MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by sho | 2026-02-28 07:35:47+00:00
> Discover has admitted to me in writing, that they always rule in favor of the Merchant if that Merchant responds to the dispute -- regardless of what their response says

What, always? Like, literally 100% of the time if the merchant responds at all, they automatically win?

That's very hard to believe. I don't know Discover but I do know Visa and that's not how their system works at all.
by deaux | 2026-02-28 07:37:06+00:00
> It's frustrating. Sam Altman already has everything. He's a billionaire, he can buy literally anything he wants, he can live anywhere he wants, he can buy a brand new sports car every day just to blow it up, he can buy a new house every week just to demolish and replace it with a trampoline park. He can afford to do anything.

No, he doesn't have everything. See, maybe he's worth $3 billion. Or maybe $30 billion. But he's not worth $300 billion. That's a lot more worth he could have! And even then, he could be worth $3 trillion instead!

But yes, $100 million is the maximum amount of assets one individual should ever be allowed to hold. Potentially less. Anything higher is enormously harmful to society. People would get used to it very quickly and would work just as hard to reach that $100 million as they do now to reach $100 billion.
by imiric | 2026-02-28 07:37:10+00:00
The levels of irony in this case are staggering.

The employees of these companies are complicit in creating the greatest data harvesting and manipulation machine ever built, whose use cases have yet to be fully realized, yet when the government wants to use them for what governments do best—which was reasonable to expect given the corporate-government symbiosis we've been living in for decades—then it's a step too far?

Give me a fucking break. Stop the performative outrage, and go enjoy the fruits of your labor like the rest of the elites you're destroying the world with.
by JasonADrury | 2026-02-28 07:38:07+00:00
If you ask people in Palestine living under brutal Israeli aggression for decades, you will find that most of them share that emotion of genocidal bloodlust.

If you ask people in Israel about Palestinians, you'll find that a huge chunk of them share that emotion of genocidal bloodlust.

It's an extremely human reaction. Something hurts you, doesn't really matter what it is. You'll want to get rid of it.
by ivraatiems | 2026-02-28 07:38:18+00:00
I was discussing this with a friend today. It just feels like there's no point to these actions.

Not in the sense of "I don't ideologically agree with our decision to do this," but in the sense of, "I do not see how this accomplishes any ideological or practical goal."

What are they trying for? Regime change in Iran? No more Iranian nuclear program? There barely was one before. Keeping Israel safe? It's been an open secret for years that Iran is not a real threat to Israel, because any action it took against Israel would be existential for Iran and its leadership.

A US president who vocally and repeatedly promised he would not start new conflicts keeps starting them, and there's not even a reason. It's infuriating. I have my partisan opinions, but that should not be a partisan statement! It's just disturbing!
Show HN: Can we have Flutter-like portability without the bloated web binaries?
by io_eric | 2026-02-28 07:39:32+00:00
I’ve been spending the last few months building Coi, a type-safe language that compiles to WebAssembly. The initial goal was just a fast, reactive web language, but as I refine the core, I’ve started mapping out how to take this multi-platform, mobile, desktop, and server, without falling into the traps that other frameworks have.

The plan is to use C++ as the intermediate layer. For desktop and mobile, I want to use Skia combined with a layout library to translate HTML/CSS sizing and transformations into something Skia can draw. This ensures the UI stays pixel-perfect across platforms.

However, the "Flutter approach" to the web has always bothered me. Shipping a 2MB+ Skia binary just to render a basic landing page feels redundant when the browser already has a world-class rendering engine. It results in massive bundles and a canvas-only UI that breaks basic browser expectations like SEO, text selection, and accessibility.

With Coi, I want to split the strategy: on the web, it stays lean by using the browser’s native HTML/CSS and JS glue. On native platforms, it uses the C++/Skia stack. You get the same codebase and the same visual output, but the web build doesn't suffer from "canvas bloat".

Right now, I’m still focused on the web target and refining the core language specs, but the server target is next on the roadmap. I'm curious if this "hybrid rendering" approach, native elements for web, Skia for desktop/mobile, is something others have found success with, or if I'm underestimating the difficulty of keeping the layout engines perfectly synced.

