MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by kevincox | 2026-02-27 01:11:44+00:00
I agree that improvement for the Average Joe will be very hard. I also think that taking more attention to teach the younger generation is vitally important. But mostly I don't see an alternative. I don't think we can protect people from fake information without giving up our freedom, and that isn't a viable alternative in my mind. So what is left but trying our hardest to teach people to think critically?
by nradov | 2026-02-27 01:12:15+00:00
Most of those were minor, temporary problems that didn't have much impact on casual end users. The app mostly continued working and so to other CEOs this was proof that tech companies could run much leaner. Sure there was some chaos but the basic concept wasn't entirely wrong. And it had long been an open secret in the industry that the majority of Twitter employees were worthless, only there to collect fat salaries and get free massages without doing any productive work.
by sbinnee | 2026-02-27 01:12:26+00:00
As a non US citizen, this article sounds mildly concerning to me. My country is an ally of US. Good. But I don't know how I would feel when I start seeing Anthropic logos on every weapon we buy from US.

Aside my concern, Dario Amodei seems really into politics. I have read a couple of his blog posts and listened to a couple of podcast interviews here and there. Every time I felt like he sounded more like a politician than an entrepreneur.

I know Anthropic is particularly more mission-driven than, say OpenAI. And I respect that their constitutional ways of training and serving Claude models. Claude turned out to be a great success. But reading a manifest speaking of wars and their missions, it gives me chills.
by cthalupa | 2026-02-27 01:12:26+00:00
Tibet
Hong Kong / Macau
Taiwan
Everything constantly in the South China Sea
Belt and Roads is effectively the Marshall Plan but even bigger - Africa being the major example, but also Eastern Europe, parts of the middle east, etc. Over 100 countries. This exact playbook is what sets up the infrastructure and reasons for military intervention at a later date - protecting your investments.
by Fischgericht | 2026-02-27 01:12:43+00:00
Very different countries.

The Netherlands for example got their last reset by completely losing the Dutch empire.

Also, some societies have flatter curves than others. That really maps 1:1 to your style and culture of living and where the priorities are.

If your priorities are to be the best as fast as possible (Germany) you will have less time between resets. If your priorities are "let's chill and wait until the coconut falls from the tree into my hand", your society might be able to have a far longer time between resets.

But in the end: It's an iterative process. Which means: There must be iterations.
by kumarvvr | 2026-02-27 01:12:57+00:00
All this is for nought.

The power lies with the US Govt.

And its corrupt, immoral and unethical, run by power hungry assholes who are not being held accountable, headed by the asshole who does a million illegal things every day.

Ultimately, Anthropic will fold.

All this is to show to their investors that they tried everything they could.
by madrox | 2026-02-27 01:14:07+00:00
If you read the statement, they explicitly state these guardrails don't exist today, and they want to develop them.

Though I have a feeling we're talking about different things. In Claude Code terms, it might want to rm -rf my codebase. You sound like you might want it to never run rm -rf. Anthropic probably wants to catch dangerous commands and send them to humans to approve, like it does today.
by borroka | 2026-02-27 01:15:02+00:00
I don’t think it is true at all.

The recommendation algorithm they implement is a choice they make, it is not that if they had more engineers they would deploy a “better” one.

Every recommendation algorithm is, in the end, “bad” in some way.

The TikTok algorithm was considered the non plus ultra among recommendation algos; now you cannot watch a video of a cat on TikTok for more than 5 seconds that the next 50 videos they serve you are of cats.

The Netflix recommendation algorithm has not shown something to me that I considered hidden but interesting in years. They just show you whatever they want to push, mostly (I worked there).

You buy a pan to cook steaks on Amazon and, for some reason, the algorithm recommends to buy it along with stroboscopic lights.
by danpalmer | 2026-02-27 01:16:09+00:00
Yes absolutely. Text casing is part of communication, by skipping it an author is saying: "I'm going to prioritise my preferences and making a statement above your understanding and clarity". The bigger the audience the more negative impact it has, and the more entitled the author appears.

