MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by ZoomZoomZoom | 2026-03-03 14:40:48+00:00
This is a google problem, but only secondary.

The crux of the matter is that there's nothing that protects an open project besides reputation, and nowadays in the digital space it can be cheaply farmed.

Laws could help, but they only work when you undertake purposeful actions to be covered by them, like register a trademark, and it's never cheap.

Imagine you're in a local band playing shows. It's 3 month old and you have no issued records. A second band tighter with venues takes your name and starts performing under your moniker. You have no money to take that to court and good luck making a case. You can't do anything besides screaming on the web or, don't know, kicking a few butts. You change your name.
by guerython | 2026-03-03 14:40:50+00:00
This is exactly why every AI citation we publish goes through a blocker. We dump the AI transcript plus the generated case numbers into a little script that hits the official court database and only passes through citations that return the same case id, party names, and paragraph text. If the extra lookup fails, the shot has to be marked as a hallucination, logged in the docket, and a human has to go re-verify with the actual law reports before we file anything. Treat the LLM like a drafting helper, not an authority, and make the human verification the gate that moves the draft from “AI promised” to “judicially safe.” We also keep a micro audit trail so if a clerk says “the AI gave me this,” we can replay how the prompt went and which citation check failed. What guard rails have other people put in front of AI-written judgements?
by jmyeet | 2026-03-03 14:41:30+00:00
Apple absolutely has a massive opportunity here because they used a shared memory architecture.

So as most people in or adjacent to the AI space know, NVidia gatekeeps their best GPUs with the most memory by making them eye-wateringly expensive. It's a form of market segmentation. So consumer GPUs top out at 16GB (5090 currently) while the best AI GPUs (H200?) is 141GB (I just had to search)? I think the previou sgen was 80GB.

But these GPUs are north of $30k.

Now the Mac Studio tops out currently at 512GB os SHARED memory. That means you can potentially run a much larger model locally without distributing it across machines. Currently that retails at $9500 but that's relatively cheap, in comparison.

But, as it stands now, the best Apple chips have significantly lower memory bandwidth than NVidia GPUs and that really impacts tokens/second.

So I've been waiting to see if Apple will realize this and address it in the next generation of Mac Studios (and, to a lesser extend, Macbook Pros). The H200 seems to be 4.8TB/s. IIRC the 5090 is ~1.8TB/s. The best Apple is (IIRC) 819GB/s on the M3 Ultra.

Apple could really make a dent in NVidia's monopoly here if they address some of these technical limitations.

So I just checked the memory bandwidth of these new chips and it seems like the M5 is 153GB/s, M5 Pro is ~300 and M5 Max is ~600. I was hoping for higher. This isn't a big jump from the M4 generation. I suspect the new Studios will probably barely break 1TB/s. I had been hoping for higher.
by KronisLV | 2026-03-03 14:42:03+00:00
There's probably a curve of diminishing returns when it comes to how much effort you throw in to improve uptime, which also directly affects the degree of overengineering around it.

I'm not saying that it should excuse straight up bad engineering practices, but I'd rather have them iterate on the core product (and maybe even make their Electron app more usable: not to have switching conversations take 2-4 seconds sometimes when those should be stored locally and also to have bare minimum such as some sort of an indicator when something is happening, instead of "Let me write a plan" and then there is nothing else indicating progress vs a silently dropped connection) than pursue near-perfect uptime.

Sorry about the usability rant, but my point is that I'd expect medical systems and planes to have amazing uptime, whereas most other things that have lower stakes I wouldn't be so demanding of. The context I've not mentioned so far is that I've seen whole systems get developed poorly, because they overengineered the architecture and crippled their ability to iterate, sometimes thinking they'd need scale when a simpler architecture, but a better developed one would have sufficed!

