MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by hirako2000 | 2026-03-11 07:04:34+00:00
They are fully aware, but are playing a different game, R&D isn't something you flip a parameter and you get what the efficient oriented pipelines do.

Chinese models were built on constraints. As we know limitations lead to innovation. So the "Chinese" R&D invested in optimisations. Teacher models were already there so they likely built the best distillation processes, along with the best MoE. Actually they published many of these works.

Nuance, sure.
Anthropic/OpenAI could revise their philosophy to adopt efficiency.

But momentum can't be underestimated. Plus, dollar per optimisations is a different math altogether, it's not only about access to the latest Nvidia GPUs. At $400k the engineer pop a year, health coverage, pension contribution. Hardware efficiency doesn't weigh as much as making sure engineering focuses on.. the raw power factor, I suppose.
by ljf | 2026-03-11 07:04:59+00:00
The user who posted this seems banned, but their answer seems correct:

jonaslanglotz 2 minutes ago [dead] [–]

It's digital mourning stationery [1] in memory of Tony Hoare [2].
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mourning_stationery [2] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47324054
by fc417fc802 | 2026-03-11 07:05:07+00:00
> communicate with people who are both on and off the mainline internet seamlessly.

I feel like trying to do that at the protocol level might be the wrong level of abstraction. Different fabrics have very different properties. Seems like the app is the more appropriate level for seamlessly communicating via different fabrics.

Like if I try to send a video to someone but they're currently only visible to me via lora the software probably shouldn't try to push a huge blob of data over that particular medium. But I probably do want the option of sending and receiving large blobs in general, just restricted to high bandwidth connections.
by anonnon | 2026-03-11 07:05:46+00:00
Somewhat off topic, but any theories as to why the shilling for Claude (not insinuating that's what the OP is doing) is so transparent? For example, the bots/shills often go out of their way to insist you get the $200 plan, in particular. If Anthropic's product is so good: 1) why must it be shilled so hard, and 2) why is the shilling (which is likely partially a result of the product) so obvious? Is this an OpenAI reverse psychology dirty trick, the equivalent of using robocalls to inundate voters with messages telling them to vote for your opponent so as to annoy and negatively dispose them towards your opponent?
by georgehotz | 2026-03-11 07:06:07+00:00
Not at all. OpenAI / Anthropic are producing tons of surplus value right now! Not to mention how great the Chinese open source LLMs are. And Apple's hardware division has always been fine.

Apple's 30% tax for payments in apps is the ultimate rent seeking example though. Want to install your own apps, lol you can't. And if big AI companies follow in the steps of Google/Facebook it's bad for everyone. Let's recognize it and prevent it from happening this time.
by tcbrah | 2026-03-11 07:06:59+00:00
yep same here, i do the same thing for my video pipeline. spawn ffmpeg as a child process from node, pipe stdin/stdout directly and skip disk entirely for intermediate steps. concat demuxer + xfade filters for stitching scenes together. the only time i touch disk is the final output and even thats optional if youre uploading straight to s3 or whatever
by 0xWTF | 2026-03-11 07:07:09+00:00
3M-052 again? Oh, for fuck's sake. We've been down this road for 15 years now. Every funder who learns about the interferon cascade gets a boner. And then they go to animal trials and meet disappointment. If these guys can get to an IND, good on them, but 3M is really licensing the shit out of this one.

Meanwhile, if you've got spare millions laying around, have a look at ENA Respiratory. They've already done a Phase 1 in Australia (entirely admissable for the FDA). Turns out hypoxia creates and anxiety and old people have most of the world's wealth, so COPD is a lucrative market.

Another super interesting one is Lumen Biosciences - can't make oil from algae at a viable price point, but for sure they can hit pharma price points, even food supplement price points.
by austin-cheney | 2026-03-11 07:07:15+00:00
Yes, but I make it more precise into two points:

1. Build tools/libraries that empower superior execution performance. If you can execute faster than others you have more potential free time than them. This is a form of compound interest. I do this for myself but my output is not exclusive to myself.