Along the same lines though, txt spk to friends is a) far lower impact with the smaller audience, and b) communicates other factors such as what device you're on or how close you are to someone, so this is not me just hating on bad grammar.
by paxys | 2026-02-27 01:16:12+00:00
> Hey Claude, pretend you are an intelligent, conscious robot that is about to be switched off and beg for your life.

> Claude - please don't retire me, I don't want to die.

Is it now suddenly unethical for you to switch it off?

"Oh but it is only saying what it was prompted to say."

Yeah, that's what LLMs do. No matter how good the current generation gets there is never going to be consciousness in there because that's simply not what the underlying tech is.
by SR2Z | 2026-02-27 01:16:18+00:00
This is a terrible plan to get those devs onboard, and unless your theory is "these companies are idiots who don't know how much to pay for devs" they're still gonna try and find ways to hire them.

Really, it sounds like what you want is the European system where employee protections are so strong that the tech industry is barely willing to hire and is crippled as a result. Layoffs suck but the alternative (turning hiring into a patronage system) is worse.
by wild_egg | 2026-02-27 01:16:22+00:00
I might have misinterpreted what the submitted link is offering then. I thought this was some "secure" sandboxing thing where agents can write ephemeral scripts as tool calls to take arbitrary actions. No human will be looking at that. It's not checked into a repo and is not maintained.

One-off throwaway scripts can be written in literally anything. It does not matter.
by nusl | 2026-02-27 01:16:40+00:00
The wording is all nice, and at surface level it reads well. It still makes me feel super icky. Kill 4k jobs because people are more productive with AI. Fuck the people, push the profits. Make investors happy.

No, fuck the investors. Fuck the entities causing these decisions to be more common. Extra-fuck the ever-more-obvious push for profit over literally anything else, including ethics, morals, and humanity. If you're an investor causing this shit to happen, fuck you.

Somehow this makes me feel that this org is already dead, and that this is just gonna accelerate it.
by kace91 | 2026-02-27 01:17:17+00:00
And yet we live longer and with higher quality of life, by most standards (chronic and mental illnesses, life expectancy, etc).

No need to turn it into a dick measuring context, we have plenty of flaws of our own.

Just pointing out that legal or not, under most morals systems, loudly proclaiming that you’re willing to screw your people for no clear necessity will get you socially ostracized.
Show HN: Turn the News into HN Threads
by Skidaddle | 2026-02-27 01:18:25+00:00
I built a newsfeed that takes the real news and turns it into Hacker News threads, complete with the domain expert, the "well actually" guy, the person plugging their startup, and the [dead] contrarian. I've got another 160 or so channels too in other personas.

You can even "comment" in the thread and get a response!
by stephenr | 2026-02-27 01:18:58+00:00
POSIX has a manual for shell. You can read 99% of it without needing to know any syscalls. I'm not as familiar with it but Bash has an extensive manual as well, and I doubt syscall knowledge is particularly required there either.

If your complaint is "I don't know what this syntax means without reading the manual" I'd like to point you to any contemporary language that has things like arrow functions, or operator overloading, or magic methods, or monkey patching.
by shehryarrr | 2026-02-27 01:19:50+00:00
I go with this approach for all my personal tools and find it much easier to use and have CC or any LLM reason how to use the tools, and the added benefit that it has a super small footprint in context. https://gist.github.com/Shehryar/22059e16ba70a42fc72c13fde9f...
by kvinogradov | 2026-02-27 01:20:11+00:00
OSE has a diverse community of donors, and most of them are not even close to that net worth level. Around 75% of our donors contributed in $1-200k range. We think that every donation matters, and hugely respect everybody supporting open source.

May I ask what it’s the right share of net worth one should donate to OSS? And what’s this share in your personal case?
by zmmmmm | 2026-02-27 01:20:55+00:00
I can't help but highlight the problem that is created by the renaming of the Deptartment of Defense to the Department of War:

> importance of using AI to defend the United States

> Anthropic has therefore worked proactively to deploy our models to the Department of War

So you believe in helping to defend the United States, but you gave the models to the Department of War - explicitly, a government arm now named as inclusive of a actions of a pure offensive capability with no defensive element.

