MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by hogwasher | 2026-03-04 21:49:02+00:00
I'm hardly a fan of Epic, but considering inflation and rising supply chain costs, a price that remains flat may be a price that would have otherwise risen.

They might also direct the money towards funding more exclusives. Epic's funding has enabled some games to be made that wouldn't have been otherwise, or that wouldn't have been as full featured without that up-front cash.

They sell gambling to children via lootboxes; I'm not saying they're the good guy corp. But removing Apple and Google's monopoly over phone apps and app stores would only be a good thing, in my opinion.
by somat | 2026-03-04 21:49:22+00:00
It's the duality of user interface design. Two forces at war with each other.

The professional interface is a complete mess. flat not nested, functionality duplicated all over the place, widgets strewn across the screen like a toddler just got done playing legos. Exactly what one needs when they will be working with it for hours at end.

Contrast with the casual interface, nested, one way to do things, neat compartments for everything. What is needed to gently guide the user through an unfamiliar task they may only do once a year.

And this is ignoring the dark side, the "designer" interface. Where it just has look good functionality be damned. Take note. The big lie about design is that it exists in a vacuum, that there can be an independent design title. Real design is fundamentally a holistic process that has to consider and integrate all aspects. Including deep engineering. A real designer is an engineer with taste, a rare find to be sure.
by julienb_sea | 2026-03-04 21:49:48+00:00
I'm not sure this really makes sense. The single core performance for the iphone chip is leagues ahead of anything even a couple years old. They can likely increase clock speed of the iphone chip in a larger chassis so the performance isn't exactly 1:1 with the 16 pro, which was hardly a slacker. 8gb on apple silicon goes much further than 8gb would have on an intel chip, due to faster and on chip RAM and much faster storage to enable smoother use of swap.

I'd agree that an m1 chip can probably continue to run modern macOS for a very long time, and they will likely drop support for it much earlier than they would need to.
by nickff | 2026-03-04 21:50:00+00:00
I understand the impulse in this direction, but I’m not sure it would serve as much of a disincentive, as there would likely just be a highly-paid scapegoat. Why not something more lasting and less difficult to ignore, like compulsory disclosure of the model’s source code (in addition to compensation for the victim(s)). Compulsory disclosure of the source would be a massive disadvantage.
by sgjohnson | 2026-03-04 21:50:11+00:00
It's not the first Mac that has an iPhone/iPad chip. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Developer_Transition_Kit

And yes, absolutely. All you need is a bootchain exploit. However unlike in the old jailbreaking days when people found and publicized them for fun, these days they are worth millions. Apple will pay you $500k for sandbox escape into the kernel. If you nail the bootchain, it'll be in the millions. From Apple. And god knows how much such a thing would go for in the black market.
by sockaddr | 2026-03-04 21:50:11+00:00
> but the Neo may be proof that decades old macs could run Tahoe, and maybe as well or better than the Neo

The A18 Pro is going to out perform many "decades old" processors, which would you be referring to?

I wouldn't conflate "affordable" with "low-end" in terms of processing speed. Apple is able to get the price to this point because of decisions that the rest of the market did not make.
by mrguyorama | 2026-03-04 21:50:30+00:00
Walmart has a large fraction of it's employees not making enough to live, and receiving food stamps to help support them, while at the same time Walmart is the single largest recipient of food stamps dollars.

They are double dipping, extracting wealth from a system that isn't supposed to make them wealthy. Food stamps is partially a government handout to businesses, but to agribusiness, not grocery chains, which did not need any government handouts and is only just now becoming an noncompetitive market.

Tax payers get to support "Super important job creators" by subsidizing their payroll, giving them constant tax breaks, and feeding a percentage of every single government welfare dollar into their private pockets.
by gilgm12 | 2026-03-04 21:51:17+00:00
Built a native desktop app (Rust + GPUI, same framework as Zed) for running AI agent sessions in parallel. Not an IDE - Cursor and Zed already do that. Superlite is the thing you open when you want Claude on one problem, Gemini on another, and a local Ollama model on a third, all at once. Or several context windows in parallel B)

Free, no account required. GPL core. Works with Claude, Gemini, OpenAI, Ollama, DeepSeek, OpenRouter, Mistral, Grok, LM Studio, Bedrock.

