MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by nkurz | 2026-03-06 20:47:34+00:00
The AllSides evaluation for CNN is interesting: https://www.allsides.com/news-source/cnn-media-bias.

They have CNN currently rated as "Lean Left", changed from "Left" a few years ago due to the changes you point out. You'll need to read the fine text to see their reasoning. While there were some votes that they are now biased to Right, this was a minority position.
by righthand | 2026-03-06 20:47:50+00:00
Okay. You’re kidding right? Then you’re proving my point. Their military didn’t directly attack us. How many American made munitions did the US supply to Israel to attack Iran or Palestine or Lebanon or anywhere else Israel decided the Usa was going to attack next?

The start of the war wasn’t started by IED’s supplied to Iraq from Iran during the Iraq war. You’re just moving the goal post to fit the criteria. The war started a several days ago when we bombed the country.

And again as every person with a brain has been saying: if we’re attacking Iran based on indirect attacks, why haven’t we bombed and invaded China or Russia?
by Beefin | 2026-03-06 20:48:56+00:00
One thing we’ve been thinking about with Amux is that the unit of compute shouldn’t just be the terminal session—it should be the agent itself. That means each pane/session can expose things like:

* tokens in / tokens out
* cumulative run cost
* model + pricing tier
* runtime duration
* optional budget caps

So when you spin up 5–10 agents, you can immediately see which one is burning tokens or looping.

Longer term I’d love for Amux to treat agents a bit like processes in `htop` where you can see resource usage across all agents in one place and kill/restart the expensive ones quickly.

Curious how you're currently surfacing cost in your setups — logs, dashboards, or something inline with the agent runtime?
by hyperpape | 2026-03-06 20:48:57+00:00
Good observation, I meant at the border. Your passport won't matter that much if you get stopped by a cop.

But also, look carefully at the comparisons I offered. I didn't include all the combinations, because I only was including comparisons that were obviously true without any room for ambiguity or nitpicking.

As you noted, a black citizen might be treated better at the border and worse during a traffic stop compared to a white foreigner.
by abustamam | 2026-03-06 20:49:41+00:00
In trying to understand if I'm missing something, I looked up what newspeak means. I (as well as probably a few other commenters based on the contents of their comments) was under the assumption it meant "new speak" meaning it's something new.

In case anyone else reading this was not aware of this, this is what I discovered.

It's a term from George Orwell's 1984, describing a language used to make thoughts unthinkable by removing words from the language. It has nothing to do with "age of the term."

Hence, Dept of Defense is indeed newspeak. Dept of War, while being a new name for the dept, is too literal to be newspeak.

Thanks for the opportunity for me to learn something!
by mrguyorama | 2026-03-06 20:49:59+00:00
>but I highly doubt that anyone intentionally bombed an elementary school full of children

Hegseth said to your face "No stupid rules of engagement", "This is not a politically correct war"

These are the people who have been purposely and loudly defending Israel bombing innocent people. They genuinely believe, as they say to your face, that it is important and necessary to be brutal and extreme to win war.

Intentionally disregarding rules of engagement and protecting innocent life IS intentionally bombing that school. Civilian casualties are a reality of war and the best you can do is work your ass off to reduce them, so openly advocating for NOT doing that is intentionally killing people.
by sbrother | 2026-03-06 20:50:03+00:00
My version of fizzbuzz (I'm in backend/ML/NLP) is counting how many times each word appears in a string. Literally `return Counter(text.lower().split())` but it's totally fine if you want to do it in a for loop or whatever, as long as you can fluently write an incredibly simple function.

Half of the people I screen fail it. It's crazy.
by asdff | 2026-03-06 20:50:12+00:00
I'm surprised even the smarter democrats are saying that stupid line. Distraction would imply there are still to be people who have not yet learned and formed an opinion on the Epstein files. Everyone knows about these already and made their positions about it.

As it turns out the most abhorrent things can come out with those Epstein files and it doesn't seem to hurt Trumps support among his base any. Doesn't seem to be threatening any legal action for him or implicated parties. Once again only Maxwell is in jail, somehow, with dozens and dozens of witnesses stepping forward. Democrats have been grandstanding on this man for 10 years now and haven't been able to stop him. I think by this point it is clear he is going to get away with everything even if people want to write about him "flailing." Him flailing is literally him achieving all his domestic and foreign policy goals right now and his base couldn't be more pleased...
by blackhaz | 2026-03-06 20:50:21+00:00
Fantastic news. As ACP is no longer in development, I am starting to slowly look for a replacement, and a few things that come up in my mind:

- Will it work with MaximDL to acquire images and autoguide, or will it simply not need it at all?
- Will it work with PWI3 for autofocusing?
- Will offset tracking (at custom dRA, dDec rates) be implemented at some point to track artificial satellites?
- Will it at some point implement targeting using TLEs and MPC elements?
- I am extensively using #WAITZENDIST and other #WAIT directives to wait for an object to be at certain altitude - would be really good to implement that in observation plans (a single plan can do a number of things sequentially.)
- Can plans launch custom Python scripts and read/write stuff from/to files?

