MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by Animats | 2026-02-27 22:28:55+00:00
Something interesting is going on around Trump's rants. Some White House staffers are directing lower-level staff to ignore them and focus on the economy. James Blair [2] seems to be leading this. Blair was in charge of political strategy for Trump's campaign, and he won, so he's probably not going to be fired.

There have been presidents in decline who were semi-captured by their staffs. Biden, Reagan, and Roosevelt all were. It may be that Trump gets trotted out now and then to deliver his standard speech (his speeches all have roughly the same content, regardless of subject or venue), but the work of the White House involves him less.

Watch to see which threats get followed up with action, and which ones don't.

[1] https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/2026/02/trump-gop-repub...

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Blair_(political_advisor...
by ncr100 | 2026-02-27 22:29:56+00:00
A useful idea!

Alternative - version files and catalog those versions (most of the work, with "Unfucked", appears to be catalog management), building it on top of a Versioning File System.

E.g. NILFS logging file system, logs every block-change (realtime)

more:

- NILFS https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NILFS

- topic https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Versioning_file_system
by packetlost | 2026-02-27 22:30:11+00:00
It's a lot easier to add an API that's opt-in for an application that needs it. What's the appropriate way an OS should handle an application that doesn't declare this new property? Fail open? Fail closed? It would quickly turn into a mess. IMO it's better to do it this way because the applications that need it (browsers, chat clients, etc.) will use it to provide legal shielding. This isn't a technical problem they're trying to solve, it's a legal liability one. I generally like this approach, but I think there's no reason to mandate that an application use the API, just mandate that if they do they are considered to have real knowledge of the age range of the user in question. If you provide the API, the incentive to use it is already there for the applications it's needed for the most.
by 2001zhaozhao | 2026-02-27 22:31:38+00:00
It seems to me that they genuinely are trying to do a good thing. Giving away $200 subs probably will cost more than what they will earn from continued subscriptions, given that the top library authors have an extremely low chance of being gullible consumers who forget to cancel their free trials. They could be aiming for other benefits as well such as generally improving the open-source tools that they depend on as well as getting some well-respected people to talk about how good Claude is, but if they even think that far ahead that's pretty reasonable and commendable behavior.

But it's funny how their methods end up appearing so close to the loss-leader tactics that everyone (including themselves with the double holiday Opus limits and $50 extra usage) is doling out to ultimately selfishly make more money.
by troad | 2026-02-27 22:31:48+00:00
> Not something I've ever seen (or noticed, at least) or used.

It's all the icons next to the clock, placed there by applications that run in the background but need occasional interactivity.

It's the thing at the bottom right of every Windows since Windows 95, and the top right of every Mac since Mac OS X. KDE has always had it in the Windows position. Gnome had it in the Mac position from Gnome 2 (2002) until recently (Gnome 4?).

Something that every desktop OS considers important enough to show, except Gnome, which insists your computer is a bad iPad for some reason.
by mixmastamyk | 2026-02-27 22:31:49+00:00
It's a short book giving obvious advice, that one needs to embrace change, using a metaphor of mice and cheese. It receives a lot of scorn for that, despite many needing to hear the message.

I'm ready to embrace change, however in this case no one cares. The cheese hasn't just been moved, it has been taken to another planet where us mice are not allowed to go.
by scuff3d | 2026-02-27 22:32:02+00:00
That's why there's been such a massive effort to position LLMs as critical to national security. If they can make themselves big enough and critical enough (even in just perception) to the government they won't let them fail. They'll let individuals lose their livelihoods of course, since it's rugged individualism for all of us lowley normal people. But corporate socialism will keep the big players afloat.
by ChrisMarshallNY | 2026-02-27 22:32:11+00:00
> You can't shoot someone with a computer, no matter what OS you run.

No, you can just target-lock them. The computer database (and now, LLM) is probably the biggest threat to freedom in existence. You can keep your popgun. They'll know where it is, and come with bigger ones.

