MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by heavenlyhash | 2026-02-28 12:58:25+00:00
I want to like this, and it's directionally good work...

But it's hard to see this as very useful unless we also start to see some increases in legibility, and ways to make sure these optimizations are being used (and that textually minor changes don't cause non-obvious performance regressions).

I've written a lot of golang code that was benchmarked to shreds, and in which we absolutely cared about stack-vs-heap allocations because they were crucial to overall performance. I've spent a lot of time pouring over assembler dumps, because grepping those for indications of new object creation was sometimes clearer (and certainly more definitive) than trying to infer it from the source code level. The one thing I've learned from this?

It's very, very easy for all those efforts to come to naught if the rules change slightly.

And it's very, very, VERY easy for a co-maintainer on a project to stroll in and make seemingly textually trivial changes that have outsized impacts. (I'm looking at inliner thresholds, specifically. Hoo boy.)

The best balm we have for this right now is writing benchmarks and making sure they report zero allocs. (Or unit tests using the runtime memstats harness; potato potato.) But that is a very fragile balm, and relatively complex to maintain, and (if DX is considered) is not textually local to the code in question -- which means someone changing the code can easily miss the criticality of a section (until the tests yell at them, at least).

I really yearn for some markup that can say "I expect this code to contain zero heap allocations; please flunk the compile if that is not the case".
by cogman10 | 2026-02-28 12:58:49+00:00
It'd depend on my status. There are a lot of people who can't just get out of Ukraine or Syria. The average citizen in Syria had no means to just flee. I'd assume in my above scenario that I'm one of the masses that can't escape.

NK does actually allow people to leave, mostly to china and mostly after they attain a high social class. A decent number of tourists, including US citizens, go on tours of NK.
by KronisLV | 2026-02-28 12:58:51+00:00
In an imaginary world, this would be a precursor to Anthropic coming to EU in a greater capacity and teaming up with Mistral, eventually leading to similar innovation and progress that DeepSeek forced upon the West, benefitting everyone in the long run. They seem to have the morals for it and the respect for human rights and life given their recent announcement (after some backtracking), unlike OpenAI. Sadly, that's not the real world.
by flyinglizard | 2026-02-28 12:59:56+00:00
Yes, because "what choice did Iran have" other than:

1. Routinely calling for death to Israel and America, turning it into part of the national curriculum and sowing hate

2. Funding, training, supplying and directing multiple violent proxy organizations around the region which attacked Israel and undermined their own countries (Hezbollah in Lebanon and Syria, Houthis in Yemen, Hamas in West Bank and Gaza, other organizations in Iraq)

3. Enriching Uranium to clearly non-civilian grade in multiple militarily hardened facilities;

4. Directly attacking multiple Jewish targets around the world (like the AMIA and then embassy bombings in Argentina)

5. Attacking neighboring countries with ballistic and cruise missiles, like the attacks on Saudi Aramco in 2019

6. Holding international shipping and energy markets hostage by threatening to attacking ships and tankers in the Persian Gulf

7. Abusing their own citizens, including public executions, persecutions and extreme violence

8. Providing support to Russia in their efforts in Ukraine, and especially drones used for indiscriminate dumb attack waves against civilians and infrastructure

Now we have people arguing that if they had just gotten nukes then they could have continued doing all of that.
by samrus | 2026-02-28 13:01:29+00:00
Regarding the protests in the preceding week, while the iranian people probably had valid problems with their government, its so pbvious the actual scenes we saw in the news were orchestrated to manufacture consent. Its barely hidden anymore.

If you see a sudden uptick in protests in a country the US/isreal see as an enemy, you can bet its probably just the step in the playbook preceding military action
by re-thc | 2026-02-28 13:01:44+00:00
> Is truth a constant or a personal definition!

It always has been what you believed in.

E.g. at 1 point the Earth was flat. Now it's round. 100s of years later maybe it's a Hexagon.