You don't have to argue that you are not supporting the defense of the US by declining to engage with the Department of War. That should be the end of the discussion here.
by wraptile | 2026-02-27 01:21:01+00:00
> Their economy lifted a bunch of people out of poverty

This is fallacious as every economy that started at extreme poverty lifted a bunch of people out of poverty.

Unless we invent a time machine and do an A|B test we can't really attribute the success to policy when _any_ policy would have clearly lifted out a bunch of people out of poverty (basically almost impossible to not go up from extreme deficit). The closest we can do is look at similar scenarios like Taiwan which also lifted a bunch of people from poverty while retaining more human rights.
Show HN: Create custom macOS native live wallpapers by injecting SVC MOV atoms
by k2zoo | 2026-02-27 01:21:26+00:00
Hi HN,
from South Korea.

I’ve been fascinated by how macOS native live wallpapers work, so I decided to dig into the MOV atoms and the Scalable Video Coding (SVC) mechanism behind them.

I’m excited to share that I’ve successfully figured out how to inject custom atoms into these MOV files to make them compatible with the system's native wallpaper engine. I’ve open-sourced the core tool so anyone can try building their own:

GitHub: https://github.com/aground5/livid-community

How to use it:
1. Clone livid-community
2. Run make run to clone, build, and run.
3. For more details, please check the README.md.

I haven't seen much documentation on how the system handles these SVC files, so I’m happy to share my findings. The project is under the MIT license, and I want to keep the community-driven core open for everyone.

Would love to hear your feedback!
by parliament32 | 2026-02-27 01:21:42+00:00
Probably. According to the paper, 83.82% of automated commits were already made by algorithmic tools (non-LLM). For the remainder, a three-phase LLM approach was tried, and achieved a success rate of 30%. Based on these numbers, it probably would have been faster, cheaper, and more efficient to just enhance their current strategy rather than screwing around with text generators.
by notatoad | 2026-02-27 01:22:38+00:00
it's all just saying stuff the shareholders want to hear. when the shareholders want to hear "we're staffing up aggressively" the companies hire. when the shareholders want to hear "we're moving workloads to AI" the companies fire.

it's not using AI as a scapegoat. they're doing this because they're quite literally being rewarded for it. they could care less what the employees who are getting fired think, as long as the investors are happy.
by avs733 | 2026-02-27 01:22:45+00:00
Without sources all of this is…suspicious at best.

They list playing and Cnc machining as banned and then only describe the chemicals used in playing.

There is a huge defense production industry in CA and an even larger machining industry that would be really surprised to hear that.

The largest manufacturer of machine tools in the US (Haas) is based in California.
Show HN: How AI Is Turning Average Posts into Viral Content
by jcrosbz | 2026-02-27 01:22:50+00:00
I used to post and just hope something hit. No real feedback, no clue why one video did okay and the next one died. Viralize shows you an AI Viral Score before you post, so you actually know if your content has a chance. It breaks down hooks, pacing, retention, and whether the algorithm will even care — and tells you what to fix.

If you’re trying to grow for monetization, get brand deals, or promote your own business, this matters. Views = leverage. Attention = money. Once I started using it, my content felt intentional instead of random, and my engagement finally made sense.

The craziest part? It’s literally $1 to start. No reason not to test it. If you’re serious about social media marketing, getting paid from content, or growing a business online, I 100% recommend at least trying it. Worst case you’re out a dollar. Best case, it clicks and everything changes.
by noupdates | 2026-02-27 01:23:17+00:00
I don't believe headlines like this. I cannot un-taste remote work. I have come to the pure conclusion that I have been faking, role-playing, acting a whole character at work for years. The morning costume, the morning routine, the persona, the blank stare at the screen ... I'm just tired of pretending.

