skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Hey guys, here’s a quick blast of McDonald’s nostalgia—Famous TV Commercials from 1963 to 2009! Think first Ronald ad, ‘You Deserve a Break Today,’ the Big Mac jingle, Mac Tonight, Jordan vs. Bird, Arch Deluxe, and that singing Filet-O-Fish.
I'm pretty sure you would be quickly rate limited, especially if you participate in a few large group chats.
Official post: https://www.apple.com/newsroom/2025/03/apple-introduces-the-... (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43266521)
20 years ago I got tired of programming day-to-day and became a manager who still dabbles in development. I don't contribute to production code, but I do architecture, prototyping/research, and will roll up my sleeves to help a stuck programmer do debugging.
Hah, yes, there are definitely not 100 to 200 breakages in the Baltic Sea alone :D
The extra ram in a pro comes in handy at a certain scale, but the price tag is oof.
Thanks for this insightful comment. One of my first questions about this was how it avoids some kind of latent space collapse with such a tiny dataset.

Do you think it's accurate to describe equivariance as both a strength and a weakness here? As in it allows the model to learn a useful compression, but you have to pick your set of equivariant layers up front, and there's little the model can do to "fix" bad choices.
Ransomware Group Claims Attack on Tata Technologies
I do—daily, too.
What model can you run realistically with 512 GB of unified memory ? I'm curious who is even the market for such an offering.
It's no lie, quaternions do actually have 4 dimensions. The part I take issue with is that rotors also require 4 dimensions to represent 3d rotations, they're just labeled slightly more intuitively.

quaterions:
0*1 + b*i + c*j + d*k

rotors:
0*1 + b*xy + c*yz + d*zx

I've included real components, but when representing rotations they'll always be zero. (They'll be non-zero during intermediate calculations though, so you need to consider them!)

Now... rotors do have some unique powers in that they're incredibly general. You don't need to hop from complex numbers to quaternions when you move between spaces and beyond, you can just use rotors for everything:

2d:
complex numbers
rotors

3d:
quaternions
rotors

4d:
octonions
rotors

Minkowski spacetime:
???
rotors
It's not "lord of gum", it's "gumlord".
> As mentioned elsewhere, there are between 100-200 cable breakages annually

World wide. A bit different from Baltic Sea only.
The author of this website also wrote a fantastic book on functional application architectures. I think everyone can benefit from reading it, even if you're not using a functional programming language.

https://pragprog.com/titles/swdddf/domain-modeling-made-func...
Those benchmarks seem to be more GPU based as well. e.g. something like Geekbench (not that it's necessarily that representative either) is just 2-3x faster.

https://www.cpu-monkey.com/en/compare_cpu-apple_m4-vs-intel_...
Wow, incredible. I told myself I’d stop waffling and just buy the next 800gb/s mini or studio to come out, so I guess I’m getting this.

Not sure how much storage to get. I was floating the idea of getting less storage, and hooking it up to a TB5 NAS array of 2.5” SSDs, 10-20tb for models + datasets + my media library would be nice. Any recommendations for the best enclosure for that?
They don't need to sail through territorial waters. The Baltic is a shallow sea (~55m deep on average, 460m at the deepest point) and an anchor chain can be 200-300m long. So dragging an anchor on the bottom of shallow international waters provides just the right combination of plausible deniability and an environment with low legal repercussions.

This is one of the reasons it doesn't happen in the Atlantic. By the time you are out of territorial waters, in general the required anchor chain length puts the incident outside of any plausible deniability.
Power buttons are for power users. lol
> who says that the existing social media landscape has become toxic, messy, and riddled with misinformation

The standard talking points we've heard many times from those wishing to push their narrative as "truth".

> and AI is well-placed to address that.

So censorship and propaganda on steroids.
I assume there is a very good reason why AMD and Intel aren't releasing a similar product.
> Capital doesn't really care what brings profit. If killing people brings more profit, it happily embraces that. If building new products brings more profit, it happily embraces that, too. It is beyond good or evil.

