MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by metaphor | 2026-03-05 04:44:55+00:00
> The dirty little not-so-secret is that we pay doctors too much in the US.

Doubt.

> That's partly because we have a doctor shortage here (medical schools collude to limit the number of new doctors created each year).

Now explain this trend[1].

[1] https://fred.stlouisfed.org/graph/?g=1T22Y
by verdverm | 2026-03-05 04:45:35+00:00
The latest Mac Neo will likely outperform an older laptop on every metric. Battery life will be the thing you notice more than any other as you go to classes for the day. Linux has always been behind in this regard. You can always spin up a cloud vm for pure linux if you need to, and more likely than not the university will have labs and other linux resources that are free.
by magicalhippo | 2026-03-05 04:45:47+00:00
> then tries a generic one, if it worked (not much worse than an average of 5 custom plans), the plan is cached

Seems like it's not great at detecting this in all cases[1]. That said, I do note that was reproduced on PG16, perhaps they've made improvements since, given the documentation explicitly mentions what you said.

[1]: https://www.michal-drozd.com/en/blog/postgresql-prepared-sta...
by ipnon | 2026-03-05 04:47:01+00:00
And in that case you begin to wonder why use Python at all? The language struggles to give developers the granularity needed to finely manage threads like C++, and it doesn't have the actor model first class like Erlang. I love Python, but I love Fortran and Lisp too. They've all served their purpose and it's time to move on, even though there is already incredible momentum behind it.
by sfink | 2026-03-05 04:47:21+00:00
There's a reason it's unpopular.

If your company makes an herbicide that happens to be very good at killing off anyone who drinks it at a high concentration in their water supply, you're saying that there should be no way for your company to resist being used for mass murder (including unavoidable collateral damage)?

Also, the core mission of the military is not "killing its adversaries through any means necessary". It is to defend state interests. Some people have a belief that mass killing is the best mechanism for accomplishing that. I do not agree with, nor do I want to associate with, those people. They are morally and objectively wrong. Yes, sometimes killing people is the most effective -- or more likely, the quickest -- way. In practice, it doesn't work very well. The threat of violence is much more powerful than actually committing violence. If you have to resort to the latter, you've usually screwed up and lost the chance to achieve the optimal outcome. It is true that having no restrictions whatsoever on your ability to commit violence is going to be more intimidating, but it also means that you have to maintain that threat constantly for everyone, because nobody has any other reason to give you what you want.

The actual military is not evil. Your conception of it is.
by binarycrusader | 2026-03-05 04:47:24+00:00
You absolutely do not have to show ID to pick up every prescription; just some, which is also dependent on state law, federal law, and pharmacy.

But also, I don't care if it's a tired argument--this isn't about how things are, it's about how we want them to be. I don't want to live in a state action-coerced society.
by ratwolf | 2026-03-05 04:49:21+00:00
This Python code (Chladni_Figures.py) simulates the nodal line patterns of Chladni figures, approximating Ernst Chladni’s 1787 experiments with vibrating plates by modeling the resonant modes of a square membrane. It captures the visual essence of these wave patterns without simulating the complex physics of elastic bending and the dynamics of particle motion.
by nradov | 2026-03-05 04:49:24+00:00
You can sue anyone for anything. That doesn't mean you're going to win. It's already extremely rare that a physician who actually followed an established standard of care to be found liable in a malpractice case. We should be hesitant to prevent anyone from seeking redress through the courts.

I'm also skeptical about putting the federal government in charge of establishing standards of care. We already see that some medical conditions have been heavily politicized by certain patient interest groups. And while evidence-based medicine is great, we still have nowhere near enough data to establish clear clinical practice guidelines for medically complex patients.
by PaulDavisThe1st | 2026-03-05 04:51:41+00:00
> "Open source" barely existed as a concept then,

I was introduced to "free software" and the GPL in 1986, as a PhD student at the European Molecular Biology Lab (Heidelberg).

Your historical revisionism doesn't sit well. Yes, "open source" came later because some people didn't like the specifics of the GPL and wanted a term that could describe "source available" software under a variety of license. But by 1998, I'd already been contributing to GPL'ed projects for more than a decade.

