MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by rtpg | 2026-03-11 23:27:52+00:00
Well the Macbook Air pricing in USD was always around $1000 right?

2013 MBA pricing in USD was $1100

2013 MBA pricing in JPY was 110k JPY

2026 Macbook Neo pricing in JPY is ~100k JPY

2026 Macbook Neo pricing in USD is $600

2026 Macbook Air pricing in JPY is ~140k JPY

2026 Macbook Air pricing in USD is ..~$1100

So depending on the currency either the Neo is a massively cheaper thing or filling a gap in a product line that inflation created.

I wonder how much of Apple's costs are USD-denominated. The fact that the MBA hasn't changed pricing at all makes me guess that not that much, but I don't know how manufacturing contracts work

I dunno, I find it interesting, but JPY inflation is a recent phenomenon
Ask HN: How do we build a new Human First online community in the LLM age?
by bluefirebrand | 2026-03-11 23:28:25+00:00
I basically grew up online and I have some lifelong friends I met online. I cherish the real potential for international community that can be built on the web, there really is nothing like it

I have been finding myself feeling very bitter about AI lately. I'm angry about how it's seeping into every aspect of life. Not just my work and my hobbies but it also seems to be creeping into many online communities (including this one!)

I have been thinking a lot about how we could possibly build any of the trust that we used to have online. Yes, bots have been a problem for a long time but this is so much further beyond spam posting. LLMs have poisoned the commons online At Scale and there's likely no going back. It has made me very bitter, I won't lie.

However that doesn't mean we can't find a way forward with something new that is somehow resistant to LLMs. I'm not sure what exactly that might look like but I'm curious what ideas others have had.

My wish list would be something that

* Is resistant to LLM "infiltration" for lack of a better word. We should be able to be relatively confident that people on the other end are real humans

* Does not require giving up all anonymity. It will likely require some identity authority but interactions between users should/could be pseudonymous at least

* Ideally is also resistant to LLM scraping. I personally find the thought of sharing work publicly now so LLMs can ingest it is demoralizing

I know it's a big ask and maybe not realistic. I'm curious what HN thinks about this possibility though

Edit: This was partially inspired by the recent mod post discussed here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47340079

I respect that HN's mod team is willing to sort of leave this up to the honor system, but I think in the future we are going to need some serious ideas to strictly prevent this unwanted behavior, not just hope people will play nice
by nunez | 2026-03-11 23:28:29+00:00
Love to see it.

The next step is to run Pangram on every post and ban the offenders! Fight AI with AI! /s

In all seriousness, this is one of the few places I trust for genuine conversations with other people. Forums are mostly dead, Reddit is bots-galore, and I'm not signing up for Facebook just for groups.
by VTimofeenko | 2026-03-11 23:28:44+00:00
WHOIS sez it was just registered, registrar is NameCheap. Uses Cloudflare DNS. .bot domain hosted on Vercel. There is a link to .ai domain with similar info.

Certificate transparency logs list everything as brand new.

Cursory glance at other Nvidia domains shows Safenames ltd as their registrar of choice.

Seems a bit sketchy
by ctdinjeu2 | 2026-03-11 23:28:53+00:00
3-6 are the same thing, 7-8 exist in theory only.

It's a subjective reasoning problem, not an objective reasoning one - we've got the latter with LLMs.

But it only takes 2 seconds to output the result. There will be no "agent working while I sleep" since it only takes 2 seconds before I'm needed again.

Said another way: The calculator doesn't do my taxes.

To enable an LLM to work longer, autonomously, to be "an agent" on my behalf, I'd need it to approve things and make decisions too. For that, I'd need subjective reasoning.

For that, the LLM needs to have a model of me too, and of my cultural environment. This should be possible in the ad age (no pun intended), but nobody is doing it yet.

Subjective reasoning is I think a different modality, in the way that code-writing is a different modality from question-answering.

Sometimes correct means factually and objectively so. But sometimes it means the most aligned with my preferences, or what might be good for me, or inspiring.

