MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by fakedang | 2026-03-11 19:45:53+00:00
They don't need to deal with Israel when Israel itself is a ticking time bomb. This war and this presidency with their kompromat on Trump was their only shot at becoming an expansionist regional hegemon. Israel is facing a demographic timebomb, and a reverse-Aliyah exodus of top talent to literally anywhere else, including the UAE and the US. Turns out, nobody likes living in a military state, except for a bunch of ultra-orthodox emigres and Hasidic Jews, who are both growing like crazy and have zero inclination to serve in national defence, and have piss poor technical aptitude.

> This entire saga has been a wake up call to the middle eastern states. They thought all the money they paid to the US over the years got them a first class ticket when in reality they are sitting way back in economy.

This is the biggest change. The Gulf states were completely blindsided by the war, and are now rethinking their alliance with the US. Expect to see more Chinese and EU bases in the region - China already has a military base in the UAE. Al Udeid is going to be massively downsized. And these guys are going to be shopping in the EU for weapons systems, not the US.

> Cozy up to China? Maybe the middle eastern and OECD countries can do it but not the Asian countries.

The right strategy is for the Asian countries to stop quarreling between themselves and forge new defensive alliances. Or alternatively, submit to Chinese hegemony as tributary states (tributing natural resources that is), as they used to do in the past.
by Noumenon72 | 2026-03-11 19:46:00+00:00
> if the rate of fraudulent labs is even as high as 10% you should expect that any viewpoint that it’s widespread would be drowned out by views that it’s not real.

If "it" is fraud here I would expect the viewpoint that it's widespread to be less and less drowned out as it approached 10% since everyone would know that it's real. I think I'm misunderstanding the sentence.
by calf | 2026-03-11 19:46:10+00:00
It is giving me choice paralysis, last week I made a mental graph of the ones I wanted and went over all node pairs choose 2, now it's down to waiting for a fall M5 Mac mini paired with either: a MacBook Neo, or an iPad Air 13"; both options are very attractive for my intended usage though the latter seems higher risk since I've never used a 13 inch tablet before.
by nivertech | 2026-03-11 19:47:29+00:00
/ði ˈɡloʊbəl iˈliːt (ænd ˈɛvɹiˌwʌn ɛls) ʃʊd swɪtʃ tu fəˈniːmɪk ˈspɛlɪŋ/
by alanning | 2026-03-11 19:48:34+00:00
The Temporal Cookbook on TC39's site provides examples of how using the new API looks/feels:

https://tc39.es/proposal-temporal/docs/cookbook.html

For example, calc days until a future date:
https://tc39.es/proposal-temporal/docs/cookbook.html#how-man...

...or, compare meeting times across timezones:
https://tc39.es/proposal-temporal/docs/cookbook.html#book-a-...
by foldr | 2026-03-11 19:48:42+00:00
That's a fair point above sustained multicore, but this is probably the right tradeoff for this class of device. Few people are regularly maxing out all of their cores for more than a few minutes at a time, and the people who are doing that probably weren't going to buy Apple's budget $600 MacBook anyway. The increase in single core performance over the M1 is much more valuable to most users.
by Imustaskforhelp | 2026-03-11 19:49:03+00:00
> I appreciate the entrepreneurial spirit, and I'd recommend applying to YCombinator, if you're old enough for their program.

Genuine question, I think I am fairly young too but I don't understand the point of applying to Y-combinator/VC funds in general unless your project demands it.

It seems that many people my age sometimes optimize for building/(Hyping?) a project/company and then having it be VC-funded just to get access to the money even if there might not be necessity of it.

Not/(maybe even many) every project should be VC-funded. I think though I like to treat tech as still a business with sound financials. Although I see some aspects of VC funded tech to be quite de-tached from business with sound financials.

Also if I care about a project, I'd like to prefer to keep the control of the project without any external pressure if/as long as possible.

If any of my projects needs money, I have those ideas in back of my mind and I can then work on projects/ideas which don't need much money and then hopefully make money through that or job and if I still feel passionate about the other project, then launching that too. Atleast that's how I think.
by so-cal-schemer | 2026-03-11 19:49:04+00:00
Nor an Asus C101:

RK3399 6-core ARM v8, Mali-T864 GPU, 1.9lb aluminum body, 10" IPS multitouch display, USB-C, compact chicklet-style keyboard -- or since it's a 2-in-1, flip it around and use your own portable ergo/ortholinear. coreboot/libreboot support...

