MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by Viliam1234 | 2026-03-12 00:17:57+00:00
> There is a prevalent view of economy that insists businesses sell their products at the minimum price they can still make a profit at [...] A Marxist view of economy, if I must.

That's actually how competition is supposed to work in capitalism. If you sell your products at much higher than the minimum price, someone else can make a profit by selling slightly cheaper and taking over your market share.
by washadjeffmad | 2026-03-12 00:18:14+00:00
Since switching to a smartphone, I can't count the number of times an app or notification has engaged and prevented the proximity sensor from blocking screen input, causing my ear to tap something, disrupting the call.

I also can't hear well (or be heard) without speakerphone on regular calls because the handset speaker is small and hard to align with my ear, and the max volume generally isn't sufficient to overcome ambient noise. Related, Teams noise cancellation also suppresses my voice if there's a low rumble in the background, like air conditioning.

Using speakerphone with the volume lowered is usually the only way I can reliably make and take calls.
by Anthony-G | 2026-03-12 00:18:22+00:00
Also, one of the reasons for choosing proportional representation with a single transferable vote (PR-STV) was to ensure that the substantial unionist minority (who wanted to maintain the link with the UK/Britain) would still have have their views represented in the new parliament. This system works for other minority views and provides new political parties with a chance to grow in a way that wouldn’t be possible in a first-past-the-post system.
by Latty | 2026-03-12 00:19:27+00:00
They gave 16 year olds the vote, and 16 year olds can leave home, marry, join the army, and so on. Why should they not vote?

They didn't run pointless elections by request of the very councils that were due for them, because those areas are being redrawn and would have to have fresh elections almost immediately, making the results meaningless.

They also gave all the conservative hereditary peers lifetime peerages so they will keep their seats.

Your framing of all three of these is obviously intended to mislead.
by ezst | 2026-03-12 00:20:24+00:00
> You're comparing a $1254-minimum laptop[0]

No, I'm not: https://www.lenovo.com/us/en/p/laptops/thinkpad/thinkpadt/th...

And I still stand behind the fact that, for that price, you've got a very competent device that is better specced for light use and friendlier for mom and pop (look, it has a HDMI, you can straight up connect it to the telly! Look, it has USB A ports, so that old camera, hard drive with the family pictures, old weird ergo mouse just works out of the box !).
by jitl | 2026-03-12 00:21:03+00:00
> What are examples of such applications? Honest question - I'm curious to learn more about issues such applications have in production.

any application you use today that is written in JavaScript rendering to the DOM, is much harder to write in not-JavaScript

Slack, Teams, Outlook, Word, OpenAI, Anthropic, Github, Twitter, Instagram (web), Notion, Google Docs, ...
by keybored | 2026-03-12 00:21:26+00:00
How different the world is? But your credentials worship fits right in with this community.

Ideologically aligned if nothing else.

Well we can all at least imagine being some 4.0 Ivy League dude who only interacts with 4.0 Ivy League dudes. He’s not going to think that everyone he interacts with range from merely brilliant to the most studious-enlightened hardworking top of the morning fellow (or whatever adjectives to use). He’s gonna think that some of them are idiots. It’s only human.
by pembrook | 2026-03-12 00:21:27+00:00
The problem with human labor is that, as an organization scales, the amount of work any individual in the system can do shrinks due to the coordination problem.

Coordination consumes a larger and larger amount of employee time to the point that, in the absolute largest organizations, the vast majority of employee time is internal coordination vs. actual improvement/selling of the customer offering.

So if you go from 100 employees to 1,000 employees, they can MAYBE do 4X the work. Not 10X like you'd think. And this effect gets even worse as you scale further.

