MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by nilkn | 2026-03-08 19:13:03+00:00
I'm surprised people still think this. Google has the strongest position of any company in the world on AI. They have expertise and capability across the entire stack from chips to data centers to fundamental research to frontier models. Just because they weren't first-to-market with a chatbot doesn't mean they almost lost or made some terrible durable blunder.

That's about Google, though. The picture about Sundar specifically is harder to evaluate. The pessimistic take is that Google had that position already and Sundar failed to proactively lead through a fundamental product shift, forcing the company onto the defensive for some time. The optimistic take is that Sundar, having occupied the top spot since 2015, prioritized investments in the company's overall technology development, then successfully executed a rapid product pivot when the market changed, securing a dominant position in both research and product that nobody else can compete with long-term.
by stratos123 | 2026-03-08 19:13:21+00:00
> AGI isn't going to happen within the next 30 years so this is moot. The actual researchers have said so many times. It's only the business people and laypeople whooping about AGI always being imminent.

The statements of what "actual researchers" are you relying upon for your "next 30 years" estimate? How do you reconcile them with the sub-10- or even sub-5-years timelines of other AI researchers, like Daniel Kokotajlo[1] or Andrej Karpathy[2]? For that matter, what about polls of AI researchers, which usually obtain a median much shorter than 30 years [3]?

[1] https://x.com/DKokotajlo/status/1991564542103662729

[2] https://x.com/karpathy/status/1980669343479509025

[3] https://80000hours.org/2025/03/when-do-experts-expect-agi-to...
by giwook | 2026-03-08 19:13:33+00:00
I agree with the sentiment.

Experimental culture is inherently risky though, and risk is not something you want too much of as a public company as your shareholders can and will be very loud.

They do still experiment but in their R&D divisions so as to shield their cash cows from risk as well as to be able to better conceal how much money they’re pouring into moonshots so as not to spook investors.

Waymo is the most recent moonshot I can remember going out of Google X, and they’re arguably a leader in the space. There are other projects in the works, and many more failed ones.
by giardini | 2026-03-08 19:13:53+00:00
Quick trick for processing dirty cloth diapers:

After changing and settling the child, take the dirty cloth diaper to the bathroom, open the toilet, drop the solids into the pot and flush. Grasp the two ends of the diaper, turn it inside out, and dip the middle of the diaper (where the solids were and where some may remain) into the toilet water several times to rinse it further. Flush. Squeeze out the diaper and drop it into a diaper pail to be washed later. Wash hands. Once done, dirty diapers in the pail can be washed at your leisure.

Hope this saves you some time.

I'm from a large family. I watched my parents change my diapers and years later changed my younger siblings' diapers.
Show HN: AloMiniJob – Find and apply to minijobs without creating an account
by powerwild | 2026-03-08 19:14:02+00:00
Hi HN,

I built AloMiniJob after noticing how much time students and part-time job seekers spend creating accounts and filling long forms on job platforms.

The idea is simple: search and apply for part-time, student, and startup jobs without creating an account. Candidates can apply quickly and communicate directly with employers. Employers can post jobs for free, with an optional premium tier for additional features.

We’re bootstrapping and testing with early users, and I’d really appreciate feedback from the HN community.

What’s the biggest pain point you face when finding or posting part-time jobs?
by tadfisher | 2026-03-08 19:14:13+00:00
Even those are not "true-temperament" instruments like a piano, they adapt a "well-temperament" tuning system like Bach's keyboard tuning [0]. The end result is closer to true-temperament in some keys, and farther in others.

Oh, and that applies to standard tuning only. YMMV with alternative tunings, especially the open tunings.

0: https://www.guyguitars.com/truetemperament/eng/tt_techdetail...
by logicchains | 2026-03-08 19:14:29+00:00
>Anytime I see "Artificial General Intelligence," "AGI," "ASI," etc., I mentally replace it with "something no one has defined meaningfully."

