MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by m_w_ | 2026-03-03 19:31:17+00:00
Seems like the xkcd [1] for internet infrastructure that was posted earlier [2] should have github somewhere on it, even if just for how often it breaks. Maybe it falls under "whatever microsoft is doing"

[1]: https://www.reddit.com/r/ProgrammerHumor/comments/1p204nx/ac...
[2]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47230704
by Krutonium | 2026-03-03 19:31:19+00:00
To be fair - it SUPER does. Being down frequently makes your competition look better.

Of course, once you have the momentum it doesn't matter nearly as much, at least for a while. If it happens too much though, people will start looking for alternatives.

The key to remember is Momentum is hard to redirect, but with enough force (reasons), it will.
by brailsafe | 2026-03-03 19:31:22+00:00
I have the M3 Pro (32gb) and an M4 Pro 16" (48gb), and the latter is sufficiently snappier to make me happy I waited to upgrade from my horrible Intel 13" i5 with 16gb. The M1 Pro I used for work a few years ago was great too. I'm not on Tahoe on either computer, thank god.
by derefr | 2026-03-03 19:31:24+00:00
> In the meantime popular and widely sold gaming screens with matte blur filters and mediocre ppi give me headache and eye fatigue after a few hours of use.

I presume you also mean "when used for text heavy work" here, yes? Or do you mean that these displays tire out your eyes even when used "for what they're for", i.e. gaming? (Because that's a very interesting assertion if so, and I'd like to go into depth about it.)
by keybored | 2026-03-03 19:31:25+00:00
That’s good. But it seems that the American anti-war discourse is slanted towards the cost of it. Maybe because the whole political spectrum can relate to “our tax dollars”, while (1) the cost for the military personell might not be a concern for all because it is all-volunteer, and (2) some Americans don’t care what happens to people in other countries.

Certainly: American progressives can use this to counter the “fiscally conservatives” (for domestic spending) who are also hawkish.
by avidiax | 2026-03-03 19:31:27+00:00
> We better get a liberal democratic Iran government out of this.

> We better remove and halt nuclear powers for the rest of my life.

Neither of those things is a guaranteed outcome of this. Depending on who you ask, it's not even a likely outcome.

The IRGC remains the most powerful group in Iran. Probably a military junta is a more likely outcome, plus or minus a civil war to establish it.
by dredmorbius | 2026-03-03 19:31:35+00:00
For the benefit of any others unfamiliar:

Thompson: The man who invented gonzo journalism, writing beginning in the 1950s for numerous publications but most notably Rolling Stone, best known for Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas, serialised in RS, published as a book, and the basis of two films, Where the Buffalo Roam (loose adaptation, 1980) and more faithfully in 1998 under the original name, starring Johnny Depp and Benicio del Toro.
by epistasis | 2026-03-03 19:31:46+00:00
RAM! (And NAND SSDs too now, probably...)

When I was looking in October, I hadn't bought hardware for the better part of a decade, and I saw all these older posts on forums for DDR4 at $1/GB, but the lowest I could find was at least $2/GB used. These days? HAH!

If I had a decent sales channel I might be speculating on DDR4/DDR5 RAM and holding it because I expect prices to climb even higher in the coming months.
by jf22 | 2026-03-03 19:31:48+00:00
I have a physical goods side hustle already and I'm brainstorming ideas about a trade I can do that will benefit from my programming experience.

I'm thinking HVAC or painting lines in parking lots. HVAC because I can program smart systems and parking lot lines because I can use google maps and algos to propose more efficient parking lot designs to existing business owners.

There is that paradox when if something becomes cheaper there is more demand so we'll see what happens.