I'd love some feedback on the language design or the architectural plan.

https://github.com/coi
by optimalsolver | 2026-02-28 07:40:13+00:00
My previous comment:

The most salient lesson of the post-Cold War era: Get nukes or die trying.

A nation's relationship to other states, up to and especially including superpowers, is completely different once it's in the nuclear club. Pakistan can host bin Laden for years and still enjoy US military funding. North Korea can literally fire missiles over South Korea and Japan and get a strongly-worded letter of condemnation, along with a generous increase in foreign aid. We can know, for a fact, that the 2003 Iraq War coalition didn't actually believe their own WMD propaganda. If they thought that Saddam could vaporize the invasion force in a final act of defiance, he'd still be in power today. Putin knows perfectly well that NATO isn't going to invade Russia, so he can strip every last soldier from the Baltic borders and throw them into the Ukrainian meat grinder.

Aside from deterring attack, it also discourages powerful outside actors from fomenting revolutions. The worry becomes who gets the nukes if the central government falls.

Iran's assumption seems to have been that by permanently remaining n steps away from having nukes (n varying according to the current political and diplomatic climate), you get all the benefits of being a nuclear-armed state without the blowback of going straight for them. But no, you need to have the actual weapons in your arsenal, ready to use at a moment's notice.

My advice for rulers, especially ones on the outs with major geopolitical powers: Pour one out for Gaddafi, then hire a few hundred Chinese scientists and engineers and get nuked up ASAP.
by tfehring | 2026-02-28 07:40:29+00:00
(Disclosure, I'm a former OpenAI employee and current shareholder.)

I have two qualms with this deal.

First, Sam's tweet [0] reads as if this deal does not disallow autonomous weapons, but rather requires "human responsibility" for them. I don't think this is much of an assurance at all - obviously at some level a human must be responsible, but this is vague enough that I worry the responsible human could be very far out of the loop.

Second, Jeremy Lewin's tweet [1] indicates that the definitions of these guardrails are now maintained by DoW, not OpenAI. The definitions themselves and the processes for changing them are unclear. But I worry that e.g. "mass surveillance" is defined too narrowly for that limitation to be compatible with democratic values, or that DoW could unilaterally make it that narrow in the future. Evidently Anthropic insisted on defining these limits itself, and that was a sticking point.

Of course, it's possible that OpenAI leadership thoughtfully considered both of these points and that there are reasonable explanations for each of them. That's not clear from anything I've seen so far, but things are moving quickly so that may change in the coming days.

[0] https://x.com/sama/status/2027578652477821175

[1] https://x.com/UnderSecretaryF/status/2027594072811098230
by pear01 | 2026-02-28 07:41:02+00:00
Speaking of markets... Polymarket was trading yes on this happening at quite interesting odds, "yes" was trading at around 30¢ or better over the next few days just a few hours ago...

I was quite surprised to see it that low... and also to find it is inaccessible for trading if a US national. Just looking at the platform it seems predominantly US driven so I gather many people are willfully attempting to breach the ToS (and probably lie to the IRS) when using it...
by flyinglizard | 2026-02-28 07:41:38+00:00
The concept of nuclear brinkmanship is part of accepted WMD doctrine. A country can maintain a fixed short interval away from weaponization for decades. It is widely accepted that Iran does have a military nuclear program; the amount of material enriched, the enrichment level achieved and the hardening of the involved facilities are an open testament to that (there are many other intelligence signals that we are not privy to).
by epsters | 2026-02-28 07:41:45+00:00
> 30,000 in 2 days - half the 2-year death toll of Gaza ; With no artillery , air-strikes or heavy weapons, without million-man armies facing off in pitched battles, without health system collapsing with 100s of thousands of injuries in 48 hours, photos or satellite imagery of mass graves and bodies littering the streets

