MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by epsters | 2026-02-28 09:01:08+00:00
Why are we even talking about this? As if this is being done for the 'protestors'? Netanyahu didn't visit the White House 6 times in the last year to advocate for the welfare of the Iranian people. The "negotiations" over the last several weeks weren't over protestors - it was over the Nuclear program, ballistic program and proxy forces. It wasn't even about US interests. Iran offered mining, oil and other valuable rights. Trump wasn't buying. This is about Israel's national security interests and hegemonic ambitions. Protestors are just pawns in service of that.

If it turns into civil war breaks out. It will be 1 million Iranian deaths conservatively speaking. Just look at happened at every single foreign intervention in the region - Iraq, Syria, Libya, Sudan, Somalia. How does a million dead Iranians help them?
by benj111 | 2026-02-28 09:01:22+00:00
I think the main issue with CGI is that it makes it easy to have big space battles, so everything is.

You see this with TNG v DS9. TNG would have one alien ship in an episode at best. It forces you to write story. Come DS9 and you can have 50 bajillion ships on screen so they write a story to make that happen. That isn't necessarily a bad thing, DS9 and B5 are good shows, but I miss the days when Captain Picard would mull over the implications of the prime directive with a cup of tea.
by spwa4 | 2026-02-28 09:01:42+00:00
No we fundamentally disagree. In fact we fundamentally differ in one important point. The conflicts in the real world ask the question:

A or B. Israel or Iran?

Your answer?

C, in fact let's attack Israel.

My answer is simple: Israel is better than Iran. No sane person argues differently. As trading partner and allies, obviously Israel is critically important ally if we are to have oil trade.
by dongguanxianhao | 2026-02-28 09:02:09+00:00
The printer spyware has an interesting backstory.

A Spanish venture-backed firm is developing some vaporware called Print&Go and has convinced the NY DA's office that it'll permanently solve the Luigi problem.

The best part? This company is drooling at the possibility of getting a permanent rent-seeking license for printers they didn't design, for nonexistent vaporware software that reduces its capabilities.

They frame it as "enhancing 3D printer capabilities," the way a slaveowner would frame putting chains on a slave's wrists as an "employee retention innovation."

Is everyone involved with promoting this software and these laws lying? Of course.

https://blog.adafruit.com/2026/02/08/any-user-who-has-a-3d-p...
by maxbond | 2026-02-28 09:02:14+00:00
You might also have success asking your agent to run `eslint` at the end of every subtask and instruct it to always address lint errors, even if they are preexisting. I agree with your diagnosis; there's "implicit prompting" in Rust being more strongly typed and the agent "knowing" that going in but we can compensate with explicit prompting. (You do also have to tell it to actually fix the lints, I find, or it will conclude they aren't relevant.)
by CodeBit26 | 2026-02-28 09:02:25+00:00
Coming from more mainstream languages, the first thing you’ll notice about Ada is that the compiler is your most rigorous code reviewer. My advice: lean into the type system early. Don't try to fight the constraints; they are there because Ada is designed for systems where failure isn't an option.
Focus on understanding 'Packages' and 'Tasking' models, as they handle concurrency much more safely than the primitive threading models in C. Also, keep the 'Reference Manual' (ARM) handy. It’s dense, but it’s the ultimate source of truth. Starting with Ada in 2026 is actually a great career move—as system complexity grows, the industry is rediscovering the value of languages that prioritize safety by design.
by znpy | 2026-02-28 09:02:56+00:00
From https://uapi-group.org/ :

> Contributing members include people from Ubuntu Core, Debian, GNOME OS, Fedora CoreOS, Endless OS, Arch Linux, SUSE, Flatcar, systemd, image-builder/osbuild, mkosi, tpm2-software, System Transparency, buildstream, BTRFS, bootc, composefs, (rpm-)ostree, Microsoft, Amazon, and Meta.

Note systemd, (rpm-)ostree and bootc.

My understanding is that uapi is another initiative but not completely separated from bootc and ostree. Maybe complementary.
by spondyl | 2026-02-28 09:03:12+00:00
Jeremy Lewin's tweet referenced that "all lawful use" is the particular term that seems to be a particular sticking point.

