MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by RealityVoid | 2026-03-13 05:50:12+00:00
Bingo! IMO, laptops are best used as thin clients and you do the heavy lifting on servers or a box in a closet somewhere.

I'va been migrating my workflow to this approach and I'm an embedded dev! My closet does have hw strewn about but once you set it up that you don't have to touch wires it's super convenient.

My one gripe with MacBook airs up to m4 was support for only one external monitor. But m4 fixed this.
by h4kunamata | 2026-03-13 05:50:15+00:00
When you know what you are sking it to help you with.

I wanna to build a Proxmox LXC container via Ansible playbook, both things I know and use in my homelab.

It has to be 4 services running within the same container, VPN and what not. That would take me forever to find the latest and recommended:

* Each service installation proccess

* Known issues and workaround

* Firewall and what not

It sill took me 3 nights because I had to replace one of the services. I am not expert into iptables firewall, it helped me with that.

Ansible playbook was a hit and miss but it gave me the start so I fixed what was wrong and voila.

The problem is people using it for copy/paste, it works it is good enough. No understand of what is happening, security issues and alike.
by paulluuk | 2026-03-13 05:52:16+00:00
> One meeting did in his promo.

Although true, I feel it's worth adding here that the problem is that PM. While looking stupid by asking questions can "do you in" when working with incompetent managers like that, I'd argue that most managers will look at results -- and asking dumb questions can lead to much better results compared to just staying quiet and hoping for the best.
by onion2k | 2026-03-13 05:52:49+00:00
Codex, on the other hand, will follow something I said pages and pages ago, and because it has a much larger context window (at least with the setup I have here at work), it's just better at following orders.

This is important, but as a warning. At least in theory your agent will follow everything that it has in context, but LLMs rely on 'context compacting' when things get close to the limit. This means an LLM can and will drop your explicit instructions not to do things, and then happily do them because they're not in the context any more. You need to repeat important instructions.
by uecker | 2026-03-13 05:53:12+00:00
No, angelic non-determinism is not related to the as-if rule. It essentially says that if there is a choice to assign provenance on backconversion from integers, the one which makes the program valid is assigned. This is basically the same as the explicit UDI rule in TS 6010, except that this is rule is very clear. The problematic with angelic non-determinism is two-fold: a) most people will not be able to reason about it at all, and b) not even formal semantics experts know what it means in complicated cases. Demonic non-determinism essentially means that all possible execution must be valid while angelic non-determinism that there must exist at least one. Formally, this translates to universal and existential quantifiers. But for quantifiers, you must know where and in which order to place them in a formula, which wasn't clear all from the wording I have seen (a while ago). The interaction with concurrency is also a can of worms.

I don't think there is a fundamental advantage to Rust regarding provenance. Yes, we lack a way to do pointer tagging without exposing the provenance in C, but we could easily add this. But this is all moot as long as compilers are still not conforming to the provenance model with respect to integer and pointer casts anyway and this breaks Rust too! Rust having decided something just means they life in fairy tale world, while C/C++ not having decided means they acknowledge the reality that compilers haven't fixed their optimizers. (Even ignoring that "deciding" means entirely different things here anyway with C/C++ having ISO standards.)
by justsomehnguy | 2026-03-13 05:53:16+00:00
It's hard to take you seriously when you measure the performance of a computer by performing a very specific single tasks. The thing what dividies a smartphone and a proper computer is an ability to actually multi-task without dropping the context and not waiting ages for the programs to reload.

And yes nowadays your terminal is capable of rendering HTML5 pages and encoding MPEG.
by maxbond | 2026-03-13 05:53:23+00:00
The way my thinking has evolved is that "AGI" isn't actually necessary for an agent (NB: agents, specifically ones with state, not LLMs by themselves) to be enough like a person to be interesting and/or problematic. To quote myself [1]:

[OpenClaw agents are like] an actor who doesn't know they're in a play. How much does it matter that they aren't really Hamlet?

> Or is there a new development which should make me consider anthropomorphizing them?

The development that caused me to be more concerned about their personhood or pseudopersonhood was the MJ Rathbun affair. I'm not saying that "AGI" or "superintelligence" was achieved, I'm saying that's actually the wrong question and the right question is their capabilities, their behaviors, and how they evolve over time unattended or minimally attended. And I'm not saying I understand those questions, I thought I did but I was wrong. I frankly am confused and don't really know what's going on or how to respond to it.

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46999311
by Agentlien | 2026-03-13 05:53:46+00:00
I remember this period of my own life. I had taken over my father's old 486 and spent my days and evenings trying to learn the basics of programming in C. I was making silly text based games, dreaming I'd one day be creating the game of my dreams. I also modded games by opening every content file and trying to figure out what they did and how I could modify them. I was still years from realizing game development was a career and not just a hobby.

