MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by JumpCrisscross | 2026-02-28 22:38:42+00:00
> Better go down after eliminating Israel, taking out a huge % of the world's oil supply and banging up some Americans

One, they tried. They don’t have the capability. Two, that means more Iranians die. Cultures that choose pointless vengeance over pragmatic survival tend to get weeded out.

> Incorrect

Which part, why and based on whom?
by ysleepy | 2026-02-28 22:38:48+00:00
You chose to pander to the slop flinging AI dullards so you can announce AI AI AI in 7.0.

Maybe we can enjoy the benefits of Electron in 8.0.
At least then I can change the cursor color from the ugly cold blue. - You had to force your corpo branding on me while I'm writing didn't you.
by BobBagwill | 2026-02-28 22:39:07+00:00
If most programming is <em>ShitWork &reg;</em> and most programmers are performing ShitWork and LLM's are good at ShitWork, then most programmers are out of a job. If those programmers can pivot to another non-ShitWork or programming-adjacent function, they can remain employed.

There are bookoo other things people could be doing besides coding YASW [Yet Another Stupid Website].
by jcranmer | 2026-02-28 22:39:31+00:00
As I understand it, the IGRC doesn't particularly rub happily with the clerical council, and it's not entirely clear to me who will win that the power struggle.

But the ultimate loser of the power struggle is clear: the Iranian populace at large, as all of the viable factions are quite committed to consolidating their power by repressing the population. The most likely situation, I think, looks a lot like Libya.
by vunderba | 2026-02-28 22:39:58+00:00
> That function runs client-side and filters the list of legal UCI moves before being passed to Stockfish's searchmoves parameter, so Stockfish's skill level, depth, and randomness all still apply correctly within the allowed set.

Hmmm... I can immediately think of a reason this won't work.

If I create a constraint that says "Bishops are only capable of moving 4 squares maximum", the set of valid moves you are passing into Stockfish only affects the initial move.

But as soon as it starts to build the minimax-equivalent search tree, it's no longer enforcing that constraint.

To make this work, you’d have to get Stockfish to continuously enforce the “bishop move” rule at every ply during its search.

Caveat - unless this is something you are enforcing in searchmoves? I don't have a lot of experience with in-depth usage of Stockfish.

Alternatively, you could look into Fairy-Stockfish, which allows you to define rule variants.

https://fairy-stockfish.github.io
by BostonFern | 2026-02-28 22:40:02+00:00
That’s a fair objection. Having ruminated on it some more, I’ll admit it might be tenable.

As for achieving an effective ban, occupational collapse might be the stronger motivator once workplace adoption broadens and accelerates, but risk of epistemic collapse might register sooner among the general public, already broadly suffering slop.

Like Bill Gates, I wonder why it’s not yet become a theme in mainstream politics.
by matheusmoreira | 2026-02-28 22:40:22+00:00
One day people will not even be able to own computers anymore. They will be owned, controlled and rented out by corporate elites for limited purposes only. The personal computer will probably either cease to exist due to economic factors. It will probably be made illegal for citizens to own free computers. We'll probably need licenses to operate one.

The mere concept of people "making their own tools" is just comical in this bleak timeline.
by dh2022 | 2026-02-28 22:40:25+00:00
Re: "reviewing code is very different from producing it, and surely teaches you less" - I feel this so much when reviewing the code one of my coworkers writes. My coworker makes plenty of mistakes and I learned the hard way that reviewing his PRs in a web page is not enough. These days when I have to review his code I download his branch locally and load the entire solution in the IDE. I then track his changes and usually find a few things wrong.

BTW - my coworker is not AI. It is a flesh-and-bones SWE.
by tombert | 2026-02-28 22:40:41+00:00
At least in my case, I have just cut off contact with her.

My parents are pretty decent people so I still talk to them a lot, but I can't deal with my grandmother anymore. If she thinks my wife (who was evidently on a Green Card at the time she said that) doesn't deserve to be here, she's allowed to think that, but she's not entitled to me being nice to her. I weighed my options and it came down these three choices: a) swallow my pride and roll my eyes and let her continue to be a racist sack of shit towards my wife, b) push back on the stuff and constantly argue, greatly upsetting my mother, or c) cut off contact to avoid this.

For someone like me option A really isn't a viable option, and and of the remaining two C seemed like the best.

