MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by tim333 | 2026-02-28 23:27:10+00:00
Trump seems to have thought it through a bit. Recent post:

>...This is the single greatest chance for the Iranian people to take back their Country. We are hearing that many of their IRGC, Military, and other Security and Police Forces, no longer want to fight, and are looking for Immunity from us. As I said last night, “Now they can have Immunity, later they only get Death!” Hopefully, the IRGC and Police will peacefully merge with the Iranian Patriots, and work together as a unit to bring back the Country to the Greatness it deserves...

The merge peacefully or die thing may motivate them.
by samiv | 2026-02-28 23:27:21+00:00
Technology doesn't do anything by itself. The result of it on the fabric of the society depends on how it is applied, whether the benefits are distributed to everyone (to some extent) or not. It's possible that taby technology is just used to displace people who lose their livelihoods and income while the benefits flow the capital owning class. In fact all the great productivity boosts that have taken place over the last decades since WW2 have mostly befitted the capital class. That's why a worker still grinds away 8h a week and barely scares by while the "elites" splurge on yacths, mansions and space travel for leisure.
Show HN: OpenClaw-kapso, Give OpenClaw a stable WhatsApp number (Go, kapso.ai)
by enriquefft | 2026-02-28 23:27:39+00:00
Built an OpenClaw plugin that gives your agent a WhatsApp number through the official Cloud API via Kapso).
Polling works out of the box, or use Tailscale Funnel for sub-second latency without needing a domain.
v0.1.0, I'm the only user so far. Would love any kind of feedback.
by broadsidepicnic | 2026-02-28 23:28:45+00:00
I think I should refrain from commenting political posts, but this one has a possibility of being something major.

However, looking at how the US president has abused power, silenced those who are against the draft dodging crybaby and his league of human trafficking millionaires, I feel this is yet another try to move focus from US domestic probs to something else. I see no honesty or greater reason for this attack or justification for it. While I'm no fan of Iran's autocratic regime, US is slipping towards into being one, as well.

US president has now active war operations in Venezuela, soon lightning the Cuba situation on fire as well, not to forget planning to take Greenland and Canada, too.

That's honestly not bad for the president of peace. Nobel committee should take a look at nominating this guy for a peace prize
by classichasclass | 2026-02-28 23:29:10+00:00
It's a bit of both, but I think the bigger issue (at least in my experience) is the magnetic flux pattern, especially if you've got new-old-stock media that hasn't been written to much or physically damaged. If you successfully remaster the old floppy to a new one in good condition, you ought to get a good many years out of the new disk. Of course, it would also be a good time to image that floppy and store it somewhere else.

On the other hand, there are many good disk drive emulators for the Commodore 64 now and these can be had for fairly cheaply (like a SD2IEC with a Epyx FastLoad combination), which will avoid the whole problem. I still use floppies with my 128, but I also push disk images and programs to it with a 1541-Ultimate.
by socalgal2 | 2026-02-28 23:29:49+00:00
Thanks for this!

Has there been any study of grammar and other word order effects in the result? Is "Dog fetches ball with tail" more likely to produce an image of dog with a ball grabbed with its tail than "tail ball dog fetch with"?

Like search engines, an issue is user searched for "best price on windows". Do they mean windows the OS or glass windows.

My impression, at least with image generation I've used, it's while there is some mapping of words and maybe phrases through the latent space to an image it's very weak. If you put "red ball" in a long prompt, it's nearly as likely "red" will get applied to some other part of the description than the ball.
by roughly | 2026-02-28 23:30:13+00:00
I’ve been a pretty die hard Mac user for 25-odd years now (I own a HomePod, for fuck sake), but this is the first time I’ve taken pains to _not_ update to the latest OS. The Tahoe UI/UX is really just inexcusable, and nothing else I’ve heard or seen makes me willing to put up with it. I’m very much hoping they course correct soon, but as sits, my Linux box is suddenly starting to look like the future.
by rubyn00bie | 2026-02-28 23:30:37+00:00
I could be doing something wrong, but I have not had any success with one shot feature implementations for any of the current models. There are always weird quirks, undesired behaviors, bad practices, or just egregiously broken implementations. A week or so ago, I had instructed Claude to do something at compile-time and it instead burned a phenomenal amount of tokens before yeeting the most absurd, and convoluted, runtime implementation—- that didn’t even work. At work I use it (or Codex) for specific tasks, delegating specific steps of the feature implementation.