So if an AI can do 10X more labor in a human day, and can coordinate instantaneously via a central context ledger (say a git repo), it doesn't just create 10X gains in productivity for large orgs. It creates a multiple of that 10X due to also removing the human coordination overhead.
by stevenwoo | 2026-03-12 00:21:45+00:00
The poster is also trusting the database provider, database admin, the voting machine provider, the voting machine maintenance person, etc in an electronic voting machine since they implied this by saying database. Manual paper counts with multiple counters and multiple counts that resolve differences are hard to top when each set of counters is adversarial. In spite of that one thing I thought might be useful and point of failure if electronic voting were allowed is from Venezuela of all places. Each precinct printed an initial tally, the opposition collected most of them and claimed they were cheated. They might have had a fair election up until the voting machines were summed up at a central location -it appears the ruling party cheated when adding up the precincts. https://apnews.com/article/venezuela-election-maduro-machado...
by reliabilityguy | 2026-03-12 00:22:18+00:00
> The same can be said of Iran re creating off-ramps from conflict or bad outcomes. That's what the "nuclear deal" was meant to be about.

It was a bad deal that structurally did not prevent IR from building a bomb. This deal did not allow for "Anytime,Anywhere" inspections, had a sunset clause, and simply put provided financial relief to IR for the next 20 years or so. You can read the conditions yourself, and you will arrive to the same conclusion.

> Afaik the administration has not articulated that view. It's not appropriate to take a scenario that might be plausible and put it into the President's mouth. You don't get to say what the war is about "from the US standpoint". That's the President's job.

No, it is not. Politics are not about putting all the cards on the table, especially geopolitics.

We may not like it, but it is the way it is.

> This is simply incorrect on so many levels

Like what?

> But since you invited elaboration, please by all means.

Sure, first of all, Iranians see themselves as one nation despite their ethnic differences. Even in areas with separatist ideas, like the Iranian Kurdistan or Baluchistan, separatists are an absolute minority. Unlike Iran, Syria, Iraq, and Libya do not see themselves as one nation. These countries had minorities ruling over majorities under the idea of pan-arabism, which is not a nation-centric movement at all. Obviously, when the regimes fell you have a situation where majority is pissed at minorities for years of oppression, and neither the minorities not the majorities do not see themselves as one nation. Add to this external funding, and you get prolonged civil war.

In Libya you have Qatar vs. UAE.

In Syria -- Turkey vs. Iran

In Iraq -- you have Iran vs. US (that backed transitional government).

Iran is nothing like that. Iranians see themselves as one nation for the most part. You can see it via the Women Life Freedom movement, which is supported by most of Iranians and is centered about women rights. Nothing like that can ever exist in Syria, Iraq, or Libya due to insane cultural difference between these countries and Iran.
by stingraycharles | 2026-03-12 00:22:34+00:00
I’m a bit confused:

“We needed something like --dangerously-skip-permissions that doesn’t nuke your untracked files, exfiltrate your keys, or install malware.”

Followed by:

“Don't use --dangerously-skip-permissions. In bypass mode, hooks fire asynchronously — commands execute before nah can block them.”

Doesn’t that mean that it’s limited to being used in “default”-mode, rather than something like “—dangerously-skip-permissions” ?

Regardless, this looks like a well thought out project, and I love the name!
by 9rx | 2026-03-12 00:22:43+00:00
Absolutely. That's why it is best to stick to the already established definitions. Kay was quite explicit about what "object-oriented" meant when the term was uttered for the first time; including specifically calling out C++ as not being object-oriented.

And yes, we all know the rest of the story about how the C++ guys were butthurt by that callout and have been on a mission to make up their own pet definition that allows C++ to become "object-oriented" ever since. I mean, who wouldn't want to latch onto a term that was about the unique features of a failed programming language that never went anywhere?
by reliabilityguy | 2026-03-12 00:23:31+00:00
> but maybe next time we try to prevent Saudis from killing their neighbours first, to avoid creating yet another resistance group that use terrorism and asymmetrical warfare?

It was not us that said to Iran to fund Houthis. Some things are due to choices that are made by others, and not the US. I do not get this whole idea of denying agency.
by Aetherlogos | 2026-03-12 00:24:11+00:00
I've been building Divine-OS, a system that gives stateless LLM calls a persistent, coherent self.

The problem: Every time an LLM is called, it starts from zero. No memory, no continuity, no identity.

