MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by kaashif | 2026-02-28 07:07:50+00:00
Anthropic is deemed a betrayer and a supply chain risk for actually enforcing their principles.

OpenAI agrees to be put in the same position as Anthropic.

It seems like you must actually somehow believe that history will repeat itself, Hegseth will deem OpenAI a supply chain risk too, then move to Grok or something?

There's surely no way that's actually what you believe...
by Intermernet | 2026-02-28 07:08:07+00:00
The agreement, conveniently, isn't legally binding. It's a gentleman's agreement between utter scoundrels, formed to give a semblance of trustworthiness.

As an Australian, I wouldn't trust it at all. The US government has already asked the Australian government for highly expanded information on Australian citizens, and that's above the table.

Stop believing what these people are telling you. They have an awful track record, and the people making the statements now are even worse than the previous people.
by Leno1225 | 2026-02-28 07:08:59+00:00
It’s a shit law, but it’s publisher- and distributor-targeted, so the overly-dramatic armchair-rebels in the forum can calm themselves; nobody’s coming after the person with a Linux machine bc it’s not compliant. Because it’s a state law, Cali will have geo-fenced app stores and this’ll just accelerate the breakout from manufacturer-maintained app stores. Websites that host downloads will just have a user attestation that they’re not Californians and be hosted abroad. There’s also no verification method; it’s literally just a requirement that account creation asks for an age - something websites do all the time and is not remotely burdensome, just ask all the ones convinced my DoB is a year and 4 months after my actual.
by Brajeshwar | 2026-02-28 07:09:32+00:00
Yes, Computers in the 90s were rare in India and even rarer in the North-Eastern region. I took every opportunity to be around computers during school and college days, mostly helping out pro bono. I might have visited and helped almost every commercial establishment with computers in my town. Fortunately, I also had a weird cousin, much older than me, who reads and talks about some of the weirdest things in the world. He had a computer in his study room in the early 90s. I was, I think, the only person allowed to touch his computer. Around the time when the Internet was launched in India (Aug 15, 1995), he told me that the world would soon become all connected with computers, “Imagine working for a company in the USA, while sitting in your home in India. Learn the Internet.” My ultimate goal during college was to leave that town as soon as I could. I started to understand all of his ramblings and weirdness as truths way later in life. btw, the Internet reached that town only around the mid-2000s and was an ultimate luxury.

Ah! Flash. Yes, I was lucky to be there. Invited inside Macromedia (first from India, and I think only one too for that thingy), listened to Gary Grossman talking about ActionScript, and worked with the whoswho of Flash at that time. Got my name listed in the Flash IDE’s credits roll, and all that Jazz. ;-)

That went down memory lane. Here are some interesting photos from that time https://photos.app.goo.gl/hrV8xZ8GVf8cRXLt5
by somethoughts | 2026-02-28 07:09:46+00:00
Sorry I was a bit unclear - this was referencing the Administration not Anthropic.

The United States Department of Justice under the Trump administration, supported Phillips.[20][5] While the Department asserts that anti-discrimination laws are necessary to prevent businesses that provide goods and services from discriminating, these laws cannot be used to compel a business into expressing speech they do not agree with, nor used to provide goods and services with such expressions without the ability for the business to assert they do not agree with those expressions. [1]

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Masterpiece_Cakeshop_v._Colora...
by wtallis | 2026-02-28 07:10:07+00:00
All of those worries you list are extreme and unreasonable and ruled out by spending two minutes reading the bill: https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billTextClient.xhtm...

The only remedies listed are:

> 1798.503. (a) A person that violates this title shall be subject to an injunction and liable for a civil penalty of not more than two thousand five hundred dollars ($2,500) per affected child for each negligent violation or not more than seven thousand five hundred dollars ($7,500) per affected child for each intentional violation, which shall be assessed and recovered only in a civil action brought in the name of the people of the State of California by the Attorney General.

And there are several other provisions that further narrow the circumstances under which this law could be enforced.

