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by dang | 2026-02-27 18:09:43+00:00
I don't think we (mods) did that one, but I do like it, because the original title would provoke many comments reacting only to the "LLMs are good at SQL" claim in the title, reducing discussion of the actual post. The comments do have some of this, but it would be worse if that bit were also in the title.

(In that way you can see the title edit as conforming to the HN guideline: ""Please use the original title, unless it is misleading or linkbait; don't editorialize."" under the "linkbait" umbrella. - https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html)
by LargoLasskhyfv | 2026-02-27 18:10:18+00:00
That's only a shell/repl, implementing a DSL for boot-related stuff. It isn't implemented in FORTH, it does not execute or understand FORTH, or use it for anything. It's not there.

It just occupies a similar role in a similar place, of what some FORTHs on some systems once did. Mainly OpenBoot on SUNs and some PPC Apples, while having nothing from their internals.

Having the ability to type some commands in your firmware/BIOS/UEFI, like it has been the case on Sparcs by SUN, PPC Macintosh by Apple, or the OLPC doesn't make it a FORTH.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Open_Firmware
by cess11 | 2026-02-27 18:11:00+00:00
Also to identify with the banks, which was the original purpose, and many other services. It's somewhat expensive to run an integration but many customers and other users have a feeling that it is especially trustworthy as a method of authentication. One use I've had is with a file storage platform, they have an integration so that one can create shares against 'personal number' through BankID, which our customers in the public sector really liked. No need for them to juggle some account, they just share a 'personal number' and we were good to go.

The main competitor is Freja+, or just Freja, or Freja eID. It's particularly popular among immigrants, as I understand it, though not as commonly supported, especially in the private sector. There is also a semi-public electronic ID, "Skatteverkets ID-kort", issued by the same company that produces swedish passports, which is owned by the french defense corporation Thales.
by aluzzardi | 2026-02-27 18:11:20+00:00
> My experience with LLM generated SQL in OLTP and OLAP platforms has been a mixed bag

Models are evolving fast. If your experience is older than a few months, I encourage you to try again.

I mean this with the best intentions: it's seriously mind boggling. We started doing this with Sonnet 4.0 and the relevance was okay at best. Then in September we shifted to Sonnet 4.5 and it's been night and day.

Every single model released since then (Opus 4.5, 4.6) has meaningfully improved the quality of results
by CamperBob2 | 2026-02-27 18:11:23+00:00
Don't get me wrong, I'm interested in the Chinese models only to the extent that their weights are available. I hope DeepSeek 4 sees the light of day on HuggingFace, but a lot of wealthy peoples' oxen are being gored and I suspect that it'll be the last we get if it is released at all.

If I want to see Mickey Mouse or any number of copyrighted Hollywood figures, Z-Image Turbo and HunyuanImage-3 will gladly oblige. The Chinese models may be biased to deny Taiwanese self-rule, and they may change the subject when you ask about the Tiananmen Square massacre... but they do work, and as of the Qwen 3.5 release they work well enough to be used by people at home who don't have a rack of H200s in the basement.

The most important thing about the Chinese models is that they will still be there on my hard drive 20 years from now. No additional censorship beyond what they shipped with, which (being a Westerner) is largely in areas I don't care about. No rug pulls, unwanted updates, usage limits, or price increases. No ablation of whatever subjects are deemed politically incorrect in the future. No ads. No spying. No realignment with the sayings of Chairman Musk.

As for suicide, that is a silly mediagenic exercise in blaming inanimate tools for the actions of mentally-ill people and the inaction of negligent parents. I don't consider it a valid or relevant counterargument, so yes, I'm going to hand-wave away your concerns in that area.
by buryat | 2026-02-27 18:11:41+00:00
yeah, I saw Claude Code doing lots of grepping/find and was curious if that approach might miss something in the log lines or if loading small portion of interesting log lines into the context could help. I find frequently that just looking at ERROR/WARN lines is not enough since some might not actually be errors and some other skipped log lines might have something to look into.

And I just wanted to try MCP tooling tbh hehe Took me 2 days to create this to be honest
by TimorousBestie | 2026-02-27 18:11:48+00:00
> The sold services to a willing counterparty at mutually agreed upon terms.

