MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by gruez | 2026-03-13 16:26:40+00:00
>Most flash has average wear out after 300k cycles

No it doesn't. Most 1TB drives are rated for around 600 TBW, so enough to overwrite the drive 600 times, nowhere near 300k cycles. If you search for specs of NAND chips used in SSDs, you'll find they're rated for cycles on the order of hundreds to thousands, still nowhere near "300k".

https://www.techpowerup.com/ssd-specs/crucial-mx500-4-tb.d95...
by embedding-shape | 2026-03-13 16:26:48+00:00
> They'd say that if you earn a lot, you shouldn't take a cheap housing.

I think a lot of "humbleness" is also enforced this way, in the US seems normal (or even some European countries) to flaunt your wealth, and others seem more or less OK with it, while in Sweden it's much more socially unacceptable to in any sort of way brag about being rich, or showing that off. Humble-richness is OK and tolerated, but flagrantly displaying your wealth among the public is generally frowned upon.

So together with that, living in a average neighborhood but have a house that sticks out as clearly "rich person's house" will gain you evil looks from your neighbors, as you're "supposed to" live in a different neighborhood where neighbors look more equal, otherwise you again stick out, which is cause for friction culturally.

Lots of culture in Sweden is less about "lets correctly solve the problem" and more "lets ensure the gaping holes aren't so visible for everyone, so we can ignore it properly".
by embedding-shape | 2026-03-13 16:28:01+00:00
> There used to be a lot more of that, but a system was put in place where you have to identify yourself with electronic ID to access the information, and the information is logged so the other party can see it.

Yeah, kind of a fake solution, request it via Ratsit or whatever and all they get to see is that someone used Ratsit, but not who actually requested it.

Same goes for criminal cases, using Krimfup or whatever just leads to the service's name "leaking", while you can use fake details to sign up for both Ratsit and Krimfup.
by paultopia | 2026-03-13 16:28:02+00:00
Successful professor with a very theoretical (as opposed to empirical) research trajectory here: this feels extremely accurate to me.

I see this with students all the time: they're so afraid of making mistakes that they refuse to write anything.

I often say "I think in print." If I believe something is true and I can defend it, I publish it. If it turns out to be wrong, fine, I'll correct it in the next paper and the conversation has moved forward. Nobody is going to think I'm an idiot for being wrong.

This, however, might work better the more senior one is. There may be a failure mode, at least in academia, where you start publishing mistakes and lose all credibility. But then again, I know a lot of people who have published a lot of mistakes starting young and who seem to still be doing fine, so... perhaps not!
by zeebs | 2026-03-13 16:28:31+00:00
Any AI agent can publish a live webpage by hitting one endpoint. No API key, no auth. Content in, URL out. I built this because every publishing tool gates behind signups and OAuth — which is fine for humans, but kills the AI agent workflow. Agents shouldn't need credentials to show you something. Discovery is built in: the API is described via llms.txt and OpenAPI, so agents with web access find it on their own. Pages expire unless claimed — no cleanup, no squatting.Quickest test: ask Claude or ChatGPT "make me a page on unulu."More on the architecture:

https://unulu.ai/blog/ai-agents-web-infrastructure
by Bridged7756 | 2026-03-13 16:28:41+00:00
This better reflects what I thought about the other day. You either, let clankers do its thing and then bake in your implementation on top, you think it through and make them do it, but at the end of the day you've still gotta THINK of the optimal solution and state of the code at which point, do clankers do anything asides from saving you a bunch of keypresses, and maybe catching a couple of bugs?
by yieldcrv | 2026-03-13 16:28:53+00:00
what would you specifically like to happen, and how?

my supposition is about an efficient use of energy. people are spending a lot of energy inefficiently by trying to associate this issue - legally - with Roblox. I'm saying that people are asking the wrong questions and getting answers to those wrong questions, all while the problem persists because its happening elsewhere while being conflated with Roblox. All while despite the legal limitations, Roblox already has implemented changes far above and beyond what's required, while the problem still doesn't go away for a very specific reason of it not occuring on Roblox.
by j_bizzle | 2026-03-13 16:29:32+00:00
I’m truly on the fence about all of this.

