MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by shevy-java | 2026-02-28 11:31:10+00:00
First, I don't think this leads to WW3 although I would agree with you that there is a general global tendency towards escalation. Still, I think we can not call this WW3 and I am not 100% certain this is a build-up to WW3 either.

As for North Korea: I think the situation is not solely about North Korea itself but China. China is kind of acting as protective proxy here. I don't see North Korea as primary problem to the USA, but to South Korea and Japan. Both really should get nukes. Taiwan too, though mainland China would probably invade when it thinks Taiwan is about to have nukes; then again China already committed to invasion - this is the whole point of having a dictator like Xi in charge now.

The situation Russia is in is interesting, because even though they are stronger than Ukraine, Ukraine managed to stop or delay Russia, which is a huge feat, even with support. As Putin does not want to stop, and Trump is supporting him (agent Krasnov theory applies), I think this has escalation potential. Putin is killing civilians in Ukraine daily - I think he does that because he already committed to further escalation against all Europeans. So Europeans need a nuclear arsenal, but european politicians are totally lame - see Merz "we will never have nukes". Basically he wants to be abused by Putin here.
by soulofmischief | 2026-02-28 11:31:50+00:00
You're out of the loop and making baseless assumptions.

This thread is currently trending because OpenAI just slid into the US CorpGov's DMs and signed a contract, hours after Anthropic was banned by the US government for not letting the military do whatever they want.

https://www.anthropic.com/news/statement-department-of-war

https://x.com/secwar/status/2027507717469049070
by maxbond | 2026-02-28 11:31:52+00:00
Recently I left an HN comment pointing out that there was a typo on Ars Technia's staff page. One copy editor had the title "Copy Editor" and the other "Copyeditor." Several days later the typo was fixed. I'm confident that it was because someone at Ars saw my comment.

I left a comment describing how I am deleting my OpenAI account. I think there's a good chance someone at OpenAI sees it, even if only aggregated into a figure in a spreadsheet. Maybe a pull quote in a report.

You do your best at the margin, have faith it will count for something in aggregate and accept that sometimes you're tilting at windmills. I know most of my breathe is wasted but I can't reliably tell which.
by duggan | 2026-02-28 11:32:23+00:00
Motivated novices will just learn differently, and produce different kinds of systems for different audiences with different expectations.

Some will dig into obscurities that LLMs don't or can't touch, others will orchestrate the tools, Gastown-style, into some as-yet-unknown form.

People will vibe themselves into a corner and either start learning or flame out.
by xbmcuser | 2026-02-28 11:32:48+00:00
What makes you think Trump is not interested in this himself they just offered him hotels and land. Him getting blackmailed is I feel a lot of people that have voted for him are using as a coping mechanism.
The attack on Iran proves the point just like Russia attacking Ukraine if you want to protect your territories you need nuclear weapons. Canada, Greenland and countries in South America should also look to acquire nuclear weapons as once they are done with Iran you will be the next.
by mentalgear | 2026-02-28 11:33:38+00:00
Posting it here as a top-level comment as many people asked why boycott just openAi:

-----

openAI is the least trustworthy of the Big LLM providers. See S(c)am Altman's track record, especially his early comments in senate hearings where:

* he warned of engagement-optimisation strategies, like social media, being used for chatbots / LLMs.

* also, he warned that "ads would be the last resort" for LLM companies.

Both of his own warnings he casually ignored as ChatGPT / openAI has now fully converted to Facebook's tactics of "move fast and break things" - even if it is society itself. A complete turn away from the original AI for science lab it was founded as, which explains why every real (founding) ML scientist has left the company years ago.

While still being for-profit outfits, at least DeepMind and Anthrophic are headed by actual scientists - not marketing guys. At least for me, that brings me some confidence in their intentions as, as scientists we often seek knowledge, not power for power's sake.
by lazide | 2026-02-28 11:33:46+00:00
Not who you are replying too. But a yubikey is not a weak factor.

In fact, it’s not even meaningfully more secure than passkey (as passkey is designed) - passkey is, however, more convenient.