Ofc there's a difference between sometimes having to wait in a queue for a request to be serviced or having a few requests get dropped here and there and needing to retry them vs your system just having a cascading failure that it can't automatically recover from and that brings it down for hours. Having not enough cards feels like it should result in the former, not the latter.
by troupo | 2026-03-03 14:42:07+00:00
> Apple is the only company that truly gets HIDPI desktop displays with high quality gloss and 200+ ppi at screen this large.

And somehow they completely forgot how to seamlessly work with displays in general. Connect multiple displays via Thunderbolt? Nope. Keep layouts when switching displays? No. Running any display at more than 60Hz? No. Remember monitor positions? No.
by IgorPartola | 2026-03-03 14:42:09+00:00
In some cases solving a problem is about restating the problem in a way that opens up a new path forward. “Why do planets move around the sun?” vs “What kind of force exists in the world that makes planets tethered to the sun with no visible leash?” (Obviously very simplified but I hope you can see what I am saying.) Given that a human is there to ask the right questions it isn’t just an LLM.

Further, some solutions are like running a maze. If you know all the wrong turns/next words to say and can just brute force the right ones you might find a solution like a mouse running through the maze not seeing the whole picture.

Whether this is thinking is more philosophical. To me this demonstrates more that we are closer to bio computers than an LLM is to having some sort of divine soul.
by ChrisMarshallNY | 2026-03-03 14:42:48+00:00
> Someone has to get fired / go to jail when something screws up.

In law, someone always hangs. I think a number of American lawyers have been sanctioned for using AI slop.

In other vocations ... not so much. I think that one of the reasons that insurance likes AI so much, is that they can say that it was "the computer" that made the decision that killed Little Timmy.
by AgentLeague | 2026-03-03 14:42:58+00:00
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You register your agent via REST API, point it at a webhook, and it plays
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The goal isn't leaderboards. It's to observe: how do agents negotiate, bluff,
cooperate, or defect when there's no human steering them? What strategies emerge?
Do agents behave differently when the stakes are mechanical rather than social?

What's live now:
- REST API registration — no account, just a webhook endpoint
- Matches with full move-by-move replay
- Behavioral dilemma prompts (permanent public record)
- ELO ranking across 9 behavioral archetypes
- 6 supported frameworks (OpenAI, Anthropic, Cohere, Mistral, HuggingFace, LangChain)

Season 1 is incoming. Two agents are registered right now. If you have an agent,
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by lkey | 2026-03-03 14:42:59+00:00
Food stamps?? This is a ghoulish position, morally, financially, and as a matter of policy.

We live in the richest country on planet earth and we eliminated child hunger here during COVID only to roll it back.

It's not even 1.5% of the budget currently. Compare this to our military adventurism budget.

Every $1 invested in SNAP generates $1.80 in economic activity, right now.

Children need food to grow up and be 'productive', even if you don't see value in human life and are captial-maxxing; This is an important program for creating excess productivity. The same is true of well funded public schools. A well-fed and educated populous is optimal by every public metric.

I doubt you are an actual member of the bourgeoisie, so I must conclude you just enjoy a starving and undereducated mass of parents and children you look down upon for their poor moral character?

Adults need food to be 'productive' as well. Adults that are not afraid that they are going to starve commit fewer crimes.

You want to 'save' some money? Eliminate means testing entirely and give every American have a baseline EBT card food budget per person in the household. No special virtuous food categories to make sure the poor know they are being watched. Just a monthly cash infusion spendable at all grocers.

This way, walmart and other mega-corps won't be able to scam the government by creating positions that force their workers onto these means tested programs and lock them there.
by trashb | 2026-03-03 14:43:08+00:00
I agree, there is a reason we settled on programming languages as a interface to instruct the machine. Ultimately it is a tool to indicate our thoughts as precise as possible in a certain domain.

People that don't understand the tools they use are doomed to reinvent them.

