MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by ajam1507 | 2026-02-28 04:31:54+00:00
> However, in this instance, it does seem that Anthropic is walking away from money.

The supply chain risk designation will be overturned in court, and the financial fallout from losing the government contracts will pale in comparison to the goodwill from consumers. Not to mention that giving in would mean they lose lots of their employees who would refuse to work under those terms. In this case, the principles are less than free.
Show HN: YourApp – Mobile-First Developer Tool (Contributors Welcome)
by adhishtanaka | 2026-02-28 04:32:47+00:00
I have recently made the repository for YourApp public. It is a mobile-first developer tool that I am building with a focus on practical workflows and usability. Development is ongoing, and I am continuing to improve the architecture and feature set as the project evolves. I would appreciate technical feedback, suggestions, and contributions from the community. If you are interested in developer tooling or mobile-first design, I would be glad to hear your thoughts. GitHub:https://github.com/Adhishtanaka/yourapp
by groundy | 2026-02-28 04:34:37+00:00
TimesFM (Time Series Foundation Model) is Google’s answer to a question practitioners have asked for years: can a single pretrained model forecast any time series accurately, the way large language models handle any text task? As of late 2025, the answer is a qualified yes — with important caveats about what “accurate” means across different domains.

What Is TimesFM?
TimesFM is a decoder-only transformer model trained by Google Research on approximately 100 billion real-world time-points, designed to produce accurate time-series forecasts zero-shot — with no fine-tuning on the target dataset. A user provides historical values, specifies a horizon length, and the model outputs point forecasts and quantile uncertainty estimates.
by John23832 | 2026-02-28 04:34:52+00:00
No offense,but this is where having immigrants throughout the power structure of these companies becomes an issue. We have a administration who clearly is not above using all avenues to apply pressure to get the things that they want done done,

How can we expect the VPs of these companies to make to make tough decisions like this when half can be pressured via immigration status? It’s hard enough being a normal citizen sticking your neck out in these circumstances.
by fooker | 2026-02-28 04:35:30+00:00
Not every use case is a cloud provider or tech giant.

Newer Blackwell does 200+ tokens per second on the largest models and tens of thousands on the smaller models. Most military applications require fast smaller models, I'd imagine.

Also, custom chips are reportedly approaching an order of magnitude more for the price. It's a matter of availability right now, but that will be solved at some point.
by cyrusradfar | 2026-02-28 04:35:41+00:00
Warning; Self Promo

We posted show the same day to solve the similar problems.

My solution https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47172238 (unfucked.ai) works with any agent and any file in the folder whether it's edited by the agent or anyone by tracking all file writes.

Amazing how this problem was top of mind for all of us at the same time!
by SpicyLemonZest | 2026-02-28 04:35:57+00:00
You're quoting social media posts from a regime official who says he didn't participate in these negotiations and doesn't work for the relevant department.

If his characterization of the agreement is correct, which I will not believe and you should not believe until a trustworthy news outlet publishes the text, I suppose this would convince me that Hegseth does not literally plan to build a Terminator for democracy-ending purposes. There's a lot of inexcusable stuff here regardless, but perhaps merely boycotting OpenAI and the US military would be a sufficient response if this all checks out.
by arugulum | 2026-02-28 04:36:24+00:00
> Surely if OpenAI had insisted upon the same things that Anthropic had, the government would not have signed this agreement.

But they did.

"Two of our most important safety principles are prohibitions on domestic mass surveillance and human responsibility for the use of force, including for autonomous weapon systems. The DoW agrees with these principles, reflects them in law and policy, and we put them into our agreement."
by anigbrowl | 2026-02-28 04:36:34+00:00
We hope our leaders will put aside their differences and stand together to continue to refuse the Department of War's current demands for permission to use our models for domestic mass surveillance and autonomously killing people without human oversight.

