MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by lo_zamoyski | 2026-02-25 16:04:38+00:00
Obviously. But the fallacy trades on that insignificant mathematical curiosity to imply something that is ultimately cultural in nature.

Being "Japanese" is a matter of culture, not some kind of "magical Japanese DNA". So it doesn't make sense to say you're "12.5% Japanese". There is no "Japanese DNA". This is different than claiming that you have Japanese ancestry.
by joe_mamba | 2026-02-25 16:05:25+00:00
>But it's not like the USA is now DPRK.

Except that's exactly how the average democrat voter or European who consumes democrat media sees the US.

>If there's one thing you can be sure of about aggregate investor behavior, it's that investors seek good risk-adjusted returns regardless of any moral or political objections.

This. Companies like Nvidia, Google et-al and investors, don't care about and won't leave the US over morals, they'll go and stay where the money is good as long as it lasts. Trying to lecture them about morals from the EU won't change this. Otherwise they wouldn't be using slave labor in Congo and sweatshop labor in China.
by guywithahat | 2026-02-25 16:05:33+00:00
To be fair data sovereignty is usually just a way for governments to crack down on free speech/internet usage. They require all the company servers be in the country, then when they want to get information it's easier to get a warrant and threaten to take away all their servers. This is what they did in China/Russia and why they're doing it in the EU.

It's also probably just good business for the US, but locking down on citizen freedom is the only real reason I've seen countries do it.
by giraffe_lady | 2026-02-25 16:06:01+00:00
It holds up if you assume war crimes are beneficial to your goals but there is quite a lot of evidence, and sophisticated theory going back to clausewitz, that they mostly aren't.

They can look useful at a certain level of conflict, but once you are thinking of war as being a tool for accomplishing policy goals (how modern nationstates view it), a lot of the things you would "want" to do stop being useful.

Wars that can be won quickly through decisive military action alone are quite rare historically! More often things like support/enmity of the local population, political will in the home state, support for recruiting or tolerance of conscription, influence of returning (whole, dead, injured, all) veterans on the social structure all become more decisive factors the longer a conflict runs.
by Aachen | 2026-02-25 16:06:08+00:00
Any idea what the incentive is for them to put in an email address they can't access?

I run a few websites that accept an email address (all noncommercial, I have no interest in spamming anyone). One of them is the "contact me" feature on my personal website. To prevent spam, I had people just put in their email address and it'll automatically email them my email address. This works perfectly to this day, haven't got a single spam email on any of the addresses I've handed out, but the ratio of emails sent out to received is probably 50 to 1. Why would anyone put an email address in there if not to contact me? I've been wondering if it's used by mail bombing services, idk if that's a thing but I know of the concept of annoying someone by signing them up for a hundred newsletters. My site doesn't send recurring emails, though, and it doesn't allow putting more than two email addresses per month in, per /24 IPv4 block (and even more strict on v6). It's useless for mail bombing services but the (presumed) bots keep submitting a steady rate of maybe 2 new email addresses per day, each time from a new ISP in a random country. No email addresses is ever submitted twice. No rhyme or reason to it. If anyone can make sense of this, that might help me in stopping the abuse
by DonnyV | 2026-02-25 16:06:10+00:00
Again this is different in a Capitalists society vs a Socialist one.

In a Capitalists society everyone is pitted against each other trying to out compete the other at whatever the cost. Safety in this environment is thought of at the end after a lot of suffering because one group has to win it all. Damages can externalized.