Finally, I'm a mediocre dev that can only handle 2-3 agents at a time so I probably won't be good enough.
by ljm | 2026-03-03 19:31:49+00:00
It's not young people it's inpatient people. My mum was happy to browse the pirate bay and demonoid and all that, where all the adverts were massive throbbing cocks and hardcore porn lining the edges of the page, just so she could torrent the latest hidden object game. She became addicted to those games and it wasn't enough for me to give her credits to buy a few more of them, and because I was her son I was the tech support who had to help her unfuck her laptop after it got loaded up with another round of viruses.

The internet has maliciously complied with most if not all regulation applied to it which is where the new mass of banners and interstitials come from but the ultimate effect is to just beat the user into submission. See the EU cookie mandate and GDPR for how badly that turned out in terms of UX (even though the accountability is well in force under the hood, so the bad UX compliance failed and those sites are just screwing themselves).

In this way, Google was initially a hero but is now just another American Big Tech entity that is too big to fail and can do whatever it wants along with Meta and Amazon, and in fact now TikTok's US entity.
by vmvarela | 2026-03-03 19:32:18+00:00
Hi HN,

I built `sql-pipe` because I often need to filter or aggregate CSV data in the terminal, and I found the existing options lacking:
- `awk` syntax effectively requires learning a new language for complex logic.
- Pandas/Python scripts are heavy and slow to spin up for one-liners.
- The standard `sqlite3` CLI requires multiple commands (.mode csv, .import) before you can run a query.

sql-pipe converts stdin (CSV/TSV) into an in-memory SQLite table named `t` on the fly, auto-detects column types (so you can sum/avg integers directly), and outputs the result back to stdout.

It's written in Zig, statically links SQLite (zero dependencies), and is cross-compiled for Linux/macOS/Windows.

Example usage:
curl -s https://example.com/data.csv | sql-pipe "SELECT region, SUM(revenue) FROM t GROUP BY 1 ORDER BY 2 DESC"

The repo is here: https://github.com/vmvarela/sql-pipe

Happy to answer any questions about the Zig implementation or the SQLite integration!
by Eric_WVGG | 2026-03-03 19:32:23+00:00
I feel like if they can profitably sell a Mini-LED in a $1400 14" Macbook Pro, they can find a way to sell a larger one in a 27" display for under $3300…

I have the last-gen Studio Display, pretty great during the day (the nano-texture is astonishing), but just looks like trash at night when the backlight overwhelms the blacks.

My guess was that the “Studio Display 2” would introduce Mini-LED, and then a “Pro Display 2” would have the high-refresh and maybe 32". Wake me up in five years, I guess.
by csours | 2026-03-03 19:32:43+00:00
"Why?" is the hardest of the questions.

For any particular person, you can tell a story that satisfies "Why?". But for a large number of people, you have to answer "Why?" for one sub-group at a time.

In other words, there's not a single answer that will answer this in a satisfying way.

To answer a different question: It appears that the Israeli government and military wanted to bomb Iran again, and the United States executive branch and military decided to help out. This is an incomplete and unsatisfying answer. Sorry.
by dfo01 | 2026-03-03 19:32:51+00:00
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by alephnerd | 2026-03-03 19:32:56+00:00
> When does this choice ever come up

Fairly often, but we usually manage them out so that line-level engineers don't get paranoid and jump ship.

When an EM is suddenly shifted to work on another project, or all you ICs are suddenly talking to other managers or staffed on other projects, that's us as organizations managing out the malcontent and messaging to them that their time is up.
by kalaksi | 2026-03-03 19:32:59+00:00
It is pretty paradoxical and got me thinking. I don't know how to measure the value of my vote. I feel like the immediate value is less than the effort, but on the other hand, I don't think it's so simple. As you said, if no "rational" people vote, that's catastrophic and so I'm helping to maintain a larger system. Maybe a culture. Movements can have collective power no individual can have, but they can't exist without individuals. It's hard to measure the value or effects of a culture as they are often not clearly visible or direct. The effects can play out over a long time too.

