MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by IgorPartola | 2026-03-12 02:29:31+00:00
The problem is that the US constitution was written before people realized that the natural consequence of that type of constitution is a two party system. You cannot have a viable third party in the long run because it will necessarily weaken one or the other existing party and that party will then absorb it.

So no you have a situation where the government can have split brain: some parts of the legislative branch can be party A and other parts can be party B and the president isn’t tied to either.

From what I understand when the US “brings democracy” to another country we set up a parliamentary system and that system is widely seen as better. You cannot form an ineffective government by definition, though you can have a non-functioning government that is trying to form a coalition. These types of systems tend to find center because forming a coalition always requires some level of compromise. Our system oscillates between three states: party A does what they want, party B does what they want, and split brain and president does what he wants because Congress has no will to keep him accountable.

What I would like to try is a combination of parliamentary system, approval voting, and possibly major legislation passed by randomly selecting a jury of citizens and showing the the pros and cons of a bill. If you cannot convince 1000 random citizens that we should go to war, maybe it’s not a good idea.
by xyzzyz | 2026-03-12 02:29:38+00:00
Yes, it's unlikely that people are illegally voting in person in large numbers. It is relatively easy to do so, and the risk is relatively low, if you approach it intelligently (e.g. vote as someone who is registered, but highly unlikely to vote -- even if they do vote, you're highly unlikely to be caught anyway). However, there's just no incentive for individuals to do so, because the reward is very low: each individual's vote is really worth very little, and an individual fraudulent voter does not benefit from it enough to counterbalance the risk.

On the other hand, there are other ways for people to steal elections. For example, you can steal mail-in ballots from mailboxes, fill them, and covertly drop them in. It's particularly easy to do in states where all ballots are mail-in by default. The risk-reward calculation is different, because now one organized person can cast dozens, or hundreds of fraudulent votes, instead of just one.

In other states, you don't even need to steal them: you can just knock on the door, ask people for ballots (or buy them, many people will happily sell their right to vote for $20, because it's worthless to them), fill them in, and drop them off completely in the open. Of course, the stealing/buying and filling in the ballots is illegal, but since this happens in private, it's much harder to detect and prosecute. That's why most states disallow dropping off votes for third parties, but some states inexplicably allow it.

There are multiple recent cases, where people were convicted for schemes like that, e.g State of Arizona v. Guillermina Fuentes, Texas v. Monica Mendez, Michigan v. Trenae Rainey, U.S. v. Kim Phuong Taylor, and more. Since these are only the cases where conviction was secured, the true number is much higher.
by JimmyJamesJames | 2026-03-12 02:29:53+00:00
Labour cost is between 40-60% of total business costs.

With the amount of AI investment, AI will only win if it decimates employment and the business cost associated with it, driving up business profits.

Productivity will increase, but to what benefit? machines don’t buy consumer items, and the increased unemployed or underemployed won’t have enough discretionary budget to either.
by seam_carver | 2026-03-12 02:30:01+00:00
Available for:

iPhone 6s (all models), iPhone 7 (all models), iPhone SE (1st generation), iPad Air 2, iPad mini (4th generation), and iPod touch (7th generation)

iOS 16.7.15 and iPadOS 16.7.15:
iPhone 8, iPhone 8 Plus, iPhone X, iPad 5th generation, iPad Pro 9.7-inch, and iPad Pro 12.9-inch 1st generation
by pseudohadamard | 2026-03-12 02:30:28+00:00
There's a good chance you're actually paying more for the features you don't need. Preparing an EUV mask set costs something like 30 million dollars (that figure may be out of date, i.e. it could be more now). So instead of a single mask set with everything on the device, whether you need it or not, you're paying $30 million for each special-snowflake variant. This is why vendors do a one-size-fits-all version of many of their products and then disable the extra functionality for the cheaper market segments, because it's much, much cheaper than making separate reduced-functionality devices.
by bryanlarsen | 2026-03-12 02:30:36+00:00
How do people install stuff like this? So many tools these days use `npm install` or `pip install`. I certainly have npm and pip installed but they're sandboxed to specific projects using a tool like devbox, nix-devshell, docker or vagrant (in order of age). And they'll be wildly different versions. To be pedantic `pip` is available globally but it throws the sensible `error: externally-managed-environment`

I'm sure there's a way to give this tool it's own virtualenv or similar. But there are a lot of those things and I haven't done much Python for 20 years. Which tool should I use?
by matheusmoreira | 2026-03-12 02:30:36+00:00
Hard not to "blame the referee" when the supreme judge-kings in charge of the electronic voting system are openly partisan to say the least.