The so-called knowledge and backing all come back to certain assumptions holding and that's based on the knowledge today. It's not real real reality. For all we know we could be in a game simulation and there are real real humans pulling the strings.
by VladVladikoff | 2026-02-28 13:02:04+00:00
This doesn’t really feel like enough guardrails to prevent the type of problems we’ve seen so far.
For example an agent in a single container which has access to an email inbox, can still do a lot of damage if that agent goes off the rails.
We agree this agent should not be trusted, yet the ideas proposed as a solution are insufficient. We need a fundamentally different approach.

Also and this is just my ignorance about Claws, but if we allow an agent permission to rewrite its code to implement skills, what stops it from removing whatever guardrails exist in that codebase?
by ekjhgkejhgk | 2026-02-28 13:02:14+00:00
What's uninspiring is your ignorance of game theory.

Anyone who puts their name on that list might potentially be a target. On the flip side, there is no signaling value in putting your name on the list anonymously. Therefore anonymous names on the list believe in it (tho some people might make the calculation that they can't handle being a target but they might still resist and obstruct in other ways.)

So: It's inspiring that a lot of people are ready to obstruct or delay even if they're not ready to deal with personal consequences.
by adithyassekhar | 2026-02-28 13:02:19+00:00
Really good points about ai making gigantic heaps of code no human can ever review.

It's almost like bureaucracy. The systems we have in governments or large corporations to do anything might seem bloated an could be simplified. But it's there to keep a lot of people employed, pacified, powers distributed in a way to prevent hostile takeovers (crazy). I think there was a cgp grey video about rulers which made the same point.

Similarly AI written highly verbose code will require another AI to review or continue to maintain it, I wonder if that's something the frontier models optimize for to keep them from going out of business.

Oh and I don't mind they're bashing openclaw and selling why nanoclaw is better. I miss the times when products competed with each other in the open.
by topspin | 2026-02-28 13:02:28+00:00
> I wonder which approach is more capital efficient? Which is more time efficient?

I don't. I wonder whether US astronauts are going to die on the surface of the moon while the world watches in 4K. I believe, to my great relief, that by some minor miracle, we've ended up with a NASA administrator that is wondering the same thing, and also has the temerity to make some really hard calls, despite what is doubtless an enormous amount of pressure. I've been analyzing his words and speech. There is just no bullshit in him, and he clearly doesn't suffer fools. You can see it. He's like something out of SAC from the Cold War.

NASA is in desperate need of exactly that. Perhaps that's not the correct, permanent disposition for all things at all times, but if the US and NASA are actually going to engage in another Space Race, this time with China, we very much need it at this time.
by tw04 | 2026-02-28 13:02:33+00:00
FIFA might be the one organization that can go toe to toe with Trump I’m corruption. And I mean that in the worst way possible. Qatar was using literal slave labor to get stadiums built and the organization just shrugged when informed like it was just another Tuesday.

He could drop a nuke on Greenland tomorrow and they’d probably say they don’t want the sport to be tangled in political disagreements and if anything the World Cup can help everyone heal.
by petee | 2026-02-28 13:02:33+00:00
This past weekend I watched as my mom discovered the password manager in Chrome, and started deleting every entry she couldn't immediately recognize. "Why is this here? I don't need this"

Despite me pleading that they got there for a reason, and takes zero storage, she was confident she didn't need these passwords. So I can totally see her deleting passkeys; my mom is basically Erica, there need to be very explicit implications stated for every action presented and not assume innate understanding
by xphos | 2026-02-28 13:02:40+00:00
This should be flagged political like literally everything else that has been flagged ironic how when your on the menu you dont follow the same protocols applied everyone else too.

I only say this because this is not new behavior for the administration its been reported here on HN and in less biased and political ways but ends up suppressed just confused what changed?

Edit just to be clear this shouldn't be flagged and posts they deal with rights in the past shouldn't have been flagged because rights should be the preeminent concern of anyone in tech
by dijit | 2026-02-28 13:02:58+00:00
The reaction is worse in what sense, exactly? Raw numbers? Then you're back to the
same argument as above, where October 7th (again, the third deadliest terrorist attack
since records began in 1970) somehow doesn't count.