There are lots of meaningful definitions, the people saying we haven't reached AGI just don't use them. For most of the last half-century people would have agreed that machines that can pass the Turing test and win Math Olympiad gold are AGI.
by dd82 | 2026-03-08 19:14:31+00:00
the companies migrating off vmware due to broadcom shittiness would disagree with you

https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2026/02/most-...

CloudBolt’s survey also examined how respondents are migrating workloads off of VMware. Currently, 36 percent of participants said they migrated 1–24 percent of their environment off of VMware. Another 32 percent said that they have migrated 25–49 percent; 10 percent said that they’ve migrated 50–74 percent of workloads; and 2 percent have migrated 75 percent or more of workloads. Five percent of respondents said that they have not migrated from VMware at all.

Among migrated workloads, 72 percent moved to public cloud infrastructure as a service, followed by Microsoft’s Hyper-V/Azure stack (43 percent of respondents).

Overall, 86 percent of respondents “are actively reducing their VMware footprint,” CloudBolt’s report said.
by Ancalagon | 2026-03-08 19:15:12+00:00
Not sure if you’re insinuating that I’m one of the capitalists? I’m not, that’s why I’m saying it out loud. I believe capitalism’s relationship with labor will need to fundamentally change if AGI and robotics takeover. I don’t know what that looks like but obviously the current capitalist overlords want everything to stay the same - just for them to have more power/money.
by tclancy | 2026-03-08 19:15:30+00:00
No, you definitely can’t. Or at least, not 3B+. I wound up buying https://www.amazon.com/ACEMAGICIAN-M1-Computers-Computer-3-2... which was $50 less a month ago (!!) because so many things don’t fit well. Immich is amazing, but you wouldn’t get a lot of the coolness of it if you can’t run the ai bits, which are quite heavy.
by Dylan16807 | 2026-03-08 19:16:16+00:00
It's plenty serious. You don't like how they acted and how they gave partial explanations so you're calling it an obvious lie even though it's not.

They didn't say it was their absolute only option or something like that, as far as I know. (If they did say that you needed to mention it.) That would have been a clear lie. Saying Israel moved first is just... plausible.
by kkfx | 2026-03-08 19:16:29+00:00
I honestly have NOTHING against that: they are a private company, their money, their choice. I have plenty of other bones to pick with them, regarding the harvesting of personal data from smart devices and cloud services, how it's used, and so on, but the salaries of their executives are their own money, so it's their business and I don't see any reason for controversy. In fact, if they happen to lose talents because of their policies or ruin themselves over certain massive salaries, that's their problem, all the better.

Unfortunately, most people seem incapable of attacking what actually needs to be attacked, instead of getting hung up on things that are perfectly legitimate.
by dkechag | 2026-03-08 19:17:00+00:00
It came up recently in a post I did about how bad Geekbench 6 multi-core is, and some are saying they still use it for single-thread as it correlates well with SPEC. I thought I'd mention the one I built and use, which also correlates well with SPEC but is open source and does not have scaling issues.
by thought_alarm | 2026-03-08 19:17:18+00:00
Hypothetical question:

Let's say that back in 1930s when they were assigning frequencies for the broadcast television channels, they allocated enough extra bandwidth for a future color (chroma) signal, apart from the existing monochrome (luma) signal.

If the bandwidth was available, would it have been possible to include separate chroma and luma components in the broadcast signal without the two interfering with each other, thereby producing a much cleaner color image while maintaining backward compatibility with the original B&W TV sets?
by shimman | 2026-03-08 19:18:07+00:00
Not just oil but a lot of fertilizers goes through the strait as well, fertilizers that have to be applied at certain moments of the year. Missing a shipment by a few months will decimate crop yields across the world.

If you think food is expensive now, wait until fall!