China be doing some pretty heavy-duty damage with computers, but age-gates won't stop them.
by litenboll | 2026-02-27 22:32:40+00:00
Thanks for the answers!
I just want to point out that I don't think a reminder to use powers is enough. Right now you can lose on the next piece after using a power since it resolves it before you get the chance, which feels unfair.
I think you should have the option to use a power as a last option always. It's technically one of your available moves, so it shouldn't matter that the piece you are on doesn't fit, in my opinion.
by ivankelly | 2026-02-27 22:32:49+00:00
There’s queries and there’s queries. Many queries are effectively undefined bookmarks. You know this exists but haven’t saved it but your know a few key words to get to it. “Rustdoc moka api”.
And then there’s the “I’m researching a subject queries”.
Google used to be useful for both. But for the later case it send to have gotten worse. Which is irrelevant because LLMs are so much better. So people will use LLMs for these usecases.
So Google search basically becomes a phonebook. And that’s easy to emulate. Their calculator is still my go to though
by jvandreae | 2026-02-27 22:32:51+00:00
> Doesn't it bother you more that a former president (now president) tried to stop a vote count?

It bothers me more that he failed to prevent the 2020 election from being stolen. This term is going pretty good so far, maybe it was for the best!

> The fact that you lack the awareness of how mad and self-destructive this administration is, not just internally within the USA, but also the destruction of decades of soft power, is truly mind-blowing to me.

After decades of the left worming it's way into every institution and attempting to exclude rightists, the right destroying the left's soft power is just. We aren't playing the game where leftists can exclude rightist but not the reverse any more. Time for some of your own medicine.

> If you think that the demands for rights of a fraction of a minority are "totally mad and self-destructive", but what's happening every week since the administration took over is normal, then I don't think we're operating in the same reality plane.

Which rights are these? The right to groom children into chopping off their dick? The rights of the whole world to violate our immigration law?
by Analemma_ | 2026-02-27 22:33:02+00:00
They'll probably try, but the problem is everyone actually using these models knows Grok sucks: [0].

> Demand from other agencies to use Grok has been anemic, people familiar with the matter said, except in a few cases where people wanted to use it to mimic a bad actor for defensive testing.

[0]: https://www.wsj.com/politics/national-security/elon-musk-xai...?
by rpdillon | 2026-02-27 22:33:14+00:00
Weird, I switched to DDG years ago, I used !g for a couple of years, but I don't really ever use Google anymore. I don't seem to struggle to find things, so I wonder what's up. Maybe I'm just training myself to be OK with something that isn't optimal. That said, Google seems pretty spammy these days (i.e. actual search results below the fold in many cases).
by christoff12 | 2026-02-27 22:33:29+00:00
> Models are getting 99% more efficient every 3 years - to get the same amount of output, combined with hardware and (mostly) software upgrades - you can use 99% less power.

Even if true, this still doesn't bend the curve when paying for the next model.

> If AI stopped progressing today, it would take probably a decade or longer for us to take full advantage of it. So there is tons of forward looking revenue that isn't counted yet.

If this is true, it's true for the technology overall, and not necessarily OpenAI since inference would get commoditized quickly at that point. OpenAI could continue to have a capital advantage as a public stock, but I don't think it would if the music stopped.
by Supermancho | 2026-02-27 22:33:43+00:00
> Term limits are anti-democratic, and it's just a way for voters to not take responsibility for their voting.

That is one aspect, but not the important one. The most important element is anti-corruption. Legal bodies can always entrench themselves and their own interests. Term limits significantly weakens entrenchment...excepting when the same legal bodies inevitably gut it.
by lapcat | 2026-02-27 22:34:00+00:00
> What I said was his impact on California has been significant in part because of the business he created and the people that business employs having a significant impact.

Yes, he co-founded Google in 1998, nobody disputes that. But how is that relevant to his personal tax rate in 2026?

You're changing the subject, because we were talking about things Page is doing now, not what he did in the past. I was responding to this: "The Page Family operates a number of philanthropic initiatives, non-profits, and other companies outside of Alphabet."

> I never made this claim. Not sure why you are.

What are you arguing, exactly?

> I hope you are not suggesting that he is breaking some law here by choosing to relocate to a more favorable financial environment for him.

