MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by kohlifan07 | 2026-03-03 19:09:49+00:00
A war starts and oil prices move the same day. Sanctions hit and shipping routes reroute. A summit fails and defense budgets surge. But to follow all of this, you need Reuters open for conflicts, Bloomberg for sanctions, Jane's for military, and three more tabs for diplomacy and trade. I got frustrated and built the app I wanted — InSnaps. It's a single feed that covers geopolitics across five domains: Conflicts — active wars, insurgencies, border disputes, ceasefires (25+ tracked with timelines, involved parties, casualty data) Finance & Sanctions — sanctions regimes, commodity shocks, forex, energy markets Military & Weapons — arms deals, defense spending, cyber warfare, nuclear developments Diplomacy — summits, UN activity, peace processes, alliances Trade & Supply — tariffs, shipping routes, energy pipelines, semiconductors, food security Every article is tagged by domain so you instantly see the category. The feed is personalized by country — a user in Germany sees different geopolitical relevance than one in India or Brazil.
Free, no paywall: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.prakshaapp...

Solo developer from India, no funding, no team. ~400 MAU, ~95 DAU, growing organically. Reddit, Twitter has been my best channel so far.

Happy to answer questions about the architecture, data pipeline, or the geopolitics niche
by mdasen | 2026-03-03 19:10:12+00:00
As someone clumsy, I'm so grateful that my MacBook Air can take a beating. It has one slight dent of about 1mm in the 4 years I've had it and I definitely drop it or knock it off a desk or something a few times a year.

I'll take the extra weight of aluminum (0.3lb, 130g). Yes, someone might say the ThinkPad X1 Carbon is 14", but the 13" MacBook Air actually has a 13.6" screen.

If I were in the market for a PC laptop, I'd definitely take a look at the ThinkPad X1 Carbon, but I'm also not worried about the weight of my MacBook Air. The X1 Carbon Intel ones are on sale right now since Panther Lake will be a huge upgrade coming soon, but even on clearance they aren't cheap. An X1 Carbon with 32GB RAM and 1TB storage (Ultra 7 268V, the cheapest one due to the sale) will cost $1,679 while a similar MacBook Air will cost $1,699 - and the M5 has 48% better single-core performance and 56% better multi-core performance (Geekbench). A 16GB/512GB (Ultra 5 225U) X1 Carbon is $1,538 compared to $1,099 for a MacBook Air - and the M5 has a 74% single and multi core advantage there.

Panther Lake might narrow the performance gap, but early indicators don't seem like that's the case. Even the top of the line Ultra X9 388H sees the M5 with a 36% single-core advantage while the Ultra X9 388H gets 3% faster multi-core. And I'm not sure the higher wattage "H" processors work for something like an X1 Carbon.

The highest non-H Panther Lake processor (Ultra 7 365) sees the M5 get 51% better single-core and 58% better multi-core. Maybe we'll see better, but it looks like Intel isn't closing the gap in 2026.
by cortesoft | 2026-03-03 19:10:13+00:00
Oh, I don't think I have nothing to hide. I have plenty to hide, so I hide it.

I just don't think blocking cookies meaningfully protects anything that I want to hide. I feel like it is putting gloves on while you walk around naked, it isn't doing anything to protect your privacy.

> You may get worse rates for a mortgage, or not get one at all.

That is an interesting example, because getting a mortgage is going to require me to voluntarily give ALL my personal information to the company giving me the loan, and they will absolutely use all of that to determine if I get a better or worse rate. I am literally giving them my entire financial history, they don't need to try to piece it together using my browsing history.

Also, shouldn't mortgage companies determine rates based on personal information about you? How else should they manage risk? It would be awful for our society if banks were forced to give loans out at flat rates for everyone. There would be zero incentive to pay back loans, because they can't use you not paying it back to decide not to give you more money in the future. If banks had to give everyone the same rate, they would stop lending money entirely. There would be no way to avoid losing it all, why would you do that? No, we WANT loans to be based on personal information, because that is what allows us to have control over our own financial reputation.

> Cherry-picked details of your online activities may be used against you in a court of law, if you ever find yourself in one for any reason (think custody).