While I don't live in the US, I could imagine the US government arguing that third party doctrine[0] means that aggregation and bulk-analysis of say; phone record metadata is "lawful use" in that it isn't /technically/ unlawful, although it would be unethical.

Another avenue might also be purchasing data from ad brokers for mass-analysis with LLMs which was written about in Byron Tau's Means of Control[1]

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Third-party_doctrine

[1] https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/706321/means-of-con...
by neuroelectron | 2026-02-28 09:03:58+00:00
The deal came hours after President Trump had ordered federal agencies to stop using artificial intelligence technology made by Anthropic, an OpenAI rival.

Just in time to profit from the war with Iran.

Previously: Disrupting a covert Iranian influence operation
We banned accounts linked to an Iranian influence operation using ChatGPT to generate content focused on multiple topics, including the U.S. presidential campaign. We have seen no indication that this content reached a meaningful audience.

https://openai.com/index/disrupting-a-covert-iranian-influen...

Various videos on Twitter show Iranian highschoolers celebrating the attack.

Faezeh Alavi
@SFaeze_Alavi

"You have no idea how happy the people of Iran are right now."

https://x.com/SFaeze_Alavi/status/2027634840137613400?s=20
by CRConrad | 2026-02-28 09:04:13+00:00
I'm fairly certain the "ruling parasitic class" in this bit:

> ...all German people who have been divided and conquered by a ruling parasitic class that we all know moved around the continent, marrying into each other’s families and becoming the people’s aristocratic slave masters over centuries

...is a weasel-worded way of saying "Jews". That is, this is just a re-spewing of the same old racist talking points from the original Nazis (and earlier).

Just in case anyone didn't see this for what it (almost certainly) is.
Show HN: RayClaw – AI agent like OpenClaw, standalone or as a Rust crate
by stevensu | 2026-02-28 09:04:15+00:00
RayClaw is an open-source agentic AI runtime written in Rust that connects to Telegram, Discord, Slack, Feishu/Lark, and a
built-in Web UI through a unified tool-calling engine — with shell execution, file ops, web search, persistent memory, scheduled
tasks, and MCP/ACP support — now available as a crate on crates.io.
by pibaker | 2026-02-28 09:04:34+00:00
The main benefit is you will never put your passkey on a phishing site. Password managers provide some protections against it because if they do not work automatically on a website you know something is fishy, but sadly many websites have botched their password input so even with a password manager you may still need to manually copy and paste (or even type, if pasting is disabled) the password.

The problem is whether or not the benefit outweighs the additional risks introduced — losing account access when you lose a device, furthering device lock down, difficulty transferring the passkey between devices, UX degradation due to bad implementation. In my opinion the answer is no and I am sticking with my passwords.
by goku12 | 2026-02-28 09:05:15+00:00
More like a nightmare. This isn't happening by accident. They aren't being opportunistic either. They're playing a game that they planned at least two decades ago. If the books they wrote and published openly aren't evidence enough, you can look at the Epstein files. Look past all the obvious horrific crimes in it, and you'll the see signs of their numerous interventions in society through large scale social engineering, that got us to the dystopia we're in now.
by fainpul | 2026-02-28 09:05:42+00:00
> with EShell, you don’t need to bother with a pager, since if you received too much information, hit C-c C-p which jumps you to the top of the last command, and then C-v your way down. Or better yet, just search for what you want.

Cmd+Up - jumps you to the top of the last command

Cmd+F - just search for what you want

I don't need no stinkin' Emacs
by seanieb | 2026-02-28 09:06:02+00:00
> "Even if there were explanatory text, Erika, like most users, doesn’t typically read through every dialog box, and they certainly can’t be expected to remember this technical detail a year from now."

Passkeys are a step in the right direction, ironically for the exact reason the author advises caution. We've been telling people to "store your backup key somewhere safe" for the best part of a decade now, and your average Erika hasn't got on well with that at all. Locking themselves out and losing data left, right and centre.