Bring out a refresh, Asus.

https://www.asus.com/us/laptops/for-home/chromebook/asus-chr...
by Atlas667 | 2026-03-11 19:49:09+00:00
It's the tax-payer funded business model, the NGO trap. Subsidies, grants, tax-breaks, credit, deductions, exemptions, etc. A whole class of profiteers live in this sector. Even though academia funding isn't strictly categorized as an NGO, it still fits/foots the bill. Public funding of private gains is the oldest trick in the book. Ask any capitalist, they know. And I'm not saying I'm against public funding, but this is often codified into a mafia of sorts when enough money flows through.

The real problem here is the fundamental lack of democratic control over our agencies. That our political organization is intensely lagging behind our productive organization. That our whole political will involves TRUSTING strangers to not be corrupt instead of directly democratizing these processes as much as possible.

But besides that, you cannot remove history from historical analysis. The reason socialism countries struggled in the beginning wasn't an inherent flaw in its organization, but the fact that they were under constant war war by capitalist countries through out their existence. Also keep in mind that most socialist countries did NOT have a whole section of the world where-from to extract riches through murder (S.America, Africa, Middle east, etc), like western capitalist countries had. This is convenient for you to ignore. Maybe because you don't know, or don't care about the super-exploitative history of these places and how they tie into western capitalism. But they are inherent to western wealth and these countries' whole history is struggle against this exploitation.

Not to mention that most of the countries on earth are capitalists and are very very very poor.

To add: Socialism has nothing to do with "clamping down" on X or Y industry, as you hypothetically claim would happen. Socialism is almost exclusively about removing the need to generate capital from production. It unleashes production from its historical ball and chain that is profiteering.

In a single sentence: Instead of production being held back by capitalists generating wealth we can produce for our own needs. It is self sustaining production.

Central planning is not fallacious. Your problem is with corruption, not democratic central planning. The US Govt is a pro-capitalist entity that pro-capitalists try to distance themselves from (ironically). So using them as an example isn't saying anything at all.

Central planning is not "allow a small group of people to decide things", as happens in the US Govt. Central planning is to take into account all sources of information on production to plan said production democratically.

This will always beat the highly highly inefficient speculation of capitalism. Where trillions vanish on a whim and cause of a tweet, where crisis occur every 8-10 years, and where its whole trade market is built to hide that it is mostly insider trading. Again, your problem is with corruption not democratic central planning.

And the way to deal with corruption is to create more democratic bodies where avg people hold real power. I don't see you asking for that either. We call that socialism.
by Heliodex | 2026-03-11 19:49:48+00:00
The point of the discrepancy between purchasing Robux and converting to fiat is to allow Roblox themselves to be able to pay for the infrastructure and support they provide to developers. If the rates were equal, there would be an effectively equal amount of money going into the platform as going out of it, which wouldn't leave enough to pay for their expenses.

This system is known as the Developer Exchange programme <https://en.help.roblox.com/hc/articles/203314100>. The differing exchange rates are a necessary part of how the platform works and should 100% be legal. Analogues to "company scrip" or the like commonly used to unjustify the system are propagated by people that don't have a coherent enough grasp on the platform's economic system.
by FarmerPotato | 2026-03-11 19:50:11+00:00
>A 2x4 LEGO brick manufactured in 1958 will snap perfectly onto a brick molded this morning..

This is just manifestly NOT TRUE. The outward appearance may be the same. There were intentional improvements to the walls and tubes that make fit less than perfect. Generally, today's brick requires less force to snap and un-snap, because the compression is focused onto fewer points. (I guess this lowers the "hoop strength".)

Older bricks can be either: completely loose, or clutch so hard to each other they are the devil to take apart.

I have many bricks from 1962 onwards. The oldest 2x4s and 2x2s were made of cellulose acetate (CA) (in North America, intermediated by Samsonite.) CA were softer, and either had less clutch power to begin with, or lost it over time. When I got them in the 70s, they fit but wouldn't reliably stick to each other, nor later 70s-80s bricks (all ABS plastic by then.) (CA bricks were mostly red, and they have a pale orange tint.)