In a Socialist society we build basic rules and we compete within them. Thinking of safety as we build something and refining those rules as we build it because at the end, we are all affected by it and get to benefit from it.
by Sharlin | 2026-02-25 16:06:31+00:00
Yes, it would probably have been better to have industrial evolution instead. Or are you arguing that all the countless deaths, maimings, child labor, 16-hour workdays, robber barons, black lung, radium jaws, and so on and so on were simply how it had to go? Or do you simply not care because all of that happened to other people?
by AndrewKemendo | 2026-02-25 16:06:35+00:00
The only “safe AI” is one that comes out of a “safe set of data”

so what would a “safe set of data” actually have to look like

Well it would have to not look like the majority of data that we produce now which has latent embeddings (primarily from the common crawl database ) of racism, lying, competition, destruction domination

I don’t believe humans are actually capable of making such data because our entire structure of society is based on racism competition and domination
by monarchjuno | 2026-02-25 16:07:01+00:00
Hi HN,

I’m sharing a project I built to solve a specific pain point I hit while building multi-agent systems and adopting AI coding assistants (Cursor, Antigravity, Codex, etc.).

As we move towards agent orchestration, we increasingly need specialized agents: one agent for architecture, another for security review, and another for writing tests. But right now, most of us manage this by stuffing everything into massive 1,000+ line AGENTS.md files or hardcoding prompt blobs into our scripts.

When a specific agent hallucinates or violates a security policy, debugging that monolithic prompt blob is impossible. There is no versioning, no diffs, and no way to say "keep the senior backend persona, but swap out the testing rules for this specific CI agent."

I realized I needed to treat AI constraints the same way I treat code. So, I built Dance of Tal (DOT).

The name comes from Talchum, the traditional Korean mask dance, where Tal is the mask (character/persona) and chum is the dance (the prescribed movements). DOT applies this exact metaphor to decouple system prompts into strongly typed, versioned components:

Tals (Personas): The mask. How the AI thinks and its professional identity (e.g., tal/@username/security-auditor).

Dances (Rules): The choreography. Strict formatting, JSON schemas, and coding standards. You can layer multiple Dances like CSS classes (e.g., dance/@username/kotlin-style + dance/@username/gdpr-rules).

Combos (Lockfiles): Pins a specific Tal and layered Dances together into a reproducible profile. (e.g., Your PR-review agent gets a different Combo than your hotfix agent).

Acts (Workflows): The stage play. A DAG-based workflow engine that conditionally switches between Tals and Dances (e.g., automatically switching the AI from a "cautious architect" to a "fast hotfix specialist" during a P0 incident).

Stages (Adapters): Translates the assembled payload perfectly for whatever vendor/platform you're using (Cursor, Antigravity, Codex, Claude API, etc.).

Instead of copy-pasting blobs, I just run dot lock to give each AI agent the exact reproducible behavior it needs. I also added native MCP (Model Context Protocol) support, so IDEs and orchestration frameworks can just fetch the compiled context exactly when needed—no more manual prompt wrangling.

I'd love to hear your thoughts on this "dependency injection for prompts" approach. Are prompt monoliths and multi-agent context management causing friction for you as well?

Happy to answer any questions!
by socalgal2 | 2026-02-25 16:07:05+00:00
I did’t say anyone wanted those things. I said they were positives the show ignored and don’t require AI

with Ai added the use cases are so compelling they fly off th shelves once they get the form and ux right.

Everything you wrote above was said about PDAs in the 90s and yet here we are in 2025 an 85% of the planet has a PDA, renamed smartphone
by treetalker | 2026-02-25 16:07:05+00:00
- original National Security Strategy document: https://www.whitehouse.gov/wp-content/uploads/2025/12/2025-N...

previous HN discussions of the strategy document:

- National Security Strategy of the United States of America (2025) [pdf] (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46505006) (3 points|1 comments)

- National Security Strategy of the United States of America [pdf] (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46175314) (9 points|9 comments)

- National Security Strategy of the United States of America [pdf] (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46171812) (11 points|5 comments)

- National Security Strategy of the United States of America [pdf] (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46167754) (8 points|4 comments)

- 2025 USA National Security Strategy [pdf] (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46160117) (5 points|2 comments)
by JackDanMeier | 2026-02-25 16:07:12+00:00
Just started exporting my data from google, guess this is the start of my uncoupling journey.

Looking forward to changing my bank card to a EU alternative when its available.

I don't feel like I have major usage issues, but maybe once I have decoupled from the big players, it will be clearer what I had gotten used to, for which there was another way to approach.

