MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by aw1621107 | 2026-03-13 06:54:38+00:00
> I mean the exact identical orbit, the exact path that earth takes around the sun -> ahead (or behind, it does not matter) of where we are and instead of 365 days to circle the sun, the asteroid is moving at a rate that will take MORE days

Unfortunately that's not really possible. To a first approximation, Earth's orbit is a circle with the Sun at its center, and the size of that circle is determined entirely by Earth's orbital speed around the Sun. Assuming you're also in a circular orbit, if you move at Earth's speed, the size of your orbit will be the same as that of Earth's. If you move faster or slower, your orbit will be smaller or larger, respectively, unless you wish to continuously burn fuel to maintain your distance from the Sun. That's why I said the asteroid's orbit must be slightly larger than that of Earth's for an Earth-catches-up-to-asteroid-in-similar-orbit scenario.

Obviously things get more complicated once you consider non-circular orbits, but the end result is similar - you can't continuously hang out in Earth's path while moving slower than the Earth around the Sun without burning a stupendous amount of fuel.

> you are saying that is less feasible than making a missle out of an asteroid? I appreciate the explanation fr

I think it's more that I think that "making a missile" is likely to require less fuel since you only need to adjust the asteroid's orbit ~once (only need to get it on a collision course) instead of ~twice (get the asteroid on a near-collision course, then adjust it again for the "right" kind of collision).
by koenschipper | 2026-03-13 06:56:41+00:00
I think I'm in the middle, at first I was definitely against using any AI because I loved the craft. But over the past 12-18 months I've been using it more and more.

I still love to code just by hand for an fun afternoon. But in the long-term, I think you are going to be left behind if you refuse to use AI at all.
by pinkmuffinere | 2026-03-13 06:56:59+00:00
Can you negotiate with your manager about start time? I know it will depend on the exact team, but n my old team I would walk into the office at like 10:30 every day, and then stay in the office till about 7-8 every evening. I wasn't secretive about it, but nobody was upset, it was obvious that I was staying later to get work done.
by fiddlerwoaroof | 2026-03-13 06:58:00+00:00
The Cayenne would not be safer going 35 instead of 40 "regardless of all other variables": it's statistically safer to go closer to the flow of traffic because you're then "at rest" with respect to other drivers (assuming a controlled access road without pedestrian traffic). If the speed limit is 55 and the flow of traffic is 70–80 (as is the case with the Beltway around DC, despite automated enforcement), then going 55 is more dangerous than "speeding". The issue with 100% enforcement is every law assumes certain circumstances or variables and the real world is infinitely more complex than any set of variables that can reasonably be foreseen by law (and laws that attempt to foresee as many variables as possible are more complicated and, consequently, harder for normal people to apply, which is another reason for latitude in enforcement).
by adrian_b | 2026-03-13 06:59:51+00:00
Apple did not lock the bootloader, but they do not provide documentation for their products.

What would have been a trivial porting work with documentation, becomes extremely time-consuming and hard work without documentation.

That is why Asahi Linux lags by several years with the support for Apple computers, and it is unlikely that this lag time will ever be reduced. Even for the old Apple computers the hardware support is only partial, so such computers are never as useful for running Linux as AMD/Intel based computers.
by multidude | 2026-03-13 07:01:00+00:00
YES!
happens to me all the time in things big and small. At work, at home, with the kids, my wife, and their birthday presents.
I once talked to a somewhat famous writer who told me this very thing.
He said his worst critic was his inner demon biting him at every thought, every phrase, questioning his wording, waiting for the greatest possible idea, discarding all that was not breathtaking enough.

Why do we have to be great all the time? Who is telling us to be best?
And i know that in writing this i am pruning myself again trying to find the best words here.

Imagine that: i want enough points for karma to be able to post here my greatest idea. Which ironically enough, is the best greatest idea i had in a loooong time, and the moment i want to share it i must wait to be found good enough and worth to be heard.