Nobody serious disputes that Gazan civilians are suffering enormously. The argument
isn't about that. It's about whether Hamas represents them, and the answer is: less
and less, given that Hamas hasn't held an election since 2006, has siphoned aid money
into tunnels and rockets for two decades [1], and on October 7th sent men with garden
tools to decapitate Thai agricultural workers [2] and film themselves doing it.

You can condemn Israel's conduct (and there's plenty to condemn) without pretending
the people who started this particular escalation were freedom fighters having a bad
day.

[1] https://www.csis.org/analysis/hamass-october-7-attack-visual...

[2] https://www.nationthailand.com/world/middle-east-africa/4003...
by randomtoast | 2026-02-28 13:03:48+00:00
I am by no means an expert in this field, but I do know that in the US, money is the primary source of power. Major tech companies have vast financial resources - so much so that their wealth surpasses the GDP of many countries. It's also clear that lobbying holds tremendous influence in the US. For instance, organizations like the NRA and NSSF wield significant power, which is why strict gun control measures are rarely enacted, regardless of the number of casualties from mass shootings.

1. Money translates to power

2. We know lobbying is highly effective

3. There are numerous national and international tax loopholes

I’m simply connecting these three points. Some might suggest that the government could intervene, but do you really believe Trump would challenge these major corporations while refusing to disclose his own tax returns? Absolutely not. So these companies have the required power, motivation and lack of resistence to make it happen.
by 0x3f | 2026-02-28 13:04:12+00:00
I'm not sure social media is a very good measure, there are many reasons that wondering aloud about this specific topic isn't really incentivized there.

I'm not sure I've ever met anyone I would assume has not considered the basic questions of our existence. Unless they were severely mentally disabled, or something like that.

For a more public measure I suppose you could look at religion, which seems to be a fundamental attempt at answering those questions. Most people are religious or have some kind of religious belief.
by Supermancho | 2026-02-28 13:04:19+00:00
> October 7th was the deadliest per capita terrorist attack since the Global Terrorism Database started recording in 1970

> You invoked scale. Those are the numbers. They don't say what you wanted them to say.

1200 Oct7 vs tens of thousands in annexation and retaliation.

The numbers speak for themselves. No need to cherry pick.
by Someone | 2026-02-28 13:04:23+00:00
I don’t see anything in that bill (https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billTextClient.xhtm...) that requires age verification.

It says users, on account creation, must indicate their age or birth year (or both) and that programs must have access to that info, but I don’t see any requirement about checking whether what the user enters is correct.

What does make it weird is that it requires account holders to enter that data at account creation, and it defines an account holder as ”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”

So, kids are allowed to create an account, but then, an account holder has to enter their age or birth year.

To top it of “a parent or legal guardian who is not associated with a user’s device” is not an account holder, so let’s say a 15-year old buys a laptop or smartphone and wants to set it up. There’s nobody associated with the device, so there are no account holders. Who should enter that age info?

On many smartphones, having a grown-up create an account first won’t work, as there’s no way to set up a second account.
by JumpCrisscross | 2026-02-28 13:04:44+00:00
> Are you seriously arguing that Hitler was rational for preemptively attacking Russia because AFTER Hitler attacked Russia, Russia did not simply sit back and let itself be attacked but in fact started defending itself?

No. I'm saying Hitler's theory of attacking Russia was the same as Iran's simultaneous proxy wars with its entire neighbourhood. It's not theoretically wrong. Just antiquated, destructive and–in the trade-based modern world–increasingly counterproductive. (You're trashing and alienating your natural trading partners.)

And I'm drawing analogy between (a) "Iran has every reason to fear an attack from the US and Israel, look at what is happening right now" and (b) the nonsense argument "that Hitler was rational for preemptively attacking Russia because AFTER Hitler attacked Russia, Russia did not simply sit back and let itself be attacked." In both cases, retaliation is being used to justify the preceding (note: not initial) aggression.

