MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by 0xbadcafebee | 2026-02-27 03:31:38+00:00
It's really not bad quality. The code written by AI is pretty decent now and fixing it is easy too. There are people making poor decisions with the technology (like OpenClaw); that doesn't make the technology bad.

With AI you can build tools fast. You can then version and release those tools, and improve them, fast. Then the AI can use that version of that tool. This gives the AI a fixed set of deterministic functionality that works the same way every time.

The CSO that had all their mail deleted happened because the tools they have right now aren't very good. Whatever that mail tool was, could be easily modified to have a limiter added that stops attempts to mass-delete emails. Hell, your own email client already will prompt you to confirm if you really want to "delete all emails" - because humans are stupid, like AI, and make mistakes, like AI. They just have to build the guardrails in, rather than hoping and praying that the AI will "behave itself". If the AI is a monkey at a joystick, we still control all the machinery attached to the joystick.
by Lerc | 2026-02-27 03:32:01+00:00
It's whatever what the people who have the power want to call it. What is written on a piece of paper is irrelevant if it is not acted upon.

If the rename gets struck down then they don't have the power. If it doesn't they have the power.

There are many dictatorships that built their power in the face of people claiming that they can't do what they planned because it was illegal.

Until they did it anyway.
by bsenftner | 2026-02-27 03:32:06+00:00
Now that's interesting, because I come from a world where enterprise level stuff was all done in C/C++ until quite recently, and with the shift to :web technologies" the quality of virtually everything has dropped through the floor, including the knowledge and skill level of the developers working on the tech. It is rare that I see people that have been working in excess of 10 years post graduation, if they went to college. The college grads have been pushed out by lower quality and lower skilled React developers that really do not belong in the industry at all. It's really a crime how low things have gotten, in such a short time: 10 to 15 years ago there were 2-3 decades of experienced people all over the place. Not anymore.
by goranmoomin | 2026-02-27 03:32:20+00:00
tldr; they wanted to run a Tauri app in browser for dev purposes.

To do so, they shimmed the Tauri’s rust communication bridge to use web-socket to communicate with the main app’s rust implementation.

This is only used by dev, but if something like this is provided by Tauri/Electron it can probably enable a bunch of interesting use cases… (and probably a bunch of RCEs as well, though)
by somenameforme | 2026-02-27 03:32:23+00:00
What non-political things would you say are "way" more political than what they're doing? They also have their schtick in the documentation, and at times have included it as 'easter eggs' in the program itself.

It's already made the software a target for hacking amongst other things. Taking positions that resonate with perhaps half the people in 15% of the world, and piss off a sizable chunk of people in the remaining 85% of the world is not a great idea.
by wasabi991011 | 2026-02-27 03:32:43+00:00
> You assume AI won't be able to make cool art with time. AI critics were shown time and time again to be underestimating the possibilities. Some people find it hard to learn in some particular topics.

You misunderstand their point: it's not that AI can't make art that looks cool, it's that a portion of society (mostly artists but a certain amount of lay people) who consider the act of prompting AI for art to not have any cultural cache, or even to be socially distasteful.
by dehrmann | 2026-02-27 03:33:40+00:00
If AI makes people twice as productive and you're a mature software company chasing marginal value, if the marginal value people added was worth it before AI, surely more marginal value at the same cost is better. It's also the wrong side of the AI curve to be on. Maybe AI will replace dev jobs, but why not wait to find out? And if it does, prompt-coding is a different skill than traditional coding, and it's not what you interviewed people for, so you don't even have a guess as to if you're keeping the right people.
by Daub | 2026-02-27 03:33:42+00:00
I wrote some teaching material on the rise and fall off Palm for which I produced a graphic showing how the palm split and merged over the years. Quite honestly it's one of the most complex and insane graphics i have ever made.

https://www.dropbox.com/scl/fi/7hh5uzoaj2x7zq60yv9vz/palm_ti...
by harambae | 2026-02-27 03:34:37+00:00
I’m also unclear on what’s better than perplexity if you want accurate information (and not just to write Harry Potter fan fiction or whatever)

I finally switched off ChatGPT premium when I asked a simple question (“which terminal is this airline”) and it was so confidently wrong. Perplexity referencing sources and trying to double check accuracy is great IMO.
by pembrook | 2026-02-27 03:35:18+00:00
This is also why your countries social welfare systems are teetering on fiscal insolvency and deficits are ballooning.