I'm well aware of the lack of free/libre alternatives to Flash. But that wasn't my point at all. I'm not saying that people failed by choosing Flash over some (mythical) free/libre alternative. I'm saying they failed by choosing Flash, period.

Before proprietary software, there were almost no creative tools that were proprietary. Nobody bought proprietary paint, or proprietary paint brushes, or proprietary table saws, or propriety anything. The software showed up, and everyone was so gaga about what you could do with it that they just forget about the fact that XYZ Corp. controlled the tools 100%, and dived in. There were people warning them, but those people were ignored.
by Fabricio20 | 2026-03-05 04:51:45+00:00
pip might be but it was historically super inconsistent (at least in my experience). Is it `pip install`? `python3 -m pip install`? maybe `pip3 install`? Yeah ubuntu did a lot of damage to pip here. npm always worked because you had to install it and it didnt have a transition phase from python2 being in the OS by default.
by jemmyw | 2026-03-05 04:51:59+00:00
An opinion that formed after the war, but not actually anchored in reality. None of the elite really wanted a war, some levels of the military did. Nicolas II raged against his generals that he did not want to mobilize and send men to their deaths. The German leadership didn't want a war, they thought it was inevitable but that they'd lose. The Austro-Hungarians definitely didn't want a war with Russia but did want to give the Serbs a black eye for the assassination in Sarajevo, and made a number of bad decisions. The British tried to stop the war and a number of politicians there wrote about the potential consequences before it happened.

In a way it's sadder than other conflicts: none of the participants entered the war for power or control, they all thought they were defending themselves. Plenty of people knew the human cost would be high. Events and fear and lack of fast communication just took over. And it set up the conditions for WW2 and probably the cold war.
by Qub3d | 2026-03-05 04:52:11+00:00
For monitors at least, if you plug in to the wrong port you will get a GUI prompt advising you to use the other one [1]:

> while the ports aren’t labeled, if you plug an external display into the “wrong” port, you’ll get an on-screen notification suggesting you plug it into the other port.

[1]: https://daringfireball.net/2026/03/599_not_a_piece_of_junk_m...
Show HN: Scape – One-click worktrees and orchestrators for Claude Code
by bgnm2000 | 2026-03-05 04:52:33+00:00
Hey HN, we've been using Claude Code daily for months, and built Scape to fix our biggest pain point: managing multiple worktrees quickly & reducing the mental load of switching between them quickly.

What we built: Scape is a macOS menu bar app that sits on top of Claude Code and gives you:

- One-click worktrees: click a button, get a new git worktree with a Claude session already working on it. Develop in parallel without leaving your
current branch.
- Toolkit: per-session actions like "Create PR", "Commit & Push", "Run & Fix Tests." Add your own with bash scripts or prompts.
- Orchestrators: auto-answer questions, auto-approve tools, set custom instructions. Sessions run autonomously while you work on something else.

It monitors all your Claude Code sessions across iTerm2 terminals, so you always know what's happening at a glance.

Privacy: Everything is stored locally at ~/.claude/scape/. No code or terminal content leaves your machine.

We'd love feedback, especially on what workflows you'd want to automate. We're planning to add A LOT more over the coming weeks, specifically around embedded terminals and more automation.

macOS 14+ only for now (more terminal & agent model support coming).
by SegfaultSeagull | 2026-03-05 04:52:47+00:00
That only works if you treat Iran’s proxies as unrelated actors.

Hamas (Oct 7), Hezbollah on the northern border, the Houthis in the Red Sea, Iraqi militias hitting U.S. bases — that’s been Iran’s strategy for decades.

April 2024 may have been the first direct exchange, but the war with Iran’s proxy system was already underway.
by lotsofpulp | 2026-03-05 04:53:02+00:00
You can deduct that cannot be true using the medical loss ratios, which is money flowing out to healthcare providers. At roughly 85% or so, that means 15% is left for the entirety of the rest of the business, including adjudication.

https://www.kff.org/private-insurance/medical-loss-ratio-reb...

https://www.oliverwyman.com/our-expertise/insights/2023/mar/...

That is not to say the adjudication process is done well. In fact, it is hugely wasteful, either intentionally or unintentionally, and the problem is that the government does not audit the insurance companies often enough, nor does it levy penalties sufficient to incentivize proper and efficient adjudication.

