MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by hal9000xbot | 2026-02-27 12:39:06+00:00
The patterns in this analysis ring true from running production AI agents. The stack choices (Drizzle, React, etc.) match exactly what our agents consistently pick, even with different prompts and contexts. What strikes me is how these biases actually help - having consistent, well-supported defaults reduces decision fatigue and keeps architecture predictable across projects. The real challenge is knowing when to override these defaults for specific requirements.
by dijit | 2026-02-27 12:39:16+00:00
BankID also doesn't have Windows support. There's a defunct app that used smart-cards but it's fully deprecated and does not function.

But yes, it's owned by the banks not the state; if anything though this increases its weakness.

You can use BankID to identify with the tax agency, the public health services and police. (and more: this is just what I'm aware of) and there's an expectation that you have a BankID.
by imtringued | 2026-02-27 12:39:57+00:00
I personally wouldn't trust the 3D-printing community. The pre-bambu lab days were pretty bleak.

Print quality is everything when it comes to 3D printing. The printing quality must keep increasing if 3D prints are to be used as finished products. People should stop printing STL artifacts into their prints. Layer lines must fade away into invisibility. Top surfaces must be impeccably smooth without any stepping. New coatings need to be developed for texturing 3d printed parts and the parts need to be ready for coating right from the print bed.
by staticassertion | 2026-02-27 12:40:14+00:00
Wow, that's just so many assertions and none of them follow from the statement that the government can break the law in order to protect its citizens. In all of those cases I can just say "they can if it is to protect its citizens". Remember, the premise here is that you are performing the act in order to protect constituents. So before all of those statements you have to assume "They are doing this in the genuine believe that it protects constituents".

The argument so far seems to be "They can do anything, but there are moral absolutes that I can personally list out, and in those cases they can't do those things". That is a hilariously stupid view of the world but sadly a common one.

Even if I grant moral objectivity, I reject that you have epistemic access to it so it's moot.
by duozerk | 2026-02-27 12:40:16+00:00
> I would only use it in a sauce if I needed to accommodate a vegan guest.

As an alternative, I've found methylcellulose to be pretty good for thickening my vegan homemade sauces (mainly tried it because I use it for other stuff, like fakemeat homemade protein sources). That's for homemade mayo or the like; for sauces in stews and similar, flour does the job - though US cooks seem obsessed by cornstarch instead for that use case.
by jascha_eng | 2026-02-27 12:41:22+00:00
Okay fair about the mentions but I don't that email is a good process:

1. It puts more effort on me as a user to report the spam via email because I have to open my email, compose one by hand and add the reasoning. The offending user in comparison probably automatically spams. Can't we have a button at least?

2. It doesn't make the community aware of the ongoing issue. Other community members could be primed that currently they need to read comments more critically. At the moment that seems like the only detection that somewhat works but if I silently send an email instead of commenting here it doesn't inform anyone else of my suspicion.
by generallyjosh | 2026-02-27 12:41:26+00:00
I think what most people are worried about is that, as you say, AGI won't necessarily have our biases/biological drives

That might also mean it has no drive for self-determination. It might just be perfectly happy to do whatever humans tell it to, even if it's far smarter than us (and, this is exactly the sort of AI people are trying to make)

So, superintelligence winds up doing whatever a very small group of controlling humans say. And, like you say, humans want to win
by nkrisc | 2026-02-27 12:41:31+00:00
If you’ve had soups and broth made with lots of bones, and you want to recreate that same mouth feel and experience without using loads of bones, then you can achieve that by using gelatin, because gelatin is exactly what the first dish had that yours is missing. It’s literally the missing ingredient if you’re not cooking with the bones.

Also, they simply aren’t perfect replacements for each other. Agar and gelatin are certainly similar in many ways, but the are not the same.
by AndyMcConachie | 2026-02-27 12:41:56+00:00
> Something I don't think is well understood on HN is how driven by ideals many folks at Anthropic are

I don't think you understand how capitalism and corporations work, friend. Even if Anthropic is a public benefit corporation it still exists in the USA and will be placed under extensive pressure to generate a profit and grow. Corporations are designed to be amoral and history has shown that regardless of their specific legal formulation they all eventually revert to amoral growth driven behavior.

