MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by Hansenq | 2026-03-03 18:32:47+00:00
If you know anything about tech, you will know that tech as an industry is highly deflationary--billionares use the same iPhones as you do! (in contrast, they don't drive the same cars you do)

This boils down to the fact that chip fabs have massive fixed costs and near-zero marginal costs, and these chips power all of tech. So the more chips they can produce for a given fab, the more profit they can make, meaning that companies are incentivized to sell as many products as possible for as low a price as possible.

We're supply constrained in the short-term because demand for these AI tools is so high that TSMC and other chip manufacturers can't keep up. But long term, supply/demand will equalize and tech will continue its deflationary trend. Sure, the frontier will always require the best possible chips, but AI coding is highly competitive, and competition drives price decreases. So prices may stay high right now, but it seems unlikely to me that this will stay true long-term.

All four of the author's steelmanned arguments at the end for a price decrease seem likely to come true already: competition is intense (OAI brags about how much cheaper they are compared to Claude), OAI subsidizes open-source influencers already, companies' earnings calls all call for more investment in fabs, and we're already close to saturating all of the benchmarks used for RL!
by 0_____0 | 2026-03-03 18:32:50+00:00
Charge habits with batteries make a huge difference. If your use pattern is that once per day, you take the device from 100% to 10%, you put a lot more wear on the battery than if it kind of hovers in the 30%-80% range for example, or if it just hangs out nearish top-of-charge all day when you're at your desk.

Hot take: people should get used to, and expect to, replace device batteries 1 or 2 times during the device lifetime. They're the main limiting factor on portable device longevity, and engineers make all kinds of design tradeoffs just to make that 1 battery that the device ships with last long enough to not annoy users. If we could get people used to taking their device in for a battery once every couple of years, we could dramatically reduce device waste, and also unlock functionality that's hidden behind battery-preserving mechanisms.
by ViktorRay | 2026-03-03 18:33:08+00:00
GPT‑5.2 Instant’s tone could sometimes feel “cringe,” coming across as overbearing or making unwarranted assumptions about user intent or emotions.

Strange way to write this. Why use the Gen Z cringe and put it into quotation marks? Wouldn’t it be better to just use the actual word cringeworthy which has the identical meaning?

My guess is that the article was originally written by some Gen Z intern and then some older employee added the quotation marks to the Gen Z slang.
by smathieu | 2026-03-03 18:33:13+00:00
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by Simulacra | 2026-03-03 18:33:16+00:00
"OpenAI reportedly discussed charging $20k/month on PhD-level research agents with investors."

I've been wondering about this, that there might be a day when certain models are sold at a much higher price, like luxury cars, and only people who are willing to pay a lot of money get them. Everyone else has to settle for a cheaper LLM.
by jcgrillo | 2026-03-03 18:33:19+00:00
I feel like people used to talk about nines of uptime more. As in more than one. These days we've lost that: https://bsky.app/profile/jkachmar.com/post/3mg4u3e6nak2p

I recall a time, maybe around 2013-2017, when people were talking about 4 or 5 nines. But sometime around then the goalposts shifted, and instead of trying to make things as reliable as possible, it started becoming more about seeing how unreliable they can get before anyone notices or cares. It turns out people will suffer through a lot if there's some marginal benefit--remember what personal computers were like in the 1990s before memory protection? Vibe coding is just another chapter in that user hostile epic. Convenient reliability, like this author describes, (if it can be achieved) might actually make things better? But my money isn't on that.
by CamperBob2 | 2026-03-03 18:33:21+00:00
I don't consider it hyperbole. I grew up with those sorts of people. They are capable of beliefs you wouldn't believe.