Yeah, and the legal environment that contract was written in, which both parties were aware of during negotiation, defines the means by which those terms can be changed.

> And that's Anthropic's fault? That's a risk they should have predicted?

It is deeply funny to me to imagine that an AI company doing inference at an unprecedented scale could not see this coming.

Go ask Claude how usgov should act if a contractor preemptively refuses to deliver. What are the top five tools they could use to demand compliance?
by Towaway69 | 2026-02-27 18:11:51+00:00
I know of a corporate who has embraced Claude for doing documentation of their codebase to better use Claude to do coding on the codebase.

So Claude can understand the codebase, it needs to document it. Makes sense and is also great for humans because now there is uptodate docu on the codebase.

I don’t know how much it cost but the codebase, I’m told, is around 2 to 3 million lines of code.
by PaulHoule | 2026-02-27 18:12:02+00:00
My first take is that you could have 10 TB of logs with just a few unique lines that are actually interesting. So I am not thinking "Wow, what impressive big data you have there" but rather "if you have an accuracy of 1-10^-6 you are still are overwhelmed with false positives" or "I hope your daddy is paying for your tokens"
by guntars | 2026-02-27 18:12:51+00:00
These AI signals will die out soon. The models are overusing actual human writing patterns, the humans are noticing and changing how they write, the models are updated, new patterns emerge, etc, etc. The best signal for the quality of writing will always be the source, even if they are "just" prompting the model. I think we can let one incident slide, but they are on notice.
by dfxm12 | 2026-02-27 18:12:52+00:00
An omelet wrapped in a paratha with a caffe latte to drink looks like the obvious answer... You can also play with the crust to filling ratio of a quiche...

How about doughnut with just the right amount of custard filling? Or perhaps a brioche with the right amount of French vanilla ice cream/gelato? A classic egg and cheese sandwich in your desired proportions?
by rvz | 2026-02-27 18:13:07+00:00
As I said before, the ones boosting this everywhere to get as many tech folks on the train have either the following:

* Fully invested in those portfolio companies (no disclosures until IPO / acquired)

* Employees / Social Media Influencers at those companies with stock options which they are effectively paid boosters until they reach the vesting period.

* Frequently screaming the loudest and appearing on TV interviews, opinion articles spreading the scam further.

Just like the "Full Self Driving" scam that still requires a human behind the wheel, now we have "AGI" which still requires humans to supervise the AI agent to not make mistakes.

The tech folks don't question the euphoria and fall for it easily because they want to be on the next Google. But they could also be on the next Enron.

Only time will tell.
by mrexcess | 2026-02-27 18:13:11+00:00
Just want to note the emergence of a two-tiered imbalance. Frontier AI providers are stacking the guardrails so high that everyday citizens can't even ask an LLM what boobs are, but simultaneously providing government with AI lacking guardrails around "any lawful purpose".

That's fundamentally antidemocratic and it normalizes the departure from the Western Enlightenment standard of, "the same law governs everyone".
by davorak | 2026-02-27 18:14:07+00:00
> why does the operating system need to be involved in this?

The goal in my mind is to have an account a parent can setup for their child. This account is set up by an account with more permissions access. Then the app store depends on that OS level feature to tell what apps are can be offered to the account.

Let say the the age questions happen when you install the app store. That means if you can install the app store while logged in as the child account the child can answer whatever they want and get access to apps out side of their age range. The law could require the app to be installable and configurable from a different account then given access or installed on the child account, however at a glance that seem a larger hurdle than an os/account level parental control features.

The headline calls this age verification, but the quote in the article "(2) Provide a developer who...years of age." Make it sound way different and much more reasonable than what discord is doing.

I would much rather have OSs be mandated with parental control features than what discord is currently doing. I am going to read the bill later but here is how discord age verification could work under this law.

During account creation discord access a browser level api and verifies it server side. discord no knows if the OS account is label as for someone under 13 years, over 13 and under 16, over 16 and under 18, or over 18. Then sets their discord account with the appropriate access.