[90 minutes later]

Ah! Well, nevertheless

OK, this is a cheap shot on my part. But still: we hope? What kind of milquetoast martyrdom is this? Nobody gives a shit about tech workers as living, breathing, human moral agents. You (a putative moral actor signed onto this worthy undertaking) might be a person of deep feeling and high principle, and I sincerely admire you for that. But to the world at large, you're an effete button pusher who gets paid mid-six figures to automate society in accordance with billionaires' preferences and your expressions of social piety are about as meaningful as changing the flowers in the window box high up on the side of an ivory tower. The fact that ~80% of the signatories are anonymous only reinforces this perception.

If you want this to be more than a futile gesture followed by structural regret while you actively or passively contribute to whatever technologically-accelerated Bad Things come to pass in the near and medium term, a large proportion of you (> 500/648 current signatories) need to follow through and resign over the weekend. Doing so likely won't have that much direct impact, but it will slow things down a little (for the corporate and governmental bad actors who will find deployment of the new tech a little bit harder) and accelerate opposition a little (market price adjustments of elevated risk, increased debate and public rejection of the militaristic use of AI).

Hope, like other noble feelings, doesn't change anything. Actions, however poorly coordinated and incoherent, change things a little. If your principles are to have meaning, act on them during the short window of attention you have available.
by Haven880 | 2026-02-28 04:36:38+00:00
Originally there is mixer parties. That was taken down massively in the covid years. That is the one that can trackless. Currently the only one that near impossible to track is Monero. But that is actively suppress worldwide. You rarely heard it and any YTber promoting it, usually algo suppressed. Now crypto are even more trackable than bank transfer. I guess cash and maybe diamonds is still king.
by abraxas | 2026-02-28 04:37:31+00:00
I hope so but I am less optimistic. The oligarchy in Russia who remained loyal to the Putin regime have done just fine for decades as long as they did not attempt to overthrow the dictator. The regime in Washington is basically constructing the same type of kleptocracy and very little evidence is there that anyone who matters will get in their way. So far as I can tell the country is already a form of authoritarian regime where the loyalty to the supreme ruler is the main parameter of conducting business there.
by patcon | 2026-02-28 04:39:02+00:00
yeah, something shady. i don't trust sam at all.

i once ran into someone in london in 2023 who was doing their thesis on AI regulation. they had essentially ended up doing a case-study on sam. their honest non-academic conclusion (which they shared quietly) was that they were absolutely terrified of sam altman.

fear is one of those signals we ought to listen to more often
by palmotea | 2026-02-28 04:39:20+00:00
> but it's still true that most of those examples don't answer the question

That's because the question is bad. It was meant to challenge the benefit of government, and a non-answer was meant to be interpreted as "government < business." But at its core is was fundamental misunderstanding of government, so if the question was answered mindlessly, it was unfairly biased towards the asker's biased conclusion.

> and to refuse them is not "weaseling out".

It'd be weaseling out of the faults of the question.
by elfly | 2026-02-28 04:40:39+00:00
No company ever got a man to the Moon.

Sure, some companies participated in the process. But it was a government that did it.

It's been more than 50 years and private companies haven't been able to match it.

The greatest technical achievement of mankind was done by a government. Private industry could, at best, help.

Sorry all the other things you name are great. But the winner is government.
by slopinthebag | 2026-02-28 04:40:45+00:00
> OpenAI has aligned with Trump against Anthropic in a place where Anthropic made a correct principled stand.

Just to be clear, you believe that the correct, principled stand is that it's OK to use their models for killing people and civilian surveillance?

Both OAI and Anthropic have the same moral leg to stand on here, OAI is just not hypocritical about it.
by Dylan16807 | 2026-02-28 04:41:10+00:00
> So if you dutifully input valid ages for your computer users, now any groomer with a website or an app can find out who's a kid and who isn't. You just put a target on your kid's back.

I'm not going to say that's impossible but the number of sites that do the right thing and reduce risk are going to vastly outnumber that. And 90% of those kids already have targets on their backs by virtue of the sites they visit.
by doodlebugging | 2026-02-28 04:42:11+00:00
The list of the spiteful most likely already exists and is being used today. All these mass media have been weaponized by various bad actors.

