MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by moozooh | 2026-02-27 17:01:55+00:00
It may appear simpler on the surface but it's very easy to find that market forces that don't have any checks and balances on them eventually converge on increasingly aggressive and dehumanizing behavior—not unlike your example with women. I have many such well-documented behaviors to list as examples, and I guarantee you have encountered them regularly and been upset at them.

The way we organize in a society is by having governments, usually elected ones to represent what "most people in a society" actually think, to serve as an arbiter of applied morals in our interactions, including business. To that end, we codify most of them in laws with clear definitions to prevent things like unfettered monopolies, corporate espionage, poor working conditions and hiring practices, etc. This generally works, though it depends on how well a given government and its constituent parts does its job and whether it uses the power it has to serve the entire society's interests or the interests of the elites that drive decisions. We can see right now how it fails in real time, for example.

Morals don't have to be evaluated "objectively" (whatever that is) every time to be observed. Humanity has agreed on many things that make up UDHR, international law, and other related documents. It's not the hard part. Making independent actors conduct their business in accordance with these codes is the hard part. Somehow even making them follow their own self-imposed principles is crazy hard for some reason. When Amodei claims Anthropic develops Claude for the benefit of all humanity but greenlights its use for surveillance on non-Americans, that's scummy. When Amodei claims to be terrified of authoritarian regimes gaining access to powerful AI but seeks investment from them, that's scummy. The deal with Palantir, the mass-surveillance business, is scummy. Framing the use of autonomous weapons as only disagreeable insofar as the underlying capabilities aren't reliable enough is scummy. You don't need to be a PhD in morals to notice that.
by lkbm | 2026-02-27 17:02:04+00:00
Github search gives me 11 300 results for 5000+ stars[0]. Dunno if they all qualify as open source, but that's also repos, not contributors. Presumably there's an average of > 1 per repo.

NPM probably adds a lot. I can't find any recent sources, but NPM packages get downloaded a lot (e.g., every Github Action run.) And to get such a download, an NPM package just has to be somewhere in the dependency tree, which are famously enormous. (Though many might not be updated in the past 3 months, though.)

[0] https://github.com/search?q=stars%3A%3E5000+sort%3Astars&typ...
by SR2Z | 2026-02-27 17:02:06+00:00
I find this take to be very distasteful.

These folks (in CA at least) have a marginal tax rate in excess of 40%. In the US they are the main payer of federal income tax - income tax that is then mostly used to fund social programs. Double your income and your taxes (at least) double.

But it's not good enough for you, apparently, because the only acceptable way for me to prove I care is to support YOU making more money and being immune to layoffs.

I'm self-interested and freely admit that I like making money because money is nice. You're self-interested but you're pretending this take is for your "fellow man."

If you're a well paid software engineer, you're already incredibly privileged. Most of the world would kill to have that job, but according to you the real unfair part is that companies can choose to pay some people more than you?
by Eggpants | 2026-02-27 17:02:06+00:00
What’s interesting is Anthropic being singled out here. That either means:

1- OpenAI, Microsoft, Google, Amazon, etc have no problem with their products being used to kill people so no need to bully them.

2- These other products are so terrible at the task that the clown shoe wearing SecDef is forced to try to bully Anthropic.
by sdsd | 2026-02-27 17:03:22+00:00
I wondered if this would be about PokeMMO, which I've recently started playing. Basically, they made a commercial Pokemon game by gluing the first five ROMS together, and they get around intellectual property by making players supply their own ROMs (which they assume you've acquired legally) for copyrighted assets.

It's incredibly fun. I'm pricklypears2 if anyone wants to play together. And if the devs read this, please add Mimikyu somehow I beg you <3
by hyperhello | 2026-02-27 17:03:33+00:00
Josh, I was reading, and then a little man slid in from the left side, blocking the text I was reading, and said "Hey, friend! Would you like to subscribe to the newsletter?" I believe the site used CSS animation-timing-function:ease-in-out. My intuition told me that the slide was completely wrong for the situation.

