MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by post-it | 2026-03-04 16:23:30+00:00
Yeah I've been running Baldur's Gate 3 on my M2 MBA with 8 GB of RAM. It's decent, I get 30-40 FPS which is perfectly fine for a turn-based game.

Performance is significantly better with the laptop open vs clamshell, so it's clear that thermal throttling is the main bottleneck. I've been considering doing the thermal pad mod to eke out some extra performance, but I'll probably just save up for a Pro.
by randall0001 | 2026-03-04 16:23:34+00:00
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by koonsolo | 2026-03-04 16:23:39+00:00
> When fixing bugs, yes.

One thing I want to mention here is that you should try to write a test that not only prevents this bug, but also similar bugs.

In our own codebase we saw that regression on fixed bugs is very low. So writing a specific test for it, isn't the best way to spend your resources. Writing a broad test when possible, does.

Not sure how LLM's handle that case to come up with a proper test.
by rbanffy | 2026-03-04 16:24:02+00:00
Let’s see… if the same problem happens under Safari, then it’s Microsoft fault. If the problem goes away when Safari runs the Azure admin portal, it’s a Google issue.

Developers should have laptops with 1366x768 screens, 4GB if RAM, and dual-core Intel Atom processors. We keep giving them server grade hardware and expect them to empathise with the muggles that run their software on potatoes.
by maciusr | 2026-03-04 16:24:04+00:00
The article nails the "why," but I think it underplays something: personality isn’t a post-training artifact that you can tune away. After months of agentic coding from Claude Opus / Sonnet and GPT 5.2/5.3 Codex, the differences in personality are profound and functional.
Claude talks more — it’s the consultant who tells you what they’ll do before they do it. GPT Codex models are the analyst-developer, you just let it go and it tells you what the hell it did. Neither is wrong, they are truly different approaches to working. And more importantly, you have neither AGENTS.md files nor system prompts significantly changing this You can tweak tone but the underlying communication pattern is baked in.
Perhaps the more interesting question isn't "ought models to have personality" but rather "which model's personality most closely aligns with how you think." Some people excel with the verbose collaborator, some just want the silent executor. We accept this about human colleagues — seems overdue to accept it about models too
by adrian_b | 2026-03-04 16:24:04+00:00
I am probably not a "general consumer", so a description like

"MacBook Air with M5 now comes standard with 512GB of storage — double that of the previous generation — and can be configured up to 4TB for the first time"

for me sounds terrible in a very bad sense for a computer around $1k, so I would have never bought something like this even many years ago.

To be fair, due to the huge increase in the price of SSDs and DRAM, a 512 GB SSD @ $1100 no longer sounds so bad as one year ago, but it is still bad.
by ibejoeb | 2026-03-04 16:24:04+00:00
> We've convinced multiple banks to permit GrapheneOS, and that's going to become MUCH easier now.

I did not know that. That is very interesting.

On that topic, an honest question: what is the killer feature of banking apps that everyone is so hot on? Are we talking like retail banking or money transmitters? I am not using any bespoke banking apps, and I don't feel like I'm missing out, but maybe I just don't know what I'm missing.

What does detract from my GrapheneOS experience is the keyboard. It's just ok. I need swipe typing though, and I haven't found anything even close to gboard glide.
by thesamenajar | 2026-03-04 16:24:59+00:00
I built this as a small experiment.

The idea came from noticing how often people reference counters in discussions:
“days since the last outage”, “days until a release”, etc.

People already created timers for GTA VI, WWDC and the day Twitter became X.

Built with Cloudflare Workers and a small D1 database.

Curious if people see other interesting uses for this.
by dzonga | 2026-03-04 16:25:07+00:00
I know this is a heavily tech circle.

however for the common person out there, unless they're buying for status -- this will meet most of their needs

office workers, hospital workers, stay-at-home parents - who just wanna fill forms occasionally, write emails, browse the web - design a few posters on canva for a funeral, special event etc

so yeah to those people they don't give a shit about M-series, as long it has enough memory and can do what they want without freezing.

well done to apple
by kazinator | 2026-03-04 16:25:21+00:00
I have also noticed is a kind of ironic use of "it turns out" for presenting personal experiences as being significant discoveries in the world at large.

"To the disappointment of my Asian parents, it turned out I hadn't shipped with the firmware needed to support violin playing."

If that turns out to be recent trend in rhetoric, that is mildly surprising.

When people make ironic uses of some rhetorical device, it inevitably happens that a number of people don't get the humor and start using it unironically, like that's the correct, casual thing to use for that situation.
by D-Machine | 2026-03-04 16:25:31+00:00
Oh, I agree this is all super complex and delicate. If I had more time, I'd love to write a more nuanced, many-thousands-of-words blog post going into which journals and fields actually have good peer review and can be more / less trusted.