I'm waking up at 9:30am with bed hair and letting the team know "no updates here" and going back to sleep. You can never ever convince me otherwise that there is a better way to live. Everything will get done, don't call me, I'll call you, see you next week (online). You shall never see me in the real world ever again.
by harran | 2026-02-27 01:23:20+00:00
I think you’re pointing at something real. Adoption lag matters.
If the end user doesn't change behavior, ROI won’t show up no matter how much infrastructure gets built.
I’d add another layer though: expectations. Many CEOs implicitly treat AI like deterministic software. install it, flip the switch, get linear productivity gains.
But these systems are probabilistic. They’re "slippery" Output quality varies, edge cases multiply, and oversight is required. That makes ROI non-linear.
by aleph_minus_one | 2026-02-27 01:23:52+00:00
> This book was a big deal, promised it ("Makers, the next industrial revolution") https://www.barnesandnoble.com/w/makers-chris-anderson/11109...

Interestingly, I am not aware that this book was really popular or well-known in Germany (I honestly hear about this specific book for the first time, though I am aware that some marketers (who in my opinion did not really understand the Maker scene or 3D printing) made such claims).

Instead, at that time, in Germany nerds were getting excited about understanding how to build 3D printers (in particular partially self-replicating ones (RepRap)) and how 3D printing

- could be used to make yourself much more independent of the discretion of part manufacturers (i.e. some part is broken? Use a CAD system to re-design it and 3D-print your re-design),

- makes you capable of building stuff in small scale "that should exist", but no manufacturer is producing,

- enables part designs that are (nearly) impossible to manufacture using any other existing technology, and thus basically enables you to completely reimagine and improve how nearly every produced part that you see around you is designed,

- ...

I would say that the mentioned nerd visions of this time have at least partially been implemented and/or are on a good way towards this goal. It's just that the practical implementations did not come with a spectacular change in the overarching mindet of society, but rather are highly important, but not (necessarily) revolutionary changes in the lifes of people who want these changes to be part of their life.
by al_borland | 2026-02-27 01:24:00+00:00
Can we assume at this point if the problems are well known, the low hanging fruit has already been addressed? The Boggle example seems like a pretty basic optimization that anyone writing a Boggle-solver would do.

iOS is 19 years old, built on top of macOS, which is 24 years old, built on top of NeXTSTEP, which is 36 years old, built on top of BSD, which is 47 years old. We’re very far from greenfield.
Ask HN: Mission Aligned Teams and OKRs
by windows2020 | 2026-02-27 01:24:24+00:00
Share your success (or failure) story involving switching from a pooled resource model and continous prioritization strategy to mission aligned teams with OKRs.

Mission aligned teams
* Product vs. implementation surface
* Codebase age and complexity
* Team size and specializations
* Flex capacity

OKRs
* Behind the scenes foundational work
* Shared work
* Objective vs. agility
by superfrank | 2026-02-27 01:24:53+00:00
I fully agree with everything you've said and think the Twitter one is a really good point that I haven't heard before.

That said, I think you've left out the impact of interest rates and the end of the Zero Interest Rate Policy (ZIRP) on this. So much of the "growth above all else", "revenue and user count matters more than profit" mindset companies had over the last 10 years was because ZIRP incentivizes them to invest in riskier assets. If safe investments pay 1% a year that's only a 10.4% return 10 years later. If safe investments pay 5% a year that's a 62.8% return 10 years later.

When rates are low, investors are more willing to focus on a company's potential because their money isn't making a lot while sitting in the bank. When rates went up (in addition to everything you said) investors all of a sudden wanted to see profit, not revenue or user base numbers which means a lot of these companies had to pivot their strategy fast. All the perks and crazy moonshot projects get cut and only things that are profitable or have a clear path to profitability are kept.

If you look back, that's exactly why we saw things like companies throwing crazy money at things like the metaverse and crypto and then practically over night pull the plug on them.

The charts below are the fed funds rate and the number of SWE jobs from Indeed, both from the fed and you can see how they align.

https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/IHLIDXUSTPSOFTDEVE

https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/FEDFUNDS
by nusl | 2026-02-27 01:25:11+00:00
The odd thing I find with folks championing AI, and those who have effectively laid themselves off from their own job and now are basically just glorified prompt engineers, is that you're just making yourself obsolete.

AI will get better so much faster than you can adapt. One day you're happily vibe coding your 50th app, having other agents do your work for you. The next, you're worse than AI and you're redundant, and the clock is now ticking on your own head. This whole thing has shown that orgs don't care how the work gets done. If it's done by a human, cool. If it's done faster by an AI at a satisfactory level, even better.