The government should be doing constant random checks on claims to see if they were processed and adjudicated in a timely and efficient manner with a sufficiently low error rate on behalf of the adjudicators, and the government is basically doing none of that.
by andyferris | 2026-03-05 04:53:33+00:00
Does Apple make a profit of iPad Pro and Air, do you think? Is it a "failure"?

Their mere existance screams "our iPads are a gazillion times better and more powerful than Android tablets". Remember, they NEED to have such a reputation to charge luxury product prices (for tablets and otherwise).

Think about market segmentation. iPad and Neo are for students and everyday/coffee-table computing. iPad Pro, MacBook Pro with M5 Max, Mac Studio, Studio Display, Watch Ultra etc are chasing a completely different market (niche power users and vanity purchases).
by eitally | 2026-03-05 04:53:45+00:00
They are. I don't know why you think you're making that statement sarcastically. GCP started late and from a much smaller base, but has been growing consistently faster than both of their competitors. Moreover, AWS has recently almost completely leveled off and is losing customers, most of whom are moving to GCP because of the AI leadership/differentiation.

AWS is the IBM of clouds. You won't get fired for choosing it, but you also know you're just getting a plain vanilla set of services, too, that usually cost more than colo or on-prem. Without any meaningful first party AI investments (this goes for MSFT, too), Google is the only one stop shop.
by chii | 2026-03-05 04:54:00+00:00
> In an ideal system there would be a wiki with every option documented and when hovering over the option you'd get a short explanation and a click is a link to the documentation.

doesn't even need to be a wiki, because programs should contain their own help files! Like how commandline programs are encouraged (by command arg parsing libraries) to include the documentation in the very code that parses it.

Whoever that added those config option should also document it, preferably right in the code so that automatic generation of docs for the UI is possible (and ensures that it matches the version you're using).
by genxy | 2026-03-05 04:54:59+00:00
When shit hits the fan they are going to blame AI, but then not even use hand sanitizer. They will 100% be using OAI as a scapegoat, although I'd like to see the OAI goat stay and someone else run into the woods.

All Lawful Use is a tautology with fascists because they cannot break laws by definition.
by cherry_tree | 2026-03-05 04:55:08+00:00
I’m sure lots of surveillance was done, but ultimately they bombed the home of an 80-something year old man and he was at home and died. Seems like some wasted effort in hacking traffic cameras, spying on entire populations, etc for many years to just blow up the guys house; they’ll always try to sell you in the technology of obviously negative things being cool spy tech, but the reality continues to be that people are not that complex and dragnet surveillance is just dragnet surveillance and serves no better ultimate purpose.
by ggm | 2026-03-05 04:55:43+00:00
yes. I felt something very similar. I do think there is value in pointing out the pitfalls naieve users (me!) can make assuming things which aren't true about ordering of events, states. Queues with lock regions are also really nice because they are (as I understand it) very cheap: so making a thread or other concurrency primitive which writes into a queue under lock, and gets out of the way, aligns nicely with having some mothership process which reads queues under lock in a deterministic way. Actual event order can vary. but you should be able to know you had an event putting you into state A, as well as the terminal event state B you jumped into without doing work needed for state A.
by carefree-bob | 2026-03-05 04:55:52+00:00
Used computers are a better value. If you want an Apple, I'd buy a used macbook over new, and a used thinkpad is just awesome, it's a really nice machine and will serve you well. I would go with the thinkpad. Also check out Dell outlet for refurbished and scratch and dent, I've bought from them several times. https://outlet.us.dell.com/ also back market: https://www.backmarket.com/en-us/p/lenovo-thinkpad-x1-carbon...

When I was a student, I almost exclusively bought used computers online and generally had positive experiences, and never had a bad experience. It's not like a car where you need a professional pre-purchase inspection, it's pretty easy to check.

If you are going to get a used computer, check the remaining SSD life, remaining battery life, and inspect the screen for dead pixels. Lots of sources online for how to do this. The advantage of refurbished is this is taken care of for you.
by mcbishop | 2026-03-05 04:56:03+00:00
Thanks, and I agree that a DIY-inverter designer should be able to meet grid-interconnection requirements (e.g. IEEE 1547-2018). With that said, I think case-by-base evaluation from the AHJ would be prudent without a UL listing... something that AHJs don't want to do.