I just wanted to make a strong rhetorical case by highlighting some things that might be surprising to people making more naive defenses of journals via peer-review-based arguments.
by sodality2 | 2026-03-04 16:25:34+00:00
I expect the customer of this product is not worried about repairability: to them, it's just an iPad with a keyboard. You're also citing 3x higher costs, so they're really not comparable.

The lack of upgradability is directly what provides a lot of benefits that I expect the average consumer vastly prefers: better performance with soldered memory and better battery life. It's not just to shaft you on prices (though that's definitely a big factor).
by delta_p_delta_x | 2026-03-04 16:25:43+00:00
Ml-family languages (and frankly, all natively functional languages) are just incredibly terse and information-dense second only to stuff like APL. And yet when written idiomatically and with good object and type naming they are surprisingly readable and writeable.

'Twas a bad idea to train LLMs on the corpus of leaky, verbose C and C++ first instead of on these strict, strongly-typed, highly structural languages.
by jmyeet | 2026-03-04 16:25:45+00:00
I just looked over the specs [1] and it's pretty good for the price. My only quibble is that there's only one USB3 port and that's also the charging port. So if you want to use an external display, you need some form of dock to also charge it. The other USB port is only USB2 so you can't use that as an external display connector.

I'll be interested to see a true comparison with the M5 Macbook Air. I don't think we have any direct comparisons between an M chip and the A18 Pro. The A18 Pro is used in the iPhone 16 Pro and Pro Max, not even the 17. I found this spec comparison [2]. Not sure if it's accurate.

It seems like this is an iPHone 16 Pro in laptop form because the iPhone also has 8GB of RAM.

[1]: https://www.apple.com/macbook-neo/specs/

[2]: https://erickimphotography.com/apple-m5-vs-a18-pro-comprehen...
by eykanal | 2026-03-04 16:26:30+00:00
This comment seems to confuse _straightforward_ with _easy_. On the merits, this proposal is well argued and has good points, and his solution—essentially extend the Biden approach with more strict requirements—makes sense.

Everything you mention will also have to happen, which means that doing this will definitely not be _easy_. That said, it is still a very _straightforward_ solution.
by erelong | 2026-03-04 16:26:39+00:00
Relatedly, I'm periodically thinking about the issue of people who prevent problems not being rewarded as much as those who become "heroes" for resolving avoidable situations

I guess it may be important to underscore the value that simplicity provides over needless complexity or to sell people on the value of problems prevented rather than preventable catastrophes that were dealt with

Maybe we could encourage a culture of patting people on the back for maintaining reliable "boring" systems

Some people also crave "drama" so there might be a way to frame "boring reliability" as some kind of "epic daily maintenance struggle that was successfully navigated"
by maciusr | 2026-03-04 16:26:46+00:00
This matches what I observe in Claude and GPT Codex models when it comes to coding tasks. The personality differences go deeper; they relate to how each model approaches its work. Claude tends to communicate a lot by default, while GPT Codex simply executes tasks. System prompts and context files hardly change this behavior. Your point about Kimi K2 is intriguing because it suggests there's a real range here. Being "more tool-like" is a valid area to consider, not just a sign of a failed personality. The question is whether this area can still handle more complex tasks or if the article's argument holds true, meaning some capability is lost.
by taftster | 2026-03-04 16:27:07+00:00
> Other than Microsoft nobody even makes decent laptops in the Windows world.

I completely agree. I actually quit like and get along with my Surface Laptop. It's a really nice computer overall, worthy. It's the closest you get to the same polish and usability that Apple has in their macbooks.

I absolutely love my M4 macbook pro, it's definitely the best laptop I've ever owned. I had an older macbook pro that I kept way past its lifetime too.
by NalNezumi | 2026-03-04 16:27:22+00:00
I don't know about the guys take on Iran, but I came across his channel a long time ago regarding some predictions on things I work with + I think Ukraine war? And it was so handwavy and "cherry picking stats to fit a narrative" style of reasoning, it was hard to take him seriously when many predictions were proven wrong and not even sound.

Granted, most YouTube analyst channels with ~=>500k subscribers usually do deploy exaggerated claims or "one parameter to explain everything" narrative (Zeihan, Varoufakis, Mersheimer, William Spaniel) so you should take their infotainment with a grain of salt. Current trendy buzzword is "Realism" and "Game Theory" so those two term are mired with wish washy handwaving.

Usually, just like tech stuff, the actually valuable insight is not found in the blogs but the source material they refer to, because they have nuances.
by Aurornis | 2026-03-04 16:27:32+00:00
I’m not disagreeing. I’m explaining to the commenter above that $120K isn’t going to cover the costs of a full-time SRE who will be on call 24/7

If a business can’t afford a properly staffed crew with enough allowance to cover a rotation of on call duties and allow for vacations, they should prefer the managed cloud services.