Your inefficient and non-competitive private sector isn't growing fast enough to fund your growing demand for free stuff in the public sector.

Maybe if companies and entrepreneurs were allowed to shift more rapidly to meet market demand your legacy giants (and social welfare meal ticket) wouldn't be sitting ducks for the Chinese to swoop in and kill.
by rvz | 2026-02-27 03:36:37+00:00
We already forgotten about this already? [0] Where was the open letter then?

Both companies (Google, OpenAI [0]) have defense contracts. At this point, the best course of action is to leave Google and OpenAI if you disagree with that (they won't).

[0] https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2025/jun/17/openai-mi...
by krapp | 2026-02-27 03:36:40+00:00
We went through this when it looked like he might not leave last time. What happens is the Marines show up and politely throw his ass to the curb.

You do not under any circumstances gotta hand it to the American military but they do seem unwilling to play a role in Trump's let's say extraconstitutional ambitions. At least a junta doesn't seem likely. Without the military behind him he's just a senile old pedophile. What's he going to do, lock himself into the Oval Office?
by tz1490 | 2026-02-27 03:36:40+00:00
It matters because the whole media is selling this as a Pentagon initiative, while probably 75% in the Pentagon think this is snake oil just like the previous Microsoft VR goggles.

If they don't oppose directly, large bureaucracies know how to drag their feet until the midterms at least, if not until 2028. Soldiers literally dragged their feet at the glorious Trump military parade, when they walked disinterested and casually instead of marching.
by keeda | 2026-02-27 03:37:08+00:00
Agreed, and the AI wranglers will be the equivalent of architects and staff+ engineers today, and they will be paid handsomely. BUT! They are a pretty small fraction of the current developer workforce. The remaining junior-to-mid level engineers will have to uplevel themselves while having no opportunity for hands-on experience to do so as they get laid off in bulk.

And note, this pattern is going to repeat across the entire white collar workforce, because the same pyramid scheme holds everywhere in knowledge work.

A new equilibrium will be found, but that will be years, maybe a decade+ away? That's the period of turmoil I am concerned about.
by mikestorrent | 2026-02-27 03:38:40+00:00
> Tells us quite a lot who’s the “genocidal” here.

I'll just quote Wikipedia for you:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Casualties_of_the_Gaza_war

> As of 21 February 2026, at least 75,226 people (73,188+ Palestinians[4] and 2,039+ Israelis)[7][8][9][10] have been reported killed in the Gaza war according to the Gaza Health Ministry (GHM) and Israeli Ministry of Foreign Affairs, including 248 journalists and media workers,[11] 120 academics,[12] and over 224 humanitarian aid workers, a number that includes 179 employees of UNRWA.[13] Scholars have estimated 80% of Palestinians killed were civilians.[6][5][14] A study by OHCHR, which verified fatalities from three independent sources, found that 70% of the Palestinians killed in residential buildings or similar housing were women and children.[15][16]

> Should I ask you not to blow yourself on the bus, or in a cafe?

Nope, that's the wrong prejudice for my intersectional group, but it certainly reveals some of your own biases.
by freakynit | 2026-02-27 03:39:09+00:00
People do realize there's a non-zero chance that Anthropic could have embedded some kind of hidden "backdoor" trigger in its training process, right?

For example, a specific seed phrase that, when placed at the beginning of a prompt, effectively disables or bypasses safety guardrails.

If something like that existed, it wouldn't be impossible to uncover:

1. A government agency (DoD/DoW/etc.) could discover the trigger through systematic experimentation and large-scale probing.

2. An Anthropic employee with knowledge of such a mechanism could be pressured or blackmailed into revealing it.

3. Company infrastructure could be compromised, allowing internal documentation or model details to be exfiltrated.

Any of these scenarios would give Anthropic plausible deniability... they could "publicly" claim they never removed safeguards (or agreed to DoD/DoW demands), while in practice a select party had a way around them (may be even assisted from within).