I guess the only thing we can do is to disconnect our feeling of self worth from outside signals and be happy with the little things that made us smile when we did not know nor care about other peoples opinions.
by globular-toast | 2026-03-13 07:02:09+00:00
It's so disrespectful to say an LLM is more intelligent than a person on the street. The LLM has nothing at stake, cares not a sausage about the consequences of what it spits out. People have all kinds of pressures, dependants, and personal issues like health. Our thoughts and actions have real consequences. It's so easy to be intelligent when you're the pretend human that gets switched on for five minutes then switched off again.
by bigstrat2003 | 2026-03-13 07:02:37+00:00
> Also, theres the pace of advancement of the models. Many people formed their opinions last year, and the landscape has changed a lot.

People have been saying this every year for the last 3 years. It hasn't been true before, and it isn't true now. The models haven't actually gotten smarter, they still don't actually understand a thing, and they still routinely make basic syntax and logic errors. Yes, even (insert your model of choice here).

The truth is that there just isn't any juice to squeeze in this tech. There are a lot of people eagerly trying to get on board the hype train, but the tech doesn't work and there's no sign in sight that it ever will.
by simianwords | 2026-03-13 07:04:39+00:00
You are repeating the same thing. You think having good maintainable good is important - more than the first camp.

That does not mean you are correct. This mindset is useful only in serious reusable libraries and open source tools. Most enterprise code involves lots of exploring and fast iteration. Code quality doesn’t matter that much. No one else is going to see it.

When the craft coders bring their ideology to this set up, it starts slowing things down because they are optimising for the wrong target.
by a6kme | 2026-03-13 07:04:41+00:00
Hello.

The latency is a factor of the models you are picking up for reasoning. If you are colocating the models by self hosting on GPUs, the latency can be as low as 500 - 600 ms between bot - user turns. With models like Gemini-2.5-flash, the latency is around 800-1000 ms. The latency can be higher with reasoning and larger models, like gpt-4.1.
by EagnaIonat | 2026-03-13 07:05:39+00:00
If the core of the post is yours I think it is fine, but there are so many pieces which the LLM always uses in these things that they stand out more than emdashes.

Some examples.

> I've felt the grief too—but mine resolved differently than I expected, and I think that says something about what kind of developer I've been all along.

> I kept having this nagging sense that we were mourning different things.

> Here's what I notice about my grief: none of it is about missing the act of writing code. It's about the world around the code changing.

> If you're mourning the context—the changing web, the shifting career landscape, the uncertainty—that's real too, but it's more actionable.

It uses these kinds of patterns over and over that it becomes obvious Just go on LinkedIn.

"It's not X, its Y"
Ask HN: What benchmarks do you trust most when comparing large LLMs?
by QubridAI | 2026-03-13 07:06:02+00:00
So, I was checking out this research paper that compares Nemotron-3-Super-120B, GPT-OSS-120B, and Qwen3.5-122B. They looked at how these models performed on different benchmarks like IFBench, SWE-Bench, Tau Bench, and RULER.

One thing that stood out was the trade-off between accuracy and inference throughput, especially with formats like NVFP4 vs BF16.

I'm really interested to know which benchmarks folks here actually rely on when they're checking out models for real-life tasks. What seems to work best for you?

Do you rely more on reasoning benchmarks, coding benchmarks, or long-context tests?
by citizenpaul | 2026-03-13 07:06:17+00:00
>most people belive

Instead of chastising people with another guess you could find the source. The founders of blockbuster knew it would eventually fail. Short version, they knew once people watched the huge initial backlog revenues would plummet. The plan was to build everywhere and capture that initial high income. Afterwords, well whatever.

Built to Fail: The Inside Story of Blockbuster's Inevitable Bust
by sedatk | 2026-03-13 07:06:43+00:00
Very much so if you don't care about gaming. x86-64 emulation has already been great, and 99% of popular apps have native ARM64 versions. The only exception was Discord for me for a long time. I used to use an unofficial wrapper called "Legcord" instead. But, now even Discord has a native Windows version. I mostly use my laptop for software development + browsing.