Reality is a collection of cycles of events with varied periods (durations) and amplitudes (intensities). Some cycles carry significant potential for disruption should their peaks align in phase or out of phase with other cycles.

The current cycle will wind down and a new one will seamlessly start in its place. Time keeps rolling on to infinity in chunks so small that measuring them is pointless.

There is no singularity. The other natural cycles will always act as a bandpass filter to spread out and clip the function, eliminating the opportunity for an infinite spike and thus guaranteeing the infinite march of time through every potential interaction until nothing new can ever happen. Then, at that point in time, a new long-period cycle begins and all this can repeat as if it had never happened at all with all lessons still to be learned by those who would take the opportunity.
by weird-eye-issue | 2026-02-28 04:42:15+00:00
Embedded webviews are the stupidest thing ever. Yesterday I got halfway through a checkout process, had to go back to another app to check something, and then the webview simply disappeared so I didn't bother finishing the checkout. This was on Android

Usually I open it in Chrome but for some reason I didn't realize it was a webview this time
by api | 2026-02-28 04:42:33+00:00
Google is the Xerox Parc of AI, but unlike Xerox they decided to enter the ring with Gemini which is now quite good.

(For those who don't know the history, Xerox Parc and SRI before them invented the modern PC GUI and a lot of other modern PC stuff in the late 70s and early 80s, which Apple copied and then everyone else copied from Apple. Xerox paid a lot for R&D but never used it at all since it would cannibalize their copier business, classic innovators dilemma.)
by lebovic | 2026-02-28 04:42:42+00:00
Others have addressed the first half of your comment, so I'll focus on the astroturfing claim.

While I've talked a lot about Anthropic this week, if I was astroturfing for a positive image, I'd be very bad at it [1][2][3].

[1]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47150170

[2]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47163143

[3]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47174814
by ProllyInfamous | 2026-02-28 04:42:46+00:00
Pollan is an absolutely incredible compiler/author — his consumable pages are difficult to stop turning, you just want to know what random tidbit is next...

I've read five of his books; his last story inspired me to build my own shedoffice (now complete, a few hundred squarefeet of workshop).

So now I have to stop reading the five other books I'm currently reading and finish Pollan 2026 — entirely this post's fault — maybe it'll encourage my brain into building something else =D
by dataflow | 2026-02-28 04:43:37+00:00
> how would this even work with embedded systems that have no UI to input this data?

Doesn't the bill explain all this pretty clearly? https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billTextClient.xhtm...

>> An operating system provider shall [...] provide an accessible interface at account setup that requires an account holder to indicate the birth date, age, or both, of the user [...]

>> “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.

Your hypothetical "embedded system" almost certainly neither has an account setup process in the first place, nor is it a general-purpose computing device, a mobile phone, or a computer.

> Reaction 3: how would this ever be enforced?

Pretty easily? They enforce it against the OS vendor for not providing such a process. They aren't enforcing the correctness of the age, nor are they claiming to.

> Someone needs to maliciously comply, in advance, on all California government systems.

...what? This is a law demanding compliance from OS vendors. Whose compliance is it even demanding in government systems for them to be malicious about it?
by _chse_ | 2026-02-28 04:43:55+00:00
I've linked the PHP page, you can punch in whatever tech you're after in the search bar. More of what's here:

https://versiondb.io/technology/wordpress/
https://versiondb.io/technology/woocommerce/
https://versiondb.io/technology/nginx/
https://versiondb.io/technology/iis/
by antonvs | 2026-02-28 04:44:15+00:00
What's your definition of "patriotism" and why do private companies need to be "patriotic"? How do you reconcile this with the Constitutional guarantees of freedom of speech, freedom of association, and so on?

