MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by socketcluster | 2026-02-27 23:31:39+00:00
It's infuriating to think about interviews as a likely cause for this complexity bloat because I made so many comments online about this exact problem with big tech interview processes and people would usually acknowledge the problem but no company ever fixed it! The only people who didn't think there was a problem was, unironically, were very good at puzzle-solving.

Painful for me because I excel at architecture. My puzzle-solving skills are actually good too, but unfortunately, not under time constraints! Sometimes I feel like there's been an industry-wide conspiracy against the software architect archetype!

I remember since I first learned coding at a young age, I wanted to be a software architect and I was shocked to learn that this skill was rarely appreciated in the industry. I became convinced that the software developer role had become a kind of 'bullshit job' of sorts to meet the needs of the reserve bank's job-creation agenda.

I suppose the silver lining is that at least now LLMs have a bias towards puzzle-solving and so lead most codebases astray... This increases my value as a software architect or 'craftsman' in your words.

I think you make a good argument there. You can extrapolate it to almost every aspect of society. Since you go to school, everything has been geared towards measuring thinking speed... We've been using thinking speed as the definition of intelligence... You know who else besides high IQ individuals are good at thinking fast? LLMs!

It's kind of interesting and fitting though that the AI agents we invented have the same biases as the humans at the top of our organizations!

I feel like the whole "there is only one kind of intelligence" belief which was pervasive in big tech has been thoroughly debunked by now.
by ggreer | 2026-02-27 23:31:44+00:00
A couple days before COTS-1[1] was to launch, a crack was discovered in the second stage nozzle. Rather than wait a month to fabricate and install a new one, SpaceX had a guy climb inside the rocket and use some shears to cut off the lower third of the nozzle. The rocket launched without issue.[2]

So while you're right that SpaceX doesn't typically do this sort of thing, NASA did pay them to fly an untested nozzle design.

1. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SpaceX_COTS_Demo_Flight_1

2. See the section titled "Snipping the nozzle" at https://arstechnica.com/science/2020/06/forget-dragon-the-fa...
by mrcwinn | 2026-02-27 23:32:15+00:00
Cue xAI.

And here’s the irony: Musk, who claimed only he is virtuous enough to defend us from AI, who insisted he always wanted model labs to be non profit and research focused, will now bring his for profit commercial entity into service to aid in mass domestic censorship and fully autonomous weapons of war.

In fact it won’t surprise me further if NVIDIA is strong armed into providing preference to xAI, in the interest of security, or if the government directly funds capital investments.

Anthropic saves some dignify and they’re the losers today, but we are the losers tomorrow.
by LooseMarmoset | 2026-02-27 23:32:22+00:00
The micro stamping law is in no way reasonable because removing the micro stamping from the end of a firing pin is laughably trivial. The only people who won’t do this are people who weren’t going to break the law in the first place.

Even people who didn’t want to break the law might find themselves on the receiving end of law-enforcement if the firing pin wears such that the micro stamping is no longer identifiable.

The micro stamping law does nothing to prevent the flow of guns to people who should not have them, and does everything to prevent the use or purchase of guns by people who can lawfully own them - which is the whole point of a law like this. The people who make these laws are well aware of this.

The age verification law, coupled with the proposed hardware attestation that our good friend Lennart poettering is working on will ensure that anonymity on the Internet is gone. This is precisely what lawmakers are aiming for. And just like the micro stamping law, the intent of the law is not the literal word of the law.
by tliltocatl | 2026-02-27 23:32:47+00:00
You shouldn't apply that kind of thinking to global things. Because what you end up doing is nuking library on earth - there might be a casino somewhere near there. I see your concerns, but, ultimately, parent's carving for a comfortable illusion of control is less important than child's rights. And yes, I'll repeat it again, it's not child's best interest to have their surroundings controlled and censored.