I haven't tried gaming, but I feel like it'll suck for almost anything that's not natively ARM64. Steam doesn't have an ARM64 based client yet, AFAIK.
by olejorgenb | 2026-03-13 07:09:22+00:00
I think CLI code agents (eg. Claude Code) should render the line numbers in their diff view as links, opening that line in your editor of choice.

You can also make your own scheme-handler easily (on Linux at least). I have a `niri://` handler enabling linking to a specific Wayland window. (it has niche usecases :D)

This guy build a pty "proxy" to linkify Claude Code output: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GP5TwKnCzhQ
by beloch | 2026-03-13 07:09:52+00:00
People's intuition is based on what a rack in a typical modern data centre would be like. i.e. High end server CPUs and multiple GPU's per box, which really should be factored in since they're the bulk of the power draw and heat production. Put a few of these in your basement and you're going to need special cooling and power solutions.

The pictured room is not full of high-performance computing machines, even for the day. (HPC was ruled by mainframes back then, although if this picture was taken well into the obsolescence of the room, high-end workstations (e.g. Silicon Graphics and Sun) may have been gaining on them for some applications.) This room was built for getting a couple hundred callers networked into a BBS where they could access the same files, text chat, and perhaps even MUD a little. This was a fundamentally different beast.
by don-bright | 2026-03-13 07:09:59+00:00
The other thing it can give you is computationally exact results since rationals are closed over division. Sine is interesting because where the input is rational the output is almost always irrational and where the output is rational the input is almost always irrational. In computation the first time you use sine in a program you have injected approximation. If you want to build things like reproducible code and geometric caching it can be interesting to compare using a purely rational computation system to an approximative system.
by athrowaway3z | 2026-03-13 07:10:09+00:00
- Phone subscriptions is a price competitive market in most places, not some growth-hacking industry.

- Not every business has a growth story. Not every business needs a growth story.

PE can offer a business owner more than they expect it to make by:

- being ignorant about the business (Which we are seeing repeatedly)

- intend to run it hot to juice the numbers and resell it for their profit.
by whatever1 | 2026-03-13 07:11:34+00:00
This is PR speak.

No 8GB, compressed or whatever was not enough for MacOS when M1 was released. Even for simple outlook, web browser, excel type of workflows.

After 3-4 hours of work, the window manager process itself is consuming gigabytes of memory. Not even considering any browser or electron apps.

My M1 Mac mini was choking up so much that I had to trade it in. That was back in 2021. Today apps are even more bloated.
by code_biologist | 2026-03-13 07:12:13+00:00
N=1, but I’ve been doing low carb paleo for 15+ years, from about age 20 to my current late 30s. I live off of butter, tallow, and lard. My weight has only crept up when I’ve eaten a lot of processed food. I get quite lean even with high fat if I fast more frequently or dip into ketosis. I’m trying to pack on some extra muscle with weight lifting right now and it’s not easy to get enough clean calories short of eating spoonfuls of (happy, pastured) bacon grease.

All I’m trying to say is that butter isn’t the enemy. Maybe commercial dairy production practices are the enemy, won’t argue with that.
by kaffekaka | 2026-03-13 07:12:34+00:00
Isn't the question really about what you can get paid for, have as your job?

People want to keep doing what they enjoy as their fulltime profession, making a (good) living out of it. Perfectly understandable. But neither AI, powertools or image generation is preventing someone from doing craft coding, hand woodworking or drawing/painting in their spare time and enjoying it.

I love drawing but since it went out of business as a viable career long before I was born I have never felt the grief of losing it. With craft coding we happen to exist at the point in time where it suddenly gets significantly de-crafted.
by adwn | 2026-03-13 07:13:42+00:00
Tell them to use the Composer 1.5 model. It's really good, better than Sonnet, and has much higher usage limits. I use it for almost all of my daily work, don't have to worry about hitting the limit of my 60$ plan, and only occasionally switch to Opus 4.6 for planning a particularly complex task.
by no-name-here | 2026-03-13 07:14:23+00:00
I think their point was that a lot (but not all) of the existing argument boils down to “Well it should be that way because someone decided it hundreds of years ago” so if we are consciously starting again from scratch, ideally that specific argument no longer holds water. (I’d say we should instead use data based approaches, look at what has been successful in other countries, etc, although that’s slightly expanding the current topic.)
by 1718627440 | 2026-03-13 07:14:49+00:00
> Do the Rocky Mountains count as dividing North America into east and west subcontinents?

