MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by EvansWilson | 2026-03-03 06:12:31+00:00
The wait is finally over. Whenever the Oracle of Omaha drops his quarterly filing, the entire investing world stops to take notes. But the Berkshire Hathaway 13F Q4 2025 is different. It’s not just a list of stocks; it’s a masterclass in defensive positioning during one of the most uncertain market cycles in recent memory.

If you were expecting Warren Buffett to chase the latest AI hype, you don't know Buffett. Instead, the final report of 2025 shows a man building a massive moat around his kingdom.

The Strategic Shift in the Berkshire Hathaway 13F Q4 2025

The headline for the Berkshire Hathaway 13F Q4 2025 isn’t just what Buffett is buying, but what he is quietly exiting. With a record-breaking cash pile of $381.7 billion, the message is loud and clear: Cash is a position, and patience is a superpower.

Trimming the Tech Giants
Apple ($AAPL) remains the crown jewel of the portfolio, but the trimming continues. Berkshire reduced its Apple stake by another 6%, a move that seems more about risk management and tax efficiency than a loss of faith in Tim Cook. More surprising was the massive 77% slash in Amazon ($AMZN). It seems the Oracle is leaning away from retail-heavy tech as consumer spending faces headwinds.

Doubling Down on "Old Reliable"
While tech took a backseat, Buffett leaned into what he knows best: energy and insurance.

Chevron ($CVX): Boosted significantly, signaling a long-term bet on "higher for longer" energy prices.

Chubb ($CB): Increased by 11%, further solidifying Berkshire’s dominance in the high-margin insurance sector.

New Blood: The Surprise New York Times Entry

Every 13F needs a "wildcard," and this quarter it was The New York Times ($NYT). Berkshire initiated a new stake worth roughly $650 million. In an era of AI-generated noise, Buffett is betting on the value of a trusted, subscription-based brand. It’s a classic "wide moat" play—investing in a business that people simply can't stop reading, no matter the economic weather.

Domino’s and Dollar Pools: A Hunger for Value

The portfolio also saw a 22% increase in Domino’s Pizza ($DPZ). Why? Because when the economy gets tough, people don't stop eating; they just switch to more affordable options. It’s a gritty, fundamental-driven move that reminds us why Buffett has outperformed the S&P 500 for decades.

Why the Massive Cash Pile Matters
Sitting on nearly $400 billion in cash might frustrate some aggressive growth investors, but for Berkshire, it’s "dry powder." Buffett is waiting for the one thing he loves most: a massive market correction that allows him to buy wonderful companies at "fat pitch" prices.

The Bottom Line

The Berkshire Hathaway 13F Q4 2025 shows a portfolio that is lean, mean, and ready for a storm. Buffett isn't trying to beat the market this week; he’s ensuring he owns the market for the next twenty years.
by palmotea | 2026-03-03 06:12:42+00:00
> Well, I'll just say this: I was a "vote blue no matter who" voter following Trump 1, but after seeing the complete limpness of democratic leadership in Trump's proto-fascist America, I'm not sure I could actually stomach voting for a someone like Newsom, who is basically a republican circa 10 years ago. I am far from the only person who feels this way.

It's not about who you would vote for.

> If the democrats acquiesce to the republicans, they will likely lose even more people than they already have, while gaining absolutely no one from the maga camp. I think the real strat is to go full Mamdani across the board. Unapologetic, compassionate leftism.

To be perfectly honest: I don't think you have the strategic sense to productively participate on a topic this. I kinda get the impression you're going for wish fulfillment.

You're not going to get it all. If you try to get it all, you'll lose. Your wish fulfillment candidate could win parts of California and New York, but those aren't the places you need to think about. Think about not crashing and burning in a Nebraska Senate race.
by 0cf8612b2e1e | 2026-03-03 06:13:16+00:00
Oh it was definitely beautiful, it just never seemed relevant to what was happening. More like the art team run amok. TP1 at least had an in universe explanation for the shape of the world.