And for reference, when I was talking about my personal experience, I wasn't talking about 80's. More like mid- to late- 00's Russia. The internet was already quite a cesspool at the time, the local IRL even more so. Just I wasn't interested. Once a teen is interested in getting into the edgy stuff there is no amount of regulation can stop them.
by hansvm | 2026-02-27 23:32:51+00:00
rm - between -i and -r this is just a less efficient way to search for porn

reboot - you never know what the sysadmin might have loading on boot, unsafe as it could load porn

echo - ASCII art would like to have a word

kill - I know the US will have mixed feelings, but communicating with other processes might allow them to send you porn
by cjtrowbridge | 2026-02-27 23:33:02+00:00
All of SapaceX rockets waste close to half their payload capacity on extra fuel for landing, extra equipment for landing, and they still have a 100% failure rate on every super-heavy launch they've ever attempted. SpaceX has blown up more rockets in the last year than NASA has in its entire history. NASA's super heavy rockets have been working successfully since 1967. NASA did build the first single-stage-to-orbit rockets that also successfully landed, but it immediately realized that was a huge waste of resources. Instead, they put parachutes on rockets and then refurbished them instead. So NASA gets double the payload capacity for free. The boosters currently strapped to the SLS that's about to go to the Moon are the same ones that previously took space shuttles to orbit in the 90s. NASA has been to the Moon and Mars; SpaceX has never made it to either, and just last week Elon said they've officially given up on going to Mars, and they're hoping to make it to Moon in another decade instead. NASA is going next month. SpaceX is just vaporware being run by a drug addict whose only goal is to sell it to the public markets before the house of cards comes down.
by greatgib | 2026-02-27 23:33:07+00:00
Not specifically for the Mac light, but nowadays I find it very annoying that everything as a small led light for sleep or just indicate power, or power plugged.

At night it is very hard to have a dark room to sleep in small apartments or bedrooms when you have so many of them. Tv sleep lights, set top box, computers sleep and power plugged lights, small electronic devices and appliances like the one displaying time. Power multipliers that often have a safety power on light, ...
by alephnerd | 2026-02-27 23:33:33+00:00
> Contractors can still use Claude internally in their business, so long as it is not used in government work directly.

I work in the enterprise SaaS and cybersecurity industry. There is no way to guarantee that amongst any FedRAMP vendor (which is almost every cybersecurity and enterprise SaaS or on their roadmap).

Almost all FedRAMP products I've built, launched, sold, or funded were the same build as the commerical offering, but with siloed data and network access.

This means the entire security and enterprise SaaS industry will have to shift away from Anthropic unless the DPA is invoked and management is changed.

More likely, I think the DoD/DoW and their customers will force Anthropic to retrain a sovereign model specifically for the US Gov.
by hunterpayne | 2026-02-27 23:33:36+00:00
Sure, when the expected monetary value was 0. Then they started claiming that investing $1,000,000,000,000.00 (that's $1T) into a 4 year old startup was a good idea. Change the valuation, change the goal. Then the goal was be better than a human employees (or at least more efficient or even just improves efficiency) because without that the value of the LLM is far lower than what it is being sold as. All the research so far says that LLMs fall far short of that goal. And if this was someone else's money, fine. But this is basically everyone's retirement savings. Again, higher valuation, higher goal. Finally, when you start losing people's retirement savings, criminal penalties start getting attached to things.
by lovich | 2026-02-27 23:33:50+00:00
The aid to Palestinians.

Trump is advocating for a takeover of Gaza and letting the Israelis go nuts in the West Bank.

Also lol at peace negotiations, do you think Trump ended 8 wars already as well despite violence still ongoing?

We’re in phase 2 of his “peace plan” which requires Hamas demilitarizing, which they say they won’t do, and fighting is still happening.

To paraphrase the office, he didn’t say peace he declared it.
by cobolcomesback | 2026-02-27 23:34:08+00:00
None of the hyper scalers are going to stop offering Claude. All of the big 3 have invested billions of dollars into Anthropic, and have tens (if not hundreds) of billions more tied up in funding deals with them. Amazon and Google are two of the largest shareholders of Anthropic.

Anthropic is going to be fine. The DoD is going to walk this back and pretend it never happened to save face.
by jacobsenscott | 2026-02-27 23:35:19+00:00
If you're a billionaire there's no risk to "sticking to principles", so there's nothing to admire. Also that's not what they're doing. These are calculated moves in a negotiation and the trump regime only has 3 years left. Even a CEO can think 4 years ahead.

