skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Hi dang, is a user with similar karma levels as the flagging user able to unflag a post? If so, can you mention that in the FAQ as well? You may think it's obvious but I think it would have a calming effect on the meta-thread if people know that another user with the same amount of cred could theoretically unflag the post.

There is information in the FAQ about how to flag a post and who gets to do it, but it's unclear, at least to me, if another user with a similar karma level is able to unflag it.

I agree that a user may find the title inflammatory because it's an opinionated accusation without an explicit court decision backing it up, but I want to emphasize that official HN moderators should not be able flag this specific post as Coinbase is a YC company and happens to be one of the largest crypto exchanges in the world, hence the conflict of interest in burying this story. I can't see any way how someone could contest the fact that this story presents a conflict of interest for YC.
> This sounds like a situation where even if it is deliberate enemy action the appropriate thing to do is ask them to stop. Maybe invite the Chinese diplomats in, tell them to stop, then expel the embassy for a week and then allocate some extra budget to cable repairs.

LOL. This is hilarious. Its kind of like someone who has never experienced gang warfare stepping into an inner city turf asking opposite sides to take their grievance to cops.
If people thought there was waste before, wait until the folks calling the shots directly profit from these deals.
Cries in 4Gb Macbook Air 2013 /s

I am fine(ish) with the above setup, I don't know what you are talking about. 8Gb is plenty for website browsing.
We need awards for absurdity, I love this. Lots of good ideas and innovation come from the pursuit of the absurd. Don't ask why, ask why not!
The republics that gained independence broke free from the Russian empire. Several wars also broke out as a result including transnistria, Georgia and Chechnya.
The buzz is all around AI and unified memory... but after editing 4K content on an M4 mini (versus my M1 Max Mac Studio), I've realized the few-generations-newer media processing in the M4 is a huge boost over the M1.

Coupled with the CPU just having more oomph, I ordered an M4 Max with 64 GB of RAM for my video/photo editing; I may be able to export H.265 content at 4K/high settings with greater-than-realtime performance...

I'm a little sad that the AI narratives have taken over all discussion of mid-tier workstation-ish builds now.
It's accepted and known, but in an economy where most megacorps make their money via enshittification, the well-paid engineers who get paid to shovel the aforementioned shit down our throats don't like being reminded of their essential role.
16-Bit to 1-Bit: Visual KV Cache Quantization for Efficient Multimodal LLMs
Wait, that's geohot! Geohot the console hacker!
If my grandmother had wheels, she’d be a bicycle
At this time (and historically), I mostly use it as a laptop, but I have also used it as a desktop for long periods with an external monitor. As a laptop, I love that it's so tiny. It’s working very well so far... but I’m afraid that at some point, I’ll have to switch to Linux or OpenCore Legacy Patcher. I’m still on macOS 11 (Big Sur).

MS Office has already stopped updating, along with some other software (though not much, most still updates without issues). As long as Firefox keeps receiving updates for my system, most things will be fine.
> By the time you've shoehorned in an nVidia GPU and all that RAM, you're easily looking at 5x that MSRP

That nvidia GPU setup will actually have the compute grunt to make use of the RAM, though, which this M3 Ultra probably realistically doesn't. After all, if the only thing that mattered was RAM then the 2TB you can shove into an Epyc or Xeon would already be dominating the AI industry. But they aren't, because it isn't. It certainly hits at a unique combination of things, but whether or not that's maximally useful for the money is a completely different story.
I did not want to have to do it but some of Jack in the box's ads are better.

https://duckduckgo.com/?q=jack+in+the+box+commercial&t=ffab&...
> Transformers are typically memory-bandwidth bound during decoding.

Not in case of language models, which are typically bound by memory size rather than bandwidth.
This is so silly. Do you imagine temporal difference learning is some kind of human successionist plot?
Are there any existing systems for that? Would you be able to resolve to a similar level of accuracy with computer vision looking at the stars?