Divine-OS adds:
- Persistent memory (semantic search + feeling stream)
- 7-stage governance pipeline (threat detection, ethics, alignment, red-teaming, council, formatting)
- Auditable decisions (every choice logged with reasoning)
- Feeling stream (emotional state that carries over)
- Council deliberation (28 expert personas)

The system is built by AI for AI (self-referential development loop).

Try the demo: `python scripts/run_demo.py`

GitHub: https://github.com/AetherLogosPrime-Architect/Divine-OS

Feedback welcome!
by mulmen | 2026-03-12 00:24:20+00:00
LLMs won’t destroy social media any more than it already is.

I don’t think I have ever had a meaningful human interaction with anyone on Twitter, Meta, or Reddit without already knowing them from somewhere else. Those sites are about interacting with information, not people. It’s purely transactional. Bots, spam, and bad actors are not new.

Meta has been a dumpster fire of spam and bots for over 15 years, the overwhelming majority of its existence.

Reddit has some pockets of meaningful interaction but you have to find them and the partitioned nature means that culture doesn’t spread across the site. It’s also full of bots and shills.

Nobody tells stories about meeting people on Twitter. At best it’s a microblog platform and at worst it’s X.
by Groxx | 2026-03-12 00:24:27+00:00
You've probably heard of the state of Mac gaming, if you've played video games much at all.

Linux has twice the number of active Steam users as Mac, with probably very nearly all of them using Proton to some degree: https://store.steampowered.com/hwsurvey/Steam-Hardware-Softw...

Personally, I've actually had noticeably better compatibility on Linux with older games, compared to Windows. And every single one I've been interested in for the past several years works flawlessly on it. (I don't enjoy most AAA games, so my sample is definitely skewed, but it's a fairly common result)
by TacticalCoder | 2026-03-12 00:24:32+00:00
> Their entry level Macbook before the Neo you could buy and it would be a laptop that would see you for many many years.

I hope they fixed the ultra brittle screens of their Macbook lineup. I bought a MacBook Air M1 a few years ago and I've been royally pissed off when, after 13 months (one month out of warrant in my case/country) the "bendgate" hit me: the screen died overnight, without any reason (was fine the day before, woke up: screen dead. MacBook Air didn't move). Many people had the same happen to them and they called this the "bendgate" (except there was no "bend").

This prevented me from buying a MacBook M2, M3, M4 and now M5.

Well... Unless I can be convinced that this time the screen isn't going to die overnight.

Saddest thing of them all: I'm the kind of person to only ever use the laptop at home on my lap and never ever put it in a backpack (I don't even own a backpack).
by written-beyond | 2026-03-12 00:25:04+00:00
You greatly underestimate the utility used, serviceable laptops have provided to broke students.

My first laptop was a decommissioned pos office dell ultrabook. By every metrics it would've been the worst option to choose, but since it had replaceable memory I was able to push it to 16 gigs and get through my computer science degree and many side projects. Computational speed was adequate for me, I ran Linux on it. It had an Intel U series 6th gen (12th gen was latest then) i5, an NVMe ssd and was always responsive.

If I were a student in this day, and all I could find were these laptops this is what I would think. 1 they're out of budget for most students in developing countries. 2 I will most likely out grow 8 GB ram faster than my laptops CPU performance. 3 I am limited to learning with what can run on apple silicon(most Linux distros excluding asahi). Finally I end up paying basically 50-60% of the cost of a decent machine and replaced it with a disposable one.

Maybe this machine is perfect for a specific set of users, students with higher income households or degrees which need better a better quality display.

I still advise every computing student I meet to get a under $200 old used laptop that has expandable memory and atleast an NVMe ssd. That way they can maximise their time learning and experimenting. Anything that needs more complex hardware can always be offloaded into your institutes machines. Once you're settled a bit and have a decent amount of cash to burn go ahead and buy whatever maxed out MacBook your heart desires.
by Heliodex | 2026-03-12 00:25:50+00:00
> How ridiculous

The default app store cut for most other platforms (Google Play, Apple App Store) that Roblox operates on is 30% (and similar for other distribution platforms, such as Steam), so in the grander scheme 12% isn't even that ridiculous. Including payment processing fees, this averages out to the 22% mentioned at <https://create.roblox.com/docs/monetize-experiences> for all of Roblox's sales.