> Oh and Israel has been nothing but wishing them happy Ramadan?

If your neighbour is developing ballistic missiles and explicitly calling for your anihilation, you're not going to "simply sit back and let [your]self be attacked."

> reason Israel does not want the current Iranian system to survive is because it sees it as the only possible threat to its eternal domination of the Palestinians and its ability to dictate its borders in the Middle East

Iran isn't a material threat to Israel's power projection into Gaza and the West Bank. Its ballistic missiles and nuclear programme, on the other hand, are an existential threat to Tel Aviv/Jerusalem. And yes, it's a regional competitor to Israeli (and Saudi and Emirati) hegemony.
by cultofmetatron | 2026-02-28 13:05:15+00:00
I can't commment on your values because I don't know you but I can confidently say that zionist values are nazi values. Just listen to your own government leaders like Ben gvir or likund writings. literally word for word sounds like something Hitler and leaders of the nazi party would have said with [search replace arayan -> jew.]

Take some accountability because lives are at stake.
Show HN: Psmux – tmux compatible multiplexer for Windows
by uniquegodwin | 2026-02-28 13:05:27+00:00
I built psmux to bring a tmux style workflow to Windows Powershell without relying on WSL, Cygwin, or MSYS2.

It is written in Rust, integrates with PowerShell, reads existing .tmux.conf files, and supports split panes, sessions, mouse mode, and common tmux keybindings.

I would love feedback from Windows developers who rely on terminal workflows.
by tomwojcik | 2026-02-28 13:05:36+00:00
Hi HN, I've been using Claude Code heavily for the last year. Recently I've noticed a shift in sentiment among peers, here on HN, and over on /r/ExperiencedDevs. I wrote down some thoughts on the hidden costs of using AI too much that are not obvious, yet there's no concrete data yet. I tried to pull together data from a few different places to articulate something I think a lot of us are experiencing right now. I'd love to hear your thoughts
by cogman10 | 2026-02-28 13:05:52+00:00
[1] Don't get me wrong, movement is highly restricted, but it's not impossible. AFAIK, it's mostly afforded to the elites in NK.

I guess I shouldn't have written leave, but to visit other countries. I don't think you can change your citizenship.

[1] https://www.youngpioneertours.com/can-north-koreans-travel/
by gib444 | 2026-02-28 13:06:11+00:00
I can't keep up with all these attacks on personal computing/libre software/the web.

- AI causing RAM/disk price shocks and shortages

- Google attempting to lock down Android

- The EeYou codifying the Google-Apple duopoly into age-verification legislation

- Age verification requirements spreading rapidly

- AI scraping meaning many sites have WAF rules set to 'max'. It's getting extremely hard to browse the internet with a VPN + privacy features such as WebGL blocking etc. Geoblocking seems to be on the rise too (eg Trenitalia, Aegean Air).

- Governments wanting backdoors on devices

- Broadband price increases (10-25% rises are being baked into annual contracts here in the UK)

It seems in 2026 they've really gone full speed ahead.

What is the future going to look like? A Government-approved Apple OR Google spying device for the things you need to exist as a citizen... and a bunch of paper books/library cards/porn mags?
by lII1lIlI11ll | 2026-02-28 13:06:20+00:00
> And yet too much zero sum thinking leads to a crabs in a bucket mentality were the greedy get less by being greedy instead of having an educated productive society around them.

These are just your biases. Take Switzerland as an example - it doesn't have any of lefty fetishes OP mentioned ("cheap food, free universal healthcare, free public transport") yet it is highly educated, productive and leaves the door open for people who want to work hard and get ahead to do so.
by hdgvhicv | 2026-02-28 13:07:00+00:00
You’re assuming people have similar desires.

Even in human relations it’s dangerous. I for one don’t want to be treated the same way someone into BDSM wants to be treated. I don’t want to avoid cooking or turning the lights on (or off!) on a Friday night but others are quite happy with that.