No. Paul Graham claimed that California cost itself by driving away Page, whereas I suggested that California wasn't actually losing much by doing so, since Page probably doesn't pay much in taxes now.

> There are lots of economic theories (especially around capitalism). You are assuming laissez-faire somehow trumps others? Why?

I am not a proponent of laissez-faire capitalism. However, many people are proponents, and argue that it leads to the best outcome for society. My point is that nobody, except perhaps the billionaires themselves believes that governments competing for the presence of billionaires leads to the best outcome for society. To me it seems like the worst of all possible worlds.
by evanelias | 2026-02-27 22:34:45+00:00
Yeah the first two novels were credited to their "Grant Naylor" partnership, and they're both excellent.

After that, they each wrote an additional Red Dwarf novel individually / separately. Personally I've never come across those last two novels, although I always check for them whenever visiting a used book store. Maybe they were only released in the UK. They're available on Amazon in the US, but I haven't quite given up hope on stumbling across them naturally yet...
by runlevel1 | 2026-02-27 22:35:33+00:00
Just last week, two NYPD cops were indicted for evidence tampering for doing exactly that.

The indicted cops responded to an off-duty cop's DUI crash. They texted each other on their personal phones so as not to create a record. They positioned their bodycams so as not to capture the incident. At one point, one of the cops held the other's to make it look as if he was still standing there while he secretly called their supervisor. They then let the drunk cop drive away. Hours later, another officer found the car parked on the sidewalk. That officer did finally arrest him.

"These police officers did their job. We should not be here today," said union president Patrick Hendry, who accused the DA of targeting the officers. "He needs to support officers instead of going after them. Enough is enough."

To their credit, these charges came based on a referral from NYPD's Internal Affairs Bureau, though it was 4 years later.

Article: https://www.nytimes.com/2026/02/20/nyregion/nypd-dui-coverup...
by small_model | 2026-02-27 22:36:13+00:00
February 23, 2026: The Pentagon confirmed a new agreement allowing Grok use in classified systems. Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth announced it would go live soon on unclassified and classified networks, alongside other models, as part of feeding military data into AI.

Elon mentioned they will be releasing a cli coding tool for grok similar to Claude Code, will be interesting to see how it performs given they have their own datacenter (largest in the world and building another larger one)
by tehjoker | 2026-02-27 22:37:40+00:00
Reading the report, they point to some shitty tweets with like 12 views and at most a handful of likes. Reminds me of "Russiagate"

When governments and their major corporations level accusations at countries that are regarded as official enemies, you have to ask two questions (1) what is the actual evidence and (2) what is the level of impact

Meanwhile when you want to ask about U.S. influence operations... like they time we probably killed a lot of people by spreading disinformation about the COVID vaccine because we didn't want China to look good.

https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2024/6/14/pentagon-ran-secret...
by ethbr1 | 2026-02-27 22:37:41+00:00
Or as I tell my Apple-philic tech friends: your devices are a single year of flat revenue away from user-hostile decisions.

At the end of the day, Apple exists to make money and keep shareholders happy.

If the business stops growing organically, do you really think they're going to benevolently use the massive control they have over their own platform?

"Apple" isn't privacy-focused. Their marketing strategy is currently privacy-focused and their economics currently permit them to be.
by palmotea | 2026-02-27 22:37:51+00:00
> The difference in philosophy between NASA's current approach and SpaceX is quite stark. SpaceX has launched 11 Starships in the two and a bit years, with a lot of them blowing up. Where as Artemis is trying to get it near perfect on each run.

> I wonder if NASA could start to adopt SpaceX like approaches? Where one doesn't try to get everything correct before acting?

My understanding is the difference is politics. The US political system is dysfunctional, and so riven by anti-government factions, that there's too much pressure to not fail.

If NASA tried the SpaceX approach, after the second rocket blew up NASA's administrator would have been hauled in front of Congress and interrogated over the "waste of taxpayer money" and then the program may get canceled.
by gurjeet | 2026-02-27 22:37:52+00:00
> Browser Not Supported
>
> PCB Tracer requires a browser that supports access to a local directory.
> This is needed to save and load your PCB Tracer project files.
>
> Please use Google Chrome or Microsoft Edge for the best experience.