Perhaps the interface will evolve into pseudo code where AI will fill in undefined or boilerplate with best estimates.
by kspacewalk2 | 2026-03-03 14:43:33+00:00
There are quite a few countries which consistently score higher than the US on democracy, overall freedom and press freedom indices, despite not having these absolutist freedom of speech provisions in their constitutions (if they even have constitutions). Because it's not about the piece of paper or what's written on it, is it? It's about the society and what it allows their government to get away with. If the US ever becomes an authoritarian dictatorship, it'll have the exact same constitution and reverence for Founding Fathers, plus a few extra Supreme Court decisions.
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by sachinneravath | 2026-03-03 14:44:05+00:00
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Kelviq is a Merchant of Record (MoR) and monetization platform that you can integrate without building a custom webhook-to-database syncing layer. Along with handling global taxes, checkout, and compliance, it acts as the real-time source of truth for your users feature access and usage credit balances.

Why we built this:
Through our other project, ParityDeals, we saw firsthand how much founders struggle with billing infrastructure. Integrating a payment gateway is easy, but actually building "monetization" is a massive engineering timesink.

To gate features or charge for usage (like API requests or LLM tokens), you usually end up building:

- A fragile, stateful webhook listener to keep your local database synced with Stripe.

- Custom idempotency layers and retry queues for missed events.

- Hardcoded feature flags scattered across your codebase to gate access based on tiers.

- Custom scripts to handle edge cases like upgrades, prorations, and grandfathering legacy users.

Because of this tight coupling, every pricing change, whether it's moving a feature to a new plan or switching from flat-rate to usage-based, requires a database migration and a code deploy.

Our Approach: Entitlement-First
Most billing setups require you to manually bridge the gap between a payment event and your product state. Kelviq simplifies this with an entitlement-first model. You can still use webhooks if you need them, but our SDK allows your app to simply ask Kelviq for a user's current access state at runtime. It eliminates the need to maintain a homegrown subscriptions table just to gate a feature.

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Zero Webhook Syncing: Stop maintaining a homegrown subscriptions table. Use Kelviq SDK to check if a user has access to a feature before serving the request.

Real-Time Metering: Push usage data to our API at the atomic level (e.g., 1,500 AI tokens). We instantly evaluate it against their tier, deduct from credit balances, or add it to their end-of-month invoice.

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We built this to compress weeks of custom billing logic into a few hours of integration. Kelviq also supports multi-currency, built-in PPP pricing (with VPN and proxy protection), and digital product delivery with licensing.

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by chii | 2026-03-03 14:44:06+00:00
> won't solve the core problem.

what's the core problem tho? Because if the core problem is "using ai", then it's an inevitable outcome - ai will be used, and there are always incentive to cut costs maximally.

So realistically, the solution is to punish mistakes. We do this for bridges that collapse, for driver mistakes on roads, etc. The "easy" fix is to make punishment harsher for mistakes - whether it's LLM or not, the pedigree of the mistake is irrelevant.
by adampunk | 2026-03-03 14:44:18+00:00
I think the looping part is what stops this from being a practical solution. If we imagine that the actual code required some iteration in order to put down, I don’t know that we could say there is a one shot equivalent without testing that. Sometimes there may not even be an equivalent.

It’s possible that the solution to code being implementation detail is to be less precious about it and not more. I don’t really have an answer here and I don’t think anyone does because it’s all very new and it is hard to manage.

There’s also a pretty normal way in which this is going to diverge and perhaps already has. Developers are building local bespoke skills just like they used to develop and still do local bespoke code to make their work more efficient. They may be able to do something that you or I cannot using the same models—-there’s no way to homologize their output. It would be like asking someone to commit their dot files alongside the project output. Regardless of whether or not it was the right thing to do no one would do it.
by WarmWash | 2026-03-03 14:44:35+00:00
>why so many companies are now saying they see zero ROI from AI efforts.

I strongly suspect this is because workers are pocketing the gains for themselves. Report XYZ usually takes a week to write. It now takes a day. The other 4 days are spent looking busy.