I probably want too much at this point, but sincerely wishing you best of luck with this incredible project, will definitely follow all the developments!
by jdwithit | 2026-03-06 20:51:45+00:00
I got laid off at the end of last year and am currently interviewing for Staff+ DevOps/Platform Engineer type roles. I definitely feel this. I've had a decent flow of recruiter inquiries and had multiple companies go 2-3 rounds of interviews deep with me (not counting the initial "do you have a pulse" recruiter screen calls). Then the communication always seems to dry up and I'm left to wonder what box I failed to check on their hiring rubric.

Semi related, holy hell do companies have a lot of interview rounds these days. It seems pretty standard to spread 5-6 Teams calls over the course of a month. I get that these are high salary, high impact roles and you want to get it right. But this feels really excessive. And I'm not talking about FAANG tech giants here. It's everyone, from startups to random midsize insurance companies.
by fastaguy88 | 2026-03-06 20:52:11+00:00
It is perhaps worth noting that the 25,000 bit flips/out of 470,000 crashes (in a week) are probably not coming from all Firefox users. It would be useful to know how many of those crashes (and bit flips) are happening on the same machine. And whether the crashes/bit flips continue on the same machine continue from week to week.

I can certainly imagine that a very small fraction of Firefox users are generating these results, so that bit flips are not a problem generally.
by mechanicalpulse | 2026-03-06 20:52:16+00:00
I can’t argue with you there. The Pentagon’s silence is deafening; I only want to caution myself as much as anyone against jumping to conclusions. It may be AI, it may be bad intelligence, it may be Russian counterintelligence, it may be an IRGC false flag, it may be a little bit of all of the above.
by blobbers | 2026-03-06 20:52:23+00:00
If anyone saw that LinkedIn post about someone at Block resigning guilt of being offered a raise and retention after the layoffs, I'd say that is a signal that tech is heading down.

Most people would be thankful to have a secure well paying job in the post AI blow off; increasingly it's going to harder to differentiate yourself against anyone else using AI. That we have people still in the thick of AI that don't understand that is a strong signal that AI boom is still going to come take some jobs.

If you're in a software related role and AI isn't making you more productive, it's on YOU as a dev to figure things out quickly.

AI is coming for your job so you can either be an AI manager, or you can get managed out for AI.

caveat: This is my take as someone who used to do a lot of hand coding, and now regularly has a small team of AI doing anything that would have normally required mostly brute coding strength but not too much thought; that's facet'ed plots, refactoring libraries, improving pipeline efficiency, adding parallelization where possible, building presentations, adding test coverage.
by jillesvangurp | 2026-03-06 20:52:56+00:00
The way a good heat pump works is that you can get about 3-5kwh of heat out of 1 kwh of electricity. So, they can save money over gas even though electricity is more expensive per kwh. And of course gas prices fluctuate quite a bit. Right now Germany is low on gas and gas prices are going through the roof because of the situation in the middle east.

Here in Germany this issue is lack of policy, financing, and a lot of people are renting. I actually pay about > 100/month for gas. I live in a 20 apartment building with a big furnace in the basement for the whole building. A heat pump would be cheaper to run but you'd have to do a big one for the whole building. This is actually a good thing. Big heat pumps can be quite efficient. It's probably cheaper than having to install 20 heatpumps for 20 apartments.

But buying and installing heat pumps costs money. Technically, it is actually an investment (i.e. it has an ROI). If you do this collectively as a building, you'd do it to lower your monthly bills. This is something that should be possible to finance out of those savings (at least partially). That's literally why private home owners install heat pumps and get their money back in 6-10 years typically. Faster if they also invest in solar. And get an EV that also powers from those panels.

But this where things break down in Germany. You need consensus. And financing. And there are home owners that can block things and it's their renters that pay the heating bill so the owners don't care. And so on. And if you are renting, you are not going to pay for this either. So, everybody just coughs up the money every month without even questioning it. My apartment doesn't even have a thermostat or a smart meter for electricity. Apparently that's normal in this country. Germany is just deeply bureaucratic and inefficient. For all the talk about environment, they can't be arsed to do what the rest of the world did decades ago: save some energy with smart meters.

Policy could help here. Mainly clearing up bureaucracy. And maybe some more subsidies/incentives (those already exist) or low interest financing. And a clear political goal to vastly reduce expensive gas imports. Even if the electricity for powering these heat pumps would come from gas powered electricity plants, it would still require a lot less gas. And of course Germany has lots of wind power. I think other countries in the EU are a bit further with their thinking than Germany on this front. On paper it having lots of apartment buildings like mine actually means it is fairly straight forward from a technical point of view to upgrade these buildings.
by throwup238 | 2026-03-06 20:52:58+00:00
> Can a ‘typical’ house bear that weight??