I had replaced all the Windows sounds and cursors to customize the system so it looked and sounded like a Sci Fi system. I even patched the boot screen to be a humorous screen of "MS Broken Windows". It also was quite broken from messing with system files I didn't understand.

It was a magical period and I learned so much.
by knodi123 | 2026-03-13 05:54:44+00:00
> the link only becomes clickable if you hold down a modifier key.

Fun trick not a lot of people know -

In a web browser, links which are normally clickable become UN-clickable if you hold a modifier. On a mac, it's (option). It's helpful if you want to select text inside a large link (or in a button) so you can copy it.
by derefr | 2026-03-13 05:56:26+00:00
For them to call it Bootcamp 2 (a "product" per se), they'd have had to have another OS they could actually demo installing. Otherwise "Bootcamp 2" is just a mysterious empty chooser window.

But at the time there was nothing, because Apple Silicon wasn't a platform anyone but them was targeting, because they had just created it.

So they built the infrastructure, and then waited for someone to actually start taking advantage of it, before bothering to acknowledge it.

> announce « The most secure Mac ever » silently releasing with closed bootloader

That's extremely unlikely to happen, as Apple's hardware and OS developers build Macs and macOS (and all the other hardware + OSes) using Macs and macOS. And those engineers will always need to be able to diddle around with the kernel and extensions "in anger" without needing to go through a three-day-turnaround code-signing process.
by pseudohadamard | 2026-03-13 05:57:32+00:00
TACO is fine. Iran have shown the world what will happen if Israel/US try that stunt again. So the sensible approach for them would be to declare themselves the peacemakers and pull back, then invest heavily in better drones, seaborne drones, and semi-autonomous minelaying systems. They know what'll happen next time, and how to respond appropriately.
Ask HN: What's frustrating about looking for a job as a software engineer?
by fisher-brett | 2026-03-13 05:57:55+00:00
I've been in touch with a few third party recruiters as I've looked for a SWE job. I've been frustrated about talking with recruiters who make it sound like I'm a good fit for a company, but then the company itself decides they're not interested in me.

What's frustrated you about looking for jobs?
by kstenerud | 2026-03-13 05:58:04+00:00
Use yoloAI and you get the full benefit of --dangerously-skip-permissions with none of the risks.

https://github.com/kstenerud/yoloai

Every time I use a bare Claude session (even with /sandbox) without using yoloai, it feels like using a browser without an ad blocker.
by frankzinger | 2026-03-13 05:58:57+00:00
Pretty sure this is correct. You only notice it when it comes right out of the top. Other days it may be 25%, 50%, or 75% of the way up. And that's still bad for your oesophagus over the long term. My dad got cancer right at the bottom and one potential cause was chronic acid reflux (GERD leading to Barrett's eosophagus).
by elzbardico | 2026-03-13 05:58:58+00:00
I find those numbers hard to believe, as it is obvious that the US was already planning a regime changing intervention for quite some time when those protests happened.

You can't trust people who paint Reza Pahlavi as a paragon of human rights and democracy. And neither you can trust every iranian refugee as a lot of those were corrupt members of the ruling government or worse, Savak members.
by deathanatos | 2026-03-13 06:01:02+00:00
> I guess there's also a difference between "can use checks" vs "have to use checks" because, aside from rent, I can't recall having to write checks.

Landlords, IME, insist on a physical check for the first payment. I think they're performing some sort of blood ritual with it in the back of the office. After the sacrifice is complete, though, they'll switch to ACH.

The only other place I've ever had to use checks is for large purchases, where the amount exceeds that which cards are capable of. Even these would be pretty rare for most people, since there's a likelihood you would finance a large purchase with a loan instead.
by curiousigor | 2026-03-13 06:01:23+00:00
I had a similar experience but with design software (which I pirated at the time since I just didn't have the money to buy stuff from Adobe).

I'd install Photoshop and Illustrator on my shitty computer I put together from spare parts my dad didn't have the use of anymore from his business computers. It was horribly slow, but I kinda made it work slowly.

The thing is that I think this is what made me think a bit differently, since everything was slowed down and took more time than I would want it to, I had to make deliberate decisions on what to add/edit. I still work the same way today to pa point, but that's because I'm both faster, more experienced and the computers have gotten more performant (and because I can afford better devices sure).

When I look at my half-brother and his teenage generation I wonder if they can still have such an experience. The personal devices have gotten better and faster, most things are really convenient and you sometimes even don't have to think a lot to do something also because they're cheap to do... they probably won't have the experience of "grinding it out" just for the sake of producing something they like...maybe sports is the closest...no idea, but have been thinking about this quite a lot recently...
by skeledrew | 2026-03-13 06:02:03+00:00
> sacrificing time I’ve previously spent on other interests

I'd say this is the crux of the matter. Having competing interests and choosing what to do and how much of it is a balancing act, but you can still get that desired satisfaction. You could perhaps even start your own company if it's that important to you.