Well said!
There is a third narrative: "The sanctions will prevent Russia from getting strong."

All narratives can be used when appropriate, by the same media outlet and sometimes by the same journalist.

(The issue with Georgia and Ukraine was primarily NATO membership, which does not apply to Poland or the Baltic states.)
This is it - even a highly available charging network only lightly alleviates range anxiety, as the other portion is the time it takes to charge up. If I can drive for 600+ miles on a single charge, the vast majority of my trips are covered, even round-trips. But sitting around waiting 30m to charge gets annoying every several hours, even if I can find a working station.
When weren't they played wrong? They could have made a peace deal with Israel at the camp david summit. They could have made something when Israel left Gaza. They could have stopped attacking Israel at every convenience because Israel never initiated wars of aggression.

There are no excuses for such behavior. More Jews were ever expelled in the lands surrounding Israel than Palestinians were by Jews. Before Israel we had discrimination like the Hebron massacre.

Now they are angry that they lost against Israel in the fight for independence and haven't come to terms with that. But this is the minimal requirement for them to have anything resembling a positive future.

The only card Palestinians played had to do with aggression towards Israel and it puts them into a worse position by the day.

And the leaders they had that pushed for peace were murdered. Granted, that happened to Israel too at some point.
Why is this comment so controversial, receiving many upvotes and then downvotes? Isn't enshittification an accepted and known thing?
That may be learning the wrong lesson. US corporations have used "securing supply chains" to justify encouraging the US government to incite a whole lot of strife and conflict around the world in the last century-and-a-bit.
The registry method is Ctrl2Cap by SysInternals.

https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/sysinternals/downloads/ctr...

It's the first thing I download whenever I'm setting up a new Windows machine.
Docker Desktop now offers an option to use the virtualization framework, and works pretty well. But you're still constantly running a VM because "docker is how devs work now right?". I agree with your comment.
and so, where are you? and how many cops does your city have?
The integration is fine, but it's not perfect. It kicks my wife off her iPhone Hotspot every time she closes the lid on her laptop. It also burns the battery on her iPhone, which is a concern in the exact situation you'd want cellular connection (places with no wifi often don't have outlets either).

Anecdotally, I've also seen her get issues when going from an area with bad connection to an area with good connection (iPhone will disconnect).

The experience with a non-iphone is also not seamless, though that's to be expected.

Point being that reliable and easy cellular access on a MacBook would be a pretty nice improvement. This is especially true given how much of what people do on computers relies on the internet these days.
Nah, in many businesses, everything is on a schedule. For desktop computers, a common cycle is 4 years. For servers, maybe a little longer, but not by much. After that date arrives, it’s liquidate everything and rebuild.

Having things consistently work is much cheaper than down days caused by your ancient equipment. Apple’s SSDs will make it to 5 years no problem - and more likely, 10-15 years.
on Mac its super simple–option + (minus)–so I use it all the time.
> it can be configured up to 512GB, or over half a terabyte.

Hah, I see what they did there.
The longer traces are the problem. They want these modules as physically close as possible to the CPU to make the timings work out and maintain signal integrity.

It's the same reason nobody sells GPUs that have user upgradable non-soldered GDDR VRAM modules.
Wyoming Legislature Overrides Governor's Mystery Drone Veto
Outside of extremely niche use cases, who is racking apple products in 2025?
Yeah the school I got kicked out of was a terrible place. The school I got transferred to afterwards opened my life up to a lot of new activities, I started exploring subjects outside of math/science like ceramics, met my first girlfriend etc. Well worth it after all was said and done.
People tell me all the time that I should just open source my project that I have spent thousands of hours developing. As if doing so would make money magically appear in my bank account.
Their ideas are to deport immigrants, end the "woke agenda", stop supporting Ukraine, leave the euro, end green policies, get rid of the political establishment. All of these are purely reactionary and do not adress the problems Germany is facing. They did manage to galvanize a large portion of the electorate, and the last election debates were ridiculous, in that immigration seemed to be the only issue Germany needs to talk about. Not the collapsing infrastructure, not the loss of competetivity of German brands, not foreign policy, not the housing crisis. They have no proposals to improve these issues, and it doesn't even matter, because it's so easy to blind people with "immigrant bad".
Wait until people find out what blood meal and bone meal are.