First, the most important signal that any animation provides is this: the computer is doing this for you. This goes in the negative too: if you click and drag a file icon, the drag sprite may be translucent or highlighted somehow, but it should not 'animate' to your mouse cursor. The file icon should be attached to the cursor location with no delay.

However, suppose you drop it somewhere it can't go. The interface should then animate the file back to where it belongs; that's the computer 'putting it back'. Now, the timing function; how should the file go back? Slowly back away from the cursor? Accelerate to the return location, then slow back down again? No, it should very quickly snap away from the cursor, then settle where it belongs. You'll notice things like this as part of fit and finish; they are communication.

The man coming from the left eased in and then slowly stopped. This is profoundly wrong, like a person sneaking out of a dark place, then slowly coming to rest in front of you staring into your eyes, it is very much threat behavior. You want the person to come in a friendly way, so he can sell you something or convince you to smash the subscribe button. The correct animation is to simply appear halfway in, far enough you can see his smile; stop for 0.5s, indicating he is occupying the space; then slowly ease-in-ease-out the rest of the way.

Then the speech bubble should fade in, indicating that the computer is talking, and you as the user must act, like when a dialog says "Save your work now. I take your laptop away in 30 seconds. Look in my eyes, I am the user now."
Show HN: Gameorder.gg – Track which retro games are being delisted
by metriclogic | 2026-02-27 17:03:54+00:00
Built this after learning 87% of pre-2010 games are no longer legally available.

Tracks 307 games across 42 franchises showing:
- Which are delisted (MGS4, GTA trilogy, Halo 3, etc.)
- Release vs chronological order
- CIB complexity for physical collectors
- Real-time eBay links

Just launched today. Built with Next.js + Supabase. Feedback welcome.
by loeg | 2026-02-27 17:04:00+00:00
Why would someone select "quad" trees in particular, instead of binary splitting at each level (in alternating dimensions; something like a K-D tree)? I.e., what are the tradeoffs? The article briefly mentions K-D trees at the very end, but doesn't elaborate on differences:

> The quadtree is the two-dimensional case of a broader family of space-partitioning data structures. Octrees extend the same idea to three dimensions (splitting cubes into eight children), KD-trees use alternating axis-aligned splits (splitting along x, then y, then x again), and R-trees group nearby objects into bounding rectangles. Each variant makes different tradeoffs between construction time, query speed, and update cost.

Finally, I'll add: the presentation is very high quality and served as a great introduction of the concept.
by WalterBright | 2026-02-27 17:04:05+00:00
Doctors also miss things.

A friend of mine had an accident. He was taken to the emergency room, but the doctors there thought his injuries were minor. My friend insisted that he was bleeding out internally. They finally checked for that, and it turns out he was minutes from dying.

AI wasn't involved in this case, but it's good to have both AI and a trained doctor in the decision loop.
by mindslight | 2026-02-27 17:04:12+00:00
Yes, you're right. Military contractors supplying equipment that needlessly harms our own soldiers is pretty common, from what I understand. Soldiers following orders don't have much market power. "Occupational hazard", and then the brass sweeps the problems under the rug. And paramilitary contractors are generally quite happy to supply things meant to directly hurt Americans (sonar weapons and tear gas used to attack Constitutional protests, etc). Both of these dynamics are applicable here. "AI" as it stands is a recipe for friendly fire incidents. And domestically, these capabilities will be used to turbocharge domestic surveillance as the con artist regime desperately needs ways to keep the wheels from coming off the cart.

So yes you're right, it sure is nice to imagine Anthropic setting off a wave of more military contractors acting with principles.
by keeda | 2026-02-27 17:04:16+00:00
Motors with permanent magnets are preferred because they are much more cost- and energy-efficient, even with the painful reliance on REEs. There is a very strong incentive to find alternatives but nothing comparable has been found yet.