On Firefox, after bypassing the ominous warnings, when I tried to create a new project and choose a directory to save the project files, I get

> Directory picker is not supported in this browser. Please use a modern browser like Chrome or Edge.

While I appreciate the early warning, so that the user doesn't spend too much effort only to later realize that they can't save their files to disk, I don't appreciate the implicit labeling of Firefox as not being a "modern" browser.

If you're developing a web app with APIs only available in certain browsers, just say/admit so.
by taeric | 2026-02-27 22:37:55+00:00
No. This works if you are able to tell a work of fiction and don't have to provide evidence.

And it works because we all know that repetition and practice are, in fact, important. So it feels believable that having people just repeat something over and over is the answer.

Similarly, people can be swayed by the master coming in and producing a single artifact that blows away everyone. You see this archetype story as often as the student that learns by just repeating a motion over and over. (Indeed.... this is literally the Karate Kid plot...)

The truth is far more mundane. Yes, you have to repeat things. But also yes, you have to give thought to what you are doing. This is why actual art classes aren't just "lets build things", but also "lets learn how to critique things that you build."
by jmspring | 2026-02-27 22:38:14+00:00
I'm in the process of de-googling. It will take time (changing third party contact emails - banks, etc is annoying) - I honestly wish there was the equivalent of "moving" where emails could be updated the same way.

DDG - I love the premise, but their search relies too heavily on Bing which - worked for msft, etc... - no idea why it sucks so much.

Claude/etc for search - artificial guardrails. "Hey give me an example of Charlie Kirk being a homophobe" - "I can't do that". Contrived example, but realistic result.

Google started out as a non-opinionated (outside of link weight) search engine that is now gemini and bs. But even search is not useful. DDG tries, but responses are sub-par.
by braingravy | 2026-02-27 22:38:14+00:00
Isn’t it more of a reflection of the current law? Age gates have long been self service (e.g., “enter your birthday”), and we have laws on the books for quite some time barring minors.

There is certainly a risk of what you’re describing with KYC tech that coming online, but I don’t know if that means it will happen.

To play devils advocate; It’s a reasonable demand from parents to control what their children are exposed to. This seems to support that.
by Glyptodon | 2026-02-27 22:38:23+00:00
I think a further development is that skeptics are, in many contexts, losing the tools and leverage needed to reject the grifters.

For example, if you need cell phone service, and all the options have converged on requiring binding arbitration, being a skeptic about binding arbitration will not help you.

Maybe more on point, if you want to be an AI skeptic, but are also aware that AI can work, how can you establish a plausible level of skepticism accurately? Laypeople probably can't.

So the rise of grift might also be seen as a sign of the systemic frustration of effective skepticism.
by voxleone | 2026-02-27 22:38:24+00:00
It is interesting that Google translates the first paragraph of the text like this>>

"And the word he spoke was all like this. He was a hired hand, and he was full of malice, and he was in ƿælfæst. He didn't remember the man's name. He was in gefeohte(...)"

It says Icelandic.:)
by simoncion | 2026-02-27 22:40:31+00:00
> "Just" seven US Letter pages?

Yes. It's the syntax alongside prose explaining the behavior in detail. Go give it a read.

If you want documentation that's done up in the "modern" style, then you'll prefer that one-page cheat sheet that that guy made. I find that "modern" documentation tends to leave it up to each reader to discover the non-obvious parts of the behavior for themselves.

> I find Python ... easier to understand.

Have you read the [0] docs for Python's 'subprocess' library? The [1] docs for Python's 'multiprocess' library? Or many of the other libraries in the Python standard library that deal with nontrivial process and I/O management? Unless you want to underdocument and leave important parts of the behavior for users to incorrectly guess, such documentation is going to be much larger than a cheat sheet would be.

[0] ...twenty-five pages of...

[1] ...fifty-nine pages of...
by Nevermark | 2026-02-27 22:41:06+00:00
Circular investing can be a smoke screen.