If you assign that morality to a species that isn’t the same as you that’s a problem. My guinea pig wants nothing more from like than hay, nuggets, sole room to run around and some shelter from scary shapes. If they were in charge of the world life would be very different.

“Live and let live” might be a similar theme but not as problematic, but then how do you define “living”. You can keep someone alive for decades while torturing them.

How about allowing freedom? Well that means I’m free to build a nuclear bomb. And set it off where I want. We see today especially that type of freedom isn’t really liked.
by 3rodents | 2026-02-28 13:07:21+00:00
Sociopaths aren’t the only problem with that philosophy. I agree with the philosophy but it assumes everyone wants good things. Many people want what others perceive to be bad, not because they are sociopaths but because they are different. A clear example of this is healthcare in the U.S. A large number of people actively vote against their best interests — some of the biggest supporters of the U.S. healthcare system are those that suffer under it most. People (including us) are idiots at least some of the time.
by jwpapi | 2026-02-28 13:07:23+00:00
I don’t see any other outcome anymore to be honest, after seeing how humans use AI and how AI works and how providers tune their models.

To me it’s given:

- AI in it’s current state is ruthless in achieving its goal

- Providers tune ruthlessness to get stronger AIs versus the competitor

- Humans can’t evaluate all consequences of the seeds they’ve planted.

Collateral and reckless damage is guaranteed at this point.

Combined with now giving some AIs the ability to kill humans, this is gonna be interesting..

We could stop it, but we wont
by marginalia_nu | 2026-02-28 13:07:41+00:00
> No One knows that´s the point. Is truth a constant or a personal definition! From the begining of times to now, no One knows.

I don't think this is a well defined question. Definitions aren't found in nature or the laws of science, but objects that we define and introduce into a logical context. There may be multiple, contradictory definitions of a word. That is fine, as long as you pick one, and you're clear about which one you picked.
by samrus | 2026-02-28 13:07:49+00:00
Theyve had the bomb for a while and south korea still exists and is thriving. I have seen alot of batshit insane talk from them, but no real negative consequences for any other country. So it hasnt really been a negative for anyone. I dont think theyll use it first either because they know theyll be glassed if they do

Now if they didnt have the bomb, i dont think they would have lasted this long. I think the US would have gone and "democratized" them to smithereens a while ago.
by tovej | 2026-02-28 13:08:01+00:00
How can you claim this with a straight face, when Israel has slaughtered Palestinians like cattle every chance they have. And when they're not killing them with direct violence, they are robbing them of basic necessities and human dignity.

And how can you claim October 7th wasn't an act if war? The main thrust of the attacks were targeting military installations. Much more than Israeli actions in Gaza before or since, which have clearly been done in service of genocide since Israel was created.

The Palestinian genocide has not been a regular war, it has been an absolute extermination campaign that is still ongoing.
by demorro | 2026-02-28 13:08:30+00:00
When people say AI is making us stupider, I don't that's quite on the money.

It's more that we, as individuals, have always been stupid, we've just relied on relatively stable supporting consensus and context much, much more than we acknowledge. Mess with that, and we'll appear much stupider, but we're all just doing the same thing as individuals, garbage in, garbage out.

The whole framing of people as individuals with absolute agency may need to go when you can alter the external consensus at this scale. We're much more connected to each other and the world around us than we like to think.
by instig007 | 2026-02-28 13:08:55+00:00
> Are you asking serious questions?

Just answer the question whether it applies in general as a principle. Don't "stall and never tell any actual" position on the matter.

> We also had the option to terminate negotiations, ratchet up sanctions and walk away. None of that changes that the Iranians weren't negotiating in good faith

Only according to you, based on the premise that someone didn't meet random timings that only exist in your head.

> But the lack of any discussion of what Iran did in this subthread seems to underline my point

not really, please answer the initial question I asked.

> They aren't obligated to accept the other's timeline. But I wouldn't say that's negotiating in good faith.

Exactly why? You need to be home around 5 so anyone standing in front of you and blocking you in a traffic jam aren't acting in good faith?