MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by p_ing | 2026-03-11 21:52:02+00:00
The zeitgeist exists on forums like this. Outside where people touch grass now and then, they largely don't care.

x86 OEMs are a race to the bottom because that's how the PC market has been for eons as PCs are a tool, not a status symbol, but how has x86 not 'gotten better'? It's significantly more battery friendly than it has ever been by a long margin, matching the M-series.
by JumpCrisscross | 2026-03-11 21:52:22+00:00
> it's "China hasn't done it...yet.”

China invaded and annexed Tibet in 1959. To the degree we had a classical definition of intent-based genocide, Beijing continues to commit it in Tibet and Xinjiang.

America’s conscious is stained. But it’s downright nonsense to go off about surveillance when the comparison is China.
by pcthrowaway | 2026-03-11 21:52:25+00:00
This is a perfect example of when I think freedom of speech restrictions (such as laws criminalizing Holocaust denial) are a net positive.

My grandparents were holocaust survivors, so I know directly from them what they went through, and I know about my family members who were killed.

I have no sympathy for people who publicly spread lies and misinformation to deny or downplay the severity of any genocide.

Sorry not sorry.
by linsomniac | 2026-03-11 21:52:44+00:00
Meshcore and Meshtastic are, depending on your area, pretty good for offline comms. They provide a pretty compelling combination of encryption and no license, and there's a fairly lively set of users in my area.

MeshCore is currently budding out, unless you are in one of the few places where it is really entrenched. Just in the last 6 weeks I've been doing it, I've gone from basically receiving 0 messages to having to disconnect my phone from my client node last night because it was going crazy.

Much of the communication is like HAM radio: talking about the mesh.
by jzb | 2026-03-11 21:52:58+00:00
"Iran has always lacked an ability to project power at a distance"

I'm curious what you're basing this on, since Iran has been supplying Russia with drones, etc. for much of the war in Ukraine and so far has launched attacks into Jordan, Iraq, Kuwait, Saudi Arabia, Bahrain, Qatar, the United Arab Emirates, Oman, and Cyprus since the US began its attacks.

Iran may not be able to strike at sites in the US, but it could certainly target data centers in the Middle East with some hope of success. I'm not at all confident the current administration has accurately assessed Iran's capabilities or has the ability to protect the assets of US-based companies (or US citizens) in that region.
by rayiner | 2026-03-11 21:53:08+00:00
I’m not saying we have widespread voter fraud. My gut feeling is that we don’t. But I don’t know how you can confidently say the opposite.

How would you even verify past elections? You can point to millions spent on commissions and lawyers, but those can’t go back and generate data that was never contemporaneously collected.

Think of it in terms of computer security. You had a telnet server exposed to the internet for years. You have no logs, and the machine got scrapped before you ever got access to it. How would you do a security audit to determine if anyone broke into the server?
by BeetleB | 2026-03-11 21:53:30+00:00
> Yes, and AI won't help here. People will use AI to better break the guidelines.

AI is a general purpose tool. People will use AI for multiple reasons, including yours. I'll wager, though, that your use case is much more challenging to do than mine, and that my use case will dominate in number.

> HN is more like talking than writing.

Says you. Many disagree.

> And LLMs don't help you write well, they help you sound like a clone, which is unwanted.

Patently false on both counts. Sorry, you're cherry picking and not addressing the part of my comment that discusses this.

> Imagine if your friend AI-edited their speech in real-time as they talked to you.

When a conversation is heated (as it occasionally is on HN), I actually would rather he AI-edit in real time - provided that the output reflects what he intended.
by xboxnolifes | 2026-03-11 21:53:56+00:00
But why should they have to use another handle just because someone wants it? Your handle is your online identity, and some people have built up theirs around it. Not everyone just chooses random strings for each service they use.