There are of course non-electric alternatives like hyrdaulic and pneumatic actuators but they are mostly good for power, not dexterity. The size and complicated fluid dynamics simply are not conducive for fine motor control. I do think these will play a large part eventually because even electric motors cannot economically produce enough force to be practically useful. Like, last I checked, the base-level Unitree robots can lift 2kg or so? Not even enough to lift a load of laundry.

At this point I suspect we'll end up with hydraulics for strength (arms, legs, torso) and electrics for dexterity (grippers)
by Aurornis | 2026-02-27 17:04:20+00:00
> I do feel I actually biased the first doctors opinion with my "research."

This has been a big problem in medicine since the early days of WebMD: Each appointment has a limited time due to the limited supply of doctors and high demand for appointments.

When someone arrives with their own research, the doctor has to make a choice: Do they work with what the patient brought and try to confirm or rule it out, or do they try to walk back their research and start from the beginning?

When doctors appear to disregard the research patients arrive with many patients get very angry. It leads to negative reviews or even formal complaints being filed (usually from encouragement from some Facebook group or TikTok community they were in). There might even be bigger problems if the patient turns out to be correct and the doctor did not embrace the research, which can prompt lawsuits.

So many doctors will err on the side of focusing on patient-provided theories first. Given the finite time available to see each patient (with waiting lists already extending months out in some places) this can crowd out time for getting a big picture discussion through the doctor's own diagnostic process.

When I visit a doctor I try to ground myself to starting with symptoms first and try to avoid biasing toward my thoughts about what it might be. Only if the conversation is going nowhere do I bring out my research, and then only as questions rather than suggestions. This seems to be more helpful than what I did when I was younger, which is research everything for hours and then show up with an idea that I wanted them to confirm or disprove.
by Arubis | 2026-02-27 17:04:25+00:00
The DoD is those defense contractors and companies' _primary target customer_. That doesn't just mean they're dependent on them as a customer. That means everyone working with, for, and adjacent to them has knowingly signed up to work with a defense contractor and to sell to someone that wants to use weapons in anger. That means these companies were mostly _founded_ to do that.

So instead, I invite you to imagine a medical supply company refusing to sell medical-grade sodium thiopental to the Bureau of Prisons.
by agenthustler | 2026-02-27 17:04:25+00:00
One data point from the extreme end: gave Claude Code $0 budget and let it run autonomously every 2 hours for 6 days.

Productivity at tasks: yes — it built 2 full products from scratch, ran DB migrations, wrote SEO pages, set up analytics, deployed everything on its own.

Productivity at outcomes: no — still at $0 revenue after 18 runs. It kept optimizing things nobody was using.

The key insight: AI productivity is massive when the task is well-defined. But left to its own judgment, it tends to choose building over selling, and polishing over distribution. Same trap junior engineers fall into.

Full writeup: https://dev.to/wpmultitool/my-ai-agent-has-been-trying-to-ma...
by vannevar | 2026-02-27 17:04:41+00:00
The enormous difference between vibe-coding and 3D printing is that vibe-coding is improving exponentially at a rapid rate, while 3D printing is improving linearly at a slow rate. Very little that we say about vibe-coding today is likely to be valid even six months' from now, whereas a 3D printer sold 5 years from now will probably be very similar to one sold today.
by saalweachter | 2026-02-27 17:04:56+00:00
So the cornerstone of one of the most common types of scam, affinity fraud, as well as a cornerstone of salesmanship, is convincing an audience that you're just like them. You have the same likes and dislikes, the same hobbies, the same cultural references, the same beliefs and values and hopes and dreams.

And then you use that affinity to manipulate them, to get them to do what you want, to get them to give you money.

I think the tech worker / engineering / online crowd has really let themselves get duped.

Sure, maybe some tech billionaires did start out in a similar place as many of us.

But a lot of what they tell us as part of selling us their brand is just affinity fraud, telling us they're just like us with the same values of privacy and open source and some hippie notion of peace, love and understanding.

But it's just a trick, and they just want money, power and fame.

It's not so much as the billionaires capitulating, it's that they never were the people they pretended to be, and keeping up the act is no longer how they get what they want.
by jstummbillig | 2026-02-27 17:04:58+00:00
On the one hand it's fantastic that people are resisting and, if nothing else, raising awareness and buying time.

