forced me to work from a nearby university library - which turned out to do wonders for my mental health.

I found a little thriving town in the university with all the important things I needed and the most important thing of all: human social interaction and seeing people around me.
by glemmaPaul | 2026-03-01 09:11:44+00:00
there’s always someone in the world that will defend anything.

Like the people working at OpenAI had no other choice than to pick this cushy job (some have salaries of 500k per year), instead of anything else.

It’s an extreme personal opinion, but; all people working at OpenAI after this debacle are more than happy to make AI for war, because Food and Shelter.

I find your comment fitting this forum, it is where all this enabling started anyways.
by quails8mydog | 2026-03-01 09:12:05+00:00
Sounds like if the OS doesn't track anything else about the user, then it won't receive any other signals and will just use whatever was typed in at account creation.

If websites accept this as age verification it could provide a very easy way to bypass it.

In fact, looking at it again, point B specifically says if the "developer" has information rather than the "system" has information. So really sounds like if the developer isn't collecting logs that they can access themselves this wouldn't apply to them.
by Nevermark | 2026-03-01 09:12:25+00:00
Who said anything about OpenAI passing laws? (Where did that come from?)

Civilians are allowed to put conditions on working for, or supplying, the DoD or any governmental customer.

Tremendous good comes from those that are not willing to facilitate harms, simply because they are legal.

Equating legal with ethical or safe, makes no sense. [0]

[0] All of human history.
by spwa4 | 2026-03-01 09:13:06+00:00
Yes, exactly, this is the same old "how do we prevent lowly employees from going on facebook and solitaire" technology many other companies have tried 1000 times before.

Always runs stuck on 3 problems:

1) this attitude makes these machines a reverse status symbol. I mean if you work at a company and work on one of these it essentially means you're low status. It's just shy of a slave collar. So everyone fights to the death not to have one of these.

(this was imho also a problem of Google Stadia. It worked ... but an xbox was better. It worked, but a PC was better. It worked ... but a PS5 was better. Not because they were actually better, but because they were fundamentally superior status symbols. Stadia meant you were cheap/poor)

2) for any even remotely creative work you need access to so much of the internet, and a web browser. Which then defeats the purpose because of course facebook (or rather the 10.000 ad-supported sites) have an extreme incentive to make themselves available. So solitaire (whatever the modern version) is available.

3) management has their little favorite solution and configuration. IT has their little favorite adaptations. Security has ... and so on. So fixing even the tiniest of incompatibilities is a 5 year project that requires 5 departments getting involved, that nobody wants to do.

Microsoft has always resisted doing this, with citrix picking up the slack, but looks like they'll give it another shot.
by outlore | 2026-03-01 09:13:17+00:00
I tried all of Codex, OpenCode, Claude Code and Cursor these past few weeks. It was surprising to me that all of them have slightly different conventions for where to put skills, how to format MCP servers (how environment variables need to be specified etc), what the AGENTS/CLAUDE file needs to be called, what plugins/marketplaces are...it's a big mess for anyone trying to have a portable config in their dotfiles that can universally apply to any current and future agent.

It also showed me the difference between expectation and reality...even though these are billion dollar companies, they still haven't figured out how to make lag-free TUIs, non-Electron apps, or even respect XDG_CONFIG. The focus is definitely more on speed and stuffing these tools full of new discoveries and features right now

There's a bit of psychology around models vs. harnesses as well. You can't shake off the feeling that maybe Claude would perform better in its native harness compared to VSCode/OpenCode. Especially because they've got so many hidden skills (like the recently introduced /batch), that seem baked into the binary?

The last thing I can't figure out is computer use. Apparently all the vendors say that their models can use a mouse and keyboard, but outside of the agent-browser skill (which presumably uses playwright), I can't figure out what the special sauce is that the Cloud versions of these Agents are using to exercise programs in a VM. That is another reason why there is a switching cost between vendors.
by tromp | 2026-03-01 09:13:22+00:00
> Mining requires traversing a DAG with a mainnet floor of
512 MB (32,768 nodes × 16 KB each)

How much memory does PoW verification require?

> Genesis Address: 2,696,969 KNOX (One-time mint for the Founder/Son legacy).

> Treasury: 1% of each block's public reward, allocated to the protocol treasury.

Yet another grift...

> Post-Emission: After 21 years, miners are sustained by transaction fees only. The hard cap is absolute.

Even for the #1 blockchain, the ability for tx fees to provide sufficient security is strongly in doubt.