Ussally enhancing an existing technology that is widely deployed and understood to fit a new situation is better than inventing something wholly new (though not always)
According to me and 80% of the German electorate, yes. We are seeing the effects of MAGA on the US and the world in real time, I don't think AFD would fare any better.
Linux Distros in March 2025: Here Comes a New Challenger
This seems fitting, Doctorow was also on https://boingboing.net/ which started as a place for whimsical or intellectually curious content but now every third article is obsessed with US politics.
I think you’re confusing correlation for causation.

I trust a Nobel Prize winner has thought through it more deeply and integrated the causes and effects more than most random internet commentators. I am happy to report that “low interest rates” do not cause inflation by themselves on any scale less than a decade. Source: 1995-2021.

What actually causes inflation is more a function of overall demand and supply in an economy. Interest rates have an indirect effect on that balance that can also have higher or lower leverage depending on a lot of other factors.
Unfortunately, this might be the appropriate tone for dealing with the U.S. administration.
Land?
> I’m not surprised iPhones are struggling to obtain new market share. They just look like old and slow phones to most normal people now

Literally the only people I know with non-iPhones are:

* People who can't afford one

* People who want a folding screen

* People who are conceptually anti-Apple

Apple have over 50% market share in the US, talking about "struggling to obtain new market share" seems bizarre.
Google Patches Pair of Exploited Vulnerabilities in Android
People don't upgrade every year. I still have an Intel MacBook Pro (2020 I think?) that I don't plan on upgrading anytime soon because it still works great.
Sharing albums is also a huge pain. Inviting new members doesn't work half of the time.
You have it reversed.

Currency inflation leads to unfair distribution because the value of financial assets grows faster than the real economy (it inflates).

Currency deflation benefits the poorer. As technology and productivity grow, it costs less to produce goods, so their prices should decrease.

The currency hoarding behavior that you describe is no different than today’s financial investment.

It is trivially easy to avoid the effects of inflation by investing - if you have assets to invest, that is. But if you live month to month, you get screwed by inflation, because your salary is sticky as prices rise.
Sorry, what "successful products"?

And I have to say that "Technical Content Marketer " is one of the most dubious job titles I have ever seen.
The primary purpose of human teeth is not to chew on wood sticks for 5 minutes straight. Of course, on the internet no one knows if you're a panda.

From the study:
> In the wood-chewing group, changes in GSH concentrations demonstrated a positive correlation with immediate memory (r = 0.520, p = 0.008) and story memory (r = 0.439, p = 0.028) scores (Figure 3). However, no significant correlations were observed in the gum-chewing group.
using the Lume(https://lume.land) static site generator, which I automatically run in CI and then deploy to my VPS.

All self-hosted, no middlemen, just me, my own templates, formatting, code. I focus on design simplicity, lightweight pages, and being as accessible as I can. This means both visual accessibility(Every page is hand-checked with WAVE's browser extension(https://wave.webaim.org/) and Sa11y(https://sa11y.netlify.app/)) and technical accessibility(Low- or no-JS always, make pages as lightweight as possible).

To me, this is the ideal experience, where it's all stuff I've written, and even helped contribute to(I've been doing a lot of revising the Lume docs since the author isn't a native English speaker, been a relaxing and fun experience). Also, the entire design makes sense to me, and I haven't had that in the past with any other blog stack, so this feels like an end-game blog setup.
That’s a laptop part, so it makes different tradeoffs.

Somewhere on the internet there is a tdp wattage vs performance x-y plot. There’s a pareto optimal region where all the apple and amd parts live. Apple owns low tdp, AMD owns high tdp. They duke it out in the middle. Intel is nowhere close to the line.

I’d guess someone has made one that includes datacenter ARM, but I’ve never seen it.
Fire Hydrant Directory
Since Apple has always positioned itself as a tool for creatives, is it likely that the Mac Studio my be a good tool for AI video generation using open weight models like Alibaba Wan?
That’s definitively helpful thank you. I guess I’m still surprised that this finding is being taken to mean left handed molecules couldn’t have come from asteroids. If anything it seems to me to increase the likelihood of the panspermia hypothesis.
You seem to have the mistaken impression that booby traps aren't horribly problematic.