If your personal computer is not being used by a child, and you're not distributing software to children or devices used by children, then there are no circumstances under which your actions could violate this law.
by pibaker | 2026-02-28 07:10:08+00:00
Biometric keys are still a niche techie thing that the average person probably doesn't even know exist. Most people will be using passkeys exclusively through their phones, often unintentionally. And outside the first world it is not uncommon for people do own no computing devices apart from their phones.

Backup keys and recovery codes also do not solve all cases of key loss. One thing I worry about is what happens if I am traveling in a foreign country and loses my belongings. In the past if I can convince someone to let me use his computer I can at least log into my email account as long as I remember my password. If everything is passkey then I will be locked out of all my online accounts until I make it back home, assuming that I have actually properly set up the backup device and keys. Humans are not very good at making sure that backups actually work.
by Quarrel | 2026-02-28 07:10:43+00:00
Android systems use Linux as their operating system, and the law applies to operating systems.

Android has associated app stores, therefore Linux must follow this at account setup ..

(I'm mostly hoping I'm just jesting here, that they'd surely not enforce it in this way, plus, who "provides" my Linux OS?)

In any event, it does seem like a very silly overreaching law, that should be highlighted, pointed out, and laughed at.

PS I have not read the law in question. I have read a PC Gamer article though, which is surely much the same.
by tombert | 2026-02-28 07:11:05+00:00
It's frustrating. Sam Altman already has everything. He's a billionaire, he can buy literally anything he wants, he can live anywhere he wants, he can buy a brand new sports car every day just to blow it up, he can buy a new house every week just to demolish and replace it with a trampoline park. He can afford to do anything.

He can fucking afford to have some fucking principles. He's not going to end up on the street for not being a fucking coward.

Because of some bullshit minor PTSD from a few years ago, I sort of swore an oath to myself that I wouldn't let being a coward stop me from doing the right thing, regardless of the consequences, and by doing things that I think are right it has cost me opportunities and money. I'm not homeless, but it made the job hunt harder when I was unemployed. I can actually feel consequences from standing up for what I believe in. Sam Altman being a coward is not equivalent, he's choosing to do the wrong thing for no reason.
Show HN: Bridge your Claude/OpenAI subs into a team API with per-key cost caps
by shreyas8 | 2026-02-28 07:11:15+00:00
Hey HN, I built this because I wanted to give my team access to Claude and GPT models for internal testing, but the official APIs have no per-key spending controls. You can't cap a key at $5/day or 100 requests/month — it's all or nothing. With non-technical team members in the mix (designers, PMs, QA), one forgotten loop or oversized prompt away from an ugly bill wasn't a risk I wanted to manage manually. Idea was to allow the members to test with these restricted API keys before using official keys.

So I built a bridge: it wraps the Claude Code CLI and Codex CLI behind an Express API, backed by existing Max/Pro subscriptions instead of per-token billing. Each team member gets their own API key with hard limits — requests/day, tokens/month, cost caps. Hit the limit and the key stops working. No surprises. An admin dashboard shows who's using what in real time.

Key features:
- Two providers: /generate (Claude) and /generate-codex (Codex)
- Per-user API keys with SHA-256 hashing (shown once, never stored raw)
- Per-key hard limits with real-time tracking and enforcement
- Admin dashboard for key management, usage monitoring, and request logs
- Deploy on a $5 VPS behind Cloudflare Tunnel

What it's NOT: A production API replacement. It's for internal tooling and prototyping. CLI invocations add ~3-8s latency vs direct API calls.

Important: Wrapping CLI subscriptions behind a shared API may violate the Terms of Service of the underlying providers. Anthropic's Consumer ToS (updated Feb 2026) prohibits using subscription OAuth tokens in third-party tools, and OpenAI's ToS prohibits account sharing. Review the applicable terms before using this. See the Disclaimer section in the README for details.

Security was a focus: execFile (no shell injection), timing-safe auth, CSP/HSTS, input validation, rate limiting. Details in SECURITY.md.

Stack: Node.js, TypeScript, Express. No database — JSON files on disk.