In fact, the issue of fair elections in Brazil has become background noise because of these so called "referees". They have usurped so much power elections are just theater at this point. It doesn't matter who wins because in the end it's the judge-kings who rule the country. There's no point in even discussing the matter until their fall.
by reliabilityguy | 2026-03-12 02:30:50+00:00
> And what is your evidence?

Here: https://www.nytimes.com/2018/07/15/us/politics/iran-israel-m...

What is your evidence that given all we know about Iran, and the fact that they have 60%-enriched uranium, they are not building a bomb? Why do they need 60%-enriched uranium?

> Is that your claim?

No. My claim is that from a geopolitical point of view containment of China is the goal, and the war in Iran is just one step. Politics never about telling the truth -- it's about achieving goals.

You may not like the reality of it, but it is what it is.

> You know there are Shia Arabs, right? Do you think all Shia are Persian?

What does it have to do with anything? Can you form a coherent argument?

> I mean, really? Let's just rattle off a few that anyone with basic information literacy over the last few years would be able to come up with: <...>

> Little to no evidence of recent civic institutions or culture of responsible governance.

Iran has no civic institutions and no culture of responsible governance?

> Sizable minorities who even if aligned against the common dictator, will inevitably disagree with each other on the direction of the state.

The sectarian dynamics in Iraq, Syria and Lybia do not exist in Iran.

Yeah, "reports" about CIA are real. Sure.

> Great track record of intervention here.

There is no intervention though.

> Where did you pull Greece from? The Iranians can barely hit anything next door.

Have you seen the map? Open it, and then see where Cyprus is located.

Barely hit next door. Yeah.

> you don't think it's a gamble?

Of course it is. Like any other decision. You make the calculus and decide if the reward is worth the risk.

I am not sure any answer of mine you will find satisfiable. In your view, only 100% result justifies the risk. The reality is that you will never have 100% guarantee. For you inaction regardless of the consequences is the answer, for me it's better to act with uncertainty.

Finally, you assume (without evidence) that Iranian Regime is a rational actor. Once you change this assumption, the calculus will change.
by tdeck | 2026-03-12 02:31:04+00:00
The administration didn't even bother manufacturing consent this time and yet the media is acting like they did during the Iraq war. Democratic leaders are weakly pretending like they opposed the war but they really stalled the war powers resolution so it would happen before they forced the vote. Now they get to spend the first half of their statements condemning Iran and the second half weakly protesting about procedural issues and lack of an "exit strategy".
by ryan14975 | 2026-03-12 02:31:13+00:00
The interesting technical detail here is that this runs on Workers. Cloudflare's been quietly building out a full compute-at-edge stack — Workers, R2, D1, Queues — and a crawl endpoint fits naturally into that. You can now chain a crawl → process → store pipeline entirely within their network with zero egress.

Whether that level of vertical integration is healthy for the web is a separate debate, but from a pure infrastructure perspective, it's a compelling model.
by bloody-crow | 2026-03-12 02:31:27+00:00
A few years ago I would not believe that AI would be able to write code better than me. Today I barely write any code, Claude is responsible for 95% of my code output.

Maybe in a couple of iterations, you'd be able to trust the AI to straight up drive your computer with access to all important parts of your digital life most of the time and only occasionally have to manually stop it from wiring all your savings and 401k to a struggling Nigerian prince.
by delichon | 2026-03-12 02:31:36+00:00
I'm afraid that we're in an interregnum. A few years ago AI could not pass a Turing test. A few years from now AI will better at Turing tests than we are. We're now in this strange middle zone where we are dazedly grasping for solutions.