70s-80s bricks did not always age well. Aged 1x4 or 1x8 bricks can have the outer wall bowed inward slightly. This is a mold engineering problem anyway. Later, 80s bricks were improved by slightly thinner walls and some reinforcing tabs. The older, aged bricks can stick brutally to each other and to newer bricks.

The 10x10 baseplates didn't age well (these were once box-tops! Tog'l Toys also had the baseplate as a box-lid.) Possibly made of polycarbonate (PC). Other large plates in ABS-- for instance 6x16 (Auto Chassis, red) -- have warped. They were also more brittle to begin with.

So inside Brick geometry has changed over the decades. 60s-70s bricks are closer to plain boxes with tubes inside - as the Kiddicraft prototype of the 50s. In the 80s, the outer walls got thinner and had tiny studs where the studs contacted the wall. And the tubes changed from cylinders to just slightly clover-leaf inside, so that a tube over a single stud now formed 4 points of contact, and came apart with lower shear force. (I believe this also made it easier to pry a plate off of a larger plate.)

I have Fabuland sets from early 80s, whose plain bricks are so stiff, they are positively brutal to snap onto each other or 90s bricks.

The brick geometry of today is much improved. And the ABS is more "plastic", perhaps more "B" (butadiene rubber) or less "S" (styrene): I can drill it more cleanly.

Mid 80s and 90s bricks will interoperate just fine with today's. But bricks from before that period didn't age so well (and their corners, I believe, used to be harder.)
by joshmoody24 | 2026-03-11 19:50:15+00:00
I've been using NixOS for the last year and have loved it. Rebuilding doesn't fail for me nearly as often as it does for the author. Running nix garbage collection frequently isn't a big deal and can easily be automated. The network usage is a fair point. But IMO a small price to pay for keeping all of my devices perfectly in sync and running into weird "works on my machine" issues way less frequently.
by gus_massa | 2026-03-11 19:50:40+00:00
Who knows?

I vote for AI, in spite I'm using very little AI.

Blockchain is used mostly to transfer money, but banks are creating easier to use wallets and governments are learning how to tax cryotocoins, so I guess the window is closing.

My wife is using AI, and it's getting better and better. I'm using only the free version of Gemini in Google Search and it's impressive.
by sonofhans | 2026-03-11 19:50:49+00:00
I must say, the irony of this comment in a thread about Apple moving down-market without losing quality is … well, it burns. Along with the arrogance: “Anyone who can’t afford 8GB isn’t worthy of being my customer,” is literally the opposite of what Steve Jobs always said.

I was stuck once in a cabin in the woods with an old Android phone. I’m glad it still worked, and that people curating software experiences for it had more empathy — and more business sense — than this comment displays.
by officeplant | 2026-03-11 19:50:53+00:00
>And I don't see why we should artificially exclude ARM PC laptops from the comparison.

As an ARM enthusiast who has tried a lot of WinARM, I think at this point I really struggle to believe MS has a single care in the world for improving quality of life for WinARM users. They sure do market it, and the laptops do work most of the time. I've just never had any other computers shit the bed when it comes to graphics drivers like a Qualcomm powered PC. Website with too many video/gifs playing? Screen whites out/all the video boxes go pink and explorer resets. Open up the gif search in Discord? Basically a coin flip chance its going to kill the graphics driver and reset explorer again. I had a Dell Inspiron with the Qualcomm 8CX Gen2 that could reliably be crashed just by quickly scrolling twitter on a video posting heavy day.

I would rather take a Mediatek powered Chromebook any other day until the Neo showed up and started to approach the sub $500 ARM chromebook price point.
by lurking_swe | 2026-03-11 19:51:32+00:00
I don’t think you fully understood their argument.

The problem is not that other manufacturers offer choices – the problem is that for a typical consumer it’s IMPOSSIBLE to really understand which computer in the lineup is appropriate for their needs. It seems most of them are focused on B2B sales.