Pro tier adds a P2P web remote - approve tool calls from your phone, check in on session streams in real time, no servers in the data path. (Yes, I know mosh is free but I wanted something prettier)

Beta builds: https://superlite.dev · macOS, Windows, Linux

I hope some of you find it useful!
by frutigeraerosol | 2026-03-04 21:51:21+00:00
I kept telling Claude "add rate limiting" and approving code without knowing what my users actually see when they hit the limit. A friendly message? A raw 429? Page just hangs?

VibeCheck asks you one question after your AI finishes a task. It reads your actual diff, compares it to what you asked for, and checks if you know what changed in your product. Not how the code works, but what your users experience.

It's a Claude Code stop hook (auto-triggers after every task) and also a standalone CLI that works with Cursor, Windsurf, Cline, Aider, OpenClaw, Nanoclaw or anything that uses git.

Single Rust binary, no dependencies, starts in under a millisecond. Skip every quiz if you want - no scores, no judgment.

https://github.com/akshan-main/vibe-check
by rahulgovind517 | 2026-03-04 21:51:42+00:00
SSRFs (Server Side Request Forgeries) are some of the most scary security bugs in modern web apps. They are both dangerous and easy to introduce yet surprisingly hard to properly fix. This blog post from Tachyon expands on why this is the case and introduces Drawbridge, an alternative for requests / httpx in python that is more robust against SSRFs out of the box.
by watwut | 2026-03-04 21:52:03+00:00
I dont find that believable argument at all. USA in fact can not attack along of Israel. Nothing prevents then from removing embargo, tho that is not relevant.

USA can tell Israel to not attack. Full stop. It can even tell Israel they will give them less support. And dont tell me that Trump administration would be afraid to pressure or even bully other goverment. If USA did not wanted this war, it would not happened.

Third, USA had option of approaching negotiations seriously. It simply did not.

> US was "forced" into preventive strikes against Iran military installations, and into an offensive war, without any preparation.

This is nonsense. It was not preventive attack, it was active first strike attack against opponent that is not much threat right now.

USA was not in defense. It was not forced to attack either.
Show HN: Athena Flow – a workflow runtime for Claude Code with a terminal UI
by nadeem1 | 2026-03-04 21:52:05+00:00
Athena Flow is a workflow runtime that wraps Claude Code via its hooks system. It receives the event stream, applies workflow and plugin logic, persists session state in SQLite, and renders everything in an interactive terminal UI with a live event feed.

Instead of writing throwaway prompts or one-off scripts to automate complex multi-step tasks, you define a workflow once — with prompt templates, loops, plugin bundles, and structured lifecycle hooks — and run it against any project.

The first workflow I shipped is e2e-test-builder. It navigates your app like a human, writes structured test case specs with preconditions, steps, and expected outcomes, then generates Playwright code from them. The browser layer is handled by a separate MCP server I built called agent-web-interface, which produces semantic page snapshots instead of raw DOM — ~19% fewer tokens and ~33% faster task completion in early benchmarks against Playwright MCP.

The stack is three repos: athena-flow is the runtime (hooks -> UDS -> event pipeline -> TUI), agent-web-interface is the MCP server for token-efficient browser interaction, and athena-workflow-marketplace is where workflows and plugins live, resolved by ref like e2e-test-builder@lespaceman/athena-workflow-marketplace.

Workflows are composable — a workflow bundles plugins and can be shared via any Git repo. Writing your own is just a workflow.json and a prompt file.

Currently Claude Code only, but Codex support is in progress. Free if you already have a Claude Code subscription, no separate API key needed. MIT licensed.