The US isn't Iran, North Korea, or even China, as much as some people, including the US president, seem want to emulate those models.
by orbital-decay | 2026-02-28 04:44:35+00:00
Nobody locks the games down. Most games with highly active modding scenes were never supposed to be modded, they all had to be reverse engineered or the source leaked. No tools, no engine modifications, nothing. DOOM, GTA, Mario 64, STALKER, Minecraft, the list goes on and on. Games like TES, ArmA, Quake, anything Source/GoldSource based are exceptions. And even then all major Bethesda games are heavily reverse engineered, the Morrowind engine got rewritten basically from scratch and the other games have a ton of fixes and sideloaded code. There's even an entire vehicle simulator (!) strapped on top of Fallout: New Vegas, which is absolutely insane if you know anything about its engine.

It all comes down to two things, player interest and the range of expertise/amount of work and coordination required for your mod to fit the base game. For example STALKER SoC has a lot more story mods than, say, Skyrim, because SoC is pretty janky: it has few animations and voiceovers are reserved to key plot moments, so it doesn't take much to match the quality.
by conartist6 | 2026-02-28 04:44:36+00:00
That's what worries me so much about the development that OpenAI is stepping in. OpenAI's claim is that they have the same principles as Anthropic, but that claim is easy because it's free now because the govt wants to sell the "old bad, new good" story.

Surely OpenAI cannot but notice that those values, held firmly, make you an enemy of the state?
by qsera | 2026-02-28 04:44:45+00:00
How much is your investment (you don't have to be exact)?

The bottom line is that if the investment is not profitable, then there will be less and less investment, because only fewer and fewer can afford to lose money and stick to their values, until no one will be investing; how ever high your values might be...

Sticking to your values when it cost growth is not sustainable for publicly traded companies...
by mkozlows | 2026-02-28 04:45:09+00:00
If you believe that any country should have a military and intelligence apparatus, the job of that apparatus is to kill people and surveil foreigners. I do think the US government should have a military and intelligence apparatus. Therefore, any company that works with it, from suppliers of clothing and food to suppliers of compute and AI, are supporting an organization with that mission.

The US military _does not_ need to build autonomous weapon systems and _should not_ surveil US citizens broadly.
by throwaway5465 | 2026-02-28 04:46:51+00:00
If you project from the centre, as if the observer is trapped in the middle of the earth like a Jules Verne prisoner with x-ray vision watching the world above them, it is to the right (anti-clockwise to the left).

But no one thinks like that.

After testing whis, what strikes me is how stubborn the LLMs are about being wrong. Is that a more important takeaway: that LLMs seem to back down less even when clearly wrong?
by zoalord12 | 2026-02-28 04:47:05+00:00
I am in Google Play hell.

Some moron who has never written an app or a line of code is reviewing and telling me how my app "appears to not need MANAGE_EXTERNAL_STORAGE permission"

These fucking monopolies just keep abusing developers.

I have had 5 published apps before, my dev account is DUNS verified. User is prompted for permissions, the permissions required is part of the app. Some moron cant see it so I dont know what else to do.

I tried removing the MANAGE_EXTERNAL_STORAGE permissions and keeping MEDIA permissions but that does not let the app delete photos. Photo management is part of the fucking app.

I am sick and tired of the stupid canned responses, fuck you Google Play reviewer.

I will never write another Google Play app again.
by stouset | 2026-02-28 04:47:14+00:00
> I think the decision was made because the people making this decision at Anthropic are well-intentioned, driven by values, and motivated by trying to make the transition to powerful AI to go well.

The entire problem is that this lasts as long as those people are in charge. Every incentive is aligned with eventually replacing them with people who don’t share those values, or eventually Anthropic will be out-competed by people who have no hesitation to put profit before principle.
by ACCount37 | 2026-02-28 04:47:15+00:00
The first reason is that LLM advancements are yet to stop. And the second reason is that "the current tech" is a moving target.

If, let's say, in 2029, it turns out that autoregressive transformer LLMs have exhausted their potential, the R&D that goes into improving them now would be put into finding alternatives. And I struggle to imagine not finding any.
by quikee | 2026-02-28 04:48:08+00:00
Well, that's almost how it work but of course without the waiting bits. The change would be added to LOExt namespace and would be written to the document and read on load. Then the change is proposed for inclusion into the next ODF version. Once the ODF version is released, LO would add support for that as well and changed if needed. On next save the feature would use the ODF version instead of LOExt.