GitHub: https://github.com/Shreyas-Dayal/ai-cli-bridge

Would love feedback on the approach and any security concerns I might have missed.
Show HN: Colored Title Bar – unique colors per VS Code workspace
by wstuckey | 2026-02-28 07:11:31+00:00
Hey HN, I built a small VS Code extension that gives every workspace a distinct title bar color so you can tell windows apart at a glance.

If you work across multiple projects throughout the day, all your VS Code windows look identical. I kept cmd-tabbing into the wrong one, so I made this.

How it works:
- When you open a folder, it deterministically hashes the workspace path into an HSL color, so each project always gets the same color.
- Saturation and lightness are tuned per theme (Dark/Light/High Contrast).
- Foreground text picks white or black based on WCAG 2.0 contrast ratio.
- You can also randomize or pick from 14 hue presets via the command palette.
- Only touches the five titleBar.* keys — nothing else is modified.
- It's ~300 lines of TypeScript, MIT licensed, no dependencies beyond the VS Code API.

Marketplace: https://marketplace.visualstudio.com/items?itemName=wstuckey...

Source: https://github.com/wstuckey/colored-title-bar
by skissane | 2026-02-28 07:12:08+00:00
A very widespread belief among political scientists is that parliamentary systems are superior to presidential systems in terms of stability and quality of governance. In fact, even the US State Department's own "nation-building" advisors tell other countries not to copy the US system (or at least they did prior to Trump, I'm honestly not sure if the Trump admin is sustaining that line or not)

Presidential systems have had a terrible run if you look at Latin America. The US seemed to be an exception to the rule, but maybe recent events have shown that the US got away with a substandard political system for so long because they had so many other advantages to make up for that, now their other advantages are weakening and the US is slowly converging with Latin America
by matsemann | 2026-02-28 07:12:24+00:00
It's why I think "software engineer" is a misnomer. We don't have a license, we don't have an ethics code, we don't sign off on stuff. In other disciplines, an engineer could topple a project they feel is unsafe or against code, and be backed by their union if replaced. A software engineer just says yes if their stocks aren't vested, and will be replaced if not.
by mschuster91 | 2026-02-28 07:13:13+00:00
You know what a broken clock does? Shows the correct time twice a day. That is also valid for Trump and Netanyahu - for once these two guys do the right thing.

The Mullah regime killed 35k protestors a few weeks ago, more than the ten times larger (in terms of population headcount) China did in 1989. They have no right to exist any more. Good riddance.

Jin jiyan azadi!
by kristopolous | 2026-02-28 07:13:17+00:00
This administration has relentlessly demonstrated they will let no law or human right get in the way of their accumulation of unchecked power.

He tried to take congress's power but not even his hand picked SCOTUS lackeys would permit that.

So instead he kidnapped presidents, had masked unaccountables shooting people in the streets, is threatening to seize elections all while covering up countless crimes by flushing enough evidence down toilets that they needed plumbers to come out.

Along with that, defunding science, shutting down research centers, tearing up international treaties, threatening to invade Canada and Denmark all while building 24 camps and shutting down pbs

He runs MLMs and cryptocurrency pump and dumps from a demolished Whitehouse where he peddles cheap glitzy trinkets from his online store, sells pardons, and tried to orchestrate a coup.

This is a Whitehouse that uses the 14 words, makes references to 1488, puts out AI deep fakes and fraudulent photographs as press releases that read like North Korean propaganda. One that defunds the weather service because of conspiracy theories.

There is no excuse whatsoever for empowering them.

If any replies accuse me of being a democrat (I'm not) or try to deflect, I will not engage. Being a shithead isn't a flex.
by ddtaylor | 2026-02-28 07:14:50+00:00
Story time!

I actually cancelled my ChatGPT subscription in late 2024 and documented the process, kind of as a social media thing because it had gotten so bad and I realized nobody in my family was using it anymore. I asked my wife if she was getting any use out of it and she told me she had been using Gemini and Grok for months because "GPT is very lazy now".

