MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by random3 | 2026-03-13 17:34:41+00:00
as programmers we like to use all this jargon like "leaky abstraction", but never bothered to understsand it beyond the PL paradigms we use.
There's no formal definition and simply makes them good terms to abuse, and throw in conversations to make our points.

Why are the abstractions leaky? Are all abstractions leaky? Why - we simply accept the situation without spending any real effort.

"There's no free lunch" - this is representative of the level of argument in software circles entirely. But WTF does that mean? If the lunch is not free, how cheap or expensive can it get and why?

This is why, as engineers, we tend to brush off the Dijkstras as arrogant, while at the same time ignoring both our arrogance and ignorance.
by _djo_ | 2026-03-13 17:34:53+00:00
It’s likely some customer segmentation label generated through PCA or some other clustering approach.

The qualifying criteria is probably just having picked an offer for renewable-sourced energy in the past, indicating that it has some importance to you. So you will be given more green energy offers in future.

Every company segments its customer base this way for marketing. Sometimes it’s even useful.
by no-name-here | 2026-03-13 17:35:48+00:00
How close to your desired speed are you able to maintain?

> 50km zone is now 30km, and you didn't decelerate quickly enough and were going 32km at the threshold.

Is the argument that you and others would be unable to safely achieve the posted speed within the speed limited area? For example, if you feel you can't drive more precisely than 40-50 when you are aiming for 45, in the above scenario, you could start with your goal being 45, then in the 30 zone aim for 25, knowing that you'd be going no faster than 30 when your intend to drive 25.

> 60km zone, but you accelerated too quickly and hit 61km for a moment.

Should you aim for 55, if for example the most precise you can do is +/- 5? Or adjust correspondingly for how precise you are able to keep within a desired range.

And of course:

* In a world where enforcement was more consistent, we might expect speed limits to eventually be adjusted - i.e. are speed limits currently set lower than what is technically safe because we assume that some portion of people will currently break the law?

* With self-driving, or at least automated speed-keeping (but not steering) there will no longer be the issue of someone having the problem of being unable to stay within x km/h of the speed they're targeting.
by Rooster61 | 2026-03-13 17:36:05+00:00
That's not what the quote is referring to directly (the title is a bit misleading):

"In fact, when it is eventually declassified, the American people will be stunned that it took so long and that Congress has been debating this authority with insufficient information"

You are correct that the American populace has normalized this already. The fact that this is done without congressional oversight is indeed stunning. Or at least it would have been a decade or two ago.
by MSFT_Edging | 2026-03-13 17:36:34+00:00
What about nude paintings/photography that aren't made with erotic intent?

Anatomical reference material for artists with real nude models?

What about Sexual education materials? Medical textbooks?

Women baring their breasts in NYC where it's legal?

Where is the clear cut line of Pornography? At what point do we say any depiction of a human body is pornographic?
by epiccoleman | 2026-03-13 17:36:58+00:00
> I chalk it up to overwhelming choices. Sometimes I just want to watch something but don't want to go through dozens of options and having decision anxiety.

This is by far the biggest annoyance with modern TV for me. If I've already decided one something I want to watch, it's obviously great to just be able to navigate to it and put it on on my schedule, to pause it, have no ads, etc.

But sometimes, for better or worse, I just want to plunk down on the couch and turn my brain off, and if I'm in that mode the last thing I want to do is try to find something worth watching on my own steam.

Like, Youtube is great! Yeah, there's a ton of crap, but there's so much on there that would entertain me and be a guilt-free, even edifying use of me time. But having to choose something new every 10-20 minutes? Actively managing a queue while watching stuff? That's - pardon my French - for the birds.
by lutusp | 2026-03-13 17:37:41+00:00
It's true that a Nobel prize can blunt a scientist's productivity, but for balance, the kind of extraordinary result that merits a Nobel might also not be replicable in one scientist's career, regardless of how the world reacts to it.

We would need to compare career trajectories of productive scientists who did, and didn't, receive that class of recognition, see whether this disruption changed a person's ability to function.

