MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by wolvoleo | 2026-03-14 01:26:14+00:00
I don't agree with that though. I watch porn a lot and I have had multiple relationships (at the same time). They watched porn too or sometimes real couples. And we find kinky stuff to try.

If anything it helps deepening and intensifying my sex life. I don't think it stifles relationships at all.

There's this concept that abstaining from sex/porn somehow makes you more interested in company maybe because it's the only way to get sex? But I don't find this at all. Obviously I'm in the sex-positive and polyamorous community but there's many like us.
by MBCook | 2026-03-14 01:27:21+00:00
As a longtime Google Fiber customer, it’s Google Fiber.

My service has been effectively perfect. My price has barely changed in a long time, though they’ve added faster tiers as options. They let me use my own equipment without any hassle.

They’re not calling me to upgrade to a new plan. They’re not pushing me into their TV service. Or phone service. Or cell phones. Or anything else.

Best ISP I’ve ever had by far. And it’s going to be DESTROYED.

Maybe they didn’t matter much to you outside price pressure, but they mattered a hell of a lot to me.
by sgarland | 2026-03-14 01:27:42+00:00
Being direct isn’t being an asshole. Sprinkling random compliments and self-deprecating comments into useful feedback in a professional environment is disrespectful of time.

I’m convinced that the root cause is people are afraid to be wrong. Either they’re fearful of being fired, or think people will respect them less if they admit not knowing; the result is that everyone dances around objectivity.

I don’t care if you make an honest mistake. Hell, I don’t even care if you make a careless mistake, as long as you fix yourself. Everyone messes up - it’s how you act afterwards that matters.
by apetresc | 2026-03-14 01:27:42+00:00
Improves outputs relative to what? Compared to previous contexts of 1M, it improves outputs by allowing them to exist (because previously you couldn't exceed 200K). Compared to contexts of <200K, it degrades outputs rather than improves them, but that's what you'd expect from longer contexts. It's still better than compaction, which was previously the alternative.
by acemarke | 2026-03-14 01:27:45+00:00
Hi! I played a major part in getting that "installation" page rewritten to actually mention other tools like Vite :)

The general TLDR is:

- CRA was listed in the _old_ docs site

- The new docs site coincided with the React team emphasizing "frameworks" to provide an all-in-one build experience and hopefully lead to better apps.

- That also meant no ala-carte build tools were listed. This made many people (including me) unhappy.

- CRA broke when React 19 came out in Dec 2024. This caused problems for beginners.

- I pushed the React team to both deprecate CRA and finally rewrite the setup pages to list other build tools as valid options.

I wrote up a much longer background of what happened around the "frameworks" push and this docs page here:

- https://blog.isquaredsoftware.com/2025/06/react-community-20...

And here's the issue I filed pushing the React team to deprecate CRA (after some online discussion):

- https://github.com/facebook/create-react-app/issues/17004

and a follow-up PR where I tried to rewrite the initial rather confusing post-CRA-deprecation "Creating Your Own Framework" page with a more relevant "Creating a React App" page:

- https://github.com/reactjs/react.dev/pull/7618

but the overall point of _all_ of this is that CRA was unmaintained as of 2023, the community had _already_ moved on to Vite, and all this was an attempt to get the React docs to reflect that reality.
by vunderba | 2026-03-14 01:28:40+00:00
Nice job. I can’t give you feedback unfortunately as I don’t have an iPhone but can at least give some advice w/ regard to the landing page.

I would put the Terms and Privacy links at the bottom, not in the top navigation bar.

Rethink the image layout. Right now you’ve got the Lingopop picture in the hero ribbon, then immediately below it in a rounded rectangle, and then just below that again in a square. It feels a bit repetitive.

Next, I’d make all of your screenshots zoomable. Let users click on them to open a lightbox, because they’re pretty small and hard to read as they are.

Also I’d wager you’d probably get a lot more potential users if you opened this up as a simple web app.