Of course, I'm only saying this for active accounts. If you've been inactive for a reasonable amount of time, sure, let someone else have it.
by Jtsummers | 2026-03-11 21:54:10+00:00
The warning is a way to get companies to apply pressure to their governments. The attacks that follow (if they follow) will demonstrate that this was serious. They've already hit airports, hotels, ships, and US military bases so there's no reason to think that a corporate office in the region is safe when the US military isn't able to block all the attacks against its own facilities.
by CyberDildonics | 2026-03-11 21:54:13+00:00
It has never happened that a compiler was able to do static scheduling of general purpose instructions over the long term.

Every CPU changes the cycles it takes for many instructions, adds new instructions etc.

Out of order execution is a huge dividing line in performance for a reason. The CPU itself needs to figure these things out to minimize memory latency, cache latency, pipelining, prefetching and all that stuff.
by dang | 2026-03-11 21:54:47+00:00
I need to say something about this but it might have to be later as I have to run out the door shortly...

The short version is that we included it to protect users who don't realize how much damage they're doing to their reception here when they think "I'll just run this through ChatGPT to fix my grammar and spelling". I've seen many cases of people getting flamed for this and I don't want more vulnerable users—e.g. people worried about their English—to get punished for trying to improve their contributions. Certainly that would apply to disabled users as well.

Most rules in https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html have a lot of grey area, and how we apply them always involves interpretation and judgment calls. Mostly the ones we explicitly list there are so we have a basis for explaining to people the intended use of the site. HN has always been a spirit-of-the-law place, and—contrary to the "technically correct is the best correct" mentality that many of us share—we consciously resist the temptation to make them too precise.

In other words yes, that bit needs to be applied cautiously and with care, and in this way it's similar to most of the other rules. Trying to get that caution and care right is something we work at every day.
by dom96 | 2026-03-11 21:54:47+00:00
I think that we are going to see more and more of this. To the point where most interactions you have online will likely be with bots. So I started building something that actually has a chance of fixing it: a social network for only humans.

I wrote about it here: https://blog.picheta.me/post/the-future-of-social-media-is-h...
by pixl97 | 2026-03-11 21:54:49+00:00
At least in the US very few industries actually seem to be about making a product.

A good example is this, car companies don't make cars for the most part, they make loans. Financial companies first, car companies second.

Consolidation, collusion, and rent-seeking behaviors by companies are going out of control too. The fact AI companies can do what they are doing has much to do with the previous brick and mortar businesses weakening any business regulations down to nothing.
by djeastm | 2026-03-11 21:54:53+00:00
Perhaps not only just show your id to get your "Over age X verification object", but your ID also gets irreversibly altered (like a punch card) that makes it one-time-use only.

That might make it less likely someone would ever sell it because to get a new one might take a very long "cool-down" time and it'd severely hamper the seller.
by CorrectHorseBat | 2026-03-11 21:55:02+00:00
Another possible benefit I've heard of is it can stop some kinds of voter intimidation:

Someone gets hand of an empty ballot, they fill in the ballot and give it to you and tell you to come back with another empty ballot. Rinse and repeat. Of course, with today's smartphones there are simpler ways to do this. Also moot if you can vote by mail, which is why voting by mail is a really bad idea.
by mikelitoris | 2026-03-11 21:55:05+00:00
They forgot to add Dell Pro Max Premium Plus to complete the word salad, what a missed opportunity.

If the Dell product naming team is reading here I have a couple marketing buzzword suggestions: add “elite”, “ultra”, “platinum” or “diamond” to the mix please. Doesn’t “Dell Pro Max Elite Platinum Premium Plus” sound so much more marketable?
by vmullapudi1 | 2026-03-11 21:55:10+00:00
This is a pretty simple view of some of the most common ones. Roche had a great poster and online viewer at https://web.expasy.org/pathways/ but that seems to be down. There was a community reconstruction effort at https://github.com/usnish/biochemical-pathways-poster.

If you are interested in anything specific though, the KEGG database is a great resource - the pathway overview map can be found here: https://www.kegg.jp/pathway/map01100
by andai | 2026-03-11 21:55:10+00:00
I seem to recall a rule about "don't downvote something because you disagree with it", but I can't find anything like that.