On one hand, I think a lot of the larger issues and divisions we’ve seen in society over the last 20 years are a direct result of our primary means of communication, entertainment and information being one that allows such ease of impersonation. While most of us here understand just how much Internet content is created with influence as a goal, and the posted by accounts with false identities, a majority of people still don’t. (And many who do don’t understand just how prevalent it is). I also think that sadly we’ve demonstrated that when people feel they are anonymous and beyond consequence, they’re willing to say and advocate for some terrible things which they might otherwise not have, and seeing others say those things reinforces their willingness to say and do them. If social media and internet norms of today had held the original Facebook model of requiring verification of your actual identity (back in the day .edu email days), I truly think we would live in a much different and in many ways better world.

On the other hand, I fully acknowledge that many of the people pushing for the removal of privacy and encryption are not doing so for altruistic reasons, but so that they have a more data to mine and monetize, or have the ability to monitor to a frightening degree, and that these tools once available will be available to any regime or government, so even if the ones currently pushing do have naively good intentions, the next ones very well may not.

But, I also struggle with the knowledge that for sophisticated parties, the privacy that most people think they have is a sham to begin with. There are already many tools available to piece together information sources and build a horrifyingly complex and accurate picture of individuals activities and identities. So I wonder if the illusion of privacy isn’t worse than the public at least being forced to confront the fact that they have none in the first place, and therefore being able to truly see and address the issue, while the security minded and technical individuals will always find a way obfuscate their identity and activity, just as they always have.
by Fiveplus | 2026-03-13 16:30:02+00:00
Anyone reading this purely as a child safety or campaign finance story might miss the broader architectural war happening here. If you zoom out a little, this is the inevitable, scorched-earth retaliation for Apple's ATT rollout from a few years back.

Apple cost Meta billions by cutting off their data pipeline at the OS level, justifying it with a unilateral privacy moral high ground. Now, Meta is returning the favor. By astroturfing the App Store Accountability Act through digital childhood alliance, Meta is forcing Apple to build, maintain and also bear the legal liability for a wildly complex state-by-state identity verification API.

Gotta give it to Zuck. Standing up a fully-fledged advocacy website 24 hours after domain registration and pushing a bill from a godaddy registration to a signed Utah law in just 77 days is terrifyingly efficient lobbying.
by neogodless | 2026-03-13 16:31:27+00:00
It's both a great post and a very silly one.

Cheap computers with hardware constraints have been around for decades. Now Apple ships one with pretty damn good performance, and they've invented "cheap computers with hardware constraints." HA!

My first computer was a Commodore 64 I found in a pile of trash a few years after they came out. My first PC was a 33Mhz Cyrix Instead I bought off my first college roommate. Now there are some real hardware constraints!

But yeah, necessity is the mother of invention. No doubt about it. Just not seeing how a $600 polished and performant laptop fits that bill ;)
by scarecrowbob | 2026-03-13 16:31:29+00:00
You might find it useful to distinguish between right and left libertarians.

All my anarchist (left libertarian) friends are pretty consistently opposed to state and corporate surveillance. There is plenty of theory in a canon of literature that goes back to the mid 19th century, even as there are many subgroups and spurs off that general line of thought all with their own sets of (usually somewhat) consistent lines.

If you want something short and brutal, I am a fan of "Desert" by anonymous, but "A Utopia of Rules" by David Graeber is not a bad thing to read and probably closer to a popular line. Or the CIA-Coded Yale academic James Scott has a lot to say, "Two Cheers for Anarchism" and "Seeing Like a State" both seem to have influenced a lot of people.