Propaganda is a hell of a drug.
by tavavex | 2026-02-28 07:41:53+00:00
SpaceX has flown 18 crewed launches on a single type of vehicle, all in the 2020s, all of them either doing an ISS run or an orbital launch. NASA has had over 200 manned launches spanning well over half a century, flown on all sorts of tech, with vastly different designs, kinds of engineering culture, mission profiles. They were the organization that did first-of-its-kind missions. You just bringing up two numbers makes it seem like the companies existed at the same time and were essentially equals, and not like there's a historical innovator that spilled some blood while pushing the limits and a modern private business that made some innovations but is still treading on ground that's so well-known because of all the experience and knowledge we already gathered from those past risky ventures.
by wafflemaker | 2026-02-28 07:42:07+00:00
There's an Israeli newspaper from 1984 saying it's a month away. Definitely more than a month passed between '84 and '92.

Btw. They ARE not that far away from the bomb, after they enriched uranium as a consequence of Trump (in his first term) cancelling the Obama treaty.

But they ARE a theocracy and Ajatollah Chamenei released an order (fatwa) forbidding Iran from obtaining and using an a-bomb. The new religious leader might change the religious law tho. I mean the one that comes after Chamenei becomes a martyr.

Funny how, knowing just a little bit more, it all really looks like nonsense created for illiterate, just to take their attention off of Epstein Pedophile Scandal.
by csense | 2026-02-28 07:42:16+00:00
> intimidating Chinese dissidents abroad, including by impersonating US immigration officials

I hope those victims of immigration impersonation don't have family within China's borders. AI-enabled impersonation and intimidation are far from the worst of China's crimes [1] against its overseas critics.

China likes to make you an offer you can't refuse [2] [3]: You're saying stuff the Chinese government doesn't like, but you live outside its borders and the secret police can't get at you? You need to come to China and be jailed (or worse). If you don't, your family will be the ones who are jailed (or worse). Or you can unalive yourself, and save the glorious Chinese Communist Party the expense of a bullet.

[1] China would say "the government punishes a criminal's family" is not a crime, it's a perfectly legal implementation of government policy under Chinese law. I respond that the death camps were perfectly legal implementation of government policy under Nazi law, but were still crimes against humanity -- China's actions fall in this category of crimes.

As I understand it: Western societies have a very individualistic view of responsibility. If you didn't commit a crime, you're innocent. Punishing the innocent family members of a criminal is morally abominable.

In the Chinese Communist Party's view, criminal responsibility is collectivist. By their definition, the family members of a criminal share responsibility for the crime regardless of their participation in the criminal acts. "Innocent family members of a criminal" is a logically inconsistent concept in their world view. The family of a criminal is guilty by definition -- being related to a criminal is itself a crime.

This is sickening to me.

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Fox_Hunt

[3] https://www.abc.net.au/news/2020-07-08/fbi-chief-says-china-...
by wtallis | 2026-02-28 07:42:45+00:00
I don't think we have good tools for formally proving that a transformer's output will match a more traditionally-defined function. But the leading transformers are small enough that formal verification may be possible.

Without any formal verification: The input space of two 10-digit numbers is a bit bigger than 64-bits, so exhaustively verifying all possible inputs doesn't sound practical. Using the same subset of the input space for verifying each submission seems like the easiest way to be fair, and not disclosing that subset to the competitors is obviously necessary.
Show HN: Mdc – Orchestrate multi-repo Docker environments with one command
by tominaga-h | 2026-02-28 07:43:46+00:00
Hi HN!

I work at a software agency where I constantly have to deal with microservices and projects split across multiple repositories (e.g., Frontend, Backend API, Auth Service). Every morning, I found myself doing the same chore: opening multiple terminal tabs, navigating to different directories, and running `docker-compose up -d` or `npm run dev` one by one.

It was tedious, so I built *mdc (Multi-Docker-Compose)* to solve this exact problem.

*What it does:*
`mdc` lets you define all your cross-repository commands in a single YAML file and orchestrates them with a single command: `mdc up`.