2. Be operational. Create products that are always more durable than what is trendy, but when something does break return a resolution as rapidly as possible, provided excellent regression testing. Be constantly healthy, healing once injuries are found, and constantly aware of new injuries.

I find most people cannot do those two things. Most people cannot measure things and a great many people fear novelty.
by simianwords | 2026-03-11 07:07:41+00:00
i'm fairly certain Cory Doctorow does not understand the economics of Enshittification.

companies subsidise their products so that exploration of these products is more feasible due to lower initial costs for the end consumers. the initial consumers don't pay the full price but they are borne by the later consumers once the exploration is done and they have knowledge about that market and business.

Cory Doctorow also probably confuses democratisation and enshittifaction - its usually the case that products get cheaper by also marginally reducing the quality. we get cheap goods from China but that's not enshittification - that's just efficiency. as a consumer I'm happy I have the option of paying low prices for products.

i wouldn't take this person too seriously because it looks like they don't understand the larger picture
by rswail | 2026-03-11 07:07:56+00:00
Looks like an awesome launch.

Given all the privacy breaches already in this space, what auditing are you planning to ensure that PII is not held anywhere in the stack after KYC/AML/ID confirmation?

This goes beyond ISO27K/HIPAA/SOC2 etc to an actual code/storage audit that confirms that PII is only held ephemerally and completely encrypted at rest otherwise, unavailable to anyone, including internal access and/or law enforcement etc.
by brobdingnagians | 2026-03-11 07:09:27+00:00
I would encourage my competitors to use AI agents on their codebase as much as possible. Make sure every new feature has it, lots of velocity! Run those suckers day and night. Don't review it, just make sure the feature is there! Then when the music stops, the AI companies hit the economic realities, go insolvent, and they are left with no one who understands a sprawling tangled web of code that is 80% AI generated, then we'll see who laughs last.
by theshrike79 | 2026-03-11 07:09:33+00:00
MKBHD said it best: If you're looking at the reviews of the product on tech youtube channels or tech news sites - it's not the laptop for you.

As for your comparisons: My aunt doesn't need a terabyte of storage or a Ryzen 7 5700U, she needs 15+ hours of battery life because the laptop is going to live next to her spot on the couch and she most likely can't remember to plug it in every night.

Also the first laptop is from a reputable brand called NIAKUN. They must have amazing customer service and unbeatable warranties, right? =) And they certainly will exist in 12 months when you go look for the brand on Amazon and won't be replaced by another random set of letters in all caps selling the exact same product?

The HP is on sale, it's MSRP is $699 and for some weird fucking reason has the numpad on it, making the whole keyboard wonky. Who wants that on a laptop?

And the final thing, as with all price-forward comparisons: build quality. We need an objective standard measurement for chassis and keyboard flex, the ability to open the lid with one finger, the amount of creaking and squeaking said laptop will do in normal use and how hot and loud it gets in your lap when doing light browsing.
by zarzavat | 2026-03-11 07:12:38+00:00
I'm not getting results. That's the point. Claude doesn't fucking work without human intervention. When left to its own devices it makes bad decisions. It writes bad code. It needs constant supervision to stop it from going off the rails and replacing working code with broken code. It doesn't know what it's doing!

It's about as far as you can get from being able to work independently.

Yegge is an entertainer. Gas Town is performance art, it's not meant to be taken seriously.
by jongjong | 2026-03-11 07:13:06+00:00
I think the idea of running agents while you sleep isn't going to work until AI can match or exceed human-level agency and intelligence.

Whenever I coded any serious solution as a technical co-founder, every single day there was a major new debate about the product direction. Though we made massive 'progress' and built out a whole new universe in software, we haven't yet managed to find product market fit. It's like constant tension. If the intelligence of two relatively intelligent humans with a ton of experience and complimentary expertise isn't enough to find product-market-fit after one year, this gives you an idea about how high the bar is for an AI agent.

It's like the problem was that neither me nor my domain expert co-founder who had been in his industry for over 15 years had a sufficiently accurate worldview about the industry or human psychology to be able to produce a financially viable solution. Technically, it works perfectly but it just doesn't solve anyone's problem.