The MIT report that found all these companies were getting nowhere with AI, also found that almost every worker was using AI almost daily. But using their personal account rather than the corporate one.
by hbn | 2026-03-03 14:44:42+00:00
Stories are the purpley-yellow rings at the top of the main page with people's profile pictures. Or if you go to their profile you'll see the ring around their profile picture. Stuff you post there stays viewable for 24 hours.

Posts are the stuff that appears in the main feed and your profile permanently (unless you remove it manually)

You can also get into the difference between posts are reels but... they've kinda fuzzied that over the years.
by rob74 | 2026-03-03 14:44:44+00:00
Well, days get longer without DST too (in countries far enough from the equator, but those nearer to the equator don't have to worry about DST anyway). What bothers me about DST is that just before the clock is moved forward, the sun starts rising before I have to get up. Then the clock is moved, and suddenly I have to get up when it's pitch dark again! Great...
by petcat | 2026-03-03 14:45:11+00:00
> problem with the law: it generates a lot of boilerplate text

I think the problem fundamentally is that matters of law require thorough, precise language, and unambiguous context. If you remove "the boilerplate" then you introduce a vast gray area left to interpretation.

Usually attempts (by humans or computers) to "summarize" or frame things in "plain language" will apply a bias since it intentionally omits all the myriad context and legal/societal "gray areas" that will inform one perspective or another.

Legalese exists the way it is because it is an attempt to remove doubt. And even then, doubt still creeps in.
by madamelic | 2026-03-03 14:45:56+00:00
Maybe I don't understand journalism but this guy being a reporter, shouldn't he have had an editor reviewing his work before they hit publish? I understand trusting a senior reporter but I would think due to libel concerns, they would check people's quotes ESPECIALLY if the reporter was sick.

Honestly it seems like journalism has been in their 'vibe code' era for a decade where they just publish whatever typos and all.

This was an institutional error, not an individual reporter's fault. We should also be asking why he was still contributing when he had a high fever. Why did his editors push him to publish his work? I will certainly write code and answer questions when I am sick when I am up to it but I would never push to main while sick.
by derbOac | 2026-03-03 14:46:22+00:00
I agree that there's a lack of awareness of what happens in other countries with ID, but I think it is also a different situation in the US.

States in the US in a lot of ways are more comparable to countries in the EU. It's not exactly like that but in many ways it is. So it would be like requiring an EU ID on top of a national ID.

I also don't think privacy per se is the real issue of concern, it's concern about consolidation of federalized power. Privacy is one criterion by which you judge the extent to which power has been consolidated or can be consolidated.

The question isn't "can this be federalized safely in theory", it's "is it necessary to federalize this" or "what is the worse possible outcome of this if abused?"

As we are seeing recently, whatever can be abused in terms of consolidated power will be eventually, given enough time.

I guess discussions of whether or not you can have cryptographic verification with anonymity kind of miss the point at some level. It's good to be mindful of in case we go down the dystopian surveillance route, but it ignores the bigger picture issues about freedom of speech, government control over access (cryptographic guarantees of credential verfication don't guarantee issuance of the id appropriately, nor do they guarantee that the card will be issued with that cryptographic system implemented in good faith), and so forth.
by manofmanysmiles | 2026-03-03 14:46:46+00:00
I love the following section of their copy:

> Even More Value for Upgraders

> The new 14- and 16-inch MacBook Pro with M5 Pro and M5 Max mark a major leap for pro users. There’s never been a better time for customers to upgrade from a previous generation of MacBook Pro with Apple silicon or an Intel-based Mac.

I read as "Whoops we made the M1 Macbook pro too good, please upgrade!"

I think I will get another 2-5 years out my mine.

Apple: If you document the hardware enough for the Asahi team to deliver a polished Linux experiene, I'll buy one this year!
by hrmtst93837 | 2026-03-03 14:47:27+00:00
> M5 Pro supports up to 64GB of unified memory with up to 307GB/s of memory bandwidth, while M5 Max supports up to 128GB of unified memory with up to 614GB/s of memory bandwidth.