Sometimes I wish I didn't have principles; that grandmother is ridiculously rich, and I likely could have wormed my way into the inheritance pretty easily. If anyone doubts that I believe in my principles just remember I turned down being a potential millionaire because I refused to yield on what I think is right.
by kingofmen | 2026-02-28 22:41:12+00:00
> President Trump announced the Iranian leader's death on social media, saying Khamenei could not avoid U.S. intelligence and surveillance. A source briefed on the U.S.-Israeli attacks on Iran told NPR earlier Saturday that an Israeli airstrike killed Khamenei.

This does not seem to me like very strong evidence? Trump just says whatever, and "a source briefed on [the attacks]" just means at least one person in USG thinks Khamenei was in whatever house they blew up. Am I missing some other confirmation?
by muzani | 2026-02-28 22:41:35+00:00
There's a layer between your input and the model called an agent harness. It's the bit that guides the model how to traverse the file system, where to search, how the codebase is architected, how to navigate the monorepo.

When you say "Add a default $5 tip to the dialog screen titled 'Tip this waiter?'", what the harness does is supply information on where the strings are, the dialogs, and where the design style containing the PrimaryButton might be.

Cursor is excellent at this and probably pioneered the whole approach. Copilot hasn't really bothered to be more than a wrapper.
by mauoak | 2026-02-28 22:41:38+00:00
Author here. This paper extracts 9 falsifiable predictions from Lowery's Softwar framework (the MIT thesis arguing Bitcoin is a power projection technology) and tests them against empirical data.

Results: 5 confirmed, 4 falsified. The most interesting finding is that state adoption patterns follow financial innovation diffusion curves, not arms race dynamics - which is what you'd expect if Bitcoin were primarily a weapon system.

The paper uses IEEEtran format and cites Bohme (2015), Yermack (2015), Catalini (2020), and Biais (2019).

I'm an engineer from ITA (Brazilian Air Force Institute of Technology), applying to MIT SDM. Feedback welcome - the paper was designed to be falsifiable.
by dsf2g | 2026-02-28 22:41:43+00:00
One does not need to know of relative statistics to know that a) you dont see planes randomly dropping out of the sky on a regular basis b) people enjoy flying to hot destinations and are willing to accept the small chance the flight may not be risk-free - people are aware of this when they experience some level of turbulence when flying.

Finally, Ive seen plenty of your posts on here. You write with a particular tone. Who are you? A nobody who's spent a lot of time posting crap on here.
by idiotsecant | 2026-02-28 22:42:51+00:00
Sometimes when you're making a media distraction campaign you gotta burn a few dozen children alive. I'm sure they would understand once they understand that this will buy two entire weeks of eyeballs!

Surely there could never be any unintended consequences from this! If history of conflict in the middle east has taught us anything it's that the power vacuum this bought will be filled with something much better and more enlightened.
by enigmazi | 2026-02-28 22:42:55+00:00
Hi HN, I’ve been working on docmd, a static site generator for documentation that feels like a native app.

The biggest challenge with SSGs is the "blink" between pages or the heavy hydration cost of using React/Vue. In v0.4.11, we implemented an intent-based prefetching router. It monitors link hovers (with a 65ms intent delay) and caches the HTML in memory. The result is a site that swaps content instantly without the overhead of a heavy JS framework.

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- Isomorphic: The parser engine runs in Node.js AND the browser (check out our Live Editor).
- Custom depth-tracking parser to handle complex Markdown container nesting.
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- I’d love to get your feedback on the performance and the isomorphic architecture.

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by wat10000 | 2026-02-28 22:43:36+00:00
My point is about difficulty, not how “fine” it is. It’s really easy not to hold elections when your constitution says you can’t. It’s a lot harder when your constitution says you must, and also gives you no power over the governments who actually hold those elections. But obviously you’d rather grind your axe against Ukraine than actually discuss what you said before.
by nullocator | 2026-02-28 22:44:33+00:00
> they should launch a campaign to repeal it and see how it goes over

You are conflating lack of true representation (what we have), with lack of support. It's very possible that the broad majority of the electorate would in fact get rid of conscription in the U.S. if they actually had a say in the matter? [1]

> I suspect that the non-prosecution more reflects the public’s leniency in the absence of major threats since the fall of the soviet union than a change in the underlying normative view.