The biggest pain points will probably be YouTube, Claude, Gemini and Google docs. The main issues will probably stem from collaborating with others, rather than my own personal usage.
by pjc50 | 2026-02-25 16:07:14+00:00
> I can use that to keep a gun pointed at a target or i can use that to prevent a baby rocker from falling over.

This leads to what I'm going to call the "Ender's Game" approach: if your AI is uncooperative just present it with a simulation that it does like but which maps onto real-world control that it objects to.

> I've always held the opinion that ai safety was more about brand safety

Yes. The social media era made that very important. The extent to which brand safety is linked to actual, physical safety then becomes one of how you can manage the publicity around disasters. And they're doing a pretty good job of denying responsibility.
Show HN: ShouldISwap – Compare crypto pair rates against historical averages
by Herbyg | 2026-02-25 16:07:14+00:00
Hey HN,

I built ShouldISwap (https://shouldiswap.com) — a free tool that compares the conversion rate between any two cryptocurrencies against their historical average. Pick two coins, pick a timeframe (7-365 days), and it tells you whether today's rate is above, below, or near the mean, plus where it sits in the 52-week range as a percentile.

How it works: Fetch 365-day price histories for both coins from CoinGecko, compute the pairwise conversion rate per day, calculate the mean for the selected period, and compare. A sliding window across the full year computes the historical best/worst deviations to give a "signal strength" — not just "above average" but how significant the deviation is relative to what's been seen all year.

Stack: Node.js + Express 5, React 19 + Vite 7, Tailwind CSS 4. No TypeScript. No database — fully stateless with three-tier in-memory caching (60s/5min/1hr). Each comparison makes 4 CoinGecko API calls (down from 6) by fetching 365-day history once and slicing per timeframe. Chart.js lazy-loaded (~173KB on demand). 66KB gzipped initial load. Single Docker container on Google Cloud Run.

Lighthouse: 99 Performance, 100 Accessibility, 100 Best Practices, 100 SEO.

Honest limitations: Depends entirely on CoinGecko's API. In-memory cache means no horizontal scaling without Redis. Signals are statistical comparisons against history, not predictions — it tells you where you are, not where things are going.

Would appreciate feedback on the architecture, the signal calculation, or the UX. Source isn't public yet but happy to discuss implementation.
by seanhunter | 2026-02-25 16:07:16+00:00
> Since the last several months, your US visa will be rejected if you do not submit public social media profiles.

I don’t think this is true. You can get a visa just fine if you don’t have social media profiles. Source: me. I don’t have facebook, insta, twitter etc and travel to the US just fine. When I filled in the form I left those empty.

What I think you can’t do is get a visa if you have social media profiles and choose not to disclose them or you post things or have friends/links on your social media that cbp considers elevates your risk etc.
by moxifly7 | 2026-02-25 16:07:24+00:00
>Muslims have full rights.

No they don't. Israel is a state with discrimination against non-Jews baked into its laws, with a couple of clever facades that don't stand up to basic scrutiny.

https://www.btselem.org/publications/fulltext/202101_this_is...

>Christian percentage went from 10% to 1% in Palestine.

And the decades of ethnic cleansing by Israel against Arabs, both Christians and Muslims, has nothing to do with this? How come those communities were there for millennia and started disappearing? What major event in the last 100 years in the region of Palestine led to the flight of Palestinian Christians?

>Christian Palestinians who are citizens of Israel suffer from the same widespread official and unofficial discrimination that other non-Jews do, in everything from land ownership and housing to employment and family reunification rights. [1]

[1] https://imeu.org/resources/resources/discrimination-hate-cri...

https://www.aljazeera.com/opinions/2025/12/7/the-centuries-o...

https://mondoweiss.net/2026/01/mike-huckabee-is-interfering-...
by throw0101a | 2026-02-25 16:08:16+00:00
> I imagine if the current administration does, Europe could retaliate by withholding ASML’s tech […]

There is a bit of M.A.D. scenario: a bunch of components in ASML machines (like EUV light generation?) come from US companies. Also, the two main chip CAD software vendors (duopoly) are in the US.
by kyboren | 2026-02-25 16:08:21+00:00
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cp3wkzgpjxvo

https://www.ibtimes.co.uk/uk-court-jails-man-racist-tweets-s...

https://www.dw.com/en/germany-greens-habeck-presses-charges-...

https://reclaimthenet.org/germany-online-speech-raids-politi...