*Key features:*
* *Parallel & Sequential Execution:* Boot up your entire stack concurrently, or sequentially if you have strict dependencies.
* *Background Process Management:* It doesn't just run `docker-compose`. You can daemonize long-running foreground tasks like `npm run dev` (using `background: true` in the YAML) and easily monitor them with `mdc procs`.
* *Clean UI:* Color-coded outputs and emojis to instantly see which project is failing or starting.
* *Zero Dependencies:* Written in Go, distributed as a single binary. (This was actually my very first Go project!)

You can check it out here: https://github.com/tominaga-h/multi-docker-commander

I'd love to hear your feedback, thoughts on the architecture, or if you've faced similar local-dev nightmares. Happy to answer any questions!
by ccppurcell | 2026-02-28 07:45:15+00:00
I was just referring to one of the early sentences saying breakfast is a vector space. If you allow arbitrarily many (say) eggs so that two eggs and one egg are different breakfasts, you get a cone inside R^d. If you normalise and consider the ingredients as fractions of a whole (so that 1 egg and 2 eggs are both represented by the 1.0 egg breakfast) you get this simplex structure and the coordinate system you mentioned. But that's still not a vector space as there are not inverses in general. At best it can be embedded in R^d.
by lelanthran | 2026-02-28 07:45:38+00:00
> Hopefully this will allow them to continue to provide me unreasonable amounts of compute for €20/month. Enjoying it while it lasts…

I'm getting unreasonable amounts of compute for $0/m. I have ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini and Grok in different browser tabs. When one runs out, I switch to the next.

Any other recommendations are welcome.
by al_borland | 2026-02-28 07:45:57+00:00
Letting someone look at a date on an ID to 2 seconds is a lot lower stakes than handing over a scan of your license, face, and who knows what else, to hundreds of companies that will do god knows what with it.

To your point, a user shouldn’t be forced to put in age details just to use an OS. That said, if an OS can send a simple Boolean to an app/site if the user is over 18 or not, I’m guessing more people would rather opt into that system vs handing over extensive details to each and every vendor who asks.

As a person in my 40s, with no kids in my house, I find all of this absurd. Let parents install some nanny software if they want, don’t force it on everyone and use “protecting children” as the scapegoat.
by mint5 | 2026-02-28 07:46:00+00:00
>“Think about it. If someone actually bombed or invaded the continental US you'd have woke libs cheering for Donald Trump”

I think this is a scenario Steven miller fantasizes about while playing with action figures but that’s the closest it gets to being real.

Sure derogatory terms for liberals, as you term the left, would support the armed forces if China invaded hawaii but expecting them to also support Trump is fantasy. Like supporting America and supporting Donald Trump are entirely different matters and usually divergent.
by echoangle | 2026-02-28 07:46:58+00:00
> Because, if it shops with Anthropic code, the DoD becomes subject to the restrictions when they receive the contractor's product. Anthropic's limitation is on the use, not (just) on the product or distribution.

How does that work? If the contractor uses Anthropic to make some slides and write a report, the DoD can’t use the contractors stuff however they want?
by breppp | 2026-02-28 07:47:15+00:00
The point is preventing another North Korea style nuclear blackmail state.

Iran has negotiated like no one will ever attack it, and that was a correct assumption for decades

However, due to Iran's overly aggressive use of questionably rational proxies, Hamas has dragged it into a regional conflict where it lost most of its proxies power.

After the last war, it also is no longer a threshold state, so the only leverage they had left was ballistic missiles, which were also handled quite reasonably by Israeli air defense.

In this situation it is a fair request by the US to sign a nuclear deal that heavily restricts Iran's ability to enrich as well as ICBM, trigger with existing uranium stockpiles removed.

As Iran due to ideological reasons refused, and IMO had miscalculated this will be a win-win, as losing will quell the protests, the only thing really left is the metaphorical stick
by conductr | 2026-02-28 07:47:36+00:00
I think it would devolve quickly and probably super markets would fall first, but let’s not pretend like you know exactly how it would play out after that. I live in a large metro and super markets run empty a few times a year (usually weather panics), so that isn’t a lasting source of loot. I wasn’t pretending that I knew exactly who would get targeted by it first, just that I know I’m the type of target I discuss and it’s for the same reason my neighborhood is a destination on Halloween; full sized candy bars.