About voting with your wallet, I agree that it'd be best if companies actually had to pay for those externalities you mentioned.
If you have spare money to spend, you can view not choosing the cheapest option as supporting or donating. That's what I sometimes do when e.g. buying locally instead of ordering from somewhere far for cheaper. I can get local faster and it's more convenient, so there's lazyness, but thinking about it as supporting helps me rationalize it further (and it is true). I don't think it really hurts me more than buying something else that I don't strictly need. I see indirect value in trying to uphold things I like.
by graemep | 2026-03-03 19:33:05+00:00
Of course restrict it to his opinions on software licensing. I think that is the sort of thing people mean when they say he was right.

Lots of people made similar claims. Most notably The National Council for Civil Liberties (now called Liberty), the UK's leading civil/human rights organisation made submissions to parliament claiming that sex with minors was not always harmful, had a pro-paedo organisation as an affiliate and give them a representative on the gay rights subcommittee: https://www.thetimes.com/travel/destinations/uk-travel/scotl... The people involved were unaffected, some reaching fairly high political permissions.

A lot of other people whose works are respected have actually had sex with minors. Eric Gill and Oscar Wilde for example.

None of that makes Stallman's opinions defensible in my opinion. On the other hand I am happy to ignore his opinions on that topic and still value his opinions on other things.
by zbentley | 2026-03-03 19:33:24+00:00
That’s definitely the right call in some cases. But as soon as there’s any high-interconnect-rate system that has to be in cloud (appliances with locked in cloud billing contracts, compute that does need to elastically scale and talks to your DB’s pizza box, edge/CDN/cache services with lots of fallthrough to sources of truth on-prem), the cloud bandwidth costs start to kill you.

I’ve had success with this approach by keeping it to only the business process management stacks (CRMs, AD, and so on—examples just like the ones you listed). But as soon as there’s any need for bridging cloud/onprem for any data rate beyond “cronned sync” or “metadata only”, it starts to hurt a lot sooner than you’d expect, I’ve found.
by brutal_chaos_ | 2026-03-03 19:33:28+00:00
I believe it's a bit more nuanced than that. Both democrats and republicans have had enough power to make meaningful changes to prevent such a wealth gap and thus the wealthy play both parties. I do see democrats trying to help people have a better life (medicare for all, etc), but the wealth gap grew nometheless. Though I do agree with you that republicans don't seem to give a flying fuck about the people these days, which does make it worse IMHO. Regardless, both parties enabled the wealth gap and is why the fight is the 99.99% against the 0.01%. The US needs to kill citizens united and take money out of politics, I think that'd be a huge step forward...and yet, it is basically impossible because the 0.01% have the power.
by mareko | 2026-03-03 19:33:30+00:00
The solution is zk verifiable credentials, which would let folks prove their age without revealing their DOB (or anything else on their ID) to third parties.

This is possible today with complete privacy for people with biometric IDs and biometric passports (ie most passports, EU IDs, Aadhaar IDs, and more) using a service like self.xyz
by Swizec | 2026-03-03 19:33:48+00:00
> Interesting, you've got it absolutely the wrong way around.

Maybe. That's why you need to put your scope on the resume :)

I had a CTO title 15 years ago. The complexity of what we were building was a joke compared to what I own now as a lowly "tech lead manager". And in fact back then I wouldn't even be able to comprehend how complex things can get.
by visarga | 2026-03-03 19:33:58+00:00
You have 2 paths - code tests and AI review which is just vibe test of LGTM kind, should be using both in tandem, code testing is cheap to run and you can build more complex systems if you apply it well. But ultimately it is the user or usage that needs to direct testing, or pay the price for formal verification. Most of the time it is usage, time passing reveals failure modes, hindsight is 20/20.
by MomsAVoxell | 2026-03-03 19:34:00+00:00
Done stupid stuff like this enough times that I just use tar, and also make a sandbox directory to receive it, to double-check whats going to happen, before un—tar’ing it again into the destination intended and/or do a manual move.

Too many burned fingers to not do this little dance almost every other time.