After a while another charge came in for the subscription, but I had the receipts: we had cancelled before the next billing cycle. I decided to try and reach out to OpenAI to resolve this, but they only let you chat with GPT itself for this, which it failed at and told me they weren't in the wrong and none of the information matched what actually happened.

I took this and used it to submit a chargeback request with Privacy.com, which I use for all of my online purchases. Normally I don't have to worry about this because I set a limit or cancel the cards I issue manually, but I had an OpenAI API account using the same card and I had been a bit lazy in using the same card for technically two different services.

Well, Privacy.com won that dispute and I got that money back. It's worth mentioning this is actually different than most banks will do now days. For the most part when you try to get a bank to do a chargeback they just roll it into their insurance and refund you the customer as a cost of doing business, but the actual scammer or shady merchant got to keep their stolen money, whereas I can be certain OpenAI didn't keep my money.
by thereitgoes456 | 2026-02-28 07:15:06+00:00
Sam (and Greg Brockman) want something they do not have, very desperately. They want to win, to be Great Men, to be remembered by history with Jobs and Gates and the other tech luminaries. This is mentioned in Karen Hao's Empire of AI.

They are both a lesson to me that no matter how much you have, you will not necessarily be satisfied.
by epistasis | 2026-02-28 07:15:40+00:00
"Only when the tide goes out do you discover who's been swimming naked." -- Warren Buffet

The original context was very different, about financial markets, but I've been thinking about it a lot the past 12 months. There's a lot of cowards in high places in tech, surprisingly cowardly people. Or they have sold out their principles to be friends with terrible people, which is also a form of cowardice. Hard to say which.

The whole Epstein thing is a really really great marker of this too. Though I'm not sure if the tide has gone out all the way (we mostly know what's going on), or if there's a lot more tide to fall.

LBJ was a real son of a bitch, who, when he finally was thrust into power as president, did something pretty surprising by going all-in on the civil rights movement. Power reveals who people are, and times of trials reveal who people really are.
by karthink | 2026-02-28 07:15:57+00:00
You have to turn on eat-eshell-mode to enable Eat's terminal emulation in eshell.

It runs full-fledged TUIs like vim and ncmpcpp in Eshell slowly, but is good enough for quick fzf uses. It's perfectly fine for "small" dynamic elements like the spinners and progress bars used by package managers.

Just remember to use system pipes (with "*|") instead of Elisp pipes (with "|") if you're piping data into an interactive TUI application like fzf in Eshell.
by nickysielicki | 2026-02-28 07:16:32+00:00
That’s because no company who has ever sold weapons to the government has ever been brazen enough to tell the government how they can and cannot use their purchase. It’s unprecedented because most companies that sell to the government are publicly traded and have a board that would never let this happen. It’s unprecedented because Anthropic is behaving like a reckless startup.

That’s what they will argue, anyway.
by chrisandchris | 2026-02-28 07:16:46+00:00
> It's like how Uber and Airbnb [...]

I disagree. It's like Uber and Airbnb in how they try to gain market share. Big difference: For Uber (and when it got big, basically everybody I know has used it once in a while) and Airbnb, you oaid for each transaction. With OpenAI, most peopme are on the free tier. And if there is something incredibly hard, it's converting free users to paid users. That will, IMHO, be the thong that blows (many) of the AI companies up. They won't ever reach a profit/loss-equality.
by jesseendahl | 2026-02-28 07:16:54+00:00
>They bind you to your device/iCloud/Gaia account so if it gets stolen/banned you're out of luck

This is the biggest myth/misconception I see repeated about passkeys all the time. It's a credential just like your password. If you forget it, you go through a reset flow where a link is sent to your email and you just setup a new one.

And if it happens to be your Gmail account that you're locked out of, you need to go through the same Google Account Recovery flow regardless of whether you're using a password or a passkey.
by tdeck | 2026-02-28 07:17:03+00:00
I thought 1 was going to be this link

https://www.pbs.org/newshour/world/aid-groups-say-israel-mis...