But what happens next, when we just fail at the task of recognizing ourselves in cyberspace? Where LatestClaw is just plain better at mimicking you than you are? What happens to the living we used to claw out of the ether for ourselves?

Do I need to learn to farm?
by alwillis | 2026-03-12 02:31:56+00:00
RAM Doubler was a third-party application in the days when a top-of-the-line Mac had 128MB of RAM, with a 40Mhz processor. The level 2 cache was 256 bytes.

That's not in the same universe as hardware compression on a 6-core, 64-bit ARM processor with cores that can run at 4GHz.
by klausa | 2026-03-12 02:32:32+00:00
Those chart seem _very_ suspect when it comes to Apple CPUs, to the point I don't think they're worth considering much.

M3 Ultra being fastest in single core than M4 or A19 Pro doesn't make any sense.

Those chart also suggest that M3->M4 was a _regression_ in performance, which, is... an interesting conclusion.
by jmyeet | 2026-03-12 02:32:44+00:00
What's astounding about this entire misadventure is there seemed to be absolutely no plan for what the goals were and what the exit strategy was as well as how to counter the most likely outcomes. I would bet money that military planners had long considered these issues (as they consider many hypotheticals) and those warnings were ignored.

For context, about 30% of the fertilizer supply chain relies on the Strait of Hormuz, mainly due to natural gas. Additionally, ~15% of crudel oil exports are effectively blocked. All of this was known beforehand. It was also known that breaking the blockade was essentially impossible. Iran's entire military is designed for this scenario: cheap drones and missiles in huge numbers from cheap launchers and in hardened facilities. Commercial vessels can be attacked with drone boats, basically. The navigable part of the Strait at its narrowest point is less than 8 miles wide.

And we're paying about $1 billion per day for all this. But that's OK because somebody is getting rich from contracts to replenish every munition we're using.

Invading Iran is geographically impossible.

Every single thing I mentioned here has been known for years. Yet here we are. IN a just world, people would hang for all the crimes we've consistently and repeatedly committed against Iran since at least 1953.
by Illniyar | 2026-03-12 02:32:52+00:00
Apparently Israeli media is reporting that the price is so high that the government is requesting the founders will pay their taxes in USD and not Israeli Shekels in fear that such a large foreign exchange transaction will affect the exchange rate. ( Which is already unusually low and hurting exporters)

This would be the first time taxes are paid in a different currency in Israel history.

Pretty wild that it's such a large acquisition it can affect a nation's monetary policy.
by yellowapple | 2026-03-12 02:32:53+00:00
> The general consensus was that his own writing was preferable to the LLM's edited version.

I don't believe a single one of those people.

> For grammar, use a basic grammar checker, like the kind of grammar checker that has come with MS word since the 1990s.

Those are notorious for false-positives, false-negatives, and generally nonsensical advice. Not that the LLM-based alternatives are much better (looking at you, Grammarly), but still.
by alephnerd | 2026-03-12 02:34:04+00:00
That will depend country to country. The US doesn't use urea to the same degree that Brazil, India, and China do. And Brazil (just like the US) doesn't rely on NatGas from the Gulf.

It's mostly China and India that are impacted, but both have the Russian option.

This isn't our first rodeo with elevated urea and NatGas prices - the same thing happened during the Russian Invasion of Ukraine in 2022 (and is reflected in the same dataset OP linked).

This is also why Asian countries have been investing heavily in Hydrogen energy despite HN's hate boner to the technology.
by ChaitanyaSai | 2026-03-12 02:34:32+00:00
AI has made it easier for me not to worry about how pretty or polished my comments are. What used to be a sign you cared has now been devalued nearly completely by AI. This is freeing and allows me to think about the substance. I still do read it, but don't care too much about the typos. It's now a a proud badge for artisanal thinking!
by ninjagoo | 2026-03-12 02:35:09+00:00
Lot of folks on here saying they only want to converse with other humans, for various reasons.