It's probably in Anthropic's interest to throw grok to these clowns and watch them fail to build anything with it for 3 years.
by fasbiner | 2026-02-27 23:35:37+00:00
I don't doubt you, but what if someone's else's wife felt differently. Would that counteract your wife? Or is your wife special in an objective sense and her intuitions about hypotheticals are more valid than anyone else's?

Your wife feels a certain way and wanted to avoid a certain hypothetical. But since it didn't happen, we have no way of knowing how relevant these feelings are.

How can we address blacklisting and covid response if you are insisting that any comparison isn't relevant and that we should evaluate it with no baseline?
by NetMageSCW | 2026-02-27 23:36:04+00:00
Tell us about the flammable tape and the heat shield and the ECLSS and the power hiccup, about how while Orion has been in development SpaceX has built and deployed Cargo and Crew Dragon 2 and flown 20 crews into orbit, or how it costs six times more than Crew Drahon, so far. Or about the side hatch not opening easily under pressure (Apollo I anyone?). Or the status of the docking system for Artemis II.
by runjake | 2026-02-27 23:36:23+00:00
> Anthropic’s stance is fundamentally incompatible with American principles.

I don't think that Secretary Hegseth is qualified to speak on American principles.

Cheating on multiple spouses[1], being an active alcoholic, and being accused of multiple sexual assaults and paying off the accusers[3] is fundamentally incompatible with being a Secretary of Defense and a good leader.

Also, this violates freedom of speech and will probably get shot down in the courts.

1. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pete_Hegseth#Marriages

2. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pete_Hegseth plus multiple recent media pieces

3. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pete_Hegseth#Abuse_and_sexual_...
by pwdisswordfishy | 2026-02-27 23:36:48+00:00
Best bet is a user/user-education error, a crummy implementation and most instances involving an ISBN-10 printed on a label with a UPC nearby; the ISBN-10, being most likely printed in OCR-A, needs no barcode in order to be decoded, and the barcode being read by the scanner app is the one corresponding to the UPC.

Scanning the "ISBN bar code" then is actually leading to a lookup for digits of the UPC (a totally different sequence).

It's also the case that unless you were a used bookstore, you're fundamentally dealing with different kinds of inputs than someone cataloging a home library.
Add salvage drip emails for churned users
by nishiohiroshi | 2026-02-27 23:37:06+00:00
43 users uninstalled GitAuto or canceled their subscription. Instead of letting them go, we built a salvage email system that picks the right message based on what they actually did - merged PRs, opened PRs, had a subscription, or never engaged. Each email includes their real data ("you merged 3 PRs before you uninstalled back in Oct 2025") because generic re-engagement emails get ignored.
by Liftyee | 2026-02-27 23:37:27+00:00
I needed exactly this sort of tool for a reverse-engineering project! I was so invested I returned here to write this comment... then spotted the other comments about "no Firefox support". Indeed, visually broken "Browser Not Supported" popup appears.

Darn. Disappointing. Guess I will have to keep looking.

Also... it doesn't look open-source and the comments about file access are valid. The functionality listed is completely possible as a browser-based local app with no server functionality.

Other webapps (https://falstad.com/circuit/) seem to be able to open a file picker in Firefox just fine. Saving is just via downloading to the Downloads folder, but the functionality is not impossible.
by miltonlost | 2026-02-27 23:37:57+00:00
With this administration, after all their proven lies, when in doubt, assume bad faith on their part. Assuming good faith at this point is Lucy and Charlie Brown and the football, but now the football is fascism (i.e., state control of corporations, e.g., what Trump administration is doing here).

Trump has historically stiffed his contractors. Why do you think his administration would be any different with adhering to a contract?
by janalsncm | 2026-02-27 23:38:21+00:00
When models get cheaper to run for OpenAI, they also get cheaper for everyone else. It gets commoditized. AI might be able to do more, but most people aren’t going to pay for a thing they could get for free. See the many models on Huggingface as examples of that.

And as the number of things AI is “good enough” at increases, the list of things on the frontier that people will want to pay OpenAI for shrinks. Even if OpenAI can consistently churn out PhD level math, most companies don’t care about that.

