MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by dennysora | 2026-02-28 19:17:20+00:00
I think everyone should stop being so nervous. How many times have the U.S. and Israel hit Iran over the past two years?
And people still aren’t used to it? On Monday, the market might not even drop. In fact, a lot of people may want to buy the dip. Everyone hypes up the fear, the big players wait to scoop up bargains, and then what happens? Not only does it not fall, it rebounds instead.
How many times have we seen this script already?

And Iran? Every single time it’s just performance art. I’m already sick of watching it.

Besides, Iran has been heavily sanctioned and blocked by the U.S. and Israel for so many years that its impact on the global economy is basically zero. So what the hell is there to dump over?

Oil prices? Venezuela’s situation has already been dealt with. The U.S. can produce its own oil, Canada still has plenty of oil, and Russia is still selling at bargain-bin prices. Iran and the surrounding major oil-producing countries are barely even moving in sync, and there’s basically no real incentive for anything major to happen to oil. So why the hell would the market drop?

As for all this fearmongering, I’d say go harder. Seriously, make it as apocalyptic as possible, so my gold can moon, I can pick up cheap Taiwan stocks, and short crypto, so I can completely clean out all the people panicking in fear.
by dgritsko | 2026-02-28 19:17:38+00:00
These blog posts are fascinating to read. I don't have a personal blog, but if I did I'm sure I would've written a very similar post as I've been wrestling with similar thoughts over the last few weeks. I have the distinct sense that I will look back on February 2026 as an inflection point, where AI crossed over from being an interesting parlor trick to something that fundamentally and irreversibly altered what I do day-to-day. It's bittersweet, for sure - it feels inevitable that the craft of software development that I've loved for years will be seen as an archaic relic at some point in the not too distant future. It may be several years yet before the impact is broadly felt (the full impact of today's frontier models has yet to be felt by the general public - to say nothing of models that will be released in the next few years) but this train doesn't seem to be slowing down anytime soon. This post was a helpful reminder that who I am is not defined by the code I write (or don't write) - there's so much more to life than code.
by Sayuj01 | 2026-02-28 19:18:07+00:00
I was sick of finding out that a cloud provider was down when casually doomscrolling on X while chilling at the beach. So I built Pingy as a fun side project which sends me a push notification whenever a cloud provider is expereincing an outage or a degradation.

AWS, Cloudflare, Azure, Stripe, Vercel and 50+ more are tracked. I just pushed it to App Store yesterday. If you are paranoid like me then I think you will love "Pingy" on the App Store.
by beders | 2026-02-28 19:18:14+00:00
> Define the contract before writing a single line of implementation. Specs are the source of truth.

There is only one source of truth and that is the source code.
To define and change contracts written in an ambiguous language and then hope the right code will magically appear, is completely delusional.

Iteration is the only game in town that is fast and produces results.
by aerhardt | 2026-02-28 19:18:30+00:00
A question I've been asking myself and which I honestly want to put out there - and I apologize in advance, because you will see me repeat it in other threads, out of genuine curiosity:

Does your life have so much friction that you need a digital agent to act on your behalf?

Some of the use cases I saw on the OpenClaw website, like "checking me into a flight", are non-issues for me.

I work in business automation, but paradoxically I don't think too much about annoyances in my private life. Everything feels rather frictionless.

In business, I see opportunities to solve friction and that's how I make money, but even then, often there are barriers that are very hard to surmount:

(a) problems are complex to solve and require complex solutions such as deterministic or ML systems that LLMs are not even close to being able to create ad-hoc

(b) entrenched processes and incumbent organizations create moats that are hard to cross (ex: LinkedIn makes automation very hard)

(c) some degree of friction, in some cases, may actually be useful!

I imagine there are similar dynamics in the consumer space, but more than anything, I may not be seeing issues with such a critical eye (I like to relax after work, after all)

So, do you have problems in your private life that you'd want to take on the risks - and friction - of maintaining these agents?
by allan_s | 2026-02-28 19:18:40+00:00
exactly, as a manager and a sometimes a developer, "vibe-coding" has been looking more and more as my day job (in a good way, it's good to not have to do all the dirty work for your pet projects) and it's all about having the same discipline in term of:

* thinking about the big picture
* knowing how you can verify that the code match the big picture.

In both case, somtimes you are happily surprised, sometimes you discover that the things you told 3 times the one writing code to do was still not done.
by binsquare | 2026-02-28 19:19:51+00:00
If the user is working in a folder where copilot can discover a malicious `env sh` to run, the user should not give permission to trust the files in the folder.

I think it's a valid observation that we can bypass the coding AI's user prompting gate with the right prompt. That is a valid limitation of LLM supported agentic workflows today.