This one seems very nebulous, and a very unlikely and low risk. Courts can do discovery; they can obtain much more personal information than cookie based online tracking data. I can't see how this would be worth considering.

> These are the very mild examples from a somewhat functional society. In the other end of the spectrum, where societal breakdown is imminent, you have things like getting disappeared, thrown in a concentration camp, executed on your own front yard.

If this happens, browsing history is going to be the least of our worries. They might throw you into a camp because you DON'T have any browsing history and that is suspicious. If there is no rule of law, you can't expect plausible deniability to help with anything. If we get to that point, they are going to have a lot more than ad tracking data to work with. The added risk seems negligible.
by dabeeeenster | 2026-03-03 19:10:27+00:00
I got this https://www.samsung.com/uk/monitors/high-resolution/viewfini... and am pretty happy with it. I got it fairly cheap with a student voucher (I think ~650 GBP).

It had some coil whine initially but that has gone. There's a load of nonsense software in it but I just have it disconnected from the internet and only use it as a monitor. The web cam is not useful but I don't use that either.

This was a couple of years ago - I think that there are a lot more options available now?
by Greed | 2026-03-03 19:10:40+00:00
Assuming you ran the gamut up from what you could fit on 32 or 64GB previously, how noticeable is the difference between models you can run on that vs. the 512GB you have now?

I've been working my way up from a 3090 system and I've been surprised by how underwhelming even the finetunes are for complex coding tasks, once you've worked with Opus. Does it get better? As in, noticeably and not just "hallucinates a few minutes later than usual"?
by zoogeny | 2026-03-03 19:10:47+00:00
Not to be argumentative since I broadly agree with your characterization (and the mass cancelling of games is concerning), but I think AI will revolutionize at least asset creation.

I worked on sports titles for a while and there was literally an army of contractors making uniforms, shoes, hairstyles, etc. I'm pretty convinced gen-AI will make that job obsolete.
by mikkupikku | 2026-03-03 19:10:52+00:00
I think this is right in a certain sense, but not precisely. From what I understand no visible light photons are created in the core from nuclear fusion, it's mostly a bunch of gamma rays that get almost immediately absorbed. The energy, but not the photons from fusion, gets transfered up through the layers of the sun, through radiation and convection, eventually heating the photosphere. It is then the photosphere, white hot, which ultimately radiates the visible light we see as sunlight.
by ChrisArchitect | 2026-03-03 19:10:56+00:00
Two weeks? Hardly enough for the correct url to take over. A correct url with no history/presence that came out of nowhere as far as the engine is concerned. It will happen most likely tho, thanks to the links from the project etc, but might take a bit of time since the other url is established. "losing the battle" now perhaps, but not for long most likely.
by tedsanders | 2026-03-03 19:11:19+00:00
Yeah, for a while ChatGPT Plus has been powered by two series of models under the hood.

One series is the Instant series, which is faster and more tuned to ChatGPT, but less accurate.

The second series is the Thinking series, which is more accurate and more tuned to professional knowledge work, but slower (because it uses more reasoning tokens).

We'd also prefer to have simple experience with just one option, but picking just one would pull back the pareto frontier for some group of people/preferences. So for now we continue to serve two models, with manual control for people who want to choose and an imperfect auto switcher for people who don't want to be bothered. Could change down the road - we'll see.

(I work at OpenAI.)
by giobox | 2026-03-03 19:11:32+00:00
All through the 2000s Apple developed non-integer scaling support in various versions of MacOS X under the banner of “resolution independence” - the idea was to use vectors where possible rather than bitmaps so OS UI would look good at any resolution, including non-integer scaling factors.

Some indie Mac developers even started implementing support for it in anticipation of it being officially enabled. The code was present in 10.4 through 10.6 and possibly later, although not enabled by default. Apple gave up on the idea sadly and integer scaling is where we are.

Here’s a developer blog from 2006 playing with it:

> https://redsweater.com/blog/223/resolution-independent-fever

There was even documentation for getting ready to support resolution independence on Apple’s developer portal at one stage, but I sadly can’t find it today.

