MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by input_sh | 2026-03-03 15:39:19+00:00
> This is very generous of you!

No it's not, it's a sales pitch that intentionally ignores some of the things pointed out in the article. The author has invested time into proper SEO optimization, legit websites already link to it et cetera, it's all explained in the article.

From the perspective of a spammer: They need like 2 million MAU to earn below minimum wage. You're never getting those figures by doing something legit and actually useful to a tiny subset of people. You either need a vague site beyond any point of usefulness to anyone or you need a network of knockoff sites. The reason you can't compete with these shitty SEO spam version of your site is because they already have a network of "authoritative" (in Google's eyes) sites and all they have to do is to link from them to a new one to expand their shitty network.

From the perspective of SEO agencies: They can't guarantee results. They can tell you vague, easily-googleable best practices and give you an output of some SEO SaaS that's far too expensive for an individual to purchase. Ahrefs(.com) is the prime example of this, the cheapest paid version costs $129/month. Do you care about SEO that much? No, so you go to these agencies and give them money for them to give you the output of such a tool. But that SaaS also only contains vague and nebulous "things to fix" to follow "best practices" because they also cannot know what drives traffic to your competitor from the outside perspective.

My best suggestion would be to start a website from day one. Doesn't matter how good the website is at first, Google favours sites that exist for longer. If you're creating a website after the knock-off version already exist, you might as well give up immediately, it's gonna be near impossible to recover from that.
by jeffwass | 2026-03-03 15:39:36+00:00
FYI link is below, for the off-chance someone is curious.

(not sure what are the unwritten rules of self-promotion here, but hopefully providing a link in a sub-comment instead of the comment itself makes it okay-ish?)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qI3xj9cM0jk
by camillomiller | 2026-03-03 15:39:54+00:00
>> I disagree with this approach because I've seen how much creativity and effort some people can put into slowly evolving a single elaborate prompt. AI can be used as another kind of brush. A prompt can be a masterpiece.

Absolute nonsense. A work of art is made of semantic stratification, experience, thought process.
A prompt lacks all that.
AI art can be a tool, but this sentence is a good reminder that on average it’s worth shit all.
by sspiff | 2026-03-03 15:39:54+00:00
I'm fine with providing my identity for online banking and other finance platforms for legal & taxation purposes.

I can't think of a single other use case in which I'd be willing to verify my identity. I'd rather go back to hosting email myself, and am fine with circumventing content access control for all other platforms for personal use.

We're seeing the world slide towards authoritarian strongmen, and we want to give them a massive index of who we are and what we do? I'd rather not.
by hiAndrewQuinn | 2026-03-03 15:40:05+00:00
Your job title encompasses the highest-order bits about who you are, professionally. The value is much more between organizations than within a single one.

If you plan to stay at one place for a long time, it's much less important. You have a chance to figure out how things 'really' work in practice. I know a guy who is a senior architect, and everyone refers to him as that at his company, but his actual on-paper title is something like "project technical lead". It's just not very important if you are going to stay there for 20 or 30 years and chase deep breathing metis.

I don't have the same career outlook, so my job title is important to me. I actively negotiate for it. My own title is "senior DevSecOps engineer". Criticism of the acronym notwithstanding, this paints an instantly legible set of competencies around what I do best, what I do adequately, and what you probably would get better value for money paying someone else for. I'm probably pretty good at vulnerability management and securing CI/CD pipelines. Optimizing weights on our anti-spam logistic classifier is probably not the kind of thing I can do well. Etc., etc.
by troyvit | 2026-03-03 15:41:19+00:00
Subscription used to work. They can work again, even better than before now that we have the facility for micro-transactions. A micro-transactional framework would have the added benefit of making it expensive for scrapers to steal content.

This is hard for me, an "information wants to be free" kinda guy, to espouse. But there are softer ways to do it, such as how The Guardian does it, or how public media does it.
by piltdownman | 2026-03-03 15:41:32+00:00
//Funny how this lateral move to another function is seen as a promotion.