I'm sure you can find more; those were just the lowest hanging fruit in 2 minutes of searching.
by lenerdenator | 2026-02-25 16:08:42+00:00
Yes and no.

The US is still an economy with the ability to tackle very complex tasks with its industrial base. Up until fairly recently, it was a major destination for people seeking higher education and work in specialized fields in STEM, which is necessary for the execution of the projects that companies like Apple want to do.

The problem is that we now have an anti-immigration administration, and are home to a number of multinational companies - Apple's a great example - that feel that their one and only obligation is to create value for shareholders. They don't want to throw the money needed at American engineer salaries, because money paid to the American engineer is money not paid to a shareholder.

We can possibly deal with the administration. The US isn't the only country in the world with a nativist movement; China does it with non-Han peoples within its borders. The real hangup is making a bunch of Americans with capital feel some sort of loyalty towards their own country and its workers.
by mcoliver | 2026-02-25 16:09:00+00:00
This is the real story. This is 100% a problem with Radix. Safe browsing targets the website not the domain. No reason a registrar should be suspending an entire account over something a company reports. Black-holing the A and CNAMEs on a subdomain? Maybe..... But even then I don't think it's the registrars place to do that. Freezing the entire account? Absolutely not.
by embedding-shape | 2026-02-25 16:09:19+00:00
> The EU is to blame for cookie banners on basically every website on the internet.

Yeah, just like it's the EU's fault sometimes that the police cuts of roads when a drunk driver collides with another car, it can impossibly be the fault of the driver themselves.

Maybe try to point the blame in the direction of the ones that are A) showing you the banners in the first place and B) refuses to remove them and instead decide to inconvenience you

You know, like we do with every other single thing.

Besides, GDPR has nothing to do with those cookie banners, you're yet another example of people not understanding how any of these things work, yet find it valuable somehow to point blame in some direction, even if they don't understand the fundamental reasons things are the way they are.

I'm sure you also think EU is the same as Europe, as that tends to also be a common misconception among the people who don't understand the cookies banners or GDPR.
by plst | 2026-02-25 16:09:32+00:00
> but that's what we have now, and it's not working.

My entire point is that education is the opposite of what we have now. That users are not expected to understand or know anything about IT technologies they use. Not the case with cars, recreational and prescription drugs...

> the implied question is: what if we don't allow people to use technology unless they can demonstrate that they understand it?

It's not exactly my point, but in extreme cases, maybe. I genuinely think that nobody has even tried to educate people about computers. Like, have you seen IT classes in schools? Assuming you are lucky enough for the classes to have any content, you will probably get some lessons in Word and Excel. Maybe some programming. Maybe Paint. But actually using the computer? Dangers of the internet, importance of backups, trusting websites, applications and emails? The concept of application and difference between applications and websites? And those technologies are not "developing" like they were 20 years ago, they are probably here to stay.

> is that really something we want to do? this sounds like gatekeeping, elitism, and anti-innovation because if if less people are going to use a technology, then there is less motivation to build it.

And the alternative Google and Apple present is giving them paternalizing control over the most popular computing device. The say over what people can do with their devices. After they made sure that these devices are embedded into our lives.
I would much rather we slowed down with innovation for a second and resolved such issues first, because the way I see it, it's literally manipulation (also see: dark patterns).

As for the gatekeeping and etilism - Assuming we want a "computing license" (not necessarily what I'm arguing for), is "driving license" also gatekeeping and etilism? Or maybe some amount of gatekeeping is good?