No face scan, no third party, and no government ID required.
by mikkupikku | 2026-02-27 18:14:15+00:00
Congress is fickle enough without rockets blowing up, even if NASA explains up front that it's going to happen. There is much which is suboptimal about NASA, not just their attitude towards perfection, which is downstream of the political reality they have to deal with. For instance, a project that could be done in one year given adaquate funding will instead be spread out over ten years or more, to spread out the costs and keep NASA's monetary requirements as smooth and predictable as possible, for the sake of Congress.
by conartist6 | 2026-02-27 18:14:42+00:00
How is it cleaner? I used to actually do that. I wrote everything twice. I even built fancy tools to help me write everything twice.

But the bigger problem here is that sync and async aren't enough. You almost need to write everything three times: sync, async, and async-batched. And that async-batched code is gonna be gnarly and different from the other two copies and writing it in the first place and keeping it in sync is gonna give you headaches.

To see how it played out for me take a look at the difference between:

https://github.com/iter-tools/regex/blob/a35a0259bf288ccece2...
https://github.com/iter-tools/regex/blob/a35a0259bf288ccece2...
https://github.com/iter-tools/regex/blob/a35a0259bf288ccece2...
by cyberax | 2026-02-27 18:15:00+00:00
Stronk Towns and NJB are just propaganda outlets.

Suburbs are _cheaper_ than dense cities. In fact, they generate most of the wealth of the country. It's easily proven by checking the amount of personal income taxes from suburbs versus cities.

People who claim that "suburbs are subsidized" typically check the _corporate_ taxes that are paid (surprise!) usually at their headquarters' locations. Usually in downtowns. But _people_ who create wealth overwhelmingly prefer suburbs.

And yeah, if your goal is to maximize the profit that you're extracting from companies by exploiting people, then dense cities are perfect.
by jstummbillig | 2026-02-27 18:15:37+00:00
I absolutely do get it, but if you assume that eventually (and by that I mean: very, very soon) somebody else will do it, in how far is that simply opting out of having some say in all of it and taking responsibility for situation that you instrumented?

And I am honestly not sure.

If your stance is "well, this is something that should just not happen" and also believe that is absolutely will happen, then what are you doing by saying "but it won't be us, it will be other people (who were enabled and inspired by our work)".

On the other hand, just the act of resisting could tip the scale in some incalculable and hopefully positive way.
by 5o1ecist | 2026-02-27 18:15:48+00:00
> The operating system often has a tool for allocating contiguous virtual memory space called pages.

"often". sheesh. *rolls eyes*

It does not apply for Windows.

You cannot reserve or commit 4k-pages in Windows. For historical reasons, the minimum amount of memory you can reserve/commit is 64k.

This also applies to mapping 4k-pages around, meaning you can't.

64k is the rather wastefull lower limit.
by chasd00 | 2026-02-27 18:16:04+00:00
> The worst that can happen to Anthropic

The corporate death sentence usually goes something like "anyone who does business with Anthropic cannot do business with the US government". That pretty much means all the hyperscalers, major infrastructure providers, major software providers, and major corporations. They all have to choose between the entire US gov and all those contracts and a single AI company. That's the worst that can happen to Anthropic.
by tim-tday | 2026-02-27 18:16:07+00:00
How specifically do you propose this? Have you tried running inference on a local machine?
(You should try that) I run local models on desktop machines, laptops, dedicated servers, cloud servers.

I’ve built my own LLM containers, ive built orchestration systems for fine tuning and model management. I’ve tried quantized models. I’ve tested a dozen or so models of different sizes.

You can’t really get around the fact that inference on cpu is slow, inference on gpu is gated by nvram (you need about 1gb of nvram per billion parameters, quantization reduces quality and increases operational toil). If you know of a consumer level gpu with 80-128gb of nvram that I can buy for less than $10k do please let me know.

Short of a specific proposal I’m going to classify your suggestion as not knowing enough about what you’re talking about for your proposal to make any sense.
by renewiltord | 2026-02-27 18:16:17+00:00
NASA did have SpaceX like approach. Much more aggressive as a matter of fact. They cooked the occupants of Apollo 1 and they sent another mission out broken so they had to fix it live in space.