Of course, if you are a gamer or a nerd like myself, you don’t mind spending a week finding the perfect computer. But that’s an exception.
by Kim_Bruning | 2026-03-11 19:51:44+00:00
I would amend to:

"Don't post comments that are not human originated at this time. We want to see your human opinion shine through."

This gives people some amount of leeway and allows just rhe right amount of exceptions that prove the rule.

(That said, to be frank, some of the newer better behaved models are sometimes more polite and better HN denizens than the actual humans. This is something you're going to have to take into account! :-P )
by sravyavedantham | 2026-03-11 19:51:53+00:00
I've been using Claude Code and Cursor daily. At some point
I realized I had no idea what those agents could actually
see about me — env vars, SSH keys, AWS credentials,
clipboard, git history, MCP configs.

So I built a scanner to answer that question.

pip install shadowscan && shadowscan run

It checks 8 categories: environment variables matching
secret patterns, credential files (~/.aws, ~/.netrc,
~/.npmrc), unencrypted SSH keys, .env files, clipboard
content, MCP config files with embedded API keys, git
history for accidentally committed secrets, and /tmp for
sensitive-sounding files.

Zero network calls. Nothing leaves your machine. Secret
values are redacted to 4 chars in output.

Found 3 things on my own machine I didn't know were exposed.
by fusslo | 2026-03-11 19:51:55+00:00
very cool

Once I figured out how to use the UI I did 2 scans. first one I had to zoom in before the identification boxes popped up. At first I thought it didnt do anything

Second scan I put over a local aviation museum with a mix of helicopters, unusual planes, cars, buildings, and other equipment. I was surprised to see everything identified correctly, though it missed a single helicopter.

I'd love a little bell or notification when the scan completes, as I hit 'scan', switch to a different tab and then forgot I was waiting
by PaulHoule | 2026-03-11 19:51:58+00:00
I didn't say I hate it. But I do think that there's a lot of overlap between people who feel overwhelmed with A.I. Slop and people who felt overwhelmed with crypto-FOMO back when there was such a thing.

My analysis could lead to "it's doomed" or "it's a gateway drug that expands the crypto market".
by ashdksnndck | 2026-03-11 19:52:04+00:00
I don’t respond to specific comments with accusations, because I can’t prove it and it would suck to be falsely accused. But I find it really depressing to watch deep comment threads with someone debating with an AI. The human is putting so much effort in, and the AI is responding with all these well-written but often flawed arguments. I wish I could do something to save that person from that interaction.
by joe_mamba | 2026-03-11 19:52:36+00:00
>The legacy PC makers are lucky that Ubuntu doesn’t work on this

If Linux would be able to be installed and fully working on this out of the box, then the laptop wouldn't cost 600 dollars. Apple profits from monetizing people tied to its iOS+MacOS ecosystem. If you're not gonna be a MacOS/iOS user, you're worthless to them and they're not gonna sell you a laptop for 600 dollars.
by stephencanon | 2026-03-11 19:52:42+00:00
For throughput-dominated contexts, evaluation via Horner's rule does very well because it minimizes register pressure and the number of operations required. But the latency can be relatively high, as you note.

There are a few good general options to extract more ILP for latency-dominated contexts, though all of them trade additional register pressure and usually some additional operation count; Estrin's scheme is the most commonly used. Factoring medium-order polynomials into quadratics is sometimes a good option (not all such factorizations are well behaved wrt numerical stability, but it also can give you the ability to synthesize selected extra-precise coefficients naturally without doing head-tail arithmetic). Quadratic factorizations are a favorite of mine because (when they work) they yield good performance in _both_ latency- and throughput-dominated contexts, which makes it easier to deliver identical results for scalar and vectorized functions.

There's no general form "best" option for optimizing latency; when I wrote math library functions day-to-day we just built a table of the optimal evaluation sequence for each order of polynomial up to 8 or so and each microarchitecture and grabbed the one we needed unless there were special constraints that required a different choice.
by orbital-decay | 2026-03-11 19:53:02+00:00
All people in my extended family were Soviet scientists and engineers from multiple fields, and outside of experimental physics it was the same or worse. Same publish or perish pressure, same amount of fraud and lack of reproducibility. A ton of papers were made up. My father's lab lead was an absolute fraud (biochemistry), everybody knew that, and my father was unable to speak up until the late 90's.