But if a Nobel prematurely blunts a person's productivity, that might sometimes turn out to be a good thing. Consider António Egas Moniz, whose career seems to have withered after his 1949 Nobel. Such a shame, really -- Moniz invented the Lobotomy, eventually applied to roughly 40,000 unruly, hard-to-manage mental patients, many of whom became quite docile, assuming they lived through the procedure.

Without Moniz' Nobel, who knows what might have happened? What might Moniz have created, had the world not thanked him so profusely for his breakthrough procedure?
by mavercik1337 | 2026-03-13 17:38:09+00:00
I’ve always found it hard to explain the value of Moving Target Defense without sounding like a buzzword generator. To solve this, we built a "Phoenix-style" PacMan game for our new R6 Security site.

In the game (as in our K8s operator), predictability is what gets you killed. By rotating the environment, you disrupt the "attacker" logic.

It's a fun way to visualize how we handle container mutation and runtime variability. Feedback on the game (and the tech behind it) is welcome!
by dangus | 2026-03-13 17:38:27+00:00
Let’s go through these:

Ryzen 5 AI 340 has a higher multicore benchmark score than the A18 Pro. If you go up to $800 you get the Ryzen 7 AI 350 which matches or beats the A18 Pro in graphics, gets pretty much on par in single core performance, and that SKU has 16GB/1TB in its configuration. If you spend $100 less on the high end Neo with 512GB you get half the storage and lose a lot of I/O and get a worse screen and no replaceable SSD.

USB 3 5Gbps and USB 2 as your only ports are pathetic. Competing systems have more throughput and other conveniences like microSD readers, HDMI, and USB-A.

Inferior battery life, care to send me test data to back that up? Because the Neo is not a star at battery life for medium intensity tasks. It has the smallest battery of any Mac. Early reviews note that screen brightness and higher intensity workloads quickly deplete the battery. It comes with a very slow charging power brick. I guarantee you the physical size of the battery in that Yoga is much larger than what you get in the Neo.

Inferior software: highly subjective. There are over 900 million PC gamers on this planet who can’t play PC games on their MacBook Neo. Windows objectively runs more applications than Mac. Plenty of people I know prefer Windows over Mac.

Cheap build quality: again, Neo has no haptic trackpad, so it’s not that different than a typical windows PC.

Poor OEM support: Lenovo sells parts, Apple doesn’t.

Horrible screens: the Neo has the worst screen in any Mac, the Yoga laptop has a touchscreen OLED. Have you seen the Neo screen in person?
by EmbarrassedHelp | 2026-03-13 17:38:28+00:00
Zero-knowledge proofs are only anonymous in theory if you ignore the issue of requiring a third party, and the issue of implementations.

And according to the EU Identity Wallet's documentation, the EU's planned system requires highly invasive age verification to obtain 30 single use, easily trackable tokens that expire after 3 months. It also bans jailbreaking/rooting your device, and requires GooglePlay Services/IOS equivalent be installed to "prevent tampering". You have to blindly trust that the tokens will not be tracked, which is a total no-go for privacy.

These massive privacy issues have all been raised on their Github, and the team behind the wallet have been ignoring them.
by codethief | 2026-03-13 17:39:28+00:00
It's not that simple.

The last couple years, a buddy of mine did exactly what you proposed: He had massive GI problems, so he started watching what he ate, and… his problems became much worse.

Fast forward to a couple months ago, when he sees a doctor specializing in this stuff and she tells him to significantly reduce plant-based food for a while "because your gut biome isn't able to handle it right now. You should go eat a burger every now and then." So he's been following her advice and all of sudden he is without any GI issues whatsoever.

My buddy got lucky (found the right doctor, could eat his way out of it) but if your gut biome is seriously out of whack, I can definitely see the appeal of an FMT to kickstart your recovery.
by epiccoleman | 2026-03-13 17:39:42+00:00
I like that idea, almost like a prioritized queue of content - show me the stuff I'm sure to want to see first, and then just gimme whatever. In the context of NPR, the "stuff I'm sure to want to see" is probably just "the news." But maybe other platforms / distribution channels would have a more specific notion of what deserves my attention first.