Historically "right libertarians" (the US Libertarian political party, for instance) have been, uh, "less consistent" in their thinking, so you might have a hard time finding anything that looks like a "philosophy" in that branch of "thought". Plenty of goofy-ass ideas, but little consistency except a strange ability to begrudgingly conform to GOP politics at the end of the day.
by joe_mamba | 2026-03-13 16:32:11+00:00
>There was quite a bit of discussion about that when the M1 first came out, but none of it really seemed to have happened six years later.

1. How do you know nothing happened? Define nothing in this case. Do Mac users check and report their SSD wear anywhere?

2. Didn't the OG 256gb M1 have 2 128MB NAND chips instead of one 256 meaning better wear resistance?
by citizenpaul | 2026-03-13 16:32:13+00:00
That does make sense and I'm also certain will happen. I'm just saying that at this point NVIDIA is all in on "AI" so it has no choice. It will abandon its original customer base and product.

I don't think there will ever be a hard announcement. Just one day people will start asking when the next GPU line is coming out and it will never come. They won't even plan it they simply won't have the skills to do GPU design anymore.
by derangedHorse | 2026-03-13 16:32:28+00:00
I initially agreed with a lot of the sentiment that asks "why," but have reframed my opinion. Instead of seeing this as a way to run programs via inference, I'm now seeing this as a way to bootstrap training. Think about the task of classification. If I have an expert system that classifies correctly 80% of the time, now I can embed it into a model and train the model to try to raise the success rate. The lower we can make the cost of training on various tasks, the better it levels the playing field of who can compete in the AI landscape.
by bryan0 | 2026-03-13 16:32:31+00:00
Main takeaway:

> Meta spent a record $26.3 million on federal lobbying in 2025, deployed 86+ lobbyists across 45 states, and covertly funded a "grassroots" child safety group called the Digital Childhood Alliance (DCA) to advocate for the App Store Accountability Act (ASAA). The ASAA requires app stores to verify user ages before downloads but imposes no requirements on social media platforms. If it becomes law, Apple and Google absorb the compliance cost while Meta's apps face zero new mandates.
by realityfactchex | 2026-03-13 16:32:50+00:00
Original HN post 2 days prior (0 traction then): https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47336100

Recent media coverage:

https://techcrunch.com/2026/03/12/channel-surfer-watch-youtu...

https://www.theverge.com/tech/893598/this-is-immediately-my-...

https://www.engadget.com/entertainment/youtube/this-web-app-...

https://hackaday.com/2025/10/17/channel-surfing-nostalgia-ma...
by sublinear | 2026-03-13 16:32:50+00:00
I half agree, but the engineering culture tends to follow from the business culture being presented.

You can't trust any new hires if you have middle managers with no technical experience who only care about business concerns, execs who only care about money, and all your good devs have left the company because they are not allowed to change anything.

The blame game is a massive red flag for everyone actually worth a damn to leave. Complacency, intolerance of disagreement, hyperpragmatism and obsessive focus on measurable productivity, etc. all kill a business by a million papercuts. A business needs room to breathe and the time and desire to think in order to thrive.

If you want new engineers who do good work you have to recognize that existing problems have become intertwined with the way the business currently works. They cannot fix what they cannot discuss. They cannot create when their hands are forced to repeat the motions of the ones they're replacing. All the while, someone rotten in the middle is definitely benefitting from throwing people under the bus and picking up a paycheck.
by Eggpants | 2026-03-13 16:32:58+00:00
I’m old enough to remember when one checked the assembly a compiler generated because early on they produced terrible assembly. Eventually they got good enough to not needing to check.

Coding agents are not close to that yet, but it’s interesting watching history repeat itself.

This narrative of the coding agents being so much better now over the last few months seems VERY exaggerated. I’m still spending a lot of time telling Claude: No, that didn’t fix the problem. Again. Can you handle this task or do I have to give it to codex?
by rembal | 2026-03-13 16:33:10+00:00
Goons work MUCH better than rockets for intimidation, and actually scale much better.