You’re paying more but you’re buying freedom and flexibility.
by dannythecount | 2026-03-04 16:28:01+00:00
O4DB example [M2M Transit] Autonomous Supply Operation: Acquisition & Logistics
This logical sequence demonstrates how with O4DB an Autonomous Vehicle (AV) manages its own supply chain without relying on centralized platforms, maintaining total sovereignty over its data and costs.

1. Product VCI (Asset Acquisition) The vehicle detects a preventive failure. It doesn't "browse" a website; it emits a VCI (Validated Commitment Intent) signed with its Ed25519 key.

Identifier: EAN-13: 0887513012345.

Price Sovereignty: Its maximum budget travels encrypted via HPKE. Sellers propose offers without knowing the buyer's limit.

Resolution: Regional warehouses respond. The vehicle's local ARA (Automated Ranking Algorithm) selects the winning offer based on stock and price.

Settlement: Upon confirmation, the vehicle pays for the part and unlocks the exact pick-up coordinates (Point A).

2. Logistics VCI (UODI Activation) With Point A (Origin) and its own location Point B (Destination) now defined, the vehicle triggers a second independent VCI for the transport.

UODI Generation: The AV creates a 91-character identifier describing the mission: UODI-[Zone_A]-[Zone_B]-C4-M4-T1...

Transport Bidding: The Relay distributes this UODI. Drone operators compete for the trip based on the UODI's geographic mask.

3. Settlement & JIT (Just-In-Time) Disclosure

Acceptance Signature: The vehicle selects the most efficient carrier and cryptographically signs the offer acceptance.

Data Release: Only at this millisecond, the AV sends the complete destination data and exact GPS coordinates to the winning carrier via the protocol.

Finalization: A final Settlement Fingerprint is generated—an immutable proof that both operations are sovereignly linked

This entire process of negotiation, encryption, routing, and settlement is handled natively and agnostically by the O4DB protocol. What you see here is the pure infrastructure layer; the logical 'iron' that guarantees sovereignty. It is upon this foundation that APPs and interfaces must be built, allowing users—whether humans or machines—to interact with this commerce network seamlessly

I need help gutting this protocol to make it more efficient and secure. Thanks
by danvayn | 2026-03-04 16:28:10+00:00
Define fine. Tahoe, chrome, electron apps running with pretty much anything else already push things over 4gb when things start to get laggy and usability becomes more problematic, atleast to me. You could theoretically run a lot of things ‘fine’ the way you describe. And for the college student who hopefully doesn’t already run Spotify and Discord, it’ll hopefully be “fine”.

I just don’t get arguing that it’s the same experience as what people actually consider fine.
by D-Machine | 2026-03-04 16:28:25+00:00
> The naive public does not believe anything in particular about peer review

You'd need to provide evidence or an argument for this. The media reports on things in part based on journal prestige, and likely when questioned, people will say they can trust such things because good scientists have looked at the work and say it is good. This would be an implicit belief that peer review is generally working well, even if they don't use the term "peer review".

> You seem stuck somewhere in the middle, caring deeply about a system you don’t seem to fully understand.

Extremely presumptuous, as I work in this system, and have provided plenty of evidence for my claims. You've provided only sneers.
by avs733 | 2026-03-04 16:28:35+00:00
out of context that makes sense...but in the context of a case report how do you implement that? The patients have privacy rights and the authors/doctors have a responsibliity to protect them. That doesn't justify this but it does force a conversation about what 'every single data point' means. Does it mean the patient's real name and social security number? their complete medical chart?

Case reports are descriptive not determinative and should be treated as such by other scholars. They are 'I saw this' not 'this is generalizably true'. They can (and often are) replicated or countered but they are not per se research as you are thinking about it. Whether it is fictitious or not, other scholars should be cautious in citing them as proof/evidence in papers that fit into the 'research' mold.
by runjake | 2026-03-04 16:28:50+00:00
Certainly possible. But, in the US consider that Google and "one-to-one" Chromebooks are generally dominating and the curriculum more or less requires extensions and setting.

As an example, my kids try to do school work on one of the house Macs, but there's too many roadblocks so they just use their Chromebooks.

I used to buy my kids Chromebooks for school, but, since the pandemic, the school issues them, so I haven't bought any since.

> Apple stuff they will likely be better made

It depends on what you mean. Apple uses higher quality parts and is more sleek.

Chromebooks are more durable, take more abuse, are very repairable, and parts are cheap and plentiful. These are keys to schools. We're at a point where schools cycle out old models and either keep a bunch around, or strip parts from them, because some parts are interchangeable between generations.
by afavour | 2026-03-04 16:28:53+00:00
Feels related to the idea of "exonerative tense", a way of phrasing things to subtly absolute yourself of responsibility for your own actions.