Not sure if that's really solvable with rules, though.

My experience with downvotes is that people mostly use it as a "I don't like this" button, which is proxy for "I couldn't think of a counterargument so I don't want to look at it."

(I noted recently that downvotes and counterarguments appear to be mutually exclusive, which I found somewhat amusing.)

Whereas I will often upvote things I personally disagree with, if they are interesting or well reasoned. (This seems objectively better to me, of course, but maybe it's personality thing.)
by pear01 | 2026-03-11 21:55:11+00:00
Weird of you to neglect to mention the hundreds of dead Iranians, including not only many civilians on their own soil but also layers of the Iranian leadership. Including of course the assassination of the supreme leader. I'm not saying his death is a bad thing. But that would be the most "materially different" part of this time vs "business as usual".

The other reason this is relevant is because it might lead one to reasonably conclude Iranian options for retaliation have already been exhausted.

If they have some capability in reserve what are they waiting for?
by RS-232 | 2026-03-11 21:55:14+00:00
Sure, ban everyone that uses em dashes from the digital commons. That will certainly stop the existential threat to your livelihood.

Sarcasm aside—there is no reliable way to prove this. So it begs the question: you really care if something is AI generated? Or is this just an another excuse to silence people you don’t like?

(this is to anyone reading, mostly rhetorical, not dang in particular)
by adam_arthur | 2026-03-11 21:55:34+00:00
No, it's bad policy.

Cliffs in policies will always lead to players working around the cliffs.

E.g. in NYC there is an additional 1% sales tax on home sales above 1 million dollars.

So nobody in the market would ever sell a home between 1m and 1.01m as the tax increase is greater than the sales price.

These are failed policy implementations (in the above example the tax should be marginal, not thresholded)

Any policy which does not account for individual actors optimizing financially is a badly designed policy.

There are numerous similar examples re: CRE when requiring subsidized housing units for certain sizes of development. Often it's more lucrative to build smaller and get around subsidized unit requirements.

You can call them "asshats", but I'd rather live and discuss policy in reality.

Many of these new, clearly strictly punitively intended, taxes aimed at the wealthy will have the same logical outcome.

Show me the incentive and I'll show you the result
by zamadatix | 2026-03-11 21:55:43+00:00
Neo has ~5 more years of support, is not US specific from a specific store,comes at $100 off for students (which is a primary target for the product), and many of the things you say are worse often are a balance of tradeoffs in many ways (e.g. the screen on the Neo is definitely brighter).

I had an M1 MacBook Air and just set a Neo up for my niece. If I had to pick between the two for myself I'd choose the Neo again.
by reliabilityguy | 2026-03-11 21:55:49+00:00
Why does IR need 60% enriched uranium?

The moment IR gets nukes, Saudis and all the other countries around them will get nukes as well.

I don’t understand why everyone is so hell bent on not preventing the spread of nuclear weapons. We have enough of this crap already, and the last thing we need is more nukes.
by juleiie | 2026-03-11 21:55:50+00:00
Rules aren’t known to be a. Easily enforceable in case of AI b. Very dissuading

I don’t think most people read any sort of TOS, site rules, end license agreements, when was the last time you ever did?

Besides, sometimes it’s worth it to keep a rule breaking user if they are interesting and have worthwhile things to say despite their… theoretical conflict with the site intended use. Rules are too crude of a tool. Especially in case of AI they are quite nebulous even if detection would be theoretically perfect (it isn’t).
by Oras | 2026-03-11 21:55:51+00:00
"Judgement" is perfect for now. I use CC and Codex every day, and I agree they spit out something that will work on the first run, but they go wild about some system design choices. For now, I agree with you that judgement and system design/architecture is the distinction.

What I worry about and think will happen is we will see emerging platform that does full systems, and replit is a good example of that. I don't think these tools are enterprise ready yet (I might be wrong), as enterprise is always about integration with other systems including legacy ones and data silos.