Modern builds codes require living areas to support 30-40 pounds per square foot live load so while you wouldn't want to pack it all in a 1k sq ft second floor apartment, it's doable in a larger space.

If it's an old house that was overbuilt before building codes were optimized, chances are it can support it. It also matters a lot whether this is an upper story, or just a single floor detached house sitting on a concrete foundation.
by vadimen | 2026-03-06 20:53:00+00:00
I’ve seen so many projects like this, and they all ask for crazy amounts of money. I was surprised to find this one (PrimeClaws.com), which has a normal price and also offers a huge package of AI included (GPT-5.3, Kimi K2.5) included. I am using it for news aggregations and prompt a lot and the AI is still there. Would spend much more myself if I were to pay for it via OpenAI API.
by mikkupikku | 2026-03-06 20:53:00+00:00
True.. my hope is that open weight models will progress to the point where they become viable coding agents for normies, so that even if open source dies with copyright, we will still nonetheless see a renaissance in people controlling their own computers, being able to create their own programs to solve their own problems. HyperCard on steroids, that anybody can use with no technical background. We're not there yet even for frontier models, but maybe in a few more years..
by nradov | 2026-03-06 20:53:10+00:00
OK cute rant but do you have a realistic proposal? I absolutely agree that we should do more to reduce exposure to toxins but there's no legal mechanism for health plans to shift costs that way. Ultimately some of the money spent caring for others with lifestyle-related chronic conditions is going to come out of your pocket through insurance premiums and taxes. This is inevitable. Are you willing to pay more for people who choose to smoke and get lung cancer / emphysema / heart failure / etc? Yes or no?

There's very little tobacco advertising anymore so we're not going to squeeze many dollars out there.

https://www.fda.gov/tobacco-products/products-guidance-regul...
by TheAceOfHearts | 2026-03-06 20:53:23+00:00
Since we're on the subject of waste removal, most mammals also pee for roughly the same amount of time [0], around 20 seconds. If you look up a video of an elephant urinating, it's quite the spectacle and the flow is voluminous.

[0] https://www.nationalgeographic.com/animals/article/mammals-p...
by aziaziazi | 2026-03-06 20:53:57+00:00
Speaking of deforestation:

> Globally, 77% of soya is produced for animal feed, 19.2% for direct human consumption and 3.8% for industry (biodiesel, lubricants, etc.).

https://www.deforestationimportee.ecologie.gouv.fr/en/affect...

Poultry protein efficiency is 21% and beef 3%

> We find that reallocating the agricultural land used for beef feed to poultry feed production can meet the caloric and protein demands of ≈120 and ≈140 million additional people consuming the mean American diet, respectively, roughly 40% of current US population.

https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1088/1748-9326/11/10/1...
by bryanmdavis25 | 2026-03-06 20:54:04+00:00
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• Backend Engineering: Python (FastAPI, Django), Node.js (NestJS, Express), PHP(Laravel), REST & GraphQL APIs, WebSockets, Microservices Architecture, PostgreSQL, MongoDB, Supabase.

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by swat535 | 2026-03-06 20:54:14+00:00
I'm Iranian (albeit Christian) and unfortunately.. Iranians _also_ support this war (specifically the Shia sect supporting the regime). As a matter of fact, they have been _praying_ for this.

Shia Muslims have a strong martyrdom culture in comparison to Sunnis. This is why assassination of Khamenei didn't do anything in terms of disruption. He was martyred during the holy month of Ramadan and they welcomed it. All US did was created another honorable martyr for them.

I know it's difficult for Westerners to grasp how someone could pray for their own death but this is what they do. Decapitating their leadership doesn't do much because the next guy just takes over.

30% of the population in IRAN is composed of these fanatics and they will gladly give up their lives for IRGC. In a country of 90M, that amounts to a lot of people. IRAN has very difficult terrain and IRGC has been preparing for this war for the past 30 years. They don't care about the lives of Iranians, US can bomb Tehran to hell and they will not care. They have nothing to lose and will gladly sacrifice innocent people.

The Shia's motto is: "Every day is Ashura, every land is Karbala" [0], [1]

I think this is going to be a difficult conflict for everyone.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ashura
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Karbala
by exceptione | 2026-03-06 20:54:16+00:00
> The goal is to transparently replace dedicated developer workstation

Isn't there a less convoluted way of making the best engineers leave? I am half serious here. If you want your software to run slow, IT could equally well install corporate security software on developer laptops. Oops, I did it again. Oh well, in all seriousness, I have never seen any performance problem being solved by running it on Azure's virtualization. I am afraid you are replacing the hardware layer by a software layer with ungodly complexity, which you are sure of will be functionally incomplete.