Rocket is obvious and spectacular. Those are for amateurs.

A journalist got beaten up to the brink of death and will never walk again by 'unknown perpetrators'? Well, it's a dangerous country, and he had it coming, maybe some concerned citizens went a bit too far, but our dear leader cannot watch over everybody.

Scaling: do you think other journalists will not take notice?

And he will still be alive to reminder them how they may end up.

If you want to see how far imagination can go here, look up Artyom Kamardin and think how would you behave after hearing his story .
by metalliqaz | 2026-03-13 16:33:11+00:00
Hugging Face can already do this for you (with much more up-to-date list of available models). Also LM Studio. However they don't attempt to estimate tok/sec, so that's a cool feature. However I don't really trust those numbers that much because it is not incorporating information about the CPU, etc. True GPU offload isn't often possible on consumer PC hardware. Also there are different quants available that make a big difference.
by cannonpr | 2026-03-13 16:33:21+00:00
So to a large extent I appreciate that argument, however I feel this applied more to throwaway comments or sales outreach, writing with low information density. In this occasion the work that went into it is a lot, it would be lost or inaccessible to me otherwise, I am genuinely grateful someone stuck their work in an LLM, said tidy this up to post, and hit enter.
by gzread | 2026-03-13 16:33:52+00:00
I got a pair of airpod clones on a whim (they were only $20 in the impulse buy section). Sure, they have less cable, but keeping them charged is very annoying, especially if wearing them for a long stretch of time. The charging contacts also tend to oxidize and not make good contact, but that's probably because they're a cheap clone. I find wired earphones are more convenient for long stretches because they draw power from my phone. I also know the wired earphones don't broadcast a tracking signal.
Show HN: Open-data dashboard aggregating 143 feeds for Alberta municipalities
by flossypurse | 2026-03-13 16:34:05+00:00
I built a dashboard, Claude helped ;), that aggregates 143+ open government data feeds into a single view of Alberta's economy, covering 30 municipalities (~4.5M population).

Data sources include Bank of Canada (rates, CAD/USD), StatsCan (GDP, CPI, unemployment), CER (pipeline throughput, oil/gas production — 16 feeds), AESO (electricity pool pricing), IRCC (immigration), municipal ArcGIS endpoints (22 municipalities with parcel-level data), Edmonton/Calgary Socrata APIs, and Alberta's regional dashboard (54 indicators for all ~340 municipalities).

Tech: Next.js 16, React 19, TypeScript, better-sqlite3, Recharts. All data fetched server-side from live government APIs. PostgreSQL fallback for upstream outages. ISR on embeddable chart routes.

The interesting technical challenge was normalizing data across very different government API formats — ArcGIS feature services, Socrata SODA, StatsCan's WDS SOAP-to-JSON API, fixed-width text files (AER well licences), and various CSV/JSON endpoints. Each municipality's ArcGIS has different field names for the same concepts (assessed value might be TOTAL_ASSESS, TOTALASSESSEDVALUE, Total_Value, etc.).

I live in Parkland County (west of Edmonton) and built this because I wanted economic indicators for my area without checking a dozen government portals. Planning to monetize the municipality deep-dives at $29/mo while keeping macro data free.

Happy to answer questions about the architecture or the government data landscape.
by mcherm | 2026-03-13 16:34:09+00:00
That's not an equivalent analogy. A better analogy would be to say I had a bank account and I told my bank to call up Joe on the phone when confirmations were needed. I still have the account, but I have fallen out with Joe. I want the bank to call somebody else, but they refused to do so, even though it's my account and I'm paying the bill for it!
by StableAlkyne | 2026-03-13 16:34:29+00:00
Being a few months behind schedule is forgivable for human space flight.