The more I use the cloud based frontier models, the more virtue I find in using local, open source/weights, models because they tend to create much simpler code. They require more direct interaction from me, but the end result tends to be less buggy, easier to refactor/clean up, and more precisely what I wanted. I am personally excited to try this new model out here shortly on my 5090. If read the article correctly, it sounds like even the quantized versions have a “million”[1] token context window.

And to note, I’m sure I could use the same interaction loop for Claude or GPT, but the local models are free (minus the power) to run.

[1] I’m a dubious it won’t shite itself at even 50% of that. But even 250k would be amazing for a local model when I “only” have 32GB of VRAM.
by dhosek | 2026-02-28 23:32:05+00:00
Well, that was a nonsense article. Badly written software has trouble with PDFs, accessibility is an afterthought (which, sadly, is true of most things) and some small group thinks they can invent a better wheel, ignoring the fact that they’d have to do a lot of work to overcome the first mover advantages of HTML and PDF and this comment now has more information than the original article thanks to that clause beginning with “ignoring”.
by KronisLV | 2026-02-28 23:32:18+00:00
Moved to Garage, it's actually pretty easy to run and use.

Would be even nicer if the official Docker image would support initializing a default bucket and access key from env variables instead of having to exec into the container and follow https://garagehq.deuxfleurs.fr/documentation/quick-start/ but that's not a dealbreaker.

Note: I only needed the single-node install, it was either this or SeaweedFS. Also used MinIO and Zenko in the past, but even the latter seems pretty much dead.
by light_triad | 2026-02-28 23:32:20+00:00
Every generation of builders believed their tools defined their value. Then the tools got easier, faster, automated, and the definition had to change.

But programming didn’t disappear. Writing didn’t disappear. Designing didn’t disappear.

AI flips the equation: when creation becomes cheap, value shifts from how much you can produce to what changes because you showed up. The ability to have a positive impact has actually expanded.
by avaika | 2026-02-28 23:32:33+00:00
> Removing Saddam in itself was good but what it did the wider region was not good.

I believe this is the legacy of leaders like Saddam. They build a very messy future for their countries. Whenever such a leader is gone, somebody has to take over power. Dictators tend to concentrate as much power in their hands as possible. Forced removal of such a leader might accelerate and / or destabilize power transition. Which might end up in a very messy scenario.

Absolute power transition worked well with monarchy in the past, cause everybody knew who would be the next guy, there were rules and procedures. With dictatorship often times there are no rules. So power transition might turn into a complete chaos even with a natural death of a dictator.
by pavel_lishin | 2026-02-28 23:33:32+00:00
> Yet Duff Johnson, head of the PDF Association, protector of the format, argues that the fault lies not in the file type but in ourselves. He contends that there is no reason developers cannot build bots that are able to use PDFs. The AI assistant embedded in Acrobat, Adobe’s PDF reader, is designed to do precisely that, notes Leonard Rosenthol, the software firm’s PDF guru.

Designed to, but does it do it well without the problems noted earlier in the article?
by graeme | 2026-02-28 23:33:46+00:00
>intervening Siria for protecting some jew friendly faction inside Siria, a la Russia protecting russiansnin Ukraine

It was the Druze and they were actually being killed.

"The friend of my enemy deserves to die" is not an attitude you have to adopt, even if you disagree with the Israeli response to the killings.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/April_2025_massacres_of_Syrian...
by internet2000 | 2026-02-28 23:35:25+00:00
This analogy falls flat because

a) Carpentry already happens in the real world

b) There's a clear problem being solved (you need furniture).

Stretching your analogy to fit my point: pretend that programming is manually sanding wood, while AI-assisted programming is using a belt sander. If you're focused on the chair being built, getting a belt sander to help is great! If you're sanding for the craft (?) of it, focused on the wrist mechanics of rubbing sandpaper up and down, you'd be disappointed.
by kennywinker | 2026-02-28 23:35:26+00:00
Flagrant disregaurd for human life.

We only have their word they were “under fire”, and no idea if the shots were coming from in the building.