Are you sure they don't have to fix the build pipeline first? Tens of thousands of vCPUs for a single compilation run, or to accommodate 100 developers who try to compile their own changes?
by gavinray | 2026-03-06 20:54:25+00:00
I'm reminded of the "MongoDB is WebScale" video:

as of this moment I
officially resigned from my job as
software engineer and will take up work
on the farm shoveling pig shit and
administering anal suppositories to sick
horses because that will be a thousand
times more tolerable than being in the
same industry as dipshits like you

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b2F-DItXtZs
by linker3000 | 2026-03-06 20:54:27+00:00
I used to support DTP, and graphics for the systems house at which I worked. I travelled round the UK installing PageMaker and A4 paper-white CRT displays - boy were they heavy!

My endearing memory is calling the company in Edinburgh for technical support, to be greeted on the phone by a lady with a lovely, cheery Scottish accent announcing "Aldus UK".

Fun fact: I was first person in the UK to print in colour on an HP ink jet printer at the trade show where they were first demonstrated. The HP folks hadn't got the official colour driver ready for the show, so the HP guys were printing in mono, but I'd had an advanced model to try and hacked some other print driver to work with it.
by jval43 | 2026-03-06 20:54:30+00:00
I really hoped the M5 Pro would get cellular, but no dice. How good/bad is tethering with the iPhone nowadays?

Tethering my iPad was so cumbersome and buggy that I gave up and got a sim card for it. Always had to get my iPhone out, unlock it so the iPad saw it, connect for ages, and then disconnect manually again so the iPad wouldn't constantly reconnect and drain the iPhone while in the bag. It definitely didn't "just work".

Is it any better with macOS?
by lmeyerov | 2026-03-06 20:55:25+00:00
We split our work:

* Specification extraction. We have security.md and policy.md, often per module. Threat model, mechanisms, etc. This is collaborative and gets checked in for ourselves and the AI. Policy is often tricky & malleable product/business/ux decision stuff, while security is technical layers more independent of that or broader threat model.

* Bug mining. It is driven by the above. It is iterative, where we keep running it to surface findings, adverserially analyze them, and prioritize them. We keep repeating until diminishing returns wrt priority levels. Likely leads to policy & security spec refinements. We use this pattern not just for security , but general bugs and other iterative quality & performance improvement flows - it's just a simple skill file with tweaks like parallel subagents to make it fast and reliable.

This lets the AI drive itself more easily and in ways you explicitly care about vs noise
by conductr | 2026-03-06 20:55:47+00:00
I spent a lot of time in hospitals and got a lot of exposure to everything they do in my early adulthood, a few smells are permanently burnt into my brain including the smell of the GI wing.

Fast forward a couple decades, and my dilemma right now is a coworker that I share a restroom with. It’s a low traffic restroom so I have seen and know it’s coming from him, but he has some serious GI issues. Likely he’s digesting blood from my memory of the ailments. And so the dilemma is, do I say something to him? He looks like he is in awful health and high probability with an awful diet (based on profiling him). But I don’t interact with him or have any type of relationship and saying something would be incredibly awkward. Surely he knows I tell myself.
by sam_palus | 2026-03-06 20:55:48+00:00
The bond funds offered in existing startup treasury products aren't suited for startups' long-term cash reserves. They either offer low-yield money market funds, or bond funds that aren't well suited for capital preservation on the order of months the way startups operate (see here for an example of VFSTX, the fund offered by one of the leading startup treasury products today: https://totalrealreturns.com/n/USDOLLAR,VFSTX?start=2021-01-...)

Our goal is to make sophisticated treasury management easy for startups. With Palus, they don't need to manage a brokerage account, or handle treasury ladders, or anything like that.
by alwa | 2026-03-06 20:56:00+00:00
Or, it’s the kind of place or situation where it’s not about the job/role as some abstract commodity “function,” it’s about specialist > internal generalist > external non-specialist.

“We’re making do, but we’re kind of figuring out X as we go. That’s working for now, but the problems keep getting knottier as we grow and change—it works, but it’s expensive in terms of avoidable mistakes.

Nothing’s on fire, but if we ever got the chance, we’d value authentic expertise in this niche. But if it’s just ‘I could probably figure that out,’ we’ve already got plenty of that internally.”

Where a good hire ends up
helping those internal people as they develop experience and expertise, and one that’s not right is worse than none at all.
by TazeTSchnitzel | 2026-03-06 20:56:31+00:00
I think I remember using one of these apps around 2010 or so, and I think it just triggered the emoji keyboard to appear somehow? And once it was opened once, the ability to use it persisted. But that was just my guess as to what was happening as a user.

I really doubt Apple's sandbox would have permitted editing a global preferences file like that. That might have just been the first, and not the only, method to enable emoji that people discovered.