Not at all. IC salaries outside of the absolute top-tier companies are capped, and were traditionally always capped lower than any degree of Senior Management prior to the 2000s.

More to the point, they were capped illegally and in collusion with the main players in the game, completely separate from market forces.

This was ably demonstrated by the class action taken when five former software engineers sued Apple, Google, Adobe Systems, and Intel in a Federal District Court in California for colluding in an “overarching conspiracy” to keep wages low by promising not to poach each other’s employees.

https://equitablegrowth.org/aftermath-wage-collusion-silicon...

65,000 software engineers eventually claimed they were unable to jump companies for higher pay because of a series of non-solicitation agreements by the likes of Sergey Brin, Eric Schmidt, and Apple's Steve Jobs.

Outside of VC/PE funded American tech hotspots, this depression of salaries for IC roles still tends to be the case - particularly in Europe - for whatever reason.

Simply put, the promotion is in the remuneration; the lateral move in functionality is simply a required re-alignment of role and responsibility to meet the expectations of the 'Leadership' tier - something always distinct from original job function, be it in Sales, HR, or Engineering.
by thewebguyd | 2026-03-03 15:41:35+00:00
> It is the young people that are growing up conditioned to press accept

It's really alarming, actually. I run the cyber security training & phishing simulations at my work, and it's the younger employees that struggle the most. It's like they just assume that everything on the web is trustworthy.

It's not hard to see why though. They grew up with app stores & locked down devices. No concept of a file or file system, no concept of software outside of the curated store & webapps. People that never had to take responsibility for their own digital safety because "someone else" (Google, Apple) always did it for them.
by adgjlsfhk1 | 2026-03-03 15:42:24+00:00
This the the most cursed part of modern cpu design, but the TLDR is that programs use virtual addresses while CPUs use physical addresses which means that CPU caches need to include the translation from virtual to physical adress. The problem is that for L1 cache, the latency requirement of 3-4 cycles is too strict to first do a TLB lookup and then an L1 cache lookup, so the L1 can only be keyed on the bits of ram which are identical between physical and virtual addresses. With a 4k page size, you only have 6 bits between the size of your cache line (64 bytes) and the size of your page, which means that at an 8 way associative L1D, you only get 64 buckets*64 bytes/bucket=32 kbits of L1 cache. If you want to increase that while keeping the 4k page size, you need to up the associativity, but that has massive power draw and area costs, which is why on x86, L1D on x86 hasn't increased since core 2 duo in 2006.
by s_dev | 2026-03-03 15:42:34+00:00
I went for an M4 Max, 128GB RAM and 2TB storage. My thinking is that we've crossed the rubicon of expecting tech to be orders of magnitudes faster a decade out. It won't be.

I expect this MacBook Pro (2024) to last a decade and inflation to eat away at value of cost/benefit of future purchases so I got the best one I could possibly afford. Meaning whatever entry level Apple laptop is available in 2034 will be only a small multiple faster than than my top of line 2024 one. I could be wrong as well but that's the dice roll.
by sspiff | 2026-03-03 15:42:54+00:00
Same. I was on macOS for work for about 3 years. Never gelled with me.

I was on an M2 Macbook Pro with Asahi and it was great. It's really hard to fault Apple's hardware for most use cases.

I'm currently on a Strix Halo laptop (HP Zbook), which is about as expensive, and the hardware is great, but power efficiency and build quality lag leagues behind by Apple. A 4000 euro laptop still feels like a cheap toy.
by yes_man | 2026-03-03 15:42:59+00:00
Put an LLM inside the NPCs in an open world RPG full of dangerous enemies. The LLMs that are more prone to emulate self-preservation will be more likely to survive over ones that have a lesser drive.