I think we will be like COBOL developers now; we will maintain pre-AI systems until we retire.
by JumpCrisscross | 2026-03-11 21:56:06+00:00
> Is Trump really not a dictator?

No. There is no court in Beijing that can tell Xi to knock it off.

> China hasn't bombed girls' schools

Read up on the treatment of Uyghur girls in the Chinese schools. It’s Indian Removal Act stuff, except right now.

Again, nobody is arguing America is a beacon of anything right now. But between America and China, one is an explicit and proud autocracy.
by docybo | 2026-03-11 21:56:16+00:00
The interesting part here is the inference stack, not the implied existence of a public 100B model.

What seems true:
- the framework targets ternary / 1.58-bit inference
- the engineering angle is mainly bandwidth + CPU-friendly kernels
- that could matter a lot for local inference

What does not seem established yet:
- a public trained 100B BitNet model
- proof that this is a better practical tradeoff than strong 4-bit / 8-bit baselines at scale

So to me this is “serious systems work, still unproven model story”.

If someone actually trains and releases a competitive large BitNet model, then it becomes a much bigger deal.
by melenaboija | 2026-03-11 21:56:24+00:00
I don't want to sound dramatic, but maybe we are simply in a new era of human writing?

I don't know if this is extrapolable, but would you ask someone not to use digital technology to write? Or to disable spell check? I am not a big fan of LLM writing, but I'm not sure this is the right fight for someone who was born in the 80s either lol
by awesome_dude | 2026-03-11 21:56:45+00:00
LOL

I'm laughing not at you but the ludicrousness of the times - I use endash heavily, have done for a minute, but now I see endash used by LLMs with no surrounding spaces.

I think that the "identify AI by some artefact" is just another game of whack-a-mole, and the better approach is to look at the quality of what's being presented.

I have argued before, and still feel strongly, that LLM/AI generated images/audio/text is causing a stronger inspection of what's being presented as fact, which is a healthy thing (how far that will go is yet to be determined, as per when the availability of Photoshop generated content exploded)
by 12_throw_away | 2026-03-11 21:57:01+00:00
> This is like advocating for artisanal blacksmithing in the age of industrial steel. It sounds great in theory, but we passed the point of no return miles back.

Man this is a great head-to-head. The folks who claim to use LLMs to "clean up" their writing? Yeah, no. I guess the grammar is probably right, but the writing is wrong. The whole point is about the passage of time, both in the metaphor of the "the age of steel," and in the literal sense. And then it starts talking about "miles back"? It feels bad to read, and in a non-obvious way that requires extra cycles just to figure out why it's off.

Whereas, a human in a comment section writing something like "We passed the no return sign miles ago" - it reads so much better. If the grammar or idiom is slightly off, that actually makes it read better because this is a comment section, people don't actually communicate via formally correct language in almost any context whatsoever.
by bloggie | 2026-03-11 21:57:19+00:00
I'd be interested in this but it seems the price is much higher than stated here, or this was some temporary deal. It's also larger and quite a bit heavier but I guess that is a personal preference. The screen also looks pretty lacking (300 nits!). I do see it around $1200 CAD where the new macbook is $800 CAD and in stock. However all said I do not think a lot of people will be buying this new macbook because they are comparing specifications. Laptop manufacturers show off their specifications and have tons of different models because that is how they can differentiate their products from each other. Apple doesn't need to play that game and can deliver usability and value, and good in-person after sales support to the general consumer.
by kshacker | 2026-03-11 21:57:23+00:00
Yes even I posted something recently which was voted down since I mentioned from get go that I used help from AI. But the idea was mine, I wrote the first draft, and then worked with AI in 2-3 loops to get it right.

But like dang said ... I do not have time to fight this battle when I have only 10 minutes :)
by pixl97 | 2026-03-11 21:57:37+00:00
At least for some time I imagine a hybridization may pop up. For example you grow a community of humans that keeps bots under control. Because of this all actors are humans, and valuable because of that.