Here’s a news post from all the way back in 2004 discussing the in development feature in Mac OS tiger:

> https://forums.appleinsider.com/discussion/45544/mac-os-x-ti...

Lots of of folks (myself included!) in the Mac software world were really excited for it back then. It would have permitted you to scale the UI to totally arbitrary sizes while maintaining sharpness etc.
by shevy-java | 2026-03-03 19:11:34+00:00
This is not just about "better ads" - though I don't understand the term better anyway here. This is about profiling people. Ads are just one benefit here. Profiles can be sold to get a better idea of the potential customer base.+

> It basically just powers product discovery in a giant global marketplace.

That is also incomplete. See how profiling led to ICE finding people - and ICE has a proven track record of executing US citizens. That is also a fact. It does not mean profiling led to the death of the people here, 1:1, but it meant that it is a contributing factor to the build-up of government troops killing people (which is very similar of Europe 1930s by the way).
by zahlman | 2026-03-03 19:11:37+00:00
> Young people on average have grown up with drastically greater understanding of what a file is than any other generation that has come before them. They grew up using Chromebooks or laptops in school, constantly interacting with the local file systems, uploading files to Instagram and TikTok from the file systems on their smartphones, browsing their phones for files constantly. They know what a file is, they use & manage files more than any other generation prior.

This argument is like saying you understand nutrition because you eat food every day and haven't died yet.
by JhonOliver | 2026-03-03 19:11:48+00:00
I like the "whitelist" concept you brought up and the example of your cat. I would have liked you to have gone further. Why do we create these whitelists? What are the qualifying factors? I think that would go a long way towards determaining if AI will be considered alive in your view.

I find your claim on self-sufficiency interesting but you don't really justify it in the whitelist framework. A rat is self-sufficient but you justify killing it. Perhapse this is why you call the view "naive". But I think that if you keep going you can come up with something robust
by cardanome | 2026-03-03 19:12:11+00:00
They advertise local LLMs which will be servery limited with 16GD of RAM. Plus the GPU could in theory provide decent gaming performance but again might suffer from the RAM limit.

Most people can totally live with 16gigs but it is kind of a waste for the horsepower. They know what they are doing. Apple is a master in upselling.

Though personally I don't mid the aggressive upsellign as long as the quality is there. Problem is, the hardware quality is great but the software side is severely lacking and getting worse.
by hirvi74 | 2026-03-03 19:12:27+00:00
"A fool with a tool is still a fool."

I find AI for coding to be a boon. However, I am very conservative in my use cases. I only use the AI web apps, thus I can essentially only ask questions and read responses. AI cannot write code all that well for me because it will never have access to the full project I am working on. But even then, I still feel a lot more productive. It's basically just an faster and more enhanced Google search/StackOverflow search for me.
by ActorNightly | 2026-03-03 19:12:44+00:00
The problem is calling it anti-intellectualism implies that one can be conservative in "right" ways. And in modern times, being conservative in "right" ways means you are basically a liberal.

The whole idea of conservatism is that certain people in a population are going to have "non desirable" qualities, and the best thing would be if those people just "went away", but realistically you can't advocate for that, so you have to do mental gymnastics and say "those people should just work to become better, or get punished".
by EnderWT | 2026-03-03 19:12:51+00:00
There's already a spec for this (ISO/IEC 18013-5) and it's been implemented in a variety of jurisdictions. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mobile_driver%27s_license

The person gets to see what information the service is asking for and can approve or deny. This'll likely end up being the future of how citizens access government services online.
by ttd | 2026-03-03 19:13:02+00:00
Well, IMO there's not much reason for an LLM to be trained to produce machine language, nor a functional binary blob appearing fully-formed from its head.

If you take your question and look into the future, you might consider the existence of an LLM specifically trained to take high-level language inputs and produce machine code. Well, we already have that technology: we call it a compiler. Compilers exist, are (frequently) deterministic, and are generally exceedingly good at their job. Leaving this behind in favor of a complete English -> binary blob black box doesn't make much sense to me, logically or economically.