As for Iran, about all they could have done, in retrospect, was to actually develop nuclear weapons rather than just hemming and hawing and bluffing and stalling for 40+ years. It's amazing that the country that invented chess could blunder that badly.
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by josiahsrc | 2026-03-03 18:33:28+00:00
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by procaryote | 2026-03-03 18:33:28+00:00
You're still relying on sites fulfilling what they promise in a world where facebook has been blatantly violating gdpr from day one and enforcement just isn't happening

Set your browser to block 3rd party cookies, add privacy badger and ublock origin. It will have more effect than clicking "reject"

I click "don't send me mail" every time I buy something. Every place I buy from still sends me spam at some point. There are no negative repercussions for them beyond whatever infinitessimal thing me clicking the "report as spam" button does
by redhed | 2026-03-03 18:33:34+00:00
I actually agree with good time to start a company. Lot of available software engineers that can actually understand code, AI at a level that can actually speed up development, and so many startups focusing on AI wrapper slop that you can actually make a useful product and separate yourself from the herd.

Or you can be a grifter and make some AI wrapper yourself and cash out with some VC investment. So good time for a new company either way.
by 827a | 2026-03-03 18:33:47+00:00
> The top tier subscription prices are increasing exponentially

WILD graph that misrepresents what is happening.

There's a bunch of $20 subscriptions, and a bunch of $200 subscriptions. Devin has a $500 subscription. That's it.

The cost per unit of intelligence has been dropping every month. The cost per "completed task" has also been dropping. There is no sign of this reversing course. Graphing the price of a subscription, without taking into account what that subscription is getting you, is poor authorship.
by xienze | 2026-03-03 18:34:00+00:00
> The problem is some developers now just submit code for review that they didn't bother to read.

Can you blame them? All the AI companies are saying “this does a better job than you ever could”, every discussion topic on AI includes at least one (totally organic, I’m sure) comment along the lines of “I’ve been developing software for over twenty years and these tools are going to replace me in six months. I’m learning how to be a plumber before I’m permanently unemployed.” So when Claude spits out something that seems to work with a short smoke test, how can you blame developers for thinking “damn the hype is real. LGTM”?
by avhception | 2026-03-03 18:34:49+00:00
I have 2 thinkpads, and one of them is better in every aspect - except that the inferior one has it's 2 USB-C ports on opposite sides of the laptop, while the other one has both ports on the same side. Being able to plug in the charger from either side is really great, will definitely look for that in a future laptop.
by mothballed | 2026-03-03 18:34:55+00:00
I'm no fan of ICE or immigration controls, but presume I was. Wouldn't unvaccinated people and outbreaks strengthen my case for ICE and dumping these people into quarantined facilities? Stopping people unvaccinated from deadly disease from entering the country, and then placing them in facilities where they can be deported (if found in country), seems to be one of the more defensible uses of ICE, even if not one I agree with. If there are measles outbreaks in these facilities, it would seem it means ICE is doing their job.
by woadwarrior01 | 2026-03-03 18:35:37+00:00
> Running deepseek 6B on the Private LLM app on the iPhone 13 basically set my phone on fire

Hey, I’m the author of Private LLM. I hope you’re joking about the phone catching fire. Btw, there’s no DeepSeek 6B model, you’re likely talking about the DeepSeek Distill 7B model.
by Shyaamal11 | 2026-03-03 18:35:38+00:00
The spam scoring caught my eye — 45+ heuristic signals is a lot. How do you handle false positives for transactional emails? A password reset or order confirmation might legitimately trigger some of those signals (no unsubscribe, image-heavy, urgent language) even though they're completely clean emails. Does the transactional exemption you mention cover most of those cases or is there still manual tuning needed?
by ImPostingOnHN | 2026-03-03 18:35:54+00:00
Right, and I am adding the critical context that the 'invitation to participate' in spreading government propaganda and silencing government-disliked speech, is actually a veiled threat couched in numerous previous explicit threats made by the same party, making it both government-compelled speech and government censorship.

As for your personal politics, you can have whatever ones you want. I'm focusing on the issue here, not you personally. Hope I didn't say anything that came across as too personal.
by kjshsh123 | 2026-03-03 18:35:56+00:00
Nobody is "trying to soften the impact of tariffs". Everyone was and is trying to maximize profits. Who ends up paying has to do with "elasticity" which roughly is about how much the tax actually impacts you.