Docs: https://athenaflow.in GitHub: https://github.com/lespaceman/athena-flow

Would love feedback, especially from anyone building on Claude Code hooks or thinking about workflow portability across agent runtimes.
by cduzz | 2026-03-04 21:52:11+00:00
I'm very sad this neo macbook thing isn't a replacement for my macbook retina in any way. I'm not really sure what I'll do to replace it; I'd been hoping this "phone chip based macbook" would be of the old retina form factor. But instead it's just a nerfed air. My kids have the macbook airs and my little 2017 retina is substantially dramatically smaller and more portable. At least until the battery dies.
by charcircuit | 2026-03-04 21:52:17+00:00
With Turing completeness you can do whatever computation you want. If you want to go outside of Turing completeness and starting interacting with the real world or other apps that is when security models need to exist. There isn't a reason to allow a program to act however it wants. Why should we allow for programs to secretly spy on a user's mic with no visual indication. It's okay to bound what is possible with a device. This already happens in practice with other operating systems. Redhat can still be useful even if you don't have permission to write new CPU instructions (only Intel and Amd have they signing keys to add new instructions). Sure Intel may be limiting what you can do, but it still is a useful machine without it that many people successfully use and gain value from every day. Even as a smaller example root on Linux has limits on how it can interact with the kernel. It may be root, but there are still limits on what it can do without loading a kernel module to modify things. If you want a less secure operating system where things are less secure like allowing the user to be spied on you can make your own, but the average person wants to have a secure device.
by djhworld | 2026-03-04 21:52:35+00:00
I think stuff like this really crystalises how people misunderstand how much energy stuff uses.

My parents for example sweat the small stuff and go around the house turning LED driven lights off to "save electricity" even though it would barely make a dent in their bill.

Granted, they come from a time of incadescants burning 60-100w at a time so I can see why that habit might be deeply ingrained.
by bstsb | 2026-03-04 21:52:45+00:00
from my (limited) experience of ChatGPT versus Claude, i get the same. ChatGPT will always add another "prompt" sentence at the end like "Do you want me to X?" while Claude just answers what i ask.

looking at my history recently, Claude's most recent response is literally just "Exactly the right move honestly — that's the whole point."
by stephen_g | 2026-03-04 21:52:54+00:00
The cheap stuff usually have the certification labels printed on them, but a cursory look inside usually shows breaches if you know what to look for (like we have had stuff from China where the ground wire wasn't connected to anything, but even if that's right there are things like just not having enough clearance between mains and isolated DC in power supplies etc.). So they are definitely not actually certified, they just slap the labels on anyway.

Of course, there is a rising group of actually really high-quality native brands starting to come out of China - Anker were an early one of these, Xiaomi is a massive one, UGreen is really popular on Amazon etc. These kind of brands actually will be properly certified and are scary good for how cheap they are. So it's changing a lot.
by bhelkey | 2026-03-04 21:53:11+00:00
The article is confusingly worded. I think Google's announcement is more clear [1].

My read is:

* Developers using Google to process payments should expect to go from a 30% fee to a 25% fee (20% service fee + 5% billing fee).

* Subscriptions will now have a 15% fee (10% service fee + 5% billing fee)

* Some Third Party App Stores will be easier to install

[1] https://android-developers.googleblog.com/2026/03/a-new-era-...
by skybrian | 2026-03-04 21:53:35+00:00
I see it has a ChatGPT median query, but for those of us using coding agents this isn't so relevant.

Here's a post that makes an estimate:

https://www.simonpcouch.com/blog/2026-01-20-cc-impact/

> So, if I wanted to analogize the energy usage of my use of coding agents, it’s something like running the dishwasher an extra time each day, keeping an extra refrigerator, or skipping one drive to the grocery store in favor of biking there. To me, this is very different than, in Benjamin Todd’s words, “a terrible reason to avoid” this level of AI use. These are the sorts of things that would make me think twice.
by gosub100 | 2026-03-04 21:53:44+00:00
Interesting idea, but isn't the value of a book derived from the entertainment or reference usage? If I enjoy a story, the transaction is complete. I paid my money, got my product, consumed it , and now I can get another. If I transfer it to someone, the content is potentially consumed twice, but only one payment was made to the author. "Can't have your cake and eat it too - except for books"
by Bridged7756 | 2026-03-04 21:54:57+00:00
Such is the case in most of the developing world. I.e only one city here in Mexico has potable tap water.