For me, projects just keep accumulating regardless of how much time I dedicate to them (outside of the mandatory things). Maybe I just have too many things I'd like to build. Definitely thinking about starting a company myself now there's all this capability available.
by abcde666777 | 2026-03-13 06:05:37+00:00
I don't think we ever escape the desire to avoid looking bad - we just recontextualize it. For instance the article is basically making a short vs long term argument - in the short term you might look foolish, but as a result you might produce something of value (which in the long term will make you look fantastic).

So personally I prefer to frame these things that way - it's not that we should want to look foolish for its own sake (obviously), it's that part of getting anywhere in life is taking some risks and developing your threshold for doing so.
by aboardRat4 | 2026-03-13 06:06:11+00:00
>In what universe does implementing DHCP-PD but not 'regular' DHCPv6 make any kind of sense?

Their policy makes a lot of sense. It's hindering ipv6 deployment, but it is preventing ISPs from allocating less than /64 to customers. It has nothing to do with standards actually.

Dhcp-pd makes a lot of sense though, because if an isp is willing to give you a prefix, they are by default nice guys.
by paulluuk | 2026-03-13 06:06:47+00:00
I've tried, but I've been to so many thrift stores and never found anything I liked or which fit well. I'm a tall guy and the men's section of thrift stores is just filled with what I assume is the clothes that widows donate after their husbands die. And I don't mean that as a joke, half of it looks like something a small boxy train conductor in the 50s would wear.
by wood_spirit | 2026-03-13 06:07:21+00:00
Does this apply to the 17 and 1800s too? Or was there an inflexion point when consumption plateaued and technology is about carving it up not increasing it? And how does it apply to other counties?

My hunch is that this is a recent half century thing for the US and other countries are still earlier in the curve with lots of room to grow still
by boring-human | 2026-03-13 06:07:52+00:00
I kind of think that these threads are destined to fossilize quickly. Most every syllogism about LLMs from 2024 looks quaint now.

A more interesting question is whether there's really a future for running a coding agent on a non-highest setting. I haven't seen anything near "Shall I implement it? No" in quite a while.

Unless perhaps the highest-tier accounts go from $200 to $20K/mo.
by csb6 | 2026-03-13 06:08:11+00:00
Destroy civilian areas neighborhood by neighborhood until they comply? That's not only a war crime - that would create an international humanitarian crisis and millions of refugees. Tehran alone is a city of more than 9 million people. The IRGC doesn't care how many civilians the U.S. kills. It only strengthens their case that the war is existential and America/Israel want to obliterate Iran. They have a huge stockpile of missiles and drones that are not easily destroyed. Mines are not needed to close the strait, just the credible threat of drone and missile strikes, and no ship will sail through.

"Regime-aligned civilians" is a slippery slope that is essentially collective punishment. Most anyone in Iran can be tied to the government through jobs or family, and they are not segregated by level of "regime alignment", so you would be obliterating the homes of many civilians who might otherwise oppose the government.

Genuinely flabbergasted that you came up with that strategy unprompted when not even Hegseth ("drink blood from the skulls of our enemies") has suggested it AFAIK. Your post genuinely reads like the monologue of a cartoonish villain.
by silisili | 2026-03-13 06:09:32+00:00
> The region's GDP is 100 billion dollars, so these are tiny amounts, although they may seem large to some.

It's a fair point and easy to handwave away "it's only $100 per resident." But it's a lot of money still. And yet that city is shutting down schools and selling off school properties to make budget this year. I bet they'd love to have those wasted millions.

> You think they can safely 10x that?

I have no idea the reason for this question. The OP said cities learn after a couple million dollar suits. I'm showing that no, they do not. If anything suits are increasing.
Show HN: SiMM – Distributed KV Cache for the Long-Context and Agent Era
by SherryWong | 2026-03-13 06:09:45+00:00
We built SiMM because LLM context lengths are growing much faster than GPU memory.

With long Chain-of-Thought reasoning and multi-turn agents, prompts are getting much longer. According to OpenRouter’s State of AI 2025, average context length has grown about 4× in the past year.

This creates two problems in inference systems:

• Slow TTFT — long contexts make prefill expensive
• High GPU memory cost — KV cache quickly exhausts HBM

Instead of recomputing long prompts or keeping all KV cache in GPU memory, we explored a different approach:

treat KV cache as a distributed memory system.

SiMM is an open-source distributed KV cache engine for LLM inference.
It stores KV cache in a high-speed RDMA-backed memory pool and lets engines like SGLang and vLLM reuse cached states across requests.