In this case, it ended up that the retailer raised prices, probably because the retailer can just sell domestic wine for cheaper (close substitute). Retailer profits still didn't increase because of reductions in sales (~12% iirc). This is textbook econ 101. Substitute, profit maximization of a firm, supply and demand etc.
by rurban | 2026-03-03 18:36:00+00:00
I've tried Qwen3.5-35B-A3B locally on our H100's, and it was horrible. Much more halluzinations than anything else. The big qwen coder would take 4 GPU's which is a bit too much. Trying GPT-oss-120b tomorrow.

For now we are happy with GitHub CoPilot for open source for free with Opus 4.6. That's by far the best for opencode. For images qwen rules.
by deadbabe | 2026-03-03 18:36:05+00:00
It’s worse than this…

Companies have built entire systems of such complexity and slop that they require AI just to do the maintenance. They have fired engineers thinking they can just replace them with AI.

Well when the prices rise, they have no choice but to stay locked in, paying whatever it takes just to keep their companies running. If they stop using AI, their workforce suddenly does not have capacity to do the work required because of the layoffs. And there are not enough people to hire because people are quickly turning away from software engineering as a career. What a disaster it will be.
by legitster | 2026-03-03 18:36:11+00:00
It's really cool to see her back and making videos again.

After seeing her status updates 2 years ago I was honestly really concerned she would be gone for good. It sounds like she had a serious case of myalgic encephalomyelitis brought on by Covid.

Part of why we know so little about these types of conditions is they are incredibly unfair. Women are 4x as likely to have some sort of constant fatigue disorder as men, and you see this reflected in literature going back centuries when describing women who just flat out disappear from public life.

One of the things about being bedridden for a long period of time is that there is a high risk of becoming more or less permanently bedridden. Especially if you have a chronic fatigue syndrome, you become weaker and any activity can retrigger fatigue. So her pushing herself to make new content sustainably is important very encouraging.
by mackeye | 2026-03-03 18:36:39+00:00
i don't entirely disagree, but

> the cheapest usable tier of Claude Code is $100/mo

is, imo, false. cc pro, $20 per month, gets you a lot of sonnet usage, and code review with opus (which i find very valuable, even as someone who tries to use ai little). i guess it depends how you use ai, but if you use it to plan, debug, and review, rather than having it write code, i think pro is pretty comfortable.

to add, i've seen people say these subscriptions will get far more expensive, as they're offered at a loss. but, it seems far more likely that free tiers will be degraded or disappear, as (especially for openai?) the relative number of subscribers to free users is very small, so the latter probably dominates compute time greatly. anthropic probably has a higher relative number of people who pay for claude code (and use it to its fullest), so this is probably less true. i can see pro getting less usage, and max increasing in cost.
by perardi | 2026-03-03 18:36:41+00:00
You are not the only one.

I have an ASUS ProArt Display 27” 5K. And I somewhat regret it.

I love the pixel density. But I don’t love the matte finish. Which is apparently a controversial take. But I really don’t. I like the crisp pop of typography you get with a glossy display. And, for UI design, the matte finish just doesn’t “feel” like the average end-user experience. I am constantly pushing Figma between my laptop display and my monitor to better simulate what a design will look like on an average glossy LCD or OLED display.
by silversmith | 2026-03-03 18:36:48+00:00
I'd counter that n8n (or most other workflow tools) can handle as much ambiguity as OpenClaw - it has a LLM call node. Stuff the ambiguous parts in there, but don't burn a rainforests worth of compute figuring out how to call the weather API each and every time.

Also, in the olden days of pre-AI, if our weather workflow did not notify us because conditions juuust failed to be met, we adjusted the thresholds. Uphill, both ways.