Unrelated, Grapes of Wraith is a good read if you're looking for something to distract yourself with.
by kkfx | 2026-03-08 19:18:41+00:00
Yeah, maybe that too, but the real point it's the people who don't dream anymore: once upon a time, kids dreamed of becoming astronauts, and teenagers of having their own private spaceship to roam the universe like nomads. Nowadays, they dream of being influencers...

That's what's changed, not so much the physical actions of some giant or government. It's the mindset, the dreams, and the desires of the masses.
by lp4v4n | 2026-03-08 19:19:08+00:00
Maybe I wasn’t explicit about this point, but I’m not only talking about understanding the biological processes behind a neuron. I’m also talking about our ability to manipulate them in something like an industrial process, combining them with hardware in a controlled way and achieving reliable results.

Cells have a metabolism, right? They need to be fed and require a specific environment to survive. They age and can die, and they can be attacked by other microorganisms. Are all of these problems solved and applicable on an industrial scale? I had no idea.

Why aren’t we fixing people’s retinas and paraplegia if we can manipulate neurons with that level of precision?
by s1artibartfast | 2026-03-08 19:19:09+00:00
I think it's plausible that cloth diapers are worse per use than disposable ones due to the mass industrialization of manufacture and resource intensity of cleaning.

You are right that we have to look at the full breakdown of the cradle to grave resource cost.

A washer and dry cycle is about 5 kilowatt hours, which is about the average household energy consumption in China or twice that in India.

Financially, in California it's about $3 per wash for power before accounting for water, soap, ect.

Let's say you got 10 diapers per day and washing every 2 days.
That's 15 cents and 250 watt hours per diaper use.

American use a lot of electricity, so washing diapers would be about a 10% household increase
by galangalalgol | 2026-03-08 19:19:28+00:00
I try to avoid tokio in its entirety. There are some embedded use cases with embassy that make sense to me, but I have never needed to write something that benefited from more threads than I had cores to give it. I don't deny those use cases exist, I just don't run into them. I typically spend more time computing than on i/o but so many solid libraries have abandoned their non-async branches I still have to use it more often than I'd like. I get this is a bit of a whine, I could fork those branches if I cared that much. But complaining is easier.
by doctorpangloss | 2026-03-08 19:19:40+00:00
all the negativity aside. it worked well for my older son, the second is almost old enough to try. both my wife and i have full time jobs, and we were working while he was potty training using andrea olson's EC book.

there's all sorts of stuff you can do with your kids. i don't have anything more insightful (or cringe) to say besides, it's cool you are thinking about this now haha
by tavavex | 2026-03-08 19:19:43+00:00
Housing is expensive in Canada, but it's absolutely not uniform. $2500/mo starting is crazy, which city are you sourcing these claims for? I live in a major city (but not Vancouver or Toronto, obviously) and if you're just trying to survive, you can live with roommates for $700-900, possibly less depending on your luck. Apartments, studios and other types of housing for one are about $1500 and up. Then you can go to Quebec and enjoy slighter cheaper housing still, even in the big cities. There's some middle ground between downtown Toronto and some mining town in northern Manitoba.
by rewgs | 2026-03-08 19:19:45+00:00
My theory is that they're going to release a new Mac Pro that's about half the size of the current one. Enough space for some PCIe slots, but otherwise smaller given the enormous amount of wasted space in that thing since moving from Intel to Apple Silicon. Guessing the rack-mount model, should they continue selling it, will be 3 or 4u instead of 5u.

I know everyone thinks they're going to just kill it, but I don't see it. Apple's move under Tim Cook has been to exhaust supplies (see: filling the Intel Mac Pro chassis with air and not updating the CPU), letting people predict its death (see: 2013 -> 2019 Mac Pro silence), and then redesigning it into something people want while utilizing it as an opportunity to segment specs across their SKUs.

The Studio will remain the high-powered creator machine, whereas the Mac Pro will be retooled into an AI beast.
by wokki20 | 2026-03-08 19:20:01+00:00
Hi HN,

I have been experimenting with a messaging protocol called FLUX. The goal is to explore what email might look like if it was designed today instead of in the 1980s.