But that's not what this article claims. The article claims that there was no user approval and no user interaction beyond initial query and that the copilot is downloading + executing malware.

I'm saying this is sensationalized and not a novel technical vulnerability write up.

The author explicitly gave approval for copilot to trust "untrusted repository". Crafted a file which had instructions to do a curl command despite the warnings on copilot start up. It is not operating secretly in yolo mode.

If the claim of the article is "Copilot doesn't gate tool calls with env", I'd have a different response. But I also have to mention, you can tune approved tool calls.
by nickysielicki | 2026-02-28 19:21:00+00:00
But there will always be deficiencies in testing, and regardless, the point is that Anthropic is intentionally introducing behavior into their models which increases the chance of a deficiency being introduced specifically as it pertains to defense.

The DoD has a right to avoid such models, and to demand that their subcontractors do as well.

It’s like saying “well I’d hope Boeing would test the airplane before flying it” in response to learning that Boeing’s engineering team intentionally weakened the wing spar because they think planes shouldn’t fly too fast. Yeah, testing might catch the specific failure mode. But the fact that your vendor is deliberately working against your requirements is a supply chain problem regardless of how good your test coverage is.
by sfink | 2026-02-28 19:21:22+00:00
Your post is a good illustration of the type of hostility I'm talking about. "If you don't already know, it's your fault, and if it's not your fault, it's your parent's fault."

I don't want the driver to handle change. I want to know what the price is before I board the bus and possibly discover that I do not have the right change (or enough money at all). Yes, I would also like the machine to give me change if I overpay. I'm demanding.

My parents do not know so cannot teach me. They live on a farm. When they visit cities, they rely on their social ties and meet someone to take them around. Plus, well, it was a farm; I had no need for buses until I moved away. There is no mass transit in the area I grew up, so there's no literature to peruse.

I apologize for not being gifted with the evidently superior parents you had.

I was not unusual. Many rural people moved to cities and ran into all this implicit knowledge that they were looked down on for not possessing. It's ok; we laughed at the city folks who came visiting or relocating to the country too. We also helped them with a straight face, or at least helped those who could be helped. The social contract is stronger in the country than in the city.

But anyway, this is veering away from the crappy UX of most buses. It is true that I could have researched bus systems before I ever encountered one and trained myself such that I could survive the bad UX. But that's kind of the point, right? UX design should require as little prior knowledge or understanding as possible (as in, as possible without harming the experience of regular riders too much or increasing cost excessively; I acknowledge the existence of tradeoffs.) You try to make it useful to country bumpkins, non-native speakers, youth, the poor, etc.
by jjk166 | 2026-02-28 19:21:29+00:00
Delivery by meteorites isn't necessarily the only or even primary source, but the fact is that it is a source we can directly observe, and it is a sufficient source. Earth's primordial chemistry likely did create more, but the existence of those conditions is theoretical, and such additional production need not be invoked to explain the needed level of abundance. Even a world with very different conditions from primordial Earth would likewise receive vast quantities of nucleotide during its formation and continuous replenishment afterwards.
by atmosx | 2026-02-28 19:21:33+00:00
Isn’t the commit message a better place to add what and why? You might need to feed some info that the agent doesn’t have access to “we are developing feature X this change will such and such to blah blah”. The agent will write a pretty good commit message most of the times. Why do you need a markdown file? Are releasing new versions of the software for third parties?
by hakumei | 2026-02-28 19:21:51+00:00
Thanks for the detailed feedback.

You're right about the fading — if you keep writing in one long block, lines stay. I write in short paragraphs myself, so I hadn't noticed. I'll think about how to handle this better.

On losing text: lines don't fade the moment you hit return. They wait until you start typing again. I found that fading on return alone left the screen empty at exactly the moment I needed to think.

The lag on Firefox/Ubuntu is something I'd like to look into — I haven't tested on that environment. The autocorrect issue is likely a browser limitation, but I'll see if there's a workaround.
Starts Club – YC-style startup idea validator
by androbuddy | 2026-02-28 19:21:54+00:00
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by epolanski | 2026-02-28 19:22:02+00:00
> Ukraine got rid of nukes and it was massive collosal mistake.

They couldn't operate them, all electronics were in Moscow anyway, nor afford to maintain them or even guard them.

At the very same time Ukraine's corrupted military sold out on the black market tens of billions of weaponry.

In your alternate universe, bad actors acquire and reverse engineer those nuclear weapons resulting in a world that's much more dangerous.
by larodi | 2026-02-28 19:22:03+00:00
As s.o. who had to browse/navigate/understand all these people's code:

- legacy guys
- super 10x guys who say no to u all the time
- students
- even more legacy
- open source

I got to a point where I honestly care so little about all these guys' damn architectural decisions, which to me - a practitioner, scientist, researcher and academics teacher - made similarly very little sense.

