MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by OCTAGRAM | 2026-03-11 07:49:13+00:00
> unable to keep its own top tech talent supportive of their own government

Government did much to turn them away. And with regards to Makh messanger. Patriotic tech talents are supposed to be interested in Elbrus 2000 PC and Aurora mobile OS. Does Makh messenger work on something Russian? No, Makh does not work on anything Russian. So what makes Makh Russian? We don't get it. It's some another Russia that we don't belong to. Our Russia is Elbrus 2000 PC and Aurora mobile OS. And software from Astra group. People behind Elbrus 2000 support orthodoxal christianity, and people behind Astra group are for great Soviet past. They call one of Astra Linux releases "Leningrad". The proper name of what is currently known as "Saint-Petersburg."

Makh is from some commercial group that does not care about our values. Virtually openly violates traditional values. They are from VK group, and VK hosts VKFest, an open air for youth with rotten words, furnication songs, all that stuff.

Our Russia and their Russia don't mix like water and oil.

For military there is another communication network called Свод (Svod, Arch). It was 4 years late to the party, but at least goes in now.
by mastermage | 2026-03-11 07:51:02+00:00
I think these comparisons between left and right, always break down when one side clearly does not want others to live. I am fine with opposition when we can both agree on the fundamentals that every person deserves to live (and probably a good life too not just barely scraping by). There are alot of people now again, that do not belive in this fundamental principle.
by rhubarbtree | 2026-03-11 07:51:08+00:00
Brilliant insight. The success of LLM reasoning, ie “telling yourself a story”, has greatly increased my belief that humans are actually much less impressive than they seem. I do think it’s mostly pattern matching and a bunch of interacting streams analogous to LLM tokens. Obviously the implementations are different, because nature has to be robust and learn online, but I do not think we are as different from these machines as most people assume. There’s a reason Hofstadter et al. reacted as they did even to the earlier models.
by berkes | 2026-03-11 07:51:13+00:00
I know in practice it no longer is the case, if it ever was.

But semantic HTML is exactly that explicit machine-readable entrypoint. I am firmly entrenched in the opinion that HTML, and the DOM is only for machines to read, it just happens to be also somewhat understandable to some humans. Take an average webpage, have a look at all characters(bytes) in there: often two third won't ever be shown to humans.

Point being: we don't need to invent something new. We just need to realize we already have it and use it correctly. Other than this requiring better understanding of web tech, it has no downsides.
The low hanging fruit being the frameworks out there that should really do a better job of leveraging semantics in their output.
by 0x3f | 2026-03-11 07:51:56+00:00
Note we're in a sub-thread about whether 'only data matters, not architecture', so I don't disagree that functionality or revenue are growing _in general_, but that's not we're talking about here.

The point is that core model architectures don't just keep scaling without modification. MoE, inference-time, RAG, etc. are all modifications that aren't 'just use more data to get better results'.
by cashmere1337 | 2026-03-11 07:52:12+00:00
A few days ago I posted the initial release of kitty-graphics.el here. Thanks for all the feedback, bug reports and feature requests. I went ahead and built everything that was asked for.

Here's what's new in v0.2.1:

- Org inline images now work properly. The core feature from v0.1 got a robustness overhaul. File links, attachment links and relative paths all work.
- LaTeX fragment preview in org-mode via =C-c C-x C-l=. Renders through dvipng, displayed inline via Kitty protocol. No GUI frame needed.
- doc-view integration. PDFs, DVI and PostScript files render in the terminal. Page navigation, zoom, centering all work.
- Image-mode with zoom controls and centering. Uses its own major mode now to avoid evil-mode conflicts.
- Dirvish integration. Image previews in the preview pane, no config needed.
- Images hide when org headings are collapsed. This was the first bug report and it's fixed.
- LRU image cache instead of the old unbounded hash table.
- Less flicker on buffer/window switches.
- Overflow protection for tall images near the bottom of the window.