As for anti-innovation - I genuinely think we might have had just enough innovation in the field and it may be time to slow down a little, take a step back and evaluate the results. And I honestly don't see much innovation in apps/computers/web space besides maybe AI, and governments are already working on regulating that.

> do you think that would have happened if we had required understanding before we let anyone buy a home computer?

Home computers were very harmless before the internet, but that's an aside. Assuming the tech is actually useful, not just slightly more convenient than "traditional" alternatives, then yes, I'm sure it would have still grown to sizes it has grown to today. Maybe a bit slower.

> besides education, i don't know how to approach this issue.

Same, I generally do think this whole situation needs more consideration.
by disgruntledphd2 | 2026-02-25 16:09:35+00:00
Look, I remember this being discussed at the time as a euphemism to avoid the necessity for intervention.

The wikipedia article suggests that I'm not alone in this belief:
"Both the definition and charge of ethnic cleansing is often disputed, with some researchers including and others excluding coercive assimilation or mass killings as a means of depopulating an area of a particular group,[6][7] or calling it a euphemism for genocide or cultural genocide.[8][9]"

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ethnic_cleansing
by speqs | 2026-02-25 16:10:05+00:00
Didn't the US jail a guy for making a joke about Charlie Kirk? Didn't Don Lemon get arrested for protesting? How about the US government making it illegal to monitor ICE's activity?

As a Canadian, I can't think of anyone getting arrested for comments they made online, unless they are truly hate/violence/threats which would get anyone arrested in similar countries such as the US.

Just this week there was a white nationalist group protesting in Hamilton, and no one was arrested.

Europe is also not a country, it is a continent with many countries having different laws surrounding free speech.
by forgotaccount3 | 2026-02-25 16:10:26+00:00
> I also recognize that websites don't need the banner if they aren't trying to track me

And I recognize that there is a non-trivial cost to knowing if you need the banner or not, and people are likely to ask their web designer/dev "Hey, where's the cookie banner?" and then pay for the subsequent cost of implementing that because it's cheaper than expensive lawyers.
by filoleg | 2026-02-25 16:10:35+00:00
Is there any evidence of this being an actual pattern? I cannot speak for the rest of the americans, but I, personally, haven’t noticed it because it didn’t seem to be the case to me at all.

Asking because from my perception over the past 12 months, US ambassadors got more friendly and cordial with some countries (e.g., Japan[0]/Taiwan/South Korea[1]) and less cordial with others (e.g., certain european countries, like UK, that attempt to [imo unjustly] press american businesses that don’t even have any business presence within their jurisdiction).

0. U.S. Ambassador George Glass participated in remarks emphasizing the “new golden age” of U.S.-Japan relations, underlining partnership. (https://jp.usembassy.gov/ambassador-glass-remarks-at-yomiuri...)

1. The U.S. signed Technology Prosperity Deals with both Japan and South Korea in late 2025, advancing shared technology and innovation goals. (https://www.whitehouse.gov/articles/2025/10/the-united-state...)
by bob1029 | 2026-02-25 16:10:47+00:00
If we're worried about wasting parts of the animal, in a typical hog the blood is maybe 10% of their body weight. Significantly more waste (by mass) is created during the trimming process. If you want to do your part, you can buy a pack of "bits and pieces" whenever you need to render a lot of fat and don't really care what it looks like in the end. These trimmings are in substantially greater proportion than the finished bacon you typically buy. So, if you're making something like a big batch of beans, you can get the exact same flavor profile for maybe 10% the cost.
by 4d4m | 2026-02-25 16:11:31+00:00
I think the problem with controls, censorship and self-limitation is that as soon as you start to introduce these, your competitor wins. I will use the best model available to me that has the least amount of restrictions, which may not align with my worldview or the worldview of the model creators.

It may be difficult to put in protections when a nation's existence hinges on it's ability to exploit models without restrictions. What you are seeing now is a divergence in offering and intent: governments want unrestricted models yet want to control your use of the same products in a crippling manner. It's an interesting problem I don't know the answer to!