Actually, I lied, I just use rsync like an insane person.
by ralferoo | 2026-03-03 19:34:06+00:00
Wechat pay in China is interesting. It costs nothing to add money to your balance from your bank, or to pay someone from your balance. It only costs the end merchant who wants to withdraw it from their balance back into their bank. If they can keep it in Wechat pay and spend it on other things (which is very easy as it and Alipay are the primary payment methods for everything), then there's no charge.

I guess Tencent are making their profit from the interest they earn on the money that was transferred into them that just stays in people's Wechat wallets in effectively a parallel currency.
by renewiltord | 2026-03-03 19:34:09+00:00
Core density plus power makes so many things worthwhile. Generally human cost of managing hardware scales with number of components under management. CPUs very reliable. So once you get lots of CPU and RAM on single machine you can run with very few.

But right pricing hardware is hard if you’re small shop. My mind is hard-locked onto Epyc processors without thought. 9755 on eBay is cheap as balls. Infinity cores!

Problem with hardware is lead time etc. cloud can spin up immediately. Great for experimentation. Organizationally useful. If your teams have to go through IT to provision machine and IT have to go through finance so that spend is reliable, everybody slows down too much. You can’t just spin up next product.

But if you’re small shop having some Kubernetes on rack is maybe $15k one time and $1.2k on going per month. Very cheap and you get lots and lots of compute!

Previously skillset was required. These days you plug Ethernet port, turn on Claude Code dangerously skip permissions “write a bash script that is idempotent that configures my Mikrotik CCR, it’s on IP $x on interface $y”. Hotspot on. Cold air blowing on face from overhead coolers. 5 minutes later run script without looking. Everything comes up.

Still, foolish to do on prem by default perhaps (now that I think about it): if you have cloud egress you’re dead, compliance story requires interconnect to be well designed. More complicated than just basics. You need to know a little before it makes sense.

Feel like reasoning LLM. I now have opposite position.
by zahlman | 2026-03-03 19:34:19+00:00
> The realization that I can have really good performance in a high-level language like Clojure is revolutionary for me.

I should try it out some time. The Lisp family takes a bit of a mental reset to work with, but I've done it before.

> ...the training I received from my mentors was "write Python when possible, and C or Fortran when it needs to be fast."... (I don't mean that as a dig against Python; it's simply the mental model I absorbed.)

Well, you know, I've been using Python for over 20 years and that really isn't a "dig" at all. The execution of Python is famously hard to optimize even compared to other languages you might expect to be comparable. (Seriously, the current performance of JavaScript engines seems almost magical to me.) PyPy is the "JIT runtime" option there; and you can easily create micro-benchmarks where it beats the pants off the reference (written in C with fairly dumb techniques) Python implementation, but on average the improvement is... well, still pretty good ("On average, PyPy is about 3 times faster than CPython 3.11. We currently support python 3.11 and 2.7"), but shrinking over time, and it's definitely not going to put you in the performance realm of native-compiled languages.

The problem is there's really just too much that can be changed at runtime. If you look at the differences between Python and its competitors like Mojo, and the subsets and variants of Python used for things like Shedskin and Cython (and RPython, used internally for PyPy) you quickly get a sense of it.
by abhiparuchuri | 2026-03-03 19:34:29+00:00
Thank you! It can be both, very user-friendly to create tests and send out invites for screening. You can also AI-gen questions based on a couple frameworks to test for AI skills, or you can make your own from scratch. Theres been lots of great feedback from nontechnical teams/recruiters actually, which is generally harder to see for AI tools.
by graemefawcett | 2026-03-03 19:34:58+00:00
I believe that's I and the paper are both saying as well. The LLM is pure routing, the constraints currently are located elsewhere in the system. In this case, both the constraints and the motivation to perform the work are located in Knuth and his assistant.