The process has its issues and could cause problems, but in practice I don't remember anyone reporting issues.
by lazzlazzlazz | 2026-02-28 04:48:24+00:00
The signatories of this site are leaping at a misguided opportunity for moral credit, when the reality is that they're getting whipped into a left-leaning frenzy.

As Undersecretary Jeremy Lewin clarified today[1], these weighty decisions should not be made by activists inside companies, but made by laws and legitimate government.

[1]: https://x.com/UnderSecretaryF/status/2027594072811098230
by codebitdaily | 2026-02-28 04:48:41+00:00
In 2026, the 'best place' isn't a physical city like SF anymore, but the jurisdiction that offers the best AI-compute subsidies and clear data privacy frameworks. We’re seeing a massive shift toward 'distributed hubs' in places that prioritize NPU-native infrastructure. If you're building hardware-adjacent software, look where the energy is cheap and the AI regulations are stable. The physical location is becoming secondary to the digital infrastructure you're plugged into
by Intermernet | 2026-02-28 04:48:46+00:00
What's stopping the government from using the usual nasty tricks the world has known about for decades?

DPA?
All Writs Act?

Force them to comply and then prevent them talking about it with NSLs?

I appreciate that Anthropic may be the least bad of a bunch of really bad actors here, but this has played out before in the US, and the burden of trust is, and should be, really high. I believe that Anthropic don't want to remove the "safety barriers" on their tech being used for domestic surveillance and military operations, but that implies they're ok with those use-cases so long as the "safety barriers" are still up. Not really the best look, IMHO.

So what happens when we all get rosy eyed about Anthropic (the only slightly evil company) winning a battle against the purely evil government, and then the gov use the various instruments at their disposal to just force anthropic to do what they want, and then force them to never disclose it?

Did the world learn nothing from Snowden?
by codebitdaily | 2026-02-28 04:49:43+00:00
The choice of Go for the backend logic and Python for the scripting flexibility is a solid architectural decision for an editor. I’m particularly interested in how you handle the 'atomic' part during high-frequency writes to prevent file corruption. Does it use a WAL (Write-Ahead Logging) approach or simple temporary file swapping? Great to see more local-first tools being built with robustness in mind.
by abustamam | 2026-02-28 04:50:16+00:00
Yeah, the alternative is be OK with their product being used for surveillance.

Not sure why it's controversial that they said no, regardless of the reasoning. Yeah there's a lot of marketing speak and things to cover their asses. Let's call them out on that later. Right now let's applaud them for doing the right thing.

FWIW I do not think they are the "good guys" (if I had a dollar for every company that had a policy of not being evil...). But they are certainly not siding with the bad guys here.
by elfly | 2026-02-28 04:51:07+00:00
Have you ever looked at a dollar bill in your life.

Who do you think printed it. Who signed the bill?

The US can just print money and receive goods in exchange of literal paper. Or just put an extra zero in a bank account and receive goods in exchange.

And if a certain yahoo decides they want in the money printing scheme...who do you think is going to send the goons with guns to prevent the government monopoly in creating literal wealth.
by mythz | 2026-02-28 04:51:26+00:00
It absolutely matters, especially when done in unison like this.

Cancelling ChatGPT sends a signal that you don't agree with weaponizing AI. Switching to Claude says you support Anthropic's principled stance against it. If you have a strong opinion either way, today is the day to vote with your wallet.

Dismissing every small action as meaningless is just apathy and how nothing ever changes.
by bawolff | 2026-02-28 04:51:42+00:00
Isn't it a literal supply chain risk, though?

They want their products to not be used for some purposes. That's fine, that is their right. But that doesn't just stop and direct purchases. If the US buys from a defense contractor who bought from abthropic, that really isn't that different from buying direct. The moral hazard is still there and the risk that anthropic will try to prevent their product from being used in that fashion is still there.

I think anthropic wants their cake and to eat it too. You can't take a principled stand against something and then be shocked the thing you are taking a principled stand against might think you are a risk.