The question is whether you have the appetite for killing three astronauts on a test run like the Apollo team did.

EDIT: Fine, I’ll clarify. By “SpaceX like approach” I mean iterative design. By “more aggressive” I mean risk tolerance much greater than SpaceX to the degree that they do things that SpaceX wouldn’t do.
by thrwawty4 | 2026-02-27 18:16:37+00:00
If the Democrat leadership weren't going all-in on this ideology despite the demonstrable harms it's causing, the Republicans would have almost nothing to say about it.

As an example, replacing sex with "gender identity" in prisons policy has inflicted considerable harm on women prisoners, who have been sexually assaulted, raped and impregnated by male prisoners who were transferred to the female prison estate on the basis of their supposed "female gender identity".

Feminist groups like WoLF spoke up on the horrors of this first, and the Republicans followed when they realized they could capitalize on this politically. But really it shouldn't have happened at all.
by Humanista75 | 2026-02-27 18:16:45+00:00
Thank you so much for your feedback; these are really interesting contributions!

The idea of giving blocked cells more functionality is excellent, especially being able to clear those 'enemy blocks' by crossing both a row and a column over them simultaneously. It's brilliant. I'm going to think more about it and see if it fits the core essence of the game.

I also like the idea of having different types of blocks with various functionalities. Very well thought out.

I wasn't familiar with the expression 'deus ex machina,' that's interesting! ;)
by aed | 2026-02-27 18:16:57+00:00
I've spent so much of my career as a data gopher, so I really appreciate this. It always works much, much better when people have direct access to data... but success always relied on getting business users to be a bit more technical.

I built a version of this in my org as a slack bot. It has access to BigQuery and I worked with it to document and define the key tables, so when a user asks a question it has a "library" to figure out how to answer it. Then it will respond directly in Slack (plus respond to f/up questions in the thread) and if it's a bigger/more detailed question it can create the report in Metabase and send a link.

One thing I don't have is the governance aspect, so I may give this a spin to see if this is a good middle layer.
by filoeleven | 2026-02-27 18:17:11+00:00
It's not an unrealistic fear. Trump has been making noises about "taking over elections." Abolishing elections wholesale is very unlikely, sure, but a sham election rigged by a corrupt government? That's standard fare for authoritarians. And there's evidence of voting anomalies in swing states in the 2024 election.

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/feb/27/trump-voting...

https://electiontruthalliance.org/
by crystal_revenge | 2026-02-27 18:17:14+00:00
If you really dive into the mathematics of finance, you quickly realize that the edge is never "we're better at math than you", but a much more fundamental asymmetry in information/control.

Sometimes that's getting information a few seconds faster, sometimes a data source no one else has exploited, but more often than not its something that feels a bit more "unfair".
by toraway | 2026-02-27 18:17:46+00:00
That problem went viral weeks ago so is no longer a valid test. At the time it was consistently tripping up all the SOTA models at least 50% of the time (you also have to use a sample > 1 given huge variation from even the exact same wording for each attempt).

The large hosted model providers always "fix" these issues as best as they can after they become popular. It's a consistent pattern repeated many times now, benefitting from this exact scenario seemingly "debunking" it well after the fact. Often the original behavior can be replicated after finding sufficient distance of modified wording/numbers/etc from the original prompt.
by mattpal21 | 2026-02-27 18:17:50+00:00
Also I found this gem in my inbox - not just YC companies :/

"""
Hi there!

I noticed you’re interested in on-device AI development and wanted to flag a new bounty program we just launched with Qualcomm.
We’re looking for developers to build a local Android AI app (using the Nexa SDK). Since you're already exploring this space, I thought this might be an easy win for you.

The Bounty at a glance:
- Prizes: $6,500 cash pool + Flagship Snapdragon devices.
- Perks: Direct partnership & marketing spotlight from Qualcomm (huge for visibility)
- The Ask: Build a working Android AI app that runs locally.

