MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by prmoustache | 2026-03-12 20:18:34+00:00
Apple care has always seemed like an extortion scheme to me yet Apple owners seemed to feel it was a good deal, not realizing that you shouldn't even have to replace stuff before the 7 to 10 years mark appart maybe for the battery.

Judging by the sorry state of most second hand Macbook it really feel that they have made their hardware disposable (despite using relatively premium hardware like aluminum compared to plastic stuff on some brands) to force people to subscribe to it. Not that they are the only one to make shitty unreliable stuff (looking at you Asus, Acer and most brand's "family" lines).
by westurner | 2026-03-12 20:18:57+00:00
> Abstract: [...] Here we report a photonic ski-jump — a nanoscale waveguide monolithically integrated on a piezoelectric cantilever [...] Finally, by demonstrating uniformity across a 64 ski-jump array, we establish a pathway to achieving greater than one gigaspot resolution at kilohertz rates within a sub-5-cm-diameter footprint, creating a seamless optical pipeline between integrated photonic processors and the free-space world
by antonvs | 2026-03-12 20:19:17+00:00
What do you think Semmelweis could have done differently, that actually could have worked?

The assumption in what you’re saying is that it’s possible to convince ignorant, recalcitrant, authority-rejecting people to change their behavior. That’s great! Could you sketch an approach to get people to seriously try to solve global warming, then? No? How about fascism? No? So, what is your point, exactly?
by FpUser | 2026-03-12 20:19:56+00:00
>"I know it's a meme on HN to say everyone likes WFH"

I work from home for the last 25 years (I am an independent vendor, design and develop business critical products for medium size businesses). I have no desire to socialize with employees of my clients and when I am in a mood I have real fiends to spend time with.

Can't imagine wasting my time in corporate cubicles or open concept offices
by mikeberkley | 2026-03-12 20:20:02+00:00
This scores companies on AI readiness: how prepared they are for the AI transition. Think of it like a credit score, but for AI adoption.

We analyze:

AI hiring intensity — Who's building AI teams and how fast
R&D investment — Actual spend on AI research and development
Public AI initiatives — Announced products, partnerships, strategy
Competitive positioning — How they stack up vs industry peers
Each company gets a Master AI Score (0-100) based on these factors.
by lowbloodsugar | 2026-03-12 20:20:25+00:00
>We'd rather hear you in your own voice

You can't hear my voice if I'm downvoted to oblivion.

>then over time it's possible to learn to lessen such misunderstanding

Is it possible, over time, for a person with a severed spinal cord to learn how to use stairs?

The answer to this last one may be technology! Same for autistic communication: I now have a technological assist. It's called AI. AI is my wheelchair. You might not get to hear my "voice", but you will get to hear my message.
by abreslav | 2026-03-12 20:20:43+00:00
Two things to mention here:

1. You are right that we can redefine what is code. If code is the central artefact that humans are dealing with to tell machines and other humans how the system works, then CodeSpeak specs will become code, and CodeSpeak will be a compiler. This is why I often refer to CodeSpeak as a next-level programming language.

2. I don't think being deterministic per se is what matters. Being predictable certainly does. Human engineers are not deterministic yet people pay them a lot of money and use their work all the time.
by encom | 2026-03-12 20:21:12+00:00
If speed limits were automated rigidly enforced 100% of the time, it would be impossible to drive.

>only to allow targeted enforcement in service of harassment and oppression

That's absurd hyperbole. A competent policeman will recognise the difference between me driving 90 km/h on a 80 km/h road because I didn't notice the sign. And me driving 120 km/h out of complete disregard for human life. Should I get a fine for driving 90? Yea, probably. Is it a first time offence? Was anyone else on the road? Did the sign get knocked down? Is it day or night? Have I done this 15 times before? Is my wife in labour in the passenger seat? None of those are excuses, but could be grounds for a warning instead.
by gmac | 2026-03-12 20:21:23+00:00
Right wingers have a whole different set of moral values that strike me (as someone more on the left) as _immoral_ values. Look up moral foundations theory by Jonathan Haidt and others. I’ve found this in one sense useful (so _that’s_ why Republicans react to ${ISSUE} the way that do!) and in another depressing (how do you _deal_ with people who think that doing what they’re told to do by an authority figure is intrinsically a moral virtue?).
by cmrdporcupine | 2026-03-12 20:21:27+00:00
Very cool, I see that "Deploy your finetunes, custom LoRAs, or any open-source model on our fleet." is "Book a call" -- any sense of what pricing will actually look like here, since this seems like it's kind of where your approach wins out, the ability to swap in custom model easier/cheaper?