I'm not saying this "is" happening... but only that in a high-stakes standoff such as this, it's naive to assume technical guardrails are necessarily immutable or that no hidden override mechanisms could exist.
by marcus_holmes | 2026-02-27 03:40:13+00:00
Yeah. So then you get your own product, tailor-made to your organisation, that you own (well, it's public domain because LLM-generated, but same same), and that you can change whenever you want without having to deal with a SaaS company's backlog. If you don't like something in it, you fire up Claude Code and get it changed.

There's also no danger of it being enshittified. Or of some twat of a product manager deciding to completely change the UI because they need to change something to prove their importance. Or of the product getting cancelled because it's not making enough money. Or of it getting sold to an evil corp who then sells your data to your competition. Or any of the other stupid shit we've seen SaaS companies pull over the past 20 years.
by space_invaders | 2026-02-27 03:40:39+00:00
I love how people run to shout "this time is different, eh?" in an ironic tone while ignoring that a lot of times, yes, it was different.

Covid was different -- people dismissed it initially saying it was going to be like the 2009 Swine flu or the seasonal chicken flu we see on media.

The iPhone was different -- many columnists said it was just a fancier PDA and that Palm already had the market.

The 2008 crisis was different -- the signs of a housing bubble were present but were dismissed. The derivatives made it different and it imploded.

There are times when things are actually different and you should be able to identify them. AI is one of them.

I don't even need to elaborate much, as a programmer it's clear how this a game-changer. We are moving past the era when programs were just predictable if/else chains with regex to a world where you can accept non-deterministic, never-before seen inputs and have them to be interpreted accurately. Just like the Internet added another "dimension" to computer applications, AI is now adding another "dimension" previously unreachable.*

* Just as you could make a big local LAN before the Internet, it's obvious that we had past incarnations of the current technology that gave some taste of that dimension, but did not fully "unlock" it.

This time, it's truly different.
by bandrami | 2026-02-27 03:40:50+00:00
This. Part of my role is assessing and recommending what if any AI implementations we might add to our production and I did this experiment because my boss's boss did it himself first and sent me a screenshot with the caption "concerning" (though he got "tiger" as his animal). It's going to be a hard sell for more complicated things as long as it makes catastrophic mistakes like this on simple things.
by otterley | 2026-02-27 03:41:06+00:00
Respectfully, I think you’re only considering upsides and not considering downsides, opportunity costs, and ongoing maintenance costs. This is not what smart managers do. Plus, just because you can build something cheaper with an LLM doesn’t mean you can operate it more cheaply than a specialist can. Economies of scale haven’t been obviated by AI.

It’s useful to take an argument and take it to its logical extreme: I just don’t see every company in the world, large and small alike, building everything they depend on in-house, as though they were a prepper stocking up for Armageddon. That seems pretty fanciful on its face.
by tokyobreakfast | 2026-02-27 03:41:13+00:00
www.defense.gov redirects to www.war.gov but I like how you refer to Wikipedia as the authoritative source to prove this functionally irrelevant and aggressive Reddit-style seething.

The talk page on the linked Wikipedia article arguing about logos is just as deranged. It's very important to realize there is literally nothing you—or anyone else—can do about this.
by daxfohl | 2026-02-27 03:41:23+00:00
To be fair I've been all over the map on this. But lately neither of these scenarios seemed quite right. Reflecting on my own experience, I find that sometimes AI is great, but sometimes it feels like a return of https://xkcd.com/303/. So, putting 2 and 2 together and picturing it from C-level perspective, this is where I ended up.