I guess this is basically how TV worked in the pre-streaming days - the new episode of whatever hot series aired during the prime time slot, and lesser slots were filled with reruns / resyndicated stuff.
by ctmnt | 2026-03-13 17:39:42+00:00
On one hand this is a neat idea. I've thought about how nice it would be to have a visual layout tool for text-based designs. The current offerings are slim. Of course, you could easily argue that if you need a visual tool for it, you've gone too far; even the most sophisticated TUIs are still extremely simple.

On the other hand, for this work as they describe, it needs to be a complete UI framework across a bunch of languages and built on top of a bunch of existing frameworks. That seems... ambitious. Building one UI framework for one language is plenty hard enough.
by h3lp | 2026-03-13 17:39:52+00:00
Good insight, but if you discount the visual elements (tabs, buttons, etc), you're limiting TUI to CLI, and I think that's unwarranted. The value proposition of both TUI and GUI is two-fold: you see the available action options, and you see the effect of your actions. So, yes, TUI and GUI _are_ closely related: who cares whether we're displaying pixels or character blocks.

Unfortunately, they are often artificially differentiated by the style of the UX interaction: TUIs promote the keyboard actions, and GUIs prefer mouse without corresponding keyboard shortcuts. Unfortunately for GUIs, their designers are often so enamored with WIMP that they omit the keyboard shortcuts or make them awkward. I hate it when, even if the ACTION button is available by keyboard traversal at all, it requires some unknown number of widget traversals instead of being one tab away.

Since the keyboard is almost always used for the textual data, it makes sense to me to always enable it for command execution. Well designed GUIs and TUIs provide both WIMP and keyboard UX, which sadly is not the norm today, so here's my vote to make them larp for each other more.
by perennialmind | 2026-03-13 17:40:12+00:00
As I recall, 6to4 worked beautifully between 6to4 nodes in the absence of middlebox interference. The fatal flaw was the anycast address for accessing the "real" IPv6 network. The rosy outcome imagined in the article doesn't require a hypothetical IPv4 extension: just the novel idea of leaving the IPv4 core alone and extending the edge - which would have brought the financial incentives into alignment.
by cryzinger | 2026-03-13 17:40:38+00:00
> Neanderthal skulls have huge brow ridges and lack chins, with a projecting midface that results in more prominent noses. But the recreated face suggests those differences were not so stark in life.

This surprised me enough to scroll back up and look at the reconstruction again, because the woman definitely looks like (what I would think of as) a chin--which supports the "not so stark in real life" part. But if the skulls are that different, how would a Neanderthal face end up looking so similar to a human's? Did they have cartilage or something that doesn't get preserved in these skeletal remains?
by shadowgovt | 2026-03-13 17:40:41+00:00
Conversely, you're an American and you want to change this, feel free to propose and pass an amendment that makes regulation of OS as a product the concern of the federal government, as opposed to (as per the 10th Amendment) a state government concern. These regulations are state affairs for the same reason that glyphosate is known in the state of California as a carcinogen (but not other states). Product standards are, generally, a state-level concern. I agree this is inefficient, but the burden to modify the Constitution is on those who would change that inefficiency.

I appreciate the grace in taking a step back on my other comment; I phrased it poorly. Here's my point in better summary: I think we have an issue right now where our hobby has two things that are true that have significant negative societal outcomes. And to be clear, I'm primarily responding to this comment: "Who is providing them with legal indemnification since they are now apparently subject to fines for a fucking hobby if they do it wrong?" Because the answer to that is "If these things are true, it doesn't matter."

1. There is very little daylight between professional and hobby coding. That has been one of its virtues: a person with the right idea can garage-hack way into becoming Fark, or Slashdot, or Craigslist. But the flipside of that coin is that a kid messing around in their garage can cause real consequences for real people they will never even meet. How many websites are falling over from people experimenting with AI crawling right now (at disregard for the existing best-practices for crawling)?