To invoke the tax analogy again: Say you get the calculator to do your taxes - now get it to do it how you'd do them, regardless of what's generally correct, ethical, yielding the highest return and so-on. You need a subjective reasoning model, or if it's a training data problem only, then a language model with a subjective reasoning modality.
by enraged_camel | 2026-03-11 23:29:03+00:00
>> November 2024 through February 2026

Yeah, listen... I'm glad these types of studies are being conducted. I'll say this though: the difference between pre- and post-Opus 4.5 has been night and day for me.

From August 2025 through November 2025 I led a complex project at work where I used Sonnet 4.5 heavily. It was very helpful, but my total productivity gains were around 10-15%, which is pretty much what the study found. Once Opus came out in November though, it was like someone flipped a switch. It was much more capable at autonomous work and required way less hand-holding, intervention or course-correction. 4.6 has been even better.

So I'm much more interested in reading studies like this over the next two years where the start period coincides with Opus 4.5's release.
by svachalek | 2026-03-11 23:29:47+00:00
Interesting, that's one of the most AI-like comments I've read but it still feels human in a way that's hard to define. The headings, the punctuation, the word choices, the paragraph sizes all look GPT-approved. But there's just some catch in the flow, like inclusions in a diamond, that reads "natural" vs "synthetic".

I've been talking to Opus a lot lately though, and this could almost be something it wrote; it also has the tendency to write AI-ish looking blurbs that are missing the information-free pitter-patter that bloats older and lesser LLMs. People are going to hate me for saying it but sometimes it words things in a way that are actually a joy to read, which is not an experience I've had with other models. Which is to say, maybe what we hate about AI has less to do with the visual patterns and more to do with what we expect them to mean about the content.

But I think there will always be that feeling of: a human being took the effort to write this. No matter how informative or well written an AI article or comment is, it isn't something we instinctively want to respond to, the way we do when we know there is a person behind the words.
by scott_w | 2026-03-11 23:30:05+00:00
I think a good revising chamber is critical to good democracy, though the Lords recently have been playing silly buggers around the Employment Rights Act and ignoring the Salisbury Convention (which is that they shouldn’t block manifesto commitments).

I do think the USA goes too far, which has led to frustration among the public and contributed to Trump and the resulting behaviour. I’ve said before that I think the US House of Representatives should have a mechanism to override Senate speed bumps, though not without effort. The idea is to encourage the legislature to compromise but maintain the “primacy” of the House if the Senate is being obstinate. Something like the Parliament Act, is what I’d have in mind.
by xp84 | 2026-03-11 23:30:19+00:00
8GB was a sad amount of RAM back then, and it's still a sad amount now. Ditto for the storage. I'm not complaining about the CPU at all, it's fine. I use an M1 daily, and for work just an M1 Pro and both are fine.

I know there's a RAM shortage. But if RAM didn't matter, Apple wouldn't have stopped shipping 8GB configurations in the rest of their line. Starving these of RAM and storage is the way they've chosen to protect their fat margins of the MacBook Air. Which is fine. I just think these are best recommended only with a giant asterisk that they're for web tasks only, exactly like a Chromebook.
by dralley | 2026-03-11 23:30:24+00:00
On the other hand, voting needs to mean something. If voting doesn't mean anything, because the whole system is held in a vice grip by a sclerotic institution playing power games with itself, then the broader system eventually collapses.

My personal opinion is that Mitch McConnell's intransigence and unwillingness to do anything lest Obama get credit for it led directly to an increased desire for a "strongman"
Show HN: NowPages – Free "now page" generator, no sign-up, pure HTML output
by vipinkashyap | 2026-03-11 23:30:35+00:00
I've been a fan of Derek Sivers' /now movement (nownownow.com) for a while. The idea is simple — a page that says what you're focused on right now, not a static bio. Hundreds of people have one, but making one still means setting up hosting and writing HTML yourself. That's a weird amount of friction for something that should take 60 seconds.
So I built NowPages. You pick a handle, fill out a short form, choose a theme, and hit publish. Your page is live instantly at nowpages.github.io/your-handle. No accounts — you get an edit token to update it later.

A few things I think are interesting technically:

Generated pages are zero JavaScript, pure HTML and CSS. They load fast everywhere.
The whole stack is Cloudflare Workers + GitHub Pages free tiers. No database, no server costs.
Every page ships with JSON-LD, Open Graph, and Twitter Card metadata, plus a dynamically generated social preview image (separate Cloudflare Worker).
There are 5 themes with hand-picked typography pairings (JetBrains Mono, Source Serif, IBM Plex, Inter, etc).