P.S. If you like word games, I’ve got one for you. I don’t really think you could consider it a learning game, because it would be pretty hard unless you were already moderately fluent in English.

https://common-thread.specr.net

Cheers!
by dangus | 2026-03-14 01:29:30+00:00
I think this is somewhat ignorant the wide variety of legitimately very decent Windows PC laptops available in the exact same $500-700 price range as the MacBook Neo.

Apple isn’t disrupting the industry here. Don’t buy into early influencer review hype. These reviewers don’t actually look at retail store pricing.

Apple is just making a decision to go downmarket and making many of the same compromises as other cheap laptops, and some odd compromises that are unique to Apple’s machine:

No haptic trackpad, no keyboard backlight, no Touch ID on the cheap model, lower-end screen, very small battery, tiny slow charger included, minimal and performance compromised I/O, below-par RAM, worse speakers/microphones, an old nothing-special processor.

This is the exact same stuff that people have complained about for years with cheap laptops.

The fact that the computer is made of aluminum is really a distraction from these facts.

This idea that it’s Google versus Apple all over again is just not true. Windows is the dominant OS in the laptop space by far. Over 900 billion people in the world play PC games on windows, for example.

If you look at Best Buy street pricing, what Apple has pulled off here is not that impressive.

Let’s say you want the top end Neo model at $699. Spend $100 more at Best Buy and you’ll end up with a Yoga 7 machine with double the RAM, double the storage (1TB), 70Whr battery, and a very capable and efficient AMD Ryzen 7 AI 350 chip that has faster multicore and same or faster graphics performance.

You’ll gain user-replaceable SSD, backlit keyboard, convertible OLED touch screen, digital pen support, more and faster USB ports, microSD slot, HDMI port, fast charger in the box, better speakers, WiFi 7, bigger screen in a more popular 14” size…it’s a better buy that will last years longer for only a slight price increase (or, spend less on the Ryzen 5 AI 340 variant ($680) if you’re okay with compromising GPU performance, which most people in this category are, and you’ll still end up with double the RAM of the Neo and 512GB storage at $20 less than Apple’s non-education store price)

Seriously, give me a good reason to buy a Neo over a machine like this. What is actually better about the Mac objectively? https://www.bestbuy.com/product/lenovo-yoga-7-2-in-1-copilot...
by kace91 | 2026-03-14 01:29:40+00:00
I find it funny that the post promotes stripping useless information and yet a ton of the most useful information in those examples is placed in the skippable part.

Your coworkers are under too high a load, documentation is faulty, chain of communication is breaking down, your coworker lacks expertise in something.

All of those are calls to action!!

And no, you can’t tell the other person to “just communicate if it’s actionable” because they might not realise it. There’s lack of seniority, there’s tunnel vision…
by fc417fc802 | 2026-03-14 01:29:42+00:00
Right but all those examples you're listing are what I was vaguely referencing when I referred to the incentives of such an approach when iterated. The resulting government won't inevitably implode (although it often will eventually) but it doesn't result in a particularly functional society either.

> They will implement it.

> Better us than them.

Well sure, if you've already accepted defeat then I suppose that's the logical course of action. But that doesn't seem like a reasonable position to me given the available evidence.
by casey2 | 2026-03-14 01:29:52+00:00
Something notable is that Qwen3.5:0.8B does better on benchmarks than GPT3.5. Runs much faster on local hardware than GPT3.5 on release. However Qwen3.5:0.8B dumber and slower than GPT3.5. It's dumber: it can do 3*3, but if asked to explain it in terms of the definition (i.e. 3+3+3=9) it fails. It's slower: It's a thinking model so your 900T/S are mainly spent "thinking" most of the time it will just repeat until it hangs.

It pretty obvious that this reasoning scaling is a mirage, parameters are all you need. Everything else is mostly just wasting time while hardware get better.
by chairmanwow1 | 2026-03-14 01:30:53+00:00
It’s so funny to me how much ire Elon draws from the HN crowd. HN in general is a very negative place, but it’s amplified to truly remarkable levels of hysteria when discussing Elon.