Spoilers…kinda

I guess Athena and crew have invented literal universe manipulation powers? Allowing them to craft whatever beauty they see fit. Yet, their living quarters always seem to be some dingy basement lab with power cables and other miscellaneous garbage strewn about. The wondrous environments seemed fully disconnected from everything else in the world.

If they had the time and the budget, go nuts, but the game would have been perfectly suitable with significantly lower fidelity graphics.
by ahhhhnoooo | 2026-03-03 06:13:28+00:00
You are correct. Thankfully I never said anything of the sort.

I said proteins, plural. The s is a key indicator I was talking about more than one aspect.

Milk is about 5% lactose, 3.5% casein (80%) and whey proteins (20%, almost entirely two specific sub proteins), and 3-4% fat. A negligible amount of minerals. Nonfat milk, which I think we'd both recognize as milk (unpalatable as it may be). Lactose free milk is milk, I think. One assumes lactose free nonfat milk is milk.

So if one is producing the three primary proteins, you've got nearly the whole way there. There's some trace proteins you are missing, but if you are 99.99+% of the way to milk, you've got milk. You sure the milk you get from the store hasn't denatured those trace proteins?
by NitpickLawyer | 2026-03-03 06:13:32+00:00
> The voice samples sound fantastic [...] I felt you were talking to an actual person.

I like to listen to space content when going to sleep. Channels like History of the Universe, Astrum, PBS space time, SEA, etc.

Lately there's been a bunch of new-ish channels that produce content in that space (heh) and I'm amazed of how good the voices sound. Sometimes it takes a few good minutes to figure out they're genai voices, they're that good. If it weren't for small mistakes I bet more than 80% of the general population wouldn't have a clue.
by krishrastogi | 2026-03-03 06:13:32+00:00
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by tastyface | 2026-03-03 06:14:28+00:00
Why do you think you have the strategic sense to productively participate on a topic like this? Who even are you? What are your sources?

As for me, I look at polling results almost every day. My sense is that nothing I said is extraordinarily controversial among the voters who actually matter. People care about the economy, period. Outside of hardcore MAGA enclaves -- which will never change their vote -- the culture war bullshit is massively unpopular.
by gf000 | 2026-03-03 06:14:55+00:00
Well, that's just metaprogramming.

Also, java annotation processors are strictly "append-only", they can't change code written as is. They may subclass it, or build new classes that make use of the annotations.

In my experience LLMs are more than happy with annotations, especially from the widely used ones (spring/jakarta ee, lombok though it's not an annotation processor, etc).

If you think about it, an annotation like @Path("/endpoint") is very informative for both humans and LLMs alike, being local to what it attaches to. Within an agent, the code serving the endpoint will be immediately visible in the context returned by a simple string search, no need to do another round of "find wherever this codebase registers routes".
by cootsnuck | 2026-03-03 06:15:17+00:00
I've been working solely on voice agents for the past couple years (and have worked at one of the frontier voice AI companies).

The cascading model (STT -> LLM -> TTS), is unlikely to go away anytime soon for a whole lot of reasons. A big one is observability. The people paying for voice agents are enterprises. Enterprises care about reliability and liability. The cascading model approach is much more amenable to specialization (rather than raw flexibility / generality) and auditability.

Organizations in regulated industries (e.g. healthcare, finance, education) need to be able to see what a voice agent "heard" before it tries to "act" on transcribed text, and same goes for seeing what LLM output text is going to be "said" before it's actually synthesized and played back.

Speech-to-Speech (end-to-end) models definitely have a place for more "narrative" use cases (think interviewing, conducting surveys / polls, etc.).

But from my experience from working with clients, they are clamoring for systems and orchestration that actually use some good ol' fashioned engineering and that don't solely rely on the latest-and-greatest SoTA ML models.
by tomhow | 2026-03-03 06:15:34+00:00
Can we discuss the issue without being accusatory and interrogatory. The point of the guidelines (about titles and everything else) is so we can discuss things curiously, without getting riled up.