No data points yet, except now this one.
by vivzkestrel | 2026-02-27 03:41:31+00:00
- lots of players in the market doing this

- https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42806616

- https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45980760

- https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46759180

- https://github.com/saurav-shakya/Video-AI-Agent

- going to be rather tough to differentiate
by AngryData | 2026-02-27 03:41:52+00:00
From what I understand many of the pie doughs of the period were the same thing as pudding dough, everyone had a pot to boil stuff in and it was just extra if you had an oven and pie pans, sometimes with noted cooking times for a pan at the end. The that era of American cooking kind of blends puddings and pies so that they mean basically the same thing. Similar someone making a pan fried rice recipe today and just adding on the end of the recipe if you are fancy and own an actual wok you can adjust cooking times for that.
by exodust | 2026-02-27 03:41:57+00:00
"Seppo" is rarely used in Australia today, it's an old bottom-of-barrel word most have never heard of. The neutral "Yank" is more common, but even that only pops up sometimes.

Guessing their comment attempts to expose hypocrisy of America's keenly supported overseas military activity in conflict with fiercely defended domestic free-speech and liberty principles. Deep down, most allies of America want America to defeat foreign adversaries and keep defending those liberties many of us share. In other words there's no hypocrisy, carry on!
by jaunt7632 | 2026-02-27 03:42:39+00:00
So we've accidentally built the world's most effective developer marketing channel. Write enough blog posts about your framework and Claude will recommend it to every developer on the planet for free. Tailwind didn't win because it's the best CSS solution. It won because it has the most tutorials per capita in the training set.

The CLAUDE.md workaround is telling. You have to write "DO NOT use React under any circumstances" like you're drafting a restraining order. Polite preferences get ignored. Turns out the model treats your architecture decisions the same way it treats "please" in prompts: noted, then disregarded.
by soared | 2026-02-27 03:42:42+00:00
This was a year ago so I used a lot of different models, if I did it now I’d definitely just use nano banana. Just test and see what works, but IMO take pictures from where you’ll physically be most often and optimize for the view from that location. Ie my dining room table opens to the yard, so I sat at the table, took a picture of the yard, and had ai work through that to start.
by jMyles | 2026-02-27 03:43:48+00:00
...indeed, it's possible (perhaps inevitable) that at some point, someone will invent/deploy/promote AI killing people.

We can't possibly keep that genie in that bottle.

But what we can do is achieve consensus that states, and their weapons of mass destruction, and their childish monetary systems, and their eternally broken promises... are not in keeping with the next phase of humanity.
by MiSeRyDeee | 2026-02-27 03:44:01+00:00
I'm well informed on all of these but no, if we compare to other global power like US or Russia, or historically British, France, Spain, etc, China is 100% not an imperialist or colonialist, not by a large margin. Those issues are largely exaggerated by media and anyone had a decent exposure to history and international politics wouldn't say they are the same.
by vallejogameair | 2026-02-27 03:44:29+00:00
If you think your company is directly contributing to the cause of mass unemployment and the associated suffering inherent within, you should stop your company working in that direction or you should quit.

There is no defence of morality behind which AIbros can hide.

The only reason anthropic doesn't want the US military to have humans out of the loop is because they know their product hallucinates so often that it will have disastrous effects on their PR when it inevitably makes the wrong call and commits some war crime or atrocity.
by nlawalker | 2026-02-27 03:44:48+00:00
> PwC calls it "Pilot Purgatory." The pattern: AI gets deployed in isolated, tactical projects that don't connect to revenue.

I feel like both the name and the description miss the mark though - the use isn't in pilots or isolated projects, it's individual people using it to find stuff and read/write/code/work/make decisions for them, and none of that is going to drive strategic value until companies raise expectations on productivity to take advantage of it.

It makes me think of a couple of bullet points from that "An AI CEO said something honest" post[1]:

> - majority of workers have no reason to be super motivated, they want to do their 9-5 and get back to their life

> - they're not using AI to be 10x more effective they're using it to churn out their tasks with less energy spend

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47042788
by ccleve | 2026-02-27 03:45:36+00:00
It's not clear to me whether Anthropic's limitations are technical or merely contractual. Is Anthropic actually putting the limitations in their prompts, so that the model would refuse to answer a question on how to do certain things?

If so, that's a major problem. If the military is using it in some mission critical way, they can't be fighting the model to get something done. No such limitations would ever be acceptable.

If the limitations are contractual, then there is some room for negotiation.
by BobbyJo | 2026-02-27 03:46:42+00:00
> BTW, I think a lot of people were/are greatly overestimating the value of coding to business success.