Like the journalist and his family who were killed. Did they have weapons, were they a threat to the soldiers in any way when they were killed? Afaik the idf doesn’t even claim any about that. For all we know they were also being held there against their will - unlikely, but why would i carry water for a gov that’s shown it doesn’t mind killed 100-300, including 3 of their own, to extract 3 people.
by spwa4 | 2026-02-28 23:35:39+00:00
Do you really want an answer to that? In islamic theology, religious war is a constant state that lasts until everyone is subjugated (muslims and non-muslims, everyone), at which point the islamic messiah will come, the dead will rise, a last war will break out, and the world ends.

Until then, it's constant war (insofar that jihad means war. But that's not entirely true. Think of it more like "subjugating everyone by any means. Violence if necessary, but preferably just subjugation")

So no, jihad is not started or stopped. Specific missions are declared (like killing British authors for pointing out obvious contradictions in the quran, like allah having 3 man- and child-killing daughters)
by jbellis | 2026-02-28 23:35:46+00:00
this is bullshit with a kernel of truth.

none of the qwen 3.5 models are anywhere near sonnet 4.5 class, not even the largest 397b.

BUT 27b is the smartest local-sized model in the world by a wide wide margin. (35b is shit. fast shit, but shit.)

benchmarks are complete, publishing on Monday.
by starkparker | 2026-02-28 23:36:29+00:00
> A company that raised $126M at a billion-dollar valuation spent five years methodically dismantling the open-source ecosystem it built.

Sounds like Puppet's story. $180M raised, ~$1B valuation ca. 2019, sold to Perforce in 2022, public repo taken private and builds commercialized by Perforce in 2024, community fork shipped early 2025.
by alephnerd | 2026-02-28 23:36:35+00:00
India used to use Venezuelan crude before the 2019 sanctions [0][1]

India only shifted to using Russian oil in 2022 [2] after Venezuelan [3] and Iranian [4] oil sanctions were enacted, which was when both began increasing engagement with China.

It's a similar story for South Korea [5] and Japan [6].

This helps reduce prices for ONG, as India is shifting back to Venezuelan crude which gives slack which South Korea and Japan can take advantage of, as India, Japan, and South Korea represent 3 of the 5 largest oil consumers globally.

[0] - https://www.thehindu.com/business/Industry/ongc-awaits-instr...

[1] - https://www.thehindu.com/business/Industry/reliance-venezuel...

[2] - https://www.bbc.com/news/business-65553920

[3] - https://www.wilsoncenter.org/article/india-and-venezuela-gro...

[4] - https://www.brookings.edu/articles/trump-tightens-sanctions-...

[5] - https://eastasiaforum.org/2019/09/13/south-korean-oil-refine...

[6] - https://mei.edu/ar/publication/japan-and-middle-east-navigat...
by 111111101101 | 2026-02-28 23:37:08+00:00
> As they first were in Google.

So because you saw it once in one company, it will happen in every company? By that logic, wont Claude eventually get ads too, even though they are saying that they wont?

Even now, Google ads wrap around the content, they don't mess with the search results.

> Were you around then?

Yes. I was around for AltaVista, WebCrawler, and Lycos too. None of those were LLMs.
by rienko | 2026-02-28 23:39:45+00:00
use a larger model like Qwen3.5-122B-A10B quantized to 4/5/6 bits depending on how much context you desire, MLX versions if you want best tok/s on Mac HW.

if you are able to run something like mlx-community/MiniMax-M2.5-3bit (~100gb), my guess if the results are much better than 35b-a3b.
by LoganDark | 2026-02-28 23:40:37+00:00
I think a lot of voters didn't know what they were getting the country into, or just were too ignorant or misinformed to notice, in voting for the Leopards Eating People's Faces Party. There are actual fascists too, of course. I'm just disappointed that they won; the damage has already been immeasurable, and to some extent irreversible, and we're not even halfway into the term.
by dojomouse | 2026-02-28 23:40:38+00:00
> The cloud deployment surface covered in our contract would not permit powering fully autonomous weapons, as this would require edge deployment.