I hate that this article makes it sound like there’s some magical component to it “double your yields!”. A ton of things are a fertilizer. Urea and ammonia based nitrogen fertilizers are already very common. Ammonia should be used with caution, because it is a small molecule and plants have very little inhibition toward its uptake. It also reduces pH due to H+ release in the nitrification process.
This still doesn't resolve the issue of embedded ads. YouTube continues to falsely advertise this as ad-free, but the end result is still loaded with ads.
> And of course, with arson attacks on Tesla stuff becoming common over here, the factory might go up in flames soon, anyway.

I kinda hope not, the Tesla Brandenburg site is surrounded by a lot of woodland, and I'm not that far from it.
Do you use it as a laptop, or is it hooked up as a desktop for the most part? If the former, I'd try one of the M series in the same role and see if you notice a difference in ergonomics.
Where did you move from JS? I am trying my best to learn low level stuff to NOT have these situations. But frameworks are bloated already and any optimisation feels useless
Those legs look amazing.

I want to be able to buy them as an adhesive add-on for any (split) keyboard!
> the Intel customers are still the ones they're trying to target, amusingly.

Yeah, particularly for the Air that makes complete sense, though. Consumer laptops tend to get replaced pretty slowly. I'll be upgrading from a _2016_ MBP (though not to the Air, given the lack of the 120hz screen; going to go for the Pro).
If anyone's confused, you can scroll down on the homepage.

I didn't realize that until I accidentally bumped my track pad.

Sometimes when things fit a little too neatly above the fold, it seems like there's nothing below it.
Some more discussion last week: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43223489
Didn't really think about this before, but that seems to be mainly an issue in Northern / Central America and Japan. In Germany, for example, typical household plugs are 16A at 230V.
Great, 128GB of ram is much better for ruining LLMs! ;)
> a megalomaniac dictator with nukes

I'm not alone in believing that this alone is reason enough to risk everything. A threat to freedom anywhere is a threat to freedom everywhere.
Agreed. If there's any value in the content behind the link then the link title has not convinced me to click.
> But it seems like nobody really cares.

Speaking for myself it's because old.reddit is still available. I loathe the new reddit after all this time. If they nuke old reddit my usage would go down quite a bit.
It's still boiling down to hardware and software differences.

In terms of hardware - Apple designs their GPUs for GPU workloads, whereas Nvidia has a decades-old lead on optimizing for general-purpose compute. They've gotten really good at pipelining and 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).

And then there's CUDA. It's not really appropriate to compare it to Metal, both in feature scope and ease of use. CUDA has expansive support for AI/ML primatives and deeply integrated tensor/SM compute. 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.

The Linux shtick matters a tiny bit, but it's mostly a matter of convenience. If Apple hardware started getting competitive, there would be people considering the hardware regardless of the OS it runs.
nobody in industry is using a 4090, they are using H100s which have 3TB/s. Apple also doesn’t have any equivalent to nvlink.

I agree that compute is likely to become the bottleneck for these new Apple chips, given they only have like ~0.1% the number of flops
Linode, Linux, Sqlite3, Nginx, Elixir, Phoenix Framework and a small amount of Javascript.

It works so well, that I’m working on oknext.io using the same stack .
The library's even cheaper. My library offers something like 400 b+w pages or 200 color pages per month for free.
All of these narratives are logically consistent.

"Russia is currently weakened by their war of attrition in Ukraine. Allowing them to win in Ukraine will embolden their territorial ambitions and permit them to rearm. As such, sanctions and aid to Ukraine must continue, to ensure they receive a solid lesson that will prevent them from future ambitions on EU territory."
> It turns out to be a largely empty experience

I'm pretty heavily involved in SD video restoration and I drive things from "retro" systems mostly because I need 32-bit PCI slots and Windows XP in order to interface with older broadcast engineering hardware.