OK I've looked in the logs and here's what happened.

The originally submitted title was: The workers behind Meta’s smart glasses can see everything.

That title was created by the submitter; it's not the original title and it's not a verbatim line of text from anywhere in the article.

It's also, arguably, clickbait, which I gather is why another moderator changed it to: A hidden workforce behind Meta’s new smart glasses.

Their intention was to make the title less baity and be closer to a verbatim line from the article (a line in the subheading is "Behind Meta’s new smart glasses lies a hidden workforce").

That's what triggered all the complaints.

I then changed it to a title that is a verbatim string from the HTML title, with the baity part at the end removed. That is bog standard title editing of the kind I've done every day for the several years I've been doing this job.

> First-ever in-utero stem cell therapy for fetal spina bifida repair is safe, study finds

"Is safe" is not an absolutist claim, but even since your comment was submitted, another moderator has – correctly – changed "first-ever" to "first", because "first-ever" is absolutist and baity.

> The large number of replies this renaming got in a short timeframe is because it's not in line with what we're used to when it comes to title changes on HN.

What I've described above is what HN moderators do several times each day. I think the reaction to this one is because it's a topic that inherently gets people riled up (understandably), and people's riled-up-ness will spill over to any perception that we're "suppressing" the story. But we're not suppressing the story; it is still at top spot, and it will stay on the front page for several hours and everyone will have every chance to read it and discuss it.

The title we've arrived at now is the one that's most consistent with the guidelines.
by jb1991 | 2026-03-03 06:15:50+00:00
iCloud seems to work differently. Nearly all of the photos and videos I have are stored in iCloud because my phone is only a 64 GB device. But I can scroll back many years and pull up any photo video and play or view just fine right away. I can swipe right through long sequences of photos from five years ago on a device that doesn’t have them downloaded. I’m not sure exactly how that works.
by WarOnPrivacy | 2026-03-03 06:16:08+00:00
> So, the "which comes first" in this I feel tends to be, economic improvement comes first, then birth rates drop.

When we examine this in the future, we will eventually learn it had multiple, diverse causes. And we'll probably be surprised, even tho every complex issue is like that.

One of those causes is our improved economy. I live with my 4 adult sons because we make typical wages; no two of can afford basic bills.

Tying this to birth rates, it has become unlikely (commonly impossible) for two typical wage earners to afford their own household. It's tough to raise a family without a home.
by mrwh | 2026-03-03 06:16:19+00:00
Time will tell! Certainly AI is unlocking a lot of stuff, a huge number of people who did not have the time or the special skills before to create games will do so. I can think back to my own start in making computer games, using Amos on the Amiga (vastly easier than C or assembly).

It's a separate question whether anything actually good will come out of it. It's incredibly unfair to look at any particular project and say: what, another clone of this or that done idea? Very few things are original in any time. Certainly I didn't make anything particularly original all those years ago. But, soon, there should be really something, if there's really something there. If it's not just burning tokens to copy older ideas. And we'll know it when we see it, this amazing thing that would not have existed otherwise.
by m2fauzaan | 2026-03-03 06:19:08+00:00
Thanks, twosdai

Yes, I keep sharing with my friends and friends of friends, and they have been my loyal customers ever since.
All the feedback and new iterations are based on their feedback and new users. But the growth of the users is still very slow, and I am trying to see if I can do something that can accelerate the growth process

I'll try cold email or cold calling
by YuriiDev | 2026-03-03 06:19:34+00:00
Thanks for sharing this! POTSHARDS is a fascinating approach to long-term survivability through secret sharing and distribution. While they focus on avoiding encryption keys via data sharding across multiple archives, I’m trying to tackle the problem from the human side — using a memory-derived recursive cascade as the key. It's interesting to see how different architectures address the 'forgotten master key' dilemma.
by gf000 | 2026-03-03 06:20:27+00:00
"AI guys" use Claude CLI that renders to a terminal via freakin' react.