But here's the funny thing. I'm pretty sure the frontier models are now smarter than I am, more eloquent, and definitely more knowledgeable, especially the paid versions with built-in search/research capability. I'm also fairly certain that the number of original thoughts in a given discourse on the Internet is fairly small, I know that's certainly the case for me.

So whither humans now?

If I'm looking for human engagement, forums make sense. But for an informed discussion, I'm less certain that it's wise to be exclusionary. There is a case to be made that lower quality comments should be hidden or higher quality comments should be surfaced, but that's true regardless of the source, innit?
by tcbrah | 2026-03-12 02:35:15+00:00
the data leak is bad but the write access to system prompts is what keeps me up at night. they could silently rewrite how Lilli responds to 43k consultants with a single UPDATE statement - no deploy, no code review, no logs. imagine poisoning the strategic advice that gets copy pasted into client deliverables. tbh most companies i see doing AI stuff store prompts the exact same way, just rows in postgres right next to everything else
by Retr0id | 2026-03-12 02:35:23+00:00
But in all fairness it seems like a reasonable system, given the narrow scope of its goals. It does not scale, but that's on purpose. Although I could still see "Feed Aggregation" becoming impractical even with a small number of friends with a modest number of posts.

Cryptographically, a problem is that it makes ciphertexts publicly enumerable, protected by a X25519-derived key. This makes it very vulnerable to harvest-now-decrypt-later attacks, if you believe quantum computing will ever happen.
by tech234a | 2026-03-12 02:35:57+00:00
Notably these exploits were originally patched for newer devices in 2023 and 2024. However, the Coruna exploits are now publicly available because some of the IOC URLs mentioned in Google's recent blog post [1] were found to still be live. Jailbreakers are already repurposing the code to make web-based tools [2].

[1]: https://cloud.google.com/blog/topics/threat-intelligence/cor...

[2]: https://x.com/Little_34306/status/2031823581513204009 (Note: the link in this tweet goes to an exploit page that uses code repurposed from malware)
by pear01 | 2026-03-12 02:36:04+00:00
What is this supposed to prove? I asked for evidence. This is "the FBI said so" and as another commenter noted, in the vaguest terms possible.

Am I supposed to be impressed by this? "Allegedly aspired" so it's not even a credible plot, the allegation is they have aspirations to do something and that's all we got. We have no information about how they would actually ever carry this out. Jeepers, I'm scared. We're blowing their country to smithereens and they have "aspirations" of doing something back. Shocking. Those police officers must have been positively shaking in their boots.
by pokstad | 2026-03-12 02:37:18+00:00
Atlassian is cutting jobs because no new sane company wants to use their products. Confluence was once innovative but now has gone stale. Jira is a nightmare and is most ripe for the AI based replacement. Bitbucket is a neglected product that has lost ground to GitHub and GitLab. The writing has been on the wall for Atlassian for years.
by WaitWaitWha | 2026-03-12 02:37:46+00:00
Yes urea is used in fertilizer. Yes, the price is going up relative to May 13, 2024 (lowest in 5 years).

look at the chart in the article, then click 5Y on the bottom of the chart.

Click the + sign between the calendar and wrench icon

Type in "US Food inflation". It will overlay the "urea" price with the "US food inflation".

Yes, urea seems to be a leading indicator. It is nothing like in 2022, yet.
by lich_king | 2026-03-12 02:38:01+00:00
Mobile OSes don't allow random people to run code on your device. They allow you to install software you want and sort-of trust, which is conceptually close to the desktop model. There are some safeguards on top of that, but the primary line of defense is that cheap-pillz.virus-basket.ru can't actually execute anything on your device.
by lurking_swe | 2026-03-12 02:38:55+00:00
They could at least allow hiring teams to send out a feedback email that highlights what the candidate did WELL, at a high level. This way the candidate gets some meaningful signal, while the company avoids the legal gray area of admitting why they rejected them. Just add a disclaimer like “unfortunately company policy prohibits us from explicitly mentioning why we chose another candidate.”