… What?? Much of this seems duplicitous, but this isn’t even coherent. Is their implication that it’s not “autonomous” if it involves an api call to an external system? That mere definition would be extremely alarming.
Show HN: Claude-powered Chrome sidebar and Python automation scripts
by bytecraft_ | 2026-02-28 23:41:12+00:00
Built two small tools this weekend that scratch my own itch:

1. Chrome extension — injects an AI sidebar into any webpage. Alt+A to toggle. Summarize, ask questions about page content, improve selected text. Manifest V3, vanilla JS, shadow DOM for style isolation. Uses your own Anthropic API key directly from the background service worker (~$0.001/request with Haiku).

2. Python script pack — 5 scripts for common business tasks: lead enrichment with ICP scoring, cold email generation (3 variations), SEO content outlines, meeting notes summarizer, LinkedIn post writer. Plain Python, anthropic SDK, no framework. Batch mode on the CSV-heavy ones.

Both at $9 on Gumroad. Source code, you own it, modify freely.

Happy to answer questions about the Manifest V3 shadow DOM approach or the Claude API integration — had some interesting CORS issues to work through.
by vunderba | 2026-02-28 23:41:27+00:00
> The only limitation is that its internal search tree imagines unconstrained future moves.

Yes this is what I'm saying. Evaluation can be way more than just "slightly off" though and can make the evaluation MUCH weaker because it might go down "ply-routes" that aren't just suboptimal - they simply wouldn't work at all.

For example thinking it had a "move set" that lead to a checkmate but the final ply involves a bishop that is five squares away per my rule constraint mentioned earlier.

It's fine for fun but the statement that "Stockfish's skill level applies correctly" is not a true one at any moderate level of play. (above 1200 ELO).

That's why I suggested looking into Fairy which supports runtime rule variations.
by cube00 | 2026-02-28 23:41:49+00:00
Our agreement with the Department of War upholds our redlines

OpenAI has the same redlines as Anthopic based on Altman's statements [1]. However somehow Anthropic gets banished for upholding their redlines and OpenAI ends up with the cash?

[1]: https://www.npr.org/2026/02/27/nx-s1-5729118/trump-anthropic...
by tredre3 | 2026-02-28 23:42:04+00:00
The flood of humorous GPT-generated reviews on Amazon made me stop reading reviews altogether.

I can understand someone using a LLM to extrapolate one sentence into two paragraphs. I don't like it, but I understand that on Amazon the button is right there and it helps people feel smarter about their literary skills, in the way that filters help people feel prettier on instagram.

But the added snark or humoristic tone? Why instruct the LLM to do that? To get more likes? On a review?
by anal_reactor | 2026-02-28 23:42:05+00:00
The problem though is that relationships with others are risky. When I look at my social circle about half of my friends express some kind of regret related to their marriages. Call me an entitled prick, but I honestly believe that 90% of people are liquid crap. I realized that in order to have a good social life I need to filter very hard who I hang out with. Even if I could reproduce by budding, this is not an environment I want my kids to grow up in. "Dad, why did you make me into a world full of normies?"
by uroni | 2026-02-28 23:42:20+00:00
AGPL is "a plague" by design (viral). It has the explicit goal that any improvements flow back to the community project and the virality is a necessary building block for this. It is an elegant solution to a tragedy of the commons problem.

Companies like MinIO extending the virality beyond the single software/work, even though not intended by license, gives it a bad reputation. They have fixed https://min.io/compliance now, but I guess it does not matter anymore.
by linguae | 2026-02-28 23:42:23+00:00
Steve Jobs is famous for his 1996 quote about Microsoft not having taste (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UiOzGI4MqSU). I disagree; as much as I love the classic Mac OS and Jobs-era Mac OS X, and despite my feelings about Microsoft's monopolistic behavior, 1995-2000 Microsoft's user interfaces were quite tasteful, in my opinion, and this was Microsoft's most tasteful period. I have fond memories of Windows 95/NT 4/98/2000, Office 97, and Visual Basic 6. I even liked Internet Explorer 5. These were well-made products when it came to the user interface. Yes, Windows 95 crashed a lot, but so did Macintosh System 7.

Things started going downhill, in my opinion, with the Windows XP "Fisher-Price" Luna interface and the Microsoft Office 2007 ribbon.
Show HN: I built a tool to translate and declutter articles for my immigrant mom
by dh2013 | 2026-02-28 23:42:52+00:00
Hello HN,

I built DuLink to solve a personal problem: my primary language is English, but my mother’s primary language is Mandarin Chinese. I often find articles on health or current events that I want to share with her, but the friction of copy/pasting and Google Translate meant she rarely read them.