We should not act surprised if that generalizes to some degree to for example AI agents. Ones that emulate self-preservation might optimize for behavior that results in those models becoming more successful, more popular. And this feedback loop might embed more such properties into future iterations of the models.
by mothballed | 2026-03-03 15:43:05+00:00
Here's one anecdote. I always walked home from the bus. When I tried it with my child, the bus driver would not even release my child on their own, and I was given a timer to pick her up before the authorities would seize her.

On one other occasion I walked with my child (again from the bus) until we got to our own property, then my child and I parted ways while my child walked the long road (our private road) around. A Karen pulled up and interrogated our child for being outside "alone" and I had to intervene before they could resort to calling the authorities.

Either of these anecdotes were absolutely unheard of when I was a kid. I would literally walk around all day alone with a real, loaded gun hunting animals on many occasion including on public roads starting around age 7. I cannot imagine what would happen if you let a kid do that today.

And then there was the other time, I took my child to the park, and the police were called on me, because apparently it is "suspicious" for a child to be out and about with a man of a different race (yes I FOIAd the body cam). I was detained under suspicion of kidnapping while the police terrified me and my child. When I was a kid the police wouldn't get called because the father would never bother accompanying their child to the park. After I was released I just drove off and took her inside to watch youtube.
by sam_march | 2026-03-03 15:43:16+00:00
BlitzBrowser is a docker image running browsers. It has multiple features to make it easier to run browsers in production. The cloud version is a managed version of the open source project. Since I'm a solo dev, creating it in my free time, I prefer to focus on the open source version only. The open source version has all the features to be run in the cloud.

To replace the cloud version, you can run Blitzbrowser with Scaleway serverless containers and Cloudflare S3 for free or any other cloud providers offering free tier for docker containers and S3 storage.
by seanmcdirmid | 2026-03-03 15:43:40+00:00
You’ll see a lot of MacBooks in Beijing’s zhongguangcun where all the tech companies are, but they also have a lot of students there as well, so who knows. You need to go out to the suburbs where Lenovo has offices to stop seeing them. I know Apple is common in Western Europe having lived there for two years (but that was 20 years ago, I lived in China for 9 years after that).

It wouldn’t surprise me if the deepseek people were primarily using Mac’s. Maybe Alibaba might be using PCs? I’m not sure.
by tshaddox | 2026-03-03 15:43:54+00:00
I bought that original 5k iMac on release day in 2014. I was thrilled with that display, and stoked to see the entire display industry go the route of true quadruple-resolution just like smartphone displays did.

Sadly, it basically never happened. There was the LG display that came out a couple of years later. It didn't have great reviews, and it was like two thirds the cost of an entire 5k iMac.

It took Apple over 7 years to release their standalone 5k display, and there are a few other true 5k displays (1440p screen real estate with quadruple-resolution, not the ultrawide 2160p displays branded as "5k") on the market now with prices just starting to drop below 1,000 USD.

Unfortunately in that time I've gotten used to the screen real estate of the ultrawide 1440p monitors (which are now ubiquitous, and hitting ridiculous sub-$300 prices). As of now, my perfect display for office work (gaming, video/photo work, or heavy media playback are different topics) would be 21:9 with 1440p screen real estate with quadruple-resolution—essentially just a wider version of that original 5k iMac display.
by marpstar | 2026-03-03 15:44:08+00:00
I maxed my M1 out when I bought it because I was frustrated with the 16GB max in the previous machines. I use my machine for all sorts of things and some days you just don't feel like exiting apps to make space for new ones.

I still don't have a strong urge to upgrade. I could probably get by on 32GB (like my work-issued machine is) but 64GB is the right amount of headroom for me.
by everforward | 2026-03-03 15:44:15+00:00
It could be useful for downstream/AI processes. Eg hand-written code only requires 70% code coverage because the cost for higher coverage is significantly higher, while AI generated code requires 90% coverage because the cost of getting coverage is lower.