FLUX tries to simplify a few things that feel complicated in the current email stack. Identity is based on cryptographic keys instead of usernames and passwords. Messages are signed and verified automatically. The transport is real time and does not depend on the traditional SMTP relay model.

The current implementation is small and meant as a prototype. The whole server is only a few hundred lines of Python so the protocol is easy to read and experiment with.

Repo: https://github.com/levkris/flux-protocol

I am mostly interested in feedback on the protocol design. What problems would appear in a real deployment. What parts are unnecessary. What would need to exist for something like this to actually work on the open internet.

Thanks for taking a look.
levkris (wokki20)
by gepheum | 2026-03-08 19:20:01+00:00
I think you may be referring to JSPB. It's used internally at Google but has little support in the open-source. I know about it, but I wouldn't say I was inspired by it. It's particularly unreadable, because it needs to account for field numbers being possible sparse.
Google built it for frontend-backend communication, when both the frontend and the backend use Protobuf dataclasses, as it's more efficient than sending a large JSON object and also it's faster to deserialize than deserializing a binary string on the browser side. I think it's mostly deprecated nowadays.
by xandrius | 2026-03-08 19:20:44+00:00
One thing to consider before doing the same, a computer done for homelab has a much lower consumption.

The setup mentioned in the article has an avg 600 kWh/year as opposed to a pretty solid HP EliteDesk (my own homelab) which uses 100 kWh/year. Sure you don't get a GPU but for what it is used for, you might as well use a laptop for that.
by BeetleB | 2026-03-08 19:21:47+00:00
At least the article mentions that it is contingent on bonus targets. All too often articles skip that and say "Y was paid $$$".

Notably, go look at Intel's Pat Gelsinger. Prior to his firing, lots of articles talking about how he was one of the highest paid CEOs (citing numbers in excess of $150M). They'd fail to mention that it was over several years and only if he met targets.

Well, he didn't meet those targets. His actual compensation was about $10M/year.
by egl2020 | 2026-03-08 19:22:18+00:00
I used to ask myself the same question, but then I realized that for these people it doesn't matter how much they spend. When you are worth billions of dollars, the difference between spending $10M or $50M on your home Does Not Matter. You still have many other $M to spend on other things. It's perfectly rational for them to spend what seems like a large amount of money for an apparently small marginal improvement.
by onlyrealcuzzo | 2026-03-08 19:22:21+00:00
No, shockingly, these are options, which are taxed as income upon payout (if that even occurs).

He did not get custom stock now that will appreciate in value magically, if and only if he meets targets.

Even if GOOG stock grew so much, that this ended up being a $3B pay package, he'd be taxed as ordinary income on the full amount at payout - not even the reduced capital gains on the extra ~$2.7B in growth between agreement and payout.
by vansbel | 2026-03-08 19:22:24+00:00
This is a great question. Often, it's hard to tell if the product is wrong or if you're just failing to explain the value clearly on your landing page.
If you're worried about 'bad conversion' being the noise, I actually built a tool (AI Website Roast) that gives a brutal/honest look at exactly where a landing page is losing people. Might help you figure out if you need a pivot or just better positioning. Happy to run it on your URL if you want a second set of eyes? You can also put it in and try it.

https://website-roast.lovable.app/
by bombcar | 2026-03-08 19:22:28+00:00
If you have one company that has "done what you want" for 20+ years and is not "not doing what you want" you will feel sad, and hope they go back to what you want.

Of course, the argument about how much of that is "convincing you that you what what they do" is left to the reader - but marketing hype can only take you so far.
by DrewADesign | 2026-03-08 19:22:50+00:00
> Why is it rhetoric? This goes beyond whatever malignant thing was perceived in this study, but why is it a rhetorical non-answer?

You seem hung-up on my using the word rhetoric. Just so we’re on the same page here:

> rhetoric, n : the art of speaking or writing effectively: b)the study of writing or speaking as a means of communication or persuasion

The business writing class I took in college was called Business Rhetoric. It’s not a bad word.