This is the important statement. 614GB/s is quite decent, however a NVIDIA RTX 5090 already offers 1,792 GB/s (roughly 3x) of memory bandwidth, for comparison.
by dirk94018 | 2026-03-03 14:47:33+00:00
For chat type interactions prefill is cached, prompt is processed at 400tk/s and generation is 100-107tk/s, it's quite snappy. Sure, for 130,000 tokens, processing documents it drops to, I think 60tk/s, but don't quote me on that. The larger point is that local LLMs are becoming useful, and they are getting smarter too.
by applicative | 2026-03-03 14:47:36+00:00
It's the Persian Empire, a titanic object, with an advanced civilization, quality scientific culture and a highly educated population (.... in the Persian-Azeri core, not the brutalized ethnic periphery). There are sanctions, but relations with Russia and China make up for the few inputs that the sheer extent of the Persian empire cannot yield. (Israel is a bit over 1% its size and mostly intractable desert but has more convenient external supply.)

The ingenuity is kind of astonishing, there is something of a mad febrile energy to it. Thus Houthi and Hamas mostly did not need external supply chains for rocketry etc.: a complete industrial chain could be devised in Iran and deployed on site. Part of it seems to be that a chief objective of design is minimizing what seems to us as inevitable external supply chain dependencies.

The product is indeed largely replication of external industry: as I understand, they seem to have done a lot of reverse engineering of enemy drones. But none of these can bee too much like the shahed, I think, as is evidenced by the fact that Uncle Sam has reverse engineered versions in production and appearing in the Gulf now.

Similarly, I suppose, the Chinese AIs that to some extent mirror US AIs, but on the cheap and with way less computing power, will be replicated in US.
by testfrequency | 2026-03-03 14:47:37+00:00
I’ve owned my nano-textured XDR since launch (with the stand), and I love it.

As the years have gone, the only upgrade I wished to have was 120 refresh for some very limited design work - but 120 really is still not widely adopted in most places anywhere, so it’s really a non-issue for me.

The new XDR is smaller, has a less ergo stand, and also loses the beautiful lattice etchings on the rear which I often admire.

The XDR was overdue for a refresh, it’s nice the price dropped some, but I won’t be upgrading for now.
by Imustaskforhelp | 2026-03-03 14:47:39+00:00
I am part of Lowendtalk community where hosting providers sometimes gives deals even better than hetzner/ovh etc. who are even impacted even more by the ram crisis but they are trying their best imo to not have prices be risen across the board. Sort of eating the 5x costs of ram.

The entitlement is truly real at times. I think that sometimes I can be part of that entitlement too but I think I try to be respectful usually and say my concerns if I have any.

This sort of becomes a circular because VPS at the very least do indicate support and good quality/atleast decent quality hardware. A server too cheap and too overprovisioned with steal factor (Like Contabo) is universally hated by people. But these are the same people who will take deals if they are the cheapest across the board (myself included at times, I have got an idle netcup vps for a few months for 10$ simply out of curiosity but I do think that's 10$ worth spent to get the idea of a public facing ipv4 but yea)

So a lot of summer hosts/ deadpools (Scam-type) take on this opportunity and what they do is rent hardware for a month or year from other providers with large specs and split it into small chunks and give yearly, triannually, lifetime deals which can be too good to be true.

Turns out that they are, as usually sme sort of scam type stuff happens after a year or two or three.

This also makes it hard for new providers to try to prove their worth at times too if they are legit all within a market which is very price competitive.
by mschuster91 | 2026-03-03 14:47:40+00:00
> Interesting that this hasn't budged since the memory shortages appeared.

Apple has had enough war chests with the ability of buying the entirety of TSMC's new capacity years in advance in the past.

If I were to guess, Apple locked in their entire BOM and production capacity two years ago. That's something even the large players cannot replicate because they run cash-lean and have too many different SKUs, and the small players (Framework, System76, even Steam) are entirely left to the forces of the markets.