If you've worked at any kind of scale you'll know well that a certain percentage of users will lose their data with E2EE, full stop. It's just different from everything else they've ever used. These are the same people who'd be lost without the "forgot password" link, and there's no shame in that. That's just the reality of it. And passkeys can help people like this to not lose their keys.

If the product is truly E2EE, the best options right now are the passkey implementations baked into Chrome or Apple. Windows, as ever, needs a bit of work, but the password managers seem to be picking up the slack well enough. We also need to educate people that with true E2EE there is no "forgot password" email. Passkeys and the tooling around them still have a ways to go, but we're getting there.
by array_key_first | 2026-02-28 09:06:33+00:00
Anthropics principles are extraordinarily weak from an absolute point of view.

Don't surviel the US populace? Don't automate killing, make sure a human is in the loop? No, sorry, don't automate killing yet.

Yeah dude, I'm sure just about any burglar I pull out of prison will agree.

Listen yes, it's good compared to like 99% of US companies. But that really speaks more to the absolute moral bankruptcy of most companies, and not to Anthropics principles.

That being said, yes we should applaud anthropic. Because yes this is rare and yes this is a step in the right direction. I just think we all need to acknowledge where we are right now, which is... not a good place.
by noku | 2026-02-28 09:06:50+00:00
ZOG is a slur invented and used primarily by American neo-Nazis. It references the idea that Jews (historically American, not Isrealis) control the US government.

It's hard to imagine how a non-Jew would even pick up this language without spending a whole lot of time in antisemitic spaces.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zionist_Occupation_Government_...
by hollow-moe | 2026-02-28 09:06:53+00:00
Too bad the spec is stupid and requires password managers to be identifiable so servers can deny the "insecure ones".
It's already a pain to use Keepassxc for otp since they all want you to use their apps but it's still doable (the worst offender being steam where you have to hack your own app to extract the otp secret). With passkeys you won't have a choice to use The Google AuthenticatorTM etc because eventually some exec will find they can block every provider except their own to boost app download KPI.
I really like concept of passkeys, the simple fact of using asymmetric keys is so much better than giving the secret to prove you have it, but the spec is hostile and thought for vendor closing.
by cjj_swe | 2026-02-28 09:06:59+00:00
Please don't put words in my mouth. At no point did I say we should attack Israel.

I firmly believe we should ignore them entirely. Engage neither positively or negatively.

Why are you presenting this dichotomy of "Either we are at war with an Islamic state or we are at war with a Jewish state"? Both wars are completely unnecessary and harmful to American interests.
by pjmlp | 2026-02-28 09:07:26+00:00
I did some off road travelling in Croatia about 15 years ago, thanks GPS driving us into some farming roads.

Only when I got out of it, I realised how stupid idea that was to keep following the GPS, on some country side villages the markings of the war were still visible, with abandoned buildings full of bullet holes.

Naturally having mines still around was a possibility that I completly forgot about.
by gghhzzgghhzz | 2026-02-28 09:07:32+00:00
indeed. One of the only positive things Obama did internationally.

The regime may be horrific, but the only route out was through supporting and encoraging change and opening up and progressive forces.

It's a country with 90 million people, and many groups and external influences. Could end up like Iraq.

and it's Europe that will experince the political chaos as result of pressure from refugees, not the US.
by Paddyz | 2026-02-28 09:08:20+00:00
The Parakeet vs Moonshine debate here is missing the point imo. For anything server-side or desktop, sure, Parakeet wins on raw WER. But Moonshine at 245M params vs 600M+ is a different category when you're targeting actual edge devices - think RPi-class hardware, embedded systems, or even browser-based inference via WASM.

I've been running Whisper tiny on a Jetson Nano for a home automation project and the accuracy is painful. Moonshine looks like it could hit the sweet spot of "small enough to actually deploy on constrained hardware" while not being embarrassingly bad at accuracy. That's a genuinely underserved niche.

The real question for the team: any plans for quantized ONNX exports? That would make this immediately useful for the embedded/IoT crowd.
by senko | 2026-02-28 09:08:22+00:00
Just this week I talked to a person doing tree pruning/forestry, they were negotiating a job in a rural area in Croatia (wider Karlovac area).