So a necessary (but not sufficient) condition for the math to work out is that frontier tasks still exist and are profitable. This is why CEOs keep hyping up AGI. But what they really want is for developers to keep paying to get AI to center a div.
by trevwilson | 2026-02-27 23:38:26+00:00
Here's one specific case[0] and an article citing 35 others over the course of 6 months[1]:

[0]https://www.ap.org/news-highlights/spotlights/2025/unquestio...

[1]https://www.nytimes.com/2026/02/23/us/politics/judges-contem...
by tgma | 2026-02-27 23:38:45+00:00
Well, great! Sounds like this is exactly what Anthropic wants and hopes for; for their technology to minimally benefit warfighting. Otherwise, are you suggesting they are so evil that they were just advertising those the terms to fool us and virtue signal?

> has never been invoked against an American company.

There's always a first. I am assuming it is not illegal to do that. It's a completely reasonable business decision to ensure your supply chain does not depend on things that may change against your goals. For example, you don't want to build or depend on an open source platform that you know is gonna rug pull, if you count on it remaining open source, do you? American or otherwise.
by RickJWagner | 2026-02-27 23:38:51+00:00
You said ‘murder’, not ‘lawfully killed’.

Nobody has been charged with murder. You don’t get to make up your own definition for words, they have a shared meaning. Murder means something, and that guy was not murdered.

You also said "Trump sending military to always Democratic-led cities“ as if he was targeting those cities. You have been shown that Republican led cities have ICE, too. Did you mean that in some other way?
by adampunk | 2026-02-27 23:38:52+00:00
FDB has this enduring ability to be right and unlikable. He seems to think it is because he is a teller of hard truths, but it's mostly because he fills his pieces with lurid paragraphs like the one about high "DM ratio" pieces which exist only to tell us how everyone will later agree with him in private but not be able to say it publicly.
by jonchurch_ | 2026-02-27 23:39:53+00:00
I currently pay them $200/month out of my own pocket for this already, so for me it is not a free trial but subsizing my usage.

Agreed that $200 USD would be preferable (credits dont pay rent). My comment is directed at the strong words others have left about this being in bad faith on the whole. Even if it is, then their bad faith efforts are better than most.

Opinions here will vary, I wanted to share mine <3
by sarchertech | 2026-02-27 23:39:59+00:00
“Bachelet’s damning report was published with only 11 minutes to go before her term came to an end at midnight Geneva time. Publication was delayed by the eleventh-hour delivery of an official Chinese response that contained names and pictures of individuals that had to be blacked out by the UN commissioner’s office for privacy and safety reasons.”

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2022/aug/31/china-uyghur-m...

The organization’s human rights office delivered its much-delayed report minutes before Michelle Bachelet, the U.N. high commissioner for human rights, was to leave office.

https://www.nytimes.com/2022/08/31/world/asia/un-china-xinji...
by coderjames | 2026-02-27 23:40:57+00:00
For me its the commodities.

I grant that SpaceX engineers are smart people and can figure out how to make Starship and Superheavy reliable and reusable.

But if they have to launch 10-14 times in order to get the propellant to the LEO depot in order to fuel the Lunar Starship, can we actually deliver that many launches worth of LOX and LNG to the launch pads in the timeframe needed to prevent it all from boiling off once in orbit before Lunar Starship can get there, get refueled and head to the moon? I don't know the answer to that, and to me that seems like the hard problem.
by trollbridge | 2026-02-27 23:40:58+00:00
And there is evidence automated killbots were already used in Gaza (not that that's a good thing).

Generally, in war, there are no rules, and someone is going to make automated killbots, and I expect one place to see them quite soon is in the Russia-Ukraine war. And yes, I'm hoping the good guys use them and win over the bad guys. And yes, there are good guys and bad guys in that conflict.
by _dain_ | 2026-02-27 23:41:35+00:00
>Effective immediately, no contractor, supplier, or partner that does business with the United States military may conduct any commercial activity with Anthropic.

Nevermind Claude, does that mean Anthropic's offices can't use a power company if that same company happens to supply electricity to a US military base? What about the water, garbage disposal, janitorial services? Fedex? Credit card payments? Insurance companies? Law firms? All the normal boring stuff Anthropic needs that any other business needs.