But it can also simply be the financial framing for direct bartering. Which is even more direct than regular financial transactions.

"I will provide these resources you need, in exchange for part ownership", and/or "a limited license to your tech", "right to provide access to our customers on these terms", Etc."

Amazon doesn't need any frothy fake revenue. But they do want to offer their customers the most in demand models, with the best financial terms for Amazon.

Nvidia wants customers, but not at the expense of throwing money away. Their market cap may be volatile, but their books are beyond solid.

I would be a lot more concerned if OpenAI was getting "funding" from a quantum computer startup, and vice versa.
by Tadpole9181 | 2026-02-27 22:41:17+00:00
All American institutions are hemorrhaging talent and knowledge, their foundations intentionally being rotted out. The kleptocrats running the departments and military don't care if we are competent or if their job is done - because their real job is to steal every last drop of wealth they can.

So this whole thing screams of a charade to give Elon Musk more of our hard-earned money as a favor from Trump.
by paganel | 2026-02-27 22:41:26+00:00
That was in the cards since Hegseth's initial announcement, when he brandished the option for Anthropic to be put on the same level as China and Russia, i.e. the same level as State enemies of the US. Got to give it tho Anthropic's CEO, I had first though that he'd give in faster, looks like he's still clinging on.

Also see what happened to Joseph Nacchio in the early 2000s [1]:

> He was convicted of 19 counts of insider trading in Qwest stock on April 19, 2007[2] – charges his defense team claimed were U.S. government retaliation for his refusal to give customer data to the National Security Agency in February, 2001.

Unfortunately, I think the same thing is in the cards now for Anthropic's CEO, that is if he doesn't choose to play ball.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joseph_Nacchio
by Galxeagle | 2026-02-27 22:41:50+00:00
I had a lightbulb moment when someone said 'the point of iterative approaches is not to find bugs, it's to do something (small) successfully and build confidence+learn'. There's a subtle but important difference between the iterative approach that SpaceX takes and 'debugging through exhaustive retries', and I'm worried NASA would look like the latter (and admittedly, some of the more recent starship launches look that way too).

The ability to pick a small-but-well-defined goal as an interim milestone - and stay focused on it - is a key skill, and too often I've seen waterfall-like companies slowly scope-creep their first MVP until it's a lumbering mess. You almost always need someone with a strong personality to push team to 'get it done', and that level of ownership is really hard to come by in an organization historically built around ass-covering.

I think Commercial Crew is the right model for NASA. Pick the design objectives, provide some level of scaffolding regulation (i.e loss-of-crew calculations), and then contract out to private sector to actually 'get it done'. (Yes Starliner was a failure, but Dragon is definitely a success. A 50% hit rate and success of the program overall is better than Artemis)
by hosh | 2026-02-27 22:42:15+00:00
What about:

- servers living in datacenters

- realtime operating systems in embedded devices

- the Intel Management Engine

- the OS on every smart chip in credit cards and debit cards

- wireless cameras, roombas, smart TVs, smart fridges

- cars. Those automotive
systems have OSes too right?

- all those IoT devices, including California’s traffic cameras

What age signals should those devices send out? Is there an exclusionary clause?
by NickAndresen | 2026-02-27 22:42:41+00:00
"They have threatened to remove us from their systems if we maintain these safeguards; they have also threatened to designate us a “supply chain risk”—a label reserved for US adversaries, never before applied to an American company—and to invoke the Defense Production Act to force the safeguards’ removal. These latter two threats are inherently contradictory: one labels us a security risk; the other labels Claude as essential to national security." from Dario's statement (https://www.anthropic.com/news/statement-department-of-war)
by JumpCrisscross | 2026-02-27 22:42:51+00:00
This is going to have two unintended consequences.

One, it’s going to fuck with the AI fundraising market. That includes for IPO. If Trump can do this to Anthropic, a Dem President will do it to xAI. We have no idea where the contagion stops.

Two, Anthropic will win in the long run. In corporate America. Overseas. And with consumers. And, I suspect, with investors.