Amongst my cadre of mostly founder friends Elon is deeply admired. I’d you have ever tried building something new truly by yourself then you know it is capital H Hard. Getting your teeth kicked in by investors and customers and this bizarre breed of self-righteous people that gain purpose from poking you with a stick.

It’s never clear if a new venture will succeed, but the glee I see here for a stumble is pretty disappointing.
by tmoertel | 2026-03-14 01:31:21+00:00
I agree with the sentiment that gratuitous happy-talk adds noise to what ought to be clear, bottom-line-up-front engineering communications. But the recipients of those communications are people, and most people have feelings. So a good engineer ought to optimize those communications for overall success, and that means treating the intended recipients as if they matter. Some human-level communication is usually beneficial.

So, to use an example from the original post:

> "I hope this is okay to bring up and sorry for the long message, I just wanted to flag that I've been looking at the latency numbers and I'm not totally sure but it seems like there might be an issue with the caching layer?

There’s a lot of noise in this message. It’s noise because it doesn’t communicate useful engineering information, nor does it show you actually care about the recipients.

Here’s the original post’s suggested rewrite:

> The caching layer is causing a 400ms overhead on cold requests. Here's the trace.

This version communicates some of the essential engineering information, but it loses the important information about uncertainty in the diagnosis. It also lacks any useful human-to-human information.

I’d suggest something like this:

> Heads up: It looks like the caching layer is causing a 400ms overhead on cold requests. Here's the trace. Let me know how I can help. Thanks!

My changes are in italics. Breaking them down:

“Heads up” provides engineering context and human-to-human information: You are trying to help the recipients by alerting them to something they care about.

“It looks like” concisely signals that you have a good faith belief in your diagnosis but are not certain.

“Let me know how I can help” makes clear that you share the recipients’ interest in solving the problem and are not just dumping it at their feet and turning your back on them. You and they are on the same team.

“Thanks!” shows your sincere appreciation to the recipients for looking into the issue. It’s a tiny contribution of emotional fuel from you to them to give them a boost after receiving what might be disappointing news.

In sum, strip the noise and concisely communicate what is important, both engineering information and human information.
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by integsec | 2026-03-14 01:32:08+00:00
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by steve-atx-7600 | 2026-03-14 01:32:36+00:00
It seems possible, say a year or two from now that context is more like a smart human with a “small”, vs “medium” vs “large” working memory. The small fellow would be able to play some popular songs on the piano , the medium one plays in an orchestra professionally and the x-large is like Wagner composing Der Ring marathon opera. This is my current, admittedly not well informed mental model anyway. Well, at least we know we’ve got a little more time before the singularity :)
by spondyl | 2026-03-14 01:33:05+00:00
I came here to say that this is pretty much my view having poked around a little bit as well.

This file does not exactly fill me with confidence: https://github.com/upper-up/meta-lobbying-and-other-findings...

In one part of the report, there seems to be this implicit assumption that Linux and Horizon OS (Meta's VR OS) are somehow comparable and that Meta will be better equipped than Linux if age verification is required.

It doesn't explicitly say "This will allow Horizon OS to become the defacto OS and Linux will die out" but that seems to be the impression I'm getting which uhh... would make zero sense.

More broadly, this entire report (and others like it) are extremely annoying in that I've seen some Reddit comments either taking "lots of text" as a signal of quality or asking "Does anyone have proof that these claims are inaccurate" which is

a) Of course entirely backwards as far as burden of proof

b) Not even the right rubick because it's not facts versus lies, it's manufactured intent/correlations versus real life intent/correlations (ie; bullshit versus not)

All of this could be factually true without Meta being smart enough to play 5D chess
by Hikikomori | 2026-03-14 01:33:31+00:00
We already had a deal with Finland. Would have happened no matter was in power in Sweden. Though now with trump back it's not looking like the best idea.