So it’s more ‘one weak factor + (really times) one medium/strong factor’ vs ‘one medium/strong factor’.

Which yes, the first one is better in every way from a security perspective. At least in isolation.

The tricky part is that passkeys for most users are way more convenient, meaning they’ll actually get used more, which means if adopted they’ll likely result in more actual security on average.

Yubikeys work well if you’re paying attention, have a security mindset, don’t lose them, etc. which good luck for your average user.
by shevy-java | 2026-02-28 11:34:19+00:00
I'd agree - Trump fulfils the criteria of treason.

It's interesting to see that nothing happens despite this. Now he started another war to distract from his involvement in the huge Epstein network. Also, by the way, quite interesting to see how many people were involved here; there is no way Ghislaine could solo-organise all of that yet she is the only one in prison. That makes objectively no sense.
by atwrk | 2026-02-28 11:34:45+00:00
I'm not really using them for coding (only played a little bit with minimax2.1), which is probably the most common use case here.

I mainly use them for deep work with texts and deep research. My main criterion is privacy, both for legal reasons (I'm in the EU and can't and don't want to expose customer's data to non-gdpr-compliant services) and wouldn't use US services personally either, e.g. I would never explore health related topics chatgpt or gemini for obvious reasons.

Technically I've set it up in my office with llama.cpp and have exposed that (both chat interface and openai compatible api) with a simple wireguard tunnel behind nginx and http auth. Now I can use it everywhere. It's a small, quiet and pretty fast machine (compiling llama.cpp is around 20 seconds?), I quite like it.
Show HN: Core – Constitutional governance runtime for AI coding agents
by DNewecki | 2026-02-28 11:36:22+00:00
AI agents that can write code are useful. AI agents that can't violate your architecture are useful in production.
CORE enforces constitutional law at runtime — 92 rules across 7 deterministic engines. If a blocking rule fails, execution halts. No partial states, no silent violations.
Today it blocked its own self-healing workflow because two governance components drifted out of sync. No human caught it. The constitution did.
Demo (asciinema): https://asciinema.org/a/BuS0WuKyRxQwYDHD
Docs: https://dariusznewecki.github.io/CORE/
by rustyhancock | 2026-02-28 11:36:46+00:00
Just boycott them all if you can. That's what I've done.

Some people's livelihoods probably depends on Claude and they can't say use Glm4.7 on HF. Fine. But it's a moral compromise, that's life sometimes you need to compromise what you want for what you need. just don't tell yourself it's a reasonable line to hold.

I can't decouple from Google unfortunately but I accept that without fooling myself into thinking "Oh but Google are fine".
by asah | 2026-02-28 11:37:44+00:00
hmmm - but is it really "world war" 3 if it's a bunch of localized conflicts?

I'm a little disappointed that the internet and social media had little impact on universal disclosure about geopolitical matters. My sense is that governments updated their playbooks to both defend against them (e.g. minimize leaking) and leverage them (e.g. bury inconvenient information with propaganda). By comparison, I'm more hopeful about cellphones and bodycams generally reducing excessive police violence and discrimination (emphasis on "reduce").

prediction: the nuclear threat will look quaint compared with disposable million-drone swarms on land and in the air, targeting anything remotely interesting via onboard AI.
by podgorniy | 2026-02-28 11:39:30+00:00
We are obviously dying. What's the point of doing anything in between now and the last moment? What goal of people who think that doing anything will make any impact?

--

Some people do that as a symbolic action. Some to keep own terms as much as they can. Some hope their actions will join others actions and will turn into a signal for decision makers. For others this action reduces the area of their exposure. Others believe in something and just follow their beliefs.

BTW following own set of beliefs is what you're (we all) doing here. You believe that surveillance is already happening and nothing can be done about it, that single action does not matter, that there are no other reasons for action other than direct visible impact, etc. Seems that you analyze others through own set of beliefs and it can not explain actions of others. This inability to explain others suggests that the whole model is flawed in some way. So what is the nature of your beliefs? Did you choose them or they were presented you without alternatives? What are alternatives then? Do these beliefs serve your interests or others?
by sva_ | 2026-02-28 11:39:34+00:00
You're getting lots of downvotes etc. I find it weird that people find it too surprising that Iranians are fed up with the Mullah regime.