Full writeup with GIFs: https://cashmere.rs/blog/kitty-graphics-el-v021-release

Repo: https://github.com/cashmeredev/kitty-graphics.el
by dmantis | 2026-03-11 07:52:37+00:00
Would be great if true, but that doesn't really correspond in reality truly, especially in intellectual products. Compare even Linus Torvalds fortune with e.g. snapchat founder. Not even talking about thousands of 0 profit open source projects with millions of installations versus some saas hustler - usually the former provide much more value to society than some guy who is just good at selling stuff.

UBI might fuel some useless work, but it also might provide a way to people to be more into creative side of things rather than selling and marketing rat race.

Also in less developed countries money even less corresponds to value. It's almost everything has some mafia and corruption that extracts huge portions of value from the economy and basically net negative, though profitable.

I'd like to live in the world where money are always allocated fairly, but we see that in IT, for example, predating, stealing data, spying on people bring more money than the honest work due to misaligned incentives, when bad actors pay more money than actual consumer.
by jacquesm | 2026-03-11 07:53:03+00:00
Because that re-training is not strong enough to hold, or so it seems. The same dumb factual errors keep coming up on different generations of the same models. I've yet to see proof that something 'stuck' from model to model. They get better in a general sense but not in the specific sense that what was corrected stays put, not from session to session and not from one generation to the next.

My solution is to have this massive 'boot up' prompt but it becomes extremely tedious to maintain.
by lukaslalinsky | 2026-03-11 07:53:12+00:00
They are referring to `anytype`, which is a comptime construct telling the compiler that the parameter can be of any type and as long as the code compiles with the given value, it's good.

It's an extremely useful thing, but unconstrained, it's essentially duck typing during compile time. People has been wanting some kind of trait/interface support to constrain it, but it's unlikely to happen.
by 8bitsrule | 2026-03-11 07:53:36+00:00
Gotta say, good luck with that effort. Lenat started Cyc 42 years ago, and after a while it seemed to disappear. 'Understanding' the 'physical world' is something that a few -may- start to approach intuitively after a decade or five of experience. (Einstein, Maxwell, et.al.) But the idea of feeding a machine facts and equations ... and dependence on human observations ... seems unlikely to lead to 'mastering the physical world'. Let alone for $1Billon.
by NorwegianDude | 2026-03-11 07:55:10+00:00
> I worked at a startup, they built their API in PHP because it was easy and fast. Now they're successful, app doesn't scale, high latency etc. What does their php code do? 95% of it is calling a DB.

So PHP worked perfectly, but the DB is slow? Your DB isn't going any faster by switching to something else, if that's what you think.

PHP is the future, where React has been heading for years.
by ktpsns | 2026-03-11 07:55:31+00:00
The tragedy of the commons affects not only grey-haired astronomers but everybody who wants to learn about nature. Light pollution is already so real that I assume the majority of people in "industrialized states" haven't seen milky way with naked eyes if they cannot afford traveling to very remote areas (me included, despite I have a PhD in astrophysics, which makes me technically a grey-haired astronomer).

Of course technology will eventually solve the problem and space-based observatories are superior, despite more expensive and thus makes it more difficult to make science inclusive.

The big question is: Will the shift to orbit exclude a big part of mankind from participating? Capitalism most likely days "yes" and this is, in fact, a tragedy.
by ivell | 2026-03-11 07:55:58+00:00
> You have a right to perform your prescribed duty, but you are not entitled to the fruits of action.

> stick to your lane and don't complain. I.e. the caste system

That verse is quite famous and the general interpretation as I understand is this.

You have control on your actions but not on its results. The results depend not only on your actions but on many other factors outside of your control.

Now, one can interpret that it is instruction to "stay in your lane", but I have not seen that interpretation so far in my life in India.
by PunchyHamster | 2026-03-11 07:56:00+00:00
Getting watched by your parents is far different than getting watched by the government. It's no different than parent watching out of the window on kids playing in backyard

> And then people wonder why authoritarianism is on the rise...