The Biden administration publicly set quotas for Gaza aid that were supposed to condition their continued military support. Then after the administration determined Israel failed 15 out of 19 of *their own" meager conditions, they decided it was fina anyway and that they weren't going to enforce their own stated conditions.
by raffraffraff | 2026-02-28 07:17:20+00:00
> Working together under the name "Grant Naylor", the creators of the series collaboratively wrote two novels. The first, Infinity Welcomes Careful Drivers, was published in November 1989, and it incorporates plot lines from several episodes of the show's first two series. The second novel, Better Than Life, followed in October 1990, and it is largely based on the second-series episode of the same name. Together, the two novels provide expanded backstory and development of the series' principal characters and themes.

If you haven't read the books, please do yourself a favour. They are far far better than the series, have much more depth and have not dated as badly. I loved Red Dwarf when it was on TV (jesus, I was 12 years old..) but I find it a little hard to watch now. Some parts are still great though.
by nullocator | 2026-02-28 07:17:54+00:00
> Amodei is the type of person who thinks he can tell the US government what they can and can’t do.

> And the US government should have precisely none of that, regardless of whether they’re red or blue.

This is a pretty hot take. "You can't break the law and kill people or do mass surveillance with our technology." fuck that, the government should break whatever laws and kill whoever they please

I hope you A: aren't a U.S. citizen, and B: don't vote.

If I'm selling widgets to the government and come to find out they are using those widgets unconstitutionally and to violate my neighbors rights you can be damn sure I'm going to stop selling the gov my widgets. Amodei said that Anthropic was willing to step away if they and the government couldn't come to terms, and instead of the government acting like adults and letting them they decided to double down on being the dumbest people in the room and act like toddlers and throw a massive fit about the whole thing.
by thejazzman | 2026-02-28 07:18:32+00:00
Your credibility is shot when you claim that banks will just give you money. They absolutely do not. In fact, Discover has admitted to me in writing, that they always rule in favor of the Merchant if that Merchant responds to the dispute -- regardless of what their response says.

I've dealt with multiple chargebacks over the years and have only ever lost once -- when the Manager at Lowes' showed a check they wrote me [after I opened the dispute].

They absolutely do not just do anything and "write it off".
Please be human and don't just rattle of high-confidence, baseless claims, especially as a giant billboard to Privacy.com
by jesseendahl | 2026-02-28 07:19:30+00:00
Passwords are terrible UX for old people in my experience. They try use the same password everywhere, but then password complexity requirements mean they can't use the exact same password everywhere, and then they forget which variant they used on which service, so they just end up going through the reset password flow every time they sign in. I am not convinced that's a better UX than them just using their fingerprint or face to login.
by ddxv | 2026-02-28 07:19:35+00:00
Thanks, but I guess I understand the sentiment. I probably should have not said that I couldn't think of "a single thing of value" when that is a bit of a judgement along with my question. Anyways, it is interesting hearing what people ask it, I think I've only ever used it like a search engine / bug fixing while it seems some people have much deeper conversations or discussions that are worth remembering.
by newtonsmethod | 2026-02-28 07:20:06+00:00
Have you read the DPA? How did you come to your inclusions on its intent? How do you think Biden stretched the definition here?

There is nothing in the DPA implying companies it is applied to can't be acting in a hostile manner, or that it can't be applied when security interests of the US are being threatened. Of course they have no reason to state such a distinction repeatedly in law (claiming it doesn't apply to adversarial companies....), but 50 USC 4566 applies clearly when acts are being made against national interest (this pertains to foreign investment, which isn't the nature of the Anthropic rift, but shows clearly the DPA contains laws with intent of preventing adversarial action against the US).

Even without knowing the intent of the behaviour, it should be quite clear that companies that are vital to national security are more likely to be supply chain risks. Amodei's direct words were:
> These latter two threats are inherently contradictory: one labels us a security risk; the other labels Claude as essential to national security.
Being a security risk and essential to national security are not "inherently contradictory".