The east part would be a bit small, but after a bit more seismic activity that may be sensible.

> Does the Baltic Sea partition the Nordic countries into their own continent?

Could be a subcontinent border yeah, it is a common division in Europe.

> Are you really expecting that logic to work even a little bit?

Yeah, there are multiple aspects of continents and topology is one part. Others are cultural and political and I think there the division is even more clear.
by taneliv | 2026-03-13 07:16:33+00:00
Disaster is perhaps an exaggeration, but it does seem like this would be another environment, where users need to be aware of a different set of safety and usability measures than in the browser. Surely we will see interesting attempts at exploiting it.

Overall, I think the idea is super interesting, especially the ability to encode in the future other context than URLs with it. Whether actually useful, or just gimmicky, remains to be seen.
by altairprime | 2026-03-13 07:17:52+00:00
I’m the asshole I was thinking of when I wrote that, so of course I’m talking from the perspective of my experiences. Amused to be condescended to about the typ/atyp interfacing woes in business. I’m a middle-aged autistic prosociopath with decades of business experience, and it remains validating to this day to be so badly misread by other atyps. Hope you feel better soon :)
by SilentM68 | 2026-03-13 07:17:56+00:00
That makes sense. I am of the opinion that the gut-brain connection exists. It is real in my view. A healthy gut promotes better mood and health. A parasite-ridden gut leads to all sorts of issues, including anxiety, irritability, stress, constipation and its counterpart, cancer and mental decline. I am doing a gut cleanse now to rebalance my intestinal flora and hopefully remove any bad actors from my gut resulting from years of ingesting processed foods. Want to make sure no parasites accompany me on my upcoming medical imaging visit.
by adrian_b | 2026-03-13 07:19:53+00:00
If you test if a not-a-number is equal to itself, the result is false.

If you test if a not-a-number is not equal to itself, the result is also false.

The reason is that the result of comparing a not-number with itself is neither "equal" nor "not equal", but "unordered".

This should make perfect intuitive sense, because a NaN encodes the fact that "an undefined operation has happened".

For instance, you have 2 instances of the same NaN, both having been obtained by multiplying zero with infinity.

However it may happen that one was obtained while computing values of a sequence that converges to 10 and the other may have been obtained by computing values of a sequence that converges to 100.

Then there is no doubt that equality is not true for this 2 NaNs.

However, those 2 NaNs may have been generated while computing values of sequences that both converge to 10, which shows that neither non-equality may be trued for these 2 NaNs.

When you have NaNs, that means that it is unknown which value, if any, the invalid operations should have produced.

When comparing 2 unknown values, you cannot know whether they are equal or not equal, so both testing for equality and for non-equality must fail.
by jeff_antseed | 2026-03-13 07:20:44+00:00
the p50 latency gap is the thing i'd push on here. 1.46s vs 0.74s is a 2x difference and for interactive use cases that's basically a dealbreaker regardless of throughput wins.

curious how much of that is a fundamental tradeoff of the GH200 architecture vs something you're still optimizing. like, the coherent CPU-GPU link is genuinely interesting for batch workloads but i'd imagine the memory access patterns for single-request latency look pretty different.

the throughput numbers on VLM are impressive though. if your use case is async batch pipelines or offline processing, the cost math could work out well even at that p50.
by marcus_holmes | 2026-03-13 07:20:52+00:00
I didn't say it was a good argument ;)

Personally I love the idea that the codes for nukes are surgically implanted in a volunteer, and in order to issue the order to fire the nukes, the CIC must personally carve the codes from that person's chest with a knife, killing them in the process. Or the variant on that idea, that the codes are implanted in their own forearm, and to order the nukes they must cut the codes from out of their own flesh.