Registration is open now: https://sdk.nexa.ai/bounty

I want to help you win. Once you register, please reply to this email. I’d be happy to advise on your ideas to increase your chances of winning. Or, if you have an existing project, I can guide you on how to port it to NexaSDK for the submission

Best,
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"""
by user_timo | 2026-02-27 18:18:18+00:00
I have done within year few sites what are not taken any interest. Who knows what comes to mind next and if anyone likes that. I have bigger macOS-memory-benchmark(ARM64 assembly routines etc) project on my GitHub what I have been developing almost a year now. I believe that will continue nicely to the future.

This domain I paid up to 2036, so we will see clocksimulator.com long in the web. Just released v1.0.15 of it, introduced local storage for saving settings if user so wants - that will follow my goal to keep site as clean as possible.
I love open source and not fan of todays webpages filled with all kind a bloat.

Thank you for coming back to commenting, this thread has been very exiting me to follow and see how people like the page. This brings me memories from the 1994 when I programmed small program to Amiga, then shared it in the BBS and saw it in monthly most download list. This HN Show has brought me close to that awesome feeling again.
by wat10000 | 2026-02-27 18:18:38+00:00
Elections won't be canceled. They're too important for the perception of legitimacy. Virtually every country on Earth now has elections. Russia, China, even North Korea has elections.

The modern playbook isn't to abolish elections, it's a combination of blocking opposition candidates, suppressing votes, intimidating voters, and lying about the results. That's what to watch for.
by Windchaser | 2026-02-27 18:18:47+00:00
This administration has consistently signaled that they will do all they legally can to punish those dissenters. Look at the White House labeling recent victims of ICE shootings as "terrorists", despite there being no sign of terroristic activity from these US citizens. Or, look at how the WH is cutting Medicaid benefits to Minnesota.

Going after the visa-holding employees of these companies is within reach of the WH, and it's consistent with their MO.
by cube00 | 2026-02-27 18:18:56+00:00
There's something so innocent about the early days when even Microsoft thought we'd be running Personal Web Servers and hosting our own websites in a peer-to-peer fashion.

Although cynically, in 1996 Microsoft would probably tell you anything you wanted to hear if it got you using Internet Explorer.

The Personal Web Server is ideal for intranets, homes, schools, small business workgroups and anyone who wants to set up a personal Web server.

https://news.microsoft.com/source/1996/10/24/microsoft-annou...
by rayiner | 2026-02-27 18:19:24+00:00
I think the article is overlooking an important category of corruption where social norms treat certain acts as theoretically immoral but in practice impose little to no social sanction for such acts.
In places like India, for example, taking bribes is just standard practice. It carries so little social sanction that it’s like jaywalking here in the US. People acknowledge it’s technically illegal, but it carries so little social sanction that people don’t consciously need to rationalize it. The same thing with cheating in schools, which is normalized in India and has become almost as normalized in the U.S.
by alephnerd | 2026-02-27 18:20:03+00:00
They're fine with that.

A Disney holiday as a pre-teen or early childhood milestone was only true amongst a subset of middle class Americans during the 1960s-2000s.

Heck, the first time I visited Disney was during my high school graduation with the subsidized HS Disneyland grad trip which Disney created in order to create a monetizable nostalgic customer base that became 'Disney Adults'.

Most people globally never experienced that, and only really care about Disney from a teen or adult oriented lens.

A high earning single person household flying in from Beijing or a DINK household in NYC spending $1-2K at a Disney resort is more valuable and provides better margins than a household of 4 spending $600 on Disney (and most likely won't stay at the resort).

It's the same strategy the foreign Disney Experience properties (Paris, Hong Kong, Shanghai) and the Walt Disney cruises use as well.

You aren't a bad parent if you didn't take your family to Disneyworld - in fact they don't really want your money anymore.
by rsynnott | 2026-02-27 18:20:07+00:00
> Work, a team using frontier model from top 2 AI lab was using it to perform DevOps type tasks, requested "Restart XYZ service in DEV environment". It responded "OK, restarting ABC service in PROD environment". It then asked for confirmation AFTER actioning whether they meant XYZ in DEV or ABC in PROD... a little too late.

... Wait, they gave the magic robot _access to modify their production environment_?!

Bloody hell, there's no helping some people.