I have some (female) student friends from Iran, and they're all happy about this intervention. They want the Ayatollah to be gone.

All Iranian people I've met so far absolutely hate the regime. But then again, I'd probably not get into contact with islamists.
by heavyset_go | 2026-02-28 11:39:37+00:00
> (Also it’s not age verification really, it’s just a prompt that asks for your age to share as a system API for apps from above app store, no verification required)

It's not enough to adhere to the age signal:

> (3) (A) Except as provided in subparagraph (B), a developer shall treat a signal received pursuant to this title as the primary indicator of a user’s age range for purposes of determining the user’s age.

> (B) If a developer has internal clear and convincing information that a user’s age is different than the age indicated by a signal received pursuant to this title, the developer shall use that information as the primary indicator of the user’s age.

Developers are still burdened with additional liability if they have reason to believe users are underage, even if their age flag says otherwise.

The only way to mitigate this liability is to confirm your users are of age with facial and ID scans, that is why age verification systems are implemented that way: doing so minimizes liability for developers/providers and it's cheap.
by epolanski | 2026-02-28 11:39:40+00:00
I don't see it discussed very often, maybe because we're tech-companies concentrated here, but I can tell you 100% that in Italy-Poland, every single 100+ people non-IT company is aggressively pushing AI down their employees.

In Italian banking and insurance companies it's all about writing Gemini "gems" (essentially custom agents) and leveraging NotebookLM, occasionally Microsoft Copilot. Every innovation department out there is all about promoting and bonusing employees that can show the best savings in time and efficiency through LLMs.

So far I'm not seeing much success, because the people shoving those are mostly clueless about what LLMs are good at, they are desperately looking to be able to show that "anything" went from X hours of effort to X/2 or better and this pressure more often than not is alienating most employees, not because they don't appreciate AI, but because atm it's mostly an _additional_ task on top of their already existing work.

I myself, as an independent consultant I'm tasked by all my clients to automate and automate and bring the tools as close as possible to stakeholders, effectively making myself redundant at least on the software side (albeit I like to think not on the engineering and processes one, which is why I have the same clients since 2022...).
by LordDragonfang | 2026-02-28 11:39:52+00:00
> This is genuinely

Well, I have a good guess which of those models is your favorite.

I'm not even saying that Claude wrote this - because it still reads as human written, and it's not badly written - but it has just enough Claude voice in it that it feels like the thing where humans inevitably start talking like the people (or simulacrums thereof) that they interact with most. (Heck, you did "It's not X it's Y" twice)

...Or maybe I'm the crazy one here. I don't know. But if I'm right, it's fascinating to see this happen.
by t_mahmood | 2026-02-28 11:40:44+00:00
A manager is not going to handle all the nitty gritty details, that an engineer knows, fine say, they can ask a LLM to make a web portal.

Does he know about SQL injection? XSS?

Maybe he knows slightly about security stuffs and asks the LLM to make a secure site with all the protection needed. But how the manager knows it works at all? If you figure out there's a issue with your critical part of the software, after your users data are stolen, how bad the fallback is going to be?

How good a tool is also depends on who's using it. Managers are not engineers obviously unless he was
an engineer before becoming a manager, but you are saying engineers are not needed. So, where's the engineer manager is going to come from? I'm sure we're not growing them in some engineering trees
by AreShoesFeet000 | 2026-02-28 11:40:47+00:00
The revolution will be notably public, but not live-streamed. It will come as a swift and decisive reaction to a shock-and-awe deployment that will de-stabilize the state apparatus of a big nation outside of the “west”. The movement will be initially localized but it will spread until a perimeter of containment is setup around developed nations. Much more will come after.
Show HN: EEGFrontier – A compact open-source EEG board using ADS1299
by TheusHen | 2026-02-28 11:41:47+00:00
Hi HN,

I built EEGFrontier, a compact open-source EEG acquisition board based on the ADS1299 and an RP2040.