Just curious how close we are to a world where I can fine tune for my (low volume calls) domain and then get it hosted. Right now this is not practical anywhere I've seen, at the volumes I would be doing it at (which are really hobby level).
by aanet | 2026-03-12 20:21:36+00:00
Interesting set of articles on FT.com about productivity gains due to AI.

Podcast: [1] discussion b/w journalists Soumaya Keynes, John Burn-Murdoch and Sarah O'Connor

Op-ed by Erik Brynjolfsson: "The AI productivity take-off is finally visible" [2]

[1] https://www.ft.com/content/e36c7521-9ff6-4ff1-97a0-30c179eb0...

[2] https://www.ft.com/content/4b51d0b4-bbfe-4f05-b50a-1d485d419...
by NoboruWataya | 2026-03-12 20:23:02+00:00
If the VC borrows money from the bank and lends it to the clinic, the clinic is not on the hook to the bank. The clinic is on the hook to the VC and the VC is on the hook to the bank. Which means that if the clinic goes under, the VC takes the loss because it still has to repay the bank.
Show HN: Claude Forge – GAN Inspired Adversarial Pipeline
by hatmanstack | 2026-03-12 20:23:17+00:00
Five Claude Code agents in generator/discriminator loops: Planner<->Plan Reviewer, Implementer<->Code Reviewer, Final Reviewer. Each agent gets a fresh context window, discriminators only see output, never reasoning.

Plans are immutable; feedback routes through a separate file. Reviewers probe for hallucinated paths, dependency cycles, ambiguous specs, false-positive test strategies. Implementer does TDD with atomic commits. Max 3 iterations per loop before human escalation. Everything persists to disk, resume mid-pipeline if you hit token limits.

Two skills: /brainstorm (interactive spec generation grounded in codebase exploration) and /pipeline (automated build cycle). Drop .claude/skills/ into any project.

Trade-off: ~3x tokens and wall time vs. single-pass. Worth it when correctness matters.
by kmeisthax | 2026-03-12 20:23:24+00:00
This is also why Rust has separate PartialEq and Eq traits - the latter is only available for types that don't have weird not-self-equal values like floating point NaNs or SQL NULLs. If you lie to Rust and create a wrapper type over f32 or f64 that has Eq, then you'd get unindexable NaN keys that just sit in your hashmap forever.

The real surprise to me is that Python can index NaN keys sometimes, at least by reference to the original NaN. I knew CPython does some Weird Shit with primitive values, so I assume it's because the hashmap is comparing by reference first and then by value.
by mindslight | 2026-03-12 20:23:24+00:00
Go tune into reactionary talk radio for a taste. Really listen to what they're saying and just let it wash over you. I'll do this occasionally on long drives by myself when I'm out of range of familiar radio stations.

The problem isn't so much differing values in terms of specific policies, but rather a deep chasm of anti-intellectualism that makes them mistrust anyone but their ingroup partisan preachers. Even if you are coming from a place of mostly agreement about some issue, and appealing to values they purportedly have, the minute you start deviating from anything the preachers have said you've immediately put yourself into the "other" camp where their only conclusion is that you "don't understand" or are even trying to trick them.

Those partisan preachers had at least been owned by US business interests, preaching policies that hurt individuals while helping entrenched corporate interests (eg the decades of shipping industry to China). But at this point it seems they've been bought by foreign interests hence the new trend of supporting the wholly destructive policies of trumpism.
by Aardwolf | 2026-03-12 20:23:30+00:00
Python is extra annoying though with refusing to support division through zero the way other programming languages with IEEE floats do (i.e. output inf or nan instead of throwing an exception), even though it has no problem doing things like float('inf') / float('inf') --> nan. It just specifically does it for division through zero as if it wants to be a junior grade calculator just for this one thing. They could at least have fixed this when breaking backwards incompatibility from python2 to 3...
by tootie | 2026-03-12 20:23:33+00:00
This is the classic argument of "only Democrats have agency". 99% of the problem is Republicans, but here we are wishing the Democrats did more. They ran a perfectly fine campaign. Biden passed the biggest climate bill in history. Republicans ran an utterly disgraceful and wantonly malicious campaign based purely on lies and hatred. What I wish is that people voted rationally and maintained an iota of empathy and logic.
by Karrot_Kream | 2026-03-12 20:23:40+00:00
Computers were roughly ~ $1000 in 1990. How did your lower-middle class family justify a $1000 expenditure inflation adjusted to $2565 today? Average minimum wage in the US is $11.30 so that's 29 days working at minimum wage.