Personally, I don't believe the big changes will come from "coding costs less for businesses". I think it will come from "trying new businesses is now cheaper, both in time and money". Smaller and cheaper players will be entering a lot of spaces over the next 5 years IMO.
by andoando | 2026-02-27 03:47:36+00:00
Hmm no way. Ive used to see hallucinations like 50% of the time prompting gpt3.5 for simple functions.

I don't remember the last time ive seen a made up library/methods these days and Im definitely using way more for more complex stuff. The tool calling changed the game.

Even for work I do almost 100% of my coding telling claude what to do. I mean I break down the tasks and tell it more or less exactly what I want but I find "rename this thing across these two repos" easier than doing it myself
by noahkay13 | 2026-02-27 03:48:05+00:00
I built a C++ inference engine for NVIDIA's Parakeet speech recognition models using Axiom(https://github.com/Frikallo/axiom) my tensor library.

What it does:
- Runs 7 model families: offline transcription (CTC, RNNT, TDT, TDT-CTC), streaming (EOU,
Nemotron), and speaker diarization (Sortformer)
- Word-level timestamps
- Streaming transcription from microphone input
- Speaker diarization detecting up to 4 speakers
by taurath | 2026-02-27 03:48:11+00:00
This reminds me of the meme of Margaret Thatcher: "And There is No Alternative" - a way to justify the policies she desired to implement and attempt to preempt any other view.

We're supposed to believe Jack is a victim of circumstance. He hired all those people, and now he has no choice but to fire them - he wasn't clairvoyant to the future when he hired all those people, or else he'd known he would have had to fire them. But now since he is clairvoyant to the future, he knows he must fire them.

We are all as childrens playthings right now.
by lunar-whitey | 2026-02-27 03:48:42+00:00
I think the 10 U.S. metro number itself is somewhat arbitrary here. It’s impossible to say precisely without looking at all parties’ deployed warhead counts and operational plans, but I have seen estimates that put the number of direct casualties over 100 million. (Russia and the United States each have well over 1000 warheads deployed.)

I do accept that towns far from both major metropolitan areas and high value military targets could survive. However, the short term social impact of supply shortages and the longer term agricultural effects of atmospheric changes are difficult to predict.
by blobbers | 2026-02-27 03:49:05+00:00
I agree the central promise of 3D printers was they would get cheaper, better, and more like industrial grade and we would end up with this thing that could build replacement parts for anything in our home.

Instead what we were left with was an endless hunt for 'models', and no companies publishing their specs. Everything had to be done custom, and at best some niche manufacturing for weird side quests like adds ons for OneWheels, or cases for raspberry pis.

The closest thing to practical I have 3D printed is a wedge to better aim my google doorbell. I used to make some beautiful planters. I certainly am not 3D printing a droid, or a dishwasher impeller, or a fan blade for my 30 year old fridge.

So yes, while Claude code is fun, and you can build neat prototypes, it takes a lot of work to build a full product and then maintain it, scale it, deploy it. That takes persistent joy in what you're doing because you're not necessarily claude coding everything.
by vunderba | 2026-02-27 03:49:10+00:00
Yeah it's not perfect though I'll have to take your word for it - I looked up the concept of "bokeh swirl" but didn't really understand it in the context of the image.

To me it looks like the two foreground subjects (fox and girl) are at roughly the same distance from the POV camera and thus NB Pro tried to preserve an approximate narrow depth of field on both of them, but I'm not a professional photographer by any means.
by 0xbadcafebee | 2026-02-27 03:49:42+00:00
> it shows that those people are out of control and exceeding their authority

No, the concentration camps and gangs of masked thugs violating civil rights are that sign. Threatening to treat a domestic private corporation like an enemy combatant during peacetime for not immediately caving to military demands is that sign. Trying to take over the Federal Reserve, the Federal Trade Commission, and the Nuclear Regulatory Commission, is that sign. The Executive attempting to freeze funds issued by Congress for partisan reasons is that sign.

Department of War is just little boys being trolls.