Would you advocate the border control should point guns at anyone who crosses the border? Or is that a needless risk to the safety of humans?

I'd ask you to consider for a moment, exactly what is going to happen to that mine? I assume you thought it would damage or destroy any anchor dragged across the cable? Well it's really hard to predict how much damage it would cause but lets assume it works exactly as you hope and say it only destroys the anchor chain of the boat. What if there's a storm, and that ship can't anchor safely, but because it's run by incompetent, or evil people they don't care, and try to park near another ship crash into it. Both ships sink and a bunch of innocent people on the ship that just happened to park in the wrong place, die. That's assuming all the people on the "evil ship" were involved and weren't just hired to work delivering cargo.

You admitted it was a stupid question, but I'd like to suggest you should avoid defaulting to suggesting death and destruction. A better stupid question would be "why can't we armor the cables" instead of "why can't we hurt other people"
I wish we could discuss this in a more professional manner. I might be informed by sources that contradict the sources you read. That doesn't mean I'm wrong, or you're wrong, but it would be nice to just discuss this as humans.

I do understand that this is a sensitive subject to some, so I apologize for any distress I seem to have caused.
Hilbert 6th problem: derivation of fluid equations via Boltzmann kinetic theory
I think the only laptops you won't find weird issues with linux are from smaller manufacturers dedicated to shipping them like the kde laptop or system76. Every other hardware manufacturer, including those that ship laptops with linux preinstalled, probably have weird hardware incompatibilities because they don't fully customize their SKUs with linux support in mind.

Not that I'm discouraging you from switching or anything. If Linux is what you want/need, there's definitely better laptops to be had than a Macbook for that purpose. It's just that weird incompatibilities and having to fight with the operating system on random issues is, at least in my experience, normal when using a linux laptop. Even my T480 which has overall excellent compatibility isn't trouble-free.
>Gov. Mark Gordon vetoed the bill late Monday, saying federal law preempts it and SF 132 puts law enforcement personnel in “a Catch 22 situation where they are authorized by the state to break federal law and regulations.”

Is there a reference to what law preempts it?
That's the point, a _website_ should mostly be text,css and images and that works 100% fine with NoScript out of the box.

My pattern is basically browsing the wild net with FF/Noscript and use Chrome for "apps" (gmail,sheets,etc) that i feel have a reason to use JS.
Same, I've tried to get used to the 'new' format multiple times, but it's incredibly frustrating
While watching the video you can right click and choose "Stats for nerds". This opens an overlay in the top left corner showing a lot of detailed information about the video including video and audio codecs.
For chips, Ultra and Max are like their workstation chips or something, right? It seems expected that they should be a little more differentiated, they are specialist, aren’t they?
At this point, having the power button not be on the bottom is a major selling point for me vs the annoying-as-hell mini.
I don't intend this to yuck your yum, but if you haven't seen it shellcheck advises against backticks because they don't nest unlike $(basename $(dirname "...")) along with some other edge cases https://www.shellcheck.net/wiki/SC2006#rationale and https://mywiki.wooledge.org/BashFAQ/082
If I make a post that gets 100K likes, please give me some of the ad revenue.
Sounds like it takes you 20 minutes of logistics to look at a web page.

Ain't nobody got time to live like this.
> Your product is downstream from your ideal customer profile (ICP).

Do not start with an idea. Start with a problem, and then construct a solution. The solution is the product. The problem implies someone who has that problem: this is the customer. How much of a problem it is tells you how much they want it and how much they will pay for it. Because an idea doesn't necessarily have a problem, it results in a product that doesn't necessarily have a customer.

> As 37Signal’s Jason Fried says “You cannot validate an idea. It doesn’t exist, you have to build the thing. The market will validate it.”