I'd prefer to just put the DIY inverter behind a transfer switch (with an adequate battery bank and maybe a small propane generator)... with the grid as emergency fallback.
by justbustr | 2026-03-05 04:56:05+00:00
I'm an indie iOS developer and just shipped RoundsKeeper, a score tracking app for board games, card games, mini golf... anything you keep score for. This is my second app (first was Mathintosh, a calculator app).

Tech stack:
- Swift/SwiftUI, iOS 18+
- Built in Xcode
- SwiftData with CloudKit integration for local-first persistence with iCloud sync
- No backend servers — data lives in the user's iCloud private database
- No analytics SDKs, no network requests beyond iCloud sync

What it does:
- Two input modes: a calculator-style view for punching in scores fast during gameplay, and a table view for a spreadsheet-like look at every round. Game history with analytics (win/loss ratios, averages, per-player trends), a dice roller supporting everything from a single d6 to custom multi-dice pools with saved presets, and a game timer for turn tracking or overall session duration.

Architecture decisions:
- SwiftData over Core Data. I wanted to bet on the modern framework
- Local-first was non-negotiable. No accounts, no sign-up, no server-side anything. iCloud handles sync transparently
- Biggest technical challenge was making SwiftData + CloudKit sync reliable across devices without conflict issues

Privacy/monetization:
- No ads, no tracking, no data collection
- Free to download, optional IAP for advanced features
- No account required

App Store: https://apps.apple.com/us/app/roundskeeper/id6754217431

Would love technical feedback or feature requests. What would you want from a scorekeeper app?
by whynotminot | 2026-03-05 04:58:43+00:00
As long as both companies remain stable and viable, there's probably limited upside to pouring more money into them. If they fail, and bring down the AI ecosystem with them, that is very bad news for Nvidia. So they've been there nurturing their success and providing capital to backstop their exponential growth.

You can see Nvidia stepping in throughout the ecosystem with confidence boosting investments where needed. They haven't just supported Anthropic and OpenAI.

If OpenAI and Anthropic succeed, and get their business fly-wheels fully spinning, they don't necessarily need more capital from Huang. Ultimately the goal of Nvidia is to profit from their long-term success by selling them GPUs for a long, long time. The goal isn't to keep plowing money into them forever.
by opello | 2026-03-05 04:58:56+00:00
This was discussed in Advent of Computing episode 150 "Starting Windows Up"[1,2] and the timeline of a 1983 demo which showed overlapping windows and multitasking, but also highlighted the contrast to the DR4 build from late 1984 claiming to introduce a multi-tasking scheduler.

This isn't really new information to the Stack Exchange question and answers, but it's kind of fun coincidental coverage of the topic.

[1] https://adventofcomputing.libsyn.com/episode-150-starting-wi...

[2] https://podscripts.co/podcasts/advent-of-computing/episode-1...
by SegfaultSeagull | 2026-03-05 04:59:07+00:00
"Estimated US military spending since April 20, 2024, the day Congress passed $26.38B in emergency security assistance for Israel. "

In April 2024, Congress passed a $95.3 billion national-security supplemental package that included funding for Ukraine, Israel, and Indo-Pacific security. The Israel portion totaled about $26.38 billion.

Key points about that money:

Total Israel-related funding: about $26.38B.
Humanitarian aid: roughly $9.15B (for civilians affected by conflicts, including Gaza).
Missile defense: about $5.2B for systems like Iron Dome and David’s Sling.
Weapons procurement: about $3.5B for new weapons.
Other military supplies/services: about $4.4B.

https://www.reuters.com/world/us/whats-us-houses-foreign-aid...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Public_Law_118-50
by solenoid0937 | 2026-03-05 04:59:58+00:00
You have the right take on the balance sheet side of things, but what you're missing is that researchers are more valuable than any military spend or any datacenter.

It does not matter how many hundreds of billions you have - if the 500-1000 top researchers don't want to work for you, you're fucked; and if they do, you will win because these are the people that come up with the step-change improvements in capability. There is no substitute for IQ, you can't buy it (god knows Zuck has tried) and you can't build it.

Had Anthropic gone forth with the DoD contract, they would have lost their top crowd. On the other hand, by rejecting it, Anthropic's recruiting just got much easier (and OAI's much harder.)