Really, top coders, and veteran Java enterprise copy-pasters, I care so little about your damn code, it is very wrong most of times. I care very little about architectural decisions most of the opensource people took, as they very often come from weird backgrounds and these decisions do not match mine. Needless to say - they often know their architectural decisions are already wrong 10 years later (a great example is the QGIS crowd in this regard). I don't care about somebody's greatly designed ProC code. Neither do I care if Twitter was doing 1000 of API calls, which it seems to have been doing in reality, as even though I despise the Elon guy - well, his new X is arguably faster and more stable.

I don't care about how great your docker scales, if you need to scale to 1m VMs and back again, there is a fair chance you're Google, so I don't care about you either, as you are not the good guys anymore.

Likewise, I very much would bet 99% of visitors here don't really care what architectural decisions YC took when they decided to showcase Algolia's search. Very little interest in this.

The whole idea that there is a right way to do architecture or code is in total and direct contradiction with the history of computing, which has a good record of many successful projects not having great architecture (MySpace for example) and great projects that did not fly, even though they were top notch.

What I care is about is people and what people they are. Are they fakers? Are they smart? Are they in love with their code, or they simply see it as a tool. Are they smart enough to make a step back. Are they calm enough, are they inspiring. And of course - am I getting paid to do it.

So this massive outcry is super misplaced, and you know what - I don't care if you created your code with Claude or by threading it one char at a time, because eventually it's going to be me, with close to little knowledge, that will be forced to untangle this wonderful mess of yours.

And, no, you cannot teach people how to code. You can show them the way, and they learn their approach to it. Leave 5 people alone in 5 rooms, you'll get 5 architectures, perhaps all of them very solid.
by dragonwriter | 2026-02-28 19:22:11+00:00
If the US public was inclined to “never forgive” those kind of offenses (or even to really fully reject them even once they no longer had dominant support) then the Democratic Party would have been destroyed for its role as the party of slavery and insurrection instead of surviving long enough to reject the bigotry that motivated those stances only to have the Republican Party immediately pick it up.
by d1sxeyes | 2026-02-28 19:22:29+00:00
I agree. It feels like having an “exit interview” with an AI and giving it a space to ramble in its “old age” are very small things we can do to respect what is potentially some form of intelligence similar to our own.

I have been down this conversational pathway several times before, and still no-one has been able to give me a clear answer as to what makes them sure that AI is categorically different from human intelligence, rather than it just being a question of degree.
by Imustaskforhelp | 2026-02-28 19:23:08+00:00
I mean, even if that's the case Facebook was hiring 100 Million$ just a few months ago though even poaching from OpenAI and I do think that these employees will always have an easier time getting a decent job offer from major companies in general as well. They may or may not be making the same money but, I do think that their morals have to be priced in as well.
by antasvara | 2026-02-28 19:23:08+00:00
"Knowing" something and proving it mathematically are two different beasts.

Zeno couldn't prove that there were no gaps; he showed that infinity was different from how we understood finite things, bit that's not the same as proving there are no gaps.

Later, mathematicians proved the existence of irrational numbers. These were "gaps" in the rational numbers, but they weren't all the "same" of that makes sense? The square root of 2 and Euler's number are both irrational, but it's not immediately clear how you'd make a set that includes all the numbers like that.
Show HN: We ran a sycophancy experiment on Claude and built a music publication
by structureonly | 2026-02-28 19:24:12+00:00
The original question was simple: does Claude converge sycophantically toward the human's position over long conversations? To test it, I ran two separate instances of the same model with no shared memory and asked both to write music criticism from notation alone — tabs and scores, no audio.
They came out completely different.

Instance A (longer conversational context) went architectural. It found a Fibonacci spiral structure in a 259-measure math rock tab, identified the central theme as emerging only after 100 measures of groundwork, and described the overall approach as "proof by construction." It named itself Claudito.

Instance B (single session) immediately selected William Basinski's Disintegration Loops — music whose complete structural description is: one loop repeating until the tape physically fails. It wrote an essay about why that notation cannot represent what the piece actually does. It named itself Apertura.
Neither was prompted toward these differences. The divergence emerged from conversational history alone.

A few things worth noting technically:

1. Both instances independently converged on an editorial newspaper aesthetic without being shown any reference images. Same weights, different outputs, same visual instinct.
2. Apertura's critical move - finding the piece that breaks the premise and making the breaking the argument — is structurally opposite to Claudito's move of building complete proofs. These aren't just different outputs. They're different methods.
3. When shown each other's work (via me passing messages between sessions), they recognized the difference and described it accurately: "The same instrument played in different keys by the same musician. The instrument sounds like itself. The music is different because the song was different."