This is a corporate death penalty. Or corporate internal exile or something, I don't know of a good analogy.
by sigbottle | 2026-02-27 23:42:06+00:00
Great read. I've always noticed that the type of argument invoked is often less telling than when and in which context you invoke that argument.

You can make a lot of claims and they can match to reality a lot - normally people think of evaluating things in terms of a strict "does this fit or does this not", but it's often the meta-style (why do you keep bringing up that argument in that context?) that's important, even if it's not "logically bulletproof".
by johnfn | 2026-02-27 23:42:07+00:00
The writeup here[1] was pretty clear to me.

> *Isn’t it unreasonable for Anthropic to suddenly set terms in their contract?* The terms were in the original contract, which the Pentagon agreed to. It’s the Pentagon who’s trying to break the original contract and unilaterally change the terms, not Anthropic.

> *Doesn’t the Pentagon have a right to sign or not sign any contract they choose?* Yes. Anthropic is the one saying that the Pentagon shouldn’t work with them if it doesn’t want to. The Pentagon is the one trying to force Anthropic to sign the new contract.

[1]: https://www.astralcodexten.com/p/the-pentagon-threatens-anth...
by mostlysimilar | 2026-02-27 23:43:10+00:00
I think it's worth giving people a tiny bit of grace on this. I've surprised people by explaining that the "Department of War" is just fascist fanfic and that the legal name has not changed.

It's a testament to the broken information ecosystem we're in that many people genuinely don't know this. Most will correct themselves when told. I agree with you that those who don't are not worth engaging.
by yk | 2026-02-27 23:44:18+00:00
From the public comments over the last few days, my guess is they want a militarized version of Claude. Starting with a box they want to put in the basement of the Pentagon where Antropic can't just switch off the ai. Then some guardrails are probably quite bothersome for the military and they want them removed. Concretely if you try to vibe-target your ICBMs Claude is hopefully telling you that that's a bad idea.

Now, my guess is in the ensuing lawsuit Antropic's defense will be that that is just not a product they offer, somewhat akin to ordering Ford to build a tank variant of the F150.
by ivraatiems | 2026-02-27 23:46:36+00:00
This investigation aligns with my experience in a lot of ways. I'm con-the influence and behavior big AI companies, but lukewarm-to-pro the actual use of the technology itself.

I use Claude and other models frequently (mostly via Cursor, with a smattering of other tools) in my work now. It is not at the "I never write code myself" point, but the AI tools are absolutely capable of generating highly effective and usable code, usually nearly as good or as good as what I'd do myself, with guidance.

It hasn't eliminated the need for my existence as an engineer, but it has changed it drastically. It is much more like "tell the computer what I want and mostly get it" than it was a year ago.

And yet, I have friends and colleagues who reject it out of hand as useless, and are so skeptical of it that they suggest it must only be good because my skills are poor, or our codebase is bad, or I'm getting lucky.

I just can't totally credit any of those explanations anymore.
by croes | 2026-02-27 23:46:52+00:00
The real problem isn’t that OpenClaw needs access to your system.

> and calls APIs on your behalf

This is the problem.

How does a (cloud) VM prevent that OpenClaw does something bad with that access.

That like giving somebody your credit card but it’s ok because they don’t use it from your house but a place you rented for them.
by nephihaha | 2026-02-27 23:47:04+00:00
I've said elsewhere on the "Babylon 5" discussion that Kubrick's "2001" has aged better in many ways than Hyams' "2010" which came out many years later. In the same vein, CGI has a nasty habit of aging more quickly than practical effects. There is stuff from the nineties which looks worse than the seventies as a result.

In the case of "Red Dwarf", the genius was in having the ship be an ugly industrial environment in the vein of "Dark Star", "Alien", "Outland" etc. That allowed for sets to be built easily and cheaply. I think some of it was even filmed in a BBC canteen/cafeteria.
by brooke2k | 2026-02-27 23:47:12+00:00
clearly there's something I don't understand (or is the law just really this stupid?) - but what would this even look like for linux? every user account requires an associated age?

but users don't have a 1:1 mapping to the people that log into them. linux users that aren't used by any particular person, but by a particular _service_ are common. so are linux users that could be logged into by any number of people, and which have no specific single owner.