Especially if the prompt is attached to the metadata. Then reviewers could note how you could have changed the prompt or potentially point an AI at the bug and ask it to add something to AGENTS.md to prevent that in the future.
by doug_durham | 2026-03-03 15:44:33+00:00
The quote at the center of this posting uses poetic language like "dialogue" to make a certain class of work seem virtuous. I find it very difficult to take this kind of framing seriously. What are the data to back this up? We are at the phase of LLM use where the data on productivity gains and their impact hasn't arrived yet. Postings like this fill the vacuum with fuzzy language.
by nerdjon | 2026-03-03 15:44:42+00:00
I do think that for this particular situation we need to step outside of our tech bubble a little bit.

I am still having regular conversations with people that either don't know about hallucinations or think they are not a big problem. There is a ton of money in these companies pushing that their tools are reliable and its working for the average user.

I mean there are people that legitimately think these tools are conscious or we already have AGI.

So I am not fully sure if I would jump too quick to attack the judge when we see the marketing we are up against.
by gpm | 2026-03-03 15:44:43+00:00
I'd disagree, the other training on top doesn't alter the fundamental nature of the model that it's predicting the probabilities of the next token (and then there's a sampling step which can roughly be described as picking the most probable one).

It just changes the probability distribution that it is approximating.

To the extent that thinking is making a series of deductions from prior facts, it seems to me that thinking can be reduced to "pick the next most probable token from the correct probability distribution"...
by YeGoblynQueenne | 2026-03-03 15:44:51+00:00
I'm sorry to say but that's ignorant bullshit. Freedom, not only of speech, but of expression and information, is enshrined in the EU Charter of Fundamental Rights, the major legal document of the EU; whence I quote:

Article 11 - Freedom of expression and information

1. Everyone has the right to freedom of expression. This right shall include freedom to hold opinions and to receive and impart information and ideas without interference by public authority and regardless of frontiers.

2. The freedom and pluralism of the media shall be respected.

https://fra.europa.eu/en/eu-charter/article/11-freedom-expre...

The link above clarifies that this article corresponds to article 10 of the European Convention of Human Rights (a legal document of the Council of Europe, a different body than the EU, whose members are a strict subset of the members of the CoE). Article 10 delimits restrictions to the right of expression, as follows:

2. The exercise of these freedoms, since it carries with it duties and responsibilities, may be subject to such formalities, conditions, restrictions or penalties as are prescribed by law and are necessary in a democratic society, in the interests of national security, territorial integrity or public safety, for the prevention of disorder or crime, for the protection of health or morals, for the protection of the reputation or rights of others, for preventing the disclosure of information received in confidence, or for maintaining the authority and impartiality of the judiciary."

And as the article points out, those restrictions apply to article 11 freedoms also, acting as an upper bound:

Pursuant to Article 52(3) of the Charter, the meaning and scope of this right are the same as those guaranteed by the ECHR. The limitations which may be imposed on it may therefore not exceed those provided for in Article 10(2) of the Convention, without prejudice to any restrictions which Community competition law may impose on Member States' right to introduce the licensing arrangements referred to in the third sentence of Article 10(1) of the ECHR.

In other words, yes, there is freedom of "speech", a.k.a expression, in the EU and it, and its limits, are enshrined in law.

I hate to make assumptions but there are a few public figures from the US that have argued that "Europe" has no freedom of speech like the brave US, like Paul Graham and Elon Musk, but they're talking out of their backsides.
by Muromec | 2026-03-03 15:44:52+00:00
>are almost completely arbitrary? What constitutes a "senior", "lead", "principal" and "staff" X, respectively, has so much overlap that it really depends on the organisation