My family was on the border of upper-lower and lower-middle and we bought a computer once and used it for 10+ years. I dumpster dove later to scavenge parts for upgrading until the mid 2000s when cheap computers became available.
by abreslav | 2026-03-12 20:24:15+00:00
There are different kinds of tests:

* regression tests – can be generated

* conformance tests – often can be generated

* acceptance tests – are another form of specification and should come from humans.

Human intent can be expressed as

* documents (specs, etc)

* review comments, etc

* tests with clear yes/no feedback (data for automated tests, or just manual testing)

And this is basically all that matters, see more here: https://www.linkedin.com/posts/abreslav_so-what-would-you-sa...
Show HN: My Vibe Page
by hershyb_ | 2026-03-12 20:24:25+00:00
had the idea to create a page that you can edit in real-time just so the web becomes more interactive and personal than just having the same UI for each user, this was what i made

feel free to make and share, say something like "rewrite the whole page..." for whole page edits. smaller edits will happen faster (hopefully)

some examples:
iron man theme: https://www.myvibepage.com/p/g6vLfXU8fU

cyberpunk neon theme: https://www.myvibepage.com/p/CagQMdlmwT

random edits: https://www.myvibepage.com/p/q0YB06nX99

pretty fun, let me know what you think
by svstoyanovv | 2026-03-12 20:24:33+00:00
I think this requires discipline. The good thing is that we have coding agents, but again, you need a standard to tell the agent what to always look for, how to find it, and to describe your modules properly (even Claude Opus 4.6 makes mistakes when doing hops when tracing code spanning files). Btw, there is also a paper on this issue, Google released it recently
by JumpCrisscross | 2026-03-12 20:24:44+00:00
> now the VC lends the money from the bank, buys the clinic, and here's the important part: _they push the debt onto the clinic's books

This mostly correctly describes a leveraged buyout (LBO). LBOs are done by LBO shops, a type of private equity (PE) firm. Not VCs. (VCS do venture capital, a different type of PE.) And LBO debt isn’t “pushed” onto the company’s books, it’s never on the sponsor’s (LBO shop’s) books in the first place to any material extent.

Private credit, on the other hand, involves e.g. Blue Owl borrowing from a bank to lend to software businesses, usually without any taking control or equity. It’s fundamentally different from both LBOs and VC or any private equity inasmuch as it doesn’t have anything to do with the equity, just the debt. (Though some private credit firms will turn around and lend into a merger or LBO. And I’m sure some of them get equity kickers. But in that capacity they’re competing with banks. Not PE. Certainly not VC, though growth capital muddles the line between what is VC and other kinds of PE or even project financing.)
by throw0101d | 2026-03-12 20:24:46+00:00
> Do I want an iPad Air or Pro? Both seem pretty thin. What am I not getting with the Air?

Horsepower (M5 vs M4), display ("XDR brightness: 1000 nits max full screen, 1600 nits peak (HDR content only"; "ProMotion technology"), option for more storage (2TB).

Hence the two questions I put forward:

* horsepower and storage (A16/M4/M5; ≥1T)

* display
by astroanywhere | 2026-03-12 20:24:52+00:00
Thanks for your comments.

Re Dependency graph: In real coding, sometimes even the arguably the best agent -- claude code + Opus 4.6 + High reasoning -- still struggles, because either the tasks are very complicated or human prompting cannot articulate the problem in a way that agent can understand and solve it.

We allow graph-based task decomposition, replanning if user does not like it, and even more complex graph operations such as (i) expanding a task into a few nodes, (ii) rephreasing a subgraph of tasks into a new set of tasks.