We could do the same for all military deployment orders.
by fellowniusmonk | 2026-03-13 07:21:13+00:00
I love developing clever algorithms and writing elegant code. It's a hobby of mine and it makes me happy.

I love shipping tangible products because it makes others happy and makes me money.

Do what you love for work and you'll never love anything again.

Do what you love for a hobby and keep it pure.

Don't let either be your identity, you only diminish yourself and grow old in the doing.
by socalgal2 | 2026-03-13 07:22:01+00:00
I'm not sure this is the same thing but I waffle between wanting to not look stupid and also not wanting others to think I'm not trying hard enough.

Let's say there is something I need to do at work. I could read docs in the company internal site. I could read the code. Maybe the thing I need to do is figure out why a test is failing. It's possible it's failing because there's a bug in the code. It's possible it's failing because there is a bug in the test. It's possible it's failing because there's a bug in the CI/CQ. It's possible it's failing because some other dependency changed something.

The question is, when do I keep digging on my own vs ask for guidance and how much guidance? I never have a good feeling for that. I kind of wish the guidance was offered or encouraged as "I know you're not familiar with this stuff so let me walk you through this issue and then hopefully you can do it on your own the next time". But, I never know. I feel compelled to try to work it out on my own. Some of that is ego, like I can't do it on my own I must not be as good as others on my team. But I have no idea how much they asked vs figured out.

A few times when I do get guidance it's not enough. the person giving it isn't aware of all the hidden knowledge that's helping them figure out the issue and therefore doesn't pass it on.
by KingMob | 2026-03-13 07:22:45+00:00
> Why on Earth you won’t just write a script for that purpose?

- Because your bash-fu may not be good enough

- Because parts of the process may not be amenable to scripting, especially if they require LLMs

- Because the inputs to some steps are fuzzy enough that only an LLM can handle them

- etc...

That being said, yes, anything amenable to being turned into scripts should be.
by john-j | 2026-03-13 07:23:06+00:00
- Could be a much higher prevalence of badly written AI-generated articles, awful AI slop code etc - you know you can do better

- Could be the opposite, the fact that a lot of what is AI-generated is well polished, at least on a surface - your raw input is distinguishable as a human and rated higher by yourself or others

- Could be the motivation to try to keep internet human-made even if it seems like a lost fight

- Could be the fact that people overall take less effort to write things as you can always polish it up with AI - some decide not to do that and still post it - you feel safer doing the same
by somenameforme | 2026-03-13 07:23:07+00:00
Or perhaps you haven't. Many common resources are perfectly viable for making torches from including resin from a variety of common tree and plant types. If you want to get fancy you can even make your own pitch. It was the reason I added 'lush'. And why in the world would you want to be indoors? It'd be vastly more pleasant at e.g. your gazebo or wherever else, of course subject to climatic/weather extremes.

The concept of spending vast amounts of time indoors for both recreation and work is an extremely new thing. Not only post-electric but largely post-internet.
by rk06 | 2026-03-13 07:24:30+00:00
Really the enterprise partner supports next, but not vanilla js sounds stupid? Honestly I expect them to prioritize nextjs and react given the popularity, but still be open to vanilla js.

I checked sitecore cloud to have special integration for nextjs and reactjs. But it also support vanilla js as well.

Are there really anyone who is exclusive to nextjs?
by jopsen | 2026-03-13 07:24:52+00:00
I think people sometimes forget how backwards the US is, when lived in SF 7 years ago, you couldn't do wire transfers online. Maybe some banks, maybe some people.

But I constantly had issues with debit cards being rejected, wire transfers having to be done on a branch, etc. I doubt there is a modern bill payment system yet.

Where as in Denmark, I've bought house, mortgage, wired >100k, bought stonks, none of it required me going to a branch.

I pay a manual bill maybe once or twice per year. I do it online or in an app, I hate the process. But automatic bill payment takes care of 99% of my bills!