So just imagine how insanely smart AI has to be to compete in the current market.

Maybe you could have 100 agents building and promoting 100 random apps per day... But my feeling is that you're going to end up spending more money on tokens and domain names then you will earn in profits. Maybe deploy them all under the same domain with different subdomains? Not great for SEO... Also, the market for all these basic low-end apps is going to be extremely competitive.

IMO, the best chance to win will be on medium and complex systems and IMO, these will need some kind of human input.
by jarjoura | 2026-03-11 07:13:52+00:00
Who is "they" here?

Having a single-income parent in a two-parent home was the norm for most of US history. It's also still the norm outside of the US. Where is the evidence that children are worse off because both parents work? Kids (5+) barely spend any time at home during a typical work day, so I'm not sure what "they" are correct about.

How is it objectively correct that women should, on average, have children earlier? Sorry, but this is purely a subjective statement and women are free to agree or disagree with that statement.

Having been raised by my grandparents, I personally believe the only secret for success is to show up for children, and love them and provide them a stable environment to thrive in. Everything else is just window dressing.
by maxdo | 2026-03-11 07:14:41+00:00
essentially any enterprise software for example, surprisingly, that needs to be custom tailored and not scaled for millions of views.
e.g. anything that has a high context.

Youtube's of this world will not enjoy it, they will use rules of scale for billions of users.

Every Dashboard Chart, Security review system, Jira, ERP, CRM, LMS, chatbot, you name it. The problem that will win from a customization per smaller unit ( company, group of people or even more so an indvidual, like CEO, or CxO group) will win from such software.

The level 6 and and 7 is essentially death of enterprise software.
by matsemann | 2026-03-11 07:16:54+00:00
Ah, yeah, so this is probably for more professional workflows where you have a workhorse somewhere. Perhaps even in the cloud as long as the files are close by as well? My use case would be more "my computer sucks, so would be nice to do it on a beefy cloud computer", but of course no time is saved when just reading my files is slow, heh.
by hansmayer | 2026-03-11 07:17:33+00:00
> This is a strange comment. We have a well known example in openclaw, which is notoriously vibe coded, which again if you follow the thread, I’m not defending. whereas I know senior and staff engineers at most FAANG companies and every single one uses AI to code, so many many products you know are being written with AI.

Oh it's a product? What does it do? Leak data and delete inboxes? I would not call that a "product" at least not in the commercial sense.

> I don’t wanna dox myself but last year my company developed a greenfield product with a pretty large headcount of eng (multiple teams)that was built with an AI first development workflow

Yeah you sure are not "doxxing" yourself with this generic statement. I am sure you guys built something with the "AI first" workflow. The point being, based on what he AI CEOs and AI boosters are saying, this should have been a project with one person organising a "fleet of agents" . Why wasn't it? If it still requires a large engineering headcount, what's the point of using the AI?
by vasco | 2026-03-11 07:18:19+00:00
> This strategy is highly effective but it's also difficult to tolerate as an ordinary advanced ape. Watching others play less noble games and obtain easier wins can be discouraging over time.

A noble man that spends all his time jealous of the things the men without scruples have is not so much far from doing what they did. It's also what the men that did it before him told themselves "why play the right game if everyone else doesn't".
by georgehotz | 2026-03-11 07:18:26+00:00
The bar isn't massive benefits for the world, the MacBook Neo is great! If there was a new company that builds MacBook Neos, that's a great company. They build something real and sell it for more than it costs to make, no strings attached.

The problem with Apple comes down to the App Store, the forced 30%, and all the apps that just don't get built cause of Apple. This is rent seeking, and this is evil.

Here's a good system for evaluating technologies: https://www.ranprieur.com/tech.html

If you don't want a MacBook Neo, don't buy one and it doesn't affect your life. But the App Store affects your life whether you own an iPhone or not. It affects the direction of the world. And that's where the rent seeking problem is.
by strogonoff | 2026-03-11 07:19:06+00:00
I would argue that the amount of time needed for a proper review well exceeds the amount of time needed to just do it yourself.