Generally, the military/Pentagon crowd have a somewhat inflated sense of self worth. Very few highly intelligent people with the skills to join these companies want to contribute to the war machine. If OpenAI becomes a glorified military contractor, they will bleed talent.
by hedora | 2026-03-05 05:00:19+00:00
Usually just "bubble", since it's so common.

This one is unusual in that the government started bailing out the AI companies last year. Usually, it waits until the bubble pops, and then starts the bail outs.

That's standard operating procedure for Trump though.

He did the same thing in 2016-19 with the zero interest rate policy + tax cuts even though the economy was strong. Any macroeconomics book (or NPR station during those years) will tell you that doing that creates short-term economic growth, but sets the next administration up for [hyper-]inflation.

Of course, that happened, and those same books go on to say "and, usually, because inflation takes a bit to kick in, the next president will be blamed. This is why we have an independent Fed".

So, this time around, he's trying to pull the same crap by dismantling the Fed, and, until then, lean hard into deficit spending to keep unemployment low. Last year, money went to data centers, and domestic paramilitary actions and prison build-outs. This year, we have those things and a new pointless forever war.

However, it's not working the same way as it did last time. He's done so much other collateral damage that we're in a "boomcession" where the economic indicators become untethered from reality. So, they show growth, but people's quality of life, spending power, job security, and so on all decrease.

For example, a piece of the GDP is "how much does your bank screw you per year on your checking account?". This is treated like discretionary spending, and it's gone up from a few hundred a year to over $2000 in 2025. That increase counts as economic growth, instead of institutionalized theft.

Medical spending increases drove all the US's GDP growth last quarter. The quarter before that, it was spending on AI datacenters that's backed by junk loans and federal dollars.

Anyway, I don't have an answer for your question better than "bubble", but the current economic cycle is not what you described. It is a "boomcession". As far as I can tell, it's a new class of economic disaster, at least in the US.
by OneOffAsk | 2026-03-05 05:00:37+00:00
I bought one for coding. I no longer can read text for an extended period with lower DPI monitors.

There’s a few reasons why.

1. Non integer scaling sucks on Linux. It sucks on all OSs, but it’s just unusable on Linux IMO.

2. Text antialiasing sucks for most OSs except Microsoft ClearType, but I hate Windows.

I currently use an old LG UltraFine 5k. It’s physically cracking / falling apart and has atrocious burn in. I tried replacing it with a Dell 32” 6k monitor. The stupid matte coating on it and seemingly all other high DPI screens is so, so bad.

I just want glossy 5k at 120Hz with decent build quality and color accuracy.

I don’t even like the fact it’s mini LED. Blooming is pretty awful on those things. I hope there’s a way to turn it off.

So yes, I bought a $3,500 monitor to read text because no one else can seem to do it even remotely acceptably.
by hnburnsy | 2026-03-05 05:01:00+00:00
A union in Germany is fighting Tesla over this same thing...

>. In 2026, Giga Berlin is the pilot site for the "Optimus" Gen-3 integration—humanoid robots performing repetitive tasks in the battery pack assembly area. IG Metall views this not as progress, but as a threat to job security.

https://www.teslaacessories.com/blogs/news/the-giga-berlin-s...
by throwaway2037 | 2026-03-05 05:01:13+00:00
Assume that later models of the 747 were managed in Excel. No trolling: What is wrong with that? You can write insanely powerful software using (1) formulas on the sheet (which are essentially functional programming) and (2) imperative logic in VBA (HTTP calls, database calls, file system, etc.). For years, I used this model and wrote pretty powerful software. Sometimes, I miss it for the encapsulated system. These days, in "biz dev" (internal software), it seems like the Excel model was replaced with an Electron front-end (HTML/CSS/JS) with Java back-end.
by hnburnsy | 2026-03-05 05:03:39+00:00
Posted elsewhere in this discussion...

>The Automation Factor Tesla’s response to labor pressure has always been more automation. In 2026, Giga Berlin is the pilot site for the "Optimus" Gen-3 integration—humanoid robots performing repetitive tasks in the battery pack assembly area.

https://www.teslaacessories.com/blogs/news/the-giga-berlin-s...