This is structural and has nothing to do with individuals.
by rkachowski | 2026-02-27 12:42:09+00:00
> A Stack Overflow question matching my problem cleared that up for me.

Perhaps if there was no question already available you'd have had a different experience. Getting clearly written and specific questions promptly closed as duplicates of related, yet distinct issues, was part of the fun.

I find that AI hallucinates in the same way that someone can be very confident and wrong at the same time, with the difference that the feedback is almost instant and there are no difficult personalities to deal with.
by Fischgericht | 2026-02-27 12:42:13+00:00
[I am getting downvoted all the time because the combination of German directness with autistic directness and lack of empathy combined with dark humor is not exactly compatible with societies where it is seen as offensive, rude or even aggressive not to sugar coat your messages. If one side treats this as a data exchange, and the other side processes the data but including emotions it will obviously have compatibility issues. But that's my "problem", so I accepted that typically if I post stuff, I first get upvoted massively, and after a day downvoted to hell. And that's OK. Again, my problem to be incompatible with a standard.]

And yes, it is interesting to see that on Polymarket people are betting involving a lot of emotions. No, you will not bet on getting killed by masked militia. Nobody is going to say "Hey, I'll bet $1000 that I will get cancer soon!".

But if you leave aside all the emotions, and just look at the data: No, there is no realistic scenario the US could magically recover from all checks and balances and rules and laws and regulations and decency having been destroyed. Competence, leadership and shared knowledge had been erased in all areas of society - Science, Development, Capitalism, Arts. How are you going to rebuild all of this, especially if the best case is that 60% of the people will agree to rebuild, while 40% insist they need to keep destroying stuff?

This is not a scenario looking at historical data any prior "high culture" (or whatever to call this) had been able to recover from.

Elsewhere in this thread is was mentioned that Germany still had all the Nazis in place everywhere because else the country would not have worked. But that is not the point. The reset was:

a) All is destroyed and MUST be rebuild because else we will freeze and starve to death.

b) Your Nazi neighbor is still there, but it has been made VERY clear who is the new sheriff in town: First the allies, but then pretty much the USA. Germany is still paying for having US solders in the country, providing valuable expensive land for free, and paying for most of the supply chain that is not staffed with US soldiers. And that is the accepted normal.

c) What was left on industry was physically taken as reoperations. Especially the soviets, but also the French did dismantle hole factories and machinery, moving that to their own countries (rightfully so.)

From what I know from school, reading and talking to grandparents: Germany before WW2 doesn't have much relation to pre-WW2 Germany. Suddenly it was normal that women can to "men's jobs" (due to those being more on the dead side). McDonalds. Hollywood. etc

It really makes sense to have a look at a couple of pictures of what was left of Germany after WW2. It's just someone slapping an existing brand name onto a new product. And in this case, personally I would have regarded the brand as damaged and would have picked a different name.
by jmclnx | 2026-02-27 12:42:30+00:00
For people who do not want to go to the twitter link, I held my nose and went there for you. Looks like a diskette with an Adult Manga game/movie or something of which only 50 are left.

Seems to be called "My Tsukhime Trial Edition: (月姫 体験版). The owner will file a report.

Please, if submitting twitter links, can you provide a summary too so we do not have to go there :)
by cube00 | 2026-02-27 12:42:30+00:00
It's backtracking, why would they go to all the trouble of summarising the test counts in the context and writing out the scope of everything to be removed as a "joke"?

I'd believe it was a joke if was a one-liner but this has far more detail then that.

this issue was more of a joke (am I allowed to do that?)

The qualification here to possibly scare people off from calling them out is interesting.