The goal was to design a low-cost board that works with dry electrodes while exposing the full EEG signal chain — no abstractions, no closed firmware.

What surprised me most during this project were the practical issues that datasheets don’t really prepare you for: grounding (REF/BIAS), noise coupling from digital lines, routing constraints, and how small layout decisions drastically affect signal quality.

The repository includes full KiCad files, firmware, a BOM with cost references, and documentation images. This is a V1 board and already works, but I’m actively iterating on shielding and noise mitigation.

I’d really appreciate feedback from people with experience in EEG, biosignals, or analog front-end design — especially criticism.
by sgt | 2026-02-28 11:42:26+00:00
Been on Tahoe now for a few weeks. The new rounded corners bug me a bit, but aside from that it's been rock stable. The trick with macOS is of course not to immediately upgrade. Give it a few weeks before you go to a new release.

I've been through all the releases since Jaguar in 2003. There's been some ups and downs, and a lot of complaints, but I'd say it still remains the most rock solid UNIX desktop OS out there.
by cowboylowrez | 2026-02-28 11:42:27+00:00
AI at once enables so much slop that it kills open bug bounty programs and at the same time finds actual problems. How can we enable the sorts of benefits that AI brings, like this awesome security work but block the slop that floods PR pipelines with bullshit?

AI will either have to be developed to validate these low value PR, or we need to block the slop. I propose that AI use be licensed and AI users have to provide proof of age, so to submit to these open ended bug bounty programs, the AI user has to upload a picture of a valid photo ID and post a $100 deposit with the bug bounty program, refundable upon finding a valid issue, if the issue submitted by the licensed AI user is bogus and low quality, their license is revoked and the key to their AI installation and / or access will be removed and they then have to attend a "defensive AI driving course" before submitting an application to be licensed and of course they forfeit their previous deposit and have to post another $100.

This post may contain errors.
by goku12 | 2026-02-28 11:42:57+00:00
Please check how the client certificate interface of Lagrange, the Gemini browser, works. It's nowhere as complicated as you make it out to be. No passkey interfaces I've seen is as clear as this one. It automatically provisions the certificate (optional. You can share certs among services if you prefer) and associates it with the correct service. So no complicated stuff. It prompts you at the correct time for permission in the clearest way possible. It's like an integrated password manager where your credentials are just files - sort of. That's all that a regular user needs to know about them. It can be exported, imported, backed up, synced, and what not.

Gemini strives to finish an entire request in a single transaction. So TLS certs are really the only option for authentication. That's how I learned the elegance of TLS client authentication workflow and started asking why this is so neglected in web browsers.
by mentalgear | 2026-02-28 11:42:58+00:00
I agree, if you can do boycott all of them (and maybe use open weight models locally or on e2ee cloud inference providers) - BUT I also think it 's crucial at a moment like this to take a stance against corporations like openAi that sign with the War Department, willing to introduce mass surveillance and autonomous weapons powered by brittle LLMs. This is a recipe for disaster and the only way they will sway away is by feeling it in the money/subscriptions and in their public image they so carefully crafted.

Note: yes, openAi claims it doesn't support the DoW above mentioned use-caes - but they have signed with the DoW and it is HIGHLY unlikely the DoW would give them a different terms than Antrohopic (at least regarding the substance). Maybe openAi was just happy with the "coat of paint" legalese the DoW offered - which Anthropic specifically called out as ineffective in their statement.
I also wouldn't put it past Altman, who is much more friendly with Trumpo's gov, to play a double game here to get their main competitor out of the game. But at least in this case I hope he's acting for the benefit of all by truly standing with Anthropic on the issue.
by aleph_minus_one | 2026-02-28 11:43:18+00:00
>
Programmers have enjoyed an occupation with solid stability and growing opportunities.

This is not the case:

- Before the 90s, programming was rather a job for people who were insanely passionate about technology, and working as a programmer was not that well-regarded (so no "growing opportunities").

- After the burst of the first dotcom bubble, a lot of programmers were unemployed.