The edit flow uses a token instead of accounts because I wanted zero friction and zero stored personal data. You publish, save your token, and that's it.
The whole thing is MIT-licensed and self-hostable if you want to run your own instance.
by scrlk | 2026-03-11 23:30:43+00:00
As Walter Bagehot wrote in The English Constitution: "An ancient and ever-altering constitution is like an old man who still wears with attached fondness clothes in the fashion of his youth: what you see of him is the same; what you do not see is wholly altered."

Absent ideological capture, it is perhaps one of the best forms of government ever created due to its pragmatic nature and its Lindyness is proof.
by pear01 | 2026-03-11 23:31:01+00:00
Great logic. China and America might find themselves at war in the coming years. Should we just get it over with and attack them now? Where did you pull Greece from? The Iranians can barely hit anything next door. Maybe in five years the regime would have collapsed during a succession or economic crisis. Perhaps this perhaps that.

Initiating a war is a gamble in of itself. Now Americans all over the world are potentially at increased risk from lone wolves. A failed Iranian state might be the site of horrible atrocities to come.

For a post that seems to contemplate the future you seem to exhibit a strange lack of reflection.
by OSaMaBiNLoGiN | 2026-03-11 23:31:07+00:00
Tool looks useful. But how is it that toggling between light/dark mode results in a multi-second freeze..? Scrolling drops frames, confirmed with dev tools.

Tested on m1 pro 2021 laptop and recent higher-end (4080, 14700k, etc) desktop. Same on both.

The fuck?
by Barrin92 | 2026-03-11 23:31:40+00:00
>Like what real difference does it make to you?

the difference is that you get to see the unfiltered, unique perspective of a real human being. Just like I don't want to talk to anyone through an instagram or tiktok beauty filter or accent remover. If your thoughts are unordered, it's okay I'll take your unordered thoughts over some smoothed over crap.

Do people have really such a low opinion of themselves that they have to push every single thing through some kind of layer of artifice?
by stego-tech | 2026-03-11 23:31:56+00:00
The comments hit at some, but not all, of the underlying drivers. I'll add a more comprehensive view and let you draw your own conclusions:

* Their balance sheet paints a messy picture. Their gross profit per quarter doubled from 23Q1 ($668mn) to 26Q2 ($1.35bn), but their net income has been a consistent loss - from -$13mn in 23Q1, to -$42.6mn in 26Q2. The company has generally failed to turn a meaningful profit after considering operating expenses, reflecting misaligned priorities of leadership.

* Their headcount similarly whipsaws of late. In 2021, it was 8.8k; by 2025, it was 13.8k; in the middle of COVID, it was as low as 6.4k. Even after these job cuts, their headcount remains roughly flat from 2025.

* Cutting jobs to invest in AI when you're already slowly bleeding cash isn't exactly a winning strategy. Atlassian's products have the benefit of organizational "stickiness", and their push to a cloud-only SaaS model hasn't gone all that well if you read the IT rags (lots of uniquely complicated migrations that don't transition well 1:1 to SaaS).

* That said, pointing to AI while cutting jobs isn't a bad play when you're courting investors, many of whom doubt the long-term viability of the XaaS model when AI can slop up boilerplate and internal-only solutions on the fly. If they're doing it to genuinely cut costs and try and right the ship, fingering AI isn't a bad cover.

* Except the reality is most of Atlassian's leadership gets their comp in equity, which has taken a serious hit of late on the markets just as vesting schedules wind down and leadership is changing over. I'd be on the lookout for SEC Form 4's from insiders in the coming weeks to confirm whether or not this was the case.

The reality is that the "AI layoffs" ploy is almost exclusively a cover story for corporations reasserting dominance and power over workers after a few (comparatively) good years (WFH, higher pay increases, wage gains, flex-time, etc). Every single one of these entities obviously has more work than people to do it, but if they can squeeze 90% of the workforce for 110% of the hours, that's a net gain for the corporation and a net loss for workers.