If you’re crafting arguments to get other people to support specific actions or products or policies or whatever, that is unambiguously rhetoric.

> this feels like real rhetoric.

Sure? Rhetoric that implores people to value their principles over theoretical security concerns or FOMO or greed? I wouldn’t exactly call that rakish.

It’s a non-answer because if you really feel doing something is bad, consider yourself a consequential actor in the world whose contributions meaningfully advance the projects you work on, then why would you want to help someone be there first to do a bad thing? If you don’t feel it’s bad, then there’s no problem. You’re just living your life. That is clearly not the position expressed by the content I responded to. If there are actual concrete concerns that don’t essentially boil down to “well they’re going to make that money before I do,” then that would be an actual answer.
by hbarka | 2026-03-08 19:22:52+00:00
Are you this guy:
https://youtu.be/0p8o7AeHDzg

“Full WorldView:
A week ago I built WorldView, my geospatial command center that kind of broke the internet. Then the Iran strikes happened, and I realized I was sitting on the perfect infrastructure to actually monitor it.

So I set an AI agent swarm loose to capture every open-source signal I could find. Satellite surveillance passes, GPS jamming, commercial and military flights, maritime tracking at the Strait of Hormuz, airspace closures across nine countries, all of it.

What I got back is a full 4D reconstruction of Operation Epic Fury. Every strike, every rerouted flight, every ship going dark, replayable on a 3D globe, minute by minute.

This is the breakdown you're not going to see anywhere else.
WorldView opens to the public in April. Stay tuned.” -@bilawalsidhu
by Forgeties79 | 2026-03-08 19:23:02+00:00
Should be, but it isn’t.

I edit for a living and 8gb is not sufficient at all unless you’re always doing proxies, doing reduced resolution playback, and not running any major effects. Playback starts dropping frames at the drop of a hat. Every video editor should have at least 16gb of ram - it’s been that way for years.

If you rarely edit you can get away with it. If you do it with any regularity you end up working around the constraints and taking significantly longer to do your work and deal with slideshow playback.
by gjsman-1000 | 2026-03-08 19:24:15+00:00
I said on a different thread, everyone right now is focused on productivity gains, AI making us faster.

We are only one major incident away from this trend reversing. Now that we have AI, regulation is less burdensome. More testing requirements, more certification requirements, more security requirements, more accessibility requirements.

Everyone keeps their jobs; the bar goes up. Whenever an industry gets better tools, we raise standards instead of making more cheap junk. We make $25K cars instead of $5K cars at 1960s engineering standards.
by tokai | 2026-03-08 19:24:57+00:00
Turing test is generally misunderstood, much like Schrodinger's cat, it has devolved in to a pop cultural meme. The test is to evaluate if a machine can think. Not if it is intelligent, not if it is human-like. Its dismissed as a useful by most experts in philosophy of mind, AI, language, etc..

Thinking cool and all but not that extraordinary. Even plants does it.
by givemeethekeys | 2026-03-08 19:25:50+00:00
1: Location saves time to do the stuff you want to be doing.

2: Space for activities, such as being able to host large parties, friends, family, etc..

3: Convenience and time saving from having a lot of things in-house: gym, pool, tennis courts, etc.

4: Security. When everyone knows who you are, they begin to make up excuses to get close to you and yours. Even if you don't want seclusion, you may be forced into it.

5: The people who you hang out with most have big mansions too - you want them to be just as comfortable visiting you as when you are when you visit them.
by hobofan | 2026-03-08 19:25:54+00:00
The comission has themselves made the commitment to reduce the reliance on exactly such standards. You are arguing for a position that they themselves aren't even arguing for as they recognize the importance of the problem.

By your logic, it would have been fine for Apple to stick with the Lightning port for charging because USB->Lightning charging ports are widely available so "it's not a problem at all".