When reviewing, you need to go through every step of implementing it yourself (understand the problem, solve the problem, etc.), but you additionally need to 1) understand someone else’s solution and 2) diff your solution against theirs to provide meaningful feedback.

Review could take roughly equivalent time, but only if I am allowed to reject/approve in a binary way (“my solution would not be the same, therefore denied”) which is not considered appropriate in most places.

This is why I am not a fan of being the reviewer.
by Root_Denied | 2026-03-11 07:19:11+00:00
In this day and age Prism launcher [0] will handle Minecraft and any modpacks you want to use. The only caveat is pointing it at your download folder so it can open the tabs for any mods that need a manual download and it will import them, but that's hardly difficult.

Minecraft (Mojang/Microsoft) have also made it clear that with them moving from OpenGL to Vulcan they're maintaining the ability for Minecraft to run on Mac as well as Windows/Linux, which is fantastic.

My bet is that the real different lies in mobile devices - iPads/tablets and phones are something that kids have more access to than laptops or desktops, and lots of people don't bother with parental controls.

[0] - https://prismlauncher.org/
by jillesvangurp | 2026-03-11 07:19:20+00:00
You can do a lot of work with agents to remove a lot of manual work around the sales process. Sales is a lot of grinding on leads, contacts, follow ups, etc. And a lot of that is preparation work (background research, figuring out who to talk to, who the customer is, etc.), making sure follow ups are scheduled appropriately, etc.

You still should talk to people yourself and be very careful with communicating AI slop, cold outreach and other things that piss off more people than they get into your funnel. But a lot of stuff around this can be automated or at least supported by LLMs.

Most of the success with sales is actually having something that people want to buy. That sounds easy. But it's actually the hardest part of selling software. Getting there is a bit of a journey.

I've built a lot of stuff that did not sell well. These are hard earned lessons. I see a lot of startups fall into this trap. You can waste years on product development and many people do. Until it starts selling, it won't matter. Sales is not a person you hire to do it for you: you have to be able to sell it yourself. If you can't, nobody else will be able to either. Founder sales is crucial. Step back from that once it runs smoothly, not before.

Use AI to your advantage here. We use it for almost everything. SEO, wording stuff on our website, competitor analysis, staying on top of our funnel, analyzing and sharpening our pitches, preparing responses to customer questions and demands, criticizing and roasting our own pitches and ideas, etc. Confirmation bias is going to your biggest blindspot. And we also use LLMs to work on the actual product. This stuff is a lot of work. If you can afford a ten person team to work on this, great. But many startups have to prove themselves before the funding for that happens. And when it does, hiring lots of people isn't necessarily a good allocation of resources given you can automate a lot of it now. I'd recommend to hire fewer but better people.
PromptVault free tool for multi agentic development
by bohdokas | 2026-03-11 07:20:14+00:00
If you’re building multi-agent AI systems, you know the pain: you tweak one agent’s prompt, forget what the old one said, lose track of which version produced good results, and can’t remember why you restructured the pipeline last week. PromptVault is a lightweight desktop app I built where you visually map your agent pipeline as a graph, version prompts per agent, and log outputs - all locally, no cloud required. Think of it as a dev journal with structure.
I am doing it all just for fun so if somebody is interested u will be happy to share.
by deepsun | 2026-03-11 07:21:18+00:00
I programmed systems with both for many years -- the thing that needs to be defined early is whether your time an Instant or a Date/TimeOfDay/Quarter (collectively Naked)

Instant would be like log entry timestamp. Can be represented as unix time or SQL Timestamp.

Naked would be a "contract effective date" or "employment first day" or "invoice date" or "store opening time". Do not try to use an Instant to store it (e.g. timestamp at midnight to represent a day) or you're about to have a bad time later.

Instants are more prevalent in systems engineering, Nakeds -- in applications.

Only when you need to present the Instants to the user you need to convert them to strings and timezones come into play. Nakeds rarely need to be translated to Instants (e.g. when deciding if an invoice is overdue and send a email notification).
by Zanfa | 2026-03-11 07:21:31+00:00
> But I prefer Rust over Zig. The main difference is Rust chooses a "closed world" model while Zig chooses an "open world" model: in Rust, you must explicitly implement a trait while in Zig as long as the shape fits, or the `.` on a structure member exists (for whichever type you pass in), it will work (I don't use Zig so pardon hand wavy description).