I also think there is utility in humans being able to read the generated output. At the end of the day, we're the conscious ones here, we're the ones operating in meatspace, and we're driving the goals, outputs, etc. Reading and understanding the building blocks of what's driving our lives feels like a good thing to me. (I don't have many well-articulated thoughts about the concept of singularity, so I leave that to others to contemplate.)
by Imustaskforhelp | 2026-03-03 19:13:09+00:00
> Also, as OP pointed out, they can likely find similar comp elsewhere

Yea, that is what I meant. I don't know what they are gonna do now and that is why I created this ASK HN. I am glad that you read my such a long Ask HN that it went with the HN word limit (4000) and even more haha, means a lot to me :)
by pflenker | 2026-03-03 19:13:12+00:00
I had a similar realization today. I work as an EM, and one important aspect of my work is becoming worthless: experience.

Having been an IC for a long time usually enables me to support my team, or identify risks, lead projects and so on. However, since I never was an IC in the day and age of AI, I find that this experience is less and less applicable.

A significant part of what helps me increase impact of others is that I’ve „been there, done that“ and that’s going away right now.

I don’t mind - it’s exciting!
But if I was an IC right now I would not switch tracks under any circumstances. There is so much more to learn directly in the trenches.
by zadikian | 2026-03-03 19:13:19+00:00
Well I don't like the Swift way much either. The ? explicitly says you want to ignore null, so that's fine. The problem is there's no convenient way to throw exception if null, so you're encouraged to overuse ?, as I think you alluded to. (! will crash the entire program instead.) Swift error handling is overall pretty complex too.

Ironically the JS or Py error handling is actually the safest for high-level code. Exceptions are easy to work with and hard to ignore by accident. Very few ways to crash entirely. And Rust's errors are good for systems code.
by SamuelAdams | 2026-03-03 19:13:22+00:00
I have been using 3 VP2788-5K for 6 months. Much better than 1440p or 4k monitors IMO. I spend most of the day on teams meetings and looking at code.

Text is very crisp at this DPI. The built in thunderbolt dock works reliably.

It is annoying how the cables stick down on the bottom of the monitors. A few right angle adapters helps with that.
by llm_nerd | 2026-03-03 19:13:43+00:00
None of us can buy or make an X925 in isolation. We can't get one and stick it in our motherboard. It has literally zero relevance to the desktop space. You can buy a DGX Spark and use it, just like you can buy a Mac Mini.

The tested machine is an nvidia GB10 which nvidia makes and sells as a whole unit and various vendors stick it in different devices to try to differentiate (although in the end they're all basically identical).

And yes, it is extremely weird for it to never mention the Apple chip, which has a little something to do with who they thank for lending them the device. The arbitrary claims for why they ignored the enormous, class-leading ARM processor in the space is not convincing.

I mean, the other claim that this is an "industry blog" and not a "consumer blog" was equally silly. It's basically for curious hobbyists. Zero industry insiders follow this to see about the core in the GB10. It's basically Anandtech.
by bloomca | 2026-03-03 19:14:09+00:00
The rise of Electron was purely because you can share the codebase for real with the web app (for lots of apps it is their main focus) and get cross-platform support for free.

Native apps are not bad to develop when using Swift or C#, they are nice to use and their UI frameworks are fine, it's just that it requires a separate team. With Electron you need much less, simple as that.

> As for the rest: minor variations in traffic light positioning and corner radii are topical but hardly indicators of decaying platorms.

I think it shows how important the platform itself is to the company. The system settings app on macOS is literally slow to change the topic (the detail page is updated like ~500ms after clicking).

I personally love to develop desktop apps but business-wise they rarely make sense these days.
by Anon84 | 2026-03-03 19:14:22+00:00
It goes back a bit further than that. His 1948 “Mathematical theory of communication” [1] already has (what we would now call) a Markov chain language model, page 7 onwards. AFAIK, this was based on his classified WWII work so it was probably a few years older than that

[1] https://people.math.harvard.edu/~ctm/home/text/others/shanno...
by Groxx | 2026-03-03 19:14:28+00:00
You might be surprised to hear that my small business sometimes sees fees at 11%.