Hence you'll end up with defectors getting paid to siphon off all the conversations to some ad companies that will work on tying them with real world identities and then serving them more detailed ads in the places they cannot avoid interfacing with the open internet.
by johndough | 2026-03-11 21:57:45+00:00
I am not saying that completely disallowing AI is the right decision. But if you see text that is clearly generated by AI and does not make any sense, it sure would be nice if you could just tell the students to actually read their sources instead of having to argue with them why they should do so. Similarly, I can see why HN moderators do not want to argue with the 100s of spam posters per day on /newest.

Anyway, my university did not ban AI, and now most students have degraded to proxies between teaching assistants and ChatGPT.
by bookluvr416 | 2026-03-11 21:57:58+00:00
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by jruohonen | 2026-03-11 21:58:08+00:00
So, as I share his thoughts, I've been wondering: why haven't we seen any real innovations in this space?

Mastodon wasn't really it and neither was Substack, although maybe it got slightly closer. TikTok and Telegram, maybe, for different reasons, but they'll face the same destiny.

I'd suppose the much despised "mainstream media" might be a winner here eventually. But beyond that, I am thinking about something like the following:

https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2026/mar/10/uk-societ...
by JumpCrisscross | 2026-03-11 21:58:34+00:00
> now I see endash used by LLMs with no surrounding spaces

Goddamit. (Flippity floppity floop.)

> LLM/AI generated images/audio/text is causing a stronger inspection of what's being presented as fact, which is a healthy thing

If it is, I agree. What I think is actually happening is folks are skimming and then concluding on vibes. Unfortunately, that means “I don’t agree” gets lumped in with “this is slop.”
by talkingtab | 2026-03-11 21:58:38+00:00
It is the corporate internet - the one by the corporation, for the corporation that is dead. Or at least everything in it is dead. The death blow is AI, but it was almost there anyway.

The good news is that the community internet - for the community, by the community - is just starting.

What is a community internet? The internet is layered protocols. UDP, ICMP, TCP, HTTP, HTTPS etc. The community internet is just a new layer of protocols. Coming soon.
by famouswaffles | 2026-03-11 21:59:14+00:00
>Re 2: There's something tremendous in the fact, staring us right in the face, that LLMs are unable to meaningfully contribute to academic/medical research. I'm not saying that they need to perform on the level of a one-in-a-million Maxwell, DaVinci, or whatever. But as Dwarkesh asked one year ago: "What do you make of the fact that these things have basically the entire corpus of human knowledge memorized and they haven't been able to make a single new connection that has led to a discovery?"

This isn't really true so what ? If you really cared and were actually paying attention, you'd see that frontier LLMs have begun to contribute academic research.

https://openai.com/index/new-result-theoretical-physics/
by Teever | 2026-03-11 21:59:16+00:00
> In order to do that, you have to put your best foot forward

In English you have to put your best foot forward in English. And in your environment with the resources you have at your disposal.

For example, I'm currently engaging with you between steps in a chemistry process that's happening under the fumehood next to me while wearing a respirator, a muggy plastic chemical resistant gown and disposable gloves nitrile globes.

I am absolutely certain that these conditions are different than the ones I would need to 'put my best food forward' in this discussion. I'm also certain that quite certain that you and I would both absolutely stumble if we were obligated to particpate in this forum in a language that we're not proficient in as many users often attempt to do and are unfairly penalized for by other members of the community.

I'm with you on the LLM usage for grammatical issues for non-native speakers. I bet more in this community would feel the same way if Dang whimsically mandated that people had to use a language other than English on certain days of the week.
by throwup238 | 2026-03-11 21:59:30+00:00
It’s actually pretty common to store food at higher elevations in the historical and archaeological record, including among the Incas (but mostly in qollqas). More wind at higher elevations means less moisture, which is the biggest factor in preservation. There are plenty of examples from every era, stretching from ancient Minoans to 20th century Berbers.