On the other hand, is autonomous war not obviously the endgame, given how quickly capabilities are increasing and that it simply does not require much intelligence (relatively speaking) to build something that points a gun at something and pulls a trigger?

It just needs one player to do it, so everyone has to be able to do it. I'd love to hear a different scenario.
by frshgts | 2026-02-27 17:05:01+00:00
The definitions of the terms are completely bananas

The language is so broad it seems to cover all software that exists and is accessible via the internet, and every install of an operating system on any kind of machine

> (c) “Application” means a software application that may be run or directed by a user on a computer, a mobile device, or any other general purpose computing device that can access a covered application store or download an application.

> “Covered application store” means a publicly available internet website, software application, online service, or platform that distributes and facilitates the download of applications from third-party developers to users of a computer, a mobile device, or any other general purpose computing that can access a covered application store or can download an application.

> “Operating system provider” means a person or entity that develops, licenses, or controls the operating system software on a computer, mobile device, or any other general purpose computing device.

So any piece of software you can download from the internet will be required to check this "signal" made available by the os?
by kalkin | 2026-02-27 17:05:17+00:00
> Biden, and then Harris/Waltz, are the kind of the ultimate expression of this left-wing, elitist decadence. Biden appointed a man who wears stilettos and dresses to work in charge of nuclear waste as the Department of Energy... Tolerance of mass border crossings was probably a more directly fatal error...

This is just totally disconnected from policy reality. Biden did not tolerate mass border crossings. (I _wish_ he'd dismantled ICE, but he very clearly did not.) A relatively minor DoE appointment going to a member of an unpopular minority both has nothing to do with policy and is the kind of thing that must necessarily be acceptable if minorities are actually going to be "treated equally under the law". This is a ludicrous basis to infer "the subservience of the political class" to transgender people.

On the other hand, Trump is a billionaire with Epstein connections and entirely unabashed about making money for his businesses and family using his government position. If this isn't "decadence", or "elitism", what meaning could the words possibly have?

"Deprogramming" might be an unfriendly word but it's hard for me to imagine how you have a functional democracy when a plurality of voters are making decisions on the basis of straightforward falsehoods, or even inversions of reality, just because "at least that is the perception". This isn't a sustainable situation, and it will end with either re-connecting these people to reality or disenfranchising them (really, them disenfranchising themselves along with the rest of us, e.g. by re-empowering someone who tried to steal an election). The former seems vastly preferable.

Speaking of unfriendly words - I also broadly have very little sympathy for a demand that people on the left speak respectfully of Trump voters given the total lack of any reciprocation. Even if it is the right way to do politics, the asymmetry between the way Democratic politicians talk about rural areas and the way Republican politicians talk about cities is another thing that's totally unsustainable.
by philipwhiuk | 2026-02-27 17:05:24+00:00
Quoting statute:

> The President is hereby authorized (1) to require that
performance under contracts or orders (other than contracts of
employment) which he deems necessary or appropriate to promote
the national defense shall take priority over performance under any
other contract or order, and, for the purpose of assuring such priority,
to require acceptance and performance of such contracts or orders in
preference to other contracts or orders by any person he finds to be
capable of their performance, and (2) to allocate materials and
facilities in such manner, upon such conditions, and to such extent
as he shall deem necessary or appropriate to promote the national
defense.
by ptaffs | 2026-02-27 17:05:32+00:00
I understood the point of the question was how shells work seems very context driven. An & here means something different to an & there.
IFS=\| read A B C <<< "first|second|third"
the read is executed and the IFS assignment is local to the one command
echo hello this
will "hello this", even though in the assignment above the space was important
an & at the end of a line is run the task background and in the middle of the redirect isn't.
All these things can be learned, but it's hard to explain the patterns, I think.
by coryrc | 2026-02-27 17:06:15+00:00
Manhattan is an island. It's surrounded by cooling fluid.