We blocked that card processor, obviously. But the % is very much not constant across e.g. Visa, often every purchase in a day is slightly different, and we can't even tell people what the rate is for their purchase due to a couple layers in between (still figuring out if we can fix that). It's vile, and probably should be illegal to not pass through the cost visibly.
by limel | 2026-03-03 19:14:50+00:00
We conducted research with local universities, and the digital nose was able to detect the presence of pests in oat flakes and beans (two different species).

When we published the white paper
( https://sniphi.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/10/Sniphi_digital... ),
we expected a queue of agricultural companies interested in the technology. However, pests apparently aren’t “sexy” enough to capture attention.

We observed the same reaction with bananas — fresh vs. overripe, like in the video. Technically interesting, but no one saw clear business potential.

So now we are looking for use cases that are more obvious and compelling from a business perspective. Any ideas?
by ottah | 2026-03-03 19:14:51+00:00
I also seriously question what even does PhD-level mean in the context of a model? Someone with a PhD has developed a very deep but narrow knowledge of a particular domain and has contributed to at least pushing out our sphere of knowledge a tiny bit in that pillar of competency. A model is a best a brittle, fractured and often inconsistent representation of written human knowledge and lacks most basic intuitive grounding in the world due to the lack of embodiment.

In my experience, to safely get any value out of an LLM, you have to be more knowledgeable than the LLM on a topic. So in this case, you'd really need a PhD to use this tool, so at best its a $20k a month research aid, which honestly is far more expensive than a handful of grad students, and probably less effective.
by croes | 2026-03-03 19:15:02+00:00
You surely can provide a source.

But even prisoners get healthcare in the EU, so I guess some US citizens would even prefer a EU jail over dying in the US.

Given the recent deaths of two actors and their GoFundMes I can’t imagine the hassle of less fortunate people when they get hit by US medical bills.

The US are one step away from a show like the Running Man shows
by barbazoo | 2026-03-03 19:15:02+00:00
> It is likely not a coincidence that so many different countries simultaneously started pushing for age verification.

I thought in many places it was related to the upcoming minimum age for social media. To verify age you need an ID. That's how we make it so most kids can't buy cigarettes, alcohol, thc, etc. You could argue social media shouldn't have a minimum age but that'll be the reality it looks like. How do we do that without ID?
by the-wouter | 2026-03-03 19:15:14+00:00
I know this isn't the case you are referring to, but I am pretty sure cases like this exist more often. This is one of such cases I have in my notes:
https://deeplink.rechtspraak.nl/uitspraak?id=ECLI:NL:RBGEL:2...

It's a simple and quite recent Dutch case (feel free to use AI to translate it :p), where the courts basically said that the plaintiff did not sufficiently motivate why their photo would be copyrighted, especially in light of very similar photos having been made by other people (4.5).
by eremef | 2026-03-03 19:15:17+00:00
Hey!

Just wanted to showcase my AI-generated app.

I made this unofficial player for Bandcamp mainly because I couldn't find any alternative with a mobile remote control. The idea was to make it as multi-platform as possible. It's fully open source.

I used Google Antigravity - all available models, as I had a Google AI Pro subscription, and the quotas for just one model weren't enough (tbh, all of the quotas weren't enough).
I also used Gemini-cli, Opencode, and Claude Code because of the Google AI Pro poor quota. For the first month, mostly Google Antigravity.

The biggest problem I had was creating Playwright tests with Google models. Not sure if it was my prompts, lack of specialized agents, or what, but I had this sad conclusion that I would make it faster. It had problems with finding proper CSS selectors and was going into an infinite loop of fixing and testing. It was also using a quota like Hummer uses gasoline.

It took over a month of a full-time job (or even fuller). Not like one sexy prompt, more like hundreds of prompts, over a thousand for sure.

I am sharing it with the hope that it will become useful not only for me.

More about the project:
https://github.com/eremef/bandcamp-player

Download page:
https://eremef.xyz/beta-player
by jauntywundrkind | 2026-03-03 19:15:22+00:00
> This patch is trying to make io_uring customizable via BPF, promising better waiting and polling patterns

https://lore.kernel.org/bpf/cover.1763031077.git.asml.silenc...

Absolutely fricking sick!! The write up of use cases here is so so wildly neat. Please please please, make the new completion queue engine in the kernel programmable with eBPF!!