This converts prefill from a compute-heavy step into a fast I/O lookup.

In our tests with long-context multi-turn workloads:

3.1× speedup vs no cache

2.1× vs local CPU cache

up to 9× lower KV I/O latency

SiMM scales horizontally across nodes and fully utilizes RDMA NIC bandwidth.

GitHub: https://github.com/scitix/SiMM
by tombert | 2026-03-13 06:10:13+00:00
I read this article when it was new and I've shared it with a bunch of people because it it unbelievably fascinating to me.

There's something borderline "voyeuristic" (for want of a better term) about it. There are all these videos that are public, I'm allowed to watch them, but they were clearly not meant for me to watch. It's like when you see a family photo at a Goodwill or something.

It's definitely worth trying out if you get bored; it's a proper time capsule. There's absolutely nothing cynical about it; these videos weren't made for profit, they weren't made to sell you something. They're candid videos of people as they were in ~2010.
by ahf8Aithaex7Nai | 2026-03-13 06:10:37+00:00
Somehow, it always triggers my skepticism when supposedly sociobiological or evolutionary anthropological or evolutionary psychological arguments are brought up. My suspicion is that it is far too easy to simply pack in the story you want to have in there. I can think of dozens of objections to your description. For example, in small groups, the social game in terms of status may not be that complex, and the choice for pairings may be very limited.

I'll leave it at that because I don't want to write a novel. But when I look at your description, I don't see any plausibility at all. I only see projections. Like in The Flintstones or in old movies about Stone Age people, who have strangely short haircuts and go hunting the way people go to work today. What I mean is: the social dynamics you're assuming here may be primarily shaped by your experiences in the present and are far from as universal as you believe.
by khazhoux | 2026-03-13 06:11:01+00:00
> And I mean Trump's physical and mental decline is far worse than Biden's ever was

Incorrect. Trump 2024 was as looney as Trump 2016 and all the years in between, so that doesn't qualify as mental decline. He'd lost some spring in his step but overall was physically in much the same shape as 8 years prior. Meanwhile Biden went from active cyclist to a slow elderly gait. It was plain to see.

> You don't hold a "proper primary" when you have the advantage of incumbency.

Following that traditional playbook in the face of his obvious physical condition, is why we have today's SCOTUS, DOW, Trump Kennedy Center, ...
by eslaught | 2026-03-13 06:11:31+00:00
It's not just about the increase in volume, it's about the delta between the prompt and the generation.

If the generation merely restates the prompt (possibly in prettier, cleaner language), then usually it's the case that the prompt is shorter and more direct, though possibly less "correct" from a formal language perspective. I've seen friends send me LLM-generated stuff and when I asked to see the prompt, the prompts were honestly better. So why bother with the LLM?

But if you're using the LLM to generate information that goes beyond the prompt, then it's likely that you don't know what you're talking about. Because if you really did, you'd probably be comfortable with a brief note and instructions to go look the rest up on one's own. The desire to generate more comes from either laziness or else a desire to inflate one's own appearance. In either case, the LLM generation isn't terribly useful since anyone could get the same result from the prompt (again).

So I think LLMs contribute not just to a drowning out of human conversation but to semantic drift, because they encourage those of us who are less self-assured to lean into things without really understanding them. A danger in any time but certainly one that is more acute at the moment.
by applfanboysbgon | 2026-03-13 06:12:25+00:00
Looks LLM-generated. Was already disinclined to read it based on hatred for that style of writing alone, but it is also just extremely vapid as far as I got before giving up at this line:

> Technology redistributes the existing pie. It doesn’t reliably grow it.

Technology is the reason there are 8 billion humans on this planet. It is the reason that you can pick from hundreds of different foods at the supermarket. It is the reason everyone can buy cute or cool clothes and 10 pairs of shoes. It is the reason why everyone can have a machine that cools their food, three machines that heat their food, a machine that washes their clothes, and a machine that performs billions~trillions of calculations per second to do magic. It is the reason a significant portion of the labor force in technologically-developed countries does work that involves standing around and talking to people or sitting at a desk instead of working their asses off in the fields.

Maybe the article gets into making some point about wealth distribution later, but it is before then making factually incorrect statements about technology so any conclusions based on that are probably faulty anyways.
by mettamage | 2026-03-13 06:12:30+00:00
At work I dare to look stupid and in my friend group too. It hasn’t always led to a good outcome since people simply believe you’re actually stupid and the problem with that is that they don’t take you seriously enough. Now, you can say: their loss. But man, I need to eat. With friends, sure. At work? After years of looking stupid, I had enough of it.

Also finding a partner is mostly about being silly with each other. So looking a bit stupid is a plus there and had no issues about it on that front