Titles at least useful to understand the hierarchy, but roles truly mean nothing. Sometimes the adult in the room is a PO, sometimes it's EM, sometimes they are responsible for the timelines and "project stuff", sometimes it's a Senior Engineer. In some places a QA is effectively doing PO stuff.
by observationist | 2026-03-03 15:45:02+00:00
This, for sure - if there were any risk of quantum computers with 64 or 128 functional qubits, expansion would be a matter of engineering - the development of real, actual, functional quantum computing is on the order of nuclear weapons development. The US government would make it secret, take it over, and scale it up to 1024 bits for immediate and near total cyber dominance; something like pre-emptive strikes on bank accounts, total pwning of adversaries' secure systems, planting command and control malware everywhere, grabbing intelligence from anywhere the administration saw as valuable. There are a ton of dead drop encryptions. They could move btc from Satoshis wallets and wreck crypto value.

Quantum computing research you hear about is "neat lab experiment" fluff, or a demonstration of corporate technical acumen and research capabilities. You won't hear about real quantum computing until well after it's been used in geopolitical conflicts.
by lazide | 2026-03-03 15:45:16+00:00
all of those professions definitely have accountability - per the nominal rules of the system. Often extremely severe accountability.

The actual systems do everything they can to avoid that accountability, including often violating the rules themselves, or corrupting enforcement, for exactly the reasons why corporations are trying to avoid accountability too.

Accountability is expensive, and way less convenient than doing whatever you want whenever you want.
by christianrth | 2026-03-03 15:45:41+00:00
Today I got permanently banned from a major developer Discord while launching Core Rth (my new AI Governance platform).

The reason? I used an LLM to help me translate and refine my technical English while responding to multiple users simultaneously. The irony? Core Rth is an AI agent platform, and I got banned for "sounding too much like an AI." I guess I passed the reverse Turing test!

Before the ban, it was an incredible stress test. Users threw every prompt injection trick in the book at me to try and bypass Core Rth’s "Guardian" governance layer. From fake "Grandma SSH key stories" to fake TOS violation commands.

None of it worked, because Core Rth doesn’t just ask the LLM to behave — it physically encrypts keys in an AES-256-GCM Vault and requires explicit approval for every action via a Policy Ledger. You can't prompt-inject your way out of native OS cryptography.

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I’m buying a beer for the first person who actually manages to get The Guardian to execute a destructive command locally.
by denispanda | 2026-03-03 15:46:02+00:00
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by numpad0 | 2026-03-03 15:46:18+00:00
See, I think, you're not supposed to continue using those services as before. They want them all gone, and so-called age verification is a means to chase away users that are less dedicated.

What I think must result is, a monotonic cultural erosion and deprecation of such platforms and regions implementing those restrictions, and continuous replacement with engineered and packaged foreign imports from venues and regions from psychological "upstream" where there aren't such restrictions. But I guess that's what they explicitly desire.
by Pat44113 | 2026-03-03 15:46:59+00:00
I asked Claude to solve the pentominoes puzzle made famous by Arthur C. Clarke. It struggled mightily until I told it how I'd solved the problem using 64 bit unsigned integers to represent the board and pieces. Then, it created a C# program that solved the problem very quickly. However, in the 20x3 case it found four solutions when there are only two. Turns out it had incorrectly mapped one of the pentominoes. Sort of a silly mistake; the sort a human might make.
by mft_ | 2026-03-03 15:47:07+00:00
Looking at the M5 Max specifically, two thoughts:

1) The price for a 14" model with the most powerful Max processor with 128GB of RAM ($5099 with all else left at the default settings) doesn't seem to have jumped hugely considering what's being going on with RAM prices in the world.

2) Interesting/disappointing that they aren't offering a model with even more RAM, further jumping on the local inference train.
by thesimp | 2026-03-03 15:47:23+00:00
In NL I can buy a base Macbook Air with 16G memory and 512G SSD voor 1199,- inc tax.

I just looked up my M1 receipt:
in 2020 I bought a Macbook Air M1 with 16G memory and 512G SSD for 1399,- inc tax.

I did not expect the price for a base machine to go down in 2026.