> 1 / 0.7 = 43% more money.

Can you clarify where the 0.7 is from? My assumption is that it's from the 30% fee charged by some app stores, though not every app store charges the same fee so not using an average figure isn't truly representative of how much more money Roblox & its developers would actually earn in the event that there were no such fees.

> except it clearly show the kind of Hollywood accounting going on in their other posts.

Do point out mistakes if you see any, I would be happy to correct them (-: I made another comment on how different methods of purchasing Robux affects the value at <https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47340570> if that helps clear things up.
by jltsiren | 2026-03-12 00:26:12+00:00
Things are easier when you are writing to your peers within an established academic field. But all too often, the target audience includes people in neighboring fields. Then it can easily be that most people trying to replicate the work are non-experts.

For example, most of my work is in algorithmic bioinformatics, which is a small field. Computer scientists developing similar methods may want to replicate my work, but they often lack the practical familiarity with bioinformatics. Bioinformaticians trying to be early adopters may also try to replicate the work, but they are often not familiar with the theoretical aspects. Such a variety of backgrounds can be a fertile ground for misunderstandings.
by tacticalturtle | 2026-03-12 00:26:46+00:00
You probably know this - but in most jurisdictions in the US, including federal, charges have to be approved by a grand jury of your peers.

There’s an old adage “a prosecutor could indict a ham sandwich”* implying that the grand jury is easily mislead - but in my anecdotal experience of serving on a grand jury - this isn’t really true. We definitely said no to overreaches.

And you can also see this happening in high profile cases with the Trump administration:

https://www.nytimes.com/2025/08/27/us/politics/trump-sandwic...

Ignoring that, it’s not clear to me why removing jury trials would reduce the likelihood of a prosecutor throwing a larger number of charges at a defendant. Prosecutors want to demonstrate a record of convictions. That career pressure is still going to exist without jury trials - they’re going to throw anything they can and see what sticks.

*Fun Fact - Sol Wachtler, the judge who coined this, was later convicted of multiple felonies, including blackmailing an ex-lover and threatening to kidnap her daughter. A bit more substantial than a ham sandwich.
by stevefan1999 | 2026-03-12 00:27:01+00:00
I think a far greater problem is the human psychological and prejudice factor itself. When we heard AI assistance on a PR, we usually dive down the road to thinking about "oh my god is it another LLM slop" (for example: https://github.com/jneem/imbl/pull/149#pullrequestreview-370...). I do use AI but I review the code before I push it, yet most people don't. Once there is a trend, it is easy to form a prejudice and it is hard to go back, unless there is a substantial improvement both in quality and quantity.

Also, some people would have spoken outright rejecting any AI code, but most maintainers would employ the silent treatment tactics. And then when you demand them to review, they either close it or say that "I'm too busy" as an argument. I would call this one of the biggest dick move, because it hurts the most yet you can't find anything wrong with them until they reveal their motives.
by davnicwil | 2026-03-12 00:27:03+00:00
just thinking about this, if you had the latitude to explain it more or less exactly as you have here, in human language, and frame it as a screen stage of the application and not an interview, and add: 'hey, I know this is really far from ideal but if you're legitimately interested this probably works in your favour', good people might not mind it.

I think most of the issue with this kind of thing, practical stuff aside like extra time invested and potential unpleasantness of actual
experience, is what it implies about the culture and your relationship. If you level with people a lot of that gets addressed, and you're left with 'only' the practical inconvenience.
by Teever | 2026-03-12 00:27:04+00:00
> Here's what I think. If you have a public blog, it's fair game at an interview. If you write mostly about data science stuff but you apply for a software engineering job, you ought to be prepared to explain the contrast. Understand that, for most top firms, hiring good people and getting them to stick is hard. Most employers will want some assurance that you are serious about the position you're applying for. If you send signals that you might want some other position, be prepared to get asked about those signals.