I could shoehorn everything into a more modern system, but what I have suits my needs.
Being aware of Alt character codes puts you in the top 1% of computer users for ability.
And no evidence - literally nothing - presented to support the idea of looming AGI except ‘some people in the business/in the government said so, and I believe them.’
They'll never get back what it once was. Things are different now. Rose is ... different also.
PaperQA2 tops the RAG-QA Arena science benchmark
We measured PaperQA2 (https://github.com/Future-House/paper-qa) against the science portion of the RAG-Arena benchmark (https://arxiv.org/abs/2407.13998), it's the first time we've compared PaperQA2 against other systems based on Cohere or Contextual.ai. PaperQA2 achieves a 12.4% higher score than Contextual.ai on the same dataset (1,404 questions and 1.7M documents).

We're thrilled about this because it's open source, and getting better every day -- check out the code to reproduce this result in our cookbook here: https://futurehouse.gitbook.io/futurehouse-cookbook/paperqa/....
ES6 added this: https://262.ecma-international.org/6.0/#sec-tail-position-ca...

So TCO is part of the language standard but not universally implemented. You are correct about the ones that support it.
with a vanishingly small fraction of flops and a small fraction of memory bandwidth
No human ever got good at Tennis without learning the rules. Why would we not allow an AI to also learn the rules before expecting it to get good at tennis.
My understanding is that works out due to the lower clock speeds of those RAM modules though right?

It's getting that bandwdith by going very wide on very very very many channels, rather than trying to push a gigantic amount of bandwidth through only a few channels.
How does one 'know' anything? Centuries of philosophical inquiry have been devoted to answering this question, but meditative practice is what actually shows you.
> and do not adress the problems Germany is facing

According to you. The solutions to your complaints come pretty easily from solving AfD's, at least in my view.
If Russia and the United States are no longer enemies, then who is their enemies?
There's MacMiniVault (nee MacMiniColo) https://www.macminivault.com/

Not sure if they count as niche or not.
Guess what? I'm on a mission to completely max out all 512GB of mem...maybe by running DeepSeek on it. Pure greed!
In 2025 the question isn't "will it run crysis", it's "will it run a simple CRUD app".
If I read this right, the r8g.48xlarge at AMZN [1] has 192 cores and 1536GB which exceeds the M3 Ultra in some metrics.

It reminds me of the 1990s when my old school was using Sun machines based on the 68k series and later SPARC and we were blown away with the toaster-sized HP PA RISC machine that was used for student work for all the CS classes.

Then Linux came out and it was clear the 386 trashed them all in terms of value and as we got the 486 and 586 and further generations, the Intel architecture trashed them in every respect.

The story then was that Intel was making more parts than anybody else so nobody else could afford to keep up the investment.

The same is happening with parts for phones and TSMC's manufacturing dominance -- and today with chiplets you can build up things like the M3 Ultra out of smaller parts.

[1] https://aws.amazon.com/ec2/instance-types/r8g/
Not sure why you are being downvoted, we already know the performance numbers due to memory bandwidth constraints on the M4 Max chips, it would apply here as well.

525GB/s to 1000GB/s will double the TPS at best, which is still quite low for large LLMs.
> That's funny; they obviously don't have any strategists.

They obviously do; they're the folks who, after a few weeks flatfooted, got the Harris campaign to drop stuff that was resonating like the "weird" thing in exchange for "we've got the Cheneys on our side!"
Congratulations for the launch! Looks great!
Everyone I know that got an M1 cheaped out on the 8gb model and are now struggling to use a browser with heavy sites and multitasking(zoom) at the same time.

But also apples upcharge on RAM is disgusting, so it's hard to blame them for picking the lowest spec model.
Ask HN: CRM Recommendation for Startups
I am looking for a CRM to use as part of our Product Marketing stack. We were recommended to use HubSpot's Marketing Hub Professional plan. There is apparently a USD 3000 charge for a one-time setup that is mandatory and non-negotiable. Can someone please recommend an alternative or a workaround to this?
[dupe]

More discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43265521
Oh no Ukraine is not equally corrupt as Russia, I mean as the USA.
EcoTank printers are particularly hostile with this. Despite that the waste ink pass on most models are user-servicable behind 1-2 screws, and can be purchased on Amazon for $10, the printer displays a message that you must ship the printer to Epson for a full replacement.