It's on the rise because of utter failure of progressive govt to do what people want them to do. People want country to be more prosperous, not to have bleeding heart activists import immigrants or other leftist bullshit. Authoritarian turn is knee jerk reaction to that beacuse they are only ones promising the country for the citizens of the country. If you want less of that, make left that cares about country's people
by devsda | 2026-03-11 07:56:23+00:00
> If anything it seems to promote rent seekers by telling you - stick to your lane and don't complain. I.e. the caste system

I was wondering if that would come up and HN delivers without fail. Anyway, you are free to interpret it as you see fit.

The guidance was for someone who was struggling with a moral dillema on facing relatives in war and undecided over action. It is not a diktat to work or provide unquestion labor.

For anyone who understood the whole story and backdrop of the situation, a reasonable interpretation is

- you are responsible for your actions but you cannot control the consequences of your actions due to many factors.

- When you detach yourselves from results and you can do your job without anxiety.

- do not let the fear over results be an excuse for inaction.

Give it a read and decide for yourselves if you are not convinced. Even without the teachings part, the whole story of Gita is actually an epic story/novel with some strong and conflicted characters with elaborate back stories.
by woadwarrior01 | 2026-03-11 07:56:43+00:00
> Neural Engine / ANE is powerful for fixed-shape inference (vision, classification) but autoregressive LLM decode, where you're generating one token at a time with dynamic KV cache, doesn't map as cleanly to ANE today.

What does the ANE have to with this?

Neural Engine (ANE) and the M5 Neural Accelerator (NAX) are not the same thing. NAX can accelerate LLM prefill quite dramatically, although autoregressive decoding remains memory bandwidth bound.

I suspect the biggest blocker for Metal 4 adoption is the macOS Tahoe 26 requirement.
by grundrausch3n | 2026-03-11 07:56:55+00:00
You could get the number wrong. The quote stated that 60% of the companies use Suse to power some of the workloads. So if most of these companies would use Suse to host SAP, some have a few teams using Rancher and some (more so in Europe ) are using Sles you still get to these numbers even if most of them use RedHat for most of their workloads.
by jonasdegendt | 2026-03-11 07:57:29+00:00
There were dozens of ways to make money off of RuneScape back in the day. Selling bot scripts, running bot farms (this is still very lucrative to this day), running gambling rings, bulk buying gold and reselling, the list goes on.

The ecosystem was incredible and it was basically a crash course in Anarcho-capitalism, I'm pretty immune to any kind of scam because of having been in that environment.

I made close to 20 grand as a 16 year old through some bug abuse, over the course of 2 weeks if I recall. But alas, I blew it pretty quickly because easy come, easy go.
Show HN: Tablelot, A real estate marketplace exclusively for restaurants
by isandeep1995 | 2026-03-11 07:58:26+00:00
I’m Sandeep. I usually spend my time building iOS apps and SaaS tools, but recently I started looking closely at commercial real estate platforms and noticed how frustrating the search experience is if you’re specifically trying to open a food business.

If you go on massive platforms like LoopNet, you end up sifting through hundreds of warehouses, retail storefronts, and office spaces just to figure out if a location has a grease trap.

So I and Alex https://tablelot.com/profile/alex-rusu-legacy-commercial-rea... built Tablelot. It’s a marketplace strictly for buying, selling, and leasing restaurant real estate.
by concats | 2026-03-11 07:58:39+00:00
How does it compare for models of any meaningful size?

These 0.6B-4B models are, frankly, just amusing curiosities. But commonly regarded as too error prone for any non-demo work.

The reason why people are buying Apple Silicon today is because the unified memory allows them to run larger models that are cost prohibitive to run otherwise (usually requiring Nvidia server GPUs). It would be much more interesting to see benchmarks for things like Qwen3.5-122B-A10B, GLM-5, or any dense model is the 20b+ range. Thanks.
by roysting | 2026-03-11 07:59:11+00:00
The best you could hope for is regulation of the delta or maybe enforcement of markets. The problem is really that such abuse is a kind of debt bondage, you have no other choices but essentially the Roblox company store.

It’s a newish form of the same abuse due to the nature of tech, game addiction, and the decay of culture and society; but it’s also why society has not developed a response against that particular practice any more than the corrosive and addicting nature of “games” that are essentially not much different than gambling, only more legal and across a wider user base.