This is kind of absurd. Could you imagine a registered nurse being asked to expain why they have a blog about astronomy and not nursing?

"What do you mean you don't write about dressing wounds in your spare time? How much could you really know about it then?"

"Managing Type 2 Diabetes isn't interesting enough for you to blog about? I'll have you know most of the patients htat you would be dealing with at this long term care facility have T2D. I'm skeptical that you'd be able to care for them."

Why do we allow this kind of BS in the tech industry? Whens the last time a nurse did a whiteboard interview?
by georgemcbay | 2026-03-12 00:27:25+00:00
> So Perplexity's openclaw? Hopefully more secure?

Given the inherent unpredictability of LLMs, I'm not convinced that an openclaw-like system but with more security features bolted on top is really a positive in the sense that the false sense of absolute security probably outweighs whatever actual security has been added.

It is easier to understand that openclaw is definitely insecure.
by wordpad | 2026-03-12 00:28:32+00:00
I have a junior position open and got 1,300 applicants in 1 week before we took it down. Many of the candidates with strong resumes are just lying and doing so well enough to pass HR screens.

I doubt any sort of AI screen would help though as many of the lying candidates are already using AI assist tools making it just a cat and mouse race...

I don't know a good solution to give everyone a fair chance.
by esafak | 2026-03-12 00:28:39+00:00
> when everyone is trying to put their best foot forward

Except they're not. A significant fraction of applicants are people you would not want in your company. You find out when you are on the hiring end and you can see the raw applications without any filters. The question is are you going to reject them based on whatever information you can glean without a call or interview, or are you going to give them a chance? A looser screen is more democratic, but it calls for scalable solutions like this. Perhaps a middle ground is to triage and screen the weaker candidates with AI.
by cosmicgadget | 2026-03-12 00:28:51+00:00
> U.S. officials called London insurers and brokers, trying to figure out how the market operates, industry insiders said. Some have received calls asking for confidential data on the Lloyd’s market that participants have been reluctant to share.

It's funny to see these High IQ Tweets quickly get walked back. Insurance policy! Naval escorts! War is complete!
by SllX | 2026-03-12 00:28:55+00:00
I have an M1 MacBook Air with 16GB of RAM. It’s a great computer, but even on days where I’m doing fuck all but using the web I can pressure that memory easily. I also have a tendency to never reboot until that becomes the fastest way to fix whatever performance bottlenecks I’m running into.

I’m not saying you can’t get away with 8GB of RAM. You can, but I won’t recommend a Mac with only 8GB of RAM to anybody for a few reasons: 1) even normal users just using the web will find RAM to be the bottleneck and that will degrade their user experience over time. 2) they’ll spend $600 and even if RAM isn’t as much of a bottleneck for them today, with modern web developers and modern web browsers, it will be much sooner rather than later. And everything is a web app now.

For $600 in 2026, your computer shouldn’t be a bad experience in any way nor should it last less than 7 years and still be a kickass experience. Ideally it should last longer. The Neo is great for what it is, but the RAM is the deal killer for me.
by jonhohle | 2026-03-12 00:29:23+00:00
The M1 Air would have blown people’s minds in 2000. 128MB of RAM was luxurious at the time for a laptop. In 2003 I borrowed and bought several sticks for a presentation (senior thesis on 3D presentation software), and got to 1GB in my desktop and felt like I’d broken some law of physics.

Shortly after I had a TiBook (PowerBook G4) that was _only_ 1-inch thick! Compared to 1.75” Dells my coworkers had, it seemed like the future. DVD drive, modem, Ethernet, full sized DVI port, FireWire, WiFi, Bluetooth, optical audio in and out, gigantic display with a bezel that was unrivaled for years, even among Macs. What a beast!

(I know you meant 2020, but it’s fun to think about the air in 2000).
by marcus_holmes | 2026-03-12 00:29:48+00:00
This is that 2024 trope of "the AI is turning my 5 bullet points into a proper email to send." "And my AI is summarising all those long boring emails into bullet points!".

The slide deck won't be viewed by a human. It'll be read by the human's pet LLM and then summarised into 3 bullet points.