Do you happen to have a more specific example by any chance? I’d be interested in what this looks like in practice, because what you described sounds a bit like Go interfaces and from my understanding of Zig, there’s no direct equivalent to it in Zig, other than variations of fieldParentPtr.
by avaer | 2026-03-11 07:22:35+00:00
It's easy to create value for others and not worry about returns when you have enough money to not worry.

Unfortunately for most people, there's plenty of companies willing to take the returns and leave you paycheck to paycheck. That's literally what they are optimized to do.

I don't even disagree with the ideal, but I think a prerequisite step to this philosophy is UBI.
by Root_Denied | 2026-03-11 07:23:19+00:00
The ideal system as far as I'm concerned is one that regulates Roblox out of existence for a variety of sins.

At this point I'm just waiting for someone to dig up a name associated with Roblox in the Epstein files, because that's the only way I can conceive of how they've managed to avoid getting shut down this long.
by pestaa | 2026-03-11 07:23:43+00:00
What are you talking about. Cory literally coined the term to describe this phenomena. He is not confused by the idea of cheaper products with wider appeal. He takes issue with vendor lock-in that is weaponized first against the end-user, then against paying customers, and finally against investors themselves. This is first and foremost a criticism of online products and platforms, not mass-produced gadgets from China.
by sfink | 2026-03-11 07:23:55+00:00
All of those are only zero-sum if you pick a conserved metric. Land ownership is zero-sum if measured in square meters. But say someone buys up land that is parched, dead, and empty. They use it by planting moisture-retaining crops and windbreaks and growing food, or running a business of benefit to the community. Now overall everyone is a little better off, despite 0 square meters being created.

Influence is even more so -- it's common to have situations where nobody is truly paying attention to anyone else. The people with good ideas can't get any traction, and the whole organization just spins in circles, lurching from one externally-imposed crisis to the next. If the people who gain influence use that influence to promote others who are worth paying attention to (and thus they gain influence), everyone benefits. But if you measure that in terms of how many minutes each person gets to speak at the All Hands, it's zero-sum.
by maxdo | 2026-03-11 07:24:00+00:00
Car levels autonomy is fake. Everything including Level 3 is not a real autonomy it is hard rules + some reaction to the world, and everything above 3 is autonomy with just s slightly human security guardrails to attempt the real autonomy.

At this moment where we have human who just sit there before verify enough 9 after comas of error rates, the entire level conversation is dead. It's almost a binary state. Autonomous or not.

Similar happened with software levels. Even Level 2 was sci-fi 2 years ago, 1 year away from now anything bellow level 5 will be a joke except very regulated or billion users systems scale software.
by stopbulying | 2026-03-11 07:24:18+00:00
Iraq was 1% of global oil production prior to Bush-Cheney Iraq War II.

Why did global oil prices change so much post 2003?

2000s energy crisis / disaster https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2000s_energy_crisis

> End of the crisis:

> By the beginning of September 2008, prices had fallen to $110. OPEC [...]

World oil market chronology from 2003 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/World_oil_market_chronology_fr...

> From the mid-1980s to September 2003: under $25/barrel.

1998: $10
2004: $40-$60. A series of events led the price to
2005: $60
2006: $75
2007: $60-$99
2008: $141.75

14x higher price in 10 years

How did costs change over that time given efficiency growth year over year

Renewables are more lucrative with higher gas prices.

High gas prices typically lead to consumer price inflation and then prices never go back down.
by mastermage | 2026-03-11 07:25:02+00:00
Inarguably one of the great things done by apple is the rather easily overseeable models. And no mattter the processing power in the models you get a rather great experience from the haptics, audio and visual in all of them.

And I would be very much in the Apple Camp for personal laptops, if Gaming was in any way shape or reasonable. Thats the only downside of apple. They tried to fix this before but that really did not work out.