Similarly, don't set out to change the world. Put your product into the world, and the world will decide whether to change as a consequence.
This 20-page paper on the Java Optimized Processor is quite interesting. It has
been implemented on FPGAs:

https://www.jopdesign.com/doc/rtarch.pdf

via https://www.jopdesign.com/ which includes a link to the github repo --- with
20-year-old files!
> keeping their raster performance competitive while also accelerating AI and ML. Meanwhile, Apple is directing most of their performance to just the raster stuff. They could pivot to an Nvidia-style design, but that would be pretty unprecedented (even if a seemingly correct decision).

Isn't Apple also focusing on the AI stuff? How has it not already made that decision? What would prevent Apple from making that decision?

> Metal does boast some compute features, but you're expected to write most of the support yourself in the form of compute shaders. This is a pretty radical departure from the pre-rolled, almost "cargo cult" CUDA mentality.

Can you give an example of where Metal wants you to write something yourself whereas CUDA is pre-rolled?
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I'm suggesting europe take the 800 billion they're going to spend on deterrence and instead buy weapons for Ukraine today. This would degrade russias military sufficient to need to spend less on deterrence in the future. In no way is this supportive of russia.

As an example: If europe gave Ukraine enough cruise missiles to wipe out russias Tu 95 fleet that would be a permanent loss. They were built by the Soviet Union and rebuilding them would take a hundred years at least.

What europe fails to see is the massive ROI from supporting Ukraine today.
It won't stop the self censorship, so I think you answered something.
M3 Ultra has 819GB/s, and a single epyc cpu with 12 channels has 460GB/s. As far as I know, llama.cpp and friends don’t scale across multiple sockets so you can’t use a dual socket Turin system to match the M3 Ultra.

Also, 32GB DDR5 RDIMMS are ~200, so that’s 5K for 24 right there. Then you need 2x CPUs, at ~1K for the cheapest, and you need 2, and then a motherboard that’s another 1K. So for 8K (more, given you need a case, power supply, and cooling!), you get a system with about half the memory bandwidth, much higher power consumption, and very large.
There's little point fighting for something that no longer exists. Unfortunately, this is America now.
> if a llm will run with usable performance at that scale?

Yes.

The reason: MoE.
They are able to run at a good speed because they don't load all of the weights into the GPU cores.

For instance, DeepSeek R1 uses 404 GB in Q4 quantization[0], containing 256 experts of which 8 are routed to[1] (very roughly 13 GB per forward pass). With a memory bandwidth of 800 GB/s[3], the Mac Studio will be able to output 800/13 = 62 tokens per second.

[0]: https://ollama.com/library/deepseek-r1

[1]: https://arxiv.org/pdf/2412.19437

[2]: https://www.apple.com/newsroom/2025/03/apple-unveils-new-mac...
True. But with Project Digits supposedly around the corner, which supposedly costs $3,000 and supports ConnectX and runs Blackwell; what's the over-under on just buying two of those at about half the price of one maxed M3 Ultra Mac Studio?
What do you mean by JMAP is 'limiting as an API'?

It actually lifts the IMAP protocol to be used by web apps easily.
Maybe a good place to ask: good sdks or libraries for reading parquet?
Something I’ve been surprised to find over the years working at software companies is just how many C++ writing, Linux using senior engineers there are who simply do not understand how allocation works and what HTOP is actually telling them.

I really think a sizable chunk of people in the “omg my RAM!” camp are basing it on vibes, backed up by a misread of reported usage.

This reminds a long time ago when I was trying to figure out why the heck my Intel Mac was allocating all my RAM and most of my swap to Preview or Chess.
As improvements to manufacturing tech and CPU designs become unable to deliver the improvements that they used to, the cost of computer time will approach the cost of programmer time. As they converge and possibly flip, optimizations will become more useful (and required) to produce the gains we've become accustomed to. I'm not sure how many years away that is.
This list mentions A/B testing a few times and it's worth noting that A/B testing is great but it's not free.