Would love for you to tell me how close we were from it or how many days without food/work/income a large portion of our population could endure before they “would organize and go searching” - which by the way is exactly what I’m talking about.
by kdheiwns | 2026-02-28 07:47:59+00:00
It gets his base fired up and excited.

Some people here might not be American or were too young to remember the lead up to the Iraq War, but it was transparently bullshit. Many people knew this. But if you dared say that, supporters would actively ruin your life. The Dixie Chicks were one of the most popular music acts in the US at the time, a country band that broke out of country and was getting huge appeal across the US. They dared to say they opposed the war. Their careers never returned.

Now with social media that isn't completely locked down, some voice of opposition can slip through and assure people that, yes, this is crazy. No, we don't need to blow the shit out of towns across the world. But these social media sites are all owned by government-aligned mega billionaires. They're rolling out AI that can comment and act very, very human and endorse everything the government does. They can auto-police opinions and spit out thousands of arguments and messages of harassment against them in seconds. Soon they'll be autoblocking any sense of disagreement.

It's at that point they can say that this is done to defend America. This is done to defend freedom. This desert country that's too screwed up to even manage its own internal affairs is somehow so dangerous that it's going to destroy the whole world with nukes it doesn't even have so we must destroy them all now. Dear leader always has your interests at heart. And you'll have no info to point to saying otherwise. Everyone who dares question it will be mocked, ridiculed, fired. Even if this administration fails, the tools are being built and laid out for the next, and I really don't know how humanity will overcome it. And I hate that I can't have optimism in this situation.
by flyinglizard | 2026-02-28 07:48:37+00:00
Anyone raising their weapon against Israel in the last 20 years was armed, supplied, funded, trained and directed by Iran. There’s a special division called Quds in the IRGC responsible just for that. The list includes Hizbollah, Assad’s former regime in Syria, Hamas, Palestinian Islamic Jihad, Houthis, Hizbollah in Iraq and others.
by jjmarr | 2026-02-28 07:48:44+00:00
> My apologies. I thought $10/day daycare was universal in Canada.

In my understanding, it exists but it's vaporware and not really accessible.

> That said, SWE compensation in the U.S. has been quite an anomaly compared to the vast majority of American labor, especially in the last 5-10 years.

The discrepancy isn't an anomaly for Canadians in high-income fields, like law, medicine, or finance. As a rule of thumb, the USA pays twice as much but expects more productivity and less stability. I'm entitled to minimum vacation, I can't be fired at will without huge severance packages, I get lengthy parental leave, etc.

> If this AI hype has taught me anything it's that those with capital cannot wait to start trimming their pesky engineers with those high salaries.

This is the goal, but I see the opposite.

The engineers with the capacity to use AI to replace many others are extremely rare at my company since it requires breadth of knowledge to step in when you realize an LLM can't solve a problem itself, reading comprehension to understand the copious amounts of code/English the AI wants you to review, and extreme paranoia because these things lie constantly.

Otherwise, you end up in an AI delusion loop. The AI tells you it is fixing the problem but due to some fundamental misunderstanding it is unable to accomplish the task and lies to you about its ability. This ends when you are sufficiently fooled to approve the code or when you give up.

I think there will be a K-shaped recovery where a few engineers with access to capital to

> Unrelated, I like your website. It's simple and the color scheme is aesthetically pleasing.

Thank you! I'm attempting a blog with simple interactive components to ensure people use the site instead of summarizing it with AI.
by rdtsc | 2026-02-28 07:48:46+00:00
> of "a baker should not be forced to bake a wedding cake for a customer that they ideologically/morally disagree with."

> I guess the rules are different if the customer is the government?

Hmm, I don’t see the inconsistency? They are saying one baker is not to their liking and they are refusing to buy it and are returning the already bought cakes back. Also looks like they just found another baker not too long ago with a better “deal”.