I have a theory that much of the gambling industry in the USA has atrophied because the “investors”, aka, the corrupts and rotten people of the gambling industry that are/came from organized crime, have moved into “gaming”. I have specific reason to believe that was a general trend beyond specific cases. For example, people who’s job was to develop extremely addicting slot machine “games” both visually and in their manipulation of addiction patterns, i.e., how to push and milk someone to the limit before they can be pulled back into the gamblers fallacy.

But now I’ve gotten way off topic…but not really. It’s all dark, evil patterns; using game addiction to exploit the capture through debt bondage.
by zozbot234 | 2026-03-11 07:59:26+00:00
> I am talking about Opus 4.6 and Codex 5.3 here, at high+ effort settings

So you have to burn tokens at the highest available settings to even have a chance of ending up with code that's not completely terrible (and then only in very specific domains), but of course you then have to review it all and fix all the mistakes it made. So where's the gain exactly?
by cryptos | 2026-03-11 07:59:42+00:00
Windows reputation is declining, so the operating system might be the actual crisis. Linux with modern desktops (e.g. Gnome 3) might fill the gap, but the market is far from broad adoption. Promoting and improving Linux desktop and apps would be a long endeavour, but betting only on Windows which degrades to a cloud and AI advertising surface might be fatal.
by nathancroissant | 2026-03-11 07:59:58+00:00
As others have said, it's a very optimistic view that can be infuriating to read when you are struggling to pay your bills.

I'd also argue it's not very effecicient : we are at our best when we have deadlines and clear targets to reach, and making money to pay the bills can be a very motivating one to stop procrastinating !
by locallost | 2026-03-11 08:00:01+00:00
Was my first thought also when I saw it. I honestly planned to ditch Macbooks before they released M1, but this hardware is just so much better than anything Intel or AMD can offer at least for laptops. For people that are not too demanding I've recommended Airs for a while, but this basically has the potential to destroy the entire midrange PC market. Some people will be reluctant to switch, but I don't think the OS is as important today as it was before. So much happens on the web anyway.
by duskdozer | 2026-03-11 08:00:25+00:00
>Take Elon Musk — tremendous positive-sum deals with people everywhere, and all together, that's what got him to the top.

Ah yes, "tremendous" positive-sum deals like:

>Musk admitted to his biographer Ashlee Vance that Hyperloop was all about trying to get legislators to cancel plans for high-speed rail in California—even though he had no plans to build it.

https://time.com/6203815/elon-musk-flaws-billionaire-visions...
by paredating | 2026-03-11 08:01:30+00:00
Most dating apps were designed for people in their 20s.
But the fastest growing group trying online dating right now are 40+, 50+, and 60+ — often after divorce or loss. And the experience for them is… honestly terrible.
Pare actually started because of my mom. After watching her navigate online dating after a long marriage, I realized how poorly most platforms are designed for people in midlife — and how exposed they are to scams.
Two big problems kept coming up:
Loneliness – many people in midlife aren’t looking for casual dating. They want companionship, shared activities, someone to go to dinner with, or travel with.
Romance scams – this demographic is heavily targeted, and most platforms do very little to stop it.
So we started building Pare.
People sometimes describe it as “the dating app for your parents”, which isn’t far off. But the real idea is building trust infrastructure for modern relationships.
Some of the things we’re doing differently:
• Identity verification and background checks before people can participate
• Behavior monitoring for scam patterns or financial solicitation
• Human review triggers when suspicious activity appears
• A design focused on actual dates and companionship, not endless swiping
• Upcoming features that let people find others interested in the same events or activities
We’re also exploring ways to expand beyond traditional dating into companionship and social connection, because many people simply want someone to do things with.
The more we research this space, the more it feels like loneliness and fraud are two sides of the same problem.
Curious what the HN community thinks about:
What trust and safety should look like in dating products
Whether identity verification helps or hurts adoption
How you’d design systems that discourage scammers at the platform level
Would love feedback from people who’ve built marketplaces, identity systems, or trust infrastructure.
by akagr | 2026-03-11 08:01:40+00:00
Go beyond the specs, though. Which windows laptops have similar combination of all metal build with tight tolerances, a display hinge that doesn’t wobble, a nice keyboard and even close to similar feeling trackpad? Note that most non haptic trackpads are dive boards where you can only press the lower part of it, whereas as Neo’s trackpad is completely floating and can be pressed even on the very top.