Don't get me wrong, I use a bunch of LLMs for automations. By prompting the model "here is what I want to achieve, here are the tools I have, figure out how to stitch them together". Actual workflows run (mostly) deterministically, with a sprinkling of "classify this image" or "summarize this text" nodes thrown in for a good measure.
by rramadass | 2026-03-03 18:36:59+00:00
Many reasons, viz; Slow Recruitments/Appointments, Executive/Judiciary tussle, Insufficient infrastructure, Budget Constraints etc.

The process to qualify as a Judge is long drawn and difficult while one can easily become a Lawyer and make more money for a fraction of the effort. Apparently there are only 22 judges per million people! - https://www.ndtv.com/india-news/indian-judicial-system-strug...

This is why AI adoption is very important for the Indian Judiciary. There are a number of good startups in this area which will hopefully alleviate this problem in the near future, eg; Adalat AI - https://www.adalat.ai/

Major Challenges Faced by the Indian Judiciary - https://www.lloydlawcollege.edu.in/blog/challenges-faced-ind...

Understanding vacancies in the Indian judiciary - https://prsindia.org/theprsblog/understanding-vacancies-in-t...

PS: Have first-hand knowledge of the above since i have a ongoing civil case in the lower courts. I attend all court dates just to make sure my lawyer does his job and always check the status of my case online. The judge has only a few minutes for cases in the initial stage (the lawyers almost always seek and are granted an adjournment of a month) and only spends time on cases in the later evidence/cross-examination stages. He dictates/writes his notes to a person who types it into a computer which is then uploaded to the official website at end-of-the-day.
by Sevii | 2026-03-03 18:37:05+00:00
AI providers can only charge what the market can bear. AI isn't worth 20k/month for 'PHD' level work. But people are willing to pay for several $200/month subscriptions.

But fundamentally AI compute is a commodity. GPUs are made in factories at scale. Assuming AI quality tapers off eventually supply will catch up to demand.

Finally open weights models are good enough that the leading labs cannot charge high margins.
by arttaboi | 2026-03-03 18:37:36+00:00
He makes good arguments, but so did all my managers throughout. I think EMs telling ICs to stay in the IC role is an age-old talk. To me, it sounds a bit like “the grass is greener on the other side.”

Although, I’m not disregarding his points. I’m just saying that this article feels less about the challenges of becoming an EM and more about the challenges of stepping down from EM to IC.
by jakogut | 2026-03-03 18:37:40+00:00
On average according to Geekbench, the M5 compared to the 9950X is ~17% faster in single thread performance and ~30% slower in multithread performance.

Individual benchmarks tell the bigger picture. These two are optimized for different use cases, with Apple heavily leaning towards low latency single thread throughput with low sustained power usage.

https://browser.geekbench.com/v6/cpu/compare/16833358?baseli...

EDIT: The M4 Max compares much more closely
https://browser.geekbench.com/v6/cpu/compare/16834801?baseli...
by Analemma_ | 2026-03-03 18:37:41+00:00
I set Claude loose on my computer and said “why is my battery life so bad?” and it found an always-running audio subsystem kernel extension (Parrot) which didn’t need to be there and was preventing the CPU from going into low-power states. My battery life got noticeably better when I deleted it.

I’m not even sure how it got installed, possibly when I installed Zoom for an interview once but I don’t know. Point is, at least in one case, AI can help track down battery hogs.
by siwandev | 2026-03-03 18:38:41+00:00
I built DocAPI, an HTML-to-PDF and screenshot API. The standard part: POST some HTML, get a PDF back — invoices, reports, contracts, OG images. Free tier, paid monthly plans via Stripe for humans.

The part I think is interesting: AI agents can use this API with zero human involvement, end to end.

The registration flow:
POST /api/register → { api_key, usdc_address, free_calls: 10 }
No browser, no OAuth, no human clicking anything. The agent gets an API key and a USDC address on Base mainnet in one request.

The payment model: each API response includes X-Credits-Remaining. When it drops below 50, the agent sends USDC from its Coinbase CDP wallet — credits top up in seconds. The agent never hits a 402.