Efficiency, over-hiring, right-sizing, AI; it's all bullshit smokescreens for greed, plain and simple. Don't be fooled by narratives to the contrary.
by brucehoult | 2026-03-11 23:32:06+00:00
> RISC-V hardware with slow misaligned mem ops does exist to non-insignificant extent

Only U74 and P550, old RV64GC CPUs.

SiFive's RVA23 cores have fast misaligned accesses, as do all THead and SpacemiT cores.

I can't imagine that all the Tenstorrent and Ventana and so forth people doing massively OoO 8-wide cores won't also have fast misaligned accesses.

As a previous poster said: if you're targeting RVA23 then just assume misaligned is fast and if someone one day makes one that isn't then sucks to be them.
by thisislife2 | 2026-03-11 23:32:31+00:00
If you think 100+ dead children is the most horrific thing your government has done, prepare to be even more shocked - ‘Unimaginable horrors’: more than 50,000 children reportedly killed or injured in the Gaza Strip ( https://www.unicef.org/press-releases/unimaginable-horrors-m... ). But ofcourse, Biden says Gaza offensive 'not genocide' ( https://www.dw.com/en/israel-hamas-war-biden-says-gaza-offen... ). (And Trump wants to build a nice Oceanview resort and casinos in Gaza!). Note that the Gaza genocide is still ongoing, and Israel (with the full support of US) has now started harassing, killing and chasing away Palestinians from the West Bank too ...

I believe in karma and genuinely feel that the bad karma that the US has earned by supporting such wanton massacres and war crimes is going to haunt your nation pretty soon - this is all a precursor to the downfall of the United States as a superpower and a nation.
by Adiqq | 2026-03-11 23:32:55+00:00
On the other hand you can make good, but controversial argument and if you use AI in any way, it might be rejected by moderator, just because some places have strict rules on AI. In some cases it might be rejected, even if no AI was involved, if any fragment of your text might look like not written by human and if they don't like your text.

At certain point it's no longer about AI specifically, but about power and showing who makes decisions.

I agree that there might be some threshold for obvious spam, but if you're making argument in good faith and you don't claim to have authority on some matter, there will be always people that think differently or disagree with you, because they have different interpretation or they need better sources, more evidence. It's actually typical, because different people use different perspectives, different assumptions, different tools. I don't believe that rules should be used to silence people that have different opinions and that's the biggest risk I see, because penalty for not following such rules, which are hard to measure correctly, creates power imbalance.

At some points it becomes dogma, not fair debate and not everyone likes to stick to dogma and it's hard to do creative or innovative work, if your work has to meet strict, but subjective, possibly incomplete criteria, to be considered valid work at all.
by fragmede | 2026-03-11 23:33:28+00:00
Yes! If my comment is above yours in a thread, it means I got more upvotes than you did, which means I get special bonuses and more to eat and you go hungry in Internet land. Also it means I'm better than you (obviously) and I get to go to this secret club with all the pretty people and you're not invited. Isn't that how this all works?
by jjk166 | 2026-03-11 23:33:33+00:00
3 degrees is the generic "I don't care and don't want to worry about it" draft angle. In many cases 0.5 degrees of draft angle is a non-issue.

3 degrees on a lego brick would be a difference of .3mm over its height. For comparison an amoeba is about .5mm. If you're zoomed out enough that you can see the length, you're not going to be able to discern the angle. The only way you'd see it is to check for the gap between the wall and a precision square.
by altairprime | 2026-03-11 23:33:38+00:00
> Oxford commas are a monstrosity

Please don’t present your personal aesthetic beliefs as if those who disagree are morally wrong ‘bad people’. This ‘monstrosity’ comment in this context is derogatory-by-proxy of everyone (including the person you’re criticizing) who uses them, whether they know anything at all about your arguments that they should not, and that’s not really a good tone for us users here to be taking with each other.
by tauneutrin0 | 2026-03-11 23:33:46+00:00
One of the main goals of an electoral system is to ensure that the population trusts that their views are fairly represented.

The reason that paper voting is so good in this regard is that everybody can fully understand the entire process. It is so very, very simple. And if you need proof, you can go see the counting for yourself.