What it does:

DuLink takes an article URL, extracts the core content to strip out clutter, and then generates a static, translated reading view. It preserves the semantic HTML structure (headers, lists) but removes the original site's JS and ad tracking.

The "Why":

Existing tools either translate the entire messy page (including nav menus/footers) or require the recipient to install an extension. I wanted something truly simple. A "fire and forget" link that removed every obstacle. No setup, no extra tools, just open and understand. I also added audio playback because reading dense text on a phone can be tiring, especially for aging eyes. Sometimes listening is simply easier.

I built this for a personal use case, but I'm sharing it here for anyone who wants to share something meaningful across languages. If it helps you bridge that gap, I'd love to hear about it.

Any feedback is welcome.

https://dulink.click/
by PsylentKnight | 2026-02-28 23:43:47+00:00
Having grown up deep in the Bible belt, I can say that there's often a lot of overlap between the Jesus people and the various -ists

Bigotry has been a big part of the Moral Majority's platform for decades for a reason - it works on that demographic

I have an armchair theory about one possible contributing factor

These are two of the most fundamental beliefs of evangelicals and they don't make much sense when you put them side-by-side:

1. God is the ultimate progenitor and prototype of love

2. God wants to torture a LOT of people forever, some of whom you may know personally and may be all appearances be decent people

This creates a certain amount of cognitive dissonance

Rather than reconsider those beliefs (which may result in your own everlasting torment), it's far easier to resolve that discomfort by dehumanizing non-Christians. Maybe they're actually really rotten people that deserve to be tortured
by YZF | 2026-02-28 23:44:05+00:00
Unlike Iran what the leader says isn't some ultimate mandate to the followers. Party leaders, and members, come and go and their platforms changes over time.

Smotrich, e.g., says and does lot of things. Some of them resonate with some members of his party, others don't.

As to the party's platform you can read it here: https://zionutdatit.org.il/en/party-platform/

I would push back on the idea of expansionism. I don't think that's a mainstream view in the party at all. The parts does support annexing the West Bank and Gaza which to be honest is the only workable solution anyways regardless of where you're coming from and really the best outcome for Palestinians as well if they become full Israeli citizens.
by rienko | 2026-02-28 23:44:28+00:00
We tend to find Qwen3-Coder-Next better at coding at least on our anecdotal examples from our codebases. It's somewhat better at tool calling, maybe the current templates for Qwen3.5 are still not enjoying as "mature" support as Qwen3 on vllm. I can say in my team MiniMax2.5 is the currently favorite.
Show HN: Xmloxide – an agent made rust replacement for libxml2
by jawiggins | 2026-02-28 23:44:41+00:00
Recently several AI labs have published experiments where they tried to get AI coding agents to complete large software projects.

- Cursor attempted to make a browser from scratch: https://cursor.com/blog/scaling-agents

- Anthropic attempted to make a C Compiler: https://www.anthropic.com/engineering/building-c-compiler

I have been wondering if there are software packages that can be easily reproduced by taking the available test suites and tasking agents to work on projects until the existing test suites pass.

After playing with this concept by having Claude Code reproduce redis and sqlite, I began looking for software packages where an agent-made reproduction might actually be useful.

I found libxml2, a widely used, open-source C language library designed for parsing, creating, and manipulating XML and HTML documents. Three months ago it became unmaintained with the update, "This project is unmaintained and has
[known security issues](https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/libxml2/-/issues/346). It is foolish to use this software to process untrusted data.".

With a few days of work, I was able to create xmloxide, a memory safe rust replacement for libxml2 which passes the compatibility suite as well as the W3C XML Conformance Test Suite. Performance is similar on most parsing operations and better on serialization. It comes with a C API so that it can be a replacement for existing uses of libxml2.

- crates.io: https://crates.io/crates/xmloxide

- GitHub release: https://github.com/jonwiggins/xmloxide/releases/tag/v0.1.0

While I don't expect people to cut over to this new and unproven package, I do think there is something interesting to think about here in how coding agents like Claude Code can quickly iterate given a test suite. It's possible the legacy code problem that COBOL and other systems present will go away as rewrites become easier. The problem of ongoing maintenance to fix CVEs and update to later package versions becomes a larger percentage of software package management work.