Routing is important, it's why we keep building systems that do it faster and over more degrees of freedom. LLMs aren't intelligent on their own, but it's not because they don't have enough parameters
by bitwize | 2026-03-03 19:35:19+00:00
I heard somewhere that OpenAI's business model is literally to burn investorbux evolving ChatGPT until it becomes sentient, and then ask it how to make a profit. That's how on the crazy train the whole AI endeavor is. Of course someone's going to point at this comment and go "Ha-ha!" in the 2030s when it turns out that somehow it worked.
by AndrewKemendo | 2026-03-03 19:35:26+00:00
Yes thank you for the correct correction

The last model I tried to run was Dolphin 3B but even Zephyr1.6B kills the phone pretty fast even with a full battery

Even Dolphin completely killed my phone so yeah I can’t really use the Private LLM app for anything heavier than the default 1.6B
by anonymousab | 2026-03-03 19:35:39+00:00
GitHub itself was reorged under the CoreAI division recently, I think.

For the stability issues, I see it more as a potential tenuous link between having to hyper accelerate the Azure moves with a "you have no excuses because AI makes everything easier" sentiment from above, and then the more obvious literal situation of devs maybe vibecoding infra changes.

No evidence of the latter, just the likelihood, given the incentives.
by stego-tech | 2026-03-03 19:36:30+00:00
Yep, 100%, but that's why identifying compatible workloads first is key. A lot of orgs skip right to the savings pitch, ignorant of how their applications communicate with one another - and you hit the nail on the head that applications doing even some processing in a cloud provider will murder you on egress fees by trying to hybrid your app across them.

Folks wanting one or the other miss savings had by effectively leveraging both.
by thomascountz | 2026-03-03 19:36:33+00:00
A code review is an engineering practice and a knowledge management process; it should not be confused with a merge or pull request, which is a change management and scheduling process. When you say, “code review wasn’t even ubiquitous until around 2012–2014…,” I think you’re referring to the approval tooling built into merge requests, not to code review itself. Engineers were having their code reviewed long before then.

By the time you genuinely expect a PR to be merged, it should be essentially rubber-stampable, in my opinion. It shouldn’t be the first time someone else is looking at your code—let alone the first time anyone is reviewing your design.
by replooda | 2026-03-03 19:37:56+00:00
Nope, it's 0.01% vs 99.9%. First, because they themselves are at the top — or, what, was Biden some sort of proletarian? Second, the left is okay with left-flavored dictatorships — just think, recently, of poor, poor Maduro. Third, from the outside, the drones kept coming whether red or blue happened to be in power.
by blakec | 2026-03-03 19:38:12+00:00
IDF handles most of it. In BM25, inverse document frequency naturally down-weights terms that appear in every document, so JSON keys like "id", "status", "type" that show up in every chunk get low IDF scores automatically. The rare, meaningful keys still rank.

For the remaining noise, I chunk the flattened key-paths separately from the values. The key-path goes into a metadata field that BM25 indexes but with lower weight. The value goes into the main content field. So a search for "review configuration" matches on the value side, not because "configuration" appeared as a JSON key in 500 files.

MiniLM-L6-v2 is solid. I went with Model2Vec (potion-base-8M) for the speed tradeoff. 50-500x faster on CPU, 89% of MiniLM quality on MTEB. For a microservice where you're embedding on every request, the latency difference matters more than the quality gap.
by holtkam2 | 2026-03-03 19:38:34+00:00
Never - data centers will always offer more power if you only care about raw inference speed. HOWEVER I think that we'll reach the 'good enough' bar super soon. In 2-3 years I expect apple macs to be able to run a model as 'good' as Claude 4.6 sonnet at 90% of the inference speed we're used to from a cloud API.

Yes, I'm sure by then there will be better models on offer via cloud providers, but idk if I'll even care. I'm not doing science / research or complex mathematical proofs, I just want a model good enough to vibe code personal projects for fun. So I think at that point I'll stop being a OpenAI / Anthropic customer.