Puts me in mind of Trump being asked about the lack of evacuation plans around the Iran war, his response was "because it happened to all very quickly", as if it were a force of nature rather than something the administration had control over.
by adrian_b | 2026-03-04 16:28:55+00:00
In theory, but that is not the case with Lunar Lake, which nowadays does not have a greater bandwidth than the current CPUs with external LPDDR memory.

However, at launch, a year and a half ago, it had a bandwidth about 15% higher than competing CPUs.

For a really "massive increase in bandwidth", it would have needed a wider memory interface, like AMD Ryzen Max, which has a 256-bit memory interface, instead of the 128-bit memory interface of most Intel/AMD laptop CPUs.
by danaris | 2026-03-04 16:29:00+00:00
What software being taught in colleges today (outside of highly specialised niches) requires Windows?

Stats software is cross-platform or open-source.

Art programs are cross-platform or open-source.

Office suites are cross-platform or browser-based.

Unless you're specifically trying to learn Windows development, dev tools are cross-platform and open source.

15 years ago, what you describe was probably quite common. Today, it's almost completely disappeared.
by NearAP | 2026-03-04 16:29:03+00:00
I think the 2 laptops you mentioned are targeting different markets.

The Surface Laptop you linked to is - 16GB of RAM and 512GB of Storage (no 8GB of RAM option)

The $599 Mac Neo is 8GB of RAM and 256GB of Storage. It doesn't have a 16GB RAM option but a 512GB storage option is $699.

8GB RAM seems to me to be targeting folks who don't run a lot of local apps or multiple big apps
by jacquesm | 2026-03-04 16:29:20+00:00
I opened up all inverters here and disabled all remote access hardware physically. I'd rather not have a warranty than the risk of either seeing my critical hardware hacked or bricked by the manufacturer. And given the size of these (one is a 17KW unit) the risk of real damage to my home circuits and/or the feed is not imaginary, just rapidly turning it off and back on would already be a big problem, especially on a really sunny day. I try everything I can to not trip the breakers on the inverter around solar noon on sunny days because the amount of current is non-trivial, even on a 960V system. It will generate an absolutely spectacular arc.
by raigol | 2026-03-04 16:29:35+00:00
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by tiffanyh | 2026-03-04 16:29:39+00:00
Product Positioning...

Apple is doing everything they can to ensure it doesn't appear as a premium product.

A decade ago, they had the 12" MacBook (not Air, just "MacBook") it it felt super premium because it was lighter and smaller than any Air/Pro ... and used by executives (because it targeted that use case).

By having this product:

- called "Neo"

- thicker

- as heavy

- limiting RAM

And marketing this towards kids and lower grades, they are avoiding any mistaking this product as premium.
by post-it | 2026-03-04 16:29:40+00:00
I'm not sure. I think it does swap more aggressively. I think the disk is also just really fast and has a higher speed connection to memory.

Qualitatively I'm running way more things in the background than I could on Linux and Windows machines with double the RAM, with far fewer hiccups.

I haven't tried a modern Surface or other high-end Windows laptop so maybe their swapping is comparable, but given the shocked reactions of non-Mac users at 8 GB of memory, I don't think so.
by ajspig1 | 2026-03-04 16:30:11+00:00
I get that "communicate your thought process" or "play along with the exercise" gets offered as the fix here. But that framing bothers me too. Why should simplicity require more justification than complexity? Google Sheets is the design. The fact that it doesn't sound like engineering is the whole point.

I'm just not convinced the solution is learning to package simplicity in a more impressive wrapper.
by sosodev | 2026-03-04 16:30:14+00:00
I've noticed that open weight models tend to hesitate to use tools or commands unless they appeared often in the training or you tell them very explicitly to do so in your AGENTS.md or prompt.

They're also struggle at translating very broad requirements to a set of steps that I find acceptable. Planning helps a lot.

Regarding the harness, I have no idea how much they differ but I seem to have more luck with https://pi.dev than OpenCode. I think the minimalism of Pi meshes better with the limited capabilities of open models.
by slibhb | 2026-03-04 16:30:29+00:00
> It was a nice little feature that I knew exactly how to do, but I hadn’t prioritized getting done yet because there were a bunch of other things on my plate. But with a little assist, it was quick to implement.

Exactly how I feel. AI has allowed me to work on projects that I've wanted to work on but didn't have the time/energy for.
by solstice | 2026-03-04 16:30:43+00:00
Very cool idea, documented in a calm and clear video. From the description:

> Upcycling a phone LCD into an optical contraption.
> Pairing a DSLR lens with a mirrorless camera body leaves a gap that has to be filled by an adapter mount. I thought it would be fun to build a computer that fits in that mount.

> A transmissive LCD acts as a programmable iris, inserting digital effects into an otherwise purely optical pipeline. It enables some interesting manipulation of the lightfield such as in-camera parallax wobbles, as well as animated bokeh effects.