Come on, java starts up fast enough and the memory usage can be set (better throughput vs less memory, it's a classic tradeoff. Go just defaults to worse throughput).

Really, without some fat framework doing all kinds of initialization stuff, java code starts up practically instantly.
by drysine | 2026-03-03 06:20:54+00:00
>It really is insane that the West/World watches while Russia fires ballistic missiles and send hundreds of drones targeting civilians.

Because they don't target civilians.

>I guess Ukrainian lives are cheap and worthless to them.

I wish Ukrainians understood that in 2014. Also in 2021 when refusing Putin's pre-war ultimatum and later in 2022 when refusing the peace deal.
by AceJohnny2 | 2026-03-03 06:20:56+00:00
there's an apocryphal story that when one of Apple's chips was nearing 10B transistors, marketing asked the chip folks if they could round it up to 10B for their copy. The chip folks were confounded, and said no they didn't have any uncounted transistors to round it up, and they didn't approve of claiming 10B transistors when it wasn't.

(This was a while ago. I see the M4 is at 28 B)

Which is why I'm all the more surprised that Apple would claim 2x more ANE TOPS than it can really does.
by muzani | 2026-03-03 06:22:24+00:00
It says 3 Mar 2026. No downtime recorded on this day. Related: Elevated errors in claude.ai, cowork, platform, claude code

It's definitely not "elevated errors". It's down. Inaccessible. Not green. Yellow at best.

What's extra annoying is it works on some accounts and not on others. It works on Cursor running Claude and Antigravity running Claude, but not on the Claude account I paid for personally.
by EugeneOZ | 2026-03-03 06:22:33+00:00
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by westurner | 2026-03-03 06:22:49+00:00
With multi-stage Dockerfiles, you only copy the final, built application artifacts from the earlier stage(s). Then, building a package as one signed file to copy is justified and easier anyway.

There's always:

RUN dnf remove -y ansible && dnf clean all

I thought there was a native way to build container images with ansible that don't have ansible installed in the image though?

ansible/ansible-builder:
https://github.com/ansible/ansible-builder

"How to Use ansible-builder to Create Execution Environments"
https://oneuptime.com/blog/post/2026-02-21-how-to-use-ansibl... :

> The Build Process Explained: When you run ansible-builder build, it goes through these steps:

> Reads your `execution-environment.yml` definition,
Resolves collection dependencies (including transitive dependencies),
Generates a `Containerfile` in a `context/` directory,
Copies dependency files into the build context,
Runs the container build using Podman or Docker

How to Use Ansible to Build Podman Images >
Building with Build Arguments,
Multi-Stage Builds, Building with Buildah: https://oneuptime.com/#building-with-buildah :

It's possible to build images using build a commands in an ansible playbook:

buildah from
buildah copy
buildah run
buildah config
buildah commit

.

The CLI way to traverse an ansible playbook graph, for e.g. dagger:

ansible-playbook --list-tags
ansible-playbook --tags {tagname}

But where can it parallelize?

It probably shouldn't (?) parallelize because that wouldn't be a deterministic build; installing A then B is not the same as installing B then A. (Is not the same thing as installing A in one container image layer, B in another container image layer, and then trying to merge the package databases.) A given package B could conditionally install or configure according to whether or not A is already installed, and so for example package install tasks are not commutative.

.

Bootc (osbuild) builds VM and native machine images from Containerfiles:

bootc-image-builder
bootc upgrade

/? bootc ansible [Debian] https://www.google.com/search?q=bootc+ansible https://www.google.com/search?q=bootc+ansible+debian

"Demonstrate a debian or arch base image" bootc-dev/bootc#865 https://github.com/bootc-dev/bootc/issues/865

Is packer necessary with bootc?