- Every older programmer can tell you how fast the skills that they have can become and became irrelevant.

Over the last decade, the stability and opportunities for programmers was more like a serious of boom-bust cycles.
by shruubi | 2026-02-28 11:43:38+00:00
> Models are getting 99% more efficient every 3 years - to get the same amount of output, combined with hardware and (mostly) software upgrades - you can use 99% less power.

This is such a poor argument for a number of reasons.

1. Three years ago is basically when the "AI race" really kicked off amongst the frontier companies. You're effectively comparing a car from the 1920/30's to a modern car.

2. Past performance is not an indicator of future performance. You can't just say that LLM's will grow and improve at a fixed rate for all time, that isn't how they or anything else works in the real world.

3. Since it's an open secret that companies like Anthropic and OpenAI are running their models at a loss, a static 99% cheaper every three years arc still puts these companies at a net negative position unless compute, energy and water all somehow start getting 99% cheaper every three years.
Show HN: H-CLI – Manage network infrastructure with natural language
by h-network | 2026-02-28 11:43:46+00:00
Network engineer here. I've been building my own parallel SSH tooling (h-ssh) for years, multi-vendor (Junos, Arista, IOS, NXOS), parallel telnet, parallel REST API calls. It's been my daily driver in production.

A few months ago I gave it an AI brain. h-cli lets you manage infrastructure by sending plain English messages in Telegram. Claude Code by default, also works with self-hosted models through the Claude Code framework via API calls to vLLM/Ollama.

What it can do:

- "Discover the CLOS fabric and document everything in NetBox with cable detail" — 12 routers, full cabling, 4 minutes (GIF on the repo)
- Parallel REST calls across APIs in a single job — correlated results in seconds ; copied from h-ssh
- EVE-NG lab automation — natural language to full lab deployment, bootstrap, and verification
- Grafana dashboard rendering straight into Telegram
- Teachable skills — demonstrate a workflow, it learns it
- Chunk-based conversation memory (24h) + Qdrant vector memory for your own datasets (I used EVPN docs, worked perfectly for creating templates and troubleshooting)
- Redis-based horizontal scaling, designed with future plans to run multiple instances against a shared vLLM backend

Safety: a separate stateless LLM (Haiku, also adjustable for local LLMs) gates every command with zero conversation context — can't be social-engineered. Pattern denylist, two isolated Docker networks, non-root, cap_drop ALL, HMAC-signed results. 44 hardening items total.

Self-hosted, Docker Compose, 9 containers, MIT licensed.

The interesting part might be how it was built: one operator coordinating 8 parallel AI agent teams, zero human developers. The development methodology doc covers the full process, architecture, coordination via git + Redis, conflict resolution between agents. Of course i reviewed the code changes, hence the commit discipline.

https://github.com/h-network/h-cli
by simianwords | 2026-02-28 11:44:02+00:00
I have the same feeling but i don't think its a change that you observed in 3 months. Rather its different people's opinions being highlighted at different times.

What is a bit irrational is something I have noticed - that the same people claim that AI is both a bubble but also fear job losses from AI. But also think that the billionaires get rich out of this. How all of these things can happen together, I don't know.

Its just likely that people can't deal with uncertainty and fear change - they would resort to opposing change with arguments from all dimensions even if they contradict eachother.
by Koffiepoeder | 2026-02-28 11:44:21+00:00
The A3B part in the name stands for `Active 3B`, so for the inference jobs a core 3B is used in conjunction with another subpart of the model, based on the task (MoE, mixture of experts). If you use these models mostly for related/similar tasks, that means you can make do with a lot less than the 35B params in active RAM. These models are therefore also sometimes called sparse models.
by nottorp | 2026-02-28 11:45:46+00:00
Is this the end of "smart" washing machines and refrigerators?

I can imagine Samsung asking for the user's age every time you want to grab a snack and refusing to unlock the door otherwise.

Or perhaps... they could add a camera to the fridge and send a stream 24/7 to their servers so they can identify the age of whoever opens the door. For complying with the laws of California, honestly!