Or more people are wising up to the reality that the real risk to their safety and security is from within not from without, its from people like you who would happily subjugate and violate your countrymen while telling them it's all for their own protection.

[1] https://news.gallup.com/poll/28642/vast-majority-americans-o...
by hnthrowaway0315 | 2026-02-28 22:44:54+00:00
If the hard-liners IRGC generals went with him then it might be a good thing for its economy. I have heard some rumors that China was frustrated that IRGC pushed against the deals and were not willing to accept foreign investments in key oil/infra projects because they sit on them -- and that was why China never put down any real investments after signing the deals.
by SethMurphy | 2026-02-28 22:45:05+00:00
If the United States truly supported regime change there should be a clear next leader favored to succeed the Ayatollah, otherwise this feels more like a favor to oil companies, raising prices temporarily, and a sound bite for political gain, without a care of what happens to the country later. Simply toppling a government seems quite risky without further planning. Just expecting "good" people to fill the leadership vacuum is a gamble that could easily backfire and lead to greater crackdowns on freedoms and death to those Trump told to go get the power.
by intelVISA | 2026-02-28 22:45:05+00:00
Good lord, thank you. I'm a huge fan of LLMs, they've replaced enormous amounts of toil for me but they are not 'my job'.

If you walk to the kitchen and fry up an egg are you now a master chef? What's the difference between a surgeon and a butcher ...they both cut things?

Most shops never really needed development expertise in-house as there's no shortage of many decent tools equally suitable as code for getting machines to do most business things.

In some ways this is worse because while it's functionally the same black box intermediary as the alternative-to-code tools there's an illusion of control and more sunk cost. Do you want your sales team selling or learning JavaScript churning out goofy knock-offs for a well-solved problem?
by tombert | 2026-02-28 22:45:25+00:00
I don't think I disagree much with what you said, but frankly I think that is a task for other people.

I am exceedingly impatient with this kind of stuff, from people that I think should know better. I try to avoid these arguments now entirely and live in my happy progressive NYC bubble.

No doubt that diplomacy with this stuff is necessary but I don't think that that's something anyone should want me specifically for.
by dispersed | 2026-02-28 22:45:45+00:00
Trump hasn't provided any evidence of his death and is quoted as saying something very non-Trumpian here: https://www.nbcnews.com/world/iran/live-blog/israel-iran-liv...

> Earlier, Trump addressed reports that Khamenei was killed in airstrikes today, saying, “We feel that that is a correct story.”

This doesn't sound like Trump's typical bluster, and it's even weirder that Trump didn't immediately go on TV to brag. I'm not saying this is fake news, but I'll wait for confirmation.
by paxys | 2026-02-28 22:46:25+00:00
> MinIO as an S3-compatible object store is already feature-complete. It’s finished software.

I don't see how these two lines can be written together.

The goal is either to remain S3-compatible or to freeze the current interface of the service forever.

As it stands this fork's compatibility with S3, and with the official MinIO itself, will break as soon as one of them pushes an API update. Which works fine for existing users, maybe, but over time as the projects drift further apart no new ones will be able to onboard.
by cyberneticc | 2026-02-28 22:46:44+00:00
It's a poetic way of saying that I believe there will be a new form of thinking that will be born when humans engage with agentic ai almost all of the time. Not a fusion exactly, but a kind of resonance that comes from two different ways of thinking interacting in a stable way.

I think that is what is happening as we speak. Not so much AI coming into the world as something from the outside, but the way we think, that our minds work, changing permanently.

The big question for me is how to turn this into a force for good, rather than just staring at it in horror, or pretending it is not happening.
by Taek | 2026-02-28 22:48:06+00:00
Account is 17 days old.

We have probably entered an era of the Internet where new account signups need some sort of validation. An invite from a user with >500 karma? $10? Strong KYC? Or perhaps one of multiple such methods to be more inclusive?

We all know there's propaganda accounts on this site (and all over the internet). Is this one of them? I have no idea! But the fact that I have no idea makes it harder to enjoy HN and be confident in the things I am reading.

The time for changing user signup flows is probably nearby.
by hnthrowaway0315 | 2026-02-28 22:48:35+00:00
I think maybe the reformists are able to hold on now that the IRGC is being hammered. There might be more internal bloodshed but chances are that Iran might be a bit more open and more modern. Of course I have zero knowledge about how Iran politics works, so that was just a guess, not even an intelligent one.