>A paradigm shift against organised crime

Keep doing the same thing, ask cops how to solve the problem, more cops is always the answer. The war on drugs is a massive failure.

About to get a lot more refugees to Europe thanks to Trump.
by manquer | 2026-03-14 01:33:31+00:00
> size of the heart

Size of one heart has restrictions that are determined by diminishing return of physics. That doesn't mean engineering a larger system is impossible or even that very difficult. Same as any other pump system. i.e. there is no reason not to have 2 or 10 hearts.

We do this to move any fluid like water or concrete up to steep terrain or maintain pressure in everything from sewage to oil or gas pipes over long enough distribution systems.

Romanticizing in popular culture not withstanding, heart is just a pump[2] and today can be replaced by (albeit for short duration) entirely by a machine or replaced in a transplant.

We are not talking about say the brain or the central nervous systems[1]. That would be like going to multi-master from single node - lot more fundamental complex rebuild and rethink of the core architecture.

[1]We are not even remotely close to fully understanding let alone attempting to replace.

[2 Amazingly well designed, very efficient, something today we probably could not (yet) build synthetically with similar reliability and durability but it is still a pump nonetheless.
by chaboud | 2026-03-14 01:33:34+00:00
Awesome.... With Sonnet 4.5, I had Cline soft trigger compaction at 400k (it wandered off into the weeds at 500k). But the stability of the 4.6 models is notable. I still think it pays to structure systems to be comprehensible in smaller contexts (smaller files, concise plans), but this is great.

(And, yeah, I'm all Claude Code these days...)
by scorpioxy | 2026-03-14 01:33:41+00:00
Both of these comments are needlessly snarky. Although it is true that the RSS capability of Thunderbird has been around for quite a while, I enjoy articles that simply reflect the author's discovery or use case.

Like you, I was consuming RSS through Thunderbird around that time as well and thought it was really good. I have since moved to something else(many times) as my needs have changed.

In the spirit of HN, the poster maybe wanted a discussion of how the use of RSS has declined and walled gardens took its place which is not good for the longevity and usefulness of knowledge.
by XorNot | 2026-03-14 01:34:41+00:00
One time when I was in Hawaii I could swear there was a club playing dance music quite loudly somewhere a few blocks over: there was that muffled quality to it where I kept trying to pick out the song from inside my Airbnb.

Walking outside (after asking my wife if she could hear it): silence. Trees rustling, normal noises.

It was background noise. But inside the apartment that combination of different sounds was just right that it sounded like muffled music to me - but hence why I couldn't identify it, whatever was there was just me thinking I was hearing things.

Draw ones own conclusions about the relative technical plausibility of the events described by the OP (how would digital packet based audio experience a glitch which is structured as though you'd tuned into another analog radio station? It wouldn't: that doesn't happen and it isn't even a failure mode).
by ewoodrich | 2026-03-14 01:35:18+00:00
Yep, I've been using ChromeOS/ built-in Debian VM for light VS Code, web dev and terminal stuff on a 150 dollar Lenovo ARM Chromebook with 4GB RAM for the last 2 years as my couch PC. I just disabled Android apps because that pushed it over the line.

Gets about 10 hours battery life, touchpad is way better than my $799 Lenovo Ideapad (ChromeOS is weirdly good with even cheap touchpad hardware) and does an incredible job of suspending idle tabs without being noticeable. No rooting, jailbreaking, etc required and unlike my M1 Macbook I can actually install apps without the ridiculous click app->can't open unverified app->settings->security->open anyway->click app second time-> open anyway song and dance.

Would I recommend it as your primary development device? Certainly not, and Neo would be a much better experience for sure but it also costs 4x as much so shrug.

I bought it entirely because I wanted the cheapest modern ARM Chromebook I could find with good battery life since my Macbook is pretty much always tied to a dock and but pleasantly surprised by how much it could actually do beyond just web browsing.
by groby_b | 2026-03-14 01:35:37+00:00
> but an interruption can be a lot less disruptive compared to getting nerd sniped.