The particular patch of land is still suspected to contain mines, although "in theory" they were all cleared out.

The client didn't want to pay for the minesweeeping tech team to ensure safety, the workers didn't want to wade into a forest that might still be mined.

I suspect this is not an isolated case. It's far from over.
by klez | 2026-02-28 09:08:24+00:00
Yes. But the what's the point of a convention about weapons that you only observe during peacetime and abandon as soon as war is at your gates?

I mean, I get it, I would be scared shitless too if I had Russia at my border. I'm not saying that Poland is bad for doing this (but I'm not saying it's good either). It's more of a general observation about this kind of treaties: (relatively) easy to get into during peacetime, hard to uphold when shit hits the fan.
by Moldoteck | 2026-02-28 09:09:15+00:00
Is there a difference between c++ and java/go/etc if you enforce at code review for C++ to use only auto memory management like smart ptrs, containers, etc? I guess the only difference would be c++ can have diamond problem that's solved in a specific way, but that's relatively easy to spot with compilers, but otherwise...

Imo the strong point of rust is compile error if you try to use an obj after move (unlike c++ with undef behavior and I guess it should be the same for java/c#), or that you can't modify a container if you hold a ref/pointer to some of it's elements/range which may cause invalidation in C++ case due to realloc
by maxbond | 2026-02-28 09:09:17+00:00
Two arbitrary picks:

https://crates.io/crates/serde

https://crates.io/crates/regex

Anything covered by Gjengset's "decrusted" series: https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLqbS7AVVErFirH9armw8yXlE6...

Sort of on the border between toy and not-toy; Gjengset implements a concurrent hash map: https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLqbS7AVVErFj824-6QgnK_Za1... [17hr recorded over 3 streams]
by dragonwriter | 2026-02-28 09:10:32+00:00
It doesn't require age verification, only age attestation.

More significantly, it does require all applications (from "covered application stores", but which has a definition for that which seems to include not only what you would normally call an app store, but any website or other source from which an app can be downloaded) to check the age signal provided by the OS when the application is "downloaded and launched".

While it is poorly drafted, circular, and self-contradictory on some definitions and other points, it arguably seems to prohibit age verification within the scope of apps it covers, in that:

(1) It requires all OS's to have an age attestation feature,
(2) It requires all applications to use the age attestation feature,
(3) It requires developers of applications to rely on the info from the age attestation feature as the "primary indicator of a users age range for determining the user's age", with the only exception being if the developer has internal (not external) information which is "clear and convincing information" that the user's age is different from what is signalled by the OS.
by ryangibb | 2026-02-28 09:11:09+00:00
(author of the paper here)

My sibling makes a great point about type errors: did you know Cargo (Rust) only supports diamond dependencies where the versions differ only in major version? So you can have exactly the same problem with B depending on D@v1.1 and C depending on D@v1.2 in Cargo. I believe the reason for only supporting concurrent versions with different major versions (to use the paper's parlance) is because packages should have incompatible APIs anyway.

> ... and it becomes a pseudo SAT problem in some cases if you want optimal dependency resolution

A couple of clarifications: many dependency resolution algorithms are essentially SAT even if they support concurrent versions (see Cargo). Section 3.3 of the paper might be an interesting read -- it discusses the spectrum of complexity in the problem of dependency resolution, and why some ecosystem's approaches don't work for others. Also, it's generally a 'pseudo SAT problem' (i.e. NP-complete and can be reduced to SAT) to find any valid resolution, not just an optimal one.

> This is the core algorithmic and architectural limit on package managers. Almost everything else is just implementation and engineering details.

I agree, and that's why the paper focuses on the semantics of dependency expression and dependency resolution! But there's a lot more than concurrent versions in the semantics of how package managers express and resolve dependencies, i.e. features, formula, peer dependencies. The point of the paper is that there's a minimal common core that we can use to translate between package management ecosystems, which we're planning on using to build useful tooling to bridge multilingual dependency resolution.
by sasjaws | 2026-02-28 09:11:09+00:00
Thats actually an interesting way to look at it. However i just posted that because i often see articles expressing amazement at how training an llm at next token prediction can take it so far. Seemingly ontrasting the simplicity of the training task to the complexity of the outcome. The insight is that the training task was in fact 'predict the next book', just as much as it is 'predict the next token'. So every time i see that 'predict the next token' representation of the training task it rubs me the wrong way. Its not wrong, but misleading.