When I was a kid I thought it was the issue with USSR rotting to the core (it was), but when it crashed and later when the web appeared, it became obvious that it's a common problem with academia and its incentives.
by cyberax | 2026-03-11 19:53:15+00:00
Nope. I have a bunch of family letters, and my great-grandmother put more effort into writing simple "Happy <holiday-name>!" postcards than some people do for their college applications. And she worked on a farm, and only had just 5 years of formal education.

The modern devolution of spelling is just not giving a fuck about norms and courtesy.
by jonas21 | 2026-03-11 19:53:29+00:00
> I think this is fine if it also then means that obtaining a qualifying ID is treated as a no-cost and highly-accessible right for all citizens.

This is essentially what the Supreme Court said when they upheld Indiana's Voter ID law in 2008 [1]:

> The burdens that are relevant to the issue before us are those imposed on persons who are eligible to vote but do not possess a current photo identification that complies with the requirements of SEA 483. The fact that most voters already possess a valid driver’s license, or some other form of acceptable identification, would not save the statute under our reasoning in Harper, if the State required voters to pay a tax or a fee to obtain a new photo identification. But just as other States provide free voter registration cards, the photo identification cards issued by Indiana’s BMV are also free. For most voters who need them, the inconvenience of making a trip to the BMV, gathering the required documents, and posing for a photograph surely does not qualify as a substantial burden on the right to vote, or even represent a significant increase over the usual burdens of voting.

It's the reason why all states with voter ID laws have the option to obtain a no-cost photo ID at the DMV or equivalent.

[1] https://supreme.justia.com/cases/federal/us/553/181/
by cdnsteve | 2026-03-11 19:53:57+00:00
YouBrokeProd

A fun simulation game of prod breaking where you have to race to troubleshoot and fix the issue. Great for SREs, devs devops, founders and teams to learn in a non prod environment but feels real.

We are in beta and would love feedback!

Was on show hm the other day
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47323915

https://www.youbrokeprod.com/
by magic_hamster | 2026-03-11 19:54:05+00:00
I fully agree. My use case sees a fairly intensive use of MacOS, Linux and Windows, and out of all these, MacOS is the worst experience for me, and that's saying a lot when I prefer to use Windows 11 over MacOS.

Macs have very strong advantages but the software, the OS is absolutely infuriating. There's so many annoyances over regular use. You can remedy some of them with third party software (which should have been just system settings), but not all, and by the way some of these cost money for stupidly basic settings.

Finally and probably most painful, is Apple's constant push to update your software stack and things just stop working, and they expect you to keep chasing their decisions. You can't really build anything for Apple that's meant to last. It's exhausting. Meanwhile Windows can run programs from 30 years ago and Linux has extremely efficient, beautifully implemented software from all eras probably already installed in your Distro.
by bitwize | 2026-03-11 19:54:14+00:00
In New Orleans, protesters against outsiders acquiring and developing real estate hold up signs that read "Say Tchoupitoulas" (/ˌtʃɑp ə ˈtuː ləs/). I give my wife lots of hassle about the pronunciantions of Louisiana place names like Tchoupitoulas, Natchitoches, etc. especially when she complains about northeastern place names like "Leominster".
by munk-a | 2026-03-11 19:54:24+00:00
AI generated comments can also be verified and caught in many ways. I'd guess that it's statistically more likely for a murder to be resolved than a random AI comment to be detected but I'm not actually sure. There are a lot of sloppy murderers (since it's rare for an individual to have _practice_ at it) - but there are also a lot of sloppy LLMs.
by lenerdenator | 2026-03-11 19:54:35+00:00
Customers don't matter. Revenues do.

TVs are now a commodity that competes almost solely on price. You can walk into most big box stores in North America and buy a TV that will display at a higher resolution than your eyes are physically capable of processing at the distance of the average living room, have a screen bigger than the average person's wingspan, and it'll cost well under $500. If you don't keep the price low you're going to lose sales. Since you're not making cash on the front-end, you make it by selling the ad space.

Everyone who could want a TV more-or-less has one. You either cut quality so they have to buy 'em more often, or you monetize what's already there. They're probably doing both, but this is an example of the latter.