The issue with electronic voting is that there is far greater complexity. There are many valid reasons that someone could distrust it, for example:

- You might not trust the cryptography experts that claim the algorithms are secure.

- You might not trust the algorithms to be implemented correctly.

- You might not trust the computer manufacturer to have designed a secure machine.

- You might not trust the computer manufacturer to have built a defect-free machine.

- You might not trust the machine hasn't been compromised by some bad actor.

- You might not trust that there hasn't been some random bit-flips.

- You might just not understand how computers work.

- ect. ect.

Note that it is not important whether it can be proved to be correct and secure. The unique goal here is that everyone can prove to themselves that it is correct and secure. It must be obvious to everyone that they can trust it.

In my opinion, this is not possible to achieve with an electronic system.
by quicklime | 2026-03-11 23:34:16+00:00
Maybe you’re right, maybe you’re not. But if you’re right i think it’s more “investor wishcasting” than developers.

It really doesn’t matter what us devs think. Investors and industry leaders have decided that AI development is the way forward and we’re going to be managing teams of agents from now on. So we’re not going back to fine-grained task management in jira - what used to live in jira will now live markdown files, and largely be written and read by agents.

Higher level tasks might go into something like Linear, who knows.

If the investors are wrong, and this is all fantasy, then maybe people will go back to Jira, and Atlassian stocks will recover.
by GMoromisato | 2026-03-11 23:34:16+00:00
What about:

1. "Here is my answer to a comment. Give me the strongest argument against it."

2. "I think xyz. What are some arguments for and against that I may not have thought of."

3. "Is it defensible for me to say that xyz happened because of abc?"

All of these would help me to think through an issue. Is there a difference between asking a friend the above vs. an LLM? Do we care about provenance or do we care about quality?
by imiric | 2026-03-11 23:34:39+00:00
The obvious solution is to use "AI" to do these interviews for you. If the company doesn't want a human to represent them, why should the candidate?

I can see how "AI" applications can be annoying for companies as well, but this knife cuts both ways. An interview is a meeting to determine if there's mutual interest, not a one-sided conversation.
by ipython | 2026-03-11 23:35:09+00:00
The publicly available filing does not include the home address of the individual. See https://casesearch.courts.state.md.us/casesearch/inquiryByCa... and search for case 0502SP019272021.

Plus - you’re telling me that highlighting an individual and posting their home address on an official government account is not “giving ammo to harassers”?
by evanelias | 2026-03-11 23:35:10+00:00
My small NJ town has its own school district, containing a single K-8 school. Yet it has both a superintendent and a principal.

Grades 9-12 feed into a regional high school, which also has its own school district containing just that school. It also has its own superintendent and principal.

I don't think "redundant" is a strong word for this situation.
by pixl97 | 2026-03-11 23:36:32+00:00
>even if it's just a big ol' fallacy

Really?

https://www.cnbc.com/2026/03/08/social-media-child-safety-in...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Social_media_age_verification_...

Please wake up, won't be long before someone fires off a lawsuit at HN and we'll have to give identification here.
by verdverm | 2026-03-11 23:36:51+00:00
The difference is that I will retain what I drew out from the dictionary the next time. If people use Ai this way for writing, great! What many of the "enhanced-by-ai" arguments sound like is that this will be an indefinite outsourcing.

Use them to get better, like how reading good writing directly (not summarized) will also make you a much better writer. Learn from the before and after so next time there isn't a need to reach for Ai.
by tzs | 2026-03-11 23:37:16+00:00
I did post a link to the Supreme Court's decision at Cornell Law School's Legal Information Institute's archive of Supreme Court decisions.

I looked at the decision itself sufficiently to see that it was the case I remembered and that my recollection of the facts and the decision was correct.

I just didn't include a summary because I didn't find a good one I could link to. Normally I'd write a brief one myself but I found that hard to do when Perplexity's summary was sitting right there in the next window and it was embarrassingly better than what I would have written.
by JumpCrisscross | 2026-03-11 23:37:18+00:00
> VCs on HN are still going to insist that We The Good Guys are the champions of freedom, equality, justice, all the good stuff that we don’t practice (but we have great ideas about)

They might. I’m not. There is an analogy here to perfect being the enemy of good. Or, at the very least, the pragmatic better.