I didnt mean to suggest that is how it 'thinks ahead' but i believe you can see it like that in a way. Because it has been trained to 'predict all the following tokens'. So it learned to guess the end of a phrase just as much as the beginning. I consider the mechanism of feeding each output token back in to be an implementation detail that distracts from what it actually learned to do.

I hope this makes sense. Fyi im no expert in any way, just dabbling.
by yason | 2026-02-28 09:12:10+00:00
Agreed.

Also I think that if you live next to a warmongering country you certainly care more about making a military invasion the shittiest and the most vile thing for the aggressor that you can think of and landmines are cheap and effective there.

I think it's a sufficient trade off that landmines self-disable themselves in, say, 5 years or so. If the war continues you'll keep planting more and when it ends you'll just wait a few years and go collect them.
by segmondy | 2026-02-28 09:12:49+00:00
if you can run Q8, go for it, always go for the best. matters a lot with vision models, never quantizie your kv cache, those always at f16.

you can always try evals and see if you have a q6 or q4 that can perform better than your q8. for smaller models i go q8. for bigger ones when i run out of memory I then go q6/q6/q4 and sometimes q3. i run deepseek/kimi-q4 for example.

I suggest for beginners to start with q8 so they can get the best quality and not be disappointed. it's simple to use q8 if you have the memory, choice fatigue and confusion comes in once you start trying to pick other quants...
by concinds | 2026-02-28 09:13:01+00:00
This comment is so wrong. Trump's strikes won't "prevent" anything, it's domestic posturing to look tough. You cannot bomb your way into regime change.

> After the last war, it also is no longer a threshold state

That's also wrong. Trump claimed Iran's enrichment capabilities were totally destroyed, but they weren't.

> In this situation it is a fair request by the US to sign a nuclear deal

America already had a good deal. Trump got rid of it.
by ywhsrbsgn | 2026-02-28 09:13:38+00:00
Cope harder, obvious Hasbara sockpuppet. I don't give a shit. If there's documented evidence of you being blackmailed by the Israeli government, and then you go on to invade Iran when literally everyone is telling you not to, including your own generals, then I have every right to call you a zogslave.

EDIT (since noku is completely rewriting his comment): Look at noku's account and how it was made in 2022 with nearly no activity until now. It's obviously a state-sponsored sockpuppet. Imagine implying that the Israeli-led Epstein blackmail ring is just a conspiracy theory.
by CRConrad | 2026-02-28 09:13:55+00:00
Yup, definitely easiest. (That's how I first got it too.) Dunno if it's ethymologically correct, though; that depends on what the roots of "pain" are.

Since it's explained further down the page that it comes from an earlier loan from Latin "peona", "punishment", I suppose there is kind of a cognate in English itself from the later loan of the same word that has lead to "penalizing".
by hvb2 | 2026-02-28 09:14:33+00:00
Not defending that peace price but:
Obama won the Nobel Peace Prize in 2009 for his efforts to prevent nuclear proliferation.

Trump this time around didn't inherit a major us deployment in a conflict area. No Iraq, no Afghanistan. Also, he's doing military strikes by himself, no Congress involved.

Syrian and Libia were both essentially civil wars with an oppressive regime with Syria using allegedly chemical weapons.

Your source is a very weird site. Countries Obama bombed 2026??? What does that even mean. Is it just a typo in the main heading and the title?
by Animats | 2026-02-28 09:14:59+00:00
No mention of Walter Wriston and First National City Bank (later Citicorp)? Wriston is sometimes credited with the concept of networked ATMs, in the sense that he as an executive pushed the project forward.[1] He scaled up the technology, flooding New York City with ATMs. Then everybody else in banking had to install them.

[1] https://www.nytimes.com/2005/01/21/obituaries/walter-b-wrist...