If quality and in-hand feel matters to you at all, you’ll be hard pressed to find a more well rounded laptop than a MacBook at any price point.
by cadamsdotcom | 2026-03-11 08:01:49+00:00
Code and Claude Code hooks can conditionally tell the model anything:

#!python

print(“fix needed: method ABC needs a return type annotation on line 45”

import os

os.exit(2)

Claude Code will show that output to the model. This lets you enforce anything from TDD to a ban on window.alert() in code - deterministically.

This can be the basis for much more predictable enforcement of rules and standards in your codebase.

Once you get used to code based guardrails, you’ll see how silly the current state of the art is: why do we pack the context full of instructions, distract the model from its task, then act all surprised when it doesn’t follow them perfectly!
by lukan | 2026-03-11 08:02:32+00:00
I see the solution as only engaging with reasonable persons and ignore the rest.

And the problem is filtering them out. That is real work that can be draining and demoralizing as unreasonable persons usually have their sad story why they are the way they are, but you cannot do therapy or coaching for random strangers while trying to get a project going.

So if people contribute good things, engage with them. If they contribute slob (AI generated or not) - you say no to them.
by gitaarik | 2026-03-11 08:02:37+00:00
In the end you'll always have to manually validate the output, to ensure that what the test case tests is correct. When you write a test case, that's always what you need to do, to ensure that the test case passes in the right conditions, and you have to test that manually.

Since you have to test that manually anyway, you can have AI write the code first; you test it; if it's the right result, you tell AI this is correct, so write test cases for this result.
by PeterStuer | 2026-03-11 08:02:49+00:00
What % of sites have a content update volume that exceeds what you can get respecting crawl delay?

If your delay is 1s and you publish less than 60 updates a minute on average I can still get 100%. Most crawls are not that latency sensitive, certainly not the ai ones.

HFT bots, now that is an entirely different ballgame.
by cyh555 | 2026-03-11 08:03:17+00:00
> Like self driving cars will automate away truck drivers - do you not think they need to be laid off because of AI?

geohot is talking about AI has its limitation and that it won't truly replace the human yet. Truck drivers and some people who contribute net positive value are not rent seekers at the moment.

AI could render our jobs to be rent seeking, we don't know when.
by drshade | 2026-03-11 08:03:23+00:00
A quick lightning style talk to present to a small community - not with a solved approach but rather attempting to debate the role that an Effect System could play in making architectural layers constrained in the code base directly. E.g. How can we encode the constraint "You shouldn't be able to write to the database directly from a request handler". The audience has very little haskell experience, and the presenter is not a full-time nor expert haskell programmer - but of course (as we all know) haskell is categorically the best language to experiment with these ideas ;)

Obviously Effect Systems are not perfect, and the talk was not meant to be some sort of tutorial - but rather to try and build an intuition of why they exist, and a very simplified model for how they work - with the hope that it sparks some interest and that individuals see them as being something worthwhile to look at when attempting to surface architectural boundaries within a code base, and MAYBE this can keep technical debt lower over time?
by tasuki | 2026-03-11 08:04:00+00:00
> The original comment has the obvious implicit judgment that a greater CO2 footprint is a bad thing.

No it did not contain any judgement. That is your reading and not the comment.

> This is shared context.

The world is a large place and different people share different context.

> The purpose of the comment is clearly to shame the person for having such a high carbon footprint, otherwise there's no purpose in bringing it up.

Informing perhaps?

I wonder what your gripe is: Do you think it's inappropriate to mention the CO2 at all? Or do you think that the poster should have said it in a different way? In what way?