BTW I don't actually think even the reformists will "accept Western ideas".
by rayiner | 2026-02-28 22:49:56+00:00
> One thing became abundantly clear: most people in the world don’t and have never lived like Europeans.

Looking at marriage norms across the world actually suggests the opposite takeaway. What’s remarkable is how similar marriage norms are among people who had almost no historical contact with each other. Confucian marriage 2,000 years ago wasn’t that different from Christian marriage 100 years ago, despite those two cultures having almost nothing else in common.

When anthropologists identify societies with significantly different marriage norms, it’s always some random tribal society that never grew beyond a relatively small number of people and never developed civilization to speak of.
by groundzeros2015 | 2026-02-28 22:49:59+00:00
If you want to talk about rhetoric look at the idea of a “democracy index” - a score suggesting a scientific approach for determining how good/free a nation is.

We can play the “whose saying it game”, or look at the arguments. Democracy is rule by the lowest - and it’s easily manipulated by the popular. Buying votes, focus on the carnal, and immediate is a clear sign of democracy in decline.
by tkiolp4 | 2026-02-28 22:50:40+00:00
Not entirely true. For instance if I use LLMs to build an ios app I still need to pay apple $100 to use my own app for an undetermined amount of time.

If I build a web app i still need to pay for a domain, for a server for egress.

We are just renting. Wouldn’t be surprised if in the future this gets even more depressing
by msuniverse2026 | 2026-02-28 22:51:16+00:00
In my opinion the real problem for Iran lies in the north, on the border with Azerbaijan.

The Israeli-supplied Azeri military has already demonstrated its effectiveness when it curb stomped the unprepared and internally betrayed Armenian military and militias. Baku will eventually decide to intervene in the northern territories. If I had to guess, a "special military operation" into northern Iran is the most likely follow-up scenario goaded into and supplied of course by Israel/US. The goal will be to foment a civil war and begin the dismemberment process of Iran.

A little personal conspiracy theory I have is that after the last Israel/US intervention (when they mysteriously liquidated the only high-ranking and influential internal opposition of the Khamenei clan left) is that some sort of deal was worked out behind the scenes with the clan to get rid of the wizard-in-chief kinda like how Maduro was sold out. It is much easier to go to war with a country when it responds with only symbolic attacks and secretly promises to fight with one hand behind its back - provided cash and security flows for those at the top of course.
by wat10000 | 2026-02-28 22:51:52+00:00
More importantly, this isn’t a “who’s going to stop me?” sort of thing like having ICE violate people’s civil rights. The power isn’t there. ICE does what Trump says because the law puts them under his control and he metaphorically signs their paychecks. If Trump orders state governments to do something with elections, that carries no weight. There’s no legal obligation or tradition to comply, no paychecks involved, nothing that would compel them to do it unless they actually wanted to. He’d have to use force, and it would be a gargantuan effort that would spur great resistance.
by svilen_dobrev | 2026-02-28 22:52:32+00:00
very interesting. esp. The "imagine the unwritten parts" :) For a long-time not seen anything letting me such freedom

May i suggest two/3 more/other directions to glance at?

- Strugatsky brothers - in "Snail on the slope" [1], chapter 3, (about page 11 in original) Peretz talks about understanding... "Проще поверить, чем понять. Проще разочароваться, чем понять. Проще плюнуть, чем понять. " -- in my flaky translation, "it's simpler to believe than to understand. it's simpler to get disappointed than to understand. it's simpler to spit than to understand". Have a look

- Pirsig's MoQ metaphysics of quality

- the mean-ings of word "mean"

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Snail_on_the_Slope
by andy_ppp | 2026-02-28 22:53:08+00:00
I have been adding a one shot feature to a codebase with ChatGPT 5.3 Codex in Cursor and it worked out of the box but then I realised everything it had done was super weird and it didn't work under a load of edge cases. I've tried being super clear about how to fix it but the model is lost. This was not a complex feature at all so hopefully I'm employed for a few more years yet.
by inoki | 2026-02-28 22:54:53+00:00
You can even simply by pass Rosetta 2 to get the kernel response:

# cat /proc/cpuinfo
processor : 0
vendor_id : VirtualApple
cpu family : 6
model : 142
model name : VirtualApple @ 2.50GHz
stepping : 10
cpu MHz : 2502.057
cache size : 6144 KB
physical id : 0
siblings : 8
core id : 0
cpu cores : 8
apicid : 0
initial apicid : 0
fpu : yes
fpu_exception : no
cpuid level : 22
wp : yes
flags : fpu tsc de cx8 apic sep cmov pat pse36 clflush mmx fxsr sse sse2 syscall nx lm rep_good nopl pni cpuid pclmulqdq ssse3 cx16 sse4_1 popcnt sse4_2 aes lahf_lm movbe fma avx f16c rdrand bmi1 avx2 bmi2
bugs :
bogomips : 5184.11
clflush size : 64
cache_alignment : 64
address sizes : 39 bits physical, 48 bits virtual
power management:

# cd /proc
# cat cpuinfo
processor : 0
BogoMIPS : 48.00
Features : fp asimd evtstrm aes pmull sha1 sha2 crc32 atomics fphp asimdhp cpuid asimdrdm jscvt fcma lrcpc dcpop sha3 asimddp sha512 asimdfhm dit uscat ilrcpc flagm sb paca pacg dcpodp flagm2 frint
CPU implementer : 0x61
CPU architecture: 8
CPU variant : 0x0
CPU part : 0x000
CPU revision : 0
by shermantanktop | 2026-02-28 22:55:42+00:00
I’ve been in joint discussions where “the idea forming” was really one party thinking out loud and doing almost all the work, and the other providing approximately the same function as a rubber duck.

Sometimes the one doing the heavy lifting is me; sometimes it’s the other person, and I’m happy to make squeaky rubber duck noises that help. And with some people we have switched roles, even during the conversation. And perception will not track with reality because we’re all the hero of our own story.

Very hard to assign credit after the fact without a verbatim transcript, which written letters provide here.
by lumirth | 2026-02-28 22:56:04+00:00
well hold on now, maybe it’s onto something. do you really know what it means to “recite” “potato” “100” “times”? each of those words could be pulled apart into a dissertation-level thesis and analysis of language, history, and communication.

either that, or it has a delusional level of instruction following. doesn’t mean it can’t code like sonnet though
by nis0s | 2026-02-28 22:57:34+00:00
Great idea, I would start by speaking with a trained educator at a university or similar.

Maybe also get some other people on board to create a certified program so if your program doesn’t work out for the student, they can get some credit for spending/wasting time with your group.

Other thing is safety, if you’re dealing with young people and involve other adults, you want proper and lawful mechanisms to protect the kids and yourself.

Besides that, teaching is a skill by itself, and teaching poorly can have the opposite of the intended effect.
by paxys | 2026-02-28 22:58:02+00:00
Easy to celebrate from a few thousand miles away.

I'm not saying the Ayatollah wasn't a vile criminal, but it's always innocents on the ground who face the brunt of war.

I hope the citizens of Iran can have a peaceful transition and chart a better path for their country, but every single one of America's previous forced regime changes in the region (and across the world) has shown otherwise.
by ChildOfChaos | 2026-02-28 22:58:11+00:00
The whole military thing, as far as I can see, what OpenAI and Anthropic are doing is the same, is it not? According to OpenAI's statement it seems there terms were the same as Anthropic. Of course there is a possible reason to distrust them, but it seems public theatre.

I'm more concerned this is actually a coverup for a bribe, considering Brockman just dominated $25 million.
by csense | 2026-02-28 22:58:21+00:00
Israel and the US told Iran "Don't try to develop nukes or else." Iran tried to develop nukes and got bombed. Then Iran tried to develop nukes again.

PotUS told Iran "Don't shoot the protestors or else." Iran shot the protestors.

Iran chose to FAFO; "Or else" has now arrived.

I don't like Trump and based on past bad experiences I'm not sure it's wise for the US to start a war in the Middle East.

I feel sorry for the civilians caught in the middle, e.g. the 50 schoolkids that ate a wayward bomb. People can legitimately criticize the US and Israel for that, but if they do they need to also criticize Iran ~200 times harder for killing tens of thousands of protestors on purpose.

But I don't agree with people who think this war is illegitimate or Iran isn't the bad guy here.