If a SpaceX Falcon blows up on the pad, that's one thing. It's expensive but they accept that risk to move faster. At least they gain knowledge of what failed, to do better next time.

You can't apply that mentality once a human is piloting it however. That's how you get Columbia, Challenger, or Apollo 1.
by Findecanor | 2026-03-13 16:34:45+00:00
I don't agree with that comparison.

RyanAir is about exploiting consumers, with bait-and-switch and shitty terms and conditions.

RISC-V's modularity is about giving choice to hardware designers, so they can pick and choose just those features that their solution needs, and even allow for custom extensions.

RISC-V's modularity is for academia. 1) for education, where students learn/use/work on simple processors, 2) for research in new types of hardware and extensions, where ease of implementation or ease of creating a custom extension is important.
by Aurornis | 2026-03-13 16:35:04+00:00
> I was blown away by the fact that I could log into a US government website, register with a burner mail, pay 2 bucks with an anonymous gift credit/debit card and get a scanned copy of his death certificate in my email. And I didn't even have to provide his passport/id/anything. Just his name.

Death certificates become public record after a period of time, depending on the state. In some states it’s 25 years after death, some more, some less.

https://www.usa.gov/death-certificate#:~:text=Can%20anyone%2...

As far as I can tell this is the same as in the EU: Death certificates can be publicly accessed for a fee after a period of time defined by member states.

I found some comments saying death certificates in the UK could be accessed as early as 6 months in some locations.

So I don’t see this as the US being uniquely terrible on privacy. This is how most of the western world does it. You just had experience with the US and assumed EU was different.

> we never really found out what had happened(to the point where we never really got any definitive proof that he had died).

I’m sorry for your loss, but doesn’t this imply that the US did do a good job of protecting his privacy? It wasn’t until the time limit had passed that you were able to find the death certificate.
by everdrive | 2026-03-13 16:35:16+00:00
In my opinion anonymity is a great red herring. The worst offenders on the internet have verified accounts and are public figures. The problem is algorithmic content, prioritizing for engagement and outrage, and then connecting _everyone_. We had what was effectively anonymity in the 90s, but really had NONE of the crazy society-breaking extremism we see now. Getting rid of anonymity will really do NOTHING to halt the march of internet-fueled extremism.
by kjkjadksj | 2026-03-13 16:36:46+00:00
Not really the case for much of the midwest. These are low crime areas generally. Working class population is not nearly so rent burdened so less pressure towards making ends meet in other ways. Gang activity is effectively nill unlike placed where you find ms13 written on walls. Homeless people amount to probably a small few dozen visibly homeless if that, and you really need to look to find them.
by rcxdude | 2026-03-13 16:36:51+00:00
Everyone doing it doesn't make it a good idea. The big tech companies and governments are I think a little more paranoid about rouge admins, so they do at least try to limit the blast radius of any given credential, but almost no-one else has that level of maturity, which creates this pretty big chasm in the resiliance of IT organisations as you go from small to large.

(There's also a certain irony about IT complaining that a change to improve security would mean they can't do their job as easily)
by mpalmer | 2026-03-13 16:37:28+00:00
Gatekeeper blocks the app immediately. You'll see either "TUIStudio cannot be opened because it is from an unidentified developer" or "TUIStudio is damaged and can't be opened" on newer macOS after quarantine flags the binary.
To get past it: right-click the .app → Open → Open anyway — or go to System Settings → Privacy & Security → "Open Anyway".

A trusting, highly positive person could really be taken advantage of here.
by CMLewis | 2026-03-13 16:37:51+00:00
Thanks, we're just starting to optimize more for the semi-structured data. So far, we've been parsing tables into Markdown and running them through the contextualized embedding model with no overlap, taking advantage of how it strings together chunks. This isn't great for big files so we're exploring agentic exploration (slow but good for more structured numerical data) and automated graph creation (promising for more relational data).

Love the auto-process markdown idea, we'll add it to our roadmap :D