In this way, the gains are (i) the agent is better at understanding the whole project, (ii)task executions can be parallel and retried. Say the user wants to change the prompt of a particular step, then all the tasks before that does not need to be re-run.

Re Different models for different tasks: So far we don't support that, but that is in our pipeline. Claude code has that. For example, context compaction arguably is done by Sonnet.
by Gnobu | 2026-03-12 20:24:53+00:00
Interesting framing around separating AI reasoning from deterministic execution. The “intent → runtime validation → execution” pattern makes a lot of sense once systems become mutable through LLMs.

One thing I’ve been thinking about while experimenting with Gnobu is how identity might fit into that runtime layer — not just for authentication but as a trust boundary for system actions. If AI systems are proposing structural changes or triggering workflows, identity and permission models might need to be deeply embedded in the execution runtime rather than scattered across services.

Curious whether you see identity and access control as primitives inside the semantic model itself, or as something the runtime enforces externally.
by phil21 | 2026-03-12 20:25:10+00:00
You run it as a school, since that's what a school is for. Otherwise you fail at both being a school and a poor replacement for the social programs you're trying to do on the side.

For example - a school is not a correction facility. If a student is violent, they do not belong in school. Get them out and put into a proper facility designed for such things. It's not the school's problem anymore to think about.

The results speak for themselves on the topic.

A school is to educate students who are there, present, and want to be educated. They will fail at any other task.
by readitalready | 2026-03-12 20:25:17+00:00
The specific issue that caused her to lose the election was her support for Israel. It was the largest reason that Biden 2020 voters didn't vote for Harris in 2024, per polls that specifically analyzed the causes of her loss. (not polls that took general moods or ideas)

Had she dropped support for Israel, she would have been president.

And going forward, there will never be a Democratic president that supports Israel's continued existence. The Democratic base is fully against Israel. We're just waiting for the politicians to catch up.
by 453yuh46 | 2026-03-12 20:25:17+00:00
Look, outside of your corner, a world is much much bigger and every nation and every political leaning has rights to have their own POV(for better or worse), as quite frankly this style of thinking on enforcing what others should do is really irritating.
Wikipedia for a time being had already different POVs and it was great for that time period, but as someone that does not have English as first language, I don't dream of a world, where everybody uniformly think the same - because that place already exists where that is a case and that is a graveyard.
by kseniamorph | 2026-03-12 20:25:21+00:00
i like how this research (and others related) kind of supports the idea that free will might be lacking. I still keep a pinch of skepticism about this idea, understanding that it's just a concept. But personally i like it, because it even fells a bit relieving... not to say that it helps you abandon responsibility, but it makes your stance on life easier, and pushes you not to blame yourself too much for your weaknesses.
by beagle3 | 2026-03-12 20:25:23+00:00
I mean that it already appears in the Bible, in old Hebrew (which is close to, but isn’t exactly Aramaic), with the meaning “to feed and provide” - and I did not find any documentation about how it formed (or came into) Hebrew.

Which means of course m, that it was already in use before the Bible was canonicalized.
by 0x457 | 2026-03-12 20:25:34+00:00
> but a lot of European cuisines have dumplings.

Those were brought to them most likely by China in one way or another.

> Yes, a filled pasta is a very different thing from dumpling,

You saying it like a filled pasta and a dumpling isn't the same twist on "filling encased in thin dough".

> There is nothing in South Asian cuisine similar to sashimi or to soy heavy stir fries.

Dish is ingredients and method. Stir-frying is a Chinese technique (technically multiples, but all originated in China). Ingredients get replaces all the time for various reasons. You're telling me Poriyal is not close relative to the OG stir-fry?
by KyleVlaros | 2026-03-12 20:25:52+00:00
Chat and CLI both flatten AI work into a linear stream. That is fine for single prompts or single commands, but not for real workflows where writing, execution, review, and decisions need to stay separate and reusable.