A RO system costs like $350, plus the filter renewal costs. I did the math, and it's cheaper to just buy the purified water off a purifier plant which is what most people do, unless you have a really large family. Also, a lot of places face severe hydric stress, making such systems unfeasible unless you have a large enough water reservoir to provide you with running water for a while. Most people don't have the space and even if they did, the low water pressure and or availability wouldn't allow them to get their reserves full in time, so they'll end up buying purified water anyways.
by hellojesus | 2026-03-04 21:54:59+00:00
I'm arguing in good faith. My point was that some people will ask those that are tech literate. Some people can hire people that are tech literate.

I see no point in introducing this legislation, because the folks that can't take the time to meet their goals under the current norms will fail to secure the trivial bypasses that will allow kids to circumvent these controls.

But what may happen is those folks that are arguing for this legislation will argue for fully secure, remote attlestation to prove age for all devices that try to connect to the internet via an isp or some gov auth factory because the current, dumb law isn't good enough. This is a very slippery slope. The gov, private orgs all salivate at the possibility of that data and fully deanonymizing the internet. That is a world that is unacceptable. It would be the full loss of general computing. What a dystopia. And this is step one in that direction.
by SunshineTheCat | 2026-03-04 21:55:09+00:00
It kinda reminds me of replying to a statement with "So...it's come to this..."

My friends and I use to do this all the time for no particular reason except to turn an otherwise ordinary conversation into challenge that can only be resolved by mortal combat.

Of course, we did it jokingly with each other. But when someone we didn't know heard us do this they were genuinely confused with what we were so offended by, which was half the fun.
by manarth | 2026-03-04 21:55:16+00:00
there is something very funny about the idea that “give a chimpanzee stuff and see if they like it”

This is the premise behind the "Ignobel prize" – awards for scientific research which at first-glance may appear to be an April Fool's prank, but genuinely advance the cause of scientific research.

"the extent to which a certain kind of lizard chooses to eat certain kinds of pizza"
"what a nursing baby experiences when the baby’s mother eats garlic"
"some real plants imitate the shapes of neighboring artificial plastic plants"

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ig_Nobel_Prize

https://improbable.com/ig/winners/
by mcbishop | 2026-03-04 21:55:35+00:00
Not that this is accepted by insurers or AHJs ("authorities having jurisdiction"), but one can use UL-certified components in an (open-source) _assembly_ that itself isn't UL certified. This at least supports the argument that the overall product is safe if thoughtfully designed and assembled. An example is the OpenEVSE level-2 car charger (which I had a really good experience with).
by julienb_sea | 2026-03-04 21:55:35+00:00
Assuming the Neo is broadly available, which it very likely will be, the price will likely continue to come down. The used market will be strong on Neos. It's never really going to compete for the ultra-budget conscious market but that isn't Apple's playbook. It will compete VERY well for people that want the upmarket appeal of a Mac product which I think has enormous appeal. Probably the main thing this will do for the chromebook and low end windows market is they will go even cheaper to make the price jump for the Mac as noticeable as possible.
by dspillett | 2026-03-04 21:55:45+00:00
I don't remember him calling Linus a terrorist, though there were others that associated anything with a copyleft licence to be the loony left (or the commie left).

He certainly referred to both him and Linux as cancers though, that I do remember. He later changed his mind on that, and IIRC may even have publicly apologised for those statements.
by godelski | 2026-03-04 21:55:50+00:00
This is so weird to read given the quote at the top. The kind of simplicity Dijkstra is talking about is a form of abstraction. He's talking about elegance. While the author is talking about a different type of abstraction, more like the image or a Jackson Pollock painting. Look at how Dijkstra talks here [0].

When a scientist says "simplicity" they mean "elegance". This is very different from "easy to understand". There's a reason that quote says simplicity is difficult to achieve. This doesn't seem in line with the author's examples. But it's easy to see what Dijkstra was talking about. Have you ever derived an equation in math or physics? You start one place, do a whole lot of work, and then you get out this "simple" thing. You could write pages of math to come up with an equation that uses only a few symbols. E=mc^2 is simple but getting there was very hard and took a lot of time, thinking, and abstraction.

The author conflates simplicity with speed, not with what the end result is and how well it solves the problem.

Why are CS people against abstraction? All we do is abstraction? We act like all abstraction is the same, and it's evil.