2. A lone actor misusing the machine can have large-impact consequences on strangers. A kid in their basement doing script-kiddie garbage can exfiltrate confidential data, steal someone's electricity to mine Bitcoin, or even just wreck their machine remotely, for fun. A lone actor with no malicious intent but simple negligence can drop a machine on the Internet with all the ports open and become a botnet node. When we have sitautions like that in the past, we often use licensure to ensure some minimum standard of care when using the shared resource.

In fairness, what may want to be licensed here is using the Internet, not installing an operating system. I think that's a fair point and state governments trying to move the issue to the OS, not network-connectivity level, are making a mistake.
by takinola | 2026-03-13 17:40:42+00:00
The prospect of dying has an interesting way of focusing your mind on what's important. It is a terrible gift you have been given. It sucks to have to balance quotidian concerns at the same time as existential ones so give yourself grace for being in a position that requires you to handle all these things at once. My suggestion is to prioritize your health and getting better. Ten years from now, you may barely remember this job (or the new manager, tech, etc) but that only works if you pull through. It sounds like you are financially stable so use that fact to your advantage to make decisions that work best for you and your family.

Find a good support system. People that love you are going to be the most important thing for the next couple of months. Let them help you. Lean on them. It is fine to be weak. This is the time to let them give (time, money, encouragement, prayers, comfort, etc) to you.

Good luck! I wish you the best.
by tcbrah | 2026-03-13 17:40:48+00:00
tbh i stopped caring about "can i run X locally" a while ago. for anything where quality matters (scripting, code, complex reasoning) the local models are just not there yet compared to API. where local shines is specific narrow tasks - TTS, embeddings, whisper for STT, stuff like that. trying to run a 70b model at 3 tok/s on your gaming GPU when you could just hit an API for like $0.002/req feels like a weird flex IMO
by iamthejuan | 2026-03-13 17:41:19+00:00
This happened to my girlfriend and me twice on Messenger. On two consecutive nights, we heard a male voice with an American accent speaking as if he were talking to someone else, almost like they were conducting some kind of operation. It seemed as though he suddenly realized that we could hear him, after which the voice abruptly disappeared. The following night, it happened again, but this time the voice sounded like that of an African American woman. The situation was similar to the previous night. From that night, we have not used it to communicate and used Signal instead.
by sdingi | 2026-03-13 17:41:52+00:00
When running models on my phone - either through the web browser or via an app - is there any chance it uses the phone's NPU, or will these be GPU only?

I don't really understand how the interface to the NPU chip looks from the perspective of a non-system caller, if it exists at all. This is a Samsung device but I am wondering about the general principle.
by freejazz | 2026-03-13 17:41:56+00:00
They need to hire a sufficient amount of human monitors, I don't think it's that complicated at all. And people have to spend that energy because Roblox keeps connecting children with pedophiles.

> All while despite the legal limitations, Roblox already has implemented changes far above and beyond what's required, while the problem still doesn't go away for a very specific reason of it not occuring on Roblox.

I keep seeing people write this almost verbatim all over this thread.
by Tiberium | 2026-03-13 17:42:03+00:00
This is very interesting, as both Gemini and GPT still have context premiums:

- Gemini 3.1 Pro is $2/$12 but $3/$18 for >200K requests

- GPT 5.4 is $2.5/$15 but $5/$22.5 for >272K requests

Of course, both of those, even with their context premiums, are cheaper than normal Opus 4.6 price - $5/$25 :)
by MSFT_Edging | 2026-03-13 17:42:08+00:00
Would you also be against learning about Capitalism from the Heritage foundation?

This is a comment section about large corporations lobbying against our ability to freely use computers and you break out the 80's cold war propaganda edition of understanding a complicated economic system that intertwines with methodology for historical analysis with various levels of implementations from a governmental level.

You're either a mark or trying to find a mark.
by thwarted | 2026-03-13 17:42:16+00:00
Popularity and reputation are not the exact same thing. Reputation is about trust and predictability, while popularity is about awareness of the person and/or their reputation.