I wanted to share this partly because I assume other people are building similar notebook-style AI tools, and

I’d be interested to see them. There are so many AI products and side projects now that it is hard to keep up, so if you know something close to this model, send it over.
by ryandrake | 2026-03-12 20:26:12+00:00
I remember thinking that I would reach absolute peak-coolkid if I could start and run a BBS. I even installed WWIV and DesqView to fuel the fantasy and prepare. But my parents didn't understand technology and couldn't grasp why I wanted to hook up (and pay for) a second phone line for the house. So, unfortunately I would remain a mere luser until I went off to University where the Internet was just getting popular and 10-Base-T ethernet drops to the dorm rooms were standard, and I very quickly forgot all about BBSing.
by stephbook | 2026-03-12 20:26:18+00:00
I'm based in the rich Western world. Whenever I travel elsewhere, I'm amazed by the cheapness of labor.

Humans would attend a gas station or fetch items in a store. Why? They're completely unneeded, I can do (and WANT to do) that myself.

I always feel sad about these people, trapped in an economic system that forces them into useless labour when they could spend their time learning actually useful skills.
by the_why_of_y | 2026-03-12 20:27:05+00:00
If heat pumps don't work in the winter, how come Sweden has (as of 2022) 2.2 million heat pumps (209 per 1000 residents) and Finland 1.4 million (251 per 1000 residents)?

https://publications.jrc.ec.europa.eu/repository/bitstream/J...

https://publications.jrc.ec.europa.eu/repository/bitstream/J...
by ahmed-fathi | 2026-03-12 20:27:22+00:00
The write-down-where-you-left-off trick is underrated. I think it works because it gives the brain a kind of "closed" signal the open loop that Zeigarnik describes gets a placeholder, so the mind stops simulating. A physical notebook works better than a digital note for this, at least for me. Something about closing an actual object.
by cogman10 | 2026-03-12 20:27:23+00:00
> what specifically should they have done differently?

Kamala squandered a lot of good will and enthusiasm when she needed it the most. When Biden dropped out there was a lot of real excitement about something different.

It really wouldn't have been hard for her to spend time touting some of the best parts of the Biden admin like Lina Khan. But that sort of messaging was unpopular with the donors.

Putting forward actual policies to make things better would have also helped, even if they were just carbon copies of the biden policies. The way she campaigned there was, frankly, really weak. Giving a tax break to home owners and copying Trump's "No tax on tips" line really did not look good.

It was also pretty apparent that while Walz was doing a pretty good job making Trump and Vance look bad, the Kamala team pulled him in for being too alienating. Kamala distanced herself from her own VP pick and instead decided to campaign with Liz Cheney, a well known republican who's father was good ole war crimes cheney. Neither are particularly popular with either Democrats or Republicans.

The Kamala campaign spent a large amount of time trying to win over disaffected trump voters. That was a disaster. No amount of "I'm tough of transnational criminals" would convince a crown that's currently cheering on ICE to cheer on Kamala.

In the end, she did a lot to kill the enthusiasm of the base. She spent just too much of the limited time she had trying to make the case that she is appealing to republicans. Who, of course, all thought she was a super woke radical leftist (she was not).

Gaza was another huge issue that Kamala's campaign ignored and never addressed. A lot of people believe this is why the DNC autopsy hasn't been released as it likely played a large role in the depressed voter turnout for Kamala.

In the end, the problem with her and her campaign is she ran the Hillary Clinton campaign playbook. Far too much time trying to remind people that Trump is bad and far too little time making the case for why she's better.

This isn't all her fault. Biden is a big asshole for running for a second term. There has been leaks that his staff knew full well that he was a train-wreck and that his polling was really bad. I think they thought that the early debate would ultimately prove that he was capable of winning which, as we all know, was one of the biggest train-wrecks of a modern presidential campaign. But also, there's absolutely no chance that Biden didn't know he was dealing with cancer going into 2024. That's not something a President is unaware of. Especially not getting to stage 4. My conspiracy theory was that a major reason he disappeared towards the end of his term is that he was dealing with cancer therapy. It wouldn't shock me to know that he had chemobrain while debating trump.
by throw310822 | 2026-03-12 20:27:41+00:00
I don't get it though. Plenty of windows laptops for basic users have much slower cpus and less memory. It seems that rather than being about a convergence between desktop and mobile, this is simply about offering a basic machine with a good build and an acceptable balance of specs. Nothing that Microsoft or many other big names couldn't have done at any point in time with their current technology, had they cared about offering a good, recognisable and trusted user experience.