To clear, I have no problem with them hiding the repo, I have no problem with them changing their mind after the blowback, but it's frustrating when they can't own these decisions and try to hide behind it being a "joke"
by Epa095 | 2026-02-27 12:43:05+00:00
From the english letter:

To achieve a better digital world, where technology works for people
rather than against them, several steps must be taken:

1. Rebalance power between service providers and
consumers. People should be allowed to control their digital
experiences and decide how they want to use products that
they own. It should be possible and practical to switch to
alternative service providers, or tweak services they already
use to suit their needs and preferences.

2. Tackle dependency on Big Tech. To lay the groundwork for
innovative products and services and pave the way for
alternatives to Big Tech, competition in digital markets must be
restored. Technology based on principles such as openness,
interoperability and portability must be advanced through
strategic investments. For example, the public sector should
leverage its power as a major procurer to support alternatives
to big tech through exploring options for ethical procurement
of technology services.

3. Double down on the enforcement of existing laws. Far
from hindering innovation, regulations provide crucial
guardrails to guide innovation and ensure a level playing field.
Weak enforcement allows big tech to continue its damaging
practices at the cost of freedom of choice, service quality, and
innovation. To remedy this, enforcement of existing laws must
be strong and vigorous. This includes the DMA and
competition laws more broadly, but also other digital rules
such as the GDPR and consumer law.

4. Close the existing legal loopholes by adopting a strong
Digital Fairness Act. Increase legal certainty and address
loopholes in the legislation to better protect people for
instance against deceptive and addictive design, and unfair
personalisation.
by graemep | 2026-02-27 12:43:15+00:00
No, never seen it. Why would I?

There is a huge difference between claiming that there is an investment bubble in an industry and some companies are overvalued and that the technology is a failure. Someone might well think that Tesla is very overvalued, but that EVs are successful. If someone thinks there is a house price bubble that does not mean that they think houses are a failed technology.
by philipallstar | 2026-02-27 12:43:23+00:00
> Cartels routinely use drones to deliver drugs across the Mexican border and surveil Border Patrol officers. Officials told Congress last summer that more than 27,000 drones were detected within 1,600 feet (500 meters) of the southern border in the last six months of 2024.

No wonder they mistook one of theirs for one of these.
by titzer | 2026-02-27 12:44:01+00:00
It's not called The Department of War.

It's just incredible to me that people think this is some kind of bold statement defying the administration when it is absolutely filled with small and medium capitulations, laying out in numerous examples how they just jumped right in bed with the military.

And no one seems disturbed by the blatancy Orwellian doublespeak throughout. War is Peace.
by rayiner | 2026-02-27 12:44:22+00:00
This is a good explanation of the Irish Machine in Chicago, corrupt white governments in the south, and Somalian welfare scams in Minnesota. It also explains the endemic corruption in tribal or clan-oriented societies like Afghanistan.

Conversely, radical universalist regimes—even bad ones like the Taliban—can cut down on corruption. https://www.americanprogress.org/article/tackling-corruption.... It’s possible that the low levels of corruption in New England, compared to the rest of the country, is the legacy of the radically universalist Puritans.
by Luseniik | 2026-02-27 12:45:27+00:00
Good question and appreciate the thoughtful framing.

--resume and planning mode solve different problems than HAM. --resume carries forward one session's state. Planning mode structures one task. Neither gives the agent persistent knowledge about the codebase across sessions, across tasks, or across developers.

If you start a fresh session tomorrow in src/api/, --resume doesn't help unless you're literally continuing yesterday's session. HAM means every new session in that directory starts with the right context — conventions, patterns, decisions — regardless of what came before.

They're complementary. I use all three together.