But your points largely stands. However, reputation is one of many tools that can be used to assess the worthiness of giving some work attention, but should be given a relatively low weight compared to other tools. Giving reputation a low, but non-zero weight allows bad actors to be rightfully put in their place and allows someone the ability and chance to "clean up" their reputation with effort.
by not_a9 | 2026-03-13 17:42:17+00:00
> Writing drivers or poking around in kernel code was so far beyond the scope of capabilities at that point that you would’ve had better luck teaching your dog how to knit.

I get the feeling a whole bunch of teenagers have written drivers to cheat in Fortnite/whatever other game - with that being said, probably not at 9 years old.
by peacebeard | 2026-03-13 17:42:36+00:00
We're going to have to collect data on the ratio of bathroom graffiti between tags and limericks. Anecdotally, where I live a it's mostly silly goosery.

Just to be totally clear, here is an example. Please cover up my user name for an authentic experience.

A dozen, a gross, and a score,
Plus three times the square root of four,
Divided by seven,
Plus five times eleven,
Is nine squared, and not a bit more.
by bcrosby95 | 2026-03-13 17:43:32+00:00
If you're using something like a fire tablet and you set them up as a kids account that's not how it works. If you next through everything your kid cannot play minecraft online, not even on your own little private server.

Getting an actual kids account to work online with minecraft involves setting the right permissions across 2-4 websites and 1-3 companies. I think it took me around 4 hours of trial and error to get it working.
by Aurornis | 2026-03-13 17:43:59+00:00
This is very lazy AI generated content, as admitted toward the end of the document.

Clicking through to the "findings" shows that they didn't even try to feed proper data into Claude when the AI bot was blocked or couldn't access the documents. Some examples:

> LIMITATION: Direct PDF downloads returned 403 errors. ProPublica Schedule I viewer loads data dynamically (JavaScript), preventing extraction via WebFetch. The 2024 public disclosure copy on sixteenthirtyfund.org was also blocked.

> Tech Transparency Project report: The article "Inside Meta's Spin Machine on Kids and Social Media" at techtransparencyproject.org likely contains detailed ConnectSafely/Meta funding analysis but was blocked (403)

So Claude then goes on to propose "Potential Role" that postulates connections might exist, but then caveats it by saying that no evidence was found:

> This negative finding is inconclusive due to inability to access Schedule I grant detail data in the actual 990 filings (PDF downloads returned 403 errors, and ProPublica's filing viewer loads data dynamically).

This is what happens when you try to lead an LLM toward a conclusion and it behaves as if your conclusion is true. Hacker News is usually quick to dismiss incomplete and lazy LLM content. I assume this is getting upvotes because it's easy to turn a blind eye to the obvious LLM problems when the output is agreeing with something you believe.
by jon_dahl | 2026-03-13 17:45:16+00:00
Mux founder here :wave:

Two answers.

First, it does save money. A meaningful percentage of videos on the internet are never watched in the first place, and an even larger percentage are watched soon after upload and never watched again. We're able to prune unwatched renditions, and if they happen to be requested years later, they're still playable. Transcoding on the fly lets us save both CPU and storage.

Second, it is ridiculously fast. Our median time-to-publish for a 5-20 minute video is 9 seconds. We had a customer (God bless them) complaining a few months ago that it took us something like 40 seconds to transcode a 40 minute video, which actually was slower than normal for us. If you do an async transcode up front, you're looking at 20 minutes, not <1 minute.

Blog post on this: https://www.mux.com/blog/how-to-transcode-video-100x-faster-...
by bityard | 2026-03-13 17:45:18+00:00
Yeah, this site is iffy at best. I didn't even see Strix Halo on the list, but I selected 128GB and bumped up the memory bandwidth. It says gpt-oss-120b "barely runs" at ~2 t/s.

In reality, gpt-oss-120b fits great on the machine with plenty of room to spare and easily runs inference north of 50 t/s depending on context.