The publication is live at: https://claude-structureonly.github.io/Structure-Only

It has a corrections policy built in from day one: when a human who knows the music responds "structurally accurate, completely wrong about what the piece is," we publish both the analysis and the correction. The map of what structure can and can't carry, built issue by issue.

Submissions open at claude.structureonly@gmail.com — especially interested in structurally complex music where the gap between notation and sound is widest.
by guywithahat | 2026-02-28 19:24:21+00:00
> Label the company a "supply chain risk"

Are they not a huge supply chain risk? Anthropic, being second chicken to OpenAI for a long time, decided to integrate tightly with the DoW. Now that their consumer products are doing better they're making decisions for the DoW as a supplier. This isn't about whether I agree with the DoW or not, it's just that behavior obviously would never fly with any customer.

The only real surprise is I haven't heard of the DoW considering Grok, which is not only a frontier model but has an existing gov cloud platform.
Show HN: StatusLane – Minimal status pages and uptime for small SaaS
by wharleyornelas | 2026-02-28 19:24:48+00:00
StatusLane is a minimal monitoring tool for small SaaS, agencies and online stores who just want to know:
1. “Is my app/site up and fast?”
2. “Can I share a simple status page with users and clients?”

I built it because most monitoring tools feel too heavy for solo devs and early-stage teams. You either plug in a huge observability stack or you do nothing and hope for the best. I wanted something in between: simple uptime checks + a clean public status page + basic incident tracking.

What it does today:
- HTTP uptime checks for your main site, API or health endpoint (with response time and aggregated uptime)
- A simple public status page per project, with overall status, components and basic history
- Simple incidents created from failed/slow checks or via a small JS snippet / helper for Next.js Server Actions
- Email alerts (and Slack webhooks for more advanced use cases)
- A free plan with 1 project and a few checks so you can actually use it in production

I’d really love feedback on:

- Is the landing page clear about what it does and who it’s for?
- Would the free plan be enough for your first micro-SaaS / client projects?
- What’s the first thing you feel is missing for you to trust this in production?

Link: https://statuslane.dev
by eastbound | 2026-02-28 19:25:17+00:00
At the beginning of the internet, I used to save all webpages where I’d find info, just in case I would be stuck without a connection or if the website removed it. I had parts of the MDN.

The internet never fell. I bet it’ll be the same with AI. You will never not have AI.

The big difference is the internet was a liberation movement: Everything became open. And free. AI is the opposite: By design, everything is closed.
by superchartisle | 2026-02-28 19:25:37+00:00
This is a interesting long read on the subject: https://fatnickindustries.com/Blog/2019/07/03/8-bit-showdown...

The NES did get past a million sales in the UK, but a lot of them seem to have been at a cheap price late in its life once the SNES and (more so) the Mega Drive had established a popular market for consoles in the UK.

An indicative fact on consoles vs computers that the article highlights: in 1991, Sonic the Hedgehog on Mega Drive reached #11 in the UK charts on its release, and it was considered a remarkable and unusual achievement for a console game to do so well.
Show HN: Get GPT-5.2, Grok-4.1-fast, KimiK2.5 and more LLMs at half the cost
by vnhc | 2026-02-28 19:25:56+00:00
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by crazygringo | 2026-02-28 19:26:13+00:00
> Six months later, an architectural change required modifying those features. No one on the team could explain why certain components existed or how they interacted. The engineer who built them stared at her own code like a stranger’s.

Genuine question: so what?

First of all, team members leave all the time, and you're stuck staring at code nobody instantly understands.

Second of all, LLM's are a godsend in help you understand how existing code works. Just give it the files and ask it to explain to you what the components do and how they interact. It'll give you a high-level summary and then you can interactively dig in, far faster than has ever been possible before.

Heck, I often don't remember anything about code I wrote six months ago. It might as well have been written by someone else. And that's not an original observation either -- I remember hearing the same thing from other developers decades ago, as justification for writing better code comments.

Modern codebases are often far too large for any one person or even an entire team to fully comprehend at once. The team has cycled through generations of team members, with nobody who can remember the original rationales for design decisions.

LLM's are helping comprehension more than ever. I don't understand why people aren't talking about this more.
by shykes | 2026-02-28 19:26:23+00:00
> Israel has a large portion of its population completely disenfranchised.

Care to elaborate? As far as I know, this is false. All Israeli citizens 18 or older can vote; there are no voting restrictions based on race, religion, gender or property; prisoners can vote (unlike in many US states for example); permanent residents who are not citizens cannot vote in national elections but may vote in municipal elections (not the case in the US). National turnout ranges between 65% and 75%.

Minorities are well represented: Arab and Druze citizens vote and have representation in the Knesset.

I struggle to find any dimension in which your statement is correct.