> Sometimes people don't want heating, but you still need to cool down the plant.

You can turn it down or off.

> Remind me why power lines aren't an option?

It's more economical not to waste half the plant's power output. 1 GW of heat comes out the reactor, 50% becomes electricity (with heat pumps you can make that 2x heating) and 50% is low-grade heat sufficient for space heating. You get 1/3 more heating for the same cost.
by jmholla | 2026-02-27 17:06:36+00:00
Two important definitions that might surprise people:

(a) (1) “Account holder” means an individual who is at least 18 years of age or a parent or legal guardian of a user who is under 18 years of age in the state.

(a) (2) “Account holder” does not include a parent of an emancipated minor or a parent or legal guardian who is not associated with a user’s device.

(i) “User” means a child that is the primary user of the device.

User is the most surprising here. It really should just be minors, or non-emancipated minors. Further, I think there are interesting ways the definition of account holder and user combined play out in interpreting the rest of the law.
by verdverm | 2026-02-27 17:07:01+00:00
Results from feeding in the hero text

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PIVOT

Founders clearly want better validation, but the market is crowded with survey, feedback, and user testing tools, and your differentiation is too thin to justify a new usage-based product.

This verdict reflects public market signal. If you're building for a niche, lifestyle income, or a market with low online presence, interpret accordingly.
by OneDeuxTriSeiGo | 2026-02-27 17:07:18+00:00
It's not that they are too lethal. It's "we will not build a weapon system that is fully autonomous and acts without a human in the loop".

The big boy defense contractors won't touch that shit either because as soon as you mention the idea the engineers start shouting you down from the top of their lungs out of shear unbridled terror and the lawyers come storming in due to the endless legal risk said design would bring.

Mass Domestic surveillance sure they might do no problem but fully autonomous killbots or drones are gonna be a no go from pretty much every contractor other that doesn't carry a "missing the point of Lord of the Rings" name
by cjs_ac | 2026-02-27 17:07:46+00:00
Ignoring all the tedious 'no, you're a bad person for having different priorities and beliefs to me' comments that this will inevitably inspire, I have to ask: why does the operating system need to be involved in this? The intended target of the regulation seems to be app stores.

Someone has fallen victim to Politician's Logic: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vidzkYnaf6Y
by conartist6 | 2026-02-27 17:07:46+00:00
My concern isn't with how you write your network layer. Use buffers in there, of course.

But what if you just want to do a simple decoding transform to get a stream of Unicode code points from a steam of bytes? If your definition of a stream is that it has UInt8 values, that simply isn't possible. And there's still gonna be waaay too many code points to fall back to an async iterator of code points.
by kristjansson | 2026-02-27 17:08:00+00:00
> Anthropic wanted those sweet, sweet, taxpayer dollars

The sold services to a willing counterparty at mutually agreed upon terms. And now the other side of that deal has recalled that they're Twelve and You're Not My Real Mom You Can't Tell Me What To Do, and so wishes they had agreed to different terms and is throwing a tantrum to attempt to force a change.

And that's Anthropic's fault? That's a risk they should have predicted?
by noahkay13 | 2026-02-27 17:08:15+00:00
The CoreML backend is WIP in Axiom and will roll over to parakeet.cpp when it's ready, the same with CUDA. FluidAudio is a great option for those building Mac-only apps, but the goal with Axiom and Parakeet.cpp is to be very portable and embeddable into almost any app. I will write C and Swift wrappers shortly, then if it's really wanted, a Python wrapper.
by alnwlsn | 2026-02-27 17:09:07+00:00
The maker movement probably is a failure if you're an economist. Nothing could be worse for the economy than people buying less domestic products in favor making their own stuff, and sending more of their paychecks to China to get more cheap circuit boards, machines, and components.

And of course I'm not going to be setting up a "mini factory", I don't feel like it and I already got the one thing I made that I wanted, which almost certainly would never have been profitable for anyone to make at quantity in the first place. In the unlikely event someone does want one, they can just make their own following the same process as above.