Theoretically yes. Practically, folks who avoid small talk deliberately usually have enough awareness to not interrupt unless they need your time. But yes, directness without judgment is bad.

Ironically, the author fails to apply that judgment themselves and wastes a ton of words on unnecessary and/or bad examples.

And, more importantly, they miss the core point of Crocker's rule: Invoking it doesn't mean you get to tell other people how to communicate. You just tell them they're not responsible for your emotional/mental state.

If those extra details upset OP, maybe they lack the maturity to invoke that rule.
by celsoazevedo | 2026-03-14 01:36:13+00:00
I've tried to switch from a popular service to a self-hosted solution last month, and tested some of the different open-source options.

Different UIs aside, one of the issues I kept having was that some of my feeds wouldn't load because sites now have a bot/scrapping/AI protection in place (Cloudflare, Anubis, etc), breaking RSS readers. And that was with a residential IP, it was even worse if I routed traffic via a popular VPS or VPN provider.

I guess this will affect some users more than others depending on what we subscribe to, but I decided to keep using the same service as before (for now at least).
by scottlamb | 2026-03-14 01:36:23+00:00
Opened the link. Saw my own comment. I'm still as confused today as I was then about how this was ever supposed to work—either the quoted code is wrong or there's some weird unstated interface contract. I gather from other issues the maintainers are uninterested in a semver break any time soon. Unsure if they'd accept a performance regression (even if it makes the thing actually work). So I feel stuck. In the meantime, I don't use per-layer filtering. That's a trap.

I've got a whole list of puzzling bugs in the tracing <-> opentelemetry <-> datadog linkage.
by jerojero | 2026-03-14 01:36:27+00:00
It's always baffling to me to see people in tech, particularly in hackernews, talking about others earning salaries many times the median of the country and acting like these are people who just simply have no other choice.

They really, really do. In fact, those salaries being so high is probably also due to the fact that you will be doing work that's a net-worse for the world so they gotta compensate accordingly.

A lot of these firms are parasitic institutions at a society level. They do benefit themselves and their workers at the expense of everyone else. Personally, I find it hard to respect someone that takes that choice, but I also get it. A lot of people only care about their own and their immediate people's benefit.

On that note, I really recommend "No other choice" by Park Chan-wook or the book ("The Ax") it is based on.
by quadramaDEV | 2026-03-14 01:37:29+00:00
You described exactly what makes a PM irreplaceable:

Staying out of the way

Removing blockers

Shielding the team from politics

Enabling decisions instead of making them

AI can summarize status reports. It can't protect a team from a dysfunctional stakeholder at 2 a.m., or know when an engineer needs space vs. needs support.

The fact that you're even asking this question tells me you're not the problem. The terrible PMs never do.

Don't leave. Adapt. Learn the tech enough to speak the language. Use AI to kill the busywork – then spend that time on what actually matters: people.

We need more PMs like you, not fewer.
by CamperBob2 | 2026-03-14 01:37:37+00:00
Zoning is one area that’s better in space.

Not really, though? The idea that Earth-based data centers need to be built in populated, developed areas is indeed dumb, yet it seems to be inexplicably baked into everyone's assumptions. In particular, the small discrete data centers that Musk wants to launch could go anywhere on Earth.

They could be powered by local PV arrays and batteries, they can be cooled by smaller radiators than they would need to use in space, and they could be networked via Starlink or something very much like it, just as they would need to be networked in space. There's nothing special about space, it just costs more to get there.

If he wants them to be out of reach of governments, why not put them on container ships in international waters? There are thousands at sea at any given time, and I'm sure their operators would be happy to rent them out.

Hell, put them on dirigibles that just drift around in international airspace for months at a time. Anywhere but space.

And power density for solar is another.

Does power density matter in terrestrial solar applications? If so, why? These things can and should be deployed in oceans, deserts, and trackless wastelands. Who cares how big the solar panels are?