If it does hit a 402 (payment wallet dry), the response includes:
{ "error": "credits_exhausted", "usdc_address": "0x..." }
— everything the agent needs to resolve the situation itself.

The result: software built by an agent during one session can fund and operate itself indefinitely, with no recurring human input.

There's also a hosted MCP server at mcp.docapi.co if you want to connect Claude Desktop or Cursor directly.

Happy to talk about the CDP smart account setup, the webhook/credit system, or anything else.
by toast0 | 2026-03-03 18:38:57+00:00
Only a little bit. Just clicking around, a new Hawaii cable is supposed to have 24 Fiber Pairs and 18Tbit per Fiber Pair at the end of this year. If you lose several tbits of bandwidth, you're going to have a hard time making it up with satellite.

For small island countries and such, satellite capacity may be sufficient; and it is likely helpful for keeping international calling alive even if it's not sufficient for international data. But when you drop capacity by a factor of 1000, it's going to be super messy.
by afro88 | 2026-03-03 18:38:59+00:00
Nice setup, but GP said:

> how people who really try to learn with these tools work

This setup is potentially effective sure, but you're not learning in the sense that GP meant.

For GP: Personally I've reached the conclusion that it's better for my career to use agents effectively and operate at this new level of abstraction, with final code review by me and then my team as normal.
by drzaiusx11 | 2026-03-03 18:39:10+00:00
For whatever I don't really register those little hockey pucks (mac minis, NUCs, etc) the same way as the desktop tower PCs of old. A me problem for sure, but those mini device things vary _wildly_ in capabilities manufacturer to manufacturer, from full blown intel i9s to little more than headless phones running ChromeOS on an underpowered ARM. Desktops _used_ to be fairly standardized to one CPU arch, same order of magnitude RAM, ran the Windows du jour, etc. Today the landscape isn't so monotonous (and thats a good thing!)
by pram | 2026-03-03 18:39:25+00:00
From my recent experience with Qwen 3.5 I am less concerned about this. It certainly will never be “the best” but I did some TS refactoring with Qwen + Opencode over the weekend and it was surprisingly good. I even asked Opus 4.6 to grade the commits and it usually gave it a B- haha..

Anyway, it might be worth it to invest in an LLM rig today if you’re paranoid.
by adampunk | 2026-03-03 18:39:25+00:00
So about 150 thousand people starred OpenClaw, then asked their bot to sign up for an account to star it again? I'm not trying to be obtuse, I'm just trying to get a sense of what we're talking about. Because if it is 1 person botting 300,000 stars (or 4x75k, etc), that costs real money. There needs to be a motive for that to be believable. If it is 150kx2, then that's a much wider (though still pretty unmotivated) phenomenon that someone would have blabbed about.

There are a bunch of open source projects that I want to see take off; I've never felt the urge to star one twice. I doubt that has to do with it being easier to say "Go star this project on github for me, with your own account" than it is to make a new account on github (which is not hard). I don't think that comes from any great moral fortitude, it's just...IMO hard for me to explain without an actual motive.

What's being alleged in this thread is widespread fraud via botting with no evidence of means or motive. As someone pointed out above, the argument for Facebook buying react stars is WAY stronger...and it is still really flimsy.
by reenorap | 2026-03-03 18:39:34+00:00
The price hasn't changed between the M4 and M5. I honestly don't know how they did it. But I had a standing order for a maxed-out M4 (128 GB RAM, 2 TB drive) and the price is the same as the M5 so I cancelled my M4 order and will pre-order the M5 MAX instead.
by kjshsh123 | 2026-03-03 18:39:35+00:00
Retailer profits from foreign wine decreased because of reductions in sales (~12% iirc). This is textbook econ 101, profit maximization of a firm, supply and demand etc.

Taxes make after tax prices go up and reduce profits due to reduced quantity.

No reason to go searching for a "plausible excuse" or some greater critique of culture.