To require signatures for containers and also for native containers with bootc:

cat /etc/containers/policy.json | grep sigstoreSigned

podman image trust show --raw

Here's this on ansible, dagger, bootc: "Public link: Dagger for Programmable CI/CD" https://gemini.google.com/share/3965633a3ff8
by volemo | 2026-03-03 06:23:40+00:00
> This is my experience too. I can rehearse words to say or simulate the conversation of others in my head. I just don't use words when I'm not doing wordy things myself.

Yep, same here. Most curiously though, I think I had an internal monologue in my childhood and teenage years, but sometime around 16–18 y.o. it went away. Sadly, I don’t remember the exact moment, as I’ve only learned about this topic around 20.

> the Comic strip Partially Clips was a pun

Whoah, took me a while too, even though you’ve explicitly told it’s there. xD

> I can play back non verbal sounds I have heard in my head, which I think not everyone can do

Nope, I can’t. (:
by teekert | 2026-03-03 06:24:08+00:00
I think it can go both ways. I have made things that made me feel bad for not truly understanding what I made and I disliked the process.

But I’ve also been really wanting to make my laptop’s NixOS config into a flake and make it nicely modular. I’ve watched some YouTube, read some posts, but never properly made the jump. There was always something wrong.

But now. Claude code has helped me over the hill, explaining every edit. Every step. And I’m really happy with the result. I see that I was just stuck on some small things now.
by jcgrillo | 2026-03-03 06:24:24+00:00
This is historically what we've had consumer protection regulations for. When they put lead, radium, asbestos, arsenic, or other poisons in consumer products the regulators step in and put a stop to it. It should be pretty clear at this point these consumer tech companies are no different--they're just producing poison. And it's not like there weren't signs, it's been like this for damn near a quarter century.
by protocolture | 2026-03-03 06:24:39+00:00
>I wonder if these are the same people who 3-4 years ago were insisting putting 20 characters onto a blockchain (ie an NFT, which was just a URL) was the next multi-billion dollar business.

NFT protocol doesnt really care what the payload is. NFT purveyors likewise dont care what their payload is, as long as they could use the term "NFT".

NFT's are great for certain use cases (Crypto Kitties is still around I believe) but there was never a single moment I considered that owning a weird ape jpeg, even if it was somehow, properly owned by me, would be worth millions of dollars or whatever. Its like trying to sell a "TCP".

That said, future blockchain applications will probably still rely on NFT's in some fashion. Just not the protocol as product weirdness we got for a few years there.
by notpushkin | 2026-03-03 06:24:44+00:00
tomhow has just responded to my email. If I understand correctly, the HN mods feel that the “see everything” bit would cause less civil discussion in the comments.

I find v2 title okay-ish: it’s derived from the page title, and you can see what it’s about (as compared to v1). It doesn’t capture the degree of what Meta can see, though.
by card_zero | 2026-03-03 06:24:56+00:00
In the article. It says (paraphrasing): Time Machine goes wrong (over time!), Spotlight doesn't index tags right (requires relaunching Finder), Finder sometimes hangs when using Spotlight (requires relaunching Finder), folders sometimes won't update to show new files (requires relaunching Finder), using Quick Look on a video makes airpods glitch, and switching by cmd+tab to a fullscreen window doesn't give it keyboard focus.
by 0xbadcafebee | 2026-03-03 06:27:00+00:00
I guess Blameless Postmortems haven't arrived in journalism yet.

Pretty weird that journalism as a business still revolves around "we hired a guy to write a thing, and he's perfect. oh wait, he's not perfect? it was all his fault. we've hired a new perfect guy, so everything's good now." My dudes... there are many ways you can vet information before publishing it. I get that the business is all about "being first", but that also seems to imply "being the first to be wrong".

I feel bad for the reporters. People seem to be piling onto them like they're supposed to be superhuman, but actually they're normal people under intense pressure. People fail, it's human. But when an organization fails, it's a failure of many people, not one.