We have to be more nuanced. I could see the entire blog post written in the exact other way where engineer A gets promoted because they complete more tickets and engineer B doesn't because they take too long. But the reality is that from such a high level we can't determine which solution is right. Sometimes A's method is the best and sometimes B's is the best. But we don't know the impact. B's solution could create more problems, like the author suggests, but also it could solve many problems that don't end up appearing. Same for A's solution!

I don't like this over simplification and the author's conclusion is naïve. If we make everything understandable to everybody then it's a race to the bottom Who does it need to be understandable to? The senior? An experienced developer? A junior? A manager?

Don't get me wrong, there's tons of unnecessary complexity out there and that's bad too. But for that I'll reference Knuth's famous and misunderstood quote where he says "get a fucking profiler before optimizing things". He too is talking about elegance, but a balance of how we should prioritize things.

[0] Concern for Correctness as a Guiding Principle for Program Composition https://www.cs.utexas.edu/~EWD/transcriptions/EWD02xx/EWD288...
by al_borland | 2026-03-04 21:55:53+00:00
Framework might be appealing as well. Being able to have parts on hand that can easily be swapped out sounds a lot better/easier than dealing Apple repair practices. The Framework Laptop 12[0] starts at $549 and has touchscreen/pen options. But that price goes up to $799 to have it pre-built with an OS on it, which schools would want, unless building your laptop and installing the OS is part of the curriculum. I wonder if having the kids do this would make them take better care of it, because they had a hand it making it?

[0] https://frame.work/laptop12
by pazimzadeh | 2026-03-04 21:55:58+00:00
I guess he achieved the same thing Bill Clinton achieved - he took the spotlight off of his personal issues.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1998_bombing_of_Iraq#Distracti...

But yes, I generally agree with you. It’s like the US/Israel don’t know how Iranians think about their country, their government, and the history of US in the region.

Do they not know that many people who hate their government’s domestic policy actually support their foreign policy?

Do they know that of dozens of ace fighter pilots (e.g. Jalil Zandi) minted by Iran during the Iraq-Iran war, most of them were “Shah loyalists” who preferred an Islamic Iran over foreign invasion of Iran?

It’s too incredible to think that they don’t know these things, so I guess they don’t care. So the goal must not be military, but something else.
by ano-ther | 2026-03-04 21:56:08+00:00
Interesting that for a paper by Don Knuth himself the PDF was created with dvips (TeX Live) but then switched to Acrobat Distiller, resulting in a rather low resolution (at least on my screen).

From the document properties:
> Creator: dvips(k) 2023.1 (TeX Live 2023)
> PDF Producer: Acrobat Distiller 25.0 (Macintosh)
by john_strinlai | 2026-03-04 21:56:21+00:00
remember that we already did the "Excellent answer, that is what I would do as well, now what if we wanted to build it in-house?" part.

the "good answer" was already acknowledged, the "real-world scenario" answer was accepted.

the second part ("what if we wanted to build it in-house") is purely hypothetical to gauge how the interviewee would approach the specific technical challenge. if they again say "well that is dumb i would just use sheets", that is absolutely an interviewee problem.
by MoonWalk | 2026-03-04 21:56:35+00:00
"1080p webcam doesn’t support Center Stage"

That's a huge PLUS. This asinine "feature" ruins our family Zoom calls EVERY WEEK. There doesn't appear to be a system-wide way to disable this junk on iOS. Because Windows sucks so monumentally, my parents insist on trying to do everything on their phones and tablets. I'm thinking the Neo is perfect for them, and hearing that it'll solve this infuriating problem just makes it more appealing.

A USB 2 port is embarrassing for a computer at any price in 2026. But at least you can apparently use that one for powering the computer, leaving the good one free for other uses.
by Imustaskforhelp | 2026-03-04 21:56:40+00:00
> This is kind of a misleading title

Kind of is doing a lot of work there. This might be THE most misleading title I heard. Jumping into this thread I expected they went from 30% to 0% not 20% so I appreciate your comment for giving me more context.

Can Dang or HN moderation team fix the title to better reflect the true state and not be misleading as it currently is?

thanks in advance!