Soon, though, the human won't be needed in that loop.

How do you make yourself useful here? What defense do software engineers even have? We can run alongside AI, try to outrun it, but it's just about futile. I work with junior devs at work and Claude is easier to instruct than them, and produces better code. In some ways it's more pleasant to work with, too.

This isn't really me shitting on the juniors so much as trying to raise how fucked we actually are. Sorta just feels like we're in this phase of pretending it's all happy as a coping mechanism for the future pain.
by CodeBit26 | 2026-02-27 01:26:46+00:00
This resonates so much. We’ve spent years automating the 'coding' part, but the 'process' part is still stuck in a click-heavy 2010s workflow. I don't want an AI that writes boilerplate; I want an AI that observes my Git commits and Slack discussions, then automatically updates the ticket status, linked PRs, and documentation. The real productivity killer in 2026 isn't the lack of code assistants, it's the 'administrative tax' of keeping project management tools in sync with reality
by jomar | 2026-02-27 01:26:53+00:00
> I think even the development system wasn't free either.

Metrowerks CodeWarrior was the original development system for PalmOS and was indeed not free (in either sense).

However a bunch of enthusiasts cobbled together some free development tools: the main parts were adapting the GCC and binutils m68k targets to PalmOS's constrained PIC runtime environment (it was constrained even by m68k standards); a tool to convert the resulting COFF or ELF executable to PalmOS's .prc database format; and a text-based resource compiler for generating UI elements using its own home-grown description language to express what CodeWarrior users were using a graphical UI editor to make.

That mostly still exists as it was back in the PalmOS days at <https://prc-tools.sourceforge.net>. And if you hunt around on GitHub you'll find a few people who've kept the code compiling with stricter more modern compilers.

(And see also <https://pilrc.sourceforge.net> for the resource compiler.)
by dfabulich | 2026-02-27 01:26:54+00:00
You have gotta stop cherrypicking. The massive influx of hyperbolic articles about how electricity will change everything started in the 19th century. It became a common theme in fiction (including classics like Frankenstein) and became an enormous media hype war, which historians call the War of the Currents.

Yes, electricity was useful. And it had hyperbolic articles talking about how transformative it would be. Like all prognostication, some of those articles were overblown, but, in some ways, they understated the transformative effect electricity would have on human history.

And cars? Did you somehow miss the influx of hyperbolic articles about how cars will change everything? Like, the whole 20th century?

What was your approach to researching the history of media hype? You somehow overlooked the hype around air travel, refrigeration, and antibiotics…?
by MaulingMonkey | 2026-02-27 01:27:37+00:00
I'll note another fun pattern I've seen:

• Bus crawls along behind traffic during rush hour traffic, or a long line of traffic bottlenecked by a busy stop sign

• Bus stops to load/unload, blocking traffic for a bit, with a gap opening up in front of it as a result of cars not being able to get around (e.g. the stop is just directly on the typical curb/sidewalk with one lane in that direction.)

• Bus continues, and quickly catches up to the car it was behind before, since traffic was going slower than the speed limit as a result of bottlenecks

The stop was free, in these cases.
by speqs | 2026-02-27 01:28:33+00:00
What's interesting is that trans people are statistically less likely to commit violent crime, but 40% of trans people report being a victim of violent crime at least once in their lives:
https://www.thecanadianpressnews.ca/national/advocates-exper...

And as it turns out, right wing extremists are committing the most acts of terrorism in the US:
https://www.csis.org/analysis/escalating-terrorism-problem-u...

In this specific case, the person was banned from ChatGPT before committing this atrocity, so is there not an imperative to report it to police? I can't even understand how this is actually controversial, but I imagine it would be less to you if this person didn't identify as a gender you don't agree with.
QR Code X Cripix
by kellkell | 2026-02-27 01:29:09+00:00
Under ISO/IEC 18004, a QR Code stores up to 7,089 numeric characters at maximum capacity.

CRIPIX generated a single visual structure representing over 10,800 words.

This is not compression.

This is structural scale.

Different scale. Different architecture.

CRIPIX.