In order to bypass the warning, you’ve traditionally needed to use a program like WIC[0], which costs $10 per use(!) - I recommend epson_print_conf[1], which is a little more tailored to the HN crowd, but does not extract a bribe every time you use it.

[0] https://inkchip.net/wic/

[1] https://github.com/Ircama/epson_print_conf
> most people are watching youtube on smart TVs

Pretty sure mobile is still #1 Google had some blog posts on this, but they now redirect to their "Think" website homepage: https://business.google.com/us/think/

I did find this, no idea how accurate: https://backlinko.com/youtube-users#youtube-usage-by-device
> It’s because the small dozens of us that care about the freedom that the small internet afforded vs algorithmic content discovery is now the minority and no big platform cares about us.

This. I see people whine all the time about being subjugated to The Algorithm on these sites. On many sites there are easy workarounds to avoid The Algorithm altogether. But when this is pointed out they come up with some reason why they hate interacting with things that way.

In other words most people very much do want An Algorithm. They just might not want The Algorithm.
I don't think glue will hold them well enough. There's a metal thread in the keyboard for a reason. The angle is adjustable and tightening the nut locks the foot at that angle.
Man, Apple laptops even with all their quirks are light-years ahead of the median. I have a reasonably modern ThinkPad and MacBook Air M3 with similar specs, so I can feel the difference.
More discussion on the NYT piece: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43265521
Everyone using such slang should unalive themselves
Are we intentionally reusing project names now? Lynx [1] is a fairly popular tui browser. I guess it doesn’t support ssl or tls, so is now obsolete? W3M [2] is a decent tui alternative that does. Or if you use kitty, awrit [3] is nice, with images and mouse support (it renders chromium in a terminal window)

[1]https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lynx_(web_browser)

[2] https://w3m.sourceforge.net/

[3] https://github.com/chase/awrit
I went to Transmission years and years ago because it's just simple. It has all the options if you need them, but no HUUUGE interface with RSS feeds, 10001 stats about your download, categories, tags, etc etc etc.

Transmission is just a small, floating window with your downloads. Click for more. It fits in the macOS vibe. But I'm a person that fully adopted the original macOS "way of working" - kicked the full-screen habit I had in windows and never felt better.

Can I ask, why would you go FROM Transmission to qBittorrent?
It enables the use of giant AI models on a personal computer. Might not run too fast though. But at least it's possible at all.
You lose out on revenue from people who require OS freedom though
If you can clearly read it in your head in that new sassy GPT voice, it's probably LLM
Tensor / neural cores are very easy to benchmark and give a precise number because they do a single well-defined thing at a large scale. So GPU numbers are less common and much more use-specific.

However the M2 Ultra GPU is estimated, with every bit of compute power working together, at about 26 TOPS.
Zero mention of the problem of hormones (contraception), antibiotics, and a lot of random things coming with human urine. It's very hard to get rid of those, last time I checked the best way was to let it break over YEARS. This is not viable at large scale. (My family used to be farmers)

And note the animal waste from feedlots is quite toxic and yet it's being used at scale without proper processing in some unscrupulous corporate farms. Or they dump it in "swine lagoons".
Same. I'm not sure what to make of the various claims. I personally defer to this table in general: https://www.cpubenchmark.net/power_performance.html.

I'm not sure how those benchmarks translate to common real world use cases.
> described FORTRAN as "old-fashioned"

That didn't age well.

My professor working on control system analysis for electrical power grids later thought that if he were to write it today, it would likely be done in matlab.
They are a tiny fringe minority that gets humiliated whenever they try to debate actual experts. Here's Mearsheimer getting smacked down in front of a live audience by the Polish foreign minister: https://youtu.be/ivcSVG5eCeQ?t=2100