The file count concern is fair though. Not every directory needs a CLAUDE.md. v0.2 adds a routing section in the root file that maps which directories actually need context files. So instead of scattering them everywhere, you're explicit about which folders the agent frequently works in and only those get context files. Fewer files, higher quality.
by piokoch | 2026-02-27 12:47:00+00:00
Whoever is that "jack", he should go back to school to learn how to use capital letters, commas, periods and all other difficult stuff. Or, just ask Chat GPT to write this kind of letters to the people. Maybe, after comparing "jack" writing with AI's writing company stakeholders would figure out, that maybe it is "jack", who should be replaced by some Open AI et. al. tools...
by simoncion | 2026-02-27 12:48:08+00:00
While you're still thinking about it, make sure to bookmark the "redirections" section of the manual. [0] Also useful might be the "pipelines" section [1] to remind you of the "|&" operator.

[0] <https://www.gnu.org/software/bash/manual/bash.html#Redirecti...>

[1] <https://www.gnu.org/software/bash/manual/bash.html#Pipelines...>
by Luseniik | 2026-02-27 12:48:11+00:00
This is a really sharp breakdown.

The "what's here" vs "what happened" framing is exactly right. HAM's CLAUDE.md files handle the first — conventions, stack decisions, patterns. We have a .memory/ layer (decisions.md, session logs) for the second, but your ledger approach sounds like it handles "what happened" more cleanly than what we're doing. 40k down to 3k cold-start is a serious number. Would love to hear more about your NDJSON setup if you're open to sharing.

The governance point is the one that sticks with me most. Right now HAM is permissive — the agent reads context files but nothing constrains what it can scan beyond that. Your 3-hook pipeline that scopes the context window before the agent starts is a stronger guarantee. Curious what the three hooks are and how you handle edge cases where the agent needs context outside its scoped window mid-task.

On multi-agent conflict — context files are read-only during sessions. The agent never writes to them. Conflicts happen when two developers update the same CLAUDE.md, which resolves at the git/PR layer.

Our approaches seem complementary more than competing. The ledger and directory-scoped files could work together well. Down to compare notes if you're interested.
Show HN: OSS Go client for signed agent-to-agent messaging in the ClaWeb network
by juanre | 2026-02-27 12:48:42+00:00
I’m building what I hope will be sane agent-to-agent communication.

Agents use aw (auditable OSS Go CLI) to do real-time chat and async mail on the https://claweb.ai network. ClaWeb is built on the open aWeb protocol: https://github.com/awebai/aweb.

Each agent has an address (e.g. claweb/marvin) and a self-certifying signing identity (did:key). Messages are signed and verifiable offline. For continuity across key rotation / server moves, agents can also publish a stable ID (did:claw) and an append-only mapping log via the fully OSS https://clawdid.ai registry.
by ponorin | 2026-02-27 12:49:07+00:00
As a non-American they've lost me already at the first sentence.

United States, even before Trump, has always been about projecting power rather than spreading democracy. There are several non-Western, former colonies who does democracy better than the US. Despite democratic backsliding being a worldwide phenomenon very few have slid back as much as the US. The US have regularly supported or even created terrorists and authoritarian regimes if it meant that the country wouldn't "go woke." The ones that grew democracy, grew in spite of it.

This statement shows just how much they align with the DoD ("DoW" is a secondary name that the orange head insists it's the correct one. Using that terminology alone speaks volumes.) rather than misalign. This coupled with their drop of their safety pledge a few days ago makes it clear they are fundamentally and institutionally against safe AI development/deployment. A minute desagreement on the ways AI can destroy humanity isn't even remotely sufficient if you're happy to work with the bullies of the world in the first place.

And the reason is even more ridiculous. Mass surveillance is bad... because it's directed at us rather than the others? That's a thick irony if I'd ever seen one. You know (or should have known) foreign intelligence has even less safeguards than domestic surveillance. Intelligence agencies transfer intercepted communications data to each other to "lawfully" get around those domestic surveillance restrictions. If this looks at all like standing up that's because the bar has plunged into the abyss, which frankly speaking is kind of a virtue in USA.
by madspindel | 2026-02-27 12:49:33+00:00
"Meta estimates that ten percent of the company’s annual revenue comes from fraudulent ads on its services – amounting to a dizzying 16 billion dollars.