But you’d need to actually care to take something like that into consideration so… ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
by Gowrishankarhq | 2026-03-12 02:39:04+00:00
You've nailed exactly the problem — the "mentally joining logs across systems with no shared context" is the core pain. Each tool gives you a slice but nobody gives you the full picture in one place.
On SOC2 — you're right, I'm not generating audit evidence artifacts (yet). Right now it's a gap assessment — it scans infra signals like encryption at rest, public access configs, logging enabled/disabled, IAM policies, and maps them to SOC2 criteria. It's honest about what it can't assess — access reviews, change management, vendor questionnaires — and explicitly flags those as out of scope. The goal is to give a team a starting point, not replace an auditor.
On credentials — currently key-based, encrypted at rest with Fernet. OIDC/role-based is on the roadmap. The honest tradeoff is that OIDC requires more setup on the user side which adds friction for early adoption — but for teams with real compliance requirements it's clearly the right answer. Planning to add AWS AssumeRole + GCP Workload Identity as the next auth layer.
Would love your feedback on what a useful evidence artifact output would look like — you clearly know what auditors actually want to see.
by artdigital | 2026-03-12 02:39:05+00:00
It took me a while to understand what this is, but if I understand it right it's a OpenClaw you can run on your Mac Mini, to then use through the Perplexity Computer interface (which is their hosted OpenClaw version that you costs credits)

So a more polished OpenClaw that integrates with Perplexity?

In general interesting, if it's not just limited to Mac Minis. Would love to put this on my VPS that's currently running OpenClaw
by pseudohadamard | 2026-03-12 02:39:08+00:00
Now when the bricks had fallen from the barrel to the floor

I then outweighed the barrel and I started down once more

I clung on tightly to the rope, and sped toward the ground --

And landed on the broken bricks a-lying all around.

I lay there groaning on the ground and thought I'd passed the worst

When the barrel hit the pulley wheel, and then the bottom burst

A shower of bricks came down on me, 'twas then I gave up hope

And lying there upon the ground, I let go the bloody rope.

[...]
by carlosjobim | 2026-03-12 02:39:12+00:00
That's nothing compared to my car! It fires on all cylinders, instead of saving 3 out of 4 cylinders for a day when I will really need the power.

The reality is that nobody outside of HN cares about 8GB vs 16GB of RAM. You can do anything you want or need to do with an 8GB Macbook, including running a million dollar business, or working with anything creative on the highest level. If you are actually doing something which requires 16GB of RAM on a Mac, then you are doing state of the art tech stuff and should be rolling in money already and have no problem spending thousands and thousands on your computer.
by Springtime | 2026-03-12 02:39:20+00:00
I get the sense the point of the HN rule is to preserve unique human expression, regardless of how someone's communication skills are at a given point. Like, I periodically see articles on HN which have stale turns of phrase and signs of poor LLM use (which then becomes distracting while reading) and then the author sometimes mentioning in the HN comments they used an LLM to 'help' with their post based on some list of points they wanted to communicate. Yet when it's relied on too heavily like that it smothers the author's own voice.

If an opinion/idea is being communicated in the voice of another then something unique to that user has been lost. Like if I were to have a germ of an premise and told someone else about it and I found their thoughts clearer and how they expressed it and then copied how they'd expressed it then I think I'd be at least crediting them. Otherwise our own growth with self-editing and clarity will just atrophy and the internet will be a soup of homogenized ways of expressing things.
by HeavyStorm | 2026-03-12 02:39:44+00:00
> no matter how small a component already is, the single-responsibility principle can still be applied: every line of code can be assigned its own responsibility

The definition of SRP is to have each class (or module) to have a single reason to change. I don't see how that has anything to do with having each line be assigned a responsibility. If the line changes for the same reasons as it surrounding lines, then, they are part of the same component (to use the author's wording). My guess is that the principle is being taken literally from its name/acronym.
by trebligdivad | 2026-03-12 02:39:48+00:00
Note that this change is not getting rid of the Lords; it's just getting rid of Hereditary piers - i.e. those passed down through generations. We'll still have Lords who have been selected by previous governments within their lifetime; so they still provide that speed bump; but do it in a way that means they were at some point chosen by an elected body.