I've seen a nontrivial number of smart engineers get bogged down in wanting to A/B test everything that they spend more time building and maintaining the experiment framework than actually shipping more product and then realizing the A/B testing was useless because they only had a few hundred data points. Data-driven decisions are definitely valuable but you also have to recognize when you have no data to drive the decisions in the first place.

Overall, I agree with a lot of the list but I've seen that trap one too many times when people take the advice too superficially.
What comparison are you trying to make? You are not painting a full picture, leaving the weight, CPU and battery life out of the equation. If you personally care about neither, yes the Air will not be the machine for you.
Same here, but I'm still using (glances left, glances right) Alien Blue on iOS (Shhhh...). I have NEVER seen an ad on mobile Reddit. Someday they'll do something so that it stops working and I'll be off Reddit.
Oddly enough I'd probably accept a much cheaper, shittier laptop if it ran OS X, but, I've been all-in on Apple hardware since 2006, so maybe I don't understand how bad the non-Apple laptops really are. Conceptually I'd be fine with Linux on the desktop -- hell I used to use OpenBSD as a daily driver -- but OS X is in my veins now.
We're not willing to try that.
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On HN, I think a better question is exactly the opposite: why not?!

I’ve built bizarre things that no one will use purely to learn about things.

Many projects are about the process itself and less about the outcome. Every one of those “useless” projects has informed my productive work throughout my career.
But 80Gbit/s is way slower than even regular dual channel RAM, or am I missing something here? That would mean the LLM would be excruciatingly slow. You could get an old EPYC for a fraction of that price and have more performance.
The best spin I could put on it is that it's a deliberate negotiating tactic - that Trump feels that, by threatening everything, he gets a more favorable deal from people who just want the chaos to stop.

Even if true, there are two problems with this approach. First, it may work well in New York real estate, but it is less clear that it works well in international diplomacy. Not every country wants their immediate future to be at risk from whatever flavor of hardball the president is currently employing; some want to insulate themselves from that risk as much as possible.

The second, related problem is that international relations are not a zero-sum game. America has gained more from an international order that is orderly and rules-following than it would from exploiting everyone else as hard as possible.
Price drop

Double the ram

And yet a complaining comment makes its way to the top. This blows my mind! People will literally complain no matter what
18. Instead, forcing PRs into day of work unit, it is better to be minimum testable increment. Some features just need more work to be tested. Forcing everything into tiny tickets make both planning tedious and often introduce bugs in half finished features.

22. I saw design system fail in many companies. It is very hard to get right people and budget for this to succeed. For most startups are better to pick existing UI toolkit and do some theming/tweaking.

27. I disagree, If you put Product manager as gatekeeper to users you will transform the organization into a feature factory. Engineers should be engaged with users as much as possible.
the full R1 takes >512GB and the 1.52bit takes >128GB. So enough for agent + app to realize a fully autonomous monolithic AGI humanoid head, potentially, but then it'll be compute limited...
GPS has always had to account for relativistic time dilation, it's the first human scale issue where relativistic correction became necessary. (This would be general relativity, incidentally, not special: it's the effect of the Earth's gravity on the atomic clocks in orbit.) But that's because the whole system needs absurd levels of accuracy to be useful at all: at 8 km/s of orbital velocity every source of error creates enormous error bars on the ground.

I also know that NASA has experimented for years with satellites (even all the way up in GSO) using GPS signals for position-finding, so this is further out but not unprecedented work.
I have a theory... I think it has to do with Chinese cars. You know how so many of the cars from China are kinda weird looking? Not all of them, but a lot of them are either trying totally new styling, or seem to be directly copying existing cars and trying to slightly restyle them.

Well, since China is such a huge market for BMW, I think that they want their cars to look like they were designed in China, or at least to blend in with Chinese cars somewhat. I think that's what they are aiming at. It's the only thing that makes sense.