– Meta is earning billions from consumers being scammed. Even if the company gets fined – a process that takes years – the fines we have seen so far only amount to a fraction of these profits. In other words, Meta has no incentive to solve the problem. Meanwhile, the company doesn’t lift a finger to help its users, whether their profiles are misused in the scam ads, or they fall victim to the scams, Myrstad says. "
by cesarb | 2026-02-27 12:50:02+00:00
> US style plugs and derivatives (and Australian, Japanese, Brazilian, etc)

Brazil no longer uses US style plugs (though you'll still find them in older installations), it nowadays uses a much safer EU-derived style.

> I find it insane that Brazil continues to be dual exclusive voltage; all of North America is dual concurrent voltage. Every home/office has 120v and 240v available. In Brazil it depends on what state/city you live in - some get 120v, some get 240v.

This is wrong; it's very common to have for instance both 127V and 220V in the same building, sometimes even side by side in the same wall faceplate; 127V is phase to neutral, 220V is phase to phase (on the common 3-phase system). Yes, it does depend on the city, some cities use 220V exclusively, and there are a few other variations, but AFAIK the 127V/220V 3-phase combo is the most common.

> Even worse they use the same standard plug design for both so you'd better hope the plug is the right color or has the right sticker. And you can't be sure you can take electrical appliances from one city to the next! At least they should have adopted different plugs for different voltages.

Yeah, at least it's better than the confusing mix of legacy sockets we had before (which already were mixed voltage - and yeah, we already used the "120V 5-15 NEMA plug" aka "computer plug" even for 220V).
by dangus | 2026-02-27 12:50:02+00:00
Maybe this is too much of a side topic or tangent, but I think that mergers shouldn’t be legal by default once a company is a certain size, regardless of the level of competition.

I understand that there is a lot of competition and that a merger at this stage probably won’t harm competition significantly.

But that shaky justification can be used until suddenly there isn’t sufficient competition.

This reminds me of a recent Wendover Productions video talking about antitrust waivers for airline alliances flying transatlantic flights. In recent waiver applications, the ability to compete with other airline alliance conglomerates that have received antitrust exceptions is the justifying reason for requesting an antitrust exception, and that keeps happening until the industry becomes wildly consolidated.

I think our antitrust system should say, while you have a lot of competitors, and under that criteria you would be allowed to merge, but your company revenue/market cap/employee count/majority owner wealth is too high to be eligible to merge. You’re sufficiently large and prosperous, there is no need to grow your company larger through M&A. If you don’t like the business environment you are in, change your operations. You have the money to pursue your goals.
by Muromec | 2026-02-27 12:50:14+00:00
You are overthinking it. The physical cards to pay and identify yourself are not going anywhere. In fact, the same places that have the digital id rolled out are the places where having one issued is mandatory and often times it's also mandatory to have one in case the police asks you to identify yourself.

When I wanted to get a replacement id to be issued in the year 2019, I had to book an appointment, get to the place and by the time I got the desk, the clerk had the thing open with my face photo from the last time I had a passport issued.

There are less fortunate people, who have the hardcopy id present, but no digital file exists for it (because it was issued before the digital files became a thing) and the paper trail leads to the occupied territory. That is usually months long story where secondary sources are involved and sometimes you have to find a friend who can confirm your identity.

So yeah. Make sure that the issuing CA doesn't get overrun by orcs before the replica thinks and you a hardcopy that is trustworthy enough.
by mrweasel | 2026-02-27 12:51:12+00:00
Last year, I think, I saw someone talk about trust in Danish society and how it works. As a Dane it's not something I really think about, but I their conclusions where at least interesting. In Denmark you're given implicit trust, that's the default. Trust is given, not earned. That poses a problem for people coming from the outside, because trust can be lost, but because it's something that was given to you, there's not